Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-10-29
LIFE LONG DEMOS
join COP. RANKS
JOHN M. AND FRED S. M'cUL.
LoUGH,FoRMER oTTUMWANs,
ARE OUT FOR TAFT.
LOSE FAITH Tin j. w. BRYAN
Realizing the Great Prosperity Of the
Country and DESTROYS of Assist
ing to Continue Good Condition
Seattle Men Drop Old Love.

Realizing the great prosperity of this
country today and the fact that with
continuation of the Republican party
in rule can not do otherwise than to
continue and perhaps better the condi-
lions generally the Democratic party
has lost at least two of its former adj
herents and strong workers in the Nc
Cullough brothers, Fred S. and John
NJ. of Seattle, formerly of this city,
who recently have left the ranks of
their former love and declared them
selves in favor of William Fl. Taft and
the Republican party. The fact that
these two former Ottumwa men, sons
of DR.. Mccullough, brothers of Theo-
dore Mccullough of Omaha Herman
of Des Moines and Ralph of Seattle,
have severed their lifelong connection
with the Democratic party, eloquently
voices the superiority of the present
ruling element of the United States
Referring to the case of John NJ. Nc
Cullough, a Seattle paper says:
John NJ Mccullough. twenty years
a union man and well known in labor
circles in Seattle. has been Democrat
and supported William Jennings Bryan
| in his first campaign. This year he
will vote for the Republican nominee
! for president and asks all his friends
| to do the same.
| Ahi. lives at ocSI w az
! ingford avenue. where he owns his
| home. He is now secretary of the
| district council of carpenters of King
county and has been president of the
ShipWrights union of Seattle for three
terms. For one term he was presi-
| dent of the Pacific Coast Maritime
| Builders and he has been delegate to
| the Central Labor council three times.
| 81 was d Democrat but | have re-
formed said Mr.. Mccullough last
evening. In 1895 | believed that what
Bryan said was right. and | and others
| worked so hard for him that we chang
cd 5000 Republican majority in our
district to $500 majority for Bryan.
Bryan Not Consistent.
1.-The reason l will not vote for
! Bryan is that he is not consistent In
| 1896 he told us that free silver was the
paramount issue. In 1900 he gave it
up to take another issue. This year
he has another and his platform
principles are reactionary.
IF Bryan is elected the factory
owners will lay off men instead of put
ting them to work. He'll make times
harder for every one, workingmen in
Guided.
- believe Tafts policy to be all
right from the standpoint of the work
ingmen, because by his election the
nation will hold on to what it has ac-
CURED and new markets will be OPEN
ed for our products. Again, ] think
that his records in office show that he
is honest and consistent
"'Whle many woriingmen do not
like his Interpretation of this country's
laws. Mr.. Taft is not responsible for
those laws. and I respect him the more
office required him.
AS for Mr.. Gompers. he is merely
the president of the American Fedora
ton of Labor. and when he uses his
party. he. is overstepping the powers
given him by the constitution of the
organization. / am going to disregard
absolutely Mr.. Gompcrs' directions
which way | am to vote and | advise
all other men to do the same.
BY voting for Taft all laboring
men, whether union men or nonunon
men, VIII assure themselves of four
years of good times and prosperity"
Lost Faith in Democracy
The same paper has the following
to say of Fred S. Mccullough joining
the Republican ranks:
Fred S. Mccullough. president of
the state council of the United Broth
erhood of Carpenters and Joiners of
America members of the Seattle
carpenters union and d delegate to the
central labor council, has been a Dem
ocrat from the time he cast his first
vote. He supported Bryan in 1896 and
again in 1900 and assisted In the
Parker campaign in 1904. In Novem-
Der he will, cast his first Republican
ballot for William H. Taft for presi-
dent.
MI. Mccullough has lost faith in
the Democratic party and in the prom
ises of Mr.. Bryan, and declines to be
dictated to by Samuel Gompers presi-
dent of the American Federation of
Labor.
Taft is going to be elected said
Mr.. Mccullough last evening, because
the nation recognizes him as the
man for the place and the only logical
successor to Roosevelt. He will be
able to do more for the people than
would Mr.. Bryan. if elected, because