TUFT ADMITS HE'S NOT PERFECTION President Indulges in Heart-to-Heart Talk With Illinois Republicans. AIM IS TO DO HIS BEST Exec-stive Declare ITe Has Sot Made Basinets of Ifcrtoc PolltlclsJi. Real Ambition Lead to 6b preme Court Bench. PEORIA, rU Sept. 11. President Taft had a heart-to-heart talk hers trxlmy with th leader of th different Republican factions la Illinois: denned h:, status as to "progresslveness. aa mltted ha was a poor politic. an. ac knowledged again that bis ambition had lain In trie direction of the office of Chief Justice, rather than tha Presi dency, admitted ha had mada many mliukM. but asserted that as I'renl- dant be had tried to do what he thouant to be rtht. What tha future held for him he did not know; he would o aJiead dlr.c the best ha could. Sir. Taft declared he was not allied with tha extremists of his partr. either eonrerratlea or progressives, but bad tried to take a middle ground between tha two. Caaaaa DUapstotata Taft. The President still was downcast by the defeat of reciprocity In Canada, but hla only reference to that subject bad come earlier In tha day when ha addressed tha workmen In a fsctory where farming Implements were mada. 1 was sorry to hear that In Canada ' th'y do not car to have closer com mercial relatione with us." ha said. "If reciprocity bad been adopted, wa could have got our agricultural Implements Into Canada at a substantial decrease. But I guess we can get along Tha President's political speech fol lowed a luncheon given In hi honor by tha Republican Mate Central Com mute. Governor TDenean was unable to be. present because of a broken Ira-. Tha Lortmer Republican faction was not represented. arrt la PI edge. Th leaders ' vied with each other In pledging their support to President Tsft and predicted ha would b renomi nated and ra-elected. O. H. Williamson, of Qulncy. said ba had taken a poll on a train a few days sgo. and that of (1 voters Interviewed. bad declared for Taft. thre for Roosevelt and on for La Toilette. -Senator Cullotn satd that with tn Chicago convention not 1 weeks off In lo. Mr. Taft had told him that If Chief .luetic Fuller oould b Induced to resign, b would prefer that honor to all others. "If I had not been advisee! other wise" said tha President, with a smile, -I should thin that this wa a po litical meeting." Taft ! Pwlttletaa. Mr. Taft then plead guilty to tha Indictment often laid against him that ha knew nothing of politic. But tha truth la." h continued, -that my politics was limited to a vary early stag of my career. Three or four yeara after I cam to th bar. I was pretty active ao that I knew some thing of ward politics. Sine that tlm my fat haa been such as to carry m out of polities. But as my dear friend. Senator Cullom says, ray ambition lay In an entirely different direction and was not gratified. "I am not glvltg yon to understand that I ran away from th nomination for th Presidency, but th fact Is that It was not In th Una which I had marked out. but being nominated and getting Into tha fight. I did th best I oould and being elected. I took up th discharge of the Presidency with cer tain tendencies, perhaps. I ought to call tham. that I had gathered from Judicial experience. -Mistake Ar Adaaltt- "Of course. I mad a great many mis takes. I shall continue during this term to make them. That Is hardly to be avoided. But there are certain things, certain rules, that It Is rather easy to follow. One la. that when you have made a rromls tt Is your obliga tion to keep It. "Now. something about th vetoes. I considered with reference to those bills that I waa aa much under an obli gation to veto every on of them as If 1 bad ld. when I was on th plat form running for th presidency, that I would veto Just those bills, f tr the reason that th" whole party had taken the poeltinn that It was necessary to maintain the Industries of this coun try by protection' sufficient to give the-n a living method of competing with foreign manufacturee: and the whole party had also aald If you could trust the resolutions of the conventions, even in Iowa and Kansas and Wiscon sin, that they approved finding out the facts by a tariff board. before we passed legislation that might strike down our Industrie I have vetoed those bills. een If It would hav cost m my llf. So far aa the veto of th Arlsona bill Is concerned. I Just vetoed that be cause I could not do anything els. I wrote my heart Into that veto." Taft Has Dae Beat. l!y friends. I have tried to follow what I thought to b rltfht In the ad ministration of my office." he con tinued. "Tfcere haa been a division In tie prty and I have been charged with not belr.B progressive and therefor to be cor..!, n.ned. What one does, this man thinks Is progressiva, another thlnka is retrograde. There are. how ever, two great schools one which be lieves that th present Is not perfect, perhaps, but t:-.at char res from It would be dangerous. They are th strictly conservative and perhaps are known as the reactionary. Then ther la another c;a at tn other end which Is extreme In Its view that the whole political i-ondltlen is wrong and that there must be radical changes If w ar to live at all. -Now I think perhaps I am wrong about It but I think I am going along In th mlddl of th road between thos two: at least that la what I am trying to do. and I believe the legislation of this Administration ass been along that line. Law Mast Be Obeyed. With respect to th trust wa ar In a transition period In this sens, th Puprero Cojrt has decided what th law Is and now business haa got to square Itself with that Uv, We might as well make up our mlnda to that, gentlemen. "With respect to much of what haa been discussed as to being progressive, the Federal Oovernment has nothing to do. That Is a matter for state gov ernments to settle, and state govern ments are making different experi ments and I presume the conservative states will wait to see how these ex periment work cut: but occasionally, tlier crops out something extreme la the form of Judicial recall In a con stitution tendered to the Federal Gov ernment for approval. "Ccder these conditions, when a proposition Is made that seem to me to destroy all possibility of good gov ernment In th maintenance of an nn trammeled Judiciary. It is the function of the Executive, when hla Judgment Is invoked nnder th Constitution, to say that he disapproves that feature, and to thla end so far as he Is coneerned he will allow no state to come Into the Union with any auch radical heresy ex pressed In Its constitution and with the sanction of the Federal Government Dpon It. President Has Ceafldeae. "What th future Is J know not- I only know this, that I am going ahead to do th best I can and I am going through this country on this trip and try to explain some of the Issues which hav arisen and make them clear to thos peoplo whom I can reach with my vole or through th kindly press. If they report what I say, because I be lieve that the time baa coma for sober second thought. "1 have confidence that th Ameri can people can always be trusted, not only to exercise their sober second thcuighu but also a discriminating sense aa to what Is fact and what is fustian, after a time. "It won't happen at once and some times we have to wait until after wc die and that Is not quite so aatlsfsc- CEOSS-COTOTEY AV1AT0ES tory: bat In any event, we mlddl-of-th-road people, who are not extrem ist, are. we believe, the real progres sives, because you do not make prog ress by great strike, you make prog ress step by step. "W can depend upon th people to recognise substance In progress rather than that which Is represented by pro posed leglslstlon and platform declara tions that are for the purpose, not of being put Into forre, and Into law to accomplish real reform, but are made for the purpose of campaign uses only." SLANG WiliS EDUCATOR COXVERSATIOX CUSS KXA1 BT rSE, SAYS INSTRUCTOR. University of Washington English Authority Peclares It Refreshing; and Meant Language Growth. UNTVERSITT OF WABHiNQTON. Reattln. Wash Sent. 12. (Special.) "Slang la no longer to be abhorred by the well bred. It Is not irulgar, neuner Is It a sign of Ignorance." This Is the onlnion of teachers In English at the University of Washington. It Is In con trast with th attitude or pur r-ng-ii.h- faddists and Instructors gen erally, who Insisted only a few years ago that slang la th worst oi oaa form. Us It well and yon may us n n van wish. Is the opinion of th Washington pedagogues. "blang Is picturesque ana aaas mam., vigor and life to our conversation and w.Lm. . . . ons "So useful 1 it in enabling n to express our ideas quick ly and lorcioiy tnai mere j personage, no matter what position be may occupy, who does not resort to It. t Is much better tor us, mim " j and In othe- way, to use Slang in preference to swear words. "Slang Is the natural outcome of the tendenry nowadays to say things with the most emphasis and the greatest brevity. It should not be used In es says and work In wnirn me oojoci Is to got a better Knowledge oi mi- llah. of course. "This so-called vulgarity is a siep In the growth of our language which Is changing for the better aa me um When it Is spontaneous It I refreshing. When It is forced It Is like ny other .imile or metaphor, from which It take Its form." MILLER MAY ENTER RACE Friends of Linn 3Ian Mention Him for United States Senator. ALB ANT. Or Sept 12. (Special) That Milton A. Miller, of Lebanon, fctate Senator from Linn County, will be a candldote for the Democratic, nomination for United State Senator -w- . i Anrtl la thai sen. in ins prinipi - - ral belief of people In hi home coun ty, fcvnator Miner, vein in i . . . ..4 tt rnnflrm tha re- port that he mill be a candidate but hla friends are auinorny iur m ..---ment that he Is receiving many offers of support from various parts or me state and that he has tns matter unaer consideration. bVnator Miller 1 now serving nis ikiH torm as a member ot ui biw Senate from Linn County. He was first ...j the House of Kepresenta- tlves from Linn County In the early so . lie was elected oisir . S and was re-elected In 190 and 1 19 10. He has atteriJed several i-oro era tic National conventions as a ueie- and Is now imocraiic .nuun Committeeman for Oregon. TAlieelwrlght to Make Address, at en Informal smoker to be held by the Oregon Society. Sons of th Ameri can Revolution, tonlsht at :1 In ths University Club. William D. W heel .. ,hi m ill deliver an address on "Th Crim of Treason and Benedict Arnold." The commute In charge is composed of W O uberteuffer. B. A. Thaxter, and J R, Bogera All Sons of the American Revolution ot otner onu cwieuea are especially invjiea to ' nounced. Deckhands Alleged Thleres. Detectives Snow and Royle arrested Harry Smith and Oscar Rood, deck handa. on a charge of larceny last night- It Is alleged that the men oper ated along the docks and stole four case of whlakv. several boxes of honey and other gooda Part of th honey was recovered. , ' r: .'.--V . -. ." I - TWO BIRD MEN DIE One Perishes as Human Torch, Other Merely Falls. : RODGERS MAKES PROGRESS Fowler Xnil Renew Hi Attempt to Cross Continent Today Toll of Breexes In One Day t Fairs I Heavy. fConttnned Prom first Pass ) tion for the last day of the fair, in accident occurred while Miller was making the last of three flights He had been In the air probably 10 WHO AEE AGAIN IN FLIGHT. Robert Fewler, Wis Is Golag East ward Frosa California (Above), and C. P. Rosen, Who la Comlag West ward From Sew York. minutes and had flown twice around the fairgrounds at a 60-mll clip. The aeroplane seemed perfectly responsive to his guidance and Miller was cheered repeatedly by the big crowd. While at a height of 200 feet Miller prepared to make his final swoop and the ex plosion occurred. Ths crowd rushed to th aid of the man when the blaming aeroplane dropped, but no on could get near on account of th biasing gasoline. Had Miller then been alive he could not have been rescued. Coata and horse blankets were used snd the flames were extinguished. Miller was then pulled lifeless from the debris. Besides being terribly burned, his hesd waa crushed by the engine of his machine, which fell on It. AVIATOR RODGERS LOSES WAT Transcontinental Flyer Goes 200 Miles to Reach ELnilra, X. V. ELMIRA. N. Y, Sept. 31. Aviator C P. Rodger who Is competing in the Coast-to-Coast flight, landed In a farm outside of this city at 6:55 P. M. today after making his longest single day's flight thus far. Rodger left Hancock, N. T.. at 11:08. and because he lost his way when near Susquehanna, was forced to fly more than 200 miles In order to reach this city, a distance of but 118 miles from Hsncock. Rodger Intended to follow the tracks of the Erie Railroad, but he mistook a branch line for the main tracks and did not discover his mistake until he reached Seranton. Pa.. 63 miles out of hi woy. Since starting Rodger covered 163 miles. He planned to leave at 7 A. M. tomorrow and says he will make an effort to fly 400 miles before nightfall. He will continue to follow the Erie tracks. FOWLER WILL START TODAY Repaired Machine Fonnd to Work All Right on Trial Flight. COLFAX. Cal, Sept. 21. After being detained here 10 days by the wrecking of his biplane. Robert O. Fowler got Into the air apaln this morning and made a splendid flight, encircling the, town and trying out all working parts of his machine. Everything waa found to be In good order. The flight lasted about five minutes, the highest point reached being 600 feet. On alighting Fowler said he would fly again thla afternoon and that at t o'clocic tomorrow morning he would resume his transcontinental Journey. WARD HAS FALL AXD QUITS Aviator' Manager Announces He Is Oat of Coast Contest. HORN ELL. X. T, Sept. 12. James J. Ward, the aviator, resumed his flight to the Pacific Coast from Addison at T:18 this morning. After flying five miles. ome trouble developed In his engine and the machine dropped to the earth, a distance of about (4 feet, near Rathbone. and waa badly damaged. Ward escaped serious Injury. James P. Murphy, manager for James J. Ward, announced that Ward has withdrawn from th coast-to-coast aero plan race as' a result of his fall. Plane Careens, Fall Fatal. rr.uiRi. N. T Sent. 22. "Dare- Devil" Castellan, a Curtlss aviator. met Instant deatn at tne Jiasgiel. Pa, fair today. He had started In so exhl- .s.i l W a. anil tariMrt t K twaawi a Diuon U1RUH s M-- of a mile from th grounds his ma st . wi-MaVr1 aiwat mwtA fall AS Royal Bread will be on the training tables of the win ning teams this Autumn Beware of Inferior Imitations Remember, "Royal" is on the bottom there for your protection! Ro val B BRAYS FOUND GUILTY BROTHERS, COXSPIRATORS IS FRAUD, SENTENCED TODAY. Two of Family May Be Fined Not to Exceed $10,000 and Imprison ment "ot to Exceed 5 Tears. BOISE. Idaho, Sept. 11. (Special.) Following a sensational hometead land trial In the Federal Court here. that lasted a week, ths Jury m the Bray land conspiracy case today re- .... - nrrllrt Of KUlltV II tO IsaaO and Nathaniel Bray, the two chief con spirators, and verdict of not guilty as to Horace Bray, a brother, and Walter Kyle. M , The passing of sentence was delayed until tomorrow. The statute provides . -i - t rMH 10 000 and Im prisonment not to exceed five years. The case came into unusual promi nence In Southern Idaho owing to th fact that H. C. Hulser, a prominent at torney of this city, and srar witness for the Government, was attacked by the counsel for the Brara. who are r.,l estate men of Boise. and the open charge made that he had violated a trust Detween aiiorney ami client and conspired to railroad the defendants Into the penitentiary by telling a false story. t. nnn Hulser's teStimODT th&t the defendants were found guilty. He declared that they locked hlra In a room In one of tne leaning noieis in .i-.- mnA threatened to kill him If he did not acknowledge a forged re linquishment to a nomeraio euiry oi William Walter Selby. He was held In flv hnnrs. hut refused ins i wiu - - - to make the acknowledgment. Later bis name waa forged to th paper by the Brays. TRAIN INVADER LOCKED UP Ianatic, ' Who Instructs Southern Pacific Conductor, Thirsty. OREGON CJTT, Or., Sept. II (Spe cial.) Dartd Lorett, a manlaa who easomable "Tip fc-I You Feel gtSffi-i If you covet the physical prowess of a star athlete-eat ROYAL BREAD akery & Sole Makers of Table Queen the Perfect Bread boarded a Southern Paclflo train at New Bra Thursday hfternoon and was oaptured by Deputy Sheriff Statta and Chief of Police Shaw upon the arrival of the train In this city, was taken by the state Insane asylum this afternoon. Soon after boarding tha train Lovett announced that he was In charge of It, and began to give Instructions to the conductor and brakemen. Later he gave the passengers ln lnstructlons, and was making a speech to them when the train reached this city. He refused to get off the train when asked to do so by the Deputy Sheriff and Chief of Police. Finally someone suggested that Lovett accompany him to a saloon to get a drink, and he lost no time In alighting from the train. FIRE CODE PLEA IS MADE York Expert Appeals to Hert ford Council to Adopt Laws. MEDPORD, Or Sept. 12 T. H. Cowles, rancher, New York clubman and fire expert, made an Impassioned FOR THE CHILDREN ALSO FOR GROWN PERSONS QUICK - SAFE - RELIABLE NO OPIATES NO NARCOTICS FOLEY'S HONEY and TAR COMPOUND A COMMON COLD neglected may go quickly into CROUP, BRONCHITIS, of PNEUMONIA which often mesns a sud den fatality. . Keep FOLEY'S HONEY AND TAR COMPOUND always in ths house and give at first sign of a cold. Refuse substitutes. John Parsons. Stewart, Ohio, writes: "Wo use Foley's Honey and Tar Com pound as our best and only cough remedv. It never faJle to cure any of my seven children of cough. My 1 months' old baby has had a most se vere cough which our Doctor said h could not cure and that Baby would surely die. Several of our relation and neighbors had gathered to witness the ending of the child's life. Two bottles of Foley's Honey and Tar Com pound cured the child and hs Is allvs and well today." Far Bale br All Drsararlara. Confectionery, plea before the members of the City Council Wednesday for the Immediate aocptance of the Are protective measure that the city had directed him to pre pare, t The oode as drawn by Mr. Cowles and George Butz. architect, for the City Council Is based on the Under writers code and many features In It were taken from the Portland ordi nance. In spite of the dramatic ap peal of Mr. Cowles, Mayor Canon dis missed the subject abruptly by refer ring the code to the Are department. Gold Ray Power Line Complete. GOLD HILL, Or., Sept. 22. (Special.) ON THE DESCHUTES BRANCH INTO CENTRAL OREGON SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 191L 7:50 10:00 .12:40 . 1:30 . 5:45 . 6:00 . 6:30 A. M. A. M. P. M. P. M. P. M. P. M. P. M. Lv. Portland Lv. Tne Dalles Lv. Deschutes Jc... Ar. Madras Ar. Metolius Ar. Opal City THE DIRECT,' QUICK AND NATURAL ROUTE BETWEEN PORTLAND AND ALL POINTS LN CENTRAL OREGON Call at our City Ticks. Office, Third and Washington Streets, for any In formation desired, or address -fVM. M'MTJEEAY, General Passenger Agent, Portland, Oregon, ; 59 crust it is The 66,000-volt power line of the Siskiyou Light & Power Company has Just been completed from the com pany's new power plant at Prospect, on the upper Rogue, to the plant at Gold Ray. The line Is 38 miles long. Thirty thousand horsepower will be developed at Prospect. Indicted Pair Enter Plea, Pleas of not guilty were entered In Circuit Court yesterday by J. W. Fo and Mrs. B. M. Tuttle, Indicted by the grand Jury on a chargo of passing a promissory note for $750 bearing a forged signature on the Arlington Na tional Bank, of Arlington. Or. EXTENSION OF TRAIN SERVICE TO OPAL CITY Lv. Opal City 8:15 A. M. Lv. Metolius 8:43 A. M. Lv. Madras 9:00 A. M. Ar. Deschutes Jo 1:15 F. M. Ar. The Dalles 1:55 P. M. Ar. Portland 5:45 P. M. f He ff 1