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PRICE FIVE CENTS
WITH LOUD CRIES
DRYS NAME BRYAN
UPTON'S CONFIDENCE
REMAINS- UNSHAKEN
RESOLUTE TAKES
HER FIRST RAGE
LIGHTNING HITS TREE;
FIRE DESTROYS HOUSE
HOME OX EAST 4 5TH STREET
BURNED TO GROUND.
UNCLE SAM AIMS TO
BEAR MEAT MARKET
LEAGUE RECRUITS
REDS, SAYS LEGION
SSSrSlWETlNKEflFOIl
COX; MPOSSBLE
VICTORY" HF.LD ENHANCED BY
YESTERDAY'S RESULT:..
WAR DEPARTMENT SUPPLIES
MACHINE NO. 1 FORCED TO
LAND BUT COMES IN LATE.
TO BE UNLOADED.
Nebraskan Replies He
Cannot Accept.
LEADERS DEAF TO REFUSAL
Six of 200 Delegates Averse
to Tendering Place..
SUNDAY BACKS HARDING
Henry Ford Is Considered for
Standard Bea'rer; Woman Per
manent Convention Chairman.
LINCOLN, Neb., July 21. William
.T. Bryan was nominated by acclama
tion as the prohibition party's presi
dential nominee at the national con
vention here today.
The nomination came after a reso
lution "tendering" him the position
of standard-bearer had brought out
the fact In debate that he had tele
graphed friends here that he "could
not accfci
In naming Mr. Bryan the conven
tion upset precedent as well as its
programme by selecting the candi
date on the first day. Nominations
were not scheduled until Friday.
the nomination came after a com
plete stampede of the delegates which
was started by the resolution of V.
G. Calderwood of Minnesota, "tender
ing" Mr. Bryan the leadership and
'asking him to reply promptly to the
convention whether he would accept.
Sir Thomas Brings Launch to Res
olute and Leads in Cheer
ing U. S. Crew.
ON BOARD STEAM TACHT VIC
TORIA. July 21. The confidence of
Sir Thomas Lipton expressed follow
ing Tuesday's race, that Shamrock
would lift the cup was not shaken by
today's result- He announced at the
conclusion of the contest today that
"Shamrock was all right" and would
be on the scratch again Friday after
a day spent in drydock for cleaning.
"I can honestly say that 1 am not
sorry Resolute won, Sir Thomas
said. "I like a good fight. It was a
beautiful race, a close finish and the
winner deserved It. If I am fortunate
enough to win it will make me very
happy, but the victory will be all the
more enjoyable if my opponent has
had a look-in. I am just as confi
dent that I will carry the cup with
me on Shamrock as I ever was." (
When the race was finished. Sir
Thomas brought the Victoria over to
Resolute. Once alongside he called
for and led "three enthusiastic cheers
and a tiger" for the victors.
The response of Captain Adams and
his men was no less hearty.
Following the cheer for the victors.
the Victoria pulled tip alongside of
Shamrock and gave a cheer for the
challenger's crew.
The rBitlsh crew came back strong
with "Are we down-hearted? No."
Sir Thomas had no criticism for his
yacht or for Us crew in today's race.
Of the defender he eaid: "Resolute
is a good boat. The result today
speaks for itself.
"Besides," he added, "the Yankees
always build good boats."
During the entire race today Sir
Thomas occupied the bridge in com
pany with Commander Jarvis of the
Royal Canadian Yacht club.
The keen finish appealed to him.
he said.
Shamrock Ahead at Line
but Is Defeated.
FINISH PROVES DEAD HEAT
Green Challenger Loses
Time Allowance.
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YACHTING HISTORY MADE
Phenomenon of Falling Stones Is
Reported in Connection With
Electrical Storm.
Canned Goods Worth Millions to
Be Sold at Prices Below Even
Pre-War Figures.
Wily American Skipper Fails
Fall in Trap Set by Brit
ish Master.
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2 OREGON COUNTIES LOSE
Attempt to Table Falls.
Attempts to table this resolution
only resulted in an hour's recess dur
ing which its opponents, led by Clin
ton N. Howard of New York, urged
Charles' Bryan, brother of. the nomi
nee, to make public communications
he was known to have concerning: Mr.
Bryan's attitude on the subject.
This brought out the fact that a
proposed stampede, plans for which
became known yesterday, had resulted
In Mr. Howard sending a telegram to
Mr, Bryan asking if he would accept
the nomination and that the Nebras
kan had replied, saying he would de
cline. Speakers criticised Mr. How
ard for what they termed his "recal
citrant attitude" in not making: public
the correspondence sooner, when It
was generally known this morning
that he had heard from Mr. Bryan.
The text of the telegram follows:
"Prohibition convention at Lincoln,
Neb. I appreciate your confidence in
me. Please see my brother, C. W,
Bryan. He will fully explain why ac
ceptance Is impossible."
Brother Irgea Rejection.
Charles Bryan sent a letter to the
convention after it reconvened urging
that it reject the resolution and say
ing that Mr. Bryan's friends would
oppose him accepting.
Various speakers then charged that
innumerable secret conferences be
tween delegates and Charles Bryan
had been held in the past 21 hours
with the apparent object of prevent
ing Mr. Bryan's nomination on the
ground that he did not want to be
named.
The fact that these conferences had
not been made public seemed to anger
many delegatej and speech after
speech favoring the Calderwood reso
lution followed until it was adopted
with only six dissenting votes out of
the more than 200 delegates present.
This, apparently, was the only
spark of the fire, for delegates in all
parts of the house clamored for the
floor, each urging that Bryan actually
be nominated.
Population of Grant Decreases 1 1 1,
Josephine 1912, Census Shows.
WASHINGTON, D. C, July 21.
Both Grant and Josephine coun
ties of Oregon have lost popula
tion since 1910. according to figures
for 1920 announced by the census
bureau today. The figures follow:
Grant county, 5496; decrease from
1910 of 111, or z per cent.
Josephine county, 7655; decrease
from 1910 of 1912, or, 20 per cent
Other census figures issued today
were:
Ogdensburg, N. Y., 14,609; decrease
1324, or 8.3 per cent.
Mankato. Minn., 12,469; increase
2104. or 20.3 per cent.
Middlesex county, Mass., Including
Cambridge and Lowell. 778,352; in
.crease 108.437, or 16.2 per cent.
Gloucester, Mass., 22,947; decrease
1451, or 5.9 per cent.
"Amesbury, Mass., 10,036; increase
142, or .1 per cent.
Danvers, Mass., 11,108;
1701, or 18.8 per cent.
SANDY HOOK, N. J., July 21.
Resolute, defender of the America's
yachting cup, came back today after
two losses and won from the British
challenger Shamrock IV.
Shamrock finished a scant half
boat length ahead, with a lead of 19
seconds, but as she had gained pre
ciseiy that advantage at the start
the race was a dead heat . over the
30-mile course. Resolute won by the
amount of her handicap, seven min
utes and one second. The fourth race
of the series will be started Friday.'
Sight I Vnparalleled.
Veteran yachtsmen who followed
the trim craft through the four hours.
three minutes and six seconds of
racing time, thought back over many
years of racing without being able
to conjure up a picture that could
compare with today's spectacle. It
provided a finish that rivaled a neck
and neck horse race.
Resolute had taken the lead early
in her favorite 15-mile beat to wind
ward and rounding the stake with
about a quarter of a mile lead, slipped
swiftly down the wind.
But Shamrock IV with her greater
spread of canvas was not to be de
nied and slowly but steadily ate up
the intervening distance until with
little more than a mile to go, her
bows reached! then slowly began to
creeD past the defender's stern.
A mile from the stake they were
running neck and neck through
fluffy little whltecaps turned up by
the breeze.
The residence of Roy B. Woods,
Hast Forty-fifth street and Alnsworth
avenue, was set on fire and burned to
the ground by a shaft of lightning
during the electrical storm which vis
ited Portland yesterday afternoon.
The storm was accompanied by co
pious showers which are reported to
have done some damage to gardens in
sections.
Residents of certain districts in
Sellwood reported that the storm was
accompanied by a peculiar phenome
non, in that there was a, fall of
small white stones not unlike broken
china.
The shaft of lightning which cet
fire to the Woods home struck a fir
tree standing beside the house. The
tree was badly scarred and the
branches set on fire. Some of the
branches in falling set fire to the
building.
No one. was in the building at the
time, but Miss Lottie Bixby. a friend
of the family, who was next door,
called neighbors, who saved most of
the household goods. The loss from
the destruction of the building was
estimated by Fire Captain Day, as
sistant fire marshal, at $800.
The phenomenon of the falling
stones In the Sellwood district was
noticed by Mrs. John Duffy of Eighth
street and Nehalem avenue and other
residents in the vicinity.
Berlin Davis, 529 Nehalem avenue,
said that the stones were irregular in
shape and somewhat liKe unpolished
china in texture, but not as hard as
china. He said he saw the stones on
the sidewalk and In the yard and on
the pavement on Nehalem ffvenue.
. The weather bureau could offer no
explanation for the phenomenon re
ported unless the "stones" had been
picked up by a circular, squally wind
similar to the winds which form hall
stones, and carried for some distance
to be deposited at that particular
place.
The weather bureau reported that
its gauge recorded .18 Inches of rain
fall throughout the day. During the
storm the temperature dropped about
13 degrees.
WASHINGTON. July 21. In an ef
fort to combat the high cost of liv
ing, the war department soon ia to
place millions of dollars' worth of
canned meats on the market at prices
below even pre-war quotations, said
an announcement today from the of
fice of the division of sales.
The meats, which will be offered
for domestic consumption exclusively, !
are stored in every section of the
country and will be disposed of
through wholesale and retail stores
from one end of the country to trie
other. The division of sales also
announced that it had enlisted in
this work the services of 60,000 post
masters, 5000 bankers and the mayors
of every city and town.
Included In the meats are canned
corned beef, corned beef hash, roast
beef and bacon.
"Every dealer, from the largest
wholesaler to the -smallest retailer,
will be given an opportunity to make
purchases at prices considerably be
low prevailing market figures," said
the announcement.
"The canned meats are the best the
American packers could prepare.
Their juality is the highest. They
were packed under government su
pervision and the war department is
standing back of every can sent from
any army supply repot.
Radicals Employed as Or
ganizers, Is Charge.
I. W. W. FLOCK TO STANDARD
increase
WHALES ANNOY CREW
Crew of Fremont, Lying in School,
Can Get No Sleep.
NEWPORT, Or., July 21. (Special.)
Jonah now u&a the heartfelt sym
pathy of Captain Rich Chatterton of
the fishing schooner Freemont. The
Freemont lay in a school of whales
off Siletz river Saturday night and
none of the crew could get a wink of
sleep. Every time they closed their
eyes a whale would slap the water
with its tail and produce such a loud
crash that they would jump to see if
the boat had been damaged. The
sound made by blowing easily
drowned the whistling buoy's friendly
call.
Shamrock Takes Lead.
Shamrock IV kept up the steady
crawl ahead until at the half-mile
mark from the line she was nearly a
full boat-length ahead. Then Reso
lute caught a tiny extra puff of wind.
She had got her bow about even with
Shamrock's towering mast when the
committee boat's whistle registered
Shamrock's finish.
The little fleet of spectators' craft
burst into a veritable bedlam of
shrieking whistles and sirens as the
contenders swept over the line.
The crews on both boats 35 on Res
olute and 40 on Shamrock IV in
cluding skippers and observers, had
an easy time of it on the home-stretch
with no sail3 to shift and they
crouched aft, apparently "pulling" for
their sloop to win.
When they had crossed the finish,
both yachts hoisted the "C" flag that
indicated unwillingness to race to
morrow, and It was announced the
next start would be Friday.- Sham
rock will be placed in drydock tomor-
Posts of Four Northwest
States Plan Campaign.
COURTS WILL BE ARENA
Un-American Activity During War
Reculled and ex-Soldiers Agree
to Drastic Action.
AH Four Fliers on Way to Nome
Land at Grand Rapids and One
Will Start Off Again Today. '
GRAND RAPIDS. Mich., July 21.
Two of the Alaska-bound army air
planes, numbers 2 and 4, arrived here
shortly before noon today from Erie.
Pa., having covered the second leg of
their long flight in four hours and 15
minutes. Engine trouble forced plane
number 1 to land near Erie, but it
arrived this afternoon. Number
reached Grand Rapids yesterday.
The planes bucked a strtng head
wind throughout the flight and were
out of sight of land more than an
hour crossing Lake Erie.
Captain Street plans to attempt the
third jump to Winona, Minn., to
morrow. ERIE. Pa., July21. United States
army airplanes 1, 2 and 4, members
of the squadron flying from Mineola
to Nome. Alaska, got away for Grand
Rapids, Mich., this morning. Plane
number 3 arrived there yesterday.
Governor's Best Friend,
Therefore, Dropped.
WET ISSUE SERIOUS MATTER
CHIEF HELD IN CONTEMPT
Cleveland Police Head Accused of
Disregarding Court.
CLEVELAND, O.. July 21. Police
Chief Smith was. found guilty of con
tempt of court and fined $100 by
Judge Levine in common pleas court
this morning. Judge Levine held the
chief guilty of failing to observe the
court's 'injunction ordering him to
open all police records to reporters
for the Cleveland News. Enforce
ment of the fine was withheld until
the case finally is disponed of on its
merits.
Chief Smith denied he had. issued
orders denying News reporters access
to the records. He said he had asked
subordinates not to give out inter
views to the paper's representatives
because of alleged distortion and ex
aggeration.
TURKEY TO SIGN TREATY
Vanguard of Greek Army Enters
Adrianople, Says Advice.
CONSTANTINOPLE, July 21. (By
the Associated Press.) Turkey has
decided to sign the peace treaty, it
was announced officially today.
The Turkish war office was advised
today that the vanguard of the Greek
army had entered Adrianople.
MAN NEAR DEATH IN SURF
Rockaway Restaurateur, Drown
ing, Is Rescued by Girl.
ROCKAWAY, Or., July 21. (Spe
cial.) O. D. Spencer, proprietor
of the Buoy restaurant, Rockaway,
had a narrow escape from drowning
while bathing in the surf here today.
Mr. Spencer, who Is a skillfull swim
mer, ventured farther out than most
of the bathers, when he was seized
by an undertow and carried into deep
water. Spectators failed to realize
his plight and did not heed his calls
for help. Louise Schumacher ef
Portland and Arthur Shute of Hills
boro hastened out and succeeded in
dragging him to safety.
.Miss Schumacher, who Is a mem
ber of the Red Cross, directed the ef
forts at resuscitation. Mr. Spencer
walked to his home.
ENGINE CUTS BIG TIMBER
90-Foot Piling Broken In Two
When Hit on Crossing.
RIDGEFIELD, Wash., July 21.
(Special.) A regular passenger train
running through here struck a 90-
foot piling on a truck belonging to
Finn'egan brothers this morning. As
the truck reached the crossing the
train came, hit the piling right in
the middle, cut it in two and went
on to the depot.
The trailer was sprung, but other
wise the truck was uninjured. The
cowcatcher on the engine was com
pletely torn to pieces. The boiler of
the engine came out of the mixup
covered with slivers.
HEROES' BODIES ARRIVE
Steamship Princess Matoika Brings
881 American Dead.
NEW YORK. July 21. Bodies
881 American eoldiers who died over
seas, arrived here today.
They were brought on the steam
ship Princess Matoika from Danzig
and Antwerp.
Charges that I. W. W. agitators are
flocking to the banners of the non
partisan league in northwest states
and that red radicals are being em
ployed as non-partisan league organ
izers were brought out yesterday at
an Interstate conference of American
Legion representatives of Oregon,
Washington. Idaho and Montana. The
conference adopted a resolution
bringing these facts to the attention
of" the entire legion in the states
concerned.
National headquarters of the kg-
on called the conference which met
yesterday at Oregon's legion head
quarters In the Morgan building for
the purpose of preparing a plan of
campaign against I. W. W. and other
red radical activities in the north
western Biai.es. .na meeting was
presided over by William B. Follett,
department commander for Oregon
and national vice-commander of the
organization. The sessions lasted all
day and well into last night.
Attack la Launched.
Following disclosures of represen
tatives from Washington, Idaho and
Montana that the I. W. W. agitators
who have been quiet for some weeks
were now aligning themselves in
numbers with the non-partisan league
an attack on the leadership of that
organization was made by George
A. White, member of-'the Oregon
Executive committee of the Legion,
who with Chairman Follett was rep
resenting Oregon at the conference.
Mr. White recalled the conviction of
the head of the non-partisan league
for un-American activities during the
war and urged that the league should
be kept under close surveillance in its
further activities In the northwest to
the end that all activity of agitators
employed by the league could be
checked by law should the activities
go beyond proper bounds.
The resolution bringing this situ
ation to the attention of hundreds
of local posts throughout the north
west credits the leadership of the
non-partisan league with counte
nancing If not encouraging the use
of red organizers. The resolution
reads:
All Pesta Informed.
"It having been brought to the at
tention of this conference that mem
bers of the I. W. W. and other red
agitators in some of the northwestern
states are joining the ranks of the
non-partisan league and becoming
active in its organization work, evi
dently for the purpose of using that
organization for the furtherance of
Thirteen Blazes Quenched by Down
pour of Kains.
ALBANY. Or., July 21. (Special.)
FOREST FIRES ARE OUT
Candidate Already Sufficient
ly Compromised.
WHITE HIGH-CLASS MAN
All of the forest fires which were
etarted in the Santiam national for
est by lightning during a thunder
storm last Friday night are out.
Thirteen of the 13 fires which were
started went out without getting a
good start because of the fact that
rain accompanied the storm and kept
the ground and underbrush damp.
It was necessary to send crews to
fight two of the fires, one of which
was controlled promptly and the
progress of the other stopped Sun
day. Reports received at forest
headquarters here show that both of
these fires are now out.
HAIL LOSS NEAR $200,000
Storm at Lewiston, Idaho, Tears Up
Gardens and Kills Chickens.
LEWISTON, Idaho, July 21. Hail
late this afternoon damaged orchards,
gardens and grain in the Lewiston or
chards district, adjoining Lewiston on
the south, and inflicted a property loss
estimated at between $150,000 and
$200,000.
Fruit on the trees was so badly
bruised that it cannot be marketed
and gardens were cut up and beaten
into the ground. Chickens were killed
by the hailstones.
FIRE IS OUT OF CONTROL
Sun Francisco Fireman Hurt
Furniture Piunt Blaze.
SAX FRANCISCO. July 22. One
fireman was slightly injured and
property damage estimated at several
hundred thousand dollars had been
done by a fire earl ytoday eating its
way through the six-story plant of
the Continental Furniture Manufac
turing plant here.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
Chairman and Engineer for
Democracy His Character Is
Counted Big Asset.
BT MARK SULLIVAN.
(Copvripht by the New York Evening
Post, Published by Arrangement. )
COLUMBUS, O.. July 21. (Special.)
What reasons determined the drop
ping of Homer Cummings as national
chairman and the choice of George
White as his successor are matters
wholly within the minds of Governor
Cox and his intimate advisers. What
ever is set down here is mere sur
mise, of course. It Is universally
accepted that a candidate has the
right to appoint his campaign man
ager. Not merely does he want to
be sure of absolute loyalty, but in
addition the relation is one of such
intimacy that the candidate's right
to name a man of his own personal
choice is unquestioned.
The dropping of an old incumbent
implies no reflection whatever. Homer
Cummings has been - an excellent
chairman and his recent speech at
San Francisco elevated him to a posi
tion among the first three or four
leaders of his party. Just as Gover
nor Cox need have no apologies for
the change, Cummings need have no
regrets. His position, based on his
past performances, is assured.
Moore Also Serviceable.
The other choice for chairman
would have been E. H. Moore of
Youngstown, Ohio. Moore is the man
who put Cox over. - For many months
he has devoted himself to the enter
prise of making Cox the democratic
nominee for the presidency. In that
enterprise he has shown resource
fulness little short of genius and a
persistence which again and again
during the last few hours of the
balloting at San Francisco was the
one thing without which ' success
could never have come. The nomi
nation of Cox was made possible by
Moore quite as much as by Cox him
self. Cox is under obligations' to Moore
of a kind which in the accepted cus
toms of politics will call for almost
anything that Moore may choose to
sk. Moore was the logical choice
for chairman. That he was not
named was due to no agreement be
tween him and Cox.
BANK DEP0STS INCREASE
Chair Vacant for Bryan.
Miss Marie Brehm of California,
first woman to be elected permanent
chairman of a national political con
vention, relinquished the chair and
placed Mr. Bryan in nomination.
The delegates immediately went into
the usual post-nomination uproar with
a parade and general shouting and
whooping. After 15 minutes the dele
gates finally realized that they had
not yet actually nominated Mr. Bryan
and proceeded to name him their
nominee by acclamation.
Tonight the delegates heard several
speakers lambast the republicans ajid
democrats and tell of what they
termed "the wonderful success of the !
prohibition party."
Running Mate- la 3iext.
Tomorrow the delegates expect to
elect the new national committee, pos
sibly name a vice-presidential candi
date, listen to a few more of the 26
speeches scheduled for the convention
and possibly adjourn by night. -
In the meantime every effort is be
ing made to get in touch with Mr.
Bryan and learn his official attitude
toward the convention's action.
The text of Mr. Calderwood' s reso
lution follows:
"Be it resolved by the prohibition
national convention assembled in
Lincoln. Neb., this 21st day of July,
1920, confronted by the cowardice of
both old parties as shown by the si
lence of their platforms on the great
issue of the century and in response
to a flood of requests from men and
women of all parties, that we hereby
tender our nomination for president
of the United States to that peerlesa
moral ana political'leader, William
' Jennings Bryan.
"And be it further resolved, that
Report on Portland Institutions
Shows Steady Growth.
SALEM, Or., July 21. (Special.)
Deposits of the 26 banks and trust
companies operating in Portland at
the close of business June 30, 1920,
aggregated 152,268,515, according to
a report prepared here today by Will
H. Bennett, state superintendent of
banks.
Total resources of these institutions
was fixed at 1187.257,912.35. In
creases in deposits over June 30, 1919,
aggregated 20,440,502.53, and . since
May 4, 1920, 82,548,333.68.
Concluded on Page 1-, Culuma 3 ).
CAMPAIGN HEADS NAMED
Republican Bureau to Help in' Fight
on- Coast.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 21. Ap
pointment of three bureau heads for
the republican campaign in the six
Pacific coast region states were an
nounced at regional headquarters
here today. They were:
Speakers' bureau, Addison T. Smith,
representative from Idaho.
Organization bureau, J. T. Hart,
former state senator of Idaho.
Labor bureau, John I. Nolan, repre
sentative from California.
GREEKS CRUSH TURK FOE
Hcraclea and Rodosto Occupied;
British Fleet Lends Support.
LONDON. July 21. A Greek com
munication received thi3 evening an
nounced that the Greeks, supported
by the British fleet, have occupied
Heraclea and Rodosto.
It was alleged that all Turkish re
sisj.ance bad been crushed.
(Concluded on Paqe 2, Column 2.) army had entered Adrianople. I and Antwerp. Concluded on Page 4. Column 3.)
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The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 77
degreea; minimum. o7 degrees.
TODAY'S Cloudy: westerly winds.
foreign.
General offensive launched by bolshevikl
defeated by Poles except in spots.
Page a.
Britain faces many grave perils through
out empire. Page 13.
National.
Canned meats worth millions to be put on
market by war department. Page 1.
Selection of new democratic national chair
man seen as move to appease drya
Page 12.
Domestic.
Resolute wins race though Shamrock is
first at finish. Page 1.
Bryan is nominated as standard-bearer by
prohibition party. Page J.
Rail wage award may ba submitted to
referendum vote ot worKers. Page
Plans for democratic campaign are com
pleted. Page 5.
Senator Harding, in telegram to Mrs. Car
rie Chapman Catt. promises aid li
suffrage fight. Page 5.
Erwin K. Bergdoll. fugitive for two years.
surrenders. Page
James A. Duncan testifies Ole Hansen
took him to lunch before strike. Page
12.
Upton retains confidence that Shamrock
will lift cup. Page 1.
Dry manager for Governor Cox counted
important asset to democracy. Page 1.
Pacific Northwest.
Hopes for fusion of four liberal groups in
Washington dashed by stand of non
partisans. Page 1.
State federation chief routed by triple
alliance. Page 12
Eiks' convention opened at Salem. Page 4.
Sports.
Portland Gun club raises funds for con
struction of new club house. Page 10.
Coast league results: Sacramento 1. Port
land 2; Los Angeles 1. Vernon 4; Salt
Lake 5. Seattle 7; Oakland 0. San
Francisco. 7. Page 10.
James Barnes wins Shawnee open golf
tourney. Page lu.
Commercial and Marine.
Portland firm to ship 200-ton flour cargo
direct to South America. Page IS.
Heavy buying overcomes setback in Chi
cago wheat market. Page rj.
Railway stocks firm feature of Wall street
market. Page 19.
Portland and Vicinity.
Lightning causes fire which destroys home
on East 4..tn street, rage l.
Howard Elliott and oarty jf Northern
Pacific officials pay visit to Portland.
Page 7.
Mrs. Bernice Harness gets divorce from
fugitive convict husband. Page S.
Street car motorman fined $100 in munici
pal court on charge of exceeding speed
limit. Page 8.
Senator B.. I.. Eddy of Douglas county,
candidate for president of senate, with
holds names of supporters. Page 9.
Three homes which refused to take in
babies to be investigated. Page 11.
Electrical engineers of coast are in session
here. Page 11.
Oregon fruit canncrs need short-time loans
to carry them through reason. Page 13.
American Legion posts of three northwest
states charge non-partisan league re
cruits radical Tor organizers. Page 1.
Oregon State Dental association opens an
nual convention in Portland. Page 4.
Masonic law saves ten Armenians who ar
rived, ia Portland last nigui. I'a.u 4.
Wet Perhaps) V ndcairablc.
The reason given to the -newspaper
men is that Moore could not afford
it. The reason undoubtedly exists.
but is hardly convincing. The cost
of three and a half months' absence
from his law practice would hardly
be weighed against the price of put
ting his friend in the White House. .
It is a fair guess, although It Is
wholly a guess, that an additional
element in the decision ia the fact
that Moore is a pronounced wet. Cox
as a candidate is already too much
identified with the wets to be en
tirely comfortable. He is identified
with the wets to such an extent that
they make the public think of Cox
as more wet than he himself person
ally is. Under these circumstances
it may well have been inadvisable to
take on as a campaign manager a
man who has been more or less offi
cially identified with the wet side of
most of the wet vs. dry contests that
have taken place in Ohio politics in
recent years.
White Hich-Clatia Man.
Whether this be the motive or not,
the fact is that Moore was dropped
and George White chosen. George
White has been second to Moore in
command of the - organization which
promoted Cox' nomination. White
is a high-class man. He Is a politi
cian who does not look the part and
in fact is an unusual type in politics.
White looks like a professor of
mathematics in a country college and
has in him a streak of Calvinistic
conscience that differentiates him
from the easy-going give-and-take
of the typical politician. He has the
tolerance and a good deal of the
camaraderie that are essential to a
political career. There is in him a
streak of the Sunday school teacher,
which he was in his youth.
'White Is No Martyr.
White will never make a martyr
of himself unnecessarily, but at the
same time if he doesn't think a thing
is true he won't say it is for the sake
of political . expediency. White will
never be as reckless of scruples as
political managers occasionally are in
the heat of political battle.
White is considered a dry, and that
fact probably helped in determining
his choice to a degree. At least he
will neutralize the color of wet that
has been so thoroughly fastened upon
Cox by the method of his nomination.
While he was in congress up to some
two years ago he was always re
garded as a Wilson man.
He and Cox have lon been asso
ciated in Ohio politics and there ia a
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