THE MORNING OREGOXIAX. MONDAY. SEITKMBEK 2T, 1920
S
FIRST CRISIS SHOWS
MI11EUND IS FIRM
Foreign and Domestic Poli
cies to Be Directed.
LEAGUES' CHOICE CITED
New Premier and Minister of For
eign Arrairs txpected to Be
rndcr Close Supervision.
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PARIS, Sept. 26. (Special Cable.)
Neither in government nor in unof
ficial quarters is eight lost of the
significance In tne appointment of
Georges Lcygues. minister of marine
under Georges Clomenccau. as presi
dent Alexandre Millerand's first pre
mier and minister of foreign affairs,
for it is generally felt that with a
new man at the Quai D'Orsay and at
the premier post President Millerand
intends to exercise personal control
over both the foreign and the domes
tic policies of the country.
Aristide Briand. Raymond Poincare
and Raymond Viviani would not con
tent to lend themselves to the new
president's design of placing one of
them in power, objecting to strong
personal direction from the Elysee
palace. Refusal by each of them be--came
absolute and ' irrevocable at a
scries of conferences yesterday at the
senate and chamber of deputies,
ltcxt ot Ministry Intact.
When President Millerand arrived
at the Klysee to receive the house
hold officials, Leon Boureouis and
Raoul Porct, presidents respectively
of the senate and chamber, called to
make known to him the only minis
terial combination possible, barring
Briand, Poincare and Viviani, pro
viding for a man less intractable at
the helm in the cabinet and leaving
the remainder fo the Millerand min
istry practically intact for the time,
with the exception of Andre Lefevre,
replaced by one of the president's
military friends. General Pau is men
tioned fo'r the post.
Statesmen of experience have gen
erally shown disinclination to assume
the honor of serving under President
Millerand at this time, feeling that
they would have to bear the brunt of
responsibility without beincr in posi
tion to act as free agents.
With the Brussels financial confer
ence about to open, with the British
coal strike impending, with the Spa
coal agreement not yet fulfilled by
the Germans, and with the repara
tions problem unsolved, most of the
political leaders prefer to leave mat
ters under the personal direction of
the new president, as he is -Capable of
handling the situations created when
he was premier.
Millerands Kirmneaft Shown. '
An instance of -lerand's firmness
In holding to his view of presidential
prerogatives was furnished in his flat
refusal to dismiss Minister of the In
terior Stccme, a radical member of
his cabinet whom the conservatives
had been attacking ever since Steeme
took office.
Demand that Steeme be ousted was
made by a delegation of the demo
cratic entente group of the chamber.
It was met by President Millerand
with the counter-suggestion that
Lcygues be appointed premier and
foreign minister, whereupon the de
mand was withdrawn, as Leygues was
regarded as a good offset for the rad
ical minister of the interior.
No little satisfaction is expressed In
government circles with the prompt
ness with which the new president
settled the ministerial crisis immedi
ately following hi3 election. No strong
criticism of the new cabinet chief has
yet appeared or is expected in the
press.
Louis Barthou, distinguished aca
demician and ex-premier, in this
morning's edition of the Annates, ap
proves President Millerand's decision
to exercise the full powers granted
him by th constitution for the nego
tiation of foreign treaties and for
stringent supervision of domestic
affairs.
TWO COMMITTEES READY
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DEMOCRATS ORGANIZE.
vice - presidential candidate, Mr.
Roosevelt, long ago completed his
trans-Mississippi tour. Whatever the
democrats can do in the west has been
done, and the net of all reports about
conditions as they are today is that
the democratic chances in the west
have not been Improved beyond what
they were at the beginning of the
campaign. From now on. Cox's
speechmaking will be done in the
more crowded centers of the east. In
those centers hi has a larger chance,
but his last chance, to be effective.
A good deal of the confidence of re
publican leaders is based, quite natur
ally, on the result of the Maine elec
tion. Two weeks of painstaking post
mortems over that event have not re
vealed any convincing explanations
that can give much confidence to the
democrats. The most persuasive ex
planation I have seen from a demo
cratic point of view is to the effect
that the cause of the Maine recult was
the lack of effort on the part of he
democratic organization to bring out
the votes of the democratic women.
Maine Vote Analyzed. -I
have seen an analysis or the vote
in Maine, which indicates that the
vote of the men in Maine divided in
a way that was not much less favor
able to the democrats than normally.
But as to the vote of the women,
there can be no doubt that the re
publican organization was completely
mobilized, and made thorough work
of getting republican women regis
tered and bringing them to the polls.
The democrats, on the other hand,
had almost no organization, and there
is some ground for accepting the
theory that the democratic women
voters were neither registered nor
brou-ght to the polls.
The republicans were completely
surprised by the size of their Maine
majority. Preceding the Maine elec
tion I received many letters from
men, persons well posted on Maine
conditions. Among others, I had let
ters from one of the two republican
United States senators, from three
of the four republican representa
tives, from the republican state chair
man and the republican member of
the national committee. In none of
these letters did the writer predict a
larger republican majority than 30,
000. On election day the head of the
republican organization in Maine
telegraphed to the national organiza
tion in New York that his expecta
tion was a majority of 25.000.
But the present republican confi
dence does not rest on the mere fact
of a majority of 65,000 in Maine. The
republicans have, as the democrats
have not. a minutely organized mech
anism reaching down into every
precinct, from which they are able to
get dependable reports as to condi
tions in every precinct and township
in the country. The net of these re
ports Is such as to indicate that if the
election were held next Tuesday, the
republicans would not only win, but
win by a record-breaking majority.
Senate Story Different.
In saying this I am speaking only
of the presidential election. In what
is quite as important to the repub
licans, the control of the United
States senate, the story is different.
In order to win a comfortable ma
jority in the senate the republicans
will have need of all the organization
and all the resources they can com
mand. If this fight for control of the
senate were not overshadowed by the
presidential contest, the public would
recognize it as a spectacular fight.
Omitting the southern states, in
which a democrat is sure to bo elected,
there remain 20 states in which there
are acute contests for the senate. In
all but one of these states the repub
lican candidate for senator is sure to
run behind the republican candidate
for president. Kentucky is the only
ttate having a senatorial contest In
which it is expected that the repub
lican candidate for senator will do a
well as the republican candidate for
president.
i'or one example, the republicans
hope- to carry Connecticut for Har
ding by 50,000, but they concede that
Brandegee may run anywhere from
10,000 to 15,000 behind. Oregon is one
of the most conspicuous examples. The
republicans fully expect, and nearly
every independent observer admits,
thai Harding may carry Oregon by as
large a majority as Roosevelt did in
1904; that is to say, by more than
40,000. Nevertheless, persons who
claim that Harding will carry Oregon
by 40.000 admit that it is quite possi
ble for the present democratic sen
ator, Chamberlain, to retain his seat.
For capturing control of the senate
by a majority large enough to be
comfortable, the republicans nave a
stiff job on their hands.
2 HUH STRIKERS
SAID TO BE WORSE
Condition of Other Cork Pris
oners Unchanged.
HENNESSY, BURKE FAIL
Jail Physician Declares Some of
Men May Live Month Yet.
MacSwlney Reported Weak.
CORK. Sept. 26. The condition of
the hunger strikers in Cork, jail is
unchanged except that or Hennessy
and Burke, who have taken a turn for
the worse. Hennessy suffered a seri
ous collapse last night.
Dr. rearson, a jail physician, said
he would not be surprised if some of
the prisoners still were alive a month
hence.
field road barracks. McFadden opened
the door when three men knocked.
Several shots were discharged and he
fell dead.
Gainor's mother answered the tap
ping on the door. The men rushed
to a room it the top of the house,
where they found their victim partly
dressed. They made him walk down
the stairs ahead of them and fired
three shots into his body.
Few police were seen on the streets,
but armored cars were patrolling the
Falls section and a large body of
military was on duty.
The military authorities have decid
ed to restore the curfew law.
VAL.ERA
SENDS
SYMPATHY
Grief With Mrs. MacSwlney Is Ex
pressed by Irish "President."
WASHINGTON. Sept. 25. Eamonn
De Valera, "president" of the so-
called provisional Irish republic, yes
terday sent a message to Mrs. Mac
Swlney, wife of the lord mayor of
Cork, as follows:
"We grieve with you In the tension
of your long agony. The silent
masses now dumb at the outrage on
humanity being committed by the
British government cannot storm
your husband's prison. They will
not, however, forget. They now see
in its nakedness the hypocrisy of the
plea with which that government re-"
cently called on the millions of the
noble-minded of the world to assist
it, and they will yet rock that bastile
of the subject nations the British
empire. Please tell your noble hus
band and have conveyed to his com
rades suffering with him the heart
felt gratitude of the Irish nation and
the Irish race, and may God give you
all his consolation."
CORK AXXIETY IS INTENSE
Reprisals Over Attempted Assassi
nation of General Feared.
CORK. Sept. 26. Although the
r.ight passed quietly after the at
tempted assassination of Major-Gen-
eral Strickland, commander of the
forces in Southern Ireland, Cork to
day wore an air of intense anxiety
lest Friday's daring attack could yet
provoke reprisals.
Military patrois during the curfew
hours were extremely active last
r.ight, resulting; not only in the ar
rest of the Associated Press corre
spondent, but that of police agents in
plain clothes. Whether the police suc
ceeded in capfiring any of Gencai
Strickland's assailants is not known.
AMMUNITION FIND REPORTED
Home of Widow of Lord Mayor of
Cork Is Searched.
DUBLIN. Sept. 26. It is officially
announced that ammunition and a
quantity of seditious documents were
found in the home of Mrs. Thomas
MacCurtain, widow of the late lord
mayor of Cork, when searched by
troops.'
It was also officially denied that
Mrs. MacCurtain was fired at or that
there was any threat that her house
would be wrecked.
Cork dispatches said Mrs. MacCur
tain reported a shot had been fired
at her while she was walking in the
garden in the rear of her home.
KIL,L;rXG BY OFFICER UPHELD
Shooting of Prominent Sinn l'clner
Held In Self-Defense.
DUBLIN, Sept. 26. The judge con
ducting the military inquiry into the
death of Councillor John Lynch, who
was shot in his room at the Royal
Exchange hotel last Wednesday, has
found that the fatal shot was "fired
by an officer of the crown In self
defense In the execution of his duty."
Councillor Lynch was a prominent
Sinn Feiner.
Irish ConstablejIs Slain.
DUBLIN, Sept.' 26. Constable Bro
gan was shot dead last night at
Broadford, county Clare.
PLOT IN LITHUANIA SEEN
Present County Government Scored
by Oposilion at Seattle Meet
ins; High Taxes Protested.
&h..M-it.E, ash.. Sept. 26. Robert
M. Jones was elected chairman of the
.King county republican committee,
succeeding Reeves Aylmore Jr.. at the
meeting held here Saturday. Ralph M.
Orr was a candidate for the. place but
lost after several ballots had been
taken. Roy C. Lyle was elected secre
tary by acclamation and Henry W.
Ugden had no opposition in his elec
tion as treasurer. Mrs. Estella G. Men
denhall and Charles E. Allen were
elected vice-chairmen, which offices
were created today. J. Y. C. Kellogg
was elected Jrving county member of
the republican state central com
mittee. The democratic King countv com
mittee reorganized and elected officers
after a two-hour session. M. W. Tay
lor was elected chairman to succeed
Charles D. Fullen; Robert T. Cauthorn
was elected vice-chairman: H. G.
uahlby succeeded lone K. Humes as
secretary; William H. Merritt was
elected treasurer and George E. Starr
was re-elected member of the stale
central committee. The report ot the
resolutions committee. as adopted
contained a protest against the al
leged wastefulness of the present
county government, an indictment of
the republican county administration
and a protest again.st high taxes.
PARTY LEADERS ANXIOUS
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TRAINING NOW CHANGED
Troops in Camp Lewis lo Practice
on B Range.
TACOMA, Wash., Sept. 26. (Spe
cial.) A striking transition from
war to peace training is scheduled
to take place at Camp Lewis October
1, when the annual period for target
practice and combat problems will
close and the winter season of voca
tional education will begin. Turning
swiriiy rrom maneuvers and sham
battles, thousands of men at the can
tonment will take to schoolrooms,
shops and offices to pursue the vol
untary courses to be conducted under
the educational regulations of the
army.
Last week marked the end of the
straight rifle range work by the
companies armed with that weapon.
iiiis wee win Degin the more ex
cuing and spectacular combat prob
lems on the B range near American
i-aKe. companies informed oniv in
an indefinite way of the location of
an enemy simulated by silhouette
targets win proceed across the prai
rie in deployed formation. Without
warning, hidden targets will spring
Into view, puttinjr to the test th
steadiness and accuracy of the rifle
men. The training follows closely the
conamons ot open warfare in the
worm war.
IRISH DEVASTATION" CHARGED
Founder of Sinn Fein Sends Mcs-
. sage to De Valera.
DUBLIN. Sept, 26. Arthur Griffith,
founder of Sinn Fein, yesterday sent
this telegram to Eamonn De Valera
"president of the Irish republic":
'The English press announces that
the English city of Newcastle has de
cided to adopt Arras in the devastated
region of France. Armed forces of
England in Ireland are now devastat
lng Irish towns, the circumstances of
atrocity surpassing those alleged
against Germany in Belgium or Tin-
key in Armenia. Everywhere our peo
ple are helping homeless women and
children, but the systematic destruc
tion of factories, workshops and
creameries deprives the men of em
ployment. I suggest that in each
state of the Union our kindred should
adopt one of our devastated towns.'
BOYCOTT OATH IS FORCED
REDS
ATTACK OX
FOR XliW
POLAND.
Message to League of "ations De
clares Situation Is-Too Seri
ous to Tolerate.
NEW TORK. Sept. 26. The bol
shevik preparations for an attack on
Poland are being made behind the
Lithuanian Irontier under cover ot
alleged .Lithuanian neutrality, creat
ing a situation too serious for Poland
to tolerate, it was declared in a mes
sage sent recently by Poland to the
league of nations. The message was
embodied in a cablegram received by
the Polish financial mission to the
United States today from the Polish
ministry of foreign affairs.'
Explaining Poland's position in the
dispute, the message to the financial
mission declares the propositions
made by the Poles to the Lithuanians
at their recent conference In Kal-
warya were in strict conformity with
the decisions of the league of nations.
and that since the failure of the ne
gotiations the Lithuanians have been
increasingly obstinate. In spite of
the league's decision, they have not
withdrawn their troops from the
Suwalkl region and have given no
assurance that they could or would
observe neutrality in case of bolshe
vik aggression. The dispatch adds:
"We have received a. message "from
the Lithuanian government consent
ing to submit anew the Polish-Lith
uanian dispute to the league, but the
intention of carrying out the terms of
the decision of the league is not ex
pressed. We have replied that the
military, situation created by the fail
ure of Lithuania to observe the deci
sions of the league of nations and
the rupture of the negotiations at
Kalwarya forces us to reserve all
liberty in military operations."
Promise lo End Movement Against
Police Is Coicpulsory.
BALLINAMORE. Ireland. Sept. 26.
Several men were dragged from their
houses by uniformed men yesterday
and forced, while on their knees, to
swear that the boycott against the
police would be removed. This action
is understood to have been taken in
reprisal for an attack on the local
barracks.
Windows in the homes of several
prominent Sinn Feiners were riddled
with shot.
MacSWIXEY REPORTED WEAK
Sclf-Determination League Issues
Bulletin on Condition.
LONDON. Sept. 26. The bulletin by
the Irish Self-Dstermination league
said Terence MacSwiney was weaker
and more exhausted tonight than this
afternoon. The league's noon bulletin
said:
"The lord mayor has been in an ex
hausted condition all the morning.
The doctor said he found him . very
much weaker. His reserve of strength
was so slight he was unable to stand
the exertion of being read to."
424 SHEEP ARE SOLD
Total Sum Realized in Deals Re
. iorted to Be $15,601.
YAKIMA. Wash.. Sept. 26. (Spe
cial.) Four hundred and twenty-four
animals were disposed of in the an
nual sheep sale in connection with
the 1920 Washington state fair. It
was announced last night after the
close of the sale.
The total sum realized was $15,601
Though some favorable prices were
included in the earlier bidding on. the
choicer animals, the sluggish wool
and mutton markets were reflected
in the bidding as a whole.' and the
sale closed with 300 animals unof
fered that would have been sold had
conditions been favorable.
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loving public.
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added importance is given to the events in that they enable
you to compare their exquisite interpretations with their Victor
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qualities that distinguish their wonderful voices. Then go to any
Victor dealer's and hear the Victor Records by the same artists.
.Note how faithfully their interpretations are portrayed on the
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Victrolas in great variety of styles from $25 to $1500. New
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ENTIRE TOWN HUNTS GIRL
Friend Forgets to Telephone Mes
sage to Parents.
ABERDEEN'. Wash.. Sept. 26. (Spe
cial.) Practically the entire popula
tion of Moclips was called out Wed
nesday night to search for Miss Celia
Chabot, daughter of Robert Chabot.
as ine rtaun 01 a. iciepnone DreaK
dowri and a forgotten message.
Miss Chabot left her home earlv
PEACE OFFER REPORTED
Soviet Declared Ready to Return
Rumanian Gold and Art Works.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 26. Soviet
Russia has announced her readiness
to return to Rumania the Rumanian
Eoia. loianns Between J400.000.000 and
J500.000.000 and art treasures at Mos
cow it numanla .will sign a treaty of
peace.
Captain Vasilc Stoica. ex-Rumanian
liaison officer at Washington, made
mis announcement yesterday.
he would receive thereby is not im
pressive. But Cox Is not likely to
carry anything near half of the states
le has appeared in. Some' of these
plates, like Michigan and Oregon, are
o surely republican that Cox's time
there has been wasted.
Cox Crusade Failure
Cox's tour through the west has
been minutely followed, of course, by
the members of both parties and by
independent observers as well. The
reports received have been to the ef
fect that Cox's presence has every
where stiffened up some democrats
who were wavering, but that nowhere
has he made large groups of converts.
If Cox's campaign in the west was in
1:mled to win large groups of the old
i:ooscve!t progressives, he has failed.
CrK is now within a week of com
pleting his Ions western swing. The
Wednesday afternoon for a walk
along the beach. Reaching Pacific,
she left word with a friend to tele
phone her father that she had decided
to go to her brother's ranch near
Berryvilli.
The friend tried the telephone while
linemen were repairing damages. Dis
couraged, the friend gave up the at
tempt and forgot the message.
"Koh-I-N'oor' pencils, renowned
for high quality, are again on sale
throughout America by best trade at
15 cents each. Adv.
RACING DRIVER HURT
Steering Gear Snaps on Villa"s Car
When Curve Is Turned.
HANKORD, Cal., Sept. 25. Chester
Villa of Oakland, Cal., automobile
racing driver, was fatally injured this
afternoon in practice for the racing
events scheduled for the closing day
of the. Kings county fair here.
A steering; arm snapped on Villa's
machine on one of the turns of the
track.
Y. M. OFFICIALS CONFER
Rain Fails to Dim Success of Hood
River Session.
HOOD RIVER, Or., Sept. 23. (Spe
cial.) Freqirent showers during their
visit did not dim the success of the
annual conference of Oregon Y. M
C. A. officials here last night and to
day. Between rains the delegates,
most of whom motored here over the
Columbia River highway, were taken
by local people through the orchards
and to scenic points. The meetings
were closed to the general public, but
officials stated that plans for the
coming year were outlined. Commit
tee reports showed a stead-y increase
of Y. M. C. A. interest throughout the
state during the past year, and plans
were announced for an expansion of
work in all sections.
All the delegates attended River
side Community church today, and the
pastor. Rev W.. H. Boddy, preached 'a
special sermon on "The Soul of Service."
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Bojs Lost In Woods 1 Days.
ABERDEKN, Wash.. Sept. 26. (Spe
cial.) Word received hero today from
Matlock tells of the finding of David
Getty and a boy companion, who were
lost for four days in the woods near
that place. After a search of three
days by the men at Matlock, experi
enced woodsmen were obtained for the
search, which ended in finding the
boys uii Thursday.
BELFAST FIGHTING FIERCE
(Continued From First Page.)
knocking: at the door they fired a
shot througrh the barbershop window.
Trodson's son opened, the door and
the men, wearing masks, rushed up
stairs. They dragged Trodson to the
yard and fired several shots at him,
piercing his skull. Other occupants
of the house'were not molested.
The scene of the second shooting
was a hundred yards from the Spring-
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