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Show SENATOR KNOX SCORES GOMPERS AND BRIAN Predicts That Election of Democrat Demo-crat Spells Disaster for American Laborers. PITTSBURG, Oct. 30. United States Senator P. C. Knox, Lieutenant-Governor Robert S. Murphy and Congressman William H. Graham -were tho principal speakers tonight at what was practically prac-tically the closing demonstration of tho Republican party in Allegheny county. B. P. Jones, Jr., of the Jones Laughlin Steel company presided at the meeting, which was held in Carnegie hall, North Side, formorly Allegheny City. Scores of Republican leaders, serving as vico-presidents, occupied Beats on the stago. Tho largest parade of the campaign cam-paign preceded tho meeting. Mr. Knox in his address said: "I do not know to what extent Mr. Gompors represents the organized' labor of the United States, or by what authority au-thority ho pretends to deliver its votes to tbe Democratic party, but wo all know that ho appeared at the national conventions of both parties and formulated formu-lated demands upon both in tbe namo of organized labor, and as the result of his views of the action of the two parties ho has called upon organized labor to repudiate Mr. Taft and vote for Mr. Bryan. Quotes Mr. Gompers. In the American Federationist for October, Mr. Gompers proclaims to tho country that 'In this campaign labor realizes that the Republican party and its candidate stand committed against the reliof and tho justico which it must have' Tho Democratic party and its candidate, ho adds, havo openly and courageously mado labor's demands their own. Mr. 'Bryan, tho candidate of the Democratic party, he says, has fully indorsed labor's demands. "Tho just demands of labor tohich Mr. Gompers refers, and which ho claims Mr. Bryan and tho Democratic party "have fully indorsed, are embodied in the WilBOn b'ill, H. R. 20,584, and the Pearro bill, H. R. 04." i Senator Knox paid ono of these demands de-mands is founded upon a mistake of Mr. Gompers, and that no such grievance griev-ance as he imagines exists, and that the other demand is foundod upon an impossible im-possible proposition antagonizing tho principle for which labor has been contending con-tending for centuries. "I believo the effect of what Mr. Gompers proposes and tho substance of what ho aslcs American workmen to do is this: Predicts Disaster. "Vote !for Bryan and ho will destroy tbo protectivo tariff which securcs to American workmon fair wages and fair conditions they need, and as a substitute substi-tute for good wages and conditions, Mr. Bryan will advocate tho enactment; of a moastiro outlawing American business, busi-ness, a thing no honest American workman work-man wants. This demand is one which Mr. Gompers says Mr. Brj'an has made his own. a . "Mr. Bryan and Mr. Gompers indulge in-dulge in ill-natured and irrelevant attacks at-tacks upon the president and jne, -but what have they said about Mr. Bryan advocating outlawing tho right to do business and legalizing the black list and tho secondary boycott? The president presi-dent and I aro not asking for tho votes of tho people, and, thorcforc, I refuse to follow Mr. Bryan and, Mr. Gqmperb into the realm of irrelevant association. As I was never attorney for tho steel trust or the Pennsylvania railroad and never exchanged a syllable with Mr. Prick on the subject of legislation to which Mr. Bryan has roferrcd, I will simply revert to tho question in which the pooplo are now interested, and that is, Did you, Mr. Bryan, pronnso Mr. Gompers to support the Pearro bill? "Mr. Taft entertains no impossible the ory of government, as Mr.Bryan does, to which the peoplo's interests must be bent and fitted, else shattered and destroyed, de-stroyed, lie will bo better satisfied to achieve his policies than to vociforously proclaim them. His policies are not like thoso of Mr. Bryan, a matter ot geography. geog-raphy. Ho is not endonvoring to conceal con-ceal "in one section of the country what ho is proclaiming in another. Ho is just a straightforward, capable, stable and experienced statesman, tho type wo love to point to as America's product. |
