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THE MORNING OKEGONTAN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1902.
DID INMAN SAY IT?
John Lamont Tells Story of
a Promise.
THE STATE SENATOR DENIES IT
It All Hinges on the Mayoralty Nomi
nation, Which One Wants and the
Other Well, He Says He
Doesn't.
John iLaxnont, who wants to he the
Democratic nominee for Mayor, says Rob
ert D. Inman made a promise to him yes
terday afternoon ,that he would not allow
Ills name to be used in connection with
that office. Bob Inman, on the other
hand, says Lamont has made a mistake;
that he never had such a conference and
made no such promise. Lamont was
positive in making his statement. Inman
is equally positive that nothing of the
sort happened.
Lamont says further that this confer
ence was held In the presence of some of
tho powers that be In the Democratic
fold, and named Bweek as one of the men
who heard Inman make his promise.
Sweek has no knowledge of any such hap
pening, nor did any others of the men
who, by common consent, are said to be
high in the ranks. There is herein the
seeds of a fine row in the Democratic
camp. According to the explanations
made by Inman, Lamont, in his anxiety
to have things appear solid for him, has
become somewhat excited and twisted
statements slightly while transmitting
them.
Now, while Mr. Inman is not Inclined
to admit that he would accept the nomi
nation of Mayor on the fusion ticket, and
says that he is not a candidate, he is not
willing to declare that he would refuse the
nomination if it should perchance be car
ried to him on a silver platter. And In
this declination to commit himself lies
the hopes of many Democrats who really
-iv ant Inman to head the ticket in .the
city. They are using every power to in
duce him to accept the nomination, and
are inclined to think that he will.
Lamont has another matter which he
has been holding in reserve, in the ex
pectation that It would cause Inman to
decline, but here again there seems to
iiave been a misunderstanding of the facts
in the case between the two geneltmen.
Lamont says that Inman is morally bound
to support him b3'sreason of a promise
fcecured weets ago. Inman knocks the
wind out of this by explaining that some
time ago Lamont asked him if he would
he a candidate for Mayor, and he replied
that he would not. He takes the same
stand today, but does not consider that
he is bound to Lamont or any one else
because of this statement. For all that
he may be in the same condition as
George E. Chamberlain, who says he is
not a candidate for Governor, but would
accept the nomination if tendered him
by the party.
It was in front of the Chamber of Com
merce buildln- where Democrats are ac
customed to meet, that Mr. Lamont told
of the compact he declared had been
made. Asked in regard to the political
outlook, he replied: "There was a con
ference this afternoon, at which xi num
ber of prominent Democrats were present,
unions them Mr. Sweek, and Inman prom
ised he would not have his name go be
fore the convention. Inman is under
moral obligation to me not to run, and I
hold his -promise. Some time ago he told
me that he would not run for the office,
and that he would support me. I am still
In the fight. If any one nominates In
man it will be myself, but from his prom
ise I do not expect opposition in that
quarter."
After this Interesting bit of news Alex
Eweck was seen, and denied any knowl
edge of the withdrawal of Inman of his
Xrbmise not to allow his name to be used.
In accordance with Lamont's suggestion
Mr. Inman was asked to confirm the re
port, but failed to Ho so. "I know noth
ingof any such promise, nor did I make
rny today. You know what a man will
do sometimes when he Is running for of
fice. Lamont evidently has had a mis
understanding. Some weeks ago Lamont
asked me If I would be a candidate for
Mayor. I told him I would not. That was
all the conversation we had on the sub
ject, and I am bound only in so much as
that statement could bind me."
"Would you refuse the nomination if It
were offered you?"
"I don't think I care to talk on the
subject."
Thus the Interview with Inman ended.
It is evident to the seeker for informa
tion that Inman does not consider himself
morally bound to Lamont, and would not
ihesitate on that score to accept the nomi
nation, should he eventually conclude to
eccept it.
The one obstacle that may confront In
man Is said to be the objection of his
partners to his running for office. It is
declared, they argue, that his business In
terests will suffer, and this may induce
him to decline.
Street rumors had it yesterday that
George E. Chamberlain might, be induced
to allow his name to be placed on the
citizens' or fusion ticket for Mayor of
the C:ty of Portland. Mr. Chamberlain
denies In the most emphatic terms that
such is the case, and says he has heard
of no such rumors. "I am neither a can
didate for the Governorship nor the May
oralty. If the nomination for Governor
Is offered me, I will accept it, but under
no conslderation.would I accept the nomi
nation for Mayor. Any such rumor is
mere gossip, without the slightest founda
tion." The Democrats are first, last and all
the time for Inman, and he can undoubt
edly have the nomination if he will take
it. The fact that so many of the Demo
cratic leaders are positive that he will
accept Is circumstantial evidence, at
least, that some understanding has been
reachrd. If there has, however, without
doubt, Mr. Lamont has not been consulted
in the matter.
From the present outlook, the Demo
cratic convention will meet tomorrow to
organize, select delegates to the state con
tention and adjourn until the fusion ticket
has been fully decided upon. It was
planned to hold a meeting of the commit
tee of 10 last night, but it was found this
could not be done, and this virtually
means a postponement of the nominations
nt the. Democratic convention. Accord
ing to Will N. Gatens, who, with William
Iteidt, was appointed to confer with the
Republicans interested in the planning
of a citizens' ticket, there was no discus
sion of the situation yesterday, and may
not be until this afternoon or tomorrow.
Consequently there was nothing for the
committee of 10 to do last evening. Hav
ing no proposition before them, there was
nothing new to discuss.
AROUND CYCLE WHIRL.
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d Yrriit Corsets are modeled after the
lUo. Vi FCCiJ HC best French makes as far as It is
rszES zz adapted to the American figurt.
New styles expert titters; $2.25 to $12. (2d Floor.)
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I Willamette K
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gi.-a.ue in ovoijr
particular; full hall
bearing-, handsomi caomet work, guar'n't'd lOyrs.
I $25'
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Peau de Crepe the new silk dress material, all the leading shades, 26 inches wide, $1.00 yard.
The largest and most complete Infants' Wear Department in the West newest Spring and Summer things are ready.
, Novelties in Boys' Spring Clothing superb styles, most reasonably priced. Boys' School Suits at special prices.
A Great
Shoe
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The vitality of tremendous enterprise is in evidence in the wonderful shoe bargains we
tell about today. Some 3000 pairs ladies' and men's seasonable and desirable footwear at
tempting prices prices that will gladden the hearts of those econom cally inclined. .Not
an unworthy shoe in the whole lot, and we have every reason to expect that the response,
will be most generous. You know the shoes we sell you know their worth here's the
figures. Sale will continue until Saturday night, with nw Items added to the ranks everyday.
Ladies' Shoe Bargains
Johnson Bros.' patent kid
shoes, in heavy soles; don
gola in kid or patent tip
and light soles, all sizes;
the regular $3.00 fry rv
values, pair $j&JA)
Special lot of $2.25 shoes for
ladies, light or heavy soles,
vici kid, all sizes, your
choice at o j-
pair pi0
" Cousins' " velour calf shoes
for women, welted soles,
the regular $3.50 values,
all sizes, at,
pair
. . $2.85
Ladies' patent tip, heavy soled shoes, ropa stitch d o g
ed, all sizes, $3.50 values, pair v00
"Cousins" Shoes for ladies in tan, all sizes and the very
best styles for spring wear, $3.50 and
$4.00 values and all size3, your choice 2 05 "Of
"Cousins" Tan Oxfords for women, three -best
styles in all sizes, regular $3.50 S2 79 OT
values at ................. ........... jl
Ladies' Patent Leather and "Vici" Kid Ox-
fords, heavy soles, all sizes, the $2.50 &1 Q 5J Yt
valuasat 71eXJ pi
Ladies' $4.00 Enamel Shoes in good
styles, all sizes, the latest toe, your K2 O ? Til
All the new spring styles in "Easefelt" Shoes for women
now ready, $4.00 pair.
Old Ladies' Shoes
Old ladies shoes of glove kid, in lacs or congress, c j j-j-$
$2.00 values, at pl.OO
Matron slippers, in best styles and all sizes, spe
cial value at
$1;05
Special values in all lines of boys' shoes". .
New styles in mrants' xootwear just received.
Ren's Shoes
Men's Tan Russia Calf and Willow Calf, light
or heavy soles, all sizes, $3.50 values
Men's Vici Kid, Box Calf, Velour Calf and Enamel
Shoes, heavy or light soles, new spring styles,
$3.50 and $4.00 values at, pair
$2.85
$3.05
All 10c Shoe Paste at So box.
Large Combination Polish special 14c box.
Cheney's Foulards
Th merry click of scissors at
the silk counters in most cases
results in a new owner of a hand
some Foulard silk gown. Our en
tire stock is your choosing ground
every yard Cheney's famous
make. Don't put off buying too
long this grand assortment
won't last for eVer.
$1.00 Quality, 69c
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yd
Thousands of yards of Cheney Bros.' famous $1.00 Foulards,
in all the latest color combinations and designs, 24 in
ches wide and the prettiest of
dress silks, your choice of the en
tire stock at '.
69c yd
51.2S Quality, 89c yd
James Rankin, Employe at the Ba
ker Theater, Is Badly Hart.
James -Rankin, an employe at the .Baker
Theater, tried yesterday to ride the cycle
whirl, with disastrous results to himself,
and he is now at his home, 5S3V& First
street. In a badly bruised condition.
Since Sid Baxter began his sensational
bicycle Tides at the Baker Theater, Ran
kin's friends have frequently asked him
why he did not ride around the cycle
Tvhlrl and distinguish himself. "Give me
& chance. That's all," said Rankin, and, J
Our entire stock of Cheney Bros.' famous $1.25 Foulards,
in beautiful color combinations and designs; these silks
make handsome street or evening
dresses, and are very desirable;
$1.25 line at
Wash Fabrics
Just by the way of a reminder
that there are new things to sse in
Wash Goods almost every day let
us suggest a look at two of the
prettiest fabrics the season has
brought.
Plain Silk Chambray, sky
blue, pink, lavender, 5fv
corn and red, yd Jvrv
Lace Striped de Sole, an open work stripe effect,
best eolorings, entirely new and only, yd
50c
Embroidered Waist Patterns in exclusive style.
89c yd
5v Lawn flower?
You a
It's pleasant exercise keeping your lawn looking pretty if
you own one of our easy-running Philadelphia Lawn
Mowers. A dozen styles, strongly built, best steel cutters,
ball bearings on xhe best grades, all the latest improve
ments. Buy one now and the saving accomplished be
fore July 4th on having it done by strangers will more
than pay the cost of the machine,
$2.75 to $IO
(In the Basement.)
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Cloak
Department
Last day of the following extraor
dinary values. Hundreds have taken
advantage Have you? New, stylish
and seasonable Ready-to-wear ap
parel at very low prices.
90 handsomely tinted Suits, in Eton,
blouse and fly-front styles, covert,
cheviot and Venetian- materials, col
ors black, gray, Oxford blue, castor
and brown, well-tail- .
ored, the $18.00 and A & 5
$20 values at piitt-.Oi7
$7-50 Waists $5.95
Peau de Cyne Taffeta Waists,
Gibson or embroidered
fronts, newest styles and
colorings.
Moire and Taffeta Silk Waists,
newest styles and leading
shades, Gibson ef- r a fQ
fectsB.OOvalues,"
(Second floor.)
$9, $10 Skirts $6.95
Black Dress Skirts, braid and
Taffeta band trimmed.
Tan, blue and gray Dress
Skirts, best styles and ma
terials. Shirtwaist Skirts, in the best
fabrics and colorings, all
sizes. All the above
$9.00 and $10.00 $z- c
-values at. pOoyo
MEIER & FRANK COMPANY MEIER & FRANK COMPANY
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Muslin Underwear
Reception Days
Our grand display of Undermuslins shows that great
care has been taken-in selecting styles as well as in
details of making, and every garment, from the 20c
drawers to the $25.00 petticoat, is " sanitary made."
Among Dress Goods and Silks
. We've three extra inducements for this
week's buyers.
No. 1. NEW WASH SILKS, white or Tussor color with
pretty cords and stripes, 45c grades, at ... . yard,
No. 2. NEW FANCY SILKS, striped, embroidered, fig
ured or polka dotted. Full $1.25 kinds, for, . . yard,
No. 3. NEW SUITINGS, all wool, 52 in. wide, grays, browns,
mode and blues, btuiis you'd always pay 85c for, now,
yard,
38c
59c
rowns,
59c
More Kid Glove Bargains
New $1.25 pique or overseam, two and three-clasp Gloves, qq
black, white and colors, only, pair, "oC
Good selecting yet among our COTTON TORCHON LACE, j
Edges and Insertions, 2h to 4 inches wide, for, . . yard, C
New Embroideries
On Nainsook and Swiss. The finest lot we've yet shown, from
10c to 50c yard. Dainty styles for infants from 10c to $1.50 yard.
BUYING
FOR .
$1.75, $2.25 to
$1.23, $1.78 to
$1.78 Slippers
Is a quick way of making money, which we invite all women to
share this week. All sizes, styles the newest. Some Oxford Ties
among them.
New Fancy Hose
All of fashion's latest for women are shown best here. Black Lace
Lisle Hose, many patterns, 25c and 35c pair. Still greater variety,
including lace boots and fronts, 50c pair. Elegant collection, both
black and fancy, from 85c up.
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PERFECT ADJUSTABLE CURT Jim STRETCHERS J
$2.25 i
German Linen Giiiglhams
In all the leading colors, both In plain and
stripes
FRENCH VOILE RIBBED
WAIST CLOTH
27 Inches wide; entirely new for Spring
waists
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Colored Dress Goods
We are now showing an assortment of greater
magnitude than we' have ever shown before, com
prising original Ideas In weaves and designs at un
equaled prices.
Ji few of the latest
Parisian Fabrics
Panne Lalne, Eollenne Mouchette,
Voile Francalse, Crepe de France,
Bengaltne de Sole, French Crepllle,
Sacking Melange, Crepe Crystal,
Voile Chauffeuse, Crepe Mistral.
$1.50 to $4 yard.
Wliite Goods
flew Today. For Waists and Gowns?" -Mercerized
Damasks (dot, floral and striped de
signs) 55c to 60c yd
Mercerized Madras 40c, 50c, 60c yd
Pique Mercerized Stripes (soft finish, with mercer
Ized wreath design) 50c
Also best quality Colored Pique (warp welt) 60c
Annual Spring Sale of
HomefurnisMngs
Over 3000 bargains In Lace Curtains, Portieres,
Tapestries, Curtain Nets, Couch Covers, Table
Covers. Greatly reduced prices on Window Shades,
Curtain Swiss, Brass Extension Rods, Comforts,
Blankets,
although the other boys thought he was
Joking, he really meant what he said. It
was thought that .Rankin would try to
make the attempt late at night, because
the whirl is taken down every night to
keep the stage free from obstructions, but
Rankin's turn came yesterday morning,
when he saw that the whirl had been left
In position to allow of slight repairs being
made. "Now or never," he said to his
friends, and an interested crowd of theater
employes gathered.
Rankin Jumped on one of Baxter's
wheels, and got inside the whirl and
started to pedal. He went around the
bottom of the nearly vertical track like a
flash, but trouble arrived on schedule time
when he rode the bicycle to the ton of the
Incline. He struck the top, and the next 1
minute he was thrown backward and fell !
to the bottom of the pit. Friends seized I
him and medical assistance was sum- J
mooed, but It was found that he was se- j
verely but not dangerously injured.
"That cycle whirl Is not so easy, after !
all," said the critics, after Rankin's performance.
REVIEW OF INFANTRY.
Last nt Vancouver Today Before
Sailing; for Philippine.
VANCOUVER BARRACKS. April 1.
One of the finest reviews and inspections
"Vancouver Barracks has ever seen will be
held at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. It
will be the last review of the Seventh In
fantry before Its departure for the Phil
ippines. General Randall, accompanied by
his staff, all mounted and in full uniform,
will review the Seventh Infantry and the
two battalions of artillery, the Eighth
and Twenty-sixth. This will be the flretl
time the batteries have bad an opportu-
nlty to display their new cannons and
carriages. The Seventh Infantry band will
play during the review. Afterward the
Inspector-General will make the annual
Inspection of the garrison.
To Finlnh Expertiug- Records.
SALEM, Or., April L George B. Clark,
one of the experts -employed in the exam
ination of the records of Marion County
officers, arrived in Salem tonight from
Enterprise, and will tomorrow resume
work at the Courthouse. Mr, Clark will
Jbc Joined' "Wednesday "by his partner,. Bu
chanan. They will complete work on the
records In this county in about a month.
Virginia Town. Destroyed.
ROANOKE, Va.. April L At an early
hour this morning the small town of New
port, in Giles County, was practically de
stroyed by fire. Every store In the place
and two hotels and the- best residences in
the town were burned. The fire origi
nated from an unknown cause in a shed
back of Dunkle & Martin's big store The
loss is $100,000. The heaviest losers are:
McPherson's four-story hardware estab
lishment, and $25,000 stock of goods;
Dunkle & Martin's store, with $20,000
stock of general merchandise; Miller' &
Sons' store and $15,000 stock of general
merchandise.
JTItro Poivcler Handicap.
KANSAS CITY, April i. There were 419
entries In the Nitro Powder Handicap,
in the Grand American live bird tourna
ment today, and S2 high guns, each with
a straight score of 12 birds, divided the
purse of $4190. "Wenona, the '-California
young woman who Is entered for thp
Grand American Handicap, missed her
fifth bird today. Amonjr the winners
J were: J. A. R. Elliot, Kansas .City; J.
H. Holmes, Chldride, Ariz.; 21. O. Feud-
Art CtisKion Covers
In original, artistic, exclusive designs (In
cluding top and back)
Great Sale of Genuine
SilK Floss Cushions
IG-incU 18-lnch 20-incU 22- inch. 24-lncn 2G-incb.
Regular 25c
Special . . 18c
35c
28c
50c
35c
'(i
60c
43c
70c
53c
90c
70c
ner, -San Francisco; S. R. Smith, River
side, Cal.; VT. R. Crosby, O'Falion, 111.;
J. E. Vaughn, Bakersfield, Cal., and J.
W. Garrett, Colorado Springs.
There were 419 entries for the Grand
American Handicap, the shooting of which
will begin tomorrow.
Demands of St. Joseph Carpenters.
ST. JOSEPH. Mo., April 1. Four hundred
and fifty carpenters went out on a strike
today. They are demanding a minimum
wage scale of 37 cents an Hour instead
of 30 cents, as at present.