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
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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.
In the face of this fight, which nn
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among the men who knew him un
doubtedly had much to do with his
large vote here.
OPPOSE SECRET ORDERS
Eugene Board of Education Frowns
on High School-Societies.
EUGENB, Or., Sept. 18. The Board of
Education in Eugene has made rulings
opposed to secret orders in the High
School.. The idea of the board is that
there should' be no organization in the
school to which any student might not be
admitted. .
Nels Kennell, private secretary to
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