Morning Oregonian., September 06, 1906, Image 1

VOL. XLVI.- 0. 14,273.
PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1906.
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DEFINED BY TAFT
What Roosevelt Has
Done With Trusts.
HAS MADE THEM FEAR THE LAW
President's Course Is Accept
ed as Real Issue.
REVISION OF THE TARIFF
Pecretary of War Declares It Must
Come, but Xbt by Destruction of
Protection Rights and
Wrongs of Injunctions.
BATH, Me., Sept. 6. William H. Taft,
Secretary of War, addressed a largo au
tllence at Alameda Hall here tonight and
was given an enthusiastic greeting. It
(was his only appearance In the Maine
campaign. He -was introduced by Harold
IF. Sewall, formerly United States Consul
at Hawaii, -whose guest he is while here.
Mr. Sewall spoke of Mr. Taft as the
"probable successor to President Roose
velt." Tomorrow Mr. Taft will return to
(Murr Bay, Canada.
Mr. Taft began by referring to the
ttbuse of the right of combining capital
and the demand for laws to restrain cor
porations. He condemned "the diatrlbes
of a certain class of orators which con
wey the impression that all wealth and
All capital and all corporations are to be
condemned" He quoted recent census
(reports showing that, while the capital
lists In the manufacturing industries were
irecelving a less proportionate profit, the
fwa go-earners were receiving a greater
proportion of wages. He spoke of the
treat prosperity prevailing and described
an arch-conspirator against the hap
piness of the people any man who would
Jflo anything to destroy it. He continued:
The men, therefore, who are to be trusted
nd should be charged with the dutr of curb
Ing corporate and capitalistic abuses, are
Chose who fully appreciate the uhm of ag
gregate wealth as capital and fully recognize
the evils of abuses which have arisen by its
tnleuse' and the necessity for their correction.
. Legal Victories Over Trusts.
He described the devices by which
trusts establish and maintain monopolies
fend then reviewed anti-trust legislation
by Congress and legal proceedings taken
Under the Sherman act. He called atten
tion to the difficulty caused by the claim
of immunity and the law passed at the
last spsslon restricting that right. He
Rlso referred to the Government's victory
in the Supreme Court decision that a
corporation may be compelled to show Its
books whether they incriminated it or
not.
He proceeded to describe how railroad
aiscrlmlnatlon fosters trusts and told of
Ithe Interstate commerce and railroad rate
Jaws passed to stop this evil. The new
rate law, he said, "will operate directly
ito withhold from the great monopolizing
corporations the chief instrument they
have been using in driving competition
out of business."- He dwelt on the diffi
culty of enforcing the law and said it
twould probably be necessary to Increase
Ithe executive machinery for carrying on
Ithe work. He went on:
Mills Grind Very Fine.
There to no doubt that for a decade or more
after the parage of the trust act, and the
Interstate commerce act. those who were
violating their provisions regarded their
vagueness and the difficulty of proof of the
facts as rendering them immune from prose
cution and making the laws dead letters. But
while the mills of the Government have
grround slowly, they are grinding exceedingly
small, and the seriousness of carrying on a
business In violation of the terms of the
Cherman anti-trust act. or the Interstate com
merce act. made clear 'as those terms have
een made, by Judicial decision, aided by
additional Congressional legislation, is lm-
pressing Heelf on these members of the busi
pgies community prone to unjust methods.
A close study of the history of this con
gest which has been going on for the sup
pression of these trust evils shows that the
iork of eliminating them from our economic
' system is full of complications and requires
time, persistence, patience and willing co
operation by Executive and Congress, and lets
in light on the vanity and useleasnesa of
empty denunciation of the evils without any
. clear understanding of how they are to be
remedied, and legitimate business Interests
i preserved unharmed.
This Is for A. B. Parker.
It also shows how inadequate a compre
hension the candidate for the Presidency on
the Democratic ticket at the last election had
of the question when he announced in the
acceptance of the nomination that the com
mon law as developed was quite adequate for
the suppression of trusts, and that it merely
failed for lack of effective enforcement of the
(law by executive officers. A letter of Judge
Harmon, Mr. Cleveland's last Attorney-General,
to Congress, in answer to a resolution
asking him what additional legislation was
, needed to bring about an effective enforce
ment of the trust law. shows the numerous
difficulties attending Its execution, and la a
, complete refutation of Judge Parker's position
on this matter in his speech and letter of ac-
' eeptance. The constant appeals to the last
and the present Congress for legislation and
the'r action to remove the difficulties Involved
In the execution of the anti-trust act confirm
Judge Harmon's views. It is an entirely fair
Inference to draw, therefore, that had Judge
Parker been elected President of the United
States, with his view of what was needed to
tamp out trusts, there would have been no
such effective campaign carried on by the Ex
ecutive and by Congress sgalnst these evil
tendencies of corporate wealth as we have
seen under the leadership of Mr. Roosevelt.
Put Fear of Law In Trusts.
He told of what had been accomplished
by President Roosevelt, and said:
The fear of the law has been put into the
hearts of the members of these great corpo
rations, and this has been, due chiefly to the
courage, the determination and the Intense In
terest of Theodore Roosevelt In the securing
. of adequate legislation and Its vigorous ex
t ecutlve enforcement.
! He declared that Mr. Roosevelt's, at
tack on the Northern Securities Company
"aroused the opposition of powerful rail
road" Interests in Wall street, and had
much to do with the pressing of Judge
Parker for the Democratic Presidential
nomination. Mr. Roosevelt Is no more
popular In Wall street today than he was
when the Northern Securities case suit
was Instituted, and the reason is, not
that he Is opposed to, or is engaged in
a crusade against, corporate wealth, not
that he is opposed to the security that
capital must have In order that it may
be used to the advantage of the public
and the reasonable profit of its owners,
but because he interposed real and prac
tical obstacles to its use in violation of
law to accomplish results which cannot
inure to the benefit of the public. The
practical trust managers and beneficiaries
care little for oratorical denunciation and
vehement rhetoric. What they object to
Is efficient interference with their plans
and purposes."
He cited Roosevelt's prosecution of the
trusts in disproof of Parker's charge that
immunity was promised great corpora
tions if they made campaign contribu
tions. Roosevelt Is the Issue.
He declared the issue of the campaign
to be whether the voters, by electing a
Democratic Congress, shall express disap
proval of Roosevelt's course, and whether
his work shall be hampered by an antag
onistic majority In the House. He contin
ued: Mr. Roosevelt's policy is to secure, by Na
tional legislative and executive action, within
the somewhat narrow range of Federal Juris
diction over Interstate commerce. " effective
control of those who manage and operate or
ganized capital, so as to prevent them, by
the misuse of the powerful instrumentalities
that organization of capital affords, from
unlawfully suppressing competition, establish
ing monopolies and thereby making impossible
the benefit from such organization of capital
of a reduction of prices and increase of con
veniences ' which otherwise would and ought
to inure to the oublic. .
With respect to this general policy, which
has been, carried forward by Mr. Roosevelt
and the Republican party to a point where
a successful issue is reasonably assured if a
consistent course of legislative and executive
action Is permitted, the Democratic party
asserts that It is the original patentee, and
that Mr. Roosevelt and the Republican party
have merely Infringed their patent rights.
The unfounded character of this claim of ex-,
elusive ownership by the Democratic party
in Mr. Roosevelt's policy, I shall not stop to
discuss. The Democratic leaders who under
stand the hold Mr. Roosevelt has upon the
voters of the country would have them believe
that a Democratic majority in the House of
Representatives will sympathize so much in
Mr. Roosevelt's policy In regard to trusts and
railroad rate discrimination, and will so sec
ond his efforts that it really is not important
in furthering" this policy to elect a Repub
lican House. But nothing - can -be farther
rom the fact.
What Democrats Would Do.
In support of this statement he quoted
the statement of Chairman Griggs, of
the Democratic Congressional Commit
tee, that the departments are "honey
combed with graft." He depicted the
evil efTects of a hostile majority Ashing
for scandals, although admitting that all
abuses should be promptly removed. He
said the Democrats proposed to use a
majority in the House to hamper, not
help, the President in carrying out tne
policy which they claimed to have in
Tented, and concluded on that point:
It la therefore Just and fair to say that
the Issue of the present campaign does not
Involve merely the approval or disapproval of
Mr. Roosevelt's policy, but it Involves tne
question whether that policy shall be carried
to a successful Issue, or shall be defeated by
a vote of want of confidence.
Accept Roosevelt's Leadership.
The Republican Congressmen who now go
back to their constituents do propose to make
Mr. Roosevelt the issue in this campaign,
because he Is the issue; sot In what he has
said, but In what be has done and what the
party has upheld him in doing. The Re
publican majority in the House and Senate
hare loyally accepted Mr. Roosevelt's leader
ship, have approved tils recommendations and
have stood by him In formulating into legis
lation that which should enable him to carry
out his policy. Is it wonderful then that the
Republican party asks, and the Republican
members of the House of Representatives ask,
that the electors of the country In determining
whether a Republican or Democratic majority
shall appear in the next House of Represen
tatives, shall make their decision turn on the
question. "Do we approve -the course of Theo-
ml
William H. Taft. Secretary of War,
Who Spoke for Administratloo
In Uttlefields Campaign.
dore Roosevelt, as President of the United
States, or do we disapprove It?" The magic
of Theodore Roosevelt's name In winning
votes, and the deep-seated confidence that
the American people have in his patriotism,
in the sincerity of his sympathy with all the
people, rich and poor alike, in the courage
of his convictions. In his great ability and
tremendous energy, and in his Intense interest
In effecting results which shall inure to the
benefit of all the people, and especially the
less fortunate, may be legitimately used to
secure a return of a Republican House to
support and sustain him for the remainder of
his administration.
He ran over in rapid review the other
important measures passed by Congress
and then dealt with the relation of the
tariff to trusts? saying:
Trusts and the Tariff.
' I do not propose to discuss the schedules
of the tariff. The great majority of the
American people are In favor of maintain
ing the protective system. The operation of
the tariff affects broad sections and locali
ties, and is deemed Important to the welfare
of millions of workingmen and small dealers
and the country at large. Substantial
changes are attended with risk to the im
portant legitimate business interests. This
Is what makes legislators hesitate at a re
vision in a period of unexampled prosperity.
Moreover. It Is Impracticable by a revision
of the tariff to destroy trusts. The effect
which a protective tarlfr has In aid of trusts
Is in the partial exclusion or hampering of
foreign competition in articles of manufac
ture manufactured by trusts, thus narrowing
the competition to be met and overcome by
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CHAMBERLAIN OUT
FOR FIRST PLAGE
But Complications May Pre
vent His Leading Irri
gationists. ANDERSON MAKES TROUBLE
Secretary's Fight on Reclamation
Service May Spilt Vote on Offi
cersMay Choose Sacramen
to for Next Convention.
BT FRANK IRA "WHITEl.
BOISE, Idaho, Sept. 5. (Staff Corre
spondence.) The closing day of the four
teenth National Irrigation Congress prom
ises to develop a vigorous fight on the
floor of the convention, materialization of
which depends upon the Utah delegation
on the one hand and the friends of the
Reclamation Service on the other.
TWO CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR BEFORE CALIFORNIA REPUBLICAN CONVENTION AND TWO
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Governor Pardee.
Governor Chamberlain, of Oregon, is the
nominee of tne committee on permanent
organization for president, but, unfortu
nately for the Governor, perhaps, the
same committee has nominated D. H. An
derson, editor of the Irrigation Age, of
Chicago, as candidate for secretary.
Anderson has been fighting the Recla
mation Service bitterly for several years,
and his selection may be regarded by the
officials of that department as a gratui
tous slap from an organization that has
been supporting its labors heretofore, and
which has received the benefit of reciproc
ity, in that officials of the service have
planned to make It convenient for carry
ing forward the work of irrigation educa
tion through they medium of annual con
ferences synchronous with the meetings
of the congress.
Kelsel Is Not Considered.
Fred J. Kelsel was the Utah candidate
for president of the congress, and instead
of granting to the Ogden man the solace
of a vice-presidency, the committee nomi
nated John H. Smith, of Utah, to that
place, he being a member of the commit
tee. 'Whether or not the friends of Kelsel
will carry the candidacy of their favorite
to the floor of the convention is not
known, and It appears that the nomina
tion of Chamberlain may be approved by
the Utah delegation, but. on the other
hand, opposition to the committee nom
inee for secretary seems probable.
Should the opposition make the fight and
fall to defeat Anderson, In whose hands
would rest practically the entire executive
work of the organization, the effect would
be problematical on the future usefulness
of the congress.
Anderson Has Buried Hatchet.
However, friends of Anderson assert
that he has buried the hatchet, and his
election need not be understood as any
attempt of persons opposed to the organ
iaztion or personnel of the Reclamation
Service to wrest control of the Congress
from their friends.
There is no opposition to the remainder
of the ticket named anywhere, and unless
the Utah delegates disagree among them
selves the convention will hear of no oth
er candidate for president than the Gov
ernr of Oregon.
Sacramento Has Good Show.
Indications tonight denote the selection
of Sacramento as the place of meeting
next year on the second ballot. There
will, doubtless, be wide scattering on the
first ballot, with Sacramento, Reno. North
Yakima, Las Vegas, N. M., Jamestown,
Va., and Washington, D. C, on the list
President Tucker, of the Jamestown Ex
position, made a most favorable impres
sion on the delegates, and many would
like to go there as a means of educating
Eastern people on a great Western topic,
but the feeling of many delegates is that
the success and continuation of the con
gress would be endangered and adverslon
to purposes, ulterior to the principles on
which It is based . might result if held
outside the arid states.
Inconsistency of Heyburn. .
Today's session was marked by numer
ous references to the remarkable events
of the evening before, in which Senator
Heyburn was cheered and hissed with
equal force by an audience of the capital
city of his own state.
W. A. Reeder, of Kansas, unequivocally
indorsed u.e policy and administration of
the Forestry Service, and various s peak-
ers reverted to the question to voice fur
ther Indorsement of GIfford Plnchot, who
has the friendship and admiration of a
very large majority of the convention,
despite the bitter attack of Senator Hey
burn. whose inconsistency cannot be ex
plained even by his friends.
Oregon has not made a strong showing
in the exhibits in competition for the
Clark cup and splendid cash prizes of-
rHA3IM.RI.AIN MAY BE PRESI
DENT. .
The committee on permanent : or
ganization of the National Irrigation
Congress, which will report today,
will recommend the following . for
election as the officers of the Con
gress for the next year:
President Governor George EL
Chamberlain, of Oregon.
Vice-President John Henry Smith,
of Salt Lake City.
Second Vice-President H. B.
Maxson, Nevada.
Third Vice-President George V
Barstow, Texas.
Secretary D. H. Andereoni of
Illinois.
fered. Rarely has any exposition of prod
ucts of the soil brought together superior
quality or greater variety of cereals, roots,
fruits and grasses than is presented here
in width of one street and length of two
city blocks., Utah, which lost first prizes
to. Idaho at El Paso two years ago, came
with a remarkable display, and will carry
away first honors.
The party of Washington correspondents
in attendance at the session departed this
J. O. Hayes. Candidate for Coventor.
afternoon for a visit to the Twin Falls
district, and will then proceed to Portland,
returning East via San Francisco, with
brief stops on the way...'
FORM "STATION AIi FEDERATION
Officers of the Water-Users Associa
tion Are Charter Members.
BOISE. Idaho, Sept. 5. (Special.) Per-'
manent organization was effected tonight
of the National Federation of Water
Users' Associations, composed, at its In
ception, of officers of ten associations.
Officers elected were as follows:
E. R. Brownson, WiUiston. N. D pres
ident: H. B. Holt, Las Cruces. N. M. ; A.
J. Splawn. North Yakima, Wash.; H. T.
Frank W. Mondell, Representative
From Wyoming;. Wbo Is a Proml-
. nent Figure at the National Irri
gation Congress.
Irvln, Echo, Or., vice-presidents; Elmer
I. Applegate, Klamath Falls, Or., secretary-treasurer.
JUMPS FROM CAR WINDOW
Although Shackled to Son, Prisoner
Makes Sensational Escape.
OTTAWA, Sept. 6.t (Special.) Jacob
Jebretskl, aged 55, on the way from
Chatham, Ont., to the Kingston peni
tentiary, has just made a most remark
able escape. He was sentenced to seven
years for bringing $16,000 worth of
stolen furs from Brooklyn into Canada.
On his way to the penal institution, he
escaped from the car window, near the
town of Xapanee. He was shackled and
handcuffed to his 17-year-old son, Si
mon, sentenced for the same charge to
Ave years' confinement,
Jebretskl went, to the toilet-room
with his son and the constable stood
at the . door. He heard a scream from
the son. The constable looked in and
eaw the older prisoner was .gone with
the shackles.
It is a mystery how the shackles
were taken off, for there are no marks
of violence on Simon, who declines to
talk.
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T
TIES
Court Will Help His Second
Wife to Clear Her
Good Name.
ROMANCE OF DOUBLE LIFE
Man Who Returned to First Wife
After Thirty-one Years' Absence
Will Make Rapid Change
of Spouses.
CHICAGO, Sept. S. C. H. Frye, who
was arrested on a charge of bigamy
upon his return to Chicago recently
after an absence of 31 years, was re
leased from custody today on bonds
signed by Mrs. Clara A. Goddard, whom
Frye married In South Dakota under
the name of Goddard. A suit for di
vorce, filed by Mrs. Frye, the legal wife.
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Abe RneC Who Controls 187 Delegates.
is pending in the Circuit Court and it
was upon the promise of Frye to marry
Mrs. Goddard , as soon as he was freed
from his first alliance that Frye was
given his '.liberty? -It is expected that
after bavlngr become his legal wife,
Mrs. Goddard will obtain a divorce in
order to leave him free to re-marry the
first Mrs. . Frye.
His Unexplained Return.
Mrs. Goddard, accompanied by her 19-year-old
daughter, Jessie, came to Chi
cago from California and revealed the
dual life of Frye since he met her in
Spencer, la.. In 1877.
Frye recently returned to his legal
wife, whom he deserted 31 years ago,
and gave her $5000 on condition that
she ask no questions about where be
had been and whence the money came.
The publication of the story aroused
the suspicions of Mrs. Goddard. who
came to Chicago and within two weeks
established Frye's Identity with ber
husband and caused his arrest.
His Career as Goddard.
Frye was a teacher in the Chicago
Normal School when be disappeared in
1875. He became a teacher at Swan
Lake, S. D., under the name of C. H.
Goddard, and in 1880 took his bigamous
wife to Spencer, la. Shortly afterward
he removed to Hurley, s. D., where he
taught school and read law, while Mrs.
Goddard held a homestead claim. She
pre-empted the claim and finally trans
ferred it to Goddard for sale.
Edward J. McKone, one of the attor
neys for the second wife, says that God
dard became prominent in politics and
wa a candidate for nearly every po
litical office in the South Dakota dis
trict where he resided. He did not
achieve much success, his most promi
nent office being an appointment as
state examiner of candidates for admis
sion to the bar. Goddard, Mr. McKone
said, became a Roman Catholic at Hur
ley, though Frye was known as an
Episcopalian at the Chicago Normal
School more than 30 years ago. Through
his relations with Bishop O'Gorman,
the man was appointed an instructor in
the legal department of the Catholic
University at Washington, D. C. This
position he gave up in a few months
to accept an appointment as teacher in
the Roman Catholic schools in the Phil
ippines. There he remained for two
years. Then he returned to Hurley and
resumed hi? law practice, but soon
quarreled with his wife, sold the home
stead and disappeared.,
First Wife Has Second Wife's Money.
It is charged that the money derived
from the sale of the homestead was the
15000 Frye gave to Mrs. Frye. Before
Goddard's disappearance from Hurley
he sold the homestead for $5000, receiv
ing payment in $100 bills. When Frye
reappeared In Chicago and threw the
$50)0 into his wife's lap, it is said that
it was all in $100 bills.
This was In April, a few days after
Goddard vanished from South Dakota.
The ' story of Frye's return and the
price that he paid for his wife's promise
not to question him as to where he
had been In the 31 years, did not de
velop until August 13. It was then
widely published. Mrs. Goddard, at
Hurley, S. D., read the "romantic"
story and was struck with the strange
coincidence In the careers of Frye and
of her mUsinar husband. Thav bad the
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same initials and the money that Frye
gave to his wife in Chicago was the
same amount as that for which her
husband sold the homestead and that
she had pre-empted. She began an In
vestigation and his arrest was the con
sequence. Mrs. Goddard claims the JoOOJ
as hers.
IGORROTE HUNT INDICTED
Two Dogeaters Accuse Manager of
Robbing Them.
MEMPHIS. Sept. B. Two indictments
have been returned against Dr. T. K.
Hunt on the testimony of Feola and Den
gay, two full-blooded Igorrotes, members
of the band which visited the city some
time, ago, charging "larceny" and "lar
ceny from the person," which are felon
ies under the state laws. Dr. Hunt has
been arrested in Chicago and will be
brought back to Memphis to stand trial.
He was in charge of the band of Igor
rotes a year ago.
FIGHTING ANCIENT WAR
Madrid Newspaper Digs Up Scandal
of Cuban Campaign.
MADRID, Sept. 5. The newspaper Es
pana Nueva, in the course of a fresh at
tack today on the conduct of the Spanish
American war, states that General Li
nares, the Spanish commander of Santi
ago, asked Admiral Cervera to land a
few guns to supplement the Inadequate
defenses at the Morro Castle and La 9o
capa. The Admiral in response sent Gen-
RIVAL REPUBLICAN BOSSES
W. F. Herri n. Chief Counsel of
0 Southern Pacific
eral Linares two Maxim guns from the
destroyer Terror, but General Linares
did not attempt to mount these guns
until the sortie of Admiral Cervera's
squadron, when . he found the breech
locks had been lost. The Journal de
mands a strict Inquiry.
NO PLACE jOR FILIPINOS
Louisiana State University Declines
to Admit Dark-Skinned Students.
BATON ROUGE, La.. Sept. 5. Refusal
to admit several Filipino students to the
Louisiana State University was an
nounced today by the university authori
ties. No reason for this action was given,
but it Is understood that the ground
taken In the matter is probable race
prejudice against Filipinos. The Filipinos
wished to study agriculture there.
CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER
The Weather.
TEPTFTHr A V 3 Maximum temperature, Tl
decrees; minimum, 54.
TODAY'S Rain; southerly winds.
Foreign.
All parties In Cuba begin conferences for
peace and hostilities are suspended. Pare 3.
Russian revolution sareads to Central Asia,
face 3.
Kaiser puts business men in office. Page 4.
Politics.
Taft speaks on Roosevelt's administration in
Maine. Page 1.
Cannon answers Gompers on labor legislation.
faze 2.
New York Democrats hold conferences aimed
to drive out Hearst. Paae 2.
Bryan welcomed home at Lincoln. Page 4. '
Hearst hedging- on public ownership. Page 5.
Democratic leaders look for new leader bo
cause Bryan attacks machine. Face 1.
Domestic.
Captured letter of Mexican conspirator betrays
plot. Page 4.
Frye's quick change will unravel bis matri
monial tangle. Page 1.
Arrest of Philadelphia bank-wreckers for con
spiracy. Page 4.
Canadian Poukhobar fanatics starve themselves
in prison. Page 3. . ...
Sport.
American yachts outsail Germans. Page 7.
Nelson whines about defeat and Slier and
Gans reply. Page 7.
Results of military team shoot at Seagirt.
Page 7.
Portland beats Los Angeles. 11 to O. Page T.
1 Pacific Coast.
Governor Chamberlain leads for presidency of
National Irrigation Congress. Page 1.
Immigration question is topic of discussion
by irrigation delegates, fuse ti.
Street-car strike Is declared on In San Fran
cisco, and cars are running. Page 3.
Abe Ruef Is believed to have made an agree
ment with Boss Herrln. Page 6.
Salem is excited over investigation of police
department. . Page 6.
Commercial and Marine.
Wool trading at an end in Eastern Oregon.
Page 15.
Chicago wheat market weak and lower.
Page IB.
Call money advances to 40 per cent at New
Tork. Page 15.
Open-River company expects to commence
operations tomorrow. Page 14.
San Francisco labor leader at San Pedro on
strike business. Page 14.
Portland and Vicinity.
Solons clash at first meeting of Council after
vacation. Page 9. ,
Leo D. Peterson is sued for divorce. Page 10.
Attorneys for defense in land-fraud trial rally
to support of J. N. Williamson. Page 11.
C. ES. Loss, president United Railways Com
pany, says he will build electric railroad to
Tillamook. Page 11.
Oregon water laws convention at Salem next
week. Pase JO.
Hugh Herdman and Gifford IS'ash take 700
mlle vacation drive in Central and Western
Oregon. Page 14.
Police think Engineer Mallory has absconded
with money given him by Good Hope Min
ing Company, of Orovllle, to buy a mill.
11.
TOD MUCH BRYAN
SHY THE LEADERS
ChicagoSpeechCauses
Consternation.
ALREADY SEEK TO SHELYE HIM
Quest of Safe and Sane Candi
date Is Resumed.
SOUTH AND EAST SHOCKED
Machine Leaders Turn to Bailey, Je
rome or Folk to Save Them From
Man Who Repudiates Sul
livan's Indorsement.
WASHINGTON'. Sept. 8. (Special.)
Bryan's Jefferson Club speech in Chicago
last night has set the East and South
by the ears even more than the Madison
Square Garden keynote sounded oh home
coming day in New Tork. At Democratic
Congressional headquarters this after
noon genuine consternation reigned.
"This Is piling Pelion on Ossa." said
a Southern member of the House.
"Bryan may climb to the gods on the
mountain ho Is building, but It In doubt
ful If It will elevate him to the head
of the Democratic ticket In 1908."
New Safe and Sane Candidate.
Let. eye and ear be alert to see and
hear something of a new candidate of
the safe and sane variety rising In oppo
sition to the Nebraskan within the next
few weeks. Conferences looking to such
a development are being held In New
Tork and Washington right now, and
perhaps very soon public statements from
some of the big party guns who a week
ago regarded Byran as a sure thing will
give the cue for seizing upon some other
piece of supposedly available timber.
It may be Bailey, of Texas, the biggest
statesman Democracy has had In the
Senate- in many years. If things go a
certain way in New Tork. it may be Je
rome, or whoever, aside from Hearst,
may be nominated for Governor by the
Buffalo convention this month. It may
be Folk. Whoever It may be, a fight for
control of the National convention two
years hence between somewhat the same
elements that struggled for mastery in
1904 now seems to be assured, with Hearst
and hla personal followers outside the
breastworks planning a ticket and a
party of their own.
Fight for Control of Machine.
From now on Bryan's personality I3 to
bo pitted against the combined shrewd
ness of the men In control of the present
party machinery, and Bryan's repudiation
of the indorsement recently given him
by the Illinois state convention Is recog
nized as a declaration to the party In
other states that he Is bent on putting
conditions on indorsements wherever they
take place.
Every political observer knows that
while Bryan supported the Parker-Davis
ticket two years ago, hla heart was not
in the campaign. He maintained his reg
ularity, however, and within a few days
the politicians have awakened to what
keeping regular is likely to mean in this
case. It simply means, the politicians
believe, that the Nebraskan has come
home to wage a two years' fight against
the men who controlled the 1304 conven
tion, depose them, if he can, through
their respectivo state conventions and
win his nomination, if It can be won,
without their agreement.
Before long Bryan will go Into Ken
tucky, and from things that already have
happened it Is pretty safe to say he will
tell the Bourbons what they have got to
do if he accepts indorsement at their
hands.
Bryan Has Upset Everything.
The element in the National Committee
with which Sullivan affiliates has come
to realize that It has got to abdicate
if Bryan runs for President. Until Bryan
came home the 1904 managers thought
they would be able to retain their con
trol of the machinery and have Bryan
and harmony. The old machine must
now fight Bryan to save Itself. In Con
gressional campaign circles the feeling Is
very bitter because it finally had been
planned to wage the contest this Fall on
the safe and sane principle, with tariff
revision the battle, cry. Bryan was
looked to to speed the Democratic cause.
Now everything has been upset by the
overshadowing Issue of 1908.
Knox's Comment on Bryan.
NEW TORK, Sept. 5. United States
Senator Knox, 0 Pennsylvania, arrived
today from Europe on the steamer
Oceanic. Senator Knox said he had seen
the reports of William J. Bryan's speech
at Madison Square Gardenl When asked
for his opinion on Mr. Bryan's advocacy
of Government ownership of railroads,
the Senator said: "Mr. Bryan appears to
have opened his mouth and put his foot
in It. I have a great desire to see the full
effect of Mr. Bryan's speech on the Amer
ican people."
Davis Sure to Be Arkansas Senator.
LITTLE ROCK. Ark., Sept. 5.-Demo-crats
will have 34 out of 35 members of
the Senate, and 95 out of 100 members
of the House, assuring the election of
Governor Jefferson Davis. Democratic
nominee for United States Senator. John
S. Cole, Democrat, for Governor, will
probably have a plurality of 65.000. Local
option lost in 95 per cent of the counties.