Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 255, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1916 — ADAIR’S SHOWING AS VOTE GETTER IS POOR IN HIS HOME COUNTY [ARTICLE]

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.”