Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 255, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1916 — Page 3

REMEMBER DARK DAYS UNDER DEMOCRATIC TARIFF LAW BEFORE EUROPEAN WAR BEGAN? Below 1$ Shown Fac simile of Letter Mads Public By Indianapolis Central Labor Union When Demncratic Policies Wore Operating On Their Merits.

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To the Officers and Members of the Indianapolis Central Labor Union. q^*oo^ ! —— Whereas, the press of this city has published reports that certain factories wertf about to employ large numbers of men, and Whereas, In one instance, that of the Beech Grove Shops, were to reTsume work January 4, 1915, with 2400 men, and Whereas, The real facts were, that on January 4th, a few men were re-employed at this shop, and hundreds of men were unable to. secure employment, and up to the present time we have received no information that additional men were employed, or to be employed, and Whereas, There are thousands of men coming to this city looking for work, spending their last cent to reach this city, only to be picked up for loitering, and _ Whereas,. We always atand ready to extend the hand of welcome to all toilers who desire to make their home in our beautiful city but at this time we feel it bur duty to those who are thinking, o-f moving to this city, that at least 60< of the workingmen here are idle and have been for some time unable to secure work of any kind. Never before in the history of our city has there been so many vacant houses, and - _ _ Whereas, The newspapers have been making e ™* on ®°us ) in regard to conditions in this city, and that the SAME ARE NOT , £E RECOGNIZED, therefore be. it Resolved, That we send this warningout: STAY AWAY Discourage All Who Are Thinking of Coming To This City. Thousands of Men Are Walking the Streets Every Day Looking For Work. i * AGAIN WE ADVISE YOU--STAY AWAY FROM INDIANAPOLIS. Signed: ARTHUR MILES, 6 DAVID ERBLEDING, C. 0. BARBER, : > V". * Approved by Indianapolis C. L. U., January 25, 1915, and ordered distributed. Labor papers please copy.""

ADAIR’S SHOWING AS VOTE GETTER IS POOR IN HIS HOME COUNTY

To give one an idea of Adair’s popularity in his home county a compariaori of the votes fdr the* last three campaigns will be of interest. He got 1649 less votes in his home county in 1914 than he did in 1910. Year 1910 Adair we* r... 4,597 Warner ....3,093 Adair’s Plurality 1,504 Year 1912 Adair 2,961 Watts J . ...1,293 Toner 1,334 Adair’s Plurality 334 Year 1914 Adair 2,948 Vestal ..., 2,038 Kitselman 885 Adair’s majority ...» 26 DEMOCRATIC ENGINEER SAYS HE WILL VOTE FOR HUGHES Railroad Man Says Adamson Law Will Cut His Wages in Two. al avenue, the oldest locomotive engineer in years of service on the I. & V. division of the Vandalia railroad, who has been a life-long Democrat, called at the Republican state committee headquarters today and announced that opposed to the re-election of President Wi’son and that he would vote for Charles Evans Hughes for President. Not only did he propose to support Hughes, but he also offered to go out among the employes of other railroads in the state and give his reason for refusing to support Wilson. “I have read the so-called eight-hour law,” Mr. Dorsey said, "and I find that it will cut my wages in two. I will not vote for any man that does a thing like that. I have been an engineer on the Vandalia for forty-three years,* and for the last thirty-five years I have had a passenger run. I finish my run between Indianapolis and Vincennes in four hours, and I get a full day’s pay for It. But this new law will al low me only four hours’ pay for four hours’ work, and this will cut my pay in two. I have read the law and un derstand what it-means. If all dither railroad employes would read the law and study its provisions they would find feat just what it means.”

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EVERY STATE PRIMARY SHOWS DRIFT TOWARD REPUBLICANISM.

Results of recent state-wide primaries and the Maine election tell their own story. These official figures show whioh way the political wind is blowing. Note the fact that in every state the Republican vote is far in excess of the Democratic vote—revealing the fact that the drift is unmistakably towards Republicanism. ' When a political tide once sets in there is no more chance of stemming it until it runs its course than there is of stemming the tide of the sea. That the tide has set in toward the Republican party'ts shown by the following figures: Indiana Primary. Total Republican vote 210,800 Total Democratic vote 160,423 Illinois Primary. Total Republican vote 338,104 Total Democratic vote 206,473

DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER SAYS INDIANA IS REPUBLICAN

After having made a careful secret poll of all kinds of voters in all parts of Indiana, covering a period of one month, the Cincinnati Enquirer, in a recent summary, said: Indiana Progressive are returning to their parent body in droves, presaging a sweeping Republican victory in the Hoosier state this fall. Hughes also is profiting by the switch of Wilson voters in 1912 to the Republican ticket, as Indicated, by the straw ballot returns. During the week Hughes has increased his majority from 219 to 491, his gain being general throughout the state. It will require a wonderful reversal of sentiment during the next four weeks to insure the Democrats a fighting chance for Indiana. Goodrich, Republican candidate for governor, is running ahead of Hughes, his majority over Adair being 519 in a lesser number of voteß tabulated. New and Watson, Republicans, for senator, aje .leading Kern and Taggart, Democrats, the latter running far behind in a field of four.

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

New Jersey Primary. Total Republican vote 154,000 Total Democratic vote „.. 88,000 Idaho Primary. Total Republican vote.~..—. 24,463 Total Democratic vote 14,000 Massachusetts Primary. Total Republican vote 104,662 Total Democratic vote 81,186 Wisconsin Primary. Total Republican vote 175,557 Total Democratic vote 39,061 ' California Primary. Total Republican vote ...302,742 Total Democratic vote 68?871 Ohio Primary.* Total Republican vote 282,478 Total Democratic vote 188,133 Maine Election. Tot ad Republican vote 80,902 Total Democratic vote 67,087

ORDERS TO BE CANCELED IN EVENT OF WILSON’S ELECTION

A number of traveling men have visited the Republican State Headquarters the past week, and several of them have related the same experience that they have had in taking future orders for toys and articles for the holiday trade. Such orders are generally taken with the understanding that they are not to be subject to cancellation. The traveling men report that they have been requested by their customers to take the orders subject tp cancellation on November 10th provided Hughes was not elected president, and in case that he is elected then the orders are to stand. The merchantff claim that the anticipated close of the European war will cause such a depression in business with Wilson as president that they will take no chances in stocking up goods that are not staple articles. 4/

Admits Goodrich Charge.

Gfovernor Ralston again admitted In a speech at Kokomo recently, that If proper business methods were in use In the conduct of the state’s benevo : lent institutions that $250,000 a year could be saved the taxpayers of Indiana. In this he proclaims that the assertions of James P. Goodrich are correct. Now we have ft again, direct from the head of the present administration, that a vast saving could be effected.

ADAMSON LAW CONDEMNED BY RAILROAD MAN

Ryan Dissects Adamson Act and Realizns Wilson Has Retarded Labor Movement. RESENTS WOODROW’S ACTION Organizes Republican Club After Having Waked Up to Real Facta In Connection With Adamson Legislation. Princeton, Ind.—One hupdred and thirty Princeton railroad And shop men, within a few minutes pledged themselves to Hughes and a protective taj-iff when, at a big meeting of Southern railroad employes In Haen’s hall here, a railroad men's Republican club was organized, with L. P. Salomon as president. Many others will join. The meeting was a revelation to those who believed the so-called eighthour law had drawn all railroad men’s support to President Wilson. The leatura of the big meeting-was-an address by James D. Ryan, secre-tary-treasurer of the local Order of Railway Conductors and one of the oldest organizers of the order in the country in point of service. Mr. Ryan, until two weeks ago, was for Wilson; he had expressed the belief that he felt must support him. Mr. Ryan told why he was against Wilson and could not support him, and why he believed he deserved the condemnation of every brotherhood man.

Telia of Hit Long Service. In assuring his audience that he was no political worker, Mr. Ryan told of his long service with railroads in the Bouth and later in the north. He was one of those who led the organizing of the brakemen and conductors on the Gulf & Ship Island road in 1899; he was one of the members of the first brotherhood federation in the United States and formerly a general chairman of the conductors. He helped form the eastern association, lir. Ryan declared the eight-hour law and time and a half for overtime was nothing new, as many seemed to believe. The older organization men had been working for those conditions eighteen years. Gradually they had struggled and worked and sacrificed up to the point where the demand was to be made for the long dreamed of time when they could have an eighthour day. A referendum was ordered and 95 per cent of the 400,000 brotherhood men voted to go out, and before Aug. 1 was to be the time. The whole country knew this referendum was being taken, and its result. Wilson knew it. The 400,000 men sent their delegates to New York; they expected the strike to be called when the terms had been refused. They wished the eight-hour day and the time and a half overtime as a penalty to see that the short day was observed in fact as well as in theory. No One Invited Wilson.

"I did not vote for those representatives to carry the matter back and forth from New York to Washington,’’ said Ryan, “but to strike ‘while the Iron was hot.’ But President Wilson took a hand-. If he had stayed out — no one invited him into the controversy—that strike would have come by August and it would have been won, the reward of eighteen years of work for a short day would have come. Success was within our grasp. “As a little child builds its playhouse of cardboards and is-just ready to lay on the last card and Is beholding the creation of its hands with joy, when a selfish big brother wantonly kicks It over, so we brotherhood men saw our hopes jerked from us by Woodrow Wilson—and today we lisve nothing but a ‘note’! We haven’t got our eight-hour law and we’re not going to get It! “Mr. Adamson himself declared In congress it was only a measure of expediency—to stave off a strike for a while. There is little doubt that it will he declared unconstitutional—l have not talked with a lawyer yet, except a few Democrats, who thought It would stand. What will be the result? When it goes into effect in 1917 the railroads will appeal from It, and each local of the brotherhoods will have to employ counsel to flght for It In the supreme court, with the result that eventually It will likely come back ’busted’ and with an assessment on each member to cover the costs —another Danbury hatters’ case. Fruits of Eighteen Years’ Work Gone. “Where will be the fruits of the eighteen years’ work for the eighthour/ day? Gone! Our system ot •collective bargaining' will have lost Its hold to a large extent if the law fails, and wholly If it is uphold. Woodrow Wilson has Jsnatched victory from ju as it was all’hut in our grasp, for that strike Would have been , won if nailed before Aug. 1, as It surely would hare been but for his meddling. The

men in congress didn't care for as or our eight-hour law —they didn't cars how long we worked under sixteen hours, or whether we have a protective tariff. They cared only for temporarily sidetracking obr strike. “If you ask me if I was opposed to arbitration of this case, I*say yes. I am not opposed to arbitration as a principle, but I was and am opposed to it as long as Wilson appoints the arbitrators. I have not forgotten the appointment of Nagel as an arbitrator In deciding the western railroad case —a man who owns large holdings In railroad stocks. When arbitration shall mean the appointing of one member from the railroad men, one from the railroad companies and one from the government, I am for It, as, as a fair proposition, but not otherwise. Why He Changed His Views.

"Why was I for Wilson immediately after the ‘eight-hour settlement,' and against him now? Well, I’m ashamed to tell It, but I‘m going to. I knew If the strike was called promptly following the 'poll' and before Aug. 1 we would win it. But first one delay and then another came. And then President Wilson 'asked' the brotherhood representatives to call on him. The president’s requests are to be regarded as commands. They went. The delays grew. The 400,000 men were on tenderhooks of anxiety over the outcome, which meant so much to them. The soldiers at the front or in the trenches is brave as he prepares to leap to the attack. But restrain him—hold him back a day, two days, and the strain gets on his nerves; his ginger begins to evaporate. That’s Just what happened to me, and to others in this strike matter —the delays caused a whole lot of ginger to evaporate; the strike that might have been won before Aug. 1 was doubtful when it had been delayed to Sept. 4, and I confess when-the president finally put that measure through I felt a great big relief from the strain, and my heart beat with gratitude toward Woodrow Wilson. Will Vote For Hughes.

"But gradually I began to wake up and to feel ashamed of my weakness, when after some hard thinking I came to the full realization of all that had been taken from us by Wilson; that we had been robbed of the powerful leverage of our ‘collective bargaining’ and had been forced into the necessity of becoming a political machind to take our demands each time before congress, if the law shall stand. Thereupon, I decided that I would vote for Charles Evans Hughes, and that It is my duty to try to urge his support by. brotherhood men who value all they have labored for so many years, and for a protective tariff that will insure good business conditions for the country and for them.”

READ THE ADAMSON LAW

Myron T. Herrick, speaking to a business men’s meeting at Cincinnati, said: Whether the Adamson law has advanced or retarded the establishment of an eight-hour day is a moot question. I should like to see a copy of the Adamson law in the hands of every American citizen. It Is short. Section 1 provides that eight hours shall be deemed a day's work and the standard for reckoning compensation for certain classes of railway employes. There Is nothing in this or any other section of the law prohibiting a man working more than eight hours, or that will penalize an employer for discharging him If he refuses to work more than eight hours. The only thing guaranteed to the workman during the experimental period that it is provided the law shall be In force is that he shall be paid for eight hours’ work, and that for the hours he worked in excess of eight he shall be paid extra at the same rate. Section 2 provides for a commission Of three to observe the operation and effect of the act and report to the president and congress In not less than six nor more than nine months, at its discretion. Section 3 provides that for a period of thirty days following the report of the commission the wages of the railway employes affected by the act shall not he redueedr- Thls t*' thc -Samo as saying that the railway managers, following the thirty-day period and in the absence of another law to the contrary, may reduce the wages of the employes. Such action is the aqtomatic and Immediate end of the Adamson law. Such good as may ultimately come of the Adamson law will be the result of the Investigation of the commission as to the operation and effect of raising wages by law in a private and competitive business, and these po» sess sv.ch possibilities of value that I, If In congress, would not vote to disturb the dommission in its work. The American nation ypas founded by people who came to these shores to escape autocratic government, and It is well to take heed lest we drift Into autocracy ourselves In our careless seeking of immediate and probably temfcoTary gain. Do we want to surrender to government the right to fix oifr hours of labor and our rate of wages? In our Industrial life we shall continue to have good years and lean years. If government reduces our Iburs and increases our pay in good years, It oan fncreasd the hours and reduce our pay In lean years. f

LEADING DEMOCRATIC PAPERS OPPOSED TAGGART WHEN HE WAS NOT ON THEIR TICKET

The Fort Wayne Journal-Qaseito, the leading Democratic organ of northeastern Indiana, in July, 1909, demanded Tom Taggart’s resignation as chairman of the National Canunlt* tee, saying: “There may be more politics ' than morality fn the French Lick gambling crusade, but the case is against Mr. Taggart, and he can not continue to -serve a« man of the National Dethocratio Committee without doing the party irreparable barm. The relation between the hotels and the casinos, or gambling houses at Frendh Lick and West Baden are too well known to admit of doubt: Tbs issue is made between the state of Indiana and men who have challenged Its authority for years, and the people will stand by the state as against the law breakers and gamblers, who ought to be driven out of the business forever.” . In July, 1906 the Richmond SunTelegram, the leading Democratic paper In the Sixth district, demanded that Tom Taggart, Democratic National chairman, step down and out, in view of the demoralizing work done by the state in Taggart’s gambling den at French Lick. In part the SunTelegram said: “Every moment he now peaee as a representative of the Democracy of the state and Union is an injustice to the party which gave him the prominence he has had in —* the political world." The Evansville Courier, the leading Democratic paper in the state, in January, 1912, had the following to say in a long editorial on Taggart tivitles: If Taggart, succeeds in naming the state ticket from the ehief executive to the judiciary In the Democratic convention on March 21, he will pave the way for hit entrance in the United States senate. But you say, if Ralston is nominated carrying the load of Crawford Fairbanks and Tom Taggart he can’t win. There is a chance that he might, and Taggart is taking that chance. -If he doesn t Taggart is no worse off than _ though Boehne were elected by 100,000. The party has never won in Indiana with Taggart in control. Its worse defeat was when he had complete control —in 1994. It was his candidate that was running for the presidency, he was national chairman, the state chairman, W. H. O’Brien, was his own selection. Nevertheless in all these yearn of party defeat, Taggart has grown no poorer. His financial condition has not been injured. Why should he worry over the defeat of the i Democratic party In ; Indiana next fall.

LIITTLE BITS OF POLITICS

In an allegorical trial before the people of Indiana, in which James F. Goodrich acts as the states advocate and John A. M. Adair as a witness, the following examination la taking place almost daily in this state: Mr. Goodrich—Mr. Adair, will you explain to the people the reason that under Democratic rule, the tax levy* for benevolent Institutions was raised, although you boast that your party lowered the taxes? Mr. Adair—The President kept W out of war. Ques.— Why is it that under the Democratic administration the per capita cost of clothing the inmates of the Boys School decreased and the salaries for undeserving Democrats emploffed at that institution were greatly increased? Ans.—Stand by Wilson. Ques/ —If you should be elected Gor«»yt:nr what would yoo do about eaact» lng better laws on taxation? Ans.— Thank God for Woodrow WU* son. Ques. —You say the state is dot of debt; how do you explain the state's indebtedness to Purdue University? T Ans. —Wilson refused to recognise Huerta. Ques. —Why does it cost the people so much mere to pay the state’s debts under Democratic rule than under Republican rule? Ans.—The United States Is the only nation that is not at war. Mr, Goodrich—Your honor, this man has refused to answer these very important questions. I suggest that ke be cited for contempt. The Court—Let the voters do that in November; call the next witness.

KERN CHARGES STATE $100 FOR SPEECH AT STATE UNIVERSITY

This Is i specimen of democrmtle economy; tkat will intereßt the ▼•ten. Voucher. No. 89931 In the State Auditor's office is for SIOO. Dated June 21, 1915 and sworn to by, and made payable to John W. Kern. Senator from Indiana then, and a candidate for reelection now. It is for a commencement address at Indiana Law school, « - i -T--X. ’ ' ■