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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-30
ELS0N TO l. BEV|CT0RI0US IN
 THE FIST DISTRICT

Judging from the expressions heard on all sides, Attorney Irving Bison, Democratic candidate for senator from the Twenty first district, has an excellent chance of being elected next week. Veteran campaigners who have sized up the situation in this dis trict think very well of Elson's chances.
 It is agreed by those who have studied the matter that the Demo- cratic delegates made a wise choice when, at their convention, they elect ed Attorney Elson as their standard bearer. He has all the qualities which appeal to voters and there is no doubt that he will make a fine run.
 He has been a resident of the dis trict for many years which has given him a good opportunity to become ac- quainted. Since the campaign start ed Attorney Elson has received assur- ances of support from all sides. In addition to the loyal Democrats who will be back of him to a man he has been told By numerous Republi- cans that he will get their votes Attorney Elson realizes that he is con- fronted by difficult problem but is confident of success.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-30
Veterans "Wise"
 o' " to c. o! P. Bluff

New York, Oct. 30.-Veterans of the Civil War have been / quick to "call the turn'' on Republican Can- didate Hughes for attempting, as one expresses it, to throw a lump of sugar. to the old soldiers. It is re- called by them that Hughes. while Governor of New York, vetoed a bill granting pensions to the old soldiers and their widows in the Empire State, and also that the old pension in- creases granted by the Federal gov- ernment in recent years were enacted under Democratic administrations those of Cleveland and Wilson.
 The speech made by Hughes re- gently in Dayton, Ohio, to a body of old soldiers has particularly aroused the ire of veterans in this state One, in a letter to a Rochester newspaper, says:
 "We, knowing that bill for a state pension was to be before the legisla- ture, and thinking that Hughes was 8 true friend to us, voted for him al- most to a man. But he proved false to us, and vetoed the bill, after it had passed both houses"
 A soldiers widow, writing to a New Jersey paper, says:
 Tt 0OeS seem strange that increase in our pensions has been granted to us by a Democratic Congress and a Democratic President. It was under the administration of Cleveland, on March 19, 1886, that we received the SIP pension. And now, under the Ashbrook bill, while MT. Wilson is President, we have received $S a month more. God bless such big hearted men, and may MT. Wilson be re-elected."N
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-30
CHAMPION OF SMALLER
 MERCHANTS AND BUSINESS MEN,
 CHARLES H. |NGERS0LL ASSERTS

country cannot expect them to be in a condition to contribute as they can so nightly do, under proper condi- tions, to the prosperity and welfare of its business.
 'Let the merchant observe how the passage by the Wilson administration of the Federal Reserve Act and the Unfair Competition Act, and the creation of the Federal Trade Com mission, the Clayton law, the Rural Credits bill, the Tariff commission and the Good Roads and Child Labor acts, as well as the Wilson appointees to the United States Supreme Court and other important posts, have help ed to bring about better conditions, which are felt already, and which will be increased tenfold if those who created these agencies are continued in office to see them develop to full usefulness.
 Until the Wilson administration took office in 1913, no party ever had recognized the place and importance of the multitude of small businesses in American affairs. No preceding administration has had a practical insight into the improper and dis couraging handicaps which were placed in the way of the average merchant.
 Naturally, the Republican party, with its eyes glued to the interests of the great corporations from which 1t has always drawn fat campaign contributions, and in exchange for which it has devoted it's attention to legislative protection, has scant time for or appreciation of the needs or importance of the host of small busi- nesses not heavily represented on it's list of contributors.
 "But with the advent of President Wilson and the Democratic Congress came a new spirit-friendly to all wholesome and legitimate business, whether big or little, yet with a spe- cially sympathetic understanding of the problems of the smaller man, and with faith in the value of maintain ing conditions in which he could thrive and preserve his independent initiative.
 Evidence of this will be seen clearly from a brief summary of the effects of the important legislative acts which have been passed during
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-30
DEPIORABLE ARMY
 CONDITIONS UNDER
 A REPUBLICAN REGIME

Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, commanding First Cavalry, to General Shafter, commanding Army of Occupation in Cuba, Aug. 4, 1898: ''To keep Us here, in the opinion of every officer command ing a division or a brigade, will simply involve the destruction of thousands. In the Cavalry divi- sion, where I command 'ona Ee the two brigades, there have been 1,- 500 cases of malarial fever. The whole command is so weakened and shattered as to be. ripe for dy- ing like rotten sheep when real yellow fever epidemic, instead of 0 fake epidemic like the present, strikes us. If we are kept here 1t will in all human probability mean an appalling disaster, for the sur geons here estimate that over half / the army, if kept here during the sickly season, will die. The sick list, large though it is, exceeding four thousand, affords but faint index of the debilitation of the army. Not ten per cent are fit for active work"
 Round Robin" to General Shafter, signed by Roosevelt, Wood and other general officers, Aug. 4, 1898: "The Army is dis abled by malarial fever to the ex- tent that its efficiency is destroy ed and it is in a condition to be practically entirely destroyed by an epidemic of yellow fever, which is sure to come in the near future. This army must be moved at once or perish" K. +-'-t
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-30

New York, Oct 30.-Charles H. Ingersoll, watch manufacturer, an or- ficer of the Wilson Business Mems Ma tional League, President of the Woodrow Wilson Advertisers League, to-day made public a state ment Urging the reelection of Presi- dent Wilson as the first champion of the. small merchant and business man.
 Mr. Ingersoll said that the state ment would be printed at once in a pamphlet and mailed to many thous- and retailers throughout the coun- try.
 As a manufacturer who sells di- rectly to the retailer, MT. Ingersoll has studied the problems of the re- tail merchant, and made common cause with the small business man in his struggle for a fair field.
 Political observers see in MT. Ing erso1rs appeal the first recognition of the importance of the mans who keeps the neighborhood store as a factor in public affairs.
 The statement made public to-day recites in terse and forceful terms President Wilson's record of accom- plishment in freeing business from artificial and unfair competition and leaving every enterprising merchant a. fair field.
 Big business is little business in the aggregate" said MT. Ingersoll. "All but a negligible minority of the goods produced by the army of Amer ican labor in vast quantities finally tricsles to consumers in small lots, across the counters of Americas million and more retail stores most of them small business.
 Safeguard American men against unfair competition and they will take care of themselves,' said Wood row Wilson at Philadelphia, on Octo- Der 29, 1912. When merchants are harassed by ruinous predatory price cutting, when they have to meet misrepresentation of values in the advertising appeal to their customers by interruptions competitors, when bank and trade credits are stiff and inelastic and manipulated in favor of those with close relations with the money power, when unreasonable and discriminatory inside prices are granted to the favored lfew-then the
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-30

the Wilson administration as enumer- ated above, embracing what the President has styled The New Free dom and to which is largely due our present widely scattered prosperity"
 MT. Ingersoll then describes in de- tail the workings of the Federal Re- serve act, the Unfair Competition act, the Federal Trade Commission, the Clayton act and its prohibition of unfair price discrimination, the Rural Credits law, the Tariff Commission act. and the Good Roads and Child Labor acts.
 The statement emphasizes in par ticular the discovery by the Trade Commission, that much unfair corn- petition and price cutting has been due to lack of proper business rec ords and accounting methods. He says:
 "The Commission has worked out for retail merchants adequate ac- counting system, the forms for which are supplied without cost to retailers. and which may be procured by any merchant who will write to the Fed eral Trade Commission. The Com mission has discovered that failures hy the thousands were being caused
 
 as to the actual cost of doing busi- ness and that, without knowing it. merchants were conducting portions of their business at a loss, to the detriment of all legitimate interests
 "No other administration had the welfare of the small business man sufficiently at heart to create this valuable agency for assistance from the government.
 Here is a chance for the retail merchants of this country to make themselves felt, for the present ad- ministration is the first which ever has recognized them with fair laws. The greatest good can be had only by the retailers uniting to voice their indorsement of what has been done. The present administration has prc-- ed itself to be an impartial friend not only of labor and agricultural inter- ests, to which all parties have cater ed, but it also has held the balance true and given a fair deal to the small business men, who never hays been deemed worthy of such recog- hilton.
 Are the retailers going to turn down the first administration that has seen their problems and done so much for them, not on account of any partisan interest on behalf of the retailers, but out of an appreciation Of the fact that goods must be sold as well as made, that men must be stationed conveniently to the con. suming public in all quarters of the country, and that they perform an important and useful function and should have a square daal7"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-30
AMERICA FIRST,
 SAYS H. STEIN, GERMAN VOTER
Long Island Automobile Dealer Declares He is a
 Wilson Republican.

New York, Oct. 30.-A striking les- son. to- the foreign born, who have come here to enjoy the blessings of America, is voiced in a letter to Presi- dent Wilson by H. Stein, a German automobile dealeA in Long Branch, N. J. MT. Stein says in part:
 'I, am not an American by birth. but am by adoption, and, although it is natural that my good wishes should go with the land of my activity, where have relatives, I put American in terests first, because I think that it is not only a duty I owe America and to my own interest, but also because I believe that it will be to the ad- vantage of all Europe in the end for America to keep out of the scrap.
 T am therefore, supporting you, al- though I have been a. Republican. The big thing is that you have pro- tected > American interests without bloodshed, in a war-mad world. A new President would mean uncer- tainty at home and abroad, and that would add to our problems of keep ing the peace, without which there can be neither prosperity nor pro- gress."
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-30
One of "Seven Little Governofs" Wilson Man

New York, Oct. 30-Joseph M. Carey, of Wyoming, one of the seven Republican governors who, in 1912, advocated the election of Theodore Roosevelt on the Progressive ticket, telegraphed the following statement to-day to the Democratic National Committee:
 "As a Progressive, I am support ing President Wilson. The Progress sive platform of 1912 was one of the greatest documents ever proclaimed by a political convention. Many of the blanks of that platform have been carried out by the Wilson Ad- to the letter. The Rural Credit Act I look upon as the great est law ever passed for the benefit of the agricultural interests. Scarcely second is the Federal Reserve Law. Another act is that creating the Fed eral. Trade Commission. Then we have had the Child Labor Act, a law. improving the rural postal ser vice, extension of the Parcel Post, good roads laws just labor laws.
 'I might enumerate other laws en- acted under President Wilson, who showed that he had the power to accomplish many things that had been talked about for years without results In addition, an ordinary President could have had this coun- try in a complication of wars that would have cost thousands of lives and hundreds of millions of dollars. It has taken a great President to avoid war. Under the mostA trying circumstances, MT. Wilson has prov ed himself great man and a great President. The objections to his re- election, when investigated, dwindle into nothing. It is no time now to change the head of the government D
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-30
ALMANAC FOR TO-DAY

JUST ARRIVED DUTCH AND FRENCH BULBS. JOHN RICK & SON
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-30

The Cunard liner Tuscania arrived at New York from Liverpool
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1916-08-31
The COAST ARTILLERY COMPANY

Aside from the benefit the young
men signing with the organization will
receive from its training, the organiza-
tion of Company IL, Coast Artillery.
o. N. G., will benefit Hood River ma.
terially. Under new articles of war,
yearly appropriation of from $1,000
to IS. 200 for payroll and the purchase
of equipment will be made. Equipment
to the value of Sc. 900 will be sent here
Immediately. At the mastering in meet
ing Major W. W. Wilson said, eff you
were going to get factory with pay
roll of this amount, you would be
printing it far and wide"
As was succinetly stated by Roy d.
Smith. veteran of the Spanish Amer
lean war, in last weeks Glacier. the
young man in military organization.
IL he takes his work seriously, as be
should. will receive inestimable bene-
ffo
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1916-08-31
ORCHARDS ARE FINE
SAYS A. A. SCHENCK

A. A. Schenck, of Omaha, Nebr.,
engineer of maintenance of the G. &
N. W. R. R. Co.. who has been here for
the past several weeks on his East Side
orchard place, left Tuesday afternoon
for Portland with Mrs. Schenck to visit
old time Northwestern railway men
and indulge in "reminiscences of older
days. While here MIR. and Mrs.
Schenck visited MIR. and Mrs. C. D.
Hoyt.
Mr.. Schenck in 1883 and 1884 was
resident engineer of the D. r. & MO-.
Under his supervision much of the
tracks of the pioneer line was straigt-
ened out. Mr.. Schenck, who has de-
veloped his orcard place from the orig.
inal woodland to bearing trees, declares
that he is pleased with conditions pre-
vailing over the fruit area. Much ben.
eft has been gained by growers in
their adoption of diversified farming
and the planting of cover crops, he de-
clares.
While here Mr.. and Mrs. Schenck
were visitors to the Mitchell Point tun-
mel of the Highway, which the visitor
charatcterizes as one of the greatest
pieces of highway engineering be has
ever seen.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1916-08-31
HUGHES ALLIANCE
HAS MANY MEMBERS

The Hood River branch of the Ma.
tional Hughes ALLIANCE bids fair to
have more members by far than any
political organization ever existing in
Hood River. The organization of the
new Hughes club was begun here last
Thursday by A. A. Courteney, of Port
land.
With live central committee already
at the helm of affairs and with keen
enthusiasm prevailing for the presi.
Dental nominee, Hood Rivers heaviest
Republican vote is being predicted al
the coming November election.
The Hughes Alliance Of Hood River
has over 100 charter members. Tenn.
porary officers of the Republican or.
gaiation are: l.. N. Blowers, chair
man: Frank A. Cram, vice chairman
W. H. Walton. secretary; F. h. Isen.
berg, treasurer.
A permanent organization will be
perfected as soon as State Organizer
Courteney can secure q charter from
the Alliance headquarters in New York
city.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1916-08-31
The AUTOMOBILE PROBLEM

The automobile is making an eco
nomic problem for this country that il
difficult of solution. You will hear the
street corner orator telling of how
much money the purchase and up-keeE
of motor cars are taking from rura
districts and are sending in a great
stream to metropolitan centers. The
chronic grumbler, not financially in a
position to raise the necessary funds
for first installment of an automobile
purchase, will worry few more hairs
off his already sparsely settled pate
bemoaning the condition of society
that permits nefghbors, who are not
able to indulge in the luxury, to buy
runabouts and touring cars. And some
times that citizen, too tight to spend
his own money on car but who never
theless never loses an opportunity of
accepting the invitation of generous
friend to enjoy a spin, grows caustic
IN his remarks on the ways of the
world in buying automobiles.
And there is a basis of truth in all
that grumblers have to say, despite
the fact that we like to avoid such con-
versations. Still there is a problem
that they never seem to touch upon.
When people buy automobiles they
seem to feel that they must use them
morning, evening and nighttime. In a
great many cases those who buy auto
mobile are becoming the owners of ve-
hicles that are needed in the business
they pursue. The criticism of these
remarks is not meant to apply to this
class of automobile purchasers. The
man, however, who buys an automobile
for pleasure only. TOO often gets too
much pleasure. He becomes an expon-
ent of that trite saying. Pleasure be-
fore business. His affairs are too
often neglected. He and his family,
with the ranch or store taking care of
itself, are away, answering the call
of the road.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1916-08-31
FROM PORTLAND TO PORTLAND

In an issue of the Evening Telegram
of last week Lucia B. Hartman tolC
of a conversation with Howard D.
Hadley, of Plattsburg, N. Y. repre-
sentative on the Hughes transconti'
mental tour of the New York Evening
Post. The conversation occurred in the
Ice Palace, while the two we're await.
ing the arrival of Justice Hughes.
Mr.. Hadley is an enthusiastic expon.
ent of good trunk line highways. He
is president of the Quebec Miami In
ternational Highway Association. and
naturally was enthusiastic over the Co
lumbia highway. The Telegram story
has aroused more than a passing inter-
est. Mr.. Hadley declares that road,
we'll built, of stone. should extend
from Portland, Me-, to Portland. Ore.
He says:
What road that would be Why, it
would lead through the White noun
tains of New Hampshire, the Green
mountains of Vermont, the Champlain
valley, the Adirondacks, past the won
derful Thousand Islands of the majes-
tic St. Lawrence. Lake Ontario. Mag
ara Falls, Lake Erie, Lake Michigan,
the Twin Cities, st. Paul and Minneap-
oils, across the wheat fields of Mime
sofa and the Dakotss. through the
world-fsmous Red river valley, the
"Dread Basket of the World" Via
Fargo. Bismark-p passing through Me.
dora, where Roosevelt ranched it 35
years ago, then on to Billings. Mont,
the railway center of region so rich
in soil, mines, waterpower and scenic
attractiveness as to make it certain
that Billings will soon be great city
rivaling the other great business and
educational centers of the Northwest
through Yellowstone national park
with branch road running up to the
Glacier national park - then right
through to Portland, Ore., over the
greatest highway in the world the
Columbia River highway, reserving-
properly enough-the dessert for the
last end of this touring meal"
The suggestion has made an appeal
to DR.. NJ. Thrane. who declares that
Mr.. Hadley has wonderful vision of
the future.
And this leads US to remark that we
are living too soon here in the Colum-
bia river gorge. Mr.. Hadley's dreams
are coming true. In less than two
decades that road about which he talks
will probably be reality. The mid
Columbia, with its unparalleled seem
cry, will be linked with the rock bound
coast of Maine.
But let's change that sentence above,
about living too soon. The completion
of main roads is not so far away in the
future that great many of US will be
deprived of the pleasure to be derived
from them. and of seeing journeying
thousands here among US reveling in
our scenic splendors.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1916-08-31
RULES OF THE ROAD

1t would be well for all automobile
drivers to read Oregon laws pertaining
to rules of the road. The Glacier in
the past several days has heard numer-
Gus complaints as to motorists who fail
to sound warning signals when round.
ing curves. The law specifically states
that a warning should be sounded
where the driver cannot see a distance
of 800 feet straightaway.
During the past week a number of
motor cars have been driven up and
down Cascade avenue after night with
out lights on. This practice endangers
the lives of children residing on the
street.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1916-08-31

The Ounce has disappeared from the
schools and Is not even pointed out In
the streets as erstwhile.
And the dear old man who used to
drop In few hours before supper
and decline to remove his topcoat
because he had but few minutes to
stop and who fingered until he was
invited to eat, when be accepted, and
who remained until 10 o'clock in the
evening and then remarked that 1t was
time for him ito be shown up the
creek"
And the fine old gentleman who
came In from the farm carrying a
change in pair Of saddlebags. When
did you ever see pair of these bags?
And the gracious lady, the neighbor,
who never baked anything good that
she didn't send some over to your
house? Eh? - Richmond Times Dis
patch.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1916-08-31
AUTO BUG SEXES
VAUDEVILLE FOLK

The automobile bug recently seized
some Portland vaudeville folk, and as
a result ". J. Elliott, after visiting
various marts for old cars, bought an
old machine and began tour of the
country, accompanied by his wife and
son, Bill. and Miss Farrin, all talented
musicians.
The party arrived here the first of
the week over the Highway and are
visiting old friends. Mr.. and Mrs. j.
H. Bywater.
I'VE contemplate a concert here Fri
day or Saturday night" says Mr.. Eli
Oft. "But / want to tell you one
thing" the former vaudeville man
continued, 81 certainly know more now
than | ever did before about an auto
mobile and ! guess have got lot to
learn"
The Elliotts and Miss Farrin were
formerly on the Orpheum and Pantages
circuits.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1916-08-31

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