The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-10-16
TO THE VOTERS OF TIL 4
FIFTH CONGRESSIONAL
DISTRICT.


1t is with much regret, that the time
between my nomination and the cleo
ton on November 3rd, 1903, will not
allow me to do, which | would consider
a privilege and pleasure to do, namely
to visit and shake by the hand every in
teiligent voter in the district, aud look
him suuarely in the eye and personally
advocate before him my just claims to
his vote to assist me in being elected the
next Congressman 90 represent him III
the halls of Nati' MI Legislation at
Washington. Ii goes without saying
| am democrat, an old fashioned
Jeffersonian Democrat, one who be-
| lieyes in the rights OF the masses as
against the privilege granted to certain
classes known as Trusts aud Combina
tions who Grind down the people. l
stand squarely on the National Demo
craft u.atf5Im and for VIM. Jennings
BRYAN and John W. Kern. l have been
assailed for being a labor union man.
| Yes, am labor union man and stand
for everything good in combinations Of
labor, not to fight Capital but to work
hand and glove with Capital for the
best interest of this country.
Notwithstanding the fact that the plea
and promise of the Republican party,
for years has been that Prosperity and
| National Policies. We are now in the
midst of the worst Industrial panic this
country has ever known, with thous-
ands of good, SOBER honest, American
workmen, who are willing to work,
thrown out of employment, and the
wheels of commerce of the country al
most at a standstill, the railways Of the
| country with miles of engines and hun
dreds of miles of cars idle. This is a
| condition we are confronted with in
this great country of ours and not one
single railroad manager has attributed
this fearful condition either directly or
indirectly in their lines to labor unions.
| With all the country's undeveloped
recources, and the great man ufacturin G
plants with their windows boarded up,
who is to blame? We must all agree
that the special protection, claimed to
have been given the working man has
failed to protect.
| Our contention is that the wage earn.
ers of the country needs no special priv
ilege or protection, aud is only asking
to be accorded the same rights under
the law, that is given any other citizens,
and the same equal opportunity guaran-
teed them by the constitution.
| l believe and can truthfully claim
that the high standing and good citizen
| ship of the industrial workers of this
country is due to the teachings and con
servative action Of the great labor
unions, and no fair-minded man can
deny that to these labor organizations
belongs the credit for the high standard
of wages paid the working men of the
country. There are in the railroad or
ders alone six hundred thousand men,
bers, and the fair, just business methods
used by them with their employers has
not only done more to increase their
wages than anything else, but has made
them better men and brought them
closer to their employers,than any other
one thing could have possibly done.
Not to mention the great trades unions
Of the country, all of whom go to- make
up the home market of the country,
| thereby benefiting the farmer directly.
These industrial workers are the circu-
| lating medium by and through which
| the farmers, and especially the truck
ers, the growers of fruit and vegetables,
get their cash; and the better pay the
| working men can command, the better
| they can live, the better the consumers
fare; take away from them the means to
| continue the present high standard of
living and you break down this great
home market, and whom does it effect?
| Not the stock gambler, not the banker,
| but the working farmers are the first
| men hurt and the next men hurt, after
the working men.
You destroy the means or ability to
| purchase and you destroy your own
market. Therefore the interests of the
wage worker in the industrial world,
and the farmer and produce grower are
mutual.
| The Democratic party stands for the
welfare of all the people, and for equal
opportunities and fair play to al the
| people. guaranteeing the property
rights, and the protection of all the leg
| itimate business interests of the country
| am not the candidate of any labor
| party. but the candidate of the Demo-
cratic party, and it is fitting that the
banner of Democracy should be entwin-
ed with that of labor, and the rule of
the people thereby be restored. Then,
and then alone, can we expect 10 have
| permanent prosperity in this country as
sured.
have no personal quarrel with my
opponent in this campaign, but with all
the ability he claims to have, what has
| he done for his district in the last four
years. With Federal appropriations
| made layishly in other Sections, our
water ways are allowed to fill up and
become swamp lands. If all the claim
of special ability to represent the dis
trict is well taken, then | respectfully
submit that there has been very great
| lack of energy and the people should be
| entitled to an accounting of his stew
artship of the work he has done. AS
this cannot be given to show any sub
stantial good to the district, rs whole,
respectfully ask your votes on Nov.
Bird.
Respectfully,