Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1912 — Page 7

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Progressive Party Ticket. f PRESIDENT. Theodore Roosevelt New York. VICE-PRESIDENT. Hiram W. Johnson. California. GOVERNOR. Albert J. Beveridge Indianapolis LIEUTENAT GOVERNOR. Frederick Landis Logansport. SECRETARY OF STATE Lawson N. Mace, Scottsburg. AUDITOR OF STATE. Harvey E. Cushman, Washington. TREASURER OF STATE Burdell B. Baker, Monticello. ATTORNEY GENERAL Clifford F. Jackman, Huntington. SUPT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. Charles E. Spaulding. Winamac STATISTICIAN. Thaddeus M. Moore, Anderson. REPORTER OF SUPREME COURT. Frank R. Miller, Clinton. JUDGE OF SUPREME COURT. First Divisiton. James B. Wilson, Bloomington. Second Division. Wm. A. Bond, Richmond. JUDGE OF APPELLATE COURT. Fourth Division. Minor F. Pate, Bloomington. County Ticket. CONGRESSMAN 10 th CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. John O. Bowers. STATE SENATOR. John G. Brown. STATE REPRESENTATIVE Addison L. Martin COUNTY TREASURER. William C. Smalley. COUNTY RECORDER Fred A. Phillips COUNTY SHERIFF. Soloman A. Norman.

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COMMISSIONER THIRD DISTRICT. William Roadifer. COMMISSIONER SECOND DISTRICT John L. Osborne Beveridge proves honesty is the best politics. Newspaper polls show that Wodrow T Wilson is losing strength. Governor Marshall has not yet explained to Bryan democrats in Indiana why he resigned as democratic district committeeman in the 1896 campaign and went to the woods. Durbin men are saying that they propose to vote for Ralston. To vote for a Democrat in an effort to defeat a Progressive seems to be the test of Republican party loyalty. Isn’t This a Fight You Want to Aid? A vote for the Progressive party is a blow at the machine and boss-rid-den system that has shamed us for a generation. A vote for the Progresive Party is a blow for modifications in the machinery of government which will help the people'to control more effectually the acts and agencies of their own government. A vote for the Progresive Party is a blow for a definite program of social and industrial justice, reaching the living and working conditions of toiling men and women. Are Not These Planks of The Progressive Platform Worthy Your Allegiance? The supreme duty of the nation is the conservation of human resources through an enlarged measure of social and industrial justice. We pledge ourselves to work unceasingly in state and nation for: Effective legislation looking to the prevention of industrial accidents occupational diseases, overwork, involuntary unemployment and other injurious effects incident to modern industry. The fixing of the minnimum safety and health standards for the various occupations and the exercise of the public authority of state and nation, including Federal control over inter-

state commerce, and the taxing power, to maintain such standards. Minimum wage standards for the working women, to provide a “living wage” in all industrial occupations. The general prohibition of night work for women and the establishment. of an eight-hour day for women and young persons.' One day’s rest in seven for all wage workers. The eight-hour day in continuous twenty-four-hour industries. The abolition of the convict contract labor system, substituting a system of prison production for governmental consumption only, and the application of prisoners to the support of their dependent families. Publicity as to wages, hours and conditions of labor; ful reports upon industrial accidents and diseases, and the opening to public inspection of all tallies, weights, measures and check systems on labor products. ' COUNT OF NOSES SIGNALS RESULT. Polls Taken in Cities, Factories, and Among Rail Employes Amazes.— New Party Gain Enormous. —Every Where Straw Ballots Indicate the Election of Roosevelt and Beveridge. The man with a stub pencil and an old envelope is busy these days counting the noses of the great American electorate and jotting down the national and state preferences expressed by the abashed voter. Newspapers are taking polls in all directions. On trains, aboard interurban ears, in stations, in hotels, in business places, in rural communities, in> mills and shops and stores, the übiquitous straw vote taker is flitting to and fro, and the results of his labors go to show how the trend of the times is swinging steadily and surely to Roosevelt and Beveridge and the Progressive national and state tickets. The New York Herald printed a comprehensive poll of many states Oct. 6, and in that compilation showed Roosevelt, at that early day, in a position to sweep the western states, Illinois and Connecticut, with a good show to win in New York state. As early as Oct. 6 Taft was apparently running a poor third in all but one state. Roosevelt Steadily Gaining. Now comes the Cincinnati Enquirer of Oct. 27 to say in its summary of political conditions shown by its poll up to that time, that Roosevelt has gained since Oct. 6; that Wilson h'as lost ground since Oct. 6, and that Taft has lost ground since Oct. 6. The Enquirer goes on to say that Roosetvelt is showing marked gains in strength under recent polls, and that his opponents both show less strength than they showed a month ago. , The big question of the last week of the campaign is, Where will the Roosevelt groundswell carry the Progressive movement? In Indiana the great question is as to the plurality of Albert J. Beveridge, the Progressive candidate for Governor. Old and practiced politicians are admitting today that Beveridge is sure of election, and they point to all the straw votes, and to the trend everywhere, to prove they are right in »that assertion. Many of the old party politicians already concede that Beveridge has the best of it in the race for Governor, and that he will win. So certain are some of the standpat backers of Durbin and the Republican state ticket that Beveridge is in a way to defeat both the old parties that they are openly declaring their intention to vote for Ralston, the Democrat, in a last desperate effort to down Beveridge and the Progressive party. While this old guard rally for reaction is going on in the two old boss-ridden parties the Pr ogreslives are joyfully and eagerly giving the .last week of the campaign to e'acting legislative candidates and to the

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Progressive Meetings.

Nov. 2 (Saturday)—Wheaitfleld. Note —Tefft meeting canceled .and Kankakee requested to attend the Wheatfield meeting. Meetings will be addressed by W. H. Parkison, J. H. Chapman, S. E. Sparling, L. H. Hamilton and P. R. Blue. Everybody invited to attend. Women especially invited. Fred Phillips’ and Parr sheep-skin band will attend all meetings.

election of candidates for seats in the national house of Plead for Legislature. The voters are being urged to elect a Progressive Legislature in order that a Progressive state administration may be enabled to carry out its platform. This appeal is having a tremendous effect on behalf of the whole Progressive cause the state over. A poll was taken by A. W, Traty on an interurban car coming to Indianapolis from Newcastle Monday. Twenty-nine votes were cast. Of these Roosevelt received 15, or a majority; Wilson received 5; Taft 4; Debs 2; and Chaflin 3. On the governorship, Beveridge 16, Ralston 3, Durbin 3, Reynolds 2 and Hickman 3. Charles S. Hernly, a one time Republican state chairman and a standpat worker in Henry county, was on the car. He voted for Taft and Ralston. In the seat with Hernly was a 'Democrat who voted for Wilson and Beveridge, and even with Hernly’s standpat vote Ralston received but 3 votes, where Wilson got 5. It is such developements as this that convince the politicians that the Progressive party is on the way to victory in Indiana and the nation. Word was brought to Progressive state headquarters from Crawford county yesterday that Republicans have practically disappeared from that section. Factory Men for T.' R. A veteran whose son is employed at Ironton, 0., reported, that his son had written to tell of the poll of the mills, where 3,200 men were employed, the showing being more than 2,800 out of the 3,200 for Roose-' velt. . On an interurban car between Plainfield and Indianapolis yesterday the straw vote showed: Roosevelt, 23; Wilson, 11; Taft, 3; and Debs 1. V» !>'■ ‘ ADAM BEDE IS AGAIN IN BAD. Effervescent Taft Booster Gets Cold Deals in Pennsylvania. Washington, Oct. 29.—(Former Representative Adam Bede, official Republican “trailer” of Colonel Roosdvelt, sometimes known as the “Burchard of the Taft campaign,” baa run into trouble in Pennsylvania, In a tour through the factory section of the state he is being hazed and heck’ed by Roosevelt adherents until he is nearly ready to give up in disgust. At Conshohocken, where he was billed to speak at the mills of the American Magnesia and Covering Company, he found upon arriving that 249 out of 250 employes are bull moosers. Only four turned out to hear him and three of them wore bull moose badges. He is getting the same sort of reception all through the Pennsylvania mill districts. Read The Democrat for news.

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The Republican National Committee Is Advertisng How Taft Brought Prosperity—News Item. <

WILSON PUN WISE

DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE THE APOSTLE OF REFORM, NOT OF REVOLUTION. HE SEES MONSTROUS ABUSES Would Correct Them by Cutting Off the Vicious Tariff Favors Which Have Built Up Monopolies and T rusts. Gov. Wilson is the apostle of reform, not of revolution. Gov. Wilson believes that the constitution of the United States has been misconstrued and perverted, not outgrown. Gov. Wilson is the only candidate before the people today who at once realizes that reforms are necessary, and who proposes ratldhal and constitutional means for effecting these reforms. There are great, there are monstrous abuses, even In this free land. The government of the United States has done many things that It ought not to have done; and has left undone many things which It should have strained every nerve to do. The government of the United States has built up bloated fortunes, and granted to favored manufacturers the power to tax the people; and at the same time, the government has failed —as every government always falls —to keep in proper subjection the monopolies it has created.

What shall be done to get rid of these abuses? -- President Taft says in substance that nothftig much need be done, and that whatever Is done need not be done in a hurry. Next century will do quite as well as now. Mr. Roosevelt says in substance that everything must be done, and that the only way to do it is to throw the constitution in the scrap-heap; and make him practical dictator of the land, with the trusts and monopolies as his associates and counselors. Gov. Wilson makes neither of these blunders. Gov. Wilson says that the first thing to be done in correcting abuses is to cut oft the favors which nourish those abuses —the vicious tariff favors which have built up monopolies and trusts. There is nothing revolutionary about that. But from the way every trust in the land is rallying to the support of either Taft or Roosevelt, you can see that the trust magnates think Gov. Wilson’s plan is likely to be effective. ftov. Wilson says that competition is a better regulator of prices than a dozen government bureaus. He proposes to restore competition by smashing the Illegal combinations which have killed competition. '■ Again, here is nothing revolutionary —but listen to the way the sugar trust, and the steel trust, and the woolen trust, and all the other trusts are screaming against Wilson! Gov. Wilson knows that the general form of our government peeds no changing. The agencies of government need to be changed in spirit. They need to be taken out of the hands of the Interests and put in the hands of the people. Gov. Wilson offers himself as the people’s agent. Gov. Wilson has proven in New Jersey that an earnest, clear-headed man

Progressive Rebbery.

There Is some cool air left in Kansas yet. Mr. Harlan said InTopeka: “The crook who steals your watch while he sings ‘Onward, Christian Soldier,’ does not represent the Kansas idea of progress. Roosevelt battles for the Lord at Armageddon, and for the devil in Kansas and California. He preaches honesty and Sincerity, Abd practices the methods of Fagin, Uriah Heep and Bill Sykes. He would rob the Republicans of Kansas of a chance to express their choice at the

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at the head of a government can get reforms without upsetting business or destroying constitutions. Gov. Wilson is the bearer of reforms which make revolution needless and impossible. Elect Gov. Wilson.

TARIFF AND LIVING COST

Consumers Are Forced to Pay Fully Two Thousand Million Dollars Yearly to Trusts. Byron W. Holt, a recognized authority on economics, estimates that the tariff-trust tax on the people of this country amounts to |IOB per family per year. These figures have never been successfully challenged. If they are correct they mean that the consumers of the United States are forced by® the tariff to pay fully two thousand million dollars per year to trusts. i In the debates in congress a somewhat smaller figure is given. There the total cost of the tariff is fixed at about two billions of dollars per year, of which the government gets a little over |300,000;000. This leaves the tariff-trust tax on the people at the modest figure of $1,700,000,000 per year! This is almost twice the amount of the Franco-Prussian war indemnity. They extort from the people of the United States every year a sum nearly twice as great as that which was levied on France by Germany at the close of a bitter and successful war. Every dollar added to the coffers of the trusts is paid by an Increase in the cost of living. The only way to abolish the trust tax is to give Governor Wilson and the Democratic party a commission to revise the tariff.

WILSON’S RECORD.

Governor Wilson has worked to secure the “social and industrial Justice” which Theodore Roosevelt merely talks about. During Governor Wilson’s administration In New Jersey, the following laws have been placed on the statute books of that state: A law providing for fire escapes and amending the factory laws of New Jersey to further protect the workers. A law providing for sanitation in bake shops, and licensing the same. A law to protect the safety and health of foundry workers. A law increasing the number of factory Inspectors for the better enforcement of other factory laws. A law prohibiting the employment of children In mercantile establishments during school hours, and prohibiting night work for children. A law prohibiting the employment of young boys as telephone and telegraph messengers at night in large cities. The minimum age for night messengers in cities of the first class Is fixed at twenty-one years, In cities of the second class at eighteen years. An employer’s liability arfcl compensation law. A law regulating and licensing employment agencies. A law providing for an eight-hour day on state, county and municipal work. This is only a partial record of the achievements of the Woodrow Wilson administration In New Jersey in the line of sociological progress alone. In less than two years as governor. Woodrow Wilson accomplished ten times more actual reform than Theodore Roosevelt put into effect during more than seven years as president— Chicago Journal. - t

polls. He calls It progress. I call it stealing. What do you call It?” “Stealing!” shouted 5,000 Kansans, according to the press reports.

Posing as Providence.

The full page advertisements in the magazines by the Republican national committee attribute the present prosperity “to the careful pursing of President Taft.” And yet some ignorant people here In the west had been attributing it to the favorable weather and the huge crops.