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Arizona republican., 1916-03-05

Arthur R. Robinson a state senator.
 There are two candidates on the democratic ticket, seeking the nomi- nation for governor: John A. M. Adair, representative in congress from the eighth district: and Leonard B. Clore, are conducting an interesting cam paign. lively fight is being waged for the republican nomination for gov ernor by James P. Goodrich, Indiana's member of the Republican National committee; Warren T. McCrey, far mer and stock raiser and Judge Quincy Adams Myers former member of the supreme court.
 The republican state convention will be held April and 6; the democratic, April 2G. and the progressive. May "A. At these conventions delegates to the National conventions will be selected and under the provisions of the pri- mary law the democratic delegates are bound to support Wilson and Marshall for president and vice president. while the republican delegates are bound to vote for Charles w. Fairbanks, as long as their names are before the Chi cago and St Louis national conven- tions.
 On account of the primary law pro- viding that the voters may vote for 2 candidate as second choice it is likely to be several days before the result on many of the offices are known.
 The primarI- law does away with a
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TRACTION MEN
 v0TE T0STR|kE
 IN WASHINGTON
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 WASHINGTON, March 5.-Fifteen hundred motormen and conductors employed on the capitol's two street railway lines voted to strike early today for higher wages and shorter hours.
 The strike was declared officially begun at 2:30 a. m.
 The strikers are members of a un- ion recently organized here and af- filiated with the National Amalga- mated Association of Street Railway Employees. Several days ago they presented to the companies demands for an increase to 30 cents an hour with shorter hours, and yesterday gave the employers until tonight to begin negotiations for an agreement At midnight the companies had not complied and the decision to strike followed immediately. The maximum wage now paid is 25 cents an hour. The two companies involved are the Washington Railway and Electric company and the Capital Traction company which, together. operate all the street cars in the city.
 Some cars still were running at 8 o'clock, completing their trips to the barns. It was claimed by union of ficials that when the runs then be- ing made were completed enough men would have quit to insure complete tieup.
 Street car officials insisted, how ever, that the union had exaggerat- ed the extent of the strike and pre- dicted that owl cars would be run throughout the night. Whether there would be an attempt to operate any cars during the day should the union try to enforce a tie-up, was uncertain
 Major Pullman, superintendent of the capital police, last night ordered that no member of the police force should be given leave of absence pending further notice and that po- lice reserves should hold themselves within call. There was a report that the union meeting at which the strike vote was taken had appointed delegations to see that no cars moved out of the barns after the strike was in full swing.
 The action of the union apparently was a complete surprise to com pany officials, but they were insis- tent that there would be no conces- sions on their side.
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RAILROADS AND
 MP[OYES NOT
 LIN SAME PLANE
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 CHICAGO, March 4-The railroads and the employees do not agree as to the meaning of the referendum vote taken by members of the four great br9therhoOds on all the railroads of the United States representing close to 100000 employees on 52S lines. These organizations are the Brother hood of Locomotive Engineers, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Bremen and Enginemen and the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and the Order of Railway Conductors. The refer endum instructs the officials of the brotherhOOds to enter into negotia- tions with the roads representatives, provided the result of the vote is favorable.
 The brotherhoods announce that the question is that of the eight hour day and time and a half for over time, similar to conditions which pre- vail in many other lines of industry.
 The railroads say that the issue does not mean the coming of an eight hour working day, as contended by the employees, but rather an in- crease of p per cent over present wages for the same amount of work, and an increase in many cases of S7H per cent for over time as com pared with present rates. The de- mands pertain only to freight and not to passenger service.
 The propositions on which the men voted were divided under four articles The first pertained to road service and provided that 100 miles or less, or eight hours or less shall constitute a day, with overtime beginning at the expiration of eight hours on runs of less than 100 miles, and as soon as 100 miles have been run no longer trips, overtime to be computed at one and one half times the prorata rate, no one to receive less than they now receive for a minimum day. The second article referred to yard and switching service, the minimum for eight hours day to be not less than now paid for ten hours a day, all over eight hours in any twenty four hours to be paid for at time and a half rates. Article three provided that eight hours or less at the present pay for ten hours will constitute a day for "hostlers," the men Who prepare locomotives for runs and care for them at terminals. The final article guaranteed the employees the right to retain any rates of pay or schedules in effect January 1, 1916 which are preferable to the new schedule
 The railroads prepared a statement of their view of the situation in which they said "To allow the in crease would add $100,0O0,00 d year 10 the operating expenses of all the roads of the United States for the benefit of men whose average pay day was increased from 30 to AZ per cent from 1903 to 1914, while the wages of the western engineers were further increased in 1915.
 The roads further contended that the men made no allowance for the difference between railroad and in dustrial service. They pointed out that the railroad enginemen or train men is guaranteed payment for a full day no matter how few hours he works and receives pay for more than full day if he works more thar either the established miles or hours. In most lines of industry, the rail roads hold, the emplOye does not re-
Arizona republican., 1916-03-05

conventions in the state except the state conventions. As the state con- Vention candidates for governor and United States senator will be selected if they are not chosen at the primary The state convention also will nom- mate lieutenant governor. secrtary of state, auditor of state, treasurer of state, attorney general. superintend- ent of public instruction. state sta tistician, two judges of the supreme and appellate courts, four delegates at large, two presidential electors at large, and two contingent presidential cleo tors at large. The state conventions also adopt the party platforms,
 There will be thirty delegates to the national convention from each party of Indiana. Each congressional dis tricts' delegates to the s.ate conven- ton will select two of these at h. dianapolis the night before the state convention is held
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FORECLOSURE 0F ROCK ISLAND
 |S DEMANDED
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CHICAGO, March 4.-Immediate foreclosure on the Chicago, Rock Is- land and Pacific railroad was demanded today by Louis G. Krauthoff in the hearing of the receivers petition for in- structiOn regarding certain funds now going on before Judge George A. Car penter in the United States district court. MT. Krauthoff is attorney for the Central Trust Company of New York, trustee of $100,000.000 worth of first and refunding mortgage bonds.
 Attorneys for the stockholders and the holders of s20,000,000 debeniture bonds are urging the court to instruct receiver Jacob M. Dickinson to pay the $500000 interest on these bonds as the only means of saving the road. Nathan l.. Amster, director in the Rock Is land, says the holders of the securities in the hands of trust company are un- der the control of the Moore Reid in- terests, formerly in control of the road, and the demand of Krauthoff that these bondholders be allowed to foreclose, is. according to MT. Amster the very thing which the other factions have feared. The opposition to the demand for foreclosure will be further pressed when the hearing is resumed or Mon day. Opposition to the issuance of re- ceiver's certificates for the purpose of taking up the $500,000 debenditure in terest was made by MT Krauthoff on the ground that such issuance would impair the equity in the railroad of the first and refunding mortgage bond holders.
 "The situation cannot be helped" At torney Krauthoff said. "The first and refunding bondholders agree to make the sacrifice of furnishing the funds necessary to put the road on it's feet. It will take s6O,OOO, 00OO to do this, and
 that amount cannot be raised unde
Arizona republican., 1916-03-05
MAYORS CLOSE CONFERENCE 0N
 DEFENSE PLANS
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ST. LOUIS. March 4.-The two day conference of mayors on nation al defense, closed tonight with ban quet. at which the principal speakers were: George w. Wickersham. for mer attorney general of the United States: Mayor William Hale Thomp- son of Chicago.
 Mayor Thompson said.
 There is not even a remote pos sibility that the people of this coun- try will ever be called upon to wage war of aggression on foreign soil, but we may be called upon to defend our own hearts and homes against invasion
 We may indulge in snug com placency over our alleged neutrality. but we cannot hide the ugly fact that our people are contributing to the horrors of the conflict through the stream of death dealing muni- tions going from our shores to the European battlefields. Legally we are within our rights in taking this busi- ness but it leaves us in a weak po
 
 we should be attacked
 "A complication in our situation is the powerful and crafty neighbor that has grown up in our west. Some day, not far distant, demands will he made upon us from that quarter which we must refuse. We invite aggression by our helplessness."
 The conference at it's final busi- ness sessions adopted resolutions de- cIaring for universal military train ing, for a navy that will make this country the first naval power in the world. for the locating of arsenals and munitions plants at places dis tant from either coast and from the Mexican or Canadian borders for the mobilization of physical resources of the country, for the standardization of all materials used in war, for the organization of transportation service for use.
 The resolutions urge that congress pass laws making the principles set forth in the resolution effective
 After the conference adjourned a committee decided that a representa- tive should be appointed for each state to appoint a representative in each congressional district whose duty it shall be to advance preparations sentiment.
 At the banquet tonight, Mayor Thompson of Chicago, criticised the Mexican policy of President Wilson. He said that thousands of Americans had been told to leave their prop erty in Mexico and that more than 200 Americans have been killed.
 We are standing by the president" said Mayor Thompson, but when will the president stand by the American peope?"
Arizona republican., 1916-03-05
CROSS EXAMINING
 BRANDEIS' PARTNER

WASHINGTON, March 4.-Louis D. Brandeis' law partner. E. F. Me Clennen, was cross examined for three hours today before the sen ate b-committee Investigating MT. Brandeis fitness to be a supreme court justice. Counsel for those op- posing confirmation asked particu- larly about the LennoX bankruptcy case and at the end of the cross examination the sub- committee de- cided to summon James T Len noX, the principal in that litigation
 Opponents to MT. Brandeis' con- firmatiOn charge that he was guilty of unprofessional conduct in filing an involuntary bankruptcy petition against LennoX based partly on an assignment he is alleged to have previously advised Lennox to make
Arizona republican., 1916-03-05
TAKE MEN OFF
 STEAMER CHINA
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PANAMA, March "Details of the erican steamer China off the Japan csc coast February IS. were brought here today by passengers and crew of the vessel when she put into port on her way to San Francisco.
 Such action by the British was not contemplated, it was said. after such l possibility was discussed by the German and American consuls at Shanghai.
 The China was boarded by twelve armed men under a liutenant They refused to disarm, as requested by the Chinas captain. They were thought to have come from the former White Star Liner Laurintie but their hat bands bore the name "Cerberus," d vessel of the Australian navy.
 Two of those seized were taken from their wives, who were left aboard the China The nationality of those made prisoners was: Six Aus trians; one Turk. and thirty -one Ger mans One German who was ill was left On the China. Several of those taken were said to be over military age. No search was made through the ships papers or those oe passen- gers.
 Captain F. E. Frazir expressed sur prise that action had not yet been taken in the case by the United States
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ceive days pay for less than a days work and ordinarily he cannot earn more than a days pay without working more than the regular num- Der of hours. Further the roads con- tended that terminals are located generally so that the distance between them can be made in approximately ten hours and that therefore the run ming time cannot be reduced to con- form to the demands without reduc- ing the tonnage of trains and there by depriving the roads of efficiency in operation, or by building new ter mnals at enormous expense. It also was claimed that there have arisen no new conditions demanding larger rates of pay since the present rates were fixed by arbitration under fed eral laws.
 The unions formally denied the ar guments of the roads and in explain ing the reasons and motives for their demand said:
 The eignt hour day movement is based wholly upon the justice of a work day of reasonable hours that will permit the men further to sep arate the dead line between work and wages. The railroads say in effect that men who have put in d few years of railroad service have worked themselves out and will not be ac- cepted if they lose their positions If men are worked out in a few years under the present service conditions the demand to extend their wage earning years is fully justified.
 overtime in road service is due al- most wholly to the practice of rail- roads overlooking trains so that they cannot make their mileage within their time limits. The railroads are doing this for profit they do not nedy it. and if they propose to de- deny it, and if they propose to de- of health ana future earning ability of the men they should pay extra for it. The payment of overtime applies with particular force to yards where the companies can regulate their work so that no overtime be made,
Arizona republican., 1916-03-05
REPUBLICANS
 NAME DELEGATES
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 SAN FRANCISCO, March 4-Mem- boss of various county republican cen tral committee assembled in conven- tion here today with the California republican state central committee and adopted late tonight a slate of 26 un- instructed delegates to the republican national convention in Chicago next June.
 Three women were among the names returned by the nominating committee.
 The convention adopted a platform of principles favoring adequate na- tional defense as opposed to militarism and the restoration of the republican policy of a tariff commission Reso- lutions were adopted supporting the Sutherland. Mondell amendment pro- viding for woman suffrage.
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the receivership. It is too bad the oth- CTS will have to suffer, but an imme- diate foreclosure is no more than right; and it would follow the example in other courts in the cases of other rail roads
 Richard D. Stephens, representing the trustee of the debenditure bondholders, explained to Judge Carpenter that he meant no criticism of Receiver Dickin- son when he opposed the policy of con- tributing the rehabilitation of the road. The attorney had remarked that his policy would land this receivership on the rocks
Arizona republican., 1916-03-05
INDIANA SETS PRESIDENTIAL
 CAMP PA|GN OFF
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 INDIANAPOLIS, March 4.-Indiana will set the machinery of the presi- dential campaign of 1916. in motion, when on March ', the voters of the state will express their preference for candidates for president and vice pres ident Woodrow Wilson and Thomas R. Marshal are the candidates on the democratic ticket and Charles w. Fair hanks on the republican. No candi- date filed for the nomination of vice president on the republican ticket. The primary will not only be the first in the country this year but also the first ever held in the state.
 Besides balloting for presidential candidates the voters will have an opportunity to vote for candidates for United States senator governor and congress in the 13 congressional dis tricts, candidates for the general as- sembly, circuit and superior judges. prosecuting attorneys, county officials. delegates to the state conventions, and precinct committeeman. If no can uludte TOT senator or governor re- ceives a majority of votes at the pri- mary the contest then goes to the state convention which will be held subsequently.
 John w. Kern will have no opposi- tion as the democratic candidate for senator in the primary. There are three candidates on the republican tickets, viz: James E. Watson, former member of congress: Harry Sellew. for many years Indiana's member of the republican National committee. and
Arizona republican., 1916-03-05
AUTO GOES OFF BRIDGE
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STERLING, Colo, March A. George Dick. 4S years old, a farmer from Atwood was killed tonight when his automobile went off a bridge into the Platte river bed, pinning him beneath. No one saw the accident
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ARCHDEACON JEFFRIES DEAD

BETHLEHEM, N. C., March 4.-The Rev. Dr. William Jeffries of Phia- delphia, an arch deacon, prominent in Episcopal church affairs in this coun- try and in England, died at his coun- try home here today of pneumonia.
Arizona republican., 1916-03-05

Ticket sale for Hi-Y Lecture Course begins at 10 a. m. on Monday, March 9th for Schubert Symhony Soloists.
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The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1916-10-26
LANCASTER. KY. THURSDAY AFTERNOON. OCTOBER
ENGINEER KAY HERE
ON JOURNEY NORTH.
Has Been To Lancaster To Advise Re-
gardlng Their Water Supply.

Engineer Edgar B. Kay, who investi-
gated the local water question for the
city and who is now engaged on big
job at Celina Ohio. passed thru Win
chester yesterday on his way from Lam
caster. He had been called to the
Garrard county capital on an important
matter of water supply for thst city.
Mr.. Kay SAID while here that Lancas-
ter is having reservoir trouble similar
to that IN Winchester. IL would cost
thousands Of dollars to line the reser-
vOir there and he has advised that city
to go to the river for its water supply,
just as he advised Winchester to go to
the river.
Mr.. Kay was pleased to find local
sentiment 80 overwhelmingly for a city
plant and river water and again stated
that 1t is nothing short of criminal to
permit the use of such water as we are
now getting every summer Winches-
ter Democrat.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1916-10-26
PLAYING BOTH ENDS
AGAINST The MIDDLE.

Here Va have Candidate Hughes
plaeating and playing hard for the
German-American vote and Roosevelt
''skinning 'em alive" to get the anti
German vote for Hughes.
We see Candidate Hughes and his
chairman, Wilcox, condemning the
child labor law as fraud and hoax
and joker. and Senator Cummins and
Ex-senator Beyeridge praising it; Sem
ator Cummins saying that anyone who
denounces il is either ignorant or in
competent.
Here is Candidate Hughes opposing
and criticising the Adamson eight-hour
law, and seventy Republican Congress
men VINO voted for it running for re-
election on their records. and the TWEEN
ty.eight Republican senators who al
lowed the bill TO pass when they could
have easily defeated it.
We have innumerable Republican
speakers, from Candidate Hughes
down. saying that our prosperity is
fictitious, merely temporary, or
consisting wholly of war munitions.
and on the other hand every bank and
railroad and big business house making
reports showing business in the most
prosperous condition. and the stocks on
the market all going up.
1T Is to laugh.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1916-10-26
POLITICAL SPEECHES
For Both Parties Receive Enthusiastic
Applause Here Last Monday.

With the Hon. Lawrence b. FINN, of
Franklin and Aubrey F. Adkins, of
Covington. booked to make Democratic
speeches at the court house last Mon
day and Elk Governor Osborne. of Mich
igan, billed to speak at the Rex Theater
in the interest of the Republican party,
the town was practically filed with adj
herents of each political faith and that
resulted in both houses being well filled.
Mr.. Finn spoke for one hour and held
the attention of the crowd during the
entire time and was literally applauded
often during his masterful address. He
was followed by Mr.. Adkins. after be-
ing introduced by Hon. H. Clay Kauff-
man in ve-y happy and inimitable
way. Mr.. Adkins is fluent speaker
and was popularity received being re-
peatedly interrupted by applause when
he spoke of the Wilson Administration,
which he is now so ardently espousing.
being until recently. one of the leading
Progressives of the state and dele
gate. at large to the National Progress
sive Convention, in Chicago last June.
He spoke to a good crowd at Bryants-
vile Monday night and to a crowded
house at Paint Lick Tuesday night.
Governor Osborne failed to put in his
appearance. having missed connection
at Cincinnati, and this was quite dis
appointment to the large crowd that
had assembled at the Rex thester.
However, Hon. Robert E. Woods of
Louisville and former postmaster of
that city, happened to be in the city
and he was Immediately drafted and
made a speech that was heartily re-
ceived and frequently applauded. Mr..
s. H. Kash of Corbin, spoke to small
audience last Friday afternoon at the
court house. He made strong appeal
to the negroes for their vote and his
remarks seemed to charm and delight
them to the utmost.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1916-10-26
PERIL IN A CHANGE
OF PARTIES.

A change of parties in the govern
ment at this time would put every in
terest in peril and leave us without
standing with the Imperial German
government The defeat of Wilson
would be regarded by the Kaiser as a
victory for him and a reversal Of the
policy which forced him to desist from
his cowardly submarine warfare again
st defenceless neutrals. who exercise
their right to travel on the high seas.
He would feel at Liberty to renew that
warfare and would doubtless promptly
renew it. Fortunately. however, no
such a contingency seems possible.
The American people are not bereft of
reason and will take no such dangerous
chance. They have already decided to
Keep Wilson ON guard for four years
more to continue to give the country
peace, prosperity and happiness.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1916-10-26
PAPER FAMINE
SEEMS CERTAIN

That news paper will get as high as
the proverbial Cow that jumped over
the moon and the worst of it there is
probability of not being able to get
it at all, is indeed alarming. Our local
news dealer here, Mr.. r. E. McRoberts,
IN ordering some extra SUNDAY papers
from the Cincinnati Enquirer, received
the following significant reply;
I'VE cannot increase your Sunday
orders, due to a shortage in white paper.
We are unable to get sufficient paper
to get out our orders at the present
time.