The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1908-09-23
AND THE
REPUBLICAN, PARTY
1t Has Proven It's Friendship Toward
Trade Unionists in Every State
in the Union.

The Republican party appeals for
the support of trades unionists. It
does 80 because It has proven its
friendship toward organized labor in
every State In the Union. 1t Is not
lip-friendship, neither. It is the
friendship which makes itself known
through good deeds done when good
deeds were needed.
1.-THE Democratic party in this cam
paign were obliged to prove its friend
ship toward organized labor In the
same fashion there would be speedy
end of all the prevailing. clamor about
what that party is going to do when
1t gets In power.
The Democratic party has been in
power at many times and In many
States and localities in the past is
or 20 years; and 1t dares not to fall
BACK upon Its record of substantial
friendship toward organized labor.
as shown either in law-making or
public administration. II forced to-
do that, all its great orators, includ-
ing Mr.. Gompers and Mr.. Bryan,
would In brief space lapse into the
darkest silence.
What has the Republican party
done in a practical way to advance
the cause of organized labor and to
make conditions for both unionist
and non-unionist worker more favor
able than they ever were before?
This question Is a broad one. The
answer to 1t must necessarily also be
broad. 1t would be impossible to even
sketch in brief space what the Repub-
lican party through its representa-
tives in National and State legislation
and administration has done.
Every enlightened Republican can
supply an effective answer In this
wise: He can say in truth that his
party and Its representatives have
taken the initiative in the great work
OF bringing about improved condl-
tions for the wage earners OF the
country, and that to Republican legis-
lators and administrators is due in
the first instance 1.-The existence OF
every provision of law looking to the
betterment of those conditions now on
the statute books.
In New England, New York. Penn
sylyania, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana
and every State in the Middle West,
in Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota and
every Northwestern State, In Oregon,
Washington, California and every
State on the Pacific slope, there exist
to-day excellent laws creating labor
bureaus, preventing child labor, limit
ing the hours Of labor for man, wom-
an and child alike within reasonable
limits, recognizing and safeguarding
the union label and generally foster
Ing the labor unions and their wise
policies.
Who called those laws into exist
ence? Republicans in every instance,
because in all Of those States Republi-
cans were in control OF State govern
ment.
In many of these same States there
are admirable laws, passed within
the past two or three years, either
smashing or modifying these brutal
s,lrvivals of English feudalism, the
fellow servant rule, the contributory
negligence rule and the rule of-as-
sumed risk. These same States in
many Instances have passed admir-
able Employers Liability laws.
Take the State of Ohio, for in
stance. In that State to-day there ex-
lists a code OF laws for the betterment
of the lot of the working man, woman
and child in every one OF the direc-
lions enumerated above, which is an
honor to the humanitarian spirit Of
our time. How did they come there?
BY Republican initiative and Repub-
lican influence in every instance.
Now, take the other side Of the pic
ture: The Democratic party has had
Its own way in the South. The vast
block OF States extending to the Gulf
of Mexico-what have they done to
improve conditions for the wage
Garner? They have not only done
substantially nothing. but their DEM
ocratic officials have taken and main
tain and take and maintain to-day in
many cases an attitude of armed en-
nifty toward organized labor and its
representatives and toward the effort
whenever made to call into existence
within their borders even the least
important OF the remedial measures
that have been. enacted SO generally
by Republicans in Republican States.
JOKES ON BRYAN.