Bisbee daily review., 1908-08-18
IMPLORINC REPUBLICANS ID MANUFACTURE.
 SOME PROPERTY IN STATE IF INDIANA

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind, Aug. 17.-Re-
 ublican leaders in Indiana are moy- ing heaven and earth 10 ilGuce eIn- ployers to start the factories. All the channels known to the dominant pOli- tician that lead into business circles channels piled before in this state are being worked to the end that the wheels may turn before the election. There is not the shadow of a doubt but that the republicans will be over thrown in Indiana unless industrial conditions return to normal.
 While big business and factory own CTS have not suffered as they did in 1893, the WOrkingmen in many locaIi- ties have felt the results of the bus.- ness depression more than they i'd in the great panic of the Cleveland ad- ministration. The labor vote at the present time, unquestionably, is al- most wholly disposed against the re- publiCans. If the election were he'd now, a percentage would go to the Hearst party, a slightly larger per centage to Debs and the socialists, and the bulk to Mir. Bryan.
 So that the sole hope of the repID- licans is to placate this vote. They will strive and are striving to this end, by fair means or foul. The most extreme methods of intimidation may be expected if the republican poIiti- clans are able to argue employers into adopting such tactics.
 ominous Empty Dinner Pail.
 With the full dinner pair argu- ment missing from their political arse nal what will be the republican plight if they have to deal with an empty dinner pail during September and Oc- tober? There are other specific and detailed reasons aside from the indus trial depression why tho labor vote is alienated These chiefly lie in the | contrast between the republican and democratic labor blanks, in Mir. Taft s labor record and that of Mir. Watson the republican candidate for sosernor. The issue against Mir. Taft, and from 1 laboT's standpoint, is the same the country over, and probably is well un- | derstood by the readers Mir. Watson, as persona non grata among laboring men. will be treated in a subsequent letter upon the Indiana state cam ! paign.
 But the paramount fact likely to af, 1 feet votes lies in the :uffering among worlingmen and their iamilies due to the dullness of present business con- ! ditions.
 l To date there has been no sub
 stantial evidence produced that the employers this year propose to adopt methods of coercion with their work men. The democratic leaders in
 Indiana, with whom have talked, in. cluding Mir. Kern and Mir Marshall are informed that many of the Indiana employers. who originally were dem ocrats are in line for the ticket, and l that many others, whose bias is re l publican, are apathetic toward Mir. Taft. They cherish no kindly feeling l toward the Roosevelt administration 1 and attribute the loss of business
 incident to the panic directly to the | men in power at Washington, D. c. Then, the tariff issue is distinctly a live one among the Indiana mauu-
 lecturers, Roughly speaking these | manufacturers are producing chiefly steel and glass products. The manuIac- | turef of steel products are compelled to deal wholly with the steel trust for their raw material. and they feel very | bitterly toward this rust. The glass
 manufacturers ave felt the business l defTession more keenly, perhaps. than
 any other one interest.
 The steel men are by no means con
 fident of the sort of tarif revision they
 will get under the promise made in the republican national platform The steel, glass and other manufacturers alike are more than uneasy, as to the deal at Washington which might ue
 handed out by .Rcosevelt's man, Taft
 If you meet some of these men social l ly you hear them say that from busf
 ness standpoint they sec nothing to ] be gained iE MT Taft As 10 Bryan
 they talk very interestedly of the fact