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
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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
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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.