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PORTLAND. WEDNESDAY, JULY 15. 1908.
MEEK Jl lXiJE PARKER.
Judge Parker has bowed his crest
ed head and tamed his heart .of lire.
Lamblike in his meekness, he kisses
the rod. which has smitten him and
humbly takes his orders and his opin
ions from the peerless conqueror. He
went to Denver breathing out fire
end slaughter against Bryan and all
his works. All the way across the
continent he posed as the great con
servative Democrat, the champion
iind the hope of the noble remnant
whom the insidious Nebraskan had
not led astray. In his heaving breast
was imprisoned the naming wrath of
the safe and sane New Yorkers
uKainst the heresies of Bryan. When
he reached Denver he would emit
that wrath in a conflagration which
should leave nothing but ashes where
the peerless candidate once stood and
orated. To be sure, Judge Parker
went in bad company. He who was
supposed to stand for the majesty of
the law crossed the continent sur
rounded by a gang of lawbreakers.
He who was supposed to represent in
a peculiar manner the orderly insti
tutions of civilization became sworn
brother to Tammany, which subsists
upon the diseases of society.
But Judge Parker might have been
forgiven the company he kept for the
sake of his high purpose. .If he had
tarried out the plans which every
body knew he had in mind when he
went to Denver he would hAve been
respected as a fighter at least. But
he abandoned them all. He went
there to stand for the integrity of the
courts and the unimpaired majesty of
their jurisdiction, but when the plank
was read which strikes at the equity
power Judge Parker was silent. He
had nothing to say for government by
injunction, though he is himself a
concrete injunction. He sat in the
tenvention as the emissary of the
New York millionaires, who desire
nothing from the Government except
to be let alone. So long as their
hands are not restrained from plun
der they care not who makes the
laws, and therefore they lift up their
voices against the Nation and laud
the feeble sovereignty of the states.
Judge Parker entered the conven
tion armed with a set of resolutions
which praised Cleveland glowingly for
the virtues that Bryan most conspicu
ously lucks. The funeral honors of
the dead ex-President were to be
turned into a cloud of disgrace for the
Nebraskan. Every word spoken in
praise of Cleveland was to fix a sting
in Bryan. But when Judge Parker
found that his proposed resolutions
were likely to provoke dissent he
meekly laid them away and accepted
a set which lauded where he would
have condemned and worshiped what
he professed to despise. Far from
resenting the rejection of his own
principles, he humbly craved permis
sion to second those which he hated.
The man who was to put Bryan down
by exalting his opposite became first
page in the train of the triumphant
heretic: There never was so much
promise and so little performance as
Judge Parker displayed at Denver.
The beauty of it was that he
seemed to relish his defeat and humil
iation. To all appearance he enjoyed
being trodden under foot better than
riding at the head of the procession.
Pour years ago Mr. Bryan accepted
defeat, but he held to his principles.
He voted for his party's candidate,
but he did it under protest. Judge
Parker seems to think that since his
principles have been voted down they
must therefore be abandoned, and he
promises Bryan a heartier support
than he gave himself. Indeed, the
worst obstacle to the election of Judge
Parker four years ago was Judge
Parker. The people instinctively
read the disappointing reality behind
the dignitled simulacrum which he
presented during the campaign. He
has now offered to go upon the stump
for Bryan, but if the Nebraskan Is
well advised he will hesitate before
he accepts assistance so dubious. That
negative personality, that easy trifling
with fundamental principles, that
grandiose parade of fatuous empti
ness, were better confined to a Wall
street law office than exhibited on the
stump. When Judge Parker volun
teered his assistance in the campaign
It was time for Mr. Bryan to pray
t be delivered from his friends.
WllKRK W1LX lU'MAJf INGENUITY
EN1?
It is learned from the Literary Di
gest that an automatic violin player
has been invented. The new device
works so well, It is said, that Kubelik
wept with envy when he heard it. Or
perhaps it was pain that he wept with;
the account is not entirely clear upon
this point. At any rate, the mechani
cal player is worked something like a
typewriter, and can sound a hundred
notes at once if it Is found desirable.
Usually, one Imagines, it would not be
desirable.
The violin is like the little girl In
the fable. When It is good It is very,
very good; but when it is bad It is
horrid. It is scarcely credible that
any machine can put into its touches
upon the strings those quavers, thrills
and soul throbs which make it a de
light to hear Kubelik play. Much
more likely is the supposition that it
would send forth squawks and
screeches similar to those which make
the rural fiddler a torment to his kind.
Until further light is shed upon this
invention we shall indulge the belief
that it is designed to augment human
misery. But for all that it may be an
Instrument of grace. It may save
souls even if it destroys nerves.
The price of it is only about $1200,
so that It will be within easy reach
of most persons who give dances in
bucolic municipalities. Reinforced by
a graphophone, and perchance a hew
gag, this new auxiliary of the fine arts
may completely dispossess the young
man who plays the fiddle and divert
his energies into some more uplifting
occupation. There is a common be
lief in country places that a young
fellow who fiddles is in pretty close
league with the devil. The fiddle, in
truth, is frequently spoken of on the
church steps of a Sunday morning as
"the devil's harp," just as a pack of
cards is in pious phrase "the devil's
Bible." Naturally the youth who
plays upon the fiddle is one of the
devil's imps. Any mechanical device
which turns him into better courses
ought to be praised, even if it is other
wise a source of sorrow.
Among the many plans which are
now hatching for the general better
ment we can think of nothing which
would happify the world more than
the extinction of the rural fiddle, ex
cept possibly that of the city dog.
Perhaps some genius will ultimately
invent a mechanical dog which will
yelp at night without the adjunct of
a woman owner to kiss and fondle It.
The world moves so fast nowadays
that we never know what blessing is
coming next.
NOT POLTTICAX PROSPERITY.
The New York Evening Post, which
is old enough to know better, dis
cusses in a very serious vein a dis
patch from Chicago calling attention
to "preparations for a business boom
for political effect." The Post re
gards the proposition as "an essential
part of the Republican campaign."
It asserts: "Banks are still a little
cautious about lending to merchants
and contractors and manufacturing
concerns, but when the time comes
the golden rills will be set flowing in
those directions, too, and then the
Republican wilderness will blossom as
the rose." The usually conservative
Post very seldom indulges in such
yellow dreams, but in its desire to get
a whack at the Republican party it
seems in this case to have regarded
the Willie Hearst system of yellow
misrepresentation as perfectly legiti
mate. The assumption of our Demo
cratic friends that it lies within the
power of the Republican campaign
managers simply by a wave of the
hand to cause a return of last year's
prosperity must naturally carry with
it belief that the party also holds the
power to create as well as cure panics.
Some explanation of this belief may
be found in the fact that when the
open season for octopus hunting was
at its height last Fall it was openly
stated that the wicked men of Wall
street were encouraging the financial
cyclone before which their fortunes
were tumbling like a card house in a
gale. Following the Post argument
to Its logical conclusion, it would thus
appear that the Republican party
brought on last Fall's panic In order
that' it might at this time have
an opportunity to restore prosperity.
In other words, before the patient
could be cured, it was found necessary
to make him ill.
Unfortunately the Post and the
"Hearst string" will have great diffi
culty in convincing the people that
the maelstrom of ruinous distrust
Into which the country was plunged
last Fall was an artificial affair, cre
ated by the Republican party for the
sole and exclusive purpose of Jteing
cured this Summer. Prosperity is re
turning. The pendulum had started
on the upward swing long before Taft
or Bryan was nominated, and its mo
tion has been accelerated by the cer
tainty that the 1908 grain crop alone
is worth 1, 000,000, 000 more than
that of last year. Not even the; Post
will deny that agriculture is the basis
of our prosperity.
If the Republican party holds such
a grip on the destinies of the country
that it can make and unmake pros
perity by a wave of the hand, It
should certainly be given credit for
this extra 11,000,000,000 worth of
grain which will sell for cash and to
a large extent be placed in circula
tion before the November elections.
If there is any artificial prosperity in
the situation, it will be a difficult mat
ter to differentiate it from the "real
thing." If the Republican party must
bear the blame for the one, it must
also have credit for the other.
PEARY AND THE POLE.
While Peary in the good ship
Roosevelt is steaming northward with
high hopes of success In capturing
what he terms "the last great geo
graphical prize the world has to of
fer," a British Antarctic expedition is
bucking the ice in an effort to reach
the south pole. There can hardly be
competition or rivalry in these two
contests with the forces of nature,
for the reason that the interest dis
played in Antarctic research has al
ways been insignificant compared
with that which centered around that
mysterious "end of the world" in the
Far North. All of the notable polar
explorations have had for their ob
jective point the north pole, and, until
the myfeteries of the frozen north are
solved, the region at its antipodes will
be comparatively neglected. While
the public failed to be aroused over
Peary's latest dash for the pole suffi
ciently to provide all the funds he
needed, there seems to be a general
impression that he will land the prize
which for centuries has lured to pri
vation and death explorers from
nearly all the great "nations of the
earth.
No other man, living or dead, has
had the experience of Peary in the
work which has claimed so many
years of his life, and no other man
has approached so close to the pole.
On his last previous trip Peary
reached latitude 87:6, or within
about two hundred miles of the pole.
At that point, with starvation Immi
nent, he was obliged to turn back on
account of unexpected rifts in the ice
disarranging his system of forward
ing supplies and leaving him prac
tically cut off from the base from
which he had expected relays of sup
plies. Every Arctic explorer has
profited to a certain extent by the ex
perience of those who preceded him,
and Peary is in a position to make
the most of this knowledge of far
northern conditions, because in his
two previous trips he secured per
sonal information on the conditions,
and by observation has prepared him
self successfully to cope with obsta
cles not easily overcome by an inex
perienced explorer.
A very heavy easterly drift of the
Polar Sea on his last previous voyage
carried Peary so far to the eastward
that he lost both time and distance
and experienced a general disarrange
ment of his plans after taking to the
sledges. On his present voyage it is
his intention to follow the shore of
Grant Land much farther west than
on the previous voyage. When he
heads out from the land he will be
far enough to the westward to offset
the easterly current, and, unless un
expected ice ' interferes, he will be
enabled to shorten materially the
sJedge journey. With this exception
the route of the Roosevelt on the
present voyage will be practically the
same as before. The vessel will steam
north to Sydney, thence by way of
the Straits of Belle Isle, Davis Straits,
Baffin Bay and Smith's Sound. An
effort will be made to reach the same
Winter quarters on the north shore
cf 'Grant Land as In the Winter of
1905-06.
With the passing of the long Arctic
night the difficult part of the trip will
commence, in February, 1909, and, if
all goes well, the object of the voyr
sge will be accomplished next Sum
mer and the Roosevelt will be back
to New York in October. 1909. The
material benefits attendant on the
discovery of the pole may not be
great, but the undertaking is one in
which all Americans will join in
wishing ' Peary success. If in the
course of human events there Is to be
a flag planted on the pole, let us hope
it will be the Stars and Stripes that
first float over the land of eternal
whiteness and unsolved mystery. '
THE 5,000,000 BOND ISSUES.
Through the State Supreme Court
decision the City of Portland unex
pectedly has authority to float bond
issues of more than 15,000,000 for
various municipal projects. We say
unexpectedly, because it had been
taken for granted by the public that
the decision of Superior Judge Cle
land invalidating the bond issues
would be sustained. The assumption,
it-now transpires, was entirely wrong.
There is much division of opinion
as to the immediate urgency, and
even the practicability, of some of
these enterprises; but the public has
said that it wants them and the
courts have said in effect that the
people are entitled to have and to pay
for what they want. ' Thus there is
nothing to do apparently but to go
ahead. There is no great haste, how
ever, about the public docks scheme.
Nor will it be necessary, it may be
assumed, to. borrow at once $3,000,
OflO in order to build a second pipe
line from (Bull Run. The pipeline is
needed, or will be soon, no doubt, and
the initial steps in that direction may
be made now. But the city certainly
need not now borrow the entire 13,
000,000 for this project, and therefore
need not pay interest on this great
amount until it shall be necessary in
fact to build the pipeline. What the
city has now, and all perhaps that it
needs just now, is authority to build
the pipeline. It may proceed with
the actual work when it pleases, or
when conditions require.
These things are pointed out merely
to assure the unhappy taxpayer, so
far as The Oregonian can, that the
burden of paying interest on a new
municipal debt of 15,000,000 is not at
once to be added to his already heavy
load.
THE ACTOR'S ART.
Nobody who had the pleasure of
reading "Hypatia's" letter in The
Oregonian of July 14 can deny that
she is an excellent logician and she
will be admired accordingly. But
with the admiration will mingle a de
sire to chide her for using her talent
in a bad cause. Surely it Is little
short of a sin to argue, as "Hypatia"
does, in favor of indistinct speech
upon the stage. People go to the the
ater to hear what the actors have to
say as well as to see grimaces and
gestures, and if their voices cannot be
understood, the audience is cheated to
that extent. "Hypatia" "tries to be
grateful that we have in Mrs. Fiske
an actress "who can give us thoughts
instead of dead, soulless words," and
invites. all the rest of us to Join in her
thankfulness. We do, with tempered
zeal.
It is not dead, soulless words that
we .wish to hear, but words vital with
the thought and "passion which Ibsen
and Shakespeare put into them. Un
happily there Is no way for mortals
to communicate their thoughts to
each other except by words. Gestures
help and grimaces do not always hin
der, but words are essential and it
will not be possible to dispense with
them until we have all mastered the
art of telepathy. Ibsen took a great
deal of pains with the language of his
plays. Every other great dramatist
has done the same thing. How fool
ish this was of them if words after all
are a superfluity and we can read the
thought In the actor's face. The fact
is that dramatic illusion is extremely
difficult to produce and maintain. The
actor needs not only all the help he
can get from gestures and facial ex
pression, but much more does he need
the lines of the play. He misses part
of his effect unless he makes every
word clear to his audience.
We agree . with "Hypatia" that
"Mrs. Flske's performance would be
spoiled- if she allowed her thoughts to
dwell on distinct speaking." Clear
enunciation should become a fixed
habit before Mrs. Fiske or any other
actor appears before the public. It
ought to be learned so well that it
will be done automatically. The ac
tress certainly ought not to- let her
mind dwell on distinct speaking.
Neither ought Paderewski to keep his
thoughts fixed on the piano keys.
Still it is just as much of a defect in
her art for Mrs. Fiske to gibber as it
would be for Paderewski to strike
false notes. He conveys the thought
and passion of the composer through
the piano; Mrs. Fiske conveys it
through spoken language. They must
each be the master of their technic
or they fall short of perfection.
A pianist may play every note cor
rectly and yet fail of awakening emo
tion in his hearers. Likewise an ac
tor may be a good elocutionist and
nothing more. These truths are un
deniable, but it does not follow from
them either that a pianist should hit
the wrong notes or that an actor
should mouth and mumble his words.
Piano technic and good utterance are
means to an end, but they are Indis
pensable means. "Hypatia" rather
supposes that the real Rebecca West
in her passionate moments did not
speak distinctly and she argues there
fore that Mrs. Fiske ought to gibber
when she is playing Rebecca. The
conclusion does not follow. Rebecca
at Rosmersholm was addressing two
or three persons at most and they
could make out her meaning whether
she spoke distinctly or not. Mrs
risice naa several hundred In her au
dience and unless she enunciated with
the nicest accuracy they could not
understand her ,at all. It is nqt by
any means safe for the actor to fol
low nature slavishly. Such a course
would bewray him into lamentable
blunders. The stage resembles na
ture in mighty few particulars. The
actor's first business is to make him
self understood. He must lop off
whatever Interferes with that purpose
and add on whatever helps it. An
actor need not shed real tears ip or
der to produce the effect of weeping,
nor faint when the heroine does, nor
die with the hero. No more should
he mumble his words to produce the
illusion of passion. There are better
ways of doing It.
Forest fires seem to be starting
much earlier than usual this Summer.
Last week a big conflagration was re
ported in Lewis County, Washington,
and yesterday's telegraphic advices
report the destruction by fire of 800
acres of timber and 2.000,000 feet of
logs near Whatcom, with he fire rap
idly spreading through several square
miles of territory. It will be a few
years before the country will appreci
ate or understand the immense loss
caused by these annual conflagrations,
but when our timber becomes as
scarce as that of the Minnesota, Wis
consin and Michigan forests, the enor
mous extent of the loss will be appre
ciated. Our forest ranger system for
the protection of timber is much more
effective than In former years, but the
annual loss shows quite plainly that
there is still room for improvement.
Melting snow in the mountains is
sending another flood down the Fra
ser River, and a repetition is feared
of the flood which swept over Sumas
Prairie several weeks ago. The be
lated arrival of warm weather seems
to be the cause of more trouble than
usually results from undue "lingering
of Winter in the lap of Spring." It
is to the late arrival of the Columbia
rise that the mosquito pest is attrib
uted, and the damage to overflowed
meadqws has been, greater than usual
this season on account of the river re
maining out of its banks for a much
longer period than in former seasons.
The well-behaved, rapidly-receding
June rise, to which we have become
accustomed in the past, Is much pref
erable to the kind that comes late
and remains all Summer.
No doubt the Congress of Mothers
has correctly reported the unsanitary
condition of the Fulton, Park, Glen
coe and several other public schools.
Admitting the facts, the main point is
the remedy for them. There may be
some excuse for allowing the condi
tion to come about; there can be none
for allowing it to continue. The
health of the school children is the
first consideration. Expense, the
convenience of the school authorities,
the prestige of the superintendent,
are second to this by a long, long way.
At whatever sacrifice, make the
schools sanitary.
Wheat which grades better than
sixty pounds to the bushel has been
reported at Pendleton, Walla Walla
and Washtucna. From all of these
points have come some decidedly pes
simistic reports of a poor crop. As
I-, is an impossibility to produce No. 1
wheat grading sixty pounds to the
bushel unless conditions are favora
ble, it would appear from the thresh
ing returns that some of the early
crop reports were hardly doing the
subject justice.
Citizen Watson will take no chances
on Mr. Bryan's failing to receive
proper notice of his nomination to the
Presidency. When the Oregon dele
gation to Denver failed to place him
on the committee to break the news
he immediately Journeyed to Lincoln
in the role of a private citizen. The
postofflce or the Collectorship ought
to be about the proper thing in the
way of recognition for such fidelity
to the cause.
A Georgia man refuses to run for
President as a prohibitionist for fear
that the Democratic party should fall
into the hands of the liquor element
if he and others like him should' leave
it. The black man is not the only
bogle man of the South. Wonder
what would happen to the Demo
cratic party if the liquor men should
leave it?
Count Zeppelin's airship sailed ma
jestically away yesterday on Its 24
hour journey and sailed majestically
back after 1 hour and 35 minutes,
with a lame steering gear. These
airships will be all right just as soon
as they find some way to make them
stay up in the air.
. Mr. Bryan announces that he will
make only ten or a dozen speeches
during the campaign. Meanwhile
those disappointed citizens who want
the Democratic hot-stuff of former
campaigns right off the bat can get it
by subscribing for the C r.
The State of Washington contrib
uted three cases of lockjaw to the
Fourth of July death roll, with the
returns from the toy pistol not all In.
Patriotism this year seems to have
left more than the usual suffering and
tragedy in its wake.
No chance either for our outraged
colored brothers to get a Brownsville
Plank In the nrohiblrlon nlatfnr
Why not make Mr. Hearst happy by
orrering it to his independence League
convention ?
Judge Parker will stump for Bryan
because Bryan stumped for the
Judge. . The Judge is bound to get
even.
Sale of near-beer in dry counties
probably will not cause trouble unless
it makes men make a near-noise like
a near-drunk.
Hon- to Live Happily- Ever After.
Condon Times.
When the hardy son of Scotland ar
rives in Eastern Oregon he generally
has a handful of "baubees" in his
pocket But after a few years he blos
soms into a capitalist with a balance
in the bank, that would make your hair
stand on end. He then sends for the
girl he left behind him, marries her
and lives happy ever after.
Dosr Baa a Watch Charm Lurch.
Kansas City (Mo.) Dispatch.'
A dog at Paola, Kan., swallowed a
watch charm which contained a diamond
of considerable size.
FAVORS DRAIN NORMAL SCHOOL
Writer Says Institution Abolished to
Please Politician..
DRAIN. Or.. July 12. (To the Editors
Having together with Mr. Bassett and
Mr. Edwards had the pleasure of meet
ing the State Board of Normal Regents
at their annual meeting at Salem June
30, little explanation of their attitude
toward the Normal schools as It was made
to appear to us might be of Interest to the
people of Drain and the entire section that
is more directly benefited by the Drain
Normal.
We found the same old prejudice, and
the same old warcry, viz., "The people
are clamoring to be relieved of the ter
rible burden and ask a reduction of the
Normal schools" still in existence. The
board passed a resolution by a vote of
seven to two recommending that the State
Legislature abolish the Drain school.
Monmouth iormai was saved by - only
one vote. The only two out of the entire
board of nine that was in favor of the
Drain school were Benson of Roseburg
and Hofer of Salem.
In passing I beg to say that during
the state political campaign. Its was cur
rently reported In this section by those
favoring the election of Mr. Chamberlain
to the office of United States Senator
that he was in favor of retaining all
four schools, thereby prevailing on many
to cast their votes for him. But it is not
difficult to determine his attitude toward
tne entire fsormal school system.
A Mr. Ayer of Portland, also a mem
ber of the board, appears to be the most
unmendly in his attitude toward the
schools of any member of the board, with
the possible exception of State Superin
tendent. Aciermon, wno made the strong
est speech In favor of reducing the num
ber of Normal Schools. This came in the
nature of a surprise, as it would seem
that by nature ot his office he would be
the last one to favor the abolishment ef
any of the schools. His plea seemed to
be that "the people were clamoring for a
reduction in the number of Normal
Schools, and something must be done to
appease the clamor."
The only possible reason for his stand
In the matter is one suggested to us by a
state official, that' he was a probable can
didate for the office of Governor, and evi
dently believes it the proper course to
pursue, judging from the evident popu
larity of thj present Incumbent of that
office.
Let us see how the course of this ring
of politicians Is benefiting this state.
I will give you a few statistics, for
which I am indebted to Mr. Edwards, of
Drain:
The entire territory of Lane, Douglas
and Coos Counties, that form the loca
tion of the Drain Normal, would be
most directly benefited by it, has tax
able property of 155,676.392; has a pop
ulation of 44,493, and comprises a ter
ritory of 10.819 square miles. This is
more than twice the territory of the
State of Connecticut, five times that of
Delaware, one-fourth more than Massa
chusetts, about one-fifth more than
New, Hampshire, one-half larger than
New Jersey, more than eight times
larger than Rhode Islr.nd, one-tenth
larger than Vermont, and has a popula
tion larger than the State of Nevada.
These figures are not overdrawn, as
will be seen by referring to The Ore
gonian's Family Atlas, just Issued.
This Is the territory that political
influence is trying to deprive of Its
Normal School, in face of the fact that
the state is obliged to import normal
graduates fr.om outside to teach our
schools.
The people recognize the fact that
the Normals are the schools best
adapted for those of moderate means to
educate their children, and that the
state needs the graduates for its teach
ers of the common schools.
Will the people lay down and give up
their school to gratify a few politi
cians? We think not. N. D. COOL.
ONE HEARST VIEW OP BRYAN
Denounced as "Despot of Democracy"
by One of Editor's Fuglemen.
John Temple Graves (at Denver) to
New York American.
Whatever the failures and shortcom
ings of the Democratic platform, now
In travail with the committee, Mr. Wil
liam Jennings Bryan must bear the
burden of them all.
The autocrat of this Denver Democ
racy cannot escape the responsibility of
his own decrees.
For he Is Lord and Emperor here.
His royal edicts sent from Lincoln are
more binding upon hie people than an
Imperial ukase. Not Nicholas In Rus
sia, nor William in Berlin, and cer
tainly not Edward at Windsor, is more
absolute in power. There was never a
time when Jefferson or Hamilton or
Jackson or Clay or Webster or Blaine
was ever so blindly followed or so im
plicitly obeyed.
The Denver convention and Its de
liverances are simply Bryan in expres
sion. The resolutions will be the resolves
of Bryan. .
And the platform will be Bryan's
plank by plank and line by line; for
not the smallest sparrow of protest tr
policy may fall to chirping without his
knowledge and consent.
Bryan Is at Denver in unbroken num
ber and with triumphant enthusiasm,
but where is the old-time Democracy
whose thunders In days gone by were
only ruled by Jove himself?
More omnipotent within his lines
even than Roosevelt at Chicago, his
responsibility Is more complete than
Taft's.
The autocrat of Democracy must rise
or fall with a platform every plank of
which was under his creation and do
minion. But think of this representative Gov
ernment and what it has come to two
mightly political conventions dominated
'In succession not by measures but by
Individual masters absolute and impe
rious! There was a Republican Emperor at
Chicago!
And behold the Autocrat at Denver
a despot of Democracy!
Where are the sovereign people
now?
MR. BRYAN'S 18,000,000 WORDS
Wasted Speech la Effort to Elect Him
self President.
New York Sun.
It was a proud moment for Mr.
Bryan when a visitor at Falrvlew pre
ferred a request that the great man
make an estimate of the amount of
talk he had accomplished since the
fateful day in Chicago when the free
siiver delegates nominated him for
President. According to the visitor:
The Democratic cirleftaln estimates rough
ly that each year he has delivered 250
speeches, traveled 25,000 miles, spoken on aa
average half an hour each time and that his
audiences have averaged 10OO persons. The
totala that result from these figures are
enormous. They show that. Including hla
trip around the world in 1906, Mr. Bryan
has traveled 300.000 miles since his first de
feat for President, has addressed 3.000.000
people, has spoken 3000 time and has talked
l&OO hours, or a little more than 62 days,
which ie? two full calendar months.
We regret that Mr. Bryan was not
asked to compute the number of words
he uttered to elect himself on two oc
casions and to insure Judge Parker's
election on another, but the calcula
tion Is easily made. If Mr. Bryan has
spoken 1500 hours In all in 12 years he
has spoken 90,000 minutes, and, assum
ing that his average enunciation per
minute is 20 words, his entire out
put must be approximately 18,000,000
words.
Grow Without Help.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Weeds and bad habits are about the
only things that grow wlthoutany help.
ALBANY BOY'S BAD RECORD
Will Serve Term in Reform School
for His Many Misdeeds.
ALBANY, Or.. July 14. (Special.)
George Ballard, the 11-year-old lad who
stole a horse and buggy, drove it 25 miles
and then turned It loose, was taken to
the State Reform School this afternoon
by Sheriff Smith. The order of commit
ment was made by County Judge J. N.
Duncan, sitting as a Juvenile Court.
Young Ballard is probably the youngest
person who ever committed a similar
crime In Oregon. He has committed
other offenses and was once committed
to the Boys' and Girls' Aid Society, but
escaped from the home of that organiza
tion in Portland. Since his arrest the lad
has confessed to Btealing a J12 meer
schaum pipe from Peter Paulus, a local
tailor, and after smoking it throwing It
in the Willamette River.
VAGRANT GIVEN FIFTY DAYS
Robbery Charge Fails to Hold and
Harrison Goes to Jail.
OREGON CITY, Or.. July 14. (Spe
cial.) Charles Harrison, alias Amidon,
was today sentenced to serve 50 days
in the city Jail for vagrancy, simply
because the evidence connecting him
with the robbery of the Log Cabin sa
loon on the night of July 5 was not
conclusive. Harrison Is a hobo, and on
Sunday following the Fourth of July
was hired to assist in cleaning the
saloon. The same night the place was
entered through a rear door and robbed
of 9 and a bottle of whiskey, that was
broken while the thiet was making his
exit and the liquor spilled on the floor.
The man disappeared, but last night
he came back to town and was taken
into custody by Officer Cooke.
REGENTS PLAN EXTENSIONS
Important Announcements Expected
From University of Oregon.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. Eugene,
July 14. (Special.) The Board of Re
gents of the University of Oregon will
meet in annual session here. The meet
ing will be one of the most Important
ever held. Flans for the future are ex
tensive and when the board has ad
journed it is expected that some very
definite and gratifying news will be made
public in the way of Improvements to
the State University. The conditions de
mand the addition of instructors in some
departments. President Campbell will go
East shortly in the interests of the insti
tution. Improvements and enlargements
will be made in several departments.
List of Candidates Grows.
OLYMPIA. Wash., July 14. (Special.)
Declarations were filed with the Secre
tary of State today of the candidacy of
George F. Cotterill. of Seattle, Democrat,
for United States Senator; Henry Mc
Brlde. Seattle, Governor; John K. Smith
son, Ellensburg. Senator 13th Joint Dis
trict The latter filed a pledge to sup
port the party candidate for Senator and
Stephen J. Harrison of the 15th District
also forwarded his pledge today to ac
company a declaration filed earlier.
Selects Hatchery Sites.
ASTORIA, Or., July 14. (Special.)
H. C. McAllister. Master Fish Warden
for the State of Oregon, returned today
from an official inspection trip to Tilla
mook Bay and the streams leading into
it. As a result of his visit, he has de
cided to establish a salmon hatchery
on Trask River, as well as eyeing sta
tions on the Nehalem River and other
streams In that district.
Elected Asistant Principal.
OREGON CITY, Or., July 14. (Special.)
Robert Goetz, who was several weeks
ago elected an instructor In the high
Bchool, has been given the title of as
sistant principal of the Barclay building.
In which the high school is located. Miss
Gertrude Nefzger has Just been engaged
as an Instructor In the high school. The
city schools will open Monday, Septem
ber 21.
More Time to Finish Koad.
EUGENE. OR., July 14. (Special.)
The City Council has extended the time
limit In which the Eugene & Eastern
Railway is to complete the Eugene
Springfield line to November 1. The line
will be completed before that time if
there are no mishaps. Piles are driven
over half way to Springfield and the
trestle is complete for a good portion of
this distance.
A MIDSUMMER
Titan la, I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again;
Mine ear Is much enamour'd of thy note;
So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape; ,
And thy fair virtue's force perforce doth move me
I On the first view to say, to swear, I love thee.
From the New York American.
FAMOUS SHADE TREE IS CUT
Construction Gang Outwits Salem's
Mayor and Police.
SALEM. Or., July 14. (Special)
Mayor Rodgers and Special Officer Welch
were outwitted and vanquished this
morning by a construction gang of the
Oregon Electric Railway Company. As a
result the famous shade tree In front of
the residence of Mrs. Ella Watt is no
more.
Yesterday Mayor Rodgers employed a
special officer to guard the tree, and
ordered the company to let the tree
alone. This morning the construction
foreman gave notice that he was going
to cut the tree and soon afterward set
his men at work.
In vain the officer ordered the gang to
desist. He arrested the boss and started
with him to the police station, whereupon
the Greek laborers swarmed around the
huge maple and In five minutes brought
it to the ground with a crash.
The controversy between the owner
of the tree and the company is purely one
of value. The city has no Interest ex
cept in determining the right of a con
struction company to cut down shade
trees inside the curb line.
Cases Decided in Supreme Court.
SALEM, Or., July 14.-iSpecial.) Be
sides the Portland water bond case, the
Supreme Court today decided cases as
follows:
I. N. Maxwell, appellant vs. P. L
Frazler- and Fred Hurst, respondents;
rrom Marion County; William Gallo
way, Judge; reversed. Opinion by Jus
tice Eakin.
William M. Manning, respondent, vs.
Portland Steel Shipbuilding Company,
appellant; from Multnomah County; A.
L. Frazer, Judge; affirmed. Opinion by
Justice Eakin.
George w. Fredricks, appellant, vs.
Antone Klauser. respondent; from
Baker County; William Smith, Judge;
modified, Opinion by Justice Moore.
Motion to dismiss appeal was denied
in the case of Quartz Goldmining Com
pany vs. Patterson.
Petition for rehearing was overruled
today in the case of Rush vs. Oregon
Water Power Company.
Rhodes Examinations in the Fall.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene.
July 14. (Special.) The time of the
examinations for the Rhodes scholar
ship has been changed from January to
Autumn, in order to give the candidate
for Oxford more time In which to ar
range his work and select his college.
The next examination will be held In
the Fall of 1909, probably in Eugene.
The University of Oregon will have a
representative at Oxford this year in
Wistar Johnson, of the class of 1907,
who is a son of the first president ot
the University of Oregon, John W.
Johnson.
' Clubhouse for College Girls.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene,
July 14. (Special.) Girls at the Uni
versity of Oregon will be well housed
next year. At least three new houses,
accommodating between 60 and 70 gtrls,
will be ready for occupancy in Septem
ber. The Mary Spiller House, named
for the first woman connected with the
University, will have rooms for 20 to 2
girls. The Kloshe Tillacum Club will
have a handsome new home by the
opening of the University. The Zeta
Iota Phi Sorority Is building a new
house, which will have room enough for
20 girls.
Select Albany Rifle Team.
ALBANY, Or., July 14. (Special.) Ser
geant George Wlllert and Privates Lloyd
Marquam, Otto Karstens and R. J. Kars
tens have been chosen to form the rifle
team of Company G. Fourth Infantry,
Oregon National Guard, of this city,
which will participate in the state mili
tia shoot at Salem next week. First
Lieutenant Stanley Hammel, who has
been elected captain of the company, will
be in charge of the team. The local com
pany will also send a detail In charge
of First Sergeant M. H. Gibbons to man
the rifle-pits during the shoot.
Hear Complaint of Farmers.
ALBANY, Or., July 14. (Special.) The
State Railroad Commission held a ses
sion at Crabtree today to hear evidence
in regard to a complaint filed by a num
ber of farmers living in that part of Linn
County to compel the Southern Pacific
Company to resume through traffic on
the Woodburn-Springneld line. In order
to resume the old service It will be neces
sary for the company to repair the
bridge over the South Santlam, which
has always been a source of trouble.
NIGHT'S DREAM