Evening journal., 1914-10-26
CORES Democrats
FOR Delaying THE
REHOBOTH Canal
Continued From Firs, Page,


lent's speech caught the flies alright
and the flies are now wriggling around
in the molasses, but enough of them will
get out to alight in the voting booths
and do business on election day | de-
sire TO remind you what Congressman
Fitzgerald of New York. Democratic
chairman Of tine appropriation COM
mittce said in the House of Representa-
lives in discussing some of the appro-
priation bills: In few months ! shall
be called upon, in the discharge of my
official duties, TO review the record that
this Democratic House shall have made
IN its authorization of the expend-
lures of the public monies. Whenever
] think Of the horrible mass that /
shall be called upon to present to the
American people, | am tempted to quit
my place. These are the very words
used ON the floor Of the House at Wash
ington by the man whom the Democra-
tic party chose to head the great com
mittee on appropriations.
sour opponents are on the defensive
this year and they cannot hide their
true position by continually prating
on the war in Europe. A party cannot
expect 10 hold itself in power when it
was elected as minority party and
then failed to change or improve condi
tions that it held up as the fault of the
Republican party. The Democratic
party has had full sway and ample
time in which TO prove its case.
Men Out Of Work.
up in Wilmington the other night
our opponents held a meeting in The
Playhouse at which Senators James
and Thomas, Of Kentucky and Colo
RADIO, respectively, your junior Sena-
tor from Delaware, Mr.. Salisbury
and my opponent, were the chief
speakers. A good many points strong
ly favOring the Democratic party
when only one side of the story was
told came from the lips of all Of
these gentlemen.
at desire to remind you of the op-
posite and contradictory reasons
given by your Democratic Senator and
your Democratic Representative in
Congress for the lack Of employment
existing in Wilmington and in our
State today. In July, the Chamber of
Commerce gathered statistics which
showed that there were many thou
sands of men out of employment in
Wilmington as compared with the
same month in 1913, before the Under
wood tariff bill had been placed on
the statute books. These statistics
were gathered before the great Eu-
ropean war had arisen for the Demo-
cratic party to clutch at frantically in
an endeavor to explain the hard
times"
"The Junior Senator from Delaware,
Mr.. Salisbury, arose in the Senate
and stated that the manufacturers of
Wilmington we're cOnspiring TO in
iurc the administration by purposely
cutting down their forces Of employees
The other evening i'm The Playhouse,
my Democratic opponent stated that
the car building and ship building
plants of the city of Wilmington we're
running short, because of lack OF
orders due TO the fact that the people
Of the warning nations in Europe were
not purchasing cars or mercantile
ships, but were only purchasing war;
boats. Thus we have a painful COM
parison between the reason given by
your Democratic Senator and your
Democratic Representative.
THE remarks of NV Democratic
opponent, however. deserve addition
al attention. Does he not know that
the Harlan & Hollingsworth Corpor-
alton has never bulls a car or a
coach for use in Europe and does he
not know that the American Car &.
Foundry Company has not been build
ing cars or coaches ior countries in
Europe? Going further, does he not
know that Harlan's nave never built
mercantile ship for foreign custo-
mers nor have the Pusey & Jones
Company done so either. In fact.
none Of cur ship yards the country
over build mercantile ships for for
cign customers. How then does this
war make this condition? He must
be misinformed or in his anxiety to
score points he has misinformed us.
At the large plant Of the Harlan &
HollingswOrth Corporation. they are
only employing today SIS people from
the president down to the lowest
laborer and in Republican times the
normal pay sheet is 1000 people. and
the high water mark has been 2,3OO
people"