The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-10-22
Political Gossip

Thomas p. Gore, oklahoma's blind
senator, missed his train In Chicago
and arrived In Detroit Saturday night
mt q later hour than had been arrang
ed. He spoke 20 500 people In vii
let's hall and TO about so In the Pen
!nsular bank building In the Eight
eenth ward, where they waited until
after IL o'clock for a word from the
senator.
Senator Gore laughed at the report
that the Democrats want free trade
He said the true proposal IL to de-
crease the tarin on the installment
rlan. He said that the American
worker gets more money than the
European because he IL more efficient
and earns more. He declared that
laborers are being taken from Pitts
burgh TO japan and are being paid ten
times as much as the japanese work
men.
The senator predicted q Democratic
victory In many states that are gener-
ally believed to be doubtful or In the
Roosevelt column. He denied that
the coloners strength IL az great In
the west as Is reported. He gave
Nevada, Wyoming and Idaho TO Taft
rather than TO Roosevelt, but said he
hoped that the Democrats would car
ry even those. He was certain OF
OHIO and Indiana and very sure OF
Michigan.
The Republican smoker In the arm.
DRY, Saturday night, brought speech
as from nearly all the county and
city candidates. Milton Oakman was
chairman. He attacked the record OF
James ID. Burns as sheri ffand charac-
terzed 1t as "a stencil In the nostrils
OF the people" He denied q report
that he was born outside of Detroit.
and that he had held public Office for
22 years. He said that the campaign.
which had started clean, had become
deplorably vicious. Lieut.-Gov. John q.
Ross was among the speakers. He
said that Hazen s. Pingree was the
h-st progressive governor" In the
country.
The Michigan Equal Suffrage asso-
citation has issued a statement to the
effect that Michigan women will not
be found working at the polls on cleo
ton day, Nov. 5. This decision, reach
ed by the members of the association
after careful elaboration, marks a
remarkable close TO remarkable
campaign. No state In the union has
" itnessed less confusion and more
such rare judgment and been less
swayed by prejudice or excitement.
The women campaigners in every
county have worked quietly, dill
gently, effectively, without friction
and without resorting to spec
tacular methods After such q
djgnified campaign, II is In keeping
TO let the matter rest, and leave the
issue in the hands OF the voters.
Since the law allows two challeng-
ers In every precinct to see that the
votes are properly counted. the wo-
men feel that they are justified In
observing this custom and will see
that women are stationed inside the
rolling places. Saturday. Nov. will
DO observed as Tag Day. and over
soc, 900 tags will be distributed by the
women throughout the state. Even
this day is to be merely reminder,
and workers will be cautioned not to
indulge In controversies with men on
the streets. Tags will be given
away, each one bearing this inscrip-
ton: NOV. 6 Vote Yes for Woman
Suffrage"
County Chairman Ralph Hall Ferris,
OF the Progressives, will give out for
publication. Tuesday, the receipts and
disbursements Of the county to date.
Names OF all contributors OF $40 or
more will be published.
"Mr. Marx has not been indorsed by
the Employers association, nor can
be be said to be the candidate OF that
body" says John Gillespie, regarding
a report that Mr.. Marx is the Employ
ers' avowed candidate. His labor rec
ord Is clean. His opponents have
raked up a report ten or a dozen years
old to the effect that he had trouble
as q stakeholder OF the Michigan
Optical Co. The facts are these: Ma
chlnists employed by the company had
grievance which was submitted to
the officers. Mr.. Marx, who was only
q minority stakeholder, was called In,
and as soon as the facts were submit
ted to him, he took the side of the
union. The inciient was later investi-
gated by the Central Trades council,
ana Mr.. Marx was exonerated from all
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