THE MORNING OREGONIAN. THURSDAY, MAY 18, 101G. .
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IDAHO DEMOCRATS
FACE CLASH TODAY
Caucus at Pocatello on Con
vention Eve Threatens
v to Split Party.
BLOWS NARROWLY AVERTED
XI. II. i;itler, Candidate for Jtc-Klcc-tiou
as National Committee
man, and Senator It. Mac
' liotli Head lactions.
annual inspection. Major Alexander,
commandant, assisted Captain Ross.
A regimental review opened the day's
programme, and a second review in the
afternoon was held in honor of Gov
ernor Wlthycombe. Several officers of
the regular Army and the National
Guard attended.
The First Battalion, under the com
mand of Cadet Major Sereno E. Brett,
of Portland, won the battalion com
petition. The Brodie banner was
awarded to Company M, commanded by
Captain M. B. Gilbert. JDonald Spauld
ing, of Lowell, Mass., won the in
dividual drill for sergeants.
The exercises of the day began with
a regimental parade, followed by the
inspection of the comDanies. In this
sisted by C. McLaughlin, Colonel O. N.
I'., of Portland: Lieutenant Shipham, of
the Coast Artillery, Eugene; Lieuten
ant K. P. Williams, Inspector-Instructor
of the United States Army; Adjutant
General George A. White, O. N. G.; Ma
jor M. B. Marcel us. medical corps. O.
N. O.; Captain Hebbitt, Third Infantry,
O. N. G. ; Captain Wood, of the Coast
Artillery. Cottage ' Grove; Captain
Eugene Libby, Company F, Third In
fantry, O. N. G-, and Captain C. A.
Murphey. O. N. IS.. Corvallis.
The physical drill, including bayonet
exercises, was next conducted by cap
tain Ross. This was followed by the
tactical exercises, which occupied the
remainder of the forenoon.
roCATKLLO. Idaho. May 17. (Spe
cial.) Bourbonic atmosphere here to
night on' th". eve of the Democratic
state convention, which meets at noon
tomorrow to elect a National com
mitteeman and delegates to the Na
tional convention, is charged with anti
Klder battle cry of "smash the ma
chine," and that of the Elder people
under the direction of the Pence-Nugent-Elder
wing, of, "show no
quarter."
1'nless a compromise can be reached
before the conclave opens, which to
night does not seem lik-ely. the two
factions will clash in a conflict which
Kives promise of splitting the party
sisunder again, as was done at Twin
Falls and Wallace.
Broad hints are now being made by
responsible party leaders that if an at
tempt is made to "ride" the anti-Elder
faction a walkout, and two conventions,
may he the result. These were the
right's caucus developments.
Robert H. Elder, candidate to suc
ceed himself as National committee
man, said tonight following a caucus
of the Elder faction: "I will be re
flected by a majority of from 20 to 50
votes. The opposition is without lead
ership, unorganized, and already in a
complete rout. My election will take
place on the first ballot. I have every
ground on which to base that state
ment." OppoMinc Leader Warn.
"The Pence-N'ugent-Elder wing of
the Democratic party should have a
care." said Senator Ravenel MacBeth,
lender of the anti-Elder faction.
"If they have any regard for the
party they will withdraw Elder and
Mgree on a compromise candidate for
National committeeman. They are
claiming more delegates than they have
to bolster up a fight they know In
their hearts cannot be won fairly."
An indication of the bitterness ex
isting among tiie delegates over the al
leged "machine" tactics of the Elder
wing of the party developed during
the afternoon at the Bannock Hotel,
when only tTmely interference prevent
ed Senator MacBeth and State Game!
AVarden Leroy C. Jones from coming
to blows. MacBeth charged Jones with
using state funds as game warden to
travel about the state to secure Elder
delegates. Jones resented the imputa
tion, and they rushed at each other.
The Elder Democrats have 162 votes
pledged. There will be 3!0 in the con
vention. One hundred and ninety-six
are nec-ssary to control. Madison
County went over to Elder. The anti-
Elder faction claims 120 uninstructed
delegates. 66 "favorite son" delegates,
and hopes to secure the balance of
power irom 3C delegates in contest.
. Elder Plan la Known.
It became known tonight that in or
der to add 12 more delegates to their
list, the Elder Democrat will propose
Vrank Ensign, of Hailey, for whom the
Blaine County delegates are Instructed,
for temporary chairman, thereby elin
nating Ensign as a candidate for Na
tional committeeman and capturing his
delegation.
It is barely possible the anti-Elder
faction will present the name of Gov
ernor Moses Alexander for compromise
candidate for National committeeman.
Senator Edward M. Pugmire, of Bear
Lake County, and I . L. Evans, of Cas
sis County, also are suggested. Gover
nor Alexander is being criticised here
for permitting state appointees to work
for Elder. The activity of postmasters
also is resented.
Governor Alexander, James H. Tlaw
ley, K. I. Perky. Frank Martin, Frank
Moore, John F. Nugent and .1. T. Fence
will be named as delegates to the Na
tional convention if they wish to go.
Beecher Hitchcock. of Sand Point:
Henry Hall, of Jerome, and Senator
Fisher, of McCammon, also are candi
dates. There is disappointment over the
failure of either Harry L. Day or Sen
ator Jerome J. Day, North Idaho lead
ers, to be in attendance. Th conven
tion opens in the McNichols & Wright
Hall. Mayor George Williams will wel
come the delegates.
GERMANS BEGGING FOOD
ELDERLY SOLDIKRS ASIC FOOD OK
swiss TROors.
Men on Alsatian Frontier Say They
Have Eaten no Meat for AVeckau
Curb on Families Advised.
GENEVA, via Paris, May 17. German
soldiers along the Swiss-Alsatian fron
tier, chiefly elderly men of the land
sturm, have begun to ask for food
from Swiss soldiers. The Germain say
they have not eaten meat for weeks.
Five German soldiers in uniform, al
though fired on, escaped across the
Swiss frontier at Rodersdorf, near
Basel, yesterday. They were interned
at Berne.
The Nume Stuttgarter Zeitung says
the food situation in Rhine towns Is
becoming intolerable. The newspaper
advises the government to take drastic
measures to change the mode of liv
ing of the people. It suggests that
cooking in private families be pro
hibited and that the population be
ordered to eat in common restaurants,
where meat would be served once daily,
at noon, and only vegetables in the
evening.
Eighteen German cattle dealers ar
rived in Basel yesterday hoping to buy
cattle, which are becoming scarce.
W.C.T.U.'S SHED TEARS
DEFESK IN" BOOTLEGGING CASE
CRITICISES SPECTATORS.
Angry AVomen AVeep AVhen Attorney
Says They Should Be "At Home
Tending to Their Babies."
ABERDEEN, Wash.. May 17. (Spe
cial.) Some of tne women who filled
the Co noil Chambers yesterday to
hear the tri-tl of Mrs. Stella Parker,
accused of "bootlegging." became so
angry that they wept when Attorney
Dan Peursull. in defending Mrs. Parker,
turned to them and said that members
of the Women's Christian Tenmperance
Union should be "at home tending to
their babies." and that ministers
"should be looking after their chidrcn."
rather than be in the courtroom at
tempting to prejudice the court against
M.-s. Parker.
The defense accused Special Officer
Dedricli, who secured the evidence
against Mrs. Parker, of being a "stool
pigeon," and alleged that he had hid
den the liquor in a bathroom, and then
taken it downstairs and asserted Mrs.
Parker had sold it to him.
The court, however, did not accept
this view, as a $25 fine was levied
ainst Mrs. Tarker by Police Judge
Glen Snider.
NEW RUBLEE VOTE ASKED
Senator Iteqtiests Iteeonsideration of
Trade Commission Appointee.
WASHINGTON, May 17. Senator
Hollis moved in executive session of
the Senate late today to reconsider the
vote by which the nomination of
George Rublee as a member of the
Federal Trade Commission was reject
ed last Mondav. By agreement with
CADETS ARE INSPECTED
General .Staff Ol fleer Views College
lleKiment.
OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
Corvallis, May 17. (Special.) With
Captain Tenney Ross, of the General
Staff. I7. S. A., as the inspecting of
ficer and several hundred visitors view
ing the ceremonies, the Oregon Agri
cultural College Cadet Regiment Tues
day closed work of the year with the
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C. M. STAFFORD
Principal AVoodlawn School, past prin
cipal of Glencoe and Creston, eight
years principal in Portland schools, six
vears principal in high schools, six
vears teacher in country schools: high
school, normal and college education.
For
COUNTY SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT
VOTE 132 X
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YOU
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To the Voters of Multnomah County:
If you hired a man to attend to your business and he saved you money by strict, honest and
efficient effort, at the same time builded your business up by faithful, judicious management,
vtouldn't you continue him in your service?
You bet you would. Why? Because it would be sound business judgment. It would pay you
to do it, wouldn't it? Fact is, it would be folly for you to displace him by another who is untried.
Pause now and call to mind how general this rule is practiced in all lines of business.
The longer a good man is employed in a bank the more valuable he becomes to that institu
tion. It is the same when applied to any other business. It is a sound policy; hence, its uni
versal practice.
Apply this principle to the public servant generally and to W. L. Lightner, chairman of the
Board of County Commissioners, in particular. We first hired him by election to the Board
twelve years ago.
The county was in debt $600,000. It was paying 6 interest on that obligation. Commissioner
Lightner had not been on the Board very long before every dollar of the debt had been paid. Our
taxes had not been raised to do it either. It was done by savinrr here and there.
During these dozen years Commissioner Lightner as your servant was an active factor on the
Board which levied upon and collected from you millions of dollars in taxes, and spent these millions.
Yet there has never been any charge of graft, of scandal or of waste to touch him in the handling of these big affairs.
He has served well. He has served faithfully. He has saved the county and people money by his broad knowledge and
wide, practical experience in the conduct of the county's business.
He has always gotten a dollar's worth of work or of material for every dollar of public money the board has spent
during his membership on it. .
The past twelve years, bear in mind, cover the greatest period of material building and progress in the history of Mult
nomah County and the city of Portland. Millions were spent in construction of business blocks and the like. Millions were
spent also for public works of all sorts by the County Commissioners.
Portland has been placed in first rank among the American municipalities. Multnomah County ranks first among all
the counties of the Nation for its mileage of hard-surfaced and macadam road and for other public improvements, the
greatest of which is the Columbia River Highway, which 'will be formally dedicated to the Nation and world next month. It
will be an international affair.
Commissioner Lightner has been a big factor in all this big building. He has been one of the county's really strong
men. There are monuments throughout the county that silently tell of his economy, sound judgment, ripe experience
and knowledge and care of public affairs. t
Commissioner Lightner is one of the really big assets, too, of Multnomah County. He has been tried and has made good.
It is true he has not made much noise. He is not a "grandstander." lie is strictly business.
Not only did his administration wipe out the $600,000 debt mentioned above, but they also built the handsomest and
best-equipped courthouse and jail combined on the Pacific Coast or the West. Nor was there any scandal to grow out of its
building.
What is to the point, the county did not go in debt to do it. It paid as it went along ; building also a splendid Public
Library, developing the best-equipped county farm in the West with modern and well-arranged buildings, there to care for
the county's indigent poor. .The Board paid also for these improvements as they were put in, and also purchased a site for
the new hospital and erected a nurses' home.
There is no debt against Multnomah County, save that which the people voted upon themselves $1,250,000 bonds for
the construction of the Columbia River Highway and $1,200,000 bonds for building the interstate bridge, nearing completion
over the Columbia River, connecting Portland and Vancouver, Wash. The state is paying the interest on the bridge bonds!
Multnomah County has built, besides the great scenic drive along the Columbia River, other hard-surfaced ways and also
as many more miles of macadam roads, grid-ironing the county. All, save the Columbia River Highway, was virtually paid
for out of the general taxes as built. '
These are some of the big, constructive things that Commissioner Lightner has done during his stewardship as your
servant. He is asking that you .continue him. You would be derelict if you did not re-elect him.
M. IL JASPER,
' ' Chairman Lightner's Campaign Committee.
4 raid Advertisement.)
Senator Gallinger, leader of the oppo
sition to Rublee, there was no discus
sion of the motion, and a vote was
deferred until Tuesday.
Administration leaders are hopeful
the Senate will reverse its action, and
the vote was postponed so that ab
sentees might return to Washington.
Rublee's friends say they have won
over several Senators since the rejec
tion vote. Senator Hollis. who voted
for confirmation, changed his vote
later to be in a position to move re
consideration. ,
Iter Trip Abroad.
Buffalo N. Y.) Courier.
"It is the regret of her life that she
has never been able to afford a trip
abroad." "Wants to see the world, 'does
she?" "It Isn't that. But she has a rem
edy for seasickness that she is simply
crazy to try."
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. C. ALDERS0N
We, the undersigned, men and tax
payers of Multnomah County, Oregon,
realizing the importance of having good
judges on the circuit bench and desir
ing to render such assistance as we can
in the selection of the best man for
judge of Department IsTo. 3, we unqual
ifiedly indorse J. E. Magers for that
place. Mr. Magers has practiced law
in Portland, Or., for the past 18 years
and has the confidence and esteem of
all men, and has a host of friends who
are all working for his nomination and
election. No one can make a mistake
in voting for Mr. Magers, as he has the
temperament,, age, education and ex
perience to fit him for that position.
He will bring to the bench sound
judgment, and there can be no doubt
that every question submitted to him
will be fairly and impartially dealt
with, and all persons, litigants and at
torneys will be treated with respect,
and a fair and impartial hearing will
be accorded to everyone without fear
or favor.
We cheerfully commend Mr. Magers
for the position of Circuit Judge for
Department Xo. 3 to succeed Judge Mc
Ginn, as we know from a long ac
quaintance with him that he is worthy
the confidence of all voters.
A. 11. AVF.RILL.
J. KOSSKTH GAM BILL.
W. O. SHANK.
GEORGE II. HIMES.
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REPUBLICAN
XEo tfje ZESIomen ol
iflultnomafj Countp
WITH the dawn of another day comes your
greatest responsibility since the right of
suffrage was conferred upon you.
TH manipulators of the INVISIBLE GOV-4 ,.
ERNMENT rely upon the stay-at-homes- t ttt
for their success at the polls and their subsequent
control of public officials.
YOUR right lo vote is not
a privilege, but a duly.
THE ballot has been placed in your hands for
the preservation of the home, the state and the
Nation. '
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AN YOU shirk this most important impost
of citizenship?
Make No Mistake
VOTE 46 X
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FOR COUNTY SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT
. More experience in the country schools of Multnomah County than all
other candidates combined. Organizer and principal of Lincoln High Night
School. Has programme of constructive legislation to offer for benefit of
country schools. 25 years in Multnomah County Schools. His slogan is
"Common sense in the schools." Favors state text books.
VOTE 130 X
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REPUBLICAN
(Paid advertisement by Littlefield for Congress Committee. 619 Henry SldgJ,
Portland. Or.)
In order that the Republican voters of Oregon may
know the unequivocal position taken by Justice Hughes
m regard to his nomination for the Presidency of the
United States, his declination as. filed with the Secretary
of State of Oregon is hereby published in full:
TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE OF OREGON:
flavin? been Informed that a petition Is about to b' filed Hh you for the purpose
of huiinic my name placed upon the official primary ballot of the Kupubltcen Party tor
the primary election to be held in Oregon In May. 1 S 1 ti. ai a candidate for the office of
President of the t'nltcd states. I hereby notify you that I decline the nomination mada
by any petition heretofore or hereafter tiled for aucn purpose and that I object to the
placing- or my name upon the primary ballot. 1 hereby reu.ucitt that -my name shall
nut b placed thereon.
Dated, Washington, District of Columbbia. thla 13th day of April. 1916.
CHARLES E. HUGHES.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, To-wlt:
T. Clarence DodRe, a Notary Public In and for the District aforesaid, do hereby
certify that CHARLES E. HI'UHKS named in nd who Is personally well known to me
to be' th: person who executed the foregoing and annexed paper dated April thirteenth
A. U.. 116. personally appeared before me In the District aforesaid, and acknowledged
said paper to be his voluntary act and deed.
Given under my hand nd official leal, thla thirteenth day of April. A. D.. 1!1.
CI.AREXCE rODGE.
Notary Public. I). C.
3!y commission expires Sept. 4. lt-t.
Attest: A true copy. (real.)
HEX W. Ol.rOTT,
Secretary of State.
Legislative Ticket
Indorsed by the
Employers Association
BlIi:ss MK WO TX PAYERS,
ATTK.NTIOM
It is most important t hat careful con
sideration be Kiven lo the selection of
m?n as represcntatlvt-s to the Lot; fila
ture. No man should be selected who
merely sur-ket advertising and cxperlenc
at th expense of the buMnes interests
of the State.
We have had an over-production of
FHKAK Ui ws. It is now. time to make
prest-nt laws tit present conditions, elimi
nating t Uose that are obsolot. and In
jurious to the interest and development
of the folate.
THIS SIIOl I 1) RK A HI SINKSS MAN'S
I.Kt.lI..Tl Kh!
There are 11 candidates for the Senate,
and 3; for t he Hmis.-. Therefore, to the
average- voter a proper ("election would
1 difficult, unites he had u. personal
knowledge of the candidates.
To tne end that the voter may lv as
sisted in hi selection, n careful study of
the quallf U atinns of At,TL t h eandidatt-s
has been ma do and S for t ho Senate ii
to be elected and 1 f ir t he Houso i 1 11
to be ele-t-d are herewith suunenu-d for
your eonstderation. ui men who would
represent fairly the interest s of Mil the
pople if elected. K is not tho intention
to reflect upon t he honesty or iniegrtl y
of any candidate not indorsed hereon, tha
purpose beiu to suggest the-men who,
are most fit by ability and experience.
FOR TIIE SENATE
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Capt. C. P. Stay ton
who is the leading' candidate for
Tounty CommisMotier, having for the
last lour months made a campaign
over the county from house to house,
has the pledge, of twenty-five thou
sand voles troiii men and women.
He is a business man of hih stand
Inc. absolutely honest, trustworthy,
square in all of his dealings, liberal
and broad minded. Kxtends thanks
to every man that voted for hint
when he ran for Ka i I road Corpora
tion Commissioner, and received
eitzh t thousand voted.
He i.s our candidate, on the square,
and we will Heel him.
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; THOMAS MANN IX
Candidate for Delegate to Re
publican National Convention Z,
From the Third Congressional '
District. Multnomah County. 2
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