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About The times. (Portland, Or.) 191?-19?? | View Entire Issue (July 6, 1912)
THE TIMES THE TI MES Published every Saturday by THE TIM ES COMPANY, Incorporated at 212 F irst Street, Portland, Oregon, ¿’¡tunes: Main 5637: A-2686. THE TIM ES is not responsible for any opinions expressed by correspondents appearing in its columns. Entered in Postoffice at Portland, Oregon, as second-class matter. WILSON CHOSEN AT BALTIMORE Governer Marshall of Indiana is Selected as His Running Mate. “to rid th e dem ocratic party of the Ryan-Belmont-M organ in terests’* de- ! layed the beginning of nom inating ! speeches at the night session Thurs- i day from 8 o’clock until nearly 11. D IR E C TO R Y a resolution introduced by him. of which was passed by a tw o-thirds ma- | 1* n * Portland m s i Leading Business 1^* Firms. jority, declared the convention oppos- | ________________________________________________________________________ ed to the nom ination of any candidate J. H. INDUSTRIAL MORTON, ENGINEER. M. E. under obligation to J. P. Morgan, 0RRIN E. STANLEY M. Am. Soc. C. E. Thom as F. Ryan, A ugust Belmont, or Complete Industrial Plants or any any “privilege-seeking class.” ENGINEERING ADVISER. DRAFTING Designs component part, mechanical or structural. Saturday, July 6, 1912 B altim ore.— W oodrow W ilson, of The convention was throw n into a AND BLU E-PR IM IM . Old Plants Modernized. Drafting. New Jersey, Tuesday was nom inated furore by the proposition, which as Telephone M arshall 1554. Phone Main 1622. for the presidency by the dem ocratic originally introduced called for the REGULATION IS NOT CONFISCATION, 8?4 Chamber of Commerce, Portland, Oregon. 924 Chamber of Commerce, Portland, Oregon. w ithdraw al of Ryan and Belm ont national convention on the forty-sixth Whenever publie regulation of corporation is proposed, there is ballot. The vote w as: Clark, 84; W il This p art of th e resolution w as re an outcry to the effect that such regulation so interferes with the son, sented as invading the rights of sov 990; H arm on, 12; absent, 2. profits of the business as to hamper the corporation in the conduct W hen ARTHUR D. MONTEITH the convention assem bled 1 ereign states, and when its full im port C. J. WILSON of its finances; and retards rather than aids communal development. Tuesday evening to com plete its work becarne known boos and catcalls, jeers CIVIL AND HYDRAULIC ENGINEER. and hisses w*re mingled with hand General Surveying, Landscape Engineering, Undoubtedly there are a great many people who believe all that to by nom inating a candidate for vice- clapping, COMMERCIAL ARTIST AND Construction Superintendence, Reports and cheers and stam ping of feet president and adopt a platform the Estim ates on Projects, W ater Supply, Irri CARTOONIST. be true. in the galleries and on the floor gation, Sewerage. sentim ent of the convention was Touching that matter it is interesting to take note of the opinion strongly in favor of giving th e speak Nomination* are Made. Main 5645. Res. Phone E 6185. 348 M arket Street, Portland, Oregon. Phones: Lumber Exchange Building. of a Wisconsin capitalist, as it appears in a recently published New er the vice-presidency if he would ac O scar A. Underwood, of A labam a; Clark, of M issouri; W oodrow York interview. This man points out that no other state has gone so cept. Speaker Clark, however, sent W Champ ilson of New York, and Simeon from W ashington, declining the far as Wisconsin in the matter of corporate regulation; that in no word ination, Phone East 63. statin g th at he preferred Baldwin, of C onnecticut, w ere Increase Your Business other commonwealth has radicalism been so systematically enacted nom placed in nom ination. Both the Un to rem ain in his present position. by placing your advertisement in into law. The results have not been direful in Wisconsin. They G overnor Burke, of N orth Dakota, derwood and Clark nom inations called U. S. LAUNDRY CO. have not even been detrimental to investment or embarassing to the Governor M arshall of Indiana, S enator out Prol°nged dem onstrations am ong THE TIMES. 180 GRAND AVE., COR. EAST YAMHILL, C ham berlain, of Oregon, and a num th eir enthusiastic followers. financial operations of the corporations affected. W rite for our advertising rates. Portland, Oregon. The result of the first ballot w as: ber of others w ere placed in nom ina (¿uite to the contrary, as this Wisconsin capitalist states, busi tion. of New York 2, C lark 449H. ness has grown in that state since the enactment of the railroad It w as ap p aren t th at the real fight W Sulzer ilson 324, Underwood 117 Harm on commission and publie utilities laws. Morevoer it is the common for the vice-presidency rested betw een 148, M arshall 31, Baldwin 22, Bryan 1. business opinion in that state that tin- investor has a bettor chance, G overnor Burke and G overnor M ar A bsent 2. N ecessary for choice, 728. Bryan Sw itches to W ilson. of Indiana. The states second dividends are sure and regular, securities are safe, new business con shall, the nom inations of the two gov Saturday afternoon’s session was cerns are coining in. railroads are extending their lines and all busi ing w ere about equally divided. m arked by a dram atic outburst by Mr. ness is increasing every year. Even the lower rates imposed by the ernors W hen the D istrict of Columbia was Bryan. Claim ing the privilege of ex Railroad Commission has increased business and profits. reached, one of the delegates propos plaining why he and m ore than a As supporting this opinion we may turn to the record in Texas, ed W illiam J. Bryan as a vice-presi dozen other delegates from N ebraska w ere going to sw itch th eir votes from candidate. where the regulatory rein over the corporations, and especially over dential Clark W ilson, he declared th at so A ro ar sw ept the hall as the nam e tin- transportation corporations, is drawn more tightly than in any was m entioned. Bryan declined the long as to Champ continued to ac- other Southern state. Texas is unquestionably the most prosperous, honor and urged th e selection of either eePl the support Clark of C harles F. M urphy If we could take you through our modern as well as the most progressive state id' the South; and it appeals to S enator C ham berlain or G overnor and Tam m any ilaii, he would not vote plant, flooded with sunshine and scrupulously for him. the common sense and the common experience of men that its greater Burke. clean, with its immaculately dressed workers; A fter 26 ballots had been taken w ith T he first ballot on the vice-presiden prosperity is due in a considerable measure to its more enlightened tial nom ination gave M arshall 389, G overnor W ilson saining on each bal if we could show you how thoroughly each gar policy concerning the control of its public utility corporations. The Burke 305 2-3, C ham berlain 157. The lot and Speaker C lark constantly los ment is laundered and inspectedour close atten more we know of the actual facts the clearer does it become that rem ainder of the vote was scattered ing ground th e convention at 11:05 tion to the small details that really make the o'clock adjourned until Monday m orn there is no just fear of depression in the square deal between the am ong native sous. laundered garment and some of the refreshing ing at 11 o'clock. corporations and the people. ly white, snowy clothes that leave this laundry T here w ere no overnight changes in the situation when the convention as —you would not hesitate long in sending your sem bled Monday morning. W ilson SUEZ AND PANAMA. clothes here. took the lead on the 30th ballot, get The total receipts on the Suez canal (luring the fiscal year re ting 460 votes to 455 for Clark. The A single trial will prove a revelation in how cently closed were $2(1.870.51 ti. produced by the passage through the deadlock w as unbroken afte r hours of clothes really should be laundered. canal during 1011 of 49t>9 vescls. with a tonnage of 18,424,794. continuous balloting. A phone call will bring our wagon the same W ilson added to his vote during These figures suggest some forecasts on the probable business of M onday's session and afte r the 42d day. Panama when the traffic lias to some extent adjusted itself to new ballot a recess was taken until noon eondit ions. ..EAST 33—BOTH PHONES—B-6118. Tuesday. On the first ballot Tuesday The coast to coast shipments through the Panama canal are es afternoon W ilson gained 108 votes and ‘‘You Can Depend On the Troy.’’ on th e 46th ballot he received suffici timated at 4,200,000 tons in 1915, taking into account a normal in ent votes to nom inate, crease based on the progress of the last three years. Hut a still larger ent votes to nom inate. The end cam e increase may be expected, when the manufacturing and commercial a t th e beginning of the 46th ballot, centers of our eastern states are brought by the canal so much closer when S enator Bankhead of Alabam a, to tin* Pacific coast. U nderw ood’s m anager, took the plat form and announced the release of the The saving in distance l>v Panama between New York and Cal FEARLESS EXPONENT OF INDUSTRIAL PEACE SUBSCRIPTION RATES—$2.50 per year, in advance. ADVERTISING RATES made known upon application \ % , Snowy White Dainty Clothes Are Troy Laundered Clothes bio, Honolulu, Yokohama and Shanghai over exitsing routes varies from 7000 to 200 nautical miles. It may be reasonably assumed that the very great percentage of the traffic between eastern American cities and the Orient will adopt the new route. The distance from (?) 1911. bv American Press Association. WOODROW WILSON. European centers to the Orient by Panama is so nearly equal to that by Suez that a division of that traffic also may be expected, if tin Governor of New Jersey, Nominated rates through the two canals are equalized. for President at Baltimore. The increase of receipts by Suez for 1911 was reported as $844,- As the second ballot progressed (¡5(5, although a reduction of ten cents a ton on tolls bad been put in M arshall gained steadily. Many of force. Another reduction of ten cents a ton will go into effect on the so-called W ilson stn tts shifted to support him. The result of the bnllot January 1. 1914. M arshall, 643ty; The stockholders on the Suez canal are only entitled to 71 per was announced: 387v>; C ham berlain, 12'£. cent of the net receipts, 15 per cent going to the Egyptian govern Burke, tin the third ballot (he N orth Dako ment. 1(1 per cent to the founders, two per cent to the administrative ta delegation withdrew the nam e of officers. At Panama the American government, having provided the G overnor Burke and moved that the nom ination of Marshal) be m ade un entire cost, will receive the entire net returns. anim ous. 1 i-.e convention w itnessed many ex ITS BELT LINE. citing incidents, and developed a dead No eit.v Inis been wiser in its transportation arrangements than lock th at w as unequalled by any na lias New Orleans. Notable in its plan is the city owned and city tional convention since the republican THOMAS R. MARSHALL. operated hi lt line railroad service to all business interests requir gathering at Chicago in 1880, when G eneral G rant was a candidate for a Governor of Indiana, Nom inated for ing it. third term , and 306 delegates clung to Vice President at Baltim ore. It transfers ears from railroad to railroad, from railroads to his to th e thirty-sixth and final wharves, from wharves to railroads and from railoails to industries ballot banner Underwood delegates to vote for Garfield was nom inated. and the public delivery tracks, from industries to all tile transpor A rem when arkable feature of the conven whom they saw fit. Alabam a, which started every o th er call with 24 tation outlets of the city, and tiunly. it will make available to any tion was the dom inance of Bryan. De had votes for Underwood, changed to W il railroad or railroads that may hereafter desire an entrance into the feated for tem po rary ' chairm an by son, and state after state followed city all of the railroad wharf and individual switch connections at a Judge Alton It. Parker, who was put suit, and the stam pede did not end forw ard by the conservative elem ent, tint rate of $2 per ear. until 990 of the 1088 votes in the con he refused to subside, and m aintained The system is fairly profitable. The gross revenues last year were beligerent attitud e throughout the vention had been cast for the nominee. >212.121, and the maintenance $184,571 The net revenue was $28.- convention, and several tim es hurled S enator Stone, of M issouri, Clark’s moved that the nom ination 549. For depreciation on locomotives, the sum of $44.44 was charged a thunderbolt which set the delegates m be anager, unanim ous. The convention off. leaving ii surplus applicable to payment of bond interest of $25.- anil spectators on edge. The specta then m ade adjourned until 9 p. m. was unique in American politics. 205. The total amount of bonds authorized is $2,000,000, according cle In no national convention In recent to the Financial World. has o e man by sheer force of WILSON! RECEIVES NEW The efficiency mil ccenomy id' the city owned belt line system,- years his personality been able to upset the placing all railroad lines on an equal footing, and opening the city plans of the leaders, overturn long es Governor Feels R esponsibility So to any line desiring entrance, is approximate perfection in transpor tnblished precedent nnd force an in Keenly th at Honor Is Secondary. tensely hostile opposition to adopt his Sen G irt. N. J.—W hen G overno- tation arrangements. And it pays tiuaucuilly. view s without a strenuous fight. DEFENDING THE JOSSELYN PLAN Naturally enough, a Socialist lias rushed to the defense of Mr. Jossclvn \s plan of having Imt one power and light company, with puldii regulation lb- attacks a Journal editorial, mid says if we are to have two light anii'ower companies we should also have two poat- ortice departments, two water works and two tire departments. His defense id' Mr. Josselyn's idea bears out Tile Journal's statement that "there is not a very wide difference between Mr. Josselyn's plan and Mr Delis' plan." Hut does the Portland Hailway. Eight \ Power Company hear the same relation to Portland as do the postoffiee. the water works and the tire department ' The Portland Hailway. Light \ Power en terprise is a private monopoly, privately owned mid privately oper ated for private profit. The postoffiee. the water works and the tin* department are public establishments, publicly financed and publicly conducted for the benefit of the public. Bryan repudiated the Murphy-Tag gart Sullivan attem pt to mollify hint, and refused election as chairm an of the resolutions com m ittee Bryan won another victory when he forced the adoption of a resolution to defer adoption ot' the platform until after the nom inations w ere made. Seat South Dakota W ilson Delegates T he first real test of strength be tw een the W ilson and Clark forees cam e in a vote on the South Dakota contest. Th* Wilson forces won, the convention, by a vote of 639’, to 4371... seating the It) South Dakota Wilson delegates, thus upsetting the action of the m ajority of the credentials com rnlttee and sustaining its m inority re port W llson received word that the Demo cratic convention had nom inated him for president, he was laughing and chatting with his wife and daughters. "T he honor is as great as can come tj any man by the nom ination of a party," the nom inee said, "especially in the circum stances, and I hope 1 ap preciate It at its true value; but Just at this m om ent I feel the trem endous reeponslbili.y it involves even more than I feel th e honor. 1 hope with all my heart th e party will never have reason to regret it." P-yan is Pleased. B "'tim ore.—W illiam J. Bryan. 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