TItE MORNING OKECiOXIAX, SATUKDAY, MARCH 27, 1920
POLITICAL APATHY
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leaders had already been committed
to Wood and could not honorably
break that commitment, and a good
deal of the Roosevelt following had
crystallized In favor of Wood.
Senator Johnson realizes this, and
there is not a little feeling in some of
his references to the 'In memoriam"
vote and the "posthumous friends of
Roosevelt." It is .quite true that
among: General Wood's followers there
are many who say they are tor the
general because he was a friend of
Roosevelt's; but who were not; them
selves friends of Roosevelt when he
was alive.
Politicians everywhere concede that
if Senator Johnson and General Wood
had started at scratch, on the same
date, in a contest for the political
mantle of Roosevelt, a contest con
sisting of an appeal to the voters
themselves in that event, so far as the
middle west is concerned, and so far
as the individual voter is distln-
MarV Sullivan rinds People Tired ?uned frmTthe party organization
1 ODceroed. Johnson TtrttTild have won
out. It is also conceded that even if
When Candidates Win It Is
Due to Organization.
WOOD OUTPOINTS LOWDEN
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Love Lives Through 2 Years
in Overseas Army.
of Old Machines and Parties,
Which Explains Hoover.
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rather than gained by coming into the
state and failing to touch upon the
problems of the day. Aside from the
bearing that a budget system may
have upon the situation, Governor
Lowden did not refer, except in an in
direct way, to a single national prob
lem."
Handicapped by Uniform.
While Wood outpoints Lowden In
the personal impression he makes and
in his speeches. Wood has had a
handicap. As one South Dakota ob
server put it:
The" fact that General Wood comes
as an army man, wearing his mili
tary uniform, accompanied by a staff
in uniform and a son in uniform, and
devotes much of his speech to mili
tary matters, was bound to count
against him in this state."
General Wood is unquestionably
handicapped by the fact that he is a
military man. Whether he avows be
lief in universal training or not, the
people think that he is identified
with it, and the farmers of the mid-
die west don't want it. The farmers
have been through the experience of
Senator Johnson had a half or even a
fifth of the elaborate organization
and experienced political management
that is behind General Wood, then in
that event, too, Senator. Johnson
might well make as good showing.
(This, of course, applies to the middle
west. It does not necessarily apply
at all to the east.)
Senator Johnson Chances.
wherever Senator Johnson has
spoken he has had big crowds and
generous enthusiasm. Again and
again I have been told by politicians
working for other candidates that if
Senator Johnson had been able to
stump this state or that state thor
oughly he would have carried It.
It is also true, however, that Sen
ator Johnson's quality as a spell
binder is a quality that sometimes
begets enthusiasm without at the
same time begetting votes. Senator
Johnson is distinctly an emotional
orator, and his audiences always leave
him in a state of fervor.
If the votes could be cast in each
case on the same evening as the
speech. Senator Johnson would get
every one of them; but it is charac
teristic of this kind of political spell
binder that in the cold, gray dawn of
the election the votes are not always
equal to the enthusiasm of the night
of the speech.
In saying this I do not mean to
having their sons go away to spend (say too much. The original statement
months in camp, and they don't want
to run the risk of repeating thaf ex
perience if they can avoid it. For
one good economic reason, hired help
is almost impossible to get in the
middle west and the farmers feel that
they cannot spare their boys away
.from the farms srt any season of the
remains true: that if Senator Johnson
were not limited in his campaigning
to the amount of personal speech-
making that he can do, if he had
anything like the organization that
General Wood or Governor Lowden
has, and if he had been in the field
as early as General Wood, he prob-
FLIGHT. IS UNAVAILING
Ex-Soldier Searches Until He Finds
School Teacher With Whom He
Is Infatuated.
year, and especially in the season of abIy wouId have carried the middle
intense farm work.
In other respects General Wood's
uniform counts against htm in the
middle west. People think that a man
who has followed such a specialized
calling as the army for a third of a
century cannot be as well qualified
for president as one who has had a
more varied experience, who has min
gled with all classes and who has had
direct contact with the business and
social affairs of the country. In
truth, there is not much in this argu
ment so far as it applies to General
v ood. but the feeling exists neverthe
less.
Hoover Chief Beneficiary.
The best experience General Wood
ever had, the one that most qualifies
him for the presidency his organiza
tion of Cuba out of nothing but chaos
into a self-governing country hap
pened a long time ago and is no long
er remembered. It ought to be the
best argument in his favor, but it is
little used,
In one way Wood, like Hoover,
benefits by- the fact that his career
has been outside of politics. One of
the leading men of Michigan, report
ing the sentiment in his community.
said:
"Uverywhere there is strong revul
sion against the professional political
type this year, and in this section of
the state at least the sentiment seems
to be to nominate Wood on the re
publican national ticket and Hoover
west, though not the east.
FOOD PRICES TO BE FAIR
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ADVANCE TO TAKE PLACE
DURING SHRIXE WEEK.
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Pledge to This Effect Given
Resolution Adopted by Hotel
Men and Caterers.
"There will be no increase in
restaurant prices during Shrine week."
iid Frank Beach, secretary of the
Hotel Men's and Caterers' associations
yesterday. "A resolution was adopted
some time ago by the Caterers' asso
ciation to this effect."
"There are some 50 or more mem
bers of our Caterers' association."
continued Mr. Beach, "and their word
is as good as their bond. Of course,
there are many small places, counter
places they might be termed, the pro
prietors of which are not members of
the association and of course have
not pledged themselves not to raise
prices, but I feel sure they all have
the best interests of Portland at heart
on the democratic and let the better f nI will not attempt any profiteering
of the two men win.
But it is Hoover that is the princi
pal Dcnciiciary of the reaction
against partisan politics. The Hoover
strength is not great in quantity, but
there need be no doubt whatever that
If organized and aggressively stimu
latcd the Hoover strength would be
as great or greater than that of any
other candidate. This Hoover strength
is of the best quality. In every com
munity it includes the best people,
persons active in church work, school
teachers, university people, and the
like.
Center In In Minneapolis,
The Hoover activity in the middle
west, so far as it is organized, is in
Minneapolis. Certain Hoover admir-
in food prices.
The officials of the city and the
Shrine as well, are urging that in
the handling of a crowd of "J, 000 or
80.000 people a week, the question of
pr'oviding food at fair prices is a
matter of no little thought and
preparation and if the visitors are
to leave after the Rose Festival
and Shrine week as real Portland
lovers and boosters, it is up to the
restaurant men to show they will not
contenance any profiteering on food.
Man and Woman Opponents.
ALBANY. Or., March 26. (Special.)
Charles H. Leonard, county sur
veyor of Linn county, and Miss
Lenore Powe.ll, county treasurer, filed
ers there have been to New York to notices yesterday of their candidacies
see Mr. Hoover, and It is believed that tor re-election. Mr. Leonard is a re-
they have an understanding with him.
They are young business men of the
highest character who have the re.
spect of U9 public. They have a gift
t organization, and from MJoneapo-
lis. radiating out to Omaha, Kansas
City and elsewhere, they are organiz
ing Hoover clubs. They recognize
that they cannot get many delegates
for Hoover. They recognize that they
are too far outside of politics for that,
and also they are too late in the field
but what they do hope is that they
can make a sufficient demonstration
of Hoover strength tp cqmpel the
party leaders at the Chicago conven
tion to consider him.
The men who are organizing for
Hoover sentiment in Minneapolis are,
in a loose sense, republicans, but the
rank and file of the Hoover following
is utterly non-partisan.
In fact, as I have already said, the
Hoover strength lies not only in the
Impression he himself has made on
the public but lies also in a reaction
on the part of a large number of
Toters against the old parties. Many
are for Hoover merely because of the
fact that he is non-partisan.
Striken Vivid Contrast,
Throughout the country, in all the
cities and villages, the people watched
the spectacle of Mr. Hoover building
up a food organization during the
war. They observed that in every
case his appointees were chosen for
their ability, regardless of their poli
tics. At the same time, side by side
with that spectacle, they saw the
democratic party, and the republican
party as well, always confining their
choice to the .old party hacks. They
eaw the organization of one govern
ment department after another built
up of appointees chosen chiefly on a
basis of partisan activity in the dem
ocratic party. For years the people
have seen the democrats and the re
publicans alike. In their appointments
of postmasters, of federal attorneys
and of nearly everything else, con
fining their choice to a basis of re-
ward for party service. The con
trasts between the kind of organiza
tion Mr. Hoover built up and the kind
the old parties have always built up
is vivid in the minds of the people
and accounts for much of the Hoover
strength.
As I said last week. Senator John
son's following was largely Included
in the old Roosevelt following. The
bulk of that Roosevelt . following.
especially the organized part of it
the party officials and the like is
now behind General Wood. Senator
Johnson made, a tactical error by
waiting so long to announce his can
didacy. General Wood was out
months before Johnson, and General
Wood's managers bad made their al
liances with old Roosevelt leaders
verywhere.
Call It "In Mmoriam1 Vote.
The consequence was that when
Senator Johnson finally announced
himself he found that the Roosevelt
publican and Miss Powell a democrat.
No opposition has developed yet to
either candidate.
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YOCNGSTOWX, Ohio, March 26
(Special.) "I cared for him very
much indeed, but I believed his pro
fessed attachment for me might only
be a passing fancy, so I resolved to
lose myself to the world completely.
leaving no clew by which he mignt
carry out his oft-repeated intention
of following me wherever I should
go and inducing me to marry him
He found me at last upon his return
from France, accomplishing what all
the police and detectives could not do,
And carina; as much for each other as
we did, there was really nothing else
for us to do. so we were married,
so explained Mrs. Russell L. Richman.
formerly Mrs. Mary Hefferman, aged
3 years, Brooklyn school teacher.
who dropped from sight two years
ago and who today started house
keeping -with her pupil husband, Rus
sell L. Richman, aged 23 years, in
Parkwood avenue here.
Tonth Overseaae Veteran.
Mrs. Hefferman and Young Rich-
man, an overseas veteran, were mar
ried in Warren, O., March 1, by Rev.
T. F. Theinhold, pastor of the First
Presbyterian church, there, after one
of the strangest romances in history.
nvolving the flight of the widowed
eacher from Brooklyn and from her
friends, relatives and her position, in
an effort to evade the youthful suitor
who would not be denied. Even two
years overseas, during which he bat
tled in the great Argonne, did not
dampen the ardor of the Brooklyn
youth's love for his. teacher, more
than twice his own age.
Strangely enough, it was he who
located her after detectives and police
departments throughout the country
had searched in vain. A piano box
played the most Important part in
the finding of the object of his love
by the youthful Brooklynite, it was
revealed today by Mr. and Mrs. J. E.
Hippie of Warren, with whom the
couple resided immediately after
their marriage.
Woman Tells of Flight.
"I made every possible effort to
evade the boy," the teacher told Mrs.
Hippie. "Even left my position, my
friends, my relatives and all else in
an effort to get away from him, be
lieving the love he claimed for me
was only a boyish infatuation which
would soon be forgotten.
"I told none of my friends or my
relatives where I was going or even
that I intended to go. I just disap
peared, for I knew then that the
boy would try to find me."
During the war young Richman en
listed and went overseas, where he
remained for nearly two years. Mrs.
Hefferman never wrote him, she said,
believing that when he returned from
France all would be forgotten and she
could return to Brooklyn.
Piano Box Aida Search.
However, wnen Richman returned
from the war he again took up the
search for the widowed teacher. One
day he saw a piano box about to be
loaded on a truck. It bore the name
of the missing teacher. The address
given was Massillon, O. Richman
found Mrs. Hefferman in that city and
though she refused at first to see him,
he was so persistent that she eventu
ally agreed to meet him- The meet
ing was in Cleveland, and again Mrs
Hefferman tried to discourage Rich
man. He' declared, however, that he
would never give her up and she then
consented to marry .him.
They went to Warren and the cere
mony was performed there.
"Since his teens he has declared his
love for me," Mrs. Hefferman said,
"and though I tried and his parents
tried to dissuade him, it was to no
avail. He was persistent"
Richman is employed by the H. W.
Dubiske & Co.. investment bankers, of
Chicago, in their branch office here.
Mrs. Richman formerly was employed
by tho same ompany.
H IVE years ago,
if you had told me
that it was possible to make an absolutely '
boy-proof suit 1 would have smiled.
didn't think that it could be done.
But strange things happen when science
takes off its coat and goes to work. And in this
case where it dealt with boys' clothes it has
accomplished a man-size job!
Wearpledge
. is the name of the invention
It's a brand of boys' clothes that is so well
made that its inventor can afford to insure it
without taking his life in his hand.
Every WEARPLEDGE garment is pledged
to wear to your satisfaction. So you can draw
your own mental picture of how handsomely
tailored the clothes must be to stand this insur-
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MEETING TOMORROW TO WORK
OCT CONVENTION DETAILS.
Delegates Representing Advertising
Organizations of Northwest
Will Take Part.
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nian. Main 7070, A 6095.
Delegates representing advertising
organizations of the northwest will
meet in the green room. Chamber of
Commerce, Oregon building, tomor
row morning at 11 o'clock, 'to work
out details for the coming annual
coast advertising convention to be
held in Stockton, Cal.. May 22-28.
The clubs that will take part in
fh conference are: Spokane, Seattle
Tacoma. La Grande, Or.; Everett and
Bellingham, Wash.; Victoria and Van
couver. B. C.
With the club delegates will be
the three northwestern vice-presi
dents of the Pacific Coast Advertising
nubs' association. T. M. Keane of
Spokane, I E. Warford of Seattle
and W. P. Strandborg of Portland.
The visiting delegates will be the
guests of members of the Portland
Ad club while here ana win De en
tertained for luncheon following the
meeting and then for a trip over the
Columbia river highway in the after
noon.
Among the important business mat
ters before the conference is the co
ordination of plans and arrange
ments for the automobile advertising
caravan which will be operated over
the Pacific highway to Stockton
Many business, manufacturing and
commercial organizations have al
ready filed entries for touring and
business cars in the convoy.
Selection of northwestern represen
tatives to take part in the business
programme of the annual convention
will also be considered and it is ex
pected that the meeting will go on
record for holding the 1921 conven
tion at Victoria, B. C. Preliminary
action to this effect was taken at
Seattle.
In addition to the advertising men,
representatives of the various auto
mobile' associations, tourist and traf
fic bureaus and good roads organisa
tions will take part in tomorrow's
conference.
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The Comedy
"A BABY DOLL BANDIT"
Joe Martin, the famous ape.
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them hate and love with them as
your emotions react to Griffith's mas-
terly interpretation of humanity's greatest question.
And as you see the characters struggling on sometimes fighting the current of life, some
times mounting the crest of a wave of success, sometimes helplessly drifting or hurled
against a catastrophe that wrecks a life you'll marvel with Griffith at the greatest ques
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