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V PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 1912. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL. LII XO. 16,095. STAKE IS POLITICAL LIFE Fight on Parker Mot Made for Fun. PROGRESSIVENESS IS GOAL Clark Trying Hard' to Be Friend of All Sides. FEAR OF STAMPEDE GROWS Nebraskan Said to Have Speech Up His Sleeve That Will Make 1S96 "Crown ot Thorns" Ef fort Look Like Tyro's Essay. BALTIMORE, June 24. (Editorial Correspondence.) Mr. Bryan is taking his political life in -his hands by his war on Parker, but Bryan has run that risk so many times that be is not alarmed at tbe prospect of defeat. Bryan, indeed, has many political Uvea The loss of one of them makes hut little difference " in " the general record. Possibly defeat adds to the ul timate sum of his power and authority In the Democrat party and before the country. Bryaa Trie to Tata Party- Does anyone imagine, for example. that it Bryan had been elected Fresl dent once or twice, he would be the same Idolized Bryan he is today? Bryan la not making; . war on Parker for fun or merely to show his strength. He is trying; to turn the face of the Democratic party at the outset in the direction of progresslveness and radi calism. The National committee has. indeed, turned him down, but the voice of the National committee is by no means final. Now. Bryan will go on the floor of the convention and captain his forces In person. He will be the central figure in the convention's actual work. Th convention is to be forced to choose between Bryan and Parker. The , result to follow -from ' th preliminary contest will be momentous and 2e ctstve. Clark Tries te Avoid Fight. The situation Is critical for all the candidates, but It Is fraught with par ticular danger for Champ Clark. The weakness of Clark's candidacy lies In the fact that he poses as the friend of alL He Is deeply anxious to make enemies of none. He Is striving vali antly not to get caught In the colli sion between Bryan and Parker. He Is responsible for the harmony talk about withdrawing Parker if Bryan in sisted. He wanted everybody to be satisfied, but Parker and bis backers were sot satisfied and- stayed in after he found that Bryan could not control the National committee. Parker does not particularly love a fight but the forces behind him de cided to accept the Issue over him just to show Bryan his proper place as a mere private In the ranks and also to get a tight grip on the convention through Parker. Clark will disclose his eminent Impartiality and disinter estedness by dividing the vote of Mis souri, especially between Parker and Bryan's man, if he can. Chlrag-a Stroarle Repeated. The real issue here Is the old strug gle of the radicals against the con servatives, ss It -was at Chicago. TV bo shall be nominated Is for the present greatly overshadowed by the opening battle for control. The radical dog is not going to wag the conservative tall so esslly as some of us have Imagined. The delegates from the East and South believe in the old order. To them Roosevelt Is a wild man and Bryan a mere agitator. It is a surprise to find delegates epenly declaring that there Is no Bryan sentiment or undercurrent In their states. Yet. all realize and asknowledge Bryan's extraordinary power and are uneasy over what may happen If he makes another crown-of-thorns speech. The word is being passed around that Bryan has up his sleeve a speech that will make his great effort of 1898 look like a school boy essay. The truth appears to be that the delegates are only lightly at tached to their respective candidates. The Clark delegates are apparently only half in earnest, though the crowds seem to be more for Clark than any other. There Is a big show for Wil son, but the real Wilson is Bryan; and they hold Bryan with a rope of sand. You see Harmon pictures and tadges everywhere and you wonder why. Underwood has an enormous gallery recruited for the South. It Is the great triumph of hope over knowledge. Marshall. Foss. Gaynor and the rest are represented, but after all the sole question Is whether or not the con vention will nominate Bryan. E. B, P. . I GIRLS AND POLICE FIGHT Striking Cigar Plant Workers Hurl Rocks at Officers. PERTH AMBOT. X. J, June 24. Girl striker, formerly employed by the Perth Amboy Cigar Company, made a demonstration at the plant today and uurled tones at policemen who sought to check their advance. t-m. Boilcam.u were badly cut about BRYAN S FOUR ARMY MEN :. RAISED BY TAFT PRESIDENT TAFT AX3TOC5TCES ARMY APPOINTMENTS. William W. Wltberspoon Is Chosen Major-General; Chase, Edwards and McClernand Brigadiers. WASHINGTON". June 24. After con sultation with Secretary Stlmson. Presi dent Taft announced these Army ap' Dointments: To be Major-General William W. Wltherspoon, now commanding the De partment of the Gulf at Atlanta. To be Brigadier-Generals Clarence R. Edwards. Colonel George F. Chase and E. J. McClernand. The nominations will be sent to the Senate probably Thursday. The vacan cies have existed for some time; Gen eral Wltherspoon fills the vacancy caused by the death of Major-General Grant. General Edwards Is a close friend of the President and as chief of the bureau of insular affairs has held the title for several years. Col onel Chase is a cavalry officer detailed as an Inspector-General at Governor's Island, New York. Colonel McClernand Is with his regiment, the First Cavalry, at the Presidio, San Francisco". - AUTO CRASH KILLS TWO Los Angeles Women Hurled to Death. One Man and 2 Children Hurt. LOS ANGELES, June 24. Mrs. Nicho las A. D'Arcy and Mrs. Charles L. Doron, both of Los Angeles, were in stantly killed and Nicholas A. D'Arcy was injured probably fatally when the automobile in which they ' were re' turning to Nthe city from Venice was struck by an ocean bound electric car at Fredericks crossing at 5 o'clock this evening. Nicholas A. D'Arcy; Jr., aged 7, and Charles Doron, seven, suffered broken legs and severe cuts. . D'Arcy is a mining man. He was driving the car, and It is not known how the accident occurred, as eye wit' nesses said the , crossing signal was sounding and the oncoming train was in plain sight. - Whether something went wrong with the automobile and D'Arcy was unable to stop, or he did not see the approaching train or hear the signal, no one can say. NEW UNION IS PREDICTED Bryan and La Follette Linked in , . .. Third-Party Talk. . MADISON. Wis., June 24. Progres sive Republicans here will refuse to talk of a third party until after the Democratic convention. ' Those high in Republican councils said today that If Bryan Is nominated on a progressive platform, the third party movement will be dead. All agree, however, that if the Bryan pro gressive programme should be de feated Wisconsin's progressives would favor the formation of a new party without Roosevelt at its head which would embody the followers of La Fol lette and Bryan. Some even go-' so far as to predict that these two might become leaders of the ticket ARIZONA ELKS ARE STYLISH Luxurious Train to Bring Contin gent From Phoenix and Tucson. LOS ANGELES, Cal, June 24. (Spe cial.) Genera Agent Gatter, of the Southern Pacific at Phoenix, was here today to arrange for the operation of a special train de luxe from Phoenix and Tuscon to the Elks' Portland con vention. Gatter says that the train will be one of the finest possible to assemble. There will be about 200 passengers to start out July 3.. A day is to be spent, in this city. A considerable percentage of the Arizona Elks plan to stop In Portland and thereabouts for the remainder of the Summer. MEXICANS TO BE PUNISHED Four Will Be Sentenced for Violat ing Neutrality Laws. LOS ANGELES. June 24. Rtcardo Flores Magon, Enrique Magon. Ansel- mo Flgueroa and Llbrado Rivera, found guilty by a Jury in the Federal Court of having violated the neutrality laws of the United States during the Madero revolution in Mexico, will be sentenced tomorrow. It was said no appeal would be made from tne verdict, which came aft er a long trial. The four defendants were said to have become reconciled to having been convicted of having aided the Mexican revolutionists through a junta maintained In Los An. geles. Their friends, however, conduct ed a demonstration yesterday against the prosecuting officers. RIVER'S TOLL IS GROWING 1 7 Bodies Recovered From Niagara. 1 1 Others Are Missing. BUFFALO. N. Y., June 24. Every hour today added to the toll of dead In last night's accident at Eagle Park. Grand Island, when 50 feet of an ex cursion wharf collapsed and dropped 100 persons Into the Niagara River. The semi-darkness, the ten-mile cur rent of the river at that point, the confusion and swiftness of it all served to cover up for a time tbe full extent of tbe catastrophe. Up to nightfall 17 bodies had been recovered and there was a list of 11 more who were known to have been at the park and not yet been accounted "110 STRADDLE FOR HE," SAYS COLONEL Absolutely NeW Party Is Programme. DECISION CAUSE OF CLASHES T. R. Says He Could Have Had Nomination for Asking. TERMS IMPOSED REFUSED Ex-President Declares Delegates From South Made. Offer to Him to Switch, If Contested Men Were Unopposed. CHICAGO. June 24. A new party from the ground up is the Roosevelt programme. After a series of discus slons today with his Hteutenants, in which there were several clashes. Colo nel Roosevelt decided, before leaving Chicago, to cut entirely away from the party with which his whole publlo career has been identified. His decision was . a disappointment to those who favored the organization of what might be considered an Inde pendent Republican party, with which various state organizations might co operate and still maintain, it was hoped, a nominal regularity. Democrats to Be Consulted. There must be no compromise, no straddle," Colonel Roosevelt said. "As an Indication of his determina tion, he said that when be returned to Oyster Bay he would communicate with a number of Democrats he thought might wish to Join the new party. When he had left Chicago, with the first plans completed and his leaders scattering to all parts of the country. Colonel Roosevelt expressed himself pleased with the outcome of conven tion week, .e said he had a, mass of letters and telegrams from Democrats and Republicans offering support. ' Nomination Refused, It Is Said. The Republican nomination for Pres ident, said Colonel Roosevelt, was his for the asking on the day President Taft was renominated. He declined to accept it, he said, on the . terms under which the offer was made. The ex-President gave a glimpse Into the secret history of the last day of the convention. It was a plan to seize control of the convention at the last moment, by a Budden move over turn the Taft majority and make (Concluded on Page 8.) SAIJIiVT POINTS APPEARING ON EYE OF BALTIMORE . COXTEtllOS. William J. Bryan to nominate him self as temporary presiding officer as first test of strength. Re will assail Thomas F. Ryan as head and front of1 the reactionaries and de mand of each National Committee man whether he has been "aeett" by fr. Ryan. Rocer Sullivan, retiring Illinois Na- , tlonal committeeman, deals hard blow to. Bearat-Harrlson combine in Illinois, his delesates-at-large and dlstrlot delegates from 11 districts being seated by unanimous vote, , All hope of averting a fight van ishes with the approval by the Na ' tlonal committee of Alton B. Parker, as temporary chairman. Indians sends largest contingent of ' boomers, all presumably for Gov ernor Marshall, at toast on first ballot. - Leaders aald to have determined, once and for all. to eliminate Bryan as a dominating figure In the part Bryan's headquarters, however, be sieged day and night by enthuiiastlo adherents. , Belief that Clark boom covers an under-the-surfaee movement for some other candidate, to whom his . delegates will be thrown at tbe proper .moment.' " Betting favors Clark at 8 to 5, , Odds on other candidates are: Wil son, .two and a half to one; Har mon, three and a half to ' one; Bryan four to one; Underwood four to one; aaynor, alx to one. m m City badly crowded and accommo dations taxed to the limit. Cots In crowded rooms renting for $3 a night. - mm Illinois delegates, by vote of 60 to . 8. refused to abrogate the rule di recting them to vote under the unit rule. " Political leaders agree that life or death of Roosevelt third party move ment, depends upon action of Balti more convention. ; " Thomas E. Watson, Georgia flre - brand, whose presence as a delegate was dreaded by leaders who fear tbe raising of the religious question In . National politics, prevented from at- -tending " by an attack of ptomaine poisoning. - MARYLAND IN TOMORROW Steaming Under Changed Order, Warship Will Return Directly. ON BOARD IT. S. S. MARYLAND, Point Arguello. Cal.. June 23. (Special.) Steaming under changed orders the Maryland will not pause on her run for the Columbia, Captain Elllcott having eliminated the proposed call at Santa Barbara today, as. coal tests were con ducted through the Santa Barbara channel. The vessel was navigated at full power under natural draft for f our hours and the same time under forced draft, the maximum speed being slight ly in excess of 20 knots. Oregon naval militiamen of the black gang were in the fire and engine-rooms during the run and, though the tem- Derature ranged from 90 to 98 degrees. they stood the ordeal. The cruiser Is making 18 knots tonight and, owing to the swell and head winds, some ui the Oregonians are seasick. Unless the vessel stops to clean fires, she will head into the Columbia before noon Wednesday, a day In advance of the original Itinerary. THREE RINGS BUT ONLY ONE WORKING BRIBERY CHARGED TO CHIEF AND FIVE Hlgher-Ups on Police Force Accused. MONEY IS PHOTOGRAPHED $400 Alleged Given to Deputy District Attorney Collier. GRAND JURY WORKS NIGHTS Up to Late Hour All but Slover Are Placed Under Arrest Indictments of Six Are Expected to Issue This Morning.- Warrants Issued from the office of the District Attorney last night were placed in the hands of four deputy sheriffs for Chief of Police Slover, Cap tain of Detectives Baty, Detective Ser geant Smith, Plain Clothesman Cliff Maddux, Patrolman Hammersly and Frank Reed on charges of bribery: It is charged that several days ago Plain Clothesman Maddux, already un der suspension on a previous charge of bribery, in company with Frank Reed, visited Deputy District Attorney Collier in his office and offered him 8400 as a bribe. The money. It Is said, had been pre viously photographed and was In the possession of the police department. Mr. Collier charges a conspiracy. The Investigations, it is' said, may also in volve Mayor Rushlight. Grand Jury Works Nights. Following their arrests, . the men were haled before the grand Jury, which held a night session in the of fice of District Attorney Cameron. It Is reported that indictments will be returned this morning. . The arrests were made quietly. At a late hour last night all but Chief Slover had been arrested. "A man only offers a bribe to me once," said Deputy Collier. "Any man that offers a bribe Is a crook. These men were trying to get me because the May grand jury hit the bull's eye. The truth was told about conditions and the men smarted under it. I look for indlotments in the morning." Captain Baty and members of the police force refused to discuss the charge. ' ' British Army Man Dies. LONDON, June 24. Field Marshal George Stuart White, one of the most distinguished soldiers in tne unusn Army, died today. He was 77 years old. White, who was an Irishman, went through the hardships or tne tnaian Mutiny in 1857. In the Afghan War in 1879-80 he won the Victoria Cross "for valor." EVEN MONEY BET ON TAFT TO WIN NO WAGERS MADE OX ROOSE . VELT PARTY PROSPECTS. Odds Mentioned on Clark Vary All Way From 3 to 1 In Favor to 8 to 5 Against Him. NEW YORK. June 24. (Special.) The election bet recorded In the nnan clal district- today was $1000 placed against a like amount Jhat President Taft will be re-elected. There was little interest displayed along Broad street in the matter of wagers on the candidates or either of the major parties and nothing outside of verbal speculation was heard among the chance-taking fraternity in regard to the new Roosevelt party in pros pect. The odds mentioned on Champ Clark for the Democratic nomination ran all the way from 3 to 1 in favor of his selection, to 8 to 5 against him, with no real cash in sight. Even money was quoted on Wilson, Harmon and other candidates. CULINARY ARTS LURE BOYS Cooking to Be Taught Girls to Be Shown How to Drive Nails. SANTA MONICA. CaL, June 24. (Special.) Boys will be taught to cook without spilling the soup, and girls to drive nails straight without smash ing their finger ends, according to the study programme of the public school vacation course. The course is largely elective and this Is the way it is worked out. There already Is an en rollment of 400 and Superintendent Rei bok says that a large proportion of the girls have chosen to work In the crafts department, and a smaller proportion of boys In the culinary rooms. Camp cookery and practical home kitchen ac complishments will be part of the lat ter course, and those who undertake it must carry it through, six weeks' at tendance being compulsory after en rollment. The school is an experiment of much promise. GIRL ISSUES OWN LICENSE Marriage Permit Taken by Young Woman Deputy, Who is Found Out. SALEM, Or, June 24. (Special) Wben Miss Mabel Minnie Louise Grom mels, a deputy in the office of County Clerk Allen, Issued a .marriage license to herself at noon today and pasted to gether the leaves of the marriage li cense book so that her license would escape the notice of the other clerks, she failed to count on the prying eyes of Miss Mabel Wellborn, Clerk of the Circuit Court, who happened to be glancing through the book today .and discovered the pasted leaves, and made the license public. Miss Gremmels waited until the rest of the office force had left at noon and then with ber sister, Vivian Grom- mels, as a witness, she issued the li cense. She is to wed Floyd Allen Bay- lngton, a teacher. WILD BIRDSJTURN ACTORS Films to Reproduce Habitues of Three-Arch Rock. Game Warden Finley, accompanied by Professor Dallas Lore Sharp, of Boston, left yesterday for Three Arch Rock, near Tillamook, to observe the birds inhabiting that game preserve. Mr. Finley was instrumental in having this rock on the Tillamook coast selected as a game refuge In 1903. Sea fowl of all species congregate there and at all times its rocky sides are covered' with mother birds and their young. , The place is inaccessible in rough weather and boats can be landed with difficulty even at the most favorable times. A moving picture machine consti tuted part of the equipment taken by Mr. Finley. T. R. BANDANAS -GIVEN OUT Spokane Millionaire Distributes Em blems of New Party. SPOKANE, Wash., June 24. Red bandanas, emblematic of the new Pro gressive party, were distributed here today to every man, woman and child he met by Colonel Walter C. Brewer, millionaire mine owner and former In dian scout under Buffalo Bill. Colo nel Brewer bought the entire supply obtainable in Spokane and declared that as soon as more bandanas could . be prooured he would start the new party boom In earnest. "Roosevelt is the man," he said, "un less Bryan is nominated. If Bryan Is candidate, Roosevelt should retire." ARKANSAS FASTEST SHIP Battleship Makes More Than 8 1 Knots on Trial Trip.' ROCKLAND, Me., June 24. Official figures of the recent builders' accept ance trials of the battleship Arkansas, the world's fastest and biggest com pleted battleship, was received today by the trial board. All the figures were better than the contract requirements which Included an average speed of 20 knots an hour for four hours. The figures follow: Fastest mile on standardization trial. 21.493; average of five high-speed runs. 21.153; average on . four-hour run. 21.051; average on two-hour run, 20.9S9; maximum horsepower developed, 29.271. The Arkansas' sister ship, the Wyo ming, will undergo trials here July 18. PARKER IS NAMED; BRYAN TO FIGHT Committee Acts in De fiance of Threats. HOPE FOR HARMONY FADES Efforts to Placate Nebraskan by Compromise Fail. BRYAN LOOMS AS NOMINEE Commoner Insists He Will Carrj Contest Against Sage of Esoput to Floor of Convention Make Race Himself, If Necessary. i BALTIMORE, June 24. All hope ef averting a fight from the fall of the gavel In the Democratic National con vention vanished tonight when the Na tional Committee approved the selection of Alton B. Parker, of New York, as temporary chairman In defiance of the threat of William J. Bryan to make an issue of the alleged conservatism of Judge Parker as opposed to the pro gresslvelsm which the Nebraskan as serts should prevail. 1 An effort was made by the Nstlonal Committee today to placate Mr. Bryan, but a conference resulted In complete failure. Mr. Bryan would not ' recede from the position he had taken and tonight prepared to make his fight to morrow rrom the floor of the convention to rally the progressives to his standard in opposition to Judge Parker. - . Bryaa May Make Race. Mr. Bryan announced today that It no other good progressive could ba prevailed upon to make the race, he would enter the Held himself, as the opponent of Parker. The Nebraskan stood out today as the dominant figure in the convention. All contingencies of the future. In cluding the nomination of a Preslden- tlal candidate, seemed to hinge upon what he would do. The Impression con tinued more marked that" Mr. Bryan might be the nominee. Some of his friends said tonight that he would be voted for In the convention whether formally placed In nomination or not. and they expressed the belief he would win If the voting went as far as the fifth ballot. Friends Seek Coalition. In furtherance of their hope of nomi nating Mr. Bryan some of his friends, it is said, are bending their efforts to prevent a coalition of the Clark and Wilson forces. They are talking of Bryan and Wilson as a possible ticket and the suggestion Is receiving at tention in many quarters. "In the event that Mr. Bryan should not be a candidate himself for tem porary chairman, It was said he might urge Senator Kern, of Indiana, for the place. The leaders expect Mr. Bryan to enter the race. The contest over the chairmanship is looked forward to with trepidation by some of ' the leaders and by the supporters of several Presidential can didates. One of the ' most interesting developments looked for is the stand to be taken by the Clark delegates. A large number of these have been pledged to support the choice ot the National committee whoever he may be. Rupture Is Imminent. ' This action was regarded In the state delegations as distinctly an anti Bryan move. There has been a long friendship between Mr. Bryan and Speaker Clark. The delegates to tho convention are wondering if tomorrow's battle will show a rupture. It is a coincidence that Mr. Bryan is arraying himself against the only man who has shared with him the Presidential nomination of his party since the memorial campaign ot 1896 It years ago. Judge Parkers com paratively wide margin of success In the National committee, Jl to 20, was taken by many of the leaders as an indication of defeat for Mr. Bryan. The latters friends declined to put any such Interpretation upon the action of the committee. Mr. Bryan said: "I had expected it. Wben Mr. Guf- fey was seated against the protest of the Democrats of Pennsylvania, . I learned what I bad expected; thut a majority of. that committee either had no conception of Democracy, or was so slavishly under the control of the pre datory interests as not to be free to. follow their convictions. The reauons which they give are like all reauons given In defense of wrong. Inalacerlty Is Charged. They are Insincere and are not tho reasons that really influence tbim. The fight will be resunied tomorrow, at which time a progressive will be presented for the convention to vote for and tbe line will be drawn so that the delegates can decide whether they will ally themselves with the Belmont-Ryan-Murphy crowd, that overwhelmed the party with defeat eight years ago, and which Is in close and continuous co-partnership with the crowd that nominated Mr. Taft at Chicago. "The predatory interests have no politics. They are with the party thai serves them. Having enabled a minor ity of the Republicans to override the will of a majority of Republicans at Chicago, they are now here to enable tConcluded on Ige .) the head and two girls were arrested. for. -