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Tlmmons & Pope. ban Iranclsco. Forster Orear; Ferry News Stand; Hotel St. Francis News Stand; L. Parent: N. Wheatley: Fairmount Hotel News Stand: Amos News Co.; United News Agency. 14 Eddy street; B. E. Amos, man ager three wagona; Worlds N. S.. 2625 A. Mutter street. Oakland. Cal. W. H. Johnson. Fourteenth and Franklin streets; N. Wheatley; Oakland News Stand; B. E. Amoa. manager five wagons: Welllngham. E. G. (ioldlteld. Nev. Louie Follln. Eureka. Cal. Call-Chronicle Agency; Eu reka Newa Co. PORTLAND. THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1B08. JUST A 1K1V PLAIN WORDS. Two years ago the "statements" In the primary law were not deemed any necessary or integral part of the pri mary, law; nor are they. Attempt now Is made to enforce "Statement No. 1" as the chief thing In the primary Jaw as its heart and core and substance. It never' was anything but an In truder or Interloper. It never had any proper place or part in the primary low. It was looked upon, when the law was adopted, merely as an ex crescence or absurdity, and was al lowed to pass without challenge, be cause nobody ever seriously supposed thnt any person or persons, except per haps a few cranky ones, whose num bers were negligible, would ever seri ously insist that the method of elec tion of members of Congress, Senators or Representatives, distinctly , and clearly defined by the Constitution of the United States, should be or could be set aside by any expedient that the small, self-seeking politicians of a state might wish or conclude to em ploy, for their own advancement and exploitation. Mr. Mulkey and Mr. Bourne were not elected through or under or in consequence of Statement No. 1. They owed their election entirely to the fact that they had been the Republican candidates and as such had received the Republican .vote the vote of those wNo adhered to the Republican party from principle, though caring little for the personality of its candidates. Mr. -Mulkey was given his majority be cause he was a Republican. Mr. Bourne was given his majority because he was a Republican. Not that the great mass or the Republican voters cared about cither man; not because they were Infatuated with Statement No. 1, or with any other statement. They wanted Republican Senators; and no "statement" cut any figure whatever with them. In the election two years ago State ment No. 1 was practically Ignored. It was not pressed or debated at all. By most who did notice it was deemed merely a wart on the primary law. Certain candidates for the Legis lature, who hoped to got some notice or distinction by declaring for a nov .Ity that sensible people laughed at, pledged themselves. Some of these wore elected; others were not. But no man was elected or defeated be cause he had or had not signed State ment No. 1. Some of the most noted Democrats of the state, candidates for the Legislature, refused it and turned It down with derision and contempt. Republicans generally paid little atten tion to it. It played no part whatever in the election of Mulkey and Bourne. They were elected simply and xinly because they had received pluralities as Republican nominees In the pri mary election. Republicans were loyal to party, and didn't care a fig nor a groat about Statement No. 1. But can any sane person suppose that'this Legislature, njne-tenths of whose members were Republicans, would have elected Mr. Gearin. estimable man as he is. had he received the plurality of the popular vote over Mr. Hourne which indeed he was mighty near obtaining? Mr. Bourne wouldn't have boon elected, of course had Mr. c.oarln received the popular majority; but some other Republican would have been, , It cannot make the slightest differ ence to The Oregonian, nor be of more than passing concern to It. whether a Democrat or Republican shall be elect ed to the Senate. But it detests little Volltlcians. with their subterfuges and indirecllons. and cheap, crawling, sen sational methods. The Legislature elects the Senator. If we want a Democratic Senator or a Republican Senator, let us start In for the object we aim at. The popular vote may be an index or guide, but it is not cbn- clusive. If there is insistence that it shall be so regarded, more than one half the Republicans of Oregon will prefer Mr. Chamberlain. Mr. Gearin, or any other reputable and able Demo crat, to Mr. XTHen and perhaps 4 some others who might be named. THE SEATTLE ELECTION. The City of Seattle seems to have made use of its large Republican ma jority by electing a Republican Mayor. Ordinarily this might seem to be a logical result for an election in which the Republicans have an over whelming majority. Of late such a result has not necessarily followed in the Pacific Northwest, but, on the con trary, large Republican majorities have been used as vehicles on which small Democratic minorities could roll their favorites into office. William Hickman Moore, the defeated candi date, was elected two years ago on a platform "that called for municipal ownership, high license, a closed town and a variety of other reforms. Some of these reforms Mr. Moore carried out to the extent of his ability, but not all of them. After he became snugly settled in office ho made the discovery that, while a few of the voters were favorable to municpal ownership, the voters who really' elected him had other reasons for their action. With this majority the policies which Mr. Moore might have stood for were of secondary importance to the opportunity his candidacy afforded for a large number of disgruntled Repub licans to get even. On the occasion of his second appearance as a candi date the Democratic minority which formed the nucleus of his strength two years ago deserted Mr. Moore because he had failed to conduct the office in accordance with their expectations. The Republicans whose votes elected him two years ago, having accom plished their purpose of revenge, had no further use for him, Mr. Miller, the new Mayor, has an excellent rec ord as a good citizen, and will un doubtedly fill the office satisfactorily. His election indicates that, with a good Democrat and a good Republican run ning for the same office, and every thing else in connection with the race being even, the Republicans threw their strength to the candidate of their own party. THE FIRE DRILL. The awful calamity at Colllnwood yesterday brings home a lesson locally to which not enough attention is given. The fire drill in the city school is of more importance than perfection In scholarship. It is not held qie-half often enough right here in Portland It should be of more than even week ly occurrence, .that it may become so commonplace that pupils will fall Into line automatically and teachers direct its movement as mere matter of fact. Otherwise the little ones are confused and frightened, while the larger boys and girls simply stampede. An important item of the drill is overlooked. Keeping step to piano music is good enough for the ordinary occasion, but for the Are drill the drum should be used. The inspiring rat-tat-tat. at the hands of the right boy, bossed by a level-headed teacher, will hold the attention as nothing else will. Children will unconsciously mark time- when they hear it, if the practice has been Drilled into them as it should be, and clear the' house be fore the alarm has quit ringing. v This matter Is put up to the school officers plainly. There are school buildings in Portland that are as Cry as tinder from long furnace heating, and there are thousands of parents who know it and have a dread of what may happen. Far better cut out one of the educational frills and put this practical fire drill In its place. By all means give them the drum and hold the principal responsible for its use. DISCRIMINATION" AGAINST THE WEST. The Oregonian has frequently called attention to the damage suffered by our commercial interests through re dundancy of red tape and scarcity of common sense in ordinary business transactions in which the Government Is involved. From a trade standpoint this city suffered heavily through the foolish restrictions placed on shipping bound for the Philippines with cargo for the Government. This city was, and always will be, the most- advan tageous point for massing such com modities as are most needed in the Philippines. In attempting to enforce the ridiculous order compelling ship ment of such freight in American bottoms the Government was obliged to pick up supplies at other ports less favorably situated, or else stand the additional expense involved in trans shipment to some port where the shipping trust elected to receive it with American steamers. In the East, the unbusinesslike law was from the beginning a dead letter. No attempt was Tnade to enforce it. and the Quartermaster's department. following ordinary every-day rules of common sense, bought supplies from the lowest bidder and sent them for ward on tonnage secured by the same system. -As there was ample prece dent for unbusinesslike methods for handling Government business, Port land made only a minor protest against the system; and It is still in vogue. There is a certain provision in the Hepburn rate bill, however, that has demoralized the trans-Pacific shlp, plng business to an extent that makes the handicap placed on Government business appear tame and inconse quential. The Hepburn bill forbids the making of a through rate from Eastern points to the Orient at any thing less than the regular rate to Pa cific Coast terminals. Prior to enforcement of this pro vision the transcontinental railroads, operating in connection with trans pacific steamers, , made low through rates In order to bring loaded cars westward for the lumber business, and also to supply part cargoes in suffi cient amount to enable the steamship lines to maintain a frequent service to take care of the flour business orig inating near tidewater ports on the Pacific. A large portfon of this traffic was sectfred at Pittsburg and other points very close to New York and other Atlantic ports. Tramp steamers operating out of New York to the Ori ent were, by reason of the short rail haul and comparatively Insignificant local rate, enabled to make rates which the transcontinental roads could not meet, if they were obliged to charge the regulate rate to Pacific Coast terminals for the. rail portion of the Journey. The steamships on the Pacific will not handle the traffic for the insignificant amount that is left after the railroads have collected the regular rate to Coast terminals, and the Hepburn bill forbids any di vision with the steamer of the charges on the rail haul. As a result, trans-Pacific steamers are now running with less frequency than at any time during the past five years, while the tramps which use the Suez route are handling an enormous business. By this provision of the Hepburn bill, rebating on this class at business has been abolished, but, as business was abolished with it, the advantages are questionable. The principle of the square deal seems to have been overlooked when the Inter ests of the Pacific Coast ports were considered in connection with the Hep burn bill, or with that Idiotic require ment that all Government freight be shipped in American bottoms. THE OHIO PLATFORM. The Republicans of Ohio have adopted a progressive platform. There Is no comfort In it for Mr. Foraker or any other reactionary of whatever stripe or pattern he may be. The del egates to the Columbus convention were elected at free primaries whose' purpose was explicitly declared. That purpose was to decide whom the Re publican voters desired for the next President of the United States. They answered unequivocally that they der sired Mr. Taft. Thus the fuss and fury of the Foraker opposition evapo rates aiid the threatened split in the National delegation from Ohio need be dreaded no longer. As a p6wer in Presidential politics Mr. Foraker, with his not too respectable allies, for the present at least disappears. The platform bears no taint of compromise with evil. It rings with a valiant tone which recalls the great utterances of the party in its splendid youth. It is straightforward, courage ous and plain spoken. In state af fairs the platform comes well to the front of civilized aspiration. It would abolish child labor, introduce local op tion and regulate the rates of public - service corporations. The Ohio Republicans demand "an effective and compulsory primary election law." What more conclusive answer is needed to the charge that the Re publican party is hostile to the spirit of direct primaries than this plank in the Ohio platform? One clause referring to National af fairs will be especially pleasing to people who love' fairness. It asks that states which disfranchise colored citi zens be proportionately deprived of their representation in Congress and the electoral college. This Is a piece of simple justice which has been too long .delayed. As matters stand, those whites who disfranchise their black fellow-citizens are rewarded for the deed by being permitted to exercise not only the power that belongs to them, but that also which they have taken from their neighbors. This is wrong. There is no excuse for toler ating its continuance. Economists will smile a little at the clause which declares for "competition as against monopoly." The day of competition in the realm of big busi ness is gone by, apparently forever. The President, with every other prac tical statesman, acknowledges this truth and has turned to the regulation of monopolies as a working remedy where destruction is admitted to be a hopeless task. The Ohio .platform takes the same view in another clause. It asks for "Government regulation" instead of . Government ownership. Had the delegates really believed in competition, they would have demand ed destruction, not regulation, of the trusts. Competition among them is out of the question, but they can be regulated so that monopoly will not mean robbery. Another smile will be provoked by the reference to "generous provision for the vanishing forces of the Repub lic." The cynic will remark that the more these forces vanish the greater their numbers become, from the show ing of the pension rolls; but this is a trifle. Pensions are votes, and there is no prospect that the burden of them will diminish much before the next great war renews it for another half century. From this exasperating theme it is pleasant to turn to what the convention has to say about in junctions. Clearly Ohio is not in fa vor of government by injunction. It asks distinctly, as the President has also, for "a limitation of the power in order to prevent its abuse." Of course this implies that abuse exists, a fact which no really fair-minded person tries to deny. The courts have carried the Injunction power to an extreme. It now injures workmen only, but how long will it be before some new species of controversy makes it a de sirable weapon to use against other classes of citizens? The history of usurpations shows that they are al-w-ays extended as 'far as "the usurper can push them. Moreover, the liber ties of workingmen are Just as impor tant as those of any other class. The Injunction abuse virtually deprives them of their constitutional right to a Jury trial In a large group of cases, and this is an evil which cannot be abolished too quickly. It is encourag ing to . find Mr. " Roosevelt's opinions upon the subject reiterated in Ohio. Doubtless other states will take the same ground. "Equal rights for all citizens" is a fundamental principle of the Republican party. With the tariff plank in the Ohio platform there Is "little fault to be found. It goes as far as there is any hope that public opinion will follow and perhaps farther. Revision is de manded at a special session of the next Congress, nor is the meaning of "re vision" left hanging in the air. If the Ohio Republicans have their way, tfce tariff is to be reduced to the point where it will just equalize the cost of production at home and abroad, with a fair profit to the home producer. Compared with our present exorbitant duties, such a tariff would be almost ideal Justice. It would certainly bring great relief to the consumer and widen the market for American goods. One may hope that when the time comes for revision it will not be forgotten that many productions which now carry heavy duties can be manufac tured cheaper here than anywhere else the world. Upon the whole, the Ohio platform is a hearty indorsement of President Roosevelt and all his leading policies. Coming from a state where the danger of factious opposi tion has been great. It is extremely sig nificant- It is the utterance of a body of delegates fresh from the people, and It probably speaks the genuine sentiments not of Ohio alone, but of the entire Nation. The man who fails to score a success in any country may be depended on to knock" that country whenever the opportunity offers. An advertising m&n who failed to hold down any one of several good positions which he had at Portland is now working in La Crosse, Wis., and gravely informs the local paper that the Western cities, including Portland, are "frightfully overcrowded" with unemployed, and that "the (Portland) City Council has Just appropriated $10,000 to be added to a very much larger fund raised by the citizens for the relief of the starv- ing people who are out of work with no prospect of better times for a long time to come." So far as Portland is concerned, there are no starving peo pie here, and very few who are able to work are out of employment. Wages are not as good in all lines as they were before the slump In the East be gan, but there is still plenty of work. It Is perhaps true that there are thou sands of stranded people at Seattle, but Portland most emphatically de clines to be included in the same class with the Puget Sound metropolis. In considering "knocks" such as have been given us by a disgruntled ex Portlander, it is always well to remem ber the source. February was a short month with a " good many holidays, but in the twenty-four official business days the Custom-House in this city collected in duties $S7,500, or a trifle more than $3360 per day. The import business of this city Is practically all merchan dise and other commodities which are distributed by Portland merchants. Very little Is received here for trans shipment to the East, where the duties are collected, and, as Portland has never regarded this class of imports as Portland business, it has never been Included In the totals for the purpose of padding out the statistics of the port. Customs receipts for January anri February are well ahead of those for the first two months of 1907, and there Is enough cargo tonnage now arriving to make it certain that March receipts will exceed those of February. Viewed in almost any of its phases, Portland's commerce appears unusu ally healthy. E. Benjamin Andrews, chancellor of the University of Nebraska, in a recent address before the Baptist Ministers' Association of Chicago on "The De cline of Education," -declared that far too much attention is paid to fads and fancies instead of to the solid ele ments of substantial education, add ing: "If there could be some educa tional Institution located so far in the woods and so poor it could not get Into the limelight, it would give to the world, students that gathered knowl edge Instead of worldly fancies." This is no doubt true, but where, in the name of "Young America, the Mighty," would such an institution get its stu dents? Boys and girls choose their schools and colleges these days; they do not, as in the time in which Dr. Andrews went to school and college, go where they are sent, after careful parental investigation and decision. Miss Harriman chose for a husband a plain, untitled American, although, from, the New York point of view", there was no reason why Edward H. should have failed to bring one, of the best foreign titles in the market. No wonder that Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish de clared the Harrimans as "impossible" in New York society. The idea of a young woman born and reared in the fetid atmosphere of New York being permitted to marry an American was enough to warrant the social taboo being placed against the family, even had there been no objection on the part of Harriman pere to the borrow ing of Illinois Central funds by Mr. Fish. 'Twould have been better to drown all those rats trapped in the barrel than to build an enclosure and turn them loose and put the rat-killing dogs upon them. The object is to get rid of the rats. They are a hateful breed; but after they are trapped there is no need of ferocity, cruelty and blood. It seems strange. Indeed, that human beings should delight in seeing the rat terrier plunging among frightened rats, to tear the miserable creatures that can't escape. We must get rid of the rats, but after they are trapped drowning is the simple, easy and mer ciful thing. The Tillamook business men who have suffered by the wretched trans portation service are not inclined to be appeased by the promise that the steamer Elmore will run to Portland. They announce that they will give their business to any opposition line that appears, and It will require an ex ceptionally good service from this time forward to enable the Elmore to hold the trade. The story of George Washington must have been told in far-off India, for each of a band of Hindus who landed in Victoria en route for the United States, Tuesday, was armed with a hatchet If they follow in the footsteps of a good many undesirable citizens who land on our shoresfthey will soon exchange the cherry-tree weapon for a hammer. Two members of the Douma have been expelled from that body be cause their political speeches were un satisfactory to the proprietors of the Douma. If the makers of political speeches in this country were all sub jected to such treatment after election the hilarious joys of a campaign would be sadly missing. There are Just eight months in which to speculate over the name of the man who, one year from today, will be feasting on buckwheat cakes and fried eggs, " turned over, in the White House. It is scarcely to be expected that the manufacturer will overlook the opportunity to advertise the brand of cigarette Mrs. McCreery publicly smoked at San Francisco's leading hotel. No well-informed man believed, six months ago, that Taft could secure a solid delegation from his own state. In Ohio as elsewhere, the plain peo ple are not led this year by political bosses. No small number of Oregon sinners will do penance the next forty days by renouncing Statement No. 1. Good morning, Venezuela! Here you are back on the first page again. President Roosevelt has still 365 days left in which to do things. Well. Mr. Bristol is still holding down the job. WATER PROBLEM UP AGAIN Despite Defeats, Hood River Drags Forth Old Fight Once More. HOOD RIVER. Or., March 4. (Special.) Although the taxpayers of Hood River have voted on the questions of muni cipal ownership of the city water sys tem twice and on propositions to provide more water the same number of times in the past two years, the question of a greater water supply for the Apple City. like Banquo's ghost, will not down. The largest meeting that has yet been held to consider this important feature of a city's welfare took place? last evening in the Commercial Club rooms In response to a petition widely circulated and signed at the Instigation of a number of residents In the hill section, who claim that their water supply is Inadequate. A. A. Jayne. president of the Hood River" Commercial Club, was chairman E. J. Treiber. representing the hill sec tion, stated that a committee of citi zens from there had decided to make an investigation into the city's water supply and would defray the expenses of the State Engineer to come to Hood River and report if it was feasible and how much it would cost to have water brought from a spring which the city owns, sit uated several miles from town but which has never been utilized, and added to the supply already in use. The propo sition of Mr. Treiber is to have another rote talcen to -bond the city for $75,000 to utilize this spring. H. F. -Davidson, representing the water company, stated that the present water supply, apart from added fire protection, was adequate in volume or a much larger city than Hood River, and that the company was considering the matter of laying; additional pipe for more fire protection. A vote taken tb determine the sentiment of the meeting in recom mending, to the City Council a propo sition to close with the water company for the laying of new pipe for this pur pose and also an option on the present water system for five years, was carried. Residents of the hill section say, how ever, that this action has not disposed of the matter, and that if the) Investigation to he made by the State Engineer war rants it, the City Council will be asked to call another election, to vote the bonds. RAILWAY WILL ESCAPE TAXES Seattle Can't Assess Trackage for Street Improvements. OLYMPIA. Wash.. March 4. (Spe cial.) Holding that a franchise to operate streetcars over a street is only an easement and does not constitute an interest in the land, and as such cannot be assessed under a power to assess a lot, block, tract or parcel of land, the Supreme Court today ren dered a decision In the case of the City of Seattle, as appellant, against the Seattle Electric Company, upholding a decree of the Superior Court of King County in favor of the electric com pany. The city caused all that portion of We3t Lake avenue from Denny way to Mercer street to be widened and other wise improved. The Seattle Electric Company holds a franchise to operate cars over the streets along this sec tion. The Council provided that the Improvements should be assessed, and paid for in part, against the property to be benefited by the proposed im provements. A commission appointed to apportion the assessment found that the Seattle Electric Company's right of way and trackage was benefited and levied an assessment of $2j00 against the company. RESTRAIN LOGGING COMPANY Kalama Power Plant Wins Suit in Supreme Court. OLYMPIA. Wash., March 4. (Spe cial.) The Supreme Court today en joined the Kalama Driving Company from interfering with or placing a dam in the Kalama River above the power plant of the Kalama Electric Light & Power Company. The river has a flow sufficient all the year to operate the generating plant of the company. -The driving company, which delivers logs and lumber along the river, has cleared out the snakes and rock, erected wing dams and other structures along the river to make artificial freshets to float logs and timber In the dry months. It was Intended to construct a large dam above the plant of the light and power company to store water for booming purposes. The electric company called a halt on the grounds that to fill the storage basin would cause a shutdown of their plant for nine hours several times a week while the water was collecting. The court holds that they are the prior riparian owners, and can not be interfered with or damaged without full compensation. SAYS ROAD IS INDEPENDENT Attorney Admits, However, That N. P. Paid Purchasing Cost. OLYMPIA, Wash.. March 4. (Spe cial. ) B. S. Grosscup, attorney for the Northern Pacific, appeared before the Railroad Commission today as a direc tor of the Port Townsend Southern. In answer to a complaint filed against that road charging 5 cents per mile fare. Mr. Grosscup said that the' road was an Independent road, operating as such, and was entitled to the exemption allowed all roads operating less than 100 miles. Grosscup claims that the Port Townsend Southern is owned by the Northwestern Improvement Com pany, which, in turn, is owned by the Northern Pacific. The right of way of the Port Townsend Southern has been deeded to the Northern Pacific, and the short road has been reimbursed by the Northern Pacific for all moneys expended In securing the right of way and terminal grounds at Tenino. BROUGHER SPEAKS AT TEUGENE Long Face, He Says, Not Always a Requisite of a. Pious Man. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene. Or., March 4. (Special.) Dr. J. Whit comb Brougher, of Portland, addressed the students today on "Hair and the Backbone." . The speaker was enter taining. . Among other Interesting things. Dr. Brougher made the state ment that one does not necessarily have to wear a long, pious face to stay in the straight and narrow path, but may indulge in a little mirth occasionally, just so he retains complete mastery over himself. Dr. Brougher made a "hit" with the students and faculty, when he declared that he would use every ounce of his Influence to help carry the University appropriation. Lumber Company Wins Suit. OLYMPIA, Wash., March 4. (Spe cial.) The Supreme Court today Is sued a peremptory writ, ordering Sam H. Nichols. Secretary of State, to file the articles of incorporation of the University Lumber & Shingle Com pany, an Oregon corporation, as pre sented to him and admit the company to transact business within this state. Nichols had refused to file the in corporation papers because of a state law prohibiting foreign corporations from dealing in real estate, but the Supreme Court holds the statute was not intended to keep foreign cor poration from doing other business as authorized in their Incorporation arti cles. , UNDOING OF THE BECKHAM MACHINE Row the Democratic Politicians of Kentucky. Vader the Leadership of an Ambitious and Unaeraanle-us Governor, Wrecked the Party aid Betrayed the People A Democratic Paper's Review of the Events Leading; to .Sen ator Bradley 'a Klectlon. X"nder the caption "The Wages of Sin." the Louisville Courier-Journal has this com ment on the late Kentucky Senatorial elec tion:) The political death of Beckham, like the physical death of his ally, Hargis, was logical. Each reaped as he had sown. When Mr. Beckham, who had never been thought of for the Chief Magis tracy, succeeded to that responsibility through the assassination of Goebel. he had one of the rarest and one of the greatest of opportunities to serve his people and make for himself an Illus trious place in Kentucky history. The Republican party of the state, unequal to its own great opportunity, had mad ly thrown it away and stampeded to pieces The Democratic party, ring rldden to desperation, where It was not insurgent against ring-riding, was dis organized and dismembered, the trage dy which had- been the climax of the Republicans' undoing giving It its sud den and undreamed-of chance for self redumptioii. Upon the young Governor thus strangely raised up devolved, more than upon alt others, the outcome. How did he acquit himself In this great emergency? Did he bring to his task the aspira tions. If not the ability of a statesman, or the purposes and methods of the small politician? Did he make his dom inating aim the healing of factionlsm; the elevation of partylsm from mere combination for private prey upon the public treasury; the re-establishment of Democracy in popular confidence by the rededication of Its organization to the undying principles which inspired its birth and sustained its life so long as it meant more than an empty name? Did he do what he could for the salva tion of his party by doing what his high office enabled him to do for the moral and material promotion of the public interest the only end that can Justify the existence of any political party? Instead, he had hardly taken his oath of office before he began to betray that he had either no conception of, or no respect for. its real obligations. Sprung from machine politics, he soon showed that his political horizon did not extend beyond that of his origin, and blind to the disasters which ma chine politics had already brought upon his party, he at once, as his chief and continuing duty, set about construct ing, not even a party machine, but a Beckham machine. To the prosecution of this work he diverted every resource which his of fice placed at his command. He de veloped the faculty of discovering men peculiarly adapted to doing the chores some shrewd, some merely dirty of machine politics, and these men he placed In various offices of the state, that they might pervert the public service to the promotion of his own personal fortunes In the only manner which he seemed able to appreciate. He formed recirtrocal alliances wher ever he saw a chance to gain a point for his ambition, the most notorious of these being that with Hargis, the law less lord of Breathitt and the undis puted boss of the Tenth Congressional District. So successful was he in his unscrupulous labors as a machine builder that for a time he was in com plete control of the elements which still clung to the fiction of Democratic "reg ularity." He demonstrated the working power of his machine, and knew it so well when it came to the election of a successor to Senator Blackburn that, though he might have taken the office for himself, he preferred to pleasure himself by turning Blackburn down, presenting the Senatorship to another, and indulging himself with serving out his second term as Governor, at the end of which it would be as easy for him to step into Senator McCreary's seat as it was for him to usher Judge Paynter Into Senator Blackburn's seat It was in the prosecution of this , pretty scheme of selfish advancement and selfish revenge that he overreached himself. Proposing to make assurance doubly sure, he invented the unheard of device of having bis machine order a primary nearly two years before the Senatorial election, a device which, as It was to be under the control of his own machine, seemed sure to accom plish the end intended, and which did finally accomplish It, for while his op ponent, though forced to meet htm on such unequal terms, defeated him at the polls, his machine still had the counting of the returns, and counted with the fidelity and precision of so carefully constructed a piece of mechanism. Here was really the downfall of Beckham. The unfairness, the effront ery, the cold-blooded freebootlng of the proceeding, were so unmistakable that reaction and revolt, even among those who had hitherto supported him, fol lowed; and, alarmed at this, he plunged into the campaign of desper ate double-dealing and ruthless sacri fice of Democratic principle which car ried down to defeat the whole state ticket of his party last November, with the return of a General Assembly which has now consigned him to the general ruin he wrought. He might have saved something out of the wreck if he had had one epark of unselfish devotion to the party which had done so much for him. Almost up to the last he had it in his power to elect a Democrat to the Sen ate by retiring from the contest, which he knew he could not win; and al though he knew this within a week after the balloting began at least, he knew that he could never win by any fair means he stubbornly refused to give any of his party associates the honor which he could not take for him self, his immovable purpose being to deadlock the Legislature and make another demoralizing struggle for the next Legislature. He rejected every plea of the independent Democrats for a chance to elect a Democrat, and not until when, at the close of the session, enough of them had finally voted for Bradley to elect htm, did his followers make the poor, belated feint at any sort of compromise. is generally known in Frankfort, and Mr. Beckham himself knew it. that one of his most loyal friends. John C. C. Mayo, or al most any other good Democrat, could have been elected at any time that Mr. Beckham would give his consent; but that consent he obstinately refused to give. It Is the end of Beckham, up to the day before his taking off he tried to play his conscienceless game of trick ery, as was evidenced by the astonish ing ruling of his Speakers of the House In denying to that body the right to decide Its own membership. If it is also the end of Bcckliamism it will be the beginning of reanimated Democ racy. The Senator-elect is an old-line, thorough-going Republican, and re grettable as It is that 'a sound expo nent of Democracy could not be elect ed, the ellmlnatian of Beckham, both now and in the next campaign, clears the way for the party to kick the rem nants of the shattered machine out of its path and come into its own again. ONE OF THE FLACKS TO VOTE "SC No Reason Why Legislative Pay Should Be Increased. Corvallis Times. Whether or not legislator should re ceive $3 or $10- per day is a question voters will have to pass on In' June. Members receive $3 a day or $130 per ses sion at a regular session now. They also get mileage at 15 cents per mile. comin and going one trip to and from the ses sion by the most usual route. A con stitutional amendment was submitted at, the last session, rasing pay to JI00 per regular session, with $o0 for presiding officers, and. Instead of mileage their full expenses, to and from sessions. The change will increase the salary cost of members from $10.S0O, to $36,000 per ses sion. There has never been a dearth of legis lative candidates. The old pay always brought on its crop of them. It is not probable that any good man has been kept from seeking election to the legisla ture, by reason of the smallncss of the salary. It is doubtful If more pay would bring out any better men. If money is the object of their going, they are not likely to be good timber anyway. Legis lators who would be attracted by the larger pay would go from mercenary reasons, and would be no better, If as good, as those who go because it is an honor, and a citizen's duty. All things ( else at the Legislature are Increasing in cost, and this item, it might be well to keep the -lid on. Hljthly Intelligent Queries About President Roosevelt t Arleta Or Mar 08 To the Editor Ore gonian: Dear Sir: In to day's Issue you tel of The President of the U. S being in sulted by the Suomi Temperance Society. I wish information. What is the president of the U. S.? -Is the man who is acting as president of the U. S. above criticism? If so. by what authority? The president of the U. S. being a purely mythical being as is "Uncle Sam" or, Allmtghty God, is the removing of Theodore Rozevelt's picture from a hall an insult to the president of the U. 8.? If so by what authority did the picture obtain a place in the hall. Please answer these questions for the benefit of one who thinks he is a socialist & others P W BRITTS Doubtless in the mind of the inquirer these are pertinent and important ques tions. To The Oregonian they scarcely appear so. Hence It passes them by along with the vast number of other foolish questions from foolish people that, it is not worth anybody's while to attempt to answer. Especially Is it not worth while to attempt to answer questions asked after the 20th glass of beer. Satisfied With Poor Roads. OREGON CITY, Or., March 4. (Spe cial.) The third suit to nullify the levy of special road, taxes was insti tuted here today against Sheriff Beatie. The district Involved is ' No. 2, at Clackamas. The plaintiffs complain that the proceedings were irregular. The first suit was not contested by the county, and the second suit is still pending. IN THE MAGAZINE SECTION OF THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN PERSONAL PURITY PROTECTION LEAGUE Supposititious Portland organiza tion, composed of prominent poli ticians and business men, banded against women adventuresses with a slight reference to the assault on Mavor Lane. A PAGE OF PORTLAND ; LABS AND LASSIES Photographs of youngsters whose parents are well known; about the prettiest piece of colored work the artroom has turned out. A LITTLE JOURNEY IN QUEST OF LOCAL COLOR It was-made in Portland by Ar thur A. Greene, who writes a mod ern classic on everyday sights and impressions. TRIUMPH OF BLIND FRANCIS RICHTER The young Portland musician has been received as a pupil by the greatest master. Mrs. Alma A. Rogers writes of his progress dur ing the last six months. MOST INCORRIGIBLE FLIRT IN EUROPE A near view of Princess Patri cia, the beautiful niece of King Edward, who has dismissed many roval suitors. LESS THAN TWO AFTER YEARS Contrasting pictures of the heart of San Francisco taken after the great fire and the same district as rebuilt today. ORDER EARLY FROM YOUR NEWSDEALER
