Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-10-28
FARMERS RESENT COERCION
Resolutions Passed by Indiana ToiIcrs
Condemn Statements of Pres.
ident Sharples =. Endless
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Resolutions Passed by Indiana Toilcrs
Condemn Statements of Pres.
ident Sharples = Endless
Chain Among Farmers.
Chairman Mack was informed by
wire today that at a meeting of repre-
sentative farmers of Washington town.
ship, Marion county, Indiana, the fol-
lowing resolutions were adopted, and
1t was also agreed to form an endless
chain among the farmers of the coun-
try:
Whereas, The Associated Press has
sent out statement issued by p M
Sharples, president of the Sharples
Separator Company Of Westchester,
Pa, saying that the hour Bryan is
elected the Sharples works Will close
down, and
Whereas. Such statements as this
will intensity the present financial
panic and will also tend to bring on,
II possible, other and greater financial
calamity; therefore. be it
Resolved, That as farmers who have
the good of our countr. at heart, we
deeply deplore such unwarranted
statements. and believing they are
made for partisan purposes to intimi-
date and influence voters, we herewith
denounce all firms making this and
similar announcements, as narrow and
bigoted. and in these times as disloyal
to the best business interests of the
nation, and In as much as the persons
and firms now resorting to these un.
fair and unpatriotic methods maintain
their businesses by patronage of DEM
ocrats as well as republicans, we con-
demn these methods as an insult to
any democratic patron which ought to
be, and which we hope will be, re.
sented.
Resolved, That we hereby call upon
the farmers of the nation, irrespective
of party, who believe in fair play, to
unite with us through their organiza-
tion and as individuals, in crushing out
this unwise and indiscreet spirit which
would sacrifice the country's welfare
| for party success. (Signed) Albert
Blue, chairman; Ross S. Ludlow, sec
retary.
Against Laboring Men.
While William H. Taft is travelling
| about Ohio and elsewhere making fran.
tic appeals for the support of laboring
men, his running mate on the Republ!
can ticket. James S. Sherman, is Civ
| ing his endorsement to the statemen!
that labor unions are composed large
ly of anarchists, socialists and dema
/ gogues.' Mr.. Sherman heard the or
ganized wage worker of the countr,
thus denounced by trust magnate
Il who presided at a meeting where he
spoke, and gave approval of the senti
4 ment expressed. When Mr.. Sherman
appeared recently at Akron, Ohio, thu
meeting which he addressed was pre-
sided over by O. G. Barber, presMen
of the Diamond Match Co,npany. Nh
Barber introduced Mr. Sherman to th,
audience. n doing SO he made use o
the following language. as stenograph
ically reported:
zone of the main reasons for tn,
} success of the Diamond Match Com
pany is that its directors HAVI
NEVER TOLERATED UNION LABOI
IN ITS SHOP. THEY HAVE AL
WAYS BENN OPEN. We have ha,
no one to dictate to us what wages w
shall pay. what men we shall hire, an
what hours our employees shall work
LABOR UNIONS TODAY ARE CON
: POSED LARGELY OF ANARCHISTS
SOCIALISTS AND DENIAGOGUES."
Taft and his supporters are insistin
} that If Bryan should be elected ho'
> tile senate would defeat Democrat
|. aims. This is an admission that the
r are false in their claim that the peopl
i, rule, as Bryan says they should. Past
j that in your hat.-Johnstown DEM