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13 JITNEY MEN SEEK TOCQRNER COUNCIL only American rights shall be-put on a black list by any foreign nation." That is a flat statement. Does it not mean that if the black list Is not with drawn Mr. Hughes will, as President, ask Congress to place an embargo on munitions for the allies? 3. The Adamson bill Is the subject of Mr. Hughes' determined attacks. Within a year the provisions of that bill automatically expire. The Presi dent has set forth his definite pro gramme on this subject with much clarity. Mr. Hughes has a creed. He "believes In arbitration." but has he a pro gramme? 4. - Mr. Hughes has arraigned Mr. Wilson's measures for aiding the American merchant marine. Does Mr. Hughes believe in ship sub sidies? 5. Mr. Hughes has spoken dispar agingly of the Federal reserve law. How does he wish that law amended? 6. Mr. Hughes accentuates his own "Americanism." Does that "Americanism" Imply com pulsory military service? 1 The list of queries might be extended Union to Go in Force to Try to Induce Repeal of License - . Ordinance. MR. DALY TO TAKE LEAD TUB SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, XOVE3IBER 5, 1916. Plllill f .W. &r $ Commissioner to "Attempt to Pull Or ganization Oat of Hole Into Which He Put Them Labor Behind Demonstration. Waving got the jitneys in a hole by asking- the City Council last July to pass an ordinance forcing them by November 15 to obtain a franchise to continue in business. City Commis sioner Daly will now try to get them out again. He prepared an ordinance yesterday repealing the franchise or-L finance. The repeal ordinance will be before the Council first "Wednesday, when the Central Labor Council and the Jitney interests, which are affiliated, will stage a big demonstration. The plan is to pack the Council chamber with jitney men and their families and try to induce the Council into passing the Daly ordinance. Mr. Daly's part in the affair will be the presentation of his proposed ordinance. When Commissioner Daly announced in July that it was useless to try to regulate the Jitneys by the license method and asked the Council to pass the franchise measure, it was the plan to give the Jitneys a franchise at their own terms. The outcome would be that the Jitney Drivers' Union would pet the franchise and would have the exclusive jitney rights in the city. Square Deal Is Issue. But when the Council got to figur ing on the franchise proposition thero cropped up the question of the pro priety of the city granting a franchise to jitneys allowing them to run when, how and where they please, when the city 'already has given franchises to the street car company, imposing se vere regulations. The question of a square deal with no favoritism came tip as an is,sue. As the case stands now. Mayor Al fcce and Commissioners Dieck and Ba ker have announced that they stand for treating all alike. Commissioner Daly stands for giving the jitneys the franchise at their own terms. Com missioner Bigelow has not expressed himself, except to say that he does not favor letting the jitneys dictate what they will have rather than the City Council saying what they will give, us has been done in connection with street car franchises granted in recent years. The Council majority asked Commis sioner Dieck to prepare a proposed franchise for the Jitneys, imposing reg ulations comparable with those im posed on the street car company. He prepared a list of routes which he thought the jitneys should accept and Submitted these to the Jitney Union, with the announcement that if they Were unwilling to accept the routes there was no use considering any other provisions of the franchise. Labor Calls for Demonstration. The list of routes was tv- by the Jitney Union officials about two weeks ago, and is still being held. The next move is on the part of the jitneys, and the move will be to try to induce the repeal of Mr. Daly's franchise ordi nance by packing i Council cham ber with jitney drivers. In the current Issue of the Libor Press, the official publication nf the Central Labor Council, there appears a. call for the demonstration. All or ganized labor people are asked to go to the Council chamber to oppose the unfair" (meaning open shop) Port land Railway, Light & Power Com pany, and to support a "loyal union," meaning the Jitney Drivers' Union. WHERE IS MR. HUGHES? Familiar but Oft Answered Query Comes Again From Boston. BOSTON, Mass.. Oct. 20. (To the fcditor.) Will you allow a long-distance but always interested reader of your paper to apply to you for Infor mation? Since the present campaign began It has been my privilege, in com mon with most of my fellow citizens, to listen to many discussions as to the advisability of electing the Republican or Democratic candidate. Like most men, I have come to regard such quad rennial disputations as a very valu able part of my political education, but, to my disappointment, the current debate has been hampered by the fact that the followers of Mr. Hughes have In every instance which happens to have come under my observation been unable to assert just what are the principles of their champion on sub jects conceded by all parties to be of Immediate and large importance. The candidate's frequent adoption of the terms "correct policies" and "American Ism" as defining his own -position seems to many observers to intensify the convictions of his followers without corresponding enlightenment. It will be granted, I think, that the coalition supporting the Republican ticket is made up of large bodies of men .who think very variously upon these sub jects, and the voter of independent mind is not unnaturally confused as to the all-important question of Mr. Hughes' own convictions. Under these unusual ciroumstances. Is it not fair that The Portland Ore gonian, a paper of peculiarly -distin guished antecedents, which has during tne campaign shown a generous hospi tality to the expression of interest Jngly divergent views, but which ha: consistently advised lis readers to vote the Republican ticket, should answer clearly and tersely a few questions not designed by their phrasing to catch or Trip, Dut to elicit genuine and mucn- needed information? 1. Mr. Hughes declares that he favors a "new and consistent" policy toward Mexico which shall protect American lives and property. His most prominent supporter. Colonel Room. veltj who has an acknowledged genius In bnaping the issues of a political cam paign, makes a passionate demand for the employment of force in our dealing wicn me aoutnern republic, ana cer tainly creates the impression that in so doing he is voicing the determina tion of the Republican Partv. Is it not fair, then, to ask whether under existing conditions Mr. Hughes ineueves in active Intervention in luexieo? 2. The most significant assertion of Ms foreign policy was 'made by Mr. iiugnes in Milwaukee. His speetfh there leaves the clear Impression that he wishes to see the allies' blockade broken by methods quite as vigorous as tnose applied to Germany. In Phil avlelphia with absolute definiteness he aid: "No American wbo la exercising OLD OREGON RESIDENT DIES AT MONITOR. :: ; ns ' ::L n I v - ' . I - . . : t 1 K ' . J :j 'V- Tt ' i ' it : ! ' r - - i ; - ' "f ! ' ' " " " Eiick ChrUrtopbenon. Erick Christopherson. a resi dent of Monitor, Or., for a quar ter of a century, died Friday, Oc tober 27 at his home there. Mr. Christopherson was born in Son derby Sjelland, Denmark, April 22, 1S20, and was more than 86 years of age at the time of his death. He served two years in the Danish army, and came to America in 1867. His family fol lowed a year later, and they made their home at Yorkville," Racine County, Wisconsin. Mr. Christopherson moved with his family to Monitor, Or., in 1892, and farmed there for 24 years. Besides his wiBow and imme diate family he leaves 23 grand children. Services were held from the Seventh-Day Adventist Church of Monitor. to a greater length, but I will not make further demands upon your space. I simply submit it Is extraordinary that after he has made several score of speeches such general doubt can exist regarding Mr. Hughes' policies. If you will answer these questions as fairly as they are asked, you will do a service to hesitating voters. ELLERY SEDGWICK. The Oregonlan published on Monday, October 30, an editorial article written in reply to the letter of its distin guished correspondent. It was Intended at the same time to print the Sedgwick letter, but It was found, when the edi torial was in type and ready for publi cation, that Mr. Sedgwick's letter had been mislaid. ' Now a copy has been procured, and It Is herewith published. Any one Interested in The Oregonlan's discussion of the seevral Inquiries made by Mr.- Sedgwick is referred to last Monday's issue. WORLD FUTURE IS ISSUE WALLA WALLA REPUBLICANS HEAR JUDGE LOWELL, OF" PENDLETON. Presidential Election to Decide Inter national Relations Wilson Baa Failed, lie Says. WALLA WALLA, Wash.. Nov. 4. (Special.) Judge Stephen A. Lowell, of Pendleton, spoke at a Republican mass meeting in Walla Walla this evening, and, among other things, said: "Far and beyond the ordinary issues of the campaign now closing is the question as to the future of this re public as a wdrld power. The great war is giving birth to a new Europe. Out of the chaos of blood and iron will come a new civilization. Even as the Napoleonic era destroyed feudalism, the conflict now raging will destroy the industrial systems, and with it may go old systems of government. "The coming of peace ,will mark America's opportunity. If America is ready to grasp It. Opportunity alike to impress upon the old world those ideals of civil liberty and human rights which lie at tne roundatlon of popular government and to participate as the dominant force in the council chambers where terms of peace are written. "Those voters who catch the vision must realize that the present executive never can replace this Nation in its lofty position of influence. Through him that has been lost. It must be regained through the leadership of an other President stronger, abler, with assured policies and assured principles. Never will the statesmen of Europe in vite Mr. Wilson to participate in the determination of problems so stupen dous, issues so far-reaching. They have already weighed him in the balance and found him "wanting." J. 1 I w JL 8s DRYS ARE ACTIVE IN LINN Series of 3 5 Rallies Held to Oppose Brewers' Amendment. ALBANY. Or.. Nov. 4. (Special.) A scries of 35 rallies held in Linn Coun ty in the last few weeks in opposi tion to the Brewers' amendment and in favor of the Prohibition amend ment was ended last night with a big meeting in the First Presbyterian Church here. The speakers of last nighty meeting were the Rev. C. E. Gibson, pastor of the First Methodist Church, of Albany, and the Rev. D'. Iioyd Morgan, pastor of the First Christian Church, of Albany. Under the direction of the Linn County branch of the Anti-Saloon League., meetings have been held dur ing the last few weeks in all sections of the county, and many big rallies have taken place. H. Bryant, chair man, and J. F. Emmett, secretary of the Anti-Saloon League committee in this county, have handled the campaign. Sim ith a CrasK That Will Be Heard Over All the Northwes Just think, think, think Dry Goods, Notions, Men's Fur nishings, Cloaks, Etc. GIVEN AWAY BELOW COST! Never again, in this age, will you be able to buy as cheap such clean, new and up-to-the-minute merchandise as you will'at this REMOVAL SALE! CAN'T BE HELPED WE MUST MOVE Where is this gigantic sale going on? At Truguay has employed scientists from the United. States to organize and conduct a government institute of geology, , ; ! Extra Salespeople Supply Your Wants ir J k i i tfil StrestJ etweesa Alder aaid Morrison Sales Start at 9 A.M. Open Saturday Nights r-4 V Tell Your Friends to Come Early J nil S M: L 1- - ii i ii miii - - - urn i im i " M COMMUNITY DAY PLANNED Klamath Falls Business Men Will Entertain Visitors November 8. KLAMATH FALLS. Or, Nov. 4. (Special.) Thursday, November 9. will be Community day In Klamath Falls. The celebration is planned by the Klamath Falls Business Men's Associa tion for Klamath people outside of Klamath Falls. The day's programme will Include music by the Klamath military band. a big free dinner in the Moose Hall to the visitors, free admis sion to any theater In Klamath Fall and community -welfare speeches by prominent men. Several premiums of $2.60 will be riven for products grown by visitors. The premiums may be redeemed at any store In Klamath Falls for merchandise. Cnlversitjr Mas Services Today. At 4 o'clock today vesper services will be held at the administration building of the Portland! University, at Seventeenth and Lovejoy streets. Rev, Charles A. Hoy will deliver the address. His tluma will be. "How to Learn How." Special musio will be provided, under the direction of the department or music Light refreshments will be served by the University Association. Mr. Rcames to Visit at Home. Clarence L. Reames, United States District Attorney, will arrive in Port land tomorrow morning: on a hurried trip from San Francisco, where he has been conducting- the prosecution of Vtnd-fiaud cases for the Government. Mr. Reames will leave tomorrow after noon for Medford, hia former home, on the way back: to San Francisco, where he will resume the conduct of the land prosecutions. FORMER PORTLANDER DEAD P. A. McPherson, Insurance Man. Passes in California. "Word -. was received here yesterday of the death, in Crescent City, Call, cf V. A. Mcl'hersoii. lor nitny ytars a prominent insurance man of Port land. Mr. McPherson moved from Port land five years ajo. and iine has lived in California. Me is survived by one son. Walter McPherson. now a resident of Canada. In Portland Mr. McPherson was well known throuch his insurance connec tions. He was the founder and o r ranlzer of the Independent Ord?r of Lions, now merged with the Western Indemnity Company, of Chicago. The output of Nnvalrt lirHnn b!-vts ourluj the last year amounted to S730,-