48 PAGES PAGES 1 TO 12 VOL. XXV-C 33. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUJfDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 2, 190G. PRICE FIVE CENTS. HURLS DEFIANCE JT SLL CRITICS Bryan Takes Bit Be tween His Teeth. WILL STAND BY CONVICTIONS Quotes Garfield's "Rather Be Right Than President." POLITICIANS TIMID FOLK Defiant Speech to New York Demo cratic Club Tells Jersey People Corporation Men Shall Not , Run Party Machinery. NEW YORK, Sept. 1. Three cities joined today In paying the final tributes of the continuous welcome accorded to . William J. Bryan since his arrival Thurs day from his tour around the world. 'Re turning from Bridgeport this morning, Mr. Bryan, after devoting scant time to personal business, was escorted to the National Democratic Club, where an en thusiastic welcome was accorded him, and where he spoke briefly. From the club he was escorted by ex Senator James Smith and other prominent Democrats to Newark, where he addressed an audience of 10,000 In Military Park and afterward held an Informal reception, shaking hands with hundreds who crowd ed around the speaker. Hailed with cheers, he drove to the rail road station and hurried to Jersey City, where he made three addresses and re viewed a parade of the Hudson County Democracy and then returned to New York and finished the day with an Informal dinner given In his honor by 200 of the working newspaper men of the metrop olis. Mr. Bryan will rest until tomorrow evening, when he will start on his jour ney In company with "home folks" on their special train. They expect to reach Lincoln on Wednesday, after stops at De troit and Chicago. TAKES BIT BETWEEN TEETH Bryan Says Will Pollow Conscience and Scoffs at Politicians. NEW YORK, , Sept. 1. (Special.) Angered by the sharp criticisms of his stand for Federal control of railroads by many Democratic leaders, W. J. Bryan this afternoon at a reception tendered him at the National Democratic Club said that he proposed to remain true to his own political convictions and that he did not care If his views did not suit the political bosses. It Is known that he felt very bitter over the comments, and he took the earliest opportunity to reply. It was the generally accepted opinion tonight among Democratic politicians that Mr. Bryan had taken the bit in his teeth and that he would endeavor to force the issue of Government railroad control, in his party's platform at the next convention, whether it was agree able to all the Democrats or not. Mr. Bryan was introduce! to the members of the National Democratic Clubs by Presi dent John Fox, who declared that the Commoner would be the next candidate for President. Mr. Bryan said: Follow Conscience at Own Loss. "Your president has said that I might be the next candidate for President. I have had that honor twice before, but whether I shall have the honor is more than you or I can tell. A few months ago it looked as though I might be asked to be your candidate in the next elec tion. But I am assured by reading the newspapers that some of those who were for me will not now try to force the honor upon me. "President Garfield said that he valued nothing so much as the approval ot his Conscience. I would rather have the ap proval of 'my own conscience than the approval of all the people of the United States. Every man must act in accord ance with the dictates of hia own con science. The majority la not always in the right, though it Is presumed to be in government, and the only way for a "Silver question is settled" "That's fine." man who finds himself in the minority is to fight for his Ideas, If he believes them to be right until the majority is with him. Politicians Timid Class. "I have no monopoly of thinking for the Democratic party. Every man must do his own thinking. The Democrats do not need a leader. We deny that any man is appointed leader by the Almighty. No man can lead unless he goes with the people. He may be a little in advance, but he cannot be behind them. Then the Democratic party does not want a leader who will be found in the rear. "I do not wish to offend anyone here, but I do not care what the politicians think. If I know what the people want today, I know what the politicians want tomorrow. They are a timid class and are always looking for what the people desire." Governor Folk, of Missouri, was at the meeting, and as Mr. Bryan said that he wanted to meet him and talk with him, the Governor delayed his departure for the West. Mr. Folk in an interview yes terday did not seem to warm up to Mr. Bryan's point of view of the question of Federal control. KEEP OUT CORPORATION MEN Bryan Insists They Shall Not Run Democratic Party. JERSEY CITY, N. J., Sept. 1. The series of welcoming public receptions ar ranged in the East for the home-coming of W. J. Bryan was brought to an end by three meetings in Jersey City tonight. In the course of one of his speeches at those meetings, Mr. Bryan declared It to be his Intention to use his utmost effort to purge his own party and the Republican party as well, In the interest of pure politics. "I am going to Insist." he said, "that no man connected with any favor-seeking organization shall be permitted to become a member of the Democratic organization to the end that he may betray it. When a man accepts a position in any great corporation, he should be made to know that he will not be permitted 'to serve in any capacity with the Democratic organi zation or as a Democratic candidate for a public office. I shall insist also that my party shall not accept one dollar from any corporation or any individual who expects to get It back in favors from the Government." Everybody Cheers Him. The Nebraskan was given a hearty wel come here. The streets were packed and there was a parade in his honor. He was cheered steadily by the crowds, which represented not only Jersey City but Ho boken, Bayonne and other places. A committee met Mr. Bryan oh his ar rival from Newark and he was taken to the Carteret Club, a nonpolltical organi zation. He held an Informal reception, meeting Republicans . as well as Demo crats. Following this, he reviewed the pa rade, which was of Democratic organiza tions In Jersey City, Hoboken and other places. He made a short speech from the reviewing stand, after which hp driven to Elks' Hall. Here he spoke again,' and was then hurried to St. Pe ter's Hall, where, because of the lateness of the hour and his engagements to dine in New York, his speech was brief. He was then- driven to the ferry. Address ing t ie Republicans In his audience at Vair ert Park, Mr. Bryan said: lias Cleansed Democracy. A'e have got our party around on the right side. It may have required more than a little cleaning, I will admit, but we have it now where it belongs. You laughed and jeered at us when we Were passing through the valley of death and now, as we emerge from the far end, we look back and we can see you Just entering It. We are sorry for you; we feel for you deeply, but we cannot help you." , Mr. Bryan said that the great combina tions of capital must be regulated at once. "I have no objection, personal or otherwise, to money, If It Is honestly acquired," he said. "If these great fortunes had come to their owners through superior industry, superior t in telligence or even through superior hon esty, all would be well. I am no leveler. I would not distribute the wealth of the land equally between the industrious and the Idle. It Is not that, but the ma jority of these great hoards of gold have been piled up by dishonest means or by special privileges and they have drawn their tribute from every man who tolls." MAKES ROOSEVELT THEME Bryan Says He Owes Popularity to Practice of Democracy. NEWARK, N. J., Sept. 1. William J. Bryan was given a warm reception here today. The streets were lined and the visitor was cheered continuously. He told his 10,000 auditors that he could speak to them only on time that really belonged to Jersey City. "But I remembered that Essex County gave me a majority of 10,000 in 1900, so I just had to come to see you," said he, "and I hoped that by coming here I could (Concluded on Page 2.) THE "Universal arbitration' "Just what we want." OPINION OFNATION ON BRYAN SPEECH Conservatives Aghast, Radicals Joyous. SPREADS DOUBT AND DIVISION Advance to Socialism and Centralized Rule. WHERE ARE STATE RIGHTS? Ownership Plank Ignores, at Same Time Recognizes Them Strong est Condemnation Comes From Democratic Papers. CHICAGO, Sept. 1 (Special.) Demo cratic politicians fear that Bryan by his speech advocating Federal ownership of railroads has hopelessly estranged the solid South. Northern Democrats take the speech as an indication that Bryan has gone over to the Hearst camp. Re publicans everywhere consider the speech a masterpiece for the Republican cause. The Chicago Chronicle, Democratic, which represents the Northern conserva tive Democracy, the solid business ele ment of the party, says: "According to Mr. Bryan's own account he went abroad to gain knowledge which could be put to good use at home. He says he told a Japanese educator that he was In Japan not to find things to criti cise, but to And things worthy of ad miration and imitation, and that, while we Americans thought we had the best at home, there was no nation from which we could not learn something. Vnf it, . Unsafe Man. -" make us all acquainted with the fact that he has learned nothing in states manship, but Is as firmly wedded as ever to all his political and economic errors and foi'iea, . to call them by no harsher name. . ' "On the whole his speech Is an over whelming proof of his radical unsound ness politically, economically and even morally, and that he is altogether an un fit and unsafe man to be trusted with the great powers of our National Chief Magistracy." Other editorial opinions follow: New Orleans Picayune (Incl.-Dem.) The speech shows more than ever that the next National campaign will be "between Democratic radicalism and Republican radicalism. It Is the most powerful po litical presentment that has been given to the people since the war, and, If signs mean anything, Jt is the opening note of another revolution, as were the great speeches on both sides in 1860 and 186L New Orleans Times-Democrat (Dem.) Mr. Bryan's suggestion is radical. How ever, there are thousands who, although they are opposed to public ownership, believe that the opposition of railroad men to laws passed by Congress will force the country to adopt such a policy. Issues Party Repudiated. Cleveland Plaindealer (Dem.) As the basis of a Democratic platform two years hence, it Is open to the objection that it deals for the most part, with but one important exception, with Issues which the Democratic party has repudiated or forgotten-and to which it Is now Indiffer ent or which the Republican leader has to all intents and purposes made his own. Denver Post (Ind.-Dem.) No other pub lic 'man could advocate such an array of drastic changes in our laws and yet ap pear to be conservative. Denver Times (Dem.) Big undertakings do not feaze Mr, Bryan. He proposes, not to control and reform the trusts, but to exterminate them. He urges, not the regulation of monopoly, but measures to secure "the total and complete over throw of the Industry" monopolized. He wants no harmless programme that may be twisted to corporation ends. Detroit Free Press (Ind.) Mr. Bryan has come into the public eye less as an adherent and advocate of "Jeffersonlan doctrine" than at any time in his ca reer. Detroit Journal (Ind. Rep.) In cold type, the speech is found to contain an itfd CONSERVATIVE DEMOCRACY HEARS MR. BRYAN'S NEW YORK SPEECH "Protective tariff Iniquitous' "Well, maybe." mazing deficiency in novelty, both in respect to ideas and verbal dress. It was hung on the same old frame work of advocacy of the regulation of the trusts, revision of the tariff, election of Senators by the people and of opposition to the Government's colonial policy. Detroit News (Ind. Dem.) Mr. Bryan's reply to the recent statement of Presi dent Roosevelt that the tariff and trust questions are distinct, and that to at tempt to combine them Is an effort to distract attention from the real issue of restraining monopoly by other methods, is neither equivocal nor hesitating. Omaha Bee (Rep.) That Bryan's hor izon has been widened toy his tour of the world is evidenced in' many ways. On the old subjects, however, which have been at issue here in recent political (Concluded on Page 2.) CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 71 deg. ; minimum, SI. TOD-AYS Fair and warmer. Northwest winds. foreign. Sunday law goes in effect in France today and may cause disturbance. Page 3. Cuba almost despairs of ending- revolt and desire for American Intervention grows. Page 1. National. . Secretary Root arrives at Chilean capital. Page 2. More complaints under new rate law. Page 2. Politics. Bryan turns on "nl critics and stands by his policy. Page 1. Speeches by Bryan in New York, Jersey City and Newark. Page 1. National. Democratic Committeeman Walsh resigns and denounces party management Page 13. Opinion of leading newspapers on Bryan's speech. Page 1. llomestio, Remarkable career of criminal who escapes from Devil's Island. Page 13. Route of St. Paul extension to Pacific Coast. Page 2. Directors of wrecked Philadelphia bank may be prosecuted. Page 3. Efforts to float the Sheridan fall. Page 3. Chicago church leader arrested for running uiwiucrijr noiei. jrage tx. Desperate ngiit with maniac in Iowa, Page 15. Sport. Goldneld miners make srreat preparations for the Gans-Nelson tight. Page 16. Portland beats San Francisco, S to 3. Page 17. Chicago teams lead the two big leagues and the city has gone baseball mad. Page IB. Pacific Coast League's future thrown in doubt by Seattle's uncertain attitude. Page 16. Electioneer wins Futurity stakes. Page 17. Record game of baseball for lenRth. Page 17. All ready for great fight at Goldneld. Page 17. Prize-winners in Seagirt shoot. Page 17. Pacific Coast. Northern Pacific shuts of! car supply; West ern Oregon lumbermen threaten legal ac tion. Page 4. Slight movement of earth's crust creates some excitement at Baker City. Page 5. Washington Tax Commission finds that high er education 1b very expensive. Page 4. San Franolsco is overrun at night by thiev ing thugs. Page 10. Brawl in an Aberdeen dance'nall results In the death of Alexander Wahlgren. Page 6. Gloss defeats Patton In handicap race at Asroria regatta. Page 4. San Francisco carmen reject the" proposal made by President Calhoun to return to work. Page 4. Commercial and Marine. Oregon hop crop may be picked too early. Page 85. Active trading in September wheat at Chi cago. Page 85. Money supply Is question of the hour in Wall street. .Page 85. New York bank reserves small. Page 35. Italian cruiser DoKall arrives in Portland harbor. Page 14. British steamship Strathnairn chartered to load grain for United Kingdom. Page 14. Portland and Vicinity. Northern Pacific Terminal Company, repre senting Harrlman system, in suit in Fed eral Court alleges jobbery on part of Portland A Seattle, Hill line, in acquire ment of land needed by both. Page 1. Portland Democrats discuss Bryan's pro posal of Government ownership of rail roads. Page 10. Seventy California and 50 Western Oregon delegates start for Irrigation Congress at Boise. Page 8. Boy thief captured by Captain Bruin last night turns out a. modern "Artful Dodger." Page 14. Blue Mountain forest reserve land-fraud trial In Federal Court. Page 11. Rev. Father Joseph Gallagher, new president of Columbia University, arrives. Page 10. John P. Irish. California Gold Democrat, predicts another Democratic shipwreck on Bryan's radicalism. Page 8. Extension of warehouse system significant of great growth In wholesale business. Page 8. W. A. Mears tells of cordial greeting in Honolulu and of trade difflcultiea to over come before anxious business can come this way. Page 33. Rev. E. H. H. Holman, Ontario, Or., pastor accused of "Jumping board' bill," freed on writ of habeas corpus. Page 24. features and departments. Editorial. Page 6. Church announcements. Page 34. Classified advertisements. Pages 18-23. The mystery of Haystack Rock. Page 3S. Elliott Glacier. Mt. Hood's chiefest attrao tion. Page 39. Judge Williams' recollections. Page 48. Building up a nation of sharpshooters. Page 44. Rock Island Club's picturesque home. Page 32. Yaqulna Beach as a Summer resort. Page 41. Daphne and Dan Cupid. Page 45. Millionaires' palaces at Newport. Page 42. Ham Burr's fun. Page 46.-Middle-aged achievements of some big men Page 40. Book reviews. Page 34. Social. Pages 26-27. Summer resort news. Pages 30-31. Dramatic. Pages 28-29. Musical. Page S3. Household and fashions. Page 43. Youth's department. Page 47. "Eight-hour day" "He had to hand a sop to Labor." URIIN SYSTEM APPLIES TO COURT Complains of Jobbery by Hill Line. BATTLE OF GIANTS DISCLOSED Terminal Company Lulled by Guise of Partnership. THEN LEVEY TAKES ACTION Quietly Buys Surrounding Blocks for P. & S. While Coinciding In Postponement of Purchase by Joint Concern. That a monumental game of "freeze out" has been played in Portland by the Portland & Seattle Railway and the Northern Pacific Terminal Company, in which the former corporation has gotten control of terminal property that put the terminal company in awkward position, is Just coming to light. The methods em ployed are being divulged by suits filed by the terminal company to wrest title to blocks in North Portland from the Hill company, claiming illegal possession. The story told by the legal papers is one of Intrigue and counterplot. The case is being fought with all the intensity that can be crowded into such a suit, and in dicates that the principal scene of battle between Hill and his jival magnate, Har rlman, ha9 been transferred from the north bank of the Columbia and other points. of conflict and brought into Port land Itself. Allegations in the papers filed indicate an attempt by the Hill interests to sur round the terminal company's present cramped quarters and allow it no outlet for expansion. The alleged method is purchase of all the blocks lying west of the Northern Pacific Terminal Company's tract.' Westward and northward are the only ways the' terminals can be pushed" out, as the river lies east and the busi ness district of the city-extends from the south. To hinder and embarrass the rival railroads, forming with itself the terminal company, is declared the motive of the Northern Pacific, otherwise the Portland & Seattle. In the lands newly acquired, it is the intention of the Portland & Seat tle to lay out modern, commodious termi nals, upon which the Harrlman lines may not encroach. Double-Cross Charged to Lievey. In the method of acquiring the land to the west and north of the terminal grounds, the Harrlman people charge the basest double-dealing on the part of the Portland & Seattle. They say President Levey, of the new Hill road, ostensibly with the interests of the terminal com pany at heart, and having knowledge of Its purpose by virtue of his position as a director, took means to deliver the land, whose purchase was contemplated by the terminal company, Into the hands of the Portland & Seattle and the Northern Pa cific, of both of which roads he is an offi cial. In carrying out this alleged scheme, he dealt a body blow to the Harrlman roads, which hold a majority of stock in the terminal company. It was decided by -directors of the ter minal company that certain blocks lying west and north of the yards were urgent ly needed for the expansion of the yards, and it was agreed some time ago by the directorate to purchase them. Actual closing of the deal, however, was post poned. Later, some uneasiness grew among Harrlman officials, who learned that, unknown interests were seeking to acquire the blocks which must be pur chased by the terminal company, if the congested yards were to be made ade quate to traffic demands. O'Brien Reveals Ills Apprehension, Upon one of Mr. Levey's visits to Port land some time ago. General Manager O'Brien, as a fellow-director of the ter minal company. Is said to have expressed his fear to the Portland & Seattle's pres ident that some hostile interest was ne gotiating for the purchase for the much needed blocks of land. Mr. Levey, who, according to subsequent events, was do "Income tax" 'I might have to swallow it." ing the negotiating himself, is alleged to have sought to quiet Mr. O'Brien's fears by saying he thought the reports were apt to prove false, and that when the time came, the . terminal company couM cln- up the deal without trouble. "When pur chase of these blocks was attempted the terminal officials, however, it was found that Mr. Levey's road had fore stalled them and had the deeds to the property safely laid away. B. A Worthlngton, when general manager, of the Harriman interests here, went carefully over the map of North Portland, with Mr. Levy, in their capacity as officials of the terminal com pany, to choose adjacent property for the prospective expansion of the term inal yards. Tha result of this Joint con ference was, it is claimed, selection of the lands now under litigation. Pur chase of the property for the terminal company at an earlier date was post poned upon the Instance ot the Northern Pacific for the ostensible purpose of getting better terms. The proposed ex tension of the terminal grounds has so far failed of realization solely because the alleged coup of the Hill Interests headed off the terminal company and the congestion of the Summer in tha yards is now charged by Harrlman peo ple to the tactics of the new Hill road. A , Paradox In Names. Now follow suits and counter suits, the purpose of the Harrlman interests, who in this case are working under the paradoxical nomen of the Northern Paclno Terminal Company, being to re cover the lands snatched away, while as a partner in the terminal company, the Northern Pacific, or Portland & Seattle, seeks injunctions to prevent tho terminal company from spending money or taking any other action nec essary to process them back. Condemnation suits directed against the Hill companies by the terminal company, in which Harrlman controls 60 per cent of the stock, constituted the first move to lock the door of the now empty stable. This was met with injunction suits brought in the Federal Court, whereby it was sought to bind the terminal company hand and foot so that It could not pursue the accused pi rates. Harrlnian's Recovery Plan. Now comes the terminal company with a bill In chancery in Federal Court, the purpose of which is to Impress a trust on the disputed property acquired by the Hill Interests for the benefit of the ter minal company, and to prevent the Northern Pacific from escaping from ob ligations assumed in the creation of the terminal company. The suit is also In tended to compel transfer of the blocks to the terminal company. This latest step in the contest was taken yesterday, when papers were filed In the Federal Court by Dolph, Simon, Mallory & Gearln, counsel for the Harriman company. As sociated with this firm In the legal battle that probably has only reached the skir mishing stage, is the firm of Snow & McCamant. Judge Carey and James Kerr will defend the Hill , corporations. The bill Just filed recites the early his tory of the - terminal company, setting forth that prior to Its organization the O. R. & N. and the Oregon & California Railroad Company had acquired lands for terminal purposes In North Portland, which they were induced to give up to the terminal company as general ter minals for the then three systems the Northern Pacific, the O. R. & N. and the O. & C. What Mr. Harrlman Calls It. The bill charges a gross breach of good faith on the part of the Northern Pacific in the purchase of the Weldler property, charging that It was acquired at a time when its purchase was being considered by the terminal company. A similar Instance of bad faith is charged in. the purchase of grounds contiguous to the terminal yards, a large part of which had been selected for purchase by the terminal company, but not actually bought, pend ing the securing of better prices. In the bill counsel for the Northern Pacific Terminal Company states It is ready to prove the bad faith charged against the Portland & Seattle people. In seeking the return of the land, the Harriman interests say they expect to pay to the Hill people the value of the property or the money paid by the Port land & Seattle for the terminal blocks. The suit also seeks to have the condemn ation suit Instituted by the Portland & Seattle against the terminal company stopped. The case will be heard in the courts in October, the injunction suit lately brought having been set for Octo ber 1. The two cases will run concur rently. GAIN IS 0VER $5,000,000 Kecelpts of Government Kxceed Ex penditures, Latter Palling Off. WASHINGTON, Sept, 1. The monthly statement of the Government receipts and expenditures shows that for the month of August, 1906, the total receipts were "66,007,696, and the expenditures 47,S48,449, leaving a surplus for the month of $S. 155.147. For the month of August, 1905, there was a deficit of $4,660,061. "Trusts are legalized larceny" "What next?" E CAN BRING PEACE Conviction Grows Gen eral in Cuba. NEITHER SIDE CAN CONQUER Hope That American Interven tion Will End War. REVOLT GROWS DAY BY DAY Even Possible Rebels May Take Ha vana More Towns Taken and Others Threatened Rebels May Restore Trocha. HAVANA, Sept. 1. "Neither side can whip the other" Is the concise statement now heard everywhere in Havana, and it may also be fairly construed to be the growing conviction of thoughtful persons throughout the Island. In Havana at least this opinion has led, among all unpreju diced persons, to expressions of an ar dent hope that the prerogative of the Piatt resolution will soon be utilized by the United States for the purpose of ef fectually putting an end to a condition that everybody believes is otherwise bound to grow more and more Intolerable. May Even Capture Havana. Nobody appears to believe that the In surgents will take Havana, although this is not regarded as impossible, especially when it is considered that co-operation in such a movement assuredly would come from within. Everybody concedes that the government troops can continue their record of victories In almost all open fights with the insurgents, but how the government, with the forces now at lt command and In view of the small num ber of enlistments, ever can prevail against its enemies, who fight In the same old method of guerrilla, warfare, la a conundrum which nobody pretends to -solve. That the Insurrection is growing con stantly is undeniably evidenced every dny and the decree of pardon recently ex tended by the governmnt has brought no appreciable change in the situation. Will Concentrate 1 5,000 Rebels. One of the few Americans who Joined the insurgent ranks came into Havana tonight. He has been a farmer In Cuba for several years past and presumabiy is a reliable source of information. He Informed the correspondent of the Asso ciated Press that the 15,000 Insurgents now south of Artemlsa in scattered par ties surely will concentrate with otneis in the vicinity of Guanajay with the in tention of capturing both Artemlsa and Guanajay and holding "the entire width of Eastern Pinar del Rio Province. Thoy will thus control the situation far bet ter than the Spanish troops in the days of the famous Trocha and at precisely the same points. The insurgents have taken Cabanas and Bahla Honda, on the north coast of Pinar del Rio Province, and, according to con servative statements, they have 75 per cent of the people in that district with them. Capote Denies Quarrel. Vice-President Mendez Capote, who Is reported to be at odds with President Palma concerning the conduct of the war and who is alleged to favor a compromise with the rebels by giving them a share in the patronage and par ticipation in the Cabinet, said tonight: "I have been maliciously charged with various crimes during the last fortnight. Including conspiracy. Tou may emphatically deny all such false hoods. I am with the President in everything he undertakes and Intend to co-operate with him in crushing this disturbance. My relations with him have always been cordial and the re ported quarrel Is absolutely untrue. Confidence in Roosevelt. "I believe the United States will be only too pleased to see us solve our difficulty." added Senor Capote. "I do not believe that country is anxious for (Concluded on Page 3.) UNCLE SAM AON "Government ownership of railroads"-"Awful!" - t