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Forelgu post age double ratea Eastern Business Offlt-e The S. c. Beck wlth Special Agency New York, rooms 48 ko Tribune building. Cnicaeo, rooms ulO-512 Tribune building. PORTLAND. SATURDAY. JUDY 11, 1808. THE HUMOR OF IT. The country must greatly enjoy the humorous work of the Denver con vention. It was humorous all over and through and through. It eulo gized Cleveland, who was repudiated by his party, and intensely hated, so long as he was in place and power, and till long afterward. But this was not remarkable at all, not in the least degree of a nature to produce amusement or excite guffaw, com pared with the special resolution on Abraham Lincoln. That was the cli max. It was the height, the top, the crest, the crest unto the crest, of the humor (or impudence) of American politics. "Whereas," says this deliverance, "the 100th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln will occur February 12, 1909; resolved, by the Democratic convention, that we recommend its appropriate celebration throughout the land." No party ever swallowed humble pie in this manner, or to such extent, before. The object simply was to catch persons supposed not to knw the history of their country, who yet have greatest possible rever ence for Abraham Lincoln. To think that within the memory of men yet living, who knew Abraham Lincoln, and who remember the fierce ness of the Democratic assaults upon him, from the time his great speeches In Illinois first brought him National fame, to the day of his death by the hand of an assassin inspired to his deed by this abuse to think of such eulogy of him by this party now! But the convention had prepared Itself for this effort by Its eulogy of Grover .Cleveland, who was at vari ance with his own party on the great matters of his time, yet could not pos sibly be. hated by it as Lincoln was earlier. Yet having eulogized Cleve land, Denver proceeded to completion of the palinode by extraordinary eu logy of Lincoln. Of Lincoln, the lead ing and greatest opponent of all the ideas and purposes of this party eulogy of Lincoln, to whom, chiefly. Its discredited position before the American people has been due, these fifty years! So long as he lived the mildest of the epithets this party applied to him were, "destroyer of the Constitution," "bloody tyrant," and "the ape of Illi nois." All force and fury and oppro brium were summed up In one epithet "abolitionist." He was denounced as "a tyrant, engaged In the subjuga tion of states"; he had "disregarded and trampled on the Constitution in every part"; under his direction there had been "subversion of the civil by the military law"; "suppression of freedom of speech and of the press, denial of the right of asylum, open and avowed disregard of state rights," and "Interference with. and denial of the right of the people to bear arms." (This last expression refers to the or der to disarm enthusiastic Democrats of the North, who were organizing military companies to aid their South ern brethren by a fire in the rear.) That this may not be flouted as parti san accusation, let us say that the ex pressions are drawn from the Democratic party platform adopted at Chicago, in an effort to defeat the re election of Lincoln, in the crisis of the war for the Union, August, 1864. Moreover, the platform, then and there adopted, declared the war for restoration of the Union "a failure, and demanded that "immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities.' It will be said, of course, that all this is ancient history, and has no perti nency now. Yet It may very properly be reproduced now as a reminder, to the party that made the record, yet now eulogizes Abraham Lincoln. On the morrow, after all this, came the announcement: "Sherman has taken Atlanta!" Next, "Farragut has carried the defenses of Mobile!" And Seward exclaimed, when called out for a speech at Washington, "Sher man and Farragut have knocked the bottom out of the Democratic nom inations at Chicago!" And, after a lapse of more than forty years, this party dimly discerns that Lincoln was right; and it pro ceeds to eulogize him. It goes fur ther, it recommends celebration next year by the whole people of his natal day an honor it never accorded even to Its prophet and founder, Jefferson. It wants to forget its whole past sil ver, too; about which it has not now one word. It seems to The Oregonian a fair presumption from the history of this party that it can hardly be thought a safe guide for the future. But whatever may be the conclusion o.' the American people on this sub ject, none will deny that this eulogy of Abraham Lincoln, proceeding from Denver, has a humorous quality ex ceeding that of any former utterance In our politics. The Oregonian has not willingly re called the history of the politics of a time when history was tragic and pol itics were tragedy; but this utterance at Denver challenges the recital. British Vice-Consul P. L. Cherry, who died at Astoria Thursday, was for nearly forty years a prominent fig ure in Columbia River shipping cir cles. For a great many years such a large proportion of the vessels coming to the Columbia River were under the British flag that no foreign Consul for other nations was located at Astoria, and Mr. Cherry looked after the in terests of the occasional German, Nor wegian and Russian vessels which en tered the river with a fidelity that won the respect and friendship of the entire shipping- community. Steam had not yet become a factor in the carrying trade of the Paclflc when Mr. Cherry began serving his govern ment at Astoria, and today, wherever steam and sail craft are plowing the seven seas will be found shipmasters who, when their old sailing craft reached the Columbia River, during Mr. Cherry's long term In office, had climbed the old stairway to ihe "Con sul's office" In Astoria. In the aggre gate these visitors numbered thou sands, and whether they came from before the mast or behind, the mast, they, all received -a cordial greeting and kind treatment from a true gen tleman, who left this world mourned by all who knew him. BRICKS WITHOUT STRAW. Since National conventions are un avoidably scenes of great excitement. It is perhaps too much to ask the platform-makers to maintain all their planks in a state of mutual harmony. If they did. their triumph would be superhuman. It is clearly Impossible to agree with everybody and not oc casionally disagree with oneself. It Is to be expected, therefore, that incon sistencies will appear in the Demo cratic platform and envious critics will doubtless bring them to light with glee. We have; in fact, found one, but we hold it up rather in sor row than in mirth, grieving that great men should err Instead of rejoicing in their fallibility. To put It briefly, there is a lack of harmony between the Democratic as piration concerning trusts and the Democratic theory of the Federal powers. The party of Jefferson wishes to destroy the trusts, but it Is also opposed to what it calls "central ization." Now it is useless to try to destroy the trusts, or anything, else for that matter, without invoking adequate means. It la not wise to try to blow out a stump with one stick of dynamite when a dozen are needed for the Job. The trusts cannot be de stroyed, or even regulated, by the states for many reasons. In the first place, many of them possess -more power than any single state does. They have more wealth, a greater income, can command the services of more adept legal advisers and through them direct in some de gree at least the decisions of the courts. It Is mere ineptitude to think of a state with its defective resources and limited powers controlling these mammoth syndicates which extend throughout the country and control Imperial revenues. The task demands the powers of a great nation. Again, It is doubtful whether the latent jealousy between the Federal and state Judiciaries will not forever thwart all serious efforts of the states to control or break up the trusts. By an interpretation of the Constitution which looks pretty badly strained, but which is likely to stand for all that, corporations are citizens of the United States and of the states where they have their headquarters. Hence they are not as a rule citizens of the states which try to regulate them, and it fol lows that they can elude state author ity whenever they choose by slipping Into the Federal courts. The Consti tution provides, in fact, that suits be tween parties who are citizens of dif ferent states may be carried to' the Federal courts. It m therefore out of the question that the states will ever be able to exercise much efficient au thority over corporations elsewhere resident. If these artificial citizens are controlled at all, it must be by the National Government, and if we wish to see them brought under the law we must permit the President and Congress to hold and exercise power enough to accomplish the task. It is mere - child's play to urge them to regulate the trusts and at the same time tie their hands. THE BATTI.KSIirp'8 DRAFT. The American battleship fleet has departed from the Pacific Coast and is now steaming westward to the Far East. Now that the last of the great sea fighters Is hull-down on the hori zon and the respective communities visited by them are straightening out their social rows and paying the bills, it may be permissible to refer In a dispassionate and retrospective man ner to the gross injustice shown Port land by the Navy Department's re fusal to send any of the battleships to Portland. It is a fact so well known that its repetition at this time may be superfluous, that vessels loading to 25 feet draft at Portland no longer excite comment, and others of from 2 5 feet 6 Riches to 26 feet draft are more often seen here. None of these vessels of from 25 feet to 26 feet draft experience the slightest difficulty In -making the trip from Portland to -the sea, although most of them are single- screw tramp steamships with none of the advantages in steering conspicu ous in the twin-screw battleships. With the knowledge that this was a safe port of entry for vessel? of 26 feet of water, the Portland people who were In closest touch with the situation naturally felt no hesitancy about inviting the Government to send a few battleships, none of which equaled in draft the tramp steamers plying regularly in and out of the port. In lieu of any legitimate or reasonable excuse for not sending a few of the ships to Portland, the woe fully incompetent Secretary of the Navy asserted that none of the battle ships had a draft of less than 26.5 to 2 7.5 feet of water. As The Orego nlan explained at the time, the draft given by the Government authorities was the maximum when the vessels were coaled and provisioned for long cruise. The actual draft of the vessels when they entered Seattle (which would have been the same had they come to Portland) was, for the Louisiana, one of the four largest ships in -the Navy, 25 feet. The Rhode -Island was drawing 24.5 feet, the New Jersey 25 feet forward and 25.6 feet aft. The Illinois was on an even keel with a draft of 24.2 feet, and the Kearsarge, with her for ward bunkers well cleaned out, was drawing 23.2 feet forward and 25 feet aft. In connection with these figures it is well to remember that the Charleston, which did come to Port land, was .drawing 25 feet of water, and not a single vessel of the fleet that came to the Coast would have had any more difficulty in reaching Portland than was experienced by the Charleston, which made the trip from sea to Portland and return without the slightest detention. The only reason for reopening this apparently closed incident Is for the purpose of vindicating the claims put forward by the Portland people to the effect that rank discrimination was being made against this port. The Columbia River has been receiving some severe blows from two classes of Portlanders. The timid, uninformed ' element refused to join In an effort to secure battleships for Portland for fear that "something might happen," the. knowledge of channel conditions' possessed by this element having been secured about twenty years ago. Sentiment of this nature is, of course, due to blind ignorance of con ditions, and it was ignorance that led a representative of another branch of Columbia River mlsrepresentatives in aapublic meeting in this city a few nights ago to declare boldly that we now had a sufficient depth of water for all requirements on the Colum bia below Portland. The . former seeks to show the river in a worse light than is warranted by facts. The latter seeks to show better conditions than actually exist for the purpose of diverting efforts from that portion of the river where they are most needed to other points where the need as yet is not great. Portland will have a thirty-foot channel in the river and forty feet on the bar as soon, as there Is reconciliation of these divergent views and united effort on the part of all the' people to remove natural han dicaps and unnatural and unreason able discriminations against the port. IT IS AX ADVERTISEMENT. A Pendleton paper makes this state ment: It Is worth S29.400, the amount which Pen dleton saloons would have contributed to the city during the next year in licenses, to known that for six days there has not been drunken man on the streets of the city and not a solitary drunken Inmate in the City Jail. This to an advertisement that should attract a lot of those people who have id they were looking for a dry town In which to buy a home and educate their chil dren. , Doubtless it is worth the money, to a town the size of Pendleton. But a big town will never be a dry town and a dry town will never be a bis town. Yet a big town may not be ' desirable thingi A few people will go to a dry town, to live quietly and edu cate their children. But that town preserving these conditions, will never grow to be a city of large population and variety of business and industry. Not that sale of liquor makes a city; but if a city is large and active, liquor will be sold in It, to meet a demand, as every other demand must be met in an Important city. Umatilla County decrees prohi bitlon In Pendleton. Very well. But whether liquor shall ever be sold in Pendleton again will depend ' on whether It shall grow " to be much larger or not. Meantime, as the years go on, note the difference between the growth of Walla WTalla, Pendleton's near neighbor, which is not dry, and Pendleton, which is dry, and a fine, quiet place to live. Of course The Oregonian is not arguing for liquor shops in Pendleton, or anywhere else. Let them be suppressed in communi ties that don't want them. But the conditions and facts may be stared Nobody should' be fond of illusion 01 of delusion, either. OPPORTUNITY IX OREGON. Opportunity is not by any means the fltful, fugitive creature which' some of the poets have said she is. Nor is it true that she has no hair but a forelock, being bald on the top and back of her head, so that if you do not grab her as she prances up you can never get hold of her afterwards. The truth . Is that opportunitj. is kindly, patient matron, at least in Oregon. Her head is covered with abundant locks not only in front, but all over the scalp, and she does not run past one like a frightened ghost, but advances placidly, holds out her hands invitingly and waits unvexed while one makes up his mind about her. In all the world there is no such accommodating person as Opportu nity, that is, Oregon Opportunity. Elsewhere she may be somewhat more coy. That is all very well, sighs some timid soul as he peruses these re marks. Of course The Oregonian must be expected to boom Oregon and paint roseate pictures of the delights of the Willamette, the Rogue and the Umpqua Valleys. But what are the facts? Is it not true that farm life there is a hard, dismal struggle with much pain and little pleasure, just as it is everywhere else in the world? We are about to set forth a few of the facts, but not for the benefit of dis couraged old cynics who will probably lose their tempers when they get to heaven because they will find nothing to grumble about. This message is addressed to the young, the hopeful and the energetic; to the man who- can think, plan and act, no matter what his age may be. There has been much gloomy preaching of late years that all the opportunities of the coun try have been grabbed by the trusts. "A man has no chance any more," it is said. "Let him toil never so stren uously, he cannot accomplish any thing. The plutocrats will rob him of all his profits." . They will rob him of all they can, there is no doubt of that. But after the trusts have reaped their harvest there still remains a tidy rem nant for the toiler himself if he man ages his affairs shrewdly. Witness the tale of the man not far from Roseburg who bought a half in terest in a prune orchard in the year 1907. The orchard contained twenty acres and the half interest in it cost $2750, for which the man gave his note at 8 per cent. He was not capitalist, either large or small, one perceives. He was only a man with sturdy muscles and a good, old-fash ioned American will. He possessed nothing, but his "labor power," and a fair stock of common sense to make it tell. He had not even a team of horses, but had to buy one before he could cultivate his trees, and this plunged him still deeper into debt. Worse yet, there was no drier on the place, and he had to build one. before prunes were ripe that Fall. The team and drier cost him $800, for which he gave another note at 8 per cent. Thus when he was ready to set his plow and harrow at work among the trees his account with the world showed on one side his brain, his muscle and a half interest in a twenty-acre or chard: on the other,' more than $3500 of debt. But he did not sit down and bewail the iniquities of the trusts. He went to work. He plowed, he harrowed, he sprayed and cultivated, and in the Fall the Lord of the harvest rewarded his labors. He gathered and sold from his trees prunes enough to pay off his debt, all of it, including the price of the orchard and the cost of the team and drier, with a handsome surplus to buy a new dress for his wife, and sprae other luxuries. Here opportu nity met with a man who knew how to use it;i and he is not the only one. There is a true story of a man near Grants Pass who arrived there from the "East" without a penny in his pocket. He hired out to work on a farm and saved enough before Spring to buy a span of horses and a wagon. With this capital he went in debt for a quarter section of fruit land, some of it already set with bearing trees. In five years he had paid for the whole and had a new orchard mature enough to produce fruit the next sea son! Such are the rewards of indus try combined with common sense in this part of the world. These two cases are not exceptional. They are typical. Men are doing sim ilar things all over the state. And the beauty of it is that there are hun dreds of thousands of acres, in one part of Oregon or another, which will make fortunes for the men who will bring them Into tillage. Some of this land is adapted for prunes, some to walnuts, some to apples. There are great areas which are more suitable for grazing .than anything else. The climate of the state is so varied in different portions, the soil so diversi fied and the climate everywhere so pleasant that a man who wishes to earn a competence from the soil can find an opportunity, whatever his taste may be. There are but few places In Oregon where five acres of land properly tilled will not support a family in abundance. Small farms give enormously greater returns than large ones In proportion to the capital and labor invested. In all our val leys, on every hillside, there are homes watting for new owners, homes by the hundred thousand where gar dening, dairying, fruitgrowing, all the rural trades, will prosper. Where are the people who will grasp the oppor tunities and reap . the destined re wards ? Earnest protest is voiced by Eastern newspapers against the sky-piercing project of the Equitable Life Insur ance Company, which will make the towering edifices of Singer and the Metropolitan Life look insignificant by comparison. It is pointed out that the crush in the streets after business hours will be intolerable. At Chicago similar protests are made and they are calling for a halt in building more skyscrapers "within the union loop. Some day probably not twenty years distant we shall hear In Portland vigorous opposition to multiplying this class of buildings. Still, for- the rea son that our blocks are smaller than those of any other city in the land and our room for pedestrians propor tionately larger, we can never have the congestion on sidewalks complained of in Lower Manhattan and the heart of Chicago. Which is one compensa tion for the first plat under which half the ground in original Portland Is corner lots. The Salem Board of Trade is pro moting a project for construction of "a smooth, hard-surfaced, straight and even-grade highway" from Port land to Eugene. It ought to succeed. for such a road is a necessity. If Portland intends to join the capital city in the enterprise, it might not be a bad plan to make a beginning on that disgraceful trail which years ago was pointed at with pride as our White House road. There are few, if any, worse stretches of road leading out of the city, although the natural beauties of the route traversed make it an exceptional favorite for pleasure-seekers. This highway should be placed In condition so that It would be safe for life and limb to move over at a faster gait than a walk and with out being smothered with the dust Here indeed is a case where reform in roadbuilding should begin at home. One of the whim-whams of "the new system," carried in the late elec tlon by amendment of the Constitu tlon, is so-called proportional repre sentation. The Oregonian is asked whether it will be in force when" elec tors of President and Vice-President are voted for next November. No; for no provision has been made by law for the purpose, and may never be. The candidates for the Vice-Presi dency on the two principal tickets this year are sufficiently obscure. Sher man is a local politician of Utlca, N. Y.; Kern, a member of the Hoosler Democracy, has been floating and drifting about French Lick, with Tom Taggart. Evidently the conventions didn't suppose either of these men ever would be President. We find In the Denver platform that Senators should be elected by a direct vote of the people; but to our sorrow no commendation of the Ore gon method and the Holy Statement This way of offering the word of promise to the ear but breaking It to the hope, is one of the sad trials in the career of urenic reform. Injunctions should not be Issued In any cases In which injunctions would not issue if no industrial dispute were involved. That is the meat of the Democratic anti-injunction plank. Take a day off and figure out what it means. Then take a week off and try it all over again. Who could have supposed the time ever would come when the great Democratic party, famed for its ever lasting principles, would abandon free coinage of silver and offer " special eulogy to Abraham Lincoln that never offered to Thomas Jefferson? .Pennsylvania was to the Democratic just what Mississippi was to the Re publican convention. Their political activities cease entirely as soon as the convention adjourns. Yamhill County, be It understood, is perfectly willing that the rest of the state shall pay all the taxes that Yam hill declines to pay. That's the way it works out. - Our own ex-Senator Gearin referred to' the Peerless One as "silver tongued." Not the right word, nowa days. "Gold-heeled" Is better. New York cast its seventy-eight votes for Bryan under the unit rule. But there's no unit rule for New York Democrats in November. Mr. Bryan says the Presidency is the greatest office in the world; but the Sultan 'of Sulu wouldn't swap his Job for It. Judge Bryan congratulates Bryan "heartily." The judge, too, is entitled to general felicitations. He wasn nominated. AS TOLB BY J. P. MORGAN. The Story of the Fimoai Gold Sale to the Government. J, A. S. in the New York Exening Post. I met Mr. Morgan in Washington In the Spring of 1S95. and a few days after he told me the "real story of the Government bond syndicate." He said substantially as follows: "I went to the White House with Mr. Bacon and we were shown to the hall in the second story. In a corner room I saw President Cleveland, very much occupied in writing at an upright desk. In a few minutes he approached us. with his hands in his pockets, with rather a forbidding air." The President said: "Mr. Morgan, I have written you and telegraphed you that I would not see you on any matter relative to a bond issue. The United States Senate is holding me up, and I am determined that the people of the United States shall know that the Senate of the United States is solely responsi ble for the present financial crisis." "But," said Mr. Morgan. "Mr. President. gold is going out of the Treasury at the rate of from $3,000,000 to $5,000,000 a day. It is only a question of a short time when the United States Government will be bankrupt. It will then be on a silver basis, with an impaired credit, unable to meet its gold obligations. To which the President replied: "I have done all I can. or will do." To this Mr. Morgan said: "Mr. Presi dent. I do not ask that the Government shall sell bonds, but I am here to offer to sell to the United States $100,000,000 of gold." Mr. Morgan then turned to Mr. Olney and called his attention to an act of Con gress of 1861. authorizing the Treasurer of the United States to buy gold. In a few minutes Mr. Olney returned to the room with the act of Congress referred to by Mr. Morgan, saying the act had never been repealed. Mr. Morgan said he at once noticed a complete change in President Cleveland s manner and ap pearance, and he knew he had won his point. "Mr. President." said Mi. Morgan, "I will sell the United States Government $100,000,000 in gold, and take my pay in United States 6 per cent bonds at the market price." A contract to this effect was prepared by Mr. Olney then and there, and signed by Mr. Morgan, which gave the United States Government the option of paying for the $100,000,000 gold by a new Issue of 3 per cent gold bonds, or, as above stated, an Issue of 5 per cent bonds. The public announcement of this contract at once checked the outflow of treasury gold, and In less than ten days Mr. Mor gan had formed an American-European syndicate, which supplied the gold con tracted for. WHAT IT REALLY MEANS. Error of TVyinK to Do Away 1 Party Gorerameat . Newberg Graphic. When a candidate Is elected as repre should, sentatlve by any political party he as soon as he takes the oath of office, cease to be a partisan and (peek to represent the people as a mass and always cast his vote independent of any former prejudice, as he then represents the people as a whole end not any particular class. There should be no party measures In lawmaking. Forest Grove rimes. The above paragraph, and particularly the last sentence, is a fair sample of lot of very superficial thinking on the subject of good government. It repre sents a very proper reaction from the old regime .of extreme and corrupt partisan ship, but at the same time well illustrates how easy it is to go to senseless extremes In the other direction. Such sentiments as the above are catchy and have become popular with the unthinking masses but they will not stand close scrutiny. Our whole scheme of government is based upon the opera tion of political parties, which the people hold responsible for definite policies. Herein lies the genius of English-speak ing peoples for political organization and efficiency. The principle of party respon sibility is much more fully developed in Great Britlan than with us, with the re sult that the English methods of legisla tion are more efficient and less unwieldy than ours, while they are blissfully ig norant of the fact, those who cry against party measures and political organization-. would usher in an irresponsible hullaba loo, every-man-for-himself era of law making, similar to the political chaos which exists in such countries as France and Italy where political organization is notably weak, and where every other man has a little party pretty much of his own. Let's try to be sane in our attempts for political reform. Raise the Ideals of clti zenship, elect able, conscientious men to represent us, but don't try to do away with party government. That's funda mental in a representative government such as ours. IT WAS "OUT OF ORDER." - That la What a Polk County Critic of "The Statement" Says. West Side Enterprise (Independent.) There are so many arguments which will rise up in opposition when the Legislators come face to face with the nauseating inevitable of voting a Re publican Legislature and a Republican state into the ranks of the Democrats that we are Inclined to believe the issue will be averted in some manner. It has already occurred to the people that they have been "otrtof order" in the man ner in which Statement No. 1 has 'car ried since, its adoption. Statement No. 1 is nothing more than a popular nom ination, and as such it has no right to a place on the regular effective ballot. This one violation should be enough to render Its work inoperative at this time. It cannot be regarded as anything but unconstitutional for the statement to have come Into operation at the June election, the Constitution of the United States providing that United States Senators shall be elected by the Legislatures of the several states. With this fact in view it Is evident that Statement No. 1 could be voted only on the nominating ballot at the- April pri mary election. If it is unconstitutional for Statement No. 1 to carry on the reg ular elective ballot then It is equally clear that a Republican could not become pledged to a Democratic candidate for United States Senator, for the further reason that the Democratic' candidate's name should not be entitled to a place on the Republican ticket. It being apparent that Statement No. 1 is purely and simply a means of nominating a candidate for Senator it is surprising that so grave an" error In the law should have been made as to allow nominations to appear on the elective ticket. The law is wrong in so many ways it is astonishing that It should have ever been taken seriously by the people. It is a good thing if confined to its sphere that, of nominating on the primary ballot. Worried. Chicago Record-Herald. "Why," asked the good man's wife, "are you so thoughtful? You look as If something disagreeable had happened." "Perhaps," he replied, "I am foolish to feel pM 1 do about it. My congregation has raised a purse for the purpose of sending me to Europe." "And are you sorry it isn't large enough to enable you to take me with you? Don't let that cause you to feel depressed. It will be very lonely here without you, but I know you need the rest, and I shall be very sensible. I can spend the Sum mer at some quiet, .inexpensive place, cheered by the thought that you will re turn refreshed in mind, and body." "It is very good of you to look at it In that way, my dear. I appreciate your feeling. But the gentleman who made the presentation speech said he was sorry the amount that had been raised was not larger so that I might be able to remain away longer, and somehow it seemed to me that the applause was more hearty at that point than anywhere else m tnt course of his remarks. ' WILLIAM JENNINGS Life Story of Man Thrice Named BY E. F. YOUNGER. w1 ILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN, at the age of 48, has been nomi nated three times for the Presidency of the United States by the Dem ocratic party.- He loomed before a sur prised country as the nominee for the first time in 1896, when he nominated himself at the Chicago convention by a single speech. Defeated at the polls In that cam paign, he has contrived, by sheer force and ability, which have made him the political figure he Is, to maintain hm elf in a commanding position In the Democratic party for 12 years. Nominated again, and again defeat ed In 1900. he now stands for the third time before the Nation as candidate for the Presidency. The man who has this remarkable 1 record Is a native of Illinois. He was oorn in aaiem. ill., March 19. 1860. His father wae Silar Lillard Bryan, a Judge of the Circuit Court, and one of the big men of the bar In Southern Illnols. Mr. Bryan comes, on both sides of his family, from stalwart American stock, and as a boy was reared In an atmosphere of old-fashioned Demo cratic beliefs and strict religious ob servance. His early training has had deep Influence on Mr. Bryan's life The Bryans, who had nine children, lived on a farm Just outside of Salem, and It was there that the nominee passed his early youth. Young Bryan went first to the public schools and then to Whipple Academy at Jackson ville, 111. At the age of 17 he entered the freshman class of Illinois College, in the same city. He proved his ability even at that age and when he was graduated in 1881. it was with the highest honors. While at college he developed his ora torical ability, and in his senior year represented his college In an intercol legiate debating contest at Galesburg. In the meantime he entered the Union College of Law in Chicago, and took the LL. B. degree in 1883. While studying at Union College he became connected with the law office of Ly man J. Trumbull. In 1883 Mr. Bryan wae admitted to the Illinois bar and in the same year began the practice of law at Jacksonville. While the future political leader was thus paying attention to affairs of the head, matters of the heart were by no means forgotten.. As a student at till nois College, he had met a girl from Perry, III., in whom he took a great Interest. She was Miss Mary Elizabeth Baird, the present Mrs. Bryan. Mr. Bryan remained in Jacksonville until 1887. In the Fall of that year business called him to Nebraska and he settled at Lincoln. He opened law office there the same year, arid In less than six months took his first real plunge Into the political arena. He already had made his initial political speech at the age of 20 in the Hancock campaign of 1880. That speech had been delivered in the Courthouse in Salem, to a crowd of about 400. When a boy he had al ways maintained that he would some day be President of the United btates, and after he had finished his speech some of his old schoolmates thronged about him and said: "We believe you told the truth when you said you would be President the United States." Mr. Bryan's oratorical powers imme diately began to attract attention after his eettlement in Lincoln. They Drougnt him into notice in his own district and he was sent as a delegate to the Demo cratic State Convention, which met Omaha in May. 1888. to choose dele (rates to the National convention In St Louis. This state convention gave him his first really important political chance. During an interlude an ad mlrer called upon him for a speech Mr. Bryan made the most of. his oppor tunity. He eoon had the whole con ventlon beneath his spell. So much attention did Mr. Bryan at tract that, in the following year, when he was 29, he was offered the Democratic nomination for Lieutenant-Governor. This he declined, but he took an active part in the campaign, making more than 50 speeches. In 1890, Mr. Bryan was nominated for Congress by the younger democrats oi his district and elected by a majority of 7000. Taking his seat In Congress, he was named a member tf the ways and means committee. Then came the first speech In Congress of "the Boy Orator of the Platte." as he had been dubbed. . It was a brilliant plea for tariff reform, an a great hit. All through the Fifty-second Congress Mr. Bryan was one of tne prominent ng ures of the House. He stood for re-eiec tion to the next Congress and got In by a bare plurality of 140. In Congress h ioined the free silver forces led by Mr. Bland, whose lieutenant he became. One of Mr. Bryan s great speeches was de livered on the Sherman silver repeal bill, when he was pitted against Bourke Cockran. At the end of his second term Mr. Bryan declined te stand for re-election. He then became editor-in-chief of the Omaha World-Herald, in which paper he advocated free silver and opposed every thing that smacked of Glevelandism. He was nominated for the United States senate in 1894, but was defeated by the Republican candidate, John M. Thurston. Mr. Bryan still continued to make speeches, chiefly in regard to the money question, but did nothing to attract much attention until, at a bound, he leaped Into National prominence at the Democratic convention of 1896, with a speech m which he said: " "Thou shalt not press down a crown of thorns upon the brow of labor; thou shalt not crucify mankind upon a -cross of gold." He swept the convention off its feet, dimmed the luster of Mr. Bland and was nominated the next day. amid a scene of wild enthusiasm. His peroration contain ing the metaphor of the crown of thorns and cross of gold, was used as a cam' palgn cry. He traveled over 18,000 miles during the campaign, speaking day after day for nearly four months, to thousands who had heard of him as the foremost orator of the country, fh his campaign he made more than 2100 speeches and, in the lat ter part of the fight, it was a dull day when he did not make at least 20 ad dresses. All Mr. Bryan's eloquence and energy, however, could not elect him. He was de feated by Mr. McKlnley, the following be ing the vote: William McKlnley, popular vote. .7.104.779 William J. Bryan, popular vote. .8,502,925 William McKlnley, electoral vote. ' 271 William J. Bryan, electoral vote. 17B Garrett A. Hobart. of New Jersey, was elected Vice-President over Arthur Be wail, of Maine. During the following four years Mr. Bryan maintained his hold upon his party and was again nominated lii 1900 at the convention held in Kansas City. The paramount issue of this second campaign was declared by the platrorm to be "Imperialism." Mr. Bryan again traveled thousands of miles, making 20 and 30 speeches dally, but he was beaten for the second time by President Mc Klnley. The vote was: William McKlnley, popular vote. .7.207,923 William J. Bryan, popular vote. .6,358,133 William McKlnley, electoral yote. 292 William J. Bryan, electoral vote. 155 Theodore Roosevelt, of New York was BRYAN'S RECORD for Presidency by Democrats. elected Vice-President over Adlal E. Stevenson, of Illinois. Between the two campaigns the Span ish-American War had occurred. In May. 1898. Mr. Bryan raised the Third Regiment. Nebraska Volunteers, and was commissioned Colonel. After the 1900 election he established his weekly paper. The Commoner, which he has edited since. He has made a great success of this publication and it has a very large circulation. In 1904 Mr. Bryan was one of the prom inent figures at the Democratic conven tion in St. Louis; but the control of the convention was in the hands of men un friendly to his policies. For the last four ears Mr. Bryan has been doing a large amount of lecturing. He is said to have made a comfortable fortune out of that work and from The Commoner. In 1905 he. made a tour, of the world, his re ception at New York being one of tne most noteworthy ever extended 'to a re turning American. Mrs. Bryan, who is said to have been of so much help to her husband, has ac companied him on many of his speech making tours. Her life has been largely one of study and she is entirely absorbed In her books, in her husband and in her children. The Bryans have three children. The eldest. Ruth, was married in 1903 to William Homer Leavitt, an artist. The wedding took place at Fairview. the Bryan home near Lincoln, where Mr. Bryan has a farm. Mrs. Leavitt Is now 23. while her husband Is 14 years her sen ior. The other Bryan children are Wil liam J.. Jr.. who is 18 years old, and Grace, who is 16. ONE EASTERN VIEW OF THE WEST What One Editor Found, and He Calla Them Revelations. Harper's Weekly. One reason why a good many East ern men don't go West is that they have to work for a living and cannot spare the time. This may seem strange to those who have been led to believe that the streets of New York flow with milk and that honey constantly, drops from the eaves of high buildings, but It Is a fact. Everybody In this modern plalsance midway between Sodom and Gomorrah meaning Boston and Phila delphia whose attention Is worth wm nlng, toils by day and spins by night. But when one does succeed In break ing away for a little time and goes away beyond the Rockies he makes many Interesting discoveries. A few revelations are: ,That there Is more robust patriotism in the Far West than In the East. That there Is keener civic pride. That there is lees drunkenness and profanity. That the peonle are .more hospitable than anywhere else except In the South. That the men, though less accurately Informed, are broader-minded. That the women dress better than their sisters In New England, though less attractively than their couBlns In New York. That the results of public-school teaching surpass those of private tui tion. That refinement in manners and con versation is so marked as to be no ticeable. That all, old and young, are quick to perceive, and generously apprecia tive of, the most subtle humor. That jealousy of the East does not exist only a curiously vague resent ment of what might be termed pre sumption of superiority. That devoutnese dominates sectari anism. That the wisdom of woman suffrage has been completely demonstrated wherever the experiment has been made. . That Western people care less for money and more for achievement. That everybody knows everything about mining. That almost everybody speculates a little. That the best music Is popular, and that In Salt Lake City te the most ef fective organ in the world. That travel on the Union Pacific Is more comfortable than on practically any one of the Eastern roads. That, despite equal business depres sion, spirits are more buoyant and hopeful than hereabouts. That successful business men get elected to the Senate, less through cor rupt methods than for the reason that they are supposed to be able to "do things for the state." That the newspapers are generally Independent, though somewhat preju diced, almost invariably well printed and breezily and cleverly written, though not closely edited. That compulsory education of chil dren is becoming universal. That the new architecture is charm ing. That the small cities are being, re built for permanence with wide paved streets, lined by trees at great expense, with good water-supplies, adequate sewers, and pretty parks. That a larger percentage of the pop ulation of Nevada than of any other state read Harper periodicals. We advise all persons, male and fe male, young and old, anaemic or other wise, to go West and look around. It Is a heartening thing to do. Man Defeats Jersey Bull. Lebanon Criterion. O. A. Archibald, Of the First National Bank of Albany, had a thrilling ex perience last Sunday. He was In the Swelter pasture, ,nea the Calapoola bridge, when he met a Jersey bull in a narrow path. The bull, without any warning, attacked him, getting him down by a hard hit In the side, when Mr. Archibald used his heavy hunting shoes to advantage, and succeeded In getting Into an open place, where he secured a piece of vine maple and the bull came out second best, precipitately retreating. Mr. Archibald has a limp to show for the adventure. Weston Is Content. Weston Leader. The State Board of Regents has acted wisely upon the Normal School ques tion. Three schools are none too many, and Western, Southern and Eastern Oregon will all have representation. The recognition of Monmouth, we trust, will end the many tribulations of the oldest normal In the etate, which has met its hardships bravely and gradu ated a large army of teachers. Good Man In Right Place. Albany Herald Agent Fronk. of the 8. P., deserves much credit for the way in which ha handled the trains during the Fourth. Had the same number been run into Portland, every available officer of the road would have been called out to as sist. Mr. Fronk may well be proud of his success.. Another Tfon-Partisan. - Eugene Register. We all appreciate R. G. Smith, of Grants Pass, as an orator, but Eugene hardly expected him to make a political speech instead of a patriotic one on July Fourth, as the orator of the day. - Dr. Osier's Both Birthday Near. Baltimore American. . Professor William Osier is candidate for the lord rectorship of Edinburgh Uni versity. Let us see Dr. Osier will soon be 60.