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Show Vol. 3, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SEPTEMBER No. 3. been largely brought about by the disturbance of business caused by the high tariff taxes, through which millions of dollars have been unnecestaken from the people and the and no doubt Mr. Olney 's adherents sarily channels of business and locked up in the Bay State will use it there for in the United States treasury or all it is worth in their endeavors to loaned out to favored banks. by it secure the Massachusetts delegation, but it would not be an argument that A wild and woolly special telegram could be used to advantage on the floor of a national convention. from Chicago to the Pittsburg Dispatch on September 17, was reprinted Whatever else may be said of Tom here by the only three-cen- t under a Johnson, he isnt afraid to talk. He raised date a short time ago. The has had the temerity to attack the story originated with a fellow named Supreme court of the state of Ohio, Tom Gahan, who accidentally became from Illideclaring the judges are not as learn- national committeeman ed in the law as they might be and nois. Gahan is as wild in his thoughts what is far worse, says they are as the editor of the only three-cen- t venal. To be absolutely plain about is in his writings. The Ohio camwill leave Johnson a dead cock it, he has declared the judges may paign in the political pit and he will not be be bought and sold. This is a very selected as a running mate for anyserious charge to make, yet Mr. one, with the possible exception of Johnson makes it, and the Republi- his friend Bryan who will make a run for home after the national concans have been taking steps to have vention is held. The only three-cen- t and tribunal before him brought the had a chunk of space to fill, hence not be this scare head reproduction. show cause why he should & punished for contempt. It is related that Mr. Johnson declares he would The Cleveland organs in the east be only too glad to do it that he can are becoming scared of Gorman and show more cause than anybody. are opening their batteries on him However, this allegation on the part The right and left. The New York Comof Johnson seems to be Supreme court of the state of Ohio mercial Advertiser, although Repubhas an excellent reputation in Ohio lican, has strong Cleveland leanings and elsewhere and although Mr. John- and it views with alarm the coming son may be able to prove his allegaof Gorman. In. its Wall Street tions, this is the wrong time for him up to make them, because in the height edition of a few days ago it takes of a passionate campaign he is lia- an awful whack at Gorman by picking ble to work up a feeling of antagon- up a statement from the Atlanta Conism that cannot fail to be disastrous to his cause. However, this is John- stitution in his favor and says: Speaking of staunch Democracy, sons campaign, and if he wants to open his mouth and put his foot in let us quote once more from that fait, it is no ones fault, save his own. mous tribute to Gorman which Grover Jt Cleveland, at the time president of The assertion of Mr. Clarke, the the United States, paid to him in his candidate for senator against Hanna, memorandum of reasons for declining to sign the Wilson tariff bill in 1894. alluded to above, are something It then presents the excerpt as apand wonderful in their alpended: leged wisdom: He seems to regard The livery of Democratic tariff refor man form has been stolen and worn in the Mr. Hanna as the responsible protection, the everything bad that has happened, service of Republican treason of has blasted deadly blight and to maintain that all good has the councils of the' brave in their hour come in spite of him. In a campaign of might. The trusts and combinaspeech at Akron a few nights ago, he tions the communism of pelf whose have prevented us delivered himself of this bright bon machinations from success we the deserve, reaching mot: should not be forgotten or forgiven. The business of the country has refused to stand still at Mr. Hanna's James G. Blaine owed his defeat ' on has the contrary, command, but, in no small measure to the action run riot in speculation such as was of the Typographical Union of New never seen before, and now stands upon what all men fear is the verge York City, which was having a fight of collapse, and capital and labor halt with Whitelaw Reid, editor of the in daily expectation of- a panic a Tribune, during the campaign. It fear in which the president and the appears that there is a concerted 'efsecretary' of the treasury by their fort on the part of a large portion of public speeches show that they distinctly share. This condition has the organized labor of the country Politics, National and Local. taken is concerned, the political situation in the east has changed very little since to went last Truth press week. Right now the city of New York seems to be entirely engrossed in the. municipal election, which is being fought for by The Tom Tammany with energy. Johnson campaign in Ohio is not attracting the attention his followers would like to have it attract and beyond a speech by Clarke, the candidate for senator, in which he has Bryan, nothing has been doing. Following close upon the utterances of the Boston News Bureau, published in these columns one week ago, come ' expressions from many Massachusetts papers favoring the candidacy of Richard Olney as the Democratic nominee. Some of them are highly commendatory in character, while still others are even extravagant. The utterances of supporters of Mr. Olney are even hyperbolic in their nature. Take the following from Representative Keli-heof Boston, as an example: When Richard Olney delivered his memorable speech last winter, addressing himself to the subject of the So far as action out-Bryan- ed - r, deplorable coal conflict, his words were scarcely in type when the attitude of the arrogant coal operators changed, and there became noticeable a regard on their part for the rights of the people. The words of Richard Olney, private citizen, had an effect for good which the action of Theodore Roosevelt, president of the United States, did not have, in the portentous crisis of last winter. Picture what the result would have been if Richard Olney, instead of Theodore Roosevelt, had been the occupant of the presidential chair. jc Jt To quote the comment of an eastThis is eulogy, but ern journal: Because there is no hardly history. disputing the fact that it was Mr. Roosevelt who brought the coal barons to a realizing sense of their position, and he did it well. He has bepn given credit for his action by authority, both Republican and Democratic, and applauded for his work by both sides, including Judge Gray, chairman of the commission, who has been mentioned as a possible candidate for the presidential nomination on the Democratic ticket. It sounds ajll right to give Olney the credit of settling a coal strike in Pennsylvania by making a speech in Massachusetts, ill-time- j - d. Prick 26, 1903. 5 Cents to make matters unpleasant for Mr. Roosevelt. Whether this concert of movement will extend its machinations so as to include our own Jack Daveler remains to be seen. But that there is something doing is evident from a special from Washington to the Brooklyn Eagle which relates at some length that there is an evident intention on the part of certain labor leaders and some prominent business interests that are antagonistic to President Roosevelt to make an issue of the. Miller case. The Washington Central Labor Union, with, it is said, the approval of the American Federation of Labor, has appealed to every affiliated body in the country to condemn the presidents attitude in causing the reinstatement of W. A. Miller, the foreman in the bindery department of the government printing office. Miller had been dismissed from his union and subsequently, on this account, lost his position in the printing office. The story of the case is familiar to the readers of the Eagle. The president took the ground that the Federal government could not turn down a man because he was not affiliated with labor unions; that if a man is honest and faithful and does his work satisfactorily he is entitled to continue in the government employ, whether he is a union or man. So Miller was reinstated. Ever since he came back to work the union in the printing office has been trying to get him out. Charges affecting his private character have been made against him, and all sorts of pressure has been brought to bear on the r president to induce him to drop Miller. These efforts have all apparently failed, and now the chief executive is openly threatened with the opposition of the union labor men at the polls unless he yields to their non-unio- n demands. The American Federation of Labor claims a membership of 2,500,000, and the present effort on the part of the Washington Central Labor Union is an attempt to secure an expression of opinion from union men all over the country on the Miller case. Copies of the resolution adopted by this organization condemning the president have been sent to 520 labor unions in the United States. President Roosevelt fully understands the gravity of this fight that is being made against him and his administration, but he believes that the people of the country will resent this attempt of the labor unions to' coerce him and will agree with him that in the departments of the governn ment the union men and men stand upon the same plane so far as employment goes.' Some of the officials here do not hesitate to say non-unio- |