The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1908-09-25
LABOR MAN UP.
Holds TAFT ORDER
Man Who was Sent to Jail
Praises Decision.
Olney Was Inventor of Injunc-
tiOn And He Now
Opposes Taft.

/ The Democratic party through its
newspapers and speakers, has attempt
ed to make a great deal of capital,
among organized labor. because of the
celebrated injunction order, issued by
/ Mr.. Taft, while Federal Judge some
years ago. For contempt of that or
der several laboring men were sent
to Jail by JudgeTaft, among them one
James Hogen, who now lives at Chi
cago. A few days ago Mr.. Hogen,
who is a strong supporter of Taft
was interviewed. He said: will
liam II. Taft never enforced govern
ment by Injunction, Richard Olney, one
of the greatest Democrats of the coun
try. invented it," Olney now oppos-
es Taft. WHAT is the conclusion?
In the Ann Arbor case said Mr..
Hogan, Judge Taft decided that the
laboring men had the right TO COM
bine. select leaders. create funds for
support and defense, and conduct
strikes and influence others to strike
for the improvement of their condi-
ton.
He did not decide that the anti
trust law condemned such acts; he
simply decided that an engineer VINO
was satisfied with his employment
and VINO started out with his run
must continue to the end of the trip
and that he could not say what cars
he would or would not haul so long
as ne remained in the employ of his
company. There is not a railroad man
in America vino will not agree with
him that sucn should be the law.
He expressly decided man could
not be enjoined from breaking his con
tract. To quote what Arthur and Sar-
gent said in 1894 does not count now.
because they misquoted Judge Taft
then
Now as to Olney's injunction. the
exact language of the injunction was:
You are hereby commanded and en-
joined not to counsel with the EN-
ployes of tire aforesaid named railroad
by letter telegram or otherwise, by
wnicn they might leave the services
of their respective employers.
This was an injunction no monkey
shines about it. II went everywhere
and covered everybody and everything
Under il a man could not do anything
except take to the woods, or to use
the language of Edwin Walker Olney's
righthand man, Call the strike off"
Mr.. Hogan also paid mis- respects to
Samuel Gompers and w. J. Bryan say
ing: President Roosevelt has won
the only strike of any consequence that
has been won in fourteen years by
the labor people--the anthracite coal
strike. Gompers never won a strike
Now, wnen the Supreme Court declared
that boycott wlicn Gompers institut-
ed against the Danbury hatters illeg-
al. he pretends TO raise a great howl
and proposes to misead the workmen
of America by a platform which was
drafted at Denver by corporation law
yers, even if the chairman of the Com
mittee on Resolutions was not
Standard Oil man selected by Mr.. Bry
an of the convention
Concerning w. J. Bryan, Mir. Hogan
said: After mis- DISASTROUS defeat in
lS96-and if government by Injunction
is now an issue free silver is also-Mr.
Bryan said mis- defeat was due to ths
men who went 10 Jail in their eff
forts to defeat government by injunc-
ton. But for us he could have won
the silver issue, ne said, and so pro-
ceeded 10 kick us out of mis- party.
This alone ought TO be enough To put
not only the working man on his
guard, but also him VINO is opposed to
free coinage at16to1.
Look at the trust hirelings around
Mr. Bryan. A Standard Oil man for
treasurer of his campaign committee.
No wonder his bureau of publicity is
giving it out that he is making a bette
campaign than ever before"