ONLY 01 ISSUE,
REFORMED CONVICT
KHEDIVE EAGER TO
MEET ROOSEVELT
BGYPT'S .STRENUOUS RULER IS
ADMIRER OF PRESIDENT.
LAUDS BRYAN
GRANTED PARDON
VICTIM OF STOOLPIGEOX'S
GREED IS RELEASED.
THAT IS WHISKEY
TARIFF
LIFE THREATENED
BY LABOR UNION
CAXADIAX PRESSMAX APPEALS
TO BRITISH COXSUL.
TI
COMMITTEES
MEYERS' FIRM-IN .
INTENTION TO WED
ND
REVISION
Judge Parker Speaks
at Heilig Theater.
CALLS ON PARTY TO RALLY
Republicans Leech on Body
Politic, Says Jurist.
BLAMES THEM FOR TRUSTS
Before Large Audience That Swel
ters. Although Coatless, New
Yorker Formally Launches
Democratic Campaign Here.
Charging that the protective tariff la
the Instrument by which competition Is
destroyed and that the Republican
party Is the foster parent of trusts.
Judge Alton Brooks Parker. ex-Chief
Justice of the Appellate Court of New
York, last night won the plaudits or
an enormous audience that filled the
Helllg Theater to overflowing.
It was the opening meeting by the
Democrats of the Presidential cam
palgn In Oregon. De Lancy Nlcholls,
ex-District Attorney of New York, and
Congressman Theodore A. Bell, of Califor
nia, also addressed the meeting, of which
W. H. Holmes, of Salem, was chairman.
Bryan's Name Loudly Cheered.
The mere mention of Bryan's name
had the same effect that would result
from waving a college pennant before
an assembly of alumni, and the same
demonstration greeted the declaration
of Judge Parker in advocacy of some
legislation that would prohibit corpor
ations from contributing In any form
to campaign funds. The audience waa
decidedly democratic In its tastes and
habits, fully 75 per. cent of the male
members removing their coats and ad
Justing themselves to the beet possible
convenience . to the stifling condition
of the playhouse.
In his peroration Judge, Parker man
ifested his emphatic disapproval of
campaign contributions, and especially
ridiculed the one-dollar subscription
plan that is being promoted by the Re
publicans. He declared that when the
call for dollar contributions had been
made. President Roosevelt and the
"illustrious Governor of the Empire
State each contributed a, silver dollar.
and then the committee passed the hat
along Wall street."
Speaks for Cnlted Party.
While the divided Democracy is cut
ting one another's throat," declared the
eminent New York Jurist, "the Repub
lican party is fastening itself on the
body politic like a leech. If every
Democrat would lay aside his personal
differences and come to realize that we
have .a candidate for the Presidency
-that is worthy of the confidence of
every manly man, and that we have a
candidate for Vice-President equally
worthy, we would need have no fear
of the result. -But behind our Presi
dential nominee we need a Democratic)
Congress to back up his policies. With
one house of our legislative body so
organized, a Republican Senate would
not dare stand up against the mandate
of the people for clean legislation."
At one time during hia address Judge
Parker waa interrupted repeatedly by an
Inebriated Individual In the rear of the
hall who had a great deal of difficulty in
making himself understood, even by those
In hie immediate vicinity. Finally he was
heard to remark, addressing himself to
Judge H Parker:
Pleasantry for Disturber.
"Why don't you go back to New York,
take off your hat to Bryan and tell him
he is all right?" yelled the enthusiastic
auditor.
But still the speaker of the . evening
did not hear, but with consideration re
eled to the chorus of "Throw him out!"
which came from various parts of the
hall, with the admonition:
"Oh. no: don't do that. He will be all
right in the morning."
Alex Sweek. chairman of the State Cen
tral Committee, called the meeting to or
der promptly at 8 o'clock and Introduced
W. H. Holmes, of Salem, who presided as
chairman. In presenting Judge Parker
Chairmen Holmes alluded to the distin
guished New Yorker as a "lawyer, a Jur
ist and a statesman who had few equals,
and a stanch believer In the principles of
the immortal Jefferson."
His Executive Ability.
By, way of introduction, Judge Parker
raid that the candidates of both parties
for President were honorable men, men
of great ability and of high character:
men possessed of a large measure of
scholarship. He said It had been claimed
for Taft that he had the benefit of the
leadership of a Republican President.
This he was not willing to concede, but
Insisted that Bryan, while he had not
been Governor of the Philipipnes, had al
ways shown great ability In the selection
of competent men to direct the execution
of his plans. While both Taft and Bryan
were worthy men.' Judge Parker Insisted
that there were other considerations to
be regarded by the voters before reach
ing a conclusion as to the better man to
support in the November election.
Judge Parker devoted his entire address
to a discussion of the tariff question, and
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Governor Hoch, of Kansas, Sends
Clarence Abrams Back to
Wife and Baby.
TOPEKA, Kan., Aug. 18. (Special. )
Clarence Abrams was- granted a pardon
by Governor Hoch today. Abrams Is a
victim of the greed of a man. He was
sent to the Kansas penitentiary in May,
1839. for stealing a set of harness In Leav
enworth County. His sentence, was seven
si.
i
J. W. Kern. Who Was Notified of
His Xomlaatlom an Democratic
Candidate for Vice '- Prealdent
Yesterday.
years. ' In 1905 the prison authorities
made him a trusty, three years and eight
months after he was sentenced to prison.
The first day outside the prison walls he
ran away. He went to Bt. Louis and too:
the name of Bert Gleason. He went to
work. A few months later he married a
St Louis girl.
He worked for two years In St Louis
and had a host of friends, when one day
a convict who had known him In the
prison met him and Informed on him to
get a reward of $50. In December, 1906,
Abrams was returned to the penitentiary.
He will return to his wife and baby in
St. Louis, where a Job awaits him.
OREGON MEN STAND HIGH
Among Leaders In Shoot for Leech
and Wimbledon Cups.
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CAMP PERRY. O.. Aug. 18. (Special.)
In the Leech cup match today Sergeant
Johnson, Fourth Oregon, won seventh
place; Sergeant Abrams, Third Oregon.
ninth; Corporal Romaine, Third Oregon,
elgmeentn place, witn respective scores
of 97, 97 and 96 out of a possible 105.
In the championship team match. Incom
plete, the Third Oregon stands sixth, the
Fourth Oregon seventh.
In the Wimbledon cup match Captain
Scott, Third Oregon, won eighth place,
score 91 out of a possible 100: Sergeant
Schwartz, Third Oregon, eleventh, score
91; Corporal Romaine, Third Oregon, four
teenth, score 91; Sergeant Abrams, eight
eenth, score 91.
TOWN WILL VOTE BONDS
Enterprise Will Expend $30,000 for
Gravity Water System.
ENTERPRISE Or.. Aug. 18. (Special.)
At the meeting of the City Council last
night a special election was called on
September 12 to vote on issuing bonds
not to exceed J30.000, with which to in
stall a gravity water system.
It Is the expectation to go four miles
up the Wallowa River and secure the
water supniy from a group of Jslg
springs 350 feet higher than the city. It
is thought the bonds will carry by a
big majority, as at a nelectlon held Sat
urday on a charter amendment to per
mit majority rule, the water works aids
won by 103 votes to AO. Enterprise now
has no debt.
BREAKS WITH WOODMEN
National Fraternal Congress View
"Minimum Kate Differently.
PTJT-IN-BAY, O., Aug. 18. A rupture
has arisen between the National Frater
nal Congresss and the Modern Woodmen
of America over the question of estab
lishing a minimum rate of assessment
for the Fraternal Insurance organization.
DOOMS NINETEEN TO DIE
II u s i a n Government Condemns
Conspirators to Death.
ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 18. Nineteen
sentences of death were signed In vari
ous parts of the Russian empire today.
Ten condemned at Lodz are peasants
concerned in revolutionary activities.
Governor Talks at Klamath.
KLAMATH FALLS, Or., Aug. 18.
Governor Chamberlain, J. P. O'Brien
and F. S. Stanley arrived from Pelican
Bay at noon today, and were given a
banquet by the citizens. Trie Gover
nor spoke in the park here to a large
crowd. The party returned to Pelican
Bay this evening for a short stay.
Klmberly Fire Spreads North.
w-rvvtPKO. Ausr. 18. A dispatch
from Cranbrook, B. C this afternoon.
va that a hush fire near Klmberly Is
beyond control and Is running north
ward. Slavin and Klmberly are safe.
No ram for over a month has resulted
in unusual dryness.
Will Not Accept Sons'
Dictation, He Says.
INSANITY HEARING POSTPONED
Alienists Will Be Called in Fri
day to Examine Salem Man.
SONS GIVE THEIR SIDE
Declare, Through Lawyer, That
They Do Xot Oppose Marriage
to Mrs. Du Kette Be
' cause of Property.
"Mrs. Zenalde DuRette and I may be
married tomorrow or It may not come for
six months. It's too hot to do much plan
ning Just now, but one thing is sure we'll
be married, unless the lady changes her
mind. I'm not going to change mine."
Joseph Meyers, the aged Salehi business
man whose two sons, Henry and Milton
Meyers, accuse him of being crazy be
cause of wanting to marry at 70, a year
after the death of Mrs. Meyers, reaffirmed
his purpose last night asd added that his
sons will not be able to restrain him.
Iy sons might be able to pick out a
suit of clothes for me but they surely can
have nothing to say as to my choice of
a wife," he added.
Will Call In Alienists.
Meyers was to have been examined yes
terday afternoon as to his sanity at the
Instance of his sons. But the hearing was
put over until Friday afternoon, when a,
body of alienists will be called in. In the
meantime Meyers is at liberty on his
own recognizance, the charge of insanity
preferred against him by his sons not
being of a criminal nature and his nature
by no means being dangerous.
But while he Is nominally free to go and
do as he pleases. It was not difficult to
.detect a plain-clothes sleuth not far In
the background as Mr. Meyers prome
naded the corridor and veranda of the
Portland Hotel last night. Deputy Sher
iff Bulger was on hand, too, but It was
protested that he was there merely to
chat with the retired business man. This
"chat," It was observed, continued until
Mr. Meyers had retired for . the night,
however.
Kept Under Close Guard.
It Is understood that the close surveil
lance will continue until Friday. Mr.
Meyers Is not likely to get married In
Portland for the reason that the County
Clerk wouldn't Issue the license. That
official, or one of his deputies to be exact,
was on the point of issuing a license to
Meyers and Mrs. Du Rette, when an of-
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W. J. B. "I TRUST
Looks Forward With Pleasure to
Entertaining Him Beforf Big
Game Hunt.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18. Special.)
According to Dr. Edward Bedloe, the
best-known globe trotter at the Capi
tol, who has Just returned from a nine
months' sojourn In Cairo, all Egypt Is
much stirred up over the. coming visit
of President Roosevelt to Africa. The
Eugene W. Chafin, Prohibition
Candidate (or President.
Khedive and his offlcials are anxious
to honor Mr. Roosevelt and are much
concerned over whether they will get
the opportunity to entertain him.
Dr. Bedloe describes the present
Khedive as a progressive young ruler,
who Is as strenuous as President
ROosevelt, deeply interested in me
chanics .and specially railroading. He
often puts on a blue blouse and over
alls and rnhs an engine on the' Cairo
and Tunis line and frequently works
In an automobile shop near his palace.
He is an ardent admirer of President
Roosevelt.
Dr. Bedloe says the Egyptian and
English authorities ordinarily limit
the African big game hunter to one
elephant on any single trip and other
wise protect big. game as Jar as pos
sible. "
"They may let the bars down for
Roosevelt, however." said the doctor.
MINE CLEARED OF NEGROES
White Miners in Tennessee Reported
to Cremate Six.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 18. An
other mine near Jellico was cleared of
negroes today by an armed band. No
tice has been served on all negroes
within a 30-mlle radius to get out in
three days, and even Jellico and La
follette .are threatened.
It Is said a cabin has been burned
and six negroes cremated.
YOU ARE PERFECTLY QOMFORTABLE, ALTON"
NOT TO COMBINE
National and Congres-
sional Keep Apart.
MANY OBJECT TO PUBLICITY
McKinley Will Keep Names of
Donors Secret.
DISLIKES HITCHCOCK PLAN
Local Committees Will Handle Own
Funds to Avoid Publicity West
Virginia Factional Row
Causes Anxiety.
CHICAGO, Aug. 18. (Special.)
Chairman William B. McKinley, Vice
chairman James A. Tawney, of Minne
sota; Speaker Joseph G. Cannon and
other Republican Congressional lead
ers held a conference at the Unlon
League Club today to determine when
and where the Republican Congres
sional quarters will be opened In Chi
cago. It became evident today that the Re
publican Congressional body is not go
ing to submit to a beneficent assimi
lation "by the National committee. Not
only will the Congressional body at
tend to its own affairs, both political
and financial, but its members are dis
posed to paddle their own oanoe all
nlnna- the line, except In tne matter
rnnnlner a literary bureau. It Is said
that Mr. McKinley might have been
treasurer of the combined National ana
Congressional committees, had not the
Congressional leaders strenuously od
lectori to mixing the campaign funds.
So far as known, the Congressional
committee has not agreed to publish the
names of Its campaign fund donors, and
it is understood that the policy ot cam
nalen fund publicity which will be prac
Meed bv ; the National Committee
nts with Jittle favor among .the Con
gresslonal leaders and, in fact, among
many of the old party leaders outside of
jioth committees. The -policy Is said to
be particularly embarrassing to many of
the subsidiary party organizations, not
only in the National Held, but In many
states and cities as well. The number of
these organizations which will collect and
riishiirsa their own campaign funds !
said to be worrying the National com-
mittee.
One of the situations which was dta-
cussed at great length by the Congres-
innnl leaders today was that relating to
the State of West Virginia. Party leaders
there predict that, unless the factional
row in that state is settled shortly, the
electoral vote and five Congressmen, the
entire delegation, will be won by the
Democrats.
State Department May Investigate
Sensational Charge of Coercion
Against Chicago Organization.
CHICAGO, Aug. 18. (Special.) 'Will
iam R. Robinson, a Canadian citizen who
declares that his life is in danger because
he has refused to Join Franklin Union No.
4. will have his grievance taken up by
the State Department at "Washington, if
the plans of the British consular office
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James Schoolcraft Sherman, Noti
fied Yesterday That He Was
the Republican Candidate for
Vice - President.
In Chicago are carried out. He was In
formed that the Federal Immigration au
thorities have no Jurisdiction In the mat
ter. After having the case brought to his
notice. Consul Ersklne will take steps
within the power of a diplomatic repre
sentative to end what he calls the perse
cution of a British subject, should .the
non-union pressman make a fqrmal com
plaint, accompanied by demand for pro
tection. RoblnBon, who is employed as a press
man by Poole Bros., declares that his life
has been threatened because he refused
to join the union and pay $57 initiation
fees. Robinson has been In the United
States only about ten months.
GRANTS PRAYER OF LABOR
Democratic Xatlonal Committee Will
Have Union Member.
CHICAGO, Aug. 18. A , delegation of
local members of the American Federa
tlon of Labor called on Chairman Mack
today and requested that the National
committee select a member of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor as head of the
labor bureau of the Democratic National
Committee.
Chairman Mack told the labor men that
their request would be granted.
Yachts Too Slow for Llpton Cup.
CHICAGO, Aug. 18. The Lipton cup
race for today was called off, owing
to the failure of the yachts to finish
within the allotted time of three hours
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTETtDATS Maximum temperature, 8T
Oegrees; minimum, qj.i.
TODAY'S Shower and cooler; southwester
ly winds.
Foreign.
Holland has free hand to punish Castro.
Page 2.
National.
Great preparations to welcome Roosevelt In
Egypt.- Page 1.
Politics.
Bryan condemns Congress for ignoring Ok
lahoma banking law. Page S. .
r. hr arnod news from 8outh. Page 8-
Republlcan Congressional committee ob
jects to eampaugn mnu punuuij.
Eherman notified- of nomination : indorses
Taft's speech. Page a.
Chafin Is notified and accuses old parties
of suppressing liquor i.ue. rago i.
Domestic.
Earthquake at Eureka, CaL, scares town
Tnltinlxht. Page J-
Prerldent of Editorial Association tells good
work of newspapers, rug"
Canadian appeaJs to British Consul - for
.taction against labor union. Page 1.
Escaped couvlct betrayed by stool-pigeon
is paraonea. rw a.
Troops begin to leave Springfield and peace
18 resiorea. ruga
Sports.
Ketchel wins fight with Thomas. Page 7.
Coast League scores: San Francisco 8i
Los Angeles 6. Oakland i: roruana a.
Hackett and Alexander win tennis cham
pionship. Pago i.
8. E. Kramer arrives to arrange for horse-
show. . Page T.
Pxrlflo Coast.
Offlcials unable to unravel mysterious death
Of uanon larmtji. r rto
Hill railroad said to be headed into Interior
Wl V-
Seattle clubman "robs brother to play races.
lage o.
rommerctal and Marine.
Hide market as barometer of general busl-
. Mnlr1nn Tftffl IK.
Steady cables help Eastern wheat markets.
Page IS.
Btoek market In profeeslonai hands.
Page 15.
Improvement In Eastern wool market.
Page IS.
Barkentlne Good News reaches Tacoma
after stormy trip, r age o.
i Portland aad Vicinity.
Judge Parker speaks in behalf of Bryan at
i r 1 1 ) Tha.ta. P. IT. 1
Leading Oregon Democrats entertain Judge
T. M. Stevens prepares answer to suit of
TmiUa Pnwall Stevens. Patre 14.
Joseph Meyers determined to wed despite
sons opposition. Page 14.
Lane will support Investigation of North
Citizen derives rental from city street under
Chafin Says Both Old
. Parties Dodge It.
WIN ON FICTITIOUS ISSUES
Scanlan at Notification Tells
of Victories.
SAYS WORK FOR SUFFRAGE
Prohibitionists Effervesce With En
thusiasm at Chicago Their Can
didate Quotes Washington and
Lincoln Against Old Parties. ;
CHICAGO, Aug. 18. At Music Hall to-;
night In the presence of a large and en-
thuslastic audience Eugene W. Chapln, of
Chicago, accepted the nomination for tha
Presidency of the Prohibition party. Tha
thusiastio audience, Eugene W. Chafin, of
his selection as the head of the Prohibi
tion ticket waa made by Professor Charles
Scanlon, of Pittsburg, on behalf of tha
committee on notification appointed at
the National committee.
The leading members of the party from)
Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Ne
braska and other states were present.
Seated on the platform were the National
executive committeemen, chairmen of tha
various state- committees, the committee
on notification and several prominent
Prohibitionists.
Charles R. Jones, chairman of tha
National committee, called the meeting
to order and announced the selection
of Samuel Dickie, president of Albion
College, Albion, Mich., as chairman of
the gathering. Mr. Dickie delivered
a brief address and then Introduced
Mr. Scanlon.
Not Leading Forlorn Hope.
"You are not asked," said Mr. Scan-1
Ion, turning to Mr. Chafin, who occu- .
pied a seat on the platform, "to lead
a forlorn hope.. The final issue of this:
struggle is not now nor ever has been .
In doubt. The principles advocated by
the Prohibition party are as certain to
prevail as time la to continue."
Mr. Scanlon concluded amid an out
burst of cheering. When It had subsided
he handed Mr. Chafin an elaborately en-!
grossed copy of the Prohibition party i
platform adopted at Columbus, and signed
by the chairman of the committee oa
resolutions, the chairman of the conven
tion and the chairman of the National
committee.
Scan Ion's Eulogy on Party.
Dr. Scanlon, In his speech- of notifi
cation, began with a panegyric on tha
Prohibition party and exulted In tha
adoption in the last year of Prohibition
by five states and many counties and
townships. He declared that all other
Issues would be simplified, and soma
of them settled by extermination of tha
liquor traffic, but none of them could
be Intelligently considered except by a
sober people. Of the platform he said!
"It contains everything of value In
all the others, without their evasiva
technicalities, obscurities, false iesues,
sophistries and subterfuges."
He boasted that the Prohibition par
ty furnished a clean political home for
every Christian man. He stated tha
party's well-known principles and said
of the Prohibitionist:
"He protests against the right o
franchise being determined by breeches
instead of brains, and demands that
the sons and daughters of this Repub
lic shall be allowed to go side by aids
to the polls."
He told, In high-flown language, the
achievements of his party, saying It
had "moved through the political mira
of nearly 40 years as conspicuously
beautiful as a star riding solitary
through the night."
. He told Mr. Chafin the latter de
served the votes of the -160,000 minis
ters, the 1,600.000 Sunday-school teacn-
ers, the 30,000,000 church members, tha
460,000 schoolteachers, and of all others
who love virtue and hate vice.
Prolonged applause greeted Mr. Chafin
as he accepted the honor. His attack on
the leading parties roused the audlenca
to vigorous applause, repeatei at inter
vals as Mr. Chafin continued along this
line.
Old Parties Ignore Main Issue.
The main point which Mr. Chafin
sought to make in his speech was that
the old parties only bring fictitious
Issues before the people and subordi
nate the real issue. He said that,
when Lincoln took office, there were
five former Presidents living, but they
did nothing to help him In the great
struggle which resulted in the passaga "
of the Thirteenth amendment to the
Constitution. He continued:
They were the representatives ' of two
dominant political parties. Whig and Demo
cratic, which tor about 6 yeare oppoeed the
bringing of any great new question Into the
political arena. We are now approaching
rh. flnaA of Another GO years where two
dominant political parties. Kepubllcan anil
Democratic, have allied tnemseives wua in
most gigantic crime that ever cursed tha
world, ami bv their attitude make known
to the American people that they do not
propose to permit tnem to nave a. cnanco,
even though the majority may favor It, to
destroy the liquor traffic and arid auch an
amendment to the Constitution, which would
mark the hlsheat achievement of civilization
In the world's history.
Twenty-eeven Presidential eompalgiMr have
been more or lea" fiercely fought to gain con
trol of the Government. "Moat of them hav
been battles over fictitious Issue, which had
little or nothing to do with the admlnlstra
tlone which) followed. In not more than nix
Instances would a line of American hletory
have been changed If the defeated candidate
had beet? elected instead of the successful
one. This party strife over false Issues for
the sake of obtaining ofrice has made moral
words of many of our public men and
transformed some of our chief executives Intj
mete pawns upon the party chess-board; for
(Concluded on Pag T.