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THE SUXPAT OREGOSIAX. PORTLAND. NOVEMBER 3. 1912 " r-y rrTT-"rT councllinanlc form will be made. The fight at first showed but little Indica tion of becoming a hot one. but for the past week or 10 days has been waged with considerable warmth and tonight ended with not a little feeling being displayed by the advocates of both sides. Baker has been under the commission form for two years, and. while there are those who feel entirely satisfied with the results of the two years, there are others who feel that the old form would be the best. The great fight against the present form has been waged by those citizens who style themselves the Taxpayers League. However, none knows exactly who are the leaders of the movement. The agi tation for the change was made for the first time last Spring. The vote is expected to be exception ally heavy. The corrupt practices act will be rigidly enforced. Other mat ters up for the city voters are certain WILSON FAILED 111 WILSON DECLARES HE Colonel Declares Democratic Candidate as Governor Did Not Curb Trusts. Republicans Called Timid, Pro gressives Chided for Seek ing New Ways. WILSON'S REPLY ASSAILED ISSUE CLEARLY MADE UP DOUBTS S 01 SnYST.R x -. ; . AS Democratic Promise to "Go Forward Without Postponement or Ex periment or Confusion" Made la Formal Statement. NEW YORK, Nov. 2. The following itmit bv Governor Wilson, uemo rratie candidate for President, was ia- sued today through the headquarters of the Democratic National committee. "The Issue is now clearly made up and goes to the people. I. for one, do not doubt the verdict. The voters must take one or the other of three choices. Three Alternative Offered. "First, entrust the Government to the regular Republican party again, which always begins a campaign with prom iua ir action and then always at the end draws back and warns against change, dreading to attempt anything at all for fear it should not sausiy those who control credit and whom it has so long permitted to act as trus tees for the people in every matter of policy. "Second, place the guidance of their affairs in the hands of men who are searching about for some new way in which to perform old duties, all along plain and imperative, which can easily be performed without the invention of new methods for example, without shifting the whole energy and initiative of the law to the executive branch of the Government. Democratic Pramlir Defined. 'Third, go forward without postpone ment or experiment or confusion to effect the reforms that the whole coun try waits for and that all parties pro fess to be necessary through the ln Mrumentality of a great established and undivided party, clear and explicli a to its purposes, willing to effect them by the ordinary process of leg islation, willing to be guided by the common council of the Nation as a whole, the plain people with the rest, regardful of every interest, the little as well as the big. because connected with every interest by sympathy and comprehension, and soberly determined to obey the voice of thoughtful men everywhere, by a carefully considered course of moderate yet courageous re form the mere statement of the choices Is a prediction. We shall trust ourselves and let the little groups o discoverers who would have us rest our powers in them learn, in their turn and at their leisure, to trust us also. "WOODROW WILSON." Candidate Makes Vmmt Appenl. What was termed the "final mes sage" of Woodrow Wilson for the cam paign was read in many cities through out the country today. It declared that the next four years would see how the country was to solve the questions of the tariff, trusts, banking and currency system, the conservation . of natural resources and the health of the people, the development of trans portation, the firm establishment of a Just foreign policy and the extension of the assistance of the Government to many programmes of uplift and better ment. . It spoke of the tariff partic ularly regarding which Governor .Wilson said: "It must be handled very prudently, so that no honest toil may be Inter rupted, no honorable or useful enter prise disturbed; must be dealt with by slow stages of well-considered change change whose object shall be to re store and broaden opportunity, and destroy nothing but special privilege and unwholesome control. Those who handle it. therefore, must be men who understand the general interest and have devoted themselves to serving it without fear or favor." Governor Wilson continues: "The trust question must be dealt with in the same way with this dis tinct and single programme, to destroy monopoly and to leave business intact, to give those who conduct enterprise no advantage except that which comes by efficiency, energy and sagacity, those only fountains of honorable wealth, every man rewarded according to his insight and enterprise and serv ice, his mastery in an open field. Cur rency and banking questions must be discussed and settled in the interest of those who use credit, produce the crops, manufacture the goods, and quicken the commerce of the natlo'.i, rather than in the Interest of the banker and the 'promoter and the cap tain of finance, who if set oft by them selves in the management of such things, too slly lose sight even of their own Intimate and inseparable re lation to the general needs and inter ests of the rank and Tile. Forests must be renewed, and mines and water courses must be husbanded and pre served, as If we were trustees for all generations, not merely for our own. for the sake of communities and nations and not merely for the Immediate use of those who hasten to enlarge their enterprises and think only of their own profits. People Mast Be Vn hampered. "The Government must employ its powers and spend its money to de velop a whole people and a whole con tinent, and at the same time keep them ire and alert and unhampered, its eye always on the common use and pur pose, its thought constantly of what will happen to the average man and of what will be prepared for the next generation. -We must consider our foreign policy upon the same high principle. We have become a powerful member of the great family of nations. The na tions look to us for standards and policies worthy of America. We must shape our course of action by the max ims of Justice and liberality and good will, think of the progress of mankind rather than of the progress of this or that investment, of the protection of American honor and the advancement if American ideals rather than always of American contracts, and lift our di plomacy to the levels of what the bst minds have planned for mankind. We must devote the power of the Govern ment to the service of the race and think at every turn of men and women and children, of the moral life and physical force and spiritual betterment of those, all of those for whom we pro. fess to have set government up." BAKER TO SOLVE PROBLEM Commission Form of Government to Live or Die Monday. BAKER. Or, Nov. 2. (Special.) One of the most spirited city cam naisrns that the city has held prac tically closed tonight. On Monday Raker will hold a city election. The most important Issue to come before the voters is whether or not the .commission form of government will be approved or a return to the old T'IS SISTERS TOLD APART BV SIGN OF GOLD CROSS IMXS WORN. u L -I V A Ft-- ' ' '' "'"' i. v! TVettle and Kle Vlnynrd. SACRAMENTO. Cal.. Nov. 2. (Special.) Among the teachers attending the Northern Califor nia Teachers' Association, Just closed here, were two sisters, twins, that look " much alike they cannot be told apart even by their Intimate friends without the distinguishing mark which they wear. This comprises a gold cross pinned on their dress. One has a larger cross than the other. The sisters are Misses Nettle and ITttle Vinyard, of Shasta County. They live together, al though they have -separate schools, and are almost constant ly in each other's company. Since birth they have not been away from each other at night. When they started teaching in rnH.-r. r'mintv thpv had the same r school, taking turn about. The pupils did not know tne aitier ence. They have taught in Mo doc, Shasta and Siskiyou coun ties. California, and in Southern Oregon. proposed amendments to the present city charter and the election of one Commissioner. Five candidates are out for the office. H.JL BILL ABOLISHING OFFICE TO BE INTRODUCED. State Senator John A. Carson De clares Slate Printing Expert Is Unnecessary. SALEM. Or.. Nov. 2. (Special.) Declaring that the office of state print ing expert before the present admin istration was useless, but under the guidance of R. A. Harris, the present expert. It has become a drag on the taxpayers through petty raids on the treasury, which have been made by Harris, aside, from drawing his regu lar salary. State Senator John A. Car son today announced that he Intends to introduce a bill in the next Legisla ture to abolish that office. "The thrifty Mr. Harris, who ex presses himself as bitterly opposed to anything but an eight-hour day for the men who labor, seems to maice no bones about overtime and additional collection from the public treasury when it is for the benefit of Mr. Har ris." said Senator Carson in comment ing on his proposed bill. "He has illus trated how it is possible for an office holder in a useless office to gather unto himself all the perquisites, wheth er allowed by law or not. To my mind the office has always been a useless one. It has served no good purpose and nothing is accom plished by a printing expert that could not be accomplished by a clerk In the office of the Secretary of State. "But even with the office as It was under the former administrations It was not so bad. even If It was useless. Now It has' developed into a raid on the taxpayer. Harris has been collecting his full- per diem, whether he works or not. except for a few days when he was away from his office. I understand he would probably nave attempted to col lect this had not some of his friends remonstrated with him to show him how It would reflect on the present administration. In addition he has had his hand out for every extra dollar that would cling to it. "Harris has used the office largely for political ends and for advancing his own political Interests. I haven't a doubt but his advocacy of the flat salary measure against Mr. Dunlway is nothing more or less man a aesign on his part to secure further advancement into a fat political Job, which will line his pockets with some additional dol lars. "There will be no difficulty in con vincing the representatives of the peo ple during the next session that Mr. Harris has turned a useless office into an office that has been exceedingly useful to himself and that it should be done away with for the benefit of the taxpayers." CARD OF THANKS. To the many kind friends whose sym pathy and assistance has been such a comfort to me during the illness and death of my beloved husband. I wish to express my nennieit grmiiime. aiRij. ROBERT PERRY. "This Is No Answer at All," Statement- Says of Contention That Republicans In New Jersey Blocked Efforts. OYSTER BAY, N. Y- Nov. '.Theo dore Roosevelt issued a statement to day devoted largely to answering Gov ernor Wilson's remarks on the trust question in his speeches last Thursday night at Madison Square Garden. "In view of Wilson's insistence upon the importance of the trust problem," says Colonel Roosevelt, "I desire to call attention to Wllson'B record on the trust question as Governor of New Jer sey and to ills previous attitude." Colonel Roosevelt quotes from Wil son's speeches when running for Gov ernor and later. "In his first message to the Legisla ture, January 17, 1911." the statement continues, "Governor Wilson renewed with emphasis his promises to deal with the New Jersey trusts. He described some as having ,'slipped out of control of the University law that gave them leave to be, and can make and unmake them at pleasure." and declared: " "We have now set ourselves to con trol them soberly bt effectively and to bring them within the regulation of the law. There is a great obligation. as well as a great opportunity, an Im perative obligation from wnicn we can not escaDe If we would. No man who wishes to enjoy the public confidence dares hold back and if he is wise, he will not resort to subterfuge." Opportunity an Governor Neglected. "The SuDreme Court of the United States has solemnly declared that the Standard Oil and Tobacco trusts have been guilty of fraudulent and unlawful conduct which the New Jersey, statute declares to be a misdemeanor." says Colonel Roosevelt. "Wilson now says that he wishes to proceed against the directors and managers of these trusts lndividuajly. For 22 months he has had. as Governor of New Jersey, amle opportunity for thus proceeding against them, but ne Has never iniea ma iwuu to take It. "Wilson has declined to give the Leg islature a lead In this matter and when these members of the legislature gave him a lead he still declined to lift a finger in its aid. And, naturally, in view of this attitude of passive oppo sition on his part, the Legislature failed to act. "Through Senator Beverldge, I asked Wilson certain questions, as follows: " "First Is It not a fact that the laws of the state under which a cor poration is organized prescribe its powers? " 'Second Are. not all the powers of the Standard Oil and similar mono polies conferred by the laws of New Jersey? " 'Third Could not these powers have been curtailed by amendments to the New Jersey laws? " 'Fourth Why has not Wilson as Governor of New Jersey recommended such amendments?" Wilson's Reply Criticised. "In response to these questions, Mr. Wilson telegraphed to one of hiB sup porters, as follows: " 'I authorize you to say that the Re publican majority in the Legislature made a revision of the corporation laws impossible, and no New Jersey official could prosecute or propose a dissolution for breach of Federal stat utes." "This is no answer at all. Wilson himself stated that the Legislature did with surprising ease what be asked and that Republicans and Democrats members actually Introduced bills such as were demanded by Wilson's explicit promises. "The New Jersey Legislature of 1911 stood: House, 42 Democrats and 18 Republicans; Senate, U Republicans and 10 Democrats. Therefore there was only one Republican majority against him In the Senate, and one Re publican Senator, Colgate, actually in troduced an anti-trust bill. "In the entire Legislature there was no opponent of trust legislation who possessed one one-thousandth part of the influence which, while I was Presi dent, was exercised by Senator Ald rlch In the Senate and Speaker Can non in the House. But I never made any excuses, and by a succession of the hardest kind of hammering fights I forced through Congress a mass of vitally Important trust and corpora tion legislation. "Efficient Control" Proposed. "No wonder that Wilson was able to mention in his Madison Square Garden speech with modest pride that the "gen tlemen In Wall street are smiling and complacent' because of their hope for his election, and that they are betting heavily on him. "I ask that Wilson's proposals now be tested by his action as Governor of New Jersey. We Progressives propose a real, thoroughgoing and efficient control over the trusts. Wilson and Taft naturally propose the same rem edies, that is, to put their faith in a continuation of the present policy, which is to allow the eggs to be scram bled and then, after the damage has been done, to proceed by a lawsuit lasting several years to try partially to unscramble them. "Our proposal, on the contrary, is to create a commission, like the Interstate Commerce Commission, and through this commission to supervise the big Industrial concerns doing an interstate business as the Government now su pervises railroads and banks. "Under these circumstances, it is no wonder that the great majority of the trust magnates are supporting one or the other of the old parties." GENERAL O'REILLY DYING Hiccoughs Exhaust Vitality Sapped by Uraemlc Poisoning. Iil.'lll.'U 1 l.VF.. .."J t , i i n n ..i .-vtj nl., Ciipir.nn.nan. eral of the Army from 1902 until and personal physician ana close iriena of President Cleveland, is dj-ing from uraemlc poisoning in mis ciiy. Cl-n. la.t TiiaeHav Vi 0 ban hpn Kllf- .' I II V. C . n fertng from hiccoughs, which are rap- Idly exhausting nis vitality. I WILLIAM A. LEET INDORSED The following telegram was received Friday from Senator Smith, .of Michi gan: "Hon. W. A. Leet: -Hearty con gratulations upon your nomination for Circuit Judge. The people of your county are fortunate If they are able to secure your services In this honor able position, for which you are so ad mirably qualified. (Signed) "WILLIAM ALDEN SMITH." (Paid Adv.) 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"I want to go up there." pleaded the child, before the attorney representing the complainant lifted her into his arms and carried her back to Miss Dora Storle. , i. nndTnaptftil riomnn Rtratlon caused an Interruption and the attor ney representing nosan oojetitu i " fnr the defense in permitting the little one to toddle past the Jurors. ..,,. . j, "It was the baby's fault," protested the attorney. "It makes no difference, necmreu Judge Cushman. "If the child Is per mitted to repeat such action It will be necessary to oar u irum mo room." mi.- r th shattered romance of Nellie Storle was related to the Jury by her sister, Ida. after order was re stored. The sister told of Hogan's al leged promises of a home either In the country or in tne cuy, and an education In some Canadian college. The case will De resumea nei -nesday. Court will not be in session tomorrow on account of the funeral o. Vice-President Sherman. Tuesday be ing election day. Judge Cushman de cided it was not advisable to keep the out-of-town Jurors from their homes for the single Besslon on Monday. Lebanon Man Wins Contest. ALBANY, Or, Nov. 2. (Special.) K. Kuhn. proprietor of a motion-picture show at Lebanon, yesterday won the case that Kohler & unase, ui ruruauu, filed against him here, growing out of the sale of an electric piano. The Jury which heard the case returned a ver dict in' favor of the defendant. 16 PERISH NEAR MONTREAL Four Passengers Only Survivors of Wrecked Steamer Cecilia. MONTREAL, Nov. 2. During a storm last night the steamer, Cecilia, which piled between Montreal and Valley field, was hurled on the rocks and sank at Isle Perrot, in Lake St. Louis, 10 miles west. At least 18 persons were drowned, the lost comprising men. wo men and children. Only four passen gers were saved, all men. Alexander Leonard, a farmer, put out In a small boat and picked up the four. 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