Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1908-10-16
] WARNED.
FUND or 5000 APPRoPRlATEp
TO PROSECUTE IN
TlMlDATlON2.
KAcEL ALLY y; OF TRUSTS
REPUBLICAN, NATIONAL COMMIT
TEEMAN DRAWS ssAuARlEejFRoM
GOVERNMENT AND ARcHBoLD.

W. E. Corey, President Steel Trust,
Travelling In Private Car with Or
chestra, Wants Taft-Remarl<s
Of Taft In North Dakota.
It 10 well-known fact that ut the
last meeting of the Democratic nation
al committee q special fund Of $1,000
was appropriated and set apart for the
express purpose of Furnishing any per-
son or corporation which endeavors to
coe1ce employees to vote for Mr.. Taft
Special counsel will be retained and
vigorous prosecution will follow.
Judge Wade said to-day: I'VE
might as we'll settle the question dur
ing this campaign whether under the
law an employer may club his en-
ployes into voting as he directs.
Threats OF reduction In wages or prom
Use Of higher wages as inducement to
vote for Taft is bribery plain and sim
pie.
I'VE are not afraid of the effect of
such tactics in this election, because
the American laboring man cannot be
bribed nor scared into submission to
the will of his master in q matter ~
sacred as the ballot, but l think 1t 10
tho duty of this committee to protect
-the American workingman from such
methods. The employer has no legal
right to insult his employees by such
notice as the: following; :s. a..
Tho reduction of ten per cent inc
wages last winter was to have been re-
stored when business conditions would
sn THAT t. ~
election and that II Mr.. II: Taft pt Is sieetsd
Business. fsss.a' II ell Zines. &
we will, therefore, restore the..old rating
to all employees whose wages were re-
ducedo ten per cent. last winter, provided
(Signed.) 8. 8. ,EVELAND; =. :.
:,, -. President. .
This is attempted bribery and pun
ishable as such We are satisfied that
such otfenses will be few. Most en-
ployers Of labor have some honor, and
some respect for the constitution and
the law.
I'VE will give due publicity to every
effort to ccerce labor The people OF
the country want to know what kind
Of men are managing the manufactur-.
ing and railway companies who pros
per upon the, patronage of Democrats
and Republicans alike. 1t may be that
Democrats will continue their bust
ness relations with people who stoop
to bribe or coerce employees to vote:
against Mr.: Bryan, and then again
they may not. kind Of like the tone
Of the following letter sent out by Z
prominent travelling man in Iowa. -
Dear Sir: Az the travelling salesman
ping IN IOWA. seIsS3 s1sst
been anxious to receive these shipments.
Our house wishes to ship its product over
the the 'hGrtsst me ana IN the best rate
to vote for Judge TAFT. but vet you are.
willing to accept shipments from those
IT this is, the policy Of your road to-
coerce your employees, 1t IL well that fh4'
public may; know IT, that they can sivss
its employees to vote A. their judgment
dictates. = -- -. 81 ''''
,y'Aat>@ Sincerely yours.
II do not give the names, because
the writer received Immediate assur-.
ance that no such effort would J" be
made, and in politics we should Be
careful not to do injustice to anyone.
But we will see that We get the name
Of every guilty employer, and will sec
that he gets full publicity both before
election and after election.
THE slip in the pay envelope few
days before election advising how to
vote won't 60 this year az it did in
1896"
Documents have come into the pos
session Of the Democratic national
committee which prove beyond q
doubt that Charles Nagel, who is in
charge of the Chicago headquarters Of
the Republican national committee in
the absence of Chairman Hitchcock, 10
an attorney of record for the Standard
on Company. In addition to having
charge of the western headQuarterD
and benz sscopd in command when
Mr.. Hitchcock Il IN Chicago, Mr.. M.
gel is the Missouri member of the Re-
publican national committee. Wren
Mr.. Hitchcock was In Chicago recently
he made it plain that Secretary Hay
ward, inventor Of the card index sys-
tenn" had been deposed and that NJ.
Nagel would represent the chairman :!
in his absence from Chicago. Mr.. Ma
gel is also scheduled to accompany
Mr.. Taft on his trip through Missouri |
Several years ago, through the politi-
cal influence Of Ethan Allen Hitch
cock, then secretary OF the interior,
al. A%o6OA "~o opQOAAIcU q SpSC1A1 ~"
torney in certain Indian land cases in
volving oil and other natural re-
sources, and drew big fee from the
government for his services. He was
thus in position to look after and
protect the interests of his client, the
Standard Oil Company.
In the famous case which Attorney
General Hadley of Missouri brought
against the Standard Oil Company to
break up the monopoly in Missouri
Nagel appeared for this king of all
trusts.
During the course of his argument,
as reported by an official stenographer,
Mr.. Nagel poked fun at Attorney Gen
eral Hadley, and spoke of "fashlight /
pictures" and trying the case in the
newspapers. He added, "Since have
read the record what / now see has
been forcibly impressed upon my |
mind, and that is, in the main we
have been trying two cases in one.
We have been trying case before the
public, and We have been trying a
case in court