Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-31
Does Not Know BY What Author
ity He Pretends to Deliver the
Labor Vote to Bryan.
HIS PROGRAM is RulNous
Would Destroy Protective Tnrin
Which Secures to American NJ
WorIsnen Fair Wages.

- IttSDufSs OCT. S0.---United States
Senator p. G. Knox Lleut.-Gov. Rob.
ert S. Murphy and Congressman Will
liam H. Graham were the principal
speakers tonghta what was practical
Is the closing demonstrate Of the Re.
publican party in Allegheny county
D. +. Jones, Jl'., of the Jones e
Laugflin Steel company presided at the
meeting. Which was held iii Carnegie
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:
II do not know to what extent Mr..
&Gompers 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 lie appeared at the national.
conventions of both parties and formu-
lated demands upon bothsin the name
of organized labor, and as the result OF
j his views of the action Of the two
parties he has called upon organized
labor to Iapudiate Mr.. Taft and vote for
Mr.. Bryan.
In the American Federatonlst for
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 1t must
have The Democratic party and its
candidate. he adds. have openly and
courageously made labor's demands
their own. MIR. Bryan, the candidate
of the Democratic party. he says. has
ft11l RI RI 4II, ,s. a,,rlr
THE just demands of labor to which
Mr.. Golnpers refers, and which he
claims Mr.. Blyan6and the Democratic
party have fully endorsed, are embodied
in the Wilson bill, II. r.. 20, Ssh, and the
Pearre bill. II. r o."
Senator Knox said one of these de-
nands is founded upon q mistake OF
Mr. Gompers. and that no such grieN-
ance as he inagines exists and that
the other demand is founded upon an
impossible proposition antagoni2ing the
principle for which labor has been con-
tending for centuries.
u believe the effect of what Mr..
$Gsonperss proposes and the substance Of
what he asks American workmen to do
E is1this: .5
Vote for Bryan and he Viii destroy
the protective tariff which secures to
American worknen fair wages and fair
conditions they need and as. q substi-
$tutes for good wages and conditions, Mr..
4 Bryan Will advocate the enactment of
a measure outlaWing American bust
ness, IA thing no honest American work
man wants This demand lis one which
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 do
business and legalizing the black list
and the secondary boycott? The presi-
dent and 1 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 a. syllable With Mi.
Fricl1 on the subject of legislation to
which Mr.. Bryan has referred, ! will
simply revert to the question in which
the people are now interested. and that
is Did you, Mr.. Bryan. promise Mr..
Gompers to support the Pearre bill?
mfr. Taft entertains no impossible
theory of government. as Mr.. Bryan
does. to which the peoples Interests
must be bent and fitted. else shattered
and destroyed He will be better salts
fled to achieve his policies than to voci-
ferously proclaim them. His policies
are not like those OF Mr.. Bryan. a mat
ter of geography. He is not endeavor-
ing to conceal IN one section of the
country what he is proclaiming in an
other, He is Just straightforward,
capable. stable and experienced states
man, the type we love to point to as
Americas product.