THE MORNING OREOONIAN, THURSDAY, APRIL' 18, 1912.
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If Mr. Selling shall be elected Scn
ntor as a progressive, he . III not Im
mediately, or at all. align himself with
the atandpatter and desert them with
the insurgents because he has a differ,
ence with the President over Federal
patronag.
If Mr. Selling shall be elected Sen
ator, he will not vote for a high tariff
on an Industry In which he 1 finan
cially Interested and for a low tariff
on an industry which his constitu
ents are. vitally Interested.
If Mr. Selling shall be elected Sen
ator, ha will support the parcels post
because It Is for the public benefit and
refuse to yield to the representation
of tradesmen, wholesalers and retail
ers, that It Is against their Interest.
If Mr. Selling shall be elected Sen
ator he will plow a straight furrow,
and he will not insurge in and out
among the standpatters and the pro
gressives aa whim, or prejudice, or
personal interest or political oppor
tunity may suggest.
If Mr. Selling shall be elected Sen
ator, he v. Ill keep In close touch with
his constituents, laboring for them in
the Senate and before the departments
day by day and not in the last
months of his term make a home
stretch spurt of activity in their be
half for the purpose of catching votes.
If Mr. Selling shall be elected Sena
tor, he will candidly lay before them
his record for approval, and not pre
tend to leave to their uninfluenced
Judgment the question of his re-election,
only to flood the mails with
franked matter at Government ex
pense In his own behatf.
If Mr. Selling shall be elected Sen
ator, he will stand for a!l the people,
and will be able to show that he has
dealt fairly with the people. Includ
ing the people In hi private employ.
If Mr. Selling shall be elected Sen
ator he will make his way by his ac
tivity, sincerity, efficiency and agree
able personality, and not by buncombe
or pretense, or playing of one interest
against another.
.Mr. Selling Is a man of force, ex
perience. Intelligence and capacity. He
is a progressive with a genuine desire
t. promote the welfare of all. The
common good Is his deepest concern.
He has proved it by years of unselfish
work for the public, and by gpnerous
gifts of hi" time and his money to
every worthy cause. Such a man will
make his way at Washington, for he
will be accepted at par value.
UATHERIXi THEM IN.
The Republicans of Connecticut yes
terday elected fourteen delegate to
the Republican National Convention,
and Instructed ten of them for Taft.
Two more are known to favor Taft
and two were not Instructed by their
Congressional district. Thus e are
left in the dark as to whether the pair
re to be added to the Taft column or
the Roosevelt column or the La Fol
lette column. But If we are uncertain
what to do. the Roosevelt statisticians
are not at a loss. They will promptly
claim the Independent two. We mis
our guess If they stop with the more
or less harmless pastime of claiming.
That the cry of fraud will be raised
and fake contests against the Tart
lozen Instituted we have no doubt.
The battle the Roosevelt forces lose
is always a wicked and criminal affair
so we Invariably hear from the
Roosevelt press bureau.
But vote, not claims and false cries
of foul, count In a National conven
tion. The Roosevelt campaign evi
dently reached high-water mark last
week with Illinois and Pennsylvania.
But the Taft strength grows steadily.
The week has given twelve from Con
necticut, six from Delaware and two
from Hawaii. So far this week no
Roosevelt delegate has been elected
except the possible Connecticut two.
Taft has now nearly 400 delegates.
Itootevelt about 170. Who can doubt
that Taft will easily win the remain
ing ltO delegates out of 5S0, approxi
mately, yet to be elected?
his own womm.
In summing np Senator Bourne'e unique
position, tha rhlladelphta Saturday Evening
Feet represents him aa Baying to the rltlsena
of OriAHi "It ta np ta- you to demonstrate
mhetber you have the Intelligence to recus
rtie and appreciate good public eerrlce by
r-talnlng public errvante who make good,
or whether you prefer to return to the old
campaign ayatem use of money, character
afMMNnillon. personal contrasts, sophistry,
misleading statements and skillful straddl
1ns of leading questions."
That Is not what Senator Bourne says,
fcut that la a hat his norel attitude means.
Sn Francisco Bulletin.
Why should anybody believe that
the quoted words are not Bourne's
own? is it inconceivable that a Sen
ator would go before his constituents
with such tremendous egotism? Of
course. There is no other cause for
believing that the Saturday Evening
P'.t has put Its own Iiterpretation of
Bourne's attitude into the Senator's
mouth.
Yet the Post has quoted Senator
H.-urne literally. Oregon publishes a
primary election pamphlet which Is
ent to every Republican voter In Ore
gon. In this pamphlet Senator Bourne
us an address to the people of Ore--nn.
The words quoted by the Phila
delphia magazine comprise most of
:he firxt paragraph of Senator
'.nirne's signed statement. The quo
ntlon Is literal and exact.
Nor Is that all that Senator Bourne
.as of the same tenor, in his signed
ratement. He asserts that his cam
paign Is the "most Important event of
the year." He declare that "the re
mit, not because of me. but because
f the method, la of more Importance
to the future of this country than the
romlnc Presidential election." and
that "the result must have a trcmcn-
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Senator Bourne haa remained away
from Oregon during the campaign.
Bourne's chief opponent, who. unlike
Bourne, has his home In Oregon, haa
also remained "at hla post." The
only difference between the campaigns
of the two is that the Senator's cam
paign documents. In large part, are
published at coRt by the Government
and sent out under postoffic
frank. Senator Bourne's campaign Is
unique" only in Its sopnisiry. egotism
and the great quantity of "literature
distributed among the voters.
M'HARU ANO THE OI'EN HAUL.
The people of Oregon remember
McHarr Orrnsby McHarg. of some-where-or-other
In the East, but, "wher
ever It la, near the open bar'l. Mc
Harg was the rounder-up and whlp-per-ln
of Southern delegates for the
Republican convention of DOS, as
signed to that service by President
Roosevelt. Later, while Roosevelt
was still President, early In 109. Mc
Harg came to Oregon. The mission
of this astute and compliant person
was to persuade the Legislature to
defeat Mr. Chamberlain for Senator
though a majority of Its members
were pledged to him through State
ment One. McHarg failed. The mem.
on of his sneaking attempt Is still
odious In Oregon.
We do not attempt to connect the
corrupt errand of Fixer McHarg with
President Roosevelt, for Roosevelt
went on record for the fulfillment of
Its pledges by the Legislature. Clearly
he knew McHarg and his crooked
ways. .
Later McHarg got a Job with the
Taft Administration, presumably on
the recommendation of the useful
Chairman Hitchcock, but he lost It,
being dismissed for good cause. Natu
rally one would suppose that a politi
cal roustabout like McHarg. being so
thoroughly discredited, would have
difficulty getting along In these days
of purified politics; but It would be a
mistake.
McHarg now has a high place
among the Roosevelt shouters. He Is
at the old game, going from place to
place, making pledges, breaking other
pledges if he can, and doing what he
can as only McHarg will for the bene
fit of the cause.
McHarg Is the agent of Perkins
George W. Perkins, the same Perkins
that was the partner of J. Pierpont
Morgan, and Is the bedfellow of all
the trusts. Perkins Is fur Roosevelt:
so Is McHarg.
If there is to be argumentum ad
homlnem In this campaign, and Taft
is to be called on without reason to
explain I rimer and Penrose, it will
be well for the patriots who talk so
much about the square deal and do so
little for It. to explain Perkins, Mc
Harg. Bill Ward, Walter Brown, Dan
Hanna. Jim Flynn and many others
of that Ilk whose voices choke with
emotion and whose eyes fill with Joy
ful tears whenever Colonel Roosevelt's
name Is approvingly mentioned by
anyone, which sometimes happens.
nVING THE DEATH OF HEROES. .
The anxious eye scans in vain the
list of Titanic survivor for the names
of men of world-wide fame who were
passengers on the Ill-fated vessel.
Astor. Guggenheim. Straus. Butt,
Roebling. Millet. Hays all are equal
ly silent at the calling of the roll.
Soldiers facing a common fate with
the deckhand and the scullion, they
answered adsum when the summons
came from the mysterious and awful
voice beyond the distant stars. Heroes
they were, for they waited and
watched and silently prayed while the
women and children were handed over
the sldo of the sinking ship to the
safe haven of the small boats. At
least we shall hopa so. Our faith is
strengthened when we note with deep
emotion that the names of women al
most wholly make up the list of the
saved. The women were tenderly and
carefully borne to "safety while the
men. rich and poor, high and low, re
mained and died.
Perhaps all did not stay willingly,
but let us think they did. But what
ever' the true story of the great re
nunciation. It is clear that there were
Iron nerve and perfect discipline
present and In the mastery. The
women were saved, amid dreadful
scenes of panic, terror, emotion, physi
cal sufTeilng and anguished partings.
It could not have been done unless
there was a death-defying determina
tion that It should be done. Who con
quered the panic and compelled the
sacrifice? Captain Smith and his brave
officers? Doubtless. Major Butt. too.
perhaps. Whatever else of regret and
sorrow and reproach may survive this
awful catastrophe, let us remember
that Captain Smith, or someone, or
many someone, saved the women, and
then went to a glorious death. i
LA TOLLETTE AMI ROOSEVELT.
Senator La Follette does not agree
with the hitherto prevalent opinion
that Roosevelt Is the greatest man of
action wa have had in the Presidential
chair in recent years. He quotes
Roosevelt himself as holding a poor
opinion of hla own constructive states
manship. He extols Roosevelt as a
great moral force, an agitator who has
awakened the National conscience, and
quotes the Colonel as holding this
opinion of himself, but says when the
occasion called for action Roosevelt
did nothing.
We have grown accustomed to re
garding Roosevelt as the man who
struck terror into the trusts, but La
Follette says he only pricked their
flanks and attacked them so Ineffectu
ally that In tha seven and one-half
years of his Administration their num
ber grew from It to 10.020 and their
capital grew from S3. 000. 000. 000 to
S30.000.000.000.
Roosevelt has come to be regarded
a the man who made Government
regulation of railroads a reality, but
La Follette say that, of eight amend
ments to the Interstate commerce law
for which the Interstate Commerce
Commission asked In order to attain
that end, not one was Included In the
Hepburn law. The Senator say that
a year after that law was passed
Roosevelt expressed to him the opin
ion that there could be no regulation
of rates without valuation of railroads,
asked him to write a statement of the
reasons for such a law, and promised
to recommend It and agitate for It,
but never did either: on the contrary,
in a speech at Indianapolis Roosevelt
said railroad capital was not watered.
La Follette says that for seven and
one-half years Roosevelt saw monop
oly growing behind the protective wall
of the Dlngley tariff and said the tariff
ought to be revised, but postponed the
work until after election and handed
it to Taft.
The ex-President la pictured by his
rival for the Insurgent leadership as a
man who admitted his lack of con
structive statesmanship, a man who
admitted that he was merely an agi
tator to prepare the way for his suc
cessor and as one who picked Taft to do
the work after he had aroused the
people to demand that It be done.
La Follette by Implication says that
he is the constructive statesman to do
this work, and points to his own
achievements in bringing the rallroada
of Wisconsin into subjection as evi
dence that he haa the will and the
ability to do It. He tells what he
would have done to destroy the trusts,
had he instead of Roosevelt become
President In 1901. But he says that
now the trusts have wound their
thousands of arms around the business
of the country completely that to
assail them with a broadax would de
stroy legitimate business; that it is
"the work of surgical statesmanship"
and "no Job for the rough rider." We
are left to Infer that the Senator Is
the surgical statesman to whom this
work should be Intrusted.
As seen through the La Follette
spectacles, the rough rider, the man
with the big etick, the St. George who
went forth to slay the dragon monop
oly and to humble the railroads. Is
ahorn of all his terrors and shrinks to
very mean proportions.
-EACH WILL MOURN HIS OWN.
Consternation and horror at the
wreck of the Titanic have given way
to the dull feeling of despair for the
live of the hundreds who perished in
the "dread sweep of the down-streaming
seas" as the great ship, shivering
In every timber and Joint, went down
Into unknown depths. Some surprise
Is expressed among nautical men that
a mariner with Captain Smith's ex
perience and sagacity aAd with the
heavy responsibility that he carried
did not "sense" the close proximity of
the great Iceberg, the Impact with
which wrecked his ship, since at this
season of the year these monsters of
the north are wont to beset the path
of the navigator and the chill breath
of their presence is felt for many miles
around. However, in the absence' of
all official news of the disaster, tha
cause, beyond the great first cause, can
Only be conjectured, and for the gal
lant mariner who went down with his
ship there is (at least In the absence
of detail) no censure.
Had Captain Smith been given his
choice In the matter. It Is not likely
that he would have wished to survive
this most terrible sea disaster in the
world's history. The owner of the
vesxel might not personally have
blamed him, but the mariner's un
written code would not have permit
ted him again to command a vessel,
while the terrible midnight scene off
the Newfoundland coast would have
haunted him. Hence, while sympathy
for the brave and luckless mariner is
rife, there Is a sort of relief In the fact
that he did not survive, to be discred
ited and haunted by this greatest hor.
ror of the sea.
For the rest, while "each will mourn
his own," the great heart of human
ity throbs in unison for the grief and
terror and loss that has befallen the
fated voyagers and their Immediate
relatives and friends. A realization of
this comes close to this community In
the loss of a man who has been a fac
tor In Its business, social and philan
thropic life for nearly half -a century.
In the absence of convincing certainty
of his death, the family of Mr. F. M.
"Warren. Sr.. still cling to the hope that
he yet lives and In this hope the
friends and associates of Mr. Warren
share. And while each will mourn
his own in the tenderest sense, the
public mourns also the fate of all of
the hapless voyagers who went down
with the Titanic. There is comfort,
however. In the thought as expressed
by Sir Francis Doyle hat
They sleep aa well beneath the tide
As others under turf.
BERXiKON ANI DAKW1N.
It seems 'Incredible that a man
should lose his temper over anything
so calm and gelid aaw Bergson's sys
tem of philosophy. One would as soon
think of getting a sunstroke at the
North Pole. Still Mr. George Hook
ham, a British evolutionist, manages
to do the feat. Mr. Hookham is a
great admirer of Darwin and in Berg
son's doctrines he find many opin
ions which ars nothing less than rank
heresy from the Darwinian point of
view. Mr. Hookham pours forth his
anathemas against Bergson in the Na
tional Review, a London periodical
which detests everything modern on
principle and which would therefore
welcome an attack of Bergson even if
he agreed with Darwin at every point
simply because he lives now Instead
of having died a century or two ago.
The difference between Darwin and
Bergson emerges on the question of
the origin of species. Doe this take
place by virtue of natural selection or
from some other cause? Darwin
pinned hla faith to natural selection.
Indeed he was the first philosopher to
bring out the importance of that great
factor in biological history.
By natural selection Is meant the
persistent action of the environment
upon the living species. When in any
individual of the species a variation
appears which Is favorable to its sur
vival in the struggle for existence the
environment naturally acts to perpetu
ate this feature no matter how trivial
It may be. On the other hand. If a
variation appears which hinders in
stead of helping In the struggle for
existence the effect of the environ
ment Is to stamp It out. Favorable
variations are thus passed on by
heredity from one generation to the
next and they slowly accumulate. The
accumulation Is probably very slow
indeed, but according to scientific cal
culations the world has existed for
many hundreds of millions of years,
so that there has been plenty of time
for natural selection to produce any
effect that Is within Its power. This Is
Darwin's explanation of the origin of
the different species of living beings
and also of the peculiarities of each
particular species. Bergson' doctrine
concerning these matters is somewhat
different. He does not deny the con
stant effectiveness of natural selection
as a factor In evolution, but he says
he perceives some things for which it
does not account.
An example of which Bergson
makes a great deal In his argument is
that, of a certain wasp which preserves
spiders for the food of Its young by
paralyzing them with Its sting. The
sting is directed to a certain point on
the spider' body where It will pene
trate the central nerve ganglion and
no mistake is ever made, or at least
mistake are excessively rare. The
wasp seems to know exactly where to
plant Its sting In order to deprive the
spider of the power to move. How
did it acquire the knowledge? No wasp
ever dissected a spider and if it had
done so there are no books In wasp
land by which knowledge is transmit
ted from parent to child. How does J
the rising generation of wasps learn to
do the neat little trick which Is so
essential to the prosperity of the spe
cies and so Inconvenient to the spi
ders? Darwinians, like Mr. Hookham,
sav that this beautiful art of stinging
spiders with mathematical exactitude
has been acquired by natural selection.
Mr. Bergson says he does not see how
natural selection could ever have done
It, and we must confess that we are
as puzzled as he is.
Bergson explains the mystery by
assuming that there is a "sympathy"
between the spider and the wasp. By
sympathy he means something a little
occult. It is not the ordinary feeling
to which we give that name, but some
thing far more subtle. Life, says
Bergson, Is the same In the wasp as
It Is In the spider, so that the struc
ture of the spider Is really known to
its enemy without, any necessity of
dissection. This sort of knowledge is
called by him "instinctive." It arises
from the mere fact of being alive.
Human beings would possess it like
other living creatures if they had not
lost it by cultivating their intelli
gence so much. Intelligence forgets
ail the instinct knows, so that when
we with our boasted superiority over
the rest of the world want to learn
anything we have to begin at the be
ginning and after all our efforts we
never get very far along. If we could
get rid of our Intelligence and go back
to Instinct everything that we now
seek to acquire with such painful dili
gence would be ours as a matter of
course. We should know the things
we need to know Just as the bees and
ants do and Just as the wasp knows
where and how to sting the spider in
order to provide fresh food 'or Its
young. The Infant wasps devour the
paralyzed spider little by little while
it is wrapped In Its trance, which, by
the way. illustrates the tender mercies
of unassisted nature.
Mr. Hookham, as a loyal Darwinian,
Is horrified by these heresies of the
French philosopher. He does not see
why the wasp should not have learned
to sting the spider by the process of
natural selection. There was plenty
of time for the habit to have been ac
quired, he thinks, and since there was
time enough for It to have been ac
quired, therefore It was acquired. The
orthodox Darwinians believe that
everything which could possibly have
happened In the way of acquirement
has happened. They say that if you
shoot an Infinite number of arrows
into the air in every possible direction
you are bound sooner or later to hit
every possible mark, no matter
whether you ever aim at It or not.
This to their minds correctly repre
sents the process of evolution by nat
ural selection. It has aimed at noth
ing, but since it has been shooting In
all directions for millions of centuries,
It has hit everything.
There is a remarkable coincidence
between the epidemic of accidents
among the city employes and the
opening of the baseball season. Do
the accidents cause the baseball or
does the baseball cause the accidents?
This is a subject well worth investiga
tion. We hope the scientific men at
Reed College will find time to look
into it. No doubt the relation between
baseball and official Illness is governed
by some great law of nature whose
discoverer will outshine the glory of
Newton.
Mrs. Astor has lost her husband and
perhaps her Jewels, but she will not
want bread. The sailors' wives at
Southampton have no bank accounts
and no stock In corporations. To them
the loss of the Titanic means hunger
or heartbreaking toil. There is as
much money In the world as there was
before the wreck took place and sym
pathy makes men liberal. Perhaps it
will occur to somebody to start a sub
scription for the widows In that street
of sorrow at Southampton.
A useful little apparatus for some
young Edison to invent -would be an
indicator of icebergs. There must be
a substance which Ice attracts or re
pels or affects In some other observ
able way. What is the substance?
When it Is found and ships are pro
vided with It. the Titanic accident will
never happen again. But other kinds
of accidents will happen. As long as
men are fallible ships will be lost and
train wrecked.
When it shall be learned that all
the women and children on the Ti
tanic were saved, the hastily formed
opinion of Mr. Ismay, to his prejudice,
may be revised. Loyalty to their su
perior, no doubt, led the officers to se
lect htm among the first to embark In
the lifeboats. That would be their
first tribute to the house flag, as prob
ably to go down with the colors was
their last. '
There Is hope that survivors have
been picked up by the fishing fleet, to
be brought ashore in due season. The
Gloucester man Is averse to leaving
until his hold Is salted down. Kipling,
in "Captains Courageous." tells this in
detail, and every person who has read
it will be strong in the belief that all
are not dead.
It would be Jnterestlng to know
what Influence the steel trust had in
rolling up the big majority for Roose
velt at the Pennsylvania primaries. It
was to be expected that the trust
which Roosevelt shielded from the law
should remember Its friend in his time
of need.
The struggle of Colonel Edward H.
R. Green to avoid matrimony Is only
less strenuous than that of certain
gentlemen to acquire political office.
One Senatorial candidate is thrifty.
His campaign statement shows profit
of 175. 0. It Is greatly to be deplored
that many others will "go broke."
The truculent Orozco did not take
long to descend when Uncle Sam laid
down the law to him.
Hugh Chalmers' epigrams take rank
with Ed Howe's sayings as terse ex
pressions of every-day wisdom.
Good old earth remains pretty fine
to travel on, for in disaster a victim
can grab something.
Perhaps the excess of relative hu
midity will start working the ginger in
the Beavers.
Mr. Williams' team might be In
duced to coach the Beavers.
A drowsy Juror is the fault of the
attorneys.
Only one day left for Spring politics.
Britain needs another Pllmsoll.
Stars and Star-Makers
Br Lease Caaa Baer.
Mizzl Hajos will return to Portland a j
few weeks hence in "The Spring Maid.
Charles McNaughton, a brother to Tom,
who in turn is Alice Lloyd's husband
In private life will play the role of
the barnstorming actor In this operetta,
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Helen Ware, who created the role of
Annie Jeffries in "The Third Degree."
and who since her promotion to stellar
honors has never appeared west of
Chicago, will this season make her
first visit to the Pacific Coast.
sea.
A bit of stags realism that came
near having a very different ending
was enacted on the other side of the
Baker footlights last Sunday afternoon.
The company was rounding up the first
act of "The Witching Hour" to the cul
mlnative point in Its action where
young Clay Whipple kills Tom Den
ning by striking him over the head
with an Ivory paper cutter. To go
back a moment and disclose a stage
secret there are two paper outters
used in this scene, one is a real knife,
heavy enough to make a sound when
It is knocked off the table to the floor.
Another one. similar in detail but made
of wood, with a heavily padded hilt
painted white is placed behind a row
of books on the table. When Denning
goads Clay Into striking him. the near
paperknlfe Is grabbed and the soft
chamois covered end falls on the head
of Denning. Last Sunday afternoon.
Walter Gilbert, who played the role of
Clay, put Melville Browne, as Denning,
out of commission for several hours.
Gilbert grabbed the wrong paper cut
ter and In acting frenzy cracked Mel
over his -nicely parted hair. Down he
went In honest and true earnest and
was dragged out according to the play's
schedule without the audience being
any the wiser. A doctor was hurried to
the scene; he sewed up a neat little
scalp wound, and Mel was on the Job
again that night. And all through tha
week you may be certain that Gilbert
grabbed the right sticker every time he
killed his man.
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Still talking of Melville Browne he
has a new vaudeville sketch to be tried
out In the next few days. It's a comedy
called "Hands Up." and it requires a
cast of four people. Mr. Browne will
himself play the Juvenile role. There's
a musical Interpolation in the sketch
a waltz song "Dreamlove." written,
words and music, by Earl C. Sharp.
Mr. Browne's other vaudeville sketch,
"The Value of a Dollar," starts out
again from New York In August.
Here's Just a few of the theatrical
folk who are coming along soon;
Blanche Bates, in "Nobody's Widow":
Maude Adams. In the much-heralded
"Chantecler": "Over Night," with Eddie
Foy, which was produced in New York
simultaneously with that other farce,
"Baby ' Mine"; William Hodge, the
original star of "The Man From Home,"
arrives with the successful American
drama of patriotism; Margaret Anglln,
in "Green stockings"; Margaret Illlng
ton. In Charles Kenyon's drama, "Kind
ling," and "Louisiana Lou," which
comes directly to this Coast at the close
of its present run in Chicago.
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When the "Bird of Paradise" closes
next Saturday at the West End Thea
ter, in New York, Oliver Morosco's first
New York production will go down In
stage history as a success. Mr. Mor
osco has given New York a true picture
of how plays are produced in Califor
nia. His labors during the Summer
will keep him In Los Angeles, where he
will again manage his admirable stock
company and make many new produc
tions of plays which he will test be
fore an audience for the first time.
Among the players he has engaged for
his organization is Laurette Taylor,
whose career is one of the richest In
promise of our young actresses.
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In the meantime to the West End
Theater in the metropolis goes Thurs
ton Hall, formerly of the Baker Stock
Company here, to play leads In that
theater. He leaves Salt Lake City on
Saturday for the East. For one month
he lias been leading man with the
Garrick Company there.
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Ida Adair, who has Just finished a
two-months' engagement in stock at
Salt Lake City at the Garrick, arrived
In Tortland last Monday evening for
a few weeks' vacation. She will be
remembered as leading woman last
season at the Baker.
Nell Franzen.'who has been identified
with the Baker Stock Company at var
ious periods during Its seasonal ac
tivity, returned last Saturday from a
ten weeks' stock engagement in Hono
lulu and the Islands. Miss Franzen was
Ingenue with the Harry Corson Clarke
and Margaret Dale Owen Company, and
received much attention socially as well
as professionally during her engage
ment. Since the closing of the company, Mr.
and Mrs. Clarke the latter of whom
is Miss Owen on the stage have sailed
for Australia, for a vacation. Miss
Franzen will spend hers here with
her parents.
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Another Portland girl who served her
apprenticeship with the Baker forces, Is
Mildred Disbrow. She Is at the Em
press this week In "Nerve." George
Bloomquest's play. George, bv the way,
is also one of that great family a
"former Bakeronian."
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That fascinating creature. May Yohe,
who has run the gamut of life from
dance-hall to peerage and back by way
of the Barbary Coast, is now in vaude
ville on a small circuit In the East.
T'other day she held an auction, dis
posing of gifts made by her whilom
husband. Lord Francis Hope. David
Belasco, Al Jolson, who has been here
in vaudeville," and William Collier, were
among the buyers. May Yohe was at
one time a resident of Portland ' for
several months.
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Ethel von Waldron, a Portland girl
who has achieved success In her chosen
work as an actress. Is appearing in
vaudeville In a satire called "The Leap
Year Girls," written by John Stokes,
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"The Marriage Not," an original comedy-drama
by Joseph Noel, a California
editor, will be produced by Cecil do
Mille at the Empire Theater, Cyracuse.
N. Y., April 22-24. It will then play
a half week in Rochester and go to
Powers' Theater, Chicago, for a run.
The plat. 1 based on a poem by the
author called "The Mgotist." In the
company Is Oza Waldrop, who is one
of the best remembered of the early
day Baker Ingenues. Robert Drouet Is
leading man, with the company.
EQUAL RIGHTS FOB ALL ALIKE
Mr. Evan Will as District Attorney
Show No Favors.
PORTLAND, Or., April 17. (To the
Editor.) Eleventh hour efforts of poli
tical assassins necessitate some public
statement from me.
I am now. accused of being indorsed
by the Employers' Association, in the
hope that such accusation will take
from me the votes of laboring men,
who desire a square deal. The nefarious
scheme is falsely to place me where
a large body of voters, who are really
friendly to me, will refuse to support
me. Let me answer this in a manner
that will leave no doubt of my atti
tude. I have not knowledge of any such in
dorsement. I did not directly or indirectly seek
such indorsement.
I did not directly or indirectly give
the Employers' Association or any em
ployers whatsoever any promise what
ever. More than that.' If I am elected. I
will not give employers or the Em
ployers' Association or any one else
any favors that I would not also give
to the humblest person.
If elected. I shall be District At
torneyr to all alike. To the poor, the
rich. eWo laborer and all. each will
receive -at my hands the same consid
eration and will be given the same
service. I will remember, if there is
to 'be any special consideration, it
should be for those who are poverty
stricken and who are unable to pro
cure private counsel.
This has been my firm conviction
from the time I first announced my
candidacy, and is not a promise made
to procure votes.
I have stated at every opportunity
that if elected, I shall be unfettered
and will serve all justly, honorably, in
fear of no one and without fear or
favor to any class or clique.
I expect the opposition of law
breakers and those who desire favors
and special protection, because all
such persons shall suffer the conse
quences of vigorous action at my hands,
should I be elected, but every law
abiding citizen and every lawful busi
ness shall have the safeguards prop
erly due and by law provided, and to
all such I will give every assistance
of my office, and will as unhesitatingly
deny special privileges to any one.
whether it be the Employers' Associa
tion, or any man or set of mpnv
WALTER II. EVANS.
ONE VIEW OF TITANIC DISASTER
Writer See a Lesson for Lovers of
Worldly Thlngn.
PORTLAND, April 17. (To the Edi
tor.) The sinking of the Titanic does
not look, to our limited and narrow
vision, like Love on the throne of the
universe. But such things need not
disturb our faith In our Father. Even
with my short sight I can see that
such an event may have the effect of
a message like this: "My children, too
many of you are growing more trust
ful toward millions of money than to
ward your Father in heaven: more
anxious to get perishable things than
to do Justice and show mercy. I will
Just let the ocean swallow up your
greatest triumph over the winds and
waters, your greatest accumulation of
wealth in one spot, together with a few
of your klnps and lords of finance, that
you may not wholly forget the things
that abide. I will, indeed, take good
care of these who seem to you to have
perished. Some of them will see now
what nothing else could show them,
and such of them as had not done so
before may now lay up treasure in
heaven. And you who remain yet
awhile in the body, may feel afre-sh
that 'a man's life consisteth not in the
abundance of things that he posses
ses.' "
Indeed, it appears to me that God
has ordained the gulf stream to warm
water to meet the Icebergs, and fill
the air with awful fog just off Cape
Race, where rocks and shoals and swift
currents are ever taking toll of Uvea
nnri rHrfroeH. Hnd rischt in the path of
the world's greatest traffic, to keep
men from forgetting that there is one
stronger than they, who loves them too
well to let them have nothing but
,mnniii en I line- and selfish success.
This greatest of marine disasters is
onlv one of a thousand things mat are
happening every day with the same
end in view But men torget me orui
nary. They g:et used to what they re
gard as the "time and chance that hap
neneth to all." So. now and then. God
has to startle them and Jolt them out
of their self-importance and mone-yea
security by an unusually appalling loss.
But. whoever feels stricken, the word
comes to them, "Let not your heart be
troubled, neither let it bo afraid," for
"God is Love."
R. M. WEBSTER,
814 Tillamook st., Portland.-
Ev' Wlf Pollclea.
PORTLAND. April 17. (To the Edi
tor.) There are a few things about the
policy of Mr. Evans, candidate for Dis
trict Attorney, that should be brought
to the attention of the public. First of
all, he wishes to abolish the "third de
gree," the use of which has been a dis
grace to this county. It is wholly bru
tal, unfair and Is productive of no
results. I am glad to see Walter H.
Evans take the stand that he has taken,
and I hope that tills office of District
Attorney will see the practice abol
ished for all time. Again, he will ad
vise a man of his rights under the law
when he Is charged with a crime, but
hold him responsible for all that he
says. This is another good move, for
all too often the poor devil that is
brought before the bar is practically
deprived of his rights by the over-ambitious
prosecutor, who, in his desire to
win, fails to grant to him the rights
which the law has provided for his
safeguard. And, in conclusion, it is the
policy of Mr. Evans to exert no power
that he is not given under the law.
but to exercise the power that
he has granted him. Surely this
fairness on the part of the candi
date is such as to warrant our sup
porting him and having these features
of his policy put into practice.
E. A. K.
Delegates to National Conventions.
KNAPPTON, Wash., April 17. (To
the Editor.) How many delegates will
the Republicans and Democrats have
at their National conventions and what
is the number of delegates of each
party based on? A. L. DARK,
The principal basis In each party is
representation In Congress, two dele
gates being allowed for each Senator
and each Representative. Delegates
are also apportioned to Hawaii. Porto
Rico, Alaska. The Philippines and the
District of Columbia. The Republican
total is 1078. A slight variation in the
plan gives the Democratic convention
1096 delegates. The Congressional
representation totals 631. making 1062
delegates on the main basis, but Arizona
and New Mexico are allowed two ad
ditional delegates each, making a total
of 1064 delegates from the states.
Railroad Station's Record for Siae.
Indianapolis News.
The Grand Central Station In New
York, which holds the record for size.
Is eight times larger than Waterloo
Station in London.
New Alloy In France.
London Tit Bits.
Magnesium is the principal ingredi
ent in a new alloy brought out in
France that weighs about two-thirds
as much as cast aluminum.
Love's Labor Lost
By Dean Collins.
I met a man who laughed in glee.
And puffed a large cigar;
"Oh. tell me, sir," said I to him,
"Why you so merry are.
While I and other men are glum
As nearer the elections come;
Feeling, as voters, heavily
Our great responsibility."
"Have a cigar!" cried he. and smiled.
"It cost me not a cent.
For it was given unto me
By would-be Sheriff gent;
He, with the smoke stick, gave his card
And said, 'I'm out and running hard
To be the people's nominee.
Do a good turn and vote for nus.'
"I gladly took the card and eke
The luscious black cigar;
Not from this one alone; there came
Others from near and far.
My pockets bulge with cards and
smokes.
My ribs are sore from friendly pokes,
From many score of candidates
Full oft I took the stogie baits."
"But wherefore laugh?" I asked of him.
He gave my side a poke.
"Get wise, get wise." he gaily cries,
"And tumble to the joke.
Though these cigars I take and puff
Until I holler, 'Hold, enough!'
I cannot help them, as it were i
I'm one who did not register."
Portland, April 17.
Half a Century Ago
From The Oregonlan of April 18. 1862.
Robert Johnson, son of Senator An
drew Johnson, arrived at Washington
on the 4th. He was driven from his
home, escaped through the rebel forces
and reached the Federal lines. The
Union spirit in East Tennessee he rep
resents to be as strong as ever. The
two Union men. Fry and Henckle. were
arrested at night by the rebels and
hung'the next morning. This was done
by order of General Carroll.
Captain J. P. Bagley. of Steilacoom,
was drowned in San Francisco harbor
on the 21st of March In attempting to
go on board the brig Energy, which he
commanded.
We have a slip from Corvallis which
purports to give the resolutions adopt
ed by the secesh convention. The whole
thing looks like a hoax. We Judge that
but few delegates were In attendance.,
as we notice that some whose names
are given in the proceedings were in
our city during the sitting of the con
vention. The following are the candi
dates nominated: For Congress, A. E.
Wait: for Governor, John F. Miller was
taken up and elected on the fourth
ballot: Secretary of State, George T.
Vlnning: State Treasurer, Jerome B.
Greer; State Printer. A. Noltner was
taken up and elected on the sixth
ballot.
The new Council organized by the
election of O. Risley. president, and C.
H. Boyd, clerk. .
The new ferry-boat is very busy tak
inn cattle across the river every day,
most of which are northward bound.
The new boat is quite an improvement
on the old, rickety -tub heretofore used
as a ferry-boat.
As "Ed" Howe Sees Life
The devil claims that when people
are about to make a mistake he whis
pers to them: "Don't do that."
If you want your daughters to be
come good piano players reverse pres
ent conditions. Let them practice six
hours a day and go to school an hour
a dav. Learning to play a piano well
is more difficult than to learn to read
and write.
When a man gets along all right
when his wife is away it is a sign that
he doesn't get along very well when
she's at home.
It mav at least be said of divorced
people that they had the courage ot
their convictions.
When you do a thing because "it is
expected of you," it is usually your
duty.
What is there in this story that ex
ercise is so good for us? Women ex
ercise less than men and live longer.
When you receive a compliment look
it over for flattery.
When there is something plainl
wrong with a man, and people are not
certain what it is, the favorite guess
is fits.
A Chicago man offers to teach any
one bv mail, in an hour's time, to play
the piano equal to a music-master.
Many people will not only buy this sys
tem, but believe, after an hour's prac
tice, that they can play as well as any
tine. Indeed, I believe that many of the
piano players I know were taught by
this system.
Only members of the musicians' union
have a right to make music, and finally
there will be a protest because you
whistle.
DECENT ELEMENT SHOULD UNITE
Time Is Ripe to Put Such Men as Fouls
Out of Politics.
PORTLAND. April 17. (To the Edi
tor.) Just the other day a citizen asked
me if there was any serious attempt to
put Seneca Fouts in office. Knowing
how the great North End votes and how
solidly united the vicloui element stand
when from their stronghold they at
tempt to put their favorite In office,
I replied that the attempt to put Mr.
Fouts in office was a serious move.
Right here I would like to say that
it is high time that men like Seneca
Fouts were being given frankly to un
derstand that the time has come when
a man with his past record Is not
wanted in public office in any re
spectable community.
There is a way to do this in a quiet,
dignified manner; and that wa is to go
to the polls, not with the voting
strength of the decent, law-abiding ele
ment scattered for two or three candi
dates, but united upon one single can
didate whose reputation and ability
meet with universal approval. Evidently
Walter H. Evans is that man and if the
law-abiding, self-respecting and country-loving
voter wishes to profit by
casting his ballot, let him cast It for
Walter H. Evans for District Attorney.
Adopt this plan, and it will not be
long before such men as Fouts will be
divorced from politics forever. But if
the vote of the better element will not
be united at a time like this, we may
expect unfit officials in public office.
THOS. N. BENTH.
The Comforts; of Home.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Doctor Your wife says you talk
In your sleep.
The Patient Well, confound It, it's
the only chance I get!
Italy Copies Our Trademarks.
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A great part of Italy's trade with
Turkey consisted in selling cotton
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