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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND. JULY 26, 190S. POPULARITY OF PRIMARY AS Underground Antagonism New Law on Increase in Washington. to SERIOUS FLAWS CROP OUT Candidates Arc Privately Hostile to Measure, While Majority of Editors Consider It to Be Unfair. OLYMPIA. July 26. (Special.) There in an underground feeling growing throughout this state against the direct primary law. While there has always been a spirit of antagonism toward it on the part of professional politicians, the feeling la now spreading to that large class of business men that has always taken an interest In politics in an effort to get the best men into office. The objection appears to arise prin cipally from fears as to the results of the primaries In September and from the dis covery of new defects in the act every few days. Candidates for state and county of- flees who speak privately in opposition to the workings of the law are in the ma jority, but these opinions are carefully guarded because of the belief that the act is still favored by a majority of the voters at large. ' Majority or Editors Oppose. ;An Olympia man who made a fairly complete canvas of the newspaper edit ors attending the convention at Vancou ver last week asserts that a majority of th'.'m are opposed to the law as it is ap parently working out In this state, but that the newspaper editors are also im bued with the idea that the people gen erally want it and will object to its con demnation. Upon the question as to whether or not the results of the primaries bear out the fears of observers of the present situa tion, will .depend the fate of the act. If good men are generally chosen for the positions on the Republican ticket the opponents of tbe law will be content with numerous amendments. If the op posite Is the result, a repeal will be urged at the next session of the Legis lature, t Act Provides Free-for-AlI. The principal criticisms of the law are that It provides a "free-for-all" for men without merit to get on the primary ticket and endanger . the chances of the stronger candidates; that it permits chicanery in the bring ing out of dummy candidates; that the second choice provision is so compli cated that it will result In the throw ing out of thousands of improperly marked ballots; that it is not suffi ciently restrictive upon voters of one party participating in the primaries of another; that the method of filing declarations of candidacy brings about an undignified scramble for place, and that the non-partisan judiciary feature cannot be intelligently carried out without reading another section Into the law. The objection that the primary pro vides a free-for-all race comes princi pally from persons interested in the county tickets. In some counties with from 1100 to 2000 Republican votas. there are as many as nine candidates for the same office. For such office a vote of 260 or ' less may nominate a candidate and he is likely to be one who could not get more than 250 votes if only two instead of a half dozen or more were running. Will Help Democrats. In numerous localities it is also feared that the Democrats may take a hand in nominating Republicans for county offices. In support of this be lief it is pointed out that In almost every county the Democratic candi dates are holding back until after the Democratic semi-convention in Tacoma next Monday. The plan suspected is that the Dem ocrats will bring out but one man for each office in numerous counties, and thua leave the members of the party safe to vote the Republican ticket, and possibly put In several weak can.ti- dates who can be defeated In Novem ber. This scheme was tried and worked In municipal campaigns last Fall and Winter. Challenge Is Poor Safeguard. The primary law provides for the challenging of voters. In which event the voter must make oath that he in tends to affiliate with the party whose ticket he is voting In the primaries. The only strength to this section, it has been pointed out, is the moral respect held for an oath, as the secrecy of the balloting in the general election is so safely guarded that there can be no opportunity to ascertain whether or not a certain man violated his oath. In every county the filings so far made promise a heavjs ballot for the consideration of the Republican voters. For the Republican state ticket 40 names are on file for places, with sev eral more to hear. from, while there are but 14 position to be filled. The county ticket must be added to this with, in some Instances, as many as SO or more names, and the second choice feature and the separate judicial ballot must b tacked on. and so the task confront ing the voter is just beginning to be realized. One Serious Oversight. " One of the most serious defects in the law yet discovered is now under discussion among some of the best legal lights of the state. In attempting to provide for the election of a non-partisan Judiciary, the Legislature left out a very Important point. It made no provision for the manner In which the names of candidates for Judicial offices should appear on the ballot in the No vember election. In one section the law says that only the number of candidates equalling the number of judicial positions to be filled, who receive the highest number of votes at the primary election shall be candidates In the general election, and that "their names shall appear on the general election ticket uniicr the des ignation of such respective offices." There is no other direction. In another section the law permits new parties or those that cast less than 10 per cent of the vote at the last preced ing election to nominate their candidates by the convention method. - Legal authorities are pretty generally agreed that the minority parties have the right to nominate judicial candidates. Members of such parties cannot vote In the primaries without swearing, if chal lenged, that they will support the ticket received from the election officers. In effect the members of minority parties are barred from participating in the selec tion of a non-partisan judiciary. . The question is next raised as to how the ' primary nominees for' judicial posi tions and the selections made by the minority parties shall appear on the gen eral election ballot. If the primary nominees were put under a separate heading in one comer of the ballot, most of the Republican And Demo cratic voters are likely to overlook them, and there would be a reasonable possibil ity that some convention nominee would have the highest vote in the general elec tion by reason of his more advantageous position. It has been suggested that the conven tion nominees might be put under the same heading as the primary nominees, but; then the question is raised as to the order of the names, while some good lawyers think that the minority party by mandamus proceedings could upset such an arrangement. The suggestion that the names of the primary nominees be printed on both Re publican and Democratic ballots in the general election is met by the answer that the general election laws prohibit the printing of a candidate's name on more than one ticket. It has also been suggested that if two Republicans and one Democrat should be nominated in the primaries for Supreme bench, the two RepublV-ans' names should go on the Republican ticket and the one Democrat's name go on the Democratic ticket. The objection pointed out to this is that as a matter of law the County Auditors, who prepare the ballots, do not know the polities of the candidates for Supreme Judge voted for in the primaries: Missing Link Apparent. The omission in the law was called to the attention of Assistant Attorney-General I. B. Knickerbocker today. Mr. Knickerbocker said tat there is undoubt edly a link missing in the act and that the question is the most serious one that has yet been raised concerning the work ings of the primary election law. The question has not been formally presented to the office for an official opinion. One legal authority here declares that If the question should go to the courts, they would either have to read a new sec tion into the act or else declare the boast ed non-partisan Judiciary feature uncon stitutional and void. POSTMASTERS WILL MEET Convention in Portland in August. Some of Speakers. CORVALL13, Or., July 25. (Specal.) The- coming convention of Presidential Postmasters Association of Oregon, to be held in Portland. August 7 and 8, will be attended by El T. Bushnell, chief clerk in the office of the First Assistant Postmaster-Genera! and by W. R. Hlnman, assistant superintendent of the depart ment of salaries and allowances, both of Washington, D. C. Mr. Bushnell will address the convention on the subject, "The postal savings banks and the ex tension of the parcels post on rural routes." , Mr. Hlnman will discuss, "Salaries and Allowances." Other topics and speakers at the con vention will be: "Postoffice Manage ment." Ed Hostetler; "Postoffice Ac counts," J. S. Van Winkle; "Common Errors." O. C. Riches; "Fourth-class Postmasters," M. F. Davis: "Rural De livery," E. C. Clement; subject to be selected, T. T. Randall; subject to be selected, J. WT. Mlnto. Secretary B. W. Johnson, of the as sociation, ha3 been notified by the de partment at Washington that ten days' leave of absence will be given ait mem bers of the association who desire to at tend the convention, and that the rail roads have announced a one and one third fare for the round trip. The con vention takes place in the convention hall of the Portlana Commercial Club building. The purposes of the convention are the betterment of the service In the state, by study of conditions . and comparison of notes. The association was organized last December, and all postmasters of the first, second, third and fourth class are eligible to membership. TEST SUNDAY CLOSING LAW Proprietors of Candy and Tobacco Stores Arrested in Roseburg. ROSEBURG, Or., July 25. (Special.) R. B. Mathews, Denning & Kent, Ev Rhodes and E. Jennings were arrested this morn ing on complaints filed by District At torney Brown, charging them with viola tion of the Sunday-closing law. These men conduct, respectively, a soft drink and tobacco store, cigar store, tobacco and confectionery store and a bakery and confectionery store. Their arrests will be made a test case, each defendent .will plead not guilty. The outcome of these cases is awaited with great interest. Coincident with the I filing of these cases. Rev. J. K. Hawking, pastor of the Metnodist lspiscopai unurcn, announces that the subject of his sermon tomorrow evening will be "Blind Pigs Discovered." WILLIAM M'MATH DROWNS Loses Life While Seining for Salmon on Miller Sands. ASTORIA. Or., July 25. (Special.) William McMath. a seiner employed at the Miller sands, was accidentally drowned while at work this afternoon. As" the seine was being hauled In Mc Math went out to it on horesback. as he had done many times before. The horse stumbled into a deep hole, throw ing McMath in the river, and he sank before aid could reach him. The body was recovered shortly and was brought to Astoria this evening. The deceased was about 45 years old and had been employed at the Miller sands for a number of years. He was unmarried and his only known relative Is a sister living at Laurel, Indiana. Has Used Same Wheel 1 3 Years. ALBANY. Or., July 25. (Special.) County Recorder Grant Froman has a bicycle which he has ridden continu ously for more than 13 years and which Is yet in good condition. He has cov ered more than 22,000 miles on the wheel and all of its essential pats are the same today as when he purchased It in the Spring of 1895. Mr. Froman has used the bicycle principally In rid ing between his residence and place of business in this city. He has made four long trips with the bicycle, going once to Elk City, once to Belknap Springs, once to Cascadia, and once to Mill City, all hard mountain rides." His record ride for one day's run is 10S miles. His cyclometer today registers 16,832 miles, but this was not put on the bicycle until after Mr. Froman had ridden It four or five years. . Bought Liquor for Other Women. ALBANY. Or.. July 25. (Special. ) That she found her husband Jn a drink ing resort in Portland in the act of sending a Manhattan cocktail to a wo man in one of the boxes was a leading allegation in a complaint for divorce filed in the State Circuit Court here today by Margaret A. Gillett. .Glllett was fore man of a printing establishment In Port land until recently, but squandered his money on liquor, his wife says, so she was compelled to make a living as a mu sician. The parties in the case were married at Oregon City, February 19, 1901. Special sale fine shoes at Rosenthal'!. TG WALLOWA IN SIX WEEKS TRACK-LAYING IS ADVANCING HALF-MILE DAY. Elgin Extension of O. R. t X. Being Rushed to Completion by Large Force of Men. WALLOWA. Or.. July 25. (Special.) The work on the Wallowa extension of the Elgin branch of the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company's lines Is being rapidly pushed to completion. Already the road has been extended some six miles into Wallowa County and is being advanced at the rate of over half a mile a day. Engineer Bran don, who has the work in charge, says that the road will reach the Canyon House In a week and will be completed to Wallowa In six weeks, and that reg ular trains will be running Into Wal lowa this Fall. A large town has grown up at the mouth of . the Wallowa River, where the supply depot for the construction work is located. Over 60 tents and an equal number of boxcars are used for houses, a complete water system is in stalled and an engine empolyed to pump water from the river. Several miles of sidetrack are In operation, and up-to-date machine shops and a steel bending machine have been Installed. Several hundred men ' are -employed. About 60 men work on the steel gang. A bridge crew is at work putting in the cement abutments for the perma nent bridge across the Grand Ronde River. It is reported on good authority that Wallowa will.be made the supply depot for the remainder of the work as soon as the steel gang reaches this city. HUBBARD TREE LARGER YET Marion County Refuses to Yield All Honors to Old Yamhill. HUBBARD. Or.. July 25. (Special.) The citizens of Hubbard read with a smile the statement in Thursday's Oregonian wherein "Yamhill County claims to have the largest cherry tree in the state. "Hubbard people wish to inform the Yamhillers that old Yam hill Is not the only sun-dog on the horizon when it comes to big things. Marion County was barred In the con test for prizes at the recent cherry fair at Salem because the contest was held in Marion County. In the contest for other honors, how DIAMOND TIRES WIN PQSTALTELEGRAPH v CLARENCE H. MACKAY. PlCSIDCNT. TK LEG RiM J Mrattmn tram-mumi. bniM MTiiit No. mm. . , Th Portal TtUgnph-CabU Compgny (Incorporated) transmits and deliver this mwtiqe subject to tha farms and conrittlont printed on tha back J this blank. """ i j m 95i sf v 247 1216pm San Francisco Cal., July 25, 1908 Pac. Coast Rubber Co., Portland, Ore. . "Diamond tires won Glidden tour again. Cost per car on DIAMOND tires sixteen eighty eight. Cost per car on all other makes sixty four ninety four. Difference in favor of Diamond forty eight naught six. Blowouts of Diamond tires five. Blowouts of "other makes fifty six. Detailed figures on tire cost and results on request. Perfect scores on Diamond tires nine. Perfect scores on all other makes com bined thirteen. Penalties on Diamond tires none. Cars voluntarily changing to Diamond tires enroute two. Cars changing to other tires enroute none. Total cars contesting for Glidden trophy on Diamond tires thirteen. Total cars contesting for Glidden "trophy on all other makes combined seventeen. Total of all cars in tour on Diamond tires twenty one. Total of all cars in tour on other makes thirty f ive- And. had the three teams finishing" with perfect scores run off the tie there would have been five sets of Diamond tires against , four" of all other makes combined in that contest. The above figures are impartial and accurate. They speak for themselves. Diamond tires have won the Glidden tour on tire cost the only cups there were for tires, every year since the inception of the contest.. The nineteen naught eight tour . particularly emphasized the superiority of both Diamond casings and1 Diamond tubes. It showed plainly also that the Marsh Rim is the only hundred per cent efficiency quick acting rim C. E. MALHEWS0N ever, Marion County claims an equal right with other counties, and if any of Yamhill County's citizens wish to see real big things, Hubbard people will be glad to show them a cherry tree which exceeds theirs by a foot and four Inches In circumference and a foot in spread. Right in town and Immediately back of the postoffice on ground owned by Mrs. Sewell, so close in fact to the building as to be a serious handicap to the tree, Hubbard has a seedling cherry tree 30 years old. as near as can be ascertained, which measures eight feet two inches in circumference at two feet from the ground. Although the limbs have been cut -back several feet on each side as well as the top it still measures 43 feet spread and the same -in height. In measuring the 'tree at a point two feet from the ground it was measured at Its smallest circumference. Imme diately above this point the tree be gins to bulge, as its huge limbs fork two feet higher up. The tree has never neglected its duty at harvest time, and although no record has cayer been kept of Its yield It would be hard to find a tree more loaded than this one is annually, nor a prettier sight at blossoming time. TURNS DITCH ONTO LAND Experiment In Irrigation Being Made Near Hlllsboro. HILLSBORO, Or., July 25. (Special.) A. P. Stover, Irrigation Engineer for the United States, has just finished put ting water, out of a branch from the east fork of Dairy Creek, on 50 acres of land on the George R. Bagley ranch, four miles northwest- of this city. This is the largest irrigation experi ment made by the Irrigation Depart ment in the Willamette Valley and the outcome is being watched with inter est. The land irrigated is very pro ductive without water, but it is ex pected to produce a great deal heavier with water turned on in July and" August. - Water was turned on in the laterals yesterday and the engineering proved highly successful. With an expense c about $400 an additional 50 or 60 acres can be thoroughly irrigated. The ranch is being" used for dairy purposes and is known as the Dudley Mill ranch. It Is understood that ' the "60 1 acres fur nishes the scope of Uncle Sam's experi ment. CARD OF THANKS. We desire to express our sincere thanks to the many friends who ten dered their sympathy and assistance during the recent death of our beloved child, Maudie. C. T. MALOTT AND ELLAN MALOTT. GLIDDEN TOUR MIli-PATCH SUIT DRAGS COURT ADJOURNS BECAUSE OF M'BRIDE'S ILLNESS. Attorney Fenton Lays Claim to Rails. Carey Asks If He Wants Them for Harrlntan. HILLSBORO. Or., July 25. (Special.) After three days of trial the Oregon Electric condemnation case against, David Reghitto, et al.. is still in court. Ad journment was taken today, owing to the acute illness of Judge McBride. The owner of the land asks for $18,000 for damages to the land by virtue of the line crossing the land, near Beaverton, this amount to cover the loss of the les see of the place, who has the garden place rented for a term of years. Two acres are involved, and .testimony dis agrees aa to values, some witnesses testi fying that the land is worth $200 an acre, while others have sworn to values as high as $3000 and $4000. One of the features of the trial was the bringing out of a point of law cover ing the ownership of the 1400 feet of ties and rails laid on the disputed property. The company entered the premises, and graded and laid the rails before condem nation proceedings were filed. Messrs. W. D. Fenton, Rufus Mallory and E. B. Tongue, counsel for tjie Reghittos. con tended that the ties and rails became real estate, and that in the matter of dam ages, the Oregon Electric would be com pelled to buy back the material. They sustained their contention -with many authorities, but Judge McBride decided, under the circumstances, that he was justified in holding contrary. The anomaly of Mr. Fenton. the well known Ha.rriman attorney, of Portland, appearing as counsel for a farmer, as against a corporation, provoked interest, and Judge Carey facetiously asked Mr. Fenton If he wanted the rails for Mr. Harriman. DEATH ROLL IN NORTHWEST Stephen Mcrlau, Well-Known Resi dent of Lane County. EUGENE, Or., July 25. (Special.) Stephen Meriau, a well-known resident of Lane County, died at his home on' Seventh and Washington streets- this morning at 10:30. Mr. Meriau was a native of Canada. He was over 78 years old. and since he moved to this county, to the place known as Meriau's Park, has taken a prominent part in COMMERCIAL CABLES the affairs of the community. Besides his wife, he leaves five children, as fal lows: Mrs. Nettie Ryan, of this city; Mrs. Theodora Churchill, of this city; Mrs. Clara Heyer, of South Dakota; Mrs. Mae Baker, of Salem, and Mrs. Lila Bushnell, of Eugene. - i m AIMS AT DEER, KILLS UNCLE Ralph Mosberg Accidentally Shoots Jerome Renne Near Creswell. CRESWELL, Or., July 25. (Special.) Jerome Renne, a well-known resident of this vicinity, was accidentally killed this forenoon by his nephew, Ralph Mosberg, who shot at a deer, but the bullet took effect In his uncle's body, resulting in his death soon afterward. Mr. Renne, who is a one-armed man, went into the hills five miles west of Creswell to hunt for a lost cow. His nephew took a gun and was hunting for deer, when he saw one and fired. He supposed he had hit the animal, and on investigation, found that the bullet had struck his uncle, resulting fatally. The boy at once ran to some neigh bors, giving the alarm, and Coroner Gordon was sent for at Eugene. BIBLE SCHOOL PERMANENT Summer Session at Albany to Be Annual Affair. ' ALBANY. Or., July 25. (Special.) At a conference here this afternoon at tended by people from many valley cit ies it was, definitely decided' to make the Summer Bible school an annual event here. Plans, will begin at once for a school next year on the same plan as this year's successful session. An organization to handle the 1909 gath ering will be formed Monday. The present school will conclude Its work next Monday evening. Albany Good Roads Delegates. ALBANY, Or., July 25. (Special.) The Albany Commercial Club has ap pointed the following delegates to at tend the Good Roads Convention in Portland.' August 11: B. I. Dasent, A. C. Schmitt. ex-County Judge C. H. Stewart. County Judge J. N. Duncan and George Taylor. County Judge Duncan has appointed the following delegates from the county at large: J. V. Pipe, of Albany; M. L. Forster, of Tangent; D. H. Pierce, of Harrisburg; W. L. Wallace, of Lebanon; T. C. Isom, of Brownsville, At lut count there were l,.118,UOu pereoni in India dependent oo atate aid. PLAY BULL, SAYS PREACHER REV. PHIPPS DOES NOT OBJECT TO SUNDAY GAMES. ' ' Lectures to Wallowa Sunday School Convention Meeting Best of 2 3 Held In County. WALLOWA, Or., July 25. (Special.) The twenty-third annual convention of the Wallowa County Sunday School Association closed Its sessions here yesterday after one of the most en thusiastic and successful meetings In Its history. Nineteen delegates from other Sunday schools, besides the mem bers of the three local Sunday schools and numerous other guests, were pres ent and enjoyed the lectures and dis cussions. The convention assembled Tuesday evening and held sessions Tuesday evening. Wednesday forenoon, after noon and evening and Thursday fore noon. Rev. Charles A. Phlpps, of Port land, state field worker for the asso ciated Sunday schools, was presenc and led the discussions.- He lectured Tues day night on "The Real American Boy," and during the course of his lecture came out strongly in favor of the. National game. "Don't complain about Sunday base ball," he said, "encourage Saturday baseball. Give the boy something bet ter and he will stop Sunday baseball. . Reach down Into your pocket, help him buy suics for his team, and then take Saturday afternoon off and go and encourage him. If you attend the Sat urday afternoon game, he will want to play on Saturday afternoon. Win the real American boy through the real American game." Rev. S. C. Adams, of the Presbyterian Church, of Enterprise, lectured Wednesday night on "The Force, the Field and che Worker." A basket din ner "and supper were served Wednesday on John McDonald's lawn and all. guests were cared for throughout their stay by the committee on entertain- ' ment. The next convention will be held in June of next year at Enterprise. Two New Irish Universities. IXJNDON, July 25. The Irish University bill was passed in the House of Commons today by a vote of 207 to 19. amid loud cheering, in which the Nationalists took the lead. The central Idea of the meas ure Is to found, by royal charter, two new universities in Ireland with head quarters in Dublin and Belfast.