Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 11, 1908)
THE MORNING OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1903. FORAKER PLEDGES TUFT HIS SUPPORT Friendly Conference Followed by Announcement He Will Speak. NO PEACE PACT NEEDED Candidate Denies Peaoe Was Ever Interrupted Two Delegations to Visit Him Invited to Phil adelphia in January. CINCINNATI. Sept. 10 The call of Senator Foraker at the office of W. H. Taft in the Slnton Hotel, the half-hour conference which followed and the state ments of cordiality by each party to the conference, corunituted the new feature of the day at the Taft headquarters. "We had a very T'ca'ant personal talk." said Mr. Foraker on leaving. '"Yes. we talked about politics, about nothing but politics, you might say." "There Is nothing to say except that we repeated what we said at Toledo." was Mr. Taffs comment after his caller had gone. He added: Foraker to Stump for Taft. "We discussed the general aspects ot the campaign. Senator Foraker said he wanted to do all he could to bring about Republican success and that, when I needed him. I should call upon him. The Senator Is to take an active part in the campaign." Mr. Taft expressed the desire that re ports of the Interview should contain no reference to "peace pact." as he laugh ingly remarked there had been no Inter ruption of peace between himself and Mr. Foraker. Taft Arranges Speeches. One thousand citizens of Greenfield. Ind.. will be addressed here next Tues day by Mr. Taft and on Saturday ntsht. September 19. he will receive the Norwood Republican Club in the assembly hall of the Sinton Hotel. Norwood la an Indus trial suburb of Cincinnati. The candidate had another busy day with local callers and Important matters wh'lch he conducted through the tele phone, telegraph and mall. In the after noon he attended the funeral of the late John G. Emery, a long-time resident of Cincinnati and an old friend. Too Much Cocksureness. W. S. Taylor, president of the Ohio Society of Philadelphia, extended a for mal Invitation In person to W. H. Taft today to be the guest of honor at the annual banquet of the society In Janu ary. Mr. Taylor incidentally had this political view to present to Mr. Taft: "As far as I can understand the politi cal situation. Republican success Is en dangered by a feeling of cocksureness that seems to pervade even the so-called doubtful states." . ' A Montana town has Just been named Taft in honor of the Republican candi date, and notification was sent hltn today. STE-tMF.R CARRIES TAFT MEX Kepublican Speakers Start From Chicago on Tour of Xiakes. CHICAGO, Sept. 10,-,-With the rival political forces engaged all along the line on land, naval warfare began to day when the cruiser Theodore Roose velt, which in times of peace ie a huge excursion steamer, . left the Chicago River manned by Republican speakers and some 400 members of the Mar quette Club, a Republican organization of this city. Four states will be touched. Today's programme Included a 'meeting at Michigan City, Ind., this afternoon. 'and at. Waukegan, 111., this evening, when a torchlight, meeting was held in the pub lic square. The club members received a" con gratulatory telegram from William H. Taft, in which he said: "I sincerely hope that the steamer Roosevelt on which you embark will take you safely, and that you will carry good. Republican doctrines to the 100,000 people whom you will meet on the" trip, and that you will convince them that it is the height of folly for the American electorate. Just as we are regaining the confidence of capital which is necessary to the resumption of prosperity, to put in power the Dem ocratic party under its present lead er, whose political history cannot but make Democratic success under hla leadership a menace to prosperity and means the destruction of business con fidence." POLICE CONFESS DEFEAT Donahue Murder Case Given Up as Unfathomable Mystery. OAKLAND. Sept. 10. The police this morning finally admitted that they were unable to solve the mystery of the murder of Mrs. Alice Donahue, on June 11, In Emeryville. This morning Captain Peterson was given a letter written by Joseph Berry, the woman's former consort, to Daniel Donahue, which reached Oakland after the latter's sensational suicide. It was taken from the Postofnoe by Dep uty Public Administrator Flood. The etter ie from Knob, Shasta County, and bears date of September 4, and in it Berry asks Donahue to tell everybody who the murdered woman was and to make public the fact that she was not his wife, threatening, if he did not do so. he would himself notify all the lodges and newspapers. One quotation In particular from the letter is consid ered pertinent. It Is: "I thought that such a thing would happen a long time ago, since t,he last time I seen her, on the 20th day ot April. 1901, at Forty-sixth street, Oak land." This had reference to the murder or the woman. ANOTHER RECORD IS MADE (Continued From First Page.) partment today expressed the belief that Orville Wright will make a speed of at least 42 miles an hour with his heavler-than-alr machine, which did such ex cellent work at Fort Meyer. This Is based on their observations of Mr. Wright's record-breaking experiment yesterday. If he does make 42 miles an hour he ' will be entitled to a bonus of 30 per cent over the contract price, which would net him for his machine 1301.000, the con tract price being 3.000. The speed is to be taken on a measured course of mors than five miles against and with the wind. The start is to be a flying , ens, jnacWna. ft. jyjha atarttca; point at full speed at both ends of th course. Soon Make Official Flights. The official trials will be held as soon as Mr. Wright announces his readiness. He will endeavor to make a few short flights for sp?ed tomorrow and may be gin making flights with C. W. Kumiss, his assistant. In order to practice for the official endurance trial, in which the aeroplane will have to remain in the air with, two men for one hour. XAVY MAY BUILD AIRSHIPS Officials Discuss Methods of Use In Naval Warfare. WASHINGTON, Sept.. 10. Two aero plane flights made by Orville Wright at Fort Meyer yesterday, which broke all records for distance and time, have aroused the officers of the Navy to ac tion. Secretary Metcalf was one of the most enthusiastic spectators, and Assistant Secretary of the Navy, New berry, has been following the Fort Meyer tests closely. Lieutenant George C. Sweet of the Bureau of Equipment has been detailed to observe the Fort Meyer tests for the Navy. Mr. Metcalf was asked if the Navy Intended to buy an aeroplane as a be ginning in the application of aeronau tics to that branch of the service. "I canot say what we might do," he replied. "Of course, we would need funds for that purpose. There is only one reason that I can see why Mr. Wright's machine would be Impracti cable for use in the Navy and that is his starting aparatus." The aeroplane would prove invalu able in naval warfare, "said Lieutenant Sweet to an army officer during Mr. Wright's flight yesterday. "Mr. Wright's machine requires a speed of 14 miles an hour as an Impetus in or der to rise into the air. It would therefore require no launching appa ratus if it were started from one of the scout cruisers which make 22 and 23 knots an hour, or about 27 miles. It could fly over the advance column of an enemy's fleet and drop explo sives or secure valuable information. "Instead of the skids which Mr. Wright uses, for naval purposes the aeroplane could be fitted with two light water skids, similar to rowing shells, so that It could land on water. After the machine made a flight, it could be brought alongside of the ship and pulled out of the water by means of the davits. The Bureau of Equip ment has an appropriation available for buying equipment for vessels of the Navy, and this money could be drawn upon for the purpose of buying an aeroplane with which to make a start towards building up an aerial fleet for the Navy." CANNON MAKES HOT REPLY (Continued From First rase ) stood against such legislation iii 1896. and the people sustained its action. Mr. Cannon pointed out that in 189J the Democrats might have passed such an anci-tnjunctlon law; that they con trolled both Houses and had a Demo cratic President: that Mr. Bryan was a member of that Congress, but he was silent regarding injunctions by a Fed eral Court, although a court In Louisi ana had at that time decided that la bor organizations were amenable to the Sherman anti-trust law. "Mr. Gompers complains," said Speak er Cannon, "that the Supreme Court of the United States has placed a new interpretation on the Sherman anti trust law in the decision of the Dan bury hatters' case. Mr. Gompers Is mistaken. Like other special pleaders, he puts into that decision things that were not written or decided or con sidered. The hatters' case was a com plaint against an Interstate boycott. The American Federation of Labor had ordered a boycott throughout the United States against the Danbury Hat Manufacturing Company, because of their refusal to recognize a closed shop. Their complaint was against the boycott as a restraint of- Inter state commerce and in defiance of the Sherman law. The case was decided on that ground and the opinion of the Supreme Court sustained the decision of the lower court on that ground. "Mr. Gompers says that this decision for the first time brings labor unions under the restrictions of the Sherman law He is mistaken. The United States courts, district and circuit, have in numerous cases held that the law applied to labor organizations. In the opinion of the Supreme Court, Chief Justice Fuller, a Democrat, cited several of these decisions." Mr. Cannon referred again to the case In which the United States Court of Louisiana, in March. 1893, Issued In junction against striking members of the Workingman s Amalgamated Coun cil of Louisiana, and held that the Sherman law applied to combinations of workers as well as to combinations of capital. 'That decision." said Speaker Can non, "was rendered 15 years ago, be fore the Pullman strike In Chicago", and It has been the interpretation of the law ever since. Mr. Bryan was in Congress for two years after that de cision and although the Democrat controlled the Government, we fall to find anything in the records to show that he or his party tried to amend the Sherman law or to make any pro test against the action of the court. "The decision of the Danbury hat ters" case was that the boycott was In restraint of trade and that the American Federation of Labor was not exempt from the law made for all. It Is an unwarranted assumption that this decision in any way affects agreement between employes and em ployer or that it even touches the right of employes to quit work or strike." Mr. Cannon then told of the ap pearance of Mr. Gompers before the House committee on Judiciary while it was considering the Hepburn bill, to ask for an amendment that wiould authorize the boycott. H said Mr. Gompers was asked whether an amend ment suggested by' him was meant to relieve labor unions from the oper ation of the Sherman anti-trust law as construed In the Danbury hatters" case. Upon Mr. Gompers replying -Yes," the chairman asked him: "Do you. as the representative of organized labor, favor the boycott, both as an Interstate and a local prop osition?" Mr. Cannon said that Mr. Gompers replied: "I do. sir." "It will be seen." said Mr. Cannon, "that Mr. Gompers" complaint was di rect as to the decision of the court on the boycott, not as to what it might lead to in Interference with agree ments between employes and employer or as to the right of employes to strike. His contention is for the right to boy colt, to use the influence he has with a great organization, which he says has a membership of more than 2, 000,003 men; to boycott the product of any man or any firm for any cause whatever and to use the publication under his control to injure any man's business for any cause or whim that pleased him. That would be illegal in any publication by any man, and it is difficult to see how labor can be placed above the law or how Mr. Gompers can be exempted from ths operation of the law that applies to all men." . t Democratic Wail In Hawaii. HONOLULU. Sept. 10. The Democratic territorial convention today nominated L. L. McCandless for Congress. The plat form declares that a speedy change of ths labor system Is necessary; otherwise ths tarntorx.ia ieftt4aj0ccfcienJftl civlteitjon. DAVIS ACCUSED F KILLING RUSTITJ Would-be Suicide Arrested on Charge of First Degree Murder. SEEN NEAR DOCTOR'S HOME Physician Who Attended Dead Man Identifies Bank Clerk as Man Who Staggered Away From Scene of Crime. OMAHA. Sept. . 10. County Attorney English today filed a complaint against Charles Davos, charging him with mur der in the first degree in connection with the shooting of Dr. Frederick Rustln on the morning of September 2. The time of the hearing was not set. An Important development was brought to the attention of the county Attorney hue this afternoon, when Dr. J. P. Lord, the physician called by Mrs. Rustin to at tend her husband Immediately after the shooting, told the police that on his way to the Rustln home the morning of the shooting he met a man answering the de scription of Davis, two blocks from where Dr. Rustin wss shot and coming from the direction of the dying physician's home. This feature was not brought out at the inquest, although Dr. Lord was one of the witnesses. Chief Donahue this after noon declared it was the most significant bit of evidence thus far secured. Dr. Lord gave a very minute description of the man, which follows very closely in detail that of Charles E. Davis. "The man came staggering along the street," said Dr. Lord. "He passed not more than 30 feet from me. I noted him particularly, because of the hour and the circumstances, although X did not speak to him." Dr. Lord's story fits well Into ths evi dence presented to the Coroner's Jury and Indicates that the man might have been in the vicinity of the Rustin resi dence 10 to 15 minutes before Dr. Lord met him, or about the time the shooting is said to have occurred. The police are still searching for the missing revolver and have covered every foot of territory within several blocks of the Rustln home without success. R. L. WILTSE KILLS SELF Ex-Portland Man Commits Suicide in Bingharupton, X. V. BINGHAMPTON. N. T., Sept 10. Robert L. Wlltse, for many years a resi dent of Portland, Or., a veteran of the Civil War, aged 70 years, shot himseU through the head and killed himself in an ante-room of Babcock Post, G. A. R., of Owego. of which he was a member, last night. A post meeting was in progress in the hall, but Mr. Wiltse was alone in the ante-room. No cause Xa known for his act. This Is a bona fide ale. the equal of which has never been known on the Pacific Coast. It . ia n actnal fact and we court proof to the con trary, that the clothes we are miktaf for 17.50 have been rea-olarlr old by ns and others Is Fart rand for as high as S40, Furthermore, they re worth that price. Perhaps, now, 70a can ppreclate the value we are offering at 917.50. Robert L. Wiltse was well known in I Portland, having been for many years I manager of the Riverside Hotel, later Rennes l'":. 1. t. , mlcrobe. . . known as the white iiouse, lormeriy i io nc 'u.0 1 .7';"j , t.V owned by H. C. Leonard. goru wno is cimrB' SIXTEEN YEARS IN PORTLAND NEVER FAILED OR HAD A PAY 100 CENTS ON THE DOLLAR NO HURRY-UP SALES TO RAISE CASH COLUMBIA BOYS' S its X i v t ' - svv n A A DREYFUS CREATES SCENE REBUKES LAWYER IX COURT AT GREGORI TRIAL. Cheers and Groans Compel Suspen sion, of Proceedings in Case ot Would-be Assassin. PARIS. Sept. 10. The trial of I Gregori, who on June 4 of this year fired two revolver shots 'wounding in the wrist Major Alfred Dreyfus, at the Pantheon at Paris during the Zola can onization ceremonies, was begun in the assize court here today. A large crowd was present in the courtroom and the Woman in White." who was conspicu ous throughout the trial of Dreyfus at Rennes. occupied a prominent place. HT.. ....... f.n tiira TX' u w M PVtJ F 1 1 1 1 1 ' 1 1 . liir- 'gnrU who is charged with attempted Portland has been good to us, and this special sale is a slight return for the courtesies. No packing up and moving away in a couple of weeks. to none in the Northwest for honesty, fair and square dealing and the character of clothes they make for the price they ask. We don't have to burn up. There never was a time since this company was organized that it has not paid its bills in full, when due, and made iteelf worthy of credit if desired. Not only has it never had any difficulty with its creditors, but always delivered the goods to its customers. Seattle, Spokane or San Francisco to open temporary quarters for the purpose of raising money to pay back accounts. We live here and will back every statement we make. SUITS MADE IN ordered from us is made in Portland, by Portland tailors. lsitors will be shown through our fine manufacturing plant at any time. "We invite you cordially. Portland people have a. reputation for buying Portland-manufactured goods. That's why Columbia clothes prevail. GHOOL SELLEN murder, told his story- much as he did immediately after his arrest. He ad mitted that his act was premeditated and repeated that he had shot at "Drey fuslsm." and not at Major Dreyfus, as a protest against the participation of the Army in the ceremonies at the Pantheon attending the canonization of Emil Zola. The continued efforts of the defense to wake up the Dreyfus case culminat ed in a dramatic incident. Gregori was attempting to question Major Lenaud on the subject of the confession Drey fus was alleged to have made to him, while being conducted from the court martial to prison in 1895, when Dreyfus sprang to his feet and with white face and trembling violently, shouted to Gregori's counsel: "Sir, an appeal to the court estab lished In the most decided manner my Innocence." Immediately' a tremendous uproar broke out and mingled cheers and groans shook the room. Finally the president was obliged to clear the court before a semblance of order was re stored. the balance of our days. FIRE Mils Comrjany is second after. We never went to PORTLAND the Northwest. Every suit We Are Prepared With the greatest line of BOYS' and CHILDREN'S WEARABLES that it has ever been our pleasure to show. Our JUVENILE CLOTHING is made specially for us by the highest-grade tailors in the trade with the same care and attention to detail as our men's clothing. This puts it in a CLASS by itself. Being shown in our large, well lighted SPECIAL department the only one in the city makes it a comfort and a pleasure for mothers to do their shopping here while our prices are no higher than the ordinary sorts sold elsewhere. Price $3.95 to $15 C SETS FITZGERALD FREE STATE COURT ACTS WHEX GOV ERXMEXT QUITS CASE. United Stales Treasurer, Acting Un der Instructions, Refuses to Prosecute Alleged Thief. CHICAGO. Sept. 10. George W. Fitz gerald, accused by the state authorities of the theft of 1173,000 from the United States sub-treasury here, was freed by Judge Chetlaln today. United States Sub-Treasurer Boldenweck, acting on instructions not to disclose evidence gathered by the Federal authorities, took the stand and refused to testify. Judge Chetlaln thereupon dismissed the case. When the sensational theft was dis covered IFItzg!l!LS2IiS!IiLJlii We are selling our regular $30 and $35 Scotch and English effect Suits 500 of them for $17.50 apiece. We are not making a nickel on them. You know us well enough to be certain that when we advertise a $30 or $35 suit for $17.50, we are actually doing it, and we are. The young or middle aged man who wants a tailor-made suit now has the opportunity of a lifetime. It comes pretty near getting something for nothing. GRANT PHEGLEY, Mgr. S3 sit JLL LEADING EV CLOTHIER the Federal authorities, but they untl mately dropped that lead for lack of incriminating evidence. A private de tective later worked on the case for Mr. Boldenweck personally and secured alleged evidenoe on which Fitzgerald was arrested recently on a state war rant. At the United States District Attor ney's office it was asserted that the evidence was insufficient to convict. This action was followed yesterday by instructions that Federal employes should not testify. Without' this evi dence It was impossible to show the basic fact that a crime had been com mitted. No further action is contemplated. Independence Orators on Tap. RICHMOND. Va.. Sept. 10. Three orators of the Independence party Thomas L Hisgen. candidate for Presi dent; John T. Graves, candidate for Vice-President, and Clarence J. Sliearn, of New York spoke here tonlRht. They charged the Republican party with being the friend of the trusts and said that the rumraiK nrirnnization shifted from radicalism to conservatism continually. MM SEVENTH and STARK STS.