The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-09-09
AND SAYS BRYAN CALLED WORK.
lNcMEN "PueLlc eEGGARs"
OPPOSES GOMpER'S PLAN
Willie's Labor Day speech Knocks
Out Every Party and Political
Leader Except His own and
and Says Hes Right.

Davenport Iowa. Sept S-W. Il T
Hearts delivered an address i'm this
city at a Labor pa, celebration Mn. f.
Hearst said in part.
intended 10 talk politics because
We are al thinking politics at thls
time but { don't intend to make a
political or partisan speech
when first urged labor unions to f.
20 into politics Nr Comp RS disagreed I
with mo aud declared that labor
union ought TO Keep ont ot politics /.
Now, Mr. Gompors agrees with me T.
that labor unions ought to go INTO .
politics and inasmuch as ne was wrong .
aud I was right before. mayc oc he is .
wrong now aud am right now.
Nj Gompers thinks that the right
way is for labor unions to lay 1eir
votes In his baskets like lot Of good
dujilul political hens. and for him to I
then take his basket to market uuO
pcddlc the contents To the republican
party or the democratic party. Tho
objections TO this plan ar many ana
they are convincing aud conclusive
J. lou cant afford to reposc 50
much power with any man or any Sc,
of men. There is distinct danger
that the contents of the basket would
be- peddled more tor the benefit OF the
owner Of the basket than for the ad-
yautagcs of the honest, trustful lay
ers OF the votes. There would be
competition for the contents Of tn
basket of a kind that would debauch
and destroy your organization with
out benefiting the humber members.
>. You would never be harmonious
in your ideas of how the votes should
be delivered. You would be divided
by differences Of opinion; YOU would
be disrupted by dissention.
,. You would get little or no re.
suits from such a system, Tor the men
elected would be democrats or repub-
licans 1hty would be your friends
Jefore the election.
T. You have tried out the old par.
ties time and time again aud found
them wanting every time. and IL
would be- absurd for you to waste your
time and your opportunities y rsist
ing in policy that has continually
proved failure.
m any one tells you that the demo
cratic party is a new party with a
new attitude toward worNngmen.
stand ready to prove that It is tn
same old democratic party with the
same old ceitful attitude towar6
workingmen.
When Years ago. workingmen were
in Washington arguing for what they
honestly believed TO be the best inter
| ests of themselves and their families
and their fellow citizens generally,
and Mr. Bryan called them public
/ beggars,' he did not show a spirit In
! sympathy with American labor nor In
harmony with American ideas.
And when Mr. Bryan the other
day, appointed as tr asurer OF the
democratic campaign fund this man
Hasnell. member Of the citizens Sc.
cret alliance hostile to labor in mean
and cowardly way, he didn't SHOW In
that either spirit in sympathy with
American labor or in accordance with
American fair play.
Mr. Hearst then went into details
concerning his charges against Mr.
Haskell. quoting from resolution Mr.
Hearst said was introduced by Mr..
Haskell before meeting OF an al
lance to bear cut his assertions and
the incident during which Mr.. Hearst
said Mr. Bryan term,d d working men
public beggars' and manufacturer
robbers. Concerning the latter
charge against Mr. Bryan MIR. Hearst
read affidavits from James Campbell
and Charles Eryant OF Anderson, Ind
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