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THE MORNIXG OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13,
1914.
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PREDIGTS
IDAHO SENATOR WHO MAKES PLEA FOB HARMONY IN REPUB
LICAN PARTY.
REUNITED PARTY
e Talk
e town
Idaho Senator Says Next Na
tional Convention Will Be
in Hands of Voters.
Ground for Two-Million-Dollar
Final 10-Day Clearance Sale
Begins This Morning at 8 o'Clock
V.
Superb Double Service AH Weather
Structure Broken by ex
Confederate Officer.
POWER TO BE RESTORED
SEATED FIGURE PLANNED
BORAH
NATION'S MEMORIAL
TO LINCOLN BEGUN
of th
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Involution, ot Dissolution, Itebult
or Recent Invents Party Can
Arrord to Watt if It Faces
Its Problems Right.
NEW YORK, Feb. 12. (Special.)
Senator Borah, of Idaho, delivered a
strong Republican harmony speech
before the Republican Club of. New
York tonight. The club comprises
many of the leading citizens of New
York State who are and have been
workers in the Republican cause, and
the fact that Senator Borah, enter
taining: well-understood views, was in
vited to address the club tonight is
regarded as an indication of its sym
pathy with the idea that the factions
of the party should be brought to
gether on a progressive basis.
"Mr. President, when the returns
came in last November a year aro, and
it was known that the then dominant
party had carried but two states, the
opinion quite generally prevailed that
one of the most interesting and re
markable chapters in the annals of po
litical parties was drawing to a close.
Indomitable and aggressive, directing
with remarkable skill and Judgment
the course of government for 50 years,
the party now seemed nearlng complete
disorganization. But the signs were
misread. It was not dissolution but
evolution.
Party Strength Returning.
"The first call to arms after the de
feat was out in the great State of
Michigan. Through the sheer courage
and . party devotion of the rank and
file the Republican ticket won over all
competitors. The same thing in the
same way happened in the Congres
sional election in Maine. The Spring
registration in several states disclosed
the same tendency. In the last No
vember election in the State of New i
Jersey nearly a hundred thousand who
had voted the third ticket returned; in
Maryland 50,000 out of 57,000. In other
states the same trend was equally
marked and unmistakable.
"To whom do we owe this revival of
party strength this resuscitation of
party power? To the organization?
Certainly not To leadership, to gen
eralship? Certainly not. Had some
Sheridan overtaken the routed forces
and called them back to order and vic
tory? Certainly not. We owe it to
the party loyalty, the courage, the high
and steadfast purpose of the Repub
lican voters. Those who had dared
to tear down dared to rebuild. It was
a singular exhibition of self-reliant
citizenship and of party loyalty.
"There is no mistaking what all this
means. It means that the voters of
ihe party are too independent to con
done what they conceive to be a mis
take or a wrong, and too wise to
abandon permanently the name, the
traditions, the prestige and honor that
they and their forebears have estab
lished and built up through 50 years
of relentless political warfare. It
means that out of this great body of
voters Is to come the militant and pro
gressive and aggressive Republican
party of the future that there is no
stronger or more available force for
wise and effective work along progres
sive lines than those voters who have
stood eager and restless In the fore
front of progress for 50 years.
Rank and Kile Are Loyal.
"The next Republican National con
vention will be in the hands and un
der the control of the voters of the
party. Those who believe in the Re
publican party, who respect its tradi
tions and have helped to make Its his
tory, those who cannot but feel a
quickened pulse and a livelier sense of
civic pride at the mention of the name
of the great leaders of the party, and,
above all. those who looking to the
future hope to take up again the great
problems of humanity and the tasks of
government, may now direct its course
and measure its destiny. I am not one
of those who believe that the Repub
lican party has made no mistakes, but
J am one. of those who have no doubt
that under a full and free expression
of the voters it will again become a
powerful instrument for good.
"Let us therefore have no platform
of compromise, and no harmony that
Is not based upon a common convic
tion. We want a platform made at the
immediate time, a platform which
speaks of battle and conflict and which
will record in the harsh language of
truth the actual convictions of the ma
jority of the Republican voters."
MAXV COMMISSION'S SCORED
Simplicity of Government of Lincoln
Urged by Salem Speaker.
SALEM, Or., Feb. 12. (Special.)
Grant B. Dlmick, of Oregon City, prin
cipal speaker at the Lincoln celebra
tion here tonight, scored the numerous
commissions created in Oregon recent
ly, and urged that the people return to
the simplicity of government favored
by the great emancipator.
Judge Dimick declared that the
higher officials should shoulder the re
sponsibility of conducting the affairs
of the state and not try to shirk it
by having commissions appointed to
do the work. He also denounced the
single tax, declaring that the War
President would not have accepted
money from an outsider to promulgate
such theories. The speaker urged a
retrenchment of public expenditures
and declared that it could be done
without impairing the service.
H. M. Irwin, who reported Mr. Lin
coln's Gettysburg address, gave -a
graphic description of the scenes and
events at Gettysburg on that memor
able day. He denied the statement
often made that the President seemed
to have misgivings as to the success
of his address.
Judge George II. Burnett spoke of
the life of Mr. Lincoln and urged the
emulation of it. About 1000 persons
attended the celebration, which was
held at the Armory under the auspices
of the Republican Club.
The lalles Project Wins Hearing.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington. Feb. 12 Members of the Ore
passed Senator Chamberlain's resolu
tion authorizing the Secretary of War
to detail two engineer officers to co
operate wtih the engineers of the Inte
rior Department and the states of
Washington and Oregon to investigate
The Dalles power project.
i Compulsory Iiiblo Bill Defeated.
ANNAPOLIS. Feb. 12. A bill to com
pel the reading of the Bible in public
schools under penalty of $5 fine or im
prisonment for the teacher was reject
ed by the House of Delegates tcday.
GANNON IS CRITICAL
Precedent-Smashing Not Al
ways Advantage, He Says.
LINCOLN'S EXAMPLE CITED
New Year Reception Held on Day
Emancipation Proclamation Was
Signed "Xew Diplomacy"
Declared Failure.
PEORIA, 111., Feb. 12. President
Wilson's breaking of precedents his
addresses in person to Congress, his
abandonment of the New Year's day
White J louse reception and the prog
ress of the Democratic Administration
in general came in for criticism by ex
Speaker Cannon at a Lincoln anniver
sary dinner here tonight. The Re
publican ex-Speaker of the House of
Representatives coupled his eulogy of
Lincoln and the Republican party with
dire predictions for the country's wel
fare under Democratic rule.
"Mr. Wilson is our President for the
time being and the Democratic Con
gress is our Congress, making laws
under which we all must live and we
will obey the laws and grin and bear
whatever may come," said he.
Devil First Precedent Smasher.
"Meanwhile President Wilson is en
gaged in smashing precedents. Some
one has said that 'a precedent em
bodies a principle," and the human race
has been living under precedents since
the days of Moses. The devil was the
first smasher of precedents and he has
been busy through several thousand
years trying to smash good precedents.
I would not intimate that the devil
could even get into the White House
grounds with a strict Presbyterian
President on guard, but some of the
precedents he is smashing had good
origin and have lived in good repute
through a hundred years. They are
Democratic, too.
"The President has delivered his
messages from the rostrum of the
Speaker of the House. In that he has
smashed a precedent of a hundred
years and followed one of a thousand
years in autocratic government before
the days of Washington and Jefferson.
Lincoln Incident Recalled.
"President Wilson smashed another
old precedent in abolishing the New
Tear's reception at the White House.
This abandonment of an old social cus
tom is not of importance, but it re
minds me of an incident in the Admin
istration of Lincoln. On the morning
of January 1, 1S63, the President copied
the emancipation proclamation with
his own hand, working at his desk un
til the hour for the New Year's re
ception to begin. Then he went to the
blue room and for four hours shook
hands with thousands of citizens.
"At 2 o'clock in the afternoon Lin
coln returned to his desk, with his
right hand so swollen that he could
scarcely hold a pen, but after maninu
lating and massaging the fingers for
a few minutes took the pen and wrote
Abraham Lincoln to the most sig
nificant document ever Issued from
the White House. Lincoln did not
tnink it necessary to smash the old so
cial precedent of Ivew Tear's greeting.
nor to create another, political rather
tnan social.
Gallows Becomes May Pole.
"A year ago, before he had taken up
the full responsibility of the Presi
dency, Mr. Wilson was engaged in
building a gallows higher than Ha
inan's for the trusts, but in the latest
message from the White House we find
that the gallows have been transferred
into a May pole and the trusts are in
vited to Join the President in a May
day dance to celebrate the new consti
tution of peace. The new diplomacy
that was to convert our battleships into
international social centers has brought
only refusal from the great nations of
Europe to participate in the Panama
Exposition; the nations of the East are
irritated. South" America suspicious and
Mexico in anarchy.
"The great menace of today Is not
the trusts however desirable it may
be to have wise legislation to regulate
them so much as unemployment. We
have domestic depression and foreign
irritation, and there must be some
cause. To my mind it is revival of old
and tried policies.. Experiments with
the Democratic policy have not been
successful. They have been repeatedly
i x, y . sp-,
Senator W. . E. Borah in Portrait and
Snapshot.
tried, only to react on our domestic
tranquillity."
LINCOLN DAY IS OBSERVED
(Continued From FMrst Page.)
antes who were present were John Bar
ton, who had worked with Lincoln on
the Saginaw River, and George Older,
who had split rails with him.
Ten other white-haired men contrib
uted stories.
Mrs. Todd. 103, Sends Message.
A message from Mrs. Sarah Todd, of
Eugene, the 103-year-old sister-in-law
of Mrs. Lincoln, was received.
After the distribution of the prizes
won by the students for the best es
say on Lincoln the audience was dis
missed, by Rev: J. J. Walters, the Grand
Army chaplain.
Several members of the Grand Army
of the Republic were present at the
patriotic programme presented by the
students of the Christian Brothers
Business College. Comrade R. C.
Markee, of George Wright Post, acted
as chairman.
Lincoln's Character Told.
The character and achievements of
Lincoln were considered from many
angles at the banquet of the Lincoln
Memorial Society. The speakers were:
L. D. Mahone, who presided; Colonel
nooert A. Miller, who paid an eloquent
tribute to Lincoln as a man of the peo
ple, by the people and for the people:
J. D. Lee, president of the society, who
spoke of the value of a frontier coun
try in producing men of the Lincoln
type; Captain James P. Shaw, who re
lated touching incidents of the Gettys
burg reunion last Summer and who
declared that the event did more than
everything else to amalgamate the
North and the South; Mrs. Abigail
Scott Duniway, who told of a trip to
Lincoln't tomb 42 years ago, and who
rc-ad a poem written by herself at that
time; A. H. Harris, editor of the Port
land Labor Press; Hamilton Johnstone,
Gus C. Moser, Mrs. Julia C. LaBarre,
Conrad P. Olson and Seid Back. Jr..
who was warmly applauded when he
said that Lincoln had been an inspira
tion to the new China,
The Veterans' Quartet was encored
for several selections, as was Mrs.
Laura B. Bartlett for her soprano solo.
a uncoin poem written by June He
Millan Ordway and dedicated to Presi
dent Lee, of the memorial society, was
reaa. Dy Jnss Josephine Burns Hoben
JACKSON" CXXJB CELEBRATES
Demicratic Candidates for Governor
Speak at Lnncbeon.
Members of the Jackson Club cele
brated Lincoln's birthday yesterday
with a luncheon at the Commercial
Club, which was attended by upwards
of 50 Democratic stalwarts of city and
state.
All four of the Democratic candi
dates for Governor were present and
gave nve-minute talks. Each waa in
troduced by Bert E. Haney, who was
chairman of -the day, as "the next Gov
ernor." In the order In which they
spoke they were: John Manning, of
Portland; Colonel Robert A. Miller, of
Portland; Dr. C. J. Smith, formerly of
Pendleton, but now of Portland, and
Judge A. s. Bennett, of The Dalles.
Each of the candidates indulged in
some good-natured raillery of his three
opponents.
Mr. Haney, in his opening remarks.
spoke of the life and character of
Abraham Lincoln. Dr. Smith and
Judge Bennett proceeded to annex Mr.
Lincoln to the Democratic party. Judge
Bennett referring to him as "that 11
lustrious Democrat, Abraham Lincoln.'
and Dr. Smith declaring that if he were
alive today he would be found, in the
councils of the Democrats.
Mr. Haney announced that the Dem
ocrats would put up a full ticket for
the Legislature from Multnomah
County.
Floyd Bllyeu, vice-president of the
club, explained, that yesterday's lunch
eon was to be the first of & series of
Jackson Club luncheons at the Com
mercial Club on the second and fourth
Fridays of each month. These lunch
eons will alternate with the regular
meetings' of the Jackson Club on the
nights of the first and third Fridays.
These meetings will also be held at the
Commercial Club.
Fuel oil consumption lay the United States
Navy this year is estimated at 30,0(M,ooo
gallon
Martyr-President Himself, His Get
tysburg Address and Second In
augural, and States Ho Pre
served Commemorated.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1J. While
freezing winds swept across the Po
tomac from the Virginia hills, where
stands the Lee mansion at Arlington,
a bareheaded Southern officer of the
Civil War opened today the simple ex
ercises that marked the breaking of
the ground for the construction of the
great white marble memorial the Na
tion is to erect to Abraham Lincoln.
Today, the 105th aniversary of Lin
coln s birth, was chosen for breaking
the ground on which, the $2,000,000
structure will stand.
Only a small group witnessed the
event. Joseph C. Blackburn, ex-Sen
ator from Kentucky, was the first to
sink a spade Into the ground, and then
with uncovered head he spoke in praise
of the memory of the President against
wnom ne rought half a century ago.
"Greatest American" Praised.
"This memorial will show that Lin
coln is now regarded as the greatest
of all Americans," Senator Blackburn
said, "and that he is so held by the
South as well as the North. Today
we let the country know that this
great work has been begun and will be
carried on steadily until Its comple
tion." In the Senate it was a Southerner
who made today the motion to adjourn
out of respect to the memory of Lin
coln. The motion was made without
prearrangement by Senator Overman,
of North Carolina, after the reading of
the Gettysburg address by Senator
Bradley, of Kentucky. It was Senator
Kenyon, of Iowa, who had suggested
that the Senate might well pause a
moment to observe the 'birthday anni
versary. The House, too, paused In its delib
erations to pay its respect to the mem
ory of the emancipator
Memorial Has Four Keatnres.
The site for the memorial is on an
"axis" planned more than a century
ago, at one end of which is the Capi
ltol, the monument of the Government,
and at the other, more than a mile to
the west, the Washington monument.
Still farther to the west will be the
Lincoln memorial, where it will have
a relation with the Capitol 'and the
Washington monument, ana' will be
closely related also with" Arlington
Cemetery, where those who fought for
the Union are buried.
The design is the work of Henry
Bacon, a New York architect. His idea
was that the memorial to Lincoln
should be composed of four features
a statue; of the man, a memorial of his
Gettysburg speech, a memorial of his
second inauguration address and. a
symbol of the United States, which he
preserved. Each feature will be re
lated to. the others by means of design
and position.
Seated Figure Planned.
The plan is for a seated figure. The
sculptor has not yet been selected.
The chamber containing the statue will
be unoccupied by any other object.
Smaller halls at - each side of the
central chamber each will contain a
memorial, one of the Gettysburg ad
dress arid the other of the inaugural
address, in bronze letters on monu
mental tablets, while adjacent low e
liefs will relate In allegory Lincoln's
qualities as evinced by those speeches.
ARSON IS SUSPECTED
FIRE IN BROOKE BIILDIAU I.Vi-
VEST! GATED BY POLICE.
Bowl of Oil Poured on Locker or
Cracked by Flames Arouses Suspi
cions Damage Done Is Small.
Fire, thought to be of incendiary
origin, was discovered in a lavatory in
the Brooke building, at 345 Wash
ington street, yesterday afternoon. The
blaze started on a locker. A bowl of
machine oil either had been poured
over the woodwork, or was left on the
locker and. was broken by the heat. The
fragments of the bowl lay1 on the
charred wood when the fire had been
extinguished. The oil had run down to
the floor, and only the early discovery
of the fire prevented serious damage.
Investigation by the police proved
that only the tenants in the building,
and the janitor, had access to the
lavatory. The room Is always kept
locked, and the tenants are supplied
with keys.
"The lire was either the work of an
Incendiary." said -Sergeant Wanless,
who investigated the matter, "or was
caused by a lighted cigar or cigarette.
The case will probably be investigated
further."
The Majestic Theater, in the adjacent
building, was the scene of a fire Wed
nesday. Both buildings are owned by
T. Scott Brooke, a local real estate
dealer. The damage was small in
both instances.
IF YOU NEED A MEDICINE,
' YOU SHOULD HAVE THE BEST
Although there are hundreds of prep
arations advertised, there is only one
that really stands out pre-eminent as a
remedy for diseases of the kidneys, liver
and bladder.
Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root stands the
highest, for the reason that so many
people say it has proved to be just the
remedy needed in thousands -upon thou
sands of even the most distressing
cases.
Swamp-Root makes friends quickly
because its mild and Immediate effect is
soon realized In most cases. It is a gen.
tie, healing vegetable compound.
Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root is a physi
cian's prescription for special diseases,
which is not recommended for every
thing. A Sworn Certificate of Purity la with
every bottle.
For sale at all drugstores, in bottles
of two sizes fifty cents and one-dollar.
Sample Slse Bottle of Snamp-Root
In order to prove what Swamp-Root,
the great kidney, liver and bladder rem
edy will do for you, every reader of The
Portland Daily Oregonian who has not
already tried It, may receive a sample
size bottle by Parcel Post. Enclose ten
cents and send to Dr. Kilmer. & Co.,
Binghamton, N. X. Wjii tuday. Adv.
The entire stock grouped into five lots for quick clearance. Stupendous price reductions.
Sale begins this morning, February 13, at 8 o'clock.
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make a careful selection are advised to call during the early hours.
A word to the wise: The next 10 days offers the most wonderful coat bargains
ever witnessed in Portland. For the benefit of out-of-town patrons mail orders
will receive prompt attention. Inclose check or postoffice money order. State
bust and length measure. All packages sent Parcel Post prepaid.
Open Till lO
Caution: Beware
of Imitators.
One Store Only
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Open Saturdays
Until 10 P. M.
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You never saw so much value and quality
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zibelines, striped novelties, etc.
Worrells Sample Cloak and Suit House
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English Slipons
Scotch Tweeds
Including the New
These wonderful Coat bargains will
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o'Clock Saturday
WASHINGTON ST.
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CQME&NY
WORRELL'S
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Your unrestricted choice of any WINTER
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the greatest offer ever made in the City of
Portland on clean, dependable merchandise.
47 Suits and Coats that sold
up to $65.00
62 Suits and Coats that sold
up to $45.00
Hundreds of Coats and Suits that sold
up to $35.00
Hundreds of Coats and Suits that sold
up to $25.00
$6.65
Women's, Misses' Dresses
Worth $19.95, $16.95, $14.95 at
English Gabardines
Cravenettes
Balmaacans, Etc.
be found just
who desire to
M
Night
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Dealers
are
invited to
attend
this sale.
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Opp. Oregonian Bldg.
air
IIS
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