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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 25, 1908)
CiPAP APATHY IS iT APPARENT Every Indication of Activity at Local Headquarters of Republicans. SPEAKING TOURS PLANNED Senators Bexeridge and Borah Are Among 3fotd Orators Who Will B Heard in Oregon Stats Iieadcrs to Take Stump. WTtvr may be the Impression In Washington regarding apathy in the ranks of the Republican campaign managers, there was no evidence of it yesterday at the headquarters of the Oregon State and Multnomah County committees, on the second floor of the Chamber of Commerce Secretary McArthur was found busy at his desk dictating letters to county chairmen and leaders of the party in various parts of the state, and Na tional committeeman Williams was on hand to add his word of advice and assist In discussing the situation with callers, among them being prominent members of the party. When asked what was thought of the interview with Judge Ballinger reported from Washington yesterday. Mr. Williams uaid he believed the Judge had been misunderstood in what he may have said, for there was no foundation in fart for a belief that Taft and Sherman were In danger in this state. He added that in his Jast advices from Secretary Hitchcock no adverse criticism was made of the conduct of the campaign in Oregon and no intimation made that this state was considered at all doubtful. He fully concurred In what Secretary McArthur said and added that the case might be made even stronger and be within the actual facts. Good Majority, Says McArthur. "The management of the Republican National committee need have no fear about the electoral vote of Oregon," said Secretary McArthur. "Taft and Sherman will carry the state by a sub stantial majority. I do not wish to speculate as to figures, but from ad vices received from the outside coun ties and from conclusions drawn from local conditions. I feel warranted in making the prediction that the Repub lican Presidential electors will have a majority that will be altogether satis factory. This office has received most encouraging reports from the outside counties. Only yesterday I received callers from Benton. Wallowa, Uma tilla. Clatsop and Marion counties, and they all assured me that Republicans in those counties would vote the Repub lican ticket and a good many dissatis fied Democrats would scratch Bryan and vote for Taft. "The Republican State Central Com mittee of Oregon has been unjustly critlclsied in the East. It is true that the campaign was slow in starting, but this was due to the serious illness of State Chairman William M. Cake. Ac tive work, however, has been going on for more than two weeks and satisfac tory progress has been made. The State Central Committee has distrib uted more than 100.000 pieces of litera ture. 25.000 lithographs of the nomi nees, and 40.000 campaign buttons throughout the state. These materials have not been wasted, but have been scattered systematically throughout the counties. Plans for Speaking Tours. "Arrangements are now being made for speaking tours and every county In tiie slate will be included in the itin eraries. A number of the leading Re publicans of Oregon have volunteered to go on the stump, and besides this there will be some speakers of National reputation from outside the state. Senator Beverldge will be here for a big meeting about October t and Sena tor Borah will come a little later on. This campaign is being waged solely In the interests of Taft and Sherman, local factional issues being given no place, i am altogether satisfied with the progress that has been made and do not like tills outside criticism about lack of effort on the part of our party. "We expect to carry on a very vigor ous campaign from now until election day. and when the votes are counted the majority will be such that the Re publicans of Oregon may well be proud of it. 1 shall be glad to see Judge Richard Ballinger and receive such suggestions as lie may offer, but there is no occasion for alarm over the Ore gon situation." These Will Stump Stale. Among the speakers that will appear on the stump In Oregon during the campaign are H. M. Cake, Senator Ful ton. Wallace McCamant, J. D. Lee, R. R. Butler, of Condon: Judge Stephen A. Lowell, of Pendleton. Judge M. C. Ceorge. Mayor George K. Kodgers of Salem. Congressman Kills and W. A. Williams. This Is only a partial list of those who will be requested by the state committee to speak. The cam paign is to be opened October 10. when Senator Beveridge will come to Oregon, and Mr. McArthur says from that time until election day it will be kept vigor ously prosecuted In every county of the state. Referring to the alleged delay in starting the campaign in Oregon, it was said at headquarters that the Na tional committee had not yet begun to put much steam into the campaign, but that before many days every part of the country would be canvassed by promtnent speakers, so that the people's minds might be refreshed on the Issues between the two parties, and the rela tive merits and claims of the respective candidates. THOROUGHBRED CATTLE AT THE PACIFIC NATIONAL SHOW. GRANGE FAIR IS " OPENED State Lecturer Johnson at Miivsau kie, Discusses Work of Order. At the formal opening of the Milwaukie Grange fair, last night. State Lecturer J. J. Johnson, who delivered the opening address, declared that the progress farm ers have made In all lines the past few years has been due to the farmers' or der. He contended that through the ed ucational department of the Grange a better class of farmers had been de veloped, and that life on the farm. In stead of being Irksome and devoid of op portunities, has become more desirable than life In the city. Mr. Johnson devot ed his address to an extended talk on the Grange as an educational order, and pointed out Its practical workings at large and In the home. He also spoke of some of the laws in which the farmers are in terested, and mentioned especially the ne cessity of protecting the Initiative and referendum. Robert illllax also delivered an' inter- J a..-,, r-Wf? r. i ' ' .f V '(.' , V. ... -. h.. ...'' :. '- x S A- I i . $1 . 1 1- U - ' " TV ' I J J GjeouF ar?j?&zi S7zzys eating talk on "Grange Affairs," and commended these in vigorous language. Today is Oak Grove day. Prises will be awarded at noon and the baby show will be held. There are many proud mothers ready for the show. At night there will be an entertainment. On the whole, the array of articles is most excellent. WOMAN FAILS TO APPEAR BOXDSMEX OF MRS. WAYMIRB TO FORFEIT $750. Conspirator In Plot Against Mayor Lane Has Loft Stale and Can not Be Returned. Mrs. Belle Waymire is not likely to serve four months in the county jail because of having conspired to blacken the good name of Mayor Harry Lane, She simply failed to show up at the county jail yesterday to begin her term of sentence. Consequently her bail of $750 will be declared forfeited. This loss will fall upon local individuals whose names, for obvious reasons, have never been given to the public It is presumed that they were willing that the bond should go rather thair that the fair Belle should be made to languish In the morbid environs of the county's place of detention. Ten days ago Circuit Judge Ganten bein allowed ten days time for the ap pearance of the woman to show cause why her ball should not be declared forfeited. This period of grace ended yesterday. During the day an order was sent to Seneca Fouts, counsel for Mrs. Waymire, directing that he pro duce her in court Immediately. But this task was a trifle difficult of accomplishment from the fact that Mrs. Waymire is commonly believed to be in Missouri, or some other such remote point. There she is safely outside the court's Jurisdiction and since the charge against her is only a misdemeanor it Is not possible to bring her back to Portland. Raddlng, being neither a woman nor especially good looking, is doing his term in the jail without sympathy. He has been serving for the past three weeks and has some five months and one week ahead. When Mrs. Waymire left the city, following her conviction and appeal of her case to' the Supreme Court, she said she would return to serve every day of the sentence should the higher court find against her. She had the consent to leave of her bondsmen, who ever they may be. The bond is of the cash variety and bears the signature of Mr. Fouts, but those who know that lawyer say he has long since passed the stage of putting up $750 of his own money In such a cause. There is little doubt but that the bondsmen, rather than have the woman go to jail, con sented to lose their money. FIRST DEGREE IS CHARGED Inquest Into Killing of Cbaries Heg- burn at Lents. First degree murder is the charge which Casper Blickenstofer will have to face because of having killed his friend Charles Hegburn with a club at Lents Tuesday night. Blickenstofer s contention that the other threatened him with a pitchfork was not borne out at the inquest Into Hegburn's death held by Coroner Norden yesterday. Henrv Lundgren. a 9-year-old boy, who saw the killing, testified that Hegburn had no pitchfork or other weapon in his hands when Blickenstofer struck the fatal blow. It. F. Courtney, who heard Hegburn cursing Blickenstofer, said the blow was delivered with such force that he heard the impact 100 feet away. He, too, said Hegburn was not armed with a pitchfork. The jury in the case went through the usual formality of finding that the dead man was dead and that the confessed murderer killed him. After the Inquest Blickenstofer was taken to the county jail anH assigned to quarters in a section of the jail that has come to be known as "murderer's row," because of the ten prisoners now sojourning there pending trial on charges of this character. FINDS HUSBAND'S GRAVE Widow of Michael Supple Claims $10,000 Estate. Also Deserted by her husband, Michael Sup ple, 22 years ago at Minneapolis, Mrs. Mary Ann Supple has been hunting for him all these years, and has at last lo cated his grave in a local cemeter. She applied to the County Court yesterday for his estate, valued at nearly $10,000. She said they were married at Morris Run, Pa., in Octobr of 1861, and had five chil dren. He deserted her at Minneapolis. The woman is the only claimant who has appeared thus far. 6he must prove her relationship before receiving the pro ceeds of the estate. $2.95 WAIST SPECIALS, Worth $6; they are net and silk mostly, don't miss this opportunity at Le Palais Royal. ,,, i tin i r mi-i -ott a j. ... s . g ..-y - i Vi fa k - - fist - tfww Bi L ' ' t - - - ' . - lunni ni w-P ' " s $f t - aaat J " i '1 f - -i'- BELL BOOSTS BRYAN California Congressman Says Tide Turns to Democrat. TAKES FLING AT PRESIDENT MAXriTH' MISTAKE) PEOPLE'S GAIX (SS.oeO Stock New Fail Style Shoe Labeled Incorrectly. Admit mistake and order shoes sold. Bannister. Kneeland, Slater and MoraL if and $7 grades, $3. Si; $4 and ii grades. CeUar, ti jiorrUon, bet. ta and, gti vote of 10 to I. It looks to. jn aa U Declares Roosevelt Has Lost Hosts of Friends as Result of Attack on Haskell Boomerang That Will Hurt Taft. That President Roosevelt has qualified for membership lh his own Ananias Club in his controversy with Governor Haskell, of Oklahoma is the outspoken belief of Congressman Theodore A. Bell, of Cali fornia, who passed through Portland yes terday on his way to Seattle. Congress man Bell arrived in the morning from Willamette Valley points, where he has been campaigning for Bryan, and left at 2 P. M., for Seattle, where he will make speeches for the Democratic candidate. W. R. Jacobs, of Sacramento, a prom inent lawyer and warm friend of Mr. Bell, accompanied him. "I believe President Roosevelt has lost more friends In the last T2 hours than any other man In the history of the coun try in a similar length of time," declared Mr. Bell at the Oregon Hotel yesterday. "No man because he is President has a right to malign another without stint. If I. were Haskell, I believe I should sue President Roosevelt for a nice large sum for criminal libel. "No other President in the history of the country has so lowered himself as to go out of his way and denounce private citizens of the country who may happen to disagree with him in political faith. The attack upon Governor Haskell is un worthy of a man who occupies the posi tion that President Roosevelt holds. "So long as Roosevelt has divorced himself from the office of President and has become the press agent and campaign manager- of Taft, custodian of his cor respondence and his conscience, it will be Incumbent upon him to stay in this coun try. In the event of Taft's election, and see that he does as he is told to do. "The denunciation of Haskell is a boomerang that is already reacting against the Republican candidate. The people are no longer satisfied that Roose velt shall take advantage of his position as President to denounce citizens of this country. The settlement of such dis putes ae that with Governor Haskell de pends merely upon veracity. Roosevelt has heretofore urged his position to force his opinions. upon the country and no one else had any chance to stand before him. The people are tired of this kind of thing and it will be found that the recent un warranted denunciation of Governor Has kell will lose votes for the Republican candidate. "I have just completed a tour through Jackson. Lane and Marlon Counties in this state, and I find, particularly In the first two counties, where I spent most of the time, there is a strong tide turning toward Bryan. Oregon has declared em phatically for the election - of United States Senators by a direct vote of the necnle. The Republican convention at Chicago turned down this proposition by the people of Oregon were going to re buke the Republican party to show they are Inearnest when they voted for the popular election of United States Sena tors. "In my own state. California, it is my opinion that if the tide continues to run to Bryan as it is now, -California will be a strong Bryan state by October 1. There are splendid gains being made all over the country for the Democratic candi date and it looks like Bryan is sure to be elected." OKLAHOMA SENATOR TOXIGHT T. P. Gore, Blind Orator, Will Make Bryan Speech at Armory. Tonight will mark one of the biggest rallies of the Democrats in the present campaign. Senator T. P. Gore, of Okla homa, will reach the city this morning and will speak tonight at the Armory, where arrangements have been made for seating a large crowd. It Is pointed out that all who attend will be amply repaid for Senator Gore, known as the blind Senator, is one of the most eloquent of public men, and he is expected to deliver an address of unusual Interest. Senator Gore, who is accompanied by his wife, will be met at the Union Depot by a large reception committee, headed by Governor Chamberlain, chairman. Newton McCoy is vice-chairman. Other members are: Senator John M. Gearin. Judge M. B. Munly. Judge Seneca Smith, Mayor Harry Lane, National Committee man M. A. Miller, State Chairman Alex Sweek, County Chairman George H. Thomas, R. D. Inman and D. M. Watson. The party will be conveyed in auto mobiles to breakfast from the depot, where Mr. Watson will be the host and the committee will join in the function. Senator Gore will rest during the day, although he will he taken for rides about the city at times convenient to him. Mrs. Gore will be entertained while In the city by Mrs. Watson and Mrs. Thomas. At the meeting at the Armory a large party of Democratic , warhorses will be seated on the platform. The reception committee, the county central committee, the Presidential electors and delegates to the National Democratic convention will have seats on thplatform. Senator John M. Gearin will preside at the rally, which is expected to he one of the most enthusiastic to be held by the Democrats during the Presidential cam paign. Senator Gore is said to be famil iar with the practice of many of the principles of the Democratic party as they are in operation in Oklahoma and he will tell about their success In that state. Democratic campaign leaders who are arranging the rally expect a very large, audience at tonight's meeting. Republican Rally Tomorrow. While Senator Gore, of Oklahoma, is speaking at the Armory tomorrow night to the Democrats, the Republicans will set up a counter attraction at Merrill's hall, where some local talent will sup ply the oratory. Under the auspices of the Forty-fifth Precinct Republican Club, there will be a Taft-Sherman ral ly. Ben Rlesland will preside and Colonel D. J. Haynes will be the speak er of the occasion. Wallace McCom mant. Dr. Henry Waldo Coe, William G. Hale and Allan R. Joy will talk on the Issues of the present campaign, giving' reasons why the voters should support Taft, Democrats Hold Rally. Democrats held a rally last night in Artisan Hall. Portsmouth, which was quite well attended. E. S. J. McAllister, candidate on the Democratic ticket for Presidential elector, and Bert Haney, formerly Deputy District Attorney, made speeches favorable to the cause of Bryan and Kern, FAIL TO FIX BLAME Hydrant Hearing Leads to No Definite Results. GRAFT CHARGE FALLS FLAT Complaining Company Refuss to ' Sign Definite Accusation Against Inspector Phillips and Matter Is Taken Under Advisement. John Q. Shane, manager at Portland for the Hoge Swift Company, local agents for the Ludlow Valve St Manufacturing Company, an Eastern firm, refused point blank to sfcrn charges against either Fire Chief Campbell or Hydrant Inspector Phillips at the meeting of the fire com mittee of the City Executive Board, and the whole matter was taken "un der advisement" at the suggestion of Mayor Lane. Walter O. Haines, of the same concern, who made the verbal charges that Phil lips is "financially interested In the Port land brand of hydrants." was not present. Responsibility for the two months' delay in the acceptance of 85 fire hydrants, fur nished by the Hoge & Swift Company, and which were manufactured by the Ludlow people, was not fixed, and that matter will be reported back to the Ex ecutive Board this afternoon. It is be lieved that the failure of the fire commit tee to fix responsibility will create dis satisfaction.' Especially to this true as to Thomas G. Greene, who Introduced the resolution calling for the investigation and lent his services as a private citizen in directing the examination held last Monday. He seemed to hold Chief Camp bell to blame, but the members of the Are committee did not so find. Cases Are Apparently Ended. The charge of dereliction of duty as to the failure to test or accept the hydrants and the sensational verbal charge against Inspector Phillips grew out of the same installment of hydrants. That nothing will come of either feature of the case seems certain. Mayor Lane and the members . of the Are committee held a long session, and carefully considered both features of the case. As the responsibility for the trans action of business is so divided under the city charter, it seemed impossible for the committee to fix upon any one person the blame for the long delay in accepting the hydrants. The responsibility seemed divided between Chief Campbell, the Water Department, the contractors, and, to a degree, the fire committee and the Mayor himself, as was conceded by the committee. As to the charge of "financial interest," verbally made by Walter O. Haines against Inspector Phillips, the commit tee received from the Hoge & Swift rep resentative letters purporting to state the rumor that Mr. Phillips received money for rejecting any hydrants but the Port land brand. Refuses to Sign Charge. "Will you sign these statements and thus bring a formal charge against Mr. Phillips?" asked Mayor Lane of Manager John G. Shane. "We have given you the basis for our statements, and that is as far as we will go." replied Mr. Shane. Marcus A. Fleischner, chairman of the committee, said that he felt that the charge Is too Berious to be made lightly, and expressed himself as indignant be- cauee no formal charge was made, to give basis for a full Investigation. Richard Wilson, another member of the commit tee, said be did not have the time to "sit around and listen to hearsay evidence," and L. T. Peery, the third member, said he would not care to take cognizance of mere rumors. Upon the suggestion of Mayor Lane, the matter was taken under advisement. ADMEN TO INVADE SEATTLE Pacific Coast Convention to Be Held In Exposition City, F. J. O'Brien, president of the Pacific Coast Advertising Men's Association, in a letter to R. M. Hall, states that the next annual convention of the associa tion will be held in Seattle, June 13, I and 17. Portland will send a large delegation to Seattle, and it is expected that California will be extremely well represented, owing to the fact thac June 15 has been designated as California Promotion Committee Day. The Cali fornia people are already planning an Immense excursion which will give the advertising men from that state a very low rate. Frank L. Merrick, chief of department of publicity of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, is a member of the Pacific Coast Advertising Men's Asso ciation, and also writes Mr. Hall that the advertising men of Seattle, together with the Exposition management, are preparing a great time for the adver tising men of the Coast at the June meeting. British Indlar has S8.1I miles of tale graph and cable wirea, which are worked at a pond profit. Always Ready TO SERVE Post Toasties A deicious corn food, thoroughly, cooked, rolled into delicate flakes and toasted a ,. rich, golden brown. A crisp, delightful food that pleaaes old . and young. "The Taste Linger" Mad at Pir Food Factories of Fostum Cereal Company, Limited, Battl Creek, Mich. T5 7s m r m I c - hese lalkind IVJacmne rices Talk By Taking Advantage of the Special Prices Now Quoted in This Clearance of About 110 Talking Machines, You Save More Than Half the Original Price in Most Cases Enough to Buy a Splendid Stock of Records See Display in Win dows at Washington and Park Sts. Sale now on, and these bargains are sure to be appreciated by shrewd pur chasers. You need not pay all cash, if not convenient, as we will accept monthly payments from reliable people. Such prices as these will probably never be duplicated cannot be by smaller dealers. $7.50 for $17.50 Machines $8.50 for $20.00 Machines $12.50 to $19.40 for $25 and $30 Machines $65.00 and $155 for $109 and $200 Machines EVERY MACHINE FULLY GUARANTEED While a Talking Machine gives pleasure and entertainment all the year round, the Fall and Winter, with its more or less stormy and "stay-inside" weather, especially during the evenings, is the time when it is really the most entertaining. The jolly, rousing ragtime or an imprompta dance, and the good old songs of long ago, will help you and your friends to spend many a cheer ful evening, which might otherwise be dull and monotonous. Whether you own a Talking Machine or if yon buy one during this Clearance Sale, you will prob ably want a cabinet for your records, and here, too, you will be able to supply your wants at about a third to a half less than ordinary, as we are including in this sale about 50 splendid cabi nets. The prices quoted below vll give you an idea of the reductions: $ 8.75 for $25.00 Cabinets $ 9-50 for $27.00 Cabinets $26.00 for $38.00 Cabinets $47.50 for $70.00 Cabinets $52.50 for $85.00 Cabinets OTHERS IN PROPORTION .. . x- i....?. TaiHiitT Mnfhinn and Cabinet tosrether, if youdecfdeTo . would otherwis. cost you U2 50 You actually save $26.25 by purchasing during this Clear ance other equally attractive combinations in proportion to the original cost. When it is considered that you can now purchase a Talking Machine. Cab inet and a stock of records for actually less than the usual cost of the Talk ing Machine, is it any wonder we advise an early call! First come, first choice. Eilers Piano House 353 Washington Street, Corner of Park. The Largest Dealers in All Makes Talking Machines, Records and Cabinets in the Northwest. GOLD sterilize DUST will your kitchen things and make them wholesome and sanitary GOLD DUST does more than clean it steril-, iw! nnrl Ipavps vnnr lritrhfvn thin era sanitarilvsafe. - j - - j j , The ordinary soap-washed utensil is not fit to eat trom, because soap does not cleanse as tnorougmy as it should does not kill germs of decay which are bound to lurk in oft-used utensils. Besides its cleansing virtues, GOLD DUST has the merit of doing" work quickly, and saving vour strength. It will do most of the cleaning without your assistance, and do it too, in a quicker , and more thorough man ner than will soap, or any other cleanser. GOLD DUST makes pot and pan spick and span. -let tkt GOLD BUST IWim do tw mrlf Made by THE N. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY Makers of FAIRY SOAP, the oval cake. SAN FRANCISCO AND RETURN October 3d and 4th special excursion tickets t San Francisco and return will be sold for $25.00 from Portland, with corre sponding low rates from all other points on the SOUTHERN PACIFIC CO., (Line, in Oredon) LIMIT OF TICKETS, TWENTY-NINE DAYS This excursion rate, which was made on account of the Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress, is open to the public. For particulars, sleeping-car reservations and tickets, call at City Ticket Office, Third and Washington Streets, Portland, or any S. P. Agency elsewhere. WM. McMURRAY, Gen. Pass. Agt., PORTLAND, OR. ON SALE EVERYWHERE I Hi I H II , ,A. Santaella & Co., Makers, Tampa The Hart Cigar Co., Distributors
