Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1880 — INTIMIDATION. [ARTICLE]

INTIMIDATION.

How Democratic Workmen Are Being Bulldozed by Eastern Manufacturers. [Philadelpha Cor. Cincinnati Enquirer.] A wholesale plan of intimidation is in operation in this city among the manufacturers—many of whom depend on the South as a market for their goods, by which their employes are given to understand that their situations are at stake unless they vote for Garfield. Mills have been canvassed in some instances by authority of the proprietors, ostensibly for the sole purpose of making sure that all the hands would be duly provided with naturalization papers and taxreceipts, and this’ proceeding alone has been regarded by Democratic employes as signifying that if they set any value to their situations they would be expected to support the ticket of their political opponents. John Hackett, a foreman in Baeder, Adamson & Co.’s glue-works, has hired Democrats on condition that they vote the whole Republican ticket, has threatened the discharge of every man who brings “D d Democratic pamphlets” into the works, and has publicly declared that every employe, be he Republican or Democrat, who votes for Hancock shall be summarily discharged. The foreman of Thos. Dolan & Co. ’s woolen mills promised a competent Democrat mechanic employment, and when the man presented himself he was turned off with the curt remark, “We don’t want any Democrats here, and the few here we shall let slide one by one,”

In numerous instances, immediately after the conversation noted had been made, a partial shutting down has been ordered, and every man discharged has been a Democrat Republican millowners have furnished their employes with taxation on condition that they vote the Republican ticket, and have, on the same condition, procured naturalization papers gratis for persons not entitled to certificates of citizenship.