The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-10-24

] hANA tOEtNi4Gi " UlOQu&t a newer anu
greater race-the Americans.
The second number, Marcus Keller
man and company, is on the boards
tonight
ployment in Cleveland during the win
ter of 1894. LabOrers are receiving
IS a day in Cleveland and signs offer
ing so cents an hour to girls in fac
tory work are so numerous as to at
tract general attention.
Rely on Single Issue.
The chief manager Of the Democrat
ic campaign in Cleveland informed me
that the president viii carry the city
and county without doubt and ] ask
ed him on what issue Mr.. Wilson is
finding favor with the people.
Because he has kept the country
out Of war" replied the Democratic
leader. TITS the big argument. over
shadowing all others out this way
An hour later l heard the directing
genius of the Republican campaign in
Cleveland confess that he is working
desperately to stem the tide of senti-
ment flowing toward Wilson in this
locality. l asked him how he ac-
counted for it.
well, there are lots of Republicans
who think that the president ought to
be given a vote of confidence" he
replied. "They believe he has done
pretty well with a hard job, and that
in any event he has kept us out of
war"
Aliens Hope Of Hughes.
l was accorded the rare privilege of
going over the detailed canvass of the
wards of Cleveland by the Republican
precinct workers There were hun
dreds of names of voters who have
/ sgnified their intention of voting for
Mr.. Wilson, because he kept us out
of war; There were hundreds Of
other names of Republicans who re-
corded themselves as undecided in
choosing between Hughes and Wilson,
although intending to vote the remain
der of the Republican ticket.
The chief hope of the Republican
leaders is that the voters of German
and Hungarian origin will save the
day for Hughes in Cleveland. The
German and Hungarian vote in this
city is normally Democratic, so that
if this element of the electrate deserts
the president it will be all clear gain
for the Republicans. The Democratic
leaders realize this and are counter
ing.
Eve are telling the Germans that
Roosevelt will be in Hughes cabinet,
said a Democratic manager 1T is
quite effective, l think"
The Adamson law furnishes only q
secondary issue here. Practically all
of the political capital made out of il
has been made by the president
Cleveland is a large railroad center
The Erie and Lake Shore shops, en-
ploying thousands of men, are located
here. Brotherhood President Lee Of
the trainmen and Stone of the engi.
neers, who live here and make Cleye-
land the headquarters of their propa-
ganda, are calling upon railroad EN-
ployes everywhere to vote for the mar
who put the Adamson law through
l congress.
st is well understood among tn,
workers that the AdamsOn law doe;
not establish a true eight hour worl
day and that it merely raises rs PEI
r cent the wages of 100000 train operat
- ing employees. But the realization o
this discrimination has not benefited
the Republicans appreciably among
i the 80 per cent of railway employees
e whose wages will not be advanced b,
V the Adamson act. A large proportion
= of these employees, particularly clerks
are Republicans anyway.
q large proportion of the emplOye
Y in yards, shops and on interstate traf
n fic, who are not benefited by the Ad
n amson wage raise law, are hoping tina
j., the palpable discrimination agains
v them will give them the support o
public sentiment in demands now be
# ing formulated for higher pay
T Workers Pleased by Raise.
e What the Republicans discovered il
s the ranks of organized labor after MI
g Hughes denounced the Adamson lay
d in Ohio startled them. His exposur
y of the statute as a wage raise instea
h of an eight hour law did not stir tn
workingmen to enthusiasm They sal
y they were for any candidate VIII
e stood for wage raise, no matter hoy
i it was obtained. Thereupon the Re
n publican candidates of the state me
l. with the Republican county commit
N teemen and adopted a resolution dc
claring that the Adamson law is nc
an issue in Ohio.
N Every Republican member of cor
e gress from Ohio except Fass voted fc
le the Adamson law.
lie Everybody is so prosperous aroun
n here that contentment with existin
e, conditions is the rule" said an offici;
lie of the Cleveland chamber of con
h merce. people are not worried abol
l. the tariff, or Mexico, or the railroa
n mems law, and about the only inter
est in the big war is that we are M
l. in it and almost everybody is willin
n to credit Wilson for that. l am goin
n to vote for Hughes because I'm a R,
10 publican, but / am placing a few be