Milford chronicle., 1927-09-09
MANUFACTURERS IN GET OUT
THE VOTE CAMPAIGN; SEEK
TO DRAW TO THE POLLS &c.
100000 OF THE ELIGIBLE
VOTERS

NEW YORK, September 5-Ah-
nouncement was made here today by
John E. Edgerton, president of the
National Association of Manufactur-
ers, that the organized industry Of
the nation would enter upon a Get
Out the Vote Campaign on November
l, to be continued throughout the
coming year and up into the presi-
Dental campaign of 1928.
This will be purely an educational
| effort, reaching the public in gener-
al, the hundreds of thousands of en-
ployers and the millions of employ
ees Immediately in the industrial
field, to arouse them to a realization
that good government depends on the
complete interest of all it's citizens
of voting age; to show them the ad-
vantage of national representation
and the disadvantages and dangers
of minority rule.
This campaign will follow immed-
lately upon the conclusion of the
work of the Platform of American
Industry Committee of One Hundred
which is now drawing up platform
to be submitted to both the Repub-
lican and Democratic parties and
which will be acted upon first by the
manufacturers at their convention in
Chattanooga in October.
This effort will be revival of the
Get Out the Vote Campaign of 1924
conducted by the National Associa-
ton of Manufacturers with the CO.
operation of approximately 1000 or
ganizations in every part of the
country. In that year the association
originated and spread broadcast the
slogan vote as You Please, but
Vote" which was displayed on red
white-and-blue stickers and the
pamphlet Stockholders Meeting of
the U. S. A." and during the cam
paign put out something like 25,-
100000 pieces of literature at it's own
expense and without any commercial
aspect.
To emphasize the need for a re-
vival of the public's interest in the
thing of most vital concern to it
representative conduct of the ma
tion's business-Mr. Edgerton points
out that in 1896, eighty per cent of
the eligible voters of the country
went to the polls and voted; in 1900
the performance shaded off to 73 per
cent; in 1908 it went down to &C per
cent; in 1912 it decreased to 62 per
cent; in 1916 to approximately 60
per cent. In 1920 it dropped down to
the point where only 49.1 per cent of
the eligible voters went to the polls,
or 26,646,273 out of a possible 54,-
165,9O7.
In 1924, through the unusual inter-
est aroused, the voting interest was
retrieved from the discreditable one
of a president being elected by a
of a minority of the eligible
voters to one of a president being |
elected by a majority of majority
of the eligible voters. In 1924 the
number of voters was approximate
ly 30,000,000 and the eligibles ST.
100000. The eligible voters for 1928
will be about 6O,OOO,OOO and the man
believe that to have a
creditable performance, at least six
ty per cent of the eligibles should
go to the polls or 96,000,0O0.
''Voting is the national business of
every citizen Of voting age,'' said Mr..
"In the light of earthly
we have become the
most favored nation in the world,
with everything that should make
for contentment and further advan-
By virtue of the foresight,
toll and continued application of past
generations we have become affluent
it is the duty of the present and
coming generations to continue the
success of the nation. To my mind.
1ne of the surest means by which we
can accomplish this, and offset the
elements of destruction and danger .
hat are continually at work, is for
every eligible voter, man and wo- ]
nan, to go to the polls and cast his
)allot In this coming campaign, the (
do not pretend or de- (
lire to dictate how a man should
rote; but they are keenly anxious to
lave every eligible think in terms of
lis country's standing and the place S
t must maintain in the family of {
lations, to study the men who are s
he nominees and then vote for the
nan his conscience tells him is best
or the country's well-being, whether
hat man is Republican, Democratic
r Independent of either party. Com
lete exercise of the franchise will i
elp to make a complete well-pro- c
ected nation" i