THE SUNDAY OREGOMAX, PORTLAND, OCTOBER 28, 1906.
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NEED DF LEADERS
New York Republicans Miss
Campaign Manager.
HEARST HIRES GOOD BRAINS
Hughes' CampaiRn Speeches Alone
Make HiFiRht and Odell's Skill
Is Missed Reformers Must
Build Organization.
C. R K rON I A N- N K W S BUREAU,
Washington Oct. 27. The decent ele
ment in the Republican party in New
York State, the element that is now
in control ami is backing Charles E.
Hughes for Governor, is sorely in need
at organization. This Is the first time
in years that the Republicans of New
York have entered a campaign without
a machine and without a boss. The
reformers, or the independent Republi
cans who overthrew Odell and smashed
his machine, are not politicians of the
machine type. They have had little
experience in running campaigns, hence
they are handicapped in their first un
dertaking. As a consequence the Re
publican campaign this year has con
HiHted almost entirely of the campaign
that has been made by Mr. Hughes
birnself. He has had little support.
There has been no campaign manager
worthy of tho name and things have
been allowed to drift. Timothy Wood
ru!T, chairman of the state committee,
is not a big enough man for the job
and has been of practically no assist
ance to Hughes.
Hearst Buys Good Brains.
On the other hand, Hearst has the
support of the best brains he can buy.
The Democratic state committee has
not aided him, it is true, but Max
Ihmsen. his paid political manager, is
a wonder in his line, "and Arthur Bris
bane, his chief editorial writer, has
conducted the Hearst newspaper cam
paign. Ihmsen and Brisbane have at
tended to the details; have arranged
for other campaigners to aid the can
didate and have assumed general man
agement of the campaign. Their sup
port lias been worth much to Hearst.
Hughes is a novelty in New York
politics, and wherever he has spoken
he has made votes. His exposures of
Hearst have had effect, for Hughes,
by his record and by his manner, has
convinced the people that he is worthy
of their confidence. But Hughes will
not be ahle to reach all parts of the
state, and the failure of Woodruff to
till in the gaps will cost the Repub
lican ticket many votes. If Hearst
has not invaded those districts in per
son his campaigners have been there
and the Hearst ticket is the gainer
thereby.
Many Cry for Odell.
Tile lesson of the present campaign
will be of value to the Republicans,
however, and before another election
rolls around the dominating element in
the party will have an organization
and a leader. If Hughes is elected he
will naturally be the party leader, but
if he is defeated the result will go a
long way towards restoring boss rule.
Already admirers of Odell are bemoan
ing the fact that lie is not now the
party boss. If Odell had been at the
helm, they say, Hughes would have
had better support. But if Odell had
been at the helm Hughes would not
have been nominated. It was not the
Odell clement that named Hughes.
Rather O.iell and his friends, like the
friends of the dethroned Piatt and tho
disgraced Pepew, have remained in se
clusion throughout the campaign. Even
so they have rendered' Hughes more
valuable aid than if they had taken
the stump for him.
Hughes May Build Vp Power.
The Odell gang is planning to re
capture the Republican party of New
York after the election, but if Hughes
Is sent to the Governor's chair the
boss movement will not succeed.
Hughes and Odell will never fuse and
as long as Hughes remains on top
Odell must be content with a back
seat. Hughes has It in him to build
up an organization that believes in
clean politics, and the reform wave
that is sweeping over New York gives
promise of such an organization when
Hughes has time to do something else
than make campaign speeches. Com
paratively little known up to a year
ago, Hughes has developed traits and
ability that equip him for leadership
and if he does assume that responsi
bility he will have an organization
that will escape the scandal that was
invited by Odell. Piatt Co.
THREE CROOKS, SAY POLICE
Men Pretending to Be Advertising
Agents SusiH'eted Thieves.
Three mt.i. alleged by the police to be
lever pickpockets but who pretend to be
traveling advertising agents, were round
ed up by Acting Hetcctive John Price at
noon yesterday, after a long chase. After
tile ofilcer had watched them for a long
time during the morning and had followed
them from place to place, they "got
wise." took an Bast Ankeny troiley-car
and tried to escape.
The three are known to the police of
ninny cities as dangerous crooks, accord
ing to information given out at police
headquarters yesterday. They are de
clared to be expert pickpockets who ply
their trade in theaters, first having gained
the confidence of the management by
announcing themselves as advertising
agents.
According to Price. J. p. Tage. the
leader of the gang, tried to rob a man
in the crowd that left the Heilig Theater
1-rlday night after the performance, but
Page stubbornly denies this charge. He
was "sweated" by Captain of Detectives
Hruin and other officers at headquarters.
hut absolutely refused to make any dis
closures regarding two young women, who
are said to have been sent to a private
residence In K.tst Portland for the pur
pose of being taught to smoke opium.
Page and his pals acknowledged that the
women were awaiting their coming at the
house at noon yesterday, but denied that
they Intended teaching them to smoke
the drug.
After being cross-questioned at length
by the detectives Page admitted that he
and his companions are opium-smokers.
They had opium in their possession when
arrested. The other men are J. H. Wil
liams and Arthur Young. Page is from
San Francisco, where he is said to have
a bad record.- Young is from Spokane,
and Williams is from Seattle.
The three men are being held pending
further Investigation and an effort is be
ing made to locate the two young women.
Page and his companions refuse to tell
where the house is in which the young
women were to meet them. The prison
ers will be taken before Municipal Judge
Cameron tomorrow morning, charged with
having opium In their possession and with
fccir.g vagrants.
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tions in Other Cities.
NEW YORK. Oct. 20. (To the Editor.)
Before leaving Portland it was my duty
as a member of the Council to look into
several matters of much Interest to our
city, among which was the stringing of
overhead wires. I am not advised wheth
er or not this matter has been settled
by our Council, but while in Omaha,
Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia-and
Now York 1 have not been able to find a
single instance where the city officials
have taken this matter up as Portland
has.
While it may seem to some persons to
be necessary to in some way regulate
the placing and spacing of wires on
poles and crowarms, it seems to me that
the companies constructing and owning
pole lines are more vitally interested than
any one else, and that they Will, of their
own accord, put up the best construction
possible, with a view to the safety of life
and property. The only regulation that I
have found so far touching on this sub
ject in the cities visited is the one re
garding the placing of police and fire
alarm wires on tho toe arm of each pole,
the city reserving this right wherever it
wants to place wires. This applies to
poles of all companies. This same regu
lation is now In force in Portland.
J. ANN AND,
Oouncilman-at-Large.
STRENGTH AND WEAKNESS
Invalids Have Often Changed the
World's History.
Mrs. Shaler's "Masters of Fate."
Dr. Johnson averred that every sick man
Is a rascal a master of subterfuge, a cun
nlnpr srreker for sympathy, a self -centered
eifotist, too lazy to call to his aid that de
termination and will-power that is often
seer, to have a healing influence as great
as that of the ablest physician. It has
been estimated that not less than one-tenth
of the total population is afflicted by ills
which greatly hamper the work of life,
and many of tnes" delicate men and women
by refusing extreme submission to their
ailment a have to their credit astonishing
taskd successfully performed.
A shlninp example of the power of an
obdurate will to triumph over distressing
sensation is found in the life of Charles
Darwin-:
For nearly forty years, the naturalist,
characterized by Huxley as one of the most
exact of observers, most cautious of reason
ers, and most candid of expositors of this
or any other age, never knew one day of
the health of ordinary men. and thus his
life was a long struggle against the weari
ness and strain of sickness. Yet he bore his
11! health with such uncomplaining patience
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that even his children hardly realized the
extent of his suffering; his wife, perhaps,
was the only person who had any adequate
conception of what he endured. It was ow
ing to her constant care In shielding him
from annoyance, and in leaving nothing un
done that might alleviate the discomforts
of his ill health, that it was possible for
him to produce, besides his other great
works, the "Origin of Species," designated
by one of authority as "the most potent in
strument for the extension of the realm of
natural knowledge since the publication of
Newton's 'Principle-' "
Robert Louis Stevenson, even from his
boyhood, never knew the Joy of a body free
of ailments:
The life of a chronic invalid that Stev
enson was compelled to lead was irk
some to him above other men, for action
was the breath of his nostrils. "Action
over every obstacle," was a favorite
maxim of his. A great part of his time
he spent in bed, and for whole weeks
together he was obliged to carry on con
versation with his family and friends in
whispers, as well as with the help of
pencil and paper. Yet there Is ample
testimony that even under these circum
stances his patience and sweetness were
invincible, and his industry such that he
seized and made the most of every day
and hour of respite, contriving in this
fashion to produce work surprisingly uni
form in quality and quantity. During the
three years he spent at Bournemouth, al
though so far as his health was con
cerned the worst and most trying of his
life, in point of work they were the most
active and successful.
It is not often that the sick man him
self, except by example, is able to sup
ply courage to others; but even this Stev
enson succeeded in doing. He writes: "My
doctor took a desponding fit about me
and scared Fanny Into blue fits, but I
have talked her over again." One of the
most dismal pictures of his condition Is
contained in the following extract: 'I
am too blind to read, hence no reading;
I am too weak to Walk, hence no walk- :
Ing; I am not allowed to speak, hence
no talking; but the great simplification
has yet to be named; for If this goes on
I shall soon have nothing to eat and
hence O hallelujah ; hence no eating."
Again he writes: "I had a very violent 1
and dangerous hemorrhage last spring. I
am almost glad to have seen death so
close with all my wits about me, and
not in the customary lassitude and dis
enchantment of disease. Even thus clear
ly beheld I find him not so terrible as we
suppose." .
Great soldiers have been accompanied
by threatening afflictions they could nei
ther overcome nor avoid:
Some of the world's foremost com
mandersJulius Caesar, Napoleon, the
Duke of "Wellington, and Archduke
Charles of Austria appear to have been
epileptics. At the battde of Wagram the
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lasted about an hour: It was then that I subject to this disease, as was also the
archduke. It is said, had a seizure, which
lasted about an hour: it was then that
Napoleon gained the ascendency. At the
critical moment the fate of two great
armies was in the hands of two epilep
tics. Cambyses, the conqueror of Egypt,
Alfred the Great, and two' of the greatest
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