The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972, May 02, 1906, Image 6

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Newspaper Page Text-1 -If age .- If lite I WEDNESDAY. JMAY-2, - 1908. '; PORTLAND. OREGON, j iiE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL in kdihiidiii t w JACKSON Published every evening (except Sunday) and" every Sunday . ' morning, at The Journal Building, inn ana -?' TamhM etreete, Portland, Oregon. - - ' Entered at the postoffloa at PortlandTOfiegon. for trans portation through tba maiia aa socond-claaa matter. . TELEPHONE. ;.'' Editorial Rooni..Malo ISO Business Offlio.Mt. Main HO rORfciJON ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE. Vilard-RenjaWrn Biwlal" A"dvertllng Agency. 150 Nassau . ; etrec-t'New York; Tribune Building. Chicago. ' SUBSCRIPTION RATES. : "-Tmhw sy Carrier. tlilhr Journal, Wits Iw ' 4r. 1 rnr .. T.S0 : Tttm Dally Journal, I rnr.... .ta) Dally Journal,, vita Sua-' ' Hf. BoaU ........ITS The Pell Journal, Moth... 2.00 The batty Journal, with guar r-Mitjr, S BatM...... 1.00 Tb. Dally Journ.L X Bonth. tUM Tba leuy Journal, wllk gua U, 1 amtb. ............. -.Of Tb bally. wttt, OeUV- . area- Sunday Inclodad - 45 - P.IIT. rk, AaUTwad, Bun--""" , ?,4J eiorpted 40 ; " Remittances ahould ba made by expreaa ordera and aroail amounts ara l-cent postage stamps. ,- MADE POR ANOTHER L HE'UAND-MiUDO-WN TLATFORM.Vhich Ijm been passed out to the Republican party of Ore gon by five of the statesmen who compose the state central committee appears to be a -misfit. A few little wrinkles and creesesareno great mattefbut in this instance the garment was manifestly built for a very different sort of a person from the grand old party who . is expected to wear it ,--:,.,-y i-.i. , "Reoolved, that.-we ' hesrtily commend the principle "eiubudietl in the initiative and referendum amendment to the constitution" say the "platform. It wW take pretty careful pulling and stretching to make that, fit the - - Republican TirtyV record in;Jfcriist-legislature, when the Republican "majority V both houses did everything po6siblo to Annul, the referendum by tacking the emerg-v-f tfif-Jty&egq&crfiifattlTJtofr9rr: moMurc'- which it -'was eard.'theripfople might veto. ; It is the popular im v'p're"sson that if it had not been for Governor Chamber lain's determined stand, the. Republican legislature would have mad the referendum, as rtoeaninglest as a 1 -Cooaa jinglev- Immary law and of statement Na -1 have been the means oTrecoFotnt the choice of candidates' for public office, party cjauns thj credittberejor." tnicaa parF claims theHtreTfifnTor-tne; direct yrimaryiaw or for statement No. 1 is an interesting problem,' but too difficult for common folks to solve. It is of more prac tical importance to know, in view of this indorsement of statement No..hat1s to becomr of those 38 Rub.rl! jength-without bed of other furniture, with little Il.-9a lamfil!tlWa- m-h--n A as tullA 1 Taal OA IWaa .Va AaCai afa. T . . . lican legislative nominees Who failed statement r . for tnem this is a peculiarly badfmisfit and the political tailors will need all- their -skill to make tho coat go oa.'-vr ; -. -.v.-i..-. : Of 7- -J.t: "Resolved, that the governor of the itate should be invetth-tie power to-vet4n4ivk3ual item-4ri an- propriation bills." , Excellent, but it fits thr Democratic party much better than the Republican. The people in voked the referendum on a million-dollar appropriation bill passed at the last session, just because th Repub lican majorityTnegallyreTribodied special appropriations i;i the bill providing for the expenses of the state-institu-rtons. The sole -purpose of the Republican legfjlators was t deprive the governor of the opportunity , to Vefp. these. special appropriations. . .V... It s a pretty poor fit, and what makes it worse is that the victim will not liave the nsual chance 1crmake altera tions. High tide trousers, bursting buttons, splitting seams, taust be endured for in' this case, they can't be cured. AGAIN THE TIME TO GREAT MANY VOTERS, -about -one third of M them, in this' county, failed to register- for- the , primary, electioaheld on April 20. All such voters must now register in rder to vote in the'gejperal election on the7firsrtron4ayTlrirjune,i The regttatiotr for this purpose will close on May 15, only, 13 days hence. , Gd and register, if yon did n.ot prior to the primary ejec . tion, and do it early, -.Don t bother the election board, " " and your neighbor and friends, and the public generally ; ly going around to the polls and swearing in your vote. It is only necessary in excepybnal 'case; it is generally an evidence of neg4igenceaand political thriftlessness, of Which any American citizen ought : The duty-of 'rezistfationif you istered, is all the more important and . ui ujc cic(.uvu vy yvut tuic luia year ui tAiiuiu.ic. for-United States senator. The two principal parties have made their, selection on the one hajid John M. rr-rGearuvofi: theothef Jonathan Bourne Jf. One Of thes,e I J two men wilf be,' or should be,el.ected senator for six ! --yrari by the next legislature.-Go to the-jJolls and ex- J presr your choice. . Under our system these are jthe only u-two-men to be considered. Voter for the-one whom yon prefer; whom, rather, we hope, you honestly believe will be the better man in that position -Anyway register, If yon -haven't.'- elector, as a sovereign, Get in and vote somehow, and if your conscience clears yon we will never be heard to complain of you. . Register, and vote. THE CIVIC FOUNDATION IXTY-THREE YEARS ago today, tip at Cham poeg, in Marion county, not far from the east - ern bank of the Willamette, was laid the civic ; cornerstone of Oregon 'Territory that" was, to develop into several great northwestern state. There, on May 2," 1843, 10J. men came together-the main,' immediate I a point to be decided being: Shall we adhere to and seek '. the protection f Great. Britain or the United States? On that question Joe Meek Called for a division, and he, the leader of those who favored coming' under the sov - ' ereignly of the United States, carried the Tflsy oy-'a.ma-.' . jority of t wen 52 to SO a close vote, and a tremendously i "Important' one. "'.--. .' - -T,'":TThc'ce formation of a "soft of provisional anticipatory or ancillary govejnmeniU. for . purposes ol . mutual protection, the administration of estates, 'the ar-.-rest and punishment of -offenders the raising of funds for public purposes,' the defense of the few scattered ,-pioneer settlers against the Indians, and the preparatory (step for a formal organization which should carry out these and other measures of legislation and administra tion, formally; orderly and authoritatively.- -: -. All this was attended to, and what followed lo, you . Cat a Power, to Balance, , - 1 . : From tho Kansas City Time. ' ' Did ton know that If you cat a cat's tat off she can't cetck mice any more?" aaked a ung woman of another. - -"I don't ace why." replied the other. -,rtt further, I ean't Imagine what oe eaatort yoo have had for cutting off cats' tails to see." "1 haven't cnt oft any eats talis, but an er-Mert deprived our cat of its raudal ppendage. . The feline became aa pelpleea s hip without a rudder. may reifftt in the beginning, the iwinni ; i. rhistory but. grow - . -VW''iWth---thW lapae, qf. rrTheettler$7wereevr7Svlder - larmi Vy Tne -Dally ioarnel. ailttt. gua- dj, 1 rear .-..07.00 Tba Dally Joanul, 1 rear.imrO.OO The Dellr Journal, with. Baa. da J, 0 SMatna. S.TB The Dellr Journal, 0 anatke.. 1.7 Slie DnUy Journal with ua- Am J, 0 siontne ;.. 1-00 T.t Dally Journal. atontha., 1,40 Tba Dully Journal, trior Baa- . .- 4ajr, 1 month. .08 The Dally Journal, 1 BOBth... ' .00 The Sunday Journal, 1 rear.. 1.00 The Bandar Journal. 0 BMatba 1. 00 draft, . poatal notes, - acoerrtatrta lw J. and , -" ' PARTY. Mother thereof proves itto and a number of pegple'rvilhrrrthe and the Republican lifc.To"yIeTa""ffp; It than one third the Just why the RcpubsJ 1 - r.iL.nr.,. ..nniirira 1 ihnluitla mlm liiug-r-Arrrr r.m mitted regicide, to' subscribe that or no lights and death 'many times case of a homicide, besfdes the final REGISTER. CROPS to be ashamed. are not already j-eg imperative in view ey-r-r- Do your duty a an OF OREGON. MUST N UMEROUS turc.io.thia .ffiurse. civil governmentan Republican and When It tried to spring upon an object It would alight far to ono side." Tho look of pained aurprlso on the cafe featuree was pathetic After a while It learned to Jump straight again, but it was a long and painful experience for tho poor caL The balance of power and tho power to balance aeem to Ho In tho tall of. the eat" V . ' , Canino Intelligence. , ; ' From tne Kansas City Journal. ' Poea a dog reason! A omaU dog, l-jtlrt ihUrorte's of Oregon. But this was initiatory step; it was a decisive point .and: momenti-therefore Champoeg shall not only live in larger and more luminous historically tini V' r homeless.' The Hudson Bay company was the only au thority, and though its head here, Dr. John McLoughlin, was a noble and magnificent specimen of manhood, a good ' many . of the pioneer settlers' desired to become American rather than British subjects, and this main question was decided on that Marion prairie, . with hun dreds of miles of the Oregon wilderness around on every hand, 63 years ago today. " - That was one of the three principally important events that made this region a part of the United States instead of a part of Canada; the other two were the discovery of the-tnouth of the. Columbia by Captain Gray4n 1792 and the expedition of Lewis and Clark, the 100th anniversary of which was so appropriately celebrated here last year. - Of all ' that band - Jf sturdy indomitable pioneers, whether inclining to Uncle Sam who as yet had scarcely recognized the Oregon country as being on the map or to John Bull, but one remains, Hon. F. X. Matthteu, an4 he lives in a green pld age.; near the spot where this historic scene occurred. lie was one of the majority on that dayi and Well may he be proud of the stand he took and of the part that he and his pioneer associates played in "the" early "development" of Oregon. - tie, too, must soon pass from earthly view, but that memorable scene in the New Land shall not pass from view,, while .Oregon endures. .' -' . -t ' " - PUNISHMENT CANNOT FIT THE CRIME. SOCIETV HAS LONG endeavored,perhaps with . gradually increasing success, to establish a code iai criminal laws to "make the punishment fit the crime," yet in many if not in most instances it lamentably though as it seems necessarily fails to a great jexjent The lex talionis has been incorporated into the laws of all civilized nations, and though a few of our states only two of three, we believe have abolishtdcapital punishment, this "policy seems not to have worked suc cessfully or to have gained in favor. We do not literally apply the Mosaic doctrine, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth,. bnt-we. do adhere to the legal doctrine of a life for-a-lifeand-we. act on the maxim-, 'Whoso shed deth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed." Yet we find it impossible, under our modern theory and application of punishment,- to make the penalty fit the crime, or crimes, in such a case as that of the triple -est, useful. leiyected'nrnenTTnadehtee women widows children orphans, but he -had but one was impossible to make him pay more debt he legally owed to society. " : 7. or y.ho have- assassinated some member of the royal family, have hee confined in small, low, iron or steel apartments, perhaps only four feet in height . r ...rr.-.:., si;-,.-.:.,,. tn. A 1:. with just enough of the toarsest of food to mauitain life.- - This is a punishment that can be conr templated only' with horror, and is infinitely worse than Over; but we can do nothing of this. sort to pur- multiple,, murderers, nor to , any criminal, whatever 'he 'may havcdoierrnor can .we torture him, as was tne universal custom in jcurope a jtw centuries ago. We can only imprison in a humane manner, and in the take a life for a Jife. FrcyTl otie' pofut ofewHtvonhiave'beeTt-preferable te capture Smith alive, and imprison, try and duly-hang hint, because it -Would have involved -some punishment execution, though it would also have Jn-J volved some expense and ifonble; for -even so desperate a criminal, as he could havejpDtemplated'his end through, several weeks without being lashed in punishment py big thoughts, and pricked in punishment by hi con icrtTfce for in noimaniseoiiscienee ever, 'entirely kTftd;.pne may put on a cloak of bravado he may even eat ghi sleep well in the face of such i death;- but the weeks that elapse between the capture and the execution must be a' period of punishment.' ' - But.thi has been spared the ! trrple-murdei'erSmithl He was necessarily and properly' shot and killed,' like" a mad dogrand another chapter of-criminal tragedjr in Oregon is ended, accompanied with a vain regret that the punishment-could not be made to fit the sum of his crime.; . .. v.; ' - -,; , r .. v NEVER FAHTlNOREOON. .-- A S THE SPRING- draws toward summer, lit" be comes more and more apparent that the damage . tdHWOPy- mitiind succeeding' frosts some weeks ago is not so great as was generally apprehendedlatthejtimerjn some partspf the state some crdps7"particular1yof : early friyta -And' ber ries, will be lighter on account-of thefrot,-buthis is perhaps no aggregate loss to producers, -for the quality is likely to be better and prices higher than would other wise -have been the. xaseThe-Hood. River-Glacier-says that T while the berry crop wilf do lighter than last vear. the-growers anticipate a very-profitable reason. So in Jackson, Josephine, "Douglas and 7 othercounties,the prospect .notwithstanding jU?eessimisticpredictionsof a few "weeks ago, is for an abundant fruit crop of most varieties and a total or. even half failure of none. " Wheat and other grains in western Oregon never "were more promising at this time of year, j and while some reseeding has had to be done in eastern Oregon and eastern Washington, this has occurred only in a com paratively few instances, and in most of these the damage wa done by treating the seed with formaldehyde and was not caused by frost - So Oregon as usual is showing up all right again, as she will during the summer and in the' golden autumn, and as she can always be depended upon to ao. OBEY, PEOPLE'S WILL. " COMMUNICATIONS have been re ceived by The Journal relative to the importance Of electing to the next lcgislaturemen who have subscribed to statement No. 1 of the direct primary law, thereby pledging themselves 'to vote for the people's choice for United States senator. Voters have it in their power to commit a decisive majority of the next legisla- In moStleglilatiye disiScTOolhthet the" Democratic candidates have sub scribed to statement No. 1. It is in no sense a partisan proposition. a So -far as this principle is concerned,, it matters nothing whether the nexVleglslature-is Repub lican or? Democratic ThrueTessential thing is that the majority of the members sfiaTI be pledged, solemnly and unequivocally, to obey the will of the people. " The success of this principle is of infinitely more importance tlian- the election of any individual candidate or the pre dominance of ei$her party In the next legislature, t knowing that ho can not accompany tha man Of tho house down town of morn ings., slips out and meets him two , or three blocks iYom tho bouse, aays Bent Murdock.. When tha man of tho house goes Into' his office tho small dog goeaf oacR - noma, , remaining mr aoout - is minute before tho time for tho man of tha house to return, when bo meets him neat the Christian church and ac companies bins home. How does this small dog know to the eract minute when he must hike to town to meet tho moo of the. house t .1 SMALL CHANGE -rTott-need not peot-any - reduction In Inauranea rate Just now. .. . , . .Ti.:.... , .. Olva worthy refugaea tha glad hand with something In It if aaeeaaary. e a Bmltli couldn't quite become a Tracy, though ha tried. . . , a a After awhile the senate will agree to. aet a time. for considering whether It will aet eome future data for eonald erlng whether It will net a date for vot ing on -too rata bill. . e . e . .. iu. ' Now again la tho time to reglatee, If you didn't before. Everybody ' should vote, Somehowr - ? - a e . It Seems that moat of u people on the aarfaoa of -UU4ittle whirling aaxth are only alttlng on the lid. that may be knocked up by tho devil's big tick- any minute. , - e e Shouldn't there be earthquake Insur ance r '.-..:-.- " ."' ' For tho first Jind perhapa . tho last time; a bullfight may b exoueed..-The proceeds of one In Mexico Sunday were donated to tho San Franclaao anfforora. Vale Wltte; hall revolution era long. Thoae -made- In Oregon are Juot aa good, or better, anyway. Dld tho Republicans deliberately plan to make It easy to-reejleot Ooorge S. Chamberlain governor? asks tho Bend Bulletin. - ' ' - a a - .i- 1 Tho only way to be sure to win to to run alone, like Mulkey. Flelda, and oomo others. , - , . . e Lota orrain..d.ue yot. '. r . a . a ; ' " ' Flrat we raad that only money and no more food la needed in San Fran- elaoo, next that food auppllea will aoon bo ocareo. Probably both are needed. e a . "Units tho white voters." ahrleka tho Atlanta Corratltutlon. . Wa didn't know that there were any black voters down there. - ' ' e e ' -'?":-7--;'..--n' Maycamo ln Jooklng a little jourJn warm amllea for ua yet. .e e mild ho an Blilah-UI and try to. run a Zlonf - On anight almost aa ell ba a ciaj, . It la said that a woman doean't rea son, but she'o all the sweeter for that e , e It la to ho honed that those alleged bones of - John Paul Jones have been buried for tho last time, at last . . . , , .. e a ' -- - San Franolsco, like Tnith, - will rise again but In tho ease tf Truth In many caaea. It will take good while ana orcu4n enone. ' ' : . - - .'But if Oorky were tho president of the steel trust, ho would be all right , . . , "Party faetlono have been awept away," eaye tho Baker City Herald. wow-tr way Tmiy worrtrblow-baek. '..,i,.,r e.e : Aatorlan alludes t 8e nit or Follette 'a a peach ao . ono : of 5 5.009 words that nobody reads and nobody print. Is tho Congreaelonai - Record editor "nobody"! ; .. OREGON SIDELIGHTS Eddyvllle corenoonrtonce of Toledo Leader: Two strange women wore In thla . locality Sunday JJight. They walked In from Blodgett secured lodg ing and reft Monday morning. It ts re ported that they were Holy Rollers and were on their way to Waldport . to meet-Creffleld, ' Klamath Falls Express: ' Jack Craw ford returned last week- from the lava beds, where1 he had been- in search of hla brother,. who wa lost . in. tho beda during tho - snow storm . about , March 11. He reporta finding no trace of him, eii"f It is probable yiat bio remains wilt never bo found, aa they jnay Ho burled In one of the manyiCTevloea in the Beds. Coos, county the next day efUrtheT faartbquako had ralaad fifteen tliouaand dollars for tho relief fund. It la prob able no other community in tho United States with an equal population will yadonato aa much, says tha Cooa Bay Har bor. - - - . Bandon will probablyhare a paper and pulp mill. : -New shingle mill at Coqulllo. e e A Commercial club has been Brgma tsed In grants Pass. . ..... . ' - a . a Tho shock waa felt at Marshfleld also, e e lurel Grove correspondenco of Oranta Pass Courier:.' lien aro investi gating tho matter of a creamery In our valley and tha aooner th famneremake up their minds to milk cows the more money they will have and make It pay to ar advantage. 100. uee. but I would Ilka Job milking 10 or 12 cows before breakfast) Then a fellow would har hla appatlto. . ; . A' Toncalla man last week shinned a beautiful deer totho national park -it Washington.' Every year he ahlpa one or two of these animals to Waehingto'T. for which ho receives 135 each. y e e ' - Silver- Lake Central Oregon tan: A eoupio oi-rweexs ago wo had a corre spondent at Paisley that did very well whenever It wrote.but alas, alack! w, added an. item that ; wo wupposed to bo straight goods from Paisley, having re ceived it at a later data and thought our correspondent had not heard It when ttr wrote." It also said thai.. we wereTVory curtoua to find out who and what It waa. It doea place an editor in rather peculiar position to get news from soma ono and not know hla informant 0.0, Baker-City electric interurban rail road now assured. - -r-; . e a ,..''. A band of t.IOO Gilliam eounty sheep shoarod IIVj pounds each, on an aver ago. . Inconvenience of Po'vertyfi , T FrQnj the New Tork Sun. ' ' Th nrlco of lephanta Is aolna- nn by leaps and bounds, and already they aro beyond tho reach of tha waae earner. A five-foot elephant, tha moat convenient ' also for use In tho little home patoh that tho poor man la trying to make hla own, now eosta 11,400, Only two years ago suh an animal could be had for 11,200. J : u ; 41 it Isn't ono thing. It's another. COMMENTS ON THE; ELECTION r'.T' 'A Xg "Way Oaf -Tot. From tho Eugene Guard (Ind.TT Jonathan Bourne carried the Repub lican primaries. But ho lo otlll a long way or from tba United 8tatea sonata. . A Poo Man's law. From tho JuncUon City Timoa (Rep) Tho primary la a poor man'a law. that la. It wllj make him poor If ho rune ivr omca. .. e ' ' Xalf-Xearted Bupport "From" tho Medford Tribune IRen.V Tho Oregonlan Js only half-hearted In Ha congratulations - of - Benator-Eleot Jonathan " Boume.In fact-It -may ai moat bo aald to "damn him with faint pratao."' - ;-; ' -- - ' acaaaa aAoottom o f oailv"r From tho Roseburg Spokesman (Ind.) Taken aa a whole tho etate ticket ae- 1 acted lssnMd. - Tho choice for eenator by tho Republicans will only tend to bring about tho selection of Gearin. and lehould bo 00. . ;' WU1 M ranay. From tho Stayton Times (Rep.). - Norn that Bourne - la - secure - In tho nomination for United State senator It will bo Interesting to sea oomo of hla party papers .crawflsh'LtO . get away from tha rocks they throw at him be fore tbe primary election. - r., ' : Krf BOBO "Boat" J "Froin the Jefferson Review fRep.7. The people aotod very aenalbly ln turning down Jonathan Bourne Jr. If ho had been selected the Republican party of thts state would have been rent asunder " and Irreparably Injured. Woodburn Independent Just ao. Well, she a "rent" all right but the election of Gearin will, not injure Oregon In tho least ....,.,. . .. t Kaotioatlsg Orow. From tha Roseburg Review TDem.). The Oregonlan indorses Bourne and statement No. 1 eating Ita crowwith well elmulated relish. By the way, that paper la tho queerest freak of political Journallanion earth Independent or Democ ratio tinfll tho nominations aro made, and then swallowing any kind of a Republican m ess fixed up for it Obnoxious to Many. From tha Medford Southern Oregonlon Rep.) The lrieprossii lXg sum In advertising his candidacy, an thla 4to. draitit -accburjrta. f Of LlllB SUi" cess. Tho opinion is freely4 expressed that Senator Gearlii wtlr-defoatr Bourne at tho polfe, becausa tho latter is very obnoxious to a vory large number of Republicans. .: ... " -. .. ?Z-L Good Word fo Bourne. From tho Pendleton Tribune (Rep.). Mr. Bourne Is a man of great energy, He is well auallfled both aa to educa tion, integrity, experience and acquaint ance to perform tha duties or senator. Ho haa a magnetic personality, la a hall fellow well met and reliea on -his own judgment Ho Is wealthy and seeka but thehonor and tne posaimlitles of an active life In public affairs for tha good of Oregon and tho people within tho state.sr- rTo Monoy-Wo From the Seaside Signal (Ind.) n,v OHnklln.. .t.t. 1 1 f lr will f-nn. 'tain tho names of those men who had 'money to throw at birds and red them with a lavish hand. Thla la not say ing that tho direct primary law la a failure, or that there aro not oomo good rnen On the Republican state1 ticket: I but there aro oomo who would .not bo there If It woro not for- tha money they threw at tha birds- Jn tnia respect tne direct primary law. la a little better than -the old ..boss eystem. . inaamucn as those who now ,- purcnaaa xneir nominations rnuat- dealwlth a host of people where, under the old rule It was only necessary to " divide - the - "owag" atnong a few. Tho. direct primary la the better of tho two systemo. -Sat Utile to Say. From the Hood River News Letter (Rep.). Regarding the nomination 01 tar. Bourns we have but little - to say at thia-tlma The popular vote haa made him tho choice and wo trust they have chosen wisely. From tne vigor ana ability ho displayed in the campaign it wouldrseem that ho wore a man who doea things and should bo the choice Of the people's represeniaurea in aune ilinojo jominaieq nave noctared tbaj Inner Would be) then when-he-goea to- waJHituilun we ean reasonably Jiopo that Oregon will bo heard from. .' - Blroot Prlmartee U Oregon. ' tram the Indlanaoolla Star. SaactoraJreforrain.tho stats of Ore gon haa progressed to tho point of direct nominations for governor, members of caiurraaa.-Otb.er State Officers and also" a popular vote on United States senator-' ships, wnicn is expeciea 10 oe rmunea by tha -legislature. .Tho nrst primary eleotlon under tha new system wss held on Monday by tho republicans of the state and results In the selection of H. M. Cake, a second-rata Portland lawyer, for United States senator; James B. Withycombo, a farmer and president of an agricultural college, for governor: a college president tor Congress from -the first district and a mediocre lawyer and judge for congress from tho aocond dis trict . .. At this distance it aeema not possible that tha legislature may prefer John M. Gearin, who now occupies tho lato Sen ator Mltohell's seat to Mr. Cake, de plta tha strong republican majority in tha state; as Gnarln, though a lifelong democrat and tha appointee of a -democratic govern ojv-wM havs tho advan tage of real fitness .for the place and statesmanlike attainment The . nom inee for governor Is, an honest - and earnest man, sxceodingly efficient In a small way, but It is to ba feared with out training -and capacity -for largo af- fairs. Ho will poslblybe bestsabr the - popular "... 'Governor. . Chamberlain, though tho. farmerSi who- have- evldejytly forced Withycombe'i nomination, may pull him through at the polla. . - Tho BopahUoaa PredioaaMat- From tho Bakor City Democrat The Republican -party of Oregon has been placed In tho anomalous poaltlon of either oendlng Jonathan Bourne -to tho United States senate 'or stultifying themselves)-by Ignoring tho position which they took with ao much eclat be fore tho primary .election.- There Is re ally no honorable way in which they ran extricate themselves 'from their difficulties, except to Choose a Demo cratic leglslaturo and permit Senator tfearln to succeed himself to the toga. There Is no doubt but that a majority of tho Republican leaders would feol less humiliated to eee,a Democ ratio leglslaturo elected than to be plaood where thoy must support Jonathan Bourne or show ths craven hand at tho next session of tho leglslaturo. . Senator Gearin haa represented Ore gon In the national halls of legislation with honor and credit to the state. All Democrats would bo delighted to sea him resume hla stork for a full tarm. We ' believe that nothing could happen in a polUlcal way that would redound so much lo tha prosperity of tho state. Tho short' stay of the Domocratlo eena, tor In Washington has proven that ba Is a power respected by all parties and with a generous spirit he has not hesi tated to work hand in hand with the senior - senator. Charles- -W-. Fulton, in all things for the advancement of Ore gon. Probably no man could bo chosen that would ba as acceptable to the aa nlor .senator, although of a different party. ; 'Ths Republican party la too. solidly Intrenched to fear that control will bo wrenched from them and all federal patronage that would - ever come to tho state would not bo turned away bo cause of the election of a Democratic senator. To elect Senator Gearin would take tho Republican party nut of the humili ating position In which they have been plaoed and honor the stale by aleotlng a man. of whom j thoy may . bo . Justly proud. ETTERS FROM JTHE PEOPLE , M :- iu BOM 0 Oooa,' . Jefferson.-May 1. To the Editor of Tho Journal Tha following dispatch appeared In -your paper of April 11: "Cody. Wyo. Nino out of ten' of the male oltlsoao above tha aga of tl years In Cody, numbering 1,086, have boon Indicted-during-, tho past week. for gam bling. The minimum line that can bo imposed upon each person accused, in case a verdict of guilty is returned. Is $300. After each man is lined the mini mum flna Cody's oontributlon to tho county treasury will bo IStS.000. o a Tho number of -Indictments returned Is tho largest on record In any city in tha United Stataa In proportion to Ita pop ulation.'" : ' This Indeed la a fine state of society, and that too In a state which haa en joyed female suffrage for over 10 years! Such a condition of affairs could not be paralleled In tho United States. And this wretched stata of affairs la not con fined to Cody.-It can ba duplicated in almoat every town in Wyoming, as I have good reason to know. if. tins is tho way female suffrage Is going to ele vate society, I sincerely hope our bo loved stata will hare sense enough ft us tha "ballot say those remaio agi tators who are now perambulating ths eountrv. "and wo will close tho saloons. puriXypQlltlcs and reform aoclety. They have d-ne 11 in t-ooy. naven 1 -acorrepon3 ent of tho New York Sun visited Wyo ming to ascertsln tho exsot working of woman suffrage in that state, and thla la part of tia report: Tne leaa lnv ara-ument of woman auffrago ad vocates Is that tho change Will load to social and moral reform. - But aven that prediction falls . of consummation in Wyoming. " After 10 years or woman auffrago in Jhat etate there -is not one great reform to show for it Ths stats haa no nrohlbltlon sentiment w'orth mentioning. Gambling la licensed, some thing unusual In man-governea siaies. (Recently. I believe, tne law-ireeniini immlillnw liaa bee repealed.) Ikvax-F Mirnnunilr haa Ita saloons and bawdy houaea. There aro no Institutions for tha redemption of fallen women, aa In most atatea," etc. . ' - TMa-rtainly l-a-oor-ahowlngrfor female auffrago. And tho same is true of the other states wnr 11 tried. ii ha been weighed In. the bal ance and found wanting. There la not a single benefit for either men or women to ahow for It wherever It has been tried. Tho suffragist advocates cannot point to a statnte they have succeeded in anatlna- that ha tha smallest ten dency to better the condltlono of tho country. It has mads tho women them selves bold, masculine, unmotherly and ambitious. The beautiful, tender and loving woman haa been transformed Into a meddlesome politician and- ward heeler and : If :Vhere-ie anythrngela rating in that I ahould like to know It And this la true of Colorado aa wall as Wyoming. Lawrence Lewis, In an article in-February's Outlook says: "Let It bo clear at tha outsat tbat the preaenco of the ladlea, once our su perlors, -now -ur- equals,'- haa) had no eepeqlal ettect upon the klnd. 'of order and (decorum - maintained at polling placoa over alnce the introduction of the secrst or Australian ballot At tha general election in November, isa4. for example, tho presence of women as voters "and so members of alectlonboards did not prevent 1 a Re publican - -woman woraei itobt-wuh thrown out of a polling place in Den- xetJttxlh? " "T"1 h?Y?.d. "P. g",nBi4 a lence aia uv. ui. mlssloner In Pueblo wno nae sinca bsen convicted of padding- a precinct registration list with fictitious names from introduotng whiskey at the polls In one of the corporation precincts and eettina" theelectlon officers, watchera and workers drunk, so that repeaters could be "run In' and returns tampered witlrrtt-did-not- prevent fights, acta of intimidation and the arroat of workers and votera of .both sexes Of the op posite political faith by partisan polloe and sheriffs' officers In various parts of the state; -it did not prevent gross In sults being offered. In a few cases, to women, nor- avert murder -at - potting placoa a Democratic election Judge in tho Cripple Creak district being a vic tim. Although perhapa not aa numer- ous,"there are nevertheless in both par ties women as well as men repeaters arm election crooks." The volla In Colorado must oertainly, be an edifying place for woman, "lovely woman," to be Does sny respectable Oregonlan w1aJ-ov see hiawlfe or motbT claseed among repeaters" of thrown outside by the neck? And this evidence, remember. Is furnished by a man Who favored woman auffrago,- sec retary of the Rocky Mountain Harvard club. arr' his good character Is attested tor by several . of tha beat known -and ablest cltliens or tha. tat X AN- ORZGONIAN. JThatched Poof In England.. From the Louisville Courler-JournaL - "The thatched' roof, which -makes the English cottage plctifreaque, Is doomed," said an architect. r or soma years it haa been going gradually. Soon It will bo altogether a thing of tho past - Tiro Insurance is ma cauae of the thatched roofs disappearance. No company will Inaiire a cottage or Its contents if the roof Is thstched. They who want Inauranco - must aubatltuto for tho roof of thatch a tiled one. "Ao long as the English cottager re mains very poor so that hla house and furniture aro not worth Insuring, bs keeps a thatched roof over hla) head. "As soon ss ho begin to proiper ond lays In household goods of value he tabee out a fire policy and away then goea bis thatched roof." , flow tha Country Grow. 7 ' From the St Louis Globe-Democrat In 2 American oltlea the. building permits laat month represented a volue f 146,000.000. The flow of capital Into new buildings in this country Is one of the great Investment, feature of the period. . . '' j. ' ' - . THE PATHFINDERS OF HISTORY By Rev. Thomas B- Gregory. -The rubber-tree Is one, of tho moat, beautiful to be found In tho whole vege table kingdom, and the milky subatanca which It giveo out when its trunk Is cut has been turned by man's genius Into a product that is as useful to men's health and comfort as ths tree Itself is pleasant to the sight of his eye. . It waa In 173 that the milk of tho -; rubber tree was first brought to the at tention of tho solsntlfio world by a Frenchman named La Coudamlne. In .' 1770 tba celebrated Dr. Priestley observed -and publicly noted that fact that rubber was an affective oraaot of pencil marks, and about 177 water-proof varnish was - . made from It In Kngland. -In 181 a Scotchman. MAcktatosh, of Glaagow, found out that ths oil "of naphtha, obtained from gas works, waa a solvent for rubber, and In UBS - ho mado . a waterproof varnish, which ho applied successfully ' to the garment which has over since borne his name, ta 1824, owing largely to the enterprise of Thomas C, Wales, a merchant of, Boston, .rubber overshoes began to bo sent to Europe and America. - But a grsat dlffloulty presented Itself at the very outsat of tho trade a dim- culty which threatened - to - make - the rubber manufacture a moat ' precarious ono unices some one ahould discover a , remedy for the -alarming- defeet- Tne trouble waa this in summer tha rubber . got soft In winter hard and brittle; and unhtsa something could ba done to render- the rubber proof against -the changes of temperature It was all off. The man to supply tho crying want waa at hand, and his name was Charles Goodyear of New Haven. Falling In tha hardware bualnees and hearing on all aides tho clamor that waa being mado over the "trouble with rubber, ho turned hia attention to tho eubject with.' such vim and enthusiasm aa to become almoat craay.. . - . Going from place to place elad In rob ber fabrics, ho would talk about It ta everybody he eama across. He got Into debt,-was thrown into Jail, fell to : the lowest depths of povsrty,. saw his wife and - children -suffering for tho - necessaries of life otlir ho kept think- lna- and ta 1 W In v r-ih)-.. TJ- A M.f about rubber In hla Bleep, he prayed about rubber during tho oilont night . ,EJ?!5Lbo"ha;joiildjle The man. waa not cranv; hut ha waa deanaratalv. madlv In Mmfa mnA last be was to find his reward. ; y"" nay wnna jxpcjTmjmtinarfwitn, rubber and sulphur on a slovF'fienti'ri'gr" bV the snnidental hurnltir 1, ' Mrtlnl ! melting of the two tugetbei. that h part In which the sulphur waa was hard and inelastic, while the part least im pregnated - with - the sulphur was pro portionately softer and more pliant The great secret waa finally discov ered. The-"crasy man Dad - at last : struck upon the combination for which a world was waiting. He had found , the secret of making rubber Ineenelbla to, summsr's heat and -winter's cold, -and thereby had provided 'the remedy for which-men had sought In vain for half a century. - - 4v Compared with the diplomats and con-quororaVtho-XleaarrandKalpoIeona, iba Cavours and Blamareka. tho fama of Charles Goodyear haa made but little nolle in ths world - Hi. a?e is but -seldom on men's lips'; ho cuts but a trifling flgurerno monuments are reared"1 to- his memory, no anniversary spoeohoa and musjp to keep fresh the recollec tion of bis life-work: .. and yot every right-thinking person knows that Good year did more for tba promotion Of hu man health and happiness than has been done by all tho diplomats and conquer- ias ' awsaaV WrtMdV VI DUI aOaT at nnrr The man who made It possible for ue to go out In a rainstorm and keep dry and warm from the sola of the feat to tho topmost hair of tho heed did a : better and a nobler thing than Napoleon did when ho mado his "empire," or Bis-tnarck-when .he satabllahed at "United Germany." . ... , ' LEWIS AND. CLARK On the Polat eroek. 1 i. .May. a. We- dispatched two huntera "" ahead: but the horse we had yesterday purchased from the Chopunnlsh, though -closely aobbled, . contrived ' to break loose In the night and wont back ta '. Join hla companion He was over-" taken and brought to us about 1 o'clock. -when wa sat for ward. "For thr . ua J?1??"4 1. av.hllly road on the north'" Hide of Touchet creek, oppdsita a wida Doiiom, wnere a branch falls in from tho southwest mountains, which, though covered with show, are about 25 mi lea distant- and do not- appear high. - We tnen entered an extensive level bottom wlth-about- 60 acres of -land well eov ered with pine near tho ereek and with tho long-leaved pine occasionally on tha Idea of the hills along Ita bankaZAf tar croaatng tha eroek at tho distance of seven miles from our camp we repaaaad In seven miles farther, near the -junction of ono of ita branches from tha northeast Tho main stream here bears to tho south, toward tho Blue moun tains, -whore-It rlaesf-lte bottom then becomes nsrrow, as the hills aro higher. We followed the course of this north east branoh In a direction N. 4( degrees IS. for eight and three quarter miles, when, having mado 1 miles, ws halted In a little bottom on tho north aide, - A Unit Incident From Collier's "Weekly. ' r' At Gorky's flret dinner in this coun try, when a few wore gathered togethev - to do him honor, an Incident occurred.. that uoi 1 owed a quality rarely plcturt - esque from Its contrast witn recenc great vents, - At one end of tho hail sat the : Russians, tha famous Oorky, Norodny, and the Intsrprster, with the white-haired chief of American liters ture, Mark Twain, looking sufficiently like another Russian master. The as-, ssmblago waa holpen to meat and drink -by youthful ahaven Japanese, and when, . one of theae passed Gorky tho first dialt provided for hla nourishment, tne Rus sian author put out hla hand and shook hands with his fellow being from Japan. To some of thoae who were privileged to ' be present the incident had mora -human warmth aud charm than ths on orgetlcslly arranged conference nt Portsmouth. It seemed, tn a little flash, to apeak tho kindliness of good 'souls of . every nationality, of every age, in over w clime. It made war. look small and hu manity seam good. . ' " 1 , 1 , Potge-Sta"mr" Tongue. From ths Philadelphia. Bulletin. "A number of ailments.. some of tham - extremely . difaeouOt comprised.' under tne general neaa or postsge stamri tongue,' said a physician. : rPoat-sge-stsmp tongue, tn a word. Is anv disorder contracted from the licking of postage ' stem pa: .... - -mree or rour persons a week visit. mo with postago-otamp tongues. They hsve a throat trouble, or a skin cMseaae. - or a puIrnnns'V complaint. Jorouaht on ' " by ths reckless habit of stamp-IKklng."