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Show APPEAL OF TAFT ! 10 LABORING MEN Candidate Issues Statement Saying. Attacks of Gompers Will Not Prejudice. INSISTENTLY CLAIMS TO ! BE WORKINGMAN'S FRIEND Says Assaults of Bryan, Fuller and Gompers Are Bitter and Unjust. BUFFALO. X. Y.. Nov. 1. Judge Taft caused this statement to bo. issued here tonight as coming from him: "It was brought to Mr. Taft 's a ten-tion ten-tion today that a number of labor lesdors who have no sympathy with Mr. Gompers in his attempt to commit the entiro vote of labor to tho Democratic Demo-cratic party were nevertheless, in great concern lest the defeat of Mr. Bryan aud Mr. Gompors, which now soem. certain,-would lead to reprisals on the part of tho new administration under Mr; Taft, and to a refusal on his p'ort to continue tho good work for. labor which has been don by Mr. "Roosevelt, and, at his instance, by a . Republican Congress. In a statement tonight, Mr. Taft said: Taft's Statement. I have been .honored ' by Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt In the last four years by being called In to assist as an adviser m respect re-spect to all the executive and legislative legisla-tive measures projected in his administration admin-istration In the Interest of labor, and I have had a very deep sympathy with all that has been done. There are othor measures In tho Interest of labor that ought to be adopted. The .ilxteen-hour bill ought probably to be amended. Tho compensation for government employees act ought to be enlarsed and liberalized, with a view to making tho government liable In tJie sarne way as a private employer' em-ployer' fbr tho Injury of Its workmen suffered while ln its employ. It Is the legitimate and approved practice of labor la-bor organizations to proposo legislation of this kind to the executive for recommendation rec-ommendation and to congress for action, and it will bo a pleasant duty on my part If I am elected, as I expect to be, to consider all such labor proposals and to urge upon congress those measures approved In the Republican platform, as well 03 3iich othera as commeud themselves them-selves to my judgment and my desire to aid all labor. The, fuuctlona of the commissioner com-missioner of labor may Aery 'well , be enlarged to make tho hurcau more useful use-ful to tho cause of labor, and all proposals pro-posals In that direction will meet my hearty concurrence. 'Will Not Hold 'Grudge. The bitterness and Injustice of tho attacks at-tacks mftde upon me by Mr. Bryan, by Mr. Gompers and by Mr. Fuller will not in the slightest degree turn mo from my consistent attitude toward labor of , sympathetic Interests In Its behalf and earnest desire to aid In' even' way that federal legislation may legitimately do It. The statement made by Mr. Fuller that I refused to give a hearing to laboring labor-ing men In response to a cut ln their wages of 10 per cent, made by tho receivers re-ceivers of a railway company, grows out of his failure to note a full and complete com-plete decision on the subject, showing not only a full Consideration, but the fact that I called In another judgo to help me, as well as the submission of a great deal of evidence and Its careful consideration. The failure of the nrm having thirty days' notice of tho proposed pro-posed order to object to It until the day before the order was to go Into effect led to a refusal to suspend the order be-causo be-causo there was not tlmo for a hearing, hut full opportunity to modify or revoke It was given upon five days' notice of the employees to the receiver, and this opportunity was Improved by them and the hearing had. The statements of Mr. Bryan and Mr. Fuller on this pubjoct Include garbled sentences from one of th'e two opinions, and give the Impression Impres-sion that the court reached exactly tho opposite conclusion from that which It ln fact reached ln respect to the propriety pro-priety of a hearing In such cases. A rofcrence to the decision In the C2 federal report 17 will confirm this statement and .show, the utter Injustice of Mr. Fuller's attack. Whore Confusion Lies, The case reported later, of 62 federal report 6CH, was a memorandum opinion which should have preceded the opinion reported in th 62 federal report 17, ond .tho real decision reported was contained In the latter. This may havo misled Mr. Fuller and Mr. Bryan, but it 'did not justify the use of garbled extracts from the earlier opinion, i The following telegram recoircd to-' day by Judge Taft was made public by him: Every absolutely independent oil man I have seen, interested in the production, produc-tion, manufacture and sale of petroleum, and Hh products, whether Democrat or Republican, and I, likewise interested, notwithstanding John D. Pockofeller'a statement, will vole for you nnd hope for your election by an overwhelming majority. I submit that wo, fighting Ihe greatest of trustK, wish you elected. I.nbor nhould not vote for Bryan or tho Democrats, but voto for you and the restoration of confidence 4 CHARLES RUSSELL BURKE. 11C Broad Street, New York. |
