New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-21
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you to commend me ana will give
the best that is in me-"
Under the heading democratic Cam
paign Stuff" Senator Harding's news
paper, The Marion Daily Star. nub-
lished the following on its editorial
page:
Perhaps no better idea of the lines
along which Democracy Is CONDUCTING
us campaign can be offered than by
repeating The following, which is being
run IN Democratic papers outside of
Ohio:
Opposition to Warren G.. HARDING
among wage carners and farmers in
ms ms nome state is open among the
thousand operatives of the steam
shovel and other industrial plants in
ms mono city and among Marion
County farmers.
M i'll operatives are dcnouncinr him
as having avowed in 1913, n year before
the World War began, "a dollar a dav
is enough for any workingman'" Far my
ers are quoting Harding as having pr.-
claimed during the war: "A dollar a
pushel is enough for the farmers
wheat" 1ai ''iei .
r. nose slogans. coupled with Mr..
Hardlng's alleged financial interest in
the Marion Steam Shovel Works and
other institutions which have dis
charged men who insisted upon ioininp
unions, are being employed as camnaipn
fodder by the Senator's adversarics.
1T was due to these and other din
closures that Senator Harding failed to
secure the Endorsement for the Presi-
Dental primary preference by single
,apor or farm organization except in
MS own newspaper plant
In March last the Senator sourbt
the backing of his Typographical unions
at their Cleveland state convention
PRESIDENT F. +. Dennis of the Marion
pranch, and makeup man on Harding's
Evening Star, and Secretary f. b.
blaser of the Harding linotypers' or
ganlzation, pleaded long and loud with
their state brethren to help them oct
a few kind words from the convention
Tor their employer. They met fririd
response. Nv
"A few months before this an ar
tempt was made to form unions amonc
tnc employees of the Marion and
Osgood Steam Shovel Works and the
nuper manufacturing Company, which
makes tractors and steam rollers. The
Marion company, of which Senator
Harding is stakeholder, DISCHARGED
the rlngleaders and $50 of those Who
mad banded themselves together to
organize. When Senator Harding was
appealed to he is reported to have an
severed that Ebert H. Gary's United
states Steel Compar's open shop
scheme was the one on which he would
insist "N'lu
Marion Labor for Harding
The five thousand operatives in
Marion's industrial plants have given
Mr.. Harding enthusiastic support. as
have Marion County farmers.
Mr.. Harding never said a dollar p
day is enough for any workineman.,
or anything that might be so con-
strued, nor that "a dollar a bushel is
enough for the farmers wheat Mr..
Harding is neither director nor a
stockholder in the Marion Steam
shovel Company, the Gseood Company
or the Huber Company, and never has
been
"Mr. Harding never sought the back
ng of any typographical union or
unions at any state or other conven-
ton.
"Prcsident r. f. Dennis, at the date
originally carried by the Democratic
propaganda given out, was employed
on The Tribune and not on The Star.
There is no linotypers organization in
Marion. L. E. Blaser is the secretary
Of the local typographical union, and
he and President Dennis state that
they never appealed to the state
organization for Endorsement by
either word or letter and that neither
attended the convention mentioned.
"Mr. Harding was never appealed to
by $50 or any other body of men dis
charged from any Marion County bust
ness in which he was interested, and
hence didn't voice to them any cham
of the open shop.
cat the time these lines are being
written the Marion Typographical
Union is holding a meeting in the room
provided for it by the paper Of which
Senator Harding is the head, which it
has used, with slight intermission,
for years, during all of which the re-
lations between the union and Mr..
Harding have been most friendly.
Summed up in paragraph, in
newspaper experience of over a quarter
of a century the writer never came
upon so many deliberate, wilful lies in
the number of lines utilized by the
Democrats in a piece Of propaganda.
"Are we to take such stuff as quoted
as a manifestation Of tho progressive
thought which is to bring the new
day'?"