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0 J TifE MORX1XG OREGOXIAX, THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1908. 3 TRIUMPHANT means that the revolutionary move ment has collapsed. New King Takes Oath. LISBON, May 6. King Manuel, of Portugal, swore allegiance to the Con stitution today. Lisbon was decorated with flags In honor of the ceremony. The principal streets were lined with troops. THE STRONGHOLDS Lincoln-Roosevelt League Has Decisive Victory in California. CONTROL THE CONVENTION l eague Claims Definitely 280 Dele gates in State Convention, With Many In Divided Delegations . and More Unpledged. SA.N' FRANCISCO. May 6. (Special.) (Returns from Tuesday's primary elec tion show a decisive victory for the Lincoln-Roosevelt Lea Rile over the machine forces directed by William F. Herrin, of the Southern Pacific Company. With 53 of the 67 delegates from San Francisco, a. clean sweep in Fresno and the San Joaquin Valley, a majority of nearly three to one of the delegates from Alameda- County, a majority in Los Angeles County and an 11 to five victory in Sacramento, the Lincoln-Roosevelt League was overwhelmingly triumphant in all the Southern I'aciflc machine strong holds. Estimates based on tho returns from smaller districts, where the League won its flght for delegates, and on the per sonnel of delegations from counties in whicli the League had not perfected or ganization, or in which primary elections were not held, Indicate that League forces wifl control the state convention. There are at least 2S0 delegates definitely on the side of the League. Added to these are some BO who are divided delegations and more than SO who are from neutral counties, unpledged and unaffiliated. MACHIXE CLAIMS MAJORITY Figures Do Xot Agree With Those of tlie League. SAN FRANCISCO. May 6. With, the results In some of the districts In' the State still In doubt, the estimate of the strength of the Lincoln-Roosevelt' League at the coming Republican Convention, made here tonight by the regular organi zation, Is Til delegates out of a total number of 629. This is approximately the claim made by the leaders of the machine in this city, and does not com pare with the figures of the League man agers here, who claim a majority of the delegates to the convention. TEXAS WILL BE FOR TAFT Only Old "Black and Tans' Favor Foraker. DALLAS. Tex., May 6. As a result of county conventions held by regular Republicans In Texas yesterday, it Is evident Secretary Taft will be favored by the State Convention in the event President Roosevelt insists ipon de clining the nomination. Without ex ception so far as received, the various conventions favored Roosevelt as first choice and Taft second. . . Reorganized Republicans, consisting of the old "black and tan," held con ventions yesterday in a number of bounties and endorsed Senator Kor aker. They will send a contesting; delegation to the Chicago convention. .IOHXSOX WIN'S FItOJI BRYAN Leads in Minnesota Primaries in All Paris of tSate. ST. PAUL. May 6. Returns received from all parts of Minnesota indicate that Governor Johnson tonight carried the Democratic primaries against W. J. Bryan and that the state convention, which will meet ill St. Paul May 14, may Instruct the delegates from Minnesota to vote for Johnson for the Presidential nomination. Returns received by the Pioneer Press from all parts of the state assure John son of about XS delegates to the state convention to 45 for Bryan. TWELVK MORE ARE FOR TAFT Connecticut Convention Instructs Delegates Favor Tariff Revision. HARTFORD. Conn.. May 6. Presi dent Roosevelt's administration was in dorsed today by the state Republican convention here, and 12 of the 14 dele gates to the Chicago convention were instructed to vote for Taft. The plat form favors a prompt and friendly re vision of. the tariff of 18!)7 and favors 'tin elastic currency. TAFT MEN' ARE IX CONTROL Kentucky Convention Adjourns, Pending Report on Credentials. I-OUISVII.LE. Ky.. May 6. With the Taft men in control of the machinery, the state convention of the Kentucky Republicans culled to elect four dele-gales-at-large to the National Conven tion, took an adjournment until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning pending the report of the committee on credentials. There is prospect of a long, hard fight between Fairbanks and Taft men, there being contests in nearly half of the counties. KENTUCKY COXVEXTIOX SPLIT Fairbanks Delegates Withdraw in Fifth 'Dis(ricttMceting. LOUISVILLE. Ky., May 6. After a stormy all-night session, the Fair banks delegates to the Fifth District Republican Convention. withdrew early today, nominated N. C. Cureton for Congress, and chose delegates to Chicago. The Taft convention nominated R. C. Klnkead for Congress and also chose delegates to Chicago. Union Republican Smoker. William H. McCorquodale will pre side as chairman at the smoker to bo given by the Union Republican Club at Republican headquarters in the Marquam building tomorrow night. The principal peakers will be George .T. Cameron. Republican candidate for District Attorney.-and B. S. Rlesland. There will also be five-minute ad dresses by other candidates. A gen eral Invitation Is extended to Republi cans to attend this meeting, which, primarily. Is In the Interest of the suc cess of the entire ticket. Peruvian Revolution Dead. LIMA. Peru, May 6. The defeat of Durared. the revolutionary leader, at I'erro de Pasco, and his subsequent flight have been confirmed. This Political Prisoners Escape. ALEX AN DRO VS H. May 6. A group of political prisoners made an attempt to regain liberty here today. Some of them were killed and In turn they succeeded in striking down some of the prison guards, but ten got away. Three were recaptured. THRONG WELCOMES FLEET (Continued From Flrnt Page.) and business houses were closed for the day and everybody flocked to the hill sides overlooking the gateway and the harbor. More people came into the city last night and this morning than left during the .terror and homeless days following the fire. It probably is difficult for the people of the Central and Eastern States to realize the en thusiasm of the residents of this Coast over the presence of the battleships In Pacific waters. All Else Is Forgotten. All other subjects are lost to view. The bitterness of political strife is for gotten. The few remaining scars of a city shaken and burned appeared rose-tinted today in the Joy of the gen eral celebration. A welcome sign spelled In letters 50 feet high topped the heights of Telegraph Hill. The sun, which all morning long had been obscured by heavy gray clouds, broke through Just as the ships were pass ing by the gateway and shone in noon day brilliance on the pageantry of fighting craft. Tonight the city is gay with merrymaking and a long pro gramme of entertainments plained in honor of the fleet is well under way. City's First Illumination. Streets and buildings are illuminat ed for the first time in the history of the new city, many of the giant sky scrapers that have risen upon the sites of less Imposing buildings i destroyed being outlined in a fire of electric bulbs. The still crowded hills of the city are flooded now and then In the flash and play of scores of searchlights trained from fighting tops and flying bridges. Below them in the anchor age grounds the illuminations of the heaviest fleet ever assembled under any flag make brilliant the waters of the bay for thousands of yards around. First Xlght's Programme. Official dinners, band concerts and a reception and ball at the Falrmount Hotel with 5000 invited guests, are fea tures of the first evening of the fleet's stay. The days that are to come will be crowded with a variety of enter tainments for the men and officers of the visiting squadrons. The fleet threaded its way through the crowded harbor, past the Islands and ferry landings, and. reaching far over to the Oakland shore, turned at last when opposite Hunters Point, and, pointing back toward the Golden Gate to face the incoming tide, steamed Blowly into anchorage formation. Get Two Xew Recruits. The battleships, having the right of line, were first to let their anchors go. The 16 veterans of the Atlantic cruise, augmented by two "battleships recruited here for the remainder of the trip around the world the Nebraska and the Wisconsin, occupy the two inside lines of tlie four columns of ships now" in the harbor. The armored cruisers of the Pacific fleet have the line near est the Oakland shore, while the little" black destroyers of both the Atlantic and Pacific flotillas are berthed close in toward the San Francisco water front. , The parade and the maneuvers were made without the slightest hitch any where, or tlie suggestion' of an acci dent. The excursion fVet was kept out of the warships' pathway by a patrol of revenue cutters and all ferry service was suspended during the parade. . Evans on the Bridge. Rear-Admiral Robley D. Evans, commander-in-chief of the Atlantic fleet and just now in command of the assembled ships of both oceans, stood on the after bridge of the Connecticut as the famous flagship led the way through the harbor's gate and until she came to anchor at the head of the battleship columns. His presence gave a fitting touch to the close of the first great stage of the cruise. His active naval caj-eer Is to close on Sunday next, when lie formally will be re lieved from .command. -Xo Functions for Him. Both because of Illness and the death of a favorite grandchild. Admiral Evans will be unable to participate in any of the functions planned In honor of the officers. He probably will ride at the head of the great land display which Is to be made tomorrow with more than 8000 bluejackets and ma rines in line. Always a harbor of picturesque beauty. San' Francisco Bay today pro vided a wonderful setting for the most resplendent of the many marine pic tures the white fleet has painted. The flash of sun from behind the forbid ding clouds of the misty morning gave the finishing touch of sparkle and color to the scene. The Scene at Night. The Atlantic ships lay at anchor all last night off the San Francisco light ship, with the twinkling lights of the arallon Islands plainly in view. A fog closed down during the dark and was still hovering over the ships as they got under way at 11 o'clock this morning. The cleft in the rocky coastal range marking the Tiarbor 'en trance was not visible to the fleet as tlie navigators laid their course toward the waiting city. The thinning clouds and the growing strength of the climb ing sun soon wiped the mist away, however, and, when four miles away in the ocean, the ships came Into full view of the thousands lining the shores. Throng Vantage Points. To the north of the gateway. Mount Tamalpals. raising its peak 2500 feet above the sea, was crowded with the early risers who had sought this place of vantage to view the spectacle of the fleet in miniature. Fort Baker, on the Marin shore, with its 50-ton guns mounted higher than any weapons of similar weight in the world, also was thronged with sightseers. Nearer the entrance, the sloping Marin shores, all tlie way from the heights down to Lime Point marking the north point of the inner gate, were fairly covered with enthusiastic thousands who had come down the peninsula from Napa and the Redwood lands beyond. To the south of the gateway from the Presidio to the site of the famous old Cliff House, the seal rocks and for other miles along the surf-beaten beaches, the divisions of the nrowd that made up the estimated total of a million onlookers were gathered in great black patches which could bo seen through the glasses eagerly $5-$6.50 Net Waists $2.95 41 I-.- iff vjr Friday Bargain Day, Lipman, Wolfe & Co. offer several hundred light and dark Ecru Net waists at the most sensa tional bargain prices of the season. All are in the latest fashionable styles, silk lined, elbow sleeves, all sizes. Trimmed with ecru, cluny, baby Irish, Val. and filet lace insertions, medaHions, etc. There is a variety of styles sold regular at $5, $6, $6.50, while theyjast &r Qf-choice... Reg$ Women's 2-Clasp Kid Gloves 1.50 Val 79c Friday Bargain Day we offer the most sensational sale of Kid Gloves in many "years women's 2-clasp Kid Gloves, in all colors and sizes, sold regularly at $1.50 pair. Made by one of the best glovemakers of France from selected, soft, elastic kid. A glove bargain that will not be equalled for many a day. Friday $2.00 Long Silk Gloves, $1 The best 16-button-length Silk Gloves sold at so low a price eral years black and white; full length, double-tipped fi made of best quality silk, in all sizes. Same gloves sold where at $2.00 pair. At Lipman-Wolfe's Friday fl Q Bargain Day 3)AiO 11) ". else- 1 1 J 79c 100 Smart Silk Jumper Suits $18.50-$20Values Ml 65 Largest variety of styles and colorings shown in any sale this season perhaps 40 indi vidual effects among 100 suits Every color of the season is r e presented Copenhagen leather, reseda, natural pon gee, navy, regal, etc. Also the smartest stripe effects in pleasing and novel combina tions. The silks come in vari ous weaves chiffon; taffeta, pongee, etc. No garment can be worn so much and so effectively dur the entire Summer as these dainty silk frocks. Sold regu larly at $18.50 and $20. While they last Friday Bargain Day See the Window Display PureThread SilkHosiery Reg.$2 Values $1.10 Pr. Just for Friday we offer an extraordinary sale of ladies' high-grade pure thread Silk Stockings in black, sky, pink, holio, green, purple, bronze, tan. navy, white, gray, cardinal, Copenhagen. All are made with extra double sole and low spliced heels, made very full in length and CI 1 sheer. Regular $2.00 quality, Friday Bargain Day jXXV Children's fine black Ribbed Cotton Stockings, double heels, toes and knees; warranted'fast black and always sold for 20c a pair; " 2!2C on sale at, the pair -. W $1 Lace Coat Sets and Yokes, 53c Embroidered and Lace Coat Sets and Yokes in white and ecru shades ; also lace and embroidered Jabots and Merry Widow Bows the season's latest. Values up to $1.00, Friday Bar- . 3r gain Day. Largest Neckwear Section in Portland trained by the officers and men of the incoming ehips. . The cannon of the Presidio and of Fort Baker boomed a National salute of 21 guns as the Connecticut passed within the headlands of the gate. The compliment, never paid before by one branch of .the service to the other, was returned by the Connecticut amid loud cheers by the people on shore. The great white puffs of smoke belch ing from the clif-hidden guns of Fort Baker added another wonderful touch to the day's enduring picture. Devour It With Eyes. As the ships passed Fort and Lime. Points and entered the bay. the rolling hills of the city lay to their right. On all of these on famed Telegraph Hill, Nob Hill. Russian Hill aojd all the others of a hundred names the people of the city and their hundreds of thousands of visitors stood and stared. , They saw the splendid cruisers of the Pacific fleet lift their anchors from be hind Angel Island and slip carefully down to the line marked out for the battle ships and then as the visitors from the Kast had passed, the West Virginia, flag ship of Rear-Admiral Dayton, In com mand of the Pacific fleet, turned skilfully Into perfect alignment just in the' rear of the Wisconsin, the last of the 18 bat tleships stretching In a long line before the- city. The West Virginia was fol lowed by her seven sisters, by the Charleston any by the torpedo craft of the Western station. They took their places 400 yards apart just as the battle ships formed their column and there was but one uneven rank in the far-flung col umn. The cruisers never appeared to better advantage than in contrast with the battleships. The West Virginia towered far above the Wisconsin and her 502 feet of waterline made the 368-foot battleship look almost like a pigmy. Handsomest in Xavy.- The long cruisers, with their sky-reaching masts and ' four buff funnels, are without doubt the handsomest ships In the Navy. Their lines are grace itself, but their eight and ten-Inch guns would be of little use against even a ship as old as the Wisconsin, which, "Xith her four 13-Inch turret weapons and 16 inches of armor, could lie well without the cruis er's range and pour destroying shot into her vitals. The ships, as- they sailed Into the bay, were dressed only at the mastheads, big American flaRS flying at fore and after trucks and at the peak of the gaffs. The blue flag of Admiral Evans, on the Con necticut, was followed by red flags of six subordinate Admirals, even Admiral Day ton himself pulling down his blue flag as Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific fleet and substituting the ensign of red as Admiral Evans' ship came into view. Salute for Set-rotary. Passing to anchor, the ships steamed in review bafore Secretary Metcalf and the Connecticut fired a salute of 17 guns. When the last of the ships had fallen Into the four long anchorage lines a sig nal from the flagship sent tlie fluttering line of rainbow flags flying to the mast heads and the ships were at full dress during the remainder of the afternoon. t No class of citizens in the city were most interested in the coming or the fleet than the Chinese. The new pagoda-like buildings that mark the present China town were crowded with the residents of that quarter during the time the fleet was entering the harbor and the streets are gay with lanterns and decorations of lavish beauty. The Japanese residents also gathered in large numbers on the hillsides1 to see the pageant. They con tributed nearly $3000 to the local reception fund, to which the Chinese also were lib eral subscribers. After the fleet had anchored the Gov ernment customs' launch Hartley put off from Mission-street wharf, bearing Mayor Taylor and the reception commit tee to pay the city's official greeting and proclaim formal welcome to Rear-Admiral Evans and the sailors. The Hart ley reached the flagship at 3 o'clock and between "files of marines with arms at present the Mayor and committee were received on the quarter deck of the Con necticut and taken below to the cabin hall to meet the Admiral. Hearty greet ings were exchanged between Admiral, Mayor and the members of the reception committee. After the ceremonies of the official call were over. Mayor Taylor and the com mittee bonrded the Hartley and came ashore. Following the official call Ad miral Evans came ashore and was taken to the St. Francis Hotel to meet his wife and daughter. First Sight of Fleet.. Off to the southwest straining eyes could distinguish a dim outline of por tions of the fleet now and then. At 11 o'clock, far off on the horizon, a streamer of black smoke was outlined against the sky. A smokestack became visible, merging from black Into buff. A white hull appeared, flanked on the left by the small, black hull of a destroyer. An other vessel came out of the void ac companied by a destroyer. While the leader approached slowly, others came in sight in regular order and soon all 16 could be counted, ad vancing In a straight line at regular in tervals and heading for the Golden Gate, belching forth great clouds of black smoke, which hung like a dark canopy above them. Almost to the minute, the Connecticut, flying the double-starred pennant of Rear-Admiral Evans, with the destroyer' Whipple, leading the,-black torpedoboat flotilla, close on the starboard bow, passed Point Bonita at 12:10 P. M. Aa the flagship came opposite Fort Point, the battery of Fort Winfield Scott tired the first gun of he Army's salute to the Navy. Fort Baker, high up on the precipitous cliffs towering above the nar rowest part of the entrance, took up the refrain. The Connecticut acknowledged the salute by 21 shots from hfr three pounders. while the steam whistles of the patrolboats and excursion steamer shrieked forth a welcome. The fairway was kept clear by patrolboats under command of Captain W. S. V. Jacobs, of the revenue cutter Manning. Swing Into Anchorage Ground. When the Connecticut passed, the cruiser West Virginia, flagship of the Pa cific squadron, saluted the chief with 13 guns, to which the , Connecticut re sponded. Passing Goat Island the Con necticut headed for the Alameda shores and then swung to the Bouth, while the Pacific squadron, led by the West Vir ginia, promptly fell In line behind the battleship Wisconsin. The cruisers dropped in line, with each vessel the exact djptance from the other, as if a division of the Atlantic fleet. At half speed the Connecticut led the way over toward the Alameda shore, the fleet stIK hin one long line, with the Atlantic tor pedo flotilla, led by the flagship Whipple. At 2:35 the last anchor had been dropped and the long cruise was ended. "The fleet occupies "Warship Row." the anchorage ground covering a space a mile wide and two miles in length. J the functions connected with the coming of the Atlantic fleet of battleships to San Francisco Bay was the breakfast given this morning by the California Promotion Committee, in honor of Sec retary of the Navy' Victor H. Metcalf, in the ballroom of the Hotel St. Francis. In addition to Secretary Metcalf at the breakfast were the Governors of sev eral of the Pacific Coast States, the Governor of Nebraska and the executive and reception committees of the Califor nia Promotion Committee, about 50 guests in all. Governor Sheldon, of Nebraska, rep resenting the Interior and farming inter ests of the Nation, on behalf of the Cal ifrirnla Promotion Committee, the cen tral organization through which"' local bodies do their work, presented to Sec retary Metcalf a monster petition, signed by officials of the commercial organiza tions of Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Utah, Nevada. Arizona, Alaska. Hawaii and the Philippines. This peti tion represented the sentiment of nearly FLEET ASKED FOR PACIFIC Monster Petition Presented to Met calf by Commercial Bodies. SAN FRANCISCO, May 6. -First of 200.000 members, and after reciting the defenseless condition of the United States on the Pacific It prays that the Secre tary of the Navy order that there be maintained permanently in Pacific waters a fleet of 13 first-class battleships and eight first-class cruisers. Chairman Rufug P. Jennings, of the California Promotion Committee, pre sided and introduced the speakers. Tele grams '"and letters were received from members of the Congressional delegations of the Pacific Coast states, and from such Governors as could not attend. All these messages breathed the same Ideas as those expressed in the petitions. Mayor Taylor delivered an address of welcome, to which Secretary Metcalf re sponded very briefly, stating that the disposition of the fleet was a matter which he was not at present prepared to discuss. He accepted the memorial, and said that he would take It up with President Roosevelt immediately upon his return to Washington. 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