The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-21
Republicans Are Crying Out
 That Ruin Is At Hand
BAD CAMPAIGN METHODS
Iowa Business Man Deplores State ments By Republican Speakers Re- garding Business, Which
 Are Misleading.


 generally. if the letters and telegrams received at democratic headquarters com mending this action are to be taken as an indication.
 Many communications came to head quarters today commenting MT. Mack s stand. Nearly all of the writers, and most sof them are business men, denounce the efforts of republican politicians and newspapers to frighten the business in- terests of the country by reason of the increasing probability of MT. Bryan's cleo tion.
 very strong letter on the subject came to Mir Mack today from R. B.. Louden, president of the Louden Ma chinery company of Fairfield, Ia., who inclosed an open letter addressed by him to Secretary Wrightman of the Iowa Manufacturers association. In this let ter MT Louden wrote:
 Since returning home from the Deep Waterway convention, have been think ing of the talk we had in regard to the effect the election of MT. Bryan would have on business, and I wish to more
 
 partisan papers statements that orders for goods are being given and accepted to be fulfilled if Mir. Taft is elected, but to be cancelled if MT. Bryan is elected. That certain factories are to be operated if Taft succeeds, but to be closed if Bryan becomes President
 Ut is plain to me that these things are efv rtir off fo n success. I have been unable to find any such feeling among the business men with whom I am acquainted, and I do not believe it exists outside of perhaps a limited few who permit their partisan prejudices to overcome their business sense. There are republican as well as democratic stockholders in the manufac- turing companies with which I am con nected, and I know they entertain no such ideas. One of our companies IS largely increasing it's plant and its mem bers have no fears that business dis aster will ensue in case MT. Bryan should be elected.
 Ut appears to me that nothing could be more reprehensible than this plan of  effort on the part of politicians to use business interests as cats paw to pull their political chestnuts out of the fro, and is a reflection on the sagacity of business men to allow themselves to be used in this way. It is simply an att tempt on the part of scheming politicians to stampede voters and thus to coerce them into voting against their convic- tions.
 Such methods are not only reprehen- sible from a general point of view, but they are also detrimental to business in- terests. They serve to bring on the identical business stagnation against which the pretended warning is given. The first effect Is to create distrust and apprehension during the campaign. A candidate for the presidency supposed to have a good show of election is repre- scented as dangerous and an effort is made to prove that he Is so regarded by the business world. This will depress business during the campaign. Then, sup pose a candidate should happen to be elected in spite of this unfair opposition. Would not every prophet of disaster feel under obligations to make his prediction come true? What more effective plan could be devised to procure business de- precision?
 There is no warrant whatever for any such disreputable tactics, and l do not believe these calamity -howlers will sue ceed in their purpose. MT. Bryan is well known all over the country as an able, upright man. He Is also patriotic and has had wide experience, and if he is elect ed he will do everything possible for the good of the country. When the panic was at it's worst last fall, instead of trying to make political capital out of 1t. as mere politician would have done, he urged his friends not only privately but also in a public address, as a patriotic duty not to withdraw their deposits This Is simply one of many instances which might be cited to prove his devotion to the country. While we may not agree with everything favored by MT. Bryan, there is certainly enough to give assur- ance that if elected he will make a wise and safe president.
 MT Taft is doubtless a fine gentleman and equally as devoted MT. Bryan, and I am not saying anything derogatory to his ability or character, when l say that his election would create more doubt and uncertainty than that of Mir Bryan. It is a well known fact that the party supposedly supporting him Is split into two diametricaly opposite factions, ana it will be impossible for him to carry out the policies of both. I also believe that he would have been stronger had he, like Mr. Bryan, secured his nomination solely by his own merits and not as the repre- sentative of another. So far as I can as- certain, the American people do not take kindly to the idea of 'a President by proxy.
 'I write this simply to raise my voice against what l consider reprehensible campaign methods"
 Attack on Union Men.
 While William II. Taft was travelling about Ohio and elsewhere making frantic appeals for the support of laborlng men, his runningmate on the republican ticket, James s. Sherman. was giving his in- dorsement to the statement that labor unions are composed largely Of anarchists, socialists and demagosues" MT. Sher- man heard the organized wage worker of the country thus denounced by a trust magnate who presided at meet ing where, he spoke and gave approval of the sentiment expressed. When MT. sherman appeared recently at Akron, O., the meeting which he addressed was pre- sided oyer by o. c. Barber, president of the Diamond Match company MT Bar Der introduced Mir Sherman to the au- dience In doing so he made use of cally reported:
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