The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-15

Bryan or are going to remain passive
 in order to get even with the man ip
 the White House"
 No Coercion This Year.
 Open coercion of employees on the
 part of railroad officials was resort
 ed to twelve years ago in the interest
 of Mckinley. The officials then made
 no secret of their methods to help the
 Republicans. There Is no coercion
 this year than can be learned of in
 this section. The idea Is to let the
 men vote as they please
 Congressman Cary of Milwaukee has
 called upon the Central Labor Union
 of Washington to send him out an In
 dorsement. This statement has not appeared in print. but The Advertiser correspondent gets 1t from one of the
 men who regularly attends the meet lngs of the union.
 Cary during the past winter and spring made a number of ringing ad- dresses at labor meetings here. AL though he Is a Republican he. months ago warned his party associates in his speeches that were printed in washington and other newspap pers at the time that if Taft were nominated for the presidency 1t would be the duty of the working men to oppose him on account of his decisions against labor while a Federal judge.
 COnRreSSman hlc0eTu1Ott, WnO repre- sents in the House the stock yards district of Chicago. made speeches at these meetings with Cary. They are close personal friends and in earlier | life were telegraph operators. They stiil hold cards of membership in the | teIegraphers' union. These represen- | tatives vigorously championed the bills that were introduced in Congress for
 national regulation of the telegraph &afaAhnna nnaufaS- PraeiAanf | Beatty of the union was here during l the greater part of the past session | looking after that legislat on. The l House leaders positively refused to give the knights of the Key a show. 1 The nearest approach to getting what
 they were after was resolution which | Senator La Toilette put through the | upper branch of Congress paving the way at some future time for taking | up the question.
 The wisconsin senator introduced | in the Senate the bill pressed by the union and Cary did the same Tn the | House. Cary charges now that on ac. | count of his connection with these l matters the telegraph and telephone | companies are doing their utmost to | defeat him in his district He wants l the help and the indorsement of the 1 Federation of Labor, and 1t will be | given him. for Gompers and his as- soeietes have steadily maintained that l they are going to help their friends and punish their enemies in this con test. whether they be Republican or 1 Democrats.
 Two years ago there was a triangu' l lar fight in Cary's district. He re- | ceiyed I2,231 votes to s.75s for Melms | Socialist Democrat, and S,656 for | Fleming, regular Democrat
 l The talk here Is that the railway | teIegraphers are pretty generally sup' | porting Democrats this year on ac' | count of the shabby treatment their I union officials received at the hands | of the Republican leaders in Congress | during the past session. At the close I of the session their representatives de- l cIared here that they would get even In the campaign. and all reports indi' | cate that they will be as good as theii l word.