The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-30


 and Fairbanks.
 Pussy means young cat and cats IS cats and purr softly and carry big scratch Foot means foot-as In nay foot, foot-work, hot-foot, foot-loose, etc.
 Human nature-being human naturally shies at the unknown and fears the future and loves a job!
 That is the psychological dope be-
 hind the Pussy's foot. People who
 won't vote for Hughes through sheer force of habit or because they want to write their own tariff schedule, are to be scared into it.
 It won't work, because the Average American Voter has Growed Up- and has a forward vision of life. But here is the scheme:
 At times business is as timid and shy as the gold back of it. Business is easy to scarce-or was before Will son took politics out of tariffs and panics out of credits.
 The Republican campaign man. agers try to discount all this and throw fear into business by talking about what might happen if. The Hughes Business Mems League every big city has a branch-sends out pamphlets which an executive committee signs with an array of
 imposing names which give eclat to the document.
 Here is the scare: "As the end of
 the European war will bring us face
 to face with grave international
 crisis our foreign trade requires the
 support of a forceful and efficient
 government; under low Democratic
 tariff rates we shall be subjected to
 ruinous competition"
 And so Big Business invites "Fel-
 low Citizens to join in the Hughes
 Business Mems League and vote for
 Hughes.
 The circularizee is furnished with
 blanks with space for signatures,
 pledging the support of Hughes and
 Fairbanks, and is asked to circulate these blanks 'in your place of busi- ness for signature, and furnish
 blanks to women voters in your homes for active circulation. Whether we are to go Forward with Wilson or Back to the days of Special Privilege and Boss Rule with Hughes is another question. The fact is that business has to be secured by Big Business to vote for Hughes. If the circular means anything, it means that if you don't vote for Hughes you | won't get a restoration of the Payne | Aldrich tariff and Intervention in | Mexico.
 Furnish blanks to women voters
 in your homes for active circulation" !"
 That's a good idea, but it won't make
 many votes for Charles Evasion
 Hughes, who in one week received a delegation of suffragettes and an- other of anti-suffra gettes and sent BOTH delegations away pleased and
 statistical! Besides, the women of
 every state in the Union know that | WE ARE WORKING AND NOT FIGHTING"
 The Hughes and Fairbanks Uptown
 Drygoods Association hangs out it's
 banner at 354 Fourth avenue, New York It has circularized the man. agers of the New York business houses. It's treasurer is William Skinner!
 l This association after drooling | along through some. three paragraphs for Sustaining Members to contribute | $10 for Certificates of Membership, l gets down to cases in the fourth: Possibly you would be willing to communicate with your individual | customers; but the real nub is here | -'there are doubtless many of your employees who might like to become
 members" And the reward? When
 election Is over we shall all be glad. In this circular there is not a word about the Payne-AldRich tariff, but | with a knowledge of New York's con- | trfbution to the making. of that tariff, there is not much doubt as to what
 the Drygoods Association hopes i've
 shall all be glad" of. Thanking you on behalf of the Committee, I am,
 Yours truly.''
 The heather Chinese has nothing on the Republican National Commit tee for ways that are dark. It is a lovsby octopus and stretches out it's linky arms from 511 Fifth avenue to well, say Chicopee Falls, Mass, the
 home of the Fisk Tire Company. That
 Company sends out circulars; same old appeal. MT, Breadwell, Vice. President of the Fisk Tire Company. states how anxious Cornelius N. Bliss, IT,, Republican Campaign Treasurer, is to reach a goal he has set." One of the Fisk Tire Company's circulars reached Bachhuber Bros,
 an enterprising Wisconsin firm, the members of which are of German eX- traction The Milwaukee Journal thinks it likely that this fact caused their getting one of MT. Broadwell's s circulars.
 The shock of the Bacf1huber Bros. reply was probably not entirely ab- sorbed at the Fisk Tire factory; but you can bet your rubber tired boots 1 that Chairman Wilcox of Republican
 Headquarters did not give out that | reply for publication!
 | Because Bachhuber Bros. "are at l a loss to understand why the Fisk | Tire Company should consider them- | selves in any way called upon to act
 as campaign collector for the Repub- lican National Committee" They
 'are further at a loss to understand why you, an automobile tire concern,
 should make itself a party to retire the present Administration.' | Get that? Pretty good, eh? A Chicopee Falls Rubber Company try l ing to retire this Administration! l Why change? As Bachhuber Bros.
 say-"We can truthfully assert that
 never in the history of the country
 has there been such prosperity. We
 can further say that there has never
 been in this (apply it anywhere) sec 1 ton of the country such prosperity 1 in any branch of the mercantile
 farming, the manufacturing business
 nor amongst the laboring, salaried or
 professional men as there has been | d1r;,,r st tiop