Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1908 — TRUSTS OFFERING BRIBES IN THE INTEREST OF TAFT [ARTICLE]

TRUSTS OFFERING BRIBES IN THE INTEREST OF TAFT

The Standard Roller Ball Bearing Company, of Philadelphia, is a trust in Itself and it is also allied with the steel trust. S. S. Eveland, president of the concern, called upon Mr. Taft and after a “satisfactory conversation," went back home and posted this bribing and intimidating notice in the trust’s shops: "The reduction of 10 per cent In last winter was to have been restored when business conditions would warrant It. While we are busy at present, we feel that its continuation will depend upon the result of the presidential election and that if Mr. Taft is elected a general Improvement in all lines of business will result "On November 28th, we will, therefore, restore the old rating, to all employes Whose wages were reduced 10 per cent last winter, provided Mr.' Taft is elected president. , “8. S. EVELAND, President.” Eveland says in his n'otlce that “we are busy at present,” which means that the old wages could be restored now, but the trust offers a provisional restoration as a bribe. Eveland likes Taft. After he hah talked with him he felt, so sure of the officeholdtng candidate that he gave out this opinion in a public interview: “Taft is a very different man from Roosevelt. It is all right for the people out West to think that Taft is just like Roosevelt. Just keep them thinking that way, but we in the East know different. Why, there is no comparison between the two.” Now, the question is, what kind of •a game is Taft trying to play? And are there any conscientious people who will help him play it?