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r City Hall 7v tsi-. ' 4 ft Medford Mail Tribune SECOND EDITION WEATHER Fair and coeler -MfjM; fait Ma. 7.1 1 Mia. M. , MEDFORD, OIUSaON, TJIUKSDAY, OOTOHEllB, 1912. t . Porly-Kornnrt Year. Dally Hnvmith Vmr. NO. 166. MORGAN GAVE $150,000 TO AID ROOSEVELT BUT ONLY $12,000 TO HELP ELECT TAFT t. Iff '1 s WALL STREET KINGS CAMPAIGN GIFTS CONFINED ANO CAUSED Morami Considered It Dost (or the Country lo Elect Republican Candl ilntc Roosevelt Did Not Personally Solicit Funds Out Request Cnmc From Bliss Groat Consideration Shown Financier liy Commltlcc and Ovation Given Him by Spectators. Frequent Political Conferences With Perkins and Mcllcn Admitted Did Not Expect Any Returns for Contributions as He Has Found Grati tude a Very Scarce Article liar rlman Did Not Solicit Aid of Moruan. WKABUINCVrON. Oct. a. J. IMor poiit Morgan, America's ritmuqn mun oy king, received" n remarkable ovn lloit Intro Unlay when ho loft t ho wit uon stand nflor tolling the Bonnie campaign contributions Investigation committee of IiIn firm contributions to tho riuil)llcuii campaign of 1001 mid 1008 "for tho gd f Uo gov ernment ntul Jlio people." Mmt mid woman drawn to Out hearing by tho rnot (tint tlio world's greatest trust j-jirtnltiir wjih to testify Htooil on their chair ami cheered tint fninqim financier iih ho krt tho committee room. Shovtii (treat ('iiiilitirntloii No wrangling marked tint tctl mony of tlio banker. Inntead hcwu treated more considerately than nny wltucs yot culled botoro U1o probers, iv ' iHnritoTXUeIoTirei."'R inoiiiliitr of th cnmiulllco, qulxxod tho hunker. 11 Ik imickUoiib worn mkcil In n sub dued tonn ntul presented to thu wit ness pollluly nml with doforonro. Tho manner In which I'otnoreno ques tioned Morgan illf foi oil grently from tho nnthoil ouiil nl In tho examl- nation yosturdny of Senator .tnsoph M Iilvon of Montana who inmiiigcd Colonel Theodore Roosevelt's pro convention mnipitlKii. Then ques llotiK wro hurled bnrk nml forth with lightning rnplillty, senatorial courtesy being ontlroly dlsregnrdod In tho wrangles. Morgan scorned to enjoy tho sltun Hon nml iixprcsspil willingness to ro-nppenr before tho loinnilltim, hhould ho ho needed ngnln. Ills testimony was ninrkud by uiiortlonH Hint whntovor IiIm firm may huvo iloiitt for tho ropnhUcnn party In tho way of contribution!! wns for tho good of tho people iih woll tor tho good of tho government. .No Itiituriih Kh'I'1 "Whntovor Morgan anil I'omimny limy hnvo given," was not becauno s wo expected nny returns. It ban been my experience that gratitude Ih n very nciirco commodity with poll tlolmiH. Wo illil It for thu people ami tho government, Wo thought wo roiilil alii tho pooplo by contrl hntloiiH to keop tho republicans In power. Hud wo believed tho conn try would hnvo boon bouirfltod moro by tho election of tho domocrntlo HreasTfaWtiesF SAN FRANCISCO HAH HACllAMHNTO, Cal., Oct. 3. -Work accoinpllHliod mid under way by thu board of stato harbor coin inlHulohorii J. .1. l)wyor,neorgo M. .1111 and Tannins 8, WJIIInms, In pru parntlon fpi tho IpcronHoil trufflo o?c piMitod upon coinplotlon of tho Pauu mii Canal, Ih ant forth In a Htutomont IhhuoiI horn today. Uiulor tho Dwynr board an up prulaal or rontml npaco In tlio furry Htntlnn at Hun Priiiiciluro IncroaHon tho xtnto'a Income by $135,000. Uokh lar whurf uMnlKtimoiitH rontu woro re duced ton per fiont to oncournno Hhlp Iiiiin compuutori to uho tho port. Tho hoard hnH nuthorlxod tho (iroc tlnn or now ploiH and forry Hllpn coHtlUK approxlpuituly $1,002,041 and plaim a roiluotlon In tho cost of.trnns portliiK freight from onu end of tho yutorrront to tho othor. An oxtoitHlnn of the Hcnwall 1,000 foot southward f uIho uiiiouk tlio m provymonls nnnpwucoo, TO REPUBLICANS BY "PATRIOTISM" cmidldnto our contribution) would have Kouo In Unit party." There wiim no viulieliv'uon hIiowii in tlio exiiinliiiilieii nl' .Morpm. Neith er wiim ho hitlijeeted lo the tilliiiK Unit lias marked Hie upiiearunee oi oilier wiluunxuH. Svuiitor INijuler who did the Uctioniui; wiim extreme ly polite. Oii'"e I'n.vntcr licked Mor pm why lie did not otijuel to ivint; n M'cniid eoutriliutioii nller aivin Hi.) 100,(100. l'ornt I ho $tr.O.O0ll "I lind l'orf;otl!ii nil about the fiixt eoutriliutioii nl tlio time," wn the uiiHwer, "When Ihey enlled for tho weeond xtiliferiplioit they nuked for 'jn.OOO. 1 told them Hint .f'O.OIKt win nil that would ji've and lh.it HoHled it." Whuii Chninunn Clapp exeiiHed Jlorjrmr livMldil-'ltiMiHoir lo' tit fnet tliut tho wilueM-i wiih entitled o expense iutuirml in iimki;iK tho trip Intro from Now York. Munnii m'iniii'd. "Oil, never mind llml," ho xnitl. "1 Kiiet I etui Mtniitl Hint." Duell IcNtificd thnt in HUM tluec iiiKuraueo eompauieK eoutrihuti'd f.r)0,000 eneh. The United Slates hleol enrpornlioin lie Miid, pivo .flO, (100 Hint year. WASHINGTON, Oct. 3. J. P. MorKnu wiih on tho Bland before tho rontrltiutloiiH rommlttco for forty five minuted thU morning. MorKiui K'tvo IiIh teHtlmouy In a unlet nud even voice. Ho wiih treat ed with tho KrcatoHl deference by Senator Payntor who did tho ques tioning for tho committee. Allhouh the financier admitted that tho bank liiK company, which ho IiohiIh, con tributed to tho MM) I campaign lie wanted It thoroughly underHtnod thnt tho money wiih kIvoii without any ex pectation of a return. Ho nlno em phiiHlRod that part of his testimony to the orroct "thnt whatever IiIh firm did In tho way or contributions, IIh moinberH belloved It waa for the (Continued on Viiko C.) E DOnnliAS, An., Oel. II. Tlieie jh nu iuurcusiui; snntimeut of unroot hero over the uctivUies of Moxlonu fedeniln in this oily. It duvclopml today Hint the fmlornls huvo over u HiiMiler of a million rounds of earl I'itlnoH, several hundred riflos ami u supply of ilyiinmilo sloreil in u wure. lioiiHit uenr Jhe oenter of tlio city. The miiultioiiH nro kiiuiMuiI hy Mox ienu ficerel horviee np;eut.s ntul Amer ieuiih nro Hlopped on tho hlt'cots nud (ilinoil usiilu if they atlempt (o pass tho l)iiil(lin(,'. Onu Amuiienu who te henled tho oulor to "umvo on" ws knocked down ly it Moxhmu deloo live. No urresla luivo been made. Itielmrd Dinx, u e.ieau neeret HOtvico iiKout iu tlio employ of Con Kill (Jiumta, miiToudorcd himself to Hlniriff 'Wbeelei tliis luorninp lie wiih wanted for purtiitlpiitiou iu Mob tlny'H mid on tho Uolol Mexico, wliicli reunited in the unost of Con sul OuoHtti and two American nnny OffiOOVH. A milllavy rovlow was held by tlio federals. nt Akuii Prleta, Sonoriii tlii nfternoou,, abiioml Snujinon roviow injf bis force of ljOOQ troops, MEXICAN ARMS IN AM RICAN CITY CALL ISSUED 10 10 Fl NI3W YOltK, Oct. 3. "Send nil nulRiirltwH mid Macedonian to Hul parln." Thin Ik tho iucksiiko poHtcd hi front of tho Mnccdoiilti-nulpulmi or gaulxntlon hero today. It wnt) Kent by thu president of thu cuntrnl to in in It toe In Sofia. While there nro only about 2,000 Unitarians and Mncodonlns Iu Now York, It U tmld InrRo colonies of thcKo nntlonulltlcrt live in Knst St. I.ouIh. South ChlciiRo, PlttHburg and other Industrial content. TWO KILLED, THREE HURT IN RAILROAD DISASTER I.KSTKltWn.. Oct. H Two men killed nud three- M'rionly injiued to day, ik tho toll paid by n roup ol laborers win climbed aboard a bel lior eimiuo to uol to Ciuim Kennedy from Iioip, llnvo miles nwny. Tho coupling between the head engine nud the fioilit train broke, but the hel per cuiiino continued on with .speed inU'hcoked, smashing' into tho ca boose. Tioo killed were (hiNt ICnr- xellls noil flrj;i' lluiitius. RECORD - HERALD Tlio Chicago llecord-llerabl and New York Herald nro hiking u striiw ballot Op thu presidential contest. Sunday (Sept. "JO) tho Record ller n hi says that WiNon lends, with Koosevcll second nud Tuft third. On tho face of the returns, if the election oro held Ibis week,, Wilson would huvo n majority of the elector al voles, hut nothing is certain in politics, nud fivo weeks is a period in which shifts nud ehnugus nro ever iintuincift. , Tho enuviiss shown Wilson is hold ing the seventeen stntes carried In 11108 by llryan, while in addition lie is tho favorite candidate in stntes thnt until this year, with its intricate political complexities huvo been re publican strongholds. In tlio homo slules of all throe tiuudldntoj Wilson is luading. Iu Ohio, whore (bo republican party is split porjuips w'nrse than iu any other oommouwculth, surface, indications nud thu loglo ill the situation favor Wilson. In Now York,, loosovlt's home Htato, Wilson is in the lend, Now Jersey, of which Wilson is governor. will go dcnioeriitio. In rook-vibbed Now England tho canvass places Wilson in tlio lead. Mnlno tuid Hhodo, Wud would go lo BULGARIANS RETURN RWAR THE COUNTERSIGN ON IME IkdODBf 1NOIANAPOMS, lnd Oct. 3. Arriving hero at noon today Gover nor Woodrow Wilson lost no time In giving to tho press his full endorse ment of tho nonilnntlon of Congress man William Sulzor for tho gover norship of Now York. "Tho freedom of action shown lu tho Syracuso convention In making Its choice Is n great satisfaction to mo," ho said. "It named a man high of principle and Integrity and whoso Independence Is uuqucstlonnbln. Sulzor deserves the suffrage of men of very caste. In fact both candi dates hnvo already shown character mid cnplclty." Wilson tolosropbrd congrntuln HniiH to both Sulzcr mid Glynn, the Now York candidate for lieutenant governor. PRESIDENT TAFT VISITS BROCKTON COUNTY FAIR IIltOCKTON. Mass., Oct. 3. Presi dent Tafi mid Mrs. Taft .today visited tho Hrockton fair. One hundred thousand persons cheered them. POLL SHOWS Wilson if the election Were held to duy; Massachusetts, where for two years democracy has been steadily ascendant, is tending toward Wilson, nud so ure Vermont ami Connect! out. In nil this territory the contest now is between WiNoii nud Hooso velt. In New Uaiupihiro at the pres ent, time it lies between Tnft and Wil son. &i In the western stntes, which are regarded as tho grcntjbattlol'iold of tho campaign, Koo-evolt is display ing gieut strength. The ipiostion of final supremacy depends on how the voters who nro now noncommittal deeido to vote. , Illinois, for instance, is the scene of tv battle between ltoosovc.lt nud Wilson, in which tho bull moose has the hotter of it. J Michigan is now a Roosevelt stale, Wisconsin is the scone' of a neek-uud-ueek raoo between. .Wilson and Taft, with Wilson apparently losing ground nud Taft gaining it. Minnesota, on the other baud, is regarded as Roosevelts" !y fiO.OOO wore tho election held next week, but a strong Wilson sentiment has muni feslod itsulf within tho lust few weeks, 1 Tho Dakota aru thotseat of ram pant Koosoveitism, lmtrQYon jboro NO K ti w K MR COMMANDEERED ' X NKW YOKK, Oct. 3. With 2,000 passengers aboard the- btcamcr Ma cedonia was commandeered just be fore the time bhc was to hail for Piraeus today by the Greek consul general of this port. All pusfcengors nml baggage were dUchitt;ciI and the commander made ready to sail immediately for 1'hiladelphiu to take on n cari,'o of ammunition. Before suilin-r for Europe, tho Ma cedonia, the consul general said, would return .to New York for the reservists of Greece and the Ilalknu states who desire to return homo to tako part iu the threatened war witli Turkey. i A cablegram from his government today instructed the Greek consul to notify nil the. Greek reservists hi America to return home.' Similar in structions were received by Ihe rop resenlnlives of Scrvin, Montenegro itud Bulgaria. THBXTON., N. J., Oct. 3 Aviator WiiImIi was killed hero this afternoon when be fell from his mnebiuo dur ing nn ascension at tho fair grounds. WILSON LEADING conditions are so mixed thnt it is no ones victory nt present the Lu Fol letto element in the two states holding a "balnneo of power" position, as iu Minnesota nud Wisconsin. Iowa, like Illinois, contains a great Roosevelt sentiment, but third putty complications are favoring Wilson. Indiana, the dome stato of Thomas Marshall, democratic candidate for vice president, is regarded as demo cratic this year. Iu the Rockies, Colorado, which was iu the Bryan column iu 1008, is so split that the situation is full of uncertainties, Roosovelts rceont visit stirred up tremendous enthusiasm, hut thu canvass and all other sur face indications show that Wilson is holding the democratio vote. Missouri shows indications of giv ing Wilson a plurality of 20,000 this year. Kansas is claimed by all three par tics, while iu Nebraska it appears that Wilson will bo stronger in Bryan's home state than Bryan him self, The great state of Pennsylvania with its thirty-eight oleotoral votes is shown by the canvass to favor Taft at tho present timo, although some of the surface indications favor Roose velt. It is unoertiiiu territory. . OR WAR S TAFTITES LOSE PARTY S NAME IN CALIFORNIA State Supreme Court Decides That Roosevelt Electors Will Ic Upan Ballot as Republicans Primary Law Pronounced a Bad Oti Republicans ef Fourteen Districts and Democrats of Six Dfefran chisctl Justices GrilljjLaw. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Oct. 4. Tnc thirteen Roosevelt electors wilt go nn tho November election ballot as the electors of tho republican party and the thirteen named by the bolting Taft minority at the Sacra mento convention,' will not go on, so that tho Taft voters wilt be without a candidate. Such Is the effect of the unanimous decision by the state supreme court today sustaining the demurrer of Atorney General U. S. Webb to tho application by the Taft Itcs for a permanent writ of mandate to compel Secretary of State Frank Jordan to designate the Taft thirteen as republicans and lcavo off the Roosevelt thirteen. The decision waa given by Chief Justice Deatty Immediately after the oloso of argument between Attorney General Webb oa-,ose.slde aad-farT zner Mayor Rose of Milwaukee and Attorney Cleyburg on too other. Jrlmry Imvt Had "Tho primary law Is a bad law," he said. "It disfranchises one third tho voters of the state and disfran chises tho democrats of six sentorlal districts and republicans of fourteen. The law ought not to havo been passed. But It Is tho law and this court must be bound by IU" There was no attack made on the consttutlonallty of the law by the Taftltcs In their petition. Attorney General Wobb's strong est point was that tbo federal consti tution gavo tbo legislature absoluto power to prescribe tbo manner of choosing electors and there was noth ing to bind them legally to voto for any one candidate. "If the legislature passed a law that anly the clecto'rs of Modoc coun ty had tho right to select the electors to voto for president, tho law would havo to bo observed," said Justice AngclottI and tho others concurred. Test of Republicanism The court ruled that tho Califor nia state law prescribed what con stituted a republican and that the action of tho national republican party had nothing to do with It. Tho test of a republican was onerely that ho register as such and If ho run tor offlco that bo certify his caudldacy as a republican." Tho petitioners had maintained that the olghty-soven bull moosors In tho stato convention ceased to bo re publicans when they renounced tho national republican platform. Tho court hold that this was a political question aud not one with in the jurisdiction of tho court. Tho court could not attompt to har monize political factions. Wko Church Luw Attorney Roso made tho statomont that ho had novor heard of such a primary law In any other state and Justlco Bounty said ho never would hoar of a similar ono. Roso llkoncd tho republican party to tho Presby terian church aud cited a decision by tho court that when ono branch of tho ahurch seceded It could not uso tho name of tho parent church. In tho course of his decision Justlco Beatty defined tho difference as ho saw It between tho republicans and Rooseyelters. Ho said tho latter wanted a pure democracy out of tho country In op position to tho ropubltcan theory of ropro8entatlvo government. WASHINGTON. Oct, Up to an early hour this afternoon no official report of tho reported ussiiBslniitlou of Allan McCaughun, Mrs. Cliff and Herbert Russell, all Americans, by revolutionists had been Tecelved. TURKEY UNS TO HIT HARD AT Perte Refuses DmmmIs f ItHuM States fr Refwmw h Maiii'inf War Fevtr Sweep SKIwwm Em pfre and Unite AN FietltM. Servian Refhneftt RepuISM TwMifc lattaliwi White Cmsfcfl.FrMrtlfr Scheels Ctesed to Mwtmiyt. VIENNA, Oct. 3. A Servian regi ment repulsed a Turkish battalion while the latter was crossing the Servian frontier according to a de Hpatch just received here. No details were given. Reports hero from Montenegro ay that all schools there are closed and the people greatly enthused over the mobilization of troops and the possi bility of war with the Turks. LONDON, Oct. 3, Sir Gerald Low thor, British ambassador tb Turkey,, today telegraphed the foreio office that Turkey does not latent ,t-fight the Balkan coalitloB Hales fttr4 te do bo and that the Sulfas t wUttagt to establlth the referaa dcuMUHtati In Macedonia but that they eaaaet be accomplished as speedily aa the Utaifc.ftaik tmmirsi. .. - Stripped sf IU diplomatic vrMag4 this Is taken by diplomat M.taak-i mount to saying The IPwrte will ' nothing. Turks to Strike Qfekljr Both news and government des-' patches from Constantinople Indicate that the Turks are preparing to strike quick and hard at Bulgaria, which Is considered the head and front of the Bulgarian, Servian, Montenegrin and Grecian alliance. The Turkish war office, It Is reported, believes that a few regiments will be sufficient to hold Greece in check It the latter attempts any landing la Salonika and that the bulk of the Moslem armies will be free to sweep through Albania and Monastir and give battle to the Servian,. Montene grin and Bulgarian forces oa the northern border of the Turkish zone of Influence. In the city of Constantinople, dis patches say, a fervor for war la sweeping over a) the tactions who havo fought for supromaey since the fall ofAbdul Hamld. They are said to bo forgetting their differences and In every way tq he holding up the hands of tho government In Ita ap parent determination to tight to the last tho proposal to dlyorce from, the Turkish rule Macedonia, Albania, Old Servla (Noyipazar), and Crete, as Is demnndod by the ultimatum of tho Balkan allies. (Continued on Page 6) lYSElECl TO TRY LMTES INDIANAPOLIS, Intl., Oct,. 3, Tho soloctlon of a jury to try the forty-eight members of the International Association of Bridge and Structural ( Iron Workers, charged with Illegal ly transporting dynamite was com pleted this afternoon. Thu taking of ovldonco witj start at once. The twolvo men who proved ac ceptable to both tho prosecution and dofoiiBo are: Samuel Morrkou, Janioa N, Smith, Seneca Chambers. William Jackson, William DImjIh. Frank Daro, Job TkoMt Allen Spautdlng, Martin Davis, T . Braok shlro, Frank Sutton and JH Bar ger. , , Samuel Gompers, jirwldaa't ef the , American Federation ef'LaWr Had Detective Wllara J. Jlri,,wlw r down the evidence wkl' rtuWd l the return of Indletweats 'ti4at ta aiuuuail man. have ImMim MMRMMtd to appear here and It M kftV4 tfc(M win uw wHiuiiy in? uii wi BULGARIA to i oi !-