Show JOHN JOt MITCHELL AND POLITICS POL If John Mitchell president of the United Workers Mine union is the level headed shrewd man that his friends ds believe him to be he lie will not permit his fool friends to sacrifice him The Time which comes from Pennsylvania that Mitchell Mitch Mitch- ell cli will be urged to enter the race for fOl the Republican can nomination for Vice President and be Roosevelt's Roose Roose- velt's running mate in 1904 will not be he received erl with satisfaction by bJ true friends of the mineworkers mineworkers' work mine ers ers' rs' rs chief nor by bJ men who have ha the tile interests of the labor u unions ionE at heart John Mitchells Mitchell's successful management of th the miners' miners interests in the greatest industrial struggle of modern tim times s stamps him bim as asa asa asa a great eat man in his line of work Pitted against the shrewdest most unscrupulous and powerful clique of trust magnates in th the world the labor general came out of the struggle sti with flying colors s. His generalship and devotion to labor established beyond be yond a doubt that he was easily the foremost labor leader in this country and that as a strike manager his equal would be he hard bard to find And nd after having baying earned such a distinction n Mitchell would indeed d he be hea bea a foolish man iian were wele he lie t to permit unwise friends or 01 designing enemies to tear down that which it has required red years eais eai's to build If the will viII think the matter over he be will come to the conclusion conclusion sion that it is not the friends of Mitchell I who want ant anthim him to tin run for the Vice It is to the interest of labor that Mitchell r remain at the h head had ad adof of the miners' miners union union or in time be promoted to the position Sam Sani Gompers s now so abl ally ably tills fills Admitting that this be true then what set of men would he be most interested in ill removing remO Mitchell I from froni his plesent present pres ples ent sphere of usefulness usefulness' What clique i is it whose plans are most affected and whose insolent aggresS is curbed by hJ- the time labor lalor chiefs chief's shrewdness and fidelity in the management of the miners' miners union It would he a dull witted man who would not at once identify the coal barons as the sons of Ham in the woodpile With th Mitchell induced to entel enter enter en en- ter tel politics the mine operators would ha have has has-cf e their worst t enemy's wings clipped so 80 to speak His Hh usefulness use to 10 labor would be a thing of the past and ancl the trust kings would have haye eliminated from the time contest con ron test between labor and capital the man who has foiled the owners mine in iii many a well arranged scheme No Xo John Mitchells Mitchell's life work is in th the labor labom- world He i is the man of all men to lead the army alluy of workingmen en He would cut a poor pOOl figure in politics He will not nibble at the bait lait the operators oper Opel atoms atom's have hung out for him |