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. PORTLAND, MONDAY. JULY 6. 1908.
I NEW YORK'S .FLAE "IN THE GAME."
Mr. Herman Kidder, of the ?ew
; York Staats 'Zeitung. tells Mr. Bryan
plainly that he can't carry New York.
Every newspaper of the metropolis
says the same thing, yet of course the
newspapers may not know. In return
for Mr. Kidder's kindly warning, Mr.
Bryan urges Mr. Kidder to accept the
' nomination for the Vice-Presidency.
! Mr. Kidder la fitter to be President.
As the leading candidate ' he would
. carry New York. As "Vice" his name
would be less important.
While there is possibility that Mr.
Bryan might be elected without New
York, there is not much reason to
. suppose he could be; and though his
. enthusiastic Western supporters as
sert that he could do without New
York, it is evident they do not really
think so,' since even superficial exam
ination of the situation will show that
it is extremely difficult, if not impos
' sible, to form any combination of
states if New Yrk be excluded
which would elect Bryan or Taft
either. For with New York, Connecti
cut and New Jersey are sure to keep
company. The great city practically
dominates the whole vicinage.
The New Y'ork Evening Post, wholly
impartial in its political statements,
has been at pains to do some "cipher
ing" that should be "useful to those
whom it may concern;" To elect a
Democrat the solid South, with New
York and one or two more selected
states formerly would suffice. But
West Virginia and Delaware no longer
can be counted with the political
South, and a revolution that would
take the entire Middle West into the
Bryan column though possible is
but a slender hope. "Look at it how
you will," says the Evening Post,
"New York is practically indispens
able to the success of any Democrat
this year. If it be true that Mr. Bryan
is prepared to surrender this state,
with New Jersey, in advance, he is
surrendering the whole campaign in
advance. There is hopeful talk of his
carrying Ohio this year; he might do
that, with Iowa thrown in, and still
be beaten,-for lack of New York's 39
electoral votes. He might carry Ohio,
Illinois and Nebraska, yet lose if New
York, New Jersey and Connecticut
went against him. It is, indeed, barely
possible that a political revolution
might sweep the Middle West, and
make Mr. Bryan President without a
single Eastern state; but sober people
planning campaigns do not reckon up
on the aid of miracles. And lacking
a miracle in politics, the Empire state
remains the key to the coming elect
oral battle."
It is useless to pursue this subject;
for any person may take a table of the
electoral votes and figure for himself.
But at the end of every calculation it
will be found that, to give up New
York, with New Jersey and Connecti
cut, to Taft, is to allow a mountainous
obstacle to the progress of Bryan to
wards the Presidency. However, it
must be said that the Bryan enthusi
asts claim New York. If they get It
the election of their favorite will be
practically unanimous.
THE CHEAPEST TRANSPORTATION.
Wherever there is water enough to
float a deep-sea carrier, the ease and
economy of sending the ship to the
cargo Instead of making an unneces
sary land haul to get the cargo to
the ship, is always noticeable. It is
an economic principle that has b5en
; worked out in all parts of tha world
. where great rivers or bays admit of
the passage far inland of ocean car
riers. The advantages of water trans
portation out of Portland have had
frequent illustration but none more
favorable to this port than the ex
' perience of the big American-Hawaiian
liner Nebraskan, which loaded here
, Friday. This vessel with a part cargo
from Seattle and Tacoma, arrived at
: Astoria at II A. M. July 1. remaining
there 26 hours loading 225 tons of
freight. She left up the river at 1:30
P. M. July S, and reached Portland
. late that evening. At this port she
loaded 1700 tons of freight, finishing
a'. S P. M. July 3, and leaving down
tha next morning, arriving at Astoria
at 9:30 A. M. July 4 and crossing out
an hour later.
This great ocean steamer thus came
100 miles inland to Portland, remained
two nights, loaded 1700 tons of freight,
and was back to Astoria ready for
sea within 4 4 hours of the time
she left up. The cargo of 1700 tons
was loaded at Portland in practically
the same time required for loading 225
tons at Astoria, and the steamer was
at sea eight hours after leaving Port
: land. The actual expense. of the Ne
. brnskan from Astoria to Portland and
return would be practically the same
with a full cargo as they would be
.with the 1700 tons which the steamer
loaded here, but the cost per ton of
taking even that light shipment by
steamer was so small that no railroad
t In existence could, with profit, meet
i The Nebraskan is an eight-thousand-ton
carrier, a type of steamer
that can easily reach Portland at all
stages of water. The company operat-
- Ing this steamer, however, own a num
ber of much larger vessels and some
of them are too large for tha present
2S-foot channel to the sea.
With the coming of the North Bank
- Railroad and the opening of the new
Idaho territory, there will be an
enormous increase in the amount of
business that will be brought down the
Columbia for such steamers, as well
as for other ocean carriers. It Is ac-
tordinffly of the utmost importance
that immediate steps be taken to in
crease the depth of the channel be
tween Portland and tha sea. The new
railroad lines which will be in opera
tion within a few weeks will give Port
land unexcelled facilities for handling
either inward or outward-bound
freight. With the completion of these
water lines on water level grades,
there will come a reduction in freight
rates, providing the river channel is
kept in condition for the easy and
economical movement of big ocean
freighters. The channel from Port
land to the sea is the key to tha situa
tion. Compared with this all other
schemes and projects for tha better,
ment of the city ara dwarfed Into
insignificance.
EX -PRESIDENTS.
"Since the death of Graver Cleve
land," -says the Seattla Post-Intelli-,
gencer, "the country haa been without
a single ex-President for the first time
since the inauguration of President
Jefferson in 1801." This is a singular
error. John Adams, Jefferson's next
predecessor, lived till July 4, 1826.
The country was left without an ex
President for the first time on the
death of Washington, December 14,
1799. John Adams was then Presi
dent. The next tlfne there was no exrPres
ident was when Andrew Johnson died
July 31, 1875. Grant retired in March.
1STT, and died July J3, 1885. Hayes,
who followed Grant, lived till January
23, 1893. Cleveland was also an ex
President then, and the connection be
tween the Presidency and ex-Presidency
was still preserved.
The New York Evening Sun makes
the strange mistake of saying that the
death of Hayes in 1893 left the coun
try without an ex-President forget
ting that Cleveland had then served
his first term.
The death of Cleveland, then, makes
the third time only when there has
been no living ex-President. At dif
ferent times there have been several
living at once. When Lincoln took
office in 1861 there were five ex
Presidents living, namely: Van Buren,
Tyler, Fillmore, Pierce and Buchanan.
AN UNNATURAL ALLIANCE.
The South is the citadel . of the
Democratic party. "The nigger
makes it so. But look at the situation.
The South, the citadel of the Demo
cratic party, and the strongest con
servative force in the country, is al
lied to the radical element of the
Democratic party of the North. Hat
ing the socialistic tendencies of the
Democratic party of the North, the
South yet is tha main support of the
Bryan party. Nothing whatever could
the radicalism of the Northern De
mocracy, in its tendencies towards So
cialism, accomplish, without the aid
of the South, which is opposed in
toto to its pretensions. It is ona of
the paradoxes of politics. It will not
continue forever.
Attempt is made to win the Presi
dency and control of the country by
appeal to the great and growing so
cialistic element of the North. It
would have no possible basis but for
the enormous power held and wielded
by the South; yet the South in no way
sympathizes with it. The South is
trying to protect itself against North
ern fanaticism on "the nigger ques
tion." Parties need re-alignment. The
re-alignment will come.
With the socialistic and labor agi
tators of the North the South has no
sympathy whatever. Even unionism
does not flourish in the South. The,
heavy labor is done by negroes, who
are held under control. Between those
who vote the Democratic ticket in
the South and those who vote it in
the North there is no longer any com
munity of feeling or of interest. The
situation is simply a survival of an
old prejudice say rather of an old
historic contest. The South of today
is not with the Socialist schemes and
labor union organizations of the
North. It does not even tolerate them.
Yet it is the main strength and de
pendence of this Northern Socialist
Democracy.
All this will surely find readjust
ment. Between the South, which is
essentially conservative, and the con
servatism of the North, there will
eventually be alliance. Bryanism has
no permanent hold on the South, it
has no present hold. The South event
ually will be the force relied on to
check the radicalism of the country.
Its alliance with the conservatism of
the North, against such platforms as
that now making for Bryan at Denver,
is only a question of time. "The
nigger" would now help it on much
by going over to Bryan especially
If "the nigger vote" should elect him.
The present absurd sectional division
of parties, based on the past quarrel
over "the nigger," will change, under
the pressure of economic forces, in, a
few years more. The South essential
ly conservative, opposed from the very
principles of its nature and being to
the socialistic movement of which
Bryanism is the expression in the
North, will quit that alliance, Just as
soon as the doctrinaires of the North
leave "the nigger" to take care of him
self, or leave him to the care of the
white people, who are not going to
surrender any states of the union to
his control. The transformation can't
require a great many years more.
The present alliance between the
conservative South and the radically
socialistic element of jJorthern De
mocracy, that expresses itself through
Bryan, is the most unnatural of things
and can't last. The growing socialism
and radicalism of the North is to be
suppressed through the conservatism
of the South. Mississippi, after a
while, will go against George Cham
berlain as a degenerate son.
THE JANGLING JAPANESE.
It would be unfair to compare tha
people of Japan with those halfrdvtl
ized agitators who ara now feeling
the iron hand of the Shah of Persia,
and yet there is a similarity in the
line of reasoning followed by the Per
sian revolutionists and the Japanese
who have just overthrown the Saionjl
Cabinet. The Persians found in the
constitutional government given them
an opportunity to exploit new and
strange policies and set aside others,
on which' the very life of their country
was dependent. The constitution was
a magic wand and when the Persian
Parliament waved it, the genii of
power appeared, and with each ap
pearance shoved farther into the back
ground some of the basic principles
of government without which neither
monarchy nor republic can exist. Some
day Persia will need and will hive
a constitution whose powers will ba
respected and not abused, but the
people have demonstrated quite ef
fectually, that a few terms In the
primary grades are necessary before
they will be in condition to make the
proper use of the government with
which they have been experimenting.
The Japanese have also been hur
ried along a little faster than was safe,
and the sudden transition from bar
barism to civilization of a compara
tively high plane, has turned tha heads
of many of them. From Tokio ad
vices in yesterday's Oregonian, Jt would
seem that the Ito faction in Japanese
politics had been overthrown because
of its inability to raise money. The
inconsistency of the Japanese mind is
herein apparent when it is stated that
the downfall of the Ito ministry means
the ascendancy of the Yamagata
' party which was kicked out of office
and spat upon by the indignant sons
of Nippon because of its failure to se
cure from Russia an indemnity of
fabulous proportions.
Japan, at Portsmouth, received
every possible concession that could
bt- wrung from Russia, and the in
dignant mobs which forced the resig
nation of Katsura and the retirement
of the Yamagata party, were as un
just and unreasonable as are those
who have made it so unpleasant for
Saionjl and his Cabinet that they in
turn must give way for the reinstate
ment of a Yamagata regime. Tha
present stagnation in trade is blamed
to the poor financiering methods of
the deposed Cabinet. This alone is
proof conclusive of the ignorance of
a large number of the Japanese. Trade
In Japan is in a deplorable pondltion
because the people have no money
with which to buy anything, and their
credit Is so badly strained abroad that
it is no longer possible to borrow. Ito
is no more to blame for this state of
affairs than Yamagata, for it was dur
ing the Yamagata regime that Japan,
with the abandon of a drunken sailor,
began to spend money for ship subr
sidles, government shipyards, and
other expensive luxuries.
Japan will, continue to -suffer from
hard times until her people get the
"wine of victory" out of their systems,
and a change of ministry every 15 min
utes will bring with it no improvement
in conditions until the Yankees of the
East lop off their unnecessary expen
ditures and cease swaggering up and
down the world with a chip on the
shoulder. The Persian crisis was
brought on by the inability of the
people to take advantage of the
changed conditions which came with
the constitutional government. Japan's
crisis, which may not develop into an
affair of bloodshed,, is also due to the
inadaptability of "her people to the new
conditions which followed her vic
tories. There are various methods for
the ireatment of a . swell-headed
spendthrift, and some of them will
effect a cure for Japan.
THE CRISIS IN PrRSIA.
The Persian trouble seems to ba
gravitating toward a crisis of real war.
The cables tell of the killing of eighty
men and wounding of a large number
of others In a desperately fought
street battle at Tabriz. That the rev
olutionists are not enjoying the exclu
sive support of the outlaw element
that "lives by the sword" ia apparent
from the statement in a London cable
that "increasing cause for alarm is
found in the fact that Tabria is sur
rounded by Rachin Kahn and his
horsemen, who are supporters of the
Shah and utterly without discipline.
Should these riders be turned loose on
the city, the lives of even the foreign,
ers there would be In danger." The
conduct of the Shah throughout tha
trouble has been considerably at vari
ance with his temporizing attitude for
months preceding the open rupture
with his Parliament. At least a por
tion of this firmness on the part of
the Shah may be due to the under
standing generally believed to exist by
which Great Britain and Germany ex
ercise a mild degree of supervision
over Persian affairs.
Quite naturally these powers will
use their influence towards keeping
the present ruler on the throne in
preference to turning control of the
country over to the political agitators
who have used such poor Judgment in
the management of affairs under a
constitution. With the knowledge
that he will be supported by Great
Britain and Germany and with small
likelihood of Interference from other
foreign countries, it is not difficult to
account for the present show of ag
gressiveness on the part of the Shah.
At the same time there may be very
serious happenings before the Persian
ruler is in position to resume his for
mer autocratic rule. By imprisoning
a number of the principal political
agitators the resentment of the entire
revolutionary party was incurred, and
from the news reports now coming to
hand the rebels seem to have matched
strength with the Shah's forces so
evenly that nothing decisive is possi
ble until reinforcements come in from
the hills'.
The executive Parliament which the
Shah for a long time good-humoredly
permitted to institute numerous radi
cal changes in Persian government
lost enough respect for the alleged
sacredness of the Shah's person to
threaten him with dethronement and
religious excommunication, and from
that point, in the Persian mind, assas
sination would be only a short step.
If the revolutionists should mass suffi
cient strength to dethrone the Shah,
he would In short order be a very poor
life insurance risk. The utter incapa
city for self-government shown by the
rebels of course makes it a certainty
that the interested foreign powers
would step in and take charge as soon
as the Shah was removed, but even
the moral support of Great Britain
and Germany may prove insufficient te
keep him on the throne, or on earth,
until order can be brought out of pres
ent chaos. The customs of centuries
cannot be changed in a few months or
a year, and constitutional government
was too much for the Persians. In
stead of a long step forward, as It was
generally regarded by the rest of the
world, it was actually a retrograde
movement and has been productive of
much bloodshed, with more to follow
before order is restored.
In a commercial sense, Lewlston
and the entire Clearwater country to
day will be many miles nearer than
ever before. The inauguration of an
all-rail service between the Northern
Idaho metropolis and Portland means
much to both cities. With the sched
ule which goes into effect tonight, it
13 possible to leave either elty in the
evening, spend an entire day in Port
land or Lewiston, and return ta either
city with the loss of but one day from
one's business. This is a wonderful
improvement over the three and four
day trips of the steamboats of the old
days, or even the all-night and all-day
ride by rail and steamer, which, until
now has been the usual route to the
Clearwater country. To this new terri
tory brought into touch with Portland
will be added in a few weeks another
big field reached by the North Bank
Railroad. It is impossible to over
estimate the benefits which will follow
the opening of these new lines, and
Portland will re-enter a field from
which she was forced by railroad dis
criminataion many years ago. better
equipped than ever for profiting by
the long-deferred facilities.
A Chicago lawyer has written a
book on the "Fallacies of the Law."
Undoubtedly It is a big book. It has
required thousands of volumes of big
books to tell what lawyers and judges
do not know about law, so it is no
rash assumption that a review of legal
fallacies would fill a huge tome. The
Issuance of the new work calls forth
a criticism from a law journal which
expresses a desire to see less destruc
tive and more constructive work. But
are there not hundreds of judges and
legislators constructing laws to one
that is destroying them by pointing
out their fallacies? The legal profes
sion is at a disadvantage from the fact
that Its errors are made a matter of
record. Members of the medical fra
ternity cover their mistakes with six
feet of earth and tha clergy have
the impenetrable veil of eternity to
shut from view the results of their
unfortunate blunders. The lawyers
must expect, therefore, to suffer the
discomfiture of having the fallacies of
the law exposed In books for future
generations to read.
There was something which might
almost with propriety be termed ap
propriate in a marine disaster chron
icled in yesterday's Oregonian under
a San Pedro date line. It told of the
eld sailing schooner Zampa's losing
her bowsprit in collision with the
steam schooner Saginaw, while half an
hour later the steam schooner Daisy
Freeman came booming along In the
fog. and tore a hole in the hull of the
unfortunate relic of the old days in
the lumber trade. The competition
of the steam schooners has become so
keen, that they have almost driven the
old sailing craft from the coast, and
the physical damage inflicted on the
Zampa by the new steam schooners, is
in keeping with tha financial damage
they have inflicted on the owners of
the old type of lumber drogher.
i
Colonel Marshall, who has been ap
pointed Chief of the Corps of Engi
neers, has had direct supervision of
the work on the famous Ambrose
Channel, just completed In New York
harbor. By reason of his former resi
dence here, the appointment of Colo
nel Thomas W. Symons, who appar
ently lost the promotion because he
had the Indorsement of Jonathan
Bourne, would have been most satis
factory to Portland, but the interests
of the Columbia River will hardly suf
fer at the hands of a man of the ex
perience and skill shown by Colonel
Marshall,
A few years ago Judge Parker
gained considerable notoriety of a fa
vorable sort by taking a cold plunge
in the lake every morning. In view of
the overwhelming defeat he suffered
when he ran for President, it would
seem that he might now secure more
complimentary public attention if he
would renew the cold plunge stunt in
stead of trying to write resolutions for
a convention about to nominate Bryan
for President.
Mr. Battling Nelson succeeded in
removing from the public eye Mr.
Gans, who was almost as prominent
in the sporting pages as the late
"Petah" Jackson. Unfortunately for
those who are neither amused, inter
ested nor entertained by the spectacle
of two brutes in human form pummel
ing each other, some other man, black,
white, or brown, who is too laay to
make a living by honest toil, wil take
the place of Gans.
One of the schemes the Johnson
people have, it is reported, is to name
Bryaji now, so that ha may be out
of the way for their candidate in
1812. But what will Bryan be doing
in 1912? However, one excuse for
getting licked at Denver is about as
good as another.
The search of Mr. Bryan for a con
servative or Gold Standard Democrat
for the second place on the ticket is
impressive. Perhaps pathetic would
be the better word. It doesn't occur
to Mr. Bryan to step down and let
some Conservative Gold Standard
Democrat have the first place.
It is difficult to get excited over tha
troubles in Persia so long as we know
that John Barrett is not there or
thereabouts, and is safe at home
within sound of his own voice. Persia
is the place where the rugs and the
fat-tailed sheep come from.
Three and four years' delay in the
land-fraud trials may not be Heney's
fault, perhaps, but he should have
tried the cases at once. The average
juror is prejudiced in favor of the de
fendants from the start.
The Denver platform, it is said, will
contain a screed on "state rights." In
the Democratic mouth the phrase al
ways reminds one of secession and the
great rebellion.
In some of the counties the saloon
men had to go into court in order to
ascertain what hit them, or, rather,
whether they had been hit at all. They
are finding out.
Maybe Senator Bourne could get a
spectator's seat In the Denver conven
tion easier than in the Chicago con
vention, through his old friend Mr.
Bryan.
Luckily for the Nation's interest In
the Denver convention, the Nelson
Gans prizefight was pulled oft last Sat
urday. If It should so happen that the
wearer of the Big Smile should go
down to defeat there need be no doubt
that he would grin and bear it.
There is yet time for the Drain
school to organize the usual Normal
school log-rolling for the Legislature.
The rest of the land-fraud defend
ants should take the tip and present
nc testimony in their own defense.
Bryan seems to be "harmonizing"
the Democratic party in the same old
waj-.
THB STATK OF BUSINESS. 1
Active Revival n( Industries la Easter
Utatrs.
Chicago Evening Journal, July- 1.
From every quarter coma reports of
reviving business, renewed activity in
manufacturing. re-employment of
labor. The period of depression is ap
parently over and good times once
more are upon the country.
The official report of the New York
Custom-house for tlje year ending?
June SO shows that exports from the
port of New York alone exceeded by
21,478.684 the value of exports during
the preceding year. Last November
we had to borrow from abroad $57,856,
SD1 in gold and Silver bullion In order
to keep business moving. But in May
we returned to foreign creditors gold
and silver bullion to the amount of
328.206,903. and the payments this
month have been large.
The Carnegie Steel Company reports
that it has more men at work than at
any time since the first of the year
and that business is Increasing rapidly.
The Republic Iron & Steel Company
announces that It will reopen Its shops
today, with orders enough on hand to
keep the full force working for the
rest of the year. These two firms have
received orders for 840.000 tons of steel
bars for the agricultural implement
manufacturers. The Frlck Coke Com
pany has given orders for the con
struction of 1000 miners' houses and
authorises the statement that all will
be required for workmen lr its new
plant
The New York Central Railroad has
put a force at work to get 5000 freight
ears repaired within 80 days, and 3000
men employed in tha maintenance de
partment have gone back to work
after a layoff of four months. The
Pennsylvania Railroad has ordered all
of Its freight cars prepared for im
mediate service because of the in
crease in freight shipments.
Today 5500 men will be put to work
by the Illinois Central Railroad, after
eight months' idleness, 40O0 of them
Chlcagoans. For weeks the Illinois
Steel Company has been Increasing Its
working force, until now normal con
ditions have been re-established. The
International Harvester Company has
re-employed all Its help, and some de
partments are working night and day
shifts. Among clothing manufactur
ers business la above normal, and
mail order houses are preparing for a
big increase of trade with the close of
August. Marshall Field & Co. have
Issued a letter to salesmen and cus
tomers declaring that the present out
look Is the most encouraging fn
months.
This general condition of business
is remarkable, in view of the recent
depression and of the fact that this
is a Presidential year, when trade in
the pest has invariably suffered. But
there is no issue likely to be presented
during the campaign that can menace
the country's commercial interests, and
the people do not appear to be greatly
Interested in politics. The outlook is
favorable.
WANTS PRIMARY LAW CHANGE
Writer Thinks Convention Nominations
Would Save Statement No, 1.
EUGENE, Or., July 4. (To the Ed
itor.) As an old-time Republican, I
heartily agree with you as to the gen
eral plan and purposes of the Republi
can party. Aa to local matters, how
ever, I do not quite agree that is, if I
understand your position entirely on
the Statement No. 1 question.
It la evident that the people favor,
at least in this section, popular election
of United States (Senators. The real
question, then, is whether the law, as
recently adopted In this state, is the
proper way to bring It about. As It Is
now, giving any one the chance to pro
pose himself as a candidate and abol
ishing conventions, we have a kind of
free-for-all, catch-as-catch-can, crazy
qullt process of nomination and result
ing election. Is this the proper way
to get at the people's wish? It seems
to me not. In first place, men who
have the braes or gall to nominate
themselves and hunt for the office are
unfit to hold office. In the language of
a former popular saying, though I don't
remember the name of the author, "The
office should seek the man," not the
man the office.
The only way to abolish this grab
game as I call it for the office Is to
require representative bodies of tha
parties to make choice of candidates
after due consultation, and then sub
mit the choice to the people. In order
te win of couree they would naturally
seek to nominate their strongest candi
dates. In case of Senator, let conventions
of the parties meet say three months
before the state election, nominate their
candidates, then let the people vote on
them, the Legislature to elect or ratify
the choice at polls. This would stop
the "hornewoggling" of one party by
another or members of one party voting
at the other's primaries, as was done
at the recent election a most disgrace
ful and. abominable result of the law
at present. In fact, thie alone, if it
cannot be abolished, is enough to con
demn the primary law at present. With
these said two defects) removed, the
present primary mode as regarding
election of United States Senators may
be as near as the state can coma to
popular election of Senators for some
time, as the Senate, which has the pow
er of proposing amendments, ia natur
ally averse ta changing the present
mode. , JOHN" A. SWINE FORD.
Moakeya mm Prune-Plckere.
Grants Pass Paclflo Outlook.
A Ban Jose fruit man thinks he has
solved the labor problem in the prune
orchards. He believes that the South
American monkey can be trained to
pick up prunes as rapidly and as care
fully as the "ornery" Japanese laborer,
and he has ordered a consignment of
500 of the simians, which he will un
dertake to train to work in the or
chards. It has always been difficult for
the prune-raisers to secure reliable help
at the right time at the right price, and
of late yeara the Japs have become so
Independent and insolent that It is diffi
cult to get along with them. It is be
lieved that the monkey can be trained
to do the work of 10 Japs. Here is
another opening for an international
incident on the ground ef discrimina
tion. The American people are "the
limit" on foreign labor.
Nat Venal, bat Grateful.
Washington Star.
"Rastus," said the candidate, "did you
ever sell your vote?"
"Nq sirree," was the emphatic an
swer. "But when a man comes aroun'
and he'ps me out a little wif de rent
and de grocery bill I owes him a little
pure friendship, doesn't I?"
Donning City Clothes.
Walla Walla Union.
The familiar call for transfers will
seen be ene of the features of life In
this thriving and growing town. It is
an omen of good luck to get the first
of anything, and a number of people
are anxious to be on the first car that
will have transfers.
The Other Way.
Chicago Tribune.
"Who are you, madam? . What do
you wish? Why have you entered my
house uninvited and unannounced?"
"O, don't mind me, ma'am. I'm just
doing a little slumming in the homes
of the rich."
DENVER CONVENTION DELEGATES
Claim Made That Mr. Brran Haa 737,
Mara Than a Twe-Thlrda Majority.
New York Tribune, June 28.
Thirty-four delegates to the Demo
cratic National convention have been
chosen since the Tribune's last table of
delegates-elect appeared, on June 21. Full
state delegations were elected last week
from Georgia and Vermont. Neither
state gave Instructions. The North Caro
lina State Convention was In deadlock
for three days trying to nominate a can
didate for Governor. The selection of
delegates was therefore delayed. Of the
34 delegates chosen during the week aH
are uncommitted.
The call for the National Convention
fixed its membership at 1002. the Philip
pines being excluded from representa
tion. Six Philippine delegates have been
chosen, however, and will apply for ad
mission. Of the 972 delegates so far
elected 727 are instructed for Mr. Bryan
er committed to his support by resolu
tions of preference ef publle announce
ments. Twenty-two are for Johnson. 11
are for Gray and 212 are uncommitted.
Mr. Bryan has the support of 74.7 per
cent of the delegates so far elected.
The distribution by states, territories
and dependencies among the varloua can
didates of the 972 delegates so far elected
Is shown In the following table:
STATES. TERRITORIES
AND DEPENDENCIES.
Alabama ......,,.
Alaska ,
Arlxnna
Arkansas
California
Colorado .
Connecticut
Delaware
District of Columbia. .
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois r
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana ............ ,
Maine
Maryland ,
Massachusetts
M Ichiftan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Nebraska .............
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York. .......
North Dakota
Ohio
Oregon , .
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
Porto Rico
Rhode eland
fiouth Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Vtah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington , . ...
West Virglna
Wisconsin
Wyoming
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201
26'... .
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31. .
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24 .
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141.
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Totals ) 727 22 111 212
Note Contests are being; made for six
seats rrom tne District or uoiumoia by an
uninstructed delegation and for six seats
irom Idaho ty a rival ttryaH delegation.
Total membership of the convention of
IftOS, 1002. Necessary to a choice under
the two-thirds rule, 66S.
Thirty delegates are still to be elected
24 from North Carolina and six from
Montana.
It la Base.
Weston Leader.
We ara moved to these remarks by
the recent suit brought against Gov
ernor Chamberlain, who is also accused
of acquiring fees illegally. "Our
George" haa a sapient answer ready.
He says his extra compensation for
serving on state boards was fixed by
the Legislature and is neither illegal
nor unconstitutional. He is probably
right. In fact, the people of Oregon
have more than once declared that
Chamberlain can do no wrong. It
doesn't matter, anyway, compared to
the colossal graft which the constitu
tional wiseacres have eliminated by
taking the school printing away from
the local papers. In tha Leader's case,
this printing amounted to the enor
mous total of (60 a year, leaving untold
possibilities of plunder. The avaricious
small newspapers are thua confined to
their proper function that of "boost
ing" the state echools every week free
of charge. The State Printer cannot do
this, and they are left with an open
field free of Interference or competi
tion. Low Farm Prices In Oregon,
Brownsville Times.
It may seem strange, but it la nev
ertheless a fact, that California is fur
nishing a large quota of those who are
seeking homes in this part of tha Wil
lamette Valley. After all, it la not re
markable, for these same Callfornlana
have seen land inferior to ours sell at
from 100 to $1000 per acre, while 38
hours' travel to the north takes them
to a section where quantity and quality
of crops are greater and better, and
where they are produced with clock
like regularity, while in California they
are constantly menaced by drouth. And
Oregon land Is selling at from $18 to
$100 an acre, as compared with the
high prices to the south, to the north
and to the east of u. The near future
will see a radical change in valuea of
Western Oregon farm lands, and the
foresight and business perspicuity that
made California the grand state that
it Is, is quick to recognize this fact.
Potato Cure for Rheumatism.
Cottage Grove Leader.
J. W. Ashby brought to the Leader
office Monday morning three potatoes.
One potato, which he had carried for
over three yeara, had turned to stone;
another carried about 18 months ia
about one-half stone, and the third one,
carried about six months, is atill potato
but badly shriveled up. The potatoes
were carried aa a remedy fot rheuma
tism in the hips, and Mr. Ashby pro
nounces the remedy effective, being en
tirely cured of hie trouble.
A FEW SQUIBS.
"You used to travel a great deal. Sena
tor Brewn." "Yes." answered the great
man regretfully; "that was my pass-time."
Judge.
Stella "Can you dress within your in
come?" Belle "Yes: but It Is like dress
ing within a berth in the sleeping-car."
Harper's Basar.
"I don't believe you ever went to work!"
Tramp Oh! honest lady, many's the time,
but I'm sich a strenuous feeler dat every
time I start ter go ter work I go clear past
it. Sketchy Bits.
Mistress "Jane. that's another wine
glass you've broken! How did It happen?"
Jane (cheerfully) ."Don't know, I'm sure;
but I alius wipes them little things off
their stalks." Puncii.
The lady "Look here, you said that if
I'd give you your dinner, you'd mow the
lawn for me." Ihe Hobo "I'd like to do
It ma'am, but I gotter teach yer a lesson.
Never trust ttr word of a total stranger."
Cleveland Leader.
"He has no Job." "Father. I am deter
mined to marry the maa of my choiae."
"Very well. But don't fix en my home as
the boarding-house of your choice, that's
all." Louisville Courier-Journal.
"Don't complain," said Uncle Ebea. "If
yeu And dat somebody has an aa to grind.
You's lucky des days if. when yeu gits
through turnln" . de grindstone, ha deesn'
han' you de ax an' speck you to do his
choppln' for Mm." Washington Star.
"Louder! Louder!" shrieked tha dele
gates. "Gentlemen," protested the presid
ing officer. "1 can assure you that the dis
appointment of those who can't hear Isn't
a marker to the disapiHlntmnt ef those
Ftu can.": Philadelphia Public Ledger.
l POTPOURRI
BY NANCY LEE.
Frederick V. Holman declares that he Is
the possessor of 80 varieties of roses.
Congratulations, Mr. Holman. Yeu have
thereby beaten the famous pickle record,
by three.
e
Go Ask Beatrice Barefactsu
Dear B. B Is it proper to wear white
gloves at a home wedding?
A PUZZLED SUBSCRIBER
A. P. S. Quite proper if clean and
without holes. B. B.
"I contend that my dog is the winner
after all." said the canine fancier, "for
while he didn't take the blue-ribbon, ha
licked tha dog that did.''
It's an excellent plan for some people
to place their umbrella stands out at
sight, for while guests would not neces
sarily steal the contents, they might un
fortunately recognize them.
To appear In a Directolra gown Is
Btartling enough In any city, but of all
places, Chicago the windy City.
The murh-abused whale, who was only
obeying the divine command when it
found Jonah, a stranger, and took him
in. forgot to copyright his stunt, with
the result that tha rest of us have been
playing either one role or the other In the
little game ever since.
What a state of uncertainty the aver'
age visiting foreigner to New York must
endure to ascertain whether the Amer
ican heiresses intend purchasing him, or
If perchance, they are only shopping.
The following conversation was over
heard at the Heilig before the curtain,
was raised at the May Robson perform
ance: "Is this supposed to be a comedy?"
"I think so."
"Well. I like a comedy when its funny,
but when it Isn't funny. It's a farce."
s
Husband Did you enjoy the play,
dear?
Wife Yes; but the situation is im
possible. A year and a half elapses be
tween the first and last acts and they still
have the same servant.
On Willie Collier's former visit to
Portland he bought a number of Indian
and leather curios from the pompous
clerk at the hotal cigar stand. Having
completed hi purchases, he was at once
surrounded by a group of congenial
spirits and became absorbed In an ani
mated conversation. At this juncture
the superior clerk interrupted the flow
of wit. remarking: "Oh! Mr. Collier, I
forgot to show you this," pointing to an
elaborately carved piece of leather bear
ing the gaudily painted picture of that
hideous old squaw, Angeline. "Ah!" said
the comedian, scrutinizing it with appar
ent interest and endeavoring to conceal
his annoyance. "Very clever. Indeed.
Your mother?"
A Modern Affair de Coeur.
He You are my first lov
She Well Just cut that eut, but see to
It that It's the last.
Some people have no conception of the
relative compensations of life. Our es
teemed friend. Oily Rockefeller, for lo.
these many years, has been preserved
from the Inevitable line-up at the ton
sorial studio, has escaped the hirsute
artist's jokes, his limpid, unpunctuated
flow of wit and wisdom, and incidentally
his fee. Yet, In the face of these mani
fold blessings, he has the effrontery to
tempt fate and the book reviewer in an
endeavor to get his personal memoirs In
the list of the "six best sellers."
The preacher read a psalm from out the
book:
A psalm of praise, and thanks unto the
Lord,
And for his text he took a grand eld
verse,
A theme for exhortation from the Word.
He spoke about the beauties of the glori
ous promised land
The loving atreams and never-dying
flowers.
The trees of matchless beauty, the street
so white and grand;
The song birds' sweetest music In the
bowers.
A small child in the audience gat and
listened, open-eyed.
With reverence and awe her face was
glad.
And when the preacher finished she In
childish glee yelled out:
"Say, it's just like Portland, ain't it,
Dad?" .
The attention of the loiterers on the
beach was attracted to Moses Rsevenskl
in the surf apparently In the throes of
drowning, who was calling vociferously
for help. "Save my vife! Help! Help!
Save my vife!"
"But where is your wife?" screamed the
chorus of startled spectators. -
"Great heavens!" yelled back Revenskl,
"I'm standing on her!"
There are still too many women who,
as soon as they get the family crayon
portraits pair for, begin to save up money
for a phonograph.
He They say Miss B. is a kleptoma
niac. She Ib there no cure for it?
He-Well, she's always taking things
for it.
Edna Goodrich. Nat Goodwin's former
leading woman, is said to have recently
purchased her wedding gown at the cost
of $2500. On the face of it, it appears reck
lessly extravagant. Perish the thought.
The average actress can contract several
marital alliances before the style of the
gown ever changes.
Feara ef Sheepmen.
Pilot Rock Record.
The sheepmen are not optimistic.
They have reason to believe that the
policy of the Government is to grad
ually weed them out of the reserve by
reducing their allotments, and their
fears seem to ba well founded. Under
such a feeling of uncertainty flock
mastersyare not encouraged to Increase
their flocks, and. view with alarm the
outlook for their business.
Bad Humor la Drain.
Drain Nonpareil.
It is Just barely possible that tha
little gang of bigoted Normal School
Regents is not the State Legislature
nor has It any right to dictate to it.
The average Legislator has better sense
than to knock out any of the few
schools we already have. Bette'r build
up more, rather than tear any of them
down. Some of those narrow-minded
Regents may have brains enough to
carry awUl to a bear but we doubt it.