Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1909 — JEROME LAUDS GOMPERS [ARTICLE]

JEROME LAUDS GOMPERS

Federation Leader Presented With Purse at Bon Voyage Dinner. New Yqrk, June 18.—Samuel Gompers, who sails tomorrow for Europe, reiterated at a bon voyage dinner given by the executive council of the American Federation of Labor, his determination to uphold bls constitutional rights in defiance, if need be, of court Injunctions. Gompers showed evidence of deep feeling. He had been unexpectedly presented by the federation with a purse of money and one speaker after another had voiced his confidence in Gompers’ discretion, uprightness and ability. District Attorney Jerome launched Into an unstinted eulogy of Gompers. “Like Mr. Gompers,” he said, "I know how it is to be in a job where everyone knows better how to run it than you do yourself. The man who has his heart in the right place must go on after he has made mistakes and by his future acts have the mistakes forgotten.”