Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 63, Hammond, Lake County, 6 September 1912 — Page 9

Friday, Sept. f, 1912.

THE TIMES.

STATE POLITICS AID PLATFORM INTERESTS PEOPLE

TIMES ntREAV. AT STATK CU'lTiL. Indianapolis, Inrt., Sppt. 6. Somo tlm ago it leaked out thnt the Democratic state organization had pivfn out the word to the state enndidutea and stump speakers that they must supplement the Democratic state platform w-tth a number of thines that the platfrom does not contain. It was pointed out that the Democratic state platform Is a reactionary document containing practically nothinR of a progressive or advanced nature whatever. This fact has worried the state organization to

such an extent that it deci led to call on the state candidates to so farther than the platform nnd declare in favor of several progressive ideas In fac', they were told to promise many of the thinRS that are contained in the Republican state platform. which is recoRnleed by everybody as a progressive platform. It is well remembered that, the Democratic statu convention which adopted the state platform was absolutely controlled, body and soul by the corporations and larfre Interests, and that they suceeded Iri keeping out of the platform every proposed declaration that was intended to bind the party to enact legislation that would brlnR relief to the people and to better conditions. The committee on resolutions was made up

almost entirely of corporation representatives, and the chairman was a corporation lawyer. This committee listened to what the representatives of labor and the progressive Democrats had to say in favor of certain propositions which they wished to have embodied in the platform, but when It was all done not one of these subjects was mentioned in the platform. A delegation representing labor unions appeared before the committee and asked for a plar.k favorins: a workmen's compensation law and a public utilities commission law, but the proposition was turned down cold, and the delegation returned to the German American Democratic club, which sent it. and made its report. The members of the club were so itPRered over the snub the delegation had received that it adopted resolutions denouncing the platform for what it faiied to contain and charged that it was made by at corporations. It was then that the Democratic state

are attempting to make the rank and file of their party believe that the present campaign must be financed by the people themselves. Already the cry has Kone up that money Is needed and that campaign funds must be raised by popular contributions. At the Hull Moose meeting: here a few days ano the world went out that the state organization was In dire need of money and that the Hull Moose of the state would

have to raise it. 1 A Rood many of them took the announcement as a Joke and as an effort to throw dust in the eyes of the public so they could not see the campaign

for the thrnss that are not in the plat- money come in from the harvester trust form. In this way they hoped to make and the steel trust to finance the Bull the people believe That the Democratic Moose campalRn. party really stood for progress and for There has been no secret of the fact reforms. 'that OeorRe W. Perkins, of the harvThe first outcropping of these in- ester trust and the Pteel trust, financed

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organization o.Yicials ' Rave out the word th.it the platform was a failure and that the candidates and stump speakers must declare in their speeches

structions came the, other day in the keynote speech which Samuel M. Ralston, Democratic crndidate for Governor, made at Anderson, opening the Democratic cnmpaln. Hals'on did not (online himself to the platform. He went beyond It. H discussed the tariff most of the time an issue that connot possibly enter into the state campaign. Then he tok a st; nd in favor of the public utilities commission idea, which had been turned down by the convention, lie went on record as bcitiR in favor of a constitutional convention, a thinfr that the Democratic state platform does not mention. And in a number of other ways he went far beyond the state platform, thus proving that the platform, which is the official declaration of what the party stands for, amounts to nothing. In fact, it promises nothipp that the people want. Ralston's action at Anderson will be followed by similar action by other Democratic Mate cnndiJUrtes and speak

ers In the campaisn, and it will be aiterestln.R to see how far they will so. It is the belief of some that before the campaign is much older the Democratic orators will be promising: everything under the sun. snl that they will be troiner even farther than the I.!ull Moosers, who promise everything: that the mind of man can imaplne. The fact that the Democrats are ignorinp their state pletform In this manner is taken here by the politicians to mean that they are friehtened over the situation, and that they propose to steze any oportunity that may present itself to reach the voters with promises of any and all kinds. "If they were not scared and If they were wiillnc to make a square fiprht on their own platform 'they would not be castintr it aside in this manner and allowing each candidate and each speaker to make hts own platform." said one man yesterday. The Hull' Moose leaders In this state

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lican nomination for President, and it has been generally understood that Perkins also was financing the present campaign. It Is evident that somebody has been sending in plenty of money, for the state headquarters is a busy place, spending thousands of dollars each month which must come from somewhere. The Bull Mooscrs who have engaged in this campaign are not yet ready to believe, it is said, that that source of revenue has been shut off. They believe that Perkins money is still making the mare go, and the appeal to the Hull Moosers of this state either is to relieve Perkins of a part of (he burdtn or to cover up the real source of supplies. There was on enthusiasm shown over the appal for funds although some of the Bull Moosers present at the meeting said they would go home and see what they could do. It was apparent that most of them be

lieved that the state organization was not in as close financial quarters as had been stated.

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GOMPERS HAS NEW PLAN TO FIGHT TRUST

War to Bind Workmen of Big Industry Opened by Labor Leader.

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mills. Declaring his fight one for all hu- ' inanity, Oompers said: "Today opens the greatest war btween capital and labor the world has ever seen a war between thousands of oppressed workers and their op

pressor, the money mailed steel trust." Oppositions to I'nlonn. n Mr. Gompers, in making his proclamation, presented a resolution adopted by the executive committee of the steel trust in which unalterable opposition to extension of unionism was declared, and that any extension of union moveemnt should be dealt with promptly. Of hljs plan in detail, Gompers said: "There are some two hundred and fifty thousand workers in the steel mills and, according to the Stanley congressional report, about SO per cent of the unskilled workers are foreigners brought over to supplant American workmen. Our plan is to appeal to them by a series of circulars. The first, which we - are now distributing, is in Kngllsh, Polish.

Slavic, Lithuanian and Italian. It tells simply of the idea for organization. Will t all -Mass Meeting. "The second will tell why the organization will be a good thing. The third circular will give the date and place for a mass meeting for each locality. All meetings will be held at the same time. Simultaneously the workers of the steel trust will be

planning their redemption from slavery. Hlg men will address these meetings, an from then on the tight will be in earnest. And the workingmen will wake up at last to get their God-given rights." Gompers declared he did not look for an easy battle. "Great corporations," he said, "do not want to grant their employes Justice. To keep them from doing this. Indeed, they have with power and money corrupted legislatures, governors, congresses and senates and even presidents. They fancy themselves safe from all just demands of the people. The United States Steel corporation, in fact, with solemn formality, a while ago declared for the annihilation of organiied labor. W'rang tbe Death Toll. "Having wrung the death toll for their good American workers, they brought from Europe thousands of Immigrants, so many that they wore a path across the Atlantic right up to the doors of the bla.lng furnaces. And the steel corporation has considered its troubles at an end since its mills are filled with docile workers. But let I me warn the steel corporation these j men will not always be docile."

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Columbus. O.. Sept. 5. Incidental to the delivering of a Labor day address here, Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, yesterday told of the opening of a

great war to unionize the workmen in the steel corporation. He promised a war to the finish and declared victory was expected. Recalling the Importation of foreign labor into the plants of the. company and the practical extermination of unions in the industry, he hurled defiance at the big combination. Appeals to Aliens. In the past the steel corporation has been able to whip the unions by a

simple scheme. If tne industrial workers became too strong In the plants of one city thei-e mills were speedily closed and the orders transferred to another point. The series of defeats the unionists experienced disheartened them and the contest was virtually dropped. Gompers' new play is to begin the attack at all points simultaneously. Appeals will be made in the languages of the alien races that operate the

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