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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (June 30, 1912)
1 1 'lift Pages 1 to 20 r II LEADERS FLOCK CHICAGO ROBBERS HOLD UP IDAH0AN IS ALONE AFTER 26 BALLOTS NOTEWORTHY FACTS IN YES TO TAFT BANNER TERDAY'S SESSION OF BAI TIMORE CONVENTION. I SPEAKER'S CAMP RECESS IS T MAXY FORMER T. R. MEJf RE PCDIATE RED BAXDAXA. TOURIST TELLS POLICE HIGH. U AYMES'S LIFE EASY THERE. 80 Pags I ' : ! . - " PT?trK FIVE flEXTS. vnT yyt0 2G .PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY XUKMJU, JUb avm j i : : : i : i . i PROSPEROUS ERA IS PORTLAND'S LOT 1 . m mt mm mmm mm mm mWm I BRYAN BALKS WHEN MURPHY AIDS CLARK HOLiilAII AKEN Democrats Adjourn Un til Monday. WILSON GAINING AT CLOSE Clark Strength Wanes" After Attack by Bryan. - LONG FIGHT IS POSSIBLE Delegates at Beginning of Xcw Week fnllkely to Be In Haste Sun day to Be Day of Import ant Conferences. BALTIMORE. June 29. With Gov ernor Wilson saining' on each ballot and Speaker Clark constantly losing ground In the race for the Presidential nomination, the Democratic National convention at 11:05 o'clock tonight ad journed until Monday morning at 11 o'clock. Twenty-six ballots had been taken since the first call of the states and there' was no hope of a final verdict tonight. It Is against all political precedent for. a National convention to sit on Sunday, but tomorrow- will be a day of Important conferences among the party leaders and 'a day of hard work for the campaign managers. Clark Harries to Baltimore. When the convention adjourned to night. Speaker Clark was hurrying to Baltimore from Washington In re sponse to an urgent call fr6m his cam paign director. William Jennings Bryan, at the afternoon session, had attacked Clark and had said he would vote for no man willing to accept the nomination at the hands of "Murphy, of Tammany Hall." '" It was the plan of Mr. Clark to ap pear before the convention and make answer. In' this way his managers hoped to bolster the falling vote. The ballots today ran from the 13th t the 2th. Wilson began at 356 and ended at 407. a net gain during the day of 51 votes. Speaker Clark began at (54 and fell to 483 fc, a loss of 91 votes. Wilson Gaining at Close. The anti-Clark leaders in the con vention called attention to the fact that they almost exactly offset the 90 rotes given to Clark by the New York delegation. - Breaks to Governor Wilson were coming from many different dele gates as the balloting closed. His managers believed that, once he. had overtaken Speaker Clark, the switch ing of delegates would become general. The Clark forces plan to make a des perate effort tomorrow to win back some of the delegates lost today, and In this work they probably will have the personal direction of the Speaker himself. The Wilson forces, in the meantime, expect to fight, not only to hold their gains of today, but to In duce more to desert the other candl-. dates. Senator Stone, of Missouri, made a motion to eliminate the candidate re ceiving the least number of votes on each successive rollcall after the 27th , ballot, until only one the winner was left In the race. There was a storm of objection and the subject was pressed no further. Haraoa Deserted for Time. The Harmon delegates from Ohio threw tlielr support to Speaker Clark on several ballots, but they did not ma terially help him toward the necessary two-thirds vote, because of the gradual Inroads made by Wilson. They then changed back to Harmon and remained there until the last ballot of the night. (Concluded on lag 6.) . p. -m ' . I "I f THEY HWt ey X -n i t f' 'S 67 O-wi H ' TAKEN ALL THE fZr o i.oc.FM I t -fT 4&LjK " - - I ' SPAKE POGIVf PK- (CURSEJ j ' ' '' fftdZmZ 7fr-' looks J.tK C?ui-rv , I - - ,,,, . ;. Douglas C. Miller Says Some One Would Have Been Killed at Home. 91000 King Is Saved. . CHICAGO. June 29. (Special.) Highwaymen do not have such at easy time in Idaho as they do in Chicago, ac cording to Douglas C. Miller, of Wal lace, who declared to the police of the Chicago-avenue station that if he bad been in his home state and two tnen held him up as they did In Chicago last nigh some one would have been killed. "In Idaho we always pack a gun around with us and they couldn't have got the best of .me If I had been armed this time." said Miller. He Is a grain broker, visiting friends at . 1124 La Salle avenue. Miller was held up at West Oak street and La Salle avenue at midnight by two men, who robbed him of $86 In money, a gold watch and a diamond pin worth $120. When he threw up his hands he managed to twist a diamond ring around so that It was not noticed. The ring, he said. Is worth $1000. The robbers were well dressed young men. who carried revolvers. They showed that they "were desper ate by assailing Miller when he re fused to hold up his hands at the first command. One of them struck him on the mouth with the butt end of a re volver, breaking a tooth. Two young men who answered the description of those who held up Mil ler, robbed Henry Eulert In his saloon at 2925 Racine avenue. BED BANDANA SAVES JRAIN Woman Flags "Xorth Bank" Limited Nearing Slide at Spokane. SPOKANE. Wash., June 29. (Spe cial.) Waving a red bandana handker chief, the emblem of the "Progressive" party, and rushing, up the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railroad tracks, Mrs. B. Frank, wife of a section fore man, flagged westbound limited North Bank train No. 1 four miles west of Spokane at about 8:30 o'clock this morning. The train was brought to a stop less than a quarter of a mile from a 50-foot slide, just west of the Fort George Wright tunnel. ; Engineer G. w. Koonts saw the wo man waving- her handkerchief just as the train left the tunnel. He Imme diately reduced the speed of the train and a few minutes . later brought it to stop. Conductor S. . Bywater, in charge, of the train, reported the slide to Dispatcher B. L. Sperry, who or dered the train backed to Spokane. At 9:05 A. M. the train left for Portland over the Northern Pacifis tracks. The woman rushed away after tell ing the engineer and failed to give her name. Tnrougn tne enorts oi ms- patcher Sperry her name was discov ered this afternoon. PB0DIGAL WOULD RETURN Centralis Youth Who Ran Away Writes Father From Ohio. CENTRAL! A, Wash., June 29. Harry Kendall, a 14-year-old Centralla boy who ran away several weeks ago, was heard from today, his father, H. Q. Kendall, receiving a . letter . from Cincinnati, Ohio, stating that the youth was homesick and wanted to retucA. The youth made the entire trip across the country on a traveling capital of only $6. He celebrated his 15th birth day en route. CSKAY AND ANOTHER SOAR Austrian Aviator Carries Passenger 13,799 Feet Aloft. VI KNN A. June 29. At the Interna tional aviation meet today the Aus trian aviator Cskay, whose real name i XfillAi- rar.hpd an altitude of 4200 meters (approximately 13,779 feet). He carried a passenger. The previous altitude record with a passenger was made by Prevost - at ennrcv. 9840 feet. Roland G. Garros holds the Individual height record of 13 .943 feet. . ALL ABOUT BALTIMORE, New York Support Is Stumbling Block." OBLIGATION MAY BE IMPUED Nebraskan Will Vote for No Man Under Suspicion. SUPPORT GOES TO WILSON State Declared to Have Instructed for Clark With Distinct Under standing He Stood for Pro-, ' gresslve Democracy. BALTIMORE, June 29. William J. Bryan, In refusing his vote to Champ Clark because Clark was .receiving the support of the New York delegation, read the following statement: "Nebraska is - a progressive state. Only twice has she given her vote for a Democratic candidate for. President in" 1896 and in 1908 and on both oc casions her vote was cast for a progres sive ticket running upon a progressive platform. Between these two elections, In the election of 1904, she gave a Re publican plurality of 85,000 "against a Democratic reactionary. "In the recent primary the total vote cast for Clark and . Wilson was over 34,000 and the vote cast for Harmon something over 12.000, showing that the party is now more than three fourths progressive, or about three fourths progressive. The Republican party of Nebraska is progressive in about the same proportion. West Declared to Be Progressive. "And the situation 'In Nebraska Is not materially different from the situa tion throughout the cpuntry west of the Alleghenles. In the recent Republi can primaries, fully two-thirds of the Republican vote was cast' for a can didate representing progressive poli tics. In this convention... the progres sive sentiment is overwhelming. . "Every candidate has proclaimed himself a progressive no candidate would have any considerable following In this convention if he admitted him self out of harmony with progressive Ideas. By your resolution, adopted night before last, you, by a vote of more than 4 to 1, pledged the country that you would nominate for the Presi dency no man who represented or was obligated to Morgan, Ryan. Belmont or any other member of the privilege seeking, favor-hunting class. "This pledge. If kept, will have more Influence on the result of the election than the platform or the name of the candidate. How can that pledge be made effective? There is but one way. namely, to 'nominate a candidate who is under no obligation to those whom these influences directly or indirectly control. Hew York Ruled by Murphy. "The vote of the State of New York In this convention as cast under the unit rule does not represent the Intel ligence, the virtue, the Democracy or the patriotism of the 90 men who are here. It represents the will of one man Charles F. Murphy (hisses and great applause) and he represents the Influences that dominated the Republi can convention at Chicago and are try ing to dominate this convention (great applause). "If we- nominate a candidate under conditions that enable these influences to say to our candidate, 'remember, now, thy creator" (hisses and applause), we cannot hope to appeal to the con fidence of the progressive Democrats and Republicans of the Nation. "Nebraska, or that portion of the delegation for whom I am authorised (Concluded on Page O HARMONY, THE DONKEY, THE HOUN' DAWG, ( onventlon ' takes 26th ballot and ' adjourns at 11:05 until 11 o'clock Monday forenoon. ' : Bryan, in sensational speech, announces that he will, not sup port any candidate favored by Tammany. Breaks his Clark In struction and votes for Wilson. t - Wild demonstrations and nu merous personal encounters mark - the later ballots. Delegates ut terly worn out and In fighting mood. . . Champ Clark hastens to Balti more upon urgent calls from his managers In the convention. Sun day will be devoted to fixing up deal that will go through. , Each ballot shows steady losses for Clark and small gains for . Wilson, but chief states hold their delegations Intact. Managers discover that several delegates, out of funds and ex hausted by the long struggle, have secretly departed for home. . Efforts to Induce Underwood and other candidates to withdraw from the race prove unavailing. . Following much disorder, In which ' a girl tries to lead a Clark demonstration, convention police order all banners from hall and drive women from sections reserved for delegates. Demonstration for Wilson fol lowing the 26th and final ballot for day continues half an hour, during which Clark and Wilson paraders clash in the aisle3. - Indications are that Harmon may release his delegates in con- . ference Sunday. Pressure also to be laid upon Marshall to shift the .Indiana vote to Clark. - Senator La Follette views bat tle from gallery seat and enjoys general confusion. ... . Hotels begin work of dis mantling convention decorations. All banners and lithographs torn down and destroyed. . , , With exception of few- hotels with bar attachments, Baltimore will lose heavily on its $110,000 convention Investment. .'.- Prophets say that when the -convention -reassembles -Monday,' it will be Wilson against the dark horse field. "-',. ' " ' Resolution Introduced in Geor gia Legislature asking state's delegates to vote for Wilson on finding; that Underwod cannot be named for President, WHson-Un-derwood combination helng sug gested. . Resolution, under rules, must He over for day. - Senator Stone, Clark manager, sends telegram to other candi dates urging them to withdraw and contending that, having re ceived majority, Clark is entitled to -receive nomination of Demo cratic convention. Candidates ad-' dressed do not even reply." Possibility considered that del--egates at beginning of new week will be In no haste and may pro long session over several days. ' . Oregon delegation changes from eight for Wilson to nine, Clark . losing the vote .'of James E. Godfrey. Northwestern delegates change votes often and majority seem to be at the point of coming put for Bryan. Washington, however, re mains .for Clark, with- delegates wavering. . Idaho delegates create excite-. ment on the 16th ballot by cast ing six votes for Bryan: Clark loses all except one-half vote of his eight votes, others being for Wilson at the end. Wilson Regains Other Oregon Clark Vote. WASHINGTON RESISTS SPLIT Delegates Shaky but Unit Rule Holds All for Speaker. IDAHO QUITS MISSOURIAN Gem State Causes Furore at Nine teenth Ballot by Giving Bryan Six Mrs. Hutton Employs Right of Sex, Changes Mind. BY HARRY .J. BROWN. -BALTIMORE, June ' 29. (Special.) Throughout today's session of the con vention many Northwestern delegates have been struggling to find out "where they are at" and a study of the rollcalls discloses a vast amount of shifting. - On the first ballot this morning Ore gon cast eight votes for Wilson and two for Clark, Washington cast 14" for Clark and Clark got eight from Idaho. On the final ballot Oregon gave Wilson nine and Clark one,. Washington stood solid for Clark and Idaho divided seven and one-half for Wilson and one half for Clark. r Folowing the break last night Fred erick "V. Holman and James E. God frey, of Oregon, cast their votes for Clark this afternoon and they so voted, regardless of instructions, up to the 24th ballot tonight, when Godfrey re joined his Wilson colleagues, leaving. Holman alone voting for Clark. God frey continued to vote with the Wilson men from that time to adjournment. State Seethes With Brranlsm. The Washington delegation, seething with Bryanlsm and spurred on by tel egrams from home urging them to swing to . Bryan; made one Ineffectual effort to break "f rom" Clark "and, when that failed, decided to continue voting for Clark- tonight but with a deter mination to bring about another order of business on Monday. .. ; The Idaho delegates, sooner or later, voted for most of the leading candi dates in the convention and would have closed the day soliaiy for Wilson, who Is not .their preference, had not ex-Senator Heitfeld risen to protest against being voted by his col leagues.'' Heitfeld insisted that as long as Idaho was going to disregard instructions, he reserved the right to do his own voting and insist ed his half vote be recorded for Clark. This was done, the others of the dele gation acquiescing. A majority of the Idaho delegation wants to vote as they did soon after their first break for Bryan but If they cannot have Bryan, they will support some candidate ac ceptable to Bryan. In this their atti tude Is like that of two-thirds 'of the delegates from Washington. Washington Held by Unit Role. - The Washington delegation up to and including the 26th -rollcall stood solid for Clark, notwithstanding the fact that two-thirds of the delegates would welcome the nomination of Bryan, and would even prefer Wilson to Clark. On the 21st rollcall an effort was made to swing Washington's 14 votes out of the Clark column and only the adop tion of the unit rule, when the delega tion organized, prevented a break. Turner Holds Delegation. . That the attempt to swing away from Clark failed Is rather remarkable in view of the personal Inclinations of most of the delegates and the fact that the dele gation did not desert Clark Is due "very largely to the work or ex-Senator Turner, who Is really loyal to Clark (Concluded on Pare 6.) - THE COLONEL, AND THE President Greatly Encouraged by Desertions From Roosevelt Camp and Pledges of Support. . . WASHINGTON, June 29. (Special.) Republicans caught In the third-term storm are coming in out of the . wet and flocking in great numbers to the support of President Taft.' All signs at the White House point to a gen eral desertion of Colonel Roosevelt. The" President Is greatly encouraged. Charles Blakeslee Law, ex-Representative from Brooklyn, who was elected Sheriff last Fall, was a warm sup porter of the . Colonel. He has an nounced that he is a Republican and will support the President. William L. Ward. . the backbone In New York for Colonel Roosevelt's following, has declined to follow the bandana em blem. At the White House today this telegram from Cleveland was made public: "The Western Reserve Republican Club, of Cleveland, extends to you hearty congratulations on your renom inatlon and- pledges " you its -enthusiastic and untiring support toward se curing the re-election which you so richly deserve." ' "-' It was signed by Samuel , J. ' Korn hauser, president of the -.club.. .- From Johnson City, Term., comes this message from S. R. Wells: "First Senatorial district convention rejected resolutions today Indorsing Roosevelt by vote of iS votes to SVi You were Indorsed by the same vote." CURFEW IS REAL BUZZ SAW Cathlamct Also Makes Fire Alarm From Discarded Machinery. CATHLAMET. Wash.,June 29. (Spe cial.) This city is bound to be metro politan at all costs or no cost. The city has just Installed a novel fire alarm system at practically no expense to the city. f The system consists of a discarded buzz saw from an Astoria sawmill. It Is fastened to a post on Main street The buzz saw buzzes whenever there Is a fire, as a result of some mechan ical attachments that have been made and It is effective, too. , . Also, when it . is curfew time, the guardian of the town's morals starts the buzz-saw and the under age pedes trians are warned of the departing day. " The -buzz-saw so far is effective ami no one monkeys with -the buzz-saw, eitEer figuratively or literally. -. DUBOIS CLAIMS CONTROL Clark Manager Says Speaker Can HoId.Out Until Christmas. i BALTIMORE, June 29. (Special.) "Clark absolutely control : more than one-third of the delegates In this con vention and he will not consent to the nomination of Wilson, Bryan, or any other man than himself," said Fred T. Dubois, one of Clark's managers, at 5 o'clock this afternoon. Dubois said that Clark would hold out and deadlock the convention until Christmas, If necessary, to win the nomination. Indications are, however, that Dubois' assertion as to Clark's loyal strength Is exaggerated. CHICK 14 WEEKS OLD LAYS Bantam at Oregon Olty Earns Feed Regularly at Early Age. OREGON CITY, Or., June 29. (Spe cial.) Oregon Washburn, a poultry fancier of West Oregon City, is the owner of probably the youngest lay ing hen In the state. The ben was hatched March 8 and laid its first egg June 24 and has been laying daily since. Its jnother hss hatched two broods since March 8. The chicken wonder Is a white feath er leg bantam, and under size even for that species. Mr. Washburn Is con fident the hen has established a new record for early laying. LADY BY REYNOLDS. Record of Six Months Surpasses All. CITY'S HEMS SOLIDITY Substantial Class of Citizen ship Attracted Here. BUSINESS PROGRESS GREAT Most Noticeable Achievement of Fast Half Year Is Increase in ' Bank Deposits and Clearings Making Record Mark. . ' With the closing of the first half ot the year, Portland has entered the most prosperous era of Its existence. A re view of the business activities of the last six months shows a remarkable ad vancement and an expansion that places Portland In a position with the moat rapidly-growing cities In the United States. . , There has been no adverse effect on business by recent political develop ments, nor have there been any Indus trial disturbances to check the city's progress. Portland is not outgrowing or over growing. It is probable that there is no city In the West that can be placed In the same classification with Port land. It never has overreached Itself In any direction. There never has been a reaction and a consequent commer cial and Industrial' depression that have been experienced in nearly every city of the Western part of the United States. This Is strong testimony to the sound business fabric of the city. : City', Magnet la Its Solidity. - The solidity of Portland Is -a mag net that is drawing a substantial class of citizenship. " New enterprises cover ing a, wide range of activity are being added to the ""city -at a rate that is sur prising. Development projects and in dustrial plants under way and in proc ess of formation aggregate a total In vestment of nearly 810,000,000. ' ' Supplementing this remarkable rec ord, the railroads are preparing to ex pend vast sums in betterments and ex tensions. Included in trie programme of the railroads Is a new union depot and enlarged terminal facilities which will entail an outlay of approximately 16,000,000, new Southern Pacific car shops on Holgate street to cost 8J.0O0, 000, electrical shops at Oswego and electrification of the Southern Pacific's West Side lines. East Side freight de velopment by both the Hill and Harrl man lines to cost ifl the aggregate prob ably $5,000,000. Railroad construction and better ments of the Harriman system in Ore gon will entail a total expenditure of J20.000.000 during the next two years. -- The big things that have happened the past six months justify extensive preparation for a much greater activity1, of the Immediate future. Increased fafni production of Portland's shipping terrl-. tory, extension of the city's trade zon and growth of foreign commerce are factors in the forward strides that the city Is making. With these conditions there is every Indication that the rec ords of the last half of tlie year will surpass those by far of any correspond ing period. In the history of. the city. Progress Hu Bee Great. In its industrial and commercial prog ress Portland has made big records since January 1 in bank clearings, postal receipts, building permits and lumber, flour and wheat shipments. Business at the Portland Union Stock yards made a fair showing, the receipts of stock being about the same as for the same period of last year. Almost (Concluded onPasa 11.)