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MIE MORNING OREGONIAW. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1916. . TAFT CRITICISES STRIKE LEGISLATION Adamson Bin Passed to Se cure Votes and Not for ' ... Humanity, He Says. . BLUNDERS IN MEXICO AIRED Ex-President . Likens Campaign to That of 189 6,' When Democrats Sought Power for Unsound but Alluring Reasons. TRENTON. N. X. Oct. 4. 'Asserting that the campaign of 1916 is as im portant as the campaign of 1896 and resembles that campaign, ta that the Democratic party and its' candidates are seeking power for disingenuous, unsound but alluring reasons, ex-President Taft opened the Republican state campaign here tonight. Mr. Taft attacked the Democratic party's fiscal poncy as extravagant, at tacked its free-trade tariff, its claim to credit for prosperity and also its foreign policy. He also turned his at tention to President Wilson's defense of his course in settling the threatened railroad strike through, the enactment of the Adamson law. "Corporations and trade unions are necessities of modern economic so ciety," said Mr. Taft. "The power they acquire, however, may tempt to seri ous abuse, and they have done so, hence the anti-trust law and the interstate commerce law. Labor leaders have sought exemption from such laws, and in some instances they have been suc cessful. Unwise subserviency tosjde mands of labor leaders finds its crown ing instance in Mr. Wilson's dealing with the threatened strike of the rail way brotherhoods. "It was one of the greatest National humiliations to which the people of this country have been subjected. Mr. Wilson's defense is that he acted in behalf of humanity and of society, but this defense is palpably disingenuous and confirms the just inference that what moved him chiefly was to secure votes, and that the real interests of the country had but little effect. "Mr. Wilson cannot shift blame for his blunders in Mexico. He had a clean slate upon which to write when he came in. t "Mr. Hughes is a man whose avowed opinions always have been the guide of his actions. .Having in view Mr. Wilson's record on nearly every po litical question and Mr. Hughes' course as Governor of New York, it would be difficult to find among the public one who is less like Mr. Wilson than Mr. Hughes." ALBANY TO UK All FAIRBANKS Vice-Presidential Nominee Will Give Talk Tomorrow Noon. ALBANY, Or., Oct. 4. (Special.) Arrangements have been completed for a 20-minute talk here next Friday noon by Charles Warren Fairbanks, former Vice-President of the United States and running mate of Charles E. Hughes in the present campaign. Ac companied by National Committeeman Williams and State Chairman McNary, Mr. Fairbanks will reach Albany at 12:15 Friday noon. He will leave the city at 12:50 and the address will be made in the meantime. Mr. Fairbanks will come to this city on a Southern Pacific train and leave for Salem over the Oregon Electric, and the difference in time of departure of the trains on the two lines will per mit his address at this city. urged non-partisanship in county and state affairs, but the North Yakima state convention did not even consider such a plank and in whatever campaign he makes he will now be a straight party man. He will be so independent that he will urge everybody else to be independent enough to vote the Demo cratic ticket. Mr. Cotterlll to Help Governor. George F. Cotterill. who is something of a professional dry and who has served in all parties that have existed since he came of voting age, has been State Senator, Mayor of Seattle and now ' is Highway Engineer and the Democratic nominee for Congress in the First District, announced today that he would begin his campaign next week. He will be backed by the or ganized dry element and is expected to bring to Mr. Lister whatever support he can get from that source. The Anti-Saloon League is not op posing former Governor Henry Mc Bride. the Repubjican nominee, so it will be Mr. Cotterill's duty to attempt to round up the dry votes. The Democratic split has had the ef fect of halting temporarily the Repub lican organization for the Republicans are waiting to see how it eventuates. However, ex-Governor McBride, the Republican Gubernatorial nominee, has refused to take any interest in the bourbon scrap. He is to make his first campaign speech in Aberdeen Thursday night and has been busy going over the subjects which he will discuss. Mr. McBride has refused to discuss the Democratic situation and apparently is so confident that he does not care what is happening in the rival camp. BAKER DEFENDS WILSON APPROVAL OF 8-HOUR LAW UPHELD BY WAR SECRETARY. EX-SENATOR WARNER DIES Former Missouri Official Passes at Home at Kansas City. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 4. Major William Warner, former United States Senator from Missouri, died at his home here this afternoon. Major Warner had been ill for sev eral weeks, his last illness being at tributed by his friends to liis activities in connection wth the entertainment of the 60th annual reunion of the Grand Army of the Republic. When his con dition became critical three months ago a transfusion of blood from liis son was resorted to in the hope of in creasing his strength, but the improve ment was only temporary. Death was ascribed by physicians to arterio sclerosis. Surviving the ex-Senator are his widow and two children, John B. War ner, of Kansas City, and Mrs. Jerome Wilbur, of Washington. RAILROAD PROFITS GROW Southern Line Has Greatest Year In Its History. LOUISVILLE, Oct. 4. The Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company closed the greatest year in its history on June 30, according to the report of president Milton H. Smith at the an nual stockholders' meeting here today. Its gross operating revenues for the fiscal year were t60.317.093. an in crease of $8,711,978 over the previous year, and $411,526 over the year ending June ao, 1914, the best previous record. The net income was $13,953,849, an increase of $3,093,707 over the previous year, and equal to 19.38 per cent of its capitalization of $72,000,000. The cor porate surplus at the close of the year was i3.3ti,3i4, as compared with $44 096,657. AMERICAN PARTY ACTIVE Mr. Sulzer Says Republican National Ticket Will Be Supported. NEW YORK, Oct. 4. The American party, organized in 1914 by William Sulzer. ex-Governor of New York, plans to take an active part in- the present campaign, it was announced here to night. Mr. Sulzer asserts the party will support the National Republican ticket and a part of the state Repub lican ticket. Mr. Sulzer expressed the opinion that his party would poll 50,000 votes. LISTER TO GO IN ALONE (Continued From First Page.) ization and their earnestness is indi cated by the fact that they have en' gaged separate headquarters. Mr. Lis ter could stop 'all these preparations tomorrow, but even if he made a change in the programme the fact remains that the Listerles have openly defied the Federal brigade and the split would still exist. There was talk that Mr. Lister would declare in favor of non-partisanship. but be will not do so.- At one time he President Declared to Have Acted In Behalf of Innocent Bystander When Food Supply Was Limited. NEW YORK. Oct. 4. Newton D. Baker, Secretary, of War, defended President Wilson's approval of the eight-hour day for railway trainmen in an address here today at a mass meet ing of women, held under the auspices of the women's bureau of the Demo cratic National Committee. "Recently," said the Secretary, "an issue has arisen in the form of the eight-hour law. ... My father was the railroad physician at a terminal. I believe in the eight-hour law for men who operate a railway. I have seen men come to our door and awaken my father at all times of the night, be cause of the wrecks caused by engi neers who had been asleep. Engineers used to work 20 hours continuously in their cabs in those days. If we should look at the- victims of railway acci dents in this country in the aggregate. the number would.be beyond that of all the victims of the great battles of the Marne and Verdun. "We want our railway men in full vigor, with full senses for a man's command of a dangerous day's work." President Wilson," added the Sec retary, "considered himself as repre senting the innocent bystander, likely to suffer because of an argument be tween two groups of gentlemen. He asked Congress for the passage of the eight-hour legislation. He met the issue of the moment when there was not a week's supply of food ahead in the cities of the country." FRAUDS ARE NOT PROVED ELECTION CASES . TX WEST VIR GINIA ARE ENDED. Acquittal FoIIow Testimony by Per- mm, Whose Names Were on Bal lots, That They Did Not Vote. HUNTING TON, W. Va.. Oct. 4 A jury in the Federal Court here today returned a verdict of not guilty in the case of 11 residents of Eagle Precinct, Mingo County, indicted for fraud in connection with the Congressional election of 1914. During the trial, which occupied more than a week, testimony was given by witnesses called by the Government that 195 ballots were found in the War Eagle precinct ballot box, this being the exact number of voters registered in me precinct, and that many of the ballots were cast, in alphabetical order. Residents registered as voters testi fied that they had not voted, although ballots bearing their names were found in the box. Greenway Hatfield, brother of Henry D. Hatfield, Governor of West Virginia, was among those indicted, but in in structing the Jury today. Federal Judge C. A- Woods, directed his acquittal, say ing evidence adduced was insufficient to support the charges against him.' MURDERER IS SENTENCED Elderly Bridegroom Says He Killed Wife for Small Sum. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Oct. 4. Scott Maussell, of Mancelona, Mich., pleaded guilty in Circuit Court today to the murder of Mrs. Anna H. St. John, of Mayf ield, N. Y. He was sentenced to life imprisonment at Jackson. Maussell, who is 64 years of age, confessed that he lured the aged woman to Grand Rapids, married her on the afternoon of September 19, and killed her the next day. A small sum of money which Mrs. St. John pos sessed was the object of the crime. Store Closed All Day Saturday in Observance of a Jewish Holiday BREWER OFFERS SOLUTION Reduction of Alcohol in Beer and Ban on Splritous Liquor Is Idea. BUFFALO, N. Y., Oct. 6. A reduction In the amount of alcohol in beer was advocated by-speakers at the 20th an nual convention of the Master Brewers' Association, which ended here yester day. Hugh S. Fox. secretary of the United States Brewers Association, declared that the solution of the whole liquor problem would be prohibition of the sale of spirituous liquors and license for the sale of beer and light wines. American Professor Honored. ROME, via Paris. Oct. 4. Professor Jesse Benedict Carter, director of the American Academy in Rome, has been appointed by Lucien Poincare, French director of public instruction, to de liver lectures this Winter at 12 provin cial universities in France. Berlin War Official Named. BERLIN, Oct. 4. (By wireless to Sayville, N. Y.) Lieutenant-General von Schoelen has been appointed Dep uty Minister of War, succeeding Lieu-tenant-General von Wandel, who re signed recently because of poor health. Auditor's Trial Under Advisement. COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho. Oct. 4. The case of D. E. Danby, ex-Auditor of Kootenai County, who was indicted last week by a special grand jury on 17 counts alleging embezzlement, was taken under advisement today when a demurrer was filed. The New Pictorial Review Patterns for November Depict the latest modes as conceived by the fore most designers. And we are offering any of these 10c and 15c patterns free with the Fashion Book. Second Floor torieffes from toreand Jules Guerin Prints Reproduced in color from his originals of .famous French cha teaux and American structures, now on exhibition in the picture galleries. Subjects suitable for the adornment of homes, schools and libraries. Priced at $1.75 and $3. Sixth Floor F rench Boudoir Sets Mae their first bow in the Nee dlework Shop dresser scarf, pin cushion and round pillow, with auaint little baskets and trailing French flowers to be embroid ered. The edges are finished with scalloping combined with' dainty lace. A most suitable gift for the bride or for Xmas. Price, stamped, 75c set. Fifth Floor. New Chinese Rugs In exquisite shadings of blues, mulberry, rose and tans, copied from the rare old imported Chi nese rugs. One of these Mcrati Wiltons will lend the true Orien tal atmosphere to living-room, dining-room or librar). Room size, 9x12 feet, finished at the ends with linen fringe. Priced at $75. Fifth Fl4r. Oh, So Comfortable The new smugglers and dressing sacques of softest nieJ wool, for misses and Women. One is in two-toned lavender and while, price $6. Another in Swiss Jf-nrf stitch, in daintiest lavender, pink or blue, at $4. Still another in Saxony Weave, with pastel shaded borders, and only $5. Fourth Floor. New Filet Linens So closely resemble the real lace that it requires sharp eyes to de tect the difference. A dresser or buffet scarf, 20x54 inches, has pure linen center, with deep filet all around and center 30x30 also is bordered with filet, at least 6 inches wide, ' in lovely butterfly and bird patterns. Priced $1.75 and $2.50. Second Floor. cMerchandcfcJL Merit Only" .: ' - . ' - " ' ' ' ' ., - Mr. Starling of North Tonowanda, N. will speak in the Auditorium Thursday at 4 P. M. on Flax, Its Cultum and Uses To sewing teachers and se.ving popils of High and Grammar schools. Pu balic invited. KUhth Flor. Through Special Arrangements With a Leading Hatter We Are Enabled to Offer Today The Very Newest The Most Fashionable Untrimmed Black Velvet Hats Of a Very Superior Quality In Fifteen Different Shapes (Eight of which are illustrated ) Corset Week A Fashionable ELxposiion Introducing Authoritative Model 4 as Decreed by Fashion Featuring for Today Modart Corsets at $4.00 The Improved Front Lace This model ' will meet the demarvis of any woman wearing size 20 to 24. Made of fine coutil with the usual supe rior Modart trimmings. Low-bust and long-hip style.; Ask f oar Miss Kit trick Expert Modart Fitter Kurt Kloor. At a Sale Price That Is Very Special at $2.50 A wealth of fashionable shapes large sailors with soft crowns, stunning turbans, clever turn-up effects, the smart tricorne and the bandeau hat. The hats require but little trimming and are in styles appropriate for all ages and all occasions. Third Floor Black Silk Sale Continues With Greatest Euthusiasm Thursday We Offer Chiffon Tafj eta $1.60 Heavy Peau de Soie $1.79 The chiffon taffeta is 40 inches wide, in black only, and in just the right weight for dresses and waists. The peau de soie that is extra heavy, 35 ins. wide and specially adaptable to the fashionable new suits, dresses and w-aists. Second Floor One of the Smartest Modes of the Moment Is Introduced in These Wool Velour.' Coats , At $22.50 In Black, Navy and Brown Fashioned in smart flaring style with deep pockets and large cuffs. And deep chin chin collar of beaver. New Striped Tub Silk Blouses Are Only $2.50 Are shown in a large assortment of fancy colored stripes. Made in a semi-tailored style, trimmed with pearl buttons. Third Floor And "Straight Lines" Is the Main Feature of These Two New Models In Women's ' Serge Dresses In Navy, Brown, Black and Green At $18.50 )ne model is finely pleated in both back and front with the waistline gracefully defined by a loose belt that loops in front. The Mother model is trimmed with embroidery and finished with white satin' collar and cuffs. - Third Kloor. f II l ! , , , ! HARMONY IS URGED Mr. Fairbanks Indorses Candi dacy of Governor Johnson. DEMOCRATS ARE ASSAILED Vice-Presidential Xominee Says Op ponents Have Repudiated Many Campaign Planks and Says That Is Good for American People. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 4. Harmony in Republican ranks and the election of Governor Hiram W. Johnson to the United States Senate were urged here today by Charles W. Fairbanks, Re publican nominee for Vice-President, addressing' a luncheon attended by former Progressives and leaders in both the regrular and united wing's of the party. Mr. Fairbanks arrived here today from Los Angeles and leaves to morrow for Portland. National policies were not dwelt upon at length by Mr. Fairbanks. He said his party was pledged to the up building: of a merchant marine and the re-enaction of the protective tariff. "Mr. Hughes," he declared, "is an able, liberal-hearted, broad-minded man. who would be true to a public trust. "The Democrats have repudiated many campaign planks, and the more they repudiate the better it is for the American people. If we continue under Democratic rule after the war we will return to the adverse conditions exist ing before the war. when its inception halted us in our decline into industrial chaos." Once In the course of his speech the nominee sought for a word to describe the divisions of the Republican party. "No, I won't say factions," he said, "for factionalism in the Republican party is buried." 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