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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 18, 1914)
18 TIIE SUNDAY OREGONTAX, PORTLAND, OCTOBER WIMCO BE FINDS GENERAL LOYALTY Republican Candidate for Gov ernor Receives Hearty Welcome Everywhere. TOUR SOUTH IS CHEERY Principles Expounded by Nominee Win Acclaim in Ten Days' Tour. - Aim to Cut Tax Applauded. Candidate to Stay for Week. Radiating: optimism after a brisk '10 days of campaigning: in Southern Ore iron, Dr. James Withycombe, Repub lican direct primary nominee for Gov ernor, reached Portland last night for & visit of several days. From now until election day it is his plan to spend as much time as possible in Multnomah, County, tie announced. However, there are a number of outlying points yet on his itinerary and the remaining days or the campaign will be the busiest he has had. Dr. Withycombe was more than pleased with the resulUof his southern trip. Everywhere he was met with en thusiasm and general assurances of support. During the trip he met hundreds of personal friends who, in common with his large following: . of friends in every section of the state, are working actively for . his election. Among the points visited were Corval lis. Grants- Pass. Medford. Merrill, Klamath Falls, Oakland, Cottage Grove, bugene, Ashland, and Springfield. . Principles Are Acclaimed. Dr. Withycombe, at all the points visited, met scores of persons person ally, and at anumber of meetings he presented the principles and, issues upon which he is making his cam paign. At the last primary election, May SB, a total of 75,373 voters were reg istered. This was divided between men and women as follows: Men, 47, 230; women, 28,148. The East Side had a total registration of 48.748, of whom 29,789 were men and 18,958 were' wom en. The West Side had 21,433 regis tered, 13,994 being men and, 7439 women. Outside the city in the county reg istration numbered 5197, of whom S447 were men and 1750 women. The par ties were divided as follows at the primary registration: Republicans, 48, 084: Democrats. 17,125: Progressives, S367; Independents. 2798; Prohibition ists, 2789, and Socialists. 1215. At the close of registration prior to the last general election in October, 1912, a total of 52,087 voters signed the books. This was, of course, prior to the passage of the woman suffrage amendment. "It is a most encouraging fact to me that the constructive measures and policies which I wish to put into effect are so keenly appreciated and supported wherever 1 have been," said Dr. Withy combe last night in discussing his trip. "I find that the people generally agree with my stand that the burden of taxation now being imposed upon the people of Oregon is out of all pro portion to the taxable wealth of the state. There is a strong feeling that much of this burden is the product of needless extravagance in administra tion of state affairs, and that a careful and sane conduct of the state's business will reduce the bill which the taxpayers have to pay by many thousands of dol lars. I want to take occasion to reiter ate that it will be my first aim as Gov ernor to prune the tax bill. We must preserve a balance a balance between the taxable wealth and the tax burden placed on the people. Veto Stand Reiterated. "My stand on the question of the Ingle item veto also is being generally upheld by the people with whom I have come in contact. As the first man in Oregon to advocate the single item veto publicly I naturally continue my ad vocacy of that valuable measure. It is an invaluable weapon for the people's defense in the hands of a conscientious Governor, although, as I have fre quently pointed out, it is dangerous in the hands of a narrow, vindictive and vengeful executive. As Governor I would regard the single item veto as Invaluable, and would put it to use as fully and freely as the people's inter ests might require. "On the subject of my advocacy and support of the people's laws I find on every hand a warm support of my pol icy. I believe the people of Oregon are a unit on this .question. - The fact that the seven defeated candidates are now openly supporting me as the successful primary nominee is taken everywhere as establishing the absolute success of the 3irect primary law in Oregon while, at, the same time,' there is an inclina- ' tion to resent the ancient Democratic trick of attempting to break up the primary law in its operation by coerc ing Republicans not to abide by the primary's results. Confidence Found Everrwhere, "'Among the farmers, working people and residents of small towns I find many of my most enthusiastic support ers who express the deepest interest iu my plans for active work in building up Oregon's latent resources. My forty-three years in Oregon and my fa miliarity with the needs of every sec tion of the state, familiarity gained through repeated visits to every nook of the state, appears to have given to the farmers and producers of Oregon a fixed confidence in my ability as Gov ernor to give to Oregon a constructive and helpful administration." R. A. Booth will make a flying trip to Crook County on Wednesday and Thursday of this week. He will speak at Madras Wednesday morning and at Prineville the same night. Thursday morning Mr. Booth will leave Prine ville by auto in charge of the officials of the County Central .Committee, of Crook County, and will 'make a short speech in Redmond during the day. and also at Sisters and Laid law. Ho will address a twilight meeting in Bend and leave on the night train Thursday for Portland. From present prospects Mr. Booth will carry Crook County by a heavy plurality. Arrangements for the trip are being made by Lake M. Bechtell. Judge Brink. John Bell and E. J. Wilson, of Prineville. S. S. Smith, of Medford. in writing to the Republican State Central Com-' mittee, reports that things are getting in good Bhape in Jackson County; that the opposition in this so-called Democratic county is beeomiirg alarmed at the way Booth and Withycombe are gaining strength. Livy Stlpp, an attorney of Oregon City, was a visitor at Republican state headquarters yesterday and re ports that Clackamas County is in splendid shape and Improving every day; that there is now, in his opinion, no question but that the whole Re publican ticket will win, with a great many votes to spare. Republican women of Washington WINNER OF STATE FAIR BABY CONTEST IS BOY Jack Grant, of Dallas, Gets Score of 99 Per Cent, Highest of Any of 175 Entries Mother Tells of Care He Receives. I ! x ' - - ''4 f SO much has been written and said about Oregon's prize baby girls, but its prize boy must not, be for gotten. ' Jack Grant, of Dillas, or, to use his full name, David Jackson Grant. Jr., attained the highest score of 411 the 175 babies examined in the State Fair "better babies" contest this year. The examinations were rigid. Wise doc tors and specialists devoted their time to examining the babies and Jack came through with a score of 99 per cent. The next to him was Doris Leigh Gor don, who scored 98.7 per cent. Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Grant are justly proud of their bonny boy. However, they do not allow him to be spoiled. He receives the most sensible care im aginable. " His excellent physical and mental conditions and his good baby manners are the reward for his par ents' devotion to healthy-happy baby hood. ... In an interview regarding his - his tory. Jack's mother said: "He was a fine baby at birth, weighing 10 pounds. He was breast-fed until nine County assembled at Hillsboro yester day and formed a county branch of the State Woman's Republican Club. Ex Governor Geer, cf Portland; W. N. Barrett and E. L. Haines, of Hillsboro, made brief addresses, advocating sup port of Republican principles. Mrs. Laura B. Bartlett, chairman of the Republican women's advisory com mittee, urged the women to form a permanent organization and to co-operate with the regular Republican com mittees. She suggested that the county organizations be made permanent, and predicted that the women thus can ac complish much good for Republicanism. Oregon is the first state in the Union that has started activity of this kind. Mrs. Bartlett presided while the per manent organization was being formed. The following officers were elected: President. Mrs. C. W. Redmond, of Hillsboro; iirst vice-president,, Mrs. John Thornburg, cf Forest Grove; sec ond vice-president, Mrs. Laura Jack son, of Corneliusr secretary, Mrs. R. A Tamiesie. of Hillsboro, and treasurer, Mrs. C. W. Emmett, of Hillsboro. - Another Republican campaign rally will be held at Sunnyside tomorrow night, and some of the candidates on both the Republican state and county tickets will speak. ' R. A. Booth, candidate for United States Senator; C. N. McArthur, can didate for Representative in Congress; Thomas M. Hurlburt, nominee for Sher iff, and several of the legislative can didates are on the programme. The meeting will be held in the Sun nyside schoolhouse and J. D. McFaul, leader of the choir in the Sunnyside Methodist Church, has arranged to pro vide some musical entertainment. This meeting originally was sched uled to take place on Tuesday night of this week, but was set forward to Mon day to accommodate several of the can didates who wanted to appear before the Sunnyside voters. It will begin promptly at 8 o'clock. Democratic leaders in the state are continuing their efforts ' to procure some speakers of National reputation to take part in the campaign. They have not given up hope of hav ing Vice-President Marshall come here and make a few speeches for Senator Chamberlain. If Congress adjourns early this week, it is probable that Mr. Marshall will come. Since Secretary Lane, of the InteriorDepartment, has been prevented from leaving Washing ton on schedule time the Democrats may have to be content with their reg ular supply of local oratorical talent unless Congress quits business prompt ly. William Hanley, Progressive Sena torial nominee, returned to Portland yesterday after a week's trip through the northern tier of counties between Umatilla and Multnomah Counties.' He reports satisfactory progress in his work and expects to get a lot of votes in the territory that he visited. Mr. Hanley will pass most of his time in the remaining weeks of the campaign in Portland and vicinity, making only a few trips to towns outside of Multno mah County. 'In appreciation of the work that he has done for Nation-wide suffrage." a group of Democratic women will ten der Senator Chamberlain and Mrs. Chamberlain a reception in the green room of the Commercial Club tomorrow. The function will be on from 3 to 6 P. M. The general public has been in vited. . . The Republican rally that was to have been held at Astoria tomorrow evening has been postponed until date later in the campaign. The time has not been fixed definitely. R. A. Booth and other candidates -on the state ticket have been invited to attend, and it is probable that they will. P. A. Cupper, of Marion County, was a visitor of the Republican State Cen tral Committee. Imperial Hotel; Tester- day. Mr. Cupper is co-operating with the Republican organization in Marlon County and doing some active cam paigning for Dr. Withycombe and the rest of the Republican ticket. He feels much pleased over the outlook in the Capital City and vicinity. . months of . age and then was given cow's milk in a well sterilized bottle. Gradually he was fed poached eggs. toast and some kinds of fruit until at the age of 18 months his bottle was taken from him. The same diet was continued and some vegetables added. Even now. between 3 and 4 years old he pets very little meat. "Jack loves his bath every day and hfcs his teeth brushed regularly. He has always been dressed comfortably, but not too warm and consequently is not troubled with colds. At play in the open he wears a warm suit, romp ers, stockings and heavy-soled shoes He digs dirt wl'.h his little shovel. plays with a toy wagon and train and is a typical boy. He makes believe playing baseball and is about as active as the average child of 5 years. "On stormy days Jack pluys on screened porch and he gets lots of fresh air. He has always slept alone and with all windows open. He talks dis tinctly and has a sunny disposition." 'Mrs. Grant says that she has found that it- pays for a mother to take care of her child herself even if some things have - to be neglected. ABUSE REPLIED TO Chairman Moores Speaks in Defense of Mr. Booth. JOURNAL IS DENOUNCED Mr. Moores Points Out How, Despite Sir. Cliamberluin's Words, "Jour nalistic Gutter-SnIpes, Use Dirty Methods. TOKTLAKD, Or.. Oct. 17. (To the Editor.) Mr. Booth in his address at Albany on September 4 uttered the fol lowing, words: "My first utterance In this campaign was a promise to the people of the State of Oregon that I would so conduct it that the men who opposed me for office should not have tnelr Jlv-eg .saddened or their useful ness impaired by anything that I might saj. nat promise has been scrupu lously kept by MrBooth, and when his personal friemls. goaded bv the ut terly shameless and scurrilous attacks that have unceasingly been made UDon him by Senator Chamberlain's personal organ. The Oregon Journal, and by his nearest friend. Governor West, threat ened to open up on the private life and tne personal habits of Senator Cham berlain. it was Senator Booth who pro tested against it, and it was the Re publican State Central Committee that seconded the protest. In the Oregon Journal of October 1 Senator Chamberlain Is quoted as say mg: "I am surprised to learn on my return to Oregon that the campaign being waged against me by my opponents is one of intense personality and bitter ness. I have never indulged in thi sort of campaign work, and though the provocation might seem to war rant it, -I hope I may be able to avoid recriminations and personal abuse." In the same issue, of the same paper there is published, with apparent approval, over two columns of abuse "of intense personality and . bitterness" of Mr. Booth and Dr. Withycombe and othe leading Republicans. Cfilnmiu Reek With A hilar Day after day, fir the past three moiuhs, the editorial columns and tb correspondence columns of The Journal have reeked with the coarsest abus of these men, and the example of thi paper has been followed by all of th little Democratic journalistic cuckoos in the state,' from Medford to Pendle ton. Every little cub hyena from Ash land to Baker City and from over th Washington line has had access to th columns of The Journal to spit out hi venom upon Senator Booth, while everything has been done editorial! and by cartoon to ridicule and invite contempt for every utterance of Dr, Withycombe. Both these men, with characteristic dignity, have Ignored it all. Oregon has never in the last 50 years witnessed a dirtier or more shameless campaign than that which has bee waged against Mr. Booth and whose campaign is-it-but the campaign of Senator - Chamberlain and Dr. Smith Could, they . not end all this coarse abuse by a single nod of the head Can they Allow this to go on for months and escape responsibility, an then utter a whine of protest when th outraged friends of the libeled Repub lican candidates indulge in bitter re torts? Are Senator Chamberlain and Dr. Smith to reap the fruits of this kind o campaigning, while refusing to accept responsibility for the shameless meth ods of their supporters? Who is it mat has been telling the good people of Portland for veari that the Portland Daily News was unfit to cross the threshold of any decent Portland home, and when did the News ever indulge in airtier campaign than is jiow being indulged in by the Democratic nress of this state? Democratic Candidates Consent. This campaign has been waged with the knowledge, by the consent, and on behalf of. the Democratic candidates. Will they give the order to their Jour- aiistic supporters to confine their at tacks to the political records of the op posing candidates and their party and to tneir relations to the real issues of the campaign, or will they continue to encourage them In the course already begun? j Mr. Booth has been a special obiect f attack. He has been shadowed in his home. He has been trailed from coast to coast by detectives. He has been hounded by personal enemies and political sleuths supported by the vast treasury of the general government. All the Infinite details of the great usiness of a corporation with which he was connected have been gone through as with a fine tooth comb. The ethods adopted by the Drosecutlon have been publicly denounced as out rageous and corrupt in an official opin- on rendered by an Attorney-General of the United States. Mr. Booth was indicted by a Federal grand jury, and in spite of his demands tor a speedy trial, the Indictment was held over his head for nearly four years. At the trial he Introduced not one word in defense and the jury ac quitted him on the first ballot. Four other cases against the Booth- Kelly Company were tried. Concern ing them the testimony of Mr. Booth was clear an explicit. Tried in the court of Judge Robert S. Bean, known na respected all over Oregon, the tory of Mr. Booth was accepted as true. On appeal it was reversed by a no ot auages in San Francisco. Decision Should Be Awaited. From that reversal the company has ppealed to the Supreme Court of the United States and until that appeal is Bettled it is entitled to such a suspen- ion of public opinion as- would be warded to even the meanest criminal. One more case was the so-called confession" of a drunken vagabond ho had been discharged by the com- any and who. prior to his "confes- ion," had failed in attemDtinir to blackmail the company. Here is the um total of all of this wholesale at tempt by an armv of Drosecutors and detectives to prove that this company an oeen guilty of criminal practices. J ne wnole prosecution of all these cases covered less than one-tenth ot per cent of all its holdings. The title to less than one) acre out of every thou sand that it owned was attacked. Where Is there a corporation in the country tnat can show a, cleaner record? Mr. Booth has spent the entire 56 years of his lif in this ntut via Started out as a boy of 10 years to make is own way in the world and to help support his father s family. He turned is hand to anything that was offered. He was industrious and faithful to every trust. He was a filial son. He as been a devoted husband and father. He has been s good citizen. He has ed an absolutely clean life. In every relation, at home, in business, in his hurch, in public life, he has measured up to all of the demands and responsi bilities of good citizenship. He has committed two crimes. One was in achieving success. The other was in becoming a Republican candidate for the United States Senatorship. If he were" today the Democratic candidate for Senator he would have the enthusi astic support of every Democratic news paper in the state. Vote of TO.OOO Obtained. He comes before the people of Ore gon today indorsed by a vote of 70,000 in the primaries. He comes Indorsed by the business men of Eugone. irrespect ive of politics, who testify to their con fidence in his high character and busi ness Integrity. He comes with an un solicited indorsement of the women of Eugene, among whom he has lived for years, who gladly testify to his clean life imong them and to his helpful counsel in every good work. He comes a representative of one of the greatest religious organizations in the state, of whose laymen's association he is, and has for' years been, the president. It Is a singular commentary on human nature that thousands who preach the Importance of thrift and Industry, and go Into raptures over the beauties of a well - ordered life, are always ready to tear down any one who has achieved success, and are the first to accept the story of the tale-bearer who brings some precious morsel of scandal. They prefer to believe evil rather than good of any man. They are keen to impute corrupt motives. They glory in thedownfall of a sue cessful man. They are keen to display their ingrained love of causing some body pain. They love to display a par tisan spleen, to distort and condemn They prefer to believe every successful business man and every public servant corrupt. They love innuendo and gloat in suspicion and dread to hear that any accused man is proven innocent. o Appeal Made to Partisans.- The friends of Mr. Booth make no appeal to this class. They make no appeal to the hidebound partisan, or to the man whose political job makes it necessary for him to do the dirty work of his political boss. They make no appeal to the pliant and quiescent tools of the demagogue. They make no ap peal to a partisan press who are ready to denounce any man as a thief and a scoundrel, if he is on the other ticket, or to praise him as a political paragon if he is on their own. ' They do appeal to the real manhood and the" womanhood of Cregon. They do appeal to the spirit oilecency and fair play. They do appeal to the con science and the sober judgment of the thoughtful voter. It ought no longer to be necessary that any decent can- rsidate for office should be made a tar get for every human derelict and busi ness failure in tne country, ana tne time ought to come when the personal abuse and the lying defamation of journalistic gutter-snipes should no longer be allowed to deter or drive from public life, every man of pride, of sensibility and of self-respect. Re spectfully, CHARLES B. MOORES. Chairman Republican State Committee. HOME CREDITS CONTINUE Buena Vista Schools to Retain Sys- ' tent ot Success in Past. BUENA VISTA. Or, Oct. 17. (Spe cial.) The schools of this place have commenced the year's work, and the Home Credit System, tried out during the past two terms with much success. has been continued for the present term. This plan gives the pupils credit for work done outside of school hours. Other districts in Polk County have seen the good results and will this Fall commence the system. The plan was first tried outin'the Spring Valley School In the eastern part of the. coun ty, under A. I. O'Reilly, now in Lane County. Clarkston Thief Sentenced. ASOTIN. Wash.. Oct. 17. (Special.) A short session of the Superior Court was held here Thursday, Judge Miller presiding. Hiram G. Moore, alias Frank M. Wilson, pleaded guilty to the charge of committing many thefts in Clarkston recently. He was sentenced to an indeterminate term of five to 15 years in Walla' Walla penitentiary. Moore's alleged accomplice, a negro named Jack Lewis, who was also ar rested in Spokane, was brought from Lewiston. where he has been since his arrest. . He pleaded not guilty, and his trial was set lor November 10. RURAL SUNDAY SCHOOL BENEFITS ARE SHOWN District Superintendent of American Union, in Session Tuesday, Gives Instances of Direct' Effect in Uplifting Morals, Ideals and Social Life. :j 2 THE Northwest representatives of the American Sunday School Union will be in conference in Portland beginning Tuesday. The pro gramme has many features of Interest to local church-workers and the gen eral public. This societyu with National headquar ters in Philadelphia, is an incorporated body of individuals, its work being di rected entirely by a board of practical business men, now in its jllst year of successful service. The aim of this agency has been and is the care of the rural districts along interdenominational gospel lines, and to that end employs at the present time 8oma2-5 agents or missionaries, whose whole time is given to the work of es tablishing and' maintaining SunHay schools and other services and dis tributing literature In communities un cared for by regular church work. Dur ing its history it has organized more than 127,000 Sunday schools with a membership of more than 5.600,000, while good books. Bibles, paper and tracts totaling many million copies have been placed carefully and se lectedly in the hands of willing and ap preciative readers. "With the passing years the pioneer conditions have disappeared from much of our land, but a new and changed condition has arisen the permanent rural population of a quarter of a cen tury ago has given place to a rapidly shifting and changing rural popula tion," said E. R. Martin, district super lntendent of the American Sunday School Union. "Latest available reports are that two out of each five farms in the United States now are occupied by renters, most of whom lease for but year at a time, and a large per centage of whom move every year. Another percentage of our farms are occupied by speculators who at best are transient, while in many communities every farm Is listed for sale. The farm has ceased to be a home and has be come merely a property. "With the passing of the farm home and permanent farm population is pass lng the rural church. A recent report gives 10,000 abandoned rural churches In the United States. 20 being found In a single Western Oregon county. With the -church has gone its simple yet ef fectual social life, and largely all'other forms of community social life and community activities. There are com munities In every part of the land where neighbors never visit, where'no religious service or social gathering has been held In a quarter of a century, "The result of these conditions is the abandonment of the farm by that sub stantial and- progressive element which otherwise would remain permanently. This constant drain of this better ele ment means the Impoverishment of the rural communities and many sections of the land have become notorious for their degeneracy in every line. "That th? Pacific Northwest has not been spared these conditions may be proved easily. The police matron of one of the upper coast cities recently said that SO per cent of ths unfortunate girls are from the farm. The Juvenile and Probate Judge of a smaller West ern city says that more than do per cent of the delinquents coming under his Jurisdiction are recently from the farm. It is evident, then, that the r ' : V - r 1! ; Sri - : ' I ' i l: lM-&u?M ., '; . I f 'Tf-" )J J --''-. i - - f v A L a5ga proper care of the rural district is vital alike to town, city and country "The solution of this problem is being worked out in hundreds of rural com munities by the agents of the Ameri can Sunday School Union, who, going into the uncared-for community, secure the use of some public building, ordi narily the public schoolhouse. and here gather the people of the community together, irrespective of creed or na tionality, to plan for a community ef fort for the social, intellectual and moral benefit of the community. x ears of experience has proved the advisability and practicability of a neighborhood Sunday school as an or ganization .through which this neigh borhood effort mar be carried on. Hun dreds of instances might be cited, but two or three will serve to illustrate. 'In 1912 an agent for the union found Fairview. a rural community some miles from Baker, Or., without any sort of gospel service and a complete lack of neighborhood social life. On April 14 he organized here the Fairview Union Sunday School, through which a ladies' club came into existence and began a series of social events for the benefit of the community. Finding the public schoolhouse inadequate, money was raised and a fine and well-f urnlshed community building erected which houses the Sunday school, the regular social affairs and a lecture course given by the State Agricultural Col lege for the benefit of the ranchers. A wholesome, helpful community spirit is 'now in evidence. "I never saw so great & transformation in a com munity," is the expressive statement of one rancher s wife. "In Linn County an abandoned rural church was opened for a neighborhood Sunday school, with a graduate of the State Agricultural College - in charge. In June the school arranged for "Farmers' - Institute picnic" Thres sneakers from the Agricultural Cnlle.ff-e and a prominent near-by pastor were present and addressed 300 farmer folk on farm and neighborhood Interests. It is said to be the first neighborhood picnic in ten years. Other institutes. educational and social activities are planned for this community by the helpful Sunday school. 'Other communities have taken up other activities. Women's clubs are or ganized sewing classes, cooking classes, health clubs, study clubs, de bating societies, singing schools and athletic clubs are in operation, furnish lng a channel for community social life under wholesome conditions, mak lng farm life so attractive, rural moral and social conditions so wholesome that a spirit of content prevails and the farm property has again become a home. "While the work of the American Sunday School Union in the Pacific Northwest is largely of the past three years, mere than 400 neighborhoods now have thee helpful Sunday schools, with a membership of more than 12, 000 and a constituency of 25.000. How ever, Oregon has 1000 rural school bouses in (Which this work should be done and Could be done if they could but be reached, while Washington and Idaho are equally needy." In time it may be considered murder to swat the fly. Thus we move for ward. - - NOMINEE NOT TIED McArthur's Record Shows He Opposed Railroads. VOTE ALWAYS FOR PUBLIC Congressional Candidate's Stand in State Legislature Was Anti-Corporation as Kcvealcd by Ac tion on flight Bills. Instead of revealing an attitude fa- vorable to the railroads and other blg business" interests, tne legislative rec ord of C. N. McArthur. Republican nom inee for Congress, shows that in nu merous instances he voted against measures that "big business" wanted and for those that it did not want. Among, the measures he supported. contrary to the desires of the railroad and corporation lobbies, were those creating the state Insurance depart ment, the water code, the blue sky law. empowering the state to grant water franchises, and many measures adverse ly affecting the railroads. Principal among the bills that he sup ported in opposition to the railroads were: An act compelling the railroads to fence their property and to provide better protection for travelers and oth ers using the right of way. Stand Opposite Hail roads. An act prohibiting unjust discrim ination between localities by railroads and other common carriers. This bill was aimed to stop the practice of fa voritism indulged in by certain rail roads. An act providing for the construction, maintenance and operation of switch connections between railroads aud branch line railroads and private side tracks. This bill was designed to bring relief to small'. Independent railroads and to the owners of private sidetracks east of the Cascade Mountains to mow ,' the grass and weeds from their right-of-way during the month of June each year in prder to minimize the danger of setting out fires by locomotives. Ihe enforcement of the provisions of this act has resulted in a large annual sav ing to farmers along the lines ot the railroads in Eastern Oregon. An act providing for an appropria tion to extend the State Bortage Koad from Big Eddy to The Dalles, thereby completing the connection between the boat lines of the Upper and Lower Co lumbia River. The passage of this bill served to establish a continuous stf am-' boat line from Lewiston. Idaho, to the uea and was the cause of a general re duction in freight rates by tae railroad companies In order to meet the rates ot the steamboat line. A proposed amendment to the consti tution of Oregon authorizing the state to build, purchase and operate rail roads. This amendment was prepared and introduced by Mr. McArthur. and was passed through ooth houses after a vigorous fight. Mr. McArthur is not a believer in Government ownership, but prepared and introduced this measure because of the popular demand for it. Although this proposed amendment was defeated by the people at the general election of 1910, the agitation over it hastened the railroad development of Central Oregon. Demurrage Bill Advocated. He also voted for and worked for the reciprocal demurrage bill, the measure compelling railroads to provide cattle guards, and the Dill torcing ui er-n Pacific to surrender to the state the property at the foot ot Jefferson street, in Portland, known as the "pub lic levee." ' . "I have never acted as attorney for any public-service or other corpora tion" said Mr. McArthur yesterday. "The charges that I have been and am the tool of the 'big business' interests of this community are false In every particular. The only money which l aave ever received from a corporation was during the electric light war at Hood River in 1912. when I was presi dent of the Hood River Gas & Electric Company for nine months. The serv ices which I rendered were not in the nature of legal aarvices. dui were .riv. and were iermmaiii my, rest for nation alter i imu "'""" ;: 1. T.oirislature In Multnomah County. I resigned irom i which I held witn me nn , i foit certain of election. and did not believe that a member of the Legislature should have any cor porate affiliations of any character. The attempt of some of my political op ponents to line me up with the corpor ations because of services rendered more than two years aBo . ward effort on their part to create prejudice against my candidacy. Record Belles mre". Th.ir -harires that- I have been a railroad lobbyist and have ridden over the country on passes are equally false and fraudulent. An examination oi j legislative recoru snows mai for a large number of measures tend ing to regulate corporations In their dealings with the public By resorting - .i...ntin false statements and ir relevant Issues, my opponents are at tempting to detract public attention from the real issues of the campaign. These issues are understood by the voters of this aistrici, going to be fooled by the buncombe ot the Democratic press and the sell edited eulogies of ir-PP'n" ""j formers. As I have said before, the realJ issues of this campaign hinge upon the! failure of the Democratic Adroinlstra-i tion to maintain the prosperity of the, country and the disastrous results which have followed the enactment of, the Underwood-Simmons tariff bill. i ALBANY POSTOFFICE GAINS Stamp Sales for Quarter and Total Business Show Increases. ALBA NT. Or.. Oct. 17. (Special.) According to the figures complied by Postmaster Van Winkle, of Albany, the business of the local postoffice for September shows a good increase oier the same month last year. The sale of stamps and stamped paper during the month ended Septem ber 30 1S14. amounted to li-i.u- Durlng September. 1913. money re ceived from the same source was S1762.16. , For the quarter ended September o0. 1914, the business of the postoffice was 15629 13 and for the quarter ending September SO. 1913. it amounted to $5353.08. Teachers at Kosebnrg October 21. ROSEBURG. Or".. Oct. 17. (Special.) At the ani.ual teachers institute to be held In Roseburg. October 21. 23 and 23. a number of educators of statewide prominence will attend Among them are J. H. Ackerman. president of the State Normtl School at Monmouth: Dr. Henry Sheldon, of the University of Oregon: F. L. GrifTin and Frank H. Shepard, of the Oregon Agricultural College; J. A. Churchill, state superin tendent of public instruction: E. F. Carleton, assistant state superinten dent, and L. P. Harrington, field worker of the school fairs.