Show HANNA AGREES WITH jonea workmen shall mot be coerced into voting fop mckenley chicago oct 21 chairman bianna of the republican national committee this morning gave to the press tho fol lowice tho manifest policy of the silver democratic managers man acers in this EB set forth by their candidate for president shortly after bis nomination has been to create the belief in the minds of the workingmen that they were being coerced by their employers to vote contrary to their convictions the chairman of the national committee lion james K jones has emphasized thia policy in a proclamation in which lie boldly charges the employing classes of the country with having entered into a conspiracy to coerce their employee into voting contrary to their opinions this is a very grave charge and it has now assumed a form that justifies giving it gome attention it is an insult both to employer an employed emp loye we do not be aleve that one is despotic enough to at tempt to coerce or that the other is eo cringing as to be coerced employed Emp loyes and employers are all freo american citizens knowing their rights and capacity of asserting and maintaining them to coerce a voter is crime against the laws of the land and if bryan and know of coercion they make themselves accomplices 0 tho criminals by not informing the proper parties and taking stops for prosecution it has been ahe policy of the republican party since its organization to protect every citizen in the exer av tea jn ciso of his elective franchise and it will abill adhere to that policy while we consider the ceareo absurd and believe that american workingmen and employers are too patriotic to be either cerceda or to coerce the republican national committee will do anything in its power to protect in the free and untrammeled exercise of rights of citizens and will carefully unite with the national democratic committee in any movement having that object in view coercion of voters is not only an un American unpatriotic and despotic usurpation of the rights 0 a free citizen but it is a wrong that will inevitably recoil upon its perpetrators it is an arbitrary use of power that is in direct conflict with the principles of our government ern ment the civil compact of majority rule means free majorities for whose protection all constitutional powers should be used and without which a political victory would be barren of re aults worth of a great party this committee will no pains to secure to avery cill zeu whatever his politics the right to cast hie vote according to his convictions and to have his vote honestly counted |