Bagging the Labor Vote

Samuel Gompers has worked so long and so zealously on behalf of the interests of labor that he wields a great personal influence. In every union there are men who would unhesitatingly accept his decision in whatever direction he might lead. Within his proper sphere of action as president of the American Federation of Labor he usually carries the workers with him. But when he would step out of that sphere and carry them into the political arena, ranging them on the side of one party, they stop to think what would then become of their constitutional liberty to vote according to their personal judgment. And when they have thought the matter over, the probability is that those who are Republicans will decide to remain Republicans and those who are Democrats will decide to remain Democrats. They will mean no disrespect to President Gompers, but they will attend to their own business in their own way. Boston Herald