The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-09-27

Well Known Wheeling Labor
Leader Points Out How
Nominee Voted.
FRIEND OF WoRKMEN
Knows No Factions and He
Wears NoaMan,s Collar
and is independent.

parting for Charleston today, John 7.
Moore, Of Wheeling. labor represen-
tatlve to Governor H. D. HATFIELD
mede the statement that, State sena-
tor Julian G. Hearne, Republican
candidate for Congress. viii receive
the unqualified endorsement OF prac-
tically every working man ana labor
union in the First district. AR.
Moores ayowal was based on per-
sonel knowledge obtained during
three-days, tour of the counties OF
Hancock, Brooke, Ohio and Marshall
and on reliable reports received from
the remaining four counties.
Mr.. Hearnes cause Is the cause
OF every working man in West viz
ginia," declared Mr.. Moore. sHis
record of the past and the principles
for which he stands in the present
fight distinguish him as the one man
to whom labor can reasonably look
for the protection and preservation
Of their interests.
The future workingman and the
farmer are the vital issues at stake
in this fight. 1t is a clear cut case
OF protection vs.. free trade. No
other issue is involved. Summed up
briefly, the situation is this:
do the workingmen OF the First
district propose to vote for a candi-
date who is irrevokably bound to
the heresy of free trade the enforce
ment of which throws down the bars
.of protection and permits the starva-
ton paid labor of foreign countries
to drag the AmepiCah laboring man
TO its own degrading level
''Do the farmers of the First dis
trict intend to support a candidate
whose every Interest vim be anfag-
onistic to their interests? whose
every effort VIII be conferred ON re-
dueing the value sof their. production
through policy OF taritf for reye-
nue. only?
DO the sheep growers Of the
First district, where the wool In
dustry reaches great proportions,
feel that they would be truly reprs-
sented by man bound by party doc
trine to support free wool?
'Let the last two questions be
pondered by those more directly con-
cerned. Speaking on behalf Of
thousands of workingmen whose
prosperity OF degree unprecedent-
ed is at stake, am privileged TO
say that they never have and never
Will entertain any intention OF cut
ting their own throats. They know
Julian G. Hearne as their friend.
They trust him as a tried and true
representative in the state legisla-
ture and they are going to place him
in Congress that he may more ef-
fectually and in. d broader measure
exert his efforts th4their behalf.
Senator Hearne's record from a
labor standpoint speaks for itself.
To begin with he is independent and
embarrassed and unhampered by
factional alliances. He wears no
mans collar and stands for only
those things making Tor the greatest
good Of the greatest number. AS
the guardian, OF the rights Of the
workingman in the state legislature
as member OF the lower house
from Ohio county and of the Senate
from the First senatorial district he
was instrumental In the passage Of
the worhnan's compensation act,
one of the greatest and most pro-
gressive measures ever written on
the statute books OF the STATE. He
assisted in the passage OF the tax
reform laws, under which the work
ing man has been relieved of much
unjust taxation. He voted for
public utilities commission. He
supported the income tax and pri-
mary election Of United States sena-
tors amendment to the federal con-
stitution. These and a score OF
other measures, concerning the mass
of tn people and particularly the
workingmen and for which he fought
inde!atigably, proclaim him the un-
bossed, unbought and unafraid
champion of the workingmen of the
First district, and in him they have
every faith and confidence"
continue to November 8 inclusive.