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VOL. XL VIII. NO. 14,727.
PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY,. FEBRUARY 10, 1908.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
FALSEJALICIOR
SAYS ROOSEVELT
Not Using Offices to
Help Taft Along.
CHARGES ARE PURE INVENTION
Congressmen Generally De
cide Appointments.
TAFT MAN TURNED DOWN
JViulke Draws From President
Plain Answers to Charge That
Officials Are Coerced Into
Support of Taft's Candidacy.
WASHINGTON''' Feb. 9. President
Roosevelt today mad answer to the
recent public statements that he has'
made use of Federal patronage to fur
ther the Presidential Interests of Sec
retary Taft. The answer is in the form
of a letter addressed to William Dudley
Foulke, of Richmond. Ind., and includes
a letter from Mr. Foulke to the President
suggesting the need of such a statement.
The President begins by characterizing
the charges as "false and malicious." He
follows this with an analysis of all ap
pointments sent by him to the Senate for
its action, to enow, that in no case has
the proximity of a Presidential contest
influenced his action.
. Charge of Abusing Patronage.
Mr. Foulke's letter, dated February 5,
cays:
On January in T laid before you an arti
cle in the Indianapolis News (a paper sup
porting the .candidacy of Mr. Fairbanks),
accusing you of using- the Federal patron
age to secure the nomination of Mr. Taft,
and naming the postof flees In particular.
I npoke of the fact that certain Taft men
had been nominated In Ohio and you an
Ewered that that was true; that you would
be very weak If you allowed the power of
appointment In that stat'e to be used only
a a means of attack upon the Adminis
tration. On my return home t obsprred ot'ier arti
cles making similar charges tn various pa
pers, for instance, the following in the New
York Evening Post of January lrt:
. Two Typical Attacks.
"We are now getting daily lessons in
civil servlco reform from the Whit House
which ought to attract National attention.
The appointment of Taft workers to post
offices in Ohio and of the totally untit
tieorge W. Wanamaker as appraiser of this
port is now followed by the President's re
fusal to rrappoint a good Hughes man as
collector of customs at plattsburg."
nn January 17 an article charging you
with similar abuse of the patronage ap
peared in the Indianapolis Star, a paper also
supporting Mr. Fairbanks and reputed to be
owned principally by Vmriiel G. Held, repre
senting Important Wall-street interests.
This article I enclosed in a letter to you in
which I said:
"So man can be a more unqualified sup
porter of Mr. Taft than 1, yet I realize
that any use of the patronage to aid him.
especially if coercion can be Implied, is
likely to injure you very seriously. The use
of any public office for this purpose is
fraught with great danger and subject to
unanswerable . criticism. "
Challenged to Show Proof.
To this you answered January 19:
"Will you produce, the name of a single
roarf whom 1 have coerced or influenced;
will you ,give me the name of any official
Mho Trns been controlled by the threat or
Implied threat of dismissal, or from whom
I have demanded support for Taft; in fact,
will you give me ono particle of justification
for the fears you expressed? Name the
man whom t have removed because he was
not for Taft or threatened to remove be
caus he was not for Taft. You cannot do
so. and as you cannot, why do not you re
peat this challenge to the newspapers in
(liustion; assert that their words are abso
lutely false and challenge them to make
good ?'
I accordingly wrote to the Star asking it
to name a single case of coercion referred
to In Its previous Issues. It published an
answer to my letter, but failed to name
any instance of the kind. I then wrote
again, calling attention of this failure and
asking if I were not forced to conclude from
Us own silence that its own charges were
absolutely without foundation. This sec
ond letter, however, it would not publish,
though it still continues to repeat Its gen
eral charges of abuse of patronage.
Charges of Coercion.
Those charges also continue to be circu
lated by other nowspapers in all parts of
the country. Thus the Boston Herald of
January 29 says:
"Federal officeholders may be command
ed to use thehir influence and their author
ity in behalf of a candidate. Such a com
mand baa been issued and the President
should know of it. Homebody has Instructed
postmasters that they must obtain from
their subordinates either their resignations
or their pledges of support for Taft dele
gates to the convention. Even In Massa
chusetts efforts" of this kind have been made
recently, but, happily, they have been
, stopped, partly because the postmasters on
whom the attempts were made have the
courage to resist and partly fro A other
causes."
In view of these reiterated complaints,
would not a detailed statement of your
recent appointments, the men by whom they
were recommended, your reasons and the
principles upon which you have acted In
making them, as well as a statement in re
gard to the alleged coercion be the beat
method of exhibiting the facts?
False and Malicious.
In hie reply to Mr. Foulke, Mr. Roose
velt aays:
The statement that I have used the of
fices in the effort to nominate any presi
dential candidate Is both false and mali
cious. It is the usual imaginative inven
tion which flows from a desire to say some
thing injurious. Remember that those now
making this accusation were busily en
gaged two months ago In assorting that I
was using the offices to secure my own re
nomlnatlon. Since the present Congress assembled two
months ago. I have sent to the Senate the
names of all the officials I have appointed
fur tho entire period since Congress ad
journed on the 4th of March 'last, that Is,
for it months. Excluding Army and Navy
officers, scientific experts, health officers
and those of the revenue cutter service, I
have made during this period about i;tS2
appointments subject to confirmation by the
Senate. 11&4 being postmasters. The ap
pointments In t he diplomatic and consular
services and In the Indian service have been
mad without regard to politics, in nomi
nating Judges I have treated politics aa a
wholly secondary consideration, and. in
stead of relying solely upon the recommen
dation of either Senators or Congressmen,
have always conducted independent in
quiries myself, personally, through members
of the bench or bar whom I happen to
know, or through Attorney-General Bona
parte, Secretary Taft, who was himself a
judge. Secretary Root, because of his great
experience at the bar, or Senator Knox,
who was formerly Attorney-General. In a
number of other office, chiefly assistant
secretaries or heads of bureaus .here at
Washington, but also governors of terri
tories or men holding peculiar position, and
also in a few other ses, notably those of
marshals In certain of the Western states,
but including various officers also here and
there throughout the Union, I have either
felt that the potion was of such a charac
ter that the initiative in the choice could
only with propriety come from me or one
of the Cabinet officers, or else I have hap
pened .personally to know, or to know of.
a man of such peculiar qualifications that I
desired to appoint him on my own initiative.
Xaraes Men Keoommended, but
There remain the great buk of offices. In
cluding almost all of the post offices, the col
lectorshlps of customs, the a p praise rahlps, the
land offices and the like, numbering some
1250 or thereabouts. It is, of course, out of
the question for me to examine or have knowl
edge of ouch a multitude of appointments,
and therefore as regards them I 'normally -accept
suggestions of Senators and Congressmen,
the elected representatives of the people in
the localities concerned, always reserving to
myself the rij:ht to insist upon the man
coming to the required standard of
character and of capacity and also
reserving .the right to nominate whom
soever' I choose If for any reason I am
satisfied that I am not receiving from
Senator or Congressmen good advice or K I
happen personally to know some peculiarly
fit man, where the man has done well In office,
I prefer to reappoint him. and do so whon I
can get the consent of the Senators from his
locality; but If they refuse, the reappointment
cannot be made. Ordinarily, as a matter .of
convenience, the appointment can best be
settled by consultation beforehand, the advice
of Senator or Congressman, who is elected
and has peculiar means of knowing the wishes
of his constituents, being taken. But where
a Senator treats this not as a matter of con
sultation or mutual agreement,' not aa a mat
ter of convenience and expediency, but aa a
matter of right on his part, to nominate whom
ever he choose, the custom la necessarily dis
continued. ,
Bolters Are Disappointed.
In the South Atlantic and Gulf States, which
have contained neither Senators or Congress
men of my own party, I have been obliged to
seek my . advice from various sources. In
these states I have appointed a large number
of Democrats, in certain states the Democrats
appointed out-numbering the Republicans. For
my advice In appointing the Republicans X
have relied, whenever possible, not upon of
ficeholders at allt but upon men of standing
and position, who would not take office and
on whose Integrity I could depend. In all
of these states I have done my best, when
I came to appointing Republicans, to put the
best men in office, and X have every reason
to believe that the average of my appointees
is very high. At present various efforts axe
being made to get up bolting delegations
from the Southern states, and the meetings
at which these so-called delegates are chosen
are usually announced as "non-officeholders'
conventions. As a rule this means only, so
far as it means anything, that they are held
under the lead of persons who wish to be put
In office but whose character and capacity
are such that they have not been regarded as
fit to be appointed under this Administration.
In these cases, be U remembered, that the
failure to secure office la not the result of
the political action of the men In question;
on the contrary, their political action Is due
to then- failure to secure offlce-
Wana maker Peculiarly Fit.
Discussing the appointment of George
W, Wanamaker aa appraiser for the
port of New York, tha President says:
Mr. "Wanamaker' appointment was recom
mended by the three Congressmen from New
York County and by tho two Senators, the ap
pointment being made precisely- as the hun
dreds of similar appointments of postmasters,
appraisers. Internal revenue collectors and the
like, which are confirmed by the Senate, are
made, and In conformance with the custom
which has obtained throughout my term of
service and throughout the terms of service
of Mr. McKlnley, Mr. Cleveland and my other
predecessors. In this particular case, as It
happens, Mr. Wanamaker Is peculiarly fitted
for the position, being already an assistant
appraiser who has rendered good service In
that place, and his appointment Is the pro
motion of a proper man.
The refusal to appoint a good Hughes man
as collector of customs at Plattsburg refers to
the case of Walter Witherbee, and th.e ac
cusation In this case is particularly comic, be
cause Mr. Witherbee was an open and avowed
Taft man, the classmate of Secretary Taft 'a
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CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 42
degrees; minimum, 3tt desrees.
TODAY'S Generally fair; northerly winds.
Foreign.
Crush to see bodies of Kinr and Crown
Prince at Lisbon causes death of child
and Injury to many. Page 2.
Queen Amelie tells of efforts to save her
son. Page 2.
Claims of illegitimate children reveal eaca-
pudes of Alfonse XII. Page 8.
National.
President Roosevelt answers in detail charge
. . that he used offices to help Taft.
Page 1.
Fleet sighted near Cape pillar and Is now
in Pacific Ocean. Page 2.
Politics.
Taft Is sure of entire Ohio delegation.
Page 1.
Taft to speak at Kansas City tonight.
Page 1.
Domestic
Liquor men send circular to ministers pro
posing high license. Page 2.
Automobiles ready to start on raoe to Paris.
Page 8.
Raid by night-riders In Kentucky. Page 1.
Sports.
Burns and Palmer to fight in England to
day. Page 5.
Pacific Coast.
Rebate charges render Southern Pacific
liable to $80,000,000 fine. Page 1.
Cadwallader, Yale athlete and society man.
' arrested with burglars' tools on him.
Page 2.
Systematic work to exterminate plague In
fection at San Francisco. Page 4.
Prominent Spokane man shoots son-in-law
in business quarrel. Page 3.'
Feared that certain interests want Washing
ton's direct primary law declared un
- constitutional. Page 8. '
Japanese newspaper reviews the situation.
Page 8.
Portland and Vicinity.
Louis'. F. Swift confirms story of plans as to
peninsula plant; will, spend X50.000
within next year. Page 1. j
Dr. Whitman, of Seattle, preaches on
China's moral and mental needs. Page S.
George W McMillan declines to " enter
shrievalty race. Page 0.
Slg Edgar Vincent, famous English finan
cier, visits Portland briefly. Page 14.
Federal officials oppose Cleeton's appoint
ment; probe his record. Page 4.
Dr. Benjamin Young preaches on life of
Abraham Lincoln. Page 8-
Dr. Clarence True "Wilson gives hfs impres
sions of Hall trial in Sunday night ser
mon. Page 12.
President Elliott, of North Pacific, visits
city; discusses lumber tariff. Page 9.
Rev. J. I). Corby preachej first anniversary
. sermon. Page 8.
SWIFT CONFIRMS
STORY OF PLANS
Will Spend $3,500,
000 on Plant.
STATEMENT OFFICIALLY MADE
Big Work Will Be Finished
Within a Year.
DEPENDS ON RAILROADS
When Transportation Problems
Have Been Settled Plans Will Be
Rushed to Completion City
Is to Be Industry's Center.
In the first and only authorized state
ment which has been given, out either
here or anywhere else regarding his com-
f pany'o plans in the Pacific Northwest,
Louis f. Swift, president of Swift fc (Jo.,
last nl'ght declared that the mammoth.
Portland plant, which will represent 'an
outlay, of $3,500,000 and which will be
erected on .the Peninsula, will be com
pleted and ready for operation in all de
partments In one year. Portland is also
to be made the center of the packing In
dustry of the Pacific Northwest, and the
Troutdale plant, near Portland, eventu
ally is to be abandoned; at least so far
as the packing side of the business is
concerned. To what use, if any, the
Swift people are to put their present ex
tensive and valuable property at that
point was not vouchsafed.
The Swift people are ready and pre
pared to go ahead with construction work
Just aa soon as the railroads have indi
cated what connections on the Peninsula
they will establish, and when they will
be ready to do the work. "When these
connections with necessary terminal facil
ities have been decided upon, work on
the packing plant will be rushed to com
pletion. In the official interview. H. C. Gard
ner, head of the construction department
of Swif t & Company, who will have'di
rect charge of erecting the plant, acted
as spokesman for President Swift, and
entered Into as full a discussion of the
plans of the Swifts as the head of the
big concern deemed wise to give out for
publication at this time.
Reasons for Secrecy.
Mr. Gardner, in explaining why the
public could not be taken fully into the
confidences of his concern at this time,
said that certain plans, such as whether
the company should secure power from
some of the companies already In the
field here, or erect its own plant on the
Peninsula, are yet to be settled, and
that there were a number of other con
siderations which, if disclosed now, might
interfere with their consummation.
It was also clearly brought out that if
Portland ever intends to wrest the bulk
of , the Alaska trade from the Sound
cities, the merchants and shippers here
will have to establish a direct steamer
line from here to the North. This was
brought out In answer to the direct ques
tion as to whether Swift & Company in
tended to enter that field, now monopo
lized by various Seattle and Tacoma
packers.
"Swift & Company," declared Mr.
Gardner, "are In the packing business
and packing business alone. They are
not In the transportation business, nor
in the cattle-raising business." Discuss
ing the general plans of his company,
Mr. Gardner continued:
Ridicules Printed Stories,.
"A great deal has been printed In
the papers that has' been news to us.
We are working out our plans for es
tablishing a plant here as rapidly as we
can. They are not altogether complet
ed as yet, but the object of our present
visit is to continue negotiations and
arrangements for carrying out our
plans. Tou may say that Portland is
to become the center of the packing in
dustry of the Northwest, It is also
true that we are prepared to go ahead
with our work just as soon as we can
dispose of the necessary preliminaries.
"We cannot go ahead with our con
struction work until we have completed
our negotiations with the railroads,
which are to make connections at and
build terminals at the site of our plant,
but we do not expect any trouble in
making satisfactory arrangements with
both systems. These matters will
probably be taken up while we are
here, but I don't care to go into that
Just now. But as soon as the rail
roads have arranged for the necessary
connections we will be prepared to be
gin work on our plant, and to continue
work until the plant and stock-yards
are completed. It will probably take
us about a year to have the plant ready
for operation.
Will Take Only a Year.
President and General Manager C. C
Colt, of the Union Meat Company, who
Is Swift & Company's local represen
tative and who has been in constant
touch with President Swift since his
arrival, agreed wtih Mr. Gardner that
the work should not take more than a
year. Continuing, Mr. Gardner said:
"As to what our plans are with re
ference to the Troutdale property T
don't know that I ought to discuss that
now, but I think it Is safe to say that
when our Peninsula plant is ready for
operation the one at Troutdale will be
abandoned, at least as a packing estab-
EVENTS OF COMING WEEK
The progress of the American bat
tleships, political developments in
Portugal, the Ohio Republican pri
maries, the British Parliament in
session; the verdict in the case of
Lleutenant-General Stoessel it St.
Petersburg, the return of C. W.
Morse from abroad, the start of the
New York-Paris automobile race,
and Secretary Taft's speeches are
among the more Important matters
that will engage public attention
this week.
The battleship fleet, which has
now passed through the Strait of
Magellan, will be lost to communi
cation with the world until Friday.
Although the fleet will not stop
Valparaiso, It will steam close In to
shore and salute the town. The torpedo-boat
flotilla accompanied the
battleships through the strait as far
as Cape Pillar' where the smaller
vessesls were to take an Inside pass
age to the north, arriving at Tal
cahuano, the flotilla's next stop on
Saturday. t
Financial Debate In Senate.
The long-promised debate - In the
Senate on the financial question will
begin Monday with an argument by
Senator Aldrich in support . of his
bill permitting the issuance of emer
gency currency by National banks.
' 1 Senator Warren, chairman of the
committee on military affairs, will
make an effort to secure conslder
' atlon of his Army pay increase bill.
In the House appropriation bills will
continue to receive attention and the
political debate will be resumed at
the first opportunity.
On Monday Secretary Taft will
address the . Young Men's Republican
Club at Kansas City and on Wednes
day he will deliver a speech at a
banquet In celebration of Lincoln's
birthday at Grand Rapids, Mich.,
Friday he will attend the graduating
exercises at the West Point Mili
tary Academy, and Saturday he will
speak at the annual banquet of the
Tale Alumni Association at Hart
ford. Conn.
William J. Bryan is expected to
speak Monday at Buffalo.
Republican Primaries In Ohio.
Primaries will be held Tuesday in
Ohio to elect delegates to the Re
publican State Convention, which Is
to select delegates to the Republican
National Convention. On Thurs
day and Friday Wisconsin Demo
crats will hold their state convention
In Milwaukee to nominate delegates
to the National Convention.
The 20,000-mile automobile endur
ance contest from New York to
Paris will begin Wednesday.
Another International marriage
will take place in New York City
on Saturday, when Miss Theodora
Shonts. wilt become the wife of the
Due le Chaulnes of France.
The boxing bout between Tommy
Burns -and Jack Palmer, of New
castle, will take, place in London
Monday.
George (Meredith, the writer, will
enter upon his 8th year on Wednes
day and ilans are unrier, way for a
celebratl'fri or the occasion in '.Lon
don. President Rooseveft has writ
ten a congratulatory letter..
!
llshment The impression, seems to
have prevailed here that we are plan
ning1 to secure vast cattle ranges and
raise live-stock, but that is not true.
We have not gone into the stock-raising
business at any other points whore
we have packing-houses, and I see no
Arthur I. Torys, Manager of Ifeft'i
Campaign, Who Has Routed For-
aker In Ohio.
reason why we should here in Oregon.
We have not done it in Chicago, and
Illinois produces the finest cattle any
where In the country."
"The argument that we will be In a
cattle country out here, and therefore
ought to go into the stock-raising
business is not good logic, for we have
been Just as close to the source of
supply in other cities as we shall be
here. And as for establishing a line
of river steamers to bring live-stock
to our yards, that doesn't look like
good sense. If that were being con
sidered why should we negotiate with
the railroads to extend, their lines to
our plant? No, we will be In the mar
ket to buy cattle; let the stock-raisers
raise them; let the transportation com
panies haul them; all we Intend to do
is to engage in the packing business;
Just that and nothing more.
Transportation a Problem.
"It is an open' question with us yet
whether we shall be able to make satis
factory arrangements for power with
companies that 'are here already, or
whether we shall find it more advan
tageous to erect - our own power plant
in connection with our packing house.
"We are not particularly concerned as
to when the Harrlman people build
their tunnel and trestle out toward the
peninsula, that portion of their line not
having anything material to do with
our plans. The Harrlman line Is now
completed to Maegly Junction, and It Is
the extension ' from there that we are
directly concerned about-"
Mr. Gardner declined to state whether
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S FOR
FAVORITE SON
Taft May Have Whole
Ohio Convention.
onlytwodoubtocount.es
Mo Opposition Ticket Runs in
Great Majority.
SMALL F0RAKER STRENGTH
Dubious Spots Are Knox and Cuya
hoga Counties' 7 0 Delegates.
Taft's Manager Sure of 745.
Matter May Get Into Court.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 9. Next
Tuesday, the county primaries, at
which delegates to the . Republican
State Convention on March 8 are to be
selected, will be held throughout Ohio.
An overwhelming majority of these
delegates will be in favor of William
H. Taft for President, and the conven
tion may bo unanimously in his favor.
Under a recent decision of the Re
publican State Central Committee, it
will not be necessary to hold actual
primaries unless there is more than
one ticket in the, field, and by virtue
of thi3 ruling, in 52 out of a total of
88 counties !n the State, the regular
Taft delegates will be chosen merely
by certification of their names. In the
remaining 36 counties, primaries will
be held, In only four of these Is there
opposition, to Taft. In but one county,
Cuyahoga, in which Is the city of
Cleveland, does the fight against him
show any signs of consequence.
Taft Has Majority or Delegates.
The convention will be attended by
815 delegates, of which number Taft is
c-rrtain to have 745, almost certain of
752, and his political managers are con
fident that he will have them all.
The dubious spots are Knox County
with seven delegates, and Cuyahoga
County, which has 63 delegates. The
contest in the latter county is the
more serious, not only because of the
greater number of delegates involved,
but because the Foraker faction has
Bought to bring the matter into Court,
and will, it is expected, ask the Su
preme Court , tomorrow for permission
to file the case before that body.
Minor political considerations in the
City of Cleveland have brought about
conflicting claims as to the validity of
the two county committees. The Taft
people claim theirs is the only legal
body, and the Foraker faction Is set
ting up similar assertions in behalf of
its committee. Tho Board of Elections
of Cuyahoga County recognized the
Taft committee, but on order of State
Courts, rescinded this action and de
clared in favor of the Foraker com
mittee. The primary, however, will
proceed as though there were no legal
questions Involved, but If the case is
filed before the Supreme Court and
then decided by that body in favor of
the Foraker people, new primaries
must be called.
In Knox County, seven men, all of
whom are Foraker adherents, have en
tered In the primaries against the
Taft candidates. They are running as
independents, and are not claiming to
be either-Taft or Foraker men.
Foraker Opposition Small.
In Lucas County, of which Toledo is
the political center, there are two
tickets In the field, but both of them
have declared in favor of Taft. A sim
ilar situation exists in Scioto County,
where opposition to Fhilo S. Clark, a
Republican leader, has brought a list
of candidates into the fight. Both
tickets favor Taft, however, and he
stands no chance of losing In any
event.
The 21 Congressional district con
ventions at which delegates to the
Republican National Convention, will
be chosen date all the way from Feb
ruary 13 to February-17, with six as
yet uncalled. As Taft will control the
State Convention by an overwhelming
majority, he is certain of the four del
egates at large.
The Foraker people have consider
able strength in the Sixth and Tenth
districts, and the fight in the City of
Cleveland for State delegates applies
also to the Congressional conventions
of the Twenty-first district. It is
therefore possible that there may be
contesting delegates from these three
districts and there seems at present to
be no possibility of breaking up a
solid delegation for Taft, unless the
Credentials Committee of the National
Convention sustains one or more of
these "contests, if they are ever made.
VORYS TO CONTINUE MANAGER
Taft Says Hitchcock Was Asked to
Help in the East.
COLUMBUS, O., Feb. 9. That Arthur
Vorys will continue In full control of
the management of the canvass for the
nomination of William H. Taft for Pres
ident at the coming Republican National
convention, was made clear by the Sec
retary of War In a statement which he
gave to the press today while passing
through Columbus en route to Kansas
City. The statement follows:
"Mr. Vorys is in charge of the whole
illOU
matter and will continue to be so until
the end. The general headquarters will
be at Columbus, but Mr. Vorys him
self requested that the assistance of Mr.
Hitchcock be secured because he felt the
need of some one to look after affairs
In the East and South, and It was at Mr.
Vory's earnest request that the assist
ance of Mr. Hitchcock was solicited and
secured.
"While the main headquarters will, of
course, remain at 'Columbus, it may be
that Mr. Vorys and Mr. Hitchcock wiJI
agree upon the establishment ' of head
quarters In the East If it is found necessary."
PLANS FOB THE TAFT BANQUET
Expected 15,000 People Will Hear
Speeches at Kansas City.
KANSAS CITY, Feb. 9. The Republi
can banquet in Convention Hall tomor
row night, in honor of Secretary of War
Taft, promises to be a gigantic affair.
One thousand persons will eat dinner on
the ffcor of the big hall and probably
15,000 more will crowd the balconies and
galleries to listen to the music and the
speeches. The 250 boxes that encircle
the arena, have been sold, but the gal
leries and balconies are free to the pub
lic. At the banquet the speaker's table
80 feet long, will extend across the north
end of the hall, and at.it will be seated
the Republican state officers, Republican
state committeemen and other notable
guests, as well as the speakers. The
other tables will be set at right angles
with the main table.
A platform has been erected on the
east side of the hall, and the speakers
will move to the platform after the
close of the feast. .The dinner is to be
gin promptly at 6 o'clock. Two hours
will be taleen for the meal, during which
time the spectators will be entertained
by a military band and a big college glee
club. The speaking will begin at 8
o'clock. The address of welcome will be
delivered by Mayor M. Beardsley, and
the principal toasts will be. "The Repub
lican Party," Judge Selden P. Spencer, of
St. Louis, and "We Have Put Our Hand
to the Plow," Attorney-General Herbert
S. Hadley, Missouri. Secretary Taft will
be the last speaker, and is expected to
make an important utterance. E. E. E.
McJimsey, of Springfield. Mo., will be
toast master.
ST, LOUIS, Feb. 9. Secretary Taft
departed for Kansas City at 11:28
o'clock over the Burlington Railroad,
accompanied by Chairman Walter S.
Dickey, of the Republican State Com
mittee. Two carloads of local Repub
licans also accompanied Mr. Taft and
will be guests at the Young Men's Re
publican Club dinner, at which he will
speak tomorrow night.
Tart Passes Through St. Louis.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 9. Secretary of War
William H. Taft arrived In St. Louis
tonight, shortly after S o'clock, - on his
way to Kansas City. His train was two
hours late. He spent two or three hours
here, talking with friends and met mem
bers of the two warring Republican fac
tions. T
BIND CITIZENS AND BLOW UP
AND BURN FACTORY.
Destroy 45,000 Pounds or Tobacco
Valued at $ 1 0,000, Hair Insured,
Belonging to A. H. Cardln.
HOPKINSVILLB, Ky Feb. 9. Last
night at 12 o'clock a band of about 150
mounted night riders, masked, heavily
armed and wearing the insignia of a
secret clan, invaded Fredonia, Critten
den county, captured James Scarberry,
Operator of the' Cumberland Telephone
Company, and cut all telephone connec
tions. They then forced Dave Potter, a
clerk in a drug store, to open his store,
in which they corralled several citizens
and neld them prisoners.
Leaving a large guard in the town, the
others galloped to the village of View,
five miles away, and blew up Alfred H.
Cardln's tobacco factory, containing 35,
000 pounds of tobacco,- and set fire to
and destroyed Mr. Cardin'a barn, contain
ing 10,000 pounds of tobacco belonging to
him and his croppers. The loss aggre
gates $10,000, with $r,000 insurance.
After firing volleys into the air the
night riders returned through Fredonia
and released their prisoners- Eighty per
cent of Crittenden county farmers have
tobacco pooled In the Society of Equity.
Mr. Cardln Is not a member. He is a
prominent citizen, aged 73, and was
formerly a candidate for governor on the
Populist ticket. The Planters Associa
tion has no organization in this county.
RI0RDAN HAS RETURNED
Arrirms Belief That llanna Will Be
Appointed Coadjutor.
NEW YORK, Feb. 9. Archbishop
Patrick William Rlordan, of San Fran
cises, whose recent mission to Rome
was both for rest and to advocate the
appointment of Rev. Edward J. Harria,
of Rochester, as Coadjutor Archbishop
of San Francisco, returned today on
board the steamship Cedrlc.
While the Congregation of the Pro
paganda last month failed to take final
action with reference to the appoint
ment of a Coadjutor Archbishop of San
Francisco, preferring to wait untl
further Information could be obtained
on the charges that Dr. Hanna had
leanings toward modernism. Arch
bishop Rlordan declared his belief that
the Congregation would appoint Dr.
Hanna at a future meeting.
The Archbishop said that three
names had been presented for the
Coadjutor3hip and that those would be
debated by the Congregation, which
will meet In March to take up Western
affairs. The Pope, he said, was in good
health considering hts advanced age,
and kept closely in touch with affairs
in this country. Archbishop Rlordan
will remain in the city for several
days.
LIABLE TO PIES
OF 111111
Clear Case Against
Southern Pacific.
REBATES PAID MANY YEARS
Company Admits Guilt on
4000 Separate Charges.
INQUIRY SOON TO OPEN
California Railroad Commission
Has All Documentary Evidence,
and Company Makes Xo De
nial, but Will Attack Law,
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 9. (Special.)
Penalties unprecedented in the history of
the prosecution of corporations in Cali
fornia, or a complete revision and vital
izing of the laws applicable to railroads,
will be the outcome of the Investigation
to be instituted this week by the Stato
Railroad Commission, In the rooms of
the Chamber of Commerce,' in the Mer
chants' Exchange building.
Assistant Attorney-General Raymond
Benjamin said today that 4000 cases of re
bating have been perfected against tho
Southern Pacific Company, practically
through its own admissions. These cases
will be presented to the Railroad Com
mission by Attorney-General IT. 8. Webb,
Mr. Benjamin and O. K. Cushing, spe
cial counsel for the California Traffic
Association. Should convictions be ob
tained on each of these cases, and tho
maximum penalty of $20,000 bu imposed
for each violation of the law, the South
ern Pacific will face an aggregate fine of
$SO,000.000.
Evidence Is Conclusive.
In each case the evidence practically Is
conclusive, from bills of lading to tho
indorsed checks issued by the company
to the shipper, in reimbursement. When
the State Board of Railroad Commis
sioners requested the Southern Pacific
to submit its books to Mr. Benjamin,
Peter F. Dunne, counsel for the railroad,
replied that the railroad's books would
be available at any time. The compla
cency with which the Tallroad corpora
tion greets the investigation foreordains
that It will not fight the action of the
Railroad Commission on merits but rath
er upon the law Involved.
Section 222 of the state legislation which
creates the State Board of Railroad
Commissioners, with their power to fix
rates, provides:
"Any railroad corporation or transpor
tation company which shall fall to con
form to such rates as shall be estab
lished by such commission . . '. Bhaii
be fined not exceeding X30.000 for each of
fense. . . ."
Only Recent Records Available.
In 4000 cases the railroad company
failed to conform to the rate set by the
Commissioners. The practice Is of long
standing, but the only records avaable
are those . subsequent to May, 1906. In
some of these rebates the railroad re
funded 53 per cent of the original charge
to the shipper. In other cases the re
bates averaged approximately 40 per cent
of the total sum the company received
from, the shipper.
Traffic Director J. C. 6tubbs, of the
Harrlman lines, arrived from Chicago to
night to act as Mr. Harrlmah's personal
representative at the hearing.
BLOW UP BANK, BUILDING
Robbers Secure $1300 In Cash
From Arkansas Institution.
JOPLIN, Mo., Feb. 9. Four' men early
this morning blew open the vault of
the Bank of Sulphur Springs, Ark., and
secured over $1300 in cash, besides notes
and other valuables. The citizens of
Sulphur Springs were aroused by two
explosions, but by the time the officers
reached the downtown district, the work
of the thieves had be,en completed and
four men were seen to mount their
horses and ride westward. The moun
tains in this direction are filled with
many gorges and it is believed that the
men have made good their escape.
The bank building Is badly wrecked
ana the vault m .totally aestroyeat
DEMAND TO KNOW POLICY
Socialist Leader to Ask Explanation
of Moroccan Situation.
PARIS. Feb. 9. i'he recent fighting
in Morocco, as well as tne protest
which Abd-el-Azlz, the Sultan, is re
ported to have submitted to Germany
against French occupation and aggres
sion in that country, has led M. Jaurcs.
the Socialist leader, to formulate a
new Interpellation on the subject. In
the Chamber of Deputies tomorrow he
will formally demand from the gov
ernment another explanation of its
Moroccan policv.
The Temps advises M. Pichon not to
answer the last two questions on the
ground that their discussion would be
most useless and most dangerous.
Bryan at Montreal.
MONTREAL, Feb. . W. J. Bryan
spoke before two meetings here today.
Tomorrow he will be a guest at the Ca
nadian Club, whore he Is expected to
cpeak on political matters.