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TITE MORXTXO ORT:GOTIA'. FRIDAY, .OCTOBER 30, 1903. 10 (Efe (Drejpmian rOKTULND, OKEGOX. Ent.r(J at Portland. Oregon. PoatofTlce S-.ontl -i- law Ma'.lrr. tibcrlptloa Kale iHWUblr la ' (By Mall Di:r. Surdar Included, on year. ' Dai.y. Surdar inclu.led. x m-ntna.. . . a -J Ii;r. S-m.liy Included, tliraa monttia. . Sunday ln-ludt-0. ona rnoatk.... la. y. lilirut Suod. n , . ;ull-. aui.vut Sunday, aix monthl. a ik u..rwi.iv ihraa m intbS. . '1 ,J Lai;'! without tiuoday, OD zrwnth "aa!y, ona jr. . 1 5o fcundar. ona year.... auzkday and valj. ona yaar. ... tFy Carrtar.) . . . . X .... & I on If ! T, r-'inaaj incrauru, u - Lat:y. Sunday Included, ona irontn rdir. upr... ordr or Prn' eh,fL " your lo-l ban. si.mpa. colu or eurraaey ai. at in. renonr-a ri. r.;v po.toffK-aa.l-dreaa in full. Including county and ataia. rMur Rate lO to 14 PM" .'"Ij,.1" 48 ,c' p.caa. 4 canta. Furenfn poalasa U.ubia ratca. Kxatrra Bualneaa OBTce TM 1 CJi"lV .in ila, A-ncy Now Tork. roornl i 44 W) Trli un. hul.din. Chlcaso. rounia Slo-ola Hm to Krmll Sena "tT" une building roRTLAXO. 'R11)AT. OCT. 30. 1- IT IS TRAJiSFORMATIOJI. Shall the Democratic party die?" la the hud-line of a leading article In the NVw York World. That Jour nal expresses the belief that. If the Imocratic party shall fall this time, the Hearst. Watson and Debs force", uniting, will make an organization that will supersede it. Still, auch party would continue the name of the Dem ocratic party; and the difference be tween this party and that led by Bryan Is unimportant and negligible. The transformation of the Democratic party took place In 1896. at Chicago, when It rejected all conservative counsels, insulted the Cleveland ad ministration, and turned to Bryan. Since then it haa been traveling on the borderlund of socialistic theory or policy, with occasional large Incur sions Into it. Bryan. Hearst. Debs and Watson are but variants of purpose and effort substantially the same. So many men, of great ambitions, are unable to agree; there is not room for all of thura at the head, and the rest of them are trying now to elimi nate Bryan, as the first step to new leadership and further action. But the party will not die. It is, however, en tirely committed to a revolutionary radicalism, and will return to its old traditions no more. But. says the World, "The Demo cratic party tin this contest) Is fight ing for its life. If it dies the Jeffer eonlan theory of Government dks with It." But the Jeffersonlan theory of government died long since. It per ished with the surrender of the Con federate armies. The Jeffersonlan theory of govern ment rested on assertion of state authority and state sovereignty, as against National authority and Na tional sovereignty. It culminated in secession of many states, in 1S60-61: then finally was crushed In 1865. But though the Jeffersonlan theory was then destroyed, the name assumed by Jefferson's party survived, and Is likely to survive Indefinitely: since it Is con venient as any and haa a vogue through custom and use that could not be transferred to another name. on financial and social questions the party began to divide. Immediately after the Civil War. The greenback craze was accepted as a party expedi ent, as the silver craze was later, and as the crudities of bank Insurance and of the war on the long-established principle and use of injunction for protection of personal and prop erty rights. have been accepted now. Yet defeat after defeat of the great radical branch of the party have given opportunity at intervals for the conservative branch to assert Itself; first. In the election of Cleveland, who drew much more than his party's strength, and later in the nomination of Parker, who. however, was deserted by the radical or Bryan branch of his party and left Immeas urably behind. Now again the radical element, under Bryan, is at the fore; and whether he shall be elected or de feated tho conservative or Cleveland Parker element never will control the party again. It Is only the party name that survives these transforma tions. The party Itself shows a con stantly increasing trend to socialistic doctrines, which. In their ultlmates signify and portend a centralization directly the opposite of the revered Jeffersonlan theory." But domina tion of Bryan In the party Is repented by ninny, who find him still trying as they fear or pretend, to hold as far as he can to the plutocratic section, which still has votes and power. Bryan therefore will lose votes to Debs, to Watson nnd to Hlsgon. whose followers hope for removal of Bryan, and for opportunity to pledge the Democratic party still more completely to the advunclng doctrines of Social ism. This party will preserve Its name, but Its character has been completely changed twice, within recent times; first by the defeat at Appomattox, and second bv the ascendancy of Bryan Ism. "The Jeffersonian theory" has not only gone from the party, but has been completely reversed. The tend ency now Is towards doctrines of a socialistic nature, whose ultimate. If ever reached, will be the most strong ly centralized government the world has jet seen. JOY, NOT SfTTKRINO. In Introducing Mr. Taft at the Mad-lson-Sraare meeting Wednesday night General Horace Porter made an amusing slip of the tongue. He said that W. J. lnyan was "suffering" from some political and financial delusions. Of course this was merely what Bet sey Bobbett would call a "lapsus of the llngui." Mr. Bryan la the pos sessor of numerous deluslona, but 'he does not suffer from them. On the contrary, he rejoicus in them. To him delusions are like tea to the old New Kngland deacon's wife. "Bread and me.it are the staff of life," remarked this philosophic female, "but tea Is life itself." Thus it is with Mr. Bryan. Sundered from his dear delu sions, what would he be? Nothing but a faded phantasmagoria. Like a shimmering mirage, he "would vanish in the gulfs of the Illimitable Inane. -Take away the curtain," said the guests of Pyrrhaslus, "and let us see your picture." But the curtain was the picture, and the painter could not remove it. Even so. Mr. Bryan's de lusions are Mr. Bryan. In them he lives and moves and has hui being. To the historian of the future it will be a melancholy but Interesting task to gather up the shattered fragments of the various hallucinations whlrh one after the other have beset Mr. Bryan's imagination and reverently catalogue and classify them. Just as geologists arrange the relics of extinct monsters in cases. Marvelous will be the extent and variety of the exhibi tion. Goldsmith's rustics were lost In 1 wonder that one small head could ! carry all their revered schoolmaster j Knew. a century irom i"ic world will be wondering that one head, however large, could carry all the freaks of fancy that Mr. Eryan has welcomed. What an addition he would have been to that academy of the learned which Swift describes In the country of the Laputans. These sapi ent scientists busied themselves ex tracting sunbeams from cucumbers. Inventing a machine to make water run up hill and producing a breed of three-legged cows. They would have given Mr. Bryan the glad hand as a heaven-sent brother of the guild. TlfE LOWEST DEPTH. We have this from a Bryan speech, delivered yesterday at Home. N. Y.: Thay are' talktnr. proaprlty and th papers tell ua that they ara Klng to have a ftrvat biff parada In New York City next Saturday nlalit. They ar gotnjr to have red lire. Thev are roina- to have lllumlna tiona; they are golns to have bands; and when 1 u In New York I saw them bullulnc srandatanda alone; the route for the p-ople who will watch the parade. Why don't they take the money and fur r.ieh lode-lnica at nlaht for the hundreda of men whom I aaw leepln on the bencha In the park? I had occasion to ride down Broadway two nlshta. ona time at 2 o'clock and another time at 4 o'clock In the morn Itir. and there were not leaa than 200 men .leepins In ona park on b-nchea and they were protectlns theniaela from the cold t7 tvlnr. r.epaper. around their limb., and while the men have not tl.a money wltn which to bur lodKine-e the republican party la apendlnn lta money fur red tire In order to prove that It la the party of prosperity. This is the very worst yet. For a partisan appeal there Is no lower depth of degradation. It Is a direct appeal, by Bryan, for the hobo or va grant vote: and a confession as well that he depends largely on it. Why doesn't his party attempt the "relief for these people which he blames oth ers for neglecting? The simple truth Is. as every Intelli gent person knows, there can be no re lief, no real help, for the -men who lie about in the parks. All efforts for their relief only multiply their num bers. There's Tammany, supporting Brysn. It has all the revenues of the richest city In the world at Its com mand, large proportions of which It habitually appropriates for the uses of Its gangs. But of course even Tam many can't support all the dead beats. Nothing so pitiful, so reprehensible, so contemptible, has ever appeared as this Bryan appeal to the rabble of the country. MAxrrACTrRB or cement. In a recently published report the United States Geological Survey shows astonishing progress of cement manu facture in the United States. In 1897 the total production was 2.430.903 barrels, valued at $3,724,903. In 1907 the output was 4S. 785. 890 barrels, valued at 153,992,631, at the places of manufacture. Pennsylvania took the lead with 20. 393.965 barrels. New Jersey followed next with 4,449.896 barrels, while Indi ana ranked third with 3.782.841 bar rels. Michigan manufactured 3.5 72. 668 barrels. Kansas 3.353,925 barrels. Illinois 2.036,093 barrels. Kentucky and Missouri 3,186.925 barrels, Cali fornia and Washington 1.S93.004 bar rels. Colorado. Utah. Texas, South Da kota and Arizona 1.399.000 barrels, and Alabama, Georgia, West Virginia and Virginia 1.274.470 barrels. Oregon will get Into the business soon. It was only a few years ago that almost all the cement used In the United States was imported .from foreign countries. THE rRIVtLKOE OF VIOT.SXCK. In perusing the various guesses as to what the injunction plank in the Democratic platform means readers will be reminded of Dr. Holmes' fa mous "three Johns." These three were first the young fellow John as he reallv existed, known only to the Almighty; second, John's Idea of John; and third, other peoples Idea of jonn. Naturally these personages were all different. Likewise with the Demo cratic Injunction plank. There is first, the true meaning of that weird Incantation; second, what Bryan and Gompers think It means; and third. what other people think it means, as to its true meaning that Is veiled from everybody but the Almighty, like the real John, and it Is very doubtful whether even omniscience has been able to elucidate it. The plank declares that "Injunc tions should not be issued in any cases In which Injunctions would not Issue if no Industrial dispute were In volved." Any candid person who will sit down and deliberately try to make this string of words mean something will find himself In the situation of Mark Twain when he asked the high school girl to write him an English sentence. She wrote "The young lady was a person of perennial vicissi tudes." Mr. Bryan might Just as well have used this elegant dictum for his Injunction plank. It expresses Just as much and just as little as the one he actually did use. But there Is not a shadow of doubt as to what Bryan and Gompers think their plank means. Mr. Gompers de sires to have the members of the labor unions set apart from other citi sens of the United States In a specially favored class. The .favor which he seeks is the unrestricted right to com pel "scabs" to join the unions and to terrorize everybody who employs them by the boycott and by violence. If there were no scabs In existence the unions would control the labor world absolutely. The final purpose of all their efforts Is to extirpate the non union element. If this could be done Industrial peace would reign, but It would be the peace of complete tyranny exercised by the wage-earning class over their employers. The unions could extirpate the scab were it not for the Interposition of the courts through the writ of injunction. This makes violence, the boycott and the destruction of property, contempt of court, and sends those who are guilty of It to JalUwithout a Jury trial. Thus the writ becomes an extremely formidable weapon against the unions. It Is in fact the one effective defense which "capital" has at Its command. Naturally the unions wish to destroy the power of the courts to Imprison strikers summarily. They would Inter pose a Jury trial between the court order and the penalty for disobeying It. and Bryan and Gompers understand the Democratic Injunction plank to promise this specific thing. If It did not seem to make this promise, Mr. Gompers and the unions would care nothing for it. The plank is so obscure that in all likelihood Mr. Bryan could evade it easily enough if he were to be elected. Certainly even If he had the instant power to clip the wings of the courts he would not dare to exercise it, since such an act would make the whole business community his irreconcilable enemies. The courts are the main bul warks of business and property. Weaken them .In the slightest particu lar and the foundations of commer cial civilization are undermined to that extent. Mr. Bryan knows all this as well as anybody, for he Is a student of conditions, and a shrewd one. Hence it Is Inconceivable that he should attempt to carry out in practice the theory which he now ad vocates to catch the labor vote. For the laborers themselves It would be a sorry day that should -give them any greater privilege of violence than they now possess. Their victories must be won by brains and not by brick bats. Violence has never advanced their cause one fraction of an Inch and it never will. To get justice they must appeal to the reason of man kind. It follows that they must edu cate themselves to think. For it Is reason which appeals to reason. Vio lence never does. To demand that the act of a court, ,when it Issues an Injunction, shall be subject to trial by Jury, Is the strang est farce ever ye't attempted. Pro posal to appeal the order of a court to a jury for decision for that Is what this demand means, if It means anything was laughed out of the campaign in the Eastern States weeks ago. THEN AND NOW. The Democratic National Commit tee has a full page advertisement in the last number of Collier's whose perusal stimulates various emotions. One of them is regret that the very large sum of money which this ad vertisement must have cost has not been distributed among the starving workmen for whom Mr. Bryan's heart has been bleeding for the last few weeks'. Ills National Committee must have expected the advertisement to do great good, or they would not have diverted from charitable uses the funds necessary to pay for it because, as everybody knows, they are very seriously in earnest about aiding the poor and relieving the unfortunate. Mr. Taggart, for example, makes it the business of his life to relieve the un fortunate of their cash. The advertisement begins with a question which might seem Impolite if it were not so evidently Inspired by warm-hearted zeal for the good of us all. To those who would do us good we pardon everything. "Has your In come increased 4 8 per cent since 1896?" This is the stunning question which the committee asks point blank without giving one a moment to pre pare an evasive answer. It Is like beginning a conversation with the late Li Ching Fu. Feeling obliged to reply one naturally searches his mind for the exact truth, and finally brings up the conviction that there are quite a number of people whose inepmes have increased not only 4 8 per cent but fully 4 8,000 per cent since the heroic and halcyon days of 1896. The days of "94-'96 were the palmy times of Coxey's army, one is fain to recollect, when the tarnished and tattered battalions of the victims of Democratic rule pa raded the country howling for bread and finding none. Prices may be higher now than they were In those blessed years, but we are not aware that there is any Coxey's army In existence or any call for enlistments in such a band. Prices have gone up at a fearful rate, this we must confess, but after all it is some consolation that most people have the wherewithal to pay them. This in 1896 we did not have. We went about gaunt and hungry and who knows but we should do the same again next Winter were: we si Ill advised as to elect Mr. Bryan Presi dent? The purport of this expensive ad vertisement is that the extortions of the trusts depend altogether on the tariff. Itemove the tariff and you ex tirpate the trusts at one fell swoop. Thus the Dmocratic Committee rea sons, or thinks it reasons, and It is a beautiful example of Bryanitic lntol lectuation. Through the thick skulls of these quasi-reasoning beings it seems to be impossible to beat the truth that the trusts are the product of an evolutionary process which no possible legislation could have pre vented. That we submit to be robbed by them is of course our own stupidity which we may outgrow In time, but the expectation of destroying them is a piece of stupidity which the Bryan ltes will never outgrow. The complete repeal of the protective tariff would not destroy one solitary trust. It would Impair the profits of a number, but it would not even shake their position of economic tyranny. One may say in all certitude that in every case where a trust fully controls a product the repeal of the tariff would increase the burdens of the consumer In the end. This may sound startling, but a mo ment's consideration will oonvince the iiini it la tniA. The repeal of the tariff would force the trusts to mot nnrl overcome a temporary lor- eign competition. They would over come this either by driving It out oi the market or by combining with it. In either event the cessation of com- . r . t ..i.i i.A jii I j. n-ji rl .v n new petition uum wci iv. .,...-.- "j tax on the consumer. If there Is any person so simple as to Denee tnai cr.iv,nr.titirin would not cease, all there is to say about him Is that he has reflected with little profit upon tne processes of contemporary trade. SfBSTOY SYSTEM IN JAPAN. The eminent Pacific Coast boosters for a ship subsidy are about to lose one of their stock arguments for a norotianf marine. For several years we have been threatened by en inva sion of Japanese ships, which were ex pected to handle all the traffic of the Pacific at rates so low that no Amer ican vessel could compete. This alarm ing prestige of the Japanese waa all credited to the liberal subsidy that was paid by the Japanese government to .hlnnivnom Rllt JaDBIl haS HOW reached the end of her financial tether. and It has become necessary to prac tice such rigid economy that practi cally all of the ship subsidies are to be withdrawn. The only payments being made are those which are for mall steamers. There was from the beginning of the Japanese ship-subsidy policy a considerable amount of that national pride and patriotism in our own country best described as , "the old flag and an appropriation." The sentiment Is still alive in Japan, but economic reasons seem to have . : u .1 ,mrv,ln0- rtf nn nllecrpd n M - I)UlHt!illCU .... ....-- - " ' triotic nature, and the subsidy system Is to be abandoned because mere is no more money available with which to pay subsidies. The national debt. In spite of the small population of the countrv, has reached the enormous to tal of $1,400,000,000, and to pay the Interest on foreign loans requires an annual drain of 100, 000,000, a sum that would be troublesome even in a land of high wages, where the people possess much greater earning power than the Japanese. The Japanese peo ple are groaning under the weight of this burden, and are insisting that the government abandon its elaborate plans for maritime conquest, and de vote tome of the hard-earned millions to the Industrial development that will J yield more direct and tangible returns ' than have ever been secured from the millions wasted on the Japanese ship ping trust. A large amount of conceit has been taken out of Japan since her expendi tures for expansion on the high seas began outrunning the revenues. There Is another cause for disappointment in the failure of the Japanese "copyists," who have in a degree reproduced many American and European inven tions, but in nearly every case have failed to turn out something "Just as good" or even approaching the foreign article In finish or efficiency. The ex pensive experience which the Japanese have been purchasing in the past few years has taught them that It will be a long time before foreign Inventions and foreign brains can be entirely dis pensed with. It has also taught them that the only people who have profited by the Immense sums that have been paid for ship subsidies are the big steamship owners and the shipbuilding plants, neither, however, receiving benefits approaching those enjoyed by the foreigner who secured the advan tages of cheap freight with the Japan ese government paying the bills, a sit uation which the United States is for tunate in escaping. , The Nat'onal Fire Protection Asso ciation in a very interesting compila tion of figures shows the annual fire loss for the past five years to average 3252,000,000. This is a sum before which the loss by bank failures dwin dles Into Insignificance, and It is a sub ject that ought to Interest every property-owner In the land. What we seem to need. If the Bryan bank guaranty theory Is correct, is guarantee against fire loss. The Fire Protection Asso ciation shows that the greater part of this fire loss Is due to carelessness, and practically all of the loss by failing banks is due to the same cause, or to criminal Ignorance of the first princi ples of banking. We shoul 1 accord ingly tax the owner of a well-protected fireproof building to the full extent necessary to make up a fund to pay the fire loss of his negligent neighbor who does business In a flimsily-bullt, unprotected firetrap. If we place a premium on dishonest, careless bank ing methods, by agreeing to stand all the loss resulting from such methods, why refuse to follow to its logical con clusion the principle Involved and em brace other lines? A plague-ship, carrying fifty-two dead and fifty 'dying, has reached Yo kohama, No phantom ship, conjured from the dreams of an opium-eater, but a strong, full-rigged vessel, flying the German flag, was this floating laz aretto. With 41 coolies on board wretched, hungry and reeking with foul odors this ship was turned back from a Mexican port to Hongkong, whence she had sailed. Accepting the invitation to a ghoulish feast, that the conditions on shipboard gave, the plague was soon rife among the shud dering creatures, and appalling results followed. Imagination refuses to con template a scene bo shocking as that presented by this plague-stricken ship and Its living, Infected and Infectious, corpses, and turns sickened from the task. Mrs. Dorcas J. Spencer, of Califor nia, charged the Winegrowers' Asso ciation of that state before the Na tional W. C. T. U. Convention in Den ver with "flooding the state with so called temperance literature, the pur pose of which is to make people be lieve that wlne-drlnklng is not injuri ous." Why, said Mrs. Spencer, "they advocate that the child shall be given wine as soon as he Is weaned." What says the Wise Man of Antiquity? "Wine is a mocker and strong drink is raging, and whoso is deceived thereby is not wise." These words, verified by the experience of mankind throughout the ages, should be suffi cient answer to the assertion that ha bitual wine drinking is beneficial to all even to children. To have a Jurjr trial to decide whether a court should Issue an In junction, or whether an injunction is sued by a court should be obeyed; and to insist on a law to compel good banks to Insure deposits in bad ones these are the main principles of Bry anlsm this year. Are they less Irra tional than the old rhetoric about the crown of thorns and the cross of gold? Wouldn't Bryan better have stuck to his old scheme, to which he owes his prominence and fame? Tet if you wish to show your neigh bor on election day, by fair statement and argument, how you think he could and should vote, with advantage to himself and to the country, there Is no reason for you to fear punishment un der the urenic "corrupt practice act." You may Just exercise your right of free speech, and of free printing, too, and let the urenic. lawgiver at the Ore gon City canyon go hang. If the portraits of Presidential can didates In the windows of houses of men who work for a living along the streetcar lines are a sample of those on other streets of Portland, the over shadowing proportion of Taft to Bryan ought to be convincing to the shouters and supporters of the latter gentleman that they are In a 16-to-l minority in the big city of Oregon. D. B. Hill now comes forward and will say pleasant words for Bryan. Some day Mr. Bryan will speak nicely of Hill. The old-line Democrats are willing to do anything for Bryan but vote for him. ' Even supporters of Bryan are mak ing contracts that are to be void in case their favorite shall be elected. Like the old German "they don't got no confidence." Solely In the Interest of fair play, we suggest that the Bryan straw vote managers might get a lot of encour agement by polling the barrooms. Nobody that we hear of is making contracts for business on condition that they are to be null if Taft should be elected. Banker Ross and Banker Scriber could keep each other company in the Oregon penitentiary, by swapping experiences. It may surprise many persons to know that a land-fraud trial has been In progress in the Federal Courthouse, 8peakin of voices, Mr. Taft isn't running for President on his vocal organ. But there are others. Bryan may be the advance agent of prosperity, the same way as in 1896 and 1900. Why stop with guarantee of bank deposits? How about the Interest? CHAIRMAN MACK'S PREDICTIONS. N Variation Tala Yr From Pre-Elee- tton Flfcurra Furniehed la 189-19O0. PORTLAND, Or.. Oct. 27. (To the Ed itor.) In your columns of yesterday morning, Mr. Norman E. Mack, chair man of the National Democratic Com mittee, is quoted as declaring that the rumblings and thunder of the Bryan landslide in the West are already heard In the Eastern states, and today I can confidently predict the election of Mr. Bryan that a landslide In the West will extend to the shores of the Atlantic. It means that the Democratic National ticket will carry every doubtful state, etc. I figure that Mr. Bryan will have at least 301 electoral votes, or 59 more than Is necessary for a choice. This comfortable majority will be increased rather than decreased when the vote is counted. In addition to the 166 votes of the solid South and in this I Include Maryland I am confident that Mr. Bryan will carry New York. New Jer sey, Connecticut, Idaho, Montana, Colo rado, Nebraska, Nevada, Indlanla, Ohio, Delaware, Kansas and South Dakota. etc" In a postscrlp this morning, Mr. Mack also adds Wisconsin, Iowa, Jjilnois, Utah, Oregon and Washington. This is the same Mr. Mack who pre dicted the overwhelming election of Mr. Bryan, both In 1896 and 1900. In both of the years named Democratic phropheta of every description were telling us that the rising tide of Bryanlsm was sweeping everything before it and why it was do ing so explained with an Infinitude of de tail Just as It Is now being explained by those who are "on the inside" and "know things that will surprise you when the vote Is counted." On November 4, 1900, Mr. Bryan him self sent out from Lincoln his final an nouncement with the opening clause: "The fight has been made and won.'1 On the same date Dick Croker. the Tam many boss, formally announced that New York. Ohio and Indiana were cer tain for Bryan. On November 8, 1900, James K. Jones, chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Issued his final announce ment with the following "opening re marks": "The fight Is won. Bryan and Stevenson will be elected. The Demo crats will hold all the states they car ried In 1896 with the possible exception of Wyoming. We will also carry New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland. West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio and Illinois." He closes with the ex uberant and patriotic announcement that "It will be found when l..e vote Is counted that the people have determined with emphasis that the Kepubllo must be preserved, that the power of the trusts must be curbed; that the man Is to be considered before the dollar, and that the the voice of the people carnot be suppressed by attempted Intimidation or corruption." Mr. Jones' phrophecies. however, after the manner of Democratic prophecies generally, slipped a cog on election day and, of course, "the Republic" has been In a bad way ever since, "tottering on its base," as it were, to quote from an old-time Democratic National platform. It is interesting to recall that in 1900 these "sure Democratic states" returned pluralities for McKinley Hnd Roosevelt as follows: New York 143,606. New Jer sey 86.899, Delaware 3671, Maryland 13. 741. West Virginia 21,022. Indiana 23,479. Ohio 65.036. Illinois 94,924. On these eight states alone Brother Jones was "off" nearly 500.000 votes. Mr. Mack belongs to the same school of prophets, prophets who are without honor, not only In their own country, but in every other. It Is due to Mr. Mack,' however, to note that he does not follow Mr. Jones in saying positively "the fight is won." Mr. Mack simply "figures" and "confidently predicts." His figures and predictions will make inter esting reading on Wednesday morning next, C. B. MOORES. Roosevelt's Plurality. PORTLAND. Oct. 28. (To the Edi tor.) You will confer a favor on many of your readers by publishing a list of the states carried by Roosevelt In 1904 and the plurality over Parker in each of these states that gave him its elec toral vote. A. R- S. Popular plurality. B7.3K3 D 17.K74 D 115.822 R 34.52 R Statee. ' Rep. Alabama Arkansas California 10 Colorado 5 Connecticut 7 Delaware 8 Florida Georgia ; Idaho 3 Illinois 27 Indiana 15 Iowa 11 Kansas 10 Kentucky Louisiana Maine 6 Maryland! 1 Massachusetts IB Michigan 14 Minnesota 11 &lis?!sfippl Dem. 11 8 3S.1KO R. 4.358 R 18.732 D 59.460 D 29,309 R 305.0.19 R 93.944 R ir.8.7ft6 R 12fi,O03 R 11.89.1 D 42.503 R 36,8(17 R 51 R 9!,07 R 227,715 R lfil.464 R 50,112 D 25.137 R I. 1. 159 R 6.S2 R 2.8S.1 R 20,089 R Rrt.flKR R 175.622 R 41.679 O 38.322 R 255.421 R 42.934 R 302.A51 R 16.7K6 R PO.C08 D 50.114 R 28.284 D llfi.SO.I D 29,031 R 30.BS2 R 34. IRS D 73.442 Tt 31.758 R 155.834 R II. 559 R R 13 Missouri 19 Montana 8 ... Kebraeka 8 ... Nevada 3- ... New Hampshire 4 ... New Jersey ., . 12 New York 39 ... North Carolina ... 12 North Dakota 4 Ohio 23 Oregon 4 ... Pennsylvania 34 .... Rhode Island 4 South Carolina 9 south Dakota 4 ... Tennessee 12 Texae 18 rtah ..v 3 Vermont Virginia " "Washington . 2 Weft Virginia Wisconsin 1 Wyoming 3 TotaI, 338 140 Roosevelt's popular vote I'!w?o?f Parker'a Popular vote .5.077,1171 Rooaevelf a plurality .2.545,515 WIM Be Snved From Seonrne of Bryanls HEPPNER, Or., Oct- 28. (To the Editor.) In your issue of October 24 I see fragments of letters from Roose velt to Taft. and from Taft to Roose velt. I beg to thank you heartily for the reproduction of that part of Hamp ton's Broadway Magazine. No better argument could be offered to your In terested readers in aupport of the Re publican ticket. Every, patriotic vir tue is found in that exchange of in timate thoughts and aspirations. Above all on the part of both there Is the main preoccupation, the same de sire, viz: How best can we promote the greatest good of our country? Truly it does good to meet such evi dence of honesty and disinterestedness in at least some of our statesmen. Shall the people rule? says W. J. B. I rather believe they will, but I know for a surety that God does, and ever shall, and I have no doubt that He will save the nation from W. J. Bryan unless we have deserved the scourge. In God we trust to good purpose. We are not all hypocrites which claim that motto. I have not recovered yet from that stupendous piece of presumption: "Heir of President Roosevelt." Verily one feels like blushing to see any sensible American, native or foreign, so grossly deceived. LOUIS VORUZ. The Deadly Facsimile. The Evening Telegram,. Portland. While publicly urging the election of William J. Bryan and asserting editorially that the election ef the Democratic candidate to the Presi dency will not Jeopardize business in terests of the country, the Oregon Dally Journal is privately agreeing to cancel contracts with advertisers In the event of the election of Bryan. Herewith is a reproduction of one of the "to-be-cancelled-in-case of-Bryan's-electlon" contracts. Farmer Temple Tells Once a Democrat. Thea a Populist, He'a for TartHow a Thrifty and the School of Experience. Interview In Pendleton Tribune with Wil liam Temple, one of Umatilla Countys farmera. "Say," said William Temple yester day, as he entered the Tribune office with a letter in his hand, "what do you think of this?" And he exhibited a letter dated Lincoln, Nebraska, Octo ber 24, addressed to him and signed by Mr. William Jennings Bryan. The letter went on to say that "I learn that you are inclined to support our ticket this Fall and I write to ex press my appreciation. Voters are not made for parties but parties for vo ters," and a Job-lot of stuff of like demagogie appeal for "support." The editor read the letter, when Mr. Temple said: "Now what do you think of that? Who could have sent such a report as that to Mr. Bryan? Vote for him? Well, I should say not. Say, let me tell you something. You know I can't see for my life why anybody votes for Bryan, can you? That is, anybody who can remember the times we had when the Democrats were in power. I tell you I paid for it good. I was a Democrat until '92. Voted for Cleve land then, but when the bottom dropped out of everything at once I began to open my eyes. I had been taught that the Republicans were poison, so I turned Populist, but soon found I had Jumped out of .the frying pan into the fire. a a a T was farming and working like the very deuce day and night. In 1894 I had 20.000 bushels of wheat and the price was 2S cents merely nothing. But what was I to do? I came to Pendleton one day after my threshing was done and met Mr. . a well known Populist and he said "Bill, have you sold your wheat?" I said, 'No, not yet.' Well.' he replied. you sell It before you leave town. Before another week there won't be a railroad run ning in the United States.' "Why?' I inquired. 'Why, they'll every one be torn up. The people are not going to stand any more of this, Coxey's army Isn't asleep. You sell.' "So I sold 10,000 bushels at 23 cents, and after squaring up with my help and expenses had J1000 coming to me, and put it in the First National Bank. It was Saturday and in a little while I met my old Populist friend and he said 'Did you sell. Bill?" I told him I had and he asked me what. I had done with the money. I told him I had paid some debts but still had J100O left and put it in the First National Bank. 'Why, you d d fool!' he said, 'you are worse off than ever. That bank won't open Monday morning and none of the others will either.' 1 "Well, I was In a stew. I went home but when the bank's doors opened Mon day morning I was the first man in and told Sam Sturgls I wanted my 81000, He didn't ask any ques tions but began to hand out some gold and some greenbacks. I asked him if he couldn't let me have It all In gold. MR. TAFT'S RELIGIOUS BELIEF. What tlie Unitarian Church Stands for In Christian Life. The following statement concerning Mr. Taft's religion is sent out by the Republican National Committee: The fact that Hon. W. H. Taft is a Unitarian In his religious belief and church membership is being made the basis of much attack. In the interest of fair play the full .facts should be It lias been charged that Mr. Taft Is not a Christian. Without discussing the question as to whether Joining any church proves that a man Is really a Christian, it may be stated tliat the Unitarians are believers in the Chris tian faith; In a National conference a common basis of belief was found in the statement that "We accept the religion of Jesua, holding, in accord ance with His teaching, that practical religion is summed up in love to God and love to man." Unitarian belief has further been expressed In the Ave principles, adopt ed by practically all the churches. We believe In the fatherhood of God, the brotherhood of man, the leadership of Jesus, salvation by character, the progress of mankind onward and up ward forever." It has also been charged that Mr. Taft denies the divinity . of Jesus Christ. As a matter of fact, the Uni tarian church does not stand for any particular theory of the nature of Jesus. It maintains that the real re ligious and Christian duty is to follow him as a great leader In spiritual life. The particular conception as to what Jesus was, is entirely a personal mat ter, with which the church has noth ing to do. The distinctive 'characteristic of the T'iia.iDn viht-oh la its frank adop tion of the rational principle in reli gion. It insists that religion shall be treated in the scientific spirit of free Investigation. It asserts the authority of the individual reason and holds that no statement should be accepted that does not approve itself to one's intellect as being worthy of belief. The Uuitarian church offers a free fellowship. It holds that freedom is absolutely essential to religious de velopment. Every member is at lib erty to form his own conception of the truth, and is expected to be true to it, however much it may differ from the belief of others. There is no hint of conformity or compulsion. The com mon basis of union is a desire to know the truth and to do good. There is the fullest acceptance of the principles of progress in rellgiont It affirms a God of modern life, an enlarging revelation of His will and truth, and an ever-progressing faith, keeping pace with the advancement of human thought and evolution. Uni tarianism simply insists upon having In religion the same liberty that all Americans claim in all other realms of thought and action. , BETTING 5 TO 4 AGAINST HUGHES Biggest Election Wager la New York Since the Campaign of J 802. New York World. The biggest election bet made since the famous pool formed by the Repub licans In 1892 to stem the tide of senti ment toward the Democratic party was reported yesterday. It was a bet of 850,000 on Chanler against 140,000 on Hughes and was arranged Just before the closing of the tstocK lixenange. The bet was not made in the Ex change, but tne Hughes end was taken by one of the biggest trader there. It is probable it represents the pooling of a syndicate. It was agreed that certi tified checks for 810,000 to make valid the wager should be deposited at 8 o'clock last night with probably the best known stakeholder of election bets in this country. This man denied he had heard any thing about it. although he was at the appointed place at the time named, and of the Days of '94-'96 He Saw the Error of Hla Ways. .d Now Senalble Man Learned a Few Thin. In He said he could and that he had no ticed that every Populist who had money In the bank always wanted gold when he took it out. "Well. sir. I took that money home and kept it buried in different' places on the farm until I worried more than It was worth fearing somebody would find it, and finally saw what a fool I was on general principles and put It In the bank again, made up my mind that what I needed was to become a Republican and look after Bill Temple's Interests when It comes to voting. "So I voted for McKinley in '96, began to make money right at once and have made money ever since, for I have got living prices for everything I have had to sell, as has every farmer in the country. a a a "By the time 1900 rolled around I had bought and paid for 2700 acres of as good wheat land as there Is In the United States, had a good bank account the size of which I won't mention, re-' tired from my farm, built a nice home in Pendleton And ever since have had a good time looking after my interests. "Why do yon know that In those times my wife sold earga for 6 cents a doaen, butter for 15 centa a roll and I sold many a srood cow for f. 15. "I saw many a 12O0-pound home sell for S2.50. Yoa Jtnow they were aent to the cannery In those days to make food for the people who were s;lad to set It. "I have seen hundred of horara aell for (20 that would now readily bring $2.10. I drove a lot of fat hoga to Pendleton In thoae Democratic daya and old them to BUI Dnnghtrey for 82.25 a hundred. " "Oh, you can't talk to me about Bryan. At that time I had a man working for me who I was paying 75 cents a day for his work, and he was begging for the Job at that. Do you know that four years ago that same fellow rented a big farm and in that time has cleaned up J40.000 profit on another man's land? In 1S04 I was a nlnve. Actually n' lave. I worked almost day and night and my' family skimped In a way that I wonld now be ashamed to say how much. I waa In debt 2 1,000. I actually one day used a f.2.50 sold piece to get some coffale with that I had saved for a keepsake for aeveral yeara. I had no money and couldnt borrow a cent Today I wouldn't give my big automo bile for all I waa worth then. "Now I want you to know that I am not boasting at all, for what I have since done and made, any other man could? have done. The opportunity was open, that was all. And you can bet I won't turn down a friend that has done this for me. No, sir. I will stand with the Republican party which knows how to do things, and believes in open ing up markets and keeping Industries going that, employ laborers. "Now isn't that a peach of a letter to send to me? Bryan is off. that's all. And what Is more, he always is." the denial probably was technical. It is beyond doubt that arrangements for this wager were made; that the amount named is correct, and that . it was agreed upon yesterday afternoon. Just now, because of the anti-public betting bill, there is a hesitancy about the an nouncing of any kind of wagers. The rate represented by the big bet was the generally prevailing rate yes terday, whether the speculation was in small or large volume. One bet of 81000 on Chanler against $800 on Hughes was reported from Brooklyn. In one of the large cafes near the City Hall there Is a pool of J20.000, of which any one may have a portion at even money. This Is only being nibbled at, as men with means can do better by seeking indi vidual enthusiasts whose Judgment Is contrary to their own. Beware! They'll Probably Hang You. PORTLAND, Oct. 28. (To the Ed itor.) some of our ex-Presidents bore the name of William. Now, if I should say to any voter on election day that I thought that a William would be our next President, would I be breaking our good, let-me-alone law, and could I be punished by fine or imprisonment? EDWARD J. FINCK. IN THE MAGAZINE SECTION OF THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN PORTLAND'S MOVXNG- PICTTKE SHOWS A lot of material facts, some caustic criticism, a little praise, humane humor and a preachment by Leone Cass Baer. AT THE END OF A WEARY DAY Full-page Illustration in colors from an excellent photograph by George F. Holman. MOST DESPERATE INDIAN CONFLICT IN FRONTIER HISTORY Forsyth's 50 scouts who with stood a thousand warriors for nine days at Beeeher Island. MILLIONAIRE DADS' BIO PROBLEM Starting their boys right, as put into practice by the great and the near-great. NATION-BUILDERS TO THE NORTH OF US Big men, including Americans, who have done big things in Can ada. THE HOTEL CLERK ON ELECTION DAY Mr. Cobb's unserious view of the quadrennial event that we shall celebrate next Tuesday. ROUNDING UP MAGGIE Unexpected experience of the Bishop, Aunt Isabella and Pro fessor Shorty McCabe. ORDER EARLY FROM YOUR NEWSDEALER