lg 4 THE MORNING OREGONIAN. WEDNESDAY- APRIL 9, 1913. .
LOMBARD OPPOSES
Yesj,la,am,Cottolene
PROMINENT PORTLAND PIONEER WHO DIED TUESDAY.
(MraBrown i
A Sensible
Woman)
Cheaper
Republican Candiate for Mayor
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Points Out Defects as
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"MAYOR WOULD BE CZAR"
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PROPOSED CHARTER
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Commission Form Draft Docs Away
With Direct Primary and Gives
X Adequate Substitute, He
Say Support Refused.
WHY UAX LOMBARD WILL NOT
- ft-l'FFOKT PROPOSED CHARTER.
He wn tt clvra th Mayor des
potic powrra. which ha himsrlt
woaM not care to poetess, and whtrh
he thinks no man In Portland Is
blr enonjrh to use without abup.
He declare the Mayor can abso
ltireir control legislation hy manip
ulating appointment and that he
can force the com miss Inner a d
Ms bidding or moke them mere
c Jerks, a the proposed charter
i:ive him authority to ajwign them
i htr work.
He mvs it also abolishes the di
rer t primary without substituting
anything as rood or better and he
denounces the proposed pre fere n 1 1 a 1
rttlng syrem as fatally defective
and designed to make it easy fur
machine politicians to win.
Mr. Lombard also says that, tn ef
fect. It abolthea civil serrlre. mhfrh
he conJldcra rery vital to good gor-eroment.
D-iarina: that the proposed commis
sion charter lias fatal defect and that
tt la not jrolng to a:iv good (rovern
menl. In that It do away with the
dtrvi primary and substitute? there-
ffr nothing; that will produce majority
T representation and that it will make
th Mayor a nar, day Lombard. Re
publican candidate for Mavor. yester
day announced that h cannot con
"ctentlounly support It.
While he ay there may be minor
defects which. If not coupled with the
two chief and what lie term fatal
on en. would not be worth calling; at
tention to, he bancs his refusal to rec
ommend and support -the proposed
commlwlon charter on the ground of
Ita destruction of the direct primary
law In city elections and mibatltution
of the preferential voting; system and
on the vast powers which he points
out It rives to th Mayor.
Mr. lomhard asserts that the only
other charter which contains the vot
ing; system proposed In the charter to
be voted on here May 3 is tn Pueblo,
Colo., and thnt the I'ueblo charter has
been condemned by the best commis
sion charter experts, who declare that
Its preferential balloting; system Is
fatal to majority rule and elects ma
chine men every time.
RftMU banned It.
That he haa tested the preferential
voting; system proposed in the commis
sion charter that Is now before the
voters of Portland and has found that,
while a majority of the voters may
want a certain candidate, that one
whom they do not want la able to be
fleeted. Is asserted.
Summed up. Mr. Lombard's decision,
reached yesterday, that he cannot
conscientiously, support the proposed
charter and that he will not recom
mend It to the public. Is based on the
two features vast powers granted to
the Mayor and abolition of the direct
primary and failure to substitute for
it anything; that will rive majority
rule.
He declares that, under the pro
visions of the proposed charter, the
Mayor Is an absolute czar: that he Is
granted authority not only to assign
the four commissioners who are to
erve with him, but to name their du
ties, to transfer them. If he chooses,
without Riving; any reason, and that
he can, if he sees fit. make of any of
the commissioners a mere figurehead.
As an example of what the Mayor
could do under the proposed charter,
Mr. Lombard cites the case of the Com
missioner of Public Safety, who nom
inally would have chance of the police
and fire departments. If that commis
sioner should refuse to do the bidding
of the Mayor, says Mr. Lombard, the
Mayor, under the proposed charter,
could so change the department's work
that he could make the commissioner
Ko out and take charge of the dog
pound and do nothing else. While he
says this Is showing the extreme use
of the power to be vested In the May
or, nevertheless, he declares. It Is pos
sible and should not. In Ms opinion, be
granted to any man.
Alleged Defects) Pol a tew Oat.
"After having spent three weeks
studying the proposed charter," said
Mr. Lombard yesterday. I must say
to the public that I cannot conscien
tiously support It. I cannot recommend
It to the voters of this city as an In
strument which they should adopt as
their governing document. It has two
fatal defects it vests tn the Mayor
powers that make him the absolute
dictator of the city and it abolishes
the direct primary In city elections
without giving any suitable substitute
therefor. The plan of preferential vot
ing, contained In the proposed charter.
Is, so far as I can ascertain, an experi
ment and Is In vogue only In Pueblo, I
and one of the best experts In the
country on commission government
ys It Is fatally defective as to glv-
Ing true representative majority rule. '
"Now. I favor commission govern- ,
merit. I stood for that form two years
ago and I stand for it today, but 1
will nt go before the people of Port
land, with whom I have always been
fair, and te'.l them that I favor a char,
ter which makes of the Mayor a posi
tive cxar or dictator and which does
ay with the direct primary and does
not give anything In return for it. I
will not recommend this proposed
charter because tt is not going to give
good government: X am a candidate for
Ma) or, but 1 will not proceed to urge
people to vote for such a charter as
this. It may be that It will hurt my
chances for becoming Mayor, but I pro
pose to let the people know what this
charter will do. If It Is adopted and of.
fleers are elected under its provisions.
Flam re head a Are Feared.
"Autocratic an.! absolute powers are
vested in the Mayor under the pro
visions of this proposed charter. The
commissioners to be elected supposed
ly to work with the Mayor are ruing
to be nothing more than figureheads.
If the Mayor elected sea fit to maki
them so, unless they do his bidding.
Personally, if elected Mayor. I do not
want such power as this and. as a clt
lien and one Interested in the city's
future, I will not vote for any one else
l aving that power. The feature of
the proposed charter to which I ape
i ially object In connection with the
powers of the. Mayor Is that he is
granted authority not only to assigu
the commissioners to the various de
partments, but he is also vested with
full and undeniable authority to
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change the nam of the departments at
will; to distribute the. work to the de
partment at his own discretion and
l( h sees fit to. he can force all of
the commissioners to do his bidding;
or make them nonentities, by assigning
to his own department all of their
work, except some such thins as
watrhlnz over the doc Dound. Posi
tively, the charter gives him thifc
power. 1 challenge anyone to aeny :i.
will debate the question with anyone
at any time.
Mv position two years afro, as puD-
lished at the time. und my position
now Is that we should have commission
aovernment. but I do not consider my
self a bis; enough man to be czar or
Portland, and I do not believe tnere
Is a man in Portland who Is big enough
to handle the vast powers grunted the
Mayor In this proposed charter witn
out bringing about abuses. I would not
ask the people to give me such powers,
and I certainly shall not ask them to
vote for this charter for tnia reason
and the further reason that it destroys
the direct primary.
Primary Feature Opposed.
'Why. the Mayor, under this proposed
charter, could name every appointee
City Attorney. Municipal Judge. Treas
urer, simply by forcing his terms on
the commissioners before assigning
them to departments. In the same
manner, he could dictate legislation.
He could tell the commissioners thut
he did or did not want a certain law
passed. If they sought to gainsay him
or to balk him, he could, without giv
ing any reason, take all of their powers
away from them and make of them the.
merest of figureheads. It is but rea
sonable to suppose that In this manner
the Mayor could compel the commis
sion to do as he should see tit. I say
that a charter like that Is not a good
charter und shall not recommend It.
I also strongly oppose the abolition
f the direct primary, without substi
tuting therefor something that will be
as good or better. This charter pro
poses to Install what is termea a
preferential balloting system, and it
has been claimed for. It that It will
result In giving the people majority
rule. I have tested this plan and 1
can show where a man can be elected,
despite the fact that the people do not
want him. simply by voting for him
and making no second choice vote at
all. In this manner, a machine slate
could be put through In spite of the
wishes of the voters, and i snau noi
recommend such, a system as this. It
s experimental and radical ana nor
necessary to the commission charter.
It should never have been put in.
Seco.d i'bolrea Hit.
"The method of using second choices
practically gives each voter two votes,
while the result of the counting of
this second vote may be to defeat the
voter's first choice: so when the third
choice votes are added to the first and
second choices, the counting of a voter's
htrd choice may help to defeat his nrst.
f. recognizing this, the voters largely
refrain from marking any but first
choices, then the basis of the preferen-
ial vote is gone.
-Another thins about this charter is
that It automatically abolishes all
boards and commissions, save the civil
service commission, at the end of six
months after taking effect of the char
ter. However. It gives the commission
power to revive these commissions and
to create more, if the commission deems
wise. Now. in this manner. I see where
a Mayor and commission could build
up a machine here In Portland mat
would simply dictate the policies of the
whole city: It could perpetuate Itself
and no one could overthrow It. The
Mayor, who names the civil service
commission, could even get control 01
that body by naming his friends on it.
If he did not favor civil service, any
one can see what he could do to civil
service In this manner.
Promlae la Kxteaded.
"T believe that, under the provisions
of this proposed charter, the Mayor is
supreme and a dictator, ana it is un
necessary -to spend 20.000 a year for
the four commissioners, who become
mere clerks without power, if the Mayor
wishes to exercise hla full authority on
an occasion. Furthermore. It Is not
right that the people of this city snouia
be compelled to vote upon a matter of
such vital Importance and have scarcely
four weeks In which to study trie pro
posed draft. Thousands of people have
not vet Tecelved their copy of the offi
cial charter, although the election Is
to take place May J. I will say to the
people of Portland that I will. If elected
Mavor. Immediately appoint a commis
sion to draft a good commission char
ter, not Oiled with Jokers and not an
experimental one. and will give them
the opportunity of voting upon It as
toon as possible. I will not wait until
10 dava before my term expires to pro
vide them a charter to vote on and
then set out one like we now nave De
fore It."
Mr. Lombard, two years ago. pro
posed a commission charter which had
five departments, each departments
work being specifically set forth, so
that the Mayor could not change It.
This Is the kind of a charter which he
now favors. He declares It is fatal to
any charter to leave so much power to
the Mayor as this one proposes.
Toledo to Have Creamery.
rPEHALIS. Wash- April 8. (Spe-
i i i.-.iw.t JunimiL a uloneer
creamery man of Toledo, is to build a
modern creamery at once. ne win
make cheese as well as butter at his
plant. He has had 30 years experi
ence In the bustne
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JAMES STEEL DEAD
Paralysis Takes Oregon Pio
neer of Portland.
BANKING EXPERIENCE WIDE
Public Offices Held by Prominent
Resident Only Those of State
Bank Kxamlner and School I1
rector Fnneral 'Tomorrow.
James Steel, an Oreson pioneer, aged
7S years, died yesterday afternoon at
the residence of his daughter, Mrs.
James F- Ewlng. 610 Spring street, af
ter a severe Illness of one month, due
directly to a stroke of paralysis which
he suffered in 1911. The funeral prob
ably will be held from the Flcst Con
gregational Church tomorrow after
noon.
Mr. Steel was born at Woodsfleld.
Ohio, and lived there 21 years, when
be moved to Dubuque, Iowa, where he
remained six years, coming - to Port
land across the plains tn 1862, where
he has resided continuously ever since.
His first position was clerk in K.
Plttock's grocery store. Two years later
he straightened out the books of the
Oregon City Woolen Mills and In 1866,
when the First National Bank was or
ganized, he was chosen cashier, which
bank he was with for 16 years.
He then was made president of the
Willamette Savings Bank, which he
helped organize, and two years later,
when this bank consolidated with the
Merchants' National Bank, he was
chosen president, which position he re
signed in 1890.
He was a pioneer electric street rail
way builder und built the line to Ore
gon City. He was identified with
various other business enterprises, in
cluding the Oregon Pottery Company,
organized in 1884, and the Klamath
River Lumber & Improvement Com
pany.
Mr. Steel was appointed State Bank
Examiner in 1907, which office he held
for three years. His only other pub
lic onice was that of School Director.
In religious circles Mr. Steel was
well known. He was a charter mem
ber of the Young Men's Christian As
sociation and was deacon emeritus of
the First Coneregatlonal Church. He
had been Sunday school superintendent.
treasurer and trustee.
He was married in 1866 to Miss Marv
Ladd. who died in 1910. Four children,
J. Marshall Steel, of Berkeley. Cal.;
Mrs. 11. M. Walthew, of lianford.
Wash.; Mrs. C. E. Warrens and Mrs.
James F. Ewing, of Portland, survive.
DUTY PAYMENTS HERE AIM
Credit for Parcel Post Collections
Asked of Department.
The Portland Chamber of Commerce
wants all duties on parcel post pack
ages delivered in Portland paid In this
city. At the present time mail of this
character containing dutiable goods in
tended for Oregon points Is opened In
Seattle and duties assessed. The col
lection Is then made In Portland and
forwarded to Seattle.
To obviate this condition and give
Portland credit as a port of entry for
dutiable goods, the Chamber of Com
merce yesterday addressed a letter to
Acting Postmaster Williamson calling
attention to the present situation and
requesting that a decision of the Treas
ury Department made December 12 last
be enforced here. This decision pro
vides that "parcel post packages and
unsealed packages In the postal union
mails addressed for delivery in the va
rious states, will hereafter be for
warded from the exchange offices of
receipt to the offices Indicated In the
list for examination and assessment
of duty by the customs officers at the
ports indicated. In the list Portland is
one of the ports mentioned.
MAN BEGS F0R SENTENCE
Nothing Less Than Rock pile 'Will
Satisfy Man on Long Spree.
After trying for nearly a month to
become sober after a St. Patrick's day
celebration spree, P. F. Seaman, 42
years old. walked to the police station
last night and begged Patrolman
Schlrmer to lock him up on a charge
of drunkenness.
To the policeman's statement that be
might be locked up for the night to
recover and be released In the morning.
Seaman refused and said he wanted 90
days on the rockplle at least.
Seaman said that he started out to
celebrate St. Patrick's day In the good.
old-fashioned manner, and had not been
sober since. He will appear in Judge
T&xwell'a court this morning.
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TRAVEL TIDE RISES
Big Movement to West This
Summer Is Predicted.
FESTIVAL INFLUENCE FELT
F. V. Graham, Industrial and Im
migration Agent of Great -ortn-ern
Kail-nay, Cites N'eed of
Eastern Exhibit.
F. W. Graham. Western industrial
a i i.r.tin aeent for the Great
Northern Railway Company, predicts
an unusual movement of tourists no...
the Atlantic Coast cities to the Pacific
Northwest in the coming Summer.
Mr. Graham has Just come from New
York, where he attended the travel
show." which was held there for the
purpose of Interesting people in the
See-American-First" movement. Ex
hibits by all of the great railroad com
panies were displayed, setting forth the
advantages of the Western trip for
tourists, and the attendance was more
than 100,000. . , ...
"They were people of the class that
usually selects the Bermuda Islands or
Europe as the place for their Sum
mer trips." he said. "But nterest
manifested in the scenic offerings of
the Northwest was intense, and count
less indications have been received
that a great proportion of this former
European travel will come Westward
this year.
"In the department of the company
I represent we laid emphasis upon the
work of the Pacific Coast Festivals
Association and the great chain of
Summer festivals that will be
in the Northwest, and I believe that
this will prove to be one of the im
portant features that will attract them
he"The greatness of the Pacific North
west as a Summer tourist "sort ls
only In its beginning. I believe that
when the Panama Canal is opened one
of the most popular tourist routes in
the world will be from New York to
the Pacific Northwest by way of the
canal, with the many scenic attrac
tions of Oregon, Washington, Idaho and
Montana as the tourists' principal ob
Jcctlvc" Mr. Graham was in consultation with
Some Sensible Advice
On Womanly Beauty
(From Martyn's Drug Journal.)
Healthy balr adds much to womanly
beauty. It is such an easy matter to
have a glorious mass of lovely hair
that the dull, "stringy" kind is inexcusable-
A canthrox shampoo (which
can be mixed at home and costs very
little at any druggist's) removes every
particle of dust, dandruff and excess
oil and, after rinsing, the hair dries
Quickly. It makes the head feel good
and leaves the hair soft, fluffy and
easv to do up. . . ...
Keep the skin clear, velvety and at
tractive and remove tan and freckles
by dally applying a lotion easily pre
pared at home by stirring two tea
spoonfuls of glycerine into one-half
pint witch hazel (or hot water), then
adding four ounces spurmax. which
costa little at any druggist's. This
lotion which ls used instead of face
powder seems part of the skin which
It tones to a beautiful natural color
while overcoming the oily, shiny ap
pearance of the face, so often due to
perspiration. Adv.
, ordering
kgz uuirer, iara or coiton-ou imitations
of Cottolene included"
Cottolene was the first successful cotton-oil
shortening. It has "made good" for over 20
years, and is still the best.
The source of Cottolene is pure; it is made in a cleanly,
wholesome manner; it makes food that is rich but does
not disturb the digestion.
is packed in patent, air-tight, tin pails. It is always pure
and sweet, and protected from dirt, dust and store oaors
Cottolene is always uniform. Use it right and you
will always have the same results the best
Cottolene is far superior to lard, because lard is made
from hog fat, and cannot compare with Cottolene in
wholesomeness and purity. Lara is an animal product;
Cottolene is vegetable.
Cottolene is even better than butter for shortening and
frying, and costs no more than lard. ,
Cottolene is richer than butter or lard; therefore, you
should use one-third less.
Made
C. C. Chapman, of the promotion bu
reau of the Commercial Club, yester
day afternoon concerning the policy of
'the bureau with reference to Oregon
exhibits in Eastern land shows.
Mr. Graham recommended that Ore
gon send a good exhibit to the Chicago
Land Show and also to the shows which
may be held in cities further East, un
der the auspices of the Northwestern
Development League, provided these
shows are decided upon. He also rec
ommended" that Oregon make an ex
hibit at the Dry Farming Congress in
Oklahoma this year, and said that the
Northern Pacific Company will pledge
$250 toward the expense of such an ex
hibit. "Oregon wants to attract farming
people," he said, "and the people of
Oklahoma are of exactly the class that
this state is seeking.
"Land prices are hish in Oklahoma,
and if they can be offered attractions
that will bring them to Oregon, either
to purchase farms or take up home
steads, it will mean much toward fur
thering the movement to settle the soil
in this state."
Union Has Hnmane Society.
UNION, Or., April 8. (Special.) At
a meeting of citizens Thursday a hu
Spring
MILLINERY
Number
This Bombr 9! earns Ilk a great shop window
Ml in th kioart of Parish a window in wnick
ack vkotabl desisjnar has placed his most suc
cessful creations a window in which yon can
m all that is newest, best and most correct.
NOW O N.SALE
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When you order Cottolene you are
the best cooking fat
only by THE N. K. FAIRBANK
mane society was organized, with the
following officers: President. E. W.
Seavert; vice-president, Mrs. S. A. Pur
sell: secretary. Mrs. E. G. Cameron:
treasurer, W .B. Gassett. Constitution
and by-laws were adopted and steps
taken to maintain an active organiza
tion. CHAMBER WIRES PROTEST
Strenuous Campaign to Be Waged In
Case or West Umatilla Project.
Telegrams protesting against the at
titude of Secretary of the Interior
Lane regarding the West Umatilla ir
rigation project were dispatched from
the Portland Chamber of Commerce
yesterday and a strenuous campaign
will be begun to persuade him to
abandon his position of regarding the
project as a new issue and thus mak
ing ineffective the work of the past
four years, through which the project
had been brought to a condition where
its beginning was thought to be as
sured. J. N. Teal, chairman of the State
Conservation Commission, will also
dispatch a letter to the Secretary of
It takes five
whiskies to
Noble each
itself. But it takes blend
ing and re-ageing to bring
out the best in each to
"round-out' ' the flavor.
Why punish yourself with rough, high-proof, strong
whiskey when you can get Cyrus Noble everywhere?
W. J. Van Schuyver & Co., General Agents, Portland.
count of its peculiar resolvent and alterative properties it is the
safest and best spring medicine for old or young. A short treat
ment at home corrects a long list of ills that beset us in the
spring, such as biliousness, sour stomach, constipation, sallow
ness, and aggravating eruptions of the skin. At your druggists .
DS. WK. PrTTf DEB CO, Fertlaad. OregoB
on the mar-
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COMPANY
the Interior, urging that the West
Umatilla project be not abandoned,
since it is regarded as the most prom
ising of all the projects which are be
ing developed in either Oregon or
Washington.
Governor West has' also been ad
dressed by those in Oregon who have
been most active in the efforts to se
cure the carrying out of the Umatilla
project, and he also will probably add
his voice to the series of pleas which
are to be launched upon the Secretary
of the Interior from Individuals, offi
cials and commercial organizations of
Oregon in behalf of the project.
Mount Pleasant Sends Spuds.
MOUNT PLEASANT. Wash., April 8.
(Special.) Residents of this locality
have shipped a car of potatoes (410
sacks) to Columbus, O., to aid in re
lieving the flood victims. The railroad
furnished the car and the people
donated the potatoes. This Is the
first car to be loaded on the new spur
which was completed last Thursday.
There are 60 to 70 families tributary
to this town and the farms are well
kept and the soil productive. Potatoes
and onions are yielding as high as 200
bushels an acre
different aged
make -Cyrus
one good in
If, during the transition from
winter to spring, you experi
ence a lack of energy, seem
tired, despondent, have back
ache or headache, with broken
unrefreshing sleep, your sys
tem needs renovating. The in
activity of winter life and con
sequent closing of the pores
leaves an unwholesome accu
mulation of impurities in the
system. Your blood needs pur
ifying. Try Dr. Wm. Pfunder's
Oreeon Blood Purifier. On ac
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