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j PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1904. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL. XLIY. ISO. 13,650. SIGN OF VICTORY Vermont Election So Regarded in East. COMMENT OF PRESS Drift of Sentiment Is Against Parker. GOLD STAND OF NO AVAIL Public Will Not Believe His Party Is Safe or Sane, ARKANSAS VOTE ALSO TELLS Decrease In Democratic Plurality Probably Due to Radicals Absent ing Themselves From Polls, and May Help Populists. NEW YORK, Sept 7. (Special.) Com menting editorially on the sweeping Re publican victory in Vermont, the New York Evening Post, Independent, says: "It would be idle to deny that the state election in a Presidential year In Vermont has hitherto been an accurate index of the drift of public sentiment throughout the Nation. In 1S96 and 1900 the Evening Post Tejoiced, in common with scores of Independent and Democratic newspapers, that this political barometer forecasted very unfavorable conditions for the Dem ocratic party, then in the hands of Mr. Bryan. In each case the swelling ma jority accurately foretold the elections of Mr. McKiiiley, just as -in previous years dwindling returns indicated the choice of Grover Cleveland. "At tho same time this paper does not consider yesterday's victory a reason why the hope of Judge Parker's election should be abandoned. That the Democrats are fighting an up-hill fight has never been denied. None the less, we still believe that a Democratic victory can be won this Fall if the party will but advocate before the people, with, courage and vigor, those principles which have carried" it into power in the past. "If the leaders will but heed the moral of the Vermont election that state's pres tige as a political index may yet be shat tered. There was apparently no courage to bring forward the Canadian reciprocity arguments, which have stirred Massachu setts so deeply, or to start an educational campaign on the tariff, a fact which is all the more striking as there was practically no state issue up for discussion. "But this shuffling appeal need not be repeated. The Democratic party is ex ceptionally fortunate this year in having at least two potent issues on which to go before the electorate. It's platform right ly denounced the protective system as the robbery of the many in the Interest of a few; upon the questions of imperialism and executive usurpation, its utterances are not of uncertain sound. Yet there is a noticeable timidity along the line in Joining battle manfully which is in marked V ........ .. ............. UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT BUILDING, LEWIS AND CLARK CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION " ' ' " ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' " 'Xe ' ' " ' V ! " " '',.'' -:. " ' .... o ........ .... " ' .... ........ ... . AW m S I contrast to the attitude of the Republic ans. But the counsel of timidity and shuf fling, which is urged upon, the Democrats toy those -who talk of Republican major ities In Maryland, "West Virginia and New Jersey, in case the fateful words, 'Tariff for Revenue Only should be spoken. Is also the counsel of elaborate political sui cide." DUE TO GETTING VOTE OUT. Brooklyn Eagle, Strong Party Or gan, However, IsDisappointed. BROOKLYN, Sept. 7. (Special.) The Eagle, Independent-Parker, prints the following In its editorial columns anent the Vermont election: "Vermont has gone Republican by fig urcs surprising to both sides. They realize the most sanguine anticipa tions of the victors, with corresponding depression for the vanquished. The Eagle said yesterday: "At St. Louis lunacy was discarded for the lucid. A. bid for a response la kind .at the polls was filed. That bid should bo effective everywhere. It should be effective even In Ver mont. Other than a response la kind will be distinctly disappointing. "Well, the response in kind has not been forthcoming, and the consequent dlKannointment might as well be frank ly acknowledged. At the same time, it Is worth remembering that when Re publican campaigners in Vermont 'get out the vote," they get a proportionate ly large margin to their credit. The nroblem they have on hand is simple enough. It does not include any neces sity for debate as to the merits of the case presented. It is solved when the inertia of thoso who would otherwise stay at home, has been overcome. "The weather was propitious yester day. That helped, and an unusually large vote was polled. That settled it. 'Get them to the ballot-boxes and they'll do the rest such is the force of lifelong habit In Vermont, said one of1 the managers, who cannot be accused of not knowing what he talked about. He told the whole story." NO GROUND FOR HOPE. New York Mall Shows Democrats Have Lost In Every State Election. NEW YORK, Sept. 7. (Special.) The result of the election calls for the follow ing expression from the Mail (Rep.) : " 'It Is "20,000, not less, perhaps more,' an Oregon Republican telegraphed the President after the election there In June. Bell, Republican candidate for Governor of Vermont telegraphs the President that the result yesterday 'points the way to victory for Roosevelt and Fairbanks in November. "By all the precedents of elections, a Republican majority of 32,000 in Vermont in September means the carrying of every so-called doubtful state in November. As our Democratic contemporary, tho Her ald, noted Sunday, 'whenever the Ver mont Indicator has pointed tc more than 25,000 it is followed by Republican success In a decisive number of the doubtful states. The fate of New York, New Jer sey, Connecticut and Indiana in every Presidential election since 1S76 has been registered In advance in Vermont. "Wherever the voters of the country have had a chance to declare themselves in New England, on the Pacific Slope, In the Southwest they have lined up with the Republican party in a fashion that gives the Democratic managers no pres ent ground, for hope." PARKER WEAKER THAN BRYAN 'New York Globe Contrasts Result With That In Oregon. NEW YORK, Sept. 7. (Special.) The Globe, Republican, has the following to say of the overwhelming defeat of the Democrats in Vermont: "The returns from the Vermont elec tion speak so plainly for themselves that it is scarcely necessary to inter pret them. There is not a politician in either party who has any doubt today that they foreshadow Roosevelt's elec tion in November by a very large ma jority in the electoral college. "It means that Parker's nomination has not strengthened his party in the section of the county in which it was (Concluded on Page Three.) NOW AT liKDEN Kuropatkin May Be Out of the Woods. BULK OF ARMY IS NEAR Russia,Confident Critical Stage hf Retreat Is Past REA5.JB STILL HARASSED Great Danger to the Slav Force Lies In the Fact that the Enemy Is in the Initiative, and Campaign Must Be What It Desires. For the world-watchers of the great tragedy in the Far East the curtain has been dropped and all Is conjecture. There is no news from the Far East either from Russian or Japanese sources. Not even an expression of opinion comes from Jap anese sources, but from St. Petersburg it Is indicated the authorities are confi dent the critical stage of the Russian retreat is past and that Kuropatkin no longer is In danger of losing any part of hl3 forces. The Russian commander has arrived, at Mukden and It Is given out in St. Pet ersburg that the bulk of his army Is now near there, while a dispatch from Mukden to the Associated Press filed Tuesday says the main Russian army Is pushing northward and evacuating that place. It Is indicated that the Japanese are still harassing the Russian rear. Further than this nothing is known. An absolute news silence prevails. DEEM IT BODES ILL FOR SLAVS London Papers Take Alarm at Silence of the Japanese. LONDON, Sept. 8. The trend of the view of the morning newspapers on the war in the Far East Is that General Ku roptakin's arrival at Mukden 'does 'not solve the problem of his retreat. "Where will Kuropatkin stop?" is what is asked here. w The Dally Telegraph holds that the lat est developments are merely the prelude to the "colossal conflict looming in the future." Most of the English critics look for a repetition of the Liao Yang battle at Tlellng or in that neighborhood. Scarcely any London newspapers be lleve that Kuropatkin has brought the bulk of his forces with him to Mukden. It Is pointed out that neither side is like ly to risk the.-desecration of the Imperial tombs by pitched battle at Mukden, the cradle of the Manchu dynasty, and the Mecca of all good Manchus, It Is thought, will likely be respected from motives of policy by both the belligerents, though a comparatively pacific occupation -of it by the Japanese Is forecasted to occur within a few days. The Standard voices the very prevalent Idea, namely, that the continued Japan ese silence bodes 111 for the Russians. The Morning Post, though confessedly unable to sum up the situation, owing to the absence of Japanese official re ports, thinks General Kurokl may have crossed the Hun River to the east of Mukden. Other critics prophecy that the Japan ese will occupy Mukden or Tlellng as a Winter base. The .uaiiy Telegraphs Seoul corre spondent says there Is an unconfirmed re port there that the Japanese have sev eral divisions of men In the vicinity of Posslet Bay, cutting off the retreat of tho Russians In Northeastern Co re a. WOUNDED SENT TO MUKDEN. Cars at Rate of Eighty ,a Day Are Passing "Through Kupangtse. SPECIAL, CABLE TO THB LONDON TIMES AND PORTLAND OREGONIAN. "K-TrPANGTSE. Sent S. Rail cars at the rate of SO a day, loaded with wounded, arc passing through the station for Muk den. The shrapnel Injuries are frightful, and a majority of the men succumb on the journey to the hospital. Correspondents arriving here keenly re spp.t their treatment bv the Jananese. and declare they see nothing of the war. They are treated as though they were spies, while native correspondents are permitted to see tne ngnung ana teiegrapn ireeiy. Japan Buys Steel Plates. PITTSBURG, Sept. -7. Agents of tho Japanese government today closed a con tract with the Carnegie Steel Company for an order of 7500 - tons of the finest grade nickel steel plates, for use on Jap anese battleships. The order will keep the 84 and. 184-Inch mills of the Home stead plant busy for three months. Squadron, to Remain Off Shanghai. SPECIAL CABLE TO THE LONDON TIMES AND PORTLAND OREGONIAN. CHEFOO, Sept 8. Rear-Admiral . Urlu has been ordered to remain outside Shang hai with his squadron until Port Arthur falls. CONSENTS OF TODAY'S PAPER Rosso-Japanese War. Kuropatkin Is at Mukden, and main portion of army la nearby. Page 1. Japanese continue to harass the Russian rear. Page 1. Russia believes army Is no longer In a critical position. Page 1. British press deems silence of Toklo bodes 111 for the Russians. Page 5. Japanese exhibited desperate bravery at the battle of Anping. Page C. Domestic Government buildings at 1905 Fair will be most attractive ever constructed at an exposition, Page 1. Alabama mob outwits Sheriff and eoldlers. fires Jail to get negro and then lynches him, Page 3. Fast train Is wrecked near Princeton, HI.; 30 persons are Injured, three of whom have since died. Page 6. Louisville. Ky., Commanders wins first prize in .bJiignts Templar drllL Page 5. Political. iieaaing Eastern papers are agreeB that the Vermont election Is an excellent sign of Re publican success m November. Page 1. Seven hundred Democratic editors at banquet in New Tork; Henry watterson and Clark Howell make principal addresses. Page 1. Steps taken to organize anti-Mormon party in Utah; Senator Kearns Is taking a prominent part. Page 6. Democratic Chairman Taggart discusses Re. publican, landslide In Vermont. Page 3. Commercial aad Marine. Weekly review, of local .produce and Jobbing J markets. Ptjje IS.. . ', - Stock tradlntr at New; Tori; In professional "Wheat closes firm at 'Chicago-, with slight gain. Page 13. Ship Dumfriesshire encounters waterspout at sea. Page 12. Schooner Crescent will be docked at St. Johns Friday. Page 12. Sports. Pacific Coast League scores: Portland 1, Los Angeles 0: Oakland 4, San Francisco 1; Tacoma 16, Seattle H. Page O. Edward Dowllng elected, football captain of Multnomah Club. Page 9. Gateway wins race In fast company at Irving ton. Page 0. Pacific Coast. Blaze at Bakersfleld, Cal., takes two lives and destroys $250,000 worth of property. Page 4. Inquest over the remains of Mrs. L. J. Jones held at Oregon City. Page 4. Bert Oakman held for the murder of Frank Bennett at HUlsboro. Page 4. , Red spider pest is confined to the yards of Marlon County. Page 4. Portland and Vicinity. Portage road will be built without Government permit. Page 14. Forest fires rage near Holbrook and In other parts of Western Oregon. Page 12. Farmers of the East look to Oregon for homes. Page S. Chinese offer $500 reward for capture of Lee Sing Norn's murderer. Page 12. Council passes ordinance licensing ticket-scalp- exs. Page 8. Poker games will stay closed. Page 12. Chief Campbell will select firemen for the , Fair. Page 8". SWISS Watterson Says It Is One- Party Power. TALKS P0L1TIC8T0 EDITORS Seven Hundred Democrats at Banquet in New York. KENTUCKIAN CHIEF SPEAKER' He Also Dreads One-Man Power, and Sees It In Victory of Roosevelt Clark Howell Assails Presi dent's Stand on Race Issue. NEW YORK, Sept. 7. Nearly 700 Demo cratic editors from all parts of the "Unit ed States met at a banquet at the Wal dorf-Astoria tonight, the occasion being a National conference of Democratic ed itors, which was called at the instance of the. National Democratic Committee. When "Dixie" was played, the diners. many of whom were from the South jumped to their feet, and the "rebel yell' was given several times. Enthusiasm was at the highest pitch when the selec tion was encored. Henry Watterson responded to the toast "The Issues and the Outlook." He said: "I believe we can win this Presidential battle. I will go even further and say that, with anything like an even show down of powder and ball, it will be our own fault if we lose it. The two parties will go to the finish fairly united. Each will poll nearly, if not quite, its normal strength. The independent vote, there fore, will decide the result. If I were Republican and over about the head waters of Bitter Creek, there are. Demo crats who Insist that T am not much bet terI would vote for Parker and Davis against Roosevelt and Fairbanks. Being only a plain American who loves his country and clings to Its institutions, I mean to do this, anyhow. I shall do it because it seems to me the upright thing -to do; the enlightened thing to do; the - prudent and. honest tiling to do. Questions Fidelity of Republicans "In spite, of soma excesses of feeling and mistakes of judgment, the Demo cratic heart beats true to the essential principles of the Republic as it was cre ated by the sublime declaration and or dained by our incomparable Constitution. In spite of their Intelligence and energy, tho Republican leaders are losing sight of their fidelity to both. Even the errors of the Democrats lean to virtue's side, whilst the very virtues of the Republicans are beginning to bo sicklied o'er with the pale cast of corruption and absolutism. This is jiot because the Democrats are Demo crats or the Republicans are Republicans. The label has. little to d6 with It. It Is because the nature of long domlnancy tends first to corruption and then, threat ened with exposure, to tyranny. "The issue before us is whether the people will allow the Republican party to grow so potent, so to intrench itself In power as that nothing short of some dire convulsion shall be able to uproot it, or whether they shall before It be too late, take Roosevelt and Fairbanks by the hand and bid them stand aside, whilst in the persons of Parker and Davis they recover into their own hands the lost balance of power, of power which Is now lodged in the Ex ecutive Mansion at Washington, lanked on one side by the Speaker of the House and his committee on rules. sunDorted on tho other side by a group of Senators who seek only to know the President's will In order to obey It. 1 dread tho one-man power. Still more I dread the one-party power; ab solutism at length barricading Itself against the reach of the. people; the op- posltlon thoroughly debauched and, be cause of its demoralization and impo tency, only a degree les3 corrupt than the autocracy; the Government a close corporation of organized interests, slowly but surely breeding caste dis tinction; our public men a race of Medlcian Princes without the learning or the arts of Florence; the old free system of Washington and Franklin and Jefferson a very syndicate of wealth and officialism; a republic only In name; a world power In fact, more Imperial in its aggressions and re splendency than Rome itself. "If we want these things, let us by all means elect Theodore Roosevelt. What risks do even honest Republicans take in setting Roosevelt and Fair banks aside and in preferring Parker and Davis. The money of the country is safe beyond power of human agency to "disturb it. The revenue laws are not likely to bo adjusted to suit me and men like me until the manufacturers come to see as they surely will, that the protective tariff Is a hindrance and not a help to American industry Where, then, Is the danger? "Another Tllden has arrived upon the scene, and, fittingly, here in the .Empire State of New York; a very tribune of the people, calm, resolute and qualified ; in all things the exact antithesis or Theodore Roosevelt, and, In my belief, assuredly as Tllden was elected he will be elected. And when elected, he will be inaugurated, and all will be well." Letter From Joseph Pulitzer. A letter from Joseph Pulitzer, written from Bar Harbor, Me., In which the writer stated that physical Infirmities prevented his being present, waa read. The letter in part was as follows: "The result of the Vermont election makes It, in my judgment, all the more Imperative that Judge Parker shall realize and perform his duty to the millions of honest voters who seek no office, look for no personal gain In this election, but who see In him an Ideal and hope and aspire to preserve through him the Institution they love. The people need a judicial Chief Magistrate, but not too judicial. I appreciate the great personal sacrifices he has made in accepting the nomination. But, having accepted it, I earnestly beg of you, when you see him tomorrow at Eso pus, to urge that he accept also the full responsibility of his position; that he will not permit the campaign in New York the pivotal state to be mismanaged by the small politicians who beset him; that he will In the next 60 days be even more than heretofore the people'e leader and teacher, their tribune and advocate." Clark Howell Speaks. Clark Howell, editor of the Atlanta Con stitution, spoke to the toast, "Democratic Success, the Guarantee of National "Unity." He said: "Any political party is entitled to hold and to urge jits views upon the economic question of the day, but a party that would build its hope of success, aa the Re publican party has done, upon a bold and defiant challenge of the peace, prosperity and happiness of the people of a great section of our country, Is neither entitled to Its own self-respect, nor to that of the public sentiment of the Nation. "Disguise it as they may, the Republi cans cannot deny the sectional animus of the party's purposes, nor evade the record of their Administration in its unjust and ungenerous dealings with the South In the matter of Federal appointments and in the brutal and Indefensible manner -In which their President has raised the lid of the racial Pandora's box that our peo ple, black and white, may be tormented with the devils that have emerged from it. "I speak the sentiment of the South of today the new South. If you will when I tell you that the mistaken attitude of the Republican President has done more to check the real progress of the negro than all else that has been done since the war. His stubborn disregard of the ad vice of even his own party referees in the states affected in his mad determina tion that white constituencies should be served by negro officeholders exclusively In the South for It would be repudiated in the North has rekindled the slumber ing embers of racial hostility to a degree that has not been known since the days of reconstruction. "All the South asks is to deal with this question as Its conscience and judgment dictates, and we pledge that the solution will be for the best of all concerned. "Eliminate the race question as a po litical Issue and you have put tho cap , stone on the pyramid of National unity." 10 DO IT 1905 Fair Will Have Fine Buildings. PLANS OF TH E NATION Architect Will Complete Them Next Week. WILL ADVERTISE AT ONCE Contracts Should Be Awarded November 1. THREE MONTHS FOR BUILDING All Agree That While the Structures Will Not Be as Large as at Other Expositions, They Will Be More Attractive. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Sept. 7. Supervising Architect Taylor, of the Treasury Department, has designed for the Lewis and Clark Ex position a group of Government buildings which. In many respects, surpass In at tractiveness anything of the kind here tofore undertaken by the Government. While not as large as the Government buildings at St. Louis or Chicago, -the Portland buildings are declared by archi tects to be of more pleasing design and are universally pronounced more im pressive than any which have graced other expositions. The Government build ings will be grouped on the peninsula di rectly facing the main portion of the .Exposition. AIL will be types of Span ish renaissance architecture. In the cen ter will be the main building, 240 by 360 feet. It will be surmounted by an arched roof 130 feet above the ground. An Im mense skylight will constitute the cen tral portion of the roof. The remainder will be of tile. Toward either end of the building and on a line with the front wall will be immense towers 260 feet in height, while the ends of the building will be finished oft with semi-domes, giv ing a great alcove effect to the interior. Five Great Arches. Fifty 40-foot arches will adorn the face of the building, each containing a. spa clous entrance. Between the arches are to be Immense Corinthian columns 44 feet In height. At the base of each tower will be fountains containing ornamental statu uary figures of heroic size. The building will be extensively decorated, provision being made for numerous flags and ban ners along the roof, and opportunities are provided for ornamental work on the towers, over the arches and elsewhere. The floor of the main building will be six feet above the ground. Toward the end of the main building will be the smaller buildings, SO by 160 feet Each will be connected with the main building by ornamental peristyles in such a way as to give the effect from across the lake of one vast building, spreading out over (Concluded on Page 5.)