Morning Oregonian., June 13, 1916, Page 3, Image 3

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ST. LOUIS FAILS TO
FOLLOW PRECEDENT
NEW YORK POLITICIAN SLATED FOR CHAIRMAN OF DEMOCRATIC
ESTERLY MAY
T
NATIONAL CONVENTION.
BE
Town Means Well but Seems
Not to Know How j:o.Get
Triple Prices, Cobb Says.
Oregon Delegation Seeks Way
TTTT5 MOTtVTVO OTIKOOXTATf. TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1916.
GOFllTTEEflN
is
2fmporteb (Harass furniture
At Very Special Sale Prices '
The great scarcity of imported grass furniture Tvas
never so evident as this season. Our importation,
placed over a year ago; was fortunately received by
us complete.
" The prices at which these popular grass chairs
and rockers are offered our patrons warrant im
mediate attention. It is impossible for us to duplicate
any item of grass furniture again this year.
$ 8.00 Chairs and Rockers $6.45
$ 8.50 Chairs and Rockers $6.95
$9.00 Chairs and Rockers $7.45
$10.00 Chairs and Rockers $7.95
$1 1.00 Chairs and Rockers $8.45
Crcx3&ugs Special prices
65c Crex Rugs, 18x13 inches ... 47q
$ 1 .00 Crex Rugs, 24x48 inches 79c
to Avoid Naming Man
Chosen by Voters.
CHICAGO BANDITTI WISER
DR. MORROW MENTIONED
Taxlcabs Neglect to Go Iu for Art ot
Ttolblng Delegates and Hotels
in Untutored Western City
Charge Only Normal Rate.
One Democrat Announces Against
Primary Choice of 3 Years Ago?.
but National Body's Edict
Will Rule lu End.
BT IRVIN S.
' (Copyright,
COBB.
Central
Press
191S, by the
Association.)
ST. LOUIS. Mo.. June' 12. (Special.)
This town of St. Louis means well
upon every hand are to be seen evi
dences bf Its well-meaning bu$ It has
a lot to learn about entertaining a
National convention. In spite of the
experience It has had along that line,
the very rudiments of the proposition
appear as yet to be foreign to its under
standing. Consider, for example, the
crass and uncouth Ignorance, the stu
pendous short-sightedness of a com
munity with a free-handed convention
in its midst, where the taxicab drivers
have not stimulated their meters to a
feverish activity and the ordinary cab
drivers continue to abide by their regu
lar tariffs, charging a visitor little if
anything more than they charge a
native.
How much wiser were the banditti of
that dear Chicago. In Chicago last
week, unless you chose certain pumpkin-colored
taxicabs, which operated
under a fairly moderate schedule of
prices. It cost you almost as much to
ride a couple of miles as it must have
cost Noah to launch the ark.
Purchase of Rig Cheaper.
If you traveled as many as 10 miles
It were cheaper by far to buy the rig
outright and put the driver on a salary.
By so doing you would save money.
The Chicago brethren wanted not only
the pound of flesh; they insisted on
taking a segment of your financial hide
along with it as a souvenir of a pleas
ant occasion. Taxidermy, in a word, is
the art of skinning dumb beasts; in
Chicago the kindred pursuit of taxicab
bery Is the art of skinning human
beings.
St. Louis has yet to learn the great
cardinal lesson that when a stranger
comes .along the proper way to make
him feel at home is to strip him of
his peltry and then insult him besides.
This is the New Tork system. It
originated there and flourishes best
there, but Chicago has adopted it. In
time, of course, Jt will reach St. Louis,
hut It has not arrived here yet.
Chicago Meals 9tS and TJp.
Then there Is the matter of "hotels.
For convention week, the most fash
ionable hotel in Chicago, the one where
the wealthiest and most prominent vis
itors mainly stopped, practically dou
bled the price of every dish on the
menus. It was possible to get a fairly
complete meal for one person for about
115, figuring caviar in at J3.50 a throw
per individual, and a medium-sized
guinea hen at $3 and a portion of
green peas at 90 cents and so on. Of
: course, if you were really peckish, the
check which the waiter brought at the
conclusion of the. meal ran up into
real money.
Here in bucolic, simple-minded St.
Louis nothing of the sort Is being
done. So far as I have been able to ob
serve, the hotels in general are asking
Hut little more for rooms than usually
they ask, and they have not altered
the standard quotations on their
menus to any noticeable extent. '
Fried Crappie Coats 55 Cents.
For example, at the Jefferson, which
is by way of being the smartest hotel
' here, you can have for your breakfast
and if you are wise, you do have it
for your breakfast a large fresh
caught crappie for 55 cents. A crappie
pronounced croppy by those who
know is a little the best eating fish,
when panned properly, that there is
in the known world. It is a kind of
fried angel, with fins for wings. Really,
the thing for one to do is to hold back
until one has a good appetite and
. then order a whole school of them. One
shudders to think what a certain "Chi
cago hotel overlooking the lake and
charging for the vlew'of same would
expect a patron to pay for a filling
mess of crappies. If a man ate as
many as three, he would have to put
a second mortgage on the old plac
that's certain.
Hospitality on Constant Tap.
Moreover, the St. Louis variety, of
hospitality, a very pleasing and succu
lent variety, by the way, is on constant
tap, St. Louis being thickly populated
.by members of two of the most hos
pitable races on this planet Germans
and Southerners. The cordial treatment
which its people accord the visitor, not
because they expect to get something
out of him, but Just because they want
to do so, is worth traveling a good
many miles to enjoy.
For the delegate, the newspaper cor
respondent, and the ordinary conven
tion visitor, who has the time to spare,
some form of entertainment is being
provided every night this week, begin
ning after tonight. Also a large num
ber of automobiles, privately owned.
have been placed at the disposal of the
committee for use in transporting
guests to and from such of these tunc
, tlons as take place at country clubs or
roadhouses in the suburbs. Assureday,
St. Louis has a great deal to learn yet
about the gentle art of gouging.
Delegates Guests of Big Brewer.
.The prospects of the prohibitionists
for slipping a dry plank into the Demo
cratic National platform suffered a se
vere setback this afternoon. The Mayor
and the local newspaper men loaded
60 automobiles with delegates, states
men and journalists, and took the
crowd out to the old Dent farm, where
U. S. Grat lived before the Civil War
and where A. A. Busch, the big brewer.
now has a snug, cosy little country
place of a trifle less than 400 acres,
all trimmed up and landscaped and ev
erything. There the visitors were
taken through a stone stable, which
if it were not so clean and sanitary
could pass almost anywhere for
county courthouse. There they
spected countless heads of prize-win
ning livestock, almost any one of which
cost more than many a close ward will
cost to carry next November.
After that we tramped over a lawn
which had the appearance of being
rolled up and taken in at night and
carefully brushed by a competent vale
before being put down again in th
morning, and eventually they came to
where a group of pretty society girl
served strawberries and cream . an
angel cake and the likes of that.
Delegates Enjoy Juleps.
But wnat gave tne pronibitlon wave
a wallop was at a point hard by. Here
a number of skilled gentlemen had
taken large quantities of a medicinal
herb culled from a spring near the old
Dent cabin, and by combining these
sprigs of refreshing green with ice an
suar and a pungent dark brown fluid,
they evolved a decoction known tech
nically as a mint julep. All over th
place patriots, who until that hour had
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never given botany 'a second, thought,
might be observed in the act of holding
glasses in their hands with their noses
entirely hidden from sight in the aro
matic herbage, their entranced eyes
roving mildly across the barber's land
scape and their Adam's apple rising and
falling In gentle convulsions.
It was stated that the original bed
from which- the mint was gathered
had been planted by General Grant
himself. If this be true, he posthu
mously has done much to bring North
and South together, for delegates from
far Dixie land were heard to bless his
name as they came away. One group
gathered in a hard knot, all leaning
in toward a common center for mutual
support, and gave three hearty hic
coughs for the Union.
Tonight a sensational announcement
was forthcoming. It was stated that
the platform would be very pronounced
and very strong and very explicit on
the subject of Americanism, whatever
that is. From this it is to be foreseen
that the Democrats are not to be out
done by the Republicans and Progres
sives in making a bid for the American
vote in this country. '
MEXICO 0UTL0K IS GRAVE
(Continued From First Page.)
CHAMBERLAIN IS OUT
Name Not to Be Presented for
Vice-Presidential Nomination.
BOOM FOR SULLIVAN STIRS
Illinois Man Would Be Acceptable to
Tamniany Boss 'Young Demo
crats Would Put Progres
sive Man on Ticket.
to the currency situation.' There were
no evidences of unfriendliness toward
Americans, the message said. It added
that the Carranza government had been
sending troops and ammunition inland.
Captain Burrage did not know the ob
ject of thse troip movements.
The State Department, through Spe
cial Agent Rodgers, at Mexico City,
has called the attention of the de facto
government to the anti-American out
breaks, which for nearly two weeks
have been spreading steadily. Many
towns have held mass meetings and
pretested against the continued pres
ence of American troops in Mexico. In
two or three instances American prop
erty has been attacked, but no threats
against lives of Americans have been
epjrted. The reports of consuls tell
ing ot the agitation were turned over
to the Carranza officials more as a
matter of information than as repre
sentations. Where his regular troops
are in control, apparently General Car
ranza has earnestly tried in most cases
to prevent the holding of protest meet
ings and ' in some places contemplated
me.ing3 and parades have been pre
vented. There are instances, however,
where the troops appear to have stood
idly by while the agitators stirred up
antagonism against the United States.
Officials here have been unable to de
termine the inspiration behind the sud
den outbreak of anti-American feeling,
or to estimate the ability of General
Carranza to protect American lives and
property. They feel that the real dan
ger lies in the possible action of irregu
lar forces now under the Carranza
banner, but whose commanders yield
doubtful allegiance to the central gov
ernment.
Currency Situation Acnte.
Because of economic conditions in
Mexico, officials feel that the possi
bility of serious trouble is enhanced.
The currency situation is acute and
people are restless and easily stirred to
outbreaks. Several consular agents
have declared frankly in their reports
tnat any eventuality might be expect
ed if the agitation continued to spread.
Secretary Lansing still is at work on
his reply to the Carranza note demand
ing withdrawal of American forces.
He again declined today to discuss it In
any respect. It is not known whether
the present disturbed condition, which
has arisen since the reply was started.
will affect the tone of the document. It
Is indicated the reply may not be sent
for a week or 10 days.
The coast artillery ordered to the
border today includes two companies
from Portland, Me.: two from Boston
two from Narragansett Bay, two "from
Long Island, one. from Eastern New
York, one from Southern New York, and
one fromt Sandy Hook. Approximately
1000 men will compose this provisional
infantry regiment.
ST. LOUIS, June 12. (Special.)
The George E. Chamberlain Vice-Presidential
boom has been put on ice, and
shoved in the cooler for another four
years. The name
Senator probably will not be formally
presented to the Democratic convention.
None of the Oregon delegates can nomi
nate him, much as they might like to,
for they have been Instructed for Mar
shall, and they are going to follow
their Instructions. And the Washing-
BT. LOUIS. Mo.. June -12. (Special.)
Although the Democratic voters of
Oregon, at the primary two yesjs ago,
elected H. M. Kstrly to succeed Will
R. King as Democratic National Cora-
miVteeman for the state, the Oregon
delegates to the St. Louis convention
are hoping and praying that some way
may be found whereby they can forget
Esterly, and select some more favored
Democrat for National Committeeman.
Not one of the Oregon" delegates now
here wants to vote for Esterly. and
yet these is a fear that under some rule
of the convention or or the isationai
Committee, they may- have to do so.
The Oregon delegation -win noia a
caucus tomorrow, when an . aeiegates
are here, and will then discuss at length
the selection of a National Committee
man. Thus far, two names other than
Esterly's are being considered. Some of
the delegates want to retain Will R.
King on the committee: others favor
the selection of Dr. J. W. Morrow, of
Portland. But the all-Important ques
tion to be settled first is, can the dele
gation get away from Esterly?
Final Actitm Uncertain. '
If thfc rules of the pemocratlc Con
vention are like the rules of the Re
publican Convention, the Oregon dele
gation will have no . choice, but will
have to elect Esterly. But If the dem
ocratic Convention conveniently over
Iooks state laws, and recognizes the
right of each delegation in the con
vention to maks its own selection re
gardless, of state primaries, Esterly's
chances won't be worth 2 cents. It is
probable, therefore, that no final de
termination as to National Committee
man from Oregon can be reached until
the rules ot the convention and the
will of the National Committee are
known.
Thjio of the Oregon delegates here
held an informal conference this morn
ing and decided, by unanimous vote.
that nobody wants Esterly. "Why,
that lellow is not enough interested
to come to St. Louir," said one dele
gate who asked that his name be with
held. "Esterly would not spend a dol
lar out of his own pocket to attend
ou- National Convention. The Demo
cratic leaders at home don't want him.
and why should we vote for him, if
we can avoid it?" While there was
no general assent to this statement.
theie wss no voice raised in protest.
Crawford for Morrow.
T. H. Crawford, of La Grande, made
no bones about nis position. -1 am
for Dr. Morrow." hi said, "and if we
are not bound to Esterly, I am going
to propose Morrow's name to our state
I nn,... ' HI l.panrfnm .flrtafl h:trorllT
"l ,lwtrl it th. nrlTTiarlea two vein
ago on the assumption that he would
go on the National Committee lmrae
diately. But it turned out that he was
elo-ted at a time wh-n there was no
vacancy, and the National Committee,
by unanimous -vote last January, ruled
that Judge King was our National
ton delegation, which started for St. Committeeman until his four-year term
Louie disposed to support Chamberlain, expires with th close of this conen-
tlon. II Ksteriy was elected to nil
has orders to lay off. The Washing
ton votes also will be cast for Mar
shall.
Speaking of the Vice-President
nomination, there is considerable
.Mai
sfir
vacancy that did not exist, he now has
no status that we are obliged to recog
nize, and for one 1 feel that the dele
gates to this conventions have full
among delegates over the effort being power to select as National Committee
made by the Illinois crowd to put overlman any man they see fit."
boss Koger auuivan, especially since while there was no assent, there
o p . orK. nas said wa3 a general smile as of approval,
iimi. nguuuuioD wouia oe if rom the other delegates present,
very acceptable to him' But alonS Judje King was not meeting
g was not meeting with
the delegation at the time, but when he
arrived later, ho said positively that
he was not a candidate for re-election
and wished the duties of National Com
mitteeman should be transferred to
oth r shoulders.
with that development comes a move
ment started by some of the younger
and less experienced politicians to
bring forward James M. Parker, of
Louisiana, the Progressive nominee for
Vice-President, and to substitute his
name for Marshall's on the Democratic
ticket, on the theory that by doing so.
the dissatisfied element in the Pro
gressive party may be brought into the
Democratic fold.
vvnen win . &ing. or Oregon, was
asked what he thought of Uie plan to
name Parker on the ticket with Wil
son, he tartly replied: "We Democrats DEMOCRATS EXPECT CAMPAIGN TO
MR. WILSON MAY SPEAK
have not gone crazy yet." And King's
view is the prevailing view among the
older politicians. The clamor for
Parker is all noise, and coming from
young men; it' is voluminous, but it is
not going to create a stampede. Prac
tical politics demands the nomination
of Tom Marshall, of Indiana, and he
will, be named unless he should with
draw voluntarily, ana there is yet no
Indication that he has such a move in
mind. This afternoon a Vlce-Presl-
aeni - ooom rwas started ror eecretary
of War Baker, but when he arrives to
morrow he is expected to declare for
Marshall.
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MILITANTS GIVE ORDERS
OREGON MEN TOLD TO ADVOCATE
SUFFRAGE ASIEND3IEXT. -
BR1.KG REAL ORATORY.
TRANSPORT TO AID REFUGEES
Naval Vessel Held .Ready to Dash
to West Coast of Mexico.
SAN DIEGO, Cal., June 12. The n
val transport Buffalo Is under orders
here to be ready for an Immediate dash
to the west coast of Mexico to pick up
American refugees in the event of a
spread of anti-American feeling in the
southern republic. This became known
today, when orders for the vessel to
proceed to Mare Island for repairs were
revoked oy tne wavy Department.
Large stores of supplies were taken
on board the Buffalo today and the ves
sel's bunkers were filled to capacity
with coal.
"Daddy' Iiong Legs" Author Dead.
NEW YORK, June 12 Jean Web
ster, the author, wife of Glenn Ford
McKinney, a New York lawyer, died at
her home here tonight. A daughter
was born to Mrs. McKinney yesterday.
Jean Webster was probably best known
as the author of "Daddy Long Legs.'
Read .The Oregonlan'a classified ads
Democrats at St. Louts Chafe Vn.ler
. Dictatorial Manner of Congres
sional X'nion Women.
Clash of Intellects Between President
and Mr. Ungues Looked Forward to,
Ability of Justice Admitted.
ST. LOUIS; June 12 Democratic
leaders looking forward to the cam
paign virtually are in accord that it
will be marked with inspring oratory.
a clash of Intellects between President
Wilson and Mr. Hughes, and markedly
free from personalities and mud-sling
lng.
None of the Demdcrats think of be
littling the ability of Mr. Hugrhes as
campaigner. They have not forgotten
his campaigns in New York, nor his
speech In Youngstown, O., in 1908, when
he opened the fight for Mr. Taft.
To meet Mr. Hughes and the Repub
lican campaigners behind him, they ex
pect to call upon the best in the Demo
cratic party. Whether he personally
will go into the campaign will be de
cided by the President only, but It I
probable that an effort will be mad
to get him to speak, for no matter how
much the leaders may rely on other
prominent Democrats, they realize the
weight of direct word of the President.
Democratic leaders' recall that al
though there has been .some argumen
against a President taking the stump
in a campaign for re-election, prece-
It Will be
pointed out that Mr. Taft made ma-.iy
trips throughout the East in the battle
for convention delegates with Colonel
The Oregon delegates, like delegates
from other states, are being pursued
by Sarah Bard Field, of the Congres
sional Union, and by Mrs. Carrie Cbap-
mar. " - t f a. th. V.4I...I . -. . . . ,
soclation.' By the former they are be- dtf. .n?LlS?
lng ordered to advocate a plank In the
platform favoring a suffrage amend
ment to the Constitution, while Mis.
Catt is merely asking for a plank along
the Unas of that adopted by the Re
publicans at Chicago.
The Oregon delegates are for suf
frage, but they are not tearing their
hair over the constitutional amend
ment. In fact, the 'women of the Con
gressional Union are about as popular
as the measles among the Oregon del
egates, and among all other Democrats,
for that matteV. These Democratic
brethren don't believe In a suffrage
amendment, for one thing, and they
resent the dictatorial attitude of the
Congressional Union, which is request
ing nothing, but demanding everything.
One of the Oregon delegates said that
he intended to dodge the Congressional
Union as much as possible. "My wife
told me before I left home to have
nothing to do with those militants, tnd
I'm going to obey orders."
By request, the name of this delegate
is withheld.
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$6.00 Crex Rugs, 6x9 feet $4.79
$8.50 Crex Rugs, 8x1 0 feel $6.95
$10.50 Crex Rugs, 9x12 feet. , 1 . .$8.95
$ 1 .50 Crex Rugs, 30x60 inches $1.19 g
$2.00 Crex Rugs, 36x72 inches $1 .59
$4.50 Crex Rugs, 4x7 eef .$3.45
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MARKSMANSHIP IS 'BAD'
GERMANS SAY EXPOSED VESSELS
ESCAPED FOR, HOl'RS.
Fate f Elblnar. Franeilok apd Wies
baden Described by Officers
Who Were In Klrht.
BERLIN, June 12. (From an Asso
ciated Press staff correspondent by
wireless to Sayville.) Officers of the
German cruisers Elblng and Frauenlob
Interviewed in the Frankfurter Zeltung
emphasize what they describe as the
extraordinarily bad marksmanship"
of the British gunners In the North
Sea battle. For a long period, they-de-clare,-
the Elblng was exposed to the
continuous heavy fire of British dread
naughts and a single fair hit would
have sufficed to sink her, but she was
not hit once.
The officers give the duration of the
battle as 17 hours, during 14 of whto
the Elbing was continuously engaged.
Only eight men from the Elblng were
lost.
The Frauenlob was engaged from 7
P. M.. until 10:30 P. M-. and again
entered the battle at midnight.
At 1 o'clock in the morning the
cruiser was struck by a torpedo, the
explosion lifting her into the air. The
torpedo entered the engine-room and
exploded there, the ship sinking seven
minutes later. Eight survivors on three
narrow rafts floated tor ten hours,
sitting back to back with their legs in
the water and with heavy waves wash
ing over them continually.
The cruiser Wiesbaden was struck
by a shell, which penetrated the engine
room and completely disabled her and
she bad to be left behind. She went
down finally, her men fighting to the
last.
Pythlans Change In Rate Valid.
WASHINGTON. June 12. The right
of the supreme lodge. Knights of
Pythias, under its constitution, to re
rate members in 1910, with a resulting
Increase in dues for "fourth-class mem
bers," was sustained today by the Su
preme Court.
Senator Cliamberlaln to Get Degree.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington, June 12. United States Senator
George E. Chamberlain left today for
Lexington. Ky., where tomorrow Wash
ington and Lee University will confer
on him the degree of doctor of laws.
ROYALTY PRAISES SHOW
MISS
BALING HAS TIME or
LIFE" IX PORTLAND.
HER.
Ex-KinsT Saya Be Wonldn't Care to
Follow "Klnsrlnar" for I.lvtns;.
hat Did Enjoy Ru Vli
PENDLETON. Or.. June 12. (Spe
cial.) Warm in the praises of the
Portland Rose Festival, Queen Muriel
Baling and King Joy Taylor and royal
party returned from Portland, today.
"I have had thi time of my life."
said Miss Saling. "but I am mighty ,
glad to be home again. The show was,
wonderful and I am deeply apprecia
tive for the many favors received at
th. hands of the Portland Rose Festi
val officers and Rosarians."
King Joy Taylor today assumed his
duties as Sheriff of Umatilla County
after a strenuous week of revelry.
"I felt very much out of place in all
that royal stuff." said Mr. Taylor to
day. "I wouldn't care to follow it.
Of course we had a big time and Port
Ian'", treated us royally."
The Fallacy of Paraffine Base
Eastern oil manufacturers have long extolled
the superior virtues of paraffine-base motor .
oils. Of course! Paramne-base crudes were
nearest home and freight costs lower.
nngton, D. C: "Oils made
from the asphalt-base cru
des have shown themselves
'But Pacific Coast motorists
have proved for themselves
that Zerolcne, an oil made
from selected California
crude asphalt-base, gave
best results.
Roosevelt and that his appearance re
sulted in one of the most spectacular,
personal and bitter campaigns in polit
ical history, during which the two
candidates followed each other through
state after state.
Nothing, is further from their
thoughts than a similar campaign, but
Mr. Wilson almost certainly will be
asked to contribute by some active par
ticipation to offset any advantage the
Republicans may gain from the speech
es of a man who has been Governor
of the most potential state as well as
Justice of the Supreme Court.
Newspaper Plane Wrecked.
DEADWOOD, S. D.. June 12. The
newspaper plant ot K. T. benn was
wrecked last night by unknown per
sons, benn nas been waging a war on
vice here for several years.
To prevent skidding- and lipping' in damp
weather the atreeta of San Franclaco are
Banded oy a macblna mounted oa a motor
truelr.
Supreme Court Adjourns.
WASHINGTON. June 12. The Su
preme Court adjourned until October
next. ..
Now their practical experi
ence is supported by the tes
timony of international ex
perts. Lieut. Bryan, a U.S. govern
ment expert, stated before
the American Society of
Naval Engineers, at Wash-
better adapted to motor
cylinders, as far as their
carbon forming proclivi
ties are concerned than are
paraffine-base Pennsyl
vania oils."
Zcrolene is the oil used by the
majority of Pacific Coast motor
ists. Highest competitive awards,
San Francisco and San Diego Ex
positions. Next time you empty your crank
case refill with Zcrolene. -
the Standard Oil for Motor Cars
Dealers everywhere and at our
SERVICE STATIONS .
Standard Oil Company
(California)
Portland
Copr mjdm t Motor-CylinJar Lwbricatimn. hmfor thm American Society
mt Navul Efi-ifMera, ky Limmt. Brymn. U. S. .V.. will b mnt en raa(.