The Sunday Oregonian., February 22, 1914, Section One, Page 5, Image 5

THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN. PORTLAND. FEBRUARY 22, 1914.
FORCE
SCENES IN FLOODED DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
WILSON SUPPORTERS
TO FIX INITIATIVE
TO PRESS CANDIDACY
First Application of Measure
Leads to Scandal That
Causes Safeguarding.
'resident to Be Boomed for
Second Term, Despite Plat
- form Declaration.
DEAD MEN'S NAMES SIGNED
PLANK IS BRYAN'S .WORK
FRAUDS
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Telephone Directory Copied by Cir
culator of Petition and Notaries
Affix Seals Without Even
Seeing Solicitors.
COLUMBUS, O, Feb. 21. (Special.;
It was a roost peculiar combination
f circumstances that led to the reve
lation of weaknesses in the Ohio initia
tive and referendum law within a few
tnontha of the date of Its enactment.
Frauds that might have been dreamed
bout but never anticipated crept in
vpon Us very first application, with
the result that within one year of en
actment the same General Assembly
was called upon to provide safeguards
aimed to prevent a repetition of such
a scandal.
Ohio's first ead experience with the
Initiative and referendum came about
through the passage a year ago by the
General Assembly of a compulsory
workmen's compensation law that was
highly displeasing to the liability in
surance companies that had been wax
ing fat and prosperous upon the mis
fortunes of workmen engaged in dally
toll.
An unincorporated organization
tyled the Ohio Equity Association,
financed partly by Insurance men and
partly by other, private and seml-prl-Vate
interests, undertook the task of
putting the compensation act to a ref
erendum. At the same time It was
proposed to initiate a substitute com
pensation act to the General Assembly
which was more acceptable to the lia
bility insurance companies.
Slamaturea Er to Get.
The Ohio law. requiring 3 per cent
of the electors to an Initiated bill and
6 per cent to petition a referendum, it
was a comparatively easy task for the
Kqulty Association, through several
score solicitors, to gain the necessary
signatures.
Having Hied the petitions covering
the compensation act. those directing
the work of the Equity Association de
cided to becloud the real reason for the
referendum by petitioning for others
on two acts passed by the same Gen
eral Assembly which provided changes
in the taxing laws of Ohio, there hav
ing been mutterings of discontent upon
the proposed changes.
Just about the time the solicitors
were ready to start out with the ref
erendum petitions on the two taxation"!
acts the nrst expose of the signature
frauds In the compensation act peti
tions was heralded.
Investigators for the state were
hurried In all directions and Governor
Cox took personal charge of the work.
Examination of petitions showed such
clumsy work on the part of the per
petrators as to be almost laughable.
Whole pages of signatures on- some
petitions were signed in the same
handwriting. On other petitions the
same handwriting alternated.
Telephone Directory Copied.
This discovery, of course, led to a
personal investigation of solicit
ors. In Cleveland one solicitor, a
man who was so crippled that it would
have been next to Impossible to ' get
around in a quest for signatures, con
fessed that he had used an old copy
of a Cleveland telephone directory,
putting down names and addresses as
he found them. Other solicitors ob
tained the signatures of tramps and
floaters as they drifted through cheap
hotels and lodging-houses.
Investigation of names appearing on
other petitions disclosed the fact that
names of dead men, lunatics, convicts
and persons without even legal resi
dence appeared in profusion.
Notary publics, required to admin
ister the oath to signature solicitors
as to the genuineness of names ap
pearing thereon. confessed that in
reality they had not sworn the solicit
ors, merely having affixed the notarial
seal and completed the legal formal
ity without having even seen the so
licitor. When the first word of the wholesale
frauds in the compensation referendum
petitions appeared the Equity Associa
tion destroyed hundreds of similar
fraudulent petitions., In spite of pre
cautions taken, other frauds were so
apparent that upon hearing before the
Secretary of State shortly before the
general election last Fall all petitions
were discarded.
Great Outcry Made.
There was a great outcry made that
Governor Cox. the Secretary of State,
Charles H. Graven and others went be
yond their authority and deliberately
prevented a referendum on all the
three acts In question, but the state
officials had the last say and there was
Tio referendum.
K suit is now pending In the Ohio
Supreme Court in an attempt to comtiel
the Secretary of State to submit the
three referendums to a popular vote.
me unio juquity Association prose
cuting the action. It is not expected
nowever. that the decision, when it
-omes. A-ill have any bearing, the time
for the submission having elapsed by
more man lour months.
But all the Iniquity was not confined
lo tne unto Equity Association, subse
quent developments showed. A number
or politicians of the state, who had
hopes of landing fat jobs through the
operation or tne two acts changing tax
ation machinery, which was threatened,
organized.
Head of Order Convicted.
This organization was headed bv Ci.
C. Meeklson. a former auditor of one of
the smaller counties of the state. Ar
resieu inn inea in Cleveland on a
charge of burglary of the offices of the
Ohio Equity Association in Cleveland,
wun tne intention or stealing refer
enaum petitions on one of the tax
laws. Meeklson was convicted and sen
tenced to one year In the penitentiary.
wnicn sentence was suspended.
Such, In brief form, was Ohio's ex
perlence in the first application of the
Initiative unci referendum. To prevent
the recurrence or such frauds, the Gen
eral Assembly, in extraordinary session
last month, provided the following
safeguards for the Ohio initiative and
referendum, which would severely pen
alize:
Signing fictitious names and the
names of other persons to initiative or
referendum petitions.
Misrepresenting contents of petitions.
Filing without swearing to the genu
lneness of petitions.
Signing fictitious names as affidavits
Treating to drinks to get signatures.
Failing to file expense account cover
ing work in soliciting signatures.
Making money the basis of getting
algnaures.
Attesting by notaries of petition
parts without having administered the
oath of affiant.
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TOP. ORANGE GROVE AT CORINA, A DISTRICT WHICH HAS SUFFERED HEAVILY BELOW, LEFT, HEAD.
WATERS OF LOS ANGELES RIVER, WHICH HAS BECOME DESTRUCTIVE TORRENT: RIGHT, SHOWING
PRECIPITOUS SIDE OF SAN GABRIEL CANYON, DOWN WHICH TORRENTS DASH.
STORM IS WORST YET
Seven Lives Are Lost; Damage
of $4,500,000 Is Done.
CITY HOUSES SWEPT AWAY
Los Angeles Suburbs Arc Threatened
AVltli Food Famine, and Water
Supply Is Cut Off In Some
OasesWide Region Isolated.
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to pianos and beds, were left stranded
on sand bars.
After a big steel bridge over the riv
er buckled and broke early today, the
Southern Pacific and Santa Fe rail
roads sent heavy cars loaded with scrap
Iron and heavy boulders plunging into
the flood in efforts to divert further
inroads by the storm waters, which
threatened railroad tracks skirting the
river banks. The sweep of the floods
was so strong at times, however,' that
these barriers were turned aside.
Besides numerous houses that toppled
off the caving banks, the rivei" usu
ally a dry bed called a river by cour
tesy swept away the Los Angeles
pigeon farm. Extensive cotes turn
bled into the stream before daylight
ana thousands of pigeons were
drowned.
Suburbs Short of Food.
From 10 to 11 inches of -rain fell In
three days In various sections outside
of Los Angeles.
Whittier, a suburb of Los Angeles,
reported a shortage of food which
would become acute if transportation
facilities were not restored within a
day or two.
tiaremonr, near .Pomona, also was
Isolated and the supply of bread was
reported to be on a famine basis.
The water system supplying Clare-
mont was seriously damaged and the
town s supply of drinking water was
cut off for a time.
Pasadena suffered the same trouble
and the Orange Grove avenue district,
populated almost exclusively by a col
ony of Western millionaires, had to
get Its supply of drinking water by
tne paiiiui irom city water wagons
sent out alter a big water main broke.
At San Pedro several of the inner
channels of the harbor were filled by
silt washed down by the floods. In some
channels a depth of only six to 10 feet
was found at high tide, where normally
they should show a depth of 20 to 30
feet.
Pumping: Stations Cut Off.
In San Bernardino an overflow of
Lytle Creek damaged the water sys
tem, cutting off a great portion of the
city's supply by putting pumping sta
tions out of commission. East Colton,
a suburb, was inundated. A $1,000,000
railroad citrus fruit pre-coollng plant
was flooded.
Three hundred visitors from Corona
to the National Orange Show at San
Bernardino were marooned when the
railroads were tied up last night' and
started to walk home, a distance of 25
miles, today. In the party were most
of Corona's principal business men and
they said they had to get home or Co
rona would do no business today. Co
ronj later reported that they hadnot
reached home. Riverside and Bedlands
were out of communication tonight
The Los Angeles weather bureau pre
dicted more rain tonight and tomorrow,
with prospects of clear weather tomor
row night.
COAL LANDS TO BE WORKED
Claims Near Morton, Wash., Scene
of lixpected Operations.-
MORTON. Wash., Feb. 21. (Special.)
Recent final proofs on a large num
ber of coal claims in this vitclnity
are expected to result In extensive de
velopment of coal properties In the
nelghborhod of Morton within a short
time. Details of the project have been
withheld, but the report comes from
reliable authority that the deposits of
coal are to be worked extensively and
a large number of miners will be em
ployed. --
The claims are close to Morton. Some
years ago when the Government made
an official test of Washington coals
for navy use, that from this neighbor
hood tested the highest of any sub
mitted in the tryout. .
AIR RAGE PLANNED
WOMAN SEA CAPTAIN WINS
Promotion to Steamer In American
Service Is Given.
COPENHAGEN, Feb. 21. Promotion
to a steamer in the American service
has been promised to Mrs. von Baudltz,
Denmark's only woman sea captain,
who is now commanding a vessel run
ning between Russia and England.
Mrs. von Baudltz, who is the wife of
a physician, was for a long time inter
ested in yachting as a sport and after
passing an examination for a master's
license she took up the sea as a pro
fession. So adept did she prove her
self that a local shipping company soon
gave her command of one of its largest
steamers. Captain von Baudltz wears a
natty uniform with square-cut coat and
skirt of the same material. She is the
first female captain in Denmark and
she claims to be the only real feminine
master mariner In the world.
Danish Americans to Aid.
COPENHAGEN, Feb. 21. - Anton
Rosen, a local architect, has finished
plans for the building which will be
erected at the San Francisco Exposi
tion from a fund collected by Danish
Americans. The building will be
modeled on the famous castle of Ham
let's town, Elsinore, and, like its his
torical prototype, will be situated on
the sea. The building will not be used
to house exhibits, which will be placed
in another structure erected by the
Danish government, but will be used as
a headquarters for Danish Americans
and their friends visiting the Expos
ition. The structure will . contain a
big recital hall, reception rooms and
offices. . For the official . Danish ex
hibition a splendid site has been pro
cured and it is planned to make the
exhibit small but typical of the best
of Danish art and industry.
Rose Festival Makes Offer for
National Contest.
AERO CLUB FAVORS IDEA
One-Term Provision Pledges Nomi
nee to Principle, Though. Wil
son Democrats Are Disposed
to Evade Issue.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, Feb. 21. The Democratic Na
tional platform adopted at Baltimore
declared:
'We favor the exemption from tons
of all American ships engaged in coast
wise trade passing through the Panama
Canal."
In spite of this declaration President
Wilson is insisting on the repeal or
the exemption clause of the Panama
Canal act.
The Baltimore platform also con
tained this promise:
"We favor a single Presidential term,
and to that end urge the adoption of
an amendment to the Constitution
making the President of the United
States Ineligible for re-eiection, ana
we pledge the candidate of this con
vention to this principle.
Plank Indorsed by Bryan.
In view of the fact that the President
does not consider himself bound by
the platform declaration with regard
to free tolls, there Is speculation as to
whether he will consider himself bound
by the single term plank just quoted.
It has been abundantly demonstrated
that the free tolls plank was not
slipped Into the Baltimore platform,
but that it was carefully consiaerea
by the committee on resolutions, of
which William J. Bryan was cnairman.
and was at the time Indorsed by M
Bryan, as well as by every other mem
ber on the committee which drafted the
nlatform. Mr. Bryan drafted the one-
term plank and It was adopted by the
convention after he had made a strong
appeal to the delegates. It was recog
nlzed at the time that Mr. Bryan prob
ably had a selfish motive In proposing
this plank, and it was generally con
ceded that the plank was Intended to
commit Mr. Wilson to a single term.
Views on Succession Concenled.
If President Wilson has any idea of
abiding by. the one-term plank, he has
carefully concealed that intention from
the public. Never since the day or nis
nomination has he given the slightest
indication of any Intention to content
himself with one term. We adroitly
dodged this Issue during Ihe campaign
of 1912 and he has avoided public ref
erence to the question ever since.
It is becoming evident that friends
of President Wilson Intend to boom him
for re-nomination In 1916. whether ne
declares himself or not. The formula
tion of the Common Counsel Club was
the first step toward building a Wil
son machine.
Since it has become apparent that
Mr. Wilson is to be boomed for re
nomination, the one-term plank of the
Baltimore platform has been revived
and the explanation Is made that that
plank does not commit Mr. Wilson to
one term, but merely commits the
Democratic party to support a Consti
tutional amendment declaring In favor
of one term. A careful reading of tne
platform, however, shows such an in
terpretation to be incorrect, for it con
cludes with these words: "We pledge
the candidate of this convention to this
principle." That means that the Bal
timore convention undertook to limit
Mr. Wilson to one term, in the White
House.
IDAHO POLITICS HUM
Elimination Balloon Trials Prelim
Jnary to International Race May
. Como to Portland Fiind of
$300 0 Is Set Aside.
NEW YORK. Feb. 21. The National
balloon race may go to the Pacific
Coast this year. Joseph M. Relg, of
Portland. Or., has telegraphed Alan R.
Hawley, of the Aero Club of America.
that the managers of the annual Rose
Festival there had decided to set aside
an allowance of $3000 if the race is
held at Portland Festival week, be
ginning June 10.
Mr. Hawley has referred the appli
cation to tne Aero Club s contest com
mlttee. It is said the idea is regarded
with favor as tending to stimulate in
terest In the sport on the Pacific Coast.
The result of the National ballooa
race determines the selection of Amer
ica's representative in the contest fo
the international cup.
STRAIN BREAKS SKIPPER
Sea-Dog Collapses During Trial of
Xorth, Yakima. Land Case.
NORTH YAKIMA, Wash., Feb. 21.
(Special.) Captain F. B. Turner, for
more than, 25 years skipper on steam
ers on the Columbia and Snake rivers,
and later on the Yukon, collapsed on
the stand this afternoon In a. trial in
volving a $20,000 land deal. In which
he Is defendant.
Domestic worries are said by his at
torney to be the cause. The trial was
postponed one week.
CANDIDATES OUT FOR SKAT 151
TIONAL LEGISLATURE.
The Dalles Churches Crowded Today.
THE DALLES, Or.. Feb. 21. (Spe
cial.) Local churches will be taxed to
their capacity tomorrow. It is expected,
as the result of the strenuous campaign
which has been carried on here dur
ing the last two weeks by clergymen
and laymen in the interests of "go-to-church
Sunday" in The Dalles. Spe
cial programmes will be rendered In
all the local churches.
Vale to Have Rural Delivery.
OREOONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, Feb. SI. Rura: free delivery
route will be established May 1 at
Vale to serve 110 families, The sal
ty of the earrler will be 1100,
Three Tickets In Field Make Fight
Warm One and Outcome Decid
edly Uncertain.
BOISE. Idaho. Feb. 21. (Special.)
The contest in this tate for the seat
of Representative French In the lower
house of Congress has brought out
number of candidates from the rank
and file of the Republican party.
.riepreseniative r rencn has an
nounced his intention to enter the race
for Senator to succeed James H. Brady,
ine two announced candidates are
Miles S. Johnson, of Lewiston, and
Thomas T. Kerl. of Coeur d'Alene. The
prospective candidates are C. H. Potts,
of Coeur d Alene: Walter H. Hanson,
of Wallace: A. II. Connor, of Sand-
point; O. V. Allen, of Boise; Captain
iy. u. JJavls and Robert M. McCracken,
also of Boise.
Johnson Is at present prosecuting at
torney of Nez Perce County; Kerl was
a member of the House of Representa
tives from Kootenai County during the
11th session of the Legislature; Potts
was htate Senator from Kootenai Coun
ty during the same session: Hanson
is at present State Senator from Sho-
snone County; Connor is State Rep
resentatlve from Bonner County; Allen
Is at present State Treasurer, serving
his second term; Captain Davis was
former private secretary to Governor
Haines and Is now Assistant Attorney
General; McCracken was a member of
the House from Ada County during the
10th session of the Legislature.
Mr. Johnson Is a native Webfooter.
He was born In Portland, Or.. July' 2,
1871, the son of Jasper and Mrs. John
son. His grandfather, wmiam John-
ayor Mealed;
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Soothing Wash Heals Then D. D. D. Skin
Soap Keeps the Skin Healthy
Mayor Chapman of Ellis, Kansas,
courteously says he will answer any
letters written him relative to his
truly marvelous cure of skin troubles
with the D. D. D. Prescription.
Mayor Chapman writes: "I think
how I suffered last winter, how I could
do no work. I was covered with ter
rible .blotches sometimes 'weeping
water, sometimes worse blotches
sometimes 10 inches In diameter;
FEARFUL ITCHINO. It was only ac
cidentally that I learned of the fa-.
mous specific D. D. D. I write this
in all gratitude for what D. D. D. has
done for me."
Results from the nse of D. D. IX are
Immediate. The first soft, eool touoh.
and the itch Is gone!
Pimples, rashes, dandruff disappear
over night. Hard crusts and scales,
raw, scorching sores, salt rheum, tet
ter no form of skin disease resists.
All druggists have this famous spe
cific! on hand.
If you wlU come to us we will sell
you the first bottle on the guarantee
that It will reach your case or your
money refunded. You alone to judge.
Ask also about T. D. D. Skin Soap
best for tendor skin.
Huntley Drug Co.. Washington at
Fourth. Woodard, Clarke & Co..
Druggists.
UD.D.-for 15 Years-the Standard Skin Remedy
First Showing
Look in our Morrison-street windows
today at some of the smart, snappy
models in
Stein-Bloch and Atterbury System,
Men's Clothes
$20 to $35
L System Clothes for Young Men
are displayed in one, of the Fourth
street windows
$18, $20, $22.50, $25
The new blocks in Dunlap and Brewer Hats are on
display.
BEN SELLING bE&l
Morrison Street at Fourth
son. was an Oregon pioneer, arriving
in that state in 1846.
Representative Addison T. Smith will
also be a candidate for re-election, but
does not expect much opposition. With
three party tickets in the field, how
ever, the race will be a free-for-all at
the general election and there will be
not a little uncertainty on the outcome.
Walla Walla to Improve Show.
WALLA WALLA. Wash.. Feb. 21.
(Special.) Directors of the Walla
Walla Fair Association today author
ized Secretary R, H. Johnson to go
ahead with any plans he may have to
make the 1914 frontier celebration bet
ter than last year. A better babies'
contest was decided on as a feature for
the fair.
$325 NEW UPRIGHT $210.
For cash or on payment of $10 cash,
$6 monthly, at Graves Music Co. Re
moval. Ill Fourth street. Adv.
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tended to convey new, interest
ing and useful facts.
We believe that beer like
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from Sunday to Sunday why
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TAKE A GLASS OF SALTS TO FLUSH
THE KIDNEYS IF YOUR BACK HURTS
Advises Folks to Overcome Kid
ney and Bladder Trouble
Wnile It Is Only Trouble.
Kating meat regularly eventually
produces kidney trouble In some form
or other, says a well-known authority,
because the uric acid In meat excites
the kidneys, they become overworked;
get sluggish; clog up and cause all
sorts of distress, particularly backache
and misery in the kidney region; rheu.
matlc twinges, severe headaches, acid
stomach, constipation. torpid liver,
sleeplessness, bladder and urinary irri
tation. The moment your back hurts or kid
neys aren't acting right, or If bladder
bothers you. get about four ounces of
Jai Salts from any good pharmacy;
take a tablespoonf ul In a glass of water
before breakfast for a few days and
your kidneys will then act fine. This
famous salts is made from the acid of
grapes and lemon Juice, combined with
lithia, and has been used for genera
tions to flush clogged kidneys and
stimulate them to normal activity; also
to neutralize the acids In the urine so
it no longer irritates, thus ending
bladder disorders.
Jad Salts cannot injure anyone;
makes a delightful effervescent lithia
water drink which millions of men and
women take now and then to keep the
kidneys and urinary organs clean, thus
avoiding serious kidney disease. Adv.
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