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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 14, 1907)
THE MORNING ASTOMAN, ASTOHIA, OREGON, THURSDAY, PI8RUAAY 14, 1807. THE MORNING ASTORIAN IstabttsMI ilr J. Published Daily Except Monday by Ilk J. S. DILLIHGER COMPAHT, STBSCSIPTION SATIS. By Mil, per yr 17.00 By eurier, pr month .0 WEEKLY ASTORIA. 8, audi, per year, la advsnos. .$1.00 ai.im. kt tb poatofflo at Ajtorl. Of- CTtMbn for of Tn low i(TuAjroatttMr mtoN sr place of ' - hi to Mil by postal ovd or Upc Mwkow AT brexufcrlty In W Bvwy hMiM bksnDatair reported to U oOtoNpobttosiiOB. ,, TELEPBOHE MAIH Mi. Offlatal mm of CUOaop oountr ud UsCltf ofAjlorU. ,..., ,. f understanding, that the work has boen wretchedly misdirected and ts In con fusion and arearnge. There Is a brief season In which recoup and the only hope loft l that the extraordinary responsibility will be met in some monsura and that real rood wilt come out of the muss. If the big and popular things demanded by the people at this session are Ig nored, crowded out, denied enactment there will be some retroactive ac counting with tho men responsible fur the failure which Is beginning to take on the color and guise of de liberate, and Inspired, purpose. WEA1HES. . t Oregon, Washington, Idaho .Fair. , . . TONIGHT'S THE TIME! When Astoria gets itself together tonight at the Astoria theatre and summarizes her real status, most peo ple will be surprised at the scope of favorable conditions that belong to her of right, and the only marvel will arise from contemplation of the fact that she has temporized so long with op portunities Instantly and always avail Able, Overweening, outside Influences have done much to retard and dis courage her' she Is not wholly to blame for her denial of benefits that should have been wrought long ago. Now she Is to scan her own field, do her own work, start on her own Initiative, compel recognition and enforce her own ends. She lacks nothing by way of natural and legal predicate; she has everything to win out on, If she will but take snap Judgment and de mand Instead of ask. Organization Is the first needful thing; after that comes the real work. Once banded In a common purpose, the essential requisites may be pro grammed in Importance and sequence, and put Into the hands of live com mittees. Abandon red-tape, chuck diffidence, scout all Interference, turn down the temporizers, put up a bold, honest, defiant front, and go after re sults. It has been done in other places that lacked half the natural, commercial advantages we possess. It can be done here, and what is more, It will be. The man in Astoria who deprecates this policy of aggressive, strong-hand ed acquisition of things that belong to us, will do well to keep mum on the subject, and let, the real acquis ttlve spirit of the community have fulplay for a while. Come out, ev erybody and come shouting for As toria! THE DYNAMITE COWARD. . That lowest of all low and cowardly criminals, the dynamite brute. Is abroad. la Portland. He is evidently -working out reprisal on the street car company, and attempting the ruin of Its property, regardless of the Inno cent lives involved in his treacherous scheme ' of retaliation. It Is to be hoped the police will follow the fiend up, as they did the postal thieves of Sellwood, to the last scoundrel Impli cated, and put them where even dy namite will be ineffective. The crim inal user of this agency, or its Ilk, should be shot to death on the spot with the law's best award for the gun user! TEN DAY8 YETI All Oregon is on the anxious seat as to what its legislature will do In the next ten days to recoup the. fright ful waste of the previous thirty. It looks "to a man up 'a tree," as if it would be necessary to order up the vital business of the people from th committee rooms, and, Ignoring -th calendar, debate the greater measures and pass them in the best order ob tainable," casting superfluous stuff to the winds, and so 'redeem the session from hopeless barrenness ' Not In years has so little been ac complished at Salem; "We do hot know, nor do we care, where the fault lies; It is too bitterly plahi for any mls- TO THE VERY END. . Colonel W. S. Roesslr, In charge of the United States engineering depart ment, directing the work on the Co lumbls river Jetties, enjoys, deserved ly, the confidence of this whole sec Hon, as a man who does more with his brain and hand and less with his lips, In the great matters entrusted to him. The renewal of Jetty work, un der his sway, this year, backed, as It Is, by generous and adequate Congres slonal appropriations, has the sanction and good will of all classes hereabout, who, until now, have looked askant at the yearly humbuggery that has gone before. , We believe, having heard Colonel Roessler avow his policy of never stopping the work until the system is completed, that he will carry It out, finally, and successfully, and we wish him every advantage possible In the undertaking, propitious weather, quiet seas, undelayed traffic In material, good labor service and all agencies that shall contribute to the achieve ment. It Is one of the tremendous es sentials of the Northwest, and we, trust the last of Interference and de lay In the great premise, has been recorded. MANY POSSIBILITIES Presidential Timber Plentiful in Republican Party. BRYAN IS DEMOCRATIC HOPE Vice President Fairbanks Has Most Perfect Organization, While Tsft Has Support of Roosevelt, and Many Others Are Strong. EDITORIAL SALAD. A seductive headline "Golf In South." the Astoria will be on parade tonight Then comes the real work. The small boy and the snow man are renewing old acquaintance in New York. o It's the man who can't behave that's always got a kick against the law and the way it Is administered, In Astoria, as elsewhere. Perhaps the Japanese have been reading about the Teddy bear and think It Is some sort of an animal like the Russian bear. Clatsop puts up an even hundred cases for circuit court review next Monday; with a beggarly minority of them on the criminal side. There must be some good work, and a number of "lightning changes," up at Salem, during the next ten days if any good is to come out of the legis lative Gideon. Lest It be thought strange it is so difficult to find great statesmen to represent Rhode Island and New Jer sey in the Senate, it must be remem bered they have to be looked for In New Jersey and Rhode Island. o If Professor William A. Shepherd of Columbia University, in his tour of South America next summer, can at tract numbers of the youth of the southern republics to our schools the Monroe doctrine, as well as some of our commercial advantages, will re ceive new force and encouragement, o The Japanese embassy at Washing ton has taken the pains to deny, and to condemn as ridiculous the statement that an ultimatum had been delivered to this government In the matter of the California school controversy. It was Mr. Richmond Pearson Hobson, who said it was so that he had seen it. We are forced to conclude that Mr. Hobson's eyes are not gooJ, nor his speech to be trusted Implicitly. A 8TITCH IN TIME will save nine. r So will a bottle of Ballard's Horehound Syrup always kept on hand save many a spell of sickness. A sure cure for Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis, and Whooping Cough. Mrs. S , Hot Springs, Ark., writes: "I keep a bottle of Ballard's Horehound. Syrup in my, medicine qhest and thank my forethought many times. It has prevented many severe spells of sickness. Sold by Hart's drug store. "Hello Girls." How to be healthy and happy and be, a. phone girl. Ring us up for a package of Holllster's Rocky Mountain Tea with full par ticulars. 35 centsi Tea or Tablets. For sale by Frank Hart.' WASHINGTON. Feb. IS. Although the pressure of Congressional duties rests rather heavy upon public men during the short session of a Congress, those who manage affairs and whose opinions have weight In the party councils are finding the time to discuss the relative merits of prospective can didates for the Presidential campaign of 190$. It Is a significant fact that up to the present no name In connec tion with the Democratic side of the coming campaign Is mentioned se riously save that of Mr. Rryan. This does not mean that other distinguished Democrats are void of ambition, or that the party has not available Pres idential timber, but It does seem to Indicate that by common consent the man who has twice made an unsuc cessful race ,may stand a better chance of nomination under changed condi tions and changed public opinion than any other nin today prominent In the parry. In the Republican party there are quite a number of men whose qual ifications are being carefully and se riously considered by leaders, and al though the time for election Is still In the future, by the process of elimina tion efforts are being made to central ize public opinion around some one man who may be found to stand head and shoulders above his peers. Upon whom choice may finally rest is a question that could not now be an swered and probably will not be an swered until the very eve of the con vention. That President Roosevelt will do all within his power to assist In the selection of a man who will con tinue the policies brought into exist ence and given force and effect by the President, no one can doubt who un derstands the Individuality and sin cerity of Mr. Roosevelt. No matter how men may disagree with him, few are so bold as to charge the President with Insincerity. Therefore, It Is reasonable to sup pose that If the President can control the convention he would swing It for the one man in whom he has a con fidence that nothing can 'shake Sec retary Ta ft. t The only thing that may prevent the War Secretary from being a candidate would be a vacancy in the Supreme Court Justiceship. He is Judicial in temperament and recently In an official statement admitted that there were certain objections to him that might make him unavailable as a Presidential candidate. If Chief Justice Fuller retires during the term of President Roosevelt, the probabil ity Is that Mr. Taft would accept this place, ns ho looks upon It ns a post Hon worthy the ambition of any man tn this country. With ths Secretary of War ellmlnat ad. It Is difficult to see In what dlroc tlon th President might turn for the kind of a man ho would like to soe ns his successor. The talk that Mr Roosevelt, himself, would again ho candidate, U Idle. Vice President Fairbanks, perhaps up to this time, has the most perfect and effective organisation. He Is an avowed candidate, and his friends In all sections of the country are, ner getlcally nl work. Although It I not admitted, there are several bureaus engaged in disseminating Fairbanks literature and otherwise keeping their candidate to the forefront. Mr. Fair bunks makes no secret of his ambition nnd his friends are In constant com munication with his Washington head quarters. It the suggestion of ons of the prominent Chicago papers, made within the lust few days, should be carried out, Mr. Fairbanks would have opposition In his own stats. This pa per In a vigorous editorial called the attention to the policies of ths prea ent administration, to which It gives cordial approval, and declared that If these policies were to be perpetuated the one man who might be counted upon to do so was Senator neverldge of Indiana. This paper declares that In the condng campaign the fight must be made on the issues as defined by Mr. Roosevelt, and not upon the per sonai qualities of any candidate, and upon this assumption It declares that tho senior senator from Indiana Is the Meul candidate. In the list of those who may be designated as avowed candidates, the name of Leslie M. Shaw, secretary of tho Treasury, must be placed. Mr. Shaw retires from office March S, and will then be at liberty to devote his time to the advancement of his own Interests. In some of the Southern States Mr. Shaw is understood to be particularly strong and Is said to have built upon an organization that Is la boring to advance his Interests. Hi strength In the South Is said to lie chiefly In the Atlantic coast states. A thorn in the side of Mr. Shaw, how ever, is the candidacy of Governor Cummlna of Iowa. Between him and Mr. Shaw and the other standpat tar Iff men of the party there has been a bitter struggle for several years, it Is claimed by persons who profess to know the situation In Iowa that a dl Tided delegation must Inevitably go to the national convention. If Judge Taft abandons his IJea of going to the Supreme Court and be comes an active candidate, a similar outcome is likely In Ohio, where Bon ator Foraker will contest with Mr, Tafl for the support of the Ohio delegates, Hoth Mr. Taft and Senator Foraker live In Cincinnati. The senator's stronghold Is the southern part of tho state, but Mr. Taft would find his sup porters chiefly In the northern part and particularly In the lake region, where Representative Burton Is one of the party leaders. Mr. Burton, however, is said to have Presidential ambitions and he might find some thing to bis advantage in the Ohio sit uation if the Foraker and Taft factions get Into a wrngle and nnd it neces sary to agree upon some dark horse. Just at present Foraker, aided by Hen- (Concluded on page fl) I i . .1 Li 60 CENTS PBR MONTH ASTORIA'S BEST IfEWBPAPKIC 9U Guarantees to its Advertisers A Larger Circulation Than Any Paper Published In Astoria .ill IdCt-.IA i,i'i ,f '. ' I 'i. '. . k. t,,' ir-.!-' OUR BOOKS ARE OPEN TO INSPECTION BY OUR ADVERTISERS THE CORRECT CLOTHES SHOP Wings Wouldn't Take You Fast Enough To tho store lulvuitieiiig 30 lbs. of Granulated Sugar $1.00 i 1 itrn lit n 11- "" 4 And yet, wo offer this month far Creator values than that, In commo dities as staple and much more ntH.xk.Hl if yuur're a man, nnd wear clothes. Tho greatest special val ues of all tho year are on; and sjiec ial sales hero are always genuine- they occur only at six monthly in tervals, when tho proper tlmo ar rives for disposing of all unsold balances of stock. This year tho opportunity is mora than ordinarily attractive -we havo had a most successful season and are confident that it hus boon so be cause our goods are so overwhelm ingly right. We believe that peo ple appreciate being able to buy clothing of such character as this at considerable saving in price are get ting a great month's buisnuss to complete tho biggest year in our history. Today we specify various items In Men's Clothing. All are freshly made, beautiful new goods con structed of finest fabrics on latest and thoroly correct models. Tho tailor work is hlghclusa and the garments fit and look as they should. In every minute detail tney leave nothing to be desired. The Biggest Clothing Values In Astoria Will ke Found at This Store This Week A great stock of brand new high- grade overcoats and suits fn this season's best and most sensible models is marked away below the real value. Wo Institute this salo fur two re asons'first ami primarily, to en force our rule of carrying at little stock as possible to another soaaon. Second, for tho tremendous good will and advertising value that a special tale always brings to the stora that dea It squarely and gen erously. We invite your Insection of the following: Men's Suits and Overcoats values to $16.60 at $10.00 Amazing bargains in men's suits or overcoats at $12.(0 and $15 Men's $2,50 natural wool and camel's hair underwear -Sale price $1.85 Men's 25c fast black wool hone, two pair for 3.1c. PANTS Worth $2.25 to $5.00 at $1.65 to $4.00 Soil Cases In a Special Sale! Some rvsly amasing values ready for tho mid-winter travel and Southern tourists. Three big specials $3.95 $4.16 and $4.85 5. D The Store That Never DisnapointB: Artorla'i Formot CMblng Mmm 1111 1SS MAKES OLD THINGS NEW we It my ml l"V , D3iNR?;e SmiMJi ' Jirs Bus.. 50. ElquW Otntcr 1.1 a wonder I It will make the fj whole interior of your house slime like new, making rc-finishinp; or rc-varnfchingentire iy unnecessary. It is not a vnTniah, but a surface food and cleaner, building up the 'original finish end making it brighter than ever. It is applied with a piece of cheese cloth and no experience Is necessary. Ko drying to wait for. Removes all scratches, stains, dirt, dullness. It can be applied to any finish with beneficial results. Nat ural wood, as welt as any color of paint, will be better for an application of Liquid Veneer. ElQilM Umtt will improve even the most beautiful furniture. It will take that smoky look from the Piano and other Mahogany, and is highly bene ficial to Golden Oak, White Enamel,Gilt, Silver and other finishes. DdUll Otietr sells at 50 cents a bottle, and a bottle Is enough to renovate the ordinary home. Try it and yon will always buy it SOL.O BY B. F. ALIEN 8 SON tTT-rTT4H I VAlENflNES! I Our complete line is in with nearly twice as much stock and twice , the variety, that has ever been displayed by us in the past .VaKntines from the comic at Jc each to; the Beautiful cre ations at $6 and $7 each. " SUCCESSOltH TO J. N OUIFFIN vjl( ji( (U ,1 Books J Music ' Stotionerv X