nbnnt cmnton .i CAIVI ION SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1900. FOR PRESIDENT, WILLIAM MCKINLEY. LABOR RECOGNIZED. Some of President MoKinley's Ap pointments. President McKinley has recognized labor in appointments more than all his predecessors combined. The fol lowing are some of his appointments: PETER B. LAIRD, stonecutter and member of Local Assembly 1563, of the Knights of Labor, Brooklyn, N. Y. Commissioner of immigration at Quebec, Canada. Appointed 1897. DAVID HEALY, journalist, writer on labor topics for fifteen years, ex chairman of national executive board of the Knights of Labor Commission er of immigration at Vancouver, B. C. Appointed 1899. CAMERON MILDER, coal miner, secretary Miners' union, Ohio Immi grant inspector. Appointed 1898. FRANK SARGENT, grand master Brotherhood Locomotive Firemen Appointed member of industrial com mission, but declined to serve owing to the desire of his organization to retain him as grand master. M. D. RATCHFORD, coal miner, president United (Mine Workers' of America Appointed member of indus trial commission, 1898, JOHN L. KENNEDY, printer, mem ber of Typographical union. Appoint ed member of industrial commission, 1898. JOHN FARQUAHAR, printer. Ap pointed member of the Industrial com mission, 1898. EDWIN' C. MADEN, locomotive en gineer, member of Brotherhood of Lo comotive Engineers. Appointed third assistant postmaster general, 1898. W. G. EDENS, railroad brakeman, member of Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Appointed superintendent of free delivery, Chicago, 111. Charles H. Lltchman, shoemaker, ex grand secretary Knights of St. Cris pin, ex-general secretary of the Knights of Labor. Appointed member of industrial commission, 1900. JOHN THOMAS, coal miner. Ap pointed immigrant inspector in terri tory opposite Buffalo, in Canada, in 1S98. ROBERT WATCHORN, advanced from immigrant inspector to special supervising immigrant inspector, 1899. ADOLPH J. YOU, locomotive engi neer, member grievance committee Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers 'Special Immigrant inspector, Puget Sound district. Appointed 1899. ROBERT D. LAYTON, axe-maker, member of the Axe-Makers union, ex grand secretary of the Knights of La borSpecial immigrant inspector. Ap pointed 1898, T, V. POWDERLY, commissioner general of immigration, appointed 1897. Was Initiated Into the Machin ists' and Blacksmiths' union in 1870, and remained a member until the dis solution of the organization in 1S77. He became a member of the Knights of Labor in 1874, 'and is still a mem ber. Was a member of the Industrial Brotherhood from 1874 to the disso lution of the organization in 1878: is an honorary member of seventeen dif ferent labor organizations in as many states. This list, and it falls far short of be ing complete, shows that President McKinley has given more appoint ments to labor than all of his prede cessors since the foundation stone of the government was laid. CAPT. HOUSTON'S MOTHER. Her Son Fought with Roosevelt and Afterwards Died Fighting in the Philippines. At Hamilton, Ohio, Oct. 16, while Governor Rosevelt was addressing a big audience word was brought to him that the mother of Captain Houston was in the crowd" and wished an In troduction. Roosevelt stopped talking and asked that Mrs. Houston come upon the stand. Captain Houston died in the Philip pines fighting with Lawton. He was one of the eight captains whom Roose velt took with him to Cuba on the ex pedition which made the rough-rider regiment famous. Four of these cap tains have died since El Caney and two of them yet 'bear the wounds of Mauser bullets. Houston was one of Col. "Teddy's" favorite officers, and so he asked to see his mother. She came through the crowd wearing the weeds of mourning for her boy. Willing hands helped her up the stair way and Roosevelt took her arm and grasped her hands, with "God bless you, Mrs. Houston; your son was an honor to you and to his country." Her voice was choked with sobs as she put aside her veil and looked tear fully at the man who lea her hero to victory. She said: "He thought the world of you, Col. Roosevelt. That's why I wanted to meet you. I hope you will win, sir. My son thought you should be presi dent some day, andI hope you will. I think you mean to stand for the things that he stood for and for which he died, so I hope you .will win." Few heard the words of the mother except Roosevelt and those nearest to him, but the audience knew her and her story and the women there weot with her as she left the olatform and mingled with the crowd. by You were promised something McKINLEY ' You were also promised something by BRYAN. Only ONE was RIGHT then, Only ONE CAN be right now! If you want four more years like the last four then VOTE FOR McKINLEY. The man who was RIGHT In 1896. IMwKw'SmmSmK'4 - v!ca FOR VICE-PRESIDENT, THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
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