The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-05
LIEUT.-GOV. O'HARA
TO Be A MILL HAND
Young Illinois Official and His
Wife to Find Their
Economic Values.
CANDIDATE FOR U.S.SENATE
Will Learn Factory Conditions
TO Campaign for Mini
mum Wage Law.

i'ViN 'ti' ETdNP MISTAKE, SUD-
posing YOU wander into the lobby Of the
Hotel Broztell In East Twenty-scventh
street to say TO the first youthful look.
Ing. slight. dark eyed. black haired dapper
youth YOU run into. kid, where's the
har att or slip me match. bo." or
anything like that
BE more respectful. for likely as not the
lad YOU are addressing is none other than
the Hon. Barrstt OHara. who at present
holds down the Job OF Lieutenant Gov
crnor OF the we'll known State OF Illinois.
is also candidate for United States Sena-
tor and Just now is headed toward a
Massachusetts, mill town with his wife.
where both will go to work as mill ha nds.
The Young Lieutenant Governor has al
most reached the ripe axe Of 81 years. he
will ten you lie doesn't look it, And
listen, girls Before you gaze into his
dark eyes or get fun length view OF his
snappy college boy makeup don't let
tcstacy obliteratc from your mind that
important Item that he is already mar
RED.
I'm going to get the best Job in a
New England factory that ! can get"
tho young Lieutenant Governor OF Illinois
told THE Sun reporter last night. land so
10 my wife because We want to ind out
what our respective economic values are
IN the eyes Of mill owner. I know my
economic value both as a LAWYER and as
reporter but | want to find out what
the New England factory boss values me
at"
All for Campaign Data.
~n-n ,nis question has been answered
irr tho Lieutenant Governor and Mrs
o'Hara they will go TO "A factory town in
the south and get the best day laboring
Jobs they can corral. And after answer
ing the morning whistle call for two weeks
or so in the South Mr.. and Mrs. O'Hara
will return to Illinois. where the Lieu
tenant-Governor during four months of
campaigning for the United States Sena-
tcrship will use his practical knowledge
of factory conditions during a stamping
tour of Illinois.
THE work of the Illinois Vice Commits
sion. in which we were personally inter
osted,' he said. Showed that thousands
~ girls in Chicago alone receive only a
dollar or dollar and a half week.
Many employers had TO testify that thcy
paid their girls less than the girls can
possibly live on.
y am largely basinE my campaign for
senator from my state on what think
20 be about the most important question
before the country. the necessity for "a
FEDERAL minimum wage law. Therefore.
now that our Legislature IL IN ses-
sion ] am taking tho present time to
learn about factory conditions AT frs,
hand I hope in this way 10 make my.
Arguments for Federal law much more
graphic.
Problem Il National.
''rhe necessity for the law IL ma
tionsl one and therefore Illinois cannot
settle the problem all by itself. Because
The question is national Is the reason why
We are going To work in the East and
South instead of looking into conditions
merely In my own State"
The Observation-Disclosures and his young
wife say that tho mill jobs are waiting
for them. They would not. however. give
any hint about just where they will go
10 work. They do not want their fellow
workers to know who they are. but want
10 be accepted at looms or workbenches
merely for what they arc worth as mill
hands.
I'm doing this thing Just at this time.
both of US are. grinned the Lieutenant
Governor. because there's no danger
that couple of youngsters like us would
he suspected of being anything but the
factory hands We are to profess to be
Why. I've gone all over Illinois and no
body suspected that was the Lieutenant.
Governor-not even In the insane asy'
iums.''
perhaps you know that 'O'Hara is a
political joke?' No? Well. when
started to work on tho young men move
ment' when trying for the nomination
for Northumberland two years age
We selected that 'O'Hara Is "A politica
iokc' as our battle cry. From the stumr
! rubbed il In to the young men that II
J was political Joke so were they and
al other young men. and that It was
about time the young men changed such
IDEAS"
The young men changed ideas 50 IF
fsctively that young Mr.. O'IIara carried
his State by 10000.
There's an O'Hara baby now "beinl
groomed for politics" The baby, nomed
after Mrs O'Hara's family, Is Master
Hoffman O'Hara. For II name like
'hat. said the Lieutenant-Governor yes
to-day. doesn't get the entire German
and Irish vote nothing will"