The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-10-14
FUND or 5000 APPROPRIATED
TO PROSECUTE IN
TiMIDATloNs.
NAcEL ALLY OF TRUSTS
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMIT.
TEEMAN DRAWS SALARIES FROM
GOVERNMENT AND ARcHsoLD.
W. e. Corey, President steel Trust
Travelling In Private Car with or.
ehestra, Wants Taft-Remarks
Of Taft In North Dakots.

lt is Woll-knOWO IaCt lnul Ut tHc
last meeting OF the Democratic nation.
al committee a special fund OF $4,000
was appropriated and set apart for the
express purpose OF furnishing any per
son or corporation which endeavors to
coerce employees to vote for Mr.. Taft.
Special counsel will be retained and
vigorous prosecution will follow.
Judge Wade said to-day: we
might as well settle the question dur
ing this campaign whether under the
law an employer may club his enl
ployes into voting as he directs
Threats Of reduction in wages or prom
Use of higher wages as inducement to
vote for Taft is bribery plain and sim.
Pile
we are not afraid OF the effect of
such tactics In this election. because
the American laboring man cannot be
bribed nor scared into submission &c
| the will Of his mnster In a matter as
sacred as the ballot, but ] think II Is
| 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
! uotice as the following:
! The reduction of ten per cent II
| wages last winter was to have been re
L
| warrant IL. While We are busy at prcs
| ent, we feel that It's continuation viii De
/ pend upon the result OF the presidential
| election and that II MIR. Taft IL clecte,
| general Improvement in all lines o
| business will result. on November 2Sth
| We will therefore, restore the old ratini
| % all employees whose wages were re
| iuced ten per cent. last winter. provide,
| Mr.. Taft IL elected president
| (signedJ s. S. EVELAND.
President.
This is attempted bribery and pun
| ishable as such. We are satisfied tha
such offenses will be few. Most EN-
| ployers OF labor have some honor, ant
some respect for the constitution ant
| the law.
| I'VE will give due publicity to ever!
| effort to coerce labor. The people o
the country want to know what kint
OF men are managing the manufactur
ing and railway companies who pros
per upon the patronage OF Democrats
and Republicans alike. II 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
they may not ! kind OF like the tone
OF the following letter sent out by q
prominent travelling man in Iowa:
Dear Sir: As the travelling salesman
Of -, my house does considerable SHIP
ping in Iowa. Your freight agent has
been anxious TO receive these shipments.
our house wishes to slip its product over
the shortest line and the best rate obtain.
ablc understand from your employees
that You are attempting Ia coerce them
TO vote for Judge Taft, but yet you are
willing 10 accept shipments from those
who are supporting Mr. Bryan.
| III this IS the policy OF your road to
| Coercc your employees II is well that the
public may know IL, that they can gIv'
their business to that road which permits
It's employees, TO vote as 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 TO anyone
But we will see that we get the name
OF every guilty employer and will see
that lie gets full publicity both before
| election and after election.
The slip in the pay envelope few
days before election advising how ia
vote wont SO this year as II did in
1885,
II Documents have come into the pos
! session OF the Democratic national
committee which prove beyond q
|
charge OF the Chicago headquarters OF
the Republican national committee In
the absence of Chairman Hitchcock, Is
: an attorney OF record for the Standard
J OIL Company. In addition to having
? l charge OF the western headquarters
and being second in command when
Mt Hitchcock Is In Chicago, Mr.. Ma
gel is the Missouri member OF thu Re
publican national committee. When
J, Mr.. Hitchcock was In Chicago recently
he made IL plain that Secretary Hay
) ward inventor OF the card index sys
2 | tem," had been deposed and that Mr.
I | 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 pollti
cal influence OF Ethan Allen Hitch
! | cock, then secretary OF the interior
y Mr.. Nagel was appointed special at
2 torney in certain Indian land cases in
volving oil and other natural re
sources, and drew big fee from the
government for his services. He was
thus In position TO look after and
protect the interests or his client the
Standard Oil Company.
In the famous case which Attorney
General Hadley OF Missouri brought
against the Standard Oil Company ia
break up the monopoly in Missouri
| Nagel appeared for this king OF ali
! TRUSTS. M
Il During the course of hts argument
as reported by an official stcnographer
Mr. Nagei poked fun at Attorney Gen
eral Hadley, and spoke OF vilashlight
nictnres' and trying the case in the
newspapers. lie added, "Since ! have
read the record what ! 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 case before the
public and we have been trying d
/ case In court"
Continuing he said: Il don't agree
with the attorney general in the state
} nient that the existence OF fixed
price is the end OF competition, not
f....