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VOL. XL VIII. NO. 14,742. PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1908. PRICE FIVE CENTS. NEGRO OPPOSITION DUE TO STANDARD Oily Money Greases Dusky Palms. FIGHTING TAFT IN THE, SOUTH Contests May Make Scandal at the Convention. MAY OVERPLAY THEIR HAND Wellman Kxposes Sclwme of Mo nopoly to Defeat Its Arch-Enemy. Prolonged Fight Means the Nomination of Roosevelt. By Walter 'Wellman to Chicago Record Herald. WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. (Special.) There's a colored man In the woodpile also Sandard Oil for lubricant. It Js t dangerous combination. It develops that the one hope the opponents of President Roosevelt and Secretary Taft have of beating the latter in the Chicago conven tion is by developing a factious, artificial opposition In the Southern states. The Brownsville negro regiment Is the pre text and Standard Oil is furnishing the funds. At least that is the belief of men who usually know what they are talking about. Organizing Negro Revolt, For weeks a number of men have been going through the Southern states Incit ing political revolt among the negroes. and among the whits Republicans who have been turned down as officeholders and office purveyors by the President In his desire to get efficient Federal service in that region and Incidentally give the Republican party there at least a sem blance of respectability. These men are well supplied with funds, which are un derstood to come from 26 Broadway, the lair of Standard Oil, and they are spend ing It freely where It will do the most cood. The game Is to win delegates, of course, wherever that be possible, and where it is not to start contests which can be car ried to the Chicago convention with a great air of virtue and as much noise as possible about the opposition to Taft. The result is sure .to. be a stench . in. the nos trils of the country- It will be surpris ing if the Republicans at Chicago next June are liot more disgusted with the Southern outfit than they have ever been before, and that Is saying a good deal. Contests Financed by Standard. The lobbies of the hotels and the pre cincts of the convention hall will be filled with a lot of scrambling colored men, claiming to be delegates-elect, and behind them, paying all the bills and pulling the wires, will be a few shrewd white politicians drawing their fiscal sus tenance from the coffers of the giant corporation which President Roosevelt brought to book in the courts. The fact that paid agents of the oppo sition are traveling about encouraging rump conventions is of itself suspicious. It is the easiest thing In the world to tlr up that sort of trouble in the South. In almost every state in the black belt there are two Republican factions one present officeholders and their friends. the other former officeholders or would-be officeholders. What occurred in Florida Is a sample of the game the opposition to the President is trying to play In every state. If the men fighting Roosevelt and Taft have "the Standard barrel to draw upon, they can make a lot of trouble in the South, not only with rump delegates, but by tampering with the honor of legiti mate delegates. There is a very fair chance that the Republican party will find Itself involved in a disgraceful scan dal before many months have passed. The opposition figures that Taft must have more than one-halt of the Southern, vuies, noi including jnaryiana, west Vir ginia, Missouri and Oklahoma, to win. They hope to steal or buy that half away. Can they do it? Probably not. But suppose -they do suppose they pre vent the nomination of Taft on the first or second ballot, and tie up the conven tion for a day or two after the balloting has started? What reward will they reap for their labor? The nomination of Mr. Roosevelt. " DAUGHTER MAY NAME BRYAN Mrs. Leavitt to Be Democratic Con vention Delegate. DEFTER. Colo.. Feb. 26. Colorado is a state where women vote. It is prac tically certain that the Democratic party of the state will send Mrs. Homer J. Leavitt, daughter of William Jennings Bryan, to the National Democratic con vention, which meets here July 7, either as a delegate or an alternate. It seems as certain as can be that Mrs. Leavitt will either make a seconding speech for her father's nomination for President, or make the principal speech placing him before the convention. Mrs. Leavltt's husband Is a portrait rtlst and has resided in Denver since hie marriage to Mr. . Bryan's daughter, four years ago, so she is eligible to sit as a representative of Colorado's Demo cratic women In the National convention. President Second Gladstone. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 26. "Glad Stone was a strong man, whose human side showed in . all his policies, and Roosevelt is his counterpart. The two will go down In history side by side and will have a place which is all their own." Thus declared Rev. Frank W. Gun saulus, president of the Armour Insti tute of Technology, Chicago, In the course of an address here last night at the dinner of the Knife and Fork Club. Bryan Leaves on Trip. LINCOLN, Neb., Feb. 2t. William J. Bryan today addressed the Nebraska Press Association, his theme being "Newspapers of the Orient." He de scribed newspaper methods in Japan, China and other countries. Mr. Bryan left for Memphis late today to attend a banquet on the evening of February 28. On the following day he will deliver an address before the Mis sissippi Legislature. No Indorsement in Maryland. BALTIMORE. Feb. 26. The Republican State Convention to name delegates-at- Representative W. E. Humphrey, Who Got -Favorable ' Report on Seattle Exposition Bill- large to the National Convention at Chi cago, will be held here on April 30. Thia was decided upon at a meeting of the State Central Committee today. No In dorsement of a Presidential candidate was made. Instructed to Vote for Taft. ALVA, . Okla.. Feb. 26. The Second Congressional Republican convention this afternoon selected delegates to the Na tional convention at' Chicago. Resolu tions Instructing the delegates to vote for Taft were adopted by a large ma jority. Ohio Delegates for Taft. . SHELBY, O., Feb. 26. The Republicans of the Fourteenth Ohio District in con vention here today, elected delegates to the National convention and- instructed for Taft. Convention Favors Taft. KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 26. Repub licans of the First Congressional District, In convention at Greenville today, de clared for Taft for President. Indorse Taft and Roosevelt. STEUBEN VILLE," O., Feb. 26. The Sixteenth Republican Congressional Convention today unanimously in dorsed Taft and Roosevelt. CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER The Weather. TESTERDAT'8 Maximum temperature. 61 degrees; minimum, 44.. TODAY'S Rain; fresh southwest breeze. Foreign. Czar receives Douma and discusses agrarian problem. Iage 4. British Parliament demands change In con trol of Congo, Face 1. Queen of Holland' and 'husband have nar row escape In collision. . Page 8. . , ' National. k " ' Dalzell In House . reluctantly . consents to tariff revision. Page 3. Aldrlch currency ' bill condemned on both sides. Page 1. Senate committee to. hear, both sides of naval controversy. Page" 4. Roosevelt sends Waterway Commission's re port to Congress. . Page 2. Roosevelt tells teachers war ' on rottenness will continue. Page 1. . , Hawley speaks for . land grant resolution tefore House committee. Page 3. Officers of fleet visit-ruins of ancient Pe ruvian temple. Page 2. roiiucs. i Standard OH Company stirs up negro op- - position to Roosevelt In south, race 1. Domestic. Mrs. Walker, richest woman In Philadelphia, marries. Page 5. . Mrs. Roy and her husband both tell story of shooting of cariuns. page 1. Receiver for one of Gould roads. Page 6. Alio admits he killed wrong priest and will plead guilty. Page 4. Ohio Legislature passes local option bill. Page 4. Sport. More racing autos arrive In Chicago. Page 10 Pacific Coast. Plot of anti-Asiatic society exposed at Van couver, B. C. ; row follows In session of Exclusion League. Page 8. Student editor at University of Washington flunks In English. Page s. Construction work on Oregon Electric be gins south of Salem. Page 6. . Ruel to testify in Crothers-Older libel case. Page 2. Police And Mrs. Martin's dynamite caches and confirms "Baby" James' story. Page 3. Commercial and Marine. Horsts" hop-pk-king machine will be tested in Australia. Page 16. Chicago wheat market weakened by heavy celling. Page 35. Stock speculation almost ceases at New York. Page 15. French bark Vlncennes Is again fixed for roruana. page 14. Portland and Vicinity. Police Inspector rat Bruin resigns; savagely assaus mayor ins ana others; charges are serious. Page 10. William Durrell fatally shoots Mrs. Marl Klura ana commits suicide. Page 1. Hearing of Myers will contest continues. f age o. Council authorizes Park Board to employ uiriiiurimciH si ,nu a year, page 10. Purchasers of granted lands as well as grantees may be prosecuted under Fulton resolution. Page 7. . Republican primaries are well attended. i-age . Strong evidence brought out against alleged iui-ki turimure trull. fags II. Veto of vehicle tax ordinance Is overriden t ft " ti1- : j it1 - i if - i - " frt . - I rff - v PROSECUTE WAR Off ROTTENNESS Roosevelt Will Still . Smite Wrong. FRANK TALK WITH TEACHERS Country Growing Better, Pres ident Tells Them. I HOW TO TRAIN THE YOUNG Schools Should Educate Toward the Farm and Workshop Skilled Hand and Brain Combined Make Dignity of . Labor. WASHINGTON, Feb.. 26.-That there will be no let-up in President Roosevelt's policy of warring "against rottenness and corruption" was emphatically de clared by the President today in an ad dress to the delegates to the department of superintendents of the National Edu cation Association during their reception at the White House. Continuing, the President , gave his views on educational methods at considerable length and with thought and vigor of expression. At today's business session of the asso ciation Oklahoma City was selected as. the next meeting place and officers were elected as follows: President, W. H. Elson, Cleveland; secretary, A. C. Naso'n, Salt Lake City. Mr. Roosevelt in his address . to the convention said In part:- Teachers Most Important of AIL Of all the bodies of citizens that I have received here at the White House, there is none that occupies a more Important relation than yours. I am tempted to Bay none has aome that has occupied as im portant a relation to the Nation, because you men and women who deal with educa tion, who represent the great American pol icy of education for all children, bear a relatton to the family, a relation to the future of our whole people, such as no other like number of Individuals can bear. . I own six of the children that you edui-ite. and I am prepared to extend cordial sym pathy to some of you. -- Seriously, friends, it is Idle for. any man to talk of despairing of the future of this country or feeling unduly alarmed about it, if be will come in contact with you here and with the forces that you represent. Fundamentally this country is (sound; mor ally no less than physically. Fundamentally in lis family life and In the outside- activi ties of its Individuals the country is better and not worse than it formerly was. Continue War on Rottenness. This does not mean that we are to be excused if we fall to war against rotten ness and corruption, if we fall to contend effectively with the forces ef -evil; and they waste their time who ask me -to withhold my hand from dealing therewith. "But' It. Is worth while to smite the wrong for the very reason that we are confident that the right will ultimately prevail. You who are training the next generation are training this country as It Is to be a decade or two hence; and while your work In training the intellect is great. It is not as great as your work in training charac ter. Mores) than anything else I want to IS THIS ' ' THE Ml'LEPHAVT OR lONKEPH.T. . , . ' - LA GRANDE, Or., Feb. IS. Mr. H arry Murphy, Portland. Or. Dear Sir: I read your picture of the triumphant or donkephant, whatever you. please to call It. It Is a bird without wings, and in. course of time its brothers will grow to full sise so they can be broke" to ride. The mulephant is the political emblem of Oregon. All we will lack when tbe brothers grow up will be another baby donkephant, publlo ownership-of production and distribution, when we will have stolen every plank In the Socialistic platform. Hurrah for the donkephant! Tours for reform, ''...'... ' 'J. B. STODDARD. see the public school turn out . the boy and girl who. when man and woman, will add to the sum of good citizenship of the Nation. , Train Both Hand and Brain. I trust that more and more our people will see -to It that the schools train more toward and not away from the farm and workshop. JVe have spoken a great deal about the dignity of labor of this country; but we have not acted up to our spoken words for in our education we have tended to proceed upon the assumption that the educated man was to be educated away from and not toward labor. The great nations of me diaeval times, who left such marvelous works of architecture and art" behind them, were able to do so because they educated alike the brain and the hand of the crafts man. We, too. In our turn must show that we understand the law which decrees that a people which loses physical address In variably, deteriorates; so that people shall understand that the good carpenter, the good blacksmith, the good mechanic, the good farmer really do fill the most lmpdrt ant positions in our land and that it is an evil thing for them and the Nation to have their sons and daughters forsake the work which,-. If well and efficiently performed, means more than, any other work for our people as a whole. Manual Labor fs Dignified. One thing that I would have you teach your pupilB Is .that whether you call the money gained salary or wages does not make any .real difference and that. If by. working hard by your hands you get more than If you work with your' head . only. It does not atone for It to call the smaller amount salary. The term "dignity of labor implies that manual labor is as dig nified' as mental-labor, as, of course. It is. Indeed, the highest kind of labor Is that which makes demands upon the qualities of both' head and hand, of heart, brain and body. Physical prowess, physical ." address are necessaries, they stand on a level with in-' tellect and only below character. Let us show that we regard the. position of the man who works with his hands as being ordinarily as Important' and dignified and as worthy of .consideration as - that of the business man or professional man. We need to have a certain readjustment of values in this country, which ' must primarily come through the efforts of just you men and women here and ; the men and women like you throughout this land. Breadwinner and Housekeeper. ' I would not'have you preach an Impossible ideal; tr, if you preach an ideal that is Impossible you tend to make your pupils believe that no Ideals are possible and therefore you tend to do them that worst of wrongs to teach them to divorce preaching from practice, to divorce the Ideal that they in the abstract admire from the personal good for which they strive. Teach them that they should earn their own livelihood. Teach the boy that he is to be the home-maker; the girl that she must ultimately be the homekeeper; that the work of the father Is to be the breadwinner and that the mother is to be' the housekeeper, that their work is by far the .most important in the land; 'that he work of the statesman, the' writer, the captain of -industry and all the rest Is con ditioned, first upon work that finds Its ex pression in ' the family, that supports the family. WANTS CHANGE IN CONGO PARLIAMENT ASKS BRITISH . GOVERNMENT TO- ACT. . Demands Transfer of Control or That Steps-Be Taken to En force Berlin Treaty. LONDON,- Feb. 2$. The House of Com mons tonight, after a short debate, adopt ed a resolution asking the government "to do ell injts power to secure the trans fer of the control of ' the Congo Inde pendent Free State, and, ' falling such transfer within, a reasonable time, assur ing the government of . Parliament's hearty: support of any measure that it might be necessary for the British gov ernment o take,, alone or in conjunction with the powers that signed the Berlin treaty, to insure the effective carrying out of its provisions." i ' Speeches on both sides of the house severely indicted the existing administra tion of the Congo- State and urged the government to take steps to leave the Belgian government In no doubt regard ing the set!d determination of the peo ple to assert Great Britain's treaty rights. THE' NEW REPUBLICAN STANDARD? TELLS VERSION OF HUSBAND'S CRIME Glacia Calla's Story of Brother's Death. SAYS HE WAS SHOT IN BACK Singer Would Drive Paul Roy to Electric Chair. LOVE FIRST SEALED LIPS French Husband for Whom Warrant Has Been Issued Asserts He Was Forced to Kill Carkins ' In Self-Defense. NEW ' YORK, Feb. ' 38. "The . whole story," as she called it, was told tonight by Glacia. Calla, the beautiful opera singer who, in the tragic role of a deserted bride, denouncing her husband as the murderer of her brother, baa excited interest on two continents. Her success in Paris,- her marriage to Paul Roy In Boston, the quarrel at the New Hampshire Summer home, followed by a duel; her flight in the night to her mother's home and the ten agonizing hours she spent beside the corpse while the recital of suicide u being decided upon, were given by the woman with all the dramatic art of which she . is possessed. She agreed to shield her hus band, she explained, because "Oh, when you love a man so!" Woman Seeks Re-venge. Now that her husband has left her and denied the legality of their marriage and has even asserted ' that she is several years past her admitted age, the .singer says that she has had time to realize "the horror of it all" and will ."never let up until I have driven him to the electric Chair." Miss Calla. as she prefers to be called closed the interview with the statement that she had already told her story to the authorities of "New Hampshire and to my attorney here, and I have been forbidden to talk about the matter." Denies .-Husband's Version. . Miss Calla, who in private life is Mrs Paul Roy, came here- several days ago and has since made her home with her cousin, George El Hodgdon, a dealer In automobile supplies. A few days before her husband sailed for France she called at his apartments but he was not in. She did not see him at any. time here and had not lived with him, she said,, since the death of her brother, George A. Car kins, on January 2. She engaged counsel in. this city and obtained a warrant for the . arrest of her husband; which was afterward sent to Rome. The statement .1 t by her husband, cabled from Paris today, in which he asserts that his brother-in-law was killed in self-defense, led Miss Calla to give her version of the tragedy. "I'll tell you the whole story," said the singer. "I met my husband in Paris, where his father Is a large dealer in horses. We were married in the City Hall in Boston last October. We went to Newlngton, N. H., where my mother has a house. On the night of January 2, my brother, Mr. Roy and myself Intended to go to a concert My husband wanted me to wear an automobile veil, as we were going to the concert In our automobile. I said I would wear a hat. Story of the Murder. " "What, a large picture hat, so that you will make a conquest?' said Mr. Roy We then had some words. I glanced at roy brother and he glanced back at me. He slightly nodded his head. I knew he wanted me to leave the room and so I stepped into the butler's pantry. "Immediately I heard several shots. - if - Viaa-iirttn Tumon Ford, of Salem. Prominent Lawyer. Politician and One Time Presidential Elector From Oregon, M ho Is Seriously III. cried to the two men. There was no answer. When I opened the door o the kitchen where, they had 'been, my brother staggered out toward me, extending his right hand and saying: 'Peachy, I'm shot.' "Peachy is my pet name. I cried for help. I cried for Paul, but he did not answer. I cried again for Paul.' " 'Paul' I said, 'Paul,' Paul you've killed Sonny.' "I received no answer and ran from the home to my mother's home. I saw a light in her window. Just as I was about to climb the porch steps I was seized from behind. Turning, I saw it was", my hus band. I was breathless afteif a long run over shrubs and .across a bridge and up the steep hill on which my mother's house la situated, and could not tell him to leave me, as I wished. He said: 'Don't say anything. I did It In self-defense. For God's sake don't say anything.' Told Her Not to Tell. "I called him a coward and said he had murdered Sonny. "I then ran up stairs to my mother's room. I cried: 'My God, Mother, Sonny is shot.' ' ... . ' . . "My mother ruhed down to her hus band's room and awakened him. John Kelly he is my stepfather was awakened and ran to a neighbor's house .'and called Dr." W. A. Junkins. i My mother took a lantern and both of us ran back. to the house. Behind us was Paul. - He several times ran up to me and told me -not to say anythlng. He kept on repeating 'I did It In self-defense.' ' "Whan we reached the house Sonny was lying in the pantry face downward. My mother tried to -turn the body over, .and asked Sonny to talk to her. There was a bullet hole Just ' above the bridge of his nose and another higher . up in the fore head. Dr. Junkins then arrived and pro-, nounced my brother dead. "For ten lieura we were with the dead body of my only brother before the coro ner arrived. My husband's very presence gave me the horrors. When the coroner said It was a suicide, I made nonobjection Made Off Will Tell-tale Clothes. "When Mr. Kelly ' was taking the clothes of my dead borther to the' barn, Paul said to him: 'Jack, be careful. Don't let any one see those." "That was because there was a bullet Hole In the back. "When he would come near me I would cry, "Get away from me, coward. You shot him in the back.' "I will never let up until 1 drive him to the electric chair." Asked why she had not told the au thorities her present story sooner. Miss Calla said: . ' , "Mother and I were frightened put of our lives.; Why, when we'were on our way. back to the. house., mother and I, after my brother' was shot, my husband said to me: .- ." 'I ought to have shot you and then myself.' - . ."Oh, when you love- a man so. It takes a long time to realize the horror of it all." . . , i .. TELLS STORY OF TRAGEDY Roy Declares Carkfns Fired First Shot After Heated Words'. PARIS. Feb. 26. This afternoon Paul Roy, charged with the murder of George A. Carkins in America, gave out a statement from his fathers home, at Neuilly, but he would not comment on the allegations against him made by his wife. Roy says he was married to Miss Carkins. in Boston, at the City Hall, on October , ' 1907. After visiting relatives on January 7, Roy and his wife returned home and had dinner in company with Mrs. Roy's brother.' After, dinner, we planned to go over to Greenland to attend a concert," Roy says, My wife left the room to dress herself. returning shortly in a beautiful costume and wearing a large hat. I told her that the hat waa too large to ride comfortably in an automobile, but this comment she 1 1 ' J - 'if V i WOMAN FATALLY SHOT BY LOVER iam Durrell Then Turns Gun on Self. VICTIM IS MRS. MARIE KLUM Assassin Tries to Kill Hus band, but Revolver Snaps. GORY TRAGEDY ON STREET Durrell Is Dead and Woman Cannot Recover Murderer Jealous Be cause Mrs. Hlam Returned to Her Husband. William Durrell, horseman, 50 years old. and head' of 'a family, shot and fatally wounded Mrs. Marie Klum, of whom he was enamored, yesterday aft ernoon, and after firing a bullet through his own body, trained the gun on Omar Klum, the woman's husband. The weapon snapped and Klum escaped unhurt.- Durrell died later at the Good Samaritan hospital, fne woman was hanging to life by a thread late last night, a 38-caliber ball Having passed through her spine. The tragedy occurred on the side walk in front of the New Nortonia hotel on Eleventh street, between Stark and Washington. It' was witnessed by a score of people. Klum and his wife had Just left their home across the street from the Nortonia. Durrell came up behind and shot the woman without saying a word. He fired on her three times, two balls taking ef fect, one in the spine, the other In the left arm above the wrist. Then he pressed the revolver against his ab domen and fired. Snaps Gun at Husband. Screaming with pain, the woman fell to the sidewalk. Durrell, without seeming to notice the fatal wound in his abdomen, turned toward the hus band, who had his hands before his face and was pleading to be spared. He snapped the gun at Klum, and when It failed to explode, readjusted the cylinder and snapped it again, fir ing this time in the air. He then sank in his tracks. The victims of the tragedy were car ried Into the Nortonia. Klum helped carry his wife in. Hundreds of excited people began swarming about the scene, and the police had some trouble In driv ing the throng back from the entrance of the hotel. It was thought at the time that Klum had done the shooting. Physicians found Mrs. Klum screaming with pain. ' Durrell lay in the hall motionless, his eyes closed. He wns thought to be dead, and not until after the arrival of Dr. Palmer and Detective Sergeant Baty was it discovered the man was alive and conscious. Husband Defends Wife's .Name. Jealousy was admitted to be the motive for the shooting, but different accounts as to the relations between Durrell and Mrs. Klum were given by the principals. In a dying statement -Durrell said the woman lured him away from his home, promised to leave her husband, and after living with him three brief days went back to her husband. Ho sajd it mad dened him and that he decided to put an end to the affair, which had been under way for two years. Klum denied that his wife had eVer been away from home, for tliree days or had ever given Durrell any great encouragement. He said the fellow was Simply desperate at having been foiled. Durrell left in his pocket a letter evi dently Intended as a sermon to other husbands who are inclined to tread the primrose path. The letter covered both sides of a sheet of note paper. It de scribed his feelings in a way which showed he was a sufferer from desperate morbidness because of his own and the woman's follies. lie said In the letter he would give his whole life for "just one more chance at home.", spelling "home" In capital letters. Oddly enough his tragic message was scaled In his blood, two big red blotches finding their way through his clothing to the paper: , Durrell's Dying Statement. Police officers were on hand by 3:15 P. M., 10 minutes after the shooting oc curred. The task of getting to the bot tom of the affair was at once taken up. Durrell was at first passed for dead. Mrs. Klum was unable to talk and Klum seemed too much excited to make any coherent statement. Shortly before 1:30 Durrell opened, his eyes and spoke. Ser geant Baty leaned over the dying man and got his statement. ' Durrell was barely able to talk;, but he tried to make his. voce seem firm. He did not give in to the wound or his pain in any way. I shot her.", he said faintly. "I've been going with her for two years. She promised to leave him and go with me. 'I had her at the Depot Rooming- house for three days." ho continued, af ter a long pause for strength. "She said she would stay with me. She said she would not go back to her husband. I went to the room at night and she was gone. The next time I saw her she was with her husband. A rage came over me and I made up my mind to end '.he whole thing. It made me desperate. I shot her and then shot myself. 'Will you do me a little favor?" Dtir- t Concluded on page 1.) tConcluded on Page 10.)