The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-02-28
TRAMPEO ON
WRONG CORN
Representative Smith De-
fends his Home Town.
STRIKES FROM The SHOULDER
Defends Ability of Marion's
Defends Ability of Marion's
Mechanics.
The Accusation That Marion PRODUCE
es Poor Mechanics Rilcs His Blood
and he Drives the Accusers into
~ Hole and Plugs IL up.

"The Town Booster Par Excel
ence'.' This is the title won by Rep
resentative william II. Smith, OF this
city in the General Assembly. This
title came to Mr.. Smith when in de-
fense of an attack made on Marion,
and Marion workmen by union labor
foes of Smiths bill to aid young men
i'm learning trades, he made one of
the greatest speeches he has deliver
ed.
on this occasion the bill to prevent
union labor from debating to EN-
ployers the number of apprentices
they may hire, was up for considera-
ton before a committee of the house.
The union labor leaders sent their
best orators. The labor orators as
sailed Smith personally and he re-
manned quiet but when they jumped
on his home town and said that Mar
ion was noted all over the world for
its poor mechanics, Smith went
straight up I'm the air and the trim
ming he gave the traducers of Mar
ion will long be remembered in the
historic old committee room.
The following artice Is taken from
the Ohio State Journal of Commerce
and deals with Smiths speech resent
ing the attacks on his home town:
'The town booster par eXcellencs
is member of this 18th General AS.
seinbly of Ohio. His name Is Smith,
christened William Theodore He is 4
Democrat and he halls from Marion,
Ohio.
smith is the author of bill to
open the doors of opportunity Ia
young men whose parents are unable
to give them an education fitting them
for a profession. The measure Is now
pending in a committee of the House.
Here's the whole BILL told i'm its first
paragraph:
'It shall he unlawful for any per-
son or combination of persons to pre-
vent. attempt to prevent, or com
bine to prevent, any apprentices from
learning useful trades or restricting
the number thereof who can learn
such trades, or in any way interfering
with their employment as such ap.
prentlces."
"The Blll was on hearing before tn
committee and the representation OF
union labor men was one of the larg-
est ever seen in the general assembly
Labor put it's best speakers to ths
fore. They assailed the bill bitterly
its author as well, and the town hC
represented. They insisted on the righ
of union labor to dictate to employers
when they should employ apprectice'
and how many; it's authors purpos'
was to fry fat for corporations, they
said; his home town of Marion. the!
asserted, was notorious all over tn,
world for its poor mechanics ain;
its inferior manufactured products.
Smith sat silent under the impu
tations cast upon his motives, bu
when the labor speakers jumped OF
his town he blew up
Come up to my town of Marion
he shouted, "and I'll show you a town
that hasn't tenderloin.
Come up To my town of Marion an,
III show pou "a town that hasn't 8
single tough street.
"Come up to my town of Marion an.
I'll show you town that has NOR
workmen who own their own home
than any other town of its size in tn
world--and II is not n union labo
town.
"Come up to my town of Marion ant
I'll show you town that has NOR
paving and more stone sidewalks tha'
any you ever heard of.
"Come up to my town Of Marion AM
Il I'll show you the Marion Shoe Com
pany that puts out shoe the equa
of any in all the country.
"COme up TO my town of Marion an
/ ri show you the Wolenweber Lum
Der Company that furnishes supple
for builders everywhere.
"Come up to my town OF Mario
and I'll show you the Houghton Bug
gy Company that turns out pro