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THE MORNING OltEGOJfTAN, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1320 WAGERS Of! HARDING 2SS3 BEGGING FDR TAKERS Baker and John M. Mann and A. I Barbur, commissioners, to address the club October 11 at the Community house, east Fifteenth and Spokane avenue. This gathering will be a community meeting in order to give the people of the district an opportu nity to meet .the city officials per sonally. Speeches will pertain to city affairs- BEND TO ttt FLLEVG RULE Candidate to Carry Four States Is Favorite Bet. $100 TO $1500 IS PLACED Trend of Public Sentiment Re Tealed by Slraw Ballots Dis courage Backers of Cox. Practically no wager! are being placed on the outcome of the presi dential election in this vicinity. The general result la considered as a fore pone conclusion. Supporters of Hard ing: have "offered money, but there have been no takers. The favorite bet is that Harding will carry Oregon, Washington. Cali fornia and Ohio. This Is a combina tion bet. for If Cox should carry any one of the four states the man hold ing: the Harding end loses his money. Bets on this basis have been offered at even money as a rule, but occa sionally Harding men offered odds. The amounts wagered range from $100 to J1500. So far as known, there has not been a dollar bet that Cox will carry Ore gon. When democrats do express a desire to make a wager they prefer to specify a particular state or a small group of states. One reason why betting has been discouraged is the way the straw vote discloses the trend of public sen timent toward the republican candi date for president. The third report on the national straw vote, being taken by 8000 drug stores, was received by the Owl Drug company yesterday. It is dated Octo ber 1 and gives Harding 182.491 and Cox 91.8SD. Women cast 47,216 votes for Harding and 25.712 for Cox. The national swing to Harding appears to be, roughly, at the ratio of two to one. The straw vote In Oregon, from the drugstore circuit, gives Harding 4143 and Cox 2071. Of the Harding vote, the women cast 773 and of the Cox vote the women cast 340. In the Owl drug store yesterday the straw vote stood 1217 for Hard ing and 803 for Cox. The mn voted: Harding 871. Cox 613. Tlie women voted: Harding 346, Cox 188. Thomas A. Hayes, independent can didate for United States senator, will discuss his candidacy at the county fair at Gresham tomorrow at noon. TMchard W. Montague will discuss the league of nations at noon today at the county fair at Gresham. Mil ton A. Miller will also speak. Klton Watkins and J. J. Crossley will debate the league of nations at the luncheon of the Portland Press club today. Mr. Crossley will take the republican viewpoint. m. HAItDIXG MEASURES IF Ohio Docs Not Consider Cox Big Enough for President. E. B. Stanley, a business man of Cincinnati, O., who is making a tour of the west, was a caller yesterday at republican state headquarters. "I recently visited Marion, O., and bad the pleasure of meeting Mr. and Mrs. Harding. We think a great deal of Mr. Harding In Ohio. He is a sound statesman and a vigorous thinker and we know he Is up to the presidential stature. 'We esteem Mrs. Harding as a wom an of superior intelligence who will grace the White House as the 'first lady of the land.' "There is no question about Harding carrying Ohio. Contrary to the im pression prevalent in places where the two men are not known, Harding and Cox have never been political oppon ents. In 1914 Harding was elected United States senator by more than 100,000 votes. In the same election Governor Willis defeated Cox by 29.000 votes. This present election will be the first time Harding and Cox have ever run against each other. '"Ohio is a normal republican state and this year may be relied upon to go republican. Mr. Harding looks like a president, acts like a president and has the ability and statesmanship to be president. We do not consider his opponent to be of presidential size." INFORMATION BOOTH OPENED Stanfield Office in Morgan Build ing for Voters' Convenience. With the presidential, congressional and state election less than four weeks off, republican state headquarters are assuming greater activity and the work of conducting the state cam paign has been divided into depart ments. For the convenience of voters desir ing information in regard to the cam paign of Robert N. Stanfield. repub lican nominee for United States sena tor, the committee has opened a Stan field office in the republican head quarters in the Morgan building. Ar thur G. Means of Vale, secretary of the Malheur republican central com mittee, will have charge of this office and will meet callers and attend to the distribution of Stanfield literature, cards and buttons. Secretary Hotchkiss is handling the state speakers' bureau. Mrs. A. E. Richards is in charge of the women's "picture" campaign and a vigorous drive to place Jlardlng and Coolldge pictures in the windows of office buildings Is in progress. Mrs. Anna J. Watson is officiating as hostess this week at the women's reception room and is distributing lit erature among the women callers. The publicity bureau Is in charge of O. C. Leiter. Dr. Lovejoy Speaks at Fair. Dr. Esther Pohl Lovejoy. candi date for congress, will be among the speakers at tne Multnomah county fair at Gresham at 1 o'clock today. At 2:30 o'clock she will address a meeting of women in the East Side Baptist church. Tomorrow night at 8 o'clock she will speak at a meeting of unions and the general public in the main hall of central llibrary. Dr. W. T. McElveen, pastor of the First Congregational church, will, also speak at this meeting, dealing with Representative McArthur"s Record. - Harney Strongly Republican. BURNS. Or.. Oct. 6. (Special.) A Harding-Coolidge club has just been organized in Harney county with an initial membership of 163. According to Robert Duncan, chairman of the club, Harding is expected to carry the county three to one. The other officers are: Secretary, J. J. Done Kan; campaign committee, O. O. Jet ley. Capt. A. W. Gowan, Charles W. Ellis. Baker io Address Club. The Sellwood-Moreland District Re publican club has invited Mayor Candidates for Office May An nounce 'Within 15 Days. BEND, Or.,, Oct. . (Special.) Al though the state law provides that all candidats for city office shall have their names filed with the county clerk not less than 28 days before the election. Bend will adhere to its 15-day limit fixed by a recently passed ordinance. The action is taken or. the advice of C. S. Benson, city attorney. "It cannot be presumed that the legislature attempted to deprive cities and towns of their local auton omy In reference to their officers and elections by chapter 283, if the legislature should be presumed to have such power," the attorney-general has ruled. Speakers and Dates Announced. Secretary Hotchkiss of the repub lican state central committee has an nounced speakers' engagements as follows: October 8, B. G. Skulason,' at Tigard; night October 15, Casslus R. Feck, at Estacada; night October IS. Conrad P. Olson, at Colton. Interest Rate Change Opposed. STANFIELD. Or Oct. 6. (Special.) The Stanfield Commercial club baa gone on record as opposed to the pro posed constitutional amendment fix ing the legal rate of interest at 4 and 5 per cent; and also voted to oppose the Roosevelt bird refug measure. INTEREST IN PAPER SOLD Charles Jj. Springer Retires From Corvallis Gazette-Times. CORVALLIS, Or., Oct. 8. (Special.) Charles L. Springer today sold bis one-third Interest in the Corvallis Gazette-Times to G. Lansing Hurd, well known Oregon newspaper man. Mr. Hurd acquires the business manage ment, the other partners being N. R. Moore, news editor, and C E Ingalls, editor, who retain their interests. Mr. Hurd formerly was connected with the job printing business in Portland and before coming to Oregon owned and conducted a large weekly paper in North Dakota. Mr. Springer has been identified with various newspaper interests in the east and on the Pacific coast. On the 1'acific coast he was regarded as a pioneer. He was with the Seattle Post-intelligencer In 1888 when it was owned by Leigh Hunt. He helped found the Spokesman-Review and after its consolidation was its busi ness manager till 18D5. He came to Corvailis in 1905 and bought the Ga zette from M. S. Woodock. with which paper he has been connected ever since, starting the daily in 1908, which was later consolidated with the Times. 89 CHAPLAINS APPOINTED Report Indicates Per Cent of V. S. Army Is of Catholic Faith. WASHINGTON. Oct. 6. Appoint ment of 89 new chaplains for the regular army in conformity with the new reorganization law providing one chaplain for each 1200 officers and men, was announced today. Announcement was made that Sec retary Baker, after a survey of civil and religious census reports, had fixed tentatively the denominational apportionment at 25 per cent from the Catholic church, 70 per cent from the Protestant churches and 5 per cent for adjustments that cannot be made on a mathematical basis. Miners' Convention to Be Called. PITTSBURGH. Kan., Oct. 6. 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