Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1932-10-27
Answers Intimidation Charges

AS the campaign is nearing its
end, it is reported that various con-
Germs are intimidating their en-
ployes, holding out the threat that
they will be in danger Of losing
their jobs unless Hoover is re-elect-
ed Even the great Henry Ford,
who by the way has cut his en-
ployes to barely a living wage, is
using a similar method to control
votes. This is not new, but is one
of the oldest, worst, and most un-
fair tactics that can be used. 1t IS
usually practiced under cover. This
is a part of the campaign that -
being waged all over the country, to
re-elect Hoover Along this line
there appeared in the GAINESVILLE
Signal a recent article, and similar
conditions it refers to- could be dup
Heated the country over. The ar
ticle follows:
Commenting upon the effort be-
ing made by the Republican leaders,
both nationally and locally, to
frighten the country into re-electing
President Hoover, by predicting dire
calamities that will follow II
Roosevelt sweeps the country, Mil
man H. Linn. president of the
GAINESVILLE Stoneware Co., has come
forward with timely and emphatic
statement which refutes such tao.
tics in forcible and convincing
manner He recalls previous at
tempts of Republican leaders along
these lines, and goes back to the
campaign of 1884 in referring to
speech made by Colonel Churchill to
the employees of the old Ohio Iron
Co., of which he was president. Mr..
Linn quotes Colonel Churchill as
saying:
If Cleveland is elected, in four
years time all That magnificent mass
of machinery Gndicating by
sweep of his hand the entire plant)
will be rotten with rust.
Cleveland was elected, Mr.. Linn
declared, and I believe I am right in
saying that the succeeding four
years were the most prosperous in
the history of that company, and il
was during a Republican admins
tration rany years later that the
Oh Iron ca. ceased to exist.
| also recall that it was during
the second 'nistration of Mr..
Cleveland that the Weller pottery
in Putnam grew like Jonah's gourd,
and expanded more rapidly than at
hicfn n11ly
to be entirely closed down during
Republican administration. Also
the Robinson Glass Co., in Putnam,
was built and fourished during the
Cleveland hard time, and passed out
of existence during the Mckinley
regime.
! During Democratic administra-
tion the tube mill in Putnam en-
ployed as high as 1900 men-to be
dismantled in Republican times.
Was it during Democratic rule that
the Brown Manufactur' Co., the
! Owens Tile Co., the Schultz Soap
Co., and others, were lost to Zanes-
vile? No, we know these institu-
/ tions all were lost under Republi-
| can presidents.
Ex-President Coolidge in his
speech two weeks ago called Pres
| ident Cleveland statesman, and it
is the general usage Of Republicans
now to refer to him as one of our
great presidents. This is strange
when / remember that the pet Re-
publican names for him during his
active career were stuffed prophet,
bull--necked idiot, man who
buttons his collar and puts it on
over his head, etc. Are they losing
their old time vigor? The epithets
applied to Mr. Roosevelt are so mild
in comparison, "a radical" a ''vis
ionary," etc. To be in line with the
change of attitude toward Nj.
Cleveland, in forty years Republican
orators (if there are any them will
have to refer to Mr.. Roosevelt as
saint Roosevelt
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