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THE SUNDAY ORE GO XI AN, PORTLAND, OCTOBER 29, 1916. LISTER FAILS TO HALT PRIDE TIDE Republicans Gain in Washing ton as Great Drive Is Mapped Out. TWO COUNTIES UNCERTAIN Ex-Insurance Commissioner Says Ho Warned Governor That Scandal 4 Would Result From Methods Employed In Department. SEATTLE, Wash., Oct. 28. (Special.) Ten days prior to the general election It appears that Governor Ernest Lister and ex-Senator George Turner, Demo cratic nominee for Governor and United States Senator respectively, have been unable to make an appreciable dent in the support of ex-Governor Henry Mc Brlde and Senator Miles Poindextei- in other words, if one figured the two Republican nominees as winners a month ago, there is no reason to change that opinion. It Is logical, in view of the numerous polls that have been taken throughout the state, to assume that President Wilson will distance the rest of the democratic nominees In this state and that Senator Poindexter-will lead all the Republican nominees. 1'olndexter Favorite Over Wilson. There have been bets made that Poindexter will lead Wilson In the total number of votes received, but this Is merely of passing Interest, for It presumes that even If Wilson carries Washington, as he might today, he could not carry it by a vote large enough to overcome Poindexter's popu lar vote, or that if the Republican nom inee. Hughes, wins, Poindexter natural ly would beat Wilson's total. The In cident is cited merely to Indicate the manner in which the general public is discussing the Senatorial fight. Although Lister has been making a defensive fight, as a general policy, with his advocacy of the dry pro gramme as a feature In all his meet ings, whatever strength he may have gained during the week did not come from either his official record or his position as a dry. He managed to pick up a labor indorsement that may have increased his strength. Kallvray League for Lister. The Railwaymen's Non-Partisan League, which has been everything from a Pierce County non-partisan or ganization to a state Republican club and now a near-Democratic associa tion, is out at the week's end with a elate which features Governor Lister. Inasmuch as the league switched to Wilson after the passage of the Adam- eon act this was not unexpected, but the league's influence is as yet an un known political quality. There are two factions among the railroad trainmen, insofar as state administration affairs are concerned; one that favors Lister because of his appointments of employes on public service commission, and one that in sists that a better deal was enjoyed under Mead and Hay and is likely to be had under McBride. It is true, however, that the Lister railroad men are more active in their propaganda than are the McBride em ployes of the steam roads. Deal la Suspected. There has seemed to be a disposition among some of the labor leaders to favor Lister, and this fact has strength ened the Governor. This switch to T .....- 1 1 . . r i all i eta tttih rk rtf n Hful Lister, who signed a majority of the referendum bills, now repudiates all of them, while McBride refuses to dip into that fight. Some of the labor leaders who supported McBride In the pri maries, yet who put the referendum programme above all else, have turned to Lister. In marked contrast to this attitude Is the sudden coming to political life of "Jack" Wallace, ex-Industrial In surance Commissioner and one of the men who drafted the original Indus trial insurance commission bill. Wallace probably outweighs in personal popu larity any of the other so-called labor leaders of the state tr he has some thing to show in return for his popu larity. Warning to Governor Recalled. He was removed by Governor Lister because of friction in the commission, and now Wallace is on the stump for McBride, showing by his correspond once that he warned the Governor and the other members of the commission that the lax methods in vogue on the board would lead to much frauds as those provoked by the Jack Gillies scandal. Heretofore Wallace has remained in quietude on his Yakima County farm, but now he is in the open and fighting Lister. Inasmuch as the campaign has .more than a week to go. it is possible that Wallace's activity will offset, or nearly offset, the effect of the deflec tion from McBride to Lister because of the Governor's changed attitude on the referendum bills. Both McBride and Lister have cam paigned extensively in the Southwest during the past week and both have received close attention and apparently both aroused enthusiasm. It would ap pear, however, thtt McBride had the better of the campaigning, for Lister did not get away from the defensive at titude he assumed early In the cam paign. Wilson Leading Ticket. It is a notable fact that all polls show Wilson running altogether out of pro portion with the rest of the Democratic ticket. Bearing this fact in mind, po litical observers can draw significant conclusions from the fact' that while, on the one hand. Lister and Turner, the Democratic candidates for Governor end Senator, are running an Independ ent fight, McBride and Poindexter are pleading for general Republican suc cess. The logical conclusion is that Lister and Turner are trying to catch up, while McBridn and Poindexter. confi dent of a lead, are trying to pull llntrhes up with them. For the closing week the Repub licans appear to have made better preparations for a drive than have the Democrats. This is natural, in one way. for the Republicans being on the outside, can let loose while the Demo crats, heading the offices, must be somewhat on the defensive. King; and Pierce I'ncertalnl King and Pierce counties seem to be the most uncertain in the state. Mc Bride did what many of his enemies asserted he never could accomplish when he straightened out the old Ska git entanglements. From unbiased sources comes the story that he has reunited his old neighbors and the - quarrels of a quarter of a century are temporarily forgotten. Lister will go through that district this week and may reopen the old scores, but McBride will stick pretty close to the big coun ties. There Is something (indefinable in the King and Pierce County political atmosphere a spirit of unrest and un certainty. It is co apparent that the casual political observer feels it and senses the day to day changes. Pri marily, the Presidential situation Is af fected, but indirectly the entire state ticket to concerned. Bis; Drive Arranged. The Republicans are planning to send all their big orators they can command into these two counties during the last week of the campaign, while the Demo crats appear to have been stripped of hish caliber material. That there is to be a strong tend ency to scratch tickets is indicated by every poll taken. A peculiarity of the Seattle polls is that Democrats appear to be knifing George F. Cotterill, ex Mayor and nominee for Representative in Congress, worse . than any of the other prominent nominees. This may be due either to the popularity of ex- Mayor John F. Miller, or to the grow ing opposition to Cotterill among or ganized Democrats, who for a long time have wanted to eliminate him. The campaign is pretty apt to draw to a close without consolidating any of the political organizations. More than 20 different committees are directing the fights of the two major parties in King County alone and they are each maintaining a more or less independent fight. There is no attempt being made at centralization of effort and probably It will be useless to attempt one. Dry May Be Factor. In the final struggle, A. B. L. Geller man, prohibition nominee, may cut considerable figure in the contest. He was a fellow workman of Governor Lister's in the early days, but has given out a characteristic interview, condemning both McBride and Lister and saying, among other things: "In my younger days I was a wrest ler for the pleasure of that sport and always admired an antagonist who was open and fair. In other words, a real sport. I never liked the man who would grease his neck or do other things that were unfair to the game. "In his present struggle the Republi can nominee has received his nomina tion apparently on his past record. Be ing a sane man, and realizing that no man would dare to go contrary to the will of the majority of the people of a state, though he be Governor, he has declared he will enforce initiative No. 3 and will seek legislation favoring a condition for better enforcement of that law. He also says that he Is opposed to initiative No. 18 and 24, and his word goes without question. Lister's Apathy Remembered. "Ernest Lister, the Democratic nomi nee, occupies practically the same rela tive position. He was elected Governor by a party that has always been more or less favorable to the liquor Interests and he uttered no word in his cam paign against that interest. As Gov ernor he refused to commit himself In the great campaign two --years ago when the Prohibition sentiment of this state was fighting the battle of its life to carry Initiative No. 3. Ernest Lister then took no part in that magnificent conflict. "In a personal interview with him a short time before the election of 1914. he refused absolutely to commit him self on the question of wet or dry or lend the prestige of his name to the patriotic people of Washington who were battling to free our state from the curse of the saloon." At one time the Democrats had hopes that James E. Bradford, Bull Moose nominee for Governor, would make an aggressive fight to split the Republi can vote, but he has not done so. The Socialists have been much less active than usual in the present cam paign, though they clrfim to have hopes of increasing their vote. STOCK FOR SHOES SOARS YET HIGHER Leather Prices Cause Rapid Advance in Footwear the Country Over. SOME ORDERS ARE REFUSED PRIDE CITES RECORD LAIIGK AIDIE.VCE IS ADDRESSED Ex-Governor of Washington Promises Investigation of Insurance Fnnd Scandal, If Elected. CHEHALIS, Wash., Oct. 28 (Spe cial.) Henry McBriae, Republican can didate for Governor, spoke last night in Geissler's Hall to the largest crowd gathered at a political meeting in Che halis for several years. Mr. McBride briefly passed over his record as Gov ernor before, referring to the progres sive action in establishing the railroad commission, the abolishment of free passes, and the placing of the railroads and corporations on the same propor tionate assessment rolls as the indi viduals. He referred to the railroad commis sion measure as putting an end to re bates and shipping evils. He also re ferred to the action under his admin istration where the state school fundj were invested. Mr. McBride urged the defeat of the referendum measures 18 and 24, and said he favored the present dry law, which should not be touched except to strengthen it, and that it would be a backward step to adopt 18 or 24. He denied Governor Lister's charge that his campaign eight years ago was financed by the brewery Interests, and referred to the charge that Lister was backed by the saloon interests against Mr. Hay. He said, if elected Governor he would se that a complete Investigation be made of the insurance fund scandal. M'BHIDE PRAISES DRY LAW Insanitary Conditions Are Subject or Investigation. Portland may lose part of its zoo. The City Council yesterday took under consideration the question of either getting rid of most of the animals or spending money next year to eliminate the present Insanitary conditions. Commissioner Daly made a motion that half of the animals be sold. This motion was held up pending the sub mission of a report by Commissioner Baker regarding the possibility of cut ting down the number of animals or eliminating part of the zoo. The Coun cil will inspect the zoo In the mean time. Dealers Informed When They Seek ! to Buy Tliut Deliveries Cannot Be Assured Exports to Eu rope Are Immense. An alarming situation in the shoe market was described yesterday by O. II. Fithian, head of a local whole sale house, who announced that a leather shortage is imminent. Sixty million pairs of shoes have been ex ported, according to figures which Mr. Fithian received recently, most of the allied armies depending on American leather goods for their supply. Eng land, while not on the market for American shoes, has been buying up all of the leather to be had here. A cure for such conditions that will shortly be advocated in the East is an embargo on all leather, hides and leather goods, according to Mr. Fithian. While the allied countries have placed an embargo on all of their leather. they have bought such large supplies in the United States that Americans have been put to the same hardship that faces warring Europe. Recent developments in the shoe manufacturing business are so start ling that a most casual investigation of shoe prices will reveal facts of deep significance. A pair of men's shoes, pointed out as a favorite on the Ore gon market, has advanced $1 a pair in three weeks. Not only are prices ascending on various makes of shoes from 15 to 23 cents at a Jump, but the market is almost entirely closed out. Several hundred shoe salesmen who cover Pacific Coast territory have been called back to the East, announc ing that no more orders could be booked. Leather Values Held Inflated. "I consider the valuations of leather greatly inflated." said Mr. Fithian. "If we could keep our shoes at home, there would be no such conditions as this; of course, we are cut off from the supply of German calf skins that used to come to this country. Hut the worst effects are caused by the large exportations of leather goods and materials. The Russian, French, and Italian armies are wearing our shoes, while England is buying our leather to make shoes for her army, and also for the Russians. "The purchase of shoes is almost Im possible on any terms within reason. Letters and telegrams arrive from the factories like the following: "Will ac cept limited cash orders at two-ten for not later than January. Delivery In five weeks." The following is also typical: 'We have received orders so heavily that we find ourselves entirely booked up for all that we can hope to maxe tnis season, and have been obliged to discontinue accepting fur ther orders. If we find ourselves mak ing gains in production at the end of three or four months' time, and it is possible to take on further business, we would be very glad to advise with you.' "Other messages show advances that have taken place over night on orders that have already been handed in through the agents of manufacturing concerns. Here is a sample: 'Send sizes at once on shoes bought of me. Ten and 15-cent raise on all McKays today." Trouble among the manufac turers is indicated in this message: "Impossible to quote you prices. Tan ners refuse to quote me prices on learner. iNo leather to be had; situa tion is alarming." '" Sole Leather Is Kiting. Advances in the price of sole leather have gone in the last two weeks from bO cents to 90 cents a pound. A vear ago tne price was between 27 and 32 cents, while two years ago it was even ower. Lotus calf, which is larcelv used for shoe tops has advanced from 7 cents to 60 cents a foot durinjr 12 months. Even at these advances, the quality of leather on the market is not satisfactory. The hides have been stripped off of "poor critters," and cut ting costs at the factories are high. The rule is usually that Winter hides are poorer than Summer hides. Unless leather can be kept in this country, there are no favorable pros pects for shoes at reasonable prices. While the wholesale houses are stocked with shoes that cost up to 25 per cent more at the factories, shipments com ing later in the year will be even more expensive. Wholesalers claim that they are now paying more at the factories than they were getting for the shoes which were sold to the trade only two weeks ago. That shoes will all have to be sold for double the normal prices within a year seems a conservative statement. Energy and Enthusiasm THESE characteristics of the young man ought to be expressed in his clothes. Hart Schaffner & Marx have done it in their Varsity Fifty Five suits and .Varsity Six Hundred overcoats. You will not do yourself justice if you buy any clothes this season before seeing the new models in these lines that we have to show you. They're vital; live-wire stuff; and you want them; and wre know it. $20, $25, $30, $35 pay all you can; the values are always higher than the price. Copyright Hart SchjLtfner 4t Mats SAM'L ROSENBLATT & CO. The Men's Store for Quality and Service Southeast Corner Fifth and Alder Sts. THREEWQMENSPEAK Big Audience Hears Appeal for Suffrage Cause. "LOYALTY" IS BIG ISSUE Child Drowns In Ditch. NORTH YAKIMA, Wash., Oct. 28. (Special.) The 2-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Dickerman, of Selah, strayed from home this morning and drowned, in a lateral of the Selah Canal. RECIPE TO DARKEN GRAY HAIR This Home-Made Mixture Darkens Gray Hair and Relieves Dandruff. To a half pint of water add: Bay Rum 1 oz. Barbo Compound a small box Glycerine 14 oz. These are all simple ingredients that you can buy from any druggist at very little cost, and mix them your self. Apply to the scalp once a day for two weeks, then once every other weeK until ail tne mixture is used. A half pint should be enough to darken the gray hair, and relieve dan druff. It does not stain the scalp, is not sticky or greasy, and does not rub off. It promotes the growth of th hair and makes harsh hoir soft and glossy. Adv. Kallroud Needs $10,000,000. SEWARD, Alaska, Oct.' 28. The Alaska Engineering Commission will ask Congress for between I1C.000.000 and $11,000,000 for construction expend itures on the Government railroad dur- ng the next fiscal year. The Commis sion today bought 10 lots at the foot of Adams street as site for a terminal pas senger station. Mrs. l-'leld, Mrs. Kent, Mrs. Mack rille Tell IIow Democrats and Mr. AVilsoit Kvaded and Finally Vailed Women Voters. "The biggest thing in this campaign is the loyalty of woman to woman." In these words Sara Bard Field, a former Portland resident and one of the leaders of the newly organized Woman's party, appealed to a big audi ence of Tortland women at the Baker Theater last night to repudiate Presi dent Wilson and the democratic party at the polls on November 7. airs'. 1 Field was one of thr-e bril liant women who addressed the big downtown audience. The others were Mrs. William Kent, wife of Representa tive Kot, of California, and Mrs. Ida Finney "lackrille. Progressive leader of California. Dr. Florence Manion, of Portland, presided. Democratic Record Reviewed. The women reviewed the well-known record of the Democratic party on the suffrage question. They told, with interesting detail and with frequent humorous departure from the concrete narrative, how the Demo cratic President and the Democratic Conarress have "stalled along" on the suffrage question, and how they have failed the women voters at every point. Inasmuch as the Democrats now are in control of the Government they fought through the convention of that party, and even up until Congress ad journed this Fall, to get favorable ac tion from that party. Then, after they had been turned down repeatedly and finally, there was nothing left for them to do but go out and work against that party and all its candidates for M tional office, from the President down to Representative on Congress. It went against the grain for a good many women to do this, for some of the members of the Woman's party are Democrats. Mrs. Field is, for instance. Suffrage Held Paramount. Mrs. Kent explained why the Wom an's party has come before the people in opposition to President Wilson on the sole Issue of suffrage. She insisted, as did the others, that suffrage is a paramount issue paramount to all others in this campaign. Mrs. Mackrille gave a brief and in structive history of the Woman's party movement. She told how both the Re publican and Democratic conventions had "kissed them off" by placing weak and meaningless suffrage planks in their platforms. "But Mr. Hughes," she continued, "bad the courage to come out and say that he was in favor of our amend ment." This utterance was received with tre mendous applause, the crowd being In evident sympathy with the women's movement. Mrs. Field, who is well known in Portland, where she formerly lived, was given an ovation. She appeared In stunning costume created of a, combi nation of the suffrage colors a white skirt, purple waist and brilliant yellow jacket. She sailed right into the depths of the suffrage argument by pointing out how futile It is for the women to at tempt to get suffrage state by state. as President Wilson wants them to do. "We must have a Federal amendment so that the enlightened states of the West can liberate the struggling wom en of the East," she said. SPEECHES ARE PLANNED LAST WEEK OK CAMPAIGV TO BE STHEMOIS 1ST CLARKE. UMATILLA FOR HUGHES WALTER L. TOOZE FINDS REPUBLI CANS ARE ENTHUSIASTIC. Iletpreaentatlve J oh n mob and George A. Lee Will Make Special Addresses on Monday. VANCOUVKR, AVash.. Oct. 28. (Spe cial.) The last week of the Republi can campaign in Clarke County will be a strenuous one. as outlined by the county central committee. From two to four meetings ace to be held in va rious places in the county each night next . week. Representative Albert Johnson arrived today for a aeries of speeches in the county. On Monday George A. Lee. of Seattle, who was a candidate for the nomination for Gov ernor at the Republican primaries, will speak, both in this city and at Camas. The schedule of meetings, as an nounced today, is as follows: Monday. Oct. 30 Vancouver. 2:30 P. M., meet ins for women. 1J. ia. A. Theater, CeorKe A. Lei-, speaker; f'amas, 7 :'M 1. M.. lieorge A. l.oe: Wainut Orove. George McCoy and A. L. Mlll-r; HldRetieM, Hon. Albert John son and W. W. Sparks; View. Xonald Mc Master and W. S. T. terr. Tuesday. Oct. ol Ml. Norway. W. W. Sparks and A. Burnham; Harney. A. 1 Mil ter and O. W. Kyau; UaOnter, Donald Mo Master and James O. Blair. Wednesday, -November 1 Manor, W. W. Sparks and James U. Blair: Went Mill Plain, Charles Hall. C. W. Kyan and Fred Tempes; Yacolt. Donald McMaster and John Wilkinson. Thursday. November 2 Hocklnson, Don ald McMaster. W. S. T. Derr and C. W. Hyan; Lake Shore, A. Burnham and W. W. Sparks; Brush Prairie, Charles V. Hall and Janui O. Blair. Friday. November 3 Battlo Ground, T. L. Brewer, of Aberdeen, aasiirrfed by Na tional committee. K. V. Tempes and C. W. Beard and W. S. T. Derr; Korest Hill. Henry Crass and James O. Blair! Spencer vllie. W. W. Sparks; Camas. Donald Mo Master. Saturday, November 4 Orchards, Donald McMaster, W. H. T. Derr and C. W. Ryan. Hutches Alliances Are Orsaniird After Earn Address by Mr. Toosc Many Women Members. PENDLETON. Or.. Oct. 23. (Spe cial.) Tbat Umatilla County will go 1(R0 forHughes is the prediction of tho Republican leaders at the close of the campaigning in this county of Walter L. Tooze. of Salem, state presi dent of the Hughes Alliance. The tour of Mr. Tooze was the most enthusiastic and successful of any ever known in tills county. He spoke at Adams. Stan, field and Kcho to crowded houses and at the conclusion of his address organ ized local branches of the Hughes Al liance in each town with practically 100 charter members in each place. At Erho Thursday night the meeting resolved itself into an old-fashioned Republican love feast under the in fluence of Mr. Tooze's talk, and when he asked for signers for the Hughes Alliance th- allies were immediately Jammed with earger enthusiasts. One of the remarkable phases of this tour has been the interest manifested by the women In the Republican cam paign, and their eagerness to Join the Hughes Alliance. In fact over 40 per cent of both aduiences and signers of the alliances were women. On the Na tional Issues Mr. Tooze made some wonderful hits, and it is acknowledged that his work will go a long ways to ward holding the Republican Vote up to the big majority. MERRILL RALLY SUCCESS V. I.alr Thompson and Horace M. Maanlnj Speakers. KLAMATH FALLS, Or Oct. 28. (Special.) Probably the best attended and most successful political meeting of the present campaign was the Re publican rally Wednesday night at Merrill, 25 miles south of this city. Practically all seats In the Merrill Op-era-IIouse, where the meeting was held, were filled and the crowd Its tended attentively 10 the speakers. W. Lair Thompson, of Lakeview, and Hor ace M. Manning, of this city, were tho speakers. Practically all members of the Republican ticket for county and district officers attended the meeting, met the electorate and attended the dance afterwards. Mr. Thompson in his speech un equivocally supported the movement for the opening of the Klamath Indian reservation. Boy Writes Campaign Poem. OREGON CITY". Or., Oct. 28. (Spe cial.) Clarence H. Staggs. a 12-year-old pupil at the McLoughlin Institute, has contributed the following to the literature of the campaign: Benson is a bad man, Wilson Is worse; Vote for HufThes, Safety first. iitiitiistti(tt(iattii(ttittit(ti Friedlander's. 310 Washington, will test your eyes. Skilled optometrists. Adv. LEATHER IS REAL TEST In the selling; of shoes the value of the leather in them is of greatest importance. While shoe men may boast,' with just pride or for advertising; purposes, of the etyle and finish of their shoes, vet the real test of the merit of shoes is the durability of the leathes in them. A pair of shoes that wears well is kept in service long: after fine finish has been kicked off and the new style hae been forgotten. 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