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TTTT3 3TOTINTXO OREGOXIAX, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 191G.
PINCHOT, AS 10SE,
ARGUES FOB HOGHES
Record as Governor Cited as
Most Progressive Effect
of Tariff Mentioned.
.BROKEN PLEDGES COUNTED
NOTED PROGRESSIVE LEADER WHO SPOKE AT BAKER THEATER
LAST NIGHT FOR CHARLES E. HUGHES.
Ex-Chief forester Appeals for Elec
tion of Man Whose Word Can lie
Trusted and Who Can Win
Kespect of World.
Continued From First Page.)
ord as an exponent of progressive poli
cies, Mr. Pinchot read excerpts from a
number of laudatory editorials appear
ing: In the. New York World, a .leading:
Democratic paper of the United States,
during- and following Hughes' incum
bency as Governor of, New Tork.
"High praise, isn't it?" commented
Mr. Pinchot, after he read from one of
these editorials, appearing- July 5, 1910,
the words: "Mr. Hughes is a man fit
ted for any office of public trust."
"Could anything be finer?" he added.
"The newspaper from which all these
excerpts come is now President "Wil
son's leading supporter, and is attack
ing Mr. Hughes.
"Its own words of a few years back,
before Mr. .Hughes was opposing its
candidate for the Presidency, sum up
the situation better than I could tell it.
What more convincing evidence could
you want?"
Proceeding, Mr. Pinchot discussed
President Wilson and his record.
"Mr. Wilson has made his own record
the issue of this campaign," he said.
"He has said he is running on his rec
ord. I realize that there are certain
limits beyond which no critic of the
Administration should transgress, but
it seems to me that no American has
the" right to do less under the circum
stances than to tell the truth, and tell
it plainly, and no American has the
right to reprove him for telling it.
Dependable Man Wanted
"What we want in the man we put
Into the White House is exactly the
kind of man you want for a friend, for
a banker, the man with whom .you have
business dealings.
What we must have is a man upon
whom, in the next four years, the peo
pie of the United States can. absolutely
depend.
"President Wilson " he was contin
uing when some Wilson supporters
started to cheer. "I am particularly
glad to una President wnson nas so
many friends in this bouse because
that gives me a chance to convert quite
a lot of you," was Mr. Pinchot's com
ment.
"During his term of office, because
of the circumstances surrounding him,"
continued the speaker, "he has been
singularly free from criticism. IJe went
into office with the great good will of
the majority of the American people.
They wanted him to make good.
know I admired him very much and
hoped to see him succeed..
First Hope Not Fulfilled.
I regret to have to say," went on
Mr. Pinchot, "that after having been
in ortice three and one half years
President Wilson , has demonstrated
that he has a larger capacity than
any other man in public life to say
one thing and do another and got
away with it. You are all perfectly
familiar with the facts that lead to
this conclusion, but I want to recall
to your mind a few of them.
.One of the things he promised at
the beginning of his Administration
was that he would reduce the high
cost of living. Has he done it?
"He said at a meeting of farmers
that his promises were "not molasses
to catch flies,' and that a man who
didn't keep his promises should be re
tired to a very quiet and private place.
Party Platform Repudiated.
"Yet you will remember that he had
hardly entered the White House when,
at tne dictation or a foreign power, i
giving no reason for his action except
a vague statement that public policy
required it, he went back on party
platform pledge for free tolls to Amer
ican coastwise ships through the Pan
ama Canal, and got the free tolls law
repealed.
"You women," Mr. Pinchot continued,
"remember that President Wilson
wheu he was asked early in his Ad
ministration by a delegation of women
to help them obtain a National woman
suffrage amendment to the Federal
Constitution, replied that he could not
go baok of his party platform.
"He throws the platform down when
he wants- to in the Canal tolls matter,
but he doesn't throw it down when it is
women he is talking to."
Mr. Pinchot discussed other pledges
the President had failed to keep,
among them that of "pitiless public
ity." Administration Most Secretive.
"I have known Washington for the
better part of six Presidential Admin
istrations," he said earnestly, "and I
have never .known an Administration
as secretive, one in which the people
knew as little of the public business as
that of President Wilson. And I shall
ask you to consider that, in conection
with his declaration that his Adminis
tration would be characterized by
pitiless publicity.
He went on to speak of the sup
pressed report on the health of the
troops on the Mexican border, sup
pressed "because it might lead to criti
cism of the Administration"; of the
suppressed reports of Admiral Kiske,
and of Admiral Fletcher, "reports that
had to do with our first line of de
fence."
"Now a campaign pledge is a con
tract with the people, and a contract
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List Are W. L. Jones, E. G.
Mills and Senator Gore.
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GIFFORD PIXCHOT.
to be kept," said Mr. Pinchot. "And
to make campaign pledges and not live
up to them is just another way of get
ting something for nothing."
Change of Front Recalled.
Mr. Pinchot quoted many incidents
in the Wilson Administration to illus
trate what he termed the President's
Independability, his change of front
time and again on important Issues.
Among others he cited the continental
army plan of Secretary of War Garrl-1
son, and quoted words of the President
warmly praising it and denouncing the
plan of Representative Hay.
"But having aken the clearcut stand
that Garrison was right and Hay
wrong, he permitted Hay to say on the
floor of Congress that his plan wae
the President's plan, which resulted in
Garrison's retirement to private life
because the President did not support
him after promising to do so, and re
warded Hay with a Federal life Job!"
said Mr. Pinchot.
Wilson Slogan Answered.
He gave ample attention to the hys
terical Democratic cry that "Wilson
haa ksot us out of war."
The chief argument for Wilson's re
election," he asserted, "appears to be
that we have not been at .war during
his Administration."
It is true that we have spent be
tween Jl.000.000 and 2. 000.000 in war
like expeditions into Mexico; that more
of our citizens have been killed lr Mex
ico than were killed during the Spanish
War, and that during Wilson's term in
the White House we have been always
on the verge of trouble and have
skidded from one war scare or crisis
into the next.
Loss of World Respect Asserted.
"It is true that our citizens have been
murdered with impunity and that we
have been bluffed Into eating our
words in the sight of the whole world
"It is true that there is no closed
season in Mexico on Americans.
"It is true that we have lost the
respect of all the great nations of
Europe and that we are left to face the
coming readjustment of international
relations without the friendship of
single one of the countries which will
control.
"It is true that all this happened to
us because the Wilson Administration
played the coward and did not mean
what it said.
"It is true that Grover Cleveland
was a Democrat, and Cleveland: Kept
Ize. It is a bitter thing to have to say.
But it is true.
"Colby's defense of the President's
Mexican policy is based on the simple
device of . overlooking the facts. If he
forgets to remember that the Wilson
Administration has wavered and foozled
In Mexico and has armed the Mexicans
against ourselves, as it has; if he over
looks the fact that the Administration
has spent between $100,000,000 and
J200.000.000 on intervention, meantime
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us out of war with England and saved
our self respect at the same time in
the Venezuela incident and he only
had to write one note!
Colonel's Words Rated at Par.
"It is true that Theodore Roosevelt
kept us out of war when the Germans
threatened the Monroe Doctrine in Cen
tral America. The world knew that
Roosevelt meant just what he said
and there was no war and I call your
attention to the fact that not one
American soldier or sailor was fired
on by a foreign power while Roosevelt
was. President!
"It is true that an Administration
with courage and common sense and
the habit of meaning what it said
would have kept us out of war far
more than Wilson for we have
actually been at war "with Mexici
and would not have lost the place of
influence and consideration which
Cleveland and Roosevelt maintained.
All this is true, but still they say
Thank God for Wilson; he kept us ou
of war.
Europe Haa Contemnt for Wilson.
Mr. Pinchot clearly showed the fal
lacy of the contention made by Bain
bridge Colby's recent speech that th
United States under the Wilson Admin
istration has maintained the admiration
and respect of the European nations.
"I have been in France. England.
Holland and Belgium since the war be
gan, ' he said. "It was with shame an
mortification that I realized, both from
what was said to me and what was no
said, that the respect and affection with
which the United States was once re
garded have disappeared, and that few
or none among the statesmen of Kurop
have anything but contempt and dislik
for the American President, who neith
er stands by his word nor means what
he says. It was a bitter thing to real
enying that it was intervention; if he
urns his eyes away from the obvious
ruth that the spineless policy of the
Administration has not only allowed.
ut encouraged, the Mexicans to 'spill
much blood as they pleased." a con-
iderable part of it being American
ood; if he blinks the fact that by
owardly inaction and by encouraging
irst one bandit and then another
Wilson has thrown away the last
remnant of respect the Mexicans once,
naa ror tne united &tates; lr ne re
fuses to recall that as a esult. more
Americans have been killed In Mexico
tl -n were killed during in j Lpanlsh
War; if he cannot rememosr that the
itizens of nations which protc-ct tht-ir
people abroad were practica'.ly Immune
rom outrage in Mexico that not a
ingle German, but one Englishman
no two r renenmen. as against a dou l
00 Americans have been killed by the
Mexicans; if he proceeds with Secre
ary of War Baker on the theory that
Villa and his murderers and Carranze
and his bandits, are as good as the men
of Valley Forge; if he overlooks these
and a host of other facts like them.
then it is easy for Colby or any one
else to admire the Mexican policy of
President Wilson. But it can't bedone
any other way.
Real American Demanded.
'I notice that among the achieve
ments of the Wilson Administration to
which Colby attributed what he calls
our unparalleled prosperity' Is the
rural credits law. The rural credits
law has Just been enacted. So far as
know not one farmer has borrowed
cent under it. How, then, can it
have anything to do with prosperity?
Colby s attack on Colonel xtoosevelt
is Important only as showing that he
cannot successfully attack Mr. Hughes.
1 happen to know personally and
directly from Theodore Roosevelt that
he is as strong for the Progressive
party principles as ever he was, but he
sees, what every wise man sees, that
the paramount duty before every patri
otic American, before every man who
stands for the safety, honor and wel
fare of the United States, is to get rid
of Wilson to put out of office the man
who has gone back on the safety, honor
and welfare of the United States, whose
record proves that you can't depend on
him: and to put at the head of our Gov
ernment Charles Evans Hughes, a real
American, a man who keeps his word,
and whose record proves it."
"Oil Grab" Is Described.
Mr. Pinchot said he could not con
clude his speech without a word on
conservation, and then went on to ex
plain what he termed the California
"oil grab." by which, he said, an at
tempt is being made to obtain for pri
vate interests oil lands in California
owned by the Government and reserved
for the use of the Navy.
Following tne meeting last night Mr.
Pinchot held an impromptu reception
at the Portland Hotel, wBere he was
greeted by officials and attaches of the
local offices of the Federal Forestry
Bureau, many of whom know him per
sonally. He also conferred with J. N.
Teal on conservation subjects. He and
Mr. Teal are personal friends. Mrs.
J. B. Montgomery, of Portland, a cou
sin of Mr. Pinchot, also met him last
night. He will leave at 3:50 this aft
ernoon over the bouthern Pacific for
California.
Most of the heavy artillery of the
campaign in Oregon, so far as impor
tant outside speakers are concerned, has
now been fired by both Republicans
and Democrats. For the remaining two
weeks until election the major part oi
the work will be done by volunteers
from the trenches.
Giffor.l Pinchot. the noted Progres
sive, who spoke at the Baker Theater
last nie-ht for Hughes. . Is the last
speaker of National prominence sched
uled by the Hughes compaign com
mittee to speak in Portland. w esiey
L,. Jones United States Senator from
Washington, will ppeak in Salem to-
ht and . Edgar G. Mills, or fteai'-ie.
wil sDtak through the Valley and in
Southern Oregon during the week. They
are the onlv outside speakers now
listed t" talk in the state, however.
Demand for Borah Great.
It had boen hoped by Ralph E. Wil
liams, Republican National Committee
man, and Judsre Charles MC.Nary,
chairman of the Republican State Cen
tral Committee, to bring Senator uoran,
of Idaho, to Portland for a speech this
week. Senator Borah is so greatly in
demand, however, for speeches else
where, that he has been called East.
Word to this effect was received ut
Republican headquarters yesterday.
The Democrats have only one nation
ally prominent speaker yet to be heard
in Oregon. Senator Gore, of Oklahoma,
"the blind Senator," as he Is known,
is to make two speeches In the state
this week, but will not speak at Port
land unless his Itinerary is changed at
the last moment.
Both Republican and Democratic Na
tional Committees have sent some of
their trump cards to Oregon for cam
paign speeches, and Portland has been
fortunate enough to hear most of them.
Among the Republicans and Progres
sives who have spoken here for Hughes
are Albert J. Beverldge, Charles War
ren Fairbanks, Henry D. Estabrook,
Gifford Pinchot, Senator Norris, of Ne
braska, who spoke at Pendleton, and ex
Senator Theodore E. Burton.of Ohio.
who made a notable .Hughes address
at Dallas.
Democratic L.lfet Notable.
The Democrats have had such 16-
ctntimeter guni as ex-Senator Charles
A. Towne, Judge Albert D. Nortlnl,
Bainbridge Colby and William B. Wil
son. Secretary of Labor. Senators
Chamberlain and Lane, of Oregon, have
lso been stumping the state.
The Republicans have uncovered a
remarkable and most effective cam
paigner in Mrs. E. B. Hanley, of Med
ford, first vice-president of the Oregon
Hughes Alliance, who is now speaking
in Eastern Oregon. Mrs. Hanley's sue
cess as a speaker is all the more re
markable inasmuch as before this cam
paign she had never made a political
speech in her life.
She took the stump only with reluc
tance and in response to the demand
that arose from all sections of the
sta.te to hear her. following her notable
address at the State Hughes Alliance
conference here three weeks ago. She
will make an address in Portland be
fore the close of the campaign.
The Democrats, on the other hand.
also have a talented woman campaigner
in Mrs. Alexander Thompson, of The
Dalles. Mrs. Thompson is an eloquent
and finished speaker. She is to make
a campaign address in Portland at the
Baker Theater Thursday night.
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MRS. . KENT "APPEALS
Failure v of President to
Suffrage Is Basis.
Aid
Senator Chamberlain asserted that the
former was appealing to the "higher
citisenshlp, while on the" other hand
Mr. Hughes is indulging In criticism
and personal abuse."
He pleaded for Progressive support
with the assertion that the Wilson Ad
ministration hal enacted every meas
ure which the Progressive party had
advocated.
O'LEARY REPEATS DENIAL
NO
PROMISES OK ANY KIND MADE
BY MR. IIICHES.
VIEWS OF TWO COMPARED
Wilson Inconsistencies and Steadfast
Refusal to Favor Federal Amend-
Are Cited 'as Proof
ment
Hope is TTseless.
Lmendment
A Hughes rally will be held in room
A of the Central Library Wednesday
night by the West Side branch of the
Hughes Allianc. Gus C. Moser and
B. O. Skulason will make the addresses
of the evening. There will also be a
musical programme. The rally will
open at 8 o'clock, and the general pub
lie is invited.
Bill Hanley, of Burns, and Judge
Thomas C. Burke Collector of Customs
at Portland, will speak for Wilson at
a Democratic rally at the University of
Oregon Wednesday night, and at Falls
City Thursday night. They spoke at
a Democratic meeting to the West
Portland High School last night.
Issues of the Presidential campaign
will be discussed at Vernon School to
morrow night, under the auspices of
the Alberta Welfare League, by George
Arthur Brown for Hughes, and John II.
Stevenson for Wilson. . Speaking will
begin at 8 o'clock.
The Alblna . branch of the National
Hughes Alliance will meet In the Albina
Branch Library Wednesday night at 8
o'clock. T. T. Ueer. ex-Governor of
Oregon, will be the speaker of the
evening?.
A benefit meeting of the First Vio
liner Benefit Association wll be held
In Gevurtz Hall, Front and Glbbs
streets, tonight. After 9:15 o'clock the
meeting will be opened to candidates
of all parties for brief speeches.
Bureau Chief Coming Here to Speak.
WASHINGTON Oct. 23. Dr. Frank
R. Rutter, assistant chief of the Bureau
of Foreign and Domestic Commerce,
will leave here the latter part of this
week to address th Forosc Industrial
Convention at Portland, Or., on October
25. Dr Hutter will speak on "The
Lumber Industry After the War."
Kisssrs Falls. N. Y. maintains a f re In
formation bureau for the benefit or vUitors.
"Should I be elected County Judge of
tjiis county, and there is every reason
to believe that I shall be, I will go into
the office 'unpledged with reference to
appointments," said George M. McBrlde
in a talk at 332 Tenth street last night.
"I wane to say here that I have prom
ised nobody a Job. nor shall I' do so.
I expect to be free to select those who
will work with me in the administra
tion of the office. The people are en
titled to the best service and I shall try
to see that they get It in every depart
ment of the court."
Mr. McBrlde will speak at Shattuck
School tonight at 8 o'clock. From there
he will go to Gevurtz Hall for a speech.
Wednesday afternoon at 3 o clock Mr.
McBrlde will address a meeting at
Montaville School and in the evening
he will be guest of the Women of
Woodcraft Officers" Association, at 8
o'clock. Woodcraft Hall, Tenth and
Taylor.
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C N. McArthur, Representative In
Consress and Republican nominee for
re-election from the Third Oregon Dis
trict, was the principal speaker at a
meeting of the Sellwood Republican
Club last night. He discussed National
issues. Robert Tucker was another
speaker. A large crowd filled Wall's
Hall, where the meeting was held, and
cheered the speakers liberally.
Conrad P. Olson spoke for the Re
publican party, John H. Stevenson for
the Democrats, Victor J. McCone for
the Socialists and J. P. Newell for the
Prohibitionists at a meeting in Atkin
son Memorial Church. Kast Twenty-
ninth and Everett streets, last night.
Other sneakers were J. B. Easter and
Judge Gateos. William Adams pre
sided.
Strictly a woman's plea for women s
support of the candidacy of Charles
Evens Hughes was the address made
at the Baker Theater last night by
Mrs. William Kent, wife of Representa
tive Kent, of California. Mrs. Kent
spoke at the conclusion of an address
in support of Hughes by ex-Chief tor
ester Pinchot.
Mrs. Kent touched only those Issues
that pertained to suffrage. She picked
out the Inconsistencies in the present
Administration, asserting that although
one delegation of women after another
had waited on Congress. - the Judiciary
committees and the President himself.
Wilson and his party had made it ap
parent that they were not considering
the Susan tl. Antnony
seriously.
Many Excuse Are Recalled.
"When we first went to see Mr. Wil
son." said Mrs. Kent, "he told us that
he was not an Individual, but the
spokesman for his party. Yet he was
the spokesman in the Panama Canal
tolls case, and he forced his party
members Into line.
"On our next appeal he told ns that
he had a passlon for' local self-government.'
Yet he almost Immediately
s.Kiied the shipping bill, the Federal
g.-od roads bill and the eight-hour law
We told him of the strength that
4,600.000 women voters, registered
states that controlled 91 electoral
votes, could wield. He told us he 'must
not yield to arguments of political ex
pedlency. and as an afterthought
added that he did not believe the worn
en "would deliver the goods.'
"He next told us that he could not
pledge his support of National suffrage
because the Federal suffrage amend
ment was not In the Democratic plat-
forra. Yet he wrote that platform.
Vote by States Impossible.
"As another argument against us he
said that National suffrage should be
gained through the states. If he thinks
that all the state constitutions can be
amended to include equal suffrage
am afraid he does not know what he
lstalklng about. In many of the states
those who framed the constitutions ap
parently had It In mind to make thein
so Iron-bound that they could never be
amended.
"Wher confronted for the last tlra
he told the ladies who called on him
that 'I am & man who can change my
mind.'
"We hoped and- hoped for three and
a half years. Wilson has lost his gold
en opportunity. His chance is over, for
election time Is almost here."
Mrs. Kent made a strong appeal for
the support of Hughes, because he
voiced strongly his position on suffrage
at the outset of the present campaign.
She asserted that Mr. Hughes had al
ways put women and men on an equal
basis, whereas Wilson had made It ap
parent that he did not consider women
a part of "the people."
Canse. tint Party, Represented.
Before attacking Wilson's position
on suffrage, Mrs. Kent said that she
represented a cause and not any par
ticular candidate. "We are idealists.
said she. "and we have something to
say because we believe in it."
Mrs. Kent said that many attractive
slogans had been adopted by the Wom
an's party, chief among them being.
Suffrage First."
"We have another slogan that we
are fond or, said mrs. ivenr, ana
that is 'Who's Hughes In America
Our Next President." We also hear that
famous slogan 'He has kept us out of
suffrage." "
Mrs. Kent said that the women vot
ers of this oistrict couia oest serve
their interests by voting for Repre
sentative McArthur instead of either
Jeffries or Lafferty.
DR. GREENE NOW AT TUCSON
Portlander Is Chief Surgeon of Utah
Field Battery.
Dr. H. M. Greene, of this city, who
was ordered to Join Battery A, First
Utah Field Artillery. In July, has been
recently transferred from Nogales,
Ariz., to Tucson. With the arrival of
troops from Alabama at Tucson yester
day. Dr. Greene received orders to
proceed with his battery to Tucson,
where exhibition drills wil; be given
or the Tuscfn County Fair
The battery, of which Dr. Greene is
chief surgeon, is commanded by Cap
tain William -C. Webb, who made him
self and his battery famous in the
Philippines.
BURGLARS' PLUNDER $300
Heme of F. E. Watson Is Entered
When Family Is at Theater.
While F. EL Watson and family, liv
ing at 8S3 Castle avenue, at the corner
of Mason street, were at the theater
last night, burglars entered the house
by cutting a screen door and looted the
place, taking away clothing and rings
valued at 300.
The thieves went over the house
thoroughly, ransacking the premises
from cellar to garret, hut evidently
were frightened away when Mr. Wat
son returned at 10:30, as some of the
plunder was found as if it had been
dropped hurriedly on the floor. There
Is no clew to the identity of the bur
glars.
Laborer Found Badly Cut.
Swan Olien was found covered with
blood as the result of a cut on the
head at Second and Flanders streets
ast night by Patrolmen Barker and
Oraham. and was taken to the Police
Emergency Hospital for treatment.
The man declared that someone had
hit him over the head with a club in
poolroom. A charge of drunkenness
was placed against him. Olien is
laborer and Is 43 years of age.
C asirmaa WIUcox Says K Attempt la
Blade to Keep Asy Legitimate
Committee From. Nominee.
NEW TORK. Oct. 23. A telegram
from Frank Selberllch. of Boston, was
given out here today by the Republican
Nation 1 Committee In support of lu
denial by Charles EL Hughes last night
1,1 the Democratic National Committee's
cl arg that the Republican Presld-o-
ir.l candidate entered into a secret
agreement with tne American Inde
pendence Conference, of which Slber
llch and Jeremiah A. O'Leary are mem
bers. The telegram reads:
"The statement made by Mr. Hughes
reiative to conference with committee
of the American Independence Confer
ence is absolutely true. Mr. Huahes
saw the committee, of which I was a
p-.ember. made no promises, did not
criticise Theodore Roosevelt, and made
statement to the committee that ne
stood for all American rights.
William K. Wlllcox. Republican na
tional chairman, said in making the
telegram public that it was a voluntary
mestage. unsolicited by the National
committee.
Mr. Wlllcox today charged the Demo
cratic committee's report as a "fiasco"
attempt to prove a "hyphenate alliance"
on Mr. Hughes" part.
"There is not a shred of evidence that
Mr. Hughes had knowledge that
O'Leary would make a statement to the
American Independence Conference of
promises to frame his speech to please
the hyphenated." declared Mr. Willcox.
Mr. Wlllcox said he had no part in
arranging for the O'Leary committee to
meet Mr. Hughes, but that if it bad
been called to his attention he would
not have objected. The chairman said
he makes no effort to keep "an com
mittee of legitimate citizens" away
from Mr. Hughes.
The Democratic National Committee
today Issued what It termed "the second
lnsiallmenl" of the charges. Tonight's
statement, the Democratic committee
announced, "is based upon the ofticial
recorda of the O'Leary organisation "
and attempts to show by excerpts from
Mr. Hughes' speeches what Is alleged
to be a compliance with the "demands'"
said to have been, made upon the Re
publican nominee by O'Leary and his
associates.
ADAMSQH LAW UPHELD
SENATOR CHAMBERLAIN PRAISES
WORK OF ADMINISTRATION.
Plea Made tor Moose Votes. Speaker
at Salem Saylna Democrats
Enacted Progressive Measnrea.
SALEM. Or.. Oct. 23. (Special.)
Tho work of the present Ad minis tra
tlon was lauded here tonight by Sena
tor Chamberlain to an audience which
tilled the ' local Operahouse. The
Senator cited the Adamson bill, enacted
in tue interest of the railway trainmen
as a beneficial piece of legislation and
asserted that it was not passed by
Congress, by coercive means. Other
Democratic legislation also was d
cussed. The Senator declared that the
Wilson Administration had "done more
for the people than any other Admin
letratlon.
Contrasting Mr. Wilson's and Mr.
Hughes attitudes on public questions.
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