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VOLUME LXI NO. 216 ASTORIA, OREGON, THURSDAY. AUGUST 16, 1906 PRICE FIVE CENTS FACTOR Labor Movement Disturbs All Politicians. MAY END IN FAILURE Taft'i Support ol LIHIefleld Causes Suprlse in Many Quarters. NEW SCHOOL OF POLITICS Present Day Tend Toward Individual Action of tho Party Leaden In atead of Obeying Political Bosses, WASHINGTON, August 15 (Special) There Isn't any doubt that public men are disturbed by the political campaign of the labor union. It U a new factor In American politic! and one with which the politician, do not know bow to deal It may turn out a fizile, at hav to many other political movement launch ed with loud acclaim, And It may be a tremendous force which will turn uptltle down all the political tradition, of all the years. It all tlcnd on the rank and file mi'mbcrnhlp of the labor union The average American cltlsen tin. at way. retained the custody of hi own vote. There have been attempt. t. unite men politically along the Unci of religion, of ocoupatlon ami of race, and all have failed. The Know Nothing party wa one of the earliest of these effort. It flourished like a green bay tree, and died almost In a ntuht. More recently, there wa. the A. P. A. move inent, which wa. going to keep all Catholic out of office. It meeting. were aecret and it. membership oath Wind, and for a time the thing lookel formidable. The A. P. A.' are now but a memory. More nearly approaching the labor union movement was the Farm rs Alliance, In whhh It wna proposed to unite for political purposes all the farmer of the country. For a time the Alliance had a measure of success, but there enme a suspicion that the orgs nlzatlon wa being "ued" by certain lender, to further their own cad, and It. doom wa. .enled. The American farmer refused to be told for whom and bow he should vote. Will the American worklngmnn be more amenable to discipline f Knowledge of American political history would prompt the answer that ho would not. Hut who can toll I This is a time of change and upheavals. Old beliefs aw being abandoned and old idols shattered, and the political labor movement may be a logical outcome of conditions. The trublo with labor' political pro paganda, judged by the old standards of Americanistm Is that it proposes in effect A political party to serve a spec ial Interest. It is very true that politi cal parties in tho past have served spec ial interests, and they very likely will do so again. Hut no political party ever dared ask the suffrage of the people on a pntforin the cardinal plank of which was avowedly the serving of specinl in terests. The greatest good to the great est number lias had to be the profes sion of every political party, or certain defeat would be its portion. It is not to be denied that at times both the old parties have fawned at tho feet of capital while the interest of labor have gone abegglng. The grlev nnces of labor are very real and very keenly fort, and the membership of tho labor unions is sufficiently large to work a political revolution If the suffrage of that membership can be controlled from idie headquarters of the unions. But the Idea of political organization to serve eelflsh ends has always been repugnant NEW IN POLITICS to Americans, and one has never yet achieved substantial success, . A ha been said before, however, time are changing; and to this fact the political! art keenly alive. They admit that a successful political cam paign by the labor union I not Impo soble, and all along the line threr i i great trimming of .alls to meet the tortu which the clouded horUon threat en, Taft' Attitude Amiln. This universal recognition of the la bor union a a possible political force make, the attitude of Mr. Taft amazing to the old-school politician., By thl I mean the school of politic which teache expediency to be the chief of virtue and which know no policy except to drift with the popular tide, no matter where the till may lead. But, If the repetition will again be allowed, the time art changing and In aome respect have changed. There ha oome to the country a realization, scarcely yet formulated In to accepted knowledge, that a new era ha dawned In American politic., and that titer are now men highly placed in public life who dare (peak what tber think and do what they believ to be the right, without regard to what effect their speaking or their doing may hare on their pernnal fortune. The politician., that la, the politician who ere consumed by greed for office and whose hand are a foul with It. pelf, don't like thl new school of politic. Do the people like Itf Theodore Roose velt said thing am) did thing that made the blood of politicians congeal. And the people gave him such an en dorsement at the polls as no other man of hi generation ever had. William J. Rryan ha. scorned the men he believes betrayed the democratic party and na refused to repudiate the faith which (Continued on f 1) STENSLAND IS SEEN Defaulting banker Recognized In Pittsburg By Acquaintance. BANK PRESIDENT 1$ WORRIED When Spoken to, Stensland Criea, "For Cod's Sake, ia it You? Don't Give Me Away!" Has Plenty of Money. PITTSDURG, August 15.-The Chron- icte Telegraph is authority for the state ment that Paul 0. Stensland, the de faulting president pf tie Milwaukee Avenue State Rank In Chicago, was in rittsburcr today and at present is thouirht to 1 in the East, Stensland was seen aboard a Pennsylvania rail road train at the Union Station by Oscar llolmcr, a mechanical engineer, who used to be a friend of Stensland', but who had not aeen hlra for two years, llolmcr had gone to the station to meet a friend that was on his way Knst, and whilo talking In a Pullman car, bis at tcntion was attracted to a man son to, l near by. In telling of the Incident IIol mcr said: "I walked up to him and said, 'Hello Stensland, what are you doing here'" "For God's sake is it yout Don't give me away." "I told him his affairs were none of my business and then he started to talk. He said he supposed I knew all about lis trouble and declared he was almost out of his mind with worry. He told me ic was going East and had plenty of money. "My .friend who come from Rochester via Buffalo, told me the man I recog nized had been on the train from that city. The train left here nt 8 A. M." Captain of Detectives Egnn said to night he had heard nothing about Stensland passing through here and was indignant that Holmer hnd not reportel the Incident to the police. The police have taken no action in the matter. Holnier's name does not appear In the city directory. k ; BRYAN GOES TO SPAIN. PARIS, August 15. W. J. Bryan left for Madrid today. TERRORISTS II II Russian Police and Troops Slain By Scores. REVOLUTION RAMPANT Carnival of Murderous Attacks Inaugurated Throughout Poland. OUTBREAK COMES SUDDENLY Warsaw Police Shot Down Like Bab' bits Disorders Are Reported in Samara, Ufa, Yalta, Kiev, nd Chita. ST. PETERSBURG, August 15,-Act- ing apparently with a definite plan and at n signal, the terrorUt and revolu tionlst today inaugurated a carniva of murderous itUcka with bomb and revolver on the police an4 troop. In the various cities of Poland, echoes of whica are heard from Samara. Ufa, Yalta, Kiev and even far away Chita, where the acting chief of police wa slain al moit at hi own doorstep. At Warsaw policemen and soldiers were shot down like rabbits in tne streets. Their is.ninrts, who traveled In small bands slmost il' escaped among the ter rorzed but sympathetic population . Other Polish cities singled out by the tetroiistt were Loda, where six soldiers, titrcc patrolmen and the wife of a po lice captain were wounded by the ex plosion of bombs in the police station, and two soldiers and two terrorists were killed in the streets; Random, where bomb was thrown into the police station, killing the wife and child of Captain Vlotsla'k, where also at a given s'gnnl the policemen on all posts were simultaneously attacked and several wounded. On account of the agrarian disorders. especially several attacks on post trains, the railway between Samara and Zlat oust, was today placed under martial law. Two of these attacks occurred at Ufa, the revolutionists in each case flag ging the train, bursting open the doors of the mail cars with bombs and rifling the registered pouches, The booty in one case amoui.t to $15,000. SEVENTEEN - POLICEMEN - KILLED Warsaw Scene of Fighting Between Revolutionists and Authorities. WARSAW, August 15. There were many conflicts here today with the rerolutionsts, who have organized whole sale massacres of policemen, gendarmes and infantry pntrols. The conspirators shot and killed 17 poicemen, fcur gen darmes, and 7 patrolmen, and wounded a scorceg more. The soldiers fired a vol ley into a crowd killing 15 and wound ing 130. The massacre is auposed to have been planned in revenge for the arrest recent ly of ten socialist workmen in Praga. It'1 was a Catholic holiday ond no one suspected a massacre was in prepara tion. Simultaneously the attacks on the policemen began at 10 o'clock.. At 1 o'clock in the afternoon reports began coming from all parts of the city, re vealing the concerted nature of the at tacks. Later strong detachments of Infantry, dragoons and Cossacks appeared In the streets dispersing the crowds with their swords, firearms and bayonets. The streets were quickly emptied and by 0 o'clock all the shops were closed. Am bulances and vans were busy carrying the wounded to the hospitals. All pas sers by were searched by the patrols and START VOR many arrests were made. INVEKTIflATTrttf fiTlOTITTl f Major-General Wood Summon Commis sion to Meet in Manila. HAN' FRANCISCO, August 15,-Thc Call say today i Major-Genera) Ionsrd Wood of the United Stateg Army ha. summoned a commission to the Philippine to Inves tigate the conduct of certain army offi cer on duty in the islands. He I. keep ing secret the object of hi Investiga tion and even the members of the com mission declare that they do not know what they are to do. They will receive their instruction, when they land at Manila. The following officer, make up the commix.ion: Captain Ire L, Fredenall, quartermaster, department; Captain Frederick W. Cole, quartermasters de partment; Major Amo W. Kimball quartermasters department; clerk Eu gene Pearson and D. X. McChesney, the recently appointed Inspector of supplies at Jeffersonvllle, Ind. Captain Fredenall and Mr. McChesney leave on the Logan, sailing today, and the balance of those ordered to the in vestigation leave on the next transport. VETERAN DROPS DEAD. MINNEAPOLIS, August 15. Thomas IT. Martin, aged 65, of Washington, 1). C aenlor vice-commander, dropped dead while marching today. Physicians bad warned him not to march. RUMORED DIETZ IS DEAD. RICE LAKE, Wis, August 15. It is rumored that Dietz, who has been de fending Cameron dam against the state authorities for three years, wo hot and killed hy officers seeking to eject Mm. SPROULE PROMOTED S. P. Traffic Manager Accepts Better Position. WAS WITH S. P. FOR 24 YEARS William Sproule to Assume the Manag ership of the Largest Traffic Con cerns in the Country on October First SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 13. Freight Traffic Manager William Sproule of the Southern Pacific Company has been offered, and has accepted, what is prob ably the highest traflia position in the country. On October 1st next he as umcs the traffic management of the American Smelting Refinery, the Ameri can Smelting Securities Company, the Smelter Steamship Company, and a score of smaller corporations, including rail ways in Nevada and Alaska and smelt ers and mines in both hemispheres of the western continent. On the Pacific Coast alone, these companies own smelters at Taooma, Everett, San Francisco and Selby. Sproule entered the service of the Southern Pacific as a clerk in the freight department in 1882 and leaves it in the highest traffic position in the west after 24 years of continuous service. AUTO AND STREET CAR COLLISION. SAN FRANCISCO, August 15. As the esult of a collision between an Owl car of the Eddy street line and an automo bile at the corner of Webster street at an early hour this morning, four men were seriously hurt. E. J. Bauman, Jo seph Murphy, John Lawson, and West I.owry were the victims. Bauman is badly hurt internally and it is doubtful if he can recover. Mur phy's right leg is broken and he has cuts and bruises all over his body. Lawson's injuries seem to be largely superficial, but he is cut and scraped from head to foot. The ear was crowded with passengers, who rere thrown into a panic by the collision. Nt NO TO RESIGN Sullivan Makes Reply to Bryan's Demand. WOULD SOW DISCORD National Committeeman Says De mand Emanates From Would Be Party Leaders. HAS RIUHT TO HIS OFFICE Sullivan Asserts to Allege Fraud Against His Right to Seat in the Convention, is to Indict Last National Convention. CHICAGO, August 13 Democratic Na tional Committeeman Roger C. Sullivan today gave out a statement which he has prepared and mailed broadcast throughout Illinois, replying to W. J. Bryan's demand that he resign. Sulli van declines to concede to Bryan the right to question his democracy or his membership in the national committee. "My title," he says, "to membership in the national committee has been con ferred by higher authority than Bryan." Sullivan declares Bryan's purpose is to create new factional strife in placj of the factionalism that has now disap peared. He says the demand emanates actually from M. F. Dunlay and Owen P. Thompson of Jacksonville. "By misuse of Bryan's name and popu larity, they hope to stir up enough dis cord at Peoria to enable them to pose again as 'Leaders' and as 'Representa tives' of Bryan." Sullivan proceeds to show that the na tional convention upheld him as one of the legal delegates, and when thesa delegates chose him as national commit teeman, the convention again confirmed that action. Sullivan urges that to al lege fraud against his right to a seat in the convention is to indict the last Na tional Convention of compounding a fraud. From these men, the nomina tion must come two years hence, and no man, not even Bryan can afford to ac cept any nomination, much less the nominations for presidency, at the hands of men whom be believes abettors of "high crimes and misdemeanors and per petrators of a fraud." WILL NOT HELP. SAN FRANCISCO, August 13,-Lady Florence Hesketh, daughter of the late United States Senator William Sharon of Nevada, has given notice through her London solicitor that she will not help in the rebuilding of the Palace Hotel. She arrived at this decision after a thorough discussion of the subject with Sir Thomas Hesketh, who advised his wife to devote her funds to some other purpose. This information has been conveyed to the other Sharon heirs, who however. announce that the Palace will be re built. Architects are already studying plans for the new Palace. EX-CONVICT DIES. NEW YORK. August 15. A special to the ITeraUl from Boston says General Charles H. Cole, former president of the wrecked Globe National Bank, who was I released from the Greenfield jaid last April after serving six years for em bezzlement, died at St. Mark's hospital last week suffering from general tuber culosis. His death was not entirely un expected, cs he was In bad health when he was released from imprisonment. Since his release lie has lived quietly at Hingham. CLUE IS OBTAINED. SANTA BARBARA. August l.V-Chicf of Police Rons tonight received word from the Los Angeles detective depart ment that an anonymous letter had been received stating that the unidentified body of the murdered woman found a week ago in Temescat Canyon, was that of Mrs. Clara Armstrong of this city. Horace Lown, a brother of Mrs. Arm strong states that she left here about four weeks ago and she wa. engaged to marry "Posey" Horton who found the body. . , C- HERRING WERE THICK. ; BOSTON, August 13. Dead herring covering an area of over 13 miles were reported by Captain Anderson of tho Danish steamer Texas, which arrived yesterday from Copenhagen. The fish dating on the eastern edge of the banks and the steamer plowed through them for an hour an a half. A battered dory floating in the midst of the fish led the captain to believe that some heavily laden fisherman may have foundered. ARRESTED IN NEW TORE. NEW YORK, August 13.-On tho cabled complaint of the Chief of Police of Budapest, Hungary, a second cabin passenger on the Kaiser Wilhelm IL which arrived in Hoboken yesterday, who was on the passenger list as Gus tave Freedman, but whose real name it said to be Fabara, wa. arrested on the charge of embezzlement. The money is alleged to have been taken in Hungary and amounted to $4600. Fabara was ordered to be deported as a prisoner. AVERILL NOMINATED. EL PASO, Texas, August 13. The regular republicans today nominated W. L Averill for governor of Texas. . awful mm Carload of Dynamite Explodes Killing Thirty Persons. DISASTER IS AT CHIHUAHUA Bodies and Pieces of Human Flesh An Picked Up Mile From Scene Windows of Houses Are Broken, ' EL PASO, August 13. It is reported here that between 20 and 30 Mexican laborers and bystanders were killed this afternoon in Chihuahua, Mexico, by the explosion of a carload of dynamite on the Mexican Central Railroad. The car was being transferred for transporta tion to the Robinson mine at Santa Eulalia. Bodies and pieces of human flesh were picked up a mile distant. The windows were broken in almost every house in town and many walls were wrecked. Several American fore men are reported killed. GASOLINE STOVE EXPLOSION. SAN JOSE, Cal, August 13. An ex plosion of a gasoline stove in a shop adjoining the Fikes livery stable today set fire to both buildings. Several horses were burned and it ia believed J. T. Brown, who was in the stable failed to escape. Jacob Paxley was rescued from the shop badly burned and was taken to the receiving hospital. The flames spread to Sperry elevator and flour building and consumed the eleva tor, and also the Imperial Dye Works. DEMOS ENDORSE BRYAN. DALLAS, Texas, August 15. The democratic state convention today adopted its platform. It favors a law against lobbying, disapproves of passes and favors prohibition campaign contri butions. Unbounded confidence is ex pressed in the statesmanship and pa triotism of Bryan, together with the hope for. his renomination. Senators Culbertson and Bailey are endorsed anl latter defended against allegations re cently made.