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VOL. IV No. 31
OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1912
Per "Week, 10 Cents
ENTD
NEW PARTY CALLS
OLD 018 TOOLS
PLATFORM ADVOCATES REFORM
AND ABROGATION OF AL
LEGED ABUSES.
ROLE OF PEOPLE IS ITS KEYNOTE
Equal Suffrage And Everything Else
Favored Gy Colonel Roose
velt Is Included In
Platform
CHICAGO, Aug. 7. The platform
adopted today by the Progressive par
ty convention begins with a preamble
which says:
"The conscience of the people, in a
time of grave National problems, has
called into being a new party, born
of the Nation's awakened sense of
justice.
"We-of the Progressive party dedi
cate ourselves to the fulfillment of
the duty laid upon us by our fatCers
to maintain that Government of the
people, by the people and for the peo
ple whose foundations they laid.
"We hold with Thomas Jefferson
and Abraham Lincoln that the people
are the masters of Iheir Constitution
to fulfill its purposes and to safeguard
it from those, who, by perversion of
its intent, would convert it into ail
instrument of injustice.
"This country belongs to the people
who inhabit it. It is time to set the
public welfare in the first place."
The platform further declares that
the old parties have become the tools
of corrupt interests, which use them
impartially to serve their selfish pur
poses, and that the "new party of
fers itself as the instrument of the
people to. sweep away old abuses, to
build a new and nobler common
wealth." Declares, under the heading "The
Rule of the People," for direct pri
maries for the nomination of state
and National officers and candidates
for President and for the popular
election of United States Senators,
and urges on the states the use of the
short ballot, "with responsibilty to
to the people secured by the initiative
referendum and recall."
Pledges party to provide " a more
easy and expeditious method of
amending the Federal Constitution."
Advocates National jurisdiction of
problems which Eave expanded be
yond reach of individual states.
Pledges party to secure equal suf
frage and all other - things for which
Mr. Roosevelt stands.
HIGH SCHOOL IN NEED
OF SCIENCE TEACHE
The Oregon City High School is in
dire need of a new instructor in
sciences, to fill the vacancy due to
the resignation of E. Earle Feike,
who is going to teach at Salem. The
Fall term of school opens here Sep
tember 23, and with tne exception of
an instructor in physics, chemistry
and laboratory work, the corps of
teachers has been obtained.
Are
You a
Patriot?
THE MOST PATRIOT
IC PICTURE
Ever shown in this city is now
at
THE
GRAN
If you are not a patriot, don't
see it.
The Lennes Sisters
Child Impersonators, Singing
and Dancing Act
Note
THE ELK'S PARADE will be
shown here Aug. 22nd and 23rd
and not on this coming Satur
day as advertised.
ROOSEVELT AND
JOHNSON NAMED
PROGRESSIVE PARTY NOMINA
ATIONS UNANIMOUS AND
EULOGIES ARE MANY
ACCEPTANCES ARE MADE AT ONCE
Enthusiastic Speakers Declare Illi
nois And Pennsylvania Will
Give Large Pluralities
To New Ticket
CHICAGO, Aug 7. Singing "On
word, Chirstian Soldiers," and the
"Battle Hymn of the Republic,' the
delegates to the first National con
vention of the new Progressive party
tonight proclaimed Theodore Roose
velt of New York, as their candidate
for President and Hiram W. John
son, Governor of California, as their
choice for Vice-President.
Marking a departure in the pro
ceedings of National conventions, the
two candidates then were notified of
their nomination, and in the midst of
defeaning cheers they appeared be
fore the delegates to voice their ac
ceptance and to pledge their best ef
forts to the coming campaign.
For several hours during thn after
noon and early evening the Coliseum
had listened to a flow of oratory in
nominating and seconding speeches
in which the dominant note express
ed was the belief that victory would
come to the new party in November.
Raymond Rob Dins, of Illinois, pledg
ed a 100,000 majority for the National
ticket in Illinois, and Gifford Pinchot
predicted a 300,000 majority for Col
onel Roosevelt and Governor Johnson
in his home stale of Pen
These statements were cheered to the
ecno.
The party formally christens itself
"the Pregressive party," leaving off
the prefix "National," Dy which it has
heretofore been known but rirnviKirm
was made for the recognition of 'real'
progressives in any state by whatev
er name they should be locally desig
nated because of state laws.
The convention adjourned at 7:24
P. M. with the delegates singing the
"Doxology" in lusty voice. During
the three days it was in session there
was not a rollcall or a ballot. The
delegates asked no such formalities,
either in "placing their candidates in
nomination or in voting for them.
There was not a voice of opposition
either to Colonel Roosevelt or Gov
ernor Johnson. The delay in nomin
ating them was due to the large num
ber of seconding speeches allowed.
After a series of partial disappoint
ments in the conduct of its business,
the progressive convention met this
afternoon, and after the adoption of
new rules for the new party and the
announcement that its platform was
complete, the roll of the state was
called. Alabama, first on the list,
gave way and New York was recog
nized. '
Comptroller Prendergast of New
York City was absent, and the con
vention awaited his return with im
patience. Finally he was found, and
in a speech replete with praise, form
ally put Roosevelt in nomination.
During Prendergast's oration the
great audience which filled the Colis
eum listened intently to his rolling
periods. Now and again as he spoke,
a sharp, short yell of applause broke
througn the current of his speech,
and at its conclusion, a great roar of
cheering literally drowned out the
bands which joined in with the wave
of shouting.
It was just 2:11 o'clock when Pren
dergast's Deroratinn stnrf-oH the et
burst which followed his speech. The
uKiegaies stood on their chairs wav
ing handkerchiefs and cheering. A
Woman in the eaUorv Trvnrm
, - . t. n. T . 1 V. Lt CL uig
American flag, to whiehjiad been at-
id.Liieu a Dig lithograph of Colonel
Roosevelt. Then pandemonium broke
loose, the din of the demonstration
being deafening.
Then the New York delegates start
ed a procession of standards through
the aisles. New Hampshire, North
Carolina, Arizona, West Virginia
Ohio and Texas followed, the dele
gates keeping step to martial airs
furnished by a veteran fife and drum
corps. General McDowell, a Confed
erate officer, led the cheering, wav
ing an American flag.
After the cheering had lasted 20
minutes the fifers and drummers filed
into the aisles and headed the pro
fsio adding t0 the enthusiasm
with Dixie" and "The Star Spangled
Banner.' When 30 minutes of uproar
had passed a new American flag with
a circular arrangement of the stars
was dropped from the girders of the
Coliseum and the entire assembly
stopped cheering and sang "Ameri
Sa' enthusiasm, however, re
doubled as the song ended, and Bev
erldge, who had tried for order drop
ped back into his chair all agrin
,,At Jj height of the demonstration
Mrs. Roosevelt entered the hall and
was given the Chautauqua salute
with bandannas. The band started
up, O, You Beautiful Doll,' and Mrs.
Roosevelt smiled although greatly
embarrassed.
When the convention reassembled
at 1 o clock, Medill McCormick of the
rules committee, read a compromise
plank which provided that the name
of the new party fn the platform
should be the Progressive party. It
contained the stipulation, however,
that in other states where another
name had heen ninntsj ..
- . """vu uic name
should be subject to the approval of
these states. In Pennsylvania, the
new party is designated as the Wash
ington party, and McCormick, for the
rules committee, accepted an amend
ment ruling that the Pennsylvania
branch should be an adjunct of the
Progressive party. After the rulere
gardine con vent inn rn.i.u. i, j
- m. i voutatiuu uau
been changed fixing the basis of rep-
icseutaiion at one delegate to each
5000 votes instead of 10,000 the re
port of the rules committee was ad
opted without division.
, DRIVING A BARGAIN .
(y I TAKE, PHOTOGRAPHS EVERYBODY SHOULD)
?? (ag CENTS! HAVE A PHOTO r , s
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CfHERE: WE AR,aCuS iU
TERMINAL RATES
TO BE CONSIDERED
The Terminal Rate Association has
further assurance from railroad auth
orities that terminal rates will soon
receive consideration and that the
granting of such rates to other local
ities is aiding the petition of the as
sociation. Within the next thirty
days something definite should be
known.
IAN WHO "PLAYED
W FREED
George Pease, who for about an
hour Tuesday night composed the
"bridge squad," of the Abernethy
bridge, and ordered pedestrians to
"step lively," and "hurry up,' was re
leased from jail Wednesday. Pease
said he was a plumber and lived at
Third and Montgomery streets, Port
land. He explained that he had been
crawfishing Tuesday, and that his
"catch" had been stolen. This wor
ried him, he said, and he was not ac
countable for his actions at the time.
He declared that he -had no intention
to impersonate an officer and did not
remember ordering persons to cross
the bridge in a hurry. Pease tried to
halt Policemen Green and Frost at
the approach to the bridge when they
went to arrest him'.
ROADS ARE ORDERED
SURVEYED BY COURT
The County Court Wednesday or
dered routes surveyed for roads to be
named as follows: Gacoupland, J. R.
Cornog, John Lewellen and and Carl
A. Fosberg. The court decided to
close two old roads near Oswego, the
Oregon Iron & Steel Company, hav
ing promised to open new ones which
will be satisfactory to al 1 persons
concerned. The resignation of B.
Sullivan, road supervisor in District
No. 20 was received, and John Putz
was appointed to succeed him.
CURFEW LAW TO BE
Mayor Dimick notified the night
policemen Wednesday that the cur
few law must be rigidly enforced.
The law provides that all children un
der sixteen years of age, unless with
parents or guardians, must keep oft
the streets in the summer after 9
o'clock. Mayor Dimick said that the
law had been enforced on Main and
other downtown streets, but that re
ports had been made of children be
ing in the parks after Ahe ringing of
the curfew bell. .Mrs. Parker, court
matron, and Mrs. Luella Andrews,
President of the local Women's Chris
tian Temperance Union, urged the
mayor to issue the order.
PERPETRATED BY WALT AcDOUGALL
It
Woodrow Wilson, Who Is Notified of
his Nomination for President by
the Democratic Party.
WILLIAM RAMBO DIES
AFTER YEAR'S ILLNESS
WTilliam Rambo, for twerify-eight
years a resident of Oregon City, died
at his home, 511 Adams street at
8 o'clock Wednesday morning. He had
been ill of Bright's disease about one
year. Mr. Rambo was born near Da
venport, la., in 1855. . He and Miss
Etta Buckles were married in Par
sons, Kan., January 1879, and came
to Oregon City in 1884.
Mr. Rambo is survived by his wid
ow, his mother, Mrs. M. Kayes, of
Lents; sister, Mrs. Greenley, of
Lents; sister, Mrs. Murrow, of Hills
boro; sister, Mrs. Forest, of Okla
homa; brother, Henry Rambo, of Ok
lahoma and a nephew, J. Hammer, of
Oregon City.
The funeral will be Beld tomorrow
afternoon at 2 o'clock at the home,
Sixth and John Adams streets, Rev.
E. A. Smith officiating.
An intoxicated man who refused to
give his name, entered Thomas'
blacksmith shop on Main street Wed
nesday, and announced that he had
been appointed foreman jpt the place.
Mr. Thomas took exceptions to the
statement. However, the man insist
ed upon going to work. Thomas call
ed E. L. Shaw, and while he was tak
ing the man to jail, his prisoner tried
to escape. He also showed fight.
Shaw, however, had little trouble in
subduing the man, and was aided In
taking his prisoner to jail by Arthur
Williams. The fellow after being
placed behind the bars insisted that
he was a blacksmith, but refused
positvely to tell his name. He may
today when given a hearing by Re
corder Stipp. .
A small classified ad will rent that
vacant room.
WORK OF DEEPENING
CHANNEL STARTED
Government dredges are at work at
Jennings Bar deepening, the channel
to Portland. Oregon City will soon
have a channel six feet deep to Port
land, insuring water transportation
by deep river boat the year round.
The Clackamas Bar should be re
moved within two weeks. The work
is being done up-stream to give' wat
er in the lower lock at Oregon City
as long as possible, after which tran
sportation up river will be cut off un
til the winter rains commence.
SHOE LACES USED BY
SUICIDE FOR NOOSE
The body of an unidentified man,
who evidently committed suicide, was
found hanging to the limb of a tree
in a canyon about a mile southeast of
Oswego Wednesday. The man was
about fifty years of age, and was five
feet eight inches tall. He wore a
blue serge suit, and a cream colored
shirt. There was nothing about the
man or his clothing through which an
identification could be made, and Cor
oner Wilson had the body brought to
this city and buried. The man
hanged himself with his shoe laces
and handkerchief. R. Hartley, of
Portland, while driving cattle found
the corpse.
IS BADLY MANGLED
. The right hand of James Vlabos,
nineteen years of age, was mangled
early today at the Crown-Columbia
Pulp & Paper Company. The man
was feeding one of the wet machines
when his hand was caught between
the screens. He called for assistance
but before aid reached him had extri
cated his hand. The thumb was torn
off and the fingers were broken and
bruised. Earl Script went with
Vlabos to the offices of Drs. H. S.
and Guy Mount, who rendered surgical
assistance.
STEP-MOTHER BLAMED
BY WANDERING BOY
Herman Sigmund, fourteen years of
age, who ran away from his home in
Vancouver, Wash.,-and came to this
city, will be taken home by his fath
er today. The boy said he left home
because his step-mother treated him
cruelly. He was found at the home
of Frank Cross in Greenpoint by E. L.
Shaw. The lad had no money and
said he had walked from Portland to
Oregon City.
"Father left me with my mother In
Germany several years ago," he said.
"He came , to this country and soon
after mother died. Then father, who
had remarried, sent for me. My step
mother would not let me go to school
so I thought the best thing to do was
to run away." ,
WILSON NOTIFIED j
OF NOillN!
- i
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE CALLS.
TARIFF AND TRUSTS LEAD- j
ING ISSUES I
SELF-RESTRAINT IS. ADVOCATED
"Thought And Consciences Of Peo
ple Must Be Satisfied," Says
Erstwhile College
Professor
SAGIRT, N. J., Aug. 7. Governor
Woodrow Wilson, of New Jersey, was
officially informed today that he had
been chosen by the Baltimore con
vention as the nominee for the Presi
dency on the Democratic ticket.
Briefly and simply Governor Wil
son was notified of his nomination
by Senator-elect Ollie James of Ken
tucky, whJ emphasized, as he said,
that . the Governor had obtained the
honor untrammeled by obligations
and unembarressed by affiliations of
any kind.
After thanking the committee of no
tification and expressing his profound
sense of responsibility In accepting
the nomination; the Governor said he
realized he was expected to speak
plainly, to talk politics aiRl open the
campaign "in words whose meaning
no one need doubt.' And he Vas ex
pected to speak, he added, to the
country as well as to the committee.
"We must speak," he continued', by
way of preface, 'not to catch votes,
but to satisfy the thought and consci
ence of a people deeply stirred by
the conviction that they have come
to a critical turning point in their
moral and political development.
"Plainly, it is a new age," he went
on. "It requires self-restraint not to
attempt too much, and yet it would
be cowardly to attempt too little. In
the broad light of this new day we
stand face to face with what? Plain
ly, not with questions of party, not
with a contest for office, not with a
petty struggle for advantage. With
great questions of right and of jus
tice, rather questions of National de
velopment, of the development of
character and of standards of action
no less than of a better business sys
tem. The forces of the Nation are
asserting themselves against every
form of special privilege and private
control, and are seeking bigger
things than they have ever hereto
fore achieved.
"Ther are two great things to do.
One is to set up the rule of justice
and of right in such matters as the
tariff, the regulation of the trusts and
the prevention bf monopoly, the adap
tation of our banking and currency
laws to the very uses to wSIch our
people must put them, the treatment
of those who do the daily labor in
our factories and mines and through
out all our great industrial and com
mercial undertakings, and the politi
cal life of the people of the Philip
pines, for whom we hold government
al power in trust, for their service,
not our own. The other, the addition
al duty, is the great task of protect
ing our people and our resources and
of keeping open to the whole people
the doors of opportunity through
which they must, generation by gen
eration pass is they are ta make con
quest of "their fortunes in health, in
freedom in peace and in contentment.
In the performance of this second
great duty we are face to face with
questions of conservation and of de
velopment, questions of forests and
waterpowers and mines and water
ways, of the building of an adequate
merchant marine.
"We have got into trouble in recent
years chiefly because these large
things, which" ought to have been
handled by taking counsel with as
large a number of persons as possible
because they touch every interest
and the life of every class and re
gion, have in fact been too often han
dled in private conference. ' They
have been settled by very small and
often deliberately exclusive groups
of men, who undertook to speak
for the whole Nation, or, rath
er, for themselves, in the terms of
the whole Nation very honestly, it
may be, but very ignorantly some
tinges, and very shortsightly, too, a
poor substitute for genuine common
counsel. No group of directors, econ
omic or political can speak for a peo
ple. They have neither the point of
view nor the knowledge. Our difficul
ty is not that wicked and designing
men have plotted against us, but
(Continued on page 2.)
A Summer Special in
Brown and White Cooking Ware
-. This week we place on sale a shipment of Brown and
White Cooking Ware at prices so low that every woman can
afford several pieces. Only this shipment at these prices.
3 in. Ramekins 8c each 80c doz.
3 In. Custards, 9c each, 90c doz.
. Shirred Egg (Handles) 18c
each, $1.80 doz.
4 in. Cocottes (Handles) 12J
cents each, $1.25 doz.
1 Pt Bean Pots, 35c.
6 in. Nappies,
6 in. Pudding Dishes, 15c.
If you have used this cooking ware enough said; if
not, you have a pleasure in store. See window display.
HUNTLEY BROTHERS CO.
The Rexall Store Quality Goods
HARn CIIPFAPF m
uniiis uuiunuL un
7TH ST. OPPOSED
SEVERAL PROPERTY OWNERS
PETITION COUNCIL TO USE
MACADAM PAVEMENT
MAIN STREET WORK STARTS SOON
Hawley Pulp & Paper Company Gets
Franchise For Spur Three
Hose Carts And Hose
To Be Ordered
A petition protesting against the
hardsurfacing of Seventh street, and
asking that it be macadamized, sign
ed by influential property owners,
was considered at a meeting of the
city council Wednesday evening. The
petition, and an opinion of City Engi
neer Story, regarding the assess-
ments for building the street, were
referred to. the committee on streets,
j which will report at the next meeting
j of the council. The city attorney de
cided if an assessment of one-half the
value of a lot would not pay for the
part of the street in front of it, the
city would have to pay the difference
and that a certain per centage could
not be charged against all the lots.
The petition follows:
. Gentlemen: We, the undersigned
property owners on Seventh street,
hby respectfully petition your Hon
orable body to have Seventh street
repaired in the following manner:
First. Have the present surface of
the street broken up and brought to
a uniform grade and thoroughly roll
ed. Second. Place crushed rock on the
surface sufficient to bring the street
to a finished grade after the same has
been thoroughly rolled.
Third. Oil the street and have it
regularly cleaned and kept in repair.
Fourth. Inasmuch as the proper-'
ty owners on said street have paid
the full cost for the imjrovement of
said street and it is now 21 years
since the improvement was made and
there has been very little repairs
made so that the street has been al-
it in Tin mnyn Hian
justice to the property owners who
have furnished the main street for
the traffic to have the same repaired
without further cost to them and we
further ask that the same be made
from the Permanent Street Improve
ment Fund.
As the matter of hard surfacing sev
enth street has been brought before
the council, we would further ask that
the same be not considered at this
time, as the bid on Main street at
$1.55 per square yard would mean
that each lot on Seventh street would
be taxed $227.00, and corner lots- $465
besides the extra cost of curbs and
sidewalks where necessary.
Trusting your Honorable Body will
act favorably on the matter and have
said repairs made under suitable spe
cifications and contract, is the pray
er of your petitioners.
Matilda Charman, Elizabeth A,
Shively, J. H. Mattley, Richard
Schoenborn, Henry Schoenborn, Geo.
Reddaway, Martin G. Christensen,
Mrs. Fred McCausland, Mrs. S. C.
Miller, Mrs. Henry Cooke, Mr. and
Mrs. M. Amrine, Wm. E. Estes, Mrs.
Maggie Cross, Mrs. Annie Jones, Mrs.
Sarah Sears, S. Hughes' Sstate, Mrs.
Mary Grasier, T. L. Charman, John
Welch estate by C. H. Dye, agent, H.
C. Stevens, Chas. H. Caufield.
The meeting was called to order at
8 o'clock by Mayor Dimick, the fol
lowing councilmen being present:
Horton, Albright, Holman, Hall, Pope,
Roake, Meyer, Beard and Tooze.
Mr. Eddy of the Tax Department of
the Southern Pacific Railway Comp
any protested against the company
paying a $450 street assessment for
work at Fourteenth and Center
streets. The protest was referred to
the finance committee. A petition
that Van Buren street, between Sev
enth and Ninth street, be improved
was filed. A request of the Oregon
City -Ice Company that it be allowed
to erect coal bunkers on property of
the Southern Pacific Railway Comp
any, was granted. The city engineer
was instructed to furnish a plan of
Twelfth street between Main and Wa
ter so the Oregon Engineering &
Construction Company may proceed
with the -paving.
J. A. Confer was reelected city sex
ton. Three councilmen did not vote.
J. M. Gillette, a candidate did not re
ceive a vote. Councilman Beard ask-
(Continued on page 2)
Mixing Bowls, 30c.
Covered Casseroles (Handles)
50c.
Covered Casseroles Nickle '
Mounting 65c.
Bean Pots. Nickle Mounting 50c
9 pc. Set (Mounted Casserole,
Pudding, Nappy, 6 Custards)
$1.98. . .
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