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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, OCTOBER 29, 1916. 5 WILSON ACCUSED OF SHIFTY POLICIES Senator Lodge Says President Wrote, Then Withdrew Post . script to German Note. TUFTS PROFESSOR QUOTED Uducator's Letter of Talk With cx Secretary Breckinridge Made Pact With Bryan to Be Broken. ( Public-Said flour prices proposed for the opening of the week. Wheat prices were 2 to 3 cents higher yesterday, and if there is a further advance in wheat Monday it is likely that flour will have to go up. There is a strong demand from the Eastern states for flour, but buying on the Coast is fiot heavy, grocers and bakers purchasing- only such quantities as they require from day to day. Flour advances, all told, during the past week amounted to 80 cents a barrel. The present wholesale price of $8.20 a barrel is the highest that has prevailed in Portland since the days of the Civil War. The lift given the country wheat markets yesterday was even greater than that recorded at the local ex change. The highest price paid during the day was for a large lot of bluestem at an interior point, equal to $1.68 a bushel here. The leading wheat buyers are not operating as heavily as at the begin ning of the week. There is no abate ment of the Eastern and export de mand for wheat, but the car situation is becoming so tight as to make a slowing down of buying necessary. GREAT RALLY EXPECTED WILSON DAY IS DAY -T.R OFHUUTIOfl America Has Trod Path of Dis honor Under President, Declares Colonel. COWARDICE IS CHARGED KOMERV1LL.K, Muss., Oct. 28. The HKtertioii that President Wilson at the time the second Lusitania note was (cnt to Germany, wrote and afterward withdrew a postscript Informing the German government that the contents of his previous note were not to be interpreted too seriously, was reiter ated by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge in a political address here tonight. The Senator added to his statement the an nouncement that information on the subject had come to him in a letter from Dr. Charles II. Bailey, of the Tufts Medical School, in which Henry Hreckenridge, formerly Assistant . Sec retary of War, was quoted as author ity for the story of the alleged post script. Senator Lodge reviewed the sending r the Lusitania notes and the resig nation of Secretary of State Bryan. He continued: "There was one feature about which there was much speculation at the time and that was why Mr. Bryan al lowed his name to be appended to a very strong note couched in the most extreme language possible to diplo macy and yet resigned so that he need not affix his signature to the very mild note of June 9. a note which even a man of very strong pacifist tendencies could not have objected to. It was currently reported at the time that the reajson for this apparently inexpli cable action on Mr. Bryan's part was the fact that the first note as finally fent was not the note to which he had appended his signature. Within a few days there has come into my posses-t-ion direct information upon this sub ject, contained in the following letter, which was addressed to Grafton Gush ing, who forwarded it to me. This writer. Dr. Charles H. Bailey, professol in tha Tufts Medical School, is a gentle man of high standing and undoubted verity." Dr. Hallcy'a Letter Rend. Senator Lodge then read the letter of Dr. Bailey, dated October 24. as fol lows: "Dear Sir: As you requested, I an submitting to you herewith in writing a report of a conversation between ex Assistant Secretary of War Brecken- ridce and myself. Leaving San Fran Cisco on July 15. 1916, I rode from that city as far as Omaha, Neb., with Mr. jKreckenridge. During the trip I asked Mr. Breckenridge if he was willing to answer certain questions with regard 1o the conduct of our National affairs during his connection with the present Administration. Receiving an arrirma- tive reply, I asked him, among other things, as to the truth of the published report that, following the so-called strict accountability note. Secretary jBryan had informed Ambassador Dum ba that the central powers need not take the note too seriously, as it waa written for political effect and home consumption only. He said that in all essential details I had stated the mat ter correctly, which led him of his own accord to tell me the following this is not. of course, a verbatim report, but simply a brief outline of the story as told me by Mr. Breckenridge: "He slated that following the com lletion of the 'omit no word or no act' note to the satisfaction of the Cabinet, Mr. Wilson, without the knowledge of any member of the Cabinet, except Sec retary Bryan himself, wrote a post Kcript which he sent with the note to the State Department for codification. Mr. Breckenridge stated that both Mr. Garrison and he bad seen this post script, and he told me what he claimed were its exact words, which, however, I cannot repeat exactly, but the sub stance was that the imperial German government was not to put too serious in interpretation on the words 'omit no word or act", on the contrary he would be inclined, provided the German gov ernment did not see fit to yield to the demands of the United States, to use his efforts toward submitting the en tire matter to an impartial interna tional tribunal, the decision to be made only after the war. Both note and postscript were submitted to and signed by Secretary Bryan. This, according to Mr. Breckenridge, was too good for Mr. Bryan to keep to himself, with the result that it reached Secretary Garrl Fon s ears, who immediately with two or three (I do not remember which) other members of the Cabinet, called ron Mr. Wilson and demanded that he withdraw the postscript . under the threat that otherwise they would re sign and make the matter public. Mr. Wilson immediately yielded and Secre tary Garrison and the others left. Bryan's Resignation Follows. "Immediately after this. President Wilson summoned Secretary Bryan to the White House, and when the latter left President Wilson had the assur ance of his resignation; whether at Mr. Wilson's request, because Secre tary Bryan had been reported for the matter reaching Secretary Garrison's cars, or whether presented by Secre tary Bryan because there had been a previous understanding between Mr. Wilson and Mr. Bryan that the latter would sign the note proper only with the understanding that such a nullify ing postscript should be sent and the President was now unable to fulfill the agreement. Mr. Breckenridge was unable to state. "I asked Mr. Breckenridge if he would be willing to bring such knowl edge as he possessed to the active support of Mr. Hughes. He said that he was still at heart a Democrat, but that neither he nor any other .patriotic American could support Wilson. Whether, however, he would be willin r actively to support Hughes, he sa.d he could not say at that early date. "With best wishes for the success of your campaign, I am, "Sincerely yours, "CHARLES HARVEY BAILEY." "This," continued Senator Lodge, "simply throws an additional light on the shifty character of this Admin istration in its foreign policies. It is also of interest in another way for it apparently shows that Mr. Bryan's reason for resigning was the highly creditable one of objecting to having his signature go out appended to a document differing in an essential point from the one which he had eigned." MRS. HANLEY TO ADDRESS BIG CROWD HKRM WEDNESDAY, Executive Declared to Have Con demned Self In Speech Regard- in Future Wars by N His Neutrality In Present. NEW YORK. Oct. 28. Theodore Roosevelt in an address at the Brooklyn Academy of Music tonight declared that if today is what "our Democratic friends" call V ilMon day, it snoul'l be "appointed a day of fasting and humiliation." "For, during the past three years," he went on, "the people of the United States have eaten the bitter bread of shame and trod the paths of dishonor under the leadership of Mr. Wilson." The Glonel directed most of his at tack eairifct the recent declaration of Mr. Wilson that the present was the last great world war that the United States can keep out of. We never had any candidate for so high an office who was so utterly indifferent to the reversal of all his professed convictions or principles, and, above all, so indifferent to the flat con tradiction between his words and his Multorpor Club to Escort Campaigner to Eleventh-Street Theater and Reception Is Arranged. All indications point to a crowded house when Mrs. E- B. Hanley, of Med- ford, makes her address on Charles Evans Hughes at the Eleventh-Street Theater next Wednesday night. The meeting will be held under the auspices of the Hughes Campaign Committee. Charles L. McNary, chairman of the Republican Etate central committee, will introduce the speaker. Mrs. Hanley and Mrs. Bert Ander son, of Medford, whose singing has acts on almost every issue of real im- been one of the attractive features of the campaign, will be escorted from the Imperial Hotel to the theater by the Multorpor Club, General Charles F. Beebe commanding. Mrs. Anderson will sing. "Wake Up, America," and other patriotic songs. After"the meeting an impromptu re ception will be held on the stage, in order to afford those in the audience who wish to meet Mrs. Hanley an op portunity to do so. General Beebe will portance before the people," he said. Hypocrisy Declared XJnnnrpaHHed. After quoting the President's words in regard to this country and the next war, Mr. Roosevelt said that "never have we had a greater degree of in sincerity and hypocrisy than is con tained in such a plea for re-election by the President, who has himself practiced the coldest and most selfish neutrality when all these things that he in the abstract condemns were in the concrete committed at the exDense introduce the members of the Multorpor Cf Belgium and of the Armenians and Club to the speaker. cf the Syrian Christians." Mrs. Hanley will leave tomorrow Taking nn the President's anneal for for Bend, where she will speak that support on the ground that he has kept night. Returning to Portland Tuesday ua out of war, Mr. Roosevelt declared afternoon she will rest until Wednes- that if it was just to keep out of the day night, when she wfll speak at present war, then it would be just in the Eleventh-Street Theater. Thursday the future to keen out of all similar night, responding to the Invitation of wars, and "if the President, on the the Republican county committee of other hand, is right in saying that we Clatsop County, she will address the never shall keep out of any such wars voters at Astoria, Friday night Eugene in the future, then he condemns him- bappen under the Underwood tariff law without "our blood-spattered" prosperity. She urged the election of Hughes as a man and as a statesman. She re viewed his official record, particularly In behalf of labor. She told how the Administration's child labor law was modeled after the one Hughea forced through in New York except that in the new law the effectiveness of the old was removed. Hag-hea la Choice of Masses. "Hughes is the choice of the people," she said. "Oregon took the lead in bringing him before the country and must take the lead by giving him the greatest majority on November 7 it ever gave a candidate. Turning for a ' moment from th lighter vein, Mrs. Hanley impressively told of her education by her father to believe she owed a debt to this country and how she had taken the stump In this cT-fnt Ttjntinnnl I .t . for thA irrtnri of the cause and the good of the coun- j try and no other purpose. I Phe told how the Democrats" called i her a liar because she said she sold j two pigs to get money to attend the meeting of the State Hughes Alliance and said she guessed they didn't like the story because pigs reminded them of pork and pork was too prominent in the record of the present Adminis tration. Boy Trained to Respect F"lsje. "I have a boy ready for high school." Mrs. Hanley said. "I'm not raising my boy to be a soldier, but I am raising him to be a self-respecting citizen and to respect the. great American flag and American institutions. Some of us are not raising our boys to be soldiers, but neither are we raising them to be milk sops and Jellyfish." The crowd yelled wildly when she said she guessed Edison was for Wil son because he was an electrician and liked anything that switched on and off all the time. Mrs, Hanley closed with a brief re view of Hughes' private and public life and an appeal to support him in the interest of better government, justice both to capital and labor. National ef ficiency and respect at homo and abroad. When she concluded Mrs. Hanley was greeted by greater applause than ever marked a speech In this city. m Mrs. Hanley was accompanied here by Mrs. Thomas B. Neuhausen. of Port land. They will return to Portland on an early train tomorrow morning. will be favored with . specially pre pared speech and on Saturday after noon if arrangements are completed. Mrs. Hanley will deliver an address at Corvallis. STAMP LAW OPERATIVE MONEY TAKEN IV ON TRADING SCHEME TAXABLE AT 5 PER CEXT. Judare AVoIverton Dissolves Injunction of October, 1015 -Enforcement May Depend on Legislature. The trading stamp law. providing that money taken in on any kind of trading stamp scheme in connection with sales is liable to a tax of 5 per cent, once more is operative. Federal Judge Wolverton yesterday morning self for keeping out of this war." Abject Cowardice Charged. 'You say, Mr. Wilson, that hereafter America must exert the whole force. moral and "physical, throughout the round globe if the fundamental rights of humanity are invaded," Colonel Roosevelt said. "Do you not know that it is abject cowardice to say that this must be done hereafter when you do not dare do it now? "If you mean what you say as to the future, then you must mean precisely and exactly that this is your duty In the present. Do it now, Mr. President. It is sheer hypocrisy to chatter 10 days before election as to what ought to be done in the future, when, throughout your whole term of office you have failed in the present to do what you say is your duty." It the Presidents words can mean anything, the Colonel continued, and never again are we to be neutral then he is Inexcusable in having kept us so shamefully unprepared. signed a stipulated decree dissolving TILLAMOOK COUNTY WINS me injunction ne issuea in ucioDer, 1915, holding up the operation of the law. ; The decree of the judge provides that no back taxes can be collected for any money taken in previous to the signing of the decree yesterday. The injunction dissolved yesterday was taken in the case of Attorney-Gen eral Brown and District Attorney Evans against L. I. Cottrell and others. This action was affiliated with the original suit brought by Cottrell and others against the Sperry & Hutchinson Com pany to prevent the trading stamp people from violating their contract be cause of the law. It is understood that county and state prosecutors do not intend to take any action for the enforcing of the law until after the Legislature meets and has had an opportunity to express its revised opinion upon the provisions of the statute. Investigations are said to have revealed the fact that many merchants would be ruined by a strict enforcement of the law. HUGHES GAINS IN STATE HEAVT MAJORITY IN SOUTHERN OREGON PREDICTED. 2 SUITS SETTLED IN ONE NO RULING KNOWN COVERING CASE, BUT ALL SATISFIED. Jury at Hillsboro Decides Against Miami Lumber Company. HILLSBORO. Or., Oct. 28. (Spe cial.) A Washington County jury de cided last night that Tillamook Coun ty need not pay damages to the Miami Lumber Company tor a. slkie near Hobsonville last Winter which damaged the company's property. The county offered to pay $200, but the company sued for $2982. the suit being transferred to Washington County for trial. Another Tillamook case to come- up Monday In Hillsboro is that of Tilla mook Bay Construction Company vs. Tillamook County to recover $8000 for alleged discrepancy in engineers' esti mates and actual yardage in building the new Sour Grass road. The Jury was drawn this week and taken to Tillamook County to view the scene After the return. Joshua Adkins, of Forest Grove, a juryman, sustained a broken leg when an automobile ran into his buggy, and the case may be tried by 11 Jurors. Representative Hawley Is Enthusiastic Over Outlook for Entire Repub lican Ticket. SALEM, Or., Oct. 28 (Special.) Southern Oregon counties will roll up a heavy majority in favor of Charles Evans Hughes for President, according to V. C. Hawley, Representative in Congress from the First District. Mr. Hawley was in Salem today after a tour of Southern Oregon, and spoke enthusiastically of the outlook for the entire Republican ticket in Southern Oregon. "Mr. Hughes' vote in Southern Ore gon," said Mr. Hawley, "will be a heavy majority. "Nowhere is the strength of Mr. Hushes more noticeable than In Coos County, where It is freely predicted he will carry the county by at least 1500. I visited Josephine, Lane and Douglas counties and sentiment there also is much in favor of the Republican can didate. Jackson County is safe for Mr. Hughes and he is gaining in strength every day." Mr. Hawley will continue his speech making campaign Monday, going to Tillamook County, where he will make an address in the afternoon at Bay City and at night at Tillamook City. Tuesday he will go to Washington County. Wednesday to Clatsop, with meetings at Seasldo and Astoria; Thursday he will speak at Rainier and St. Helens and Friday night in the Salem Opera-house. Mr. Hawley will speak at Corvallis and Albany Saturday and Monday will make two addresses at Oregon City. Jflf life A Good-Clothes Campaign I AM out for your suffrage. My good-clothes platform is com prised in four words Style, Quality, Character, Taste. Fall and Winter Suits and Overcoats for Men $20 to $40 See the exhibit of belted-back and pinch-back overcoats, " faultlessly tailored from this season's woolens. Priced at $20 to ?30. Brewer Hats for Fall $3.00 11. Morrison at fourth' o Dunlap Hats for Fall $5.00 BRITISH REPLY RECEIVED AMERICAN COTESTIOV OS BLACK. LIST IS REFUSED. with Germany and to end which should be accomplished through blockade and contraband restrictions. It may be ar gued that the blacklist Is designed to cripple firms trading with Germany to destroy German trade more than for the immediate purpose of war. ALBANY SEES MRS. HANLEY (Continued From Kirst Page.) Judge McGinn Comment? Farther That Time and Money "Were Saved in A. C. Kaby'a Action. Two lawsuits were settled In one by Circuit Judge McGinn yesterday. "Don't know that there is any par ticular ruling covering this sort of a case, but all the parties were satisfied. and time and money were saved,' com mented Judge McGinn last night. The case at Issue was a suit of A. C. Ruby, wealthy stockman, against C. D. Chandler for $386 on a promissory note. M. AL Dean was made a co-de fendant, as it was on his behalf that Mr. Chandler said he signed the note. In the argument of the case. It de veloped that Mr. Chandler had done other favors for Mr. Dean and that the result was that Mr. Dean owed Mr. Chandler considerable money. Mr. Chandler said it was $2300. Mr. Dean said it was not that much, but onereu to confess judgment in f avor of Mr. Chandler for $1534. Judge McGinn took a hand and awarded Mr. Ruby judgment of $368 and attorney's fees of $50 in his action ceeded to review the Mexican situation. She told how the Administration had lifted the embargo on arms and said: "Two clear courses were open to us to go down there and clean the country up or stay out and leave it alone. We did neither. We did a little of both and aot much of either. "The only things on which it is open season in Mexico now are Americans and Chtnamen. Aren't we proud of the fact that to be safe In Mexico an Amer ican must pretend to be an Englishman, a German or a r renchman? She told how none of th.e European nations want war with the United States. They want our foodstuffs, as well as our good will, she said, and illustrated how some European nations are being neutral with honor. Sweden's Reprisal Cited. "When England seized Sweden's mall Sweden seized hers," she said. "And England promptly made amends when she saw her bluff was called. 'We thought you might be like the United States and write us a note or two,' England said. "A baby could have kept us out of war with Euprope by simply doing nothing." Mrs. Hanley also discussed the Adam son bill and the events which led up to Its passage, showing that in the GAME VIOLATIONS MANY ILLKGAL KILLINGS IV AL9EA COl'STRY ARE REPORTED, Wardens Resisted With Gun at I'lace Man la on Trial Km Hatchery Facilities Iacreased. Increasing violations of the game laws were reported among the hills of the Alsea country. In Eastern Marion and Linn counties, by Game Wardens E. H. Clark and F. N. Brown, recently returned from a ten-day trip of lnspec tion. The capture and conviction of the Albany superintendent of schools and two teachers for the Illegal kill ing of a female deer is said to be but a sample of the infractions that have been committed in that district. Several cases of lawlessness have been reported among the deer hunters of the district, two of the game wardens having been forced to retire at the point of a gun by a gang headed by Jesse Barkhurst. - Barkhurst is now on trial in Salem for resisting an officer, after having been convicted on two counts for infractions of the game laws. Many new installations of hatcheries and fish- protective devices were in- spected by Wardens Clark and Brown on their trip. A new state hatchery on the Alsea River near tidewater is in charge of T. R. Pollack. A dam and fish trap recently completed In connection with the hatchery will afford means of collecting salmon eggs for hatching. The installations here were at a cost of about $2500. Methods of Relief in Some Instances Of frred Waahlnsrton Anawer Is Regarded Certain. WASHINGTON. Oct. 28. The next move of the United states in tae con troversy over the blacklist of Ameri can firms will not be determined until officials have had ample time to ex amine Great Britain's reply to the American note of July 28, protesting against it. The reply reached the State Department today from the London Embassy. Secretary Jjansing tonight said he had not decided when it would be made public. Tae note refuses the American con tention, which termed the blacklist "an arbitrary interference with neutral trade, but is understood to offer meth ods of relief which may be available in some instances to lessen the rigors of Interference. An American reply is almost certain to be made, based on the contention that the blacklist violates the criminal treaty of 1815; that in singling out cer tain American firms, undue discrimina tion is shown and that an illegal ac tion is taken, deoierned to prevent trade DIME 24-OUNCE LOAF PAYS Riverside Baker Shows How Bread Can Be Sold at Front. RIVERSIDE. CaTTOct. 28. John R. Newberry, a baker here, declared in a statement today that a It-ounce loat of bread can be sold for 10 cents with a profit to all concerned. His figures for the cost of production for a. bakery using 20 barrels of flour a day are: Per Bbl. Flour (Kanui hard -wheat) 9.31 Labor (working up each barrel) 2.7S Other coats iper barrel).. 1.68 Total $13.tt Mr. Newberry figures 203 24-ounce loaves to the barrel of flour, at a cost of production of 7 cents a loaf, which he said could be delivered to the retailer-at 8 cents a loaf, by a bakery working up 20 barrels of flour per day, with a profit of $40 a day. He de fended his price of flour. In spite of higher figures in Lob Angeles and San Francisco, by a resume of wheat and milling costs. Fernado El Cano. or Sant kya he la 116 eara old, a Rosa, Cat. Read The Oregonian classifled ads. .-Vs Dr. u. K. Wrisltt i PREPARE FOR WINTER WITH SOUND TEETH To It now don't wait until tho cold winds drive you to the dentist. Have all cavities filled, missing teeth supplied and all necessary work performed at once. I will give you prompt, hltrhlv skllled service at a very moderate fee. Palnleaa Extraction of Teeth. DR. B. E. WRIGHT North weat Corner Sixth and VaahInicton. 'ortknt Bulletins Phonea Mala 3110. A-31 19 Office Honrs 8 A. M. to P. M. Consultation Free. 3 DAYS TODAY TOMORROW AND TUESDAY CONTINUOUS 1 TO 11 P. BL DAILY against Mr. Chandler, and permitted Mr. Dean to confess judgment in the passage of this bill the Administration amount of $1534 In favor of his co-1 struck labor the greatest blow it ever WHEAT RISES 2 CENTS MORE Advances for Week Are 80 Cents, Highest Since 1865. There was no announcement from millers yesterday ot any advance In defendant in the suit, and signed the doutue-barreled order. Coos Forest Fires Subside. MARSHFIELD, Or., Oct. 28. (Spe cial.) Jtteports from all sections of the county indicate that fires which were burning in the Woods previous to tne ram or yesterday have been extin guished, excepting in a few. localities where the danger of spreading Is tnougnt to be past. received in discarding the principle of arbitration. "That law was molasses to catch flies,' she said, 'but the people are be ginning to understand its real effect, and it is one of the great paramount issues that's going to defeat Woodrow Wilson on November 7." Broken Pledges Mentioned. She likened the United States to a man who goes out camping once In a while so that be can enjoy the com forts of home. In that it bas a Demo cratic Administration occasionally so it can appreciate good times. The Democrats have broken every emir . i . t ... v. .. . ; r ' , ?,VLtT?Jit- IZSLJ Hanley said. "And it would have been V, . . - . , " I U1UW1I LlCi LJl " " a lue losB wa3 had broken that. yai Lianj t-u v ci cu oy insurance. 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