8 ' BARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEIVSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded rfjr * ' ~ Published evenings except Sunday by THE TCLEGRAPH PRINTING CO.. Telegraph Building, Federal Square. 83. J. STACKPOLE, Pres't and Editor-in-Chief R. OYSTER. Business Manager. sftTb M. STFINMETZ, Managing Editor t Member American Newspaper Pub ngjfll Ushers' Associa sSk f.ion. The Audit gftilK Bureau of Clrcu lation and Penn sylvan la Associat es iS Finley, Fifth Ave ga tm nue Building, New M* em office, Story, "■'•"iff ley. People's Gas cago, 111.' Entered at the Post Office In Harrls burg. Pa., as second class matter. ■ carriers, six cents a :IU> week; by mall. $3.00 - a year In advance. MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 6. Not what a man has or what hap pens to him; not wealth, nor noble "blood, nor crowns, nor titles; but the things that arc in him and shining through him —his thoughts, motives, springs of action: these constitute the man. —D. J. BUBBELL. UP TO THE VOTER THE campaign of 1916 is at an end. The mind of the nation is de cided. All that remains is to cast the ballot. The final argument has been made; the last appeal utter ed. Politicians have schemed and planned. Candidates have pleaded and raged But It is the voter who Js the deciding factor. Tho great vot ing population of tho country will reg ister Its will to-morrow. Make no mis take about that,' Let nobody deceive you, "Practical politicians" of all par ties will do somo vote-buying and some bribing, but none lias a monopoly on that sort of thing and the one offsets the other. It Is the honest, straight thinking citizen whoso vote counts most In these United States. He holds tlie balance of power and ho Is nearly j always it was devotion to conviction that split the Republican party four years ago, It was power to think clearly j and froodom from prejudice that brought the two wings of the party to gether again this year, Thero was never a time when the American voter has been more thoughtful of the issues dt ntuko than during tills campaign. Philander C, Knox, In his speech here two weeks ago, remarked this serious M-ttitude of the voters toward their re sponsibilities, They have refused to he stampeded, They have listened and read and said little, They havo made up their own minds as tho facts In the case presented themselves, Tho im passioned speech, the torch-light pro cession, the party newspaper organ have had little weight with them. The newspaper that dares print the truth p.nd the public school have been get ting in their work, The voters — the great rank and file of them— aro thinking fop themselves, Canned po litical opinion is no longer popular, It is because this is soj because men now mora than ever before read and i'easen for themselves that those who have been praying that the nation be j-eseued from the errors, the delusions, the weaknesses and the extravagances fntq which it han fallen in recent years fja fa bd ta-night calm in the belief that to-morrow the voters will correct (he mistake of 1913 and set us right again Willi ourselves and beforo the .1. Ham Lewis has bi>rn so busy > stumping for President Wilson that lie forgot to register. However, lie js feeling bcter now', lie has dis covered a Republican who has promised to vote the straight Demo, • Pratic ticket.—Patriot bulletin, , So busy stumping he forgot to regis ter and found only one Republican who _ , will vote for Wilson, Only ONE! i DON'T FORGET IT YOUR vote to-morrow will not be complete until you have mark ed tho high school loan ticket at the bottom of tho otflcial ballot, The high school loan space occupies H separate place on the official ballot. The man who votes a straight party ticket is apt to miss it, unless he pays >, close attention to Ills marking, You V'Ul lose your high school voto and jour vote for Supreme court judge un ; Jess you mark an N In the squares provided for thoso purposes, j Of course, you will vote for the high school loan. Good citizenship and good business both demand It, You want Harrlsburg to keep puco with other cities In line, Including school facilities. You want tho boys ond girls of this city to have the best education that money can buy. You •want to keep down the tax rate to a reasonable level. The passage of the loan will lijsure alii these things, for if the loan is not approved the school board will havo to build the high schools out of cur rent revenues and that will mean a big Jump In the tax rate and higher rents. Secretary Baker has decided that he didn't say it. But he hasn't decided for tho public. THE PUDDING AND THE PROOF WHEN Philander C. Knox made his notable speech here he charged that the President of the United States had broken the pledge made in the platform of the party convention which nominated him four years ago by agreeing to charge toll on American ships passing through the canal. Mr. Knox has re- MONDAY EVENING, peated this charge In Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and other places. The transcontinental railroad sys tem most interested In preventing traf fic going through the canal and In making it as expensive as possible, so that the railroad would hold some of the business It handled before the canal was put In operation, is the still called Harriman system. The big link in that system Is the Southern Pacific railroad. The morning newspaper owned by the Democratic national chairman to day gives first page prominence to the endorsement of Woodrow Wilson for re-election by Robert S. Lovett, chair man of the hoard of directors of the Southern Pacific Railroad. The illustration editor has just re ceived orders to look up the picture of that "Same old 'Coon" for the paper to morrow. WEST SHORE'S OPPORTUNITY THE West Shore will have an op portunity to-morrow that does not come to any group of com munities more than once in a gener ation. When East Pennsboro town ship, Washington Heights, Enola, Camp Hill, Wormleysburg, West Fair view and Lemoyne vote on the central high school loan they will say whether or not they stand for public education or against It, for the improvement of their communities or against their de velopment, for community co-opera tion or against it, for an economical administration of the school system or for an ineffective and extravagant ad ministration. It must be evident to everybody that the towns and the township in ques tion can maintain one high school more cheaply that they can run a half dozen schools and that the central high school will be much better than the little high schools now operuted by the various towns. It must be evi dent also that even if the new high school cost more in taxes, which it will not, that It will produce a building growth on the West Shore that will greatly Increase school revenues. It must be apparent, too. that unless bet ter school facilities are provided the West Shore that district Is not going to grow as rapidly a3 otherwise. The central high school proposed will put all the West Shore towns on an equal footing. Tho little town and the big town, the township and the boroughs will all have the same high school advantages. The West Shore has everything to gain and nothing to Jose by adopting the loan. It is difficult to see why there should be a single vote against It. "He kept us out of war"—except in Nicaragua, Haiti, Vera Cruz, Carrizal and Mexlco-at-large. AFTER THE WAR THE London Chamber of Com merce Is loklng to the end of the war. In a recent report on Brit ish industries tho Chamber recom mends that, as the first step toward coping with conditions when peace is declared, all commercial treaties now existing between Great Britain and other nations shall be abrogated and that the traditional doctrine of Cob denifm, or free trade, shall be aban doned. There shall then he set up a series of tariff requirements which ap ply to nations in groups and in accord ance with their friendliness to British interests and in which the customs duties shall range to a very high per centage for the purpose of keeping out of tho British market goods from highly competitive nations who do not recognize the superior merit of doing business with England on her own terms. These proposals seem to meet with favor in the governing circles in Eng land; and If they are to be adopted tho situation Svlll present a problem of de cidedly vexatious nature for Ameri cans. Tho economic fallacies upon which the Democratic party takes its stand and the tariff legislation which the Wilson administration and the Wilson Congress have already adopted are proof that the Democratic party is in capable of dealing with any such a problem as is involved in the proper protection of American commercial In terests in the face of conditions such as the London Chamber of Commcrco proposes. Some of tlie Democratic newspapers are actually going to spend large sums to gather the returns to-morrow night. Something like paying $1.50 for a "col lect" telegrftm telling you that you've lost your Job. PROTECTING PAVED STREETS REFERENCE has already been made to the commendable effort of City Commissioner Lynch to protect the paved streets of the city from tho onslaughts of corporations and others. Wo trust that ho will not cease his efforts In this direction until there shall havo been enacted by the City Council an ordinance placing heavy penalties upon all persons re sponsible for damage to the paved streets. Of course, it is out of the question to expect that no street surface shall be opened for the installation of proper service connections, but there has been entirely too much latitude In this direction, and what was tolerated in a good-natured way has become an abuse. Under present conditions It IB quite the usual thing for contractors to slash Into the paved streets when ever they feel so disposed and there Is a growing suspicion that the cost to the city is far and away beyond tho actual municipal charge for the repair of such openings. It Isn't fair that the people at largo should pay directly or indirectly for the misuse of the highways and strict regulation as to the opening of streets, with heavy penalties for failure to install pipes and connections beforo the highways shall have been paved, would do much to correct this abuse. Commissioner Lynch Is a practical highway builder, and, realizing the conditions, he should take such steps us will tend to correct the difficulties and protect tho streets. 1 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR] Senator Martin Praised To the Editor of the Teltgraph: The Patriot of the 2d instant con tained a bitter attack against State Senator Franklin Martin, the Repub lican candidate to succeed himself In the Thirty-first district. It makes silly charges of subserviency to Penrose — the great bugaboo of Vance McCor mick In particular and Democracy in general. Senator Martin's course during his term has been satisfactory to his constituents is evidenced from the fact that there was not the slightest oppo sition to his renomination. In fact, so popular was he recognized to be that the Democrats found great difficulty in finding anyone to run against him. Scotty Leiby was finally induced per sonally by Vance McCormick to be come the sacrifice with the under standing that the Harrlsburg plutocrat would put u# all the "dough"—and Lolby is now using It as a corruption fund. Leiby la of the hand-picked variety and if elected—and he hasn't the ghost of a chance—will be the faubservlent tool of McCormick. But Mr. Leiby is not having all plain sailing in his own party, some of whose members have political aspirations as w ®" as he. This is especially notice able In Perry county, where, truth is, Eeibys have had about all the po litical plums worth while in their re spective localities during Democratic administrations. Under Cleveland one of Scotty's uncles was postmaster at Aewport, and during the present aci ni nlstratlon a cousin has the excellent Job. At Marysvllle, Scotty's home, un der Cleveland his uncle had the post *J 1 M St< lC ship ' and now his father has It. All other worthy aspirants have been pushed aside from the pie counter to make room for the Lelbys and very noticeably there is much discontent and dissatisfaction in Democratic ranks. What's the use of lighting for Democracy if the Lelbys alone receive substantial recognition? 1 .ieiby has employed contemptible campaign methods', playing "good and good devil" as seems best suited, jf® a temperance man he is a Pro hibitionist; to a whisky man, let him have his rum. To the farmer he is a hony-Jianded son of toil—delving, probably, on McCormick's farms. To the city sport-he is in favor of hunters' license; to the rural hunters he's dead (jet against It. He is In favor of fish ermen's license and then he isn't. Any thing to secure votes is Scotty's motto. However, as election day approaches it Is growing more evident that McCor mick s puppet will be permitted to sit In his office, next door to the windmill In Market Square, from which he draws his inspiration, there to reflect upon the mutations of politics—like unto his political master did after the 1914 fiasco. *• FAIR PLAY. MarysvtUe, Pa.. Nov. 3. 1916. Missed a Hit To the Editor of the Telegraph: The other night I attended my sec ond banquet, my first when I was a young s man, and this given in the dining room of the Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Davis to the members and their husbands of the Ladles' Aid So clf-ty; my second, as a three times °}'® r young man—and like some °tners, I had nothing to say "and said One of the speakers in his very in teresting speech compared the manner of eating in ye olden times with the present. He said they used to serve the food mixed in large common bowls with individual spoons for each and that each group would help them selves by dipping their spoons into the nearest bowl and eatiug therefrom, while to-day each person is served with Individual plates. In courses. It reminded me of tho story of the seven Dervishes which I read a long time ago and never told and really seemed to have forgotten—and which I felt like telling, but my wife always telling me that I can't tell a story, I re strained myself. It Is something like this; The soven Dervishes had ac quired quite a reputation for their cleverness in overcoming difficulties Their king having heard so much about them concluded that he had a test performance In which, if they failed, he would mete out some severe punishment to them. He then bade them be seated around a table upon which he had placed a large bowl of soup and a long-handled spoon for each Dervish, the handles being so long that if taken hold of by the end It would be impossible for a person to convey the soup from the bowl to his mouth. He then commanded them to take hold the spoons at the handle ends and help themselves, and to his ustonlshment and satisfaction they in stantly did so. and, dipping them into the soup, began feeding each other. I might then have said that the ladles were helping others and asked the Lord to bless the hosts and tho ladies of the society In their endeavors. Did I miss a hit? ONE OF THE BANQUETERS. . Lest We Forget Writing to the New York Sun on the importance of the campaign, a correspondent says: "Certainly the manufacturing people and the laborers of the country have not forgotten the effects of the Under wood law during the time it was op erative before the European war l.rokje out; that it opened our ports to goods of foreign countries which oc cupied the markets of home produc tion; that it took off the payroll t'oo,ooo American laborers and placed them on the idle roll; th<jf illbrought the country face to face with a panic which was averted only by the Secre tary of the Treasury assuring the bunks of the country that $500,000,000 mergency currency already In the Treasury was available to their use on required security as provided by the Aldrlch-Vreeland act of May 30, 1908, a law passed by a Republican Congress {o meet . emergencies of contracted credit and panicky conditions of the country, such as prevailed in June. 1913. "The people will not forget, either, that the effect of the Underwood law was the monthly curtailment of our from the date the Under wood law took effect until in April, 1914, the balance of trade "Went against us to an amount above $11,000,000, and continued against us each month to and including August. 1914, when the war orders of the European war shifted the balance of trade in our favor. They will not forget that the present prosperity of the country is bt partial, and Is based on the ab normal orders and demands for war ftipplles In Europe, and when the war Is over and peace reigns norijial con ditions will return of competition under tho Underwood law, mills will close and labor ho Idle again. Nor will they overlook the 'net that the present boasted prosperity of the country Is hut partial and not general, find that there have been more com mercial failures during the Wilson ad ministration than ever before In the same length of time." Workings of a Single Track Mind Said President Wilson in his Cincin nati speech: "The United States has had an in dustrial and manufacturing revival In the last two years such as it never ex perienced beforo. And when men im agine that this is due to the trade cre ated by the war, they are merelv Imag ining It, because they have not read the facts." Also said Wilson—and In the same speech: "If the war goes on another year, we shall probably bnve half the gold sup ply of the world." A collision on the "Single Track Mind" Railroad!— Philadelphia Inquirer. , . 1 &ARRISBURG ftfljift* TEUBQRAPH ■ I 'POLIKW IK I C-kko if Cccuvta | By the Ex-Committeeman j Republican State Chairman Crow predicts that Pennsylvania will (five Hughes at least 200,000 majority Dem ocratic State Chairman Guffey has quit claiming the State for Wilson and lias been caught wiring postmasters to get out and hustle. The Hughes Alliance, made up of progressives, says Penn sylvania Is strong for Hughes. Prohi bition State Chairman Prugh expects a big vote for Hanly. State Chairman Crow is the only one to give figures and the confidence he displays is in marked contrast to the bragging of the Democrats the last three months. The Republican State ticket will win by big majorities and Justice Walling will be re-elected. The enrollment of voters of Penn sylvania as compiled by W. Harry Baker, secretary of the Republican State committee, is as follows: Re publican, 96 2,44 3; Democratic, 416,- 111; Prohibition, 17,558; Washington, 20,744; Socialist, 26,068; not enrolled, 201,257. —State Chairman Crow made this statement on the State: "Pennsylvania will go Republican by not less than 200,000 plurality, and if weather conditions are such as to make possible a heavy vote, the lead of Mr. Hughes over President Wilson may reach even over the 300,000 mark. "Philadelphia will stand by the Re publicans in Its usual satisfactory manner. X expect the returns from that city will show at leaflt 100,000 ma jority. The situation in Allegheny is such as to justify the claim of not less than 30,000 Republican majority,while* other Republican counties will main tain the high standard for majorities they set in past Elections. Our State candidates will win by overwhelming majorities, which will not fall far be low that given Mr. Hughes, the candi date for President. Pennsylvania will surely send to the next congress 31 Republican members, possibly 33, with a fighting chance for one additional. Of the 25 vacancies In the State Senate to be filled at the coming election, the Republicans will surely elect 22, with two doubtful and one conceded to the Democrats. The next House at Har risburg will be controlled by the Re publican party by an overwhelming majority. I base my prediction upon estimates sent to Republican State committee headquarters from every county in the State. There is a pro nounced Hughes wave sweeping Penn sylvania, and hourly It seems to be gathering momentum and strength." —Governor Brumbaugh spoke at the closing rally of the Republican city campaign in Philadelphia on Sat urday night and received an ovation. The meeting was one of the largest held in Philadelphia in years. In ad dition to the Governor, ex-Governor Edwin S. Stuart, Governor Vessey, of South Dakota; Mayor Smith and Con gressmen Yare and Graham were speakers. —Philander C. Knox arraigned Wil son for his failure to keep pledges and to ptand for American honor In inter national affairs at a big closing meet ing in Pittsburgh. Allegheny county will give Hughes a fine majority, claim men in that section. —The Hughes Alliance of Pennsyl vania has issued the closing state ment; "To-morrfcw .thousands *of Pennsylvania Democrats will vote for Governor Hughes. We might cite as examples such influential Democrats as Edwin O. Lewis, O. Hopkinson Baird, Walter George Smith, R. Loper Balrd. Francis Ralston Welsh, William A. Law and many others. Moreover, the Progressives of Pennsylvania, led hy such men as Gifford Pinchot. Wil liam Draper Lewis, Richard R. Quay, H. D. W. English and others, are solidly with Hughes. In addition the rank and file of so-called 'independ ents,' including such leaders as J. Ben jamin Dimmick, Lewis Emory, Jr., and others, are working hard for Hughes. Having conducted an aggressive cam paign in every county of the State, the Hughes Alliance in this State rests its case in the most sanguine expectation of a Republican vote that will place a solid delegation of thirty-seven mem bers from Pennsylvania in the next electoral college." Harry A. Mackey, chairman of the Workmen's Compensation Board, in a pre-election statement issued last night, declared Pennsylvania workers have not been fooled by arguments set forth by Democratic congressmen from the South, and that they have been more amused than concerned with Democratic efforts to win their sup port. He asserted Pennsylvania work ers refuse to accept the theories of congressmen from the Cotton Belt States. "Hughes will have a substantial Re publican majority in this usually Democratic region next Tuesday," said T. Clinton Kline, who is a candidate for Congress on the Republican ticket, as he arrived at his home in Sunbury troni a strenuous campaign in various portions of the Sixteenth district. "In lact," continued Mr. Kline, "the entire G. O. P. ticket will win out. I have been assured of the fact after a most careful canvass. The change In senti ment for the success of Hughes In Co lumbia, Sullivan. Montour and North umberland counties is most gratifying, and the Republican majority will be larpe." —John Wanamaker's denunciation of the orders of State Chairman Guf fey to postmasters to work for Wilson does not get much notice In Demo cratic newspapers. Suppose the shoe had been On the other foot. —George D. Herbert, candidate of the Democratic voters but not of the bosses for senator, Is again running ne<?k and neck with the candidate of the Democratic bosses but not of the Democratic voters for publicity in the Democratic national chairman's news paper. —ln Northampton county election board members have refused to serve to-morrow because of the amount of work required and the failure to get more pay. —Squire F. J. Parrish, one of the Democratic landmarks of Blair county, will vote for Hughes. The squire is a justice at Gallitzin. is 84 years of age and has been vo®ng the Democratic ticket for sixty-two years. —Ex-State Treasurer Berry, who has been spending much time away from his desk In the Philadelphia col lector's office, to which the Wilson administration named him. has been brought to book by T. Larry Eyre, Republican candidate for senator in Chester county, for his charges about him. Berry has been revamping the Capitol furnishing scandal and Eyre dares him to write out his charges. —Altoona had a great Republican finish on Saturday. William Draper Lewis and Emerson Collins, Deputy Attorney General, made addresses. Dr. Lewis referred at the conclusion of his address to the importance of defeating Worren W. Bailey, a free trader, and electing J. M. Rose, a protectionist, to Congress. The meetings gave conclu sive proof that the work of Bryan in coming to this district on behalf of re-electing Bailey, the Democratic con gressional candidate, has gone for naught. In a review of the situation in Rlalr county Republican Chairman Hicks says: "The Republicans and Progressives are again united and it is a pufe forecast that Hughes and Falr- Aanks will carry Blair county by 5,000 majority. The Republican State ticket will run along with the national DEMOCRATIC PROSPERITY IN 1914. fie law is of the tort of news that was appearing (n the papers during the months when Mr. Wilson and his party were try ing to produce prosperity without the assistance of munitions con tracts. The date is January 1, 1914 • MARCHING IDLE ARMY I CRIED FOR FOOD UPON 1 STROKE OF NEW YEAR '! ?lve Hundred Men Parided JXI 11 ft 11 I" ft "" tb atmw OHIMO. I*l ||^tf4r 'You Are Drunk and We Are 'II U U I * ,-;i Hungry,'' They Shouted. j|" | | | !' Broke Windows and Punc-1 r II tured Tires of Automobiles. J J | | tASIOCtATCO PUIS* DV*TtH.> • jfl I "* I; CHICAGO. January- 1. Eatermt gj | | mtnu'ranti and demanding- foo'd, J r <! breaking window . and puncUirlni;, M" JJ automobile tire*,' a crowd of nearjy> , 500 unemployed thin Ynorn-j# a " Ids 1 riiarchctMliroitfh Chiengo'4 bual- j U meaa'dlatt'lil. They nir&Miecf.il strnaitu j a | J! com rust to Now .'War revelers ho 8 J " pVr* leaving "fyfi? Ciifra and rcttJur-1 B •. •attts. j T'.ie S(atf"yair*et. j •• foiii-nbro.nt e darryitifi.ft banltrr which | rtad \Ve .-Alfmrtnd work no;,' "" rh.intsv,".-,'Viic , ;atteiKir'haHed stroHVari pti<l to 'iMnWimora that they f' Kvie\Wiv<vorii. At Van Euren atreet the " ■polJciTjUaltcd the mrclier. 'out ha> !: \o<fn jjllormrd jUtjjJf Uni'.'/aDher down (hi! street "•'Hey. you rvaat'a up T ' -ahout- < " ed n pedestraw from the curb . j "You orodrutiknnd we aro hungry* •• replied'on* of the luadera. The baoi " broke up Into atrial* groups. r , 1 LABOR LEADERS TELL WHY THEY FA VOR HUGHES FOR PRESIDENT L . j WE earnestly urge every organ ized worker to cast his vote In the coming election for Charles E. Hughes, the Republican nominee for President. Because of his de mand for systematic and reasoned re form and his strict .adherence to principle, our welfare would be Bafer in his hands. We may realize Jußt how much the former Governor of New York sought to accomplish for our benefit while in executive office when it Is remembered that during his nearly four years at Albany he- Asked for a commission to in quire into questions relating to employers' liability and compen sation for the workmen's Injuries —the first step in that direction In America. Reorganized and extended the powers of the labor department. Restricted the hours of labor of children. Promoted the health and safety of employes In mercantile es tablishments. . Appointed a commission to In vestigate the condition, welfare and industrial opportunities of allpns in the State. Compelled the railroads to pay their men semimonthly, instead of monthly. Signed a law defining more clearly the application of the eight-hour law to certain kinds of work. Prevented abuses of persona out of work by employment agencies. Sought to bring about a six-day working week. Based Improvement In condi tions upon full and fair inquiry into the facts before action. Nor was he less sympathetic with our alms while a Justice of the Su ticket, while John M. Rose, Repub lican. for Congress, is sure to carry the countv overwhelmingly and sweep the district by 7,000 to 8,000 majority. Atlee Brumbaugh, Samuel McCurdy and J. 13. Rininger will be returned to the Stale Legislature. It is certain, from the expressions heard coming from (he rank and file, that the voters nre through with Democracy and in tend to restore the Republican party to power." —Luzerne county is claimed for the Republican ticket and it is also de clared that T. W. Templeton will be elected to Congress. —Friends of Congressman C. H. ■Rowland predict his re-election in the Clearfield district in spite of claims to the contrary. —Congressman Dewalt says he will be re-elected by 5,000 majority. Re publicans expect to give him an awful contest. < Senator Snyder, candidate for Auditor General, spoke at big rallies in Philadelphia on Saturday and is working in his homo county to-day. nrcriini.lCAN TICKET For President. Charles Evans Hughes, of New York For Vlcp-Presldent. Charles Warren Fairbanks, of Indiana For Auditor General. Charles A. Sr.yder, of Pottsvllle For State Treasurer. Harmon M. Kephart, of Connellsville For Congress-at-Large, Thomas S. Crago, of Waynesburg M. M. Garland, of Pittsburgh Joseph McLaughlin, of Philadelphia John R. K. Scott, of Philadelphia For Congress—lßth District Aaron S. ICrelder, of Annvllle For Senator, Edward E. Beldleman. of Harrisburgr For Representative, Flrat District Augustus Wildtnan and J. W. Swarta Second District, Ira E. Ulsh and David J. Bechtold For Mine Inspector, Charles J, Price, of Lykens Nonpartisan Ticket, Suprema Court, Emory A. Walling, of Erie The Better Road [New York Sun] "You ask what road I propose to travel," Mr. Hughes sold to bis audience In Boston. Then he described the road he will take. Were the way stations of Watchful Waiting, Too Proud to Fight, Serving Humanity in Mexico. Executive Sur render, Bryan, Daniels and Baker on the route? No. Mr. Hughes, not having a One- Track Mind, will be able to run a few express trains. The road he will travel has no curves, no open switches, no broken block signals: and, besides be ins straight, it is rock ballasted. - I • NOVEMBERS, 1916. preme Court of the United States. The hatters' case had already been de cided In Its essentials two years be fore his appointment. The opinion In which he took part was merely up<)n the technical point of whether the ji*.v trial and assessments against tlie union had been made In proper form —questions of legal evidence and bookkeeping, which had nothing to do with the right or wrong of the contention that the hatters were sub ject to the Sherman anti-trust law. He has opposed the Adamson wage law. recently placed on the statute books by the present Democratic ad ministration, because enacted without the thorough investigation which he has so consistently stood for and be cause of the relinquishment of the principle of arbitration which we can not give up. That law ioes not limit the work of a day to eight hours. It provides that the standard of com pensation shal be eight hours instead of ten hours. It therefore merely in creases the pay of the men twenty per cent. Less than one-half of one per cent, of the entire population benefits—about 400,000 In the brother hoods. The 1,400,000 who work in the shops and freight houses and on the tracks receive no advantage. Without looking into the justice or necessity of the advance In wages at this time, which might have been ascertained by arbitration, the law was enacted at the expense of the clerks, small busi nessmen, farmers and the entire re mainder of the people. To refuse in vestigation and arbitration opens the way for such refusal in the future on the part of capital, wnlch is tfetter organized than labor. Government should be the means of providing for the maintenance of the just rights of [Continued on Page 14] What Charleston Learned [Kansas City Times] The brewers are flooding the mails with circulars to voters in Kansas City warning them that prohibition will in crease taxe3. One way to judge whether it will or not is by looking at the experience of other cities. Charleston, S. C., used to receive $53,000 license revenue from fifty three saloons. It closed them July 1, 1914, and has been dry ever since. Mayor G. E. Bruce of that city writes: "Now, as to the financial condition. The city has forged ahead and has built in the last two years forty miles of streets and kept pace with all im provements, kept the streets clean afid the city in good, sanitary condition. This was done without increasing the taxes, but instead wo have been able to reduce the levy from seventy-nine cents to fifty-five cents for the run njng expenses of the city, or in other words, we have reduced the levy twenty-four cents and have emple cash on hand to pay all obligations. This comes about by a large reduc tion in the police department, a large reduction in the court expenses and a largo reduction in the poor fund. These reductions greatly exceed the $53,000 wo received from the fifty three saloons in the city. Real estate is much more valuable and the clos ing of the saloon has Increased the merchandise and food consumption." Will Not Be Quiet [lndianapolis Star.] Women who have had tho right to vote in a Western State lose that privi lege when they move East. They do not like the sensation of being dis franchised and It Is happening in n good many places, especially In New England, that they are asking to be registered. They base their demands on article 14 section 1 of the Consti tution, which reads: "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or Immunities of citizens of the United States." Of course, no registration officer permits them to register. He turns them away rudely or civilly or with alarm, according to his upbringing and his private sentiments. But It looks a 4 if a woman who has voted in one State of the Union has es tablished herself as a citizen of the United States and that logically the section of the Constitution quoted might apply to her case. It seems probable that the demands for registration are guilefully Intro duced as a preliminary to logal pro ceedings to test their rights and that we shall presently hear of more than one such suit. It Is quite certain that women thus disfranchised are not likely to rest contented under this disability and as their number Increases the troubles of opposing powers will multiply. letting <2U;at | Harrisburg will •be only one of twenty or so cities and boroughs of the State which will vote on loan propositions to-morrow, although as far as can be ascertained our high fcchool bond issue is the largest amount to bo put up to the people at the polls anywhere in Pennsyl vania. Chester is voting on a half million dollar loan for the same pur pose and some of the boroughs in the western part of the State which are really cities in point of population are to give their verdict on school building loans varying from $50,000 to $200,000. Indeed, there has not been an election in years in which so many school districts were submitting to their voters the financial end of A better schools. It appears to be a % part of a general move g.ll over Penn sylvania for improvement of existing school conditions or, as in the case of Harrisburg and its sister shipbuilding city on the Delaware, of taking care of those who can not, but. vrtio are, entitled to be accommodated. Owing to the hearings at the Capitol and other matters affecting various parts of the Commonwealth Harrisburg is visited by men from every section and there is, from the conversations of these visitors, a very general Interest in the outcome of J:he loan vote to morrow for two reasons. The first is that Harrisburg has gone ahead so fast in the way of municipal improve ments and made such excellent pro vision for extinguishing its debt that •J 16 State is waiting to see if the cap ital city will be as progressive in the matter of education as in material things. The second is that previous loans for the same object were voted down without much consideration. This campaign has been better con ducted and the ravings which char acterized previous school loan votes have been less violent than hereto fore, while no one has injected parti san politics into the proposition. The city has the reputation among edu cators of almost as far behind in the matter of educational establishments as it is ahead in those improvements which are classed as municipal. Therefore, the outcome of the loan which will make possible an ambitious plan, in keeping with the standing of the city, will be watched with in terest l'rom I.ako Erie to the Dela ware. This is little realized by the average voter, but it is a fact that Harrisburg has taken an advanced position in the matter of civic affairs and everything it does attracts at tention. • • Another thing about this election to-morrow which is out of the ordin ary and which will also attract State wide, if not national, attention, is the first real test of the initiative and referendum feature of the 1913 third class city commission government act. There have been numerous questions submitted to the voters of Pennsyl vania municipalities lately, but it is said by students of city affairs that the vote on the so-called jitney ordinance amendment will be the first test in a good-sized Pennsylvania city of this proposition. Hence, what is dono here will be observed and studied in other towns. The third class city act is about due for some changes and owing to the growing size and multi plicity of ballots the voter is called upon to handle, what happens here may have wide effect. Some months ago attention was called in this col umn to a ballot containing 114 propo sitions put before a voter in another State, over one-half being matters of moment. This year Harrisburg will have two ballots. • • • Simplification of the ballot has been urged upon Governor Brumbaugh bv many students of elections and bv some judges who were asked for their opinions last Spring and with the tendency to®submit this and that to the voters it must seem that some-H thing would be needed. There aro no county, city, ward or precinct of ficel-* to be voted for here to-morrow, but there is a list of names printed in the ballot which is appalling when I,*) thinks of '*• The main ballot, which also contains the supreme court nominees by good chance, offers manv subjects for study to say nothing of consideration of the questions on the other voting sheet. It will be inter esting to compare the votes on the high school loan and the ordinance amendment with the total of the votes cast in Harrisburg for the presidency. The truth is that while there is a continual demand to ask the will of the voters on propositions the voters r-* 6 ''"* tired of having things put up to them. The method of obtaining ' the judgment is so complicated that the average man is^ growing disgusted. As has been said, Harrisburg be came famous because it secured popu lar approval of loans for improve ments and the manner in which the , a , ffa T i connection therewith has attracted much favorable com ment But the questions have beTn T I. . M®. V ? ters , every y, ' ar or so. nio!fL Vil ..J' 0 opinion in other places that the State laws should bo so changed that it should not be necessary to KO to all the expense /Tf ?„ S0 • often - A greater meas ure of authority should be given it Is argued, to the men elected by tho same people who vote on loans* and mo* ! t w . P rovisi °n Should be made when there is pronounced popu lar disapproval evidenced by a remon strance with a certain number of sign ers, for instance, to obtain voters' Jt Is pretty certain that a novl ♦ T S B P', nK to b0 he ard in tho next two Legislatures about balloting y i 0 voters shown a dispo sition to ignore names when a ballot is ,*? but t° Pass up entirely propo sitions when on separate ballots. Then again frequent changes because of refusal of election officers to serve on hoards which have to count two for Be w? of ballots ot make for that efficiency which we expect In conduct of elections. In the last naif dozen years many men of valu able experience on Harrisburg election boar'lH and possessing fine working J ot election laws have de to have anything to <lo with elections because of the doubling, and in some cases, trebling of the work. tw al^ n nll to ??ther it would seem that Governor Brumbaugh will have a fruitful field in which to make recommendations for tho next Legis lature in regard to the ballot laws mon n S nH bta L" ed ,he °P |nlor >B of many men and what has happened in the Z* y n el ? y 2 ,n official counts duo hinn balloting since he has been Governor Is a matter of record. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1 —Charles P. Hunt, who retires * lieutenant-colonel of the First Infaii. try. has served forty years in tn> * Guard. Judge John B. McPherson was congratulated yesterday upon his birthday. Judge Join M. Garman, of Wilkes-Barre, has placed a big Ameri can flag in his courtroom to teach ap plicants for citizenship some patri otism. —Captain J. W. Good, of one of the Philadelphia cavalry troops, came home to be married. He Is back with his troop. | DO YOU KNOW t J That Harrisburg is the distributing point for tons of crackers and cakes every twenty-four hours?
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