Evening journal., 1914-10-07
MILLER ANp nROCKsON.

n EIAWARE voters who are debating in their own
~ minds or among themselves whether, in No
vcmber they should vote for Franklin Brockson, the
Democratic Congressman who is running for re-elec-
ton or for Secretary State Thomas w. Miller the
Republican nominee should forget that Mr.. Brock
has given unfailing support to that Wilson admin
israton that has brought hard times to our nation
state and city. Such voters already know that thous-
ands OF Delaware wage-earners have been thrown out
of by the hard times resulting from such leeis-
lation, and that far they are concerned, Mr..
Brockson is directly responsible for the conditions
prevailing here His reelection would give direct
couragement to continuance of such ruinous poll
cies in Washington.
Nor is Delaware by any means the only state that
is suffering from Democratic hard times as a result
of the laundering President Wilson and his rubber
stamp Congressman. From Connecticut. for instance
comes the news that the great cutlery works in that
state located at New Britain and Meriden, and big
clock factories Of New Haven, Bristol Thomaston
Wnsted and Waterbury have been forced to shut down
part of their works In the factories are
running only four days out Of the week
More complaints than were before sent to
Congress from that going to Washington be-
cause of the reductions OF the clock tariff from 40
per cent to 80 per cent ad valorem
Ono big clock factory in Connecticut has made COM
paint to members Of its Congressional delegation that
foreign competition the result Of tariff reduction
has compelled It to short time and to this
complaints adds, UNLESS can find way to advance
prices we will have TO close up.
This firm Of clock-makers has been in existence for
| over a hundred years II employs nearly thousand
men Since under the Sherman Antitrust Act, It Is
| impossible for clock companies to combine for the
purpose Of increasing the price Of their product the
expectation is that the Democratic tariff will throw
some ten thousand clock factory workers in Connect
cut alone out of employment
/ Congressman Brockson assisted in inhicting that
evil upon Connecticut just he assisted in inhctine
other evils upon other States including his own state
The penalty for ruinous official acts should be
retirement and that too by vote so large that us
meaning cannot possibly be misunderstood.
The average man. the controlling element IN
elections votes for the highest good OF hmset aho
family He is not swayed much by political oratory
as he is convinced by conditions which surround him
With idle men and with idle freight cars, with bus
ness failures and the of living gonU still higher
and now with an additional millondollar a'
mposed for the purpose of covering Democratic ex
| travagance will You not, Mr.. Average Man, vote t'
( nut an end TO this gross carelessness in the man
agement Of our national affairs?
A voter who in the face of what Mr.. BrocksoI
has done and failed to do. votes for his retuan tC
Congress deserves to suffer all the evils that hav
crown and will continue to grow out Of Democratic
decentralization and maladmnisraton of our ma
tional affairs
The only safe course for a Delaware voter who de
sres to conserve the interests of himself MS family
his neghbor his city, his State and his country to pur
sue is to vote for Secretary Of State Thomas W. Miller
the Republican nominee who stands for political prn
cipes and practices which make for progress and pros
perity