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VEDNESDAY, MARCH 18,
PORTLAND, OREGON.
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,TH E O R E G
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6 g. JACKSON
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i'pM mi rrraisc ept Sunaay), T Sunday nwcning M
j . THE MAYOR AS A POLITICIAN. " ,
OLITICIANS of a newer generation who. have
shied their castor in the ring in the, hop of cap
turing the Republican nomination for mayor
' would do well to keep a wary eye on tneir uncic, in
A 111 on. George H. Williams, present mayor of Portland.
: - The mayor is saying little; mainly he is allowing it to be
understood that he is in a receptive mood on the question
of the nomination but that he isn't losing any sleep over
:it Doubtless he Hsn't, but just the same he nas in
i ' augurated a quiet little campaign that is likely to prove
' effective when the poll are closed pn nomination day. ,
' So far things have been going well with him. . Some
; of those circulating his petitions have not met with quite
the favor they expected -in every'trirection.- But this has
, not in the least disheartened them. They have- gone
1 1 steadily forward and the petition which they 'will .finally
' . present will be sufficiently forceful to warrant the mayor
V";: 2 in announcing that lie is unable to resist the overwhelm
' " Jng demand of his admiring constituents and in response
Nto their demand he will consent once again- to be a can
- didate. If he enters the primaries he will have at his
-back a well organized force working with might and main
' toward a definite end. Every one of them. will know prei
Wisely what he 'is about and those who get a little be
; ; wildered will be put on the right track by the mayor him
" : setf who knows a thing or two about politics and who
; has the ability to apparently shrink from , assuming an
"i. honor which it is his highest desire to attain. v -V,
.There are many people in this town who would like to
' X . see the mayor renominated; some of them because thej
would profit by his reelection but,, we believe,many
-more who would like to fight out the campaign on the
'.strict line of the issues., which his administration has
raised. S Whether he . be" nominated or not there will
' ' nevertheless be the-issue, but with him in the., field as a
..candidate the issues would be more clear. cut and better
'-defined and would settle for all time to come the policy
.which a majority -of the people desire lo have pursued in
' Portland. '''.'.' , - ;:':': .'..". ,'-'.'.".' '.'; ; " .
','.. i. ' It would be well for the jejune politicians' to keep their
'eyes on Uncje George, for while he may be getting his
usual allotment ofsftep he is very active, without seem
" i Jng to be so, in his waking hours, and he is not oveflook
V "ing anything that will help along his campaign which is
anywhere within the- range-of vision. - -r---
' 1 THE GREATEST JAPANESE FIGHTER. : -
THE JAPANESE have several generals apparently
, of the first class, with Oyama at their head, but
; so far as the reports have yet disclosed their op
; eration. it seems that Nogi must be given the palm for
persistent, terrible Jighting. , The capture of supposedly
-:-4mpregnable-PoruArthurpIaced him high Jnthe rank
. of the world's great generals, but he has added vastly to
that fame in the approach to and capture of Mukden. 1JL
V'P'- It was a dark day fof Russia when the fall of Port
' 'Arthur released-Nogi and hit veterans to throw their
Y strength against Kuropatkin's army. .
patkin strike before Nogi could arrive?
ano Nogi camewoe. to Kuropatkm. , t .
. : Nogi inarched his army of Port Arthur veterans around
behind the screen of battle raised by Oku's attack on the
" , Russian right, and unexpectedly knocked an unwelcome,
fearful visitor t Mukden's gates. His battle-ground,
. whether unavoidable or chosen, was a bare plain ad by 7
' . ' miles in dimensions, and. he converted it into an inferno.-
As one correspondent says: "He sowed the
frozen soil with-shrapnelnl4urstjhtLlstfrtilized jt
V with melinite, lyddite and shimose, irrigated it with Rns--',
sian and Japanese blood, and mowed his crop with the
' scythe-like sweep of six-inch guns." '
The Russians who went to meet him were the crop.
. ' The divisions were gradually, reduced to brigades, the
brigades to regiments, regiments to companies, com
panies to dazed and forlorn squads. For six days and
nights Nogi's six-inch gun mowed do wnTih is crop of
humanity that opposed his visit. He clung there on that
patch of bare, frozen earth, advancing, gaining, here and
there, inch by inch for the city that lay behind it was
. . well defended in the fighting, if not in the ordering of the
'.battle.1 Finally Nogi progressed until hetovered with
his terrible guns the railroad that was Kuropatkin's line
of retreat, then cut and 4Jesfcroyed the railroad, and then
( Kuropatkin knew that he must leave Mukden and vi-
; ' cinity quickly, as best he could and the reports say that
-less than half his great army reached the temporary
:;;haveirofTiePass.i-- : T-rrrr:1 "
r"T7"Oyama' has 'other-great fighting generals Oku,"" who
r , . V , omrptzM. tmj tLurr ; :
M. E. J.. In Latter to New Tork Times.
') It Is easier to criticise than to under
- etand. Professor Osier's quoted and mla
' -quoted words have created a deeper dis
turbance than ha dreamed of when -he
addressed them to bis charmed hearers In
the Johns Hopkins university, and. while
. the pubttc ia agitated in various ways
' according to the news of different peo
ple, let us consider what manner of man
lie ia wtio voiced them. . ,,
.' As a .disciple of Dr. Osier, I may be
. permitted to suggest that none of his
1 immediate hearers misunderstood his re
. . marks about the limit age of active life.
' etc. Aa a man. he la one of the gentleat,
-. kindest and broadest: his love for and
understanding of children, his. tenter
, sympathy enth the aged and afflicted are
marked In a high degree, and endear
Mm to all who heard hla voice. It Ta a
' liberal education to be associated with
"'.him in any way. Hia charming fashion
of relieving the monotony of a lecture
.; with interesting and scholarly quotations
from biography and fiction, aa llluittrat
" Ing the views of other thinkers. Is highly
. appreciated by hla devoted students.
As a man and a teacher be. combines
ithat aweeteat reasonableness with a gen
tle, kindly humor, which precludes the
1 possibility of a harsh thought or one the
leaat Injurious to hla fellow-men. One
, listening to a talk or lecture from htm
' comes away always Instructed and re
freshed.
The eagerness with which the public
seised and tore to shrrds his reference
(. to Trollope's novel, "The Fixed Period,"
is but strong evidence of the bright and
shining, light that he. Dr. Osier, la.
. His disci Dies, those favored few who
have or who have had the privilege of
. bedside instruction in tba hospital from
him, can testify to the devotion ha In
spires. His simplest remarks are us-
: - tened to with' closest attention, for one
.loams more of real value In one half
liour with him that all the books' In the
library can teach. Hie clear-sighted ob.
, eervatlon, hla justice, hia noble self -for-
artfulnee. are truly Inspiring, hi im
presses one as a man who can neither
deceive nor be devotedi
It la said that a man without a strong
sense ef humor-la' nef wholly sane, . for
without ll he cannntrsee the true rela
- Hon or things In other words, he cannot
' iwreeive lot himself that between Ihe fu
- Mtwie knd the rldlcQloua there Is but I
single step. Dr. Osiers bumor la
- ON; DAIL Y J OURNAL
independent: newspaper ' -
PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING Ca
OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY OP PORTLAND
Summers differ;
oredicted: but 'there
clude that Portland
The climate will
and lavish here;
part .welL '.'. .
Why did not Kuro-
... Well, he did noL
have interesting
fore: :' . 1 '
pieaAanTJyomneownnnes7nes
that ha seeks the truth at all costs, but
It often robs it of Its hardness. When
he addresses an audience, large or small,
not one present . knows a dull or a
thoughtless moment. This la the man
who. la not aaaentood by people who
have read his remarks. A case In point-
have beard him harshly criticised (by
one who never saw him) for stating that
Johns Hopkins Hospital Medical school
had rather proved It a failure for girls
te study medicine, because two thirds of
them married before the completion of
the, course. Thla waa another bit of
pleasantry on the doetor'a part, who had
been noticeably kind and considerate to
the girl students.' - "
His playful remark waa understood by
tha audienre, as It waa explained at the
time that there were only three girl eta
dents there, and that two of them had
married before graduating. Tet hla crit
ics quoted him as having "condemned
the study of medicine for girls." How
wide of the markl
In passing. It may be remarked that
Dr. Osier's Innocent reference to' "fixed
period" ' will send many a curious mind
to search Mr. Trollope's novels. There
fore. It will be remembered, "T1s an ill
wind that blows nobody good." :--
Control ef liondon Vega. -
From Harper"a Weekly.
Sir Oliver Lodge haa been making ex
periments n England looking to the pre
vention of fogs In London one of which
recently cost the metropolis K.0OO.OOO.
The experiments are carried on by dis
charging currents of electricity Into the
fog. The experiments have been sue
cessful on a amall scale for example;
at the Birmingham college laboratory,
where a fog waa cleared for some d le
ts nre about tha building. The expert-
menta are aald, however, to be im-
practical on a large scale on account of
their expense. ; -
Balesa X-Bays. '
From the Salem Journal.
Driven to ' desperation by -the pro
grealve Portland Journal, the Evening
Telegram la going to Invest In' a barrel
of red Ink.
Of course, the Oregonian im't respon
sible for anything. It never la Jut
the asms. If tha people want to aecnm
plish any reform they have to get In and
get It, In spite of tba Oregonian and
so
without its help. '
im, P. CARROU.
Th Journal Building, Kllh YmbWO
swept over ground mines and through barb-wire fences
and drove the Russians from the fort-crowned slopes of
Nanshan heights; Nodzu, who carried the redoubts in
front of Liaoyang and was nof inactive at Mukden;
Kuroki, best known, who from the beginning has starred
and seared the Manchurian' landscape with the imple
ments of war all the way from the sea of Japan to Muk
den, and others. . But it looks mow as if the greatest
fighting, hero of the war is NogL-who "fought and tun
neled and blasted his way, almost inch by inch, into. Port
Arthur, who on the way destroyed a fleet of battleships,
and who turned the Russian flank on that frozen and
hurricane-swept plain west of Mukden.
What general, in so short a time, ever accomplished s6
much by actual darmg, desperate fighting as he? '.
; ; PORTLAND A SUMMER RESORT. -
EASTERNh rEOPLE, who remain in - Portland ; a
' . considerable length of time, next summer, will
discover, in all probability, that without counting
iji ihe. nearby ocean beaches and mountains, th.y city i a
summer resort superior to any that they have acquaint
ance with in the'eastern or central part of the country.
the weather of no one can be exactly
has never been one that was not a
climatic paradise beside any one experienced in any part
of the country east of the Rocky mountains. Hence if
we have an average summer easterners who stay long
enouirh to eniov a eood full sample ofit will rightly con
deserves wide notoriety as ihe best
summer resort city of the country. ".
Thia is so not only on account of the climate, but of
the site and its settings, and the more distant but visible
surroundings. Not only are trees abundant in most parts
of the city, but wooded hills, near and far, and distant
mountain peaks, white with untrod and whirlwind-tossed
shows, give this city a charm to eastern people such as
they can find nowhere else. - t. .l
..Add to this the Willamette cutting through' the. heart
of "the tlty, the unparalleled scenery of the Columbia be
tween here and Cascade Locks, and the ocean with all its
manifold, and mysterious, charms of surf and short only
five hours' ride-distant, and we may reasonably expect
thatihundreds-ofastern visitorwill -dedarethstwe
have not 6nly the finest summer' resort here and here
about, but the one constructed on the grandest scale, in
all the land, ;Jv...-..l--L..V-
be here, the scenery is here, the rich
soil is here, beautiful shrubs and flowers grow and bloom
in profusion and to perfection; nature has been liberal
now let the people of Portland do their
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i ROOSEVELT AND HIS PARTY.
THE TopekaXapitatconsiderrlr"certainthat Roose
: vtlt will have a stormy administration, and gives
Nobody. can fail to see arising feeling against him
in the conservative senate. The president's radical-
ism as surely turns the senate against him" as the ,
' trusts and combines of which the senate is looked -
.upon as more of leas closely representative. The .
. big financial powers will be hostile to the president ,
And they will do anything and everything to see xnat1
- he is succeeded by some "safe and sane" candidate of ;
. their own four years from now. On the other hand,
the masses of Republicans and many Democrats as
well as the former pops take to Roosereltism, be- '
' lieving in his principle of "the square. deal." He will
have a itormy voyage, but he must succeed in Tid
' ical policies or fail altogether. ,
This seems a reasonable forecast, as, far as It goes!
But what will the results be in 1908? If the senate and
the trusts and capitalistic combines continue to fight
Roosevelt, and he continues to be radical and becomes
even more so as there is plenty of room for -him to
become pwill the Republican party not probably be dis
rupted? And if the "safe and sane" element prevail and
nominate a man like Fairbanks, what will the Repub
licans who believe in "Rooseveltism" do if the Democrats
should nominate well, Bryan, for instance?.-And if a
Roosevelt Republican like La Follette should capture the
nomination, what would the "safe and. sane" Republicans
do? Might they not have power enough to wreck the
party with an independent ticket?
Much may happen in four years; politically 1908 is a
long way off yet; but it is at least probable that we shall
times in politics that year, and even be
: r-4
Oaf
From the London. Chronicle,
It la aaserted that in a certain Pres
byterian clab In the north there is a
printed notice which runs: "Members
are requested not to swear in the hear
ing of yoonaj caddies.' Thoae who can
not refrain from sweating should em
ploy old and experienced caddies." r And
the etory goes that tha parish minister
one day before going out for hla round
asked the ' councillors ' to ' suspend the
notice, as all the' old caddlea were en
gaged. And there is the other story of
the meenlater who, having taken three
Ineffectual strokes in a- bunker, mur
mured piteously that' he must "gle it
up." "Nonsense! 1 You mustn t give up
a good, game like this," him opponent
protested, encouragingly, whereupon tha
good man observed: "I was na thinking
or tne - game,- but' I muat gle up the
meenlstry." -
These reflections upon golfing speech
may not be true, but Jf they are they In.
dioate a general - tendency which must
place the ladlea at some disadvantage.
Quite lately the minister of a fashiona
ble church In Halifax. Nova Scotia, de
clared that Information had reached him
that women who go to church on Sun
day go to golf on Monday and "swear
like troopers. Here, Indeed, waa a
specific allegation of a terrible char
acter. -
. till FLU OX
SrFLOKA,
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From the Baltimore Herald,
Coeducation la receiving soma Jars In
these days. It haa become necessary to
put In force stringent regulations at tha
Stanford univeralty In California, tha
Chicago univeralty and in tha South Da
kota university kissing haa . Increased.
Bducators-have been unable te devise
any meana to eliminate Cupid in -any
school where the sexes are taught to
gether. It hap been claimed that In the
Univeralty -of Michigan, at Ann Arbor,
the pursuit of knowledge is. so absorb
ing that love la not recognised In tha
curriculum, but elopements from Michi
gan are not decreasing. The success of
'the little god depends somewhat on tha
looks of tha material he has to deal
with, but on gnidusttnn day it haa-generally
been found that ha haa mads aa
high mark aa tha majority who - get
ebetpaklna, -
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Small Cbange
Remember .Juns 1, and that time flit.
WhlU in jail Mra. Chadwiek will have
no motive for( fainting.
It la nearly tima for flarrlman to- get
the better or Hill again. .'', . ,
- Tea doa't hve to be an' Irishman to
join in the wearing of the green.
Let us Lent keepers be thankful that
there is no flab trust If there isn't.
' The poatofflce addition contractor is
entitled to the city a cordial approvat.
Nobody ouUlde of Colorado care
whether that atata has a governor or
not... - , .
- The beet Ui lngThat could happen to
the caar would be bie capture by .the
Japa. .... . '... .1, -, , . ; .
The Rusalan cabal .of grand dukes ia
nearl as unpopular aa the United States
aenatev ;,",.;..' '
Now will the FUlplnoe be geod?
Uncle Joe Cannon ia going over there,
and be ia alwaya loaded. ., ' ; '
.TA bill to encourage ' matrimony ia
pending 4n . the - Illinois legislature,
lioch -needed no auch law. ; .
Grand Duke Vladlmlr'f income la said
to be f is.ft00.040 a year. . Borne of eur
grand doosea can beat that. ,
3. H. Alexander aaya obataoles have
been put in the way of constrncUng aad
opening that market Evidently.
Oregon is finding out already that the
Lewis end Clark fair wUl not be for
Portland's benefit alone, nor principally.
The Penmylvanla legislature la hav
ing a long dlecaaalon over the Puhl btlL
Members ' don't understand . the orthog
raphy. ', J . i -. s-' . - .; ..... '
SemeUmes it rains down tar aoothern
California, but when It doea it alwaya
rains too much. No plaoe ao good aa
Oregon.' ' ". - .-r T"""j ' ".
At laat MonUrllla hopes it has rid
itself of -Captaia" Schneider and h la
saloon. The people out there have had
a long struggle. , -
Neldiinghaes ean't get into the sen
ate, but being av- tlnplate manufacturer
he will have lota of tin left, and will
be duly or rather unduly protected.
Jacob Kamm will erect a lltCMO
building In San Francisco, - He will let
his shacks oa First and Washington
streets in Portland, where he made -his
money, staixl awhile yet. least.
. Trust Attorney Beck, who left govern
ment service to become a Standard Oil
attorney,' saya: .'To me the most Im
pressive place in the world la Wall
street." No doubt it beats Pennsylvania
avenue. In point of salary, all hollow.
It la stated that the Drain normal
school will run Just the same, whether
the appropriation stands sr not. It
should be no great strain- on that com
munity to keep the school going it it Is
to turn out but two graduates a year.
It is Important that the Idea that ex
cessive rates are to be charged, for ac
commodations during the fair does not
get into general circulation, and ft la
also, important that it ahould not be
true, go that Portland papers can deny
It. -
Oregon Sidelights j
Tillamook people have waked
up.
School population of Klamath Falls
tit. gain of 6a. .
Crop prospect never better. Bars the
Brownsville Times. '
Pumping plants being establlahed In
the river near Spray.
The Albany Democrat man-appears to
be a basket-ball expert.
Too many thlnga proposed, one thing
at a time, says the Lake-view Herald.
- None of the many eagles shot 'meas
ure less than "seven feet irom tip to
Up."
I tThe Mavthfleld creamery paid Its
patrons 'as average of X cents a pound
iop better d'
Echo boys have organised a fire com
pany, are organising a baseball team
and will organise a braaa band.
' More correspondence' of Wasco News:
We warn tha girls to keep off the grass
this spring;. The ticks are unusually
plentiful, j-, . ' '
A Lakev1ewtaaa while spading In hla
garden bruised hia foot, blood . poison
ing aet in and ha la laid up. Moral
Never spade up a garden. . , lx
Vol. I. No, 1, Canyonvllle Echo-, ar
rived. Harriet - E.' Soo villa, proprietor.
Neat -and newsy. . There ahould be an
Echo In a village In a Douglas county
canyon. . . 7
A short time ago the only preacher In
Glendale left and last week the city
marshal -resigned and the News thlnka
that a town without a preacher or a
marshal must be a good one.
The Ashland TiibunS heads a news
story about the Yamhill county peti
tions for a referendum, ".na Call Of the
Wild." But If old Yamhill la wild, what
must some other parts of Oregon be?
A man named. Heads tream from Wta
consln. who has arrived In Klamath
Falls, aaya about It families from hla
section of the country, are coming to
Oregon thla summer a stream of which
he ia tha head. (
Klamath Falls - and Lakevlew papers
should quit running down each other's
county... They .are .both big enough and
resourceful enough to grow and . pros
per greatly, and anything that belpa one
will .help tha other. , . -
" Toledo Leader: : Not In years, so
stockmen tell us, haa grass In Lincoln
county been in such fine condition for
stock In March as it la right now.
Flowers and fruit ' trees are blooming
and vegetation of all kinds Is In the
"nooner" clsae. 1 ' ' '
A Lakerlew youngster invfted two of
Uhis friends to have an oyster stew at a
Chinese restaurant. They liked the
oysters, but the host had no money to
pay with, and so the Chinaman kept the
boy's hat, which If why ha goea around
bareheaded. But he may be a captain
ef industry yet . . -
Ttcy Ran For.
President '
Few names are ao fajnlllar to Ameri
cana . aa thoae of their presidents,
though probably-Hot on person, in 1,00
can name them in their, ordtt. or one in
10,000 the vice-presidents. . The defeated
candidates, with possibly the exception
of Aaron Burr, Henry Clay, Stephen A.
Douglas, Fremont, and McClellanv It one
goes no further than Lincoln's time are
quite forgotten. Yet the fame of the de
feated candidate has in at leaat one in
stance tong survived the memory of his
successful rival. Everybody has heard
of Henry Clay. Hla name la yet pne to
conjure with; but the Whig query of the
campaign of 1S44. "Who .la Jlmtny
Polk?" must be answered book in band.
When New York ratified the conirtl
tutton ltt Msti- the tfedemllsta-'tn the etty
flung out a great banner displaying the
faces of Washington and Hamilton, and
a mottos "Washington, the Nation's
Choice for President." No one else was
thought of in 17(0 or at the Second elec
tion In 1TI. Tet Washington waa the
object of bitter and scurrilous abuae
frofn his political opponenta. .
Though John Da was never a candi
date for president or vice-president. New
Jersey. Delaware and Virginia cast nine
votes for him In 1TS Connecticut five
in 176. and Rhode Island one In 1S00.
So. too, at the first election, votea were
east for George Clinton of New Tork.
John Hancock and Benjamin Lincoln of
Maaachuaetta, ' Samuel .Huntington of
Connecticut, John Rotledge of South
Carolina, John Milton, James Armstrong
and Edward Telfan of Georgia, and Rob
ert H. Harriaen of Maryland. Nearly all
of John Adams' competitors were vet
erana of the revolution, and Benjamin
Lincoln, a distant kinsman of a more
famous Lincoln, waa one of the four
ablest soldiers of the war. .
- The five candidates among whom the
vote was divided in 171 had a unique
political fate. Three of them. Washing
ton. Adams and Jetferson, became J rest
dent; and four became vice-president:
Adams, with Washington; Jefferson,
with Adams! Burr,, with Jefferson, the
first term, and George Clinton with htm
the second. It ia tha only instance ia
American history of all -the candldatea
reaching ultimate! or immediately first
or second Disc. - Burr missed the presi
dency almost by a alngle vote, and-CHwH
ton was re-elected vice-president in no a.
When the electoral vote was again
counted, on' February sV-XJI7. It was
found to have been distributed among
It candidates: Adams of Massachusetts
receiving 71; Jefferson, (I; Thomas
Plnckney of South Carolina," l, and
Aaron Burr of New Tork. to.- .
Charles C. Ptnkney was the federal
candidate again in ltot and 10S. but
the honor was supported, by only 14
electoral votea to 11 for Jefferson in
1104, and by 47-to III for Madison la
ltot. RufuB King received the same
number as did Plnckney at these two
election.
Few men of his generation, and fewer
In later times, declined so many and ao
great offlcea as dtd Plnckney. He waa
a Westminster boyf Tn London; a grad
uate of Chrlat college. Oxford, where ha
heard Sir William Blackstone lecture: a
Student of law at the Temple; a atudent
at tha Royal Military academy at Caen.
Hla speech In the federal convention
noon the general character of the "con
stitution required by such a country as
the United States places him, In 'the
Judgment of many eminent critics.
among tha foremost of American states
men. His reputed) seply to tne rrancn
directory. "Millions for defense, but not
one cent for tribute,", is known to every
schoolboy.
King was no lees famed. He was a
graduate, of Harvard- and served in the
old congress. Ha moved the adoption of
the famous . clause in the ordinance of
1717. forbidding alavery. He was prac
tically the author of the clause In tha
New York constitution of 1111, admit
ting free 'negroes to tha right to vote,
an innovation ef extraordinary. - oonae-
auences to the American people.
In 1111 occurred tba first eunooa in
stance of a greater number ef electoral
votea cast for the -jrice-prealdent" El'
bridge uerry, 1 tnan xor im presiocni.
James Madison. The federalists were
quite st sea, but a caucus In New York
City decided to support George Clinton
and Jared Ingereoll. De Witt Clinton
waa the caucus nominee of the New
York legislature. He was the first pres
idential candidate who, lacking tha sup
port of the majority ef hla own party,
the Democre.tle-ftepuDiioan. reiiea xor
his election on the votes of the discon
tented of all parties. He received tl
electoral votes. His name, though for
gotten in connection with tha preai-
deney. Is written forever across the state
iif Tlnir Tnrk, In lhat TSfft f""""T'?
terarlse of the first quarter of The lai
fentorr-Ote Erie canal. Ingers-oTtrtlki
Plnckney, had studied law at tne xempie,
In London.
The forgotten candidate In the second.
Adams camDaisn Is William H. Craw
ford of Georgia. Monroe's Secretary of
the treasury. Tha defeated candldatea
In IIS! were Adams snd Richard Rush.
Eleven veers later Jackson commis
sioned Rush to secure the bequest of
James Smlthson. President Polk . an
notated him minister to France.
In March. 1 Ml. the Democ ratio party
met for the first time In national conven
tion' at Baltimore. Eminent among the
delegatea were Sitae Wright, "who II
yeara later declined the nomination of
his nartv for vlce-nresident; John A.
nix. Simon Cameron. . prealdentlal can
dldata it yeara later before the Chicago
convention that nominated uncoin ana
William R. King of -Alabama, destined to
be chosen vice-president, to qualify for
that, office on English soli. and to die
just as he waa about to enter upon ita
duties. He was ths only man elected to
the vlce-preaideUCy who has not entsred
that office, ,-
Th Innovation of the anti-Masons, In
ltlt. In their Inauguration of the con
vention as a device for naming canai
natea. wss followed by all later parties.
They named William W1rt of Maryland
anil Amos Ellmaker of Pennsylvania aa
their candldatea. Wlrt'a fame aa a law
yer orsrbr and writer Is still undlmmed
It Is now quite forgotten that. In ltls,
when Van Burth and Johnson were
chosen, William "Henry Harrison re
ceived 71 electoral votea and fell behind
Van Buran onfy It.OO popular votea;
that Webster received 14 electoral votea
and Hugh L. White of Tennessee tt.
At Warsaw In November, ISSt, and
again at Albany tn April. 1140, the Lib-
erai party rnei in convention)
Inated Jamea O. Blrney of New Tork for
president. James Gillespie Blrney. whose
Initials and part of whose' 'nam were
recalled In later year by thoea of a
notable presidential candidates, Jamea
Gillespie Blaine, waa a graduate of
Princeton and a lawyer of ability.
The defeated candldatea In lS4t wer
Lewla Cass of Michigan and William O.
Butler of Kentucky, the Democratic
nominee, and Van Buren and Charles
Francis Artsms, the Free Soli candidates.
In the Whig convention, which assem
bled - at Philadelphia In June Of, ihst
year, est Rufua Choate, Oliver Am,
Henry Wilson, Rueaell Sag. John Bel..
John Sherman aad Schuyler Colfax, ef
whom Base alone survives. William ru
Seward. John Sergeant gnd Robert C
Wlnthrop received support aa candl..
dates for vice-president oa the first bal
lot, but Fillmore waa chosen on the
second. Pierce defeated Cass and Bu
chanan, ths only other candldatea tnal
showed- much atrengtn, ; -,-'."
V
. . f
,-JLetters
From tne People
A Orltioiam of the laAber Treat.
Portland. Or.. March Jt.-Te the edi
tor of The Journal There la one phase
of this strike situation now going oa
that the newspapers hate entirely over
looked, and of which the general public
seems 'to be totally ignorant, and that
la the manipulation of the lumber sup-
speaking, the lumber trust, uney era
pursuing the same tactics" that they did
two yeara ago, only thla time uvey are
a great deal more quiet apoui ic
Here are some of the facts:- Lst
Friday I visited between .71 ! and 190
huildlns-a in course ' of construction.
looking for work, and in every caae but
three waa told that they eould use more
carnenterglf thav eould get enough lum
bar. Now what does this roeani ii
means that If there waa lumber enough
delivered to the bulldlnga there would
be StO or 00 more men at work. It
alae that the more idle men there
are the leaa cnanc tne men nan v
wlnnina- their strike at the fair grounas,
Whether thla ahortage ef lumber la a
direct outcome of the atrlke. would be
hard to ' nrove. but ths fact remains
that they are both here. It will be re
membered that two years ago, when
asked -regarding the ahortage, at first
they made all kioda of excuses. One
dav it would be that the log supply was
short, next dsy there waa aa unusual
shipment by rail, again there were more
veaeels than usual in the harbor; but
final I v when It was handed up te mem
thev brasenly admitted that no, one could
get lumber unless tney wouia nire non
union men. Ana wnen anyone wen o
the City Retail Lumber company-s ernes
for lumber he was put through a sweat
bog by three members of tha Master
Builder' association, and if he didnt
promise to hire non-union men.h didn't
get sny lumber. That show the pa
triotism and clvle nride of the' lumber
trust; to tie up a whole city for the
nurnoaa of carrrlne? their earn selfish
ends. But w know that w. u. irenci
Is a nromlnent figure In the lumber
trast. and we alae know that he ia an
officer in the Cltlsen alliance, and
etrUnmu knows, or aneuia
know by this time, what the Cltlsen'
all lan oe stenes ror. -
W. E. WELLS, 410 Davis street,
or
Without halting, without rest, i
Lifting Better up to Beat;
Planting seeds of knowledge pure.
Through earth to ripen, through heaven
to endure, .. ' , JSmerson.
1 Because the rose must fade, '
Shall I not love the rose?
Because the summer ahade .
' Passes when winter blows, . ,
Shall I not feat me there
In the cool night alrT '
: , - .- (
Because the sunset sky ' ---';
Makes the moste In my sonl.
Only to fade and die,-
Shall . I not take the whole
Of beauty that It gives- ',".
While yat It lives? - i-r"
Richard Watson Glider.
,A
O, to be up and doing. O ' ' i.V
Unfeeling and unashamed to go
In all tha uproar and tha press ;.
About my' humant- business 1 -
My undlssusded heart I hear . ";.
Whisper courage to my ear.
Thou, O my love, O my menaa
The gist of life, the and or ends
To laugh, to love, to live, to die.
Ta call me by thear , anq
H Robert Louis Stevenson.
, "7.
These are
the gift I
Of thee. Spirit serene: ...
Strength for the dally task, '
Courage to face the road.
Good cheer to help ma bear ths traveler's
load.
And, for the hour of rest that com
between.
An Inward Joy In all thing heard and
These are the tn I fatll .
Would have thee take a ways .
Malice and cold disdain.
Hot sne-er. sullen hsta, "
Skwrn of the lowly, envy of tha great,
And - discontent - that easts a- shadow
On all the brightness of a common day.
, t cm VMM f
wumrB tobacco ajn a wsra.
... . ,
From tha Honklnavllle Kentucklan. -
Postmaster Bretahttt haa received the
followlne letter from a former Kentuck
tan, who now Uvea in Oregon. We pub
lish it to sssist ths writer 4n supplying
both of his wanta: . '
- "Krwin. Ore., feb. the t. llOs. Mr.
Post Masteri Will yo pleaae hand thla
note to some old tobaco raiser. I want
t dollar worth of home made tobaco
from old Kv. for ehewlng. I want as
old tobaco as there Is and as good.
want to pay what It Is woth. Would Ilk
if it was twisted. Whoever-gets this
not anaer at once, I uaed to live In
Ky.. in Itvlngston co.. aad If , there Is
some good old maid or a widowed lady
a Bout tl or 40. tell them to write to me
If thay want to change their nam to a
better one. . I wss married once la Ky,
I sot my lioena at smlthlsnd. was mar
rted at love's chspeL close to caryvllle
I sot a fine lady: I want a nother one
from old'Ky., they are th people and
moat respected. Believe me. yore menu,
J. BKSo.
"P. B. Say. lady, if you do, write aend
me yore picture I am thla way, quick
sales and good profit. My wife haa Bin
dead 1 years. I have no children. By
By." jLj-'
n wAjnr a xjiotsxatob.
From the Ksnsas City Star. ,
A traveling man who "makes" Kan
aa City frequently we dining In th
cafe of one of the large hotel yester
dae when he thought he'd play a trick
on hla waiter.. "See that man at the
next table. George?" he aald.
Tha waiter nodded assent "That
Dr. Alonso Tubba, the Missouri legis
lator, who Is trying to stop all tipping.
Th waiter grew Interested at one,
"Well, ain't dat too bad." h ald. "Ah'
been waltln on him. too." "Well, you
won't eet anv tlo there.' aald - th
traveling - man.- "Ah auttlngly treated
hint rlshL" renlled th waiter,
A few minute later the man af th
other table left and th waiter returned
to tha traveling man. "Well." aald th
drummer, "what did I tell your
"'Xcuae ma ash. but ah thinks you
tole me r fabrication." aald the waiter,
grinning. "Dat man ain't a legislated
he's a gentleman." Tha
given him a quarter.
Tke Small Acts
of Life
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox. :
(Oepyrlgkt, 10US, ky om AaMrlcaa-IeanauV
.. . Kxaadner.I ,. . '
Seconds make minutea minutes make -
hours,- hours make days, and e on, ;
until tun melts into eternity. Jnat ao
th small acts of life compose 'It In Its. '
entirety, and make happiness or un
happlneae. .-'.' -.- . ,..;'
Wa all deplor th degeneracy of great
criminals, and many of ua wonder how
they could ao mistake th road to hap- V '
pineas or so destroy th nappineaa pf
their victims. ' . . ...... c .
The majority of ua are not criminal.
and we are not tempted ta. break the ,
laws of God or ths' land;-jret-many of us
sre destroying comfort for ourselves and ' j
other by, a score of petty faults.and -hablts
which might be avoided If we ,
would realise how destructive to happi
ness they are. - - ,-'
A woman who haa all her life believed
herself devoutly, religious has ruined .
the disposition of her children and '
spoiled the life of her husband by' eon.,
tlnual nagging. . :
The man waa temperate aad clean in .
hia. life,' but he loved an oooaalonal '
cigar. - If hla "wife- detected the -odor; 1
about him It served for a week'a text !
of aerraona. . All bis many shining vlr-
tue were forgotten in this 'one offense
against the wishes of a petty tyrant.
who would sulk or soold until tha house -was
mad detestable.1'. ", -J. . .
If a son er daughter left a hat or ;
glove or book or newspaper misplaced .
wearisome . harangue aad a-martyr
face resulted. This woman was -con
tinually guilty of petty larosny. " - - - .
Again I have known a woman to apoil
a home by Insane Jealousy of relatives,
snd even a pleasant word spoken to af '
xauniui maia or a oompiuneni-paia 10
a guest brought sulk or tears and re-
criminations. , , . - - v
Sisters and brother Indulge tn. Irri
table and disagreeable remarks, which '
are rifts ih the lute of domeetlo-happl-neaa,
and weeks, months and year go
by in many a family with scarcely a day
of . rea Ihappineaa because the -members -
ua ao control over thole moods, but al-
low every weak Impulse to govern them.
I have known a woman to dwell upon:
the thought that she was out of her
sphere In life, until ah became, morbid. "
In the beginning she did, indeed, aeem '
superior Intellectually to her associates,
but aa th year passed the woman's '
on pleasure wa derived t rem having '
her misfortunes remarked. .. -
Her mental misplacement served aa an .
xcuae for her uncontrolled temper, for
her despondency, which .destroyed th
happiness of her children, aad for her
severe criticisms of others, which ortan
tamed, would-be friend into enemies. 0 -
It never occurred to th woman that
she wa making her own destiny more
cheerless day by day er that ahe- was .
spoiling- the memories of horns for her ...
children. t
Her thoughts were so, centered upon-
herself and her own disappointment
that all other considers tlo na were lost. .
She worked hard and performed die-.
tasteful duties successfully, but even : ,
when her surroundings changed to thoae
whloh ahe had alwaya desired, ths dis
cordant and rebellious atmosphere which
she had created for herself went with . .
her and made happtnesa Impossible for
her or her associate. -
While you are thanking God that you
are not-a criminal, stop aad give your- ;
self a little careful Introspection, and
see whether you are destroying peace .
snd happiness for yourself er others,- by
petty crime against daily comfort. . No
matter what great, gooa piana yon may
have In mind for th lettering of the .
world and . the helping of tha human,
family, you are not living a good Chris--tun
life unless you are doing all in -
your power to msk today a nappy
period tor thoae nearest yeu :
Thar la sucn a crime as me peny
larceny of the happtnesa of others.
And there -are more criminals of that
class than of all others. .
No amount of swu-seenne ror your
fsmflv. no amount of money and . ad
vantage spent upon your children, no '
million accumulated ean maae you a
good husband. vlfe er parent if yeu be-, -long
to th petty ptrrlolnera of demestlo
peaee. " '
w v - --
d Clark
Lewis an
March 15. The day la clear, pleasant
and warm. We Uke advantage or tne
fine weather to hang - all our . inaian
present and' other article out to dry
before our departur. , ' , ,
, From the Salem Journal. -The
naonla are not only going to hit
the extravagance of the kglaleture a
body blow of aome kind, but the next
legislature will not be so infernally lop
sided snd crooked one wsy, sp far as
party la concerned. ' '
Tha laat leglalatur had only five
democrats In the senate and only ten
Democrats In ths house, and no psrtic
ular leadership or organlaatlon fr any .
good purpose among the RepuMloaa.
It woula ne a migmy
the peopl ef Oregon if the next lesla
lature was a little more evenly dlvMed.
It would be a good thing for the state,
ao far a th national government goea.
If It war close, or even among the
doubtful states. ' "'" '
The statement may not suit the ma
chine. It may not be what Is called
hard-and-faet. thlck-and-thln Republi
canism, but it la the truth and. eommon
aanae, and that I what th peopl want -more
than partisanship. , !
If th leglalatur were cloer th Ve
ault would be both parties would watch
on snother, and try to aurpaaa each
other In" being' careful and economical
with the people'a money. '
K Marlon county had on Democ ratio
state aenator, and on or' two, Dfrao
crets In ' the lower house,', th 1 result
would" bTlvBlry-thow which, mad
the better record, and th peopl will get
the benefit. , - . . '
Th moment that Marion county gov- ,
eminent ia solidly Republican Usee be
gin to go up, and expenses Increase.
Salaries ar raised and bills are put
through to restore the fee ayetem.'.t -.
That la not what was promised th '
people by these men, but It shows th
tendency to us .unrestrained political .
power for tha benefit ' of the -officeholders.
'
This 1 a 'Republican, paper, and Its
editors are Republicans, but they cert
see the necessity of a- closer division
gmong tha people on party lines. Th
people themselves will see it at the
next election. .1 ,.., ....... y
' . The First Oaes. ' ..
' ' From th Philadelphia Press. ; 'S
' Ragaon Tatter Oe whlal Yer look
in' tough.,- W'at'a de matter? r ,
Hungry Hlgglna Eatln' too much!
, Ragaon Tatters G'on! ,,' I"at wouldn't
give yer a black eye. . . , " .
Hungry Hlgglna New. hut dat wns '
de beglnnln' of It. D barteoder hatched
Km at 4 free Ivmch, :
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