OREGON
EMERALD
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
VOL. XIV.
EUGENE, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1912.
No. 19
EMERALD STRAW VOTE SHOWS
CONSERVATIVE STUDENT
PREFERENCES
WILSON, SELLING AND SLATER IN OFFICE—MILL
AGE BILL CARRIES EASILY PROHIS PRE
VAIL AND DEATH SENTENCE STAYS
Woodrow Wilson’s electors received
1,051 votes in the straw election con
ducted by the Emerald yesterday.
William Howard Taft ran second to
Wilson, with 591 votes, while Theo
dore Roosevelt dropped to third place
among the campus candidates with
408. The remaining tickets headed
Chafin and Debs polled 78 and 63 re
spectively. Wilson thus received a
majorit yof the votes cast for the
three leading parties, but lacked 141
of having a majority of the entire
number of votes cast.
For United States Senator, Ben
Selling, the Republican nominee, de
feated Bourne and Harry Lane, hav
ing 169 votes as composed with 116
for Lane and 80 for the father of
the Oregon system. The Bull Moose
candidate, A. E. Clark, attracted 45
votes. Paget, the prohibition expo
nent, was fifth, with 24 votes, while
“Squee” Ramp, University of Oregon
’08, the Socialist standard bearer re
ceived nine.
Slater Is Favorite
For Justice of the Supreme Court,
W. T. Slater barely defeated R. J.
Eakin, .of Astoria, his margin being
by 26 votes. The Socialist and Pro
hibition candidates polled a negligi
ble vote for this office.
The present incumbent in the Na
tional House of Representatives from
this district, W. C. Hawley, was
awarded a complete majority con
sisting of 215 votes over his four op
ponents. R. G. Smith, the Democratic
seeker, was second with 78 votes. The
Bull Moose, Prohibition and Socialist
candidates ran in the order named.
Ben W. Olcott, present Secretary of
State, was returned by the voters
with a majority of the votes cast foT
that office. John B. Ryan, Democrat
aspirant, polled 66 votes, or one-fourth
of the number by Olcott. Kennedy,
White and Reddaway ran in the or
der named, with small votes for each.
Few Straight Tickets Voted
The only example of voting for the
candidates in the order in which they
appear on the ballot, was found in
the case of representative from Lane
County. Allen Eaton, OZ, prominent)
alumnus of the University, Vernon
Parsons and C. Hurd, whose names
appeared in that order, were favored
by all the precincts. This was the
only case of voting in this manner.
For the minor state and county
offices, the voting was light, little in
terest being shown by the students in
local affairs. Roscoe Bryson, ’99, an
old quarterback for the University,
received the vote for sheriff of Lane
county. The offices of County Sur
veyor, County Treasurer, and County
Commissioner were filled by C. M.
Collier, Samuel Taylor and H. C.
Baughman respectively.
The only walkaways registered
were participated in by Lawrence T.
Harris, candidate for Circuit Judge,
also a graduate of the University, and
T. K. Campbell, running for member
of the State Railway Commission.
451 Students Cast Ballots
No names were written in by the
students, while many did not vote on
the local issues or candidates at all,
but picked out their special favorites
or nominees personally known by
them.
There were 451 students who
availed themselves of the voting priv
ilege. or a little more than two-thirds
of the entire body. By precincts, the
Woodrow Wilson's band wagon and
Charlie Koyle’s water wagon had
easy going in yesterday’s straw bal
lot. All day long there was a mad
rush of the voters to climb on these
two popular vehicles.
“I think Mr. Wilson is a perfect
dear,” declared an enthusiastic Fresh
man maid yesterday, as she affixed a
dainty cross to the Democratic can
didate’s name and artlessly over
looked the five electors.
“I’m going to vote for Teddy,” af
firmed a second fair politician. “He’s
much better looking.”
“Nobody loves a fat man,” lament
ed a Taft ward-healer, and the land
slide toward the New Jersey candi
date seemed to prove the authenticity
of the old adage. The faithful, how
ever, derived some solace from the
fact that the robust “Bill” finished in
second place, with a good lead over
Roosevelt.
In spite of the triumph of purity
as represented by the overwhelming
vote in favor of keeping Eugene
“dry,” the presence of a few of the
“rougher element” was felt. They
voted “no” on prohibition and put up
various favorites in place of candi
dates whose names were printed on
the ballot.
W. R. Wallace, the genial caterer
to students’ wants at “Obak’s,” re
ceived a scattering vote for circuit
judge of this district.
Five students, four of them girls,
turned down their University by vot
ing “no” on the Millage Tax measure,
while a few others vetoed the bills
calling for special appropriations for
University buildings.
poll books showed that there were
145 members of the Faculty, Seniors
and employees of the University who
voted. The Juniors came out 85
strong, the Sophomores cast the best
percentage of votes, with 95 to their
credit, while the Freshmen were rep
resented by barely half of their class,
or 126.
ALBANY WOULD LIKE
TO STAGE OREGON VS.
0. A. G. GAME ON 23R0
CESSATION OF ALL BUSINESS
ACTIVITIES OFFERED AS
INDUCEMENT
ALBANY COLLEGE BACKS PROPOSITION
State Institutions Consider Plan, but
Action Rests on Eugene
Portland Decision
Manager Geary has received a com
munication from Mr. Frank Eagles, a
merchant of Albany, making over
tures for the staging of the 0. A. C.
Oregon game in that city, November
23.
Mr. Eagles agreed to prepare the
Recreation field in that city, to erect
bleachers, and arrange for the suspen
sion of all business during the pro
gress of the game.
Professor Flo, of Albany College, in
a communication received yesterday
by Manager Geary, added his endorse
ment to the proposition.
“The athletic councils of both the
Oregon Agriculture College and Ore
gon have taken the generous proposal
under advisement,” said Manager
Geary yesterday, “but as the older
contract is still pending, there will be
no action upon the Albany proposi
tion until the Faculty decides upon
the Eugene-Portland plan. Probably
the whole question will be settled
within a few days.”
Ballots choosing Democratic presi
dential electors and farther on down
the list approving of Selling for the
United States senate, were common,
while in at least one case electors
were chosen from each of the five par
ties having hopes for the gubernator
ial chair. Wilson, it might be re
marked, carried heavily with the Ore
gon co-eds.
As to bills appearing for popular
approval or disapproval, those of a
conservative nature were strongly
MILLAGE BILL WILL REPEAL THE
$500,000 GRANT MADE BY
LEGISLATURE
GOVERNOR OSWALD WEST EXPLAINS PURPOSE
OF PROPOSED LEGISLATION-ONE STATE
BOARD OF REGENTS PLANNED
TIFFANY GETS NEW JOB
Student Treasurer Allowed on Ath
letic Council—C. M. Sheldon
Speaks on Education.
As a postlude to the regular as
sembly yesterday, the Student Body
held a short meeting and passed
amendments to the constitution, al
lowing Registrar Tiffany, in his ca
pacity of student treasurer, to become
a member, ex-officio, of the athletic
council.
The usual address was given by
Rev. Charles M. Sheldon, who spoke
on the subject of “True Education.”
Dr. Sheldon said in brief: “To
gain a true education, a man must be
humble, he should not think he al
ready knows everything, but he should
assume that he knows nothing.”
“Then he should educate himself
against all the common vices,” con
tinued the speaker. He cited ex
amples, showing the modern attitude
toward degrading habits of any kind,
and finally stated that true education
tends to broaden and not narrow a
man. “In case it fail in this respect,”
he said, “it has failed entirely.”
favored by the college vote. Equal
Suffrage carried in all sections, both
among men and women, but Governor
West’s pet measure for abolishing
capital punishment in the state, met
with plain disapproval, although it
should be stated that the University
girls were only responsible in a small
measure for the blood-thirsty dictum.
Last Monday night’s edition of the
Evening Telegram was devoted to the
cause of Woman Suffrage. Articles
were contributed by a great many of
the leading educators of the country,
and the edition contained numerous
suffragette appeals.
STATE OF OREGON
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
SALEM
October 29th, 1912
To Editor Emerald:
Inasmuch as this office is being repeatedly asked as to what
will become of the $500,000.00 appropriation made by the last
legislature for the University of Oregon, and now held up by the
referendum, should the proposdd millage tax bill for the support
of the University of Oregon and the Oregon Agricultural College
carry, I wish to make the following statement for the informa
tion of yOur readers.
If the proposed millage tax bill (No. 320 on the ballot) car
ries it will kill this $500,000.00 appropriation and the money,
already raised through taxation and in the hands of the State
Treasurer, will revert to the General Fund and be available for
other purposes.
The millage tax bill abolishes the two boards of regents and
the Board of Higher Curricula and puts both institutions under
one board.
It is a well known fact that at least one-fourth of the time
of the members of the legislature is taken up wrangling over the
appropriations for these institutions. The millage tax bill will
keep them away from the legislature and take them out of
politics. Yours very truly,
OSWALD WEST
Governor Oswald West again em
phasizes the fact that the millage
tax bill for the support of the Uni
versity and the Oregon Agricultural
College expressly repeals the $500,000
appropriation made by the last leg
islature for new University buildings,
in a letter sent out yesterday to the
newspapers of the state.
Despite the nearness of the elec
tion, the frequent inquiries received
at the Governor’s office indicate that
there still is a great deal of mis
understanding as to whether the Uni
versity can receive both the appro
priations upon which the referendum
has been called and the income pro
vided by the millage tax bill drafted
by the joint commission of higher ed
ucation and proposed by the initiative,
in case both carry in the election
Nov. 5.
$500,000 to go to General Fund
Tt is to make it absolutely clear
that the millage bill kills the $500,000
appropriation and diverts the money
already collected to the general fund,
which is no way available to the Uni
versity, that the Governor writes this
letter, which appears elsewhere on
this page. The Governor also calls
attention to the fact that the bill
abolishes the two Boards of Regents
of the University and O. A. C., and
also the Board of Higher Curricula,
and puts both institutions under one
board of control.
The combined Board of Regents,
which is to be appointed by the Gov
ernor, is expected to deal with du
plication of courses and other mat
ters of disagreement which have aris
en under the recent conditions of sep
arate control.
Will Save Legislature’s Time
But neither the fact that if the bilF
carries it will render Oregon’s two
institutions of higher learning inde
pendent of the Legislature and al
low them to expand normally as the
taxable property and population of
the state increases, nor the reason
able certainty that the common Board
of Regents will remove causies |of
friction between the two colleges, are
offered by the Governor for passing
the bill.
“At least one-fourth of the time
of the members of the Legislature is
taken up wrangling over the appro
priations for these institutions,” he
says. “The millage tax bill will keep
them away from the Legislature and
keep them out of politics.”
No General Oppwsitio nto the Bill
It is expected that the Governor’s
letter will clear up much of the gen
eral misapprehension that the Uni
versity can receive the $500,000 in
addition to its share of the millage
tax. Friends of higher education in
the state say that there is no gen
eral opposition to the bill, and that
the only danger of defeat lies in the
misapprehension of its provision kill
ing the former appropriation.
Colorado College boasts of a big
“cullud” gentleman at guard. In the
recent game with Wyoming the "dar
kle” proved a regular demon, often
making large gains, and once racing
thirty yards for a touchdown,
o o
As a result of a fatal ease of hat
ing the trustees of the University of
North Carolina have petitioned the
legislature to enact a law which will
make hazing a crime.