The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-10-31
SENATOR KNOX SCORES
GOMPERS AND BRYAN
Predicts That Election Of Demo-
crat Spells Disaster for
American Laborers.

PITTSBURG, Oct, 30.-United States
nor Robert s. Murphy and Congressman
William H. Graham were the principal
speakers tonight at what was prac-
tically the closing demonstration of the
Republican party in Allegheny county.
B. T. Jones, Jr., of the Jones q
Laughlin Steel company presided at the
hall, North Side, formerly Allegheny
City,
Scores of Republican leaders, serving
as vice-presidents, occupied seats on the
stage. The largest parade of the cam
paign preceded the meeting Mr.. Knox
in his address said;
81 do not know to what extent MI
Gompors represents the organized labor
Of the United States, or by what au.
thority he pretends to deliver its votes
to the Democratic party, but we all
know that he appeared at the national
conventions of both parties and formu-
lated demands upon both in the name
Of organized labor, and as the result
of his views Of the action Of the two
labor to repudiate Mr.. Taft and vote
for Mr.. Bryan.
Quotes Mr.. Gompers.
In tue American L tIdtiOuioS ~
October, Mr.. Gompers proclaims to the
country that In this campaign labor
realizes that the Republican party and
its candidate stand committed against
the relief and the Justice which it must
have The Democratic party and its
candidate, he adds, have openly and
courageously made labor's demands
Of the Democratic party, he says, has
fully indorsed labor's demands.
'The just demands of labor to which
Mr.. Gompers refers, and which he
claims Mr.. Bryan and the Democratic
party have fully Endorsed, are embodied
in the Wilson bill, II. R. 20,5S4, and the
Pearre bill, II. R. "a.
Senator Knox said one of these de.
mands is founded upon a mistake of
Mr.. Gompers, and that no such griev.
ance as he imagines exists, and that the
other demand is founded upon an i'm
possible proposition antagonlzing the
principle for which labor has been CON
! tending for centuries.
81 believe the effect of what Mr.:
| Gompers proposes and the substance of
what he asks American workmcn to do
is this:
Predicts Disaster.
"Vote FOR Bryan and he will destroy
| the protective tariff which secures TO
American workmen fair wages and fair
| conditions they need. and as substl-
tute for good wages and conditions,
| Mr.. BRYAN will advocate the enactment
Of a measure outlawing American bust
ness, thing no honest American work
man wants. This demand is one whic b
Mr.. Gompers says Mr.. Bryan has made
| his own.
"Mr. Bryan and Mr.. Gompers in
dulge in ill.natured and irrelevant at
tacks upon the president and me. but
what have they said about Mr.. Bryan
advocating outlawing the right to dc
business and legalizing the black list
] and the secondary boycotti The presi
dent and I are not asking for the votes
| of the people, and, therefore, refuse
TO follow Mr. Bryan and Mr.. GomPers
into the realm of irrelevant association.
As | was never attorney for the steel
trust or the Pennsylvania railroad and
never exchanged syllable with Mr..
Frick on the subject of legislation TO
which Mr.. Bryan has referred, will
simply revert 10 the question In which
| the people are now interested, and that
] is, Did you, Mr.. Bryan, promise MI
Gompers to support the Pcarre billf
"Mr Taft eutertains no impossible the
ory Of government, as Mr. Bryan does, TO
which the peoples interests must be
bent and fitted. else shattered and de-
stroyed He will be better satisfied TO
achieve his policies than TO voclterously
proclaim them, His policies are not hike
| those of Mr Bryan, matter OF geog-
raphy. He is not cndeavorlng to con.
ceal in one section of the country what
he is proclaiming in another he is
| lust a raightforward, capable, stable
and experienced statesman, the type we
love TO point to as Americas product, -