Morning Oregonian., October 09, 1908, Page 4, Image 4

THE MORNING OREGQXIAX. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1903.
"BOSS FIGHT" ON
IN NUTMEG STATE
Republican Majority Bound to
Show Shrinkage When
Votes Counted.
LILLEY IS NOT POPULAR
Voters Consider He Has Bern Forced
I pnn Them by Fjler, Vlie Is
Party Dictator of the
State.
PT t.I.OTn F 1-ONEHGAN".
NEW YORK, Oct. 8. (Social.) Taft
will carry Connecticut by between 10.000
anil 15.000 Congressman I.lllejr. of sub
marine boat fame, will have a hanl
time being elected Oovemnr. but Is ex
perted to squre-e through by 10,000 or
s. ,
This-Is a conservative analysis cf the
situation in the Nutmeg state, which
four years nn gave Iloosevelt 58.000
majority, the vote being Koosevelt. 111,
09; Parker. 72,ao.
And I'arker ran well In Connecticut,
which Is naturally Inclined to conserva
tism. Bryan never was popular with
the Democrats there, and he Is not pop
ular today. In fact, were It not for local
Issues Taft would probably exceed and
certainly equal the Roosevelt plurality.
Boss Flglit" Makes War Hot.
But Connecticut has a "boss fight" on
this year, and for the first time In many
years the battle on that Issue Is waging
fiercely.
Connecticut has eighteen cities with a
population of about two-third of the
population of the state. But they are
outvoted In both party conventions and
the Legislature by the "town rule"
policy, which places little rural com
, muntttes on a par with places like New
Haven and Hartford.
For example, these eighteen cities with
the fiS 2-3 per cent of the population have
about one-fifth of the delegates, and the
same proportion applies to legislative
representation.
These small towns have caucuses easy
for a little politician or two little poli
ticians to control. And to make rural
boss rule more certain a "caucus regis
tration law" was passed a few years
ago.
Bch.s Ft lor Is Retiring Person.
The Connecticut boss Is a man who
keeps under cover and Is hardly known
by name outside the borders of his
state. He Is Orssmus R. Kyler, of Tor
rlngton, who. In many ways, resembles
Boss Brayton, of Rhode Island.
Brayton Is blind. Fyler carries 'a
crutch. He has been long In state poll
tics and was wounded during the Civil
War. In his party's councils he has
won his way upward from membership
of his town committee, has been a
member and chairman of the Republi
can State Central Committee, and an
active and Influential worker in tae
State House lobby.
For five years, ending In 1S93. be
was Insurance Commissioner of the
state, and for nearly eight years has
been Railroad Commissioner, Ms term
In that body with that of his political
lieutenant, Andrew K. Gates, expiring
next year. Both are practically sure
of reappointment If Lilley Us elected
Governor.
In earlier days Fyler was personally
suave, of late years he has grown dic
tatorial, with - occasional outbursts of
temper. But In rarty contests where
his machine Interests are at stake he Is
absolutely tlrele. -i, and knows the state
from end to end. Its men. tbelr ambi
tions and Interests and how they can
be approached.
Control Is Absolute.
Fyler' control has been absolute for
a good many years. It rules the legis
lature, and the county gover-ment. The
most flagrant case recently has been
the stock-watering of the trolleys of
the state, which the Railroad Commis
sion, of which Fyler Is head, has Ig
nored and screened
There arc about 776 miles of trolley
railroad In the state, and the latest
available figures show that they are
capitalized at $ 1 0S.5SS a mile. In stock,
bonds and floating debt.
Massachusetts has a Railroad Com
mission with fewer legal powers than
that of Connecticut, but the efficient
Commissioner has sharply chevked
trolley stork-watering, and the capital
ization Is only $65.6-4 a mile.
Thus. Judged by the Massachusetts
standard, the Connecticut trolleys are
ovrr-capltallzed at about f.0.000 per
mile, or about I3S.SPO.000 on the whole
Connecticut system of 766 miles.
Tne .f York. New Haven A Hart
ford has been recently forced by com
petition, actual or threatened, to ac
quire almost the whole Connecticut
system, and guarantee dividends and
Interest on the watered capitalisation.
Kstlmatlrg the return on the watered
capitalisation at only 4 per cent, the
public, man. woman and child. Is thus
taxed In trolley fares Jl. 532. 000 a year.
These "aquatics'' have lasted since
1193. snd In not a word of the annual
reporta of the Railroad Commission
have they been exposed or condemned.
The stock-watering reached Its cli
max with the sudden injection of $15.
000.000 of water Into the Connecticut
Railway & Lighting Corporation. And
the next Railroad Commission report
not only did not criticise the fact, but
masked It.
Kevolt Against Mlley.
Although Connecticut Republicans
havs been regarded as the most Indif
ferent on record, they have been grow
ing restless of late, and the nomination
of George L. IJlley for Governor start
ed a real revolt.
The fiasco that attended the subma
rine boat investigation, held because
of I.llley'a charges In Congress, would
hardly be considered as adding to his
strength as a candidate. This and other
facts were pointed out to Boss Kyler
and his only reply was:
"I promised George the nomination
two years atto. I never break my
promises. What are you going to do
about ltT"
Fifty-three Republicans representing
Interests that have S50.coo.0vu Invested
In l!:e state, sent a committee to tile a
protest. And he remarked:
"I don't care whether you fellows
get In line or not. But If you don't. I
will line up your worklngmen against
you. The fact that you are against
Lilley will make htm votes. We haven't
sny use for millionaires like you chaps
this year."
Bitterness Is Apparent.
I have talked with a good many Re
publicans during the past week in New
ltavtn. Hartford. New London. Bridge
port and Waterbury. and they are all
bitter aralnst the party candidate. In
Tact among tne petter type or parvr
f It Is hard to find one who will admit he
will vote for Lilley.
But they absolutely refuse to line up
for publication. They fear the wrath of
the boss In the days after election. One
New Haven Independent, who conducts a
large business there, stated the case in
these words:
"1 am going to split my ticket and vote
for Taft and against Lilley. There are
hundreds of men who say the same thing
but you cannot rely on them all. It Is
a case of being afraid, end promising to
use the knife under cover.
"Robertson the Democratic nominee for
Governor Is a strong man, a mighty
strong man. If the anti-machine Repub
licans would come out In the open, and
perfect plans for an organized, syste
matic canvass. I believe Robertson would
be elected. But as it is, I am dououui
as to the result."
Lilley Strong With Farmers.
Lilley hss devoted most of his time to
a canvass of the rural districts, and
small towns. The farmers are said to
view him as a martyr, and he will secure
the full party vote there, and probably
more. But his fate rests with the elec
tors In the cities where the bulk of the
population resides.
Under the law the electors for Presi
dent and the candidates for state offices
will be on the one ticket. This Is bound
to help Lilley In a slate, sure to give a
large majority for Taft, especially If a
Presidential scare ensues near the end of
the campaign.
But in any event Robertson will poll
a large vote, and his party leaders are
claiming his election. The Republicans
sre confident, however, and seemingly
with good reason. But Lilley's plurality
will not be so large as to unduly slate
him. and If men voted as they talked he
would be defeated.
tVjnnectlcut has seven electoral votes,
and chooses five Congressmen. The pres
ent representatives are all Republicans.
Their majorities, two years ago, ranged
from il.SSS for Lilley.. candidate for Con-gressman-at-large,
down to 3o.-i8 for E.
V. Higgins. The latter represents the
Third District, composed of the counties
of New London and Windham, and Is the
only one where the Democrats are
making a hard fight, although they talk
hopefully (for publication! of carrying
the second which includes New Haven.
The Incoming Legislature will elect a
successor to United Stales Seimtor Frank
B. Brandegee. of New London. In the
present body the Republicans have a ma
jority of 142 on joint ballot, there being
26 Repuhlicaa and nine Democratic State
Senators, and 191 Republican Assembly
men and 64 Democrats. It Is almost a
certainty that this majority will not be
overcome and tha Brandegee will be his
own successor.
The state campaign up to date could
hardly be called a campaign at all. There
have been few meetings, but many
mutterings, but the men who oppose the
bosses seem Smore afraid to voice their
objections as election day draws near.
ERB BEATEN BEFORE - SHOT
IXgCEST SHOWS HEAVY VASE
11CRLED ATXHIM.
Slster-in-Law May Have Special
Trial Contest for Body of
Dead Man.
PHIIADELPHIA. Oct. 8. It Is ex
pected that there will be a special trial
In the case ot Mrs. Katherlne Belsel,
charged with the murder of her
brother-ln-luw. J. Clayton Erb. The
dead man's wlte also Is In Jail, but no
charge has been lodged against her.
The testimony brought out at the
Inquest last night shows that Erb had
been beaten before he was shot. There
was a deep cut on his head made by a
vase thut !s believed to have been
hurled at him. According to the con
stable who arrested Mrs. Belsel, she
said:
"I shot Captain Erb. I am sorry for
It, but I could not help It. He pointed
his revolver at me and I took it away
from him and shot him."
The trouble winch preceded the
shooting is said to have been due to a
legal paper served upon Mrs. Belsel to
keep off the premises.
To the murdered man's body counsel
for the widow Insists she has the prior
claim, while' Captain Erb'a relatives
contend that the.body belongs to them.
The body Is still at the Erb country
home.
FOUR KILLED BY GAS
Eight Others Unconscious When
Passerby Summons Police.
WATERBURY. Conn.. Oct. 8. Illumi
nating gas. leaking Into and permeat
ing sleeping rooms In an Italian board
ing house on Bank street, kept by Bag
ilupl Pantoro. claimed four young Ital
ian men as victims early today and but
for the opportune passing of the house
by Antonio de Marco the dead might
have been more than twice that num
ber.
Resides the dead eight women were
lther unconscious or partly( so from the
gas fumes which they had breathed
when the police, whom De Marco had
called, entered the house. One of the
women Is the wife of the proprietor.
De Maroo told the police that his at
tention was first attracted to the house
by moans and groans. The odor of gas
was so strong that it was impossible to
enter until the doors had been opened
for a while.
SWAMP CANNON DISTRICT
Vnlon Finn to Send Speakers Into
Panvllle Region.
CHICAGO. Oct 8. Labor Is preparing
a final and determined onslaught on the
candidacy of Speaker Joseph G. Cannon.
The political action committee of the
Chicago Federation of Iabor yesterday
made plans to aend a number of labor
leaders into Cannon's dirlet-.ne.t week.
During the last weeks of the campaign
there will be nearly 60 labor speakers In
Danville. Kankakee and the vicinity.
Two organisers for the American Fed
eration of Labor are in the district now
making speeches for the Democratic
candidate for Speaker Cannon's seat In
the House of Representatives. Among
those to be sent by the Chicago Federa
tion of Labor will be Secretary Edwin
NtchoIls and John C. Harding, secretary
of the Chicago Typographical t'nion.
DISPLEASED AT SHOWING
Stockholders of Grand Trunk Pa
cific Criticise Management.
LONDON. Oct. S. The report presented
today by Sir Charles Rivers Wilson, presi
dent of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway
of Canada, at the semi-annual meeting
of the' company, was adopted only after
an acrimonious discussion and sharp crit
icism or the management. One cf the
shareholders declared he was not at all
satisfied w-ith the accuracy or the hon
esty of the accounts, and that he so se
riously distrusted the alleged economies
that he doubted their reality.
The president admitted that the report
was disappointing, but satd it was not
discouraging. He said also he was sat
isfied that the worst of the depression
that had prevailed throughout North
America was now over.
QUALIFIES TO VOTE
Taft Registers in Precinct at
Cincinnati.
STUMP OHIO NEXT WEEK
Arranges Itinerary Through Home
Slate With Vorys Glad He Met
Bryan at Clricago Ban
quet, He Says.
CINCINNATI. O., Oct. g. William H.
Taft Is a registered voter In precinct H,
Second Ward, of the city pf Cincinnati.
The Republican Presidential candidate
registered today, his last opportunity be
fore the November election, thus accom
plishing the object for which he came
here this morning.
The registry office Is in a plumbing
shop and. when the candidate entered it.
he was put through the ensuing cate
chism bythe registry clerk:
Answers to Catechism.
How old are you?
Fifty-one. '
How many years have you lived In the
Ptate of Ohio?
Ftfty-one.
Hour many years In tha county?
Kifty-one.
Bow many years In the precinct?
Twelve.
Married?
Ts.
The candidate then signed "William
Howard Taft" to the registry book and
was passed.
Arranges Tour in Ohio.
Mr. Taft busied himself with Arthur I.
Vorys, who reached here from Columbus
this morning. In arranging the details of
the Ohio itinerary. It has not yet been
completed. He is to speak in Ohio Mon
day, Tuesday and 'Wednesday.
"I was very glad to meet Mr. Bryan
under such pleasant circumstances,' was
the only comment Mr. Taft cared to
make on the Chicago banquet last night.
Mrs. Taft reached this city from the
East this morning, having established
the three children In their respective
schools.
CHANGE IX TAFT ITINERARY
Chairman Hitchcock Announces
New Plan for Candidate.
CHICAGO, Oct. . National Chairman
Hitchcock today announced some changes
In Mr. Taft's Itinerary. He said:
"Mr. Taft will be In New York oil the
week of October 26, speaking in West
chester, Utlca, Syracuse. Albany and
Buffalo. On October 28 Mr. Taft, Gov
ernor Hughes and George A. Knight, of
California, will speak at Madison Square
Garden In New York City. This proD
ably will be the biggest mass meeting
of our campaign."
The chairman has appointed Reed
Smoot, of Utah, and James D.Hoge. of
Washington, chairmen of the finance
committees In those states.
FEELS SURE OP NEW YORK
Roosevelt Says Taft and Hughes
Will Have Big Majorities.
WASHINGTON. D. C, Oct. 8. William
R. Wilcox, chairman of the public utility
commission of New York, called on the
President today and talked with h'm re
garding the political situation.
The President was of the same opin
ion as himself. Mr. Wilcox said, as to
the result of the election in New YorK
state. He thought that both Mr. Taft
and Mr. Hughes would have good ma
jorities. TAFT CAN CHOOSE GOOD JUDGES
Long Experience on Bench Fits
Him, Says Hughes.
ST. JOSEPH. Mo., Oct. S. Governor
Charles E. Hughes, of New York. ar
riving here this morning from Hast
ings, Neb., spoke before a large audi
ence in the opera-house. He said in
part:
"At this point In the campaign we
must not make the mistake of con
sidering only proposed legislation. We
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must not forget that the next Presi
dent will have an Important relation
to the judicial branch.
"In the next few years there will
be four vacancies In the United States
Supreme Court out of the nine posi
tions upon that bench. It is not at all
Improbable that the next President
will appoint a majority of the Judges
of that court. It is the court which In
a - large degree determines the des
tiny of the country. In Mr. Taft we
have, a candidate who already has a
wide' knowledge of the bar and if we
searched the country over we could not
find one better equipped to select
these Judges."
Governor Hughes left here to speak
at Topeka today and at Wichita, Kan.,
tonight.
FORMS ELEVEN DISTRICTS
NATION All BANK EXAMINERS
UNITED IN BOARD.
Under Chairman and AV111 Consider
Banking Questions at Quarterly
Meetings nd Compile Reports.
WASHINGTON. Oct. 8. Controller of
the Currency Murray announced today
that he had decided to put Into action
a plan for the formation of 11 districts
of National Bank Examiners, with a
chairman who will preside over quar
terly meetings of all the examiners In
each of the districts and at intervals
between such meetings will keep In
touch with examiners of other districts.
From the reports of examiners, the
chairman will compile reports to the
Controller designed to furnish in de
tail a list of the lines of the over-extended
credits, large loans and heavy
borrowers and in general all of the
questionable or doubtful paper which
comes to the attention of the examiners.
The . co-operation of the districts with
the Clearing-House associations of the
locality also is a contemplated feature.
District 9, headquarters Fort Worth,
Tex., Examiner J. M. Logan in charge,
will include Texas, New Mexico and Ari
xona, with' four examiners. District 11,
headquarters San Francisco, Examiner
E. T. Wilson in charge, will Include
Montana, Idaho. Washington, Oregon,
Nevada and California, with six exam
iners. FIVE TO 0NE FOR TAFT
Fifty Thousand Republican Cam
paign Buttons Sold in Seattle.
SEATTLE. Wash., Oct. 8. (Special.)
Fifty-thousand Taft-Sherman buttons
have been sold in Seattle by the lapel
button agencies and 10.000 Bryan-Kern
buttons. This indicates the political senti
ment in this city, and in fact in the
state. So great has been the demand
for the Republican emblem that there
are none for sale In this city at the
present, while the windows of the novelty
stores all contain the Democratic souve
nirs. It Is only fair, however, to state
that the Taft novelty button has been
eagerly sought as a permanent souve
nier of the campaign by people of all
parties, and the Democrats have no such
advertising feature on sale.
BANKS BACK FAIR BONDS
Seattle Clcarlng-Houso to Under
write $200,000.
. SEATTLE, Wash.. Oct. 8. (Special.)
Seattle banks, aided by their East
ern clients, have given assurance to
the management of the A.-Y.-P. Expo
sition that they will underwrite 1200,
000 of the $350,000 of bonds for the
fair. This is the result of a meeting of
the finance committee of the exposition
and members of the Seattle clearing
house, which met Thursday.
Both the Northern Pacific and the
Great Northern Railways also an
nounced that they would take $10,000
each of first mortgage bonds. To
gether with the subscriptions made by
the railways and those promised by
business men, this will dispose of a
great part of the bonds.
Victoria Shipping News.
VICTORIA. B. C. Oct. 8. The new
Canadian Pacific Railway flyer 1-rin-cess
Charlotte, for the Victoria-Seattle
route, will leave the Clyde on Novem
ber 1 for Victoria, acording to advices
received from Glasgow today.
Changes are being made in the pilot
age fees at Victoria whereby rates will
be collected on a tonnage and draught
basis Instead of on draught alone, as
heretofore. Little change is made in
the amount charged.
Gor. 4th and Morrison Sts.
stock
ver;
-25 OFF
- -4. t
On account of the backwardness of
the season and the immense output of
our large factory, we find our Fur
department greatly overstocked for
this time of season, therefore we
offer for Friday and Saturday only
5 Off
511 WITH BOLOS
Filipinos Murder American and
Two Spaniards.
FIGHT OVER LAND TITLE
Native Officials Make Weak-Hearted
Investigation of Crime Whites
In Pampagna Province
Are Aroused.
MANILA. Oct. 9. Charles H. Trotter,
an American, and Vicente Toledo and
Jose Cayanan, Spaniards, were killed
last Wednesday near Lubao, in the
Province of Pampagna, by a party of
Filipinos.
The men were murdered with bolos
and their bodies were badly mutilated.
Trotter was a contractor and land
owner and had had trouble over land
titles with a Filipino, who led the
party which killed Trotter and his
companions. '
The Filipinos assert that Trotter and
his companions were the aggressors,
but American neighbors say that the
murder was deliberately plotted by the
Filipinos, who waylaid the party and
provoked a quarrel. They further claim
that the Filipino officials are indis
posed to properly Investigate the crime
and prosecute the murderers, and they
have therefore sent a representative
to Manila with a petition to Governor
General Smith to cause a special In
vestigation of the case to be made.
The American and Spanish residents
are strongly incensed over the murder.
ARGUES FOR PARCELS POST
Delegate to Rural Carriers Associa
tion Presents Figures.
OMAHA. Oct. 8. One of the features
of today's National Rural Lettercar
riers Association meeting was an ad
dress by D. M. Carr, of Omaha, who has
been prominent in a movement to se
cure parcels post legislation, his sub
ject being, "Views of an Ordinary Citi
zen on Postal Refoixns."
Mr. Carr, on the matter of parcels
post as planned by the Postmaster-
rGeneral and presented in the Burnham
and Keane bills, introduced in the last
Congress, characterized them as among
the most important legislative meas
ures before the Nation, and of which
the people in general are but little in
formed. He showed by figures that the Burn
ham bill, if enacted into law, would
during the first year of ite operation,
make the rural delivery part of the
Postal Service sustaining. He declared
that the opposition to the proposals of
the Postmaster-General found its
source' in an organization that is intent
upon gaining a 1-cent letter postage,
which he declared would cause $1,000,000
annually in deficits.
ROADS IMPROVE SERVICE
Franklin Lane Tells of Better Trans
portation Facilities.
i
WASHINGTON," Oct. 8. - Franklin
Lane, of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission, opened, the proceedings of the
annual convention of the National
Association of Railway Commissioners
today. He stated that during the pres
ent year practically all American rail
roads had been able to furnish trans
portation facilities within a reasonable
time.
This change in the extreme car short
age of the fiscal year 1906-7, he said,
was due partly to Increased facilities
on the part of the carriers, partly to
more efficient use of facilities and
partly to the recent business depres
sion. The committee recommended the
passage of a resolution in favor of uni
form car service and demurrage rules.
Tomorrow (Saturday) will positively be
last day for discount on West Side gas
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China Signs Arbitration Treaty.
WASHINGTON. Oct. 8. The proposed
rbltratlon treaty between China and
the United States was signed at the State
Department today, ffu Tins Fans, the
Chinese Minister, acting on behalf of the
Chinese Government and Secretary Root
on fcehalf of tne American Government.
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Grand Waist Sale
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Collier Ajax Sails for Manila.
MELBOURNE. Oct. 8. The United
States oalUer Ajax, which is accom
panying the battleship fleet around the
world, has been repaired and sailed for
Manila today. The Ajax was damaged
In a collision In the harbor September
4.