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TTTF, MORNIXG OREGOXIAX. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 12, 1912. 12 BOTH OLD PARTIES DECLARED GORRUP Roosevelt Seems to Lack Fire in Address at Gipsy Smith Auditorium. PENROSE CHARGE DENIED OOOO Hear Address and Grow Ira patient Before He Begins Aged Woman Interrupts Judge McGinn's Introduction. (Continued From First page.) Che audience. Judge McGinn had been requested by Roosevelt to prolong the introductory address that the ex-Presl dent could recuperate from the exac tions of the day's programme before commencing his main address. Selecting as a text tor his remarks Joshua xxiv:15 "Choose ye this day whom ye will serve" Judge McGinn applied the Scriptural Injunction to the present-day political situation. He had not proceeded far in his address and referred to the golden calf, when gray-haired and excitable woman seated just behind the press table, jumped to her feet. "May I ask a question?" she in quired, but before Judge McGinn could grant the request she continued: "Did Joshua make the golden calf himself? rso. But that is the man there (indi cating Roosevelt with a sweep of her hand) who gave us the golden calf. "I will answer the woman's ques tion," said Roosevelt, stepping to the front of the platform, but he was mo tioned back to his chair by Judge Mc Ginn. Resuming his remarks. Judge McGinn placed Roosevelt in the front rank of progressives and eulogized him as the man whom Wall street and "big busi ness throughout the country had op , posed from his first appearance in pub' ' lie life because those intersets feared him. Judge McGinn denominated the Bull Moose leader as the "apostle of a square deal. Here Judge McGinn was interrupted by calls of "Teddy." "Give us Teddy; "We want Teddy," accompanied by hundreds of stamping feet. "Give me a chance," pleaded Judge McGinn, shouting to the noisy crowd. Woman Shake Fist. "You've had a chance. Go back and sit down," answered the same gray- hatred woman, again leaping to her feet and shaking her fist at the chair-man. "I am not of the kind that goes back and sits down," replied Judge McGinn "Neither do I make a practice of in terrupting your Socialistic gatherings.1 Order being restored. Judge McGinn declared the time had arrived for the voters "to choose between Archbold and Wall street, on one hand, and the golden rule and the ten command ments on the other." Judge McGinn here started to discuss Wilson, the Democratic nominee, but his voice was drowned by the demonstration of the audience and he abandoned the at temnt. "Well, Colonel. I've stood them off as long as can. lou will nave to talk now." he said. Judge McGinn concluded by present Ins- "America's foremost citizen, Colo nel Theodore Roosevelt, the best loved man on earth." Arrival Interrupt Song. While the audience was assembling entertainment was furnished by a band, the Oregon Male Quartet and a colored quartet. Mrs. Winnifred Lewis Iarabee was in the midst or. singing "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," with the audience uniting In the chorus, when Roosevelt entered the hall. The ovation tendered the ex President was an enthusiastic one and continued for several seconds after he reached the platform. Roosevelt be gan his address at 6:15 o'clock and concluded at 6:25 o'clock. Hi speech follows: Judge McGinn. You Men and Women of Oregon and of Portland: My friend. I listened with great interest to Judge McGinn's Introduction. I thank him very deepiy for what he has said, and I wish to continue for a moment on the verr argument he made. We are appal- ing to you all here, without regard to your past political amnaiions 10 coma wun . just as in the late 5s and the late 'GOs. the appeal was made by Abraham Uncoln and those connected with him. to leave the old parties that had become useless, to leave the old parties that no longer represented the will and interests and the high aspira tions ot the American people and come with the Progressive party of that day the Re publican party of Abraham Lincoln and eo, friends, we ask you to come with us now ex-Republicans, ex-Democrats alike for we are true to the principles which every party in the United States has served, just so long as It wae able to serve the people. We are true to the Democracy of Andrew Jackson, Just as we are true to the Re puDllcanlrin of Abraham Lincoln, and the same staunch friends were leveled against these men In their youth when they stood for the new party that are leveled against ua now. The Whigs were asked why they had remained loyal so long to the old lead ers and now cast them aside. Lincoln Left Old Party. Lincoln was asked why he no longer served the men whom he had served In the past; why he abandoned men whom he had fol lowed or by whom he had stood. H Is answer was that he was bound to be right, that be followed any man so long aa that mm was right and served the people, and when he ceased to serve the people and ceased to lead in the fight for righteousness, then it became his (Lincoln's) duty to leave him. and he did leave htm. and. friends, it -baa been no easy task, no light work, for men to leave the parties with which they have been throughout their lives affiliated. They err who fail to see that for years the signs have been such that had. 'he politicians had the eyes to see they wculd have seen them. It has been said by my enemies that this is a one-man movement, this movement in my Interest. If it were a movement for any one man, for me or for anyone else, I wouldn't be In It myself. I am In it because It springs, as every great movement must spring, from the hearts of the people themselves. "Movement Cornea From People." Friends, this movement was to come any way. The people for some years had been growing more and more discontented with the wiy In which they bad been repre sented by men in political lite. The people have for a number of years been growing more an 3 more discontented with the fail ure of men in public life to grapple with the evil conditions in the economic and In dustrial life of the day. They were pre pared to shatter the old machines and they were preparing to come together In a new party that should really be a party of the people. They were tired of seeing en insincere fight waged on hollow Issues between par ties, neither of which greatly believed in the convictions It expressed, or greatly dis believed in the convictions expressed by its foes. The time was ripe. All that I In any way did was to bring the movement about a little quicker than It would other . wise have come, it would have come any way shortly. The part that I played was gradually to bring it on a little sooner than It would otherwise have come, and the oc casion of Us coming was furnished by the bosses ar the Republican National con vention held la Chicago last June. When I went into the primaries I did so very reluctantly and only bcaui a convic tion had been forced upon me that men whom 1 had earnestly believed would serve the people had not served the people, and onty because the conviction came to -me. reluctantly, that those whom I had believed would carry the cause of the people forward had deserted the people, haaV turned about and looked backward. Then, and then only. I came out myself as a candidate, but only when I found that the people who I thought would serve the people had de serted them and were serving the enemies of the people; ajjd, friends, when I was then forced to make the choice there was no room for hesitation. I couldn't hesitate when the choice was between those who I thought would serve the people and who had desertea tne peopie. ana on tne otner siae, tne peopie lucw selves. I had to go with the people. I had to stand by the principles that I had to stand by the people of ttfe United States: and now. to clear away an possible misunderstanding, let me say word about the future, riatform Declared Progressive. TVe progressives have declared for a given platform which we say is our programme, our covenant with the people. If any man elected on the Progressive ticket fails in good faith to do everything in his power to carry out the principles of our platform, I will turn against him, I will do my best to defeat him, for my fealty is to the people themselves and not to any man who misrepresents the people. And whether now I am supporting such a man or not will not alter the way I behave if the man proves false to his trust, if the man proves false to the people who out him in office. In other words, friends, I hold that every pub lic servant, and I, just as much as any other public servant, that all of us are in struments with which the people are to work. Take a given instrument ana a given task, use the instrument as long as it is the best instrument available, and when It breaks, or when another more fit is hand, throw aside the old instrument ana go ahead with the task. Throw aside the public man wnen ne no loneer renresenta vou. or when another man can represent you better, throw him aside. Whether I am the man or whether anyone else is the man matters not. The cause matters everything and the personality or the man la of no conseauence whatsoever. excepting as for the moment it may make mm of use in advancing tne cause. In the civil warfare ot today act Lincoln acted in the Civil War. Some of you men have served In the Army of the Potomac undoubtedly, and you know how Lincoln had tried man after man at ine head of that arm v. instrument after instru ment he took, because It seemed to be the one with which he could work, and he used it until it broke in his hand and with sor row he cast it to one side, took up another Instrument, as it was his duty to do, ana continued to do the work as best be could until that Instrument broke; and finally, after testing man after man his choice set tled on the great silent captain, on uram rhMrtv ann sum). And so. friends, as Lincoln did in his day we must do In ours, and I know "that the men who wore the blue will be the first to welcome into the new movement tneir ianen foes who wore the gray. Nothing could be httr for not merely the new movement. but for the new country, a rejuvenated country which will spring from the new movement. Ex-Confederates in Line. in th Ann-list convention we had ex-Con federates standing shoulder to shoulder with the Union men In making the new party, and the sons of ex-Confederates, like Judge B?n Lindsay, joining with the sons or ex- Union men to sem the common country, knowing no Hvalshlp, save the rivalshlp of seeing which could serve tneir commuu -nnntrv iwMit: and. friends, the only place in which a veteran or tne jivu war, mo umj place In which the men who voted irora Freemont to Lincoln, can feel really at home is in the Progressive party. Vnn fmn't Ha true to the nrinciPies OX Lm coin if you surrender your souls into tne vnlnr of Penrose. Barnes and Guggenneinu you can be true to the principles of Lincoln only If you are supporting the party which at Chicago in the Progressives national Convention put forth the best and bravest platform that any r-.auoi.ai pny v nt-th .inc thA f-inse of the Civil War: and. friends, I want to call your attention to the fact that we are only nominaly fighting two parties. We are really ngnting mc same representatives of interest in both the old parties. Botn i an les iaxrT, x dbjb. -won mMninr hut foolish people have pro. posed to rebook to the bosses who shat tered the Republican party at Chicago by voting for the bosses who triumphed at Bal timore. Now. there isn't anything that the f wh nnrtiei more cordially appre ciate than tne action oi m vc..-w. so-called independent who strives alternately to punish each set oi me uuw """' the other set into power. Judge McGinn True, inoeea. vnTr whMhr those bosses are called Penrose, Barnes and Guggenheim or Mur- phey and Taggart and auiiivan, uoesi. i make any difference. It is the same old boss. Republican or Democrat, wnaiever his name may be, our proposal Is to do away with the boss definitely and for good. Our proposal is not merely to smash the individual bosses, but to destroy the con ditions which have made boss-ship practlr cable, and in doing that also to destroy the conditions which have made possible the triumph of special privilege in our National life in business and in finance: and we propose, and our programme is brief and simple and we have lived up to It in the primaries last year in every state where there was a primary, and we forgot the bosses that were against us. And at Chlcaco they were wining io wrecR the Republican party rather than see me nominated, and now. friends. I want to call your attention to Just what that meant. It was not primarily ui.uo vi They didn't like me. I know that, and t .m n iimia nmud of it: but tnat wasn t the reason that actuated them mainly. They didn't like me ana tney areaaea you. you. tne people nere ippnun. The theft ot tne nomination remij . really from me. It was from you. i Thv atnle the nomination from the people. without any reference to who the Individual j man was whom tne peopie at me moment appened to want. Existing Conditions Kept. Thv regarded as all Important that there hould be no upsetting of the existing con- trinn. of the political lire. Ana tne two old parties, the Republican party and Demo cratic party, each in Its internal organiza tion, is perpetuating ine oip cnnuuwin, ic conditions which can be Kept up oy me successful alliance of the crooked politician with the crooked man ot ousiness, ana. finally, with the newspaper tnat is con trolled bv Sicn poilliciano, oy uis news paper that is controlled by such politics and hv nrh business or is directly or indirectly so influenced by the bosses and the big beneficlarles or privilege wno siuna oenmu th bosses. That paper Is no longer a free organ for the expression of the popular will. Shouts from me huuicuvc wiumau. t r-an name some newspapers In New York of that kind, but I will leave you do the naming here. Now, menus, remcmoer wuul mis usut in it. essent a s is. it is a zignt ot ootn of the old parties against us. It Is a fight of both the old parties to continue .the old system against the men wno are seeaing io bring into effect here in America a new system, a new system, so old, the system of having the people rule their own Govern ment, a rule that will bring about a real nd not a nominal system oi justice, not only in politics, but in our economic and n,.Bt life as well: and, friends, I want to call your attention to two significant actions recently. ' Amnnr the leading Republicans of New rtrir was a number of big waa the head of the big banking house or ivunn-ivoeo Company, the second most important cann ing house in New York, Mr. Jacob Schlff. SchifTs Statement Explained. Now. mind you. Mr. Schlff is a thoroughly rn.p table and well-meaning man. i am sure that he means to do what Is right. The trouble Is that he doesn't know you and that he Is afraid of you. He thinks of on aa the mob and his idea is tnat you lmuiit be controlled decently and owned bv the boss and the Dig financier wno is allied with the boss. Recently Mr. Schlff announced that although he had been Remiblican all his ure ne was now going to support the Democratic ticket, and he gave two reasons. They were given in me .ncw iutk. a unco, hirh la supporting Mr. Wilson, and is op posing me with a fervor of spirit that makes nvnrnnnoD a seeiu tanu. . ovmu an nounced In the first place that he hoped all his friends, that means ail or win street. some of them are aoie on tne moment to conceal their friendship, that his friends would alt support Mr. Wilson and not tnrow away their votes on Taft. because the es sential thine was to beat me. That means to beat you; and then came the statement which at first puxzled me. He said that the only way to preserve the Republican party waa to elect Wilson. I studied over that a minute and then I saw what he meant. He meant that if we would trtumnh we would smash not merely both of the older machines but the system that produced the old macnines as wen; ana mac therefore It was to the Interest of every man who represented the kind of Interest that he did. who felt as he did, to support the party that they thought might beat us. because they thought that if we were beaten that would re-establish the old see-saw be- ween the two old parties wnicn was con trolled by the old type of boss and political machine. System Called See-fcaw. Tan see what Mr. Sctaiffa theory la that our political life ought to consist of this see-saw. a plank the same plank labeled Republican at one end and labeled Demo cratic at the other end, the labels of the ends different, but tne same plana; the Republican party with a lot of Repub lican bosses on one end of the plank, and he Democratic party with a lot of Demo cratic bosses on the other end of the plank. . then see-saw; one end of the plank: up. and then the other end of the plank up. the Republican party up and then the Democratic party up. but the same boss al ways up. and see-saw. with Wail street tee tering in the middle, putting up whichever end of the plank it thought at the mo ment would serve Its purpose. Now. friends, that is briefly an exact de scriptlon of the present situation of the no litical situation which our foes wish to s perpetuated. The type of man, the Mr. Taggert, th Mr. Penrose and bosses of that kind. tM financiers who stand behind bosses of th kind, they may have each a tepid prefei ence for one party over the other, but i is a very tpid preference compared to th inte-tslty of the burning seal with wtac. he wishes to keep either party in power rather than see you come to power. la other words, those bosses and the big men in finance behind them do precisely a two corporation lawyers on opposite sides of a corporation sun ao. cu;u i.gni cam other In the suit, but they will come to gether as one man against the common roe. and you are the com m on foe. They are against us not because we are against some one particular man. but because we are against the entire system wnicn pro duces such men. Thev are against us be cause we fight the political and economic system today, as in your day you fought against slavery , And now." friend. I ask your attention to another matter to which Judge McGinn alluded. There were Messrs. Arch bald ana Penrose Penrose at the head of the Penn sylvania machine which we smashed In the primaries; Archbald at the moment the biggest leader in the Standard Oil trust they appeared before the Senate commit tee and testified against me. Let me point out the fact that if I had been in private life they never would have come in and testified against me. They didn't care for me. mvself. so far as I was concerned. They testified against me because for the mo ment it hannened that I was leading your fight and thev wanted to do anything they could to damage your cause. They can't do it. After thev testified I said: "The Lord hath delivered them into my nanas. Sword to Be Given. Judge McGinn That is correct. (Great applause). They have asked , for the sword. They shall have it. Now I can get at them in open field. They testified on Friday and Saturday. On Saturday I sent a teegTara to-the chairman of the sub -committee. Sen ator Clerk, asking that I be heard on Mon day; you see they stopped testifying on Sat urday. The only reason I didn't ask to be heard on Sunday was because I couldn't be heard on Sunday. Senator Clark stayea there In Washington. Every standpat Re publican or Democrat on the committee scat tered to the four winds of heaven, and Mr. Archbald went to Europe. I wrote at once to Senator Clark a letter which is now published at the progressive headquarters and which I would like everyone nere to get because I went Into the thing at length. I don't want to go into it at tne moment. into the accusations against me, except to point out this fact. These accusations are really not against me at all, but against Mr. Cornelius Bliss, who is deaa. jar. .buss lived for seven years after the event hap pened, but they never brought the accusa tions against him during those seven years. He is dead. They say that Mr. Bliss blackmailed tnem and that he told them that I knew it. This accusation against me is that those two worthy citizens. Penrose and ArcnDoia. say that a dead man told them eight years ago that I knew something about what he was trying to do. That is not the kind or evi dence that would be received in court, is it. Judge McGinn? Judge McGinn The witness would nave to be bolstered up. Col one L Testimony Is Attacked. L will bolster them (applause). And what I want to call your attention to Is the curious side-lights that their testimony gave on themselves and what my administration had done. In the first place, aa regards themselves. Mr. Penrose and Mr. Archbold testified that Mr. Penrose advised the Stan dard OH Company or Mr. Archbold to make a blackmailing contribution in oraer tnat they should avoid being punished for wrong doing. The exact expression of Pen roe. which is found on page Jt ox tne pnntea testimony, is, "I advised him," Archbold. that It was a mistake not to contribute; that if he didn't, the Standard Oil Company migh incur hostility In certain circles." That meant me. Now I want to call your atten tion to this: The Standard Oil Company couldn't Incur my hostility unless it broke the law. So long as the Standard Oil Com pany didn't break the law it would have no more to fear from me than anyone or us here today would have to fear from the police. If you find a man paying a couple of hundred dollars you can guarantee that It is not from motives of philanthropy, and if he says it is so. that he may not Incur police hostility, you may be sure that he Is doing something that the police ought to be hostile to. Now In regard to Mr. Arch-, hold's testimony: In that did he protest j against being blackmailed? Not a bit. He! didn't protest that at all. and he had no Idea that he was accusing Mr. Bliss of bad conduct or bad character. He said Bliss was a splendid man and that he had splendid character. Not that I, Judge McGinn, accuse Bliss for a moment of hav ing a bad character, nor do I say that his conduct was bad. Archbold said he dldn t mind being blackmailed. What he objected to was that he didn t get the goods tap plause). There was one refreshing bit of testimony when his feelings suddenly over came him. This Is on page133 of the tes timony: "Darkest Abyssinia has nothing to show comparable with the treatment administered to the Standard Oil Company during the Roosevelt administration. ' Now, he was right about that. I did ad minister the Abyssinian - treatment to the Standard Oil Company, and If ever I am President again and the Standard Oil Com pany doesn't mend its way, or any other corporation penaves as tne btanaara uii men behaved. I will administer the Abyssinian treatment again, and that is just what Messrs. Archbald and Penrose know. They don't complain of any Abyssinian treatment under the present administration and they haven't the slightest fear ot the Abyssinian treatment under either of the old parties. They recognize their foes and you are their foes. They fear the party of the people themselves. They know they can make their terms with the bosses. They know they can't make their terms with the people of the United States, and so Messrs. Penrose and Archbald, and the Pen roses and the Archbalda throughout this land are willing to help Mr. Taft, and if, as they have grown to see that it is hopeless, then to help Mr. Wilson if they can only beat us. if they can beat the Progressive party. If they can beat the candidates of the Progressive party and the people who stand behind these candidates, xney cant no it. Support Is Asked. And now, friends, I wish to ask your auDDort because of the enemies we have made. I ask your support because of the principles for which we stand. We are Standing tor social anu economic justice, and our proposals are not mere abstractions, but they are concrete. One of those pro posals, friends it seems strange to appear to argUtt lor it nere oa mo jracmc stupe one of our proposals Is to give women the same right to vote that men have, which renresents a step towards Industrial and social Justice which I have come to believe In. not because of my study of it alone, not because of what I read In books, but primarily because I have known life, be cause more and more and more aa I have studied life, and as I have gotten over the prejudices which we all Inherited. I have grown to realize that while there must be a wide difference of function between men and women there should be equality of tight. I have grown to feel that there are certain cruel- wrongs of which women are too often the victims and .which cannot be righted unless -we give the women not only the power to defend themselves by the ballot, but their right to the respect of men. Now, friends, this Is only one of the Incidents la which we are trying to secure social and industrial justice. we snouia help the cause of the farmer and make It our own. We have been content too long in this country to permit a haphazard neg. lect for the farmer's rights and interests and a haphazard interest on the part of the Government to the welfare of the men who live in the open country we must turn the Government more and more Into an agent for the betterment of those who live in the open country ana mane it an agent for the betterment ot the man, so that he may get more out of his soil and may Join with his fellows to do in common the work that ought to be done in common, and especially to market his goods in common, so that the consumer shall get them direct. so that the price paid by the consumer shall go from his pocnet into tne pocaet of the farmer and not stop In some other pocket between. That Is the most efficient way In which to deal with the problem of the high cost of living. So, with the wage worker our proposals are perfectly definite. We take the position that no community Is In a healthy condition If the less fortunate mem bers of it are crushed under social and in dustrial conditions. We are our brother's keepers. It would be the rankest kind of Injustice to give equality ot reward when there is gross Inequality of service. We should see that there is a living wage paid to the wage workers of this country, men and women alike. We propose to establish throughout the land an eight-hour law for the women in the industries. We propose to do away with child labor everywhere, and while we wish to work through the states we are more fortunate than our oppo nents In the sense that we decline to make a fetlah of the states rirhta. "States' Rights Extolled. We are for states rights. Where the peo ple's rights means states rights, we are for A Sick Man I 1 - 0 :- : .; . :. . Write Dr. Hart man Abont -Kidney Disease. A gentle man writes me: "I was greatly in terested In your article describ ing tb.e Kauff tnan case of tj e r ious disease of th e kidne-ys. The description of his case ex actly outlines my condition. I am sure if P e r u n a cured S. B. HartmiH, M. I). him as you say, it would cure me also. I am losing; flesh rapidly and the doctors say I have every symptom of Bright's disease of the kidneys. If you think I would be benefited by Peruna I will cer tainly try some as the doctors have practically given me up the .same as they did him." In reply I wish to say, first, that I never make any promises as to what Peruna will cure. No physician can make positive statements of that sort. I can say this much, however, if I were in your place I should certainly give Peruna a trial. I know of no other remedy that would be so likely to be of ue to you in your present condition as Peruna. Take a table spoonful before each meal and at bed time. Continue this for two or three weeks and then If there is anything you wish to ask me further write me and I will give your letter prompt at tention. If I find that the Peruna is not helping you I will be perfectly frank and tell you so, for I would not have, you take Peruna unless it was really helping you. But it has rescued so many cases of kidney disease that I am quite confident you will find it , exactly suited to your case. Kidney disease begins with catarrh ; of the kidneys. Peruna is a catarrh remedy. Unless the destruction of the kidneys is already too great Peruna relieves the catarrh and the cause of the kidney disease Is removed. I shall anxiously await a report of your case. Remember, all letters are ' sacredly confidential. I never use any one's name or address without his written consent. My, correspondence is absolutely private. Peruna is for sale at all drug stores. SPECIAL NOTICE Many persons are making inquiries for the oldtime Peruna. To such would say, this formula Is now put out under the name of K A -TAR-NO, manufactured by KA-TAR-NO Company, Columbus, Ohio. Write them and they wjll be pleased to Efna you a iree pooniet. states rights, and where they mean National rights we are for National rights. We are for the people's rights in every- case. We propose to establish In' continuous indus tries where they labor seven days a week ana 74 hours a day.' we propose to establish by law that there shall be one day's rest in seven and that. Inasmuch as In those in dustries there must be either two 12-hour shifts a day or three eight-hour shifts a day. In those Industries we will establish by law an eight-hour day for labor. We pro pose to provide for the safeguarding- of dangerous machinery, for a workman's com pensation act and for all similar types of legislation; and, friends. In doing this we are acting not merely in the interests of the wage-worker, but we are acting In the Interest of all of us, for our assumption is that this country won't be a good place, for anyone to live in unless we make It a pretty good place for everyone. Friends, in these reforms we are asking that the lead be taKen not primaruy by the men and women no are most to benefit from them and above all in no spirit of hatred, of sullen anger and revenge, but that the lead should be taken by the men and women who have no immediate personal concern, but who have it borne in on them that they cannot see their less fortunate brothers and sisters beaten down In the stress of modern Indus trial life. I ask for the leadership of the man to whom much has been given that thhey may themselves freely, as a matter of justice and duty, take Initiative in right ing the wrongs of thehir brethren to whom less has been given. MlUeninm Hot Promised. My plea is for a disinterested leadership. My plea Is for the recognition by each of us that the other Is Indeed his brother and that none of us has done his duty if he hasn't striven to make the condition of his neighbor a little bit better off. Now, friends, I am not asking thhe impossible and I am not promising the impossible. -1 am not promising thhe millenlum. You men of the Clvit War didn't bring the millenlum before your victory, but you saved the Union and you abolished slavery. .You rendered one of the greatest services to humanity ever rendered by men of any generation and you left the ground cleared of the party's wrong so that here your children could act with unhampered hands to grapple, with the wrongs that arise in our day. Now that Is all that I expect that we, can do if successful. We won't bring the millenlum or anything like it. We can do away with the mass of exist ing wrongs and we can clear the way for a better and truer life for our children not to stagger under the accumulated burden of wrongs that their fathers permitted to exist, but grapple with the wrongs that arise In their day with the same spirit with which we will have to grapple with the wrongs of our day. That is all I am prom ising. "Discontent Not Preached." Friends, our opponents have said that I go about the country preaching discontent and class hatred. I have never In my life preached hatred of any class except the class of crooks, and I have never preached discontent with anything except that which was wrong. My experience has been that the same qualities which make a good big man make a good little man, and vice versa. I don't adenire a little crook any more than I admire a big crook. It Is merely that the big crooks are more dan gerous, but both ore equally bad. My ex perience has been that any man who preaches hatred, envy and jealousy, any man who tries to arouse the wicked and ill feelings toward those who are better off Is just the kind of a man who would op press those who are less well off. HOTEL RECEPTION BRIEF COLOXEXj greets committee men AND MANX CITIZENS. J. G. Mack & Co. Fifth and Stark J. G. Mack & Co. This Week Ends the Special Sale of Odd Furniture Pieces for the Bedroom and Dining-Room Buyers of dependable furniture never knew such an opportunity as this. A few two piece and three-piece Bedroom Suites are also, included. Odd Dressers and Princess I Q fin for 24 Mahog- UIWW any Dresser. I Q Rfl for 2g Mahog- WIUW ; any Dresser. OR fin for 136 Mahog UiUU any Dresser. OR ftfl for 35 Princess IDiUU Dresser. CK flfl for 30 Circas OJiUU slan Walnut Dresser, Colonial Del-sign. Dressers CC nnfor 80 'ahog DUiUU any Dresser. Sheraton design. Inlaid 7ft flfl for Mahog I UiUU any Dresser. Q7 Cfl for $135 Ma:.oR 3li9U any Dresser, Colonial design. OCO flftor315 hand 3XiUU some Coloni al Dresser in mahog any, one of Berkey & Gay's finest pieces. THIS MOO FI.VE MAHOGANY DRESS- 7Q ER NOW PRICED AT. I O Odd Chiffoniers $24,50 $25.00 $33.50 $32.50 $32.50 $38 50 $55.00 $92.50 for a $38.00 Mahogany Chif fonier. for a $46.00 Chiffonier of quarter sawed golden oak. for a $50.00 Mahogany, Chif fonier. for a $42.00 Mahogany Chif fonier. for a $65.00 Walnut Chif fonier. for a $50.00 Walnut Chif fonier. for an $80.00 Mahogany Chif fonier. for a $160.00 Walnut Chiffonier a large piece of Colonial design. In Bedsteads $15 00 b d. 25' F u 11 Slze Mhog.ny tOO 0( tor a $65.00 Walnut Bed with can OuJiUll panels, three-quarter size. $39 75 Bda 52'60 Full-Slze Mahogany tl9R flfl or ft 160 Mahogany Bed, Sheraton inlaid design. In Bedroom Suites for a $183.50 Bedroom Suite of three pieces Dresser. Chiffonier. Dressing Table. In mahogany: Colonial, for two pieces mahogany Dresser and Chiffonier regular price $330. for a $286 Mahogany Bedroom Suite of three pieces Bed, Chiffonier, Dressing Table. Four - post Colonial design. for a $360 Mahogany Bedroom Suite of three pieces Dresser, Dressing Table and Cheval Mirror, for a $510 Massive Colonial Bedroom Suite of three pieces Bed. Dresser and Chiffonier; In mahogany. $138.50 $170.00 $197.50 $288.00 $395.00 In Cheval Mirrors and Dressing Tables $17.50 $30.00 $37.50 $48.00 $55.00 $88.00 for a $25 Cheval Mirror in ivory enamel finish. for a $42.60 Cheval Mirror in ivory enamel finish. for a $55 Mahogany Dressing Table. for a $70 Fine Dressing Table in ivory enamel finish, with triple mirror. Made by Berkey & Gay. for a $75 Mahogany Dressing Table, Colonial. for a $110 Mahogany Dressing Table, Sheraton, inlaid design. THIS IISS.no MAHOGANY BUFFET NOW PRICED AT $65 In Various Odd- Pieces for the Dining-Room for a $30 China Cab inet in Ei lish finish I 0 7C Olilil J inet in Early Eng' O0 fin for a $40 China Cab inet In fumed oak. $29.00 for a $68 China Cab inet in golden oak. 000 Cn for a $50 China Cab $Ul.9U inet in. fumed oak. ' $45.00 $67.50 $77.50 $12.50 $17.50 for a $65 China Cab inet in fumed oak. for a $150 China Cabinet In old oak. f o r a $180 China Cabinet in old oak. for a $25 Serving Table in early Eng lish finish, for a $30 Serving Table in mahogany. Of! nfl fr a 38 Serving v&uivw Table In mahogany. $25.00 $29.50 $42.50 $49.50 for a $35 Serving: Table In old oak. for a 950 Serving Table in mahogany, for a $75 Serving1 Table In Circassian walnut. for a $85 Serving Table in mahogany. Fifth and Stark J. G.Mack&Co. Fifth and Stark small part of the vote given' President Taft in the April election, figuring that this same proportion will prevail among those voters who failed to take oart in the primary election Dut win vote in November. I am fully satisfied Roosevelt will have a clear majority ot the total vote. Reports from Bull Moose leaders throughout the state are generally of the most encouraging nature. rom only two counties have we received discouraging reports. We rind tnat Roosevelt is strong, especially with the farmers. In the cities and. among business men, however, he will not run so well. But we can only feel op timistic over the outlook." Promptly at 11:30 o'clock, with a score of people waiting in the recep tion line to meet him, Roosevelt re tired to his room and enjoyed a short sleep before departing at noon for the Multnomah Hotel. COIXJXKIi THANKS POHCE Rodsevelt Shows Appreciation of Protection AffordJed Him. Colonel RooBevelt showed keen ap preciatlon of the manner in which Cap tain Moore and the entire police force handled the crowds and afforded him protection on the streets of the city yesterday. Before leaving for La Grande, he shook hands with Captain Moore, Sergeant Crate, commanding the mounted squad, and with each mounted State Chairman of Bull Moose Party - Assures Roosevelt He Will ; Win in Oregon. Following a conference of two hours in which the conditions throughout the state were discussed, after breakfast at the Oregon Hotel yesterday morning, the county committeemen of the Pro gressive party from many counties of he state were escorted by National Committeeman Coe and George 'Arthur Brown, chairman of the state organi zation, to the rooms occupied by Colo nel Roosevelt, where the leader greeted each member with a hearty handshake. Many citizens fell in line behind the committeemen and took part in the general handshaking, which did not last to exceed half an hour. In that length of time Roosevelt met between 250 and 300 people. This was the ex tent of the general reception an nounced for the hotel at 11 o'clock. Mr. Brown, as state chairman of the new party, assured Roosevelt that he would carry Oregon in November. This prediction, explained Mr. Brown, was based on the vote cast in the primary election and the fact that Roosevelt would gain largely from the La Fol- lette strength as shown- in that elec tion. - "Roosevelt is assured of a safe ma jority in this state' said Mr. Brown. I base this prediction on reports we have received from nearly every coun ty in the state. The ex-President will receive the full vote given him in the primary election and in November will poll 70 per cent of the primary vote received by La Follette and also a BLEEDING eczema. With Eczema. Watery Blisters. - Disfigured and Sore. Could Not Put Them in Water, Cuticura Soap and Ointment Cured. St. Clair, Mo. "My trouble began about fifteen years ago. It waa what some claimed The form the disease worked under was a breaking out with watery blisters on zny hands which would- then dry and scale, and then would follow the trouble of cracking and bleeding, also itching and hurting. My hands were disfigured at the time, and sore. The trouble waa very annoying, and disturbed my sleep. This last February it was ever so much worse than before. I did not do all my work on account of the oondiUon1 of my hands. I could not put them in water without mak ing them worse. I tried a lot of home remedies, also salves and liniments that claimed to be a cure for the trouble, but I did not obtain a cure. "At last I saw the advertisement for Cuticura Soap and Ointment. I sent for a sample. I thought they would cure, so I sent for a fifty-cent box of Cuticura Ointment and soma Cuticura Soap, A doctor advised me to keep ahead with the Cuticura Soap and Ointment and they cured me completely. No trace of the trouble remains." (Signed) Mrs. Mary Taylor. Mar. 29. 1912. Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment are sold throughout the world. Liberal sample of each mailed free, with 33-p. Skin Book. Ad dress postnard "Cuticura, Dept-T. Boston." a-Tendecf&oad men should use Cuticura j Soap Shaving Stick, aec Sample tree.. " j man accompanying him to the depot and thanked the department for its effi cient work of the day. He wanted each member of the force to receive his thanks. -The police provided protection only on the streets, as Secret Service Agent Connell, Deputy Sheriff Hunter and Colonel Cecil Lyon, of Texas, acted as his personal bodyguard at the hotel and other places where he appeared. Mr. Connell was a guard to the Colonel when he was President. The Colonel also had a hearty hand shake and word of thanks for each member of the guard of honor from Qcout Young Camp, Spanish War Vet erans. They called upon him at his suite in the ' Oregon and also accom panied him to the depot, as well as escorting him about the city throughout the day. A remarkable record of longevity Is to be found In some of the rural parishes of France. In the village of St. Thomas de la FUche there have been only 14 parish priests In 300 years, the 14th being still In possession. The parish of St. Germain du Val. In Paris, has had only three pas tors In 100 years, while that of Glvry en Arironne has had but Ave In 130 years. YOUR EMPLOYE If he drinks, have a talk with him. Tell him to take three daya off and undergo the treatment that will make a man of him and give him Self-Mas-tery once more. You knew he must quit drink or you will have to dis charge him, and that is a hard thing for you both. Get a copy of our "Three Days,9 a business man's true story. It Is free. Let us prove to you that the DRINK HABIT can be overcome by the NEAL 3-DAY TREATMENT, No hypodermics used. Results absolutely certain. Call upon, address or phone The Neat Institute, 354 Hall St., Portland, Or. I'hoae Marshall 2400. Select Your Fall Suit Today Chesterfield Clothes -for Fall are handsome in fabric and model. You will find it a pleasure to select your suit here, where gar ments of the better class only are shownv Priced S20 to $SO R M GRAY 273-275 Morrison at Fourth t