The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-07-01
GRAY HIRES PRESS
AGENT TO ASSIST
IN CONGRESS RACE
Paid Writer at Capital Sends
Out News Letter Praising
Finly's Stand for Organ
lied Labor.

Finly Gray is making use of a press
agent to proclaim his merits before
the voters of the Sixth Congressional
district. The writer of the boosts is
himself congressman, Clyde H. Tav-
enner, of the Fourteenth Illinois dis
trict, who issues a daily and weekly
Washington news service under the
caption of National Capital Notes."
Tavenner asserts that he serves one
hundred dailies and $500 weeklies.
His first news letter on Finly Gray
reached Sixth district newspapers. to-
day. Parts of the superlative virtues
he attributes to Gray and some of the
bouquets are appended:
Finly Gray of Indiana is one of the
clearest thinkers in the American con-
gress. Physically he is tall and gaunt
and old-fashioned, and as he sits
among the modern, present-day type of
statesmen on the floor of the house,
he is character study that will at
tract your attention. One can hardly
help imagining that he has just step
ped out of an American congress of
one hundred years ago ~
He Knows FinIy.
Finly Gray is in many respects
strange and unusual man, genius in
every sense of the word. He usually
keeps his own counsel and he has
his peculiarities, one of which is that
the burdens of the masses of the
people lay heavy upon his heart: When
he speaks, he speaks as one inspired
and his remarks in the Record the
following morning are literature.
know Finly Gray, and l consider
him one of the most sincere and gifted
friends the plain people have in pub
lie life today.
When the proposition to- make labor
unions immune from prosecution un-
der the antitrust law was being de-
bated, Finly Gray sat listening to the
arguments being advanced by various
members as to why the measure
should be enacted itno law Gray lis
tened carefully to every explanation
offered. Finally he turned to mem
Der at his side and said:
Labor unions should be excluded.
But the real justification for the prop
osition has not been stated. In justice
to myself, / must state the reasons
why intend to support the measure"
Gray had not intended to speak
when he entered the chamber, but as
he had sat quietly listening, he had
been, deeply moved. He arose, and his
language anu pllilOSCplly uclu Iuc ClOSc
attention of every one within the hear
ing of his voice.
"Mr Chairman" said Gray, "there
are certain rights which men take
along with the right to- inhabit th.
earth. Among those rights is tn
right to labor and to enjoy the fruit
of that labor This is more than a SO
called vested right in property; it is a
natural inherent right of man. 1t is
as sacred to him as the right to habi-
tation itself. 1t is as vital to his ex-
istence as the breath of life. He must
| have the right to labor in order to
| live.
Under these new and changed in
| dustrial conditions union is his only
| remedy, his only relief, his only de-
tense, his only hope
"He must have the right to meet
organization with organization.
"He must have the right to meet
combination with combination.
HE must have the right to meet
concentration with concentration