The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-10-08
DECLINES
CAMPAIGN GOLD BRICK
Cannot BE Deceived Into Voting Tor
Bryan and His Hollow
Promises.
Democratic Candidate ignores
Pointed auestions Regarding the
Deeds OF III. Party Towards Or
xantzed Labor and Representative
Untonfsta Him.

The professed friendship OF Bryan
and the Democratic party for labor Is
being relentlessly exposed. During the
last few weeks the veil has been torn
asunderS and Bryan and his platform
maker, Haskell, have bee thoroughly
exposed to the world.
THAT Bryan's record as a friend
OF labor is the fimsiest Of all public
men in this line there can be no possi-
BILE DOUBT declares The Labor World
of Pittsburg. "He has never been any
thing else than a talker and he has
talked SC much that he has espoused
all shades and angles of the great La
Dor question without performing a sin-
gle act In the interests of the wage
worker. He is just the same Bryan
to-day that he ever was and the other
night in New York when asked to deny
that he ever made the statement that
American working men were public
beggars,' he refused to answer it. He
made the statement when fighting in
Congress against the demands OF the
44ass Workers Union.
Bryan DOeA Not Answer Question:.
"A number of the most direct and
Important questions on his attitude to-
ward labor's real interest have been
submitted to Bryan and so far he has
not condescended from his pedestal to
offer a definite reply. He has been
asked Are you aware of the fact that
since our nomination, and your in
dorsement by the executive officers OF
the American Federation OF Labor, the
governor of Alabama, one of your
friends and allies, has used his power
to crush the labor organizations in
that State, placing troops at the dis
posal Of the mine owners, and will
you, now that the matter has been thus
brought to your attention, publicly re-
pudiate and condemn Governor Co
mer's hostility to organized labor? This
is by all means a most vital question
to every trade unionist In the country
who intends to vote next November.
THE following questions have also
been submitted to him:
lis it not a fact that at the present
time. in the State of Mississippi, in
lily VI IIASptiL 81 " DC CAaIt, III
members of the unions concerned with
the river shipping are on strike, and
that the Democratic administration of
that city is trying to break the strike
by sending honest, law-abiding strik-
ers who refuse to .scab' to the chain
gang?'
Assuming that 0 are ignorant of
these facts at present, will you not, as
leader of the Democratic party, make
immediate inquiries upon the matter,
and, if you find the facts to be as
stated, will you openly and unaquivo-
cally condemn the Democrats of Mis-
sissippi who are responsible for those
conditions and repudiate them2
Haskell the Union Buster.
lis it not . fact that your intimate
friend, Ex-Governor Haskell, national
treasurer of the Democratic party
(now resigned) was the first presi
dent Of the Muskogee Citizens Alliance
q secret organization patterned after
the Citizens Alliances of Messrs
Parry and Post, and existing for the
sole purpose of opposing trades union
ism and b%oycotting union men, so thai
every cent which q union or member o.
d union give to your campaign is sen
to one of the most notorious and big
oted union haters in America?
lis it not a fact that Mr.. Haskell
as president of the Citizens Alliance OF
Muskogee, sent out over his own sig
nature a resolution calling upon mem
bers of the Business Mems Allianc,
(another union-hating association tx
bind themselves 'to d~iscrimiuat,
against any and all labor union men
ito check the contemplate
fanaticism of trades unionism.
and to boycott all union men
"'Is it not n fact that the worst in
functions against organized labor Nye
issued by the courts of this countr,
have ONE many Of them, from Dem
ocratic judges, such as Justice Free
mans injunction in 1900 against til
joining them from even approaching
their employers to seek a peaceabl
settlement, and from publishing thei
grievances Justice Bookstaver's il
!, junction against the members of th
, International Typographical Union i
their strike against the New Yor
, Sun" enjoining them from publish
ing their side of the controversy, an
Justice Gildersleeve's %injunctio