60 Pages
Pages 1 to 12
VOL. XXVII NO. 8.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 23, 1908.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
SAYS HEHEY'S
CHARGES
E
Every Accusation Is
Flatly Denied by
Fulton.
BRANDED AS FALSEHOOD
Oregon Senator Issues State
ment Answering Graft
Prosecutor.
VICTIM OF BASE CONSPIRACY
Democratic Governor Brought
Into Controversy.
POLITICS IN BACKGROUND
San Francisco Lawyer's ' Recent
Speech at first Congregational
Chnrch Is Called Climax or
Campaign, of Vilification.
In a long statement yesterday given
to the newspapers of Portland for pub
lication, Charles W. Fulton, senior
United States Senator from Oregon,
Answers in detail the charges made
against him by Francis J. lleney, spe
cial prosecutor for the Government in
Ilie land-fraud cases, in a speech de
livered in the First Congregational
Church in this city on the night of
January 2S, of the present year.
At that time Mr. Henry made the
direct charge that Senator Fulton's
Ions participation in crooked political
nnd business deals in Oregon, notably
!n timber-land frauds, had unfitted him
to occupy the high office he now holds
and announced a determination to op
pose to the utmost the Senator's can
didacy for re-election. Mr. Heney fur-th.-r
charged that Senator Fulton is the
tool of the railroad Interests at Wash
ington and represents, not the people
of hi.s state, hut the law-defying: cor
porations in Congress.
Takes Charges One by One.
The specific charges made in the
Heney speecli are taken up one by one
In Senator Fulton's answering state
ment and denied comprehensively and
in detail as to every material fact.
Senator Fulton does not mince matters
In laying before the people of his
state his defense. He strikes squarely
from the shoulder and oharges in the
plainest terms that his accuser delib
erately falsified In his Congregational
Church speech, which Senator Fulton
points out to have been the climax of a
campaign of malicious persecution and
vilification begun more than two years
ego.
Senator Fulton impugns the honesty
of Mr. Honey's motives. Revenge and
partisan politics, he says, are the basis
of the graft prosecutor's enmity
toward him, and Mr. Ilency's obsession
by an Irrepressible ambition to stand
In the limelight Is given as an added
incentive for what Senator Fulton calls
the lawyer's utter disregard for the
truth.
Causes of His Knmity.
Mr. Honey's enmity. Senator Fulton
rays, dates back to the time when Mr.
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4 , ' . . Mnn That's Disturbing; Business!" .
Heney was a candidate for appoint
ment as special prosecutor of the Ore
gon land-fraud cases.' At that time
Senator Fulton urged the selection of
an Oregon man and advocated the ap
pointment of Dan J. Malarkey, of Port
land. After Mr. Heney's appointment.
Senator Fulton wrote and published a
letter severely censuring those respon
sible for the appointment. This oppo
sition, he says, Mr. Heney did not for
give. Later Senator Fulton says he had
occasion to criticise E. A. Hitchcock,
then Secretary of the Interior, for his
manner of handling the National irri
gation fund.
"Thereupon," says Senator Fulton in
his statement, "Mr. Heney and Mr.
Hitchcock decreed that I was to be
destroyed, and the whole power of the
Government was enlisted to that end."
Special agents and Government de-
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United States Senator Charles W.
Fulton.
tectlvcs were immediately sent out,
Senator Fulton says, and every few
months some vile slander was pub
lished. Every charge Senator Fulton
says he promptly met and refuted as
made, whereupon his enemies, realizing:
that microscopic scrutiny of his career
revealed nothing: on which to base a
criminal charge, deliberately set to
SENATOR FULTON'S STATEMENTS
IX ANSWER TO HBXEY'S
CHARGES,
That he was not sackholder for
John IT. Mitchell In the Senatorial
campaign of lSf7, or at any other
trtne. and that the affidavit of J. S.
Smith making' that charge, read by
Mr. Heney In his Congregational
Church speech Is fals in every' par
ticular. That J. S. Smith is the political
tool of Governor Chamberlain. Demo
cratic Governor of Oreg-on and candi
date for the TTnlted States Senate,
and that the affidavit of Smith was
procured by lleney and Chamberlain
In pursuit of a conspiracy to ruin
his (Fulton's) political career.
That Heney, Inspired by personal
enmity, ambition and desire for no
toriety, has conducted a campaign
of deliberate falsehood and vilifica
tion agatnst him for more than two
years.
That the Congregational Church
meeting was the climax of that cam-'
paign, resorted to when all effort to
secure a basis for a criminal prose
cution bad failed.
The he was never at any time at
torney for the Hammond Lumber
Company, or any of the Hammond
corporations, with the exception of
the Astoria & Columbia Railroad,
and was never at any time attorney
for any corporation, firm or Individ
ual engaged in securing timber lands,
and was never engaged in any shady
timber land deals.
That he was never engaged In any
conspiracy to protect George C.
Brownell from indictment by secur
ing the appointment of John H. Hall
as District Attorney, and was never
a supporter of Hall for that office.
That he has worked faithfully and
constantly for the people of Oregon
at the National capital and has not
engaged in private law practice since
going to the Senate.
That he represents no railroad In
terest, or Interests, and refused rail
road passes for himself, his family
and his subordinate, even before
the passage of the rate bill.
work to di?r tip some scandal with
which to besmirch his reputation and
Injure him before the people of Oregjon.
With these , preliminary remarks
Senator Fulton takes up the charges
made in the Congregational Church
speech. He refers first to the most
(Concluded on Page 10.)
FULTON DOES NOT
SPARE ROOSEVELT
Calls on Leaders to
Rally Against Him
OH PARTY WILL BE DESTROYED
Speaker Cannon Calls Presi
dent "Abnormal Man."
SPEAKS AT ANKENY DINNER
Oregon Senator Calls ' Roosevelt
Dangerous Man and Urges Col
leagues to Prevent Dictation
of Hi9 Successor.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22. (Special.)
Characterised as "abnormal" by Speaker
Cannon and as a "dangerous menace" to
the Republic by Senator Fulton, Presi
dent Roosevelt was criticized with, greater
bitterness than has yet manifested itself
in political circles here at a dinner given
by Senator Ankeny, of "Washington, in
the Kew Willard Hotel last night to his
colleagues. While care was taken not
to refer to the President by name, the
attacks were so polr.ted that all present
recognized to whom the speakers re
ferred. Mr. Cannon declared that the present
period of efforts to re-organize and re
form conditions in the country was not
unusual.
"Abnormal Man's False Doctrines."
"All who study the history of our coun
try," he said, "will find that about every
once in so often a period of abnormal
activity, led by an abnormal man, de
velops. However, if the study be pur
sued, you will find that the storm soon
blew over and when, the sun came out
we were still doing business at the same
old gait in the same old way at the
same old place."
Mr. Cannon declared that in this case,
as In the past, the people would soon
awaken to the "folly of the situation"
and would cease "following false doc
trines." While Mr. Cannon's attack was a sur
prise, the bitter attack upon the Presi
dent by Mr. Fulton, of Oregon, who has
always expressed great admiration for
the President, made several of the ene
mies of the administration sit up and
pinch themselves to see if they were
awake.
Fulton Scores Roosevelt.
The dinner was a private affair and
enemies of the President are referring
to the incident as an example of how the
President's own friends feel toward him
when they get together among them
selves. Mr. Fulton is understood to have called
upon the Republican Senators present
to rally about him to prevent the Presi
dent from dictating his successor to the
Republican National Convention In Chi
cago next June. He declared that the
Republican party faced the greatest
crisis in its history; that unless the lead
ers of the party rallied at onpe, the
country was doomed to be governed in
the future by the .whims of one man and
would require many years to recover
from the damage to its business and Its
policies. Next he declared that the Re
publican party was doomed to destruc
tion unless the party leaders "prevented
its domination by one man."
Fnlton Eagr to Forget It.
Mr. Fulton would not discuss the
speech today. In fact, he told his
friends that he was possessed of a strong
desire to forget It. In both the Repub
lican and Democratic cloakrooms In the
Senate his attack on the President Is tne
absorbing topic of conversation.
Even Vice-President Fairbanks was
so carried away by Mr. Cannon's and
Mr. Fulton's speeches as to devote him
self to the application of Washington's
farewell address In his speech and to
say that there never was a time when
the doctrine of no third term for any
President was quite so applicable as
at present. '
Senator Bourne, of Oregon, the orig
inal third-term promoter in the Senate
and the author of the report of a $5,
000,000, plot to defeat the President,
declares that the united and bitter at
tacks by all of the Republican candi
dates or their backers Indicate clearly
that the President will be nominated
and that his enemies nave been forced
to fight him in the open.
Mr. Ankeny shut himself up today to
prepare a statement for the news
papers "back home," explaining that
he had no Idea what the speakers were
to talk about at his dinner and is not
responsible for their speeches.
. Disfranchise Mormons.
SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 22. The dis
franchisement of the Mormons as a
means of obliterating polygamy was ad
vocated by ex-Senator Fred T. Dubois, of
Idaho, at a banquet given In his honor
by the American party of Utah tonight
CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature 60
degrees: minimum, 39 degrees.
Portland and vicinity Increasing" cloudiness,
followed by rain; cooler; southeasterly
winds.
Foreign.
Irish crown jewel scandal shows careless
ness in guarding them. Section 4, Page
1.
Frenchman invents wireless electric power
system. Section 4, Page 1.
Oulda's spendthrift ways cause of miserable
death. Section 4, Page 1.
General Booth proposes to brlnjr pressure to
make bachelors marry. Section 3, Page
0-
Great capture of Russian plotters against
Orand rmke Nicholas. Section 1. Page 5.
Great storm in England causes shipwrecks
and loss of life. Section 1, Page 8.
Japan asks for larger American appropria
tion for Tokio Exposition. Section 1,
Page 3.
National.
House has lively debate on race question.
Section 1, Page 1.
Compromise on currency bill sidetracks La
Follette's amendment. Section 1, Page 4.
American naval officers banqueted at Lima.
Section 1, Pag-e 2.
Politics. .
Fulton and Cannon denounce Roosevelt at
Ankeny banquet. Section 1, Page 1.
Prohibitionists welcome open tight with
liquor men. Section 1, Page 2.
Hearst League decides to nominate Na
tional ticket. Section 1, Page 1.
Taft speaks at Buffalo. Section 1, Page 4.
Roosevelt's letter foils political scheme to
provoke strikes. Section 1, Page 5.
Justice Brewer denounces National extrav
agance and exclusion. Section 1, Page 4.
Longworth ."ays Roosevelt did not cause
panic. Section 1, Page 4.
Domestic.
Death of Bishop 'satterlee, of Washington.
Section 1, Page 3.
General mourning for Crosby S. Noyes. Sec
tion 1, Page 2.
Balloonist nearly freeze to death In Massa
chusetts. Section 1, Page 4.
Indian murderer detected by doc. Section
I. Page 5.
Interstate Commission clows Portlani rate
way from TTnion Pacific inloH(ll terri
tory. Section 2, Page 3.
Sports.
Boxing .tournament to be hed !n Portland
undr Amateur Athletic Lnion sanction.
Section 4, Pa.ge 6.
Scotch team defeats English at soccer. Sec
tion 4. Page 0.
Bert Tongue wins Hunt Club paper chase.
Section 1, Page 6.
Fielder A. Jones, manager of Chicago
" White Sox." will live In Portland. Sec
tion 4. Page 7.
Beavers will leave In a week for training '
camp at Santa Barbara. Section 4,
Page 7.
University of Oregon gets great football
coaches. Section 4. Pa.se 7. -
Ketchel knocks but Mike Sullivan in flrst
round. Section 4. Page 7.
Portland defeats Tacoma at basketball.
Section 1, Page 6.
Young Ketchel knocks out Mike Irvln Sul
livan In one round. Section 4, Pare 7.
Pacific Coast.
Washington Direct Primary Leagtie's fear of
conspiracy to defeat new law ungrounded.
Section 4, Page 8.
Frank Purcell encumbered with one wife
too many. Section" 1, Page 6.
Palouse farmers duped Into buying- South
ern Pacific timber claims. Section 1,
Page 7.
Marine.
Captain Haekett of steamer Quadra visits
Portland. Section 4. Page 8.
Portland and Vicinity.
District Attorney Manning will prosecute
criminal doctors. Section 2. Page 12.
Roses planted In park blocks beneath warm
Winter sun. Section 1. Page 8.
Petition against Judge Wifley Inspired by
revenge. Section 1. Page 0.
Railroads may replace Steel bridge with
double-deck . structure. Section 1,
Page 7.
Many additions to Portland's hotel accom
modations. Section 2, Page 2.
Board of Trade to open commercial ex
change. Section 4, Page 10.
W. H. Rockafellar, pioneer mining man,
dead. . Section 8, Page 8.
Pacific Northwest Methodists petition for
additional district. Section 4, Page 10.
United States Senator Fulton answer
charges made by F. J. Heney In Congre
gational Church speech. Section 1,
Page 1. .
Multnomah County Republicans to meet
February 29. Section 3. Page 10.
George H. Williams declines to enter debate
with W. S. V Ren on Statement No. . 1
Section 3. Page 8.
E. M. Brannlck is dead. Section , 8.
Page 10. '
Police arrest persistent forger, who admits
his guilt. Section 2. Page 12.
RACE QUESTION
TO-FRONT
"Jim Crow" Cars Pro
posed for Capital.
SOUTHERNERS BAIT CAMPBELL
Kansas Representative Re
joins With Ready Repartee.
HOUSE ENJOYS ENCOUNTER
Democrats Turn Attention From
Madden to the Hansan Hint
at Political Motive Arouses
Derisive Jeers.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22. The race
question came to the surface in the House
today when Heflin, Alabama, offered an
amendment to the District bf Columbian
street railway trackage bill, providing for
"Jim Crow" cars. Heflin declared that
separate coaches for the whites and
blacks had solved the race problem in
Alabama and he expressed the opinion
that such an arrangement would solve it
in Washington.
Foster, of Vermont, voiced his protest
against the amendment, and said It was
regrettable that on the birthday of
George Washington euch an un-American
proposition should be advanced.
"Does my friend believe Washington
himself would vote for this amendment
if he were here?" inquired Griggs of
Georgia amid laughter.
Baited by Southerners.
"Emphatically no," responded Foster.
The amendment was bitterly fought by
Madden of Illinois, who asserted that
Congress should never legislate in favor
of one element againe another. He was
twitted by Griggs, who inquired of him
If he remembered the "shotgun" quaran
tine established against negroes.
Madden responded" that he never con
ceded the right of the Governor to act
as he did.
By tnis time a number of Southern
members were vainly peeking recognition.
"Which Tace does the amendment dis
criminate against?" inquired Humphreys
of Mississippi, who first got the chair
man's eye.
"I do not concede the right of the gen
tleman to ask such a question," Madden
replied, at which, the Democrats derisive
ly laughed.
Humphreys insisted that the amend
ment provided equal but separate ac
commodations. He provoked Democratic
laughter and applause when he said,
pointing to the members in the galleries,
that, although the Republicans were the
friends of the negroes, ho could not see
any members of the African race In those
galleries. : ,
"Has the gentleman ever Issued any
cards to the members' gallery to a ne
gro?" asked Grigga, insistently.
"Yes, sir," Madden replied, "and I will
be glad to do so again."
Campbell's Rain of Repartee.
It remained, however, for Campbell of
Kansas to arouse the interest of the
House on the subject. He defended the
negroes of Washington, and said he
never noticed anything offensive on
their part on streetcars.
"Nothing disturbs your equanimity ex
cept small children," remarked Clayton of
Alabama.
"There are a great many who do not
disturb me at all," was Campbell's retort.
"Would you add the Representative
from Alabama?" asked Griggs, amid
laughter.
"I will add the gentleman," said Camp
bell, smilingly.
"By request," said Alms, of Tennessee,
sotto voice.
"Yes," said Campbell, "and by request
of the gentleman from Georgia."
The repartee convulsed the House and
galleries, which had become packed to
the doors, with many struggling for ad
mittance. Mr. Campbell said he would regard It
COMES
as an evil day when Congress would cre
ate a class distinction.
A voice was heard to say that the Re
publicans were after negro votes. This
inflamed Campbell, who declared it is be
"a shame to the gentleman from Ala
bama and his party that there are thou
sands of colored men In his state and
in the South who have no vote."
Hits Back' at Southerners.
Laughter was brought down upon ihim
when, after stating that Kansas guaran
teed the rights and privileges of every
citizen, Bartlett, of Georgia, read a dis
patch stating that Booker T. Washing
ton had been denied hotel accommoda
tions at AVichlta, Kan.
Campbell took the matter very seriously
and declared that, if the dispatch was
true -and1 Washington had the time to
give to the action in the courts, the
hotelkeeper could lie made the defendant
in an action for damages, and, he added,
amid shouts of laughter, "tha probabili
ties are that the hotel man was a Demo
crat from Alabama or Georgia."
"The Democrats from Alabama or Geor-
'k
j
.1'.
Repreamtatlve P. P. Campbell,
of Kmimr, Central Figure In
tbe Debate on the Race Ques
tion. gia," Interjected Bartlett, of Georgia,
"don't go to Kansas very often."
"And they don't stay Democrats when
they do go," was Campbell's retort.
Draws Ijine at Intermarriage.
The debate at this juncture took a new
turn.
"Docs the gentleman believe in white
and black children going to the same
school?" Heflin demanded to know:
CaronhelUaJlsjcered by saying that-his
children attended a mixed school in Pitts
burg. Kan., his home town.
"Would you worship with a negro?"
Heflin also asked.
The reply of Campbell was that only
last Sunday he hod done so.
Pursuing his Inquiries, Heflin asked
Campbell If he believed In Intermarriages
between the races.
"No. sir," shouted Campbell, and he
said there was a vast difference between
social equality and political equality.
"I would not permit my daughter to
marry some white men," he exclaimed.
"Would you permit her to marry any
colored man?" was the query of Beall
of Texas.
Raising his voice to a high pitch,
Campbell exclaimed:
"No slr.V and there was loud Repub
lican applause when he added: "But I
would permit the colored man to have
rights under the Constitution."
Jeer at Talk of Politics.
The House was thrown into an
uproar when Sims of Tennessee, after
urging the members to get back on
the railway bill, said:
"Let's thresh the Negro question out
later, even if we have to thrash each
other out."
A charge by Hardwlck of Georgia
that the Republicans were trying to
play a little politics on the question
brought down upon him derisive laugh
ter and jeers from that side of the
chamber.
The treatment of the black people of
the South was condemned by Drlscoll
of New York, who said the Southern
members had got so bold that they
had come into the National House of
Representatives with an 'amendment
for "Jim Crow" cars. He charged
some of the Democrats with dodging
fhe Negro question and said he would
like a yea and nay vote so as to put
them on record.
Burleson of Texas, on the other
hand, asserted that, if a secret vote
could be had, there would not be five
votes against the amendment.
Debate on the question was brought
to a close by Smith of Michigan, declar-
(Concluded on Page 4.)
HEARST LEAGUE
TO NAME TICKET
Call Convention After
Other Parties.
NATIONAL PARTY LAUNCHED
Conference at Chicago Adopts
New Platform.
RESTORE POPULAR POWER
Favors Direct Nominations, Direct
Election of Senators and Judges,
Government Telegraphs and
Tariff Reduction.
CHICAGO, ( Feb. 2!. Steps for the for
mation of a new National political
party were taken at a conference of the
Independence league here today. The
action followed a short speech by William
Randolph Hearst, in which he announced
the principles of the league and the adop
tion of a "declaration of principles," net
ting forth tile objects of the organizn
tion and the means by which it hopes
to attain them.
The provisional National committee, of
which Mr. Hearst is chairman, was au
thorized by resolution to call a National
convention to nominate candidates for
the Presidency and Vice-Presidency after
the Republican and Democratic parties
have held their gatherings at Chicago
and Denver, respectively.
The conference was held in the south
parlor of the Auditorium Hotel. It was
reported that 33 states were represented
by delegations and that V'Ti persons at
tended the sessions.
Restore Power to People.
Mr. Hearst delivered a short address
declaring that the first purpose of the
league's platform is "to restore, the -power
of government to the people, to make
their will supreme in the primaries, in
the elections and in tbe control of pub
lic officials after they have been elected."
He declared against the use of money at
elections except for literature, meetings
and legitimate appeals to the Intelligence
and patriotism of the voter. Mr. Hearst
asserted that It should be the task of the
league to correct some of the evils of
finance and to frame constructive legis
lation which will encourage all legitimate
business enterprises. He said:
Xew National Party.
I plead for a new National party de
voted to the old American ideals, I plead
for a permanent party, wholly and har
moniously committed to the principles ot
Washington, Jefferson, Jackson and Lin
coln. I define a party as a collection ot
Individuals devoted to certain definite
principles, and active in politics to pro
mote these principles, and I declare that,
according to that definition, there is no
National partv in the United States to
day. Let us inaugurate a party that is
founded on fundamental American prin
ciples, that will be a National party in
the true sense of the word, and let us
call it the National party, if you will.
Mr. Hearst's address was received with
much enthusiasm.
The platform was presented by t lar
ence J. Shearn, of New York, chairman
of a committee appointed In September,
1907, to formulate the document- The
platform says:
Objects of the League.
The objects of the Independence Leasue
are to conserve for the citizens of the
United States the rights and liberties
won for them by the founders of this
Government and to perpetuate the prin
ciples and the policies upon which the
Nation's greatness has been built.
The league is devoted to the preserva
tion of American liberty, honesty in elec
tions, opportunity in business, equality
before the law.
The declaration advocates direct nom
ination of all candidates, popular election
of United States Senators and judges, and
legislation prohibiting the use of money
at elections except for meetings. liter
ature and the necessary traveling ex
penses of candidates. The immediate pur
chase of the telegraph lines Is made an
issue separately. The referendum is in
dorsed, overcapitalization of industries is
Concluded on Page 2.)
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