THE SUXDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND. MAY IT, I90S.
RIOTING FOLLOWS
I'S STRIKE
Struggle on Cleveland Streets
Between the Police
and Mobs
EFFORTS AT ARBITRATION
Dispute Growing Out of 3-Ccnt Fare
Campaign Throws City Into Tur
moil Strikers lieject Of
fer of Arbitration.
CLEVLAXD, O., May 16. In the midst
of a day of incipient rioting, some blood
shed, general disorder, inconvenience to
the car-riding-public and a partial stop
page of the street railway service inci
dent to the strtke-of the conductors- and
motormen of the Municipal Traction Com
pany came a proposition tonight to stop
further violence and submit the whole
matter to arbitration! This was the sit-tiatton-
late tonight created by Joseph
Bishop, member of the State Board of
Arbitration.
President Dupont", of1 the Municipal Trac
tion Company, said the company was
willing to arbitrate, but that the proposi
tion should come from the union. With
the union unwilling to take the initiative,
the matter of a peaceful settlement and
tiie immediate termination of the disor
der still is an open question. All night
Ir. Bishop labored with the union and
with the head of the traction company.
Riots From Karly Morn.
In the meantime, disorder continued.
The night was made eventful as a result
of the company's rescinding the order
made during the day. It was at first pro
posed to stop all cars at dark and make
no further attempts to operate until to
morrow. I-ater today the company de
cided to maintain the service.
From the moment the strike went into
effect, early this morning, there was more
or less rintirtg. At ttrst the men who re
mained at work were appealed to by the
strikers to leave the cars. When they
refused to quit work, efforts were made
by the union men and sympathizers to
force thom to leave the cars. This re
sult ctl in motormcn and conductors be
ing forcibly taken from cars. Cars were
flopped by the placing of obstructions
upon the tracks. Trolley wires were cut,
trackes ripped out and switch points
broken.
One of the earliest disturbances occur
red at the Lakeview carbarns, when one
rar attempted to leave. A mob sur
rounded fne car. The police attempted to
rescue the men. Stones and clubs were
burled. The officers used their clubs,
Chief of Police -Kohler was struck by a
stone, but not seriously Injured.
Origin of the Dispute.
The strike had- Its- origin in -the
R-cent fare campaign last Fall. When
the consolidation of cnrlines under the
Municipal Traction Company was ar
ranged, after the election. t developed
that the Cleveland Electric Railway
Company bad contracted with the
Cnion that if its franchise or its
equivalent f ere continued, it would in
crease the wages of motormen and con
ductors 2 cents an hour and adjust
minor grievances. The lines were
leased to tjj Municipal TracAon Com
pany, whli'i contended that the con
tract ' was not binding upon it. It
granted the men an advance of one
cent an hour and free uniforms, begin
ning April 28. when the 3 -cent fare
took effect, but required employes to
pay fare when not at work When the
Cnion Insisted that Its contract was
binding, the company proposed arbi
tration, but the union leaders say that,
while negotiations were under way, the
company has systematically laid off
the old union men, placed them on the
extra list, supplanted them with men
from the Forest City Company's lines,
which are not directly involved In the
dispute, and had given every indication
that it was the purpose of the Munici
pal Traction Company to force the
union men out of the service and use
arbitration only as. a cloak for delay.
Defense of Company.
In answer to this statement. Presi
dent Dupont, of the Municipal Traction
Company, said:
"We have been ready from the be
ginning of the trouble to arbitrate all
differences between the employes and
the company.
"As to the men who have been dis
charged, that was rendered inevitable
by the merging of the two syrtems.
"We laid off old Cleveland Electric and
Forest Ci,ty men impartially. From the
time the Municipal Traction Company
took charge there was a spirit of dis
loyalty and insubordination on the part
of some of the old employes, making
their services inefficient, and subjected
patrons of the road to intolerable dis
courtesy and inconvenience.
"The Municipal not only raised the
wages of: the men one cent an hour
when it took over the system, but it
gave them free uniforms. This made
the maximum pay in Cleveland 25 cents
an hour. There are only three or four
street railway systems in America that
pay as high as this."
All Foolishness, Says Johnson.
Touching upon the strike. Mayor Tom
L. Johnson, who was chiefly instru
mental in bringing about the general
street railway situation as It now ex
ists here, said:
"Violence resulting in destruction of
property and injury to persons having
already occurred on the streets con
sequent upon the street railway strike.
I have instructed the Chief of Police to
preserve order and protect property
with all the force at his command."
The Mayor later visited the offices
of the Municipal Traction Company, of
which he is treasurer. There he said:
"I am here on the Job 24 hours in the
day and intend to do everything I
can to bring about a settlement of the
troubles. The strike is all foolishness
and a great waste, and I hope to bring
It to a close soon."
Mayor Issues Proclamation.
At noon Mayor Johnson issued the fol
lowing proclamation:
Vioience resulting In destruction of prop
erty And injury to persons having already
occurred on the streets consequent upon the
street railway strike, I haw Instructed the
Chief of Police to preserve order and pro
tect property with all the force at his com
mand. I hereby notify the public that I
will use the full power of the city to sup
ply all neowsary assistance to the police
authorities and I warn all persons that
disturbances mill not be tolerated and dis
order will be met by force adequate to sup-p-
it.
Mutorman Fatally Heaten.
John Dubler, a motorman, was
beaten into unconsciousness late to
night and left lying on the street. He
is thought to have been fatally in
jured. Many others were roughly han
CHI
dled, but their wounds are not con
sidered serious.
While the general car service was
seriously crippled during the early
hours of the strike, the company made
rapid headway In restoring schedules.
Tonight fully 25 per cent of the normal
service was maintained.
Company Appeals' to Public.
Late In the day the company posted
the following notice in the cars:
"Notice to the Public: These cars
belong to you. You should protect
"them." '
To give the men who worked all pos
sible protection, heavy wire screens
were placed in front of the cars to
shield the motormen from stones and
clubs. A policeman rode on each car.
No call has been made for outside as
sistance. The police profess to be able
to handle the situation. There has
been no talk of asking for military pro
tection. The fungal and mall cars
were not interfered with. The sub
urban cars were allowed to run, except
in cases where the trolley wire had
been' cut to obstruct- city cars, which
necessarily interfered with the big sub
urban cars.
PASCO A RAILROAD CENTER
Extensive Plans in Progress by
Hill s Railway Lines.
PASCO. Wash.. May 16. (Special.)
To make Pasco the largest railway
distributing point in the West Is now
evidently the plans of both the North
ern Pacific and the Spokane, Seattle &
Portland roads. For the past three
weeks large crews of workmen have
been employed cutting away the em
bankment across from the Unlon'Depot,
where the Northern Pacific Intends
placing- miles of sidetrack. While
MRS. BEXXA GUN'SESS, THE I.A PO
nothing authentic can be gained at this
time, it is known that plans have been
drawn for a .large union depot to be
erected near the site used by the old
station. It is also common talk among
the railroad officials of the Northern
Pacific that the company will increase
its yard trackage with 80 miles of
steel. Work in this direction has al
ready begun.
VETO ON ANTI-TRUST BILL
Oklahoma's Governor Says It Would
Kill Honest Concerns.
GUTHRIE, Okla., May 16. Governor
Haskell today placed the executive veto
on the anti-trust bill, which had pre
viously passed both houses. The Gov
ernor was in receipt of hundreds of
telegrams from all parts of the coun
try, asking that the bill be vetoed. The
Senate sustained the veto.
The Governor stated as his reason,
that the bill was so stringent that it
would drive honest concerns out ol
business.
FIRES ARE SMOLDERING
(Continued Prom First Page.)
the dissatisfaction. Unconsciously these
and other petty considerations have oc
casionally affected the commission's la
bors. Deadlock on Spokane Case.
Even now the commission is in a dead
lock over one of the most important
cases, if not the most important rate
case, ever before the body the Spokane
rate case, which has been under advise
ment for more than a year, and does
not bid fair to be decided soon.
Bijr Power Veal In Montana.
BILI-IN'GS. Mont., May 18. By a
deal concluded here today between the
Yegen Brothers and the representative
of the Madison River Power Company,
tiie electric power plant of the former
changes hands. The Madison River
Power Company has secured options on
all the electrical power plants east of
Billings, including those at Columbia
Falls, Forsythe, Big Timber and Liv
ingston, and will, if the negotiations
are concluded, run a power system from
the Dakota line to this point from one
central station.
100 0 Yards of Dimes.
PITTSBURG. May 16. The feature to
day of the Women's General Missionary
Society of the United Presbyterian Church
of North America, in convention here,
was the presence of 1000 children, mem
bers of the Junior Missionary Society.
Another interesting feature was the ex
hibition of 1000 yards of colored ribbon
on which were fastened dimes. The
amount totalled $3000 and was collected
by various societies over the country for
work among the mountaineers in the
South. .
"Drys" Counting Gilliam.
ARLINGTON, Or., May 16. (Special.)
The coming struggle between the
temperance people and the saloon
forces promises to be the hardest battle
yet fought in Gilliam County over the
liquor question. Both sides are lining
up their forces, and are making a liberal-
use of literature concerning the
question. Even the most conservative
predict that the prohibition forces will
win by a good majority.
Watson Off AVays and Maens.
WASHINGTON. May 16. Represen
tative James B. Watson today resigned
from membership on the committee on
ways and means, and Speaker Cannon
announced the appointment of Represen
tative Crumpacker, of Indiana- as his
i successor.
IT
THE M. E.
Delivers Address to More Than
1000 Guests of Annu
al Conference.
TRIBUTE TO GOOD MOTHERS
Urges Necessity of Fighting p-rir by
Minimizing Results Meeting Ad
dressed by Voted Speakers.
Bi.slmp Cranston. Presides.
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WASHINGTON, May 16. "Good pWi
zenshlp" was the subject of an address
by President Roosevelt today in which
he paid a notable tribute to motherhood
before a large " gathering of Methodists
at the American University in course of
construction just outside the city limits.
The assemblage was composed principally
of the delegates to- the general con
ference of the M. E. Church now in ses
sion in Baltimore. v .
"What was to have been a "feature, ot
PORTE MVKDRESS AND HER FAMILY.
the day, a reception of the delegates by
President and Mrs. Roosevelt in the Col
lege of History, was abandoned, owing
to an engagement .which the President
previously had made. Perhaps no fea
ture of the exercises occasioned the Presi
dent more real delight than the singing
by the German members of the general
conference of "Ein Feste Burg 1st unser
Gott," "A Mighty Fortress is Our God,"
a hymn sung by the adherents of Martin
Luther during the period of the Refor
mation. .
"That's fine," exclaimed President
Roosevelt, when the singing of the old
hymn began. He allowed -that it was
his favorite song. - The President then
repeated a portion of the first verse of
the song in German, to the evident de
light of the assemblage.
An incident which, perhaps, created the
greatest enthusiasm, was the declaration
of Bishop Earl Cranston, resident bishop
of this city, that President Roosevelt
was "a .born Methodist," but he added
that "the President was ecclesiastically
misplaced early in life."
The President replied by saying, "1 do
feel mighty kind to you." The Presi
dent, before beginning his address, wished
the authorities well in their purpose to
"plant here an American university a
university that shall fulfill the dream
of the greatest and - first of American
Presidents, George Washington."
The address was listened to with keen
attention and was as follows:
It is a pleasure to be with you today and
to bid you welcome on behalf of the Nation,
hero in the capital of the Nation. Impor
tant though the Methodist church is in
many lands, there is none in which It has
played so tfreat and peculiar a part as here
In the United States. Its history Is lndls
solubly Interwoven with the history of our
country for the six score years since the
Constitutional Convention made us really a
nation. Methodism In America entered on
its period of rajld growth Just about the
time of Washington's first Presidency. Its
essential democracy. -Its fiery and restless
energy of spirit, and the wide play that it
eave to Individual Initiative, all tended to
make It peculiarly congenial to a hardy
and virile folk, democratic to the core,
prizing Individual independence above all
earthly possessions, and engaged In the
rough and stern work of conquering a con
tinent. Methodism spread even among the
old communities and the long-settled dis
tricts of the Atlantic tidewater; but Its phe
nomenal growth was from these regions
westward. The whole country Is under a
debt of gratitude to. the Methodist circuit
riders. the Methodist pioneer, preachers,
whose movement westward kept pace with
the movement of the frontier, who shared
all the hardships in the life of the frontiers
man, while at the same time ministering to
that frontiersman's spiritual needs, and see
ing that his pressing material cares and
the hard and grinding poverty of his life
did not wholly extinguish the divine Are
within his soul.
Growing- Social Gulf.
Such was your work in the past;
and your work Jn the . present ia as
great; for the need and opportunity fbr serv
ice widen as the field of National Interest
widens, tl Is not true in this country that
the poor have grown poorer; but it is true
that In many sections, and particularly In
our large cities, the rich have grown so very
much richer as to widen the gulf between
the man of very large means and the man
who makes each day's livelihood by that
day's work; and those who with sincerity,
and efficiency, and deep conviction, band
together for mutual help; are those who cau
do most to keep the gulf from becoming too
wide. True religion, through church or
ganizations, through philanthropic organi
zations, in all the field of kindred endeavor,
can manifest Itself as effectively in the
crowded and complex life of today as in the
pioneer yesterdays; and the souls of men
need the light now. and strive blindly to
ward it, as they needed It. and strove to
ward it in the vanished past. It is your task
to do the work of the Lord on the farm and
in the mine, in the counting-room and the
factory, in the car shops and beside the
blasting furnaces. Just as it was the task
of your spiritual forebears to wrestle for the
souls of the men and women who dwelt on
the stump-dotted clearings In the wilder
ness. Look Hopefully to I-Hturc.
No nation In the world has more right
than ours to look with proud confidence to
ward the future Nowhere else has the
experiment of democratic government, of
government by the people and for the
people, of government based on the prin
ciple of treating each man on hla innate
worth as a man. been tried on so vast a
scale as with us; and on the whole the ex
periment has been more successful than
anywhere else. Moreover, on the whole.
PRESIDED
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I think It can be said that we have grown
better and not worse; for If there is much
evil, good also greatly abounds, and if
wrong grows, so in even greater measure
grows the stern sense of right before
whleh wrong must eventually yield. It
would be both unmanly and unwarranted
to become faint-hearted or despairing
about the Nation's future. Clear-eyed and
far-sighted men who are both 'brave of
heart and cool of head, while not for a
moment refusing to see and acknowledge
the many evils around us. must yet also
feel a confident assurance that In the
struggle we shall win and not lose, that
the century that has Just opened will see
great triumph for our people.
Put Spiritual Above Mutual.
But the surest way to achieve this
triumph la. while never losing hope and
belief In our progress, yet at the same
time to refuse to blind ourselves to what
Is evil in the complex play of the many
forces, working througlu and with, and
against one another. In the upbuilding of
our social structure. There Is much that
tends toward evil as well as much that
tends toward good; and the true patriot is
that man, who, without losing faith in the
good, does his best to combat the evil, to
stamp It out where that is possible, and
at least to minimize its results. Prosperity
such as ours, necessary though It be as the
material basis of national greatness. Inevit
ably tends to undue exaltation of the merely
material side of the national character; and
we must largely rely on the efforts of such
men and women as those I am addressing
to .build up the spiritual 4Ite without which
the material life amounts to nothing. As
generation succeeds generation the problems
cnange In their external shape; old needs
anlsn. and. new needs arise; but it remains
as true as ever that In the last analysis na
tional greatness, national napplness, nation
al success, depend upon the character of the
Individual man and Individual woman. We
need good laws; we need to have these laws
honestly nd fearlessly administered; we
need wealth; we need science and art and
all the kindred activities that spring from
the clever brain and the deft hand. But
most of all we need the essential qualities
that in their sum make up the good man
and the good woman ; most of ail we need
that fine and healthy family life the lack
of which makes any seeming material pros
perity but a glittering sham?
Average Man Is the Test.
If the average man is brave and hard
working and clean-living, if the average
woman has the qualities which make a
good wife and good mother, if each has
self-respect, and If each realizes that the
greatest thing In life Is the chance to do
service why. then the future or the Nation
- ?cure- We cannot stand up for what is
good In manhood and womanhood without
condemning what Is evil. We must condemn
the man who Is either brutal and vicious,
or weak and cowardly; the man who falls
to do his duty by the public, who is a bad
neighbor an idler, an inconsiderate and
selfish husband, a neglectful father. So
ISO we must condemn the ' woman who.
whether from cowardice or coldness, from
seinsh love of ease or from lack of all true
womanly qualities, refuses to do'arlght her
great and all-essential duties of wifehood
and motherhood. We admire a good man;
but we admire a good woman more We be
lieve in her more. All honor is due the man
who does hiB full duty In peace, who as a
soldier does his full duty in war; but even
more honor Is due the mother; for the birth
pangs make all men the . debtors of all
women. No human being has a greater title
V,ireJpect than the mother who does her
iuii duty who bears ana rears plenty of
healthy children, so that there shall be
National growth and not National de
cadence, -so that In quality and In quantity
our people shall Increase. The measure of
our belief in and respect for the good man
ana the good woman must be the measure
of our condemnation of the man and the
woman who, whether from vlclousness or
selfishness or from vapid folly, falls to do
each his or her duty In his or her special
Cou,rae' unselfishness. common
sense, devotion to high Ideals, a proper
care for the things of the spirit, and yet
also for the things of the body these are
what we most need to see m our people:
these are the qualities that make up thi
right type of family life; ana these are the
qualities that by precept and by example
you here whom I am addressing, are bound
to do all in your power to make the typical
qualities of American citizenship.
APPROPRIATIONS TO JOURNALS
Methodists Support Organs Wish to
Unite With Methodist Protestants.
BALTIMORE, May 16. At the Method
ist Episcopal General Conference here to
day a report to the committed on book
concerns, -making appropriations of 2000
a year each to the Southwestern Chris
tian Advocate, of New Orleans, and the
Advocate Journal of Chattanooga, was
adopted.
A resolution was adopted by unanimous
vote petitioning Congress to pass the
Foraker anti-opium bill to prohibit the
importation of opium into Hawaii except
by the Government for medical uses only.
A resolution was offered by Rev. Dr.
John F. Goucher and adopted "affec
tionately Inviting the Methodist Protes
tant Church to reunite in organic fellow
ship and to appoint a commission to con
fer with a like commission of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church to consummate
such results." Dr. J. M. Buckley ad
vocated the adoption of the resolution.
Baying: 1
"I believe all Methodists ehnulri iinlla
The day's adjournment was had earlier
man usual in order to permit the dele
gates to go to Washington to visit the
American University Trustees, of which
institution the members of the party from
this city were guests.-
JOHNSON VISITS CONGRESS
Cheered In House and Has ' Chat
With Cannon.
WASHINGT6N, May 16. Governor
Johnson of Minnesota was a visitor to
the Capitol today and spent some time on
the floor of the House, where he was the
recipient of much attention. Democrats
and Republicans alike extended cordial
greetings. He received generous applause
when, escorted by Tawney, he ascended
the rostrum and was introduced to
Speaker Cannon. The Governor bowed
his acknowledgments, and for several
minutes engaged In conversation with the
Speaker.
The Governor also spent some time on
the floor of the Senate and met many
Senators on both the Republican and
Democratic sides of the chamber.
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LEGATES ELECTED
Independent Convention In Califor
nia Opposes Fusion.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 16. With 100
delegates in attendance, representing 30
out of 58 counties in California, the state
convention of the Independence League
met today, adopted a platform declaring
against fusion with any other political
party and elected four delegates at large
and four alternates to the National Con
vention of the Independence League to
be held in Chicago on July 27.
The eight Congressional district dele
gations also held their conventions and
elected two delegates and two alternates
from each district.
Hugh Mclsaac, of Marin County; J. EL
Henderson, of Alameda; Gessner Wil
liams, of Los Angeles, and John L.
Polito, of San Francisco, were elected
by acclamation as delegates at large.
Ninth' Texas for Taft.
YOAKUM, Tex May IS. The Repub
lican convention of the Ninth Congres
sional District today indorsed the ad
ministration of President Roosevelt, se
lected two delegates to the National con
vention "and Instructed for Secretary
Taft.
Eighth Texas for Taft.' '
MONROE. Tex.. May 16. The Repub
licans of the Eighth Congressional Dis
trict elected two delegates to the Na
tional convention and instructed them to
use every effort to secure the nomination
of Secretary Taft as Presidential candi
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Large Crowd at Seattle.
SEATTLE, Wash., May 16. (Special.)
Fully 250 persons attended the baby
show, given last night at the Afro
American Hall by the Dorcas Cbarity
Club, composed of leading negro women
of the city. The club is looking after
two little girls who are sick and home
less and the show was given to raise
funds to aid in the philanthropic work.
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MONTGOMERY i Ala., May 16. The
Democratic voters of Alabama are ready
for the primary election Monday next.
The activity of the newly qualified vot
ers to get their names on the registra
tion lists last Friday and Saturday and
the sudden competition between the two
candidates for the Presidential nomina
tion, Bryan and Johnson, have trans
formed the election into a condition
which creates a lively interest. It is gen
erally conceded that Bryan will carry
the state, and the best the Johnson sup
porters can hope for is to cut down the
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