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1916.
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HUGHES T III S
POLICY III OFFICE
Businesslike Government
Is Promised.
PRESENT WASTE DENOUNCED
Nominee Says He Will Name
Men for Service on Basis
l of Their Fitness.
DIPLOMACY MUST COUNT
"Deserving Democrat" Inci
dent Shameful Example of
L Past Misgovernment,
CHICAGO, Aug. 8. Charles E.
Hughes tonight told an audience that
crowded Chicago's great Coliseum, the
hall where he was nominated for the
Presidency, what he would do if elect
ed President of the United States.
Mr. Hughes charged the present Ad
ministration with waste, extravagance
and vacillation. He declared that it
had not kept the country out of war,
but that it had fought an ignominous
war in Mexico and had withdrawn
from that war ignominously. He
charged the Administration with hav
ing brought the country much nearer
to participation in the European war
than the country would have been had
the Administration "stood for Ameri
can rights."
Need of Protection Emphasized.
He declared that it was no more
possible to expect tariff protection to
American industries from a Demo
cratic Congress than it would be to
get a "revival sermon out of a dis
orderly house."
The nominee assailed the Adminis
tration also for its appointments to
office and declared if elected he would
appoint to office only men who were
well qualified.
Democratic expenditures for rivers
' nd harbors were attacked by the
nominee.
"I propose that we shall stop this
' pork business," he said. "I prop&se
that we shall have government in a
businesslike way. We won't have any
tnore, if I can stop it, of these 'kiss
me and I'll kiss you' appropriations
in Congress."
Businesslike Budget Promised.
ine nominee saia ne stood lor a
"businesslike, responsible budget,"
based on facts.
"I do not want any hot air in mine,1
he added.
The Democratic party, Mr. Hughes
paid, was approaching the idea of a
protective tariff "like a skittish horse
to a brass band." In 1912, he added,
the Democratic platform had said in
effect that a protective tariff was un
constitutional.
"They say in effect now .that the
European war has changed the Con
6titution of the United States," he
continued. "But do you think they
are converted ? Don't you trust them
a little minute with protecting Ameri
can Industry. They haven't got it in
their bones."
Mexican Policy Exposed.
Mr. Hughes reiterated much of his
Detroit speech regarding the Admin
istration's Mexican policy.
"It had no right," he said, "to com
mit this country to a course of con
duct which landed Mexico in anarchy.
left our citizens a prey to the rav
ages of revolution and made our name
a word of contempt in a sister re
public.
"We have gone forward," the nom
inee said in speaking of the Admin
istration's Mexican policy, "with a de
termination to be destructive, not con
structive, to destroy all they had.
As to the Administration's foreign
policy, Mr. Hughes said:
"We have allowed our words to be
eaten up by hesitation, by delay. We
have somehow or other convinced the
World that our talk is cheap.
War Need Not Be Feared. "
"I propose that we have a new birtn
' of American purpose and courage. We
have no occasion to fear war in the
assertion of those rights which all
recognize and only respect us for
maintaining. But if we are glib in
speech, if we indicate that we are not
ready to meet the full responsibility
that our words imply, we are pushed
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GRAIN CLEARING
HOUSE PROPOSED
ELEVATOR PROJECTED TO HOLD
1,000,000 BUSHELS.
Banker Says Large Concerns Are In
terested and Early Official An
nouncement Is Promised.
SPOKANE, Wash., Aug. 8. (Spe
cial.) "What is declared to be a def
inite step toward the establishment in
Spokane of a grain clearing house for
growers and buyers of the whole
Northwest are the preliminary ar
rangements now under way for the
construction of a grain elevator with
a capacity for 1,000,000 bushels.
Negotiations to this end are being
made through people connected with
the Spokane & Eastern Trust Company,
and important results are expected
within a comparatively short time.
R. Lewis Rutter, president of the
Spokane & Eastern Trust Company, de
clined to divulge the identity of those
behind the movement, but said that one
of the largest corporations in the state
was interested in it.
"I am not at liberty to name those
who are behind the elevator enter
prise." declared Mr. Rutter. ''but an
official announcement in the matter
will be made in a short time."
MR. BROUGHTON IMPROVING
Rail Chler Reported Recovering
After Second Amputation Is Made.
MARSHFIELD, Or., Aug. 8. (Spe
cial.) A change for the better took
place in the condition of C. R. Brough
ton, assistant chief Engineer of the
Southern Pacific, who was yesterday
reported near death. Dr. George E.
Dix last night made a second ampu
tation of the leg that was crushed
in the railroad tunnelaaccident and the
patient soon afterwards showed marked
signs of improvement.
Friends offered to give their blood
to the patient, but it was not thought
desirable. Today Mr. Broughton's im
provement is so noticeable that his re
covery is indicated.
UNIVERSITY ACCEPTS GIFT
Emeritus Professor and His Wife
Make Endowment of $7 0,000. '
SAN FRANCISCO. A us. S. The Board
of Regents of the Uni :ty of Call
loraia, at a meeting licit- today, ao-
cepted an endowment of $70,000 from
George H. Howison. emeritus professor
of philosophy, and his wife.
The gift is in lands and bonds, 'he
income to go to the owners until their
death, when it is to be used to support
ravelling fellowships in philosophy
and English; to endow beds in the
university infirmary and to swell the
Lois Casewell fund for deserving women
students.
STORM INTENSIFIES HEAT
Humidity Increased by Terrific
Downpour in New York.
NETV'TORK. Aug. 8. A brief but
terrific thunder storm near the .end of
sizzling hot day abruptly dropped
the temperature, but instead of bring
ing relief added to discomfort by rais
ing the humidity. The heat today
killed four persons and prostrated
scores of others.
At 4 P. M., when the rain was nearly
over, the weather bureaus thermome
ter registered 80, as against 92 15 min
utes before.
Hundreds of appeals for ice and milk
were received by charitable institu
tions from poorer quarters of the city,
PETROGRAD RIOTERS SLAIN
Food Shortage Causes Outbreak,
Berlin Hears.
BERLIN, Aug. 8. (By Wireless to
Sayville. X. Y.) Twenty-eight persons
were killed and more than 100 wounded
in Petrograd during serious disorders
which took place there July 30 because
of almost complete exhaustion of the
food supply, according to Stockholm
reports given out today by the Over
seas News Agency.
Many houses and shops were looted
during the disturbances, which were
finally repressed by the military, the
advices add.
MOTHER, CHILD RUN DOWN
Mrs. E. W. Wylie and Four-Year-Old
Daughter Hit by Auto.
Mrs. E. W. Wylie. 532 East Fifty-
ninth street North, and her daughter,
Helen, 4 years old, were run down by
an automobile early last night at
Fifty-ninth and Sandy boulevard. The
machine was driven by Walter Winters,
whose address was given as 62 i Fif
teenth street North.
Mrs. Wylie and her daughter were
hurried to physicians in the neighbor
hood for attention, and Patrolman Hun
investigated the accident. Mr. 'Winters
was sent to the police station.
PEAK SCALED AT HIGH RATE
Auto Goes From Colorado Springs to
Top of Pike's In -15 Minutes.
COLORADO SPRINGS. Colo.. Aug. 8
From Colorado Springs to the sum
mit of Pike's Peak, a distance of 30
miles, in 45 minutes, was the record
run made by Hugh Hughes, the
English pilot-racer, and A. E. Hayes,
a local newspaper man, early today.
A rise of 6100 eet, the difference
between the elevation of Colorado
Springs and the summit, was overcome
on the trip, which was made without
mishap of any kind.-
MEDIATORS TO TRY
TO PREVENT. STRIKE
Offer May Not Wait on
Formal Request. '
BOARD WILL BE ON GROUND
Labor Federation Support Is
Promised Railroad Men.
GOMPERS SENDS LETTER
Result of Vote of Brotherhoods,
Communicated to Managers,
Shows Overwhelming Senti
ment for Stopping Work.
"WASHINGTON, Aug. 8. At the sug
gestion of President Wilson, Judge W.
L. Chambers and G. W. W. Hanger, of
the United States Board of Mediation
and Conciliation, left Washington to
night for New York to be on the
ground tomorrow when the representa
tives of 300.00.0 railroad men threaten
ing a strike confer with the represen
tatives of the carriers.
Martin A. Knapp, the third member
of the Board, now in Connecticut, also
is expected to reach New York tomor
row.
Board May Proffer Mediation.
Under the law the Board is not
authorized to offer its services until
asked to intervene by interested parties
or until a tie-up is imminent, but in
view of the magnitude of the threa
tened trouble it was said tonight that
an offer to mediate might be made
should the employers and the men fail
to get together tomorrow. President
Wilson, it was said tonight, wanted to
have the Board on the ground ready
to. do everything possible.
That the American Federation of
Labor stands squarely behind the men
in the demands for an eight-hour day
was made plain in a letter addressed to
officials of the unions involved by
President Gompera and made public
here tonight.
Gomper Pledges Support.
The communication was sent on be
half of the executive council to the
secretaries of the Order of the Rail
way Conductors and the Brotherhoods
of Railway Trainmen and Locomotive
Firemen and Engineers. In it Mr.
Gompers said:
'It is our earnest hope that the rail
road companies may be induced to take
a broad-minded and humanitarian view
of our demand. When the railway
companies understand the full mean
ing of the eight-hour day and realize
the advantages, moral and social, th
will inevitably result from its adoption
they cannot refuse to conoede the
workers the boon of the eight-hour
day and concede it without imposing
upon the workers the necessity of ces
sation of work in order to establish
your demand.
Full Sympathy Promised.
"Regardless of whether your deman
is secured by the voluntary agreemen
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INDEX OF TODAYS NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 68
decrees; minimum, 58 degrees.
TODAY'S Partly- cloudy; warmer; north
westerly winds.
War.
Italians capture key to Trieste. Pace 1.
Boston expects submarine Bremen. Page 2.
British victory near Sues Is complete.
Paso 3.
Official war reports. Pace 3-
Austrlans prepare to evacuate Lemberf.
Pace 3.
Politics.
Mr. Hushes makes bis hit with Chlcasoans.
Page .
Frank Hanly notified he is Prohibitionist
nominee. Page 5.
Hughes outlines policy he will pursue U
elected. Pago i.
Democrats deny charges of Mr. Hushes.
Pase 4.
National.
Additional allotment made for roads In
Oregon forest reserves. Page 2.
Fight for big Navy believed won. Page 2.
Federal mediators try ins to avert railroad
strike. Page 1.
Senate passes child labor bill. Page 14.
Sport.
Pacific Coast League results: Portland-
rnon game postponed, teams traveling;
Salt Lake 2, Oakland 1; Ios Angeles 3,
San Francisco 1. Page 12-
Beavers exercise option on Charley Hol-
locher. Page 12.
Red Sox cut lead of White Sox to half a
game. Page 12.
Auto race on Columbia Highway is pro
posed. Pag 12.
Rain interferes with Murray mead tennis.
Page 13.
Anglers preparing for fly and bait casting
tournament. fss 13.
Portland franchise may go to Sacramento.
Page 12.
Pacific Northwest.
Spokane seeking to become clearing-house
for lNortu west grain. Page l.
Oregon recruits start for border. Page M.
Creditors fall to get Clatsop fund. Page .
Carson Is darkened by sudden storm.
Page 1.
Commercial and Marine.
Oregon prune crop estimated at 55,000,000
pounds. Page 17.
Wall-street market resumes activity. Page 17.
Chicago market closes strong. Page 17.
Portland and Vicinity.
Billy Runrtay opns campaign against liquor
law amendment. Page 1.
Steady stream of buyers arriving. Page IV
Bart -r. is accused of stealing money from
patron. fa go t.
Captain Rorvlk dlfs. Page 16.
Voters nomlnato E. E. Coo vert for Joint
estate Senator. Page 5.
Alleged bigamist-forger, -w anted here, ar
rested in East. Page 6.
Wilson leagues laud President snd Demo
cratic Administration. Page 7.
Pythlans will adjourn today. Page 7.
Northwest merchants flock here for Buyers'
Week. Page 11.
Advance In price of bread likely if wheat
stays up. Page 11.
Woman makes prise speech at Democratic
banquet. rage i.
Crowd too big for Billy ' Sunday's voice.
Page 1 -8.
Girls "first aid" camp progresses. Page 38
Weather report, data and forecast. Page IT.
600.000 EGGS ARE SHIPPED
Pctaluma's Annual Consignment to
Alaska Is on Way.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 8. Six nun
dred thousand eggs for Fairbanks,
Alaska, arrived here today from Peta
Iuma. CaL It was' Petaluma's annual
shipment to Alaska.
The eggs came here by river steamer.
They will be shipped by coaster to
Seattle and from there sent on to Fair
banks.
SOLDIERS FIRE ON CACTUS
Shooting on Border Traced to Mas'
sacliusctts Guardsmen.
EL PASO. Tex., Aug. 8. Investlga
tion today of the shooting reported last
night by American outposts stationed
along the border on the outskirts o
El Paso disclosed that two privates o
Company K. Eighth Massachusetts In
fan try, had fired on a cactus plant.
The guardsmen contended, however,
that they had fired on smugglers.
TIME TO TAKE A PRACTICAL VIEW OF THE
BILLY SUNDAY HITS
RUM DEATH BLOWS
8000 Referee Spectac
ular Match:
BATTLE WAGED FROM RING
Vials of Wrath Turned Loose
in Language Picturesque.
'ROPOSED LAW ASSAILED
Past Master of Evangelists Tells
Immense Audience That Liquor
Takes All and Gives Nothing.
Flea Made for Helpless.
A FEW SITXDAYISMS.
A nickel in the hand is worth
. two In the Anheuser-Busch any
day.
The "booze-hister" hasn't go
enough money to buy birdseed
for a cuckoo clock.
If there ever was a jubilee In.
hell. It was when lager beer waa
invented.
The taloon is a murder mill and
a poison factory.
The only difference between a
high-toned saloon and a 1- "
down saloon is that one stinks
and the other smells bad.
If some men would drink more
water their families would have
more bread.
Rum promises prosperity and
sends adversity. It promises hap
piaess and sends misery.
BY CLARK WILLIAMS.
Billy Sunday, evangelist extraordi
nary, fought it out with "booze" at the
Portland Ice Hippodrome. Twenty-first
and Marshall streets, last night before
a packed house of probably 8000 people.
In characteristic fashion he tussled
with the demon, tooth and nail, and at
the finish none could withhold the de
cision from him.
Appropriately enough. Billy Sunday
fought from the ring platform used by
a local sportinar club, for boxing
matches and the canvas upon which
he stood was spotted and flecked with
the maroon-colored spots that spoke
eloquently of human conflict.
If the monster that he fought had
been a creature of flesh and blood,
that collection of blood smears would
have ben added to last night until
the whole 24-foot square would have
been plastered with gore. It would
huve been a shambles.
Demon Left Helpless. Bleeding.
Fit Billy Sunday kicked the demon
all over the place. He .tied its tail
in double knots, kicked in its ribs,
threw it over metaphorical cliffs, tied
It to imaginary railroad tracks Just
in front of the fast mail, dented it;
hide with punches and hoof prints and
at the finish, rum, the monster, was ly
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SITUATION.
CARSON IS DARK
WHEN STORM HITS
ELECTRIC LIGHTING SYSTEM IS
TEM PORARILY CRIPPLED.
All Fuse Plugs Blown .Out and
Two Large Transformers Are
Destroyed by Bolts.
STEVENSON. Wash.. Aug. S. (Spe
cial.) A terrific electric storm struck
the town of Carson, five miles east of
here, about 1 o'clock this morning.
Lightning struck the electric wires be
tween Nelson's store and Black's con
fectionery and the result was that ev
ery fuse plug In town was blown out.
The greatest damage was the destroy
ing of two huge transformers. They
were totally torn to pieces.
The stroke caused m. huge explosion,
which resembled a heavy blast, and few
were the people of Carson and vicinity
who were not awakened by it. A party
of engineers of Stevenson were eye
witnesses while returning from Car
son to St Martin's Springs when
the stroke occurred and were only 20
feet from, where it hit- The members
of the party were J. F. Joyce, Tom
Collins and George Jackson.
FIRE IMPERILS DOWNTOWN
Front-Street Blaze Quelled
Loss of $500.
With
While C, R. Griffith, manager of the
American Rubber Manufacturing Com
pany. 23 Front street, was experiment
ing on a new type of rubber hose to
submit to the fire bureau for trial,
fire, early this morning, Btarted in
the second story of the company's
building. Mr. Griffith says he was
using no chemicals that might have
Btarted the blaze and. the cause still
is unknown.
The building also is occupied by
Osmund & Co.. agents for laundry ma
chinery and supplies, and C. F. Harris
Co., printers. Mr. Griffith says the
combined fire and water loss of the
three companies probably was. less
than 8500. Practically ell the down
town fire apparatus wti called out.
AERIAL FOES MENACE KING
Montenegro Itulcr Watches. German
Airmen Maneuver.
P.VRIS Aug. 7. (Delayed.) A
squadron of German aeroplanes flew
over the headquarters of Colonel
on the French front while the King of
Montenegro waa paying a visit. The
machines drew a hot fire from nurner
ous special cannon and the French ar
tillery. The King, with glasses, fol
lowed the evolutions of the war
planes, noting with satisfaction the
telling shots that put them to flight.
King Nicholas previously had pinned
the Montenegrin military medal on
General Gourard. formerly commander
of the French expeditionary force at
the Dardanelles.
LIFE PRISONER ELECTED
Gaelic League Chooses Convicted
Seln Fein President.
LONDON. Aug. 8. Professor John
Macnelll, president of the Seln Fein
revolters, who is serving a life sen
tence for his participation in the re
cent uprising in Dublin, was today
elected president of the Gaelic League,
says an Exchange Telegraph Compa
dispatch from Dublin.
Professor Macnelll succeeds Dr.
Douglas Hyde, who has been presi
dent of the league since its formation
in 1893.
0.-W. R. & N. RAISES WAGES
Machinists, Boilermakers and Help
ers Get V'nsolicited Increase.
THE DALLES. Or.. Aug. 8. (Spe
cial.) O.-W. R. & N. machinists and
boilermakers and their helpers have
been granted a raise in wages, effective
August 1. The raise waa unsolicited.
Machinists receive an increase from
44 cents to 47 cents an hour, helpers
23 cents to 25 cents; boilermakers, 48
cents to 47 cents; helpers, 24 cents
to 2 cents.
MILK MAY GO BY MAIL
St. Louis Dealers to Try to
Strike by Parcel Post.
Break
ST. LOUIS. Aug. 8. Thousands of St.
Louisans became their own milkmen
today as a result of a strike and lock
out of B00 union milk drivers, which
virtually tied up the service of the four
largest dairy distributors here.
The dealers announced tonight they
would attempt to supply considerable
trade by using the parcel post.
SHARK KILLED AT RESORT
Monster Battles Several Men at
Itockaway Beach, X. Y.
NEW TORK. Aug. 8 After a strug
gle in which several men took part a
shark seven and a half feet long and
weighing 225 pounds was hooked In the
b thins center of Rockaway Beach.
1 It was then shot to death.
I. V. V. Gets Life Sentence.
DICKIXSOX. . D Aug. S. Frank
Lang, an Industrial Worker of the
World, who came here from Chicago
recently, wan sentenced to life Impris
onment in the District Court today.
after he had confessed he killed Louis
arson, a farmer of this city, as the
1 result of a quarrel.
TALIS
1
HEAVILY AT FOE
Gorizia Bridgehead and
10,000 Men Taken.
TOWN NOW BEING SHELLED
Trieste Is Menaced and Rome
Expects Drive to Assume
. Vast Proportions.
AUSTRIAN LINE WEAKENING
I Withdrawal of Men to Meet
Russians on East Front
Seems Apparent.
BT ARTHUR S. DRAPER.
(War
Correspondent of the New
"Tor
Tribune. By Special Cable.
LONDON, Aug. 8. The Italians
have struck a heavy blow in the great
allied offensive. Assailing the Isonzo
line, on the 60-mile front from Tol-
mino to the Adriatic, adorna's troops
have captured the Gorizia bridgehead
and bagged more than 10,000 Aus-
trians.
With the third year of the war just .
begun, the Teuton lines are being'
battered in three huge drives. The
Russian attack gains momentum, the
allies on the western front have
launched a new combined offensive
and now the Italians have joined in
the attack.
Trieste Seriously Menaced.
London sees in Cadorna's offensive
one of the most significant and en
couraging signs since the war began.
Not only does it give evidence of the
regularity and the solidarity of the al
lies' schedule in the advance, but it
shatters all prospect of an Austrian
offensive on the Trentino front.
The Italian successes have created
a serious menace to Trieste and pre
pared the way for an invasion of Aus
tria. In fierce fighting in the last two
days, Cadorna's men captured Monte
Sab,otino, north of Gorizia, and Monto
San Michele, on the Carso plateau, ly
ing to the. south. This gives them
control of Gorizia bridgehead, one of
the most important of the Austrian
defences along the Isonzo.
Austrian Forces Weakened.
Gorizia. lying between the moun
tains on the north and the Carso pla
teau on the south, blocked the road
to Trieste. The Italians a year ago
won a hold on the Carso plateau, but
they could not advance on Trieste be
cause such a move laid tneir iianic
and rear open to an attack by the
Austrians at Gorizia.
The Russian victories, which have
brought the Czar's troops close to .
Kovel and Lemberg, have drawn heav
ily on the Austrian reserves. Those
victories were continued today and
the Slav threat continues to grow.
General Koebess, an able General, was
transferred from the Trentino front
to GaKcia in an effort to stem the
Russian tide. Austrian troops were
transferred from the Jsonzo front to
the Galician line.
Town Now Being Shelled.
Against the weakened Isonzo line
Cadoma attacked last Friday. The
first success was won on Sunday,
when, in the Monfalcone zone, south -of
Gorizia, the Italians made note
worthy progress and clinched their
hold on the Carso plateau. The time
had then come to renew the frontal
attack on Gorizia, aiming the biow at
Podgora, directly west of the strong
hold, and the heights guarding it on
the flanks.
The battle for these salient points
has been raging for the last two days,
with - the Austrian line crumbling
gradually before the unrelenting
blows. In front of Gorizia the con
flict continues, but the important
heights controlling the approaches to
the stronghold are now in the Italians
possession. Cadorna's guns are shell
ing the town, clearing the way for
the final thrust that will carry it.
Way for Invasion Will Beppen.
When Gorizia falls the way will be .
open for an invasion of Austria. With
the surrounding heights, the town
forms the gateway into Austria and
its surrender will make possible both
an advance on Trieste and a new of
fensive eastward along the Carso pla
teau into Austria proper.
As significant as the capture of the
Gorizia bridgehead is the great num.
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