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DRFYING THE BOSS
Pretensions of William A.
Stone's Promises.
WANAMAKER'S LABOR RECORD.
IIe Tells the Story of a Conspiracy to
Blackmail His Firm—All the Facts
Lald Bare Before the People of Penne
sylvania—They Should Be the Judges.
{From Our Own Correspondent.)
Harrisburg, April 12.—Everywhere
that ex-Postmaster General Wanama-
ker goes he is greeted with crowds and
His progress dur-
| ing the past week has been an ovation.
| tion
[all
| him personally and politically, and es. place
Everywhere that he has spoken he has
dealt sledge hammer blows at corrup-
and bossism. And the point of it
is that he presents facts to em- |
phasize everything he says.
The enemies of Mr. Wanamaker—the
Andarews-Quay crowd—have assailed
pecially upon what they term his ‘la-
bor record.” Mr. Wanamaker has per-.|
| mitted this to go unnoticed until last i
Wednesday night, when, at Athens,
{ Pa., he replied to his traducers in the!
| He
| hoods all
| clippings attacking him. He then said:
most energetic and convineing way.
denounced as unmitigating false-
the stories that have been
told about his so-called ‘labor record,”
and revealed some facts concerning |
himself and his firm that are of the
greatest interest.
Mr. Wanamaker prefaced his speech !
that evening by reading newspaper |
“Clippings of newspapers like these I |
| have just read have been sent out from
| Philadelphia to
| pers
|| ment, endeavoring to poison the work-
| effort to make it appear that I had ini-
[ry to law.
| personally of even so much as trying
| it was over.
the country newspa-
by the Andrews-Quay manage-
ingmen of the state against me by ail
ported fereign workmen, who take the |
place of American laborers. To prove
this charge a single case in nearly 49
years is cited where my business house,
composed of John Wanamaker, Robert
C. Ogden, T. B. Wanamaker and Rod-
man Wanamaker, doing business un-
der the name of ‘John Wanamaker,’
was fined for employing a man contra-
“Let me say that I was never charged |
to evade any labor or importation law.
The case on which the firm of John
Wanamaker was fined was during my |
absence in Europe. No papers were |
evdr served upon me. I was not a wit- |
ness in the case; In fact, I had no |
knowledge of the latter until long after
I would dismiss this mat-
| ter here if it was not so apparent that |
| the Andrews-Quay candidate tor gov-
" ernor, who dare not face you upon the
| real issues of this campaign, which are |
| of
broken promises, unequal taxation, |
machine corruption and legislative de-
bauchery and dishonor, proposes to
| raise this irrelevant and false and mis- |
| leading question to divert your atten-
wish to
|
|
{
1 eign
tion from vital issues, and because I
embrace this opportunity to
emphasize the position that I have con- |
sistently maintained on the question of
immigration for 15 years.
THE ALIEN LABOR CASE.
“The case in question hinged on
points. First, did the head of a
partment make a contract with a
workman in violation of
two
ue-
for-
law? |
‘Second, had he authority from the firm
| in any capacity whatsoever except by
| the
| troduction and recommendation to one
of
ing
of
| glishman by birth, took an interest in
| country afforded such opportunities as
| that he
{ the
| the money to pay the man’s passage,
| and upon his
| made good his promise to assist him.
| iar circumstnces to our firm our buyer
l-plicant. was given the same examina-
t
|
{
|
|
|
|
| skilled laborer of a
{ instincts,
| sulting a lady. customer. He refused
|
| much to their sarprise, and w holly un-
| employment, not, however, until after he
laking Utensils!
to employ such workman? It is an in-
flexible rule of the firm of John Wan-
amaker that no one shall be employed
head
ment,
of the employment depart- |
and so strict is this rule that I |
myself have no authority to employ
any one, and cannot do so except
through that medium.
“The man who instituted this suit
against the firm brought a letter of in-
our buyers, when in London. The
man asked many questions about
America, about the chances of secur-
employment and the possibilities |
advancement. The buyer, an En-
the and persuaded him that
man, no
did America. Our buyer told the man |
could not guarantee him em-
ployment, but would use his best ef- |
forts to assist him if he would come to
Philadelphia. Through the influence of
London house, which introduced
the man to our buyer, he loaned him
arrival in Philadelphia
“Without communicating the pecu-
on his return from Lis visit to Europe
instructed the man to apply. for em-
ployment in the regular way. The ap-
tion that all others are given, and an-
swered every question satisfactorily.
His name was placed upon the eligible
list. Soon after an opening for such a
man. was reported and he was given
employment.
TROUBLE
was
STIRRED UP.
“The man recommended as a
class that is un-
known in America. Dut after a trial,
while he proved a competent workman,
he showed himself to be a man of bad
and he was removed for in-
the new devartment! to
assigned and left our
to work
which he
in
was
had attempted the worst kind of blacl:-
mail—appearing in person in our gen-
eral office and demanding $200 or he
would bring suit against our firm for
the violation of the contract alien la-
bor law, claiming for the first time
that he had a contract with our silk
buyer, thcugh it was a year after he
had entered our employ. As I learned
afterward, for many weeks, our firm
was threatened with prosecution by
certain irresponsible lawyers, unless we
paid the man several hundred dollars.
Of course our firm refused.
“Suit was brought, to which our at-
torneys attached little significance, an |
known to me, a verdict was. gives |
against our firm, and not until month:
| after did it dawn upon any of our pea-
ple that the prosecution could have
Leen inspired by politics, and that the
verdict mizht not be accident, but the
result of methods.
FROM ANOTHER STANDPOINT.
“This is” viewing the case from tho
ship,
| and
{ and who are, therefore, the most suc-
| than $100,000.
| are not
IA free
i on his street railway killed a passen-
. statute
i your valuable franchises.
reeted legislation that the privileges of
most unfavorable standpoint, to our
firm. Let us take the other view; that
our buyer did employ this foreigher,
and that he did pay his passage to
America. This fellow was recommend.
ed as a skilled laborer of a class un-
known to the American trade, was said
to have served an aprrenticeship of
many vears—unlike the American
salesman, he had picked pins and
wound ribbon for a year. He had la-
bored a term of years in a factory, and
Inew how every silk product was
¢ made.
“He had learned the ladies’ tailoring
business. He was able to suggest har-
monious and becoming colors, and to!
tell accurately the number of yards of
a given width required for any style,
for a person of any size. He was a
skilled and artistic window dresser: in
fact, it was believed that he combined
the learning of the manufacturer, the
knowledge and taste of the dressma-
ker, the ability of the salesman and the
art of the window trimmer. To attain
this proficiency required a dozen years
of plodding work, such as the Ameri-
can salesman will not do.
“But our silk buyer, believing he saw
an opportunity to increase the efficien- |
cy
this
of his department, did encourage
man to make Philadelvhia his
of residence and shaped things
! so that he became a salesman in his |
department, believing that the smart, |
learn |
few |
quick Yankee salesman would
from the Englishman in: a
months all that it had taken him years
to learn, thereby giving our salesman
the benefit of the Englishman's ex-
perience and long term of apprentice-
without the years of drudgery,
making our American salesman more
efficient, their services more
their wage earning
capacity |
greater. i
{
“Under the alien labor law our buyer |
| could have made a contract with this |
man and agreed to pay his passage to |
America, not as a pauper nor a com- |
mon or unskilled laborer, but an artist |
He did not come in any |
| competition with any American work- |
{ man, but was really an instructor in a |
in a new line.
new field of work, secured for the edu-
cation and betterment of every man |
employed in our silk department.
FIRM'S PROUD RECORD.
‘“This is the only case where we have
been fined for violating the labor law
in 40 years. Upon the payroll of our
firm are nearly .8,000 people, whose
wages range annually from $20,000 each
to the boys at $250.
nor a threatened strike. We are never
obliged to seek workmen, but only to
choose from the 5,000 people who apply
to our embloyment department for
work every 30 days. It would be al-
surd to go abroad to hire salesmen
when dozens apply daily who are ac-
quainted - with Philadelphia, with the
manners and customs of the people,
cessful salesmen and saleswomen.
“Though we sell goods made in al-
most every country on the globe we
have never found it necessary to em-
ploy any but English speaking peo-
ple. Our house has for years main-
tained a pension roll for aged and wor-
thy employes; a system of weekly ben-
efits, absolutely controlled by the em-
pleyes themselves, to be paid in case
of sickness or death, has paid more
Employes are allowed a
discount, reducing the price of goods
te. cost. Length of service is rewarded
by increase of salary, other things be-
ing equal. No young children are em-
ployed in any service in the house.
Salesmen and others at times are al-
lowed dividends in addition to their
salaries.
“A man or woman's nativity or creed
made conditions for employ-
ment by our establishment, but only
intelligence, integrity and capabitity.
school had been kept up for
years among the younger employes to
give them a commercial education.
AN AMUSING FALSEHOOD.
“That employes are searched before
leaving the store is an amusing and
desperate falschood, and that they are
compelled to patronize the house or its
restaurant is another and ridiculous
falsehood. . I believe we pay the high-
est average wages paid by any large
mercantile house in America, and for
36 years, since our business began, we
have not defaulted an instant in the
wages of our employes.
“And I want to repeat what I have
said many times before. The employ-
ment system and wage schedule of our
store are now and have always been
open for investigation; we have always
accorded individuals who are interest-
ed in labor questions, and especially
committees representing workingmen'’s
organizations, the fullest privileges and
facilities to examine into our methods.
“I would not dignify this charge with
denial but for fear some well meaning
persons may be misled. It is so ridic-
ulous. It would be as reasonable to
say that Senator Quay was guilty of
murder, because a careless motorman
ger, or that the president of the Stand-
ard Oil company, or a stockholder in
the Pennsylvania Railroad company
was responsible for the misdeeds of
Senator Andrews, because he happen-
ed to be in the employ of those corpora-
tions. This is not a campaign of per-
sonalities. I have no personal quarrel
with Senator Quay er slated candidates
of the machine. It is a battle against
system, and if tonight I find it neces-
sary to use personal names, it is be-
cause names best designate the sys-
valuable |
tems they are responsible for and con-
trol. }
WHO HIS CRITICS ARE.
“It is indeed strange that all these
criticisms should inspired by men
who never employed a dozen men at |
one time, except to do political work; |
and that the head of a merciless polit-
ical machine, who for 20 years has
caused laws to be passed that have |
constantly encroached upon the rights |
and decreased the wages of the work-
ingman, should be able to cajole and
deceive intelligent labor men, is still
mere strange.
“Workingmen, let us see what Sena-
tor Quay has done for you within the
past 20 years, when he had it within
his power to do much. Iie has filled the
books of Pennsylvania with
to the great corporations
He has so di-
be
laws giving
corporations are well Righ absolute,
while their interests hav® been so well
protected that an unjust proportion of
taxation falls upon the people He has |
been piling the load of taxes and debt |
upon you, while millions of dollars of !
interest on your state money have been
used to perpetuate his political machine
IN THE LAST LEGISLATURE."
“At the last session of the legislature
his senate committee, under orders
killed the anti-trust bill, that would
have made unlawful the combinations
between persons and corporations to re:
strain trade or increase the priceof pro-
duct beyond a legitimate limit. He, with
a half dozen colleagues in the United
States senate one year ago held un
the tariff bill for the benefit of the
trusts of the country, while millions ot
dollars’ worth of foreign made goods
were being shipped to this country, and
the smokeless chimney, the silent loom
| and the unemployed thousands today
bear witness to their work.
“His friends are the bankers of Wall
street; his meeting place the private
offices of the People’s bank; his con-
ferences are held in the secret cham-
bers of great corporations. He was
forced to admit, under oath, that he
i was a speculator of sugar stock while
+ the sugar
| and was one of the six United States |
i everything Spanish. Indeed, a stranger
schedule was being
senators who dared declare for higher
| duties on sugar.
“He named Leishman, of Pittsburg, as |
minister
protests
izations,
bitrary
strike as
“He
withheld
to
of
Switzerland
all the state
against the
labor organ-
methods in the
Carnegie’s boss,
Homestead
while you pay interest to
| banks for money to pay your teachers.
“He causes the personal property tax
to be withheld while your county issucs
bonds.
STATE TREASURY METHODS.
“He plans
improper and dishonest advantage
a payroll for unauthorized employes.
“He protects the mileage grabbers
and has committees appointed on the
pretense of helping starving miners,
and his committees rob while on mer-
cy’s mission.
“He has attempted to take $1,000,000
from your public scheufs to relieve the
brewers from paying their share of the
taxes.
“I want to be just to Senator Quay
and give him all the credit due hin.
He did read in the United States senate
part of a large tariff speech that was
prepared for him in. Philadelphia. He
threatened to read more, which forced
a compromise. Broken pledges to all
J { except the corporatjons mark his po-
We have employed |
in the past 30 years more than 100,000 |
| persons, and have never had a strike
litical pathway, yet he still finds ways
to favor corporations and to fool the
workingmen.
“This year he is trying a
He thinks he can win your
slate candidate upon the
immigration bill, a copy
hold in my hand. It is as honest as
any claim they make, although as a
matter of fact, his slated candidate is
the author of only the enacting clause,
consisting of 19 words, while the bill, I
am reliably informed, belongs to Sena-
tor Lodge, of Massachusetts.”
At Royersford on Friday night last,
Mr. Wanamaker held up the record of
William A. Stone to a great audience.
He showed how false had been William
A. Stone to his constituents in the
rast; how he had broken his sacred
new scheme.
votes for his
issue of an
of which 1
word in promising to vote for McKin- |
It was |
ley and then voting for Quay.
a most startling and scathing arraign-
ment of William A. Stone.
maker said:
MR. STONE AS A DELEGATE.
“The Republican voters of Allegheny
were almost a unit for McKinley, and
the known relations existing between
Mr. Stone and Senator Quay, who was
also a candidate for the presidency,
were such as to arcuse a storm of op-
position to Mr. Stone. To save him-
self from defeat Mr. Stone, together
with his Quay colleague, signed and
forwarded to the Republican county
chairman of Allegheny county, and
caused the same to be published in the
Allegheny county papers, the following’
pledge, bearing date of March 25, 1896:
‘We pledge that we will honorably
and fully represent and vote in
ance with the will and pix
presiddnteof a plurality of ti
can voters of ‘the congre
trict within which we are
for delegates, whenever
a plurality of those voting a prefer-
ence at a primary election th he
vious to the meeting of the national
convention, in which we are delegates
after due notice has been given by
the chairman of the county commit-
tee that they will have an opportunity
in said primaries to express such pref-
erence.
Signed)
accord-
nee, for
Republi-
cnal
candidates
expressed
dis
‘ROBERT M’AFELE.
‘W. A. STONE.
“The publication of Mr. Stone's
pledge ‘to vote in accordance with the
will and preference of a plurality of the
lepublicans in his congressional dis-
trict, as expressed at the primaries,’
relieved him of all opposition and he
was chosen a national delegate and in-
structed by an overwhelming majority
of the votes cast to support- William
McKinley. But in the face of ‘his
pledge and the binding instructions he
had reccived for McKinley he voted for
Senator Quay: and I am informed by
8 close fiiend of Mr. Stone that his
moral obligation did not trouble him
in the least, hut so anxious was he to
know what effect it would have upon
his political future, if he disobeyed in-
structions, that “he went about asking
the judgement &f other delegates.
THE MENACE TO TAXPAYERS.
“If Colonel Stone made a solemn
pledge in ’96 upon a most vital ques-
tion and defiantly broke it to please his |
master, on a question purely of senti-
| ment, as his vote coull do Mr. Quay no '
real geod, dare you as taxpayers place
faith in his promises to protect your in-
terests, and dare you make him the
custodian of your affairs and
guardian of your moneys? Can vow he-
lieve that he will be less false to his
promises now than to his pledge in 96?
It because of this condition of
things in, cur state that I am here to
say to you that vou do well think
before you continue the old regime. 1
do not a2<k wou to take me. I do not
want you cave anything for me.
Save yourselves. Save your taxes, your
honor, your or Quay. and the
is
to
tO
Wor,
own the state,
“Elec Zz AW. A. Stone
Quay nd Andrews for four yeas.
Breakt b- the slate now will save the
Pepub’ican party, which, if it does hon-
estly and honorably, isginvineible. If
it does not it goes downtlike the old
‘Whig
ers who blunge the party of
and Grant cver tne precipice.”
iss to
Lincoln
made, |
who had not forgotten his ar- |
causes your schools’ money to be |
indemnity bonds to take | the Government oflicial.
of |
the state treasury to assist in carrying |
| going to the battlefield.
| time the
Mr. Wana- |
I going back to
the
| which case it is a good place for him
| newspaper.
"assistance of the town.
the.
elect !
party, and woe to the blind lead- |
il
ET
"ALL WANTED TOFIGHT SPAIN.
But Age and o~iekness Interfered
When They Had a Chance to Enlist.
Johnstown Tribune.
A gentleman bearing credentials as a
Government officer was in Johnstown
the other day on business for “Uncle
Sam.” It dees not matter waat the line
of business, particularly, nor what the
man’s name, © lle was of soldierly bear-
ing, though dressed in citizen’s eloth-
ing, and evidently was possessed of the
qualities for gettingoff a practical joke
in good style.
Drifting into a crowd where the trou-
ble with Spain was up for discussion,
he entered heartily into it, and soon by
a few remarks judiciously thrown in, he
had those around him wrought up to a’
pitch where they were breathing out
threatenings and slaughter against
might have trembled for his safety if
he had so much as a Spanish needle
sticking in his clothes, and certainly an
epicure who is fond of that delicious
| dessert known as Spanish eream would
have been excusable for supposing that
he would be considered a traitor and
strung up to the nearest lamp post if he
ever swallowed another mouthful of
his favorite dish.
This was a favorable opportunity for
Flashing out
a big document of some kind with an
imposing seal on it, he calmly stated _
that matters were serious at
Washington, from which place he had
just come, than was generally known,
and that he and others had been sent
out to enlist every able-bodied man for
the conflict with Spain, and, possibly,
several other of Europe,
which was now inevitable.
The effect was what the war corre-
spondents might describe as “electrical”
—that is, it knocked them all silly.
Men who didn’t look it announced with
the deepest regret that they were above
the military age, and others whose
enthusiasm had scarcely known any
bounds were reminded that the physi-
cians under whose care they had been
for years would never permit of their
In fact, by the
crowd was sifted down there
was scarcely more than a Corporal’s
guard among the ones who had been
talking so ferociously a few moments
before who would give their name and
address and agree to respond to a call
more
countries
for service against Spain.
SS
All of which goes to prove that if a
war should come we couldn’t depend
much on these people who are fighting
| Spain with their mouths and whipping
her regularly about three.times a day.
The Editor in Heaven.
An Alabama editor who has suffered
| from subseribers who have taken lis
paper without taking the trouble to pay
{ for it, slaps at his delinquents in the
following allegory: It is said that an
editor died and went to heaven.
angel was showing him around, and the
An
editor asked that he be allowed to look
through the regions of torment before
he settled down to the enjoyment of
eternal His request
plied with, and he was shown through
the
punishing
rest. was come
departments dévoted to
Ie
guide, wandered
various
the
from
wicked. became
separated his
about alone, and presently came to an
place where the flames were bluer and
the fires than any he had
Looking closely he saw that the
place was filled with
been his delinquent subscribers, and he
Lotter yet
seen.
those who had
sat down to watch the roasting of those
‘who stood him off for subscriptions.
“Presently his guide
came and said:
“Come, my friend, it is time we wero
Paradise.” - To this the
*You may go back. |
This is heaven enough
editor replied :
am not going.
for me.”
~~
Build up Your Town.
The effort of any newspaper to build
up a town is practically nullified unless
it is backed by the business men. A
stranger turns from the news columns
of a paper to its advertising pages, and
and if he fails to find there the business
cards of the merchants and professional
firms, he comes to the conclusion that
publisher is not appreciated, in
to steer clear of. No town ever grew
without the active of its
Nor can papers grow and
localities without the
men
should realize this, and to remember
in givicg support to the
they are not only building up their own
business, but helping to support that
which is steadily working for the growth
of the whole town and county.—ZF..
- — >
The Right Word.
Detroit Free Press.
“Did you say, sir, that I was not a
man of veracity?”
I said you were a liar.”
it is not possible for
assistance
build up their
Business
newspapers,
“No, sir.
“1 suppose so.
Pl
you to make the simplest statement of
i facet in a gentlemanly manner.”
corroraiicns who keep him in office will | -
. o>
Mary Has
Mary has a billy goat, its tail is sort
of bent, and that Alary
goes, that goat is sure to went. He fol-
which
everywhere
lowed lier to school one dao.
made Ler hot as fire, for che had ridden
on her wheel, and Billy ate the tire.—
; Fx.