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this is the man that sent Pnelan to
prison because he, Phelan, did his
duty and stood true to his fellow
union men, this the man that lied
about Phelan was dead.
Let us examine Bryan. There is
all old saying that man is known
by the company he keeps. If a
man could be sentenced to prison
for keeping bad company Bryan
should be doing life sentence.
Bryan is candidate of the dem
ocratic party, that party in the
" ords of Ben Hauford "without a
single decent attribute save a name
borrowed from the graves OF Its
ilustrious dead"
That party is the party OF Hinky
Dink and Bath House Johnnie IN
Chicago. of Tammany hall in New
York by as crooked set OF rascals
as ever were allowed to run at large
outside the walls of pepitentiary.
In the South, that solid demo
cratic south which is behind Bryan
there exists the most horrifying con
ditions of labor that exist anywhere
! in the entire civilized world.
Child labor in all its nakedness
exists in that south, fostered aud
perpe,uated by that same derocrat.
ic misrule. In that south a system
of peonage exists which would
put to blush the peonage system OF
Mexico. In that south convict
camps flourish under domestic su-
pervision aud in those camps cruel
ties are prae,iced unheard of even
in the wilds of Siberia. In Rus
sia men are transported to Siberia
for political offenses aud when once
there are allowed what is practical,
~ freedom, their wives aud fami-
lies are taken with them and they
are free to do everything but gov
ern themselves aud leave the prov
ince. But here in this democratic
south, men. women aud children,
guilty of 10 crime but of being
poor are put up at auction by dem
ocra,ic officials and sold for six
months, a year, FIVE aud 10 years,
aud sold to the highest bidders.
The poor and propertyless are dis
franchised and denied voice in the
government; and yet this man Bry-
an. this man who would pose as a
friend of labor has never been heard
to voice a word Of protest.
The soil of the Dakotas is being
plowed by the sons OF the southland
the virgin forests Of Oregon and
Washington are being converted
into lumber by these sturdy hands,
while from the south, the south
where the balmy breezes blow, a
country blessed by nature and
cursed by man there comes a wall
for those same laborers to develope
the great natural resources OF the
south, but those laborers who have
been outraged by democratic mis-.
rule prefer to wander far from home
and kindred, strangers in a strange
land, prefer the hospitality OF the
of the Dakota billiards TO the ten
der mercies Of democratic slave
drivers.
Bryan made statement that he
would not "see labor crucifed on a
cross of gold" but the sight of hui
man beings being auctioned off OF
block of wood by democratic poll
clans has as yet struck no respon-
sive chord in the sympathetic
breast of the wind bag from the
Platte"
Can any man believe. who stops
to consider the proposition serious =
ly tor a moment, that Taft, the
corporation lawyer, the corporation
judge, that three hundred-pound
monument of CUTS and corruption
will ever do anything in the inter-
est of laborl
Can any one believe that Bryan,
whose eyes are blind to the misery
of the poor helpless babes toiling in
the southern slave pens. whose de-
sire to be president will allow him
join hands with Bath house Johnnie
Hinky Dink, Roger Sullivan and
the braves of Tammany hall, can
any one believe that a man who
can dim his eyes to human misery
and join hands with the most cor
rupt gang of machine politicions in
the civilized world would ever do
anything for labor!
No Labor has no friends. La
Dor must be its own friend. But
labor has done this. Labor has
organized party of its own. 1t
has built up party of dues paying
members. Its members are men
with horns on their hands. These
men year ago, 10000 of them,
assessed themselves IS cents each.
They sent from Oregon five dele
gates. They sent their delegates
from every state in the union to
their convention in Chicago. They
nominated for president one of their
own kinds locomotive fireman who
had been imprisoned by a republi-
can judge at the behest of demo-
cratic president and of demo-repub-
lican corporations. because he was
true to the cause of the man in over
alls. The nickels and dimes of the