The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-10-22
A Bluff That was Called.

The familiar old republican game
Of Intimidation is not working as
successfully this year as formerly.
The bluff is being used, it is true
but it isn't frightening anybody.
The case of the SharpIes Separator
company of Westchester Pa, bas al
ready attracted wide attention
a bout week ago the company post
ed prominently the following notice
10 its employees, numbering more than
900 men:
The possibility of such a dire ca
! lamity to US as Bryan's elicit seems
remote, but the hour we are cnnvinc-
/ ed such thing will occur, that hour
these works will have to close down
| until the stock of tubular separators
we carry IS reduced by sales three
/ quarters. This will he done as mat
! ter 1T self-preselYati0n and with as
great regret as any employe could
| possibly have for the necessity.
The history Of what followed is in
teresting.
Mr. Bryan Immediately took up the
challenge, and asked why COWS would
quit giving milk, farmers quit sepa-
rating cream, and people quit buying
butter, in the event of his election.
There was no satisfactory answer.
Then some wag took up the an.
nOuncement made about the same
Time that eastern capitalists, who
ha1 purchased a dstillery at Sioux
CITY, would triple its capacity in the
event of Taft's election. He started
the interesting query, which has
since been going the rounds, why
there would be no makret for craem
II Bryan is elected while, if Taft
wins, the demand for whisky will be
Jripled.
Next appeared in the New York
Herald the following significant dis
patch
L0ckport, n. Y, Oct. l3.-Charles
). Miller, the leading business man
OF AeAfane, this county, owner 0f a
large separator, a coal and woodward
ana general store, make public an
houncement today that he has can.
celed DIS order with the Sharples Sen.
afatof company OF Westchester, Pa
because he believes that the comnanv
Is coeIclhg its employees for political
purposes. '''>''
FINALLY, as the cap sheaf comes the
iollo"lnE telegram to Mr.. BRYAN
from the presiden of the largest sep-
aIator manufacturing concern in the |
country:
Waterloo, la. Get. l4.-TIon. " !
bryan. Lincoln, Neb. have Saen
the threat of the Sharples Senorator
company to close down their s6onS IN
event of your election. We. AZ tho
largest manufacturers of cream SON
aratorS in the United States VIII
agree, In the event of your eIprtion
atd the threat OF the Sharples en,n,
pahy being put into effect, to take
tie men into our employment in yiaw Il
~ tie Tact that the finished nrodnct u
W tbe steel trust is the raw material H
vi a separator factory and uncnr no II
present tafitf the steel trust is nor,
.nitted To charge US 30 per cent moro
yuan we could purchase for i'm ina Il
"of.l markets. The Sharnles com
,,tuf must be talking rs shareholders
~ the United States Steel rornora
ION fath er than as separator mann.
-9eturefS maui
p.;s ". ". Marsh.
ompany. p"'''or
@hiS, We imagine. about settles the
.ase OF The Sharples Separator com.
laay II attempted blun, lust ne
o,'ie otuef concerns are doing, and
= qua pis been called. The com.
:. .'lf VIII oe welcomed, by friends of |
NJ oi'ag' toai the good it has done
sell ana the customers ii has won, |
y ~ action And William Howard |
: 1'1 a.5 James Schoolcrtat sherman |
= e"1teled to all the votes thew can |
pc 70 gain through such methods |
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