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SUFFRAGE LOSES BY 50,000
NEW JERSEY DEFEAT DECISIVE
ITHE STATE'S LOSS CONCEDED
Beaten in Every County—New Fight
is Promised
indications based on unofficial returns
yesterday were that woman suffrage would
be defeated in New Jersey by from 50.000
to 60,000. A majority of 23.671 was re
corded on unofficial returns from SO4 of
the state IS9I districts, the Tote being
56,676 for and £0.347 against the amend
ment.
Hudson and Essex counties, where the
fight centered, apparently gave decisive
majorities against the amendment. Pas
saic county apparently was close, with
unofficial returns from 54 of the 117 elec
tion districts giving 4707 rotes for the
amendment and 4896 against it. The city
of Trenton and Mercer county, early re
turns indicated, voted against adoption of
the amendment by a large majority.
President Wilson's own precinct, the
7th election district of Princeton borough,
voted against suffrage by a majority of
more than two to one. the figures being:
For, 64; against. 150.
Every county of the 21 in the state ap
peared to have voted against suffrage.
Burlington county was claimed for suf
frage by the women leaders.
Where suffrage triumphed the unofficial
returns showed the majorities to be small.
Glen Ridge, with complete unofficial re
turns, gaTe a majority of seven votes ;n
the 651 cast. Nine districts in Middlesex
county out of 75 showed that the amend
ment had S3B votes in favor and 812
against it.
Promise of Renewed Fight
Although defeated, the suffrage workers
have not given up the fight. Coupled with
admission of defeat. Mrs Feickert embodied
a promise of a renewed fight next spring.
"Although we apparently have lost the
election in the state for woman suffrage.”
she said, “this will not end the fight in
New Jersey.
“We feel much encouraged hv the great
number of votes received and this will im
fel us to continue the battle in this state.
nstead of quitting as our opponents have
said we would, we have new plans in view.
When the New Jersey Legislature opens
next spring we will present a solid front
for an amendment to the state constitu
tion to give woman the right in New Jer
sey to participate in the presidential elec
tion.”
Wilson Made Thousands of Converts
President Wilson's recent announce
ment that he would vote for suffrage, in
the opinion of suffrage leaders, converted
thousands to their cause. His stand,
however, and the vigorous campaign
waged by the women to the last minute
failed to prevent a heavy rote against the
adoption of the amendment
Commnters »srly Split Even
In Bergen county, where thousands of
New York commuters live, the vote was
close. Fifty-five districts out of 115 re
corded 4870 for the amendment and 4905
against it. Warren county went against
suffrage by an estimated majority of about
SOO. Burlington, which the suffragists had
claimed os their banner county, apparent
ly voted by more than 1900 against them.
Even Cape May, where they had thought
they would certainly win, cast an adverse
vote, complete unofficial returns showing a
majority of 34.3 votes in 3219 cast.
Mrs Feickert’* Statement
Mrs E. F. Feickert. president of the
New Jersey state woman suffrage associa
tion. whc. conceded defeat of the amend
ment within an hour and a half after the
polls had closed, later issued a statement
which read in part as follows:—
“The opponents of woman suffrage in
New Jersey were obliged to adopt unfair
tactics to defeat us. There has been
much colonizing in the large cities and it
was plainly evident to us months ago that
it was not the intention of the political
rings to give ns a square deal. In ar
ranging the election law so that the bal
lots would be unnumbered, it was known
that that, alone would help to defeat us.
As for the future, we are stronger than
before, for in all legislative work we will
be represented by many thousands of vot
ers on record and not merely women work
ers.
“We will start to-morrow with new suf
frage plans, not with the intention of
working for five years to get people to
agree to vote, but to obtain presidential
suffrage at the next session of the Legis
lature."
Anti Sentiment
Mrs E. Yarde Breese. president of the
association, opposed to woman suffrage,
said: "The result is just as I expected.
I hope the overwhelming defeat will settle
the question so far as New Jersey is con
cerned for all time. Suffrage does not
seem to have carried a single county.”
Two minor constitutional amendments,
►lso voted at yesterday's election, appeared
Slso voted at Tuesday's election, appeared
fces than suffrage.
JERSEY NOT LOST
Never Ours, We Can Only Win, Says
Dr Shaw
‘We have not lost New Jersey, because
It has never been ours; we cannot lose; we
can only win," reads a statement issued at
New York Tuesday night by Dr Anna How
ard Shaw, president of the national wom
an suffrage association.
“The failure to carry the election in
New Jersey is not a defeat, it is only a
postponement, and instead of despairing of
final success will only inspire the true
lovers of freedom to more perfect co-opera
tior. and great zeal.
"We have not lost New Jersey, because
it lias never been ours. We cannot lose;
we can only win. This delay is still a
victory for suffrage, for this splendid cam
paign has proved woman's loyalty to a
great purpose and her indomitable cour
age in the faee of great odds and un
scrupulous foes aud methods.
“The :;un will rise to-morrow on a re
organized army, undaunted and hopeful,
whose flag will never be furled until
women are politically free. It is now for
the men in X< w York to show themselves
more worthy of their freedom and to show
their gratitude to the women who have
helpec to make this great state, by then
vote on November 2. And let it be vic
tory."
Dr Shaw campaigned in New Jersey
for suffrage, her iiersonal gift to the cause
being her services, without cost or ex
pense of nnv sort, at 33 meetings which
she addressed.
WILSON VOTES YES
Priaeston Welcome Is Noisy Approval
of Suffrage Stand
President Wilson returned to Washing
ton Tuesday from Princeton after easting
the first ballot ever given by » chief execu
tive of the United States in favor of wom
an suffrage. The president's brief visit
to bis legal residence was marked by a
more enthusiastic welcome from the
Princeton students than ever before had
been given him on any of his numerous
trips there since he entered the White
House. The young men gave noisy evi
dence of their approval of his stand on the
suffrage question.
Cheering, singing, whistling and march
ing in close formation, they greeted the
former head of their university uproarious
ly and hundreds of them remained near
him from the time he arrived until his
departure
Women suffragists were not much in ev
idence during the president’s visit, and
only two approached him to thank him
for voting for their cause. There were
no women watchers at the polling place,
and no women in the vicinity soliciting
votes. The president put in a hard day's
work going to and coming from Princeton.
He snent several hours on the train with
his stenographer dictating answers to let
ters. He also worked on the note to Great
Britain regarding interference with Amer
ican trade, which was sent him from the
state department some time ago.
DEBATE ON SUFFRAGE ISSUE
REASON'S FOR AND AGAINST
Miss Marjorie Dorman Upholds Anti
and Miss Edna L. Spencer the
Pro Cause
Two thousand people in the Auditorium
in this city Tuesday night heard arguments
for and aginst giving votes to Massachu
setts women at next month's election. It was
a debate between Miss Marjorie Dorman
of New Y’ork city, anti, and Miss Edna
Lawrence Spencer of Cambridge, suffra
gist Congressman Frederick H. Gillett
introduced the speakers and held the
watch. In a flurry before the debate
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MISS EDNA 1,. SPENCER
Upheld the Suffrage Cause
started, members of the Massachusetts
trades union league objected to Miss Dor
man’s being introduced as representing the
league, so her affiliation was announced
by Congressman Gillett as with the Mas
sachusetts association opposed to woman
suffrage. There were no judges and no de
cision. hut both speakers were heartily ap
plauded during their discourses and at the
end.
“Suffrage works.’’ declared Miss Spen
cer as her argument, and cited
the excellent labor laws of the North
west suffrage states. “It doesn’t work,”
declared Miss Dorman, claiming that the
eight-hour dav for women in Washington
does not apely to the canning industry,
which is by tar the greatest industry in
which women labor on the Pacific coast.
“There should be equal pay for equal
work,” was a second suffrage argument.
Miss Spencer declared that when women
are put on a level with men, as to earn
ing power, there will be fewer women in
most industries and man’s wages will rise.
“You can get equal pay for equal hours.”
replied Miss Dorman, “but not for equal
service. In the New York schools it re
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MISS MARJORIE DORMAN
Debater for the Anti Cause
suited in cutting men’s wages and raising
women's.”
Woipen should vote because they have
been forced out of the home and into the
factories, yet to-day they have no voice
in making the laws which regulate their
wages and working conditions, asserted
Miss Spencer. “Only one woman in five
in the United States is engaged in gain
ful occupations,” Miss Dorman came
back, “and her average length of service
in the industries is only seven years She
is a transient in industry while man is
there all his life. Let the men make the
laws.” To this Miss Spencer in rebuttal
pointed that even if woman does work
only seven years in industries, they are tile
best seven of her life—the seven when she
is preparing to mother the race, the seven
in which she should he fully protected.
Married Women Argnnirnt
The antisuffrnge argument which Miss
Spencer did not answer was “the married
woman argument." Miss Dorman declared
80 per cent of women in the United States
many. If a woman votes with her hus
band. she merely duplicates the vote of the
country. If she votes against him. she nul
lities both her vote and his. In both cases,
nothing is accomplished.
The “anti" speaker contended that suf
fragists regard children as a handicap to
public service, and she cited the eases of
several prominent suffragists who are ad
vaneing the birth control propaganda. “It
is unfair to hold those regrettable state
ments against the suffrage cause." said
Miss Spencer ih answer, "just as it would
be unjust to hold the antisuffragists respon
sible for the Mormonism and free Imre and
all that sort of thing which a few of their
number advocate.”
The debate was divided so that Miss
Spencer opened for the suffrage cause with
a 30-minute time limit. Miss Dorman fol
lowed for 40 minutes and Miss Spencer
finished with 10 minutes of rebuttal. Id
her opening speech. Miss Spencer reviewed
the history of the equal suffrage movement
since Wyoming led the world by enfran
chising her women in 1860 as a territory,
I and dung to the suffrage clause in her
THE SPRINGFIELD WEEKLY REPUBLICAN: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1915
constitution even though it threatened to
bar her from admission to the Union years
later. She mentioned some of the women
who gave most of the energies of their lives
to secure the franchise for their sisters and
did not live to see their labors begin to
bear fruit. "But now we are going to win
for them. Victory is at hand.” she declared.
Double Cost of Elections
Miss Dorman, in her 40 minutes, de
clared that Massachusetts already has
about everything women have contended
for in suffrage states, and "we got them
at half-price." She advanced the old claim
that votes for women will double the cost
of elections without getting anything in
particular in return She quoted A. P.
Langtry, secretary of state, who estimated
a 50 per cent increase in election costs.
"What are you going to get in return for
these expenditures?" she asked. "The
suffragists' answer will be: ‘Don’t you love
your mother? Isn't your wife human?
Aren't women intelligent?’ Of course we
love our mothers, but loving our mothers
isn't a function of government."
She claimed the cost of government and
of living in California has increased
1331-3 per cent since women there got
the ballot. "Only the exceptional woman.”
declared Miss Dorman, “is going to use the
ballot and use it intelligently. We do not
run the government to-day for only the
exceptional men. why should we grant votes
to all women for the benefit only of the
exceptional women?" She contended that
women would have to neglect their homes
and children if they were going to take a
real interest in government. "You can't
vote intelligently in 15 minutes.” she said.
"You’ve got to learn what you're voting
for first."
Miss Spencer in her rebuttal denied that
election and governmental costs will
double, because they have not doubled in
suffrage states. To charge against suf
frage the increase of cost of living in
California is foolish, she said. It has
increased everywhere in the same propor
tion. She denied that women voters
wonld have to neglect their homes and
become female politicians in order to
vote. "Most men voters don't give up
a great deal of time or energy to it."
said she. She asserted there is no chi
valry in industry and that women must
vote for their own protection. If she
is to train the boys of the country to
exercise their right of suffrage, she ought
to have it herself.
CURRENT VERMONT AFFAIRS
BANK DEPOSITS GROW FATTER
Indications of a Healthy Prosperity—-
Holiness Conditions Improve
From Our Special Correspondent.
Mo.ntpei.ier. Vt, Saturday. October 16
Bank Commissioner Frank C. Williams,
recently made public a report showing that
deposits in Vermont savings banks and
trust companies at the close of the fiscal
year. June 30, 1915. amounted to $95,469,-
725.23, an increase over the previous year
of $2,607,286.03. The 20 mutual savings
banks showed an increase of $594,683.04,
and the 37 savings banks and trust com
panies showed a gain of $2,012,602.99,
most of the increase being 6hown during
the last six months of the period. The
number of bank depositors increased 3887
during the year, of which number 2809
were residents of this state.
The amount of deposits by residents of
Vermont increased 51.779,54'7.98. and the
deposits of nonresidents increased $830,-
714-44. The surplus of the banks has in
creased $828,861.93 during the year, the
ratio of surplus to deposits being over 8
per cent. Seventeen mutual savings banks
paid depositors at the rate of 4 per cent;
one paid 3% per cent, one paid 4Vi per
cent, and one paid 4t-> per cent. State
hanks paid $662,701.98 in taxes last year,
an increase of $34,085.96 over the previ
ous year. Vermonters are a thrifty peo
ple, and bank deposits have Increased
steadily for a considerable period. While
this increase indicates a healthy prosper
ity. some dissatisfaction is expressed be
cause so large an amount of bank deposits
is invested in other states, particularly in
western farm mortgages. It is argued
that Vermont is a state of undeveloped re
sources. and that more Vermont money
should go into the development of Ver
mont. Bome complaint is also made that
the hanks favor western farmers over Ver
mont farmers in the matter of loans.
Business conditions show some improve
ment in this state, particularly in knit
goods, hosiery, knitting machinery and
needles, powder machinery, furniture and
paper. One tannery is planning to double
its capacity. Granite manufacturers, how
ever. report fewer orders. The figures of
the Vermont customs district for Septem
ber show that the duties collected were
834.340.68. compared with $10,662.66 for
the corresponding month last year, and
$23,172.73 for August, 1915. A statement
issued by the auditor of the Rutland rail
road shows an increase of $10,049.33 in
operating income for August. 1915. com
pared with the corresponding month last
year. The operating expenses showed a
decrease of $8804.24. compared with the
expenses for August. 1914. and a net gain
in operating revenue of $10,722.85. For
the period of eight months ending August
31. 1915. the operating revenues amount
ed _to $2,274,300.27. a decrease of $37.-
$937.60. The operating expenses for the
some period showed a decrease of $210,-
701.74.
One result of the big corn crop in this
state is to increase the number of silos,
some farmers building one or two new
ones. Few states have ranked as high as
Vermont in silos per farm.
RED SOX GET THEIR COIN
Boston Players Collect—Several Men
Leave for Homes
With cheeks in their pockets for $3825.80
as their individual shares of the proceeds
of the world series games, several members
of the champion Red Sox team left Bos
ton for their homes Thursday. Other play
ers are to join automobile or hunting par
ties. while First Baseman Hoblitzel and
Catcher Cady are planning to become
members of a special playing team, under
the management of Secretary Bancroft of
the Cincinnati club.
There were 22 players who shared equal
ly in the money split. McNally, one of
the eligibles who was with the team only
a short time, received a smaller anm than
the others. Before the, division was made
the players took out McNally's share and
also SSOO each for Secretary Riley and for
Trainer Green, and certain gifts for other
club attaches. They are to make testi
monial gifts to Manager Carrigan and
President Lannin later.
SATURDAY’S FOOTBALL GAMES
The Results About as Expected
At New Haven, Ct„ Yale 19, Springfield 0.
At Cambridge. Harvard 9, Virginia 0.
At Princeton, Princeton 40, Lafayette 3.
At Hartford. Trinity T. Amherst 6.
At Providence, Krown 33. Williams 0.
At Hanover, N. H., Dartmouth 60. Ver
mont 0.
At Worcester, Holy Cross. X, Massachusetts
agricultural college 7.
At Middletown, Ct., Wesleyan 3. Bow
doin 0.
At Annapolis, Navy 7, university of Penn
sylvania 7.
At West Point. Colgate 13, Army O.
At Orono. Me., university of Maine 14.
Boston college 0.
At Pittsburg. Pittsburg 45. Carliale 0.
At State College, Pa.. Pennsylvania State
27. Gettysburg 12.
At Worcester. Worcester tech 6. Rhode
Island state 0.
At Durham, >'. H.. New Hampshire 6,
Bates 0.
At Medford. Tufts 34, Hlddlebury 0.
At Ithaca. Cornell 41, RUcknell 0.
At Syracuse, Syracuse S 2 Rochester 0.
Sew Brunswick. X. J.. Rutgera 21. Muh.
STATE CAMPAIGN GLIMPSES
CANDIDATES HERE AND THERE
MR FRENCH ON STATE POLITICS
Rattling Communication From an
Erstwhile Progressive
Stephen E. French of Athol, who signs
himself "discharged secretary of the pro
gressive party of Massachusetts,” sends to
The Republican the following letter of
appeal to his former political associates. —
Are those words, "Mr Bird’s secession,”
used for a headline to imply contempt ny
the democratic press? Mr Bird, the com
monwealth of Massachusetts and the sin
cere progressives whose minds may be
open to be honestly convinced are to ne
congratulated I hat the true progressive
leader in Massaehusetts has the courage
of his loyal heart and true manhood to
come out and publicly announce his sup
port of the republican platform and Sam
uel W. McCall for governor, because he
believes the "republican party has seen
new light."
This is true as we feel it. and we feel
sure that the majority of the republican
leaders intend to give us progressives, the
rank and tile, "a square deal” if we will
cast our ballots, so as to elect Mr McCall
and regain the' chair of state which the
democrats have held for five years now.
Do you progressive republicans like the
appointments of a democratic governor?
Would you business ruen who vote the
progressive ar.d republican tickets have
selected men to fill offices drawing sal
aries of SSOOO a year, of the seeming busi
ness ability of some of those selected from
the progressive ranks, by democratic ad
ministrators? These are most vital ques
tions for the voters to ask themselves, to
weigh and consider, before they cast their
ballot November 2.
Can you imagine the real amount of
courage that it required of Mr Bird to
decide to come out and advise you of his
decision to support the republican plat
form and Mr McCall this year? You pro
gressives, who are so set in your deter
mination to keep alive a party led by men
who are seekers of democratic appoint
ments. think well of the past, of the sac
rifice of time, money and well-being of the
man who has been the big factor to clean
up our debts; has been and is now the
real lender in the progressive cause for
right and principle, before you decide in
your own mind that he does not now know
what he is doing when lie says, "Vote for
McCall.”
Who is in the best position to know what
is right? He who has made a study of
progressive ideals and backed up his idedg
by his fortune, his brain and strength, or
you who are swayed by the impulse of the
moment when you read the paper, listen
to a stump speaker, and then cast your
ballot as the last impulse may strike yon?
These are cold facts, mv friends.
Whose leadership is the one you would
follow to get your employment which
gives you your daily bread? Mr Bird's
or that of the one who writes for you to
read, and to Mr Bird, criticizing his judg
ment in reaching his decision? Shall we
call his presumption “nerve.” “cheek." or
what? Who made it possible for the man
to fill the chair he occupies so he could
get this opportunity to appear as a leader?
Whose brain was it who dug up from
ward 19 this leader? From where does
the salary come which inspires such ideas
in the brains of men who are guiding the
progressive ship for you to follow? From
the city democratic machine of Boston and
the state democratic machine of Massa
chusetts.
And stili the real good men who attended
the progressive convention at Faneuil hall
are willing to cast calumny on the head
of Charles Sumner Bird, repudiate Ills
motives of the past, forget all the finan
cial and moral aid he has extended to the
masses against the “stand-pat” republican
bosses, and arc now ready to follow the
leadership of the Baldwins, the Goodwins,
the Anglins, the Fullers, the Woods, the
Peters, etc. Aud for what, may I ask?
The answer—" That we may have a
fighting organization for 1916.”
George Perkins, "the hig bull of New
York,” I am advised, suggested that we
keep up an organization, but not run a
ticket. But his advice even seems to he
of no value to our assistant democratic
leadership. I say, if the actions of the
republican leaders prove during 1915. that
they hare net learned a lesson from the
past and will not treat us on the level,
that we far Letter form a new organize
tinn in 1916, us we did in 1912. than to
keep up the old organization which was
once of good material and structure, nut
is now a wreck made possible by a lot cf
assistant democrat politicians who are the
real seekers of appointments, and leaders
under cover, for what is left of the well
meaning but rather stubborn progressives
to follow.
Are we keeping up an organization at
political expediency to make David Harnm
political "boss trades” with? Or arc we
loyal citizen of Massachusetts, willing to
sacrifice personality for the benefit of the
old Bay state?
Think hard now, you honest men of the
“400” eonyention. These men know they
can gain nothing by way of appointments
from the republicans, and have to keep
you in line to hold their power with :he
democrat-. The democratic press edito
rial writers know that the only hope lor
success for the democratic ticket lies in
keeping the progressives fighting the re
publicans. and therefore these editorials
are written ns they are to catch the un
thinking. The following is a fair sample-
Mr French's desertion from the progressiva
party is not important, but his expulsion by
the progressive committee is important. It
proves that the progressive organization is
militant, consistent and self-respecting.
Mr French has not deserted the progres
sive party. He has simply been dis
charged from office by a set of leaders
who have abandoned all "consistency and
self-respect,” for the sake of political ex
pediency and power for themselves, aud
have repudiated and crushed under foot
the advice of men who in the business
walks of life are considered successful,
honest, and whose advice is sought and
followed.
That is the part of the party Mr French
has thrown down, and if you wish to in
vestigate we can furnish all the proof you
want; but it won’t be published before the
November election for the public to read.
It would not help elect democrats to office
in the state of Massachusetts if published.
It is now up to the republican “staud
pat" leaders of the past to show us thut
they are sincere in their “offerings of
good will.” They are offering not all we
would ask for in their platform, but it
may he i starter for the better thingH we
hope for. Me art taking you at your
word. It is up to you republicans now to
prove that the democratic editorials are
of such wording that they mislead the
public as to your true intent. The year
1916 is only a short time away, and if you
do not wuut, a democratic president again
be fair with the common people. The “old
stand pats" should have learned something
of our “metßl” since 1912.
Dont forget this. “Every knock yon give
Wilson now is a boost.” He has the sympa
thy of the toilers with him. The policies of
the democratic party are unsafe and un
stable to the best business of the country,
and when business is affected the toller
suffers the worst. Has your pay envelope
been as foil under democratic administra
tion ns under republican? Every voter,
use your brains this year if you never
did before. Think of that pay envelope
you did not get on pay day since the dem
ocrats changed the tariff.
Mar orders are not going to last. We
want republican times buck again and pro
gressive republican principles to he car
ried out in our government. Then the
chance* are our par envelopes will be
fuller, our home life more happy, and
when those coudition* once more return
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we can think more calmly of needed re
forms for better conditions.
Old human nature is a factor to be con
tended with in all of us. The extremists
and reformers must remember a man votes
best when his pay envelope is full and his
l breakfast was in plenty on the table be
fore he went to the polls. Vote to make
business good first. Don’t confuse the is
sues so much as to kill the very principle
you wish carried the most.
M'hen the human heart has been reached
properly the republican party will be the
party to give us temperance legislation.
A vote for Shaw this jear is half a vote
for the democrat, and makes the voter an
assistant democrat, and a sure defeat of
temperance principles, whether you can
see it or not. Vote for your bread and
butter. You need that to give you the
strength to fight for your principles.
JOSEPH WALKER ON STUMP
At Fitchburg G. O. P. Rally—Three
Candidates at Pair
Three candidates for governor visited
the Fitchburg fair at different times
Thursday and addressed the crowd. Only
ODe, Nelson B. Clark, progressive candi
date, touched on political matters. Gov
M’alsh. democratic candidate for re-elec
tion, and Samuel W. McCall, the repub
lican nominee, confining themselves to
agricultural topics.
Joseph Walker of Brookline, a year ago
the standard-bearer of the progressive
party, m a speech in city hall at Fitchburg
Thursday night explained why he is this
year giving his support to Samuel W. Mc-
Call, the republican candidate for gov
ernor. The appearance upon the same
platform of the two men who were oppo
nents in last year’s gubernatorial fight
was the feature of the Fitchburg rally,
which came at the close of Mr McCall s
day on the stump. Thursday was
Mr M’alker’s first appearance upon a re
publican platform since he closed his cam
paign as the lepublienn gubernatorial can
didate in the campaign of 1912.
Mr Walker declared that the time has
come when all progressives must face the
fact that further attempts to establish a
new party are futile aud that further fight
ing means only the success of the demo
cratic party. “The principles and tradi
tions of the democratic party,” affirmed
Mr M'alker, “are fundamentally incon
sistent with the essence of the whole pro
gressive movement.”
Mr M'alker declared that the social wel
fare program of the progressive party can
not be carried out in the face of unre
stricted foreign competition. Hence, he
said, the necessity for an adequate pro
tective tariff and national laws to equalize
conditions, for beth of which the repub
lican party stands, while the democratic
party takes a position for trade and state's
rights. The public now demands. Mr
M'alker said, the amalgamation of the
progressive and the republican parties.
The reasons for a progressive party m
Massaehusetts are now gone, concluded
Mr M'alker. “Tr. amalgamation lies the
only hope of the future.”
CLARK’S MAIDEN SPEECH
Doll Moose Candidate Opens Campaign
at Newton
Nelson B. Clark, progressive candidate for
governor, at Newton Monday night made
his first speech of the campaign upon his
plank which opposes the appropriation by
the state of public money for private school
purposes. Mr Clark said in part:—
"Education is a state function aud must
forever remain a state function. I want
every man who believes in education as a
state function to back me up with his vote
on election day.
“My fight for the so-called sectarian is
sue will not stop on November 2. Whether
I am elected or defeated. I shall go before
the next Legislature and demand the sub
mission of an amendment that will forever
cut off the appropriation of public moneys
for private school purposes.
“So the man who votes for me should
know that every vote behind my candidacy
this year will make my club just so much
Stronger apd bigger when I appear before
the legislative councils with the people's
demands next year.”
WALSH ON B. AND M. BILLS
Governor Criticize* Operation of “In
visible Government”
The operation of what he termed the
“invisible government” in connection with
hills hefore the republican legislature pro
viding for reorganization of the Boston
and Maine railroad, were criticized by
Got Walsh at a democratic rally at
Brockton Monday night.
“During the pendency of this proposed
legislation,” said the governor, "certain
interests succeeded in injecting into these
hills so-called 'riders' which would over
ride some of the wise provisions of our
statutes dealing with rate making and
forbidding stock watering and which would
also severely limit public regulation. These
so-called ‘riders’ were inserted without
the knowledge or sanction of the gover
nor, the public service commission, or. in
some instances, even the committee ' on
railroads of the Legislature, which heard
ail parties in interest. Their presence can
only be explained by that influence which
is now recognized as the ‘invisible gov
ernment.' ”
Democratic Ratification Meeting
Gov Walsh, Mayor Curley and Louis D-
Brandeis will he the principal speakers at
the Boston democratic city committee’s
ratification meeting in Tremont temple
next Saturday night, the opening of the
city committee’s speaking campaign in
Boston. .Yesterday the governor made an
antomohile campaign tour through West
ern Massachusetts towns
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COST WALSH NOTHING
Governor’* Renomination Expense*
Zero-Cashing’* Totaled $3230
The renomination of Gov Walsh, the
democratic standard bearer, cost him noth
ing, according to a statement filed at the
state bouse at Boston Monday. Lient-
Gov Cushing, who was defeated by Sam
uel W. McCall for the republican nomina
tion for governor, filed a statement of ex
penses amounting to $2239. Calvin
Coolidge. republican nominee for lieuten
ant-governor. paid out $1325.60.
McCall at new Bedford
Attack* Financial Policy of National
and State Administration
Former Congressman Samuel W, Mc-
Call. republican candidate for governor,
continued his campaign at New Bedford
Saturday with an atack on the financial
policy of the national and state ad
ministrations. “The inability of the demo
cratic party to face a business problem in
a business fashion,” he said, "threatens
to bankrupt the state treasury as it has
already bankrupted the national treasury.”
Referring to government estimates of a
billion and a quarter dollars for expenses
for the ensuing year, Mr McCall said:—
“Even if the free sugar provision of
the Underwood hill which was to take
effect In the coming year is repealed and
if the special so-called war revenue tax
is continued in force, there will still be
a deficit of about one hundred million dol
lars. It is hardly too much to say that the
treasury Is on the verge of bankruptcy
and can only be rescued hy the issue of
honda. This result cannot he attributed
to the strinkage n t^ mpor J,*^ r,D * Ol> ac '
1 year the importations to this country were
norma), and under the republican tariff
repealed by the Underwood bill we should
have received from these importations
one hundred million dollars more at the
customs houses.”
Mr McCall declared that during the five
years since the retirement of Got Draper,
state expenditures had mounted beyond
all proportion.
McCall Rally in This City
Samuel W. McCall, candidate for gov
ernor, Calvin W. Coolidge, candidate for
lieutenant-governor, Congressman Fred
erick H. Gillett and Senator Gordon VV.
Gordon ot this city will wind up their
campaigning in the western part of the
state with a rousing rally in the Audi
torium to-night at S o'clock. The auto
mobile party will strike the scene of their
last campaign fight in this part of the
state after a flying trip through the sur
rounding towns and cities.
COOLIDGE ATTACKS DEMOCRATS
Insanity Board Hampered, He Says—
McCall Favors Biennials
From Our Special Reporter.
Greenfield, Wednesday, October 13
Gov M alsh and his party have been
flayed in assorted language for three days
by Samuel W. McCall, republican candi
date for governor, and bis party of orators
who have been touring Western Massa
chusetts, but one more stroke fell on a
vital spot to-night at the Greenfield mass
meeting. Calvin Coolidge. candidate for
lieutenant-governor, delivered it. “Demo
cratic influence is paralyzing the efficiency
of state boards and commissions.” he de
clared. and cited the case of the state
board of insanity and its chairman,
Charles E. M’ard of Franklin county.
' v ho used to get things done, but now, for
some reason he is hampered in the dis
charge of the duties of his office.”
Mr McCall in his turn declared posi
tively for biennial elections and legislative
sessions, and insisted that the democratic
administration didn't give Fred F. Walk
er, the misted head of the bureau of ani
mal industry, a fair show last winter. The
rally here to-night with a band concert and
parade, was at the end of a day of hard
travel, in which the campaigners covered
the triangular territory tipped bv North
Adams, Northampton and Greenfield. The
only “high lights” of the day’s travel were
the failure of Candidate McCall to help
put out a barn fire burning along the route,
though most of his party took a hand, and
road troubles which lost part of the auto
mobile train in the onion fields and de
layed the campaign schedule a half-hour
or so.
TOUR OF ANTISUFFS
Report Good Crowd* in Hampden
County Town*—Address 700 in
Three Rivers
Fully 5000 persons heard the speakers
of the Massachusetts antisuffrage commit
tee in a series of addresses from their
automobiles in towns and cities near here
Tuesday. The committee spent the night,
in Brookfield after their rally at Spencer
Monday night. Starting early iu the
morning, they addressed audiences in West
Brookfield, Warren and West Warren.
In Three Rivers ex-Representative Charles
L. Underhill of Somerville addressed 700
employes of the Otis company, and Col
John P. Irish of Oakland. Cal., spoke to a
crowd of 300 in front of the Burns hotel
in Palmer. They then continued to the
Hardwick town hall and the Enfield post
office. Col Irish, however, had to leave
the party at Palmer for Boston, where
he spoke last night on his impressions of
Massachusetts and Boston.
At the Balohertown post-office there was
a crowd of 150, and so tightly were the
automobiles and teams packed about the
cars that it took five minutes to get them
out. There-w as a big meeting at Indian
Orchard Tuesday night, attended by about
750, at which Underhill
spoke, and another at which there were
nearly 1000 in Holyoke, at which ex-Sen
ator Charles H. Brown of Medford spoke.
William H. Mogam of East Boston also
spoke at Holyoke.
The committee will he in Agawam this
morning at 8.45 and will make the follow
ing schedule; Southwick, 10; Granville
Center. 11.15: Huntington, 2.45: Chester.
4; M’est M’orthincton, 5.15: Great Barring
ton. 8. The party is traveling in two
automobiles adorned with a large “Vote
‘No' on woman suffrage” banner and state
and national flags.
TELEGRAM FROM GOV JOHNSON
California Executive Sends Message to
MaMsaehusettß Progressive*
Acting Chairman Leon E. Baldwin of
the progressive state committee Tuesday
afternoon received a telegram from Gov
Hiram Johnson of California in which he
urges Massachusetts progressives to stand
firm. The telegram is as follows: "Stick
tight, hoys. If Massachusetts people re
alize what the progressives are doing for
California, they will defeat the combined
republican and democratic vote by over
60.000 the same as the progressives did
here.”
Chairman Baldwin announced that re
ports from all quarters of the state indi
cate that a heavy progressive vote will be
east election day. "A conservative esti
mate at preßent would he setting the min
imum at 15,000 votes. We have every rea
son to believe there will be far more. The
defeat of McCall is certain. With the
combined progressive and prohibition vote,
which will exceed 50.000 at the lowest,
McCall cannot he elected, and aware of
this progressives are standing by their
principles.”
ALAN SEEGER HEARD FROM
Young: Man Known Here Who Wan in
Battle in France Wan Alive October 12
Alan Seeger, the young American with
Springfield connections, who was reported
as missing from the French foreign legion
in the battle in Champagne, of September
29, waa alive and well up to October 12,
according to a dispntch to the New York
Sun. The Sun’s Paris correspondent ca
bled that he had received the following
letter from Seeger written from "some
where in Champagne’’ under date of Oc
tober 12: —
Our regiment has been In the thick of the
offensive In Champagne ever since the morn
ing of September 20. We have lost a number
of men, but have had the pleasure of advanc
ing several kilometers, taking lots of prison
era and letting them know that It was the
"Fremdenleglon" (German for Foreign
Legion) that escorted them to the rear
We are slill on the front, i am always In
good health and the best of spirits. Five
Americans were wounded to my knowledge—
Sweeny, Boullgn.v. Casey, Trlnkard and Zlhn
Most of the others arc going to take advan
tage of the opportunity to pass Into the 170th
of the line, hut 1 have decided to stay with
the Moroccan division, with which I think
there will ho the best chances of vnrletv of
action and adventure.
SOLDIERS OS OXEN
IFrom the American Boy.]
Imagine a dashing French cavalry offi
cer riding off to war upon an ox 1 . To be
aure we have beard of soldiers who rode
elephants, and mulea— but an ox! The
French island of Madagascar, however,
posseses a whole regiment of oxen ‘‘cav
alry,’’ the only one in existence. The rea
son for this is the fact that horses cannot
survive the climate of the country and
therefore a substitute had to be provided.
After numerous experiments, oxen were
decided upon as the most successful
mounts, snd they have been trained to
maneuver with surprising skill, although
of course they are not speedy.
THE CONNECTICUT OUTLOOK
STATE’S STRIKES GROW FEWER
Immediate Effect of Recent Agitation
is Characterized as
Stimulative
From Our Special Correspondent.
Hartford, Ct., Saturday, October 16
Connecticut is at work again. The
ware of labor strikes has pretty thor
oughly subsided, leaving only a ripple here
and there a* a reminder that a few minor
disturbances remaiD. Despite the fact
that some of these promise long duration,
it may be stated of Connecticut as a
whole that comparatively few of her in
dustries are idle, that fewer still are idle
for want of orders, .that comparatively
few- persons w ho care to work are without
it, and that still fewer are without it for
any causes except those which are arti
ficial. And where earning and producing
are going on at all it is almost without
exception that the earning and the pro
ducing are each abnormal. Where miiis
are being run at all, they are operating
at full capacity, as a rule, and whet.,
wage earners are earning at all, the most
of them are receiving the highest wages
ever paid for the kind of work they are
doing and, in addition, are receiving these
at the close of the shortest schedule of
hours and days they have ever known to
constitute a full week’s work.
Regardless of yhat has brought this
about in Connecticut, aud regardless of
its possible future effect upon an end of
business which frets not the average man.
the immediate effect is stimulative. This
is reflected in the retail trade activity in
the cities of the state, and it is evident
m cash purchases and a decreased de
mand for time on payments. Whether
it is also reflected in the local stock mar
ket is open to differences of opinion. Cer
tam it is that for some reason the mar
ket is as active now as at any time iu
its history and recording prices w-ere never
before equaled, and far better than any
one could foresee a year ago, or would
have dared to predict. Both in regular
channels and in those usually classed as
speculative, business is generally good in
Connecticut. The spotty places are those
temporarily affected by conditions which
the cautious physician might describe as
distressing but not dangerous."
Tn some instances where strikes have
been long drawn out, without settlements
being secured, “stubbornness" has beeu
flippantly referred to as the chief cause:
hut beyond question there are instances in
which concerns which .would he glad to
grant the bigger wage and the shorter dav
are entirely unable to do this and con
tinue business without actual loss. For
instance, in some lines of manufacturing
there are concerns that take orders in
the early months of the vear and make
up an accumulating stock in the spring,
and so gauge the work as to keep their
operatives busy the year around, whereas
if some of the unnecessary orders and
those which simply meet expenses are al
lowed to go by, it would mean that op
eratives would be given work only a part
of the year. Also, if these advance or
ders on which the company relies for the
greater part of its year’s production aud
profits are taken on a basis of 10 hours a
day from the employes, and an secured
under close competition with other con
cerns, it is not difficult to understand how
the cutting of the working day and the
maintaining of the old wage might quick
ly change profits to losses. Just these
conditions exist in some instances, and
that they have been the exception rather
than the rule is one of the tilings for which
Connecticut has the war to thank. M'ith
out it. the working wage and the working
day would hardly have been so greatly
revolutionized within so short a time aft
er one of the most serious industrial de
pressions the state has known.
Foot Guard*’ Anniversary
The Ist company, governor's foot guard,
does well to observe its 144th anniversary,
as it will do Monday evening. Members
of this organization are quick to seize upon
an excuse to get together, and they don’t
always wait for anniversaries. Monday
evening, it is to ho a turkey supper with
Lieut Samuel 0. Doty in charge. ' It is
also to be a "rollicking” season, and this
is taken to mean all it implies.' The go
five and veteran organization of the foot
guard will hold its annual memorial serv
ice Sunday, its members marching from
the armory to the ancient cemetorv and
gathering around the sacred bowlder,
which will be draped for the occasion.
Prayer will be offered by Roy J. \V.
Bradin. chaplain of the veteran corps,
and then the veterans will march to
Christ church, where they will he ad
dressed b.v Rev James Goodwin,
Farmington to the Fore
One of the unusual actions taken in a
Connecticut town-meeting this week was
that recorded in Farmington, a quiet,
easy-going, sleepy, summer-resort place
where well-financed tourists like to eat
and where budding society girls are splen
didly "finished. ' It had been discovered
there, in spite of soporific conditions, that
the town's affairs had been run in a slip
shod manner. No money appeared to be
missing, but it was difficult to find out
what was done with what went, where
money went that went, aud just when it
went. Accountants were employed, and
it was found that about the only way of
accounting for some things was to go
through a pile of loose slips of paper and
draw such conclusions as they could. One
taxpayer declared in town-meeting that
affairs were “simply rotten,” and as bad
ns that, sounded, it seemed to express the
opinions of a majority of those present,
and to coincide with the findings of the
accountants. The upshot of the whole
matter was that after hearing the excuse
that town officials had been inadequately
paid, it was voted somewhere near unan
imously to hire a town agent, or manager,
to conduct the business of the town. Oth
er towns in the state have seriously
considered doing the same thing, but
the most of them have dreamed
over it for years before dismissing
it from mind or forgetting it. Farming
ton. wide awake at last, jumped to this
method in a sufficiently businesslike man
ner to prove that it disapproves of unbus
inesslike procedure. The decision was
prompt, and it promises to be revolution
ary. Temporarily, it puts the town in the
class with other corporations that hire
managers and after having hired them
permit themselves to he managed hy them,
if they prove competent, discharging them
if incompetent.
Divorce Stilt Under New l,nw
Considerable Interest has been mani
fested here this week in the suit of Wil
helm Fischer of Southington for divorce
from his insane wife. The suit is brought
on the grounds of insanity alone, and it. is
the first to be brought under the new law
enacted by the last Legislature and which
added incurable insanity to the list of
ground* for divorce iu this state—hunching
it with the crimes of adultery, habitual
intemperance, intolerable cruelty, fraudu
lent contract, etc., except that the law
specifies that iu order to secure separa
tion for insanity, it must be shown that
the insanity is incurable, and that the
party thus afflicted has been confined in
a hospital or asylum for not less thau five
years next preceding the date of the
bringing of the eomplaint. Both parties
muet be residents of the state. In the
Southington case the wife has been con
fined in the Connecticut hospital for the
insane for 8% years, and is considered in
curable. The husband desires the cnitody
of four minor children.