LA FOLLETTE U5E5
ABUSE A3 WEAPON
, photograph of chinese troops taken at recent maneuvers
' t:aey fmperor.
AND LATE PORTRAIT OP
alumnious Circulars Against
Taft Mailed by Thousand.
.' Men of Wealth Pay.
60 PERSONS ARE KEPT BUSY
Country flooded With Personal Let.
ter to Voter After Senator
Bourne' System Insincerity
l Apparent In Action.
BV HARRY J. BROWN.
OREOOVTAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington. Oct. 3). From the present mo
mrnt until the Republican National
convention luembl-i next Summer, the
La Follette publicity bureau Inland!
to keep up an Incessant fight against
I'resldent Taft In tha hope of prevent
ing his renomlnatlon. Thla la tha
avowed purpose of the bureau, and
this la the manlfeat purpose of personal
Utters and circulars that are being
mail'd by the' thousand from Washing
ton to Republican voters la every part
f tiie i'nlon.
It I. nt admitted, and has never
lrn admitted, that this bureau Is
rklnc to brlna: about the nomination
of Ijh Kcllrtte. but with the Wisconsin
f-entor directing the work of ths
I'urrau. and with the management In
the hands of hie henchmen, and operat
or with funds supplied by hla parti
sans. thTe can be not ths sllahtest
!'utt of the ultimate end sought.
Rsresa Is t'adereettaaaf eal.
Taft followers do not appreciate the
amount of work which ths La Fol
lftte bureau la turning out. nor as yet
have they been Inclined to attach much
Importance to It. On the contrary,
they have been taking It for granted
tha Tuft will be renominated, regard
less of 1 Follette's opposition.
While this probably Is true, and
while La Follette's nomination In 1911
m altogether Improbable, yet tha
time will come when the Taft people
will realise that they must make soma
rt of retaliation for the work now
done by the La Follette bureau.
For two months this bureau hss been
in operation In Washington, under Im
mediate direction of Walter L. Ilouser,
ex-Secretary of Stats In Wisconsin. In
that short time the bureau has
branched out from three offices to the
entire floor of one of the largest
office buildings In Washington, and
two additional rooma are annexed
every week.
Wealthy Hps Pay Bllla.
There are now (0 employes .at work,
either preparing antl-Taft campaign
literature, or preparing it for circula
tion, and a very material payroll Is
maintained by funds contributed by
wealthy men who have backed La Fol
lette In his fight on the President.
Senator La Folletts la contributing
little but Ideas and suggestions to his
bureau, for La folletts is a conserva
tionist of money and has become
famous' for his ability to Indues rich
men to pay his political bllla Rudolph
Kpreckel. of San Francisco: Ulfford
fine hot. who "Is not In politics, as hs
said at Seattle; Jonathan Bourne, of
Oregon: Medtll McCarmlck. of Chlcsgo,
and other men of wealth, ara all put
ting up for La Follette's bureau, and
all are booming the game to defeat
Taft.
Ths La Follette bureau Is supported
entirely by men who declare they ara
Republicans: men who In ths past have
been Republicans. Yet this bureau to
Jay Is not only distributing litera
ture defaming 1'resldent Taft and laud
ing La Follette, but Is shouting for
Woodrow Wilson.
Manager la aaalve.
When asked what the bureau would
di next year In the event of President
Taft s renomlnatlon. the manager. Mr.
Ilouser. said he was not prepared to
reply. His reticence, considered with
the fact that the bureau la lauding
Wilson ana commending him to voters,
would seem to indicate that La Follette
and aa many Republicans aa he can
lontrol will turn to Wilson, provided
the New Jersey man Is nominated by
the L democrats.
It la apparent from every viewpoint
that the prime object of the La Fol
lette bureau la to eliminate Taft. Some
of the men Identlned with the bureau
are not so enthusiastic over La Fol
lette. and few of them at heart expect
la Follette to be nominated or elected
lu 112. but they are aora at the Presi
dent and are willing to Join hands with
the Wisconsin man In his attempt to
"wipe Taft off the map." as they put It.
As to the seriousness that should be
lttached to the work of the La Fol
ette publicity bureau opinion differs;
to Its purpoaea there la no diversity
-f opinion.
Caaaaalaa Is Defaasaf ..
A representative view was expressed
ecently by Representative Phil Camp- j
el. of Kansaa, who aald:
"This attempt on the part of Senator
Ua Follette to conduct a campaign
gainst President Taft will, without
juration, work against Itself and fall
if Ita purpose. It requires no deep ob
servation to see why auch an attack
s made, though what La Follette ex
ecta to accomplish by It Is beyond un
leratandlng. L'ndoubledly La Follette
wanta to be . resident. But still more
leeply Ingrained In bis soul Is the de
ire to defeat President Taft,
"The fact that Senator La Follette
vast know that he has no chance of
he nomination makes hla campaign
through the 'progressive' Republican
bureau look like a deliberate and vin
dictive attempt so to divide the Re
publican party that defeat next No
vember will be Inevitable.
"There la no sincerity In his eam
palgn. It suggests a campaign of re
venge, not of honest Issues. Con
traated with rhe attitude of the Presi
dent, mho, during his tour of the West, i
has been temperate In hla speech, the
actlona of Senator La Follette stand
out all the more grotesquely.
"La Follette seems to think that by
attacking a party candidate and hope
leasly dividing his party he will suc
ceed In hla purpose. But the American
people know that a campaign of dis
ruption Is not a rampalgn of reform,
and the Senator will find In time his
lack of sincerity will cause the rank
and file of Republican voters tu desert
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TAFT IS DOWNCAST
Talk Construed as Admission
of Possibility of Defeat.
PRESIDENT IS TIRED OUT
Wrarini' Apparent as Party De
parts FVont Chicago for Pitts
burg Republicans at
Luncheon Surprlrx-d.
CHICAGO. Oct. SO. President Taft
surprised a large audience at tha lunch
eon of tha Hamilton Club today by
what most of his hearers construed as
an admission of the possibility of Re
publican defeat In the coming Nstlonal
election.
He was speaking to what had prom
ised to be an enthusiastic audience of
Republicans.
Ths Republicans present hastened to
ascribe the President's utterances to
weariness after his long tour of speech
making and especially after the three
days' hard "campaigning" In Chicago.
It was his last public utterance In Chi
cago before leaving for Pittsburg to
night. He said:
"We are at. some people think, a
crisis In the Republican party with ref
erence to Its continuance In the guid
ance of the Nation. .
Prealdeat la llopefal.
"I am hopeful that the good people
of the country, who know a good
thing when they aee It. have only
chastened us a bit In an off year In
order that we may he better here
after and In order that we may be
more careful hereafter, but with no In
tention of shifting from shoulders that
are fitted to bear the burden of tha
present problems and carry them to a
successful solution to those who are
untried and who have new theories of
action that we do not believe In and
we do not believe the people believe In.
"However, if It develops that they
desire a change we ahall loyally sup
port tha new government under any
conditions with the hope that It will
inure to the benefit of the country,
but with the consolation that. If after
one trial, tha people think they ought
to go back to tha old party that served
them so well In tha progressive days
of the Nation, why. we can bear that
experience, that Is all."
President Is Tired.
After his address, the President re
tired to his hotel for a rest. Though
he professed no weariness, the three
daya' steady strain had told on him.
and It was a tired man who led the
Presidential party out of Chicago at
5:30 P. 41. over the Pennsylvania Rail
road for Pittsburg.
The address before the Hamilton
ritih. In which the possibility of de
feat found expression, followed the lay
Ir of the cornerstone of the new home
of the Hamilton Club, one of the lead
ing Republican clubs of the Middle
West.
The President motored many miles
through the murk and gloom of a rainy
day in Chicago today to keep the series
of engagements that marked the end
of his longest visit to this city. The
President scorned to have the top
lifted on Ills automobile, and with head
bared a greater part of ths time ha
rode through tha drlxxle.
His first trip of the day was to ths
stockyards, where he made a brief ad
dress on scientific agriculture at tha
Nstlonal Palry Show. The President
also viewed the livestock exhibition.
He sold he was sorry that Paulina
Wayne, tlie famous White House cow,
was not present.
Oregon Hcoul-ltion Honored.
SACRAMENTO, Cat. Oct. SO. A re.
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ABO) K, AHMV STAFF OFFICERS DISCI SSING KKSl'LTS OK DAY'S MAM.
Et'VERS rKXTKR, SEW TIPB OK Gl'X ISEU BY CHI.MJMK ARMY BE
LOW, LITTLE Pl-VI.
qulsltlon was granted from Governor
Johnson's office today for the return
of Oliver Williamson, under arrest In
San Francisco. Williamson Is wanted
In Oregon to answer a charge of steal
ing a motorcycle from H. A. Qabbert,
of Portland.
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KATKFT'L ncmeral comes to
UORHV St'PEKSTITIOCS.
Process of Summoning Veniremen
In Murder Cae Hinges All Bay
on Cnlncky Number.
KANSAS CITT. Mo., Oct. 10. Psrons
who are superstitious of the figure 13
found a good field for speculation fh
tha Dr. B. Clark Hyde murder trial
today.
Thomas H. Htwope. Jr., brother-In-law
of Dr. Hyde, and namesake of tha
dead millionaire, was summoned as
venireman No. 13; the thirteenth ve
nireman examined qualified, as tha last
talesman for the day. and 13 veniremen
of the panel called this morning ware
examined before court adjourned.
Swope was not even examined. Upon
learning that he had been called.
Judge Porterfleid excused blm.
At the first trial. Swope was one of
the leading wltnesaes against Dr. Hyde.
Fourteen talesmen ara now in tha
box. Three of them were chosen today.
FOUR YEARS FATE OF MATE
Federal Judge Impose Sentence for
Killing of Cabin Boy.
KAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 30. Charles
T. Smith, second mate of the barken
tlne Makawell. convicted of ma.
slaughter In -the killing of a Japanese
mess boy while off the coast of
Australia last April, was sentenced to
day to serve four years In the Mc
Neill's Island prison, by Judge Van
Fleet, of the United States Circuit
Court.
In pasalng tha sentence. Judge Van
Fleet said ha was convinced of ths
prisoner's guilt from tha circum
stantial evidence adducted, but be
lieved the crime was unpremeditated.
For that reason, he thought the pris
oner bad been 111 advised In. declaring
entire Innocence.
Had he told the whole (ruth, the
Judge thought he might have ahown
that the act waa Justified. Smith re
mained silent during the Judge's remarks.
LAND SHOW DRAWS
In Ceylon, notwithstanding that thousands
of acres ara given over to tea. rubber cul
tivation ts on of tha most Important plant
ing Industries.
Natural Laxative
Water
Recommended
by Physicians
Refuse Substitutes
Best remedy for
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Tenth and Taylor ttta.. fortland, Oreroa,
Willamette Valley Exhibit at
Omaha Attracts.
THOUSANDS SEE PANORAMA
Former Oregonlans Register and
Friend Meet Around Oregon
Booth Ileal Estate Men Ban
quet Delegation In Charge.
OMAHA. Neb., Oct. 30. (Special.)
The second and closing; week of the
Omaha Land Show has teen crowded,
day and evenlna;, with many events of
intereat. The Willamette Valley ex
hlblt Is ffettlnr the best of attention.
Non-lrtlfatlon has become one of tha
principal talking; points of the show.
A commendable feature of the land
show as a whole Is that there arfew
land syndicates In the show. The oper
ations of land-selling- concerns have a
tendency apparently to undermine con
fidence of the seekers for Information.
The County Courts of the Willamette
Valley are backing; the display and tha
information given out Is accepted aa
authentic, reasonable and satisfactory.
At the Oregon day exercises, held on
Tuesday, a large crowd gathered. Thou
sands of badges which were In de
mand were distributed. These bore
the names of the banner counties and
the slogan was "The land whre the
four-leafed clovers grow."
Women Receive Apples.
The ' federated women's clubs of
Omaha and other Nebraska cities held
a celebration at the Coliseum on Wed
nesday, at which the Oregon delega
tion received considerable publicity and
attracted attention to the exhibit. Sev
eral boxea of red apples were dis
tributed to the clubwomen.
The Hawaiian Quintet and Twin City
Quartet have cultivated special friend
ship for this exhibit and on occasions
day and sine in the Dootn ior a quar
ter of an hour, gathering thousands
around the display.
Georae L. Schryver, lecturer, from
balem. Is doing good work with the
Willamette Valley panorama. Thou
sands of DeoDle spend hours before this
painting or cycloramlc creation and
from It form a somewhat comprenen
alve notion of the characterlatlca of the
Willamette Valley.
Luncheon Is Given.
Former nelehbors and friends of
David Linn. A. Quackenbush, J. A.
Llndley, F. M. Jackson and J. A. Van
Bosklrk. Eugene, called and regis
tered at the display and paid their com
nllments and sent their greetings. The
Willamette delegation was entertained
at luncheon at the Omana Real Estate
Exchange Wednesday. W. F. Groves
and D. C. Freeman spoke for the dele
gation.
Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Fisher, of Cor
vallis; Mrs. T. L. Davis and Mr. Mus
grave, formerly of Corvallis; D. W.
Kumbaugh, of Albany and North Ben
ton, and also Sirs. Deal ana Airs. Jjow
meyer, relatives of the Holllsters, of
Corvallis, were among recent caiiers.
STATE'S GROWTH .45,809
Statistician Saja California Will
House 2,634,585 In 1912.
oicuivrMrn f"nl. Oct. HO. Th
...i.tiAn nt California. In 1912 will be
2.634.065. according to an estimate sent
out today by the Governor s onice.
The estimate was obtained by taking
h rtrures of Statistician Leslie, of
c-.- TSnarri nf Health, for 1911
The number added to the 1911 figures
was 45,809.
General P. H. Ray Dies.
NIAGARA FALLS, N. T Oct. SO.
ju..r..n.rol T VT. Rav. U. R
retired, died suddenly today at Fort
Niagara, aged 70 years. Uenerai nay
waa In active service rrom mi jv
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Let her bathe her face, neck and chin
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treatment tightens and reduces skin
and muscles, also strengthening and
toning up the same.
Naturally the tightening effect dis
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ask the druggist for the powdered
saxollte. Adv.
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the people in
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and moisture kept
in grocers' boxes and
finally in a paper bag
on the shelf in your
pantry. Could they
be the same as they
were the day they
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Now that we have
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perfectly kept.
No moisture can
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Always in the moist
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Never sold in bulk.
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