Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 262, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1912 — Page 2

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Taft’s Fight Is Your Fight Because

Do you remember the years 1893-4 —the free soup houses, lank failures, thousands of men «ut of work and the bread line 7 Do you remember that at this time we had a Democratic president, Grover Cleveland? Woodrow Wilson, the Demoicratic candidate, and his free trade doctrine will bring this condition on again and it is your duty to see that he is not elected. How can this calamity be prevented? Don’t throw away your vote on Theodore Roosevelt, because it is utterly impossible for 9am to be elected and a vote for Mm is -a vote for Wilson, as it splits up the Republican party. Can Wilson be prevented from being elected? Yes, there is but one way, put a cross on your ballot as follows: (X) REPUBLICAN

Where Has Taft Failed?

The following editorial appeared in the Indianapolis Star, March 11, of this year: With the kindest feelings in the wdrld toward Mr. Roosevelt, and with such an appreciation of his character and achievements as would continue to resent and repel any of the venomous slanders there are breathed against him from within his party and from without, the Star is unable to find for itself a satisfactory answer to the question, Wherein has President Taft been proved unworthy •f a renomination and a re-election? With what Mr. Taft has said the fltar has often been in disagreement. With what he has done, it has almost invariably been in accord. Our history will be searched in vain for a liner record of high-minded and conicientious achievement. He has been able, faithful and sincere. Slander has not disturbed his serenity nor clamor enfeebled his resolution nor reverses embittered his soul. His hand is eteady on the helm, his eye looks unflinchingly ahead, whatever fogs may arise or winds may blow. First by Mr. LaFollette, afterward by Mr. the effort is put forth to displace Mr. Taft as the nominee. But upon what ground? It must be conceded by all that if a president » not to be renominated there must Se grounds more relative than that somebody else wants the job. If the Star is wrong about this, it is willing to be corrected; but it is still willing for a demonstration wherein Mr. Taft has failed in his duties or his trust. Especially untenable is the argument that Mr. Taft can not be reelected. He can be re-elected, and in the opinion of trhie Star he will be. In this spirit we shall enter upon the campaign and in this spirit we look confidently forward to his renomination at Chicago. After declaring for Taft the Star flopped to Roosevelt over night and is now a “bull moose” organ. It doesn’t matter why the Star changed faith so suddenly. But what the Star said then about Taft’s fitness for the office is true now. Free school books sounds good from g political platform, but they would Sum up in your taxes in such a disguise that the taxpayer could not Kcognize this item of expense. Far above all the others in this campaign is the issue of prosperity. We have it now under Taft. We risk ft for the future if we turn affairs over to the Tried Democracy and the ■ntried Progressives.

Some Republican Facts

Business never better. Wages never higher. Factories running full time. Railroads crowded with traffic. Labor in great demand. Bank deposits increasing. Everybody busy and hopeful. Why Change When All’s Well?

Some Democratic Facts

Bread lines a mile long. Soup houses everywhere. I Banks mostly busted, j Three million men idle. Ten million children hungry. Homes plastered with mortgages. Nobody making any money. Why Have Hard Times Again? ' 4 Classified Adv. will find It

ADDS 20 MILLIONS

TAFT’S ADMINISTRATION HAS IN CREASED* IMMENSELY THE WAGES OF POSTAL EMPLOYES. PERSONAL WELFARE HELPED The Increase for Employes Is Another Splendid Achievement of President Taft—One Day’s Rest in Seven Afforded to Postal Workers. More than $20,000,000 have been expended during President Taft’s administration in increasing the wages of 100,000 postal employes. Another $2,000,000 will be added to the salaries of the 17,000 railway mail clerks as a result of the reclassification of the railway mail service now in progress, an administration measure, provided tor in the appropriation act for the current fiscal year. More money has been given in the promotion of the welfare of postal employes under the Taft administration than under any former administration, extending over for or even eight years. „ Not only have postal employes reaped the benefit, but the public as well, since the postal service is on a self-sustaining basis for the first time in 28 years. It is true that the enormous postal deficit of $17,500,000 with which the administration was confronted at its beginning has been wiped out, but in the face of these figures the criticisw so often made that this result was accomplished at the expense of the employes is absurd. That this increased efficiency of the employes has been an important factor in putting the postal service on a self-sus-taining basis is unquestionably true, ' but no one can deny that this Increase in efficiency is due to better wages, shorter hours, an impartial system of rating efficiency, on which all promotions are based, and better methods for safeguarding the rights of employes. The only possible conclusion that can be drawn from a comparison of the separations from the service from all causes during the present administration with the number that occurred under former administrations is that the employes are better treated, better disciplined, more efficient, and therefore more contented. As an illustration, the annual report of 1906 shows that out of 20,000 clerks, 2,340, or 12 per cent., voluntarily left the service in that year. Last year the voluntary separations from the service amounted to about 5 per cent. Out of a total force of 29,000 city letter carriers, 199 were removed from the service last year, or less than 7-10 of 1 per cent. In 1894 the annual report shows that out of a total force of 11,736 city carriers more than 400 were removed, or about 4 per cent, of the total number. -t i During the present administration, for the first time in the history of the department, the principle of allowing one day’s rest in seven to the classified employes of the postal service has been recognized, and during the last two years practically every postoffice clerk and city letter carrier has been granted a complete day of rest on Sunday or compensatory time during the week equal to the Sunday service. This was not done in the interest of economy, since it has added many thousands of dollars to the expense of the department. It was done solely In the Interest of the men and women of the service. Congress recognized the justice of this principle at its last session by enacting a law limiting the delivery of mail on Sunday. The administration has consistently recommended to congress the advisability of extending the annual leave period of clerks and carriers from 15 to 30 days, notwithstanding that the most conservative estimate of the cost of such extension is $1,000,000 annually. The president in his message to congress has repeatedly urged the importance, not only in the interest of economy, but in the interest of humanity, of a fair and just system of retiring the veterans of the service on a pension when overtaken by the infirmities of old age. President Taft issued an order in September, 1910, taking the position of assistant postmaster at first and second class offices out of the excepted class and placing It in the competitive classified service, thus cheating an additional incentive for faithful and efficient service on the part of postofflce clerks, city letter carriers and railway mail clerks. Since the order was issued promotions to the position of assistant postmaster have been made from each of these classes of employes. Another order issued by President Taft amended the so-called “gag rule," which was promulgated by President Roosevelt, by affirming the right of classified employes to petition congress for redress of grievances. I® the postoffice department merit add fitness alone have been the sole factors in the selection of officers and employes. Not a single appflintpient has been made for political considerations and every vacancy has been filled by the promotion of a classified employe from some branch of the service. In the organization of the postal savings system, the establishment of which was ardently supported by the president, the officers and employes were selected from the classified postal service. This will also be true of the new parcel post system which becomes operative January Ist As a still further incentive to faithtol endeavor and in the Interests of

the public the president has urged upon congress the desirability of taking the entire postal service out of politics by amending the civil service Taw so as to provide for the appointment of postmasters of all classes through the competitive merit system. The enactment of such legislation would open the doors to the classified employees. Experts trained by long years of experience in every branch rrf the service would become the heads of our large postoffices. President Taft has stood like a bulwark between the employes of the merit system and the spoilsmen in congress, twice vetoing the act of congress making appropriations for the executive and legislative branches of the government which contained a provision for limiting the tenure of office of classified employes—a measure that would wreck the merit system.

TAFTAND THE TRUSTS

RECORD OF HIS ADMINISTRATION SHOWS THAT THE LAW WAS ENFORCED. WITHOUT FEAR OR FAVOR President Taft Did Not Listen to Personal Appeals from Trust Magnates and Then Protect Them From Prosecution. During the seven and one-half years of the Roosevelt administration 44 proceedings were brought under the anti-trust law, —18 civil suits, 25 criminal indictments and 1 proceeding by seizure of property. Sixteen of these proceedings were still pending when the Roosevelt administration closed. During the three years of the Taft administration the left over cases were disposed of and 62 proceedings—--22 civil suits and 40 criminal indictments—instituted, all but 16 of which have been concluded. When the department of justice, under the Roosevelt administration, was about to begin an action to dissolve the Harvester Trust, Geo. W. Perkins made a personal appeal to the president and the suit was not brought, the reason given by Mr. Roosevelt in a letter being that it would “antagonize powerful interests that are friendly to the administration.” The attitude of Mr. Perkins since that time shows that the “powerful interests” were not antagonized. One of the actions brought under the Taft administration involved Mr. Dan Hanna. Word came to the president that if the action could be dismissed his chances of carrying the Ohio primaries would be much enhanced. The action was not dismissed. Mr. Hanna paid his fine —and the evidence shows that he contributed $177,000 to the Roosevelt primary campaign fund, while his three newspappers have been bitter and unsparing in their attacks upon Taft. , In 1904 J. P. Morgan, H. C. Prick, H. H. Rogers, E. H. Harrlman, G. W. Perkins, CL M. Depew and George Gould, all of them trust magnates, contributed each SIOO,OOO or more to Mr. Rocsevelt’s campaign fund. Two of them are of the five living not one is helping to pay the expenses of the Taft campaign this year. President Taft’s rigid enforcement of the anti-trust law h&is not only shut the purses of the big interests against him, but has brought upon him the active antagonism of the men who control them. Ought it not to bring to him the support of the plain people who want the law enforced? And in the Tight of the record what unpardonable misrepresentation, what gross slander it is, to charge that President Taft has “gone over to the Interests.” Did he go over to the interests when ,he enjoined the railroads from advancing freight rated all over the country, saving shippers scores of million of dollars? Did he go over to the Interests when he forced the corporation tax provision into the tarifT law from which the government is now receiving $25,000,000 to $30,000,000 annually? Did he over to the interests when he instigated a suit to dissolve the combination between the Steel Trust and the Tennessee Coal and Iron company which his predecessor had expressly authorized and which had paid the promised $100,000,000? Did he go over to the interests when he instituted more suits under the anti-trust law in three years than his predecessor had done in seven and one-half years? Isn’t it nearly time we were giving a square deal to that square man who sits in the white house? Just because he has refused to advertise himself, just because he has not had trumpets spunded before him whenever be did something for the people, shall we let his enemies destroy him; the enemies he has made because he was standing by our interests Instead of doing the bidding of those whose interests were not ours?

EITHER TAFT OR WILSON

will be elected president of the United States next Tuesday. Roosevelt cannot possibly win. And if you vote for Roosevelt you help to make Woodrow Wilson, college professor, free trader and theorist In governmental affairs, the next president. Wisdom and patriotism demand that you vote the Republican ticket.

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Taft is Out of It HERE IS >.’• i)JS •> 1 Wilson’s Trust Record COMPARE with ROOSEVELT’S If For two years Woodrow Wilson has been Governor of New Jersey—the home of the Trusts —where the big corporations pay something like $6,000,000 a year into the treasury of the State for the right to have their legal domicile therein, no matter where their actual homes may be. When Governor Wilson was elected, the lower house of the legislature was Democratic, and the state senate was Republican by a small majority.- From this legislature the Governor secured the legislation which gives him whatever record he may have as a progressive. During all the time that he has been Governor, Woodrow Wilson has sent ho message to the legislature suggesting regulation of great combines, although the-,, original law of the State specifically provides that the legislature shall have power to amend charters. The statute reads as follows: “The charter of every corporation, or any supplement thereto or amendment thereof, shall be subject to alteration, suspension and repeal, in the discretion of the legislature, and the legislature may at pleasure dissolve any corporation.” . Governor Wilson is one of those who professes belief that guilt is personal and that prosecution is one of the piethods by which the trust problem may be solved. There is nothing to show that he has ever sought to induce the Attorney-General to proceed in law or equity, either criminally or civilly, against the trusts. And yet a statute of New Jersey provides that “Any person or persons who shall organize or incorporate, or procure to be organized or incorporated, any corporation or body corporate under the laws of this State, with intent thereby to further, promote or conduct any fraudulent or unlawful object, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Any person or persons who, being officers, directors, managers or employes of any corporation or body corporate incorporated under the laws of this State, shall willfully use, operate or control said corporation or body corporate for the furtherance or promotion of any fraudulent or unlawful object, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.” This is what William J. .Gaynor, the DemocraticJVfayor of New York says: “If the Governor would spend more of his time at home,* exercising the power with which he is now invested, there would be no occasion for his roaming around the country bemoaning the existence of trusts and monopolies which New Jersey has had complete power to control.” Have you any reason, Mr. Voter, to think that Governor Wilson would be any more effective against tjjse trusts if he were elected President than he has been as Governor f Vote for Roosevelt and the Progressive Party and Be Sure ■ Adv.

Remington Electric Light Plant Changed Hands,

Remington Press. As has been expected the Remington Electric tight Co. has sold out to the Northern Utility Company, which has consumed nearly every plant in this neighborhood. The deal was made last Thursday and possessions* Plant given Nov. Ist. The new company, with their main plant at MontJcello, and auxiliary plants at Fowler and

other plapes, will be prepared to furnish a constant day service, wheD once they get connected up witsi their head plants, until sudfa time, however, they will run this steam plant here, giving the same service as has been furnished by Mr. Barnes. - •' Mr. Barnes does not know what he will do as yet, but does not expect to leave Remington far Borne time at least.

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