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l -1- f : THE OREGON iAILTT JOURNAi; PORTLAXD, TUESDAY ! EVENrG, .MAY 20 1903.' : , jj THE ORjEGON jflL r BY Tr ; - DAILY JOURNAL' ' JACKSON EDITORjIcylL GOoMcTWENT l4ND TlrTWELY TOPICS Jtoutmal JOURNAL PUBLISHING g COMPANY, Proprietors. 'Addressi THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, Fifth and Yamhill 8ts Portland, Or. CITY OFFICIAL PAPER. AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Entered at the Postofflce of Portland, Oregon, for transmission through the malls as econd-class matter. Postage for single copies For an 8, lfr. or 12-page paper, 1 cent; 16 to 28 pages, 2 cents; over 2$ pages, 3 cents. .,., TEUEPHOINESi Business Office Ortgon, Main 600; Columbia, 705. -Editorial Rooms Oregon Main 250. SUBSCRIPTION RATES S Terms by Carrier. The Dally Journal,, one year ... $500 The Daily Journal, six month 2.60 The Daily Journal, three months ..... 1.80 The Dally Journal, by the week ....... Terms by Mail. The Dally Journal, by mall, one year.. 14.00 The Dally Journal, by mall, six months. 2.25 The Daily Journal, by mall, three months 1.2& The Dally Journal, by mall, one month. .60 The 8emi-WeeWly Journal. The Semi-Weekly Journal, eight to twelve pages each issue, all the news and full market reports, one yecr $1.50. hou1d be made by drafts, postal notes, express orders and amounts axe acceptable In one and two-cent. postage stamps. THE JOURNAL, P. O. Box 121. Portland. Oregon The Weekly Journal. The Weekly Journal, 100 columns of read ing each Issue, Illustrated, full market re ports, one year, $1.00. small . ' IWe should give bad boys the best opportunity for home reformation, before we hurry them off to the reform school. We often forget that mischeviousness can be ' checked and turned aside before It blossoms into crime by the exercise of a very little tact, kindness and humane treatment All boys who commit acts of rowydism are ' aot bad boys at heart, and almost every one of the inmates of reform schools tan . be turned into good American cititens by just dealing. They need training, not punishment Judge William Brown. -i GIVE THE DETAILS. - After the politicians had hounded Presl dent Roosevelt and for party reasons, as eX' plained by the Morning Oregonlan, the Presl ; int hnfl asked Blneer Hermann to ride with him from Salem to Portland, the Her ' mann- papers are strangely silent concerning the exact manner in which President Roose- velt evinced personal friendship for the ex Commissioner tf the Land Office. , '" The eye of? the people of Oregon were on ' that affair. They were scrutinizing the de- tails of the event carefully, searching for " knowledge of how Mr. Roosevelt would prove to the people his exceeding great love for the man whonVhe had forced to resign from an important office. The Journal suggests to the newspapers that are supporting Hermann that they u missed opportunity for . a very advantageous play in the interest of their candidate, In - that they did not describe in detail Just how Mr. Roosevelt greeted Mr. Hermann, if, in . deed, the President greeted hint at all, be yond the common courtesy extended to sev eral scores of other citizens. It transpires that Mr.' Roosevelt really did :'not offer any verbal 'proof of his alleged friendship for Hermann; that the invitation i was secured through" the importunity of - Senator-Mitchell, who Induced Mr. Roose velt to Instruct his private secretary, William Loeb, to ask Mr. Hermann 1o ride with him from the state capital to the state metropolis, r-lt also transpires that Mr. Hermann exhlb- Ked no; small degree of that which slang ' users., are' prone to denominate "gall," and -!-waa .ubiquitous and disposed to presume upon the good nature of the President '"'All1 of which causes one to deplore that olitics and desire for public office so cfulls the sense of fitness and destroya modesty. MURDER IN THE NAME OF SPORT. Nineteen persons- killed or injured is the " recod of the Paris-Madrid automobile race. No'rfouleT blot upon, the name of sport has been , recorded In a generation. The cable- grams indicate that the race was conducted t with an -utter-indifference to human life, and v had the authorities permitted it to continue V the list of casualties would have been even "more shocking than it is. ' Six persons, one of them a poor peasant, woman, were killed outright, and three others were so dangerously wounded that i they are not expected to recover. The 10 a persons who were injured were maimed and i mangled in almost every conceivable way; broken 'bones, crushed skulls, amputated limbs make up the grisly record. The .victims W.ere not alone the partici pants in the race. A niimbcr of them were on-lookers or passers by, who were mangled ". or killed in the mad ride. The speed at tained by the automobiles was frequently 75 miles an hour and escape' wis almost im possible for the unfortunate found- in -their path. Such butchery an this la a disgrace to civ- ijizatidn. Many of the Eastern "states have passed rigid, laws regulating the speed of automobiles, and the need of such legisla tion has been sternly emphasized by the tid ings of this horrible .tragedy in France. . When the 'automobile becomes a Car of Jug gernaut it is time for the law to interfere. HERMANN AND HIS RECORD. - Dinger Hermann's campaign in the First Congressional District is essentially a cam paign or misrepresentation. His pretenses that he hiis, accomplished much for the dis trict in the past . and his promises for the future'are alike without foundation The attention of the voters of the Firsi. District is- one more called to these facts, which cannot be disputed; . 1'." Binger Hermann's claims that he hae JjeejBl largely instrumental in sec uring; past vate citizen of the district. He la parading before the voters In borrowed plumes and the shallow pretense that his Influence at Washington was instrumental in obtaining appropriations is belled by bis whole record at the national capital. 2. Mr. Hermann Is the subservient tool of the timber grabbing corporations. He owed his nomination directly to them, and he re lies upon their powerful Influence to elect him. His whole public record sustains the assertion that he Is owned and controlled by these Interests. (. The recent order of the government that no new surveys of timber lands shall be made is the direct result of Binger Her mann's mismanagement of the land office during his term as land commissioner, and the effect of this order has been to deprive hundreds of persons, who had squatted upon unsurveyed lands in the hope of getting In ahead of the timber grabbing corporations, of all chance of securing claims. Nowhere In the district is this better illustrated than in Coos County, the greater portion of whose wealth is in its timber lands.- A very large part of the timber lands of Coos County has already been seized by a few corporations, and settlers who had hoped to gain title to the lands upon which they have squatted And their hopes destroyed. That this is so Is the direct and Indisputable consequence of the methods pursued by Mr. Hermann while he was land commissioner. 4. The records of the Roseburg land office prove that while in that office Mr. Hermann entered a large quantity of public lands for himself, contrary to the explicit provisions of the federal law. No grosser breach of trust and of the duties of his office could have been committed. Such betrayal of the inter- estsejof the people should forever disqualify him from again seeking to represent them in any capacity whatever. These are the counts of the Indictment against Binger Hermann. They have been published repeatedly by Republican as well as Democratic papers. If Mr. Hermann is unjustly accused why has he never sought the redress which th'e courts afford? Long before he entered upon his present candidacy for Congress he- was repeatedly accused by the press of his own party of flagrant mal feasance in office, yet he has never attempted to vindicate himself. The charges against Binger Hermann stand virtually confessed. The voters of the First District have the opportunity to send to Washington a repre-' sentative whose .reputation is unsmlrched, whose first allegiance will be to the people and not to the corporations. A. E. Reames stands unequivocally for the rights of the people. He is pledged to use his utmost en deavors for the improvement of the rivers and harbors of the district, and his past rec ord shows that If elected he will be an untir- ng worker to this end. If every voter in the district who desires to see Mr. Reames elected will go ta the polls on election day, his victory is assured. Every day atWssesnma1cea,"n'ls prospects brighter and Binger Hermann chief hope is that the oters will stay away from the polls. This is the opportunity to redeem the great timber districts from the clutch of the corporations. Every vote cast for Mr.; Rearm.! makes this redemption more prob-' able. No honest citizen who has at heart the welfare of tTte "state und the district can af ford to stay7 away from the polls. appropriations for thiJmprovement of rivers .. : and harbors in the district are absolutely un . ; true. The credit for these appropriations V belongs to others. ' Oregon's Senators ana Representatives have labored earnestly to -- secure-, theserfcxpenditnreik iyine Anions! government, and Mr. Hermann has had no4 more to do with them than the humblest prl THE COUNTRY OF OVER THERE. There re strains of a sweeter song, little girl, Than hearty of this land can bear. There are delicate whispers and fleeting feet And gay. bright laughing at pleasures fleet; Where nothing but sorrow's wrong, little girl. In -that country, Over There. But no one can tell you the way, little girl, To that land so dear and fair; - It glows In the sunset pools of light It shines in the starry clouds at night. And only your dreams can stray, little girl, To the country of Over There. Josephine Dodge Daskam, "What you need," the doctor told 'him, "Is more sleep." ' - . "I a know it," said the haggard man, "but hor.- am I going to get It? -There's a baby,6n thcooii above us-that's cutting teeth and -4 family with a phonograph on the floor below us'-'-Chicago Tribune. THE FIELD OF NATIONAL POLITICS The Hon. John T. Morgan has evidently recovered from his despondency over the ratification of the Panama canal treaty and takes a hopeful view of the political situa tion from a Democratic standpoint says the Washington Times. He expresses no pref erence for candidates, but suggests that If the rlht sort of a platform Is framed the man to stand upon it will not be hard to And. If a few more Democrats would look at the matter in this light, the task of harmonizing the discordant factions might be made less difficult. Just now all the talk Is regarding the man, while little is said eoncerning the Issues and the principles for which the party will contend in the next campaign. The work or selecting the proper nominee might be greatly simplified if the Democrats would get together.in a general way and reach some conclusion as to what, they stand for. With Roosevelt as the Republican nprnlnee and an expression against trusts in the platform of his party, and the "Iowa idea'' as to u revision of the "tariff made a part of Its declaration of principles, the Democrats may find at the next national, convention that they have more trouble in selecting a paramount issue than in choosing a nominee. Zr' ' '.''- ' ""' Senator Morgan has thlsto say as, to platform and candidates: "I am not thinking so much, about the man w ho will be nominated as I am about the platform. If the Democrats will adopt a sound platform and nominate a good man we will carry the country next year. .1 do not rn re to call names or discuss Individuals, but I will say that the Democratic party is well supplied with material.. The first thing to do, however, Is to frame a sound, conservative platform, then the man will come to the front When we get the platform containing the right stuff the man will appear. Personally I am not concerning myself as to what part of the country the nominee comes from. We have the timber. ' "Roosevelt will, be nominated by the Republicans, but the Democrats can defeat him if they will only put forthTthe right kind of platform. There will be no trouble about finding our nominee if we have the platform fr him." "For the present," says Governor Odell, "I have no desire to be considered for any other post than 'Governor of New York' That was a qualifying expression on the part of the Governor, when some one suggests to him that he might be made chairman of the next Republican committee to conduct the Roosevelt campaign for the Presidency In 1904. For the future, Governor Odell does not say what he might be induced to con sider, but his remark about the present is quite significant. It indicates, as has been heretofore observed, that he hap lofty ambitions. In fact, the Governor entertains the belief that In 1908 he will have grown to Presidential size. Perhaps he thinks he .has reached the proper dimensions now, but that the time for him is not opportune. He hopes to follow the course of Roosevelt from the Governor's mansion to the White House, leaping the Vice-Presidential hurdle. In order to keep himself before the public eye he desires to be a candidate to succeed himself as Governor next year, despite the fact that a third term is contrary to precedent In the Empire State. Thus, '"for the pres ent" Odell is content to be governor. "For the future" he hopes that the Presidency is In' store for him. The Hon. William Alden Smith is said to be leering wistfully tovyard the United States Senate with his eyes upon the seat now held by the Hon. Russell A. Alger. Four years must elapse before the term pf Senator Alger expires, but there is nothing like' getting an early start. It is reported that Senator Burrows looks with high favor upon the prospect of having the -present reprewc-ntstlve from Grand Rapids as his col league In the Senate, Without any disparagement to the Junior Senator from the Wol verine State, It may be stated that Michigan contains no better Senatorial timber than the Hon. William Alden Smith. He is one of the ablest men In the state. From a small beginning he has worked himself up to a high position In the political affairs of the state, and has made a most commendable record In Congress. . Michigan could do no better than to send him to the Senate. - v , Ten thousand Pennsylvania Democrats have signed a sort of petition praying for the renominatlon of ex-President Cleveland. Coming from a state which Is so overwhelm ingly Republican their prayer is not likely to have as much effect-as if the signers were able to cast their votes in some state wher the result is more in doubt. Their mem orial will doubtless get no further-than the Inside pocket of the Hon. James M. Guffey, national committeeman for Pennsylvania, to whom it Is to bo referred. AN INDEPENDENT ARTIST. Franz von Lenbach, the great portrait painter, who has Just, recovered from a severe Illness, has been described as a "painter of kings, but not a. king's painter," and, indeed, it IS said of htm that many as are the commissions which he has executed for royalty he has refused as many more. The Son of a small builder, Herr Lenbach made his own way in life, and at an early age achieved a success that opened for him a way into the heart of fashionable society. His success, however, did not spoil him, and he has always remained a hard and enthusiastic worker. "My price for a portrait," he once said, "may be anything from 50,000 marks, which I may ask, down to 5,000 marks, which I may pay for the chance of painting an Interesting head." New York Dally News. WHAT THE St ATE PRESS HAS TO ; SAY OF: REAMES AND HERMANN ... ' j w v. - -.." - - i . . , Something About the Nominee. ' ' Regardless of party his hearers are pleased Harrlsburg' Bulletin: A. E. Reames, the with his fair statement of facts and reason Democratic nominee for Congress is the able arguments. His campaign Is aggres First Congressional District, was ' born In sive.;He has nothing to defend. His record Jacksonville,' Or, In 1862. . He comes from 1" a clean one, and this makes his audiences Southern stock, his father, Thomas O, appreciate what he has to say. He doesn't 'Reames, having comd to Oregon frOrn Ken- have to make misstatements in order to have tucky In the pioneer days of 1852, and his material to present". He is the kind of a man mother is a native of Missouri. ;. ' ' we need at Washington and like" our Gov Evan Reames received his primary educa- ernor, if elected, will fill the bill according to tion In the public schools of Jacksonville, program. Vnd then attended the University of the Pa cific at San Jose, Cal. Later he was a stud- Startling Charges Made, ent n.t tne university or ureaon. uerore ennrf.M xr-. a completing nis course at uregons leaaing have been made amlnut TTnn. Rinr w, js-l i a . tr u 1 eaucauonai .institution,, w. .nin went yto mann, candidate tor Congress, which at this Lexington, Va.. and entered the law depart- date have not been denied by Mri Hermann ment of Washington and Lee University, or any ot his campaign, managers. He is While there Reamea won the debater's medal, aqcused of obtaining title to 8,000 acres of He graduated from the law department of iand jn Douglas County when he wu re- the Virginia Institution in 1890, and immed- cejVer at Roseburgsome 30 years ago. and lately returned to Jacksonville for the prac- for whjch offense he was discharged by tlce of his profession. However. Mr. Reames President Grant. The Democrats, or some remained In Jacksonville but a short time, Interested parties, have procured an affidavit when he formed; partnership with E. R. from the receiver of the Roseburg land of- Sklpworth iffEugene. This lasted until flce, which gives the description of the lands 1892, when Reames moved to Portland ana that Mr. Hermann acquired at that time, associated himself with C. M. Idleman in the About all the prominent Republican speakers practice of law. In 1896 Reames returned to of the whole state will make speeches for Jacksonville, where for a time he practiced Mr. Hermann In this district With four or law in partnership with William M. Colvig, flve thousand Republican majority, wilf It wnicn partnership was aissoivea a sport take all of these too? time ago. He Is now State s Attorney of the First Judicial District of Oregon. A. E. Reames married Miss Edith Tongue in 1896. Mr. Reames was for three years president of the Oregon Native Sons' Cabin of Jacksonville, and for one year held the office of grand president of the Native Sons of Oregon. He is a Shriner in the Masonic order, and belongs to the Red Men and the B. P. O. Elks. . A Hermann Paper Alleges. Eugene Register: Secretary Hitchcock Is a great friend of the railroads, and believes in allowing them to locate thousands of acres of timber lands with worthless script, shutting out bona fide settlers. This is the rankest Injustice yet perpetrated upon the vantage. people, one that Hermann did not endorse, and, because he did not stand in, was not needed In the general land office. The time is coming when 'murder will -out' Dare Not Meet Him. Polk County Itemlser: Just before Mr, Hermann and Reames, candidates for Con gress, were ready to open their canvass, th' Democratic candidate politely offered to make a Joint canvass, but Mr. Hermann said his arrangements were already made and could not be changed. Then Mr. Reames offered to accept any of the dates and places already fixed by Hermann, to se cure a Joint debate, but tkat too, was re fused. Evidently the Republican candidate does not Want to face his record and squarely answer questions concerning It One whose political record is clean would be glad to have it aired because it would be to his ad-' r. Id d The Marquise of Anglesey was' visiting an orphan home In Sweden a few month3 ago, when suddenly a little girl laid hold upon him and addressed him as "daddy." Without hesitation he accepted the situation invented by-the infant, prevailed upon the authorities to let him adopt her and there she' is at Anglesey castle. Utterance Was Before Booth .Became Editor. Eugene Guard: The foregoing excerpt from the Register of recent date shows how the Hermann supporters have been forward ing the Interests of their candidate at the expense of Impeaching one of the members of the cabinet of President Roosevelt. Here 1b a direct charge against an official whom -President Roosevelt retained in his cabinet when It came to an Issue between Mr. Hermann and Mr. Hitchcock, upon the direct question as to the Integrity of official acts. The Register printed this assertion be fore Its utterances had been taken over to be directed by others vvho are conducting Hermann's campaign. Later, the Register and other Hermann sheets have attempted to show that it was only slight differences between Hitchcock and Hermann as to de tails and policy. But the record stares these Hermann papers in the face, in black, in- effacable type. Is the Register right ? Does President Roosevelt retain in his, cabinet a member Is Hermann in -the Mire?. Oregon State Journal, Eugene: Senatot Fulton has promised Mr. Hermann that if he needs him he will come over and help him out of the mire. a" Hermann AfraM of That Report. Oregon City Courier: Hermanns sup porters insist upon the observance of the rule of the Interior . Department, whereunder special Investigating reports are kept secret and confidential. Hence, the text of Special Agent A. R. Green's report filed last year with Secretary Hitchcock, relating to Mr. Hermann's administration of the land office, cannot be given to the world. If there is nothing In that special report that is discreditable to Mr. Hermann, then his own supporters themselves should bring it out and publish it broadcast. It will be most excellent material wherewith to refute allegations made against Mr. Hermann's ef ficiency or even integrity as Commissioner of thp General Land Office. FATHER COLTON. THE NEW CATHOLIC BISHOP iwiinmmwmiwvivn.j.jmvitvi. .uihiiiiiuhi.u uupehui ..iJtmiwimu j.,.....t .... mmt" I i . K ; ', - 4 v rJ I v- 1 - v' ! , r A AMTx w I I ' r. v,;. J III V S ' Is P 1 : I - . .,;;;v.f,, .Kr'.'-.- ."VI f -..II . . . . o "; imMTTTrTT T II I Mill ! I II I - .T I I Binger, as Usual, Promises. North Yamhill Record: It is reported that at Ashland, Or., May 11, Binger Hermann In claims of the "Hermann " people true ? Wiii j his address there made the assertion that if not a vote for Hermann be a vote to en- eiectea, ne wouia, tnrougn tne grace 01 tne who is a tool of the . railroads ? Are the dorse allegations such as the foregoing by the Eugene Register? Mitchell a Bad Prophet. Roseburg Dally Review: Senator Mitchell says Hermann will win by "4,000 votes." This statement recalls to mind the following tele gram sent to W. J. Furnish from Washing ton, D. C Tmnledlately after his nomination for Governor by the Republican convention at Portland: "I congratulate you upon your nomination; your election follow beyond a doubt. (Signed) John.H. Mitchell." Reames' Sentiments Are Western. f Albany Valley Record: His sentiments were distinctively Western and he was in fa vor of measures that would .increase the wealth, power and commerce, Influence and prestige of the Paciflo Coast. The markets of the Orient were aS good for the Pacific coming Speaker Cannon, of the national house, be appointed to a membership on the committee on river and harbors, and that he discussed many matters pertaining to the campaign, and disposed of questions relating to his dismissal from the general land office, 1 1 with these four lines-: "As to that land office matter, there were differences between me and the Secretary jof the Interior, as to the details of the admin istratlon." , There was no explanation beyond that brief sentence. The Portland Journal the same day said: "Mr. Hermann's expectation of appointment io the rivers and harbors committee will not materialise, as J. N. Wil liamson, Congressman from the Second Dis trict, as was stated the other day' in the Washington dispatches, has already filed for the appointment, and has been endorsed for the position by Senators Mitchell and Ful ton. This, as every one will admit, effec tually disposes of Mr. Hermann's chances Coast as the markets of Europe were to the manufacturers and Jobbers on the Atlantic for the place, and his claim now being made Coast and the true way to advance the Pa- throughout the district upon the basis of cific Coast interests was to attract the trade of the Orient which he is making fulsome promises to the voters, will be regarded as mere campaign dodges." J5ilmoi. CGVTQy.cfJduffilQ: Father Cc-Koh has ben chosen to fill the Buffalo diocese left- vacant by the call of MgrBlffejjlcjgoht new Bishop of. Buffalo Isamaa ofjnost ,1 . pleasing pergopality and., he is. une of the most populac and beloved priests In the - Roman Catholic .Church, Above is published his, latest photograph. . Clean Man Vigorous Campaign. McMinnville Telephone-Register: Hon. A. E. Reames, Democratic candidate for Con gress began his canvass at .Ashland Wednes day . evening. Mr. Reames is a clean young man and Is going to make a vigorous can vass. He will .speak at Newberg this Sat urday evening. """The Hoodoo-Red Button. Jacksonville T'mes: The Hermann man agers have adopted a brilliant red button labeled "Binger Hermann for Congress." The button is nearly Identical in appearance with buttons worn by the Furnish supporters last year. It wilt carry the same hoodoo. Is Geer Like the Red Button? . Salem Sentinel: ' Mr. Hermann may be beaten. Geer la going, to take the stump In his behalf. Why Didn't They Keep Him? . . Ashland Tribune:. If Mr. Hermann's ser vices at Washington were" necessary to the success of the present administration find the prosperity of the 1 country, there was a Has Confidence in,. the. PorI.' Corvallls Times: A large crowd of farm ers and voters listened while Hon. A. E. Reames discussed political issues at the, " court house Saturday afternoon. The clia acter of the address is full explanation ot why it is that Mr. Reames is so strong be fore the people in Southern Oregon. Those who heard It, liked the man and. his utter ances. He is not narrow contracted, but broad gauge. He spoke most kindly of. po litical opponents. No Republican - at the meeting had occasion to regret that he at tended. He heard compliments for the rank and file of his party. He heard sincere and earnest expreesionsTdf confidence In the peo ple as a mass. ' v ' ' ' - Mn; Reames discussed the tariff question briefly, favoring legislation to place trust goods on the free list, and quoting from the late Congressman Tongue in Justification of his position. His utterances were followed with closest attention, and were frequently applauded. fhe Impression he left was very favorable, both as a result of his address and among those he met In personal . conversa tion. -The reports from all parts of the .dls trlcKare most flattering, large blocks of Re chance to .keep him there, but those who .were responsible and had . the power to do so. pecans In many counties being attracted, aeciaeq to awptm.TOBflii .jm rvu to. hit 'uDDOrt ' by the suDerlorltv of his at- tatnments at tontrasteaRirthdse otW Doesn't 'Have- to Oefendrr" -JrroBflo,nent- There are many "who believe that Albany Democrat: Mr, Reames is making his prospects, of success are brighter than ail excellent Impression' upon bis campaign, are those of Mr, Hermann. y):.,'i':.::r",r1,- A 1 Jt