Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1912 — Page 7 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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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