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Show Gompers' Man For Taft. Evidence is plentiful that the effect of Gompers' attempt to Influence labor for llryan is not very productive of results. When the time comes to vote union labor men will be found exercising Independence of action. Those that are employed will vote to have that employment continued, and those that are out of employment will vote for the man most likely to give It to them. Is there any one who sincerely sin-cerely believes that the chances for the return of.good times would be as good If Bryan Is elected as they would be under Taft? A fresh Illustration in point occurred oc-curred at the noonday meeting in New York of the Commercial Travelers' Republican Association. John W. Armstrong, an organizer for the International Inter-national Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, who was sent to Maine by President Gompers to make speeches for the Democratic State tlctcet, came out for Taft and Sherman. In his speech he said: "The men whom I have met and conversed with In the American Federation Feder-ation of Labor are, as a rule, of the opinion that It would be unwise to support Mr. Bryan. The election of Mr. Taft mean the. resumption of business upon safe and sound lines. I have an abiding faith in the Intelligence Intelli-gence and loyalty of the worklogmen to vote for Taft and the party and principles that made It possible for our workingman to occupy the eminent position he does, as compared with the position occupied by the unfortunate brother In the Democratic South, where the Democratic party has opposed op-posed the enactment of factory laws, child labor laws and the organization of workingmen." |