The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-10-15
WELLMAN'S OPINIONS
The Noted Newspaper Writer
Gives Conditions in Factories.

Mr.. Walter Wellman has been in
vestigating the situation In Ne"
York among the toileIs, and in dis
patch to the Chicago cord-llerald
republican paper, published last
Sunday, he saws;
Four years ago / spent much time
in this city. Though had no doubt
whatever of the election OF kuose-
welt, to make sure | spent days on
the east side and west side OF the
town, as we'll as along the broadway
and Fifth avenue center.
talked with truck drivers, cab
men, street car employees, head walt
ers. BARRIERS, policemen, tiremen,
stablemen, small shopkeepers, sales
men. In surprisingly large num-
Der of instances, considering that
majority Of these men are democrats,
the replies to my questions as TO no"
they felt about the presidency were
of this order.
n |
4 are for Roosevelt. V
During the past fortnight l nave
done the same thing. A number Oh
i NV friends have also made II point
to 20 about asking questions oil Tue
IL same class OF men. Almost invari'
ably the reply Isl ave are all io'
q, BRYAN this year." or II don't neal
= ANYTHING but Bryan" or IAN oui
1e bows are going TO vote for Bryan Iili'
I'd time Almost without exception
- these men answer questions aoou
the goyernorship with sheef Il
hughes, and often with naught
L cussword.
Now It is easy to oyerrate the sly
1 nifcance of such incidents. we ai
prone to forget that majority prof
L ably IS or 70 per cent OF these met
are democrats TO start with hI
when YOU make extensive Inquire
among this class Of voters ana y
only one answer, 1t has meanlh
The meaning is that Insofar as III
are democrats 10y habit they are
with their party this year, "hi'
they have not been in any preside
tia campaign since 1897 1T llea
That the relatively small number
them who are republicans are n'
showing signs of going over to
other side. The republican ieao'
have discovered this same gene
tendency, not only here In Mann
tan. hut over in Brooklyn, In Buna
In Rochester, Syracuse, Albany
tho cities The same thing Is
in Jersey City and Newark and
manufacturing towns OF New Jers
VItis this state of things that
caused the republican mana1
anxiety as TO whether or not I
snail be able TO bold the state.
How are the workmen IN
shoos9 According 10 all repo
there the same general tehoenc,
found. speaking as a whole
factories In which the WORK
are largely republican aud where
Trend to Bryan is discernible' l
are chiefly protected indus'
xberein the wageearners as We
the proprietors know that
n,o,d Is tariff -buttered. AND ye
strong is the drift Of tue "
Gaming class TO the democracy
ve., that the most gloomy
each The ears of the republican
n .sars from shops In when DO
,,ouhle would naturally he looAe'
~ Among my acquaintance Is
manager of large IaCO'''
smploys 600 or 700 men ana
artiyities are largely 10 hIiius
.,t orders. Il had heard
- our men were talkins bryan.
r I'D and / coud not osile'e u
T.,IIed ou a number OF my Oi1e
- cloves. and put the question iA'
sousre to them. Was u uo'
80 uere going over 70 Brya
II -, Yes. they said. the me
-, we're. WhyY Well, they
eos change, the cost OF h'ih'
htgb. the republicans we're b'O
x,,b the trusts and the bns
- N ON. Wei, said j,
understand whT men IN o'De'
~. ,,es might 90 over 10 hi1s'
.n,ely YOU can't Don't you