The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-08

THE Knicker5ocker Press ASKS
"Who is laboring man." Ihere
is the manufacturer, as the Press de-
scribes him, who quits his bed at o
o'clock in the morning, tolls In his OIL
flee until midnight, employs hundreds
of men and fire.
Iaboring Men and quently walks the
Some Others floor wh 6
gets h o m 9 at
night. wondering where he will get
enough money to meet his pay roll.
There is also the ever-obllglng
druggist who devotes most OF his long
sn,, toilsome day to selling little OF
everything but drugs; the haro-
worked proceryman who seldom has
chance to draw a peaceful breath, on
duty or off.
These are only a few examples.
There are hundreds and thousands OF
others in every walk of life. The
newspaper man who thinks nothing OF
putting in sixteen hours day at his
lob and then tumbling out of bed after
an hour or two of sleep when big
"story" breaks" is another toiler to
whom the eight-hour day means moth
ing.
The explanation is simple. These
slaboring men" are not organized. we
can't all have an eight-hour day and
perhaps in the long run it is just as
well that we can't.
IN HE last of the notification cere-
monies will take place In Indian
apolis next week when Martin II.
Glynn apprises Vice President Thomas
r. Marshall officially that he
was chosen by the st. Louis conven-
ton for reelection. Mr.. Marshall will
then be released for the democratic
stump and will at once announce his
campaign itinerary.
Virginia is still the mother OF Presl-
dents, and New York continues to
have the distinc-
Fewer Tickets in ton of being the
Presidential Field mother OF vice
presidents, but
for the latter honor Indiana is gaining,
and four years hence may have the
vice presidential lead.
The number of presidential tickets
has a diminishing tendency. In 1900
there were eight tickets in the field.
IN 1912 there were six. This year
there are only four, but that number is
pufficient to give voters Of various
political beliefs chance to make
choice. Wilson will have the support
Of all the democrats and large pro-
portion Of the independents. Hughes
will poll, in addition to the full
strength of the standpat republican
marty. many of the progressives who
have followed Roosevelt back into the
old guard fold, but, according to the
present outlook, not enough In the
pivotal states to elect him.
OF the two minor parties which have
attracted more or less attention IN
former years-the prohibition and the
aocialist-little has been heard in this
campaign since the early announce
ments of their plans and hopes.
Hanly, the prohibition standard
bearer, was going to surprise the
country by quadrupling the popular
vote in 1912. Benson, the socialist
nominee, declares it his intention to
\ double the vote of his party; and not
only that but he claims that ne will
ret the electoral vote of Oklahoma.
The socialists saved expense and lot
IL trouble by cutting out their ma
tional convention. Mr.. Benson was
nominated by mail on the referendum
ban.
AZ the prohibition vote has never
reached the 100000 mark, little ex-
- work will increase it, although not
- much as fourfold. As for the
1ocislist vote, which totaled nearly
10000 in 1912, there will probably be