MORNING OREGOXIAX, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17. I90S. 1 i . --1 RECORD TURN-OUT AT STATE FAIR Estimate of 25,000 People Attend Salem-Day Events and Crowd Stands. BENTON COUNTY IN FIRST Presiding Judge Harrlman Declares Oregon lads Other States In Equipment and Management of Its Annual Show. SALEM, Or.. Sept. 16. (Special.) Benton County has won first place In the county exhibit competition and can now claim to be the banner agricultu ral county of the state. The awards were made tonight by the three judges. Charles Cleveland, of Gresham; F. H. Ecrlbner, of Wisconsin and R. L Swag gert. of Umatilla County. Lane County was given second place. Yamhill third. Multnomah fourth. Polk fifth, Colum bia sixth and Clatsop seventh. Benton's victory was won by a splen did display put up by Frank Groves, of Oorvaills. who evidently spared no ef fort to make the exhibit complete. While his commercial apple pack Is not so large nor so attractive as that from Tamhill, he covered a wider range of products and excelled In other particu lars. Neither Benton nor Lane made a particularly strong feature of any one line of products, and the general pub lie had difficulty in deciding which county made the better exhibit. Marlon County had an exhibit which would have been R strong rival for first place, but this county Is barred under the rules because the fair Is held here, and Marlon would have an advantage in that respect. Benton's display comprises about every prod-ict that can be grown In Oregon. The peaches, apples, plums, prunes, grapes, garden vegetables, seeds, grains, grasses, dairy products, etc.. are all represented by specimens of surpassing excellence. Great Attendance at Fair. This was a record-breaking day for the Oregon State Fair. At 4 o'clock this afternoon 22.0X people had passed through the gates and this number was probably Increased to 25,000 tonight, though the records are not yet available. The grandstand at the racetrack scats S.OOrt people. When 6,000 had been ad mitted and standing room was filled, the doors were closed and the crowd lined up on both sides of the racetrack for a quarter of a mile. Probably 15,000 peo ple .witnessed the races, the remainder of the crowd spending the afternoon In the pavilion, at the livestock barns and In other departments. All business houses in Salem were Closed today, the farmers came in from the surrounding country and the people of this vicinity Joined in making Salem . day the big day of the fair. It is doubt ful whether tomorrow's crowd, Portland day. will reach the numbers admitted today. The work of making awards In the sev- eral departments was continued today. In the dairy department Tillamook car ried off the first prize for cheese In a competition in which there were eight en tries. F. C. Schwingel of Tillamook city, made the cheese that won the premium. Axel Raven of Salem won first prize for creamery butter, with four competitors. Mrs. John Girardin of Turner surpassed two rivals and secured first prize for dairy butter. The first prize for con densed milk went to Mrs. S. A. Yoakum. Charley D. Takes Big Prize. Joseph Thompson's Charley D. won the Z:0S pace for the Greater Salem purse of 15000 this afternoon, cut contrary to ex pectations, did not lower the Northwest record of 2:04, established by Sherlock Holmes on this track last year. Though this was a pleasant day for spectators, it was a heavy day for a racetrack, and this may account for the failure to lower the record. It Is said, however, that Charley D. can make the mile in four sec onds less than his time today, 2:08, but he did not have to do it today. He won In three straight heats and by more than a length each time. The race was a dis appointment to the crowd, not only be cause the record was not lowered, but lso because Charley D., a California horse, won. Tidal Wave and Delilah, . Oregon horses, were the favorites, but the stranger was given hearty applause " after his victory. Tidal Wave got second place. The summary of today's events follows; Summary of Races. S:OS rr. vk. three In five Charley t. first. Tidal Wave second. Magladi third; time 3: OS. Two year old trot, ttnn 7.ombll first. Tlnrortor second. rr. Jonee find Jemima Klnc divided third money; time 2:l. Thne u old trot. $.".00 Katallna first. Tr. t'lman second. Princess Ilrect third; time Handicap, on mile runnirit. fiooo MHar first. Redwood second. Arcourt third; time 1:41V Runnlnc S mile. 1W Firdie P. first. Mary rninn second. Forest Rose third; time 1:02. Portland Day Events. Tomorrow will be Portland day at tha Fair, and a large crowd is expected on the excursion from the metropolis. The big speed event of the day will be the 2:14 trot for the J5000 Lewis and Claric purse. The three Oregon athletes who won world-wide honors at London, will be here as special guests of the Fair, but no formal exercises have been planned for them. The parade of prize-winning livestock will take place between IX and 1? o'clock A. M. In addressing the audience at the wrandstand todav. Presiding Judge K. u. Harriman declared that he had visited a dozen of the state fairs of the United States and had no hesitancy In asset-t ins that Oregon has the best-equipped best-managed and best-patronized State Fair In the I'nited States. He had Just come here from a visit to the Kansas and Colorado State Fairs, and declared that at the Oregon Fair he has seen more people, more and better livestock than at either the Kansas or Colorado fairs. He gave the Fair management credit for the great success attained by the Oregon institution. Demonstrates Budding and Grafting A very interesting and instructive j ....Htlnii In hnilHln. and srraftinff uriliunii"v" ... . . fruit trees was conducted this morning in tne mausirmi j . . ... C. A. Cole, of the Oregon Agricultural College. A large crowd of horticultur ists gathered around the O. A. C. booth and watched the work of bud dirg and grafting. Professor Cole brought with him ail sorts and sixes of tree trunks and branches and showed how bud and grafts are inserted, ex plaining the process and warning farmers against errors. He freely answered all questions and made the demonstration so clear that any man who saw the work and heard the ex planation could go into Ms own orch ard and transform the fruit trees from one variety to another. All day long people interested In fruit growing pass through the O. A. C. exhibit, examining the specimens of various fruit pests so that they can recognize them when seen in the orch ard. The college professors are giving daily lectures on methods of controll ing or destroying all kinds of pests. In the department of county exhibits there is much evidence of a tendency to specialize. Yamhill County, which has the most advantageous place in the pavilion for an exhibit, has put up a magnificent display of apples In com mercial pack. The apples, however, are almost the only portion of -the exhibit that attracts attention. Columbia County, though exhibiting some fine fruit, ha3 made a strong point on grasses, and in this line Columbia would be hard to beat. Clatsop County's feature Is a display of honey and of bees at work in a glass hive. Clatsop County's booth Is made beauti ful by an artificial iaae leu oj iuu- tain. This Is Clatsop s Desi year iu Fair and the exhibit is well worth the wide commendation It is receiving. Multnomah Exhibits Grain. Multnomah County's strong point Is grain. Its fruit exhibit is good, but sparing in quantity. Marlon, Benton and Lane have comprehensive exhibits, strong in all particulars. Marion is barred from the competition for prizes. ndor the rules of the Board or Agri culture, this exception having been made because the Fair is held in Marion County. To the casual observ er the contest for first place lies be tween T?enton and Lane, and yet the careful checking of an expert might show another county In the running. Benton and Lane lead in quantity and it would be difficult to excel either of them in quality and variety. Polk County's exhibit is small but strong in grains and garden vegetables. A collection of peaches in commercial pack from the Mission Bottom orchard of Alex La Follette is one of the most striking features of the Marlon County exhibit. M. O. Lownsdale's apple pack is the center of the Yamhill display. EZRA MEEKER IS AT FAIR Attends With Ox-Team He Drove Across Continent. SALEM. Or., Sept, 16. (Special.) Ezra Meeker, the pioneer who recent ly made the trip back across the Oregon trail with an ox team, is here with his oxen and prairie schooner. His outfit and himself attract wide attention among the visitors to the Fair. TAKE LOADING PERSONALLY GRAYS HARBOR M1XLMEX FORM COMPAXT. Expect to Avoid Trouble With Long shoremen by Agreement to Employ. Tnion Men. ABERDEEN. Wash., Sept. 16. (Special.) A stevedoring company composed of the mlllownera of Grays ITarbor is being or ganized in Aberdeen. The papers to per fect the organization are being drawn and the association will be ready for business within a short time. Officers of the organization have not yet been elected. The organisation of the mill owners as stevedores has been taken with a view to avert the trouble they have been put to by differences between non union and union stevedoring companies of the Sound and other places. In the recent case of the Greenwich and the Craighall the steamers were de layed at their docks and valuable time lost by the millowners because of fric tion between the nonunion stevedoring companies of the Sound and the union Ionsshoremen. It Is proposed under the by-laws and constitution to contract for the loading of vessels in Grays Harbor and to employ union longshoremen. This, in the opinion of millowners, will do away with the trouble and annoyance they have been subjected to in the past and for which they were in nowise re sponsible. The decision of the millown ers to so act by taking the power of load ing vessels into their own hands is far reacliing and may be the beginning of a plan that will be carried out else where. The action of the millowners while it has created some consternation among representatives In Aberdeen of foreign stevedoring companies and local steve dores, yet some of them say there will be no objection to millowners loading steam schooners and other coastwise vessels. They claim It will hardly pay for the millowners to attempt to contract .the business if that should be done, inas much as some of the companies with agents here are large buyers of lumber and could divert the big tramp steamers from Grays Harbor to other ports. They do not expect there will be any conflict with the proposed new organization. DON'T LIKE COMIC PAPER University of Washington Students, Publishers, Denied Admission. SEATTLE, Wash., Sept 16. (Spe cial.) The students backing the Si wash Chief, the comic weekly, which has been "squelched" by the faculty of the University of Washington, have been denied admission to the univer sity. President T. F. Kane has given orders that none oi mem oo ici ncu to enroll and their applications for registration were rejected. The editors of the Siwash Chief, the first and last Issue of which appeared Monday, the day college opened, ap parently have considerable difficulty in ascertaining Just what is the trou ble. President Kane, it Is understood. Is willing to nave a new petition go be fore the faculty. The editors who were refused admission to the univer sity are Abe Hurwttz, Victor Zednlck, A. M. Harris. Harold Birkett, Russell Parker, E. W. Allen, Luclen Kellogg and Max Enos. FIND UNIDENTIFED BODY Supposed to Be That of M. S. Was- son, of Seattle. SEATTLE. Wash.. Sept. 16. Special.) The badly decomposed body of a man was found today in the thick woods near the town of Kenmore, at the northern end of Lake Washington. No definite clews as to the Identity of the dead man could be discovered, but the body is thought to be that of Minden S. Wes son, of this city, who disappeared from his home early in May. He Intended at that time to go to Van couver, B. C, and since his departure nothing has been heard from him. About that time a man corresponding to Wes son's description, and apparently partial ly Insane, was seen near Kenmore, where he begged for food. He may have wandered Into the woods and starved to death. For bargains in trunks, suit cases and bags go to the Harris Trunk Co.. 132 Sixth, opp. Oregonlan. They are selling off the bankrupt stock of the racuio coast jiruns, tt WASHINGTON VOTE SHOWS ODDITIES Position of Candidates' Names on Ticket Works Contrariwise. "LAST SHALL BE FIRST" Politician Explains That in Voting Second Choice for Man Not Wanted, Result in Totals Gives That Candidate Nomination. BY JOE SMITH. a TCaali Sent- 16. (Special.) Even a casual study of the Incomplete and untabulated returns of lt Tuesday's mpii with it the con- victlon that the unique second-choice pro vision of the law nas compieujij accomplish the purpose for which it was . . . . v, ihA Tsialature this provision was Intended to prevent the consolidation or an evu emmcm tors by combining their strength upon a i- ii n Anfnt, untr for the nomi- nation naif a dozen rival candidates for the same office representing oexier poli tical elements, through a hopeless division of the votes of "good" citizens. Instead of accomplishing this purpose it almost invariably fastened the nomination upon the candidate whose name happened to be printed last in the list of those for that office on the official ballot. So i . . KooimA the tendency of the second-choice provision to deliver the ... , . .... .V.a hallnl nomination to tne met mwi uu .. that Democratic leaders are already be ginninc to refer to the ticket nominated In the Republican primaries as "that choice collection of second-choice flukes.' Describes Second Choice. 4 1 c.i,ii.an i m h it- whose favorite candidates were Invariably defeated in the primaries, has descrlDea tne senona-t.-iiui-o feature of the primary law as "a provis ion in which you cast one vote for the candidate you want and another vote for the man : du don't wont and the man you don't want gets the nomination." This description ir borne out by the re turns thus far available. On the Republi can primary bal'.ot there were five con tests for nominations' upon which both first and second-choice votes were re quired of all primary electors. In but one of these, that for th. nomination for State Insurance Commissioner, do the returns Indicate that the successful candidate won upon his first-choice votes. In that contest J. H. Schlvely, the Incumbent, ap- v kaa., r a r-T-f thrnucrl bv fjetu " i " ' " . . . . - the prestige and popularity of his incum bency of the oftlce, though this result may possibly be reversed upon the tabula tion of complete returns. The other four contests were those for Governor. Lieutenant-Governor, Attorney General and Congressman from the Third District. In the first three of thee four the nomination went, on second-choice votes, to tne candidate whose name was printed last on the ballot. In the Con gressional race the nomination went to Judge Polndexter, whose name was next to the last, and the last of those candi dates who were at all well known, but Judge Polndexter ran almost strong enough to win the nomination on the first choice vote. The congressional contest Is the only one of these four contests In which the nomination went to the man who was the strongest candidate as Indicated by the first-choice vote received by him. In the Governorship contest the re turns at hand indicate that both Gov ernor Mead and ex-Governor McBrlde were stronger than S. G. Cosgrove, the winning candidate, in' the respect that more voters selected them as their first choice for the nomination. In the race for Attorney-General. W. P. Bell, whom the returns point out as the winner, received fewer second-choice votes than any other man on the ticket, but was dragged through to success by the second-choice votes of electors who preferred some other candidate in stead. In the Lieutenant-Governorship contest the first-choice vote gave Charles E. Coon a long lead over all his competitors, but Hay, the last man on the ticket, came in so strong on the second-choice vote that It now appears as though he has won the nomination. Last Xame on Ticket Wins. The returns show that in those coun ties and precincts In which none of the candidates for a certain office pos sessed any particular strength for geographical or personal reasons there was a slight tendency to give the first man on the ticket the largest flrst cholce vote, and a much more striking tendency to give the last man on the ticket the largest second-choice vote. A few illustrations will show how strikingly this tendency was in evi dence. For instance, in Walla Walla County, where, on account of wider personal acquaintance and the fact that he was an Eastern Washington candidate, Klpp might have hoped to secure the highest vote for Attorney-General, Tanner, whose name was first on the ticket, received 616 nrst-choice votes to 231 cast for Kipp, whose name was third, while Bell, who ran below both Tanner and Easterday in first-choice votes, received 767 second-choice votes, as compared with 321 for Tanner, 417 for Easterday and 412 for Klpp. In the same county, where Schlvely, the first candidate on the ticket,, led in the first-choice votes for insurance com missioner by a vote of 985 to 418, 218 and 195, respectively, for his opposing candidates. Welbon, the last man on the ticket, and who received the lowest first-choice vote, received 637 second choice votes to 183 for Schlvely, 443 for Helander and 622 for Bullock, re spectively. In Thurston County, which has been the official residence of Easterday, while a member of the State Tax Com mission, it was expected that he would easily carry the county for Attorney General. On the first-choice vote he did carry it, receiving 798 votes to 433, 95 and 273, respectively, cast for his opponents. Tet Bell, who ran third in the list, on first choice received such a large proportion of the second-choice vote from his position on the ballot that in the total he led Easterday by a plurality of 129. Oddities of Totals. In King County,' the home of Tanner, whose name appeared first on the bal lot for Attorney-General. Tanner car ried the day on first-choice votes, but the second-choice vote of himself and his opponents drifted so strongly into the lap of Bell, whose name was last on the ticket, that on total vote Bell carried the county over his King County opponent by a plurality of 900. In Spokane County, as Indeed in many another county in the state. Bell, who ran lowest on first choice, ran much the highest on second choice, a fact which is inexplicable except on the ground of hts favorable position on the ballot. To what extent the fact that Cos- 1 grove's name appeared last on the Wtl.v .OnriM.tA ATM his nOITli- nation for Governor on second-choice votes it is impossible to guess from the returns, sx many and varied were the influences entering into the con test; but it is reasonably certain from the influence this condition had upon candidates for other offices that that was no small factor in deciding the result. Nor do the Democrats have a mono poly of the charge that the ticket of their opposition party Is made up of "second-choice flukes." Very meager returns of the Democratic vote indi cate the nomination of Pattlson for Governor on the Democratic ticket, but the few figures collected from out ivlnff counties, ahow Blackman. the last candidate on the ticket, running J so strong on second-choice votes that his nomination over Pattlson is now considered an easy possibility if not actually a probability. supposed Pauper rich Has Over $1100, But Seeks County Hospital Treatment. SEATTLE, Wash., Sept 16. (Special.) When James Hamel, 62 years old, ar rived at the County Hospital he was sup posed to be a pauper. The clerk asked him if he had any valuables and he said he had not. He was given a bath and the nurses then searched his clothing. They discovered ten $100 bills, one J50 and $11 in change. Hamel Is the wealthiest patient that has appeared at the hospital since old John Evangellsto a year ago was discov ered to be a millionaire, although he had lived In a little tumble-down shack at Green Lake. The average fortune of arrivals at the hospital is something like 10 cents and a plug of tobacco. Hamel Is a member of . the Pavers' Union. ' Last July he was laying paving stones on Yesler way when a fragment of stone flew Into his left eye. He was taken to a hospital where the bit of stone was removed. On his way back to work he passed a steam shovel at work on the Fourth avenue regrade and a bit of cinder flew into his other eye. He went back to the hospital and has been there, with both eyes inflamed, under the care of an occulist until last Sunday. He Is nearly blind. He was removed to the County Hos pital at the request of his landlady. He apparently had no money to pay his board and lodging and as he was almost helpless she found it impossible to take care of him. CHANLER IS NOMINATED (Continued from First Page.) choice unanimous was lost by two or three scattering negatives. Why Dlx Was Named. The selection by the leaders of John A. Dlx, of Washington, as the candi date for Lieutenant-Governor came as a big surprise, as it was taken for set tled since early last evening that Fran cis Burton Harrison, of New York, would be the choice. It is believed that the leaders de sired to strengthen the ticket by nam ing a far up-state man. Mr. Dlx is a member of one of the oldest families in the state. When the convention was called to or der the credentials committee reported that there were no contests to be sub mitted to the convention. Cheers fol lowed the announcement. Judge Alton B. Parker, permanent chairman, was pre sented to the convention amid applause and cheers. Parker Assails Sherman. Not the least striking feature of Judge Parker's address was a declaration that James S. Sherman, 'the companion of Mr. Taft jon the -Republican ticket. In vaded Wall street for political contri butions In 1906 when Mr. Sherman was chairman of the Congressional commit tee. Kvidence is not m-antlng of the set pur pose of the leaders -of the Republican party to continue their plan of securing fund front those who are Interested either la legislation or In non-enforcement of law. Smarting under the exposure of the Insur ance Investigations of 1905, and subsequent disclosures not under oath, its Congres sional committee In 1B18 called for dollar contributions from Individuals to aid In the election of the Republican members of Conirrees. The President himself subscribed a dollar. an4 a few others whose names were advertised, and then the publication of subscriptions ceased, and then the chair man of the Congressional committee, now the Republican candidate for Vice-President, went down, as did his predecessors of old. into Wall Street to get the money with which to influence the doubtful dis trict. He Charges Extravagance, Judge Parker charged the Republicans with gross extravagance in the Federal administration as well as in those states under Republican control. We need not be astonished to find that the Republican party in order to obtain the vast sums of money necessary to meet the demands of its extravagances has will fully, through Its promulgation and enforce ment of excessive tariffs, aided in and brought about the upbuilding of the ma jority of those' giant fortunes which the President has denounced so vehemently. Judge Taft In his letter of acceptance admits that the gTeat majority of the com binations In restraint of trade, the forma tion of which the high tariff especially aided, have arisen within the last ten years. During all that time the Republican party has controlled both the Federal Govern ment and the government of substantially ail those states which have created or tol erated them for we have yet to hear of their creation or toleration in the Southern states which are under Democratic con trol. Judge Parker declared that the bene ficiaries of the tariff had long been looked to to fill the Republican campaign chest- He said the contributing corpora tions had grown In number, "swelled In affluence and gained in influence until the point was reached of a practical working business alliance between the Republican party and the favor-seeking corporations.' it is not onlv the earnest desire of all good cltisens of all parties whatsoever that our political life should be clean, but It la essential to the liberties of the people. That result will not be accomplished until busi ness and polities are dissolved by statutes the violation of which will result In Im prisonment We can never hope for that result while the Republican party is In power. It has created It Frankenstein. The creature must be fed. It ha created n svstem of corruption which has now prog ressed to the point of controlling the power which created it. Tne KepuDiican pi has reached a point where It dare not pause. Levying Toll on Trusts. It was at this point that Judge Parker made his attack on Mr. Sherman and from that he turned to President Roose velt and Mr. Harriman, saying: Here we see a man of great ambition and. as we are told, of lofty Ideals, become so accustomed to this party custom that he does not hesitate to Invite Mr. Harriman to Washlneton to secure hi good offices for money-raising purposes, taking Indeed the precaution absolutely to assure his coming by suggesting In a letter that after the election he desired to consult him about the railroad feature of hi message. What may have occurred at that meeting we do not know, but that it was sufficiently agreeable to Mr. Harriman to lead to his contributing and raising Immediately upon his return to New York the sum of $25.000 we do know, as also that a quarter of a million of that money was scattered over this state of Nw York for "practical uses by practical men." An we to assume that the smiting of the stockholder of Mr. Harrlman's and the Standard oil magnates' corporation by the President was because his eye at last were opened and he had attained an appreciation of th serious char acter of the offense which' they had com mitted in helping to swell his campaign fund? It may be so, but It 1 squally true that these corporations were not the first victims of an aroused conscience, nor did Mr. Harriman attain to eminence on the list of undesirable cltixens for some two years. When he was Anally singled out from other great contributors for excom munication cannot be absolutely proved, but the letter which the President Wjpte to ('CoJrl J- Porter. " L WHEUMATISM Seemingly atica, Etc., liberal use known as Moffett's Spring Water, lamous among tne Indians ana pioneers; ; Recommended and for Sale by Woodard, Clarke Co. This Sparkling Water Is the Favorite Table Drink At Leading Hotels, Restaurants and Drink Parlors. Bottled at the Springs by Table Rock Mineral Water Co, Table RockWash. Portland Agency, 605 Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Sherman upon Mr. Harrlman's v-i -i.i another Republican Congress afford food lor reflection. Assurances are saiu u given that the Republican party will In the future continue w . (, a. It ha. in th.p. h. " nterest. " which. in return lor m " " ' . 7; - supported It ana contmueu 11 If Bryan la Elected. Judge Parker In closing said the peo ple must look to the Democrtalc party '0The ejection of Mr. Bryan and Mr. Kern through the assistance of the electoral vote of the State of New York will go very -far to secure this underlying, earliest and most Important of all the many needed reforms. It will do more. It will assure It, for once It become apparent that the PPl recognise the gravity of the evil and : have determined to cut It out. root and branch, no party will dare to stand In the W. Judge Parker was liberally applaud i ....knni Vii uneech. at the con clusion of which the committee on resolutions reported, on wauonai put ties and candidates, the platform heart ily indorses the platform adopted and the candidates named by the Democrat ic National Convention at Denver. Platform's Eulogy of Bryan. "The Democratic party is the ra tional exponent of the hopes and wishes of the tolling masses in their lifelong struggles against class privilege and greed and it reiterates its abiding faith in the principles of demooracy as against a plutocracy. "We hall as the embodiment from the best traditions of our party and as the ideal exemplars of Democratic doc trine the standardbearers chosen by the united Democracy of the country as our leaders In this campaign against the organized forces of special privi lege and legalized spoliation. "Mr. Bryan has been for years con spicuous in the public eye, and against his character, motives or private life no suspicion of any kind has ever arisen. With no army of public offi cials ready at his beck and call to control party machine, with no Gov ernment department organized so as to coerce corporations and financial ln terests into contributing to his cam paign fund, his nomination has come as the spontaneous response to the wish of the great mass of his party and represents the aspirations and hopes of the, rank and file of the Dem ocracy throughout the Nation. Like Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jack Bon, the great leaders of the Demo cratic party in its early days, his pol icies and his political motives have been bitterly assailed by privileged in terests, whose supremacy is dangerous to the institutions of our country. Like JefTerson and Jackson, he has repeUed all the attacks made upon him, and he is stronger today than ever before In the affections and con fidence of the people. Mr. Bryan does not stand for an attack upon honestly acquired wealth. His election will re store the administration of Federal Government to the ideas of the fathers and assure to the country a safe, sound, stable, economical and consti tutional construction of the law. "No greater praise can be given to Mr Kern and no less is his due than to say he is in every way worthy to be Mr. Bryan's associate on the Na tional ticket." Attacks Hughes' Administration. Of Governor Hughes, the platform says : "The promises of reform upon which the present Governor was elected have not been kept. We point as proof of this fact to the expenditures of 1907, which are larger than the extrava gant sums expended under the prede cessors of- Governor Hughes. We charge him with the responsibility for this, waste and with giving his time and attention to the pursuit of spec tacular methods and seeking advertis ing Issues, rather than to the work of reform and retrenchment, upon the promise of which he was elected Gov ernor two years ago. "We believe." the platform further says, "'that government of the state by commissions is only another evi dence of Republican policy of centrali zation and is in direct opposition to the principle of government by the people. It wants less noise, less legis lation on new and untried lines and of doubtful constitutionality and less in terference with personal and economic liberty. "We favor the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people." On the call of the roll for nomina tions for Governor, the only ' name placed before the delegates was that of Lieutenant-Governor Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, of Dutchess County, and his nomination was made by acclamation. HILli DECLIXES NOMIXATIOX Does Not Want Democratic Indorse ment for Senator. ROCHESTER. N. Y., Sept. 18. National Chairman Mack today telephoned to ex Governor David B. Hill at Albany and at the request of the state leaders asked him If he would permit the convention to name him as their choice for United States Senator to fill the next vacancy. Mr. Hill replied that he appreciated the offer, but that he had retired from politi cal life and could not accept. Two years ago the state convention adopted a resolu tion that at the following convention the delegates should express their choice for Senator. The leaders today decided not to ask the delegates to indicate their choice. . Sherman Speaks at Wilkesbarre. WILKBSBARRH, Pa.. Sept. 16. The Re- niikllM. ctflttt o nH Nfltinnnl cnmns.iCTl was opened in the armory here tonight at a mass meeting auenueu uy mute Luau 6000 persons. R. H. Hapgood. president of tne xtaie jueague ui iMjuuntaii iiuub presided and Introduced James 8. Bher mant who .was warmly, received, Marvelous Cures of Rheumatism, Sci- Vtctvf. nften been accomDlished by the of Table Rock Mineral RIVALS IR AMITY Americans and Australians Have Tugs-of-War. BRITISH TARS DEFEATED Lose to American Fleet's Team, but Albany Police Beat Americans. Sailor Killed by Fall on Battleship. t-dax-v w a Sortt 1 R There was L.i . . . , ,, . " - . -' - " a reception and dance on board the bat tleship Connecticut today, given by the m in ,ainm fsir hoRnitatltV that they have received on shore. Among those present were the Governor and the Premier or west Ausiraua. io inn itw meats, and the occasion was an unqualified success. In the tug-of-war contests on tnurt u American team defeated a team from the -n-:.:-u ilK-altar hilt A. tPflm made up from the Albany police force de feated the Americans. llh.nv trcrra a hall tr. XiiO iua.'vi i j " nlpht to the American officers. Several American admirals ana many oiiicera at tended. The Premier was represented by the Governor. James Jackson Coughlln, ft' seaman on the battleship Illinois, was killed today by a fall while engaged in coaling ship. The departure of the fleet for . Manila has been postponed until September 18. The collier Epsom has not discharged here, but will carry her cargo to Manila. VAXGtARD REACHES NAPLES Italian City Gives Enthusiastic Wel come to American Warships, NAPLES. Sept- IS. Far along toward the completion of the circuit of the globe, the battleships Maine and Ala bama, the vanguard of the American Atlantic fleet, arrived here this morn ing and were given an enthuslastio welcome. Thousands appeared at the waterfront, when the sound of the guns booming salutes was heard, and later, when officers and men came ashore, the Inhabitants of Naples re ceived them with a hospitality that in dicated a thorough appreciation of the visit. The government and naval officials have made arrangements to give the visitors a royal entertainment while they are here, and today there were many decorations to oe seen on pub lio buildings and a fine display of the Stars and Stripes. The commanding officers of the two battleships expressed themselves as well satisfied with the condition of the men and their ships. UKEHrS BIG PLURALITY LEADS IK KIXG ' COUNTY BY 2384. Bitter Fight Against Him Availed Little in Leading City of Washington. SEATTLE. Wash., Sept 16. (Spe cial.) The plurality of United States Senator Levi Ankeny over Wesley L. Jones in King County, in the primaries last week, was 2384, according to tn official figures which have Just been compiled. The fight made against Senator Ankeny, which was led by the Post- Intelligencer and in which other papers joined, was bitter In the extreme. No term was too harsh to apply to him nor no statement too sweeping to make concerning him. 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