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SAMUEL ELMORE.
There is an immense amount of
satisfaction everywhere in the city of
Astoria now that it is practically cer
tain that Samuel Elmore has consent
ed, even conditionally, to run for
the mayoralty.
The mere mention of his name,
five days ago, was the cause of
illimitable expression of assurance
and gratification among the business
men of the city as to the future pos
sibilities of administrative security
and economic regulation; and the far-
ther the matter goes the greater mat
sense of civic ease is apparent
It is idle to assert, or attempt to
confirm, the qualities that beget this
confidence; every man in this section
knows what is meant when he is
spoken of as the highest type of a
businessman, and whar those gifts
will mean to the city ye be given
a council that will stand with him in
the conduct of the policies he will in
troduce and assist in their applica
tion.
Commanding the wide interest Mr.
Elmore does in this city and country
tributary, no man need look for any
thing but wise and careful govern
ment, always with the good of the
city foremost in the calculations and
motives that shall inspire ; his acts.
The suggestion of his candidacy has
already cleared the atmosphere to a
point where nothing is needed but
his election to obliterate every
doubt and dubious element in the
civic problem; and this, without ref
erence to politics in any direction.
Mr. Elmore has already been ap
prised of the direct concern of at
least 00 of the leading men of mer
cantile and professional standing in
this ' community, by petition and
personal declaration, and this group
is strongly representative of the
business and property interests over
which he will preside if he permits
the matter to come to a happy issue.
"HOBSON'S CHOICE."
Richard Pearson Hobson, Alabama
Congressman, Democrat, par excel
lance, and paid orator for the Demo
cratic National Committee in the
JVest and Northwest, enjoys the
peculiar distinction of being able to
entertain all manner of men with
political addresses in which, at no
point, does he name William Jen
nings Bryan nor his running mate,
John W. Kern. It, is another, and
vivid, case of "Hobson's Choice";
but one that needs explanation, and
which, he does not seek to explain,
even inferentiallyr ; He alludes infer
entially, however, to the;, two gentle
men, at the head of his ticket, and
only in that manner, .Judge Taft he
names constantly -and respectfully.
It is strikingly1 evident' to the
analytical mind that while the vali
ant captain is a ardent Democrat,
Bryan and Kern are not his "choices"
for the great offices they are out for;
a conclusion which makes his public
appearance as a party, and partisan,
pleader, radically incongruous.
'JQje Republican who would dare to
do this thing would be hailed from
the stump in a flash, either by an
expressed and instant resentment at
the hands of his first audience, or at
the quick command of his National
Committee. No such anomaly would
be permitted for a moment in the
Republican field, and the woder is
that the wise men at the head of the
Bryan campaign will stand for it.
Local Democrats are busy as bees
trying to account for the uncommon
and pronounced laches, and are hav
ing a hard time of it. They endeavor
to charge it up to a whimsical spirit,
to unintentional oversight, to mere
inadvertance, to anything on earth
but definite and deliberate purpose;
but the unprejudiced public is not to
be put off, with vaporings and non
essentials in so raw a case, and in
sists that Captain Hobson's choice in
this great issue lies widely remote
fro mthe men he is supposed to be
supporting. It is a matter pregnant
with cause for thought, and all As
toria is thinking of it, as are certain
other Oregon communities.
Great Publlo Improvements.
All the way from South Africa come
J. S. Schoeman and Mrs. Schoeman to
study for the benefit of their own coun-
of
the United States. They
find tn progress here the greatest work
of reclamation and Irrigation ever un
dertaken by any government In ancient
or modern times. It Is a work which
President ' Roosevelt has Justly said
comes next to the homestead act In its
Importance to the American people.
Sixteen states and territories are bene
fitted by this tremendous Improvement,
and thousands of families have found
ed homes on. the lands already re
deemed from the desert
Great and beneficent as this work
Is, It is but a feature of the general
policy of Republican administrations
from the period of reconstruction and
especially within the past twelve years
to do the best possible for all the
people and for all sections of the Union
to make the United States, east
west north and south, a country worth
living in, and to develop to the utmost
the resources of the soil, of the forest
of the mines and waters of every re
gion within the bounds of the republic.
The present political campaign will
decide whether this policy la to con
tinue, whether the nation Is to go
ahead or to . halt whether we are to
have progress and prosperity under
Taft or reaction and ruin under Bryan.
The very . platform en; which-Bryan
stands and by the language of which
he has repeatedly declared himself to
be bound denounces Republican ex
penditures in general, including those
for irrigation, as "unnecessary and
wasteful." Bryan, If elected, would be
as much bound by the platform as he
is in the campaign, and this mighty
undertaking, by which arid portions
of sixteen states and territories are
being converted into thrifty farms,
would undoubtedly suffer'.
The people of those states and terri
tories are not the only parties interest
ed in preventing such a calamity as
stoppage or delay In the work of recla
mation. ' Every patriotic and broad
minded voter in the United States
ought to be and will be influenced in
his attitude toward the presidential
contest by a determination that not
only the reclamation service, but every
other great scheme of national better
ment begun and carried on under Re
publican administrations, shall con
tinue and that the work shall not be
banded over to the avowed enemies of
progress. A vote for Taft and Sher
man will be a vote for the earnest
Mir
prosecution not only of the task of re
deeming arid landsi but ot every" pub
lic Improvement directed by ' federal
authority. h
i ' Saved His Boy's Life
"My-three year old boy was badly
constipated, had a high fever and
was in an awful condition. I gave
him two dozens of Foley's Orino
Laxative and the next ;raorning the
fever was gone and he was entirely
well. Foley's Orino Laxative saved
nis life." A. Wolkush, Casimer, Wis.
T. F. Laurin, Owl Drug Store.
COFFEE,
and tea; Schilling's Best,
is sold by about 9000
grocers west of the Rocky
Mountains. ,
Your rrocer return! roar Boner If roa don't
Ilk It: pr hni. '
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BAE INGRATITUDE.
Young Chicago German Forges
Name Of His Benefactor.
CHICAGO, Oct.', 23.-Charged
with victimizing a friendly employ
er who had given him expense money
so he could complete his education
in the English language, Frederick
Gijsen, graduate of a German Uni
versity and son of a Belgian army of
ficer, was arrested for forgery in'
Chicago yesterday. He was indicted
later by the grand jury. Gijsen is ac
cuesd of forging the name of E. A.
Bean, vice-president of the New
Prague, Flour Mills Company, New
Prague, Minn., a check for $500
which he cashed at the First Nation
al Bank Tuesday. ;
Gijsen came here from his native
country four months ago and went to
New Prague with letters tf recorn
mendattion to Bean who hired him
as a private secretary oecause re
could speak several languages. When
Bean sent Gijsen to St. Paul, Minn;,
Saturday, to master the English lan
guage thoroughly he gave the man
$40 to pay his preliminary expenses.
Before Gijsen left it is alleged he
stole several checks from Bean's
checkbook and instead of going to
St. Paul, came to Chicago. Knowing
Bean had an account at the .First
National Bank, Gijsen went there
and presented for payment a check
for $500, to which Bean's name is
said, to have been forged. He was
given the money. j?. ' ! , ' J .'
Last night Gijsen told about his
parents in the fatherland. He sa'd
his father was a respected citizen of
Aalm in Belgium and for more than
20 years was an officer !n the Bel
gian army and is now pensioned,
said the prisoner.
RAILWAY ATTACHED.
Popular Eastern Line Attached For
A Paltry $18,000.
NEW YORK, Oct 231 n . an ef;
fort "to collect a judgment for $18,
000 anainst the New York, New Ha
ven & Hartford Railroad. Depuy
Sheriff Burns yesterday attempted (to
attach the entire railroad. The de
uty went to the offices of the 'rail
rail and served the attachment,
1r.aurer Thomas F. Paradise, an
nouncing tha he would levy on O'e
office fnrniture.
: Being told that the furniture would
n.t ci ver the amount he stated chat
he would levy on the railroad. Hs
then left the treasurer's office with
the intention of attaching one of tin
trains standing ready to leave the sta
tion While officers were explaining
to him that the rolling stock of the
road was aH mortgaged, and there
fore could not be attached, the road's
attorneys secured a stay of execution
itrm the Supreme Court. The judg
ment represents a verdict of $17,500
'costs obtained by William Car
roll,, whose legs were cut off while
he was repairing a car in the com
pany's yeards.
RACES TO INTER-MARRY.
Former Chicago University Profes
sor States Philosophic Ideas.
KANSAS CITY, Mo Oct, 2.1.
Professor Charles Zueblin, former-
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A HOPELESS TASK
ly of Chicago University, lectured at
Central High school on "Fraternity,"
last night He was strong in his de
nunciation of the treatment accordei
the negroes by the "So-called Anglo
Saxon race, ' whatever that is." It
was the professor's belief that this
life is a game of give and take; that
each person should give what he ca
to his fellows and take all he can
from them in return. :." "
"The wise man knows no boun
dary line of convention or prejudi
ces," he said. "It. is Jlke standing on
the top of a great high mountain.
All around him one can see the hun
dreds of people, pygmies, but he can
tel! no difference in their color, their
size, their beliefs or their political
..... ...
standing. He takes what he can from
them as a whole and as individuals,
and so again broadens his own life."
The Professor declared that en
lightenment of the world would not
reach its highest stages until the
whites, blacks, red men, yellow men
and brown men had 'all swept away
the bonds of racial prejudice and be
come reconciled on the same social
plane with one another. On. of the
things necessary to this advance
ment is the intermarriage of the ra
ces. ' '
SERVING THE COUNTRY.
New York Boys Choose The Differ-
ent Branches of Service. ?
NEW YORK, Oct.T3.-That 1,272
boys and young men who last 'year
sought the aid of the Children's Aid
Socjety 'afterwards .enlisted n( the
United States forces, 'either the army,
the: navy or the marine corps, is the
statement made by C. Loring Brace,
the secretary of the Society. Most of
those enlisting were boys and young
men who at various times were cared
for in the Newsboys Home. Her
bert Van Dyke, employment agent of
the sociey, has during his 2$ years of
service, inducted thousands of young
men who seemed of little us in. other
walks of life to enlist.. He Jooks u?
the record of the young men and se
cures the consent of their parents or
guardians where there are any, and
where there are not has himself ap
pointed special guardian, of any of
his boys who wish to enlist. During
his service with the' society he ha
been so appointed guardian of more
than 5000 boys who have enlisted.
Mr. Van Dyke takes pride' in the
statement "that of this entire number
not more than 10 have been represen
ted to him as having desterted from
from the service. '
KING OF THE GYPSIES.
Bands Of Rovers And Goor-For-Naughts
Are Gathering.
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 2.3-"King" Joe
Adams and -his band of roving gyp
sies expect to spend the winter in
St. Louis County and perfect the or
ganization of" the. National Gypsy
Association of America, with St.
Louis as general headquarters. The
chief and five- families arrived yes
terday from Dubuque. '
' These are merely the advance
guard, according to Adams. Two or
three hundred more families will ar
rive from the ' four corners of the
earth to make' quarters here.' As soon
AHEAD.
as all the tribes arrive, the annual
conference and governmental cere
monies will be held. Several marriag
es arc scheduled before the tribe
breaks camp again.
An application filed at Clayton,
March 5, for a pro forma decree of
Incorporation will be pushed as soon
as the gypsies get settled. If, the de
cree Is granted, Joe jAdams-wilj be
clothed with more power over his
people than the; head of a monarchy
COAL FOR FLEET.
AMOV. Oct. 23.-The coll'er Man
shan Jas I 'arrived here with coal for
tHe: American baUleships and will
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await the arrival of-rthe fleet.
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: Elaborate Production
Cohan Songs, Cohan Boys, Cohan
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, The Cohan Songs Hkt Tm
Popular Man," "Make a It of
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neath the Sun," "The Mysterious
Maid," "'Don't Go In the Water,
Daughter," "San Francisco It My
Home," "An Old Fashioned Walk."
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the Bisque Baby Ballet.
Prices Evenings, 25c to $1.50. Ma
tinees. 25c to $1.00.
' Mall orders filled flow.
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