Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1908-10-15
eOERCERs WARMED
FUND OF 5000 APPROPRIATED
TO PROSECUTE IN.
TIMiDArIONS.
NAcEL ALLY OF TRUSTS
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMIT
TEEMAN DRAWS SALARIES FROM
GOVERNMENT AND ARchHoLD.
W. e. Corey, President Steel Trust,
Travelling In Private Car with Or
ehsstra, Wants Taft-Remarks
Of TAFT In North Dakota.

travelling IN Pfitate Car with Or.
ehsstra, Wants Taft-Remarks
Of TAFT In North Dakota.
It is a well-known fact that at tho
last meeting of the Democratic nation
al committee a special fund of 5000
was appropriated and set apart for the
express purpose Of furnishing any per-
son or corporation which endeayors to
coerce employees to vote for Mr.. Tart.
Special counsel will be retained and
vigorous prosecution will follow.
Judge Wade said to-day: I'VE
might as well settle the question dur
ing this campaign whether under the
law an employer may club his en-
ployes into voting as he directs.
Threats Of reduction in wages or prom
ise of higher wages as inducemeRt to
vote for Taft is bribery plain and sim
pie.
I'VE are not afraid of the effect of
such tactics in this election, because
the American laboring man cannot be
bribed nor scared into submission to
the will Of his master in q matter as
sacred as the ballot, but think 1t IL
the duty Of this committee to protect
the American workingman from such
methods. The employer has no legal
right to insult his employees by such
notice as the following:
The reduction Of ten per cent. in
wages last winter was to have been re-
warrant It, While we are busy at pres
ent, we feel that its continuation will de-
Pend upon the result " Of the presidentiai
a general Improvement in all lines Of
business win result On November 18th.
we will. therefore. restore the old rating
Ia nj
duced ten per cent. last winter, provided
lsigned) s. s. EVELAND.
President.
"This is attempted bribery and pun
ishable as such. We. are satisfied that
such offenses will be few. Most en-
ployers of labor have some honor, and
some respect for the constitution and
the law.
I'VE will give due publicity to every
effort to coerce labor. The people of
the country want to know what kind
Of men are managing the manufactur-
ing and railway companies who pros
per upon the patronage Of Democrats
and Republicans alike. 1t may be that
Democrats will continue their bust
ness relations with people who stoop
to bribe or coerce employees to vote
against Mr.. Bryan, and then again
o. they may not ! kind of like the tone
of the following letter sent out by a
prominent travelling man in Iowa:
Dear Str: AS the travelling salesman
ping In Iowa. Your freight agent has
been anxious to receive these Shipments.
Our house wishes to ship it's product over
the shortest line and the best rate obtain
able. I understand from your employees.
that you are attempting to coeree them
to xOte TOR 5uage .hn but yet o YOU tbar
who are supporting Mr.. Bryan.
IF this Is the policy of your road to
pubie a1 know it, that they ean give
their business to that road which pHtmits
Its employees to vote rs their judgment
dictates.
Sincerely yours.
Il do not give the names, because
the writer received immediate assur-
-ance that no such effort would be
made, and in politics We should be
careful not to do injustice 10 anyone.
But we will see that we get the name
ofsevery guilty employer, ind will see
that he gets full publicity both before
election and after election.
''The slip in the gay envelope few
days before election advising how to
vote won't 60 this year as it did in
1896" f~
Documents have come into the pos,
session of the Democratic national
committee which prove beyond q
doubt that Charles Nagel, who is n
charge Of the Chicago headquarters OF
the Republican natisSnal committee IN
the absence of Chairman Hitchcock, Is
an attorney Of record for the Standard
Oil Company. In addition to having
| charge of the western headquarters
and being second IN command when
Mr.. Hitchcock Is, I'm Chicago, Mr. Ma.
gel Is the Missouri member OF thu Re
| publican national committee when
! Mr.. Hitchcock was in Chicago recently
| he made it plain that Secretary Hay.
:, ward inventor Of the card index sys.
tenn, had been deposed and that Mr.
! Nagel would represent the chairman
| in his absence from Chicago. Mr.. Ma
| gel is also scheduled to accompany
! Mr.. Taft on his trip through Missouri
| Several years ago, through the politi-
| cal influence Of Ethan Allen Hitch.
cock, then secretary Of the interior
Mr.. Nagel was appointed a special at
! torney in certain Indian land cases in.
volving oil and other natural re-
sources and drew a big fee from the
! government for his services. He was
| thus in position to look after and
I ptOtCCt Tic Iu(SISStS Oh MS C1l0ht, tuS
Standard Oil Company.
In the famous case which Attorney
General Hadley of Missouri brought
against the Standard Oil Company to
break up the monopoly In Missouri
Nagel appeared for this king of all
| trusts.
| During the course of his argument
as reported by an Official stenographer
Mr.. Nagel poked fun at Attorney Gen
eral Hadley, and spoke of ''fashliSht
pictures" and trying the case in the
| newspapers. He added, Since l have
read the record what l now see has
! been forcibly impressed upon my
mind, and that is, in the main we
have been trying two cases in one
We have been trying a case before the
| pubic, and we have been trying q
case in court
Continuing he said: Il don't agree
with the attorney general in the state
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