Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-05
POLITICAL COUP IN
WILSON S[ADOR MOVE
ElGHT.HoUR EsPousAL FIRST
INTEREST SHOWN IN BEHALF
OF WoRKMEN.
). 0. p. COMMITTEE
DELvEs INTO HISTORY
Comparison of Presidents and Hughes
Records Show Latser's Best-Spoken
and Written Utterances Regarding
Labor Quoted to Show Antasonistic
Sentiments of Wilson.

Washington, Sept. 5.-Comins on the
heels of Samuel Gompers declaration
in favor of the reelection of President
Wilson. a statement issued by the re-
publican congressional committee COM
pairing the records of Wilson and
Hughes on labor questions excited
much interest here.
The committee asserts the compari-
1t asserts the presidents activity in at
tempting to settle the railroad strike
was the first instance in which he has
shown the slightest interest in labor's
affairs and that the interest then was
aroused by the spur of public opinion
which demanded there should be no
strike.
Political Coup Hinted.
The dispute had been brewing many
months, but the president waited until
a little more than SO days before the
national election to summon the broth
erhood chiefs and the railroad heads to
Washington says the committee
Perhaps there was psychological
reason for that, if not the reason of
political advantage"
Labor unions are justified, according
TO the committee. in looking askance
at the president in view OF his spoken
and written utterances regarding Ia
Dor.
in Mr.. Wilson's History of the
American People" the statement con-
tinues, "he says: The Chinese were
more to be desired as worknen. if not
as citizens. than most of the coarse
crew that came crowding in every year
at the eastern ports
Pre-Presidential Sayings Quoted.
THE coarse crew the president de-
scribed as 'crowding in included the
millions of foreign born persons OF
every nationality who are now loyal
citizens of the United States.
In the same book the president said:
And now there came multitudes of
men of the lowest class from the south
of Italy, and men Of meaucr sort out
of Hungary and Poland. men out of the
ranks where there was neither skill nor
energy nor any initiative of quick in
telligence.'
What do American citizens of Ger
man, Italian. Hungarian. Polish. or
that?" the committee asks. Continu-
ing, /: points out that June z. 1909.
in an address to the graduating class
of Princeton university, DR.. Wilson
expressed his views on labor in the
following words: you know what the
usual standard of the employee is in
our day. II is TO give as little as he
may for his wages"
Hughes Record Declared Clear.
The committee further says that at
q dinner in the Waldorf Astoria hotel
in New York, March IS, DR.. Wilson
declared:
I'VE speak too exclusively of the
capitalistic class. There is another as
formidable an enemy to equality and
freedom of opportunity as it is. and
that is the class formed by the labor
organizations and leaders Of the coun-
try"
The republican committee then asks
laboring men to contrast the labor rec
ord of President Wilson with the labor
record of Governor Hughes.
Governor Hughes has never written
or spoken a single word inimical to
labor" it concludes. "On the contrary
he was the greatest friend of labor that
ever occupied the governors chair at
Albany. Legislative records there
show that during his two terms he
signed Sc labor laws.
In New York state during 132 years.
only 162 labor laws were passed. One
third Of these were signed during
Hughes two terms as governor"