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FOBTLANO, TIEsDAV. NOV. . IB-
NOTK WHAT IT MEANS.
On all occasions when political, so
cial or labor questions arise in clubs,
organizations and unions, the more
radical members of such bodies come
to the front; and though they may
not comprise a majority of the mem
bers, and even may be but a small
minorltv, they take the lead, through
their impetuosity and violence, and
the others, rather than contend, retire
from the scene. This has been going
on, to no small extent, among labor
unions this year. In various parts of
the United States. The appeal of the
aggressive faction Is against Taft. and
practically for Bryan. The vote to
day will tell, more or less clearly, how
effective It has been.
The Oregontan speaks of It now
again, not because it supposes any
abatement or argument on the subject
can have any effect on the election at
this last hour, but because the argu
ment presented by the political ele
ment of the unions opens questions
which will have to be considered after
the election whether one party or the
other shall be successful. The asser
tion of a local body at a meeting held
at Portland on Sunday, as presented
In the resolutions therein adopted, la
that the working people appealed to
a Republican Congress for "protec
tion and defense of their natural and
Inherent rights." but their petition
was rejected. Then they appealed to
the Republican National convention,
with no better success. Finally, they
went to the Democratic National con
vention, and that party "embodied In
Its platform the demands which labor
presented and made labor's conten
tions Its own." It becomes Interest
ing then to inquire what those de
mands are. which one party is said to
have refused and the other party to
have granted. They are summed up
in this statement, from the Demo
cratic platform:
Questions of Judicial practice have arlaen
especially In connection wlthj Industrial dis
putes We deem that the parties to all
Judicial pro -ceding! should be treated with
rlarld impartiality and that Injunctions
should not be Issued In any cases In which
Injunctions would not Issue If no industrial
dispute were involved. j
What do-s It mean? It Is purposely
obscure or vague, so that the meaning
intended may be disputed when It is
hard pressed. It really means, and is
Intended to mean, that when any labor
union or other body or persons, falls
out with an employer, the "right" to
try to prevent him from earning n
his business, and the right to destroy
the business, shall not be subject to
Injunction by a court, or to any re
straining order. Moreover, that any
man or business, found or asserted to
be In sympathy with the person or
business which is under the boycott "or
ban. may be attacked and destroyed,
without restraint of law. The position
is assumed that the right to do a law
ful business, without molestation. Is
not a personal right, and the business
Itself la not a property right. These
things are directly and plainly argued
by those who formulate the resolu
tions. They are supported by Gompers
In his public addresses, and were de
clared by Furuseth, organizer for the
Pacific states. In his, recent address,
delivered and printed at Portland.
The contention, in Its naked mean
ing, then. Is that the protection here
tofore afforded by the courts of equity
to the right to carry on a lawful busi
ness in a lawful way is "a despotic
power," and that the Judges who ex
ercise that power are "irresponsible
despots." This In the term of Gom
pers his Jargon.
Further corollary or consequence) of
the contention Is that no man has at
right to carry on a business-if others,
for reasons of their own, wish to pre
vent him; that no right to carry on a
business of any particular kind at any
particular place, or at all, shall be
held as property or constituting a prop
erty right; that any man or set of
men shall be free under this heme,
which Mr. Gompers and hia faction
nay Is the true interpretation of the
Bryan platform, to break up a man's
business, and destroy his means of
making a living for himself and fam
ily.destroyingalso the employmentand
livelihood of th workers in a busi
ness, and the courts are to be prohib
ited in express terms from affording
these sufferers protection. '
This is the interpretation and this
the explanation of the resolutions
adopted by the Gompers faction at
Portland on Sunday, published yester
day by The Oregonian: All doing busi
ness, or expecting to do business,
would do well to take notice. For If
this be a real issue of the present po
litical campaign and If the result shall
be such that the advocates of it can
claim to have won, then it will be an
issue, indeed, and a continuous one,
after the election. If the right to do
business in peace, and without mo
lestation, under protection of law, is
not to- be maintained and enforced,
why then this country has soma ex
perience before it. the like of which
it has not yet known.
President Roosevelt addressed in
quiries to Bryan and to Gompers on
this -subject, which remain un
answered because of course they
cannot be answered.
The commercial aspect of horticul
ture in the district covered by the
i-Oming convention of horticulturists
of the Pacific Northwest will receive
the special attention of that body.
That the section covered can raise
fruit of all standard varieties, unsur
passable form, flavor, color and qual
ity, has been over and again proven
by exhibits mad at' various points in
this district. Methods leading to this
result have been from time to time
and In fullest detail presented, i The
yield q fruit has become enormous
and it is being steadily increased.
Hence tha question "What about tha
prospective market?" is being asked.
It is proper that this question should
be properly considered and Intelligent
ly answered, and to this purpose three
days will be given In the coming con
vention. Oregon, Washington, Idaho,
Montana and British Columbia wili be
represented in this convention with
such an exhibit of Winter apples and
pears as it is believed cannot be made
anywhere in the world outside of the
district Included. The science of apple-growing
Is pretty well understood
by our orchardlsts. .The business side
of the horticultural problem will now
be strongly and practically presented.
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THE "LAW-GIVF.R" AND FREE SPEECH.
This Is true liberty -when free-born- men
Having to advise the public may speak free.
.
What can be Juster In a at than thl.T
Milton, translating from Euripides,
gut we have an act, a law, written
by a statesman and law-giver at Ore
gon City, and adopted witnoirt thought
or consideration by the electors of
Oregon, which proposes to cut off
free speech On. election day the day
of all others on which speech should
be free, and must be free and will be
free.
Of cnurse the urenic mind never
heard of :he long contest centuries
long for free speech and free press.
Of Milton and Spinoza and Bruno
and Savonarola, the urenic mind
knows nothing. It has no idea that
this principle, contending foe: free
speech and free press, fought ifs bat
tle to a finish, against all kinds and
descriptions of tyrants, and rtres and
racks and proscriptions, centuries ago.
'Yet this ignorance and stupidity and
narrow-mindedness of "the law-giver
of Oregon," have revived and forced
all kinds of the folly of the dark ages
on the people of the state.
It attempts to cut out or supersede
representative government; to nullify
the Constitution of the United States
and the Constitution of the State of
Oregon; it assumes the abolition of the
liberty of printing and of speech: -it
forbids a man to speak to his neigh
bor, his friend, his. son or his father
on election day; if a man is a priest,
a preacher or a minister of religion, or
happens to be any officer, however
humble, of any religious or ecclesiasti
cal organization, his mouth Is to be
hut up, at all times unless he shall
hire a hall and harangue In public.
Nobody shall talk to anybody or try
to "persuade" anybody; "the law
giver" commands it.
We all of us shall let the law
giver go hang. He a mass of Ignor
ance, stupidity and conceit is im
pervious to the lessons of history,
which record the long fight for free
speech and free printing. Of Milton's
Areopagitica. and of Spinoza and the
Tractatus Theoiogico-Politicus, he
never heard; and if he should be
shown these immortal works, they
would be unintelligible to him; he
would say the authors were talking a
Jargon.
What The Oregonlan has to advise,
since
This is true liberty when free-born men
Having to advise the public may apeak free
is use and exercise of the right to
speak and to print freely on election
days, and on other days, as they have
been wont to do, subject, of course,
as ever heretofore, to responsibility
for abuse of the right; and treatment
with contempt the ignorance and
asininity and arrogance of the "law
giver." one of whose notions of "re
form" is suppression of the liberty
which Is the sum of all liberties.
Again, let this "law-giver" go hang!
OREGON'S EARLY VOTING. -Oregon's
first vote for President"
was cast in 1860. There were four
candidates. Lincoln received 5270
votes, Breckinridge 5006, Douglas
3951. Bell 183. Total, 14.410 about
one-ninth of the present registered
vote.
In 1864 the vote of the state was
18,385. For Lincoln,. 9888; for Mc
Clellan, 8385. Lincoln's majority,
1503.
In 1868 Grant and Seymour were
the candidates. That year the Demo
crats carried the state. The vote for
Seymour was 11,125; for Grant, 10,960.
This la the only time when Democratic
electors have been chosen in Oregon
though one Populist elector was
chosen, by fusion with the Democrats,
In 1892.
Down to the Civil War Oregon was
always Democratic. The party split
In 1860, and the Republicans won for
a time. After the war, and Indeed be
fore Its close, an influx of Confeder
ates began, which so increased the
Democratic strength as to give that
party the ascendancy for several
years. Then a larger proportion of
Republican voters began to come: and
by 1876 the Republican vote began to
predominate, and has been on the
whole a majority ever elnee.
PORTLANDT BOATBUILDING PRESTHiB
Portland's prestige as a boatbuild
ing center is growing. More than
fifty years has elapsed since the old
Eliza Anderson was built in this city
and sent around to Puget Sound to
become famous. Since that historlo
craft departed for Puget Sound, many
others have followed her. At no pre
vious time, however, have the Port
land yards and shops, handled so
much work for Puget Sound people
as during the past year, and there are
a number of pending orders which are
almost certain to be placed In this
city. Portland bidders were far below
the Puget Sound men with their
figures for a fire-boat for Seattle, and
nothing but civic pride kept the con
tract from coming to this city. Last
month a Seattle contractor found such
superior facilities for economical re
pair work In this port that a 7000-ton
steamship was sent here for 124,000
worth of repairs. The vessel was
placed In first-class condition here at
a cost more than 110,000 below that
of the best figures obtainable on Puget
Sound and at that the contractor is
said to have made a good profit.
In the early days of steamnavl
gation on Puget Sound, and in fact
until well along in tha '80s, nearly
all of the. best steamers plying on that
Inland sea were craft that had been
sent around from Portland. This
practice was originally due to lack of
facilities for building and repairing
vessels on Puget Sound; but In view
of the numerous contracts that have
come to Portland since first-class fa
cilities were provided at Seattle and
other points, there are of course other
reasons for preference being shown
Portland boats. Some of this favorit
ism is undoubtedly due to the splendid
class of work that is turned out here,
and to -the reputation that the Port
land boats have made wherever they
have been operated.
The steamer Flyer, still running be
tween Seattle and Tacoma, Is a Portland-built
steamer that has become
world famous through her remark
able performances of annually cover
ing more miles than any other steamer
in existence. The Fleetwood, Wash
ington, Multnomah, Victorian and a
host of others which first- took the
water in this city, were all record
breakers in their day. and all served
to advertise the work of the Portland
. 1 1 .1 .. , T,, ntaawinn Vllnun IPIlt
DUIiuria. 1 . . . .- . . i . . - - i- -
round about two years ago, sustained !
the reputation of her predecessors,
and the H. D. Kennedy, now nearing
completion at the W illamette Iron
Works In this city, promises to add
fresh laurels to Portland as a boat
building center. We have not yet
begun building battleships in this city,
but our builders are gradually getting
together some remarkably complete
plants, and, as the work shows, they
are alread? able to out-class the Puget
Sound ports on work originating at
Seattle and Tacoma. i
AMENDMENT IS NECESSARY.
The registration of the state, that
shows so large a Republican plurality.
lg peculiar, let us say. In the state
there is a good and strong Republican
majority, but nothing like that shown
by the figures. The reason why so
many Democrats registered (falsely)
as Republicans was two-fold. First,
It was part of a concerjed game for
work in the primaries, with a view to
helping Chamberlain. Second, it was
the fruit of solicitation of Republican
candidates for local offices, who in
duced their Democratic friends to
register as Republicans, so they might
vote for -them in the primaries and
get them the nominations over com
petitors in their own party."
Democrats were led to do this be
cause there was scarcely a Democratlo
county in the state, and they could
not expect to elect candidates of their
own party. Work of this kind is one
of the counts against the present pri
mary law. It is a bid for one party to
nominate the candidates of the other.
There must be amendment, or the law
should be repealed. As it stands it is
a scheme of Juggle, Indirection and
fraud. .
FARMERS' PROSPERITY IN JEOPARDY.
Neither the influence of a coming
Argentine crop of large dimensions
nor a free selling of what remains of
the American crop, seems to have
much effect In breaking wheat below
the dollar mark in' Chicago. The
coarser grains are also selling at full
figures, corn closing yesterday at
nearly 64 cents and oats at 60 cents
per bushel. With such prices, it is
small wonder that the farmers of the
country are enjoying great prosperity.
The farmers' business alone, among
all the great industries of the country,
has up to this time 'remained un
scathed by the general business de
pression that swept over the country
a year ago. This is an anomalous
condition which cannot last much
longer.
If a change of administration should
be decreed at the polls today the coun
try would at once be plunged into a
state of lethargical uncertainty which
would remain for months. With such
uncertainty, the upward move in other
branches of Industry beside agricul
ture would be halted, and the pur
chasing power of the wage earner of
the country curtailed. With this cur
tailment of purchasing power would?
come a decreased demand for farm
products, and prices would decline.
Europe is J'ist now-paying high prices
for our wheat because the exportable
surplus Is small, but if the wheat con
sumption of the- United States, were
decreased by the insignificant amount
of three ounces per day per capita for
a year, the amount available for ex
port would be increased 'nearly 100.
000.000 bushels, and that Increase in
available supplies for the foreign mar
kets would break prices tremendously
throughout the world.
The same is true of other commod
ities which are now .selling at high
prices. We have been rapidly regain
ing the ground we lost in last year's
panic, and if there Is no disturbing
change in our National policies, such
as would surely follow Mr. Bryan's""
election, the great army of consumers
will still be able to pay the high prices
that make the farmer prosperous, if,
on the other hand, capital should be
frightened into hiding and all labor
employing Industries at least tempor
arily paraylzed by the ejection of
Bryan, the difference between the
consumer's and the producer's pros
perity would be promptly equalized,
and the equalization would be efTectr
ed by a decline In prices of all farm
products that would spread consterna
tion in its wake.
COLLEGE RIOTS.
No doubt there are persons of
slushy mentality who- will speak of
the performance at the University of
Washington last Sunday morning as a
"frolic." They will be inclined to slur
over the performance with some Inane
platitude. "Boys will be boys," or
"Collegians must have their , little
amusements," i or "The college spirit
sometimes goes too far, but it is good
upon the whole." These are speci
mens of the sort of comment which
people of soft hearts and softer heads
always make when college students
insult their teachers, break the law
and destroy property. The effect of it
is to make these hoodlums believe
they have done something rather
smart and manly and encourage them
to repeat the performance, as soon as
their teachers' happen to displease
them again.
There is . a manifest disposition to
acquiesce In a code of conduct for col
lege students entirely different from
the one that governs other, people.
When a young ruffian has learned to
putter a Latin declension and a Greek
verb, this extremely valuable accom
plishment Is supposed to exempt him
from the requirements of ordinary de
cency. If he steals, it is a mere boy
ish prank. If he loots a building and
breaks open private drawers, as these
Washington marauders did. why it is
an outbreak of college spirit, a thing
entirely excusable, even if not quite
praiseworthy. It seems to be .com
monly admitted that the unavoidable
effect of Latin. Greek and algebra is
to turn young men into ungovernable
lawbreakers. Granting the truth of
the admission, one is half inclined to
ask whether the Greek and Latin im
part anything which compensates for
the mischief they are assumed to do.
There was a time when .a smattering
of Latin excused a 'man, no matter
what crime he might commit. "Ben
efit of clergy" the lovely privilege was
called. It might betted have, been
called "Benefit of murder and thiev
ery." but the name is of no conse
quence, for everywhere except in col
leges It was abolished long ago. Only
In colleges where our youth are said
to acquire the higher and finer culture
which fits them to move in the upper
circles of society is learning permitted
to excuse crime -if the shallow par
rotry of these hoodlums can be called
learning.
Suppose fifty or sixty workingmen
with wives. and children depending on
them were to strike-for a living wage;
and suppose in the course of the
strike, exasperated by (injustice and
the tears of a hungry family, they
were to break into their employer's
office, wreck his desk, strew the floor
with his papers and end their "prank"
by making a bonfire of his furniture.
Would not every friend of law and or
der shriek with horror? Would not
exemplary punishment be demanded
by everybody? Certainly, and justly
so. Well, this Is precisely what those
college hoodlums did in Seattle, and if
punishment is proper In one case, why
not in the other? May a college man
break laws with impunity which a
workingman may not break without
imprisonment? Have we one code, a
very mild one, for those who have
been ennobled by a smattering of
Latin, and a different and much severer
code for the man who toils with his
hands? The workingman who riots
breaks the law oftentimes in defense
of the dearest human rights, yet we
Insist that his motive shall-not excuse
him. Tese ruffianly students broke
V- r loll' Irt TsftttASt nealnst-a set of en
tirely proper coUege rules: shi "" their
motive excuse Ihem? Shall not the
iit fnr one class be the law ror an
classes, or shall we frankly admit that
n-o hnvo a class among' us which is
above the law? .To quote Its own pit
iful jargon, this class believes itseii
to be absolutus legibus. Is the claim
admissible?
If young men in college are permit
ted to break the law whenever their
teachers' conduct displeases them,
whof nieile-p have we that they will
nhv ho law after thev leave college?
The habit of riot and arson ingrained by
four years of college anarchy may .pos
sibly be cast off like a garment on
commencement day, but mucn more
likely It will be found so fixed in the
character that can never be cast off,
though it may take upon itself new
forms. The truth is that the men in
this country who are most regardless
of law and most contemptuous of the
rights of the public are In the main
college graduates. They possess that
finer culture which the study of the
lasaina 0-ivou and which colleare as
sociations ripen and beautify. Some
of them are notorious rreeDooters,
some are famed, the world over for
hardy expertness In mendacity, otners
have immortalized themselves by de-KannViino-
Senators and corrupting
judges. If this is the necessary fruit
of culture, could barbarism be much
worse? Whj not try the experiment
of giving our young men culture with
out malcinar riotous hoodlums of
them? The results might be encour
aging.
More than a thousand newcomers
were brought Into Portland over the
Harriman lines during the past three
days. Most of them were people from
the East and Middle West who are
coming into the country with a view
to making new homes, and, if they are
made of the right stuff, they will never
regret their coming. They are arriv
ing In a state where five-acre ' farms
support good-sized families, and where
people have grown rich from the out
put from ten and twenty acres of land.
There are still plenty of trackless for
ests to be subdued, and plenty of
virgin soil to be broken. Naturally
the pioneers in the country did not
select the poorest land, but that which
Is still available at low prices is so
far ahead of much that is obtainable
in the more congested localities of the
East and Middle West, that the new
comers will not regret the change.
Oregon needs all of the good immi
grants that the railroads can haul here
for a long time to come, and they
should be welcomed and made to feel
at home, no matter what portion of
the state they may select.
As the area given to diversified
farming increases, the by-products of
agriculture increase. If this were not
true, farming would be one of the
most wasteful of all industries. The
wastage of orchards, gardens, melon
and potato patches In pioneer times in
this state was enormous. The pro
ducers used what they could, sold
what they could to a market easily
glutted, and the large surplus went to
waste. This time has, to some ex
tent, passed, and is rapidly passing.
One of the latest examples of this is
found in the report that excellent mo
lasses and catsup are being made from
watermelons in the Yakima country
and that melons fed to cows Increase
the quantity and richness of milk-. Re
calling the dismal spectacle that was
presented in former years by tons of
watermelons rotting on the ground in
October and November, it is easy to
realize the great saving that Is effect
ed by turning this most perishable and
abundant crop Into marketable by
products. "Partisanship," says the" Demo
cratic organ at Pendleton, "never
should elect a President. Therefore
we are for Bryan." On the ground,
we may suppose, that Bryan is not a
partisan nor a party man.
It is reported that several persons
who lost money at La Grande througn
the Scriber bank 'steal will, for that
reason, vote for Bryan. Doubtless
they expect Bryan to pay their money
back.
Candidate Cosgrove, in Washington,
sends out a vigorous telegram from
his home at Pomeroy, denying that
he is either dying or dead. That
sounds reasonable.
Certainly Oregon is in the doubtful
column, as Chairman Mack says.
There is much doubt as to whether
Taft's plurality will be 10,000 or 15,
000, or more.
If you were a Presidential candidate,-'
and .all you could be sure of
would be the support of the solid
South and Nevada, wouldn't it make
you D'oud?
It seems necessary to some city offi
cials that certain individuals should
obtain a garbage monopoly. Until
the monopoly Is needed It should be
deferred.
It ought to be possible for a perfect
lady to get a cocktail without visiting
a saloon. We venture the assertion
that Mrs. Howard Gould never enters
a saloon.
The reason so little money has been
bet on the election is the unwilling
ness of Democrats to risk their cash
without tremendous odds.
After the election somebody will be
sorry It came so sooni probably the
same fellow who today Is sorry it'
comes so late. -
Chair-mac Mack must have grave
doubts also about Pennsylvania. As a
claimer he has the art down to a fine
point.
Might as well have that Bryan cele
bration today: for tomorrow
TRIST AID WAS NEVER DENIED
But No Blackmail ,oa Corporations,
Said Roosevelt In- ltH-4.
Raymonds Letter In Chicago Tribune.
Every once in a while during this
campaign a statement has appeared
which has done gross injustice to
President Roosevelt and which he must
have been frequently tempted to riddle
in one of his characteristic letters.
The chief offenders in this perslsc
ent slander upon the President have
been Mr. Bryan and ex-Judge Parker.
Both these men have sought to create
an Impression that in some way Mr.
Roosevelt had denied during the cam
paign of 1904. and particularly in his
lot tr- i Mr. Parker, that the Republi
can party has been receiving- contri
butions from big corporations.
This allegation has been repeated by
the small fry on the Democratic side,
and at one time President Roosevelt
contemplated smswering them, but
later on decided that the issue was
not important enough and devoced his
attention to other features of the
campaign.
e e
The statement that the President at
any time denied that the party had
received or was receiving contribu
tions for corporations is. as he would
say if he .were writing a letter, a
"simple falsehood." There is no pos
sible chance for any one pretending
there was an opportunity even for
misunderstanding what the President
or National committee said four years
ago.
In his celebrated lett,er answering
the absurd charges of ex-Judge Parker
the President, among other things
said:
"The gravamen ot these charges lies
In the assertion that corporations had
been blackmailed into contributing
and in Intimation, which has taken the
form nractlcallv of an assertion, that
they have been promised certain Im
munities or favors or' have been as
sured they would receive some kind of
Improper consideration- in view of
their contributions. That contribu
tions have been made to the Republi
can committee, as contributions have
been made to the Democratic com
mittee. Is not the question at issue.
"Mr. Parker's assertion is. In effect,
that such -contributions have been made
from Improper motives, either in con
sequence of threats or In consequence
of improper promises, direct or indi
rect on the part of the recipients.
Mr. Parker knows best whether this
is true of contributions to his cam
paign fund which have come through
his trusted friends and adviser who
represent great corporate interests
that stand behind him. But there is
not one particle of truth in the state
ment as regards anything that has
gone on in the management of the
Republican campaign.
a e -
"The assertion that Mr. Cortelyou
had any knowledge gained while in
any official position whereby he was
enabled to secure and did secure any
contributions from any corporations,
Is . a falsehood. The assertion that
there has been any blackmail, direct
or Indirect by Mr. Corteiyou or by me
Is a falsehood. The assertion that
there has been made in my behalf and
by my authority by Mr. Cortelyou or
by any' one else any pledge or promise
or that there has been any under
standing as to the future immunities
or benefits. In recognition of any con
tribution from any source, Is a wicked
falsehood."
And then the President concluded
with the ringing paragraph:
"If elected I shall go Into the Presi
dency unhampered by ' any pledge,
promise, or understanding of any kind,
sort, or description, save my promise
made openly to the American people,
that so far as in my power lies I
shall see to it that every man has a
square deal." . ,
These extracts are given from the
famous letter at the close of the cam
paign of 1904 for the purpose of show
ing that what the President denied
was that any corporation had been
blackmailed In his behalf into making
a political contribution. The exist
ence of these corporation contributions
was not denied by anybody. The
charge made by ex-Judge Parker
amounted to one of political blackmail
and It was that which the President
resented in Buch a sensational fashion
in his historical letter, which put the
finishing touch to Mr. Parker's chttnees
of election.
WHERE THE LABOR VOTE STANDS
Poll of Mills and Mines la Favorable
' to Taft.
Labor World (Pitsburg, Pa.)
It can be safely said that the cam
paign of Samuel Gompers in behalf
of William Jennings Bryan has been
a failure, so far" as delivering the
labor vote to Bryan is concerned. Mr.
Gompers has succeeded. however, ' in
making Socialists out of many work
ingmen, probably 75 per cent of whom
were formerly Democrats. With a
view of ascertaining the effect of
Samuel Gompers' campaign on the la
bor vote, the Labor World has had a
straw vote taken in 86 mills and mines
in' West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Illinois, Indiana and Maryland with
the forlowing results: '
These mills and mines employed
union men and sympathizers with or
ganized labor.
. West Virginia Six mines and four
mills were canvassed with the follow
ing result: Taft. 2088; Bryan, 1244;
Debs, 501; other candidates, 34.
Pennsylvania Twelve mines and
eight mills were canvassed with the
following result: Taft, 8562; Bryan,
2801: Debs, 1058; other candidates. 2.
Ohio Fourteen mines and nine mills
were canvassed with the following re
sult: Taft, 6926; Bryan. 4946; Debs,
842; other candidates, 103.
Illinois Eight mines and three mills
were canvassed with the following re
sult: Taft, 4S89; Bryan. 3580; Debs.
641: other candidates, 18.
Indiana Eleven mines and six mills
were canvassed with the following re
sult: Taft, 5636: Bryan, 6227; Debs,
914: other candidates, 21.
Maryland Four mines and one mill
were canvassed with the following re
sult: Taft. 851; Bryan, 804; Debs, 154;
other candidates, 3.
Total Taft, 28.652; Bryan, 18,602;
Debs, 4110; other candidates, 181.
This vote was taken from mills and
mines in various localities in the above
named states and is interesting in
that it Indicates that Mr. Taft will get
his full share of the labor vote and
also that Mr. Gompers has made lots
of votes for Debs. Debs will poll a
vote among working people In this
campaign that will be surprising.
King Edward. Cone Connolaaeur.
New Tork Tribune.
King Edward's present of a gold
mounted malacca cane to Winston Chur
chill reminds a writer in the Dundee
Advertiser that his majesty is a great
connoisseur in walking sticks, and pos
sesses a fine collection both at Bucking
ham Palace and Windsor. Among them
is one especially made for him by tha
late Sir George Dibbs. who acaulred un
usual skill in the construction of sticks,
pipes and dolls, and other things while
serving a period of detention In Austra
lia for contempt of court. This particu
lar stick is made from rare wood found
In the "Never-Never" region known as
Ringijji. Perhaps, however, the most his
toric stick in the royal collection is one
fashioned out of a branch of the Bosco
bel oak Into which Charles II climbed to
escape Cromwell's men at the close of
the battle of Worcester. Queen Victoria,
during the later years of her life, always
made use of this stick, and in place of
the round nob. she had a small Indian
idol from Seringapatam mounted as a
handle.
BABY'S
Little Tot Thrown in Car and Dies
in Mother's Arms.
SPOKANF3, Wash.. Nov. J. Thrown
from her footing In the aisle of a Spo
kane A Inland Railway car by a sudden
lurch. 4-year-old Carrie Mills fell back
ward, her head striking with violent force
against the Iron brace of one of the car
seats. Tlje child's skull was fractured,
and she died in her mother's arms less
than a minute after the accident.
Mrs. Mills, wife of Charles Mills, a
mechanic residing at Colfax, started to
Spokane with her daughter on the Spo
kane & Inland train, leaving Colfax about
8 o'clock this morning. The child became
restless as the train was about 15 miles
distant from Spokane, and after getting
a drink of water from the cooler in one
end of the car. stood for a moment in
the aisle beside the seat occupied by
Mrs. Mills.
A . lurch in the movement of the car
threw the little girl backward, and as
she fell she struck the back of her head
against the seat in which her mother
was sitting. Before the serious nature
of the child's injuries was known and
medical aid could be secured she was
dead.
GIVE JOXES GRAND OVATION
Neighbors of 'Yakima Congressman
Show Great Enthusiasm. '
NORTH YAKIMA, . Wash., Nov. 3.
(Special.) No such ovation was ever
given in Central Washington; to any man
as that given Wr. L. Jones by his towns
men toniKht. Long before 8 o'clock the
I, Yakima Theater was crowded with peo
ple and on the arrival of the parade, luw
strong, headed by the Grand Army
veterans, who escorted the speaker from
his home to the theater, there was no
room Inside. Mr. Jones was compelled to
address the overflow which packed the
streets for nearly half a block In every
direction, before entering the house.
He was greeted by round after round
of cheers and when he entered the thea
ter at the conclusion of the out-of-doors
speech, an audience of at least 2000. fill
ing every Beat and aisle and inch of
standing room, went wild with enthu
siasm. NEW ECHO OF PERDUE MURDER
North Carolina Woman Believes
. Dead Man Was Husband.
HILiLSBORO, Or., Nov. 2. (Special.)
Mrs. Elmer Perdue, of Alleghany County,
North Carolina, writes Sheriff Hancock
that she is confident her husband Is the
man who was killed by Walter Johnson,
near Timber, last July: She says Perdue
left home two years ago, and was never
heard of since. She says Perdue's father
was a moonshiner, and this corresponds
with Johnson's statement about the dead
man.
A picture was sent out, but as It was
taken some years ago, and before Perdue
wore a moustache, Johnson says It Is
Impossible to identify him. although he
states it looks something like him.
Perdue had a heavy moustache when
Johnson first- met him In the Acme Em
ployment office In Portland.
HIGH SCHOOL LAD IS DROWSED
Falls From Boat While Dnck-Hunt-
ing Off Copalls Point.
ABERDEEN, Wash.. Nov. 2. (Special.)
Rav Burke, aged 19, member of the
senior class in high school, and one of
the editors of Ocean Breeze, the nign
school publication, was drowned off Co
palls Point in the Pacitlc Ocean wnue
hunting last Friday. Burke was out in
a boat and is thought to have fallen
overboard while taking a shot at a
duck.
Rurke was a brother of Mrs. Frank
Becker, wife of a prominent business
man. The father of Mrs. Becker and of
vnuna: Burke also lost his life in a tragic
manner four years ago, being killed by a
charge of dynamite while he was clearing
stumps on his farm, near Lopana.
SLIPS ON ICE; FOUND DEAD
Man's Skull Crushed by Heavy Log
He Is Carrying.
ATLIN, B. C. Nov. 2 Joseph Peno,
a young Spaniard engaged in mining
on the Pine River this season, met a
violent death near discovery on Sat-
Peno had gone into the bush near
Discovery to get out some nrewoou.
u aB vAtiimins home carrying a
heavy log, 14 feet long, over his left
shoulder. When crossing a sheet of
glare Ice he apparently siippea ana
Aii Tha ins- HMmH to have rolled
.. v. unfnrtiinfltA man'a head as
he fell, crushing his skull horribly and
causing Instant death.
WILL ERECT LARGE RESORT
Capitalists to Expend $150,000 tn
Improving Belknap Springs.
EUGENE, Or., Nov. 2. (Special.)
ieiKnap fcprings win iiereRn uo uVv.i
rwn unt .7nrins-n. and will be made
one of the great resorts on the Pacific
Coast. W. J. Howell, wno wnn jonn n.
Haak. recently purchased the Belknep
r i .. i tnAttv nrA atntri
CpiIIlgB, VBO HI V"
that they would spend 1150.000, In im
proving the resort, ana n, inruus" cu-
: nrtfh ,ho Cnuntv Court and
people living along the McKensle, a good
road can De ouut me new bwhcib wm
put on an automobile service for the
public until the electric roaa is num.
Bags Blue Heron at Elma.
ELMA, Wash., Nov. 2. (Special.)
C. E. Holmes, wnue nuuuug m
Chehalls River bottoms near here yes
terday, killed a blue heron, a bird
rapidly becoming very rare and which
is extremely hard to kill. The bird
measured four feet six and one-half
inches from toe to tip of beak -end six
feet two inches from tip to tip of
wing.
Hundred Teachers at Vancouver.
ViVCOTIVER. Wash.. Nov. 2. (Spe
ciaL) One hundred teachers enrolled
at the twenty-fifth annual Clark
County institute in this city toaay.
Fiftv more are expected tomorrow,
and Wednesday State Superintendent
Dewev will be here. W. N. Mmuna
son. of Ellsworth, delivered a public
lecture tonight, at the conclusion of
which there was a general reception to
the teachers. ,
Told of Bulwer Lrttoa.
Hall Calne, in the autobiography
which he has Just published, repeats a
strange anecdote - which he had from
the lips of Wilkle Collins, rne autnor
of "The Woman in White" told him
that after the publication of that story
a lady came to him and said:
The great failure of your book Is your
villain. Excuse me If I say you do not really
know a villain. Your count Fosco is a very
noor one and when next you want a char
acter of that description I trust that you
will not disdain to coma to me. I know a
villain . . . ths man Is alive and -constantly
nnder my axa In fact, ha la my
own husband.
Who was this candid visitor? It was
the wife of F.dward Bulwer Lytton.
One may recall Thackeray's merciless
satire of Bulwer Lytton, in the Yellow
plush Papers. -
List of Polling Places Prepared by
County Clerk.
Polling places will be open to voters
In today's election fronl 8 A. M. to 7 P.
M. Voting- places In the 114 precincts of
Portland and . Multnomah County have
been arranged by County Clerk Fields as
follows:
Precinct No. 1, Hotel Detroit, northsaat
corner 27th and Thurmnn.
Precinct No. 2, 300 TSurmsn st
Precinct No. 3. Wilson St., bet. 2tst and
22d.
Precinct No. 4. 323 Vi 20h -, bt
Q. and R.
Precinct No. 5. southwest corner 6th
and Flanders. 89 6th.
Precinct No. 6. portable house, north .
east corner 14th and Lovejoy.
Precinct No. 7. portable house, south
aide of Marshall, bet. lllth and 20th.
Precinct No. 8. portable house, north
east corner 2:td and Marshall.
Precinct No. 9. portable house south
east corner 14th and Gll'an.
Precinct No. 10, portable house south
east corner 21st and (?1!san.
Precinct No. 11. portable house, north
west corner 4th and riavls.
Precinct No, 12. portable house south
east corner 10th and Burn-lde.
Precinct No. 1.1. plumDlngshop, 19th.
bat. Washington and Coucn.
Precinct No. 14. portable house, north
west corner 21et and Washington.
Precinct No. 15. New Scott Hotel, Plna
St., bet 0th and 7th.
Precinct No. lfi. 87 5th St.
Precinct No. 17, portable house north
east corner 7th and Alder.
Precinct No. 18. dwelling north aide of
Alder, bet. 12th and lath.
Precinct No. 19. old Wells-Fargo bldg..
southeast corner 4th and Yamhill.
Precinct No. 20, portable house north
west corner 11th and Yamhill.
Precinct No. 21. portable house, north
west corner 14th and Main.
Precinct No. 22, portable house south
west corner Washington and Ella sts.
Precinct No. 2,'t. portable nouse, 5th-Bt.
entrance to Courthouse.
Precinct No. 24, portable house, 4th-at.
entrance to city Hall.
Precinct No. 25. portable house north
west corner West park and Madison.
Precinct No. 2d, 212 Columbia St.. bet.
Front and First.
Precinct No. 27. 36.1 Third St.. carpen
ter shop.
Precinct No. 28. portable house north
east corner 6th and Market.
Precinct No. 20. portable nouse south
east corner Market and West Park.
Precinct No. .80. portable house north
west corner 18th and Market.
Precinct No. Si. portable house north
east corner 17th and Market.
Precinct No. X2, the Newcastle, Harri
son St., corner 3d.
Precinct No. 33. 5f First St.
Precinct No. 34. 854 6th St., corner Lin
coln. '
Precinct No. 35, portable house south
east corner 11th and College.
Precinct No. 86, portable house north
west corner 20th and Spring.
Precinct No. 87. .u 1st at., bridge.
Precinct No. 38. 752 First St.
Precinct No. 39, 739 First St.. corner
Gtbbs.
Pseclnct No. 40. 885 Corbett it., next to
grocery.
Precinct No. 41. 1161 Macadam at., gro
cery etore.
Precinct No. 42, south side of Umatilla
ave., bet. 11th and 13th sts.
Precinct No. 43. 1617 E. 15th St.
Precinct No 44. Midway Hose Com
pany. Milwaukie St.
Precinct No. 45. portable house south
east corner East 2flth and Franklin.
Precinct No. 46, 555 Milwaukie at.
Precinct No. 47, poi table bouse north
east corner 21st and Powell 'sts.
Precinct No. 48. 413 East 8th St., bet.
Grant and Sherman sts.
Precinct No. 49. 411 East Clay at.,
Italian grocery.'
Precinct No. 50, portable houee, south
east corner East 84th st. and Haathoma
ave. .
Precinct No. 51, portable house, outn
west corner 4fith and Hawthorne.
Precinct No. 52. portable house east
aide Grand avenue, bet. Morrison and
Belmont. .
Precinct No. 53, portable house south
west corner East 13th and Yamhill.
Precinct No. 54. portable house north
east corner East 20th and East Morrison.
Precinct No. 55. southeast corner East
84th and Yamhill.
Precinct No. 56. portable house end of
Morrison, east side of 30th t.
Precinct No. 57. portable house south-
east corner 47th and Belmont, front of
160 47lh. . , .
Precinct No. 58, Woodman Hall, TV est
avenue.
Precinct No. 59. building West avenue
and East Gllsan.
Precinct No. 60, portable house next to
Montavllla billiard hall.
Precinct No. 81, I. O. O. F. Hall, Mon
tavllla. Precinct No. 82, 389 East Pine t., la
rear of grocery.
Precinct No. 83, 40.1 East Burnslde St.
Precinct No. 64. portable house north
west corner East 14th and East Ankenr
streets.
Precinct No. 65. portable house north
west corner East 20th and Burnslde.
Precinct No. 66, portable house north
west corner East 2Sth and East Ankeny.
Precinct No. 67. portable house East
2-8th and East Gllsan, southeast corner.
Precinct No. 68. portable house south
east corner 21st and Oregon.
Precinct No. 60. portable house south
east corner Grand and Holladay avenues.
Precinct No. 70, portable house south
east corner 21st and Halsey sts.
Precinct No. 71. 843 Williams avenue.
Precinct No. 72. portable house south
west corner 7th and Broadway.
Precinct Nc. 73. portable house south
east corner 10th ana Tillamook sts.
Precinct No. 73 H. Cady s store, Sandy
road and Cully avenue.
Precinct No. 74, 102 Russell st.
Precinct No. 75. 139 Russell St.
Precinct No. 78. portable house. Rus
sell st.. bet. Vancouver and Williams.
Precinct No. 77, 538 Williams avenue,
real estate office.
Precinct No. 78. portable house, Union
avenue and Sellwood.
Preolnct No. 79. portable house, Eu
gene St., bet. t-'nlon and Grand aves.
Precinct No. 80, portable house south
west corner Mississippi and Shaver.
Precinct No. 81, portable house en
Commercial, southeast corner Phaver.
Precinct No. 82. portable house south
west corner Williams and Shaver.
Precinct No. 83. portable house. Mason,
bet. 10th and 11th.
Precinct No. 84. portable house, Kltl
ingsworth and Union ave., northwest
corner. .
Precinct No. 85, portable house south
east corner East 21st and Alberta sts.
Precinct No. 86. portable house, corne
Dekum and Durham avenues.
Precinct No. 87. portable house north,
west corner Michigan and Kllllngsworth
Vpreclnct No. 88, Carter's Hall. Penin
sular Station.
Precinct No. 89, 693 Dawson St.. port
able house northeast corner Dawson an!
Fiske streets, next M. E. Church.
Precinct No. 90 f8t. John), real estate
offlre. Jersev and Richmond.
Precinct No. 91 (St. John), City Hall.
Precinct No. 92, (Columbia), echool-
b0preclnct No. 93 (Russelvllle), poat-
0fpre'clnct No. 94, (Woodstock), Wood
stock Hall. .
Precinct No. 95 (AnaBet). portable
house. Stewart and Foster roads.
Precinct Ma. 98 (South Mount Tabor),
portable houaa ftewart and Foster roads.
Precinct No. 7 (Arleta), over butcher
hF?e,clnct No. 98 (Lents), Grange Hall.
Precinct No. 99 (Falrvlew). Artlaan'a
Hall
Precinct 100 (Rockweod), Rockwood
Hall "
Precinct No. 11 (Gresham), Regnar's
Hprecinct No. 102 (Troutdale), Fox's
Hpreclnct No. 103 (Fowell Valley),
E1preclnct No. 104 (Hurlbuit), Hurlburt
Hpreelnct No. 105 (Bridal Veil), school-
' bpreclnct No. 106 (Palmer), school-
hprecinct No. 107 (Sauvles Island),
schoolhouse No. 19.
precinct No. 108 (Holbrook). Stevana'
"precinct No. 109 (Llnnton), Oeorga
Hergeveld's residence.
Preolnct 110 (Sylvan), Cook's shop.
Precinct No. Ill (Mt. Zion), Fairvala
. schoolhouse. . . '
Precinct No. 112 (Bertha), Bertha
schoolhouse. ... . .
Precinct No. - 113 (Riverdale). school
house. . ,
Precinct No. 114 iWestport). school
house. Oivina; Himself A vrny.
Salem Statesman.
Probably what affected the Jury as
much as anything was the statement
of Mrs. Van Blarlcom, now of ..ewberg,
one time operator of a hotel at Shel
burn, where it is alleged Lathrop and
Mrs. Alfred T. Savage lived together
for some time.
She declared that she knew Lathrop
and Mrs. Savage to be other than hus
band and wife because he was "too
tender." She knew it, she said, because
he paid the woman too much attention,
because he called her names which
were too endearing and because he
helped her carry packages upstairs.
"No husband would do that for his
wife,' she stated, 'and the Jury looked
wise.
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