Ligonier Banner., Volume 43, Number 32, Ligonier, Noble County, 29 October 1908 — Page 10

~ Democratic National ‘Chairman _Declares That Bryan Will ; Carry East and West. RBEPORTS SHOW RISING TIDE Ohio, Indiana and New York in the : Democratic Column.

Norman E. Mack, chairman of the Democratic national committee, is confident of the election of Mr. Bryan s ‘president. In a statement Summing up the situation he said: : “Three weeks ago it was apparent that the fide had turned toward De‘mocracy, and that every outward evidence pointed to a Democratic victory in November. The situation is far better now than then, and I am confident if the belief that Mr. Bryan will be elected president. In fact, the campaign, from the Democratic viewpoint, has steadily improved with each sueceeding week. As Mr. Bryan has presented ‘the issues in various sections of the country, the people have become more and more -convinced that his election is for the permanent prosperity and best interests of the nation. “Of the many reports I have received from the various states there has not been one discouraging to our cause. On the other hand, all of our information has indicated that there will be a remarkable decrease in the Republican vote, and this statement applies alike to the banner Republican state of Pennsylvania as well as to states like New York, Ohio, and Indiana, "Mr. Bryan will not only receive the majority of the electoral vote, but one of the greatest popular votes ever given @ candidate. : E ¢ safe Fight is Won.. . “The fight is won, but we must keep everlastingly at it for the remaining two. weeks of the campaign. Our reports have been of such an encouraging nqlture that I have at times had - fears least some of those on duty would, in their enthusiasm, lst up 'ih the fight, and my parting word to those at headquarters is that they continue their efforts just as aggressively as if the contest had to be won in the declining days of the campaign. “The Democratic party has a-greater membership than the Republican party. The only question with us in recent years has been to get vur folks together in harmonious and united ‘phalanx. I do not believe there is-a Democrat in the entire country who is outside of the breastworks in this campaign, and that is the greatest reason to my mind why Mr. Bryan will be fnaugurated president on March 4 next. I'will not attempt to give figures, but 1 will say now that New York, Ohio, dnd Indiana are Democratic this year, and my prediction does not take into consideration a number of other states that will swing from the Republican to the Democratic column on election day.” ‘ = Republicans Pass the Lle. Republican campaign managers have been endeavoring to create the impression that James Duncan, first vice president of the American Federation of Labor, is not in sympathy with the laber movement advocated by M. Gompers, urging union labor to su;:-J port its friends and defeat its-enemies in the present campaign. Mr. Duncan was advised of this fact and asked to state his attitude in the matter. His reply is explicit and gives the lie -to the Republican managers who have been seceking to place him in a false light, . v List of Trust Allles. The Republican national committes is sending out a letter asking for “cash contributions,” in ‘which the decliaration i{s made that ‘“the election -of Judge Taft -and James 8. Sherman 'ig essential to the welfare of the couhThe letter is of interest by reason of the character of the men whose names appear on the letterhead, and who make this appeal. Here are the men who sign the letter informing the people of the country that Bryan's election will be dangerous: X Charles F. Brooker, head of the brass trust and vice president of the Neéw York, New Haven ‘& Hartford railread, against which a ‘goveriment ‘suit e now pending in the Federal-courts. - -Charles Nagel, of Missouri, one -of the general attorneys of the Standard.. Oil company. This Standard Oil rep- - resentative is'in charge of Republican. national campaign headquarters In Chicago. ‘ : Frank O. Lowden, multi-millionaire son-in-law of the late George M. Pullman, and now head of the great Pullman Palace Car trust, to which the traveling public pays tribute. ? T. Coleman Du Pont, the head of the powder trust, which is fighting a suit against dissolution. Y Boise Penrose, the political “boss™ of the corrupt political machine in: Pennsylvania. George R. Sheldon, the personal representative of J. Pierpont Morgan, in' the eapaecity of director in all his trust companies, and- who collected trust money for the élection of Governor Hughes of New York. ‘William Nelson Cromwell, the legal representative jof Edward H. Harriman fn the United States. g Fred W. Upham, the “fat f.mr's i the Republican party in the west, and the man who ‘Wrote letters to corpora“virtue of his position as a m&ub& the board of review in Chicago. - . - Farmers and Business Men Know. ~ This is ‘a fine outfit to advise the ~how to ‘vote. Two of the signéers are’ when one becomes acquainted with their connections. But there is not & ‘legitimate business man in the nation, | fear & Demoeratic victory, =

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A University in Pougoo. v -Josephus Daniels, chairman of the Demoeratic publicity bureau, commented as follows on the appearance of ‘Prof. J, Laurence Laughlin of the University -of Chicago as 'a stump ‘speaker attacking the :guaranty of ‘bank deposits: “It is not:surprising,” said he, “to ‘see a professor of the University of Chicago on the stump opposing a ‘measure so beneficial to the poor man as the guaranty of bank deposits. John D. Rockeéfeller and the other Standard Oil manufacturers can-not be expected to favor Mr. Bryan’s plans. “Doubtless ‘Mr."Rockefeller has communicated to the university which his money supports and has indicated that he would be gratified to have the uniwversity .do effective work for the candidate he favors in this campaign.” . ‘Henry Clews, the Wall street publeity a.%%ut, has taken the stump for. Taft.” i 8 typlcal representative of Wall streeét declares that Bryan is un‘safe and that Judge Taft will make an {deal president. A few days ago ‘headdressed a big erowd of eastern’ bankers and, of course, opposed the: guaranty of bamk deposits. Mr. Clews declared that the guaranty bank plank is “socialistic inits tendency and a farery from true democratic principles, ‘Wwhich oppose excessive centralization of power.” | : L j ‘Taft aid his m%o;tm are insisting Lthit‘!f Bryan shot d be elected a hostife senate wmq ~defeat Demoeratic afms. This 1§ an admission that they . ‘are Talse in thelr claim that the people rule, as mmmr should. Paste that™in yodr Hat.—Johnstown Demo-

s ~Against Laboring Men. - ; While William H. Taft is traveling ‘about Ohio and elsewherer making fran‘tic appeals for the support of laboring ‘men, his running mate on the Republi‘can ticket, James S. Sherman, is giving his endorsement to the statement that “labor unions are composed largely of anarchists;, socialists and demagogues.” Mr. Sherman heard the organized wage worker of the country thus denounced by a trust magnate who presided at-a meeting where he” iSpoke, and gave approval of the senti‘ment expressed. When Mr. Sherman -appeared recenfly at Akron, Ohio, the )meotlng’ which he addressed was pre’llded over by O. C. Barber, president ‘of the Diamond Match Company. Mr. ißarber introduced Mr. Sherman to the ‘audience. In doing so he made use of ‘the following language, as stenograph{cally reported: | - e “One of -the main reasons for the ‘success of the Diamond Match Company {is that its directors HAVE NEVER TOLERATED UNION LABOR JIN ITS SHOP. THEY. HAVE AL"WAYS BEEN OPEN. We have had ‘no one to dictate tous what wages we -shall pay, what men we shall hire, and ‘what hours our employes. shall work. LABOR UNiONS TODAY ARE COMPOSED LAEGELY OF ANARCHISTS, BOCIALISTS AND DEMAGOGUES.” Bt for ‘the blessed Dingley tariff American newspapers could buy news print paper in Canada for $1.75. ‘On. ‘#his~side they are paying all the way from $2.35 10 $2.60. Canadian paper s 8s good as the domestic product and the labor employed in making it is as . ‘well paid as that on this side the ‘border—Johnstown Democrat.

REPUBLICANS HOWL CALAMITY 'm ® | ———— s ‘Seek to Destroy Public Confidence in : - Futile Effort to Defeat : - Bryan. : - Facing inevitable defeat and with a full knowledge of the fact that Bryan’s election is as certain as anything reasonably can be in politics, the Republicans have been forced to resort to the last refuge of political cowards =to the calamity howl. They are now engaged in telling the country that panic and ruin will follow the election of Mr. Bryan. Instead of being patriotic citizens anxious to restore business confidence—a confidence which has been lost under a Republican administration—to subserve their own political selfish purposes they are vainly endeavoring to prolong the present business depression. The question ‘naturally Buggests itself: Why is it necessary to restore confidenee? Why is it necessary to bring back business prosperity? What has becoine of confidence, what has become of prosperity? Both, under a Republican administration, have disappeared.- Why is another Republican administration necessary to insure a return of confidence and prosperity? : _ The very same men who, today, are going about the country still further destroying confidence by preaching calamity, are the men, who, four years ago said that the Republican party must be successful in order that there might be prosperity. The Republican party was successful, but instead of bringing prosperity it brought panie, business depression and -commercial stagnation. Whatever may be said of the presentpanic, it cannot be denied that it is ‘a Republican panic. The Republican party is in full possession of the government and must accept the responsibility. How, then,-can a continuation of the Republican party in power cure the evils from which the business community and the laboring man now suffer? Let the Republicans howl about their own panie, and not make false predictions about what will happen under a Democratic administration. They predicted prosperity four years ago, and proven false prophets. Why, then, should any sane man accept their. premonitions now when they say that Bryan’s election would bring business troubles. Business troubles are already here. What business men want is a cure for them, not a prolongation of the disease. by the same sort of treatment which has produced the ailment. ; * Because business men and laboring men—both know that a Republican administration has produced panic, they will not be deceived again by these false cries of Republican calamity howlers. They know that William Jennings Bryan is an honest man; they know that he will give the public an 1 honest administration. They know that the calamity howl is for the sole purpose of deception. : R

:0000000000000000000000000 o : RAILROAD EMPLOYES VSa—MR.: o TAFT. ® @ z 9 : The Brotherhood of Locomotive : e Engineers’ Journal, in May, 1893, ¢ :taid: “Judge Taft’s decision pro- : @ claims membrers of the B.of L. E.' o : a band of conspirators.” ) ? e Also, “We can.not accept Judge ¢ :Taft's decision in any other light ® o than treason to republican institu- § @ tions and the liberties of the peo- @ : ple. It is, will be, and ought to be : @ denounced and repudiated by all ¢ :Hberty loving men.” ° e * * * The impudent false- ~: ® hood that trusts and monopolies ® o Cheapen products’and benefit the o @ consumer is disproved by the fact ¢ :' that the price of commodities con- : o trolled by these monsters has been ¢ ® arbitrarily increased for no cause’s e except to pay dividends on ficti- § @ tious capital by methods that e :' make larceny respectable. * * ‘: @ —Ex-Senator John J. Ingalls. ° :.....ooooooooooooooooooo:

FARMERS RESENT COERCION Resolutions Passed by Indiana Toilers Condemn Statements of Prese ident Sharples — Endless A Chain Among Farmers. Chairman Mack was informed by wire today that at a meeting of representative farmers of Washington townghip, Marion county, Indiana, the fol{Jowing resolutions were adopted, and ' ‘4t was also agreed to form an endless chain among the farmers of the country: W_hereas, The Associated Press has sent out a statement issued by P. M. Sharples, - president of the Sharples Separator- Company of Westchester, Pa., saying.that the hour Bryan is: elected the Sharples works will close down, and > ~ Whereas, Such statements as 'this will intensify the present financial panic and will also tend to bring on, it possible, other and greater financial calamity; therefore, be it = Resolved, That as farmers who have the good of our country at heart, we deeply deplore ' such winwarranted statements, and. believing they are ‘made for partisan purposes to intimi-: date and influence voters, we herewith denounce all firms making this and ‘similar announcements, as narrow and - ‘bigoted, and in these times as disloyal ‘to the best businesswinterests of the nation, and imas much as the persons and firms now resorting to these un-. fair and unpatriotic methods maintain ‘their businesses by patronage-of democrats as well as republicans, we con- - demn these methods as an insult to ‘any democratic patron which ought to be, and which We hope will be, re- . Resolved, That we hereby call upon m‘mfiffi"“fi“ irrespective w whio beliewe in fair play, to ‘%fifim@fim organiza- - e s Blue, chaifiman; Ross S. Ludlow, sec-