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TTTE SrOTCNTNTJ OREGOTTrAJT, TTTESDAT, NOVEMBER 3, 1914. " 9 SURE VICTORY SEEN BY ALL IN RAGE Candidates Are Certain . Success and Estimate Plurality at Count. of BOOTH CAMP IS JUBILANT C B. Moores Decries -Claims of Foes and Says They Are Absent In Places Where Money Is to j Be Found on Outcome. On the eve of the election campaign Managers, state and county chairmen and the candidates alike were confi dent of success. The usual glowing reports of sweeping victories emanated last night from every political head quarters in the state. Republicans. Democrats. Progress ives and even the Prohibitionists and Socialists were confident. Following are some of the predictions made last night by the various cam paign managers and candidates: Booth Aaaured of Election. C. B. Moores. Republican state chair man The "estimates" emanating from the Hanley and Chamberlain headquar- ters are so manifestly absurd as to throw discredit. In a way, on all esti mates from whatever source they come. The remarkable drift, however, towards Booth during the past two weeks has been apparent to everyone. It Is in the atmosphere, everywhere, and the conviction that he is certain of elec tion is reflected In the poolrooms, where Booth money is abundant. From every district in the state assurances have come into headquarters that Booth is forging to the front and the enthusiasm of workers everywhere is apparent. "With a Republican majority f about 110,000, according to the com - pleted registration lists and with Han- ley cutting far more deeply into Chara- berlain than into Booth, there comes the news from every section that while there Is here and there some deflection to Hanley and Chamberlain, largely on the liquor question, there is nothing to ' indicate the possibility of reaching the enormous Republican lead, and thou sands of voters are coming to Booth from the other parties. It is apparent lv the policy of the Progressive and Democratic parties to claim everything for the moral effect of it. Instead of designating the counties they are to carry, they should simply claim all the counties. It would save Bpace. These gentlemen are not In evidence, how ever, around the poolrooms taking any of the Booth money. This money is now talklnsr in tones louder than the com blned chorus of all the spellbinders and it is calling especially for Bert iu. Haney and O. C. Leiter. Idle boasts count for nothing. Hanley has made enormous Inroads into Chamberlain's ' strength, but he will not carry a single county in the state. The majority for Dr. Wlthycombe will exceed that ever before given for a candidate lor uov ' ernor in the State of Oregon. Mc- Arthur's friends declare that he is aure winner in this district. Chamberlain Seea Success. Bert E. Haney. Democratic state chairman Chamberlain will carry Multnomah, Baker, Union, Umatilla, Harney. Malheur. Wasco, Crook, Curry, Josephine, Lincoln, Benton, Grant, Lake, Klamath. Jackson. Douglas. Linn, Clat bod. Yamhill. Polk. Tillamook and Clackamas counties. It is certain that Senator Chamberlain will carry all the above-named counties, and it is prob able that he will carry several of the others, but in them the race may be more closely contested. Dr. C. J. Smith will be elected Governor by a tremen dous majority. In the Third Congres- - clonal District I believe Mr. Flegel will win by more than 6000 plurality. Clarke Leiter, manager for William Hanley. Progressive candidate for United States Senator. My previous predictions that Mr. Hanley will win by approximately 13,000 votes over Sen ator Chamberlain remains unchanged. Mr. Hanley is strong in Eastern, Cen tral and Southern Oregon, as well as in the .Willamette Valley and Multno mah county, we nave made a good clean campaign and are confident that we will be successful. C N. McArthur, "Republican candidate for Congress in Third District. I ex pect to win by approximately 10,000 votes over Mr. Flegel. I believe A. W. Lafferty will be third in the race. I expect to carry 300 of the 326 precincts in the county. Moreover, I believe Multnomah County will return a ma jority for the whole" Republican ticket. A. F. Flegel, Democratic candidate for Congress. My canvass shows that I will win by from 5000 to 10,000 votes. I have recelveda whole lot of en couragement In the last 10 days and am confident that I'll win. I have tried to conduct a clean campaign. I don't know whether Mr. McArthur or Mr. Lafferty will take second place. I believe It will be a close fight between them. A. W. Lafferty, Independent candi date for Congress. Pre-election state. ments usually are so extravagant that they have no real value. But I pro pose to be conservative. Therefore 1 place my probable plurality at 10,000. 1 had a plurality of 6000 the last time and have a lot of strength this time that was not evident then. Drjn See Victory. Victory for the drys of from 10,000 to 15.000 majority was prophesied last night by J. E. Wheeler, chairman of tho Committee of One Hundred. "We have made as fair and as clean a fight as we know how," said Mr. Wheeler. "We have kept the contest to the one real Issue, which is: Do the people of Oregon want the saloon or do they notT "There can be no side issues, such as personal liberty, etc "We have done so 'muckraking" and have not entered into personalities. "At the same time I should like to congratulate our leading opponent, A. M. Eppstein, for having carried on a Institutions, hospitals, penal institu tions social service workers, the keen politicians and the progressive mak azines, periodicals and reviews must go down; and this Is the condition of the liquor traffic in 1914." A. M. Eppstein, manager of the Ore gon Brewers' Association, was Jubi lant yesterday over the outlook for an overwhelming "wet" vote in Oregon. "We will retain the local option and home rule laws of the state and de feat statewide prohibition by 30,000 majority or more," declared Mr. Epp stein. "I have reports from practically every precinct of every county of the state and the same etory of a sweep ing defeat of the proposed abortive prohibition amendment is told uni formly In these estimates. -Lead la State Reported. . "We will come up to Multnomah County with a good round majority and will carry this county by 20,000 or better. The big surprise, according to our estimates, will be in the outside counties, where the 'drys' look for their greatest strength. Marshfield's pri mary vote Saturday, In - which the 'wets' swept the field, is only a fore runner of the victory today. NATIONAL. SECRETARY OF CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH TO SPEAK. HERE. 3 -SWiW- ' 'Smrt i Rev. Huber C. Herring, D. D. The . Congregationalists of Portland and vicinity will have the opportunity of hearing their National leader, the Rev. Huber C. Herring, D. D., on Friday evening, November 6, at the First Congregational Church, Park and Madison streets. Dr. Herring comes as the secretary of the National Council, a new office that was authorized at the last National Council. This council recommended certain measures looking toward a closer federation of the activi ties of the denomination, and this secretary is the exponent of . these measures. Dr. Herring was in attendance at the late State Conference of Congregationalists at Forest Grove. His addresses during the session' were among the most interesting features. "I wish to compliment all forces fighting against the prohibition amend ment on the clean campaign that has been made. No mud-slinging has been indulged in by them and the voter has had a full chance to hear our side of this important issue. For a campaign in which harsh feeling is bound to be engendered, I honestly can say I have never seen a cleaner, out-in-the-open fight. Passions in some Instances may have run too high, but such things are to be expected in any campaign. These feelings will disappear quickly after election, when I firmly expect the de feated 'drys' to accept the verdict as the best Judgment of the majority of their brothers and sisters of the state. This Woman's Ballot. Man Instructs Her to Skim Through Names Hurriedly and Vote MNoM on "All Those Things at the Bottom." H y Oregon ufferin: Financially! 'An Easterner, who is the source of mil lions which might be at tracted this way, and whose opinion represents the senti ment of outside capital, says: No More Loans in Oregon Until Oregonians Quit Tinkering With . Their Tax Laws The Possibility of Single Tax Being Enacted Makes Me Regret That I Ever Invested a Dollar in Oregon Here's His Letter a. Verbatim. A. ton,-0- 41 Pet IT, ear s fundi Mi 0re son. Every Word Is Full of Frightful Meaning to Every Voter. Ore a . " So as Q3 aaic. ever in Binei eir oil ha 8 I 0r ar in Son sad- Ye 'fitly eSon, your3t e E was tall and well dressed and knew exactly what he was about. especially in politics, a typical good citizen and present-day lawmaker. She was evidently his wife, by all signs of his leading the way for her. She had a woman friend tagging along, bent, like herself, on gaining political information from the street spielers, who were all in full action and howling differently. She was not becoming sufficiently enlightened, so she insisted to him: "I must have one of those sample ballots so I can read over things and make up my mind before I go to vote." He But I told you before. Tou don t need to bother your head. Tou don't need any sample ballot. Men don't. She Then how do they make up their minds about those measures? He I tell you they don't have to make up their minds! All that men have to do Is just to go and vote. They look through the top of the ballot. where the men's names are and see how many they have to vote for and then mark them In a hurry. Then they just mark "No" after all those things at the bottom of the ballot and they're done. And you don't need to do any differently from that now. D'you hear me? Just go ahead and vote, and don't bother your head! EMPRESS HAS FINE BILL "MAG HAGERTY'S FATHER" KEEPS 'AUDIENCE CONVULSED. PLAYGROUND IS OPPOSED Mr. Bigelow, However, May Argue for VTse by Ladd School Tomorrow. Whether or not the children of Ladd school will be permitted to use part of the plaza blocks as playgrounds will be determined by the City Commis Ion at its regular meeting tomorrow. Commissioner Brewster, who heads the Park Bureau, has recommended to the Council that the use of the property be not permitted. Commissioner Bige- low, it is, said, will take the opposite stand. Commissioner. Brewster says the cleaner campaign and a straighter one I park blocks are for the use of the gen- than the saloon interests oi Oregon I eral public and should not be fenced ever have waged before. I oft for a school playground. He says With reports at hand tonight from I there is an ordinance in effect giving every county in Oregon I believe we I the school authorities the right to rope shall carry the state handsomely, lor I on streets In front of schools. This, the saloon interests themselves admit I he says, offers a solution of the school Oregon dry has won many supporters I playground problem confronting the Here's Your Chance to Do Your Part in Bringing Back Prosperity. VOte 1W emu. oo i and KILL SINGLE TAX! Eastern financial centers are watching Oregon today. If single tax wins All Future Investments Will Be Withheld From Oregon and What Money Is Already Here Will Be Withdrawn! TTiis is nn time for experiments. Don't take chances on having all our building and other enterprises stopped enter prises on which the state's prosperity depends. Do your duty to yourself, your family and your community vote against and get your friends to VOTE AGAINST SINGLE TAX. NOTE You will find it on the ballot cleverly disguised as a $1500 exemption. Bear in mind that there is no exemption whatever on lots or land, but, on the contrary, the taxes will be increased 40 per cent. The Portland Realty Board most earnestly asks your complete co-operation to defeat this most unjust increase in taxes. F. N. CLARK, Chairman. (Paid Advertisement.) FRED A. JACOBS. A. C. CALLAN. la Irish Harry Thomson's Act. Rich Brogue, Furnishes IS Minutes of Amusement Other Acts Win. Two fine numbers make up the biggest part of a good bill at the Empress Theater on the week's turn of the pro gramme. Both are humorous. The first Is "Mag Hagerty's Father," which is a realistic depiction on the order of the comic series by McManus, and the other is the favorite of many a show in Portland. Harry Thomson, the "Mayor of the Bowery." Hagerty is the father of the daughter of the same name. Daughter marries rather comfortably and takes father on a trip after his retirement as a hod-carrier. But father can't get accustomed to riches and metropolitan bellhops, and therein lies the opportunity for comedy. Thomas J. Ryan as father Is one long laugh. He is capably assisted by Edna Holland. Harry Thomson's act cannot be de scribed without a press that will print an Irish brogue and half a dozen other dialects, all of which he brings in dur- ince the election of 1910 when Oregon went wet by 18,000. In reality this de feat was due to the apathy of voters. Women Vote Expected. "If the women -of Oregon vote as they say they will then it is impos sible to say how large our majority will be, but I am confident it will not '-be under 10,000. "Labor leaders and the Oregon State Grange have come out dry as never before. We have the moral effect of Virginia going dry a month ago by 35,' 000. and of West Virginia by 92.000 a year ago. Any business which has ar rayed against it the cause of labor, the railroads, big business corpora tions and institutions, the proven re sults of laboratory tests and medical research, the actuary tables of the insurance companies, the moral con science of the churches, philanthropic Ladd school. BURGLARS ROB DRUG STORE Stipe-Foster Company Ixses and Goods to Thieves. Cash Burglars at an early hour Saturday sawed through a padlock on the door of the Stipe-Foster Drug Company. 289 Morrison street, stole $25 in cash and about $250 worth of fountain pens and razors and overlooked a large amount of cash within easy reach. 1 A showcase had been badly broken and fountain pens were strewn about the floor when the store was opened early yesterday. Detectives Price and Mallett,' who are investigating the case. ay it Js tHo worn oi a professional. VOTE EARLY! OREGON lng the 15 minutes which he spends in a New Tork night court, presided over by a genial judge whose falllny is his inability to sentence even tho ;uilty. Thomson is the Judge. Something different In ventriloquism Is offered by De Winters, a feminine manipulator of the voice who has a long list of clever imitations. Her act was one of those which went well on the bill of yesterday. The cycling McNutts say that their act is the "Pinnacle of Picturesque Pedalry." Well and good. Their act is one of bicycling which offers enough new turns to get several rounds of ap plause. - The youngest cyclist on the staire appears with the troupe. Lelehton and Robinson have a black face act which brings out a lot of ap plause. The bill In opened by I.ury and Ethel Baker, a couple of comely girls with some good steps. , The fllmery of the Empress is better than usual, and four filmed short stories break up the order of the acts. St. Johns Has Money on Hand. ST. JOHNS, Or.. Nov. 2. (Special.) City Recorder A. E. Dunsmore's report for the quarter, July 1 to October 1 shows cash on hand to be $8357.29. The total receipts were $73,851.52. The principal item was the street fund, for which the receipts and disbursements were $36,226.46, besides $9615.53 tor the sinking street fund and $8776.31 in the street Interest fund. The city property Inventory showed a value of $126,627.26: bonded Indebtedness. $76, 000; improvement street bonds, $290, 0R8. The bonds are for the city docks. YES DON'T BE FOOLED BY ANY SUBTERFUGE THE ISSUE THE SALOON OR. NO SALOON (Paid advertisement by Orton E. Goodwin, publicity department Cora- mlttee of One Hundred, 743 Morm JJIdic.) NEW LINE OPEN TO MAPLETON The Southern Pacific announces the opening of the Willamette Pacific R. R. (Coos Bay Line) Eugene to Mapleton (58 miles from Eugene.) Boat connects with train for Acme and Florence. Train for Mapleton and intermediate points will leave Eugene as follows: Leave Eugene daily 8:00 A.M. Arrive Mapleton 11:S0A.M. Leave Mapleton 1:30 P.M. .Arrive Eugene 6:00P.M. Connection with train for Mapleton and intermediate points made at Eugene by Train No. 15, leaving Portland at 1 :30 A. M. Stand ard - sleeping car on this train Portland to Eugene (open for occupancy at 9:30 the evening before). Further particulars at City Ticket C flee, 80 Sixth street, corner Oak; Uni Depot or any agent oi tne Of- on SOUTHERN PACIFIC John M. Scott, General Passenger Agent, Portland, Or. MRS. 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