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VOL. Ill No. 149
OREGON CITS', OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE, 25, 1912.
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PARKER WINS DESP1T
OPPOSITION or
BRYAN
COMMONER SPURNS
COMPROMISE
BITTER FIGHT PLANNED ON FLOOR
NEBRASKAN SAYS SAME INTER
ESTS THAT OPERATED IN CHI
CAGO ARE AT WORK
IN BALTIMORE
BALTIMORE, June 24. All hope of
averting a fight from the fall of the
gavel in the Democratic National con
vention vanished tonight when the
National Committee approved the se
lection of Alton B. Parker, of New
York, as temporary chairman in de
fiance of the threat of William J. Bry
an to make an issue of the alleged con
servatism of Judge Parker as appos
ed the progressiveism which the Ne
braskan asserted should prevail.
An effort was made by the National
Committee today to placate Mr. Bryan
but a conference resulted in complete
failure. Mr. Bryan would not recede
from the position he had taken and
tonight prepared to make his fight to
morrow from the floor of the conven
tion to rally the progressives to his
standard in opposition to Judge Park
er. Mr. Bryan announced today that if
no other good progressive could be
prevailed upon to make the race, he
would enter the field himself, as the
opponent of Parker.
In furtherance of their hope of nom
inating Mr. Bryan some of his friends
it is said, are bending their efforts to
prevent a coalition of the Clark and
Wilson forces. They are talking of
Bryan and Wilson as a possible ticket
The latter's friends declined to put
any such interpretation upon the ac
tion of the committee.
Mr. Bryan said:
"I had expected it. When Mr. Guf
fey was seated against the protest of
the Democrats of Pennsylvania, I
learned what I had expected; that a
majority of that committee either had
no conception of Democracy, or was
so slavishly under the control of the
predatory interests as not to be free
to follow their convictions. The reas
ons given are defense of wrong.
"They are insincere and are not the
reasons that really influence them.
The fight will be resumed tomorrow,
at which time a progressive win be
presented for the convention to vote
for and the line will be drawn so that
the delegates can decide whether they
will ally themselves with the Belmont-Ryan-Murphy
crowd that overwhelmed
the party with defeat eight years ago
and which is in close and continuous
co-partnership with the crowd that
nominated Mr. Taft at Chicago.
"The predatory interests have no
politics. They are with the party that
serves them. Having enabled a min
ority of the Republicans to override
the will of the majority of Republi
cans at Chicago, .they are now here
to enable a minority of the Democrats
to override the majority in this con
vention." .
"There is not a great exploiting in
terest that is not represented in the
lobbies of the hotel; there is not a cor
rupting inffuence in American politics
that is not being used, and the dele
gates to this" convention, underesti
mate the intelligence of the men who
sent them here if they think then can
go back and deceive them into believ
ing that they supported Mr. Parker
from any worthy motive.
"The talk of harmony is too absurd
to deserve consideration. I tried to
secure harmony by urging several
weeks ago that the committee invite
Mr. Clark and Mr. Wilson, whose in
structed delegates constitute nearly
two-thirds of the convention to agree
upon a candidate for the purpose of
avoiding friction. They not only fail
ed to do this, but they refused to take
the choice of either candidate, and at
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Judson Harmon, Conservative Candidate For Democratic Nomination
President.
for
and the suggestion is receiving atten
tion in many quarters.
In the event that Mr. Bryan should
not be a candidate himself for tem
porary chairman, it was said he might
urge Senator Kern, of Indiana, for the
place. The leaders expect Mr. Bryan
to enter the race.
The contest over the chairmanship
is looked forward to with trepidation
by some of the leaders ' and by the
supporters of several Presidential can
didates. One of the most interesting
developments looked for is the stand
to be taken by Clark delegates. A
large number of these have been
pledged to support the choice of the
National committee whoever he may
be.
This action was regarded in the
state delegations as distincty an anti
Bryan move. There has been a long
friendship between Mr. Bryan and
Speaker Clark. The delegates to the
convention are wondering if tomor
row's battle will show a rupture.
It is a coincidence that Mr. Bryan
is arraying himself against the only
man who has shared with him the
Presidential nomination of his party
since the memorial campaign of 1896
16 years ago. Judge Parker's com
paratively wide margin of success in
the National committee, 31 to 20, was
taken by many of the leaders as an
indication of defeat for Mr. Bryan.
Mr. Murphy's die tation forced Mr. Par
ker's nomination.
"I shall discuss Mr. Parker's fitness
for the position tomorrw. It is
enough to say that if he does not
know whose agent he is, he lacks the
does ntoedesetevrh
intelligence necessary for a presid
ing officer, and if he does know, he
does not deserve the support of any
man who has the right to call himsell
a Democrat,
"I expect to present the name of
some progressive and to support his
claim before the convention. If I fail
to find a man to lead the fight, my
name will be presented as a candidate
for temporary chairman.
"I have no way of knowing how the
convention stands, but the Democrats
of the Nation have done enough for
me to justify me in suffering defeat if
necessary in their defense. One Re
publican party is enough in this coun
try, for whatever we may call our
selves, if we cannot distinguish our
selves from them in our actions, peo
ple will not pay much attention to our
words."
William Jennings Bryan's threat
this morning that if the progressive
could not agree on any other candi
date for temporary chairman of the
Democratic national convention in op
position to Alton B. Parker, he (Bry
an) would personally become their
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If U- UttU k THERE'S A REASON! LfM!j
COUNCIL CALLS
CHARTER MEETING
CITIZENS WILL BE GIVEN OPPOR
TUNITY TO DISCUSS RE
VISED INSTRUMENT
STREET IMPROVEMENTS ORDERED
Oregon Band Requests That Stand Be
Erected On Singer Hill Lot
Telephone Rates To
. Be Probed
2 HURT AS TEAM
RUNS INTO HACK
HUBERT EASTMAN, OF CENTRAL
POINT TRAMPLED BY
: HORSES
LEFT EAR ALMOST TORN FROM HEAD
William Quinn Sustains Serious
Bruises While Wife And Baby
Escape Firecrackers
Cause Runaway
GUESS THE REASON AND WIN ATRIP TO EUROPE .
candidate caused astonishment.
After a session of two hours the
national committee postponed action .
on the report of" the sub-committee j
naming Judge Parger as temporary i
chairman of the convention. This
was an undoubted victory for Bryan,
inasmuch as the Parker forces had j
sufficient votes in the committee to i
ratify Parker's election, but evident-'
ly feared Bryan's threat to force the
issue in the convention.
A subcommittee of the national com
mitee, including Chairman Mack, of
New York, friend of Parker, and Na
tional Committeeman Hall, of Nebras
ko, friend of Bryan, was appointed to
confer with both Bryan and Parker
during the afternoon, with the idea of
effecting a possible compromise.
Seeking a solution of the threatened
break, Mack and Hall late this after
noon, went to William J. Bryan, with
Judge Alton B. Parker, the subcom
mittee's choice for chairmanship, hop
ing to compromise the fight. The Ne
braskan agreed to talk the situation
over, and the four leaders went into
immediate conference in Mack's room
at the Belvidere hotel.
Sentiment for the nomination of
Bryan for president has developed rap
idly. One thing is certain if Wilson
is not nominated, there is a strong
possibility that Bryan will be. It
looks as if it wili be either one or the
other.
. Representative Ollie James, of Ken
tucky, today issued a statement in
which he said he would support W. J.
Bryan in the fight against Judge Al
ton B. Parker, of New York, for the
temporary chairmanship.
William B. Reinhart, of Sandusky,
an Ohio delegate, today in a confer-1
ence with Bryan openly suggested
that the Commoner run for president
"I'm not discussing that," said Mr
Bryan.
"I don't want to embarrass you,"
said Reinhart, "but we want you to
run for president."
"I've got something more import
ant than that on right now," said Bry
an. "I want you with us in this fight
of the . progressives for temporary
chairman."
Late this afternoon, following acau-
(Continued on page 4)
ROOSEVELT SAYS
HE LL NOT QUIT
COLONEL MAKES PLANS FOR
FIGHT AS INDEPENDENT
CANDIDATE
DEMOCRATS ARE INVITED TO AID
Judge Lindsey, of Denver, Going To
Baltimore To Sound Leaders
Johnson To' Name
Committee
Thomas Taggart, Chairman of Demo
cratic National Commitee, Who
Fought for Alton B. Parker forTem
- porary Chairman of Convention.
CHICAGO, June 24. The nomina
tion of a pronounced "progressive" at
Baltimore will make no change in the
plans of Colonel Roosevelt to lead the
new party born last Saturday.
This progressive statement came
from him after there had been some
discussion of the possibiliity that a
"progressive" might receive the Dem
ocratic Presidential nomination. Some
of the visitors at headquarters seemed
to think that if a recognized progres
sive was nominated, it might hamper
the independent party.
Illinois Roosevelt men later discuss
ed with him the new party plans to
be pursued in this state. Later a con
ference was held which was attended
by Chauncey Dewey, Medill McCor
mick, Walter Clyde Jones, candidate
for nomination for Governor in the Ap
ril primaries and others.
McCormick said it had been decided
to form the "Progressive Republican
Party" in Illinois in opposition to the
regular Republican organization.
He said the main elements in the
new party at the start would be the
Illinois Progressive Republican Lea
gue and the Roosevelt organization,
built up by Dewey and the other lead
ers of the Roosevelt men.
It is the expectation of tbe leaders
to place a complete state ticket in the
field, including Congressional and leg
islative candidates.
There was no formal meeting of
Roosevelt followers today, but inform
al conferences were held, in which
Colonel Roosevelt discussed the sit
uation with leaders of the new party
(Continued on page 3)
BOY IS SEVERELY
BITTEN BY BIG RAT
Basil, the four-year-old son of Otto
Meindl, of Clackamas Heights was
seriously bitten by a large rat Sun
day. The boy went to sleep shortly
after noon and abtout 3 o'clock his
mother who was at work in the kit
chen, was attracted by screams. She
rushed into the bedroom and found
her son trying to fight off the animal.
Mrs. Meindl seized a broom and
struck at the animal but it escaped.
The boy's left hand was badly lacer
ated, and the rat had eaten a large
hole under the lad's left eye. Some;
time ago many of the dogs in the su
burb were poisoned, and since then it
has become infested with rats. Many
chickens and other fowls have been
victims of the animals. The lad's
wounds were dressed at the store of
H. S. Clyde, and Mr. Clyde announces
that efforts will be taken at once to
exterminate the rodents.
A motion that a meeting of the citi
zens be called for next Monday night
to discuss the proposed revised chart
er to be voted upon at a special elec
tion was passed at a meeting of the
city council Monday night. Recorder
Stipp was asked to try to obtain the
Commercial Club rboms for the meet
ing, andrin the event he is not suc
cessful other arrangements will be J
made. The meeting was called to or-1
der by President Meyer, but Mayor
Dimick soon arrived and occupied the !
chair. Councilmen Tooze, Meyer, !
Horton, Roake, Holman, Albright and :
Pope were present.
A petition, for the improvement of :
Division street was" referred to the
Committee on Streets to report at the
next meeting. A communication from
the Hawley Pulp & Paper Company
regarding the improvement of the Ca-
nemah road was not acted upon as the
council has taken up the matter with
the Portland Railway, Light & Power
Company. A conference will be held
June 28. . "-
A recommendation of City Engineer
Montgomery that the work on Mon
roe street between Ninth and Elev
enth not be completed until next
spring was adopted. The recommen
dation was referred to the committee
on streets which approved it. The
committee, however urged that a walk
four feet wide be built from Ninth to
Eleventh streets on Monroe, which
was approved.
James Roake offered a resolution
that the Oregon Engineering" & Con
struction Company not be given any
more contracts until it finishes the
work it has on hand. There was con
siderable discussion over the length of
time the company has taken to do the
work contracted for on Washington
and Monroe streets. The council, how
ever, had considered the matter ' be
fore and nothing additional was done.
Bids were opened for the -improvement
of John Quincy Adams street,
from Eighth to Fourteenth, Sixteenth
between Division and Jackson and
part of Jackson street. The street
committee and Engineer Montgomery
will examine the bids at 9 o'clock this
morning, and report to the- council at
a meeting to be held at 5 o'clock this
afternoon, when the award will be
made. The bidders are the Oregon
Construction Company, Kibbie Welton
Company and the Northcoast Con
struction Company.
A complaint that the Oregon Found
ry Company is obstructing the street
with its product was referred to the
commitee on streets.
Councilman Tooze moved that a
committee of three be appointed to
investigate telephone rates. Mr.
Tooze, who had already made a par
tial investigation, was named chair
man of a committee to probe a com
plaint that rates varied from fl.25 a
month to $1.75. It was reported that
persons recently subscribing for the
service were charged the higher rate.
The other members of the committee
are Messrs. Horton and' Holman. The
committee on streets will investigate
a complaint- that the Clackamas
Souhern Railway Company is empty
ing debris on private property.
The ordinance providing for the
hardsurfacing of Main street between
Moss and the Abernethy bridge was
read for the first time. No remon-
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Hubert Eastman and William Quinn
of Central Point, were seriously in
jured Monday afternoon in a runaway
accident on Singer Hill. Eastman,
Quinn' and Mrs. Quinn and her child
were riding in a hack when a team
of horses owned by H. P. Brightbill
colided with it The hack was over-
turnea ana aemoiisnea, me wcuyauio
being thrown to the street. East
man fell under the horses and was
trampled by them. Several men went
to his rescue and Dr. C. A. Stuart who
was passing in an automobile took
him to his office. Mr. Eastman's left
ear was almost severed from his head
and he was bruised on various parts
of his body. There also was a deep
cut over his left eye. Stitches were
taken in the cut and the mangled ear
nnrt Tlr Stuart snva his riatJent will
recover. No bones were broken.
Mr. Quinn, who was being brought
to the city for treatment, also was ser
iously bruised and cut He was taken
to Dr. Strickland's office and given
medical attention. Mrs. Quinn and
her child, although thrown out of th.e
hack, escaped injury.
The team owned by Mr. Brightbill
frightened while the driver was in the
harness shop conducted by Frank
Cross at Seventh and John Adams
streets and ran at a rapid rate down
Cin oral. "Hill Ti mi to V riT-d tsv ill i-ir? or!
by boys are said to have caused the
horses to run. Persons who witness
ed the runaway and collision declared
it was remarkable that all the oc
cupants of the hack were not killed.
E
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In order to accomodate the largo
nnmlior rf TMinila ovnofinH tr ott&TtH
the domestic science class at the Wil-'
lamette Valley Chautauqua Assembly
which will convene at Gladstone Park
July 9, the ' management will erect a
building with a class room and a large
kitchen. Work on the structure will
be started at once, and alarge range
has been ordered. Miss Frances G.
Gage, secretary of the Northwestern
Territorial Committee of the Board of
Young Women's Christian Association
of Idaho, Montana, Washington and
Oregon, will be in charge. The as
sembly has erected homes for the Wo
men's Christian Temperance Union,
an art building kindergarten and sev
eral other buildings. Secretary Cross,
said Monday that he had mailed about
10,000 programs, and that they could
be had on application to him, Sill's
bookstore, the station at First and
Alder streets and the Young Men's
Christian Association in Portland, and
at all the drug stores in Oregon City.
LIVE WIRES TO DISCUSS
CHARTER AMENDMENTS
The Live Wire3 at a luncheon at
6 o'clock Thursday evening will dis
cuss the proposed amendments to the
charter giving the city a business
form of Government which will be vo
ted upon at a special election. The
Live Wire luncheon was to have been
held tomorrow evening but was post
poned until Thursday.
5
I Every body's Doing it
Doing What?
Talking About the Good Show
They saw at the "
tar TTaesLteir
Remember this is your last chance to see the
Nashville Students
And
Jubilee Singers
As they, close their engagement tonight. This
is a regular opera house show and well worth
your time and money. This, in connection
with
Four Fine Reels of Pictures
A two and one-half hour show, all for the
small sum of -
:ioc and 20c
Free Concert in Front of Theater at 2 p. m. and 7 p. m.