The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-22
SPEECH AT NEWARK.
MIR. Bryan Uncorked Walls of Wrath
Upon Heads Of Republican Bribers.

Newark o.. Oct 2L-.I say to you that
/ the little ward heller who goes around
/ and brides a man for s. is a moral char
acter beside the man who attempts to
use his power TO threaten those who work
/ for him and to buy them by a promise
of increase or threaten them by prom
Use to decrease"
Thoroughly aroused by what he termed
/ a new menace through the publication
today OF press dispatch stating that
/ the officials of the New York Central
! lines had summoned their workmen and
| informed them that II the Democrats won
| the election there would be 10 per cent
reduction in wages. but If they lost there
woUld be an increase. William J. Bryan,
/ in a before-breakfast speech to q vast
I throng. poured volley of criticism into
| the Republican party for its campaign
/ tactics. He threw into his utterances all
the vigor he could muster. ard his words
were greeted with loud cheers.
The second invasion of the native state
! of his Republican opponent was begun by
Mr.. Bryan at this place, he having come
direct from Louisville. KY, during the
night The program for the day included
fifteen stops. concluding at 9:45 tonight
with a speech at Wiliiamstown, w Va
In his address Mr.. Bryan said. in part:
Glad to Be In Ohio.
Il am glad TO come again into Ohio
am glad to come at time when Demo
cratic prospects are so bright that even
the Republican national committee is
compelled to confess that the Republican
| D~-~@N
his own state. He went out west TO fight
for the west. but he now finds that he
has difficulty enough at home and cam
not spare any time for the west. l am
glad they are beginning to realize the
forces that they have 70 contend against
and the greatest obstacle that they have
is the record of the party that they must
defend. Twelve years of power, with a
president eulogized in the platform and
a senate that they cannot apologize for,
and house presided over by q despOt,
and yet they cannot defend their record.
Twelve years of power complete. they
have been able to pass every law they
wanted to pass, to repeal every law they
wanted to repeal. and they have had Re-
publicans on nearly all the federal bench
es, and yet what is their condition? They
feel that in every state. Of this Union
the tide is running against them, and
they face deserved defeat for their be-
trayal of the American people by their
officials They have disappointed the Ia
boring man; they have refused to listen
to his plea: they have denied him the
remedies that he deserved and now, when
embittered by disappointment and indig
nant at mistreatment, the laboring man
attempts to show his citizenship. declare
his independence and register his protest
at the polls. they proceed with their at
tempts of coercion.
Attempted Coercion.
This mornings paper gives an illus
tration OF attempted coercion
He then read from q dispatch in a Co
lumbus paper which stated that 500 work
men OF the Big Four system at Belle
fontaine, part of the New York Central
SYSTEM had been called together in the
shops and notified that II Bryan was
elected there would be 10 per cent re-
duction in wages, and IL Taft was elect
ed there would be an increase in both
pay and work The dispatch stated that
these officials We're making a tour of the
entire system for the purpose of making
the same announcement to all the en-
ployes-
ssrT-y,. Prfa
sis the statement IN a Republican paper
of the threat made by the officials of
great railroad system They threaten to
punish men for voting the Democratic
ticket by a 10 per cent cut in their wages
and they promise to increase their pay
and their work If they will vote the Re
publican ticket 1 say to you that the
little ward heller who goes around and |
brides man for s. is a moral character |
beside the man who attempts to use his |
power to threaten those who work for |
him and to buy them by promise of in |
crease or threaten them by promise of |
decease. ] want the American people to |
understand that we have something like |
a million and half of railroad employees |
and II the managers of these roads can /
enter politics and cOerce that many men, |
then independent elections are past IN this |
office men hostile to the laboring men |
then by these coercions they can force |
upon the laboring man any antagonistic |
legislation that they desire
Wage Garner In Cabinet.
The Republican party has refused to /
give the laboring man place in the |
presidents cabinet. when our party prom |
ised him that II we succeeded there would 4
be a spokesman for the wage Garner in /
the presidents council chamber.
when 1 say to the laboring men that |
II 1 am elected ! want one of their rep l
in my cabinet to advise with /
me about labor; when l say that these /
men representing the railroads go out and /
tell you that unless you are willing to re-
finQuish your claim to representation In /
the cabinet they will reduce your wages /
and make your compensation smaller /
than Il is; we tell the laboring men that If |
we win we will amend the antitrust law |
so as to take the labor organization out /
from under the operation of that law. and /
now come these heads Of railroads to /
tell their employees that If they dare TO /
ask for relief from this antitrust law
they viii be punished by a reduction of /
wages. We say IN our platform that II
we win we will limit the writ of injunc-
ton so that labor dispute will not in
itself be a sufficient ground for the Is
suance of that. writ-that there must be |
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