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Ca.cao. rooma 410-Slz Trlbuae aalidlas. s rORTLAXD. ffED?fIflPAT. OCT. 1. I. CXSTABLE AS WATER. Mr. Bryan's idea of the issue In the present campaign appears to be a. good deal like the pea In the shell came. When you think you have it f and sure, behold It isn't there. The New Tork Tribune presents a pretty Uttle list of the various and lu.lv. thesea which Mr Bryan has held aloft one after another aa all irtportant Issues. But once they were .loft the eloquent candidate thought he had had enough of them . nd in continently dropped them Like th My butterfly. Mr. Bryan -iov... to mt from flower to flower. He began the campaign with a grand 'rV trumpets proclaiming that the Lssue of issues was e question. -Shall the people rule?" Where is it no-w? Has Mr. Bryan discovered that the people do rule or that they do not? If they do rule, why does he not soothe our perturbed spirits by telling us so . If they do not rule, why has he dropped the subject? Is It less Important than It was a few weeks ago? Has the experience of the New York bosses with Mr. Hughes convinced the mel lifluous Nebraskan that the rule of the people is a subject which they can dispose of without assistance. As a matter of fact, the people al ways rule whenever they are willing to take the trouble to do it. When they are not willing to take the trou ble then they are ruled by the bosses and the charlatans Just as they de serve The country realized this un deniable truth, and therefore it took little Interest In Mr. Brian's first glorious but evanescent Issue, fao he had to find another. Wandering vaguely up and down the earth in search of something to orate about, he lighted upon Mr. Gompers' injunc tion bugaboo which the Denver plat form entertained with such decep tively tender courtesy. As long as It Is the principal business of the courts to protect property the process of In junction will remain essentially as it Is No change that amounts to any thing will be made. Mr. Bryan knows this and everybody else knows it. But by Inserting a rromise to Interpose a Jury trial between the court order nd the penalty for violating it. Mr. Bryan hoped to persuade the worK Ingmen that something would be done and thus reap the harvest of their votes. By the time they found out how they had been imposed upon, he fancied he would be firmly seated In the Presidential chair and could listen to their howls of disappoint ment with a complacent soul. The trouble with this plan is that there Is a respectable number of aorkingmen who understand the in junction situation thoroughly, and know xactly what is to be expected In the way of alteration. They know perfectly well that It makes not an lota of difference whether Bryan or Taft Is President bo far as injunctions re concerned. Thus tjie feigned at tack on the power of the courts has measurably failed as a lure for the labor vote, and Its failure will become more and more decisive as election day approaches. Tho American peo ple will not permit the authority of the courts to be Impaired by any party, and consequently worklngmcn will feci perfectly free to vote for the better man as between Taft and Bryan. Those who really wish to at tack the courts will Join some party which declares its purpose frankly. Not many of them can be misled by a simulated attack which Is nothing more than a springe to catch wood cocks. So far as Injunctions go, the Tribune says that Mr. Bryan seems to dodge "his own issue." To let the cat out of the bag. he Is afraid of it for two good reasons. In tho first place, he knows that no promise to wreck the authority of the courts could be kept were he ten times President. In the second place, he is aware that to parade such a promise would cost him many more votes among the prosperous classes than It would win for him among the lndl ' gent. There are a number of other issues . like the guaranty of bank deposits, the extirpation of the trusts, govern ment ownership of rail-ways, and so on. which Mr. Bryan has timidly thrust Into the world and then heart lessly deserted. Forsaken and for lorn they wander up and down the land without a sponsor and In danger of perishing, while the Peerless One likewise "wanders with nothing to talk , about except himself. This brings us to the real Issue of the campaign the one which emerges above all others as paramount, while the feigned issues faint and fade away. That Issue is Mr. Bryan himself, the elusive, unstable, fleeting Mr. Bryan: the man who blows hot today and cold tomorrow, who declares this week that the salvation of the coun try depends on government owner ship or the guaranty of deposits, and next week on something entirely dif ferent; Mr. Bryan who has not the ability to formulate a statesmanlike programme 'or the courage to stand by it If he could formulate It: who hopes to win the Presidency by pan dering to ail tastes and placating all differences of opinion. He has so many principles and changes them so often that It Is the same as If he had none at all. To put the matter briefly. Mr. Brian stands neither for the Roose velt reform nor for the revolutionary Ideas of the Socialists. He belongs to the past Insofar as he belongs to anything. His thought Is crude, his measures are childish, his standards re false. If he should be elected he would grope hopelessly bewildered In the thicket of his perplexed con cepts and accomplish nothing. What d we want of such a President? OCAEANTX. Government requires guaranty of Its own funds, wherever Its funds may be. It does not require guaranty of private business transactions. That Is not its function. This is the reason why government requires of every collector and cus todian of Its funds a guaranty or se curity for their safety. It doesn't require the man who buys wool or turnips to guaranty the payment. It is the business of the seller to do that. Government la simply taking care of its own business. It leaves each Individual to take care of his own. It Is the depositor's business to think about the safety of tho bank in which he may deposit his money. It Is the grocer's business to think about the financial standing, of the person who buys his goods whether he is "good pay." or not. Are the bills of grocers to be guaranteed by law ? Heretofore The Oregonlan has spoken of the Oklahoma experiment. jt troaied the Oklahoma essay simply as an experiment, of which the results will not be known till some crisis shall occur. The demand for bank guaranty Is now a mere partisan cry. It has reference solely to political partisanship, not to economic policy. After election nothing more will be heard of the great success of It. In or from the wonderful state of Okla homaeven though the Standard Oil Governor of Oklahoma did write Bryan's platform. But it is said that deposits in the banks of Oklahoma have greatly In creased since this law "went into effect. Is that any assurance that they will be paid, when a crisis comes? The opposite, rather. In Oklahoma now they are depositing money in any kind of thing they call a bank; and the banks that offer largest Interest and therefore probably are least se cure, are the favorites. Again, it is shown that the increase of deposits, of which boast is made, is due largely to deposit of public funds by officials of all kinds, who formerly kept the public money In the vaults provided for it. One man takes a note from an other. Is government to guaranty its payment, or to provide or require that Its payment shall be guaranteed? Or la each person to look out for his own business? In the long run, all this nonsense will be abandoned, and each person will still look out for his own business, as heretofore. PROSPKBITT OF THE COUNTRY. It doubtless Is true that the radical or "agitator" section of labor will throw most of Its votes against Taft. It will divide them between Bryan and Dehs. Such course is natural to it. But the steady part of the labor unions never Is controlled by these radicals. It votes on deliberate Judg ment, and on large general principles, that include regard for the whole welfare of the country. Still, it may be expected that Taft will lose votes that Roosevelt received four years ago. But .the general condition of in dustry throughout the country is good. In our Pacific states labor never was In better demand, and it Is well paid. Lumbermen, generally, are at work. The entire agricultural class of the country Is very prosper ous. A correspondent, writing from Ne braska, says: "In the railroad cen ters Taft will lose votes. This means that the majorities In the cities will be cut down. But the farmers are peculiarly prosperous. They have had a long succession of bumper crops, with sky prices." Further: "The farmer class Is living better, eating better, dressing better than ever before. The country postofflces are more active, and the rural deliv ery routea have been bringing In newspapers and magazines, and costly automobiles may be found at the front door of one prosperous farm house after another." The same conditions are observable throughout the Pacific states. It would be strange Indeed If the farm ing people were not satisfied with the prosperity that has been Bteadlly theirs, these many years. Their main J trouble Is to obtain the assistant labor they require. THE PANHANDLE PROBLEM. The Spokane report that the joint agreement between the O. R. & N. and the Northern Pacific in the Lewlston territory had been abro gated will perhaps be denied, but sooner or later it will be confirmed. This confirmation may not take the form of an official circular to the public, but will more likely be mani fest In lively construction work. The territory Involved Is rich in natural resources and a satisfactory division between two competing lines of the long haul on this traffic will 'always be a delicate matter. The Northern Pacific,; through its activity about ten years ago, has become pretty firmly Intrenched in the Clearwater coun try, and is marching on to Grange ville. With the prestige of possession in no small portion of the Idaho Pan handle, traffic, and a Joint agreement by which It can use the water-level route from Lewlston to Riparla, where It again connects with its own tracks, it is quite apparent that the Hill road has an Immense advantage over the Harriman lines. Unless the latter should break the joint agree ment regarding the territory beyond Lewlston, at would be placed in then position of operating the Lewiston Riparia line under a Joint agreement and getting only a small portion of the traffic that yielded Its greatest profit on the haul before it reached Lewlston and after It left Riparla. There Is quite naturally a great econ omic waste where two lines of rail road are built close together in . a territory where one line can handle all of the traffic. It was this fact that induced Mr. Harriman to offer the Hill lines a trackage agreement over the O. R. X.. rather than have the opposition build a line down the north bank of the Columbia. Not that Mr. Harriman was desir ous of saving money for the Hill forces, but because It offered hit.; an opportunity to trade his trackage rights for concessions elsewhere. The Northwest will eventually be the gainer by this failure of the two leading railroad systems to reach an agreement which would have de prived us of the North Bank Road. A similar satisfactory situation will probably develop' when the inevitable split occurs In the Idaho territory. As a local proposition, one single- track line between Riparia and Lew lston can handle ail of the traffic TIIE Mnnxixn OREGONtA. KEOPAT-.,.PCrQgEB .7., 1908. that can ever be developed along the road. But elimination of grades nas been a Harriman hobby and the Harriman forces are already at work building a .line down Snake River to Lewlston, where ultimately there will be a connection for Riparla. Over this water-level line wiu oe carried the vast tonnage that will be developed in the entire Coast regions between the California line and Brit ish Columbia. This traffic Is grow ing into such enormous proportions ihat it cannot fail to excite great comoetition between the roads, and. as this competition increases, there will come increasing difficulties in maintaining an amicable Joint agree ment over the short connecting link between Lewiston and Riparla. The logical and natural solution of the problem Is construction of a line down the south hank of the Snake River and abrogation of all agree ments regarding the Panhandle terri tory. This solution may not be reached Immediately, but It is one of the certainties of the future. THE TREND OF HISTORY. The Bulgars, a people of Turanian stock, kin to the Huns ana to tne later Turks, first made their appear ance in the region of the Lower Danube in the sixth century. A. D. Late in the seventh century the first Bulgarian Kingdom was established between the Danube and the Balkans. Not numerically strong, they were very warlike; and they gradually ex tended their Inffuence and conquests, and became a powerful factor In nar rowing the boundaries of the Eastern Roman or Byzantine Empire. Most of the original stock became Ma hometan; but Bulgaria, south of the Danube, became Christian, and Sla vonian-.- The .modern Bulgarians Dear the Bulgarian name only In the way in which the Romanized Celts of Gaul bear the name of their f rankisn masters from Germany; in the way in which Jhe Slavs of Kief and of Moscow bear the name of their Rus sian masters of Scandinavia. Anal agous also were changes produced by the Norman conquest of England. The Bulgarian Kingdom spread within few centuries over a large territory, extending from the Danube to the Aegean, and from the Euxine to the Adriatic. But revival of the power of tho Byzantine Emperors in the eleventh century reduced Bul garia again to narrow limits, for a time; and about the middle of the fourteenth century the western parts of Bulgaria were absorbed in the Empire of Servia. Again, Bulgaria made good its claim against the Byz antine Empire, and gained an ascend ancy over Servia; and by the year 1440 it had taken in nearly the whole remnant in Europe of the once great empire of the East. Even efore this date the Ottoman Turks had entered Europe, and in 1453 they took Con stantinople. From this time the Turks pushed their dominion rapidly over the whole of Southwestern Europe, and even reduced the greater part of Hungary; till finally their progress was stopped in Europe by the valor of the Poles. This was the final deliverance of Europe from the danger and dread of Moslem power; which, at intervals, had been a menace for nearly a thousand years. But the Turks l.ad finally destroyed the old East Roman power and had completely absorbed the old King doms of Bulgaria and of Servia, as well as large territories north of the Danube.- The whole scene since has been but a history of misrule, accen tuated by innumerable revolts In the various principalities, bringing new and increasingly horrible cruel ties and oppressions. The "Bulgarian atrocities" have repeatedly shocked the civilized world, and have been the occasion or excuse for interven tion by other nations; notably by T?,i.!in which has seldom been at any long Interval at peace with the Turk. Her own aggrandizement un doubtedly has been Russia's chief aim. Western Europe never has been willing to see in the hands of Russia the enormous power which the pos session of Constantinople would give her. Napoleon, even in the height of his power, refused it, declaring that he could not permit Russia to be come so dangerously powerful. Uivi sion of Europe between himself and the Czar. Napoleon knew could be no more than a temporary arrangement or truce; for each would always be lentous of the other. England, latterly, is the power that has stood in Russia's pain, in is is Russia, having broken the military power of Turkey, forced from the latter the Treaty of San Stefano, which parcelled out the territory of the Ottoman Empire In Europe among the various states of the Southeast, all to be virtually under Russian protectorate. Then it was that the rest of Europe, under the lead of England, took alarm, ana forced Russia to cancel the Treaty of San Stefam, and take the Treaty of Berlin as a Substitute for it. This, however, could be nothing more than a makeshift. The situation is not agreeable to the people of the princi nallties. who insist on paying tribute to Turkey no longer. Hence, their present proclamation of indepen dence. It would be an easy matter, but for the fear of Russia entertained by the rest of Europe. Fear of Russia at pntistantlnonle is the nightmare, not only of England, but of France, Aus tria, and Germany. This is "the providence that's watchful in a state,' These powers fear that an Indepen dent Bulgaria, if they had no bonds upon her. might gravitate to Russia, through the affinities of the Slavonic population. Affinities of blood reach back over the ages. They are the most wonderful of the phenomena of biology and history. That they should be most wonderful in the human race is not surprising; for mind has af finities even more subtle than matter, and of greater potentiality. It seems that no race, no people. Is conceded the right to control or direct its own destiny, in its own way, with out regard to others. Jefferson's idea of local-state-sovereignty democ racv. is small. Inflnitessly small! Its last kick in America was at Appomat tox. Democracy win prevail. But It is great; it isn't smalL Bryan Is an exponent merely of Its small local views. " The grand Jury has thoroughly In vestigated the Kelly Butte scandal and other phases of the prolonged tlzht which the County Court has been waging against Sheriff Stevens, and among other comment in its re port appears the statement that "the wishes of any man or set of men must not be allowed to thwart the will of the people, and the custody and con- trol of prisoners at Kelly Butte should be placed in the hands of the Sheriff." Now that the Oregon Legislature, by a bill passed at the last session; the people by a two-to-one referendum vote affirming the act, and the ferand Jury by Its report, have all agreed on this point, roadbuilding by prisoners ought to proceed without any more whisky and opium smuggling or gen eral grafting at Kelly Butte- There is no good reason why a few ablebodied convicts should be immune from road work and permitted to smoke opium ,rf Hrlnk whisky, while others. .i ..-. ia,.v nf mnnev for the pur chase of such luxuries, are made to work. In the future, there win De n0 difficulty in fixing the responsioimy for the handling or ine cuuw v oners. h1o nossibilitles for de- lilO v - velopment In the coast counties are strikinglv shown in me .--.-ports. For example, the Clatsop County Assessor reports 5379 acres of tillable land, and 47S.997 acres of non-tillable land In Clatsop i-ountj-. The term "non-tillable" is somewnat misleading, for it includes vast areas of fine Umber land, wnicn, alter Umber is removed, will produce enor mous crops, or which can be trans formed Into the finest dairy ranches' In the world. Dense forests of won-i.-rui iimhur now make the greater part of Clatsop as well as other coast county lands "non-uuaoie, out iuo farmer and stockman, who will some How fniinw the logger through that country, will make those acres turn oft sustenance for thousanas, ana i!-e- ciUes and towns will spring up throughout the entire "non-tillable" region of the coast. The French submarine Emeraude arrived at Cherbourg. Monday, after a run of 81 hours, in which she cov ered a distance of 69 3 miles under water. This beats the record made by the NauUlus, which that eminent Frenchman Jules Verne set afloat more than a generation ago under command of Captain Nemo, ine Emeraude's points of superiority over the Nautilus are further disclosed, when It is remembered that the Jules Verne submarine was a fictitious pro duction, leaving no official log to cor roborate the story of her voyages. while the Emeraude is a real tangible craft. The French are a great people. Jules Verne gave them the record for the nrst suDmanne, ana xne eme raude now shows up with the longest submarine cruise on record. The steamships Magdala and Nederland, each drawing 25 feet, crossed out of the Columbia together. The Magdala in the channel found plenty of water, but the Nederiana, deviating sllghUy from the deepest water, touched lightly on the sands and started a few rivets. The acci dent was a trivial affair, and was liable to happen in any port where ships fall to keep in the channel. It Is fortunate for the Columbia River that the two ressels passed out at the same time. When one ship crosses out without touching, and another of equal draft at the same stage of tide takes the ground, it is unmistakably clear that the condition of the chan nel is in no way responsible for any slight accident. If, in the face of the evidence, our Puget Sound friends can derive any comfort from this matter, they are welcome to It. Multnomah County is giving ample proof of its right to be known as an agricultural and horticultural sec tion of the state in the fair now in progress at jresnam. The products of field, garden, orchard and dairy, now on display there, are of the very best in their several lines. The exhibit is worth going far to see The attendance upon the opening day was good and the weather fine. For the rest, the farmers are proud of the display, as, indeed, they have good right to be. The American FederaUon . of Woman's Clubs has given added proof of its usefulness as an organization and of the scope and intelligence of its effort, in the announcement that it will give acUve support to the cam paign of educaUon against tubercu losis. With a membership number ing 800,000, this body will certainly be able to advance the interests of science and humanity in the cause to which it has Just been pledged. All the big deals and all the big profits are not made in town lots and business property in the Oregon Country. For example, there is the case of Rev. H. M. Bartlett, of Ken ewick, who has Just sold his 33-acre orchard for J29.700. at the rate of 900 an acre. In the Spring of 1904 he bought the land for J250 an acre, and the balance of f21,450 is pay for his acumen and four years' labor. Bryan telegraphs to the Fresno (Cal.) Tribune: "Our piatiorm en titles us to the support of the Pacific fnn-t states." Probably because he thinks the Pacific Coast states don't want a Pacific naval force, desire abandonment of the Philippines and other Pacific Islands, and don't care for development of Pacific Coast commerce. Wex Jones writes that "a simple letter acknowledging the receipt of money from, say. Standard Oil, is sure to be twisted into some sinister meaning by unscrupulous political enemies." Therefore, don't write let ters. That boy, Wex Jones, when in Oregon, gave proof of much sagacity, The French have made a record voyage with a submarine, 69S miles In 81 hours. They are Just a cen tury too late. One hundred years o trn that enhmBrlnn wnnlri haTA en abled Napoleon to humble Great Britain. Roosevelt's refusal to take the stump for Taft lessens the need of Governor Chamberlain's taking the stump for Bryan. "Our George " al ways was lucky. Some left, of the so-called news papers, which, if they couldn't bark and snarl and carp at The Oregonian, would have no function in life. Promoters of the Ananias Club onght to find many recruits among the 52.000 excess of Republicans over Democrats in Oregon. The baseball magnates have decid ed that New York-Chicago tie game to be a tie game. That ought to sim plify things How many labor union men who are now so loudly for Bryan were ever for any one else for President? CLEVELAND LETTER GENIINEJ Best Opinio Seema Now to Be That It Is. After all. opinion is settling down to the conviction that the Cleveland letter was genuine. Tho Philadelphia Ledger, strlcUy and absolutely Independent, which was among the newspapers that originally published the article, yet for a time, after the question of its authen ticity was raised, was in a state of un certainty, now reviews the whole mat ter, and gives these conclusions, vii: ThotiKIl tne late urover uieveiajia aw prepared a document more recosnliably cnar- acierjaT-ic, mura uiuiuufiii) Individuality, there as a axtlatm ettort to discredit the authenticity of the article pub lished by the Public ledger and other pa- t.i. A ... XI- UaMlnM PxeCUlXir ot the Cleveland estate, now comet forward wltn, a eiaiemeni wuiuj jcno w -tho Cleveland authorship. The article takea Ita place with the recorded publlo utterancea of the only Democratic President ainoe the Except' in mlnda o besotted with party prejudice that they could not comprehend the ,j .,,.... Hdiah, Intel- consider i an, ine man wi .-w - honeaty and relative justice, of great capacity xor severe lawr uu iuj..v..v- the lace of the severe problem, setter -u lnea tor toe i-rsiaencj' hkm. -,, tn&4 leader, trumpeting faJse calia to reiornj. . . i i w i n m i HAnaatv with vnlrn Cleveland forced hla way through cunnlnif . - l i .taiHna. hla minlte lile bora down the pretense of later pollUca in the message written just before hla death. The doubta of authenticity, unwisely pro jected In the campaign by hasty eronf of Mr. Bryan, have compelled Mr. Hastings to connrm tne retsuiainj i.i ; doubtera have both extended and intensified the impression made by the published reflec tiona of Mr. Cleveland on tha present sit uation ot National parties. Strong at first, the CleveJaad paper bu new a double sireni.n -- - - arousing to action the aobef conscience of the tS voThT-read U August 55. and wili oe (St by many who did not see It when campaign. Tha Clevehtnd frlt will be a uSftannenc. on the Presidential elecuon. Brooklyn Eagle. T ..a-fetAn -RrnnrtMlburfir. Who SOld to the New York Times a letter purport ing to have be.m written oy me Grover Cleveland, the authenticity of . . . i i ..oil a in nnestion. in a wniea ntM uccu - statement to the press this afternoon charged that he was tne -Democratic conspiracy. ... . i .. , h nuhlication of the Cleveland letter in the Times. Mr: Bran denburg alleges that ne neara . -. . . . ...i.i.i.. tVta MArtret councils plot aaicueu win,." of the Democratic party to discredit its authenticity. Ana in a ment he submitted to District Attorney Jerome, in whose hands has been placed the investigation of the entire affair, this charge is fully elaborated. "I wae engaged last Spring, began Mr. Brandenburg this afternoon in a statement to the Eagle, "Dy r. v. x,r.-kem,- Sunday editor of the New York t t . , -xt. . ... i d o.i m e to secure an article from Mr. Cleveland upon the subject of personal liberty versus public policy. This article was tu - bearinsr upon tne iiugnes i n.- legislation. "I visited Mr. Cleveland at nis uumo in Princeton and secured the desired Interview. In the course of it the ex- President complained that he naa gen erally been misquoted in the newspa- j q n t i mm to correct pera auu - ' j - certain erroneous impressions as to his Ideas that had gained wiae puuirau. t An -r,n hotter than suggest X ltuiU W a- 1,1- v.A tntriTRt ma with the to UUU kiin... w " task. I suggested a number of subjects on which the public wouia hkb w i an authoritative opinion from him. I , j t Dhni,i hva him to write a series of three articles and offered to pay him therefor the sura oi iiuu . i i .. ,.. wnicn ne iwLrLtu. "On March 5 I saw Mr. Cleveland again in regard to the matter, and he submitted to me a number of small 1. 1 . j vaiiis lAflvfi ii ti on which he had written his views on such subjects as the tariff, etc. 1 giancea ucm through and discovered two paragraphs . . i i j j trt Mr. Rrvan and wnicn im ui.. .u w - I endeavored to persuade him to leave these out. .t hon tnir thpse sheets of paper home with me and put them into a con nected story, whlcn 1 suDmittea to mi. Plaveland for his correction. He kept j i- .. ..rn o time made numer ous corrections and' many interlinear additions. These were then given utu;n. to me for a final draft, and while they were in my possesion many of my friends saw them. They saw the sig nature of the ex-President appended to the 'copy' and his handwriting be tween many of the typewritten lines. These can be called in as witnesses to back up my assertion that the letter as Ln.k.j in t,& TimM tu not a fake. UUUUttUCU " - - -' "Mr. Cleveland told me in the next two articles he would write as per our agreement, he would outline in a more radical fashion what he thought -would be for the welfare of the jjemocratic party. ... .TTrt.l tnmnlatpri manuSCrlUt in 1 1 ikii mc ......... - my possession, to which was appended a signature oi air. weveiujiu, x wou the office t the Herald and submitted u rkiv .,Aitnta4 anrl hasrcrled over it for weeks. They claimed that they did not want to publish anything tnat would be a detriment to Mr. Bryan's chances of election. There was some disagreement, too, over tne price i ae- t'-r t t ,.Titt1 th manuscrlTlt to Pomeroy Burton of the London Daily Mall. Mr. Burton reiusea it, aawnuusn i I, 1 . ....... tmnA Htllff H A did not no uu . " ev . ,1.1-1. tt rcao nf onnne-h Importance to UUUk - " readers across the pond to warrant paying my price. I tried tne oroaaway d It turned me down. I i .t ti tha World, but Mr. Pul ito. tiinnirht I wanted too much for it, onH t inn.liT went to the Times. It kv,& it nn in a 1lffv and asrreed to pay me $650 cash for the rights of it and a royalty on ail suDsequeni tuieo. "Shortly after the letter came out, I heard that a plot was brewing among the influential Democrats to discredit It I am alone in this fight, but will stick it out and wholly vindicate my self. "It was unfortunate that Mr. Cleve land died. He did not get to the other irfiniu T returned the interlinear copy of the letter to him before his death, and his executor ougnt to nave it.' Vandala Steal Bismarck's Sword. -DhllnrlAlnhin. Inouirer. nsihinir iviMiv alone a dark road on a two-mile auto sprint to capture three autoists whose particular brand of hu mor showed Itself in the confiscation of the great steel sword from the statue of Bismarck, located near Wissahickon mansion, policeman Wilde finally lost out In tne race wnu uiuii.b . ki.i. i Wo vlHInff- hroka down. He saw a machine driven up to the statue and three young men got out. rooiirod what was going on they had climbed the statue, taken the sword from tne nanas oi tne nmsuug Bismarck, and jumped into their auto Kii drain he, hlew his whistle, and. stopping a passing machine, jumped In and started the chase. Realizing they were pursued, the occupants of .i. l .ntimnh!n nil t Oil full TlOWer LUC i.i " l a ' - ... - - and dashed out Hermit Lane toward Wissahickon CreeK. f or a mne mo -i vant ii n and then a tire was CU-IOO Wi ' - --i - punctured on the rear machine and the men wlta tne swum cti" Three Honns Wlta Dlalocated Jieck Baltimore News. John D. Cole, of Woodstown, N. J.. whose neck was supposed to have been broken by a fall from an apple tree, after three hours of unconsciousness, revived, and when the dislocated bones were put in place by physicians, there was a sharp report like that from a revolver. Pill MART LAW MAY BE INVOLVED j . . . . - I Ken Argu urea Aicainai v n-.... i Puyallup Valley Tribune. There Is talk of testing the consti tutionality of the primary election law. Let no one be surprised If it shall fall to stand the test. That it is seriously defective son can deny, trft us hop that its defects shall, be passed on by the Supreme Court before the conven ing of the next legislature, so that they may then be remedied. It may be Interesting to note some of the pro visions that are. apparently, out of square with the organic law. First Under the constitution, every qualified elector is "entitled to vote at all elections." There are in this state four or five political parties other than the Republican and Democratio parties. Not a member of any of these parties hid a right to participate that is, vote in the recent primary election, hav ing failed "to cast 10 per cent or the total vote at the last regular election." Now, the question naturally arises "What is an election?" It is "the power of choosing: free choice; prefer ence; selection. The act or the public ceremony of choosing officers of gov ernment." If the recent primary was 'an act or public ceremony of choosing officers of government." it follows as an Illative sequence that the law Is void. SiAcond Ths constitution provides that all elections shall be by ballot. free and equal." and that the legis lature shall provide for such method of voting as will secure to every elec tor absolute secrecy In preparing and depositing his ballot." Is the direct primary an election within the purview of the constitution? If so, -tt is vcid 1q every particular. No election is free and equal" from wnicn bociansis. Prohibitionists, Independents, and all. except Democrats and Republicans are barred. And no ballot is "secret" where the voter must declare his poll- tics In calling for tt. Third If the primary election is not an election, how can the expenses cf holding It be charged, in pn.Tl, to those who are denied the privilege ot parti cipating in it? Fourth The constitution provides that elections for state and county of ficers shall be held in November. Un der the primary law, our Supreme and Superior Court Judges are virtually elected in September and not by all the people, but only by such part or them as have "earned" the right to vote by reason t their party's numer ical strength at the last regular elec tion. Is that "free and equal?" Fifth Where there are more than three candidates to be voted on lor state and congressional offices, the elector is compelled to vote for a second choice or lose his first. Let us Illus trate: There are four candidates for a certain pfflce. Three of them in the voter's judgment may be utterly ob jectionable and unqualified. Yet in order to make his vote enecuve ior the candidate who, he thinks, is fit and worthy, he must vote for one who he believes is neither nt nor worthy. And, even then, his vote may not be effective, for that his second choice may nullify his first. Nay, more; it may defeat the candidate wnom ne prefers and elect a candidate whom he distrusts. The law is obviously defective and should be amended but not repealed. PROHIBITION IN CONDON. Juries Will Not Convict j So Llqoor Is Freely Sold. Condon Times. The crusade against the sale of liquor in the City of Condon has ended in a lamentable failure. Three cases were tried before a jury of about as upright, honorable and respresentatlve men as could be found in the county, and in two of these the jurors found a verdict for the defendants, and in the other the counsel for the prosecution asked for an Instructed verdict of ac quittal. All the rest ot the cases were dismissed and abandoned altogether, except that against Meador, and that may be tried when he is found. Is Prohibition a failure? It most certain ly looks like it In Condon. When this law was passed by a majority of the people, we thought the sale of liquor and whisky-drinking would cease in a great measure In this town, but has it ceased? Most certainly not. We are not blind, and can safely say we have seen about as much drunkenness on the streets since the local option law, or Prohibition, call it which you will, went into effect last July, as we did before it. Field III to Enter Harvard. American Register (London). Mrs. Marshall Field, whose romantic marriage was one of the sensations last week, only recently returned from Washington, D. C. She was accom panied by her elder son, and It is understood that Mrs. Marshall Field has decided that as soon as he finishes his course of studies at Eton he shall enter Harvard and prepare for the po litical arena. The boy will go to Washington, D. C, each year until his education is complete and will spend two months in the capital seeing and learning as much as possible of the political life of America. He is heir to the millions accumulat ed by his grandfather, the great Chi cago storekeeper, whose son only sur vived him by a couple of years. Young Marshall Field has a Uttle brother. Harry, and a small sister, whose por trait was recently painted by Shannon and now hangs in the drawing-room of their flat in Berkeley Square. A Turtle That Weighs Over Tos. Newport (R. I.) Dispatch to the New York World. There was great consternation among a hundred or more soldiers at Fort Ad ams who thought they saw a capsized boat in the outer harbor near Dyers Island, two miles away. Just then a Government boat In charge of Captain Willis C. Metcalf, passed, and they hailed .him and pointed out to him the big object. Captain Metcalf later said that, hav ing visions of Carnegie medals in his mind, he headed for the "wreck." To his surprise, instead' of an upturned boat, he found a leatherback turtle dead, choked in the meshes of a big seine. He said that the turtle was ten feet long, seven feet in width, and it weighed more than a ton. He was anx ious to tow it to port for a show at one of the wharves, but he did not dare to hitch on a hawser, as decomposition had set in. A Sound Suggestion. PORTLAND, Oct. 6. (To the Edi tor.) Can't we have West Portland High School and East Portland High School, instead of West Side High School and East Side High School? The latter seems to me to be a little silly. We have a good name for our city. Why not attach it to things mat De inner to us instead of tacking on "sides," etc.? H. TURNER. lantern Babies for Homes In West. Baltimore News. A carload of 67 babies, accompanied by nurses, passed through Milwaukee, Wis., the other day bound for childless families in the West. The babies are m . . (a flv vAre nlH anrt WKm iruui i"u . - .- sent out by the Home Finding Society of New York. firTf I,!fe-SIze Ilooaevelt Portrait. Chicago Record-Herald. Artist Charles A. Whipple, of New York, is painting a life-size oil portrait of the President to be hung in the Re publican Club of New York. ROOSEVELT IN THE CAMPAIGN -ria- Views on the Propriety of HI" Buffalo Times. Dem. Roosevelt has misjudged the Ameri can people. Now they are judging him. Jlis recent course has been a deliberate, repeated, monumental violation ot iu moat cherished American traditions. Charleston News and Courier, Dem. But Mr. Roosevelt Is really not doing anything more in his partisan work than his Republican predecessors have done or attempted to do. He has gone about the business In a littre different way, and is attempting by proclamation and work out in the open what Re publican presidents have been doing all along. At any rate, he is making old Taft take notice, and has introduced Into the campaign a fat streaa ot w nat the newspaper people call "human In terest." Philadelphia Ledger. Ind. Rep. Mr. Roosevelt has again demonstrated his effectiveness in politics. It is not worth while to argue over his ability to inject vitality in a campaign. For aker. Haskell, and Mr. Bryan himself are able to bear witness to the Presi dent's skill In selecting time .and place: to the weight of the metal he throws In a broadside and the effect he pro duces. The critical may talk of a riot of egotism; may ask whether Roosevelt or Taft is running for the Presidency. Roosevelt still, Is, or i able to make himself, the man recognized by the masses aa the central, commanding, competing figure of politics. Boston Herald, Rep. But even satisfaction at partisan ad vantage must be tinged with regret that the President has deemed it neces sary to follow Mr. Bryan to the edge of the bog. He has dragged the presi dential office into the range of the mud firing. The traditional dignity which surrounded his position was well worth preserving. Had Mr. Taft been left to defend his cause the party interests would not have been less secure. And the ideals of the American people who recognize In the presldenial office an honor which is not to be recklessly as sailed or subjected to assault would not have been sacrificed. Lewiston (Me.) Journal, Rep. Nothing provokes the average reac tionary or the average radical more than the freedom with which Theodore Roosevelt stays off the perch of dignity and mixes with men to see that good government in the present is followed by good government in the future. The things for which Roosevelt is criticised are intimately associated with the popularity of "the man of the hour." The most powerlul raotor in Amenwn politics in the past four years is such because of his splendid fracture of prec edent. Precedent as now invoked has naught behind it but starch, reaction, and the real bad thing. Chicago Dally News, Ind. Tha Dallv News believes that Taft, In point of Intellect and courage. Is entire ly capable or ngnting nis own Dmur.. It believes that President ftooseven line- Tuft a distinct injustice in maKing such a clamor in the candidate's behalf. The people of the United States Know their way about when It comes to mak ing a choice for president. They do not choose one chief executive with the in tention of delegating to him the task of telling them who of all possible and Impossible men must succeed him in office. Doubtless the President's inten tions are good. Doubtless he has been greatly exasperated by the lethargy which marked the Republican campaign until the other day. Still, he ought to remember that he Is the President of all the people of this nation and he ought to leave to them the task of choosing his successor. St. Paul Pioneer Press, Rep. The appearance of Theodore Roose velt upon the battlefield a an active figure in the fray has changed, in an instant, the whole aspect of the cam paign. While once there wae apathy the mOBt profound ever known at only a distance of six weeks from election, there is now eager interest Eighty mil lions of people sit up and take notice that there 1b something going on. True, Mr. Roosevelt has for months been seen in the background, counselling, advis ing, encouraging, and sometimes even driving Republican leaders. But now In the fore the big stick swings merrily. The Rough Rider fights side by side with Taft, and the two beat a lively tune on armor of a dazed and con founded enemy. Let the critics find what fault they may with Roosevelt's entrance in the fray! True men ap plaud each well-aimed shaft he speeds against the- foes of Taft. Uproots Farm for Hidden Gold. Baltimore Sun. A story of hidden gold was told to the orphans' court of Baltimore county at Toweon, when Daniel Hare asked that T4500 In gold, found upon the farm of Louis Calph, In the Sixth district, be declared a part of the estate of the late Joseph Hare, his father. Recently Ella Hare, a relative of Mr. Calph, was astonished to pick up a $10 gold piece near an old stump. She told Mr. Calph, who went gold hunting in the stump and brought to light 4500 in gold coins of various denominations. After putting the money in a safe place, Mr. Calph spoke of his find and the news soon reached Daniel Hare, who concluded that the money must have been owned by his father. Mr. Calph agreed that this was possible. The relatives have had a falling out as to who owns the money, and tha farm Is being rooted up in search ot gold. Taft Picture Worries Indiana Home. Hammond (Ind.) Dispatch to Chicago Inter Ocean. Mayor Lawrence Becker, who Is a Democrat, will be compelled to take his family horse out of a local livery barn here because the animal goes frantic when it sees the pictures of Taft and Sherman, in the shape of lithographs, hung In the livery stable. Before the pictures were hung tho horse was as gentle as a lamb, but when he is hitched up in the barn he paws and kicks at the sight of the pictures, and the barn men can scarcely control The liveryman complained to Mayor Becker that he was unable to handle the horse, and Mayor Becker told the liveryman to take down the pictures cf Taft and Sherman and the animal would be pacified. Girl's Kin a Earns Pair of Shoes. Indianapolis (Ind.) Dispatch. A pair of shoes was offered to any person who would make a representa tive of a shoe company at Mitchell, Ind., smile: but all efforts failed until Miss Bessie Jones, a pretty telephone girl, kissed him, when his face limb ered up. Truant Officer Earns 14 Daily. Camden (N. J.) Difpatch. Henry Truax, truant officer at Tuck erton, N. J., who gets 50 cents for rounding up each child found playing truant, is making 14 a day, and the school board thinks he Is earning his money. Concrete Walk Enriches Beach Front. Washington (D. C.) Dispatch. The new concrete boardwalk at At lantic City, N. J.. which costs $50,000 and is Just thrown open to the public, will enrich beachfront owners to the extent of $1,500,000.
