THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL PORTLAND. WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 0. 1908
I
tr-
ELEVATION
OF OLD ABE
. . 11 i 1 1 la remarkable fact
Candidate of Expediency "",l!;t fX,;,"1th'V
; the Shame of Tarty l-l'of fell" hS
er8 Democracy Kent m
Twain Freakish Elec
toral College Arithmetic.
By FREOKWO J. IlASklx.
(Copyright. HOI. by rrederlo J- Healcln.)
Washington. 8ept Much of the
'practical politic of the presidential
campaign of 110 baa been burled be
neath, iha glory of the Lincoln admln
' titration and tha horrors of the Civil
war. Tba political result of that cam
' palfn we. the promoUon of the newly
' born Republican party to power, the
, -wecond 'political revolution of American
hl.tory. For the flret 11 year of gov
. ernment under the constitution the
Federalist, were in power. With tho
. alectlon of Thomaa Jefferson an sctual
revolution waa accomplished, and tne
Eower of government wu given to the
amocratlo party. The Uemocrats rul.-d
, for 0 years. Twice during that time
tha Whig, elected a president- but
,thera waa no practical Interruption of
iMmocratld" ascendancy. ' V ith the elc
tlon of Lincoln, the Republican party
assumed tha reins of power and has
. held them ever since. 4 yeara. The
two Cleveland administrations checked.
" twit did not stay, the Republican
march. '
Tha flrat Lincoln campaign was
marked by practical politics. Mr. Lincoln
did not make an active campaign, ine
Republicans contented themselves wnn
continued denunciations of "border rur
f lan Ism." Many of them were some-
; what asnarnea or uieir cmuiu. ,
. hm mitaMa of Illinois,
, brought tba personal' equation Into the
discussion. .
Democracy's Dlsorlptlon.
Tha fight raged la its greatest blt-
: tnrness .between ui two iwaiu
candidates, Stephen A. Douglas and
John' C. Breckinridge. John Bell led
' tha constitutional union forces as the
representative or extreme conserve
tism, but. like Lincoln, he took no In
. dividual rm rt In tha camnalen.
Douglas, the "llttla giant of Democ
racy,' stumped the country from New
-England to Louisiana, wonoerrui ora-'-.tor
he was. earnest as he was in bis
efforts to accomplish tha salvation of
tha union, believing tnai uie jniy way
to stave it was his way, the country
never knew before and perhaps never
will know aaaln. much a masterly cam
paign. But It waa all In vain. He had
broken with the south and with Bu
chanan, and not logic nor reason nor
oratory had power o heal wounds so
-'fwuglae waa Indirectly responsible for
the nomination of Lincoln. Two years
before, in 186, Lincoln had opposed
Douglas for reelection' to the senato.
: Their Joint debates in that year still
11 v in me memories ot wu, "u
were marching, the. Lincoln managers
packed the Wigwam galleries wlin jim
anla rilki mihfk war inatructed tO yel
for "At" They yelled, all right, and
bv this chess Dolltlral method of.organ
lalna- a elaaue. Abraham Lincoln was
nominated for president. i
last Walk f tha Walff Ohost,
Tha Constitutional Union party was
the last attempt mads to gather the
'old Una Whlis' into a polltlcsl organ
isation. As Its candidates. John Bell or
riimuni mnA I'llxiril GvtnK of Mat
sachusetta received more than three
times as many electoral votes as tne
Iouglas ticket and more than hair as
many as the lireckeurldse ticket; It
was of considerable Importance in the
campaign. ' "
it la a ramaraanis ran mm ini nmn
tlllicai pnriy
neral Jamea I.
tha linlver-
"had been ov.
ernor of Tennessee, minmicr to v nn,
and flrat analstant secretary or aiam.
ainca the war. In 16 he waa one of
l he five members of the Tennnseee leg.
aiature wno uou neon iiotmu . ....-,
although the national orsanlaetlon had
Ions since perished, lie was very
Km h haliovrd he saw a areat
opportunity for a revival of Whlggerr.
He wrote a letter to his four Whig col
leagues and called a meeting to consid
er ways and mesne for meeting the
question of the next national campaign.
The result of that caueu was the
movement headed hv Bell In Tennessee,
Rverett in New England end Houston
in Texss, for the formation of a new
party upon the principle proclaimed In
Its slogan: The Union the Constitu
tion and the Enforcement of the Law.
Sam Houston had left the Democratic
party and wa leading a most formid
able bolt In Texas. He and Bell were
voted upon as candidates for president,
but Bell won on the second ballot. In
the election the Bell ticket carried Vir
ginia, Kentucky , and Tennessee the
three border tate end. in the case of
Kentucky and Tennessee, the old Whig
strongholds.
SIm torsi Arithmetic
Lincoln . received a great majority of
electoral votes over ail his opponents,
Kut ha waa a-reatly in the minority In
the Dopuiar vote. The possibilities of
the electoral system of choosing a pres
ident were keenly Illustrated in the re
sult. Lincoln received 180 electoral votes
and l.tss.3Sz popular votes, wuiii
- .a.i in tha tinnular vote with 1
176.167, but he got only II electoral
votes. Lincoln received an electoral
vnta fnr avarv 10.000 DOPUlSr VOteS,
while Douglas had more than 140.000
PLAfJ GOOD
from, hiding and the Increase of the ag
oiui
lint of circulating , medium
ent of lower
FOUND HOW BEES
IX HOUSE WALL
, -i
' (gparUI Dlapatek te Tbe Joara.ll ' '
Los Angeles, Bept I. For year the
It Is not proposed to make tha aov- family or, J, Morlarty, a tea and coffee
eminent Itself guarantee tha depositors I msrchaat eq West Tenth sjtreet. has
jne piaa pas Deen rererrea 10 com- i,,,. dlilurhtil kn aimiM uimiii ilwiiit
monly as "the government auarantet of 77 ,,lurla by "range sounds about
depositors": but this Is a misnomer. ao.,he" horns at night. Many hours wars
cording to thoss who have been 'most tTnl ,n rTln o-ierrai out the cause
I in develoDlna- the movemanL Theior.a
resale vol
would cause the estahllahmei
ta of interest for Vie borrower. The
i niercnani. ins manuraciurer, ins rarmeri
and tha laboring man wsuld thus receive
i oi reci nenenta witnoui injury to snyi
i " v. . .
active
Idea la that tbe government shall serve
merely as the custodian or the guarsn
tee fund, a email, tax belna- levied on
the banks to establlsU lu , .
' e e i e ' -
lrranklv. not '. much' attention Is raid
TMq "nTllhrfltil bV tha campaign managers of either
llUa XtlUUCittHL tn ,ha fndenendenee leaaua In this
Ipular Approval Stamped
Upon
Plank-Hearst's Plan to mu J-'fiir
to Taft Not Working.
. , line iniut polling araiurnina numntri
lUKe rrom JJrV all HI UIVC nnon. Ann it might naturaiiynavs
I Man AviulftfM Ihir with tha teamanftAila
resouroes or the Hearst papers in Han
Francisco, Chicago, Boston and New
York, and tha wealth Hearst Is abls to I
throw .into tha campaign, tha league
would have made a showing which could
he counted as an essential element in
the contest. Analysis of the Vermont
vote shows that the leagos polled 1.200
out of a total of ahmt si.000, or about
2 per cent. It la Impossible to aacer-
bank deposit, ha. attained a popularity f;om "t'h; -EomoVratic or Renubircan
which seems to show It to be tha I strength. Probably some came from the
trnnMHt rirawlna- card tha namoorahs Boclailstlo party, and something less
In tht. umnln TM.rnaalnf. haa I "
v ! I parties, in oiner woras, oniy a rrao-
reached the sUge of tension, It belna tion of 1 per cent In all likelihood not
rue that on other issue, up to thl. I more man one nair or one quarter or
By John E. Lathrop.
Chlcago, Pept. 9 Beyond wildest ax
pectatlona, the proposal to guarantea
t
time the people appear not to have been
1 per cent, came from tha Democratic)
nartv in excess of that which came from I
aroused to personal Interest. So far, the Republican. On that basis, in Ore-
to an unprecedented degree, the masses gort tha Hearst vot would take from.
., ,.. ., ,,.K the Democratlo strength In excess .of
seem to Jog along without paying; much ,u utlng from RepubTioan gtrength not
heed to the presidential .truggle. Good more than from 150 to 600. However,
live on tha pages of history ror an
time. The people of Freeport, 111., last
month celebrated uie "na anniversary
of the first of tha famous IJncoln
Douglas debates. Douglas was ths bet
ter speaker, and ha won the election
lor aenator. But j,mcom ora
him close and had bad the eyes of tha
nruoia country upon mm.
' ' v Don&rjM' jpatoful "TTes."
Tt waa aaralnat the advice of every
friend, he had that Lincoln bora downi
upon uougia. ana asaea mm a unci
of questions Involving slavery in the
territories. One question was: "Can
a territorial legislature exclude slavery
If it see. fltr If Douglas had
'answered that -question In the negative,
Lincoln would have been elected senator
In 1858 and might never nave oeen
president But Douglas said "Yes!"
That reply carried him back Into the
United State, senate, caused Horace
Greeley to seriously propose Douglas
lor tne rtepuDiican nomination lor prrsi-
1860. broke
nnnular votes ror eacn electoral vuio.
Breckenrldge had 847.614 popular votes,
but little more than hslf of Douglas,
yet he received 71 electoral votes, six
timaa aa man V as DoUElaS. Bell. With
less than half of Douglas s" popular vote
received 39 electoral votes to uougias
12. Douglas, running next to Lincoln,
carried only one state. Missouri, al
though he received three of the seven
votes of New Jersey and three of the
thirty votes of Pennsylvania.
Tha alectlon of Lincoln had been ex
pected early In the campaign . on ao-
count of the Democratlo split, and
threat, or- secession were both on
averv wind from the north, and re
taliatory threats oi war were wafted
luk on everr northern breexe. The
great crisis was at hand and Lincoln
was ina man to meet it.
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KAISER'S SUBJECTS
LOVE HIM. LITTLE
San Francisco, Sept 9i Judge Karl
Von 'Lewinski, president of the Imperial
court at Benin, is toaay wonaering
na-
What surprise he will next receive at
tne nanas or nis country men.
The German Judge was a uest in
the court of Judge Van Fleet yester
day. In which naturalization examina
tions were being heard. Several of his
countrymen were questioned in the usu
al manner. The supreme test of eltl-
senBhlp quaiincauons was tne require
ment that the applicant renounce his
allegiance to the mother country and
take up arm. against that country, if
necessary.
, Imperial Judge Von Lewinski was
painfully surprised at the avidity with
which hi. oountrymen agreed to make
war on the kaiser if necessary.
irds go to hear the two chief attrac-I few .Hearst naper. get into Orei
s; Bryan and Taft. but aside from I ."VSff'0? h,a Won ppera
Oregon,
go
crowd
lions, orjun ana ia.ii., uui kbiub "" in. v.rmnnt
the guarantee issue, apathy m&rks the 1 1010 vernl0nt
Of course, this operate, to the ad-L.5v?rao"th" 'k!,0!.. b.T.
vantage of the Democrat-, a. It ha. Amnp.w
been universally true in thepast that in !!".5n.wr.rii 'nMiV.0"S
president al years when the voter, have I .Yi Th. . ... ....
hJLJ t0 th- SJttfV for'Uortuiltr'to
benefit of the minority party.
It Is easy to find arguments In sup
port or the guarantee plan, valid ar
gument, against It are difficult to con
struct The burden which the proposed
Jure the standing of the Democratlo
party; and at this time it 1. noticeable
that the headline writer, on his paper. I
have been given the hint that tha un
favorable phases of the Bryan cam-1
paign must be "played up.
It goes without saying, that tbe Inde-
guarantee would place on the banks, to
w
s
ve"ar of the "pVnlc In 1893 the lo.se. 1 .ent
were no
shlch some opponents have referred, la ,r." ,"1 A. J
ihown to be InconslderabK when the ffJ"?,0? SJ ll ' ?
Igures are presented. In the worst fj0' "I' J1"1 7Lh0' .thJ.ay;.1".
Thl. fact taken
in connection with the policy of tbe
,-- rt & v. I A A 4 i in conawiiDU Willi iui uuiivy UL i
cent of tha total deposit, in-national ""?n'
banks. Any rate of as.e.sment for tha rM.TO. f"
guarantee fund sutiicient to cover I , r v.l V,'---. .
fosses for that period would be much too Vaft if oossfble for It is welf known
high for normal periods, The average '
Sill IZl tS!, e P.Tv,,iJ,r,:LyeI! taki more votes' from the Wmocrats
than from the Republican..
a
since the national banking law waa
passed were only one twentieth of 1
nar cent.
Altogether there have been 476 fall-1 I am not seeking to convey the 1m-
ures among the national banks, or 6 per presslon that Mr. Hearst wishes to per
cent of the total number. Of these 387 I petuate the abuse, which have arisen
were wound np. The greatest number under KepuDiican rule. He has rought
of failures occurred in the western I those abuses, often effectively, and has
states: the smallest in the New Ens-- performed at times valiant service for
. . m . . . .1 .
land states.
cause of the common people.
However, his wish thl. time i.
The greatest number of
ro
to
118.418,031. The depositors lost 14.- help the Republican, and the mathe-1
476.528. Or 24.80 per cent of the amount matlcal possibilities of his propaganda.
owed by the failed banks. f based on tbe Vermont result, appar-
In 1897 there were 16 failures of na- entry are small.
tlonal banks, but out of 125,635,563 of ne thing stands forth as patent to
liabilities of, the failed . banks, the de-all who observe the activities of the
positors lost only $1,244,145, or 4.87 per I Independence league here and in other
cent. The smallest loss was in 1902. 1 eastern cities It ha. an abundance of
When two national Dan Ka railed and the money wiwi wnico u maae ub ngni.
loss to depositor, was $1,113, Or 0.29 Expenses are daily Incurred which would
or l per cent in isos tne amount I seem u oe eo targe mat tney wouia
reaMced by receivers was In excess of stagger the Democratic committee were
the amount of liabilities. I they required of the latter bod
Close etudv oi these fisrures shows I However, politicians ten me here and
that a guarantee fund would at the 1 elsewhere that they have decided that
worst Impose a ..very small burden on not much worry need be had over the
the banks.
On the other hand. It Is Drobable that
the guarantee of deposits would bring
from it. hiding place immense sums
which now are not in circulation. Every
one know, that always many person
keep their surplus fond, in safety de
posit-, vaults, where they perform no
function and- lessen the available me
dium for the transaction of business. Iclalty of breaking up old steel cannon
Immediately, upon the enactment of the
law these hidden sum. would come
magnitude of the Hearst following1 on
the national ticket. Thousands have
applauded him for efforts In tha past to
correct gianng aDuses; oui tnose who
stand for progressivlsm apparently may
And in Mr. Bryan that which will meet
their demands, and apparently most of
mem win support tne neoraskan.
A Philadelphia foundry make, a spe-
and remelting the metal for more than
half a hundred purposes.
dent . In
party In twain and
presldi
the Democratlo
elected Lincoln
nraaMant.
Slavery- in uie lermorjes waa uis
whole Issue, as It had been more or
less for a half century. It was Thomas
Jefferson, a Virginia slaveholder, who
wrote into tne norinwesi territory oiu
the. provision that that territory should
, . oe iorever rree oi slavery, ins ques
tion was compromised in 1820 and in
. I860 bv Henrv Clay. The Wilmot Pro
viso, using the exact - language of
Thomas Jefferson, kept slavery off the
Pacific coast In 1864, by the act of
btepnen A; uougias nimseir, assisted
bv Franklin Pierce, the Missouri com
promise ef 1820 was repealed and the
wnoie question or slavery extension was
. reopened.
The south- held that the territories
- Were federal and belonged as much to
the slave st&tes as to the free, and
that until they became states the fed
. eral constitution waa their only law.
The constitution permitted slavery by
Its silence and this theory would make
them slave territory. The north held
that congress could legislate slavery out
of a territory, but could- not legislate
It In that the territories must be free.
Douglas took the middle ground, a po
sition which the great Clay would
have supported, and declared in favor
' ct "popular sovereignty," that Is, of
permitting the people of a territory. t.
decide the slavery question for them
selves. Two Democratic Conventions.
The Democratic national convention
i wet st Charleston that year. The fight
on tne piatrorm wss long and outer,
and when It was seen that Douglas con
trolled the convention and the Douglas
Jilatform would be adopted, the ma
ority of the Joutbern state delegations
withdrew from the convention. The
regular convention then adjourned to
meet at Baltimore Tbe bolters ad
journed to meet at Richmond. The
Richmond convention met on time, but
Immediately adjourned to another day
io await tne action or tbe Baltimore
meeting.
The "regular" convention assembled
t Baltluore and the old f'ght broke
out afresh. f'tWb CunMng of Massa
rbuaetts, who waa president of the con
vention, finally becarm o dlazusteri
with ths Iinua-Ias follomTi that he re
e'ened his chair and led another bolt
v from the eonvmtton Th remnant of
the "Yegnlar" eemfni 'r. tien proceed
ed to nominate tHe-,.h n A louglie for
president and BTijn In F.Upatrick of
Alabama for Ylo-prealr1rL Fltzpat-
- rtck declined, and the aerond Place waa
Slvesj te Meracnel V. Johnaon of j
aorarta. Tbe Cali-b CuFT.Ins bohera t I
Baltimore nominated jc ln brecaen- -
- ridge.- tbea vteep resident of the I'nlted !
Plate, tot prealdent and Joaorh Lare '
ef Oregon for vle-Prsdetit TL I
waiting "serdajF- at Richmond in. i
rxedlataly rail fled the nomination of;
lireckeartdge aawl Lane.
Marm T.l.ewla Waa eemJaae.
Lraoola was otnlnsted st Chlcaro hy
roup Of shrewd pAHtldane who de
liberately evarthryw the will if tne ma- i
omy ef th party se a aacrtfio. tn M.
- dlency. William H. Srar4 a la tha
fraat laaer a Hr Wli-ania-m. anw when
he deiagat met at Cblcaco tw ttalrda
ef them were fpr Nvtri But eVwarfl
ss 9Vfrxif f New Tork kad bean too
rtely a nHataw wtth he Roman rth
.lr tn yoiitia. The Knew-Nothlns
wet waa atui laryw and bad te b reck
yned wl'h, ear'aJ'r In Peitivlraats
eal Indiana Aacraw a. Cunln ana
ery eL L. RepuMieew MtUe
tor tovrnnr tn PVenayH-aala ta Ib
e.ara, ra-aray-tively, put ep the schema
a fM awaj4. TWy Ires his Cath-
e tea Ww14 eVfaat Blrn U
er eata aad would probacy defeat
. - -.
! .1 w all Ka Mreieti emtAsltloa
. 1 t ' f ware f o14
t . a , i if I a taaa ra I a4 aat f l
r r-,.- t.' f"t e-r'-et rar4e
' TU' to.- a-, - fUtr1
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Healthhow niany
would give fortunes to enjoy
the greatest of nature's gifts and to be
able to give .
A Smile All the While
Ailing tots cause pity fretful young people cause
wonderment irritable men and women cause surprise.
To enjoy perfect health the body must be built up
and the mind invigorated by perfect food.
Ghirardelli's coa
is the perfect food drinkits use will bring-quiet to
breaking nervesstrength ' to . the weak1 and
contentment to the strong besides it is
delicious and appetizing.
30 cups of a delicious drink
25c .
Cures Biliousness, Side
Headache, Sour Stom
ach, Torpid Liver and
Chronic Constipation.
Pleasant to taKe
QUID
Laxative Fruit Syrup
rem g Ax.x t ai.ii rrn:'Ti
Cleanses the -system
thoroughly "and clears,
sallow complexions cf
pimples and blotches.
It Is cuarevntetd
g i
eonstsnt buss
Not belna suneratltlona. wet ratlins- in'
soivs tne mysterious noise satisfactor
ily, Mr. Morlarty sent for a carpenter
and gave Instruction, to discover and
remove the disturbers If It were neces
sary to rsse the building.
.After tearing away the aiding for
about l feet near the chimney, the car-
p.nter unoovered a maas vt honey haea
Which would have filled half a doa.n
hlvaa I'nim the opening thus made,-and
tord snugly away between the siding
and the lath, was taken a waantub full
cf honey. . t .
The opening at which the bee. en
tered wa. no larger than the apace ef
an Inch, where the aiding Joins the
ehtmney, and, according to neighbors,
the bee. have bean accumulating there
for the past four yeara -
New British Consul at Frisco. .
Han Francisco, pt. . Wellealy
Moore Is today on his way te San Fran
cisco from Lngland to sasume tha posi
tion Of consulT for whlotv.be has been
named by the Frltlah 1 ' government.
Moore has been vice-consul for some
time and has been connected with the
Krltlah consulate for SO yeara, Major
Hal ford tierrard. acting vloa-conaul. will
succeed Moors as vlce-ooniul. - . ,
Ttenrh Warrant fnr Tlan Tf.naM
Cleveland. Ohio, Sept. I. A bench
warrant wa. taiued today fnr the arrest -Of
tanlel ft. Ilanna, aon of tha lata Sen
ator Mark Ilanna, en the charge of as
saulting Claude M. Logan, an automobile
merchant. The same eaaa wa. flrat
called two month, ago .and postponed.
When Ilanna wss called today he did
not appear; and his attorney explained
that his wife was III. Thl waa not .at- '
Israclory to the court.
Tomorrow, Thursday, positively last '
nay ior aurayni on west siae gas Pius.
Lon't fail to read gaa tlpa. . , ,
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ml
Ppt-f- PnvJriO? man's carrying a big handicap who has to
rVwl L rXjf 1 1 J 4 pay rent for nothing more than a shelter. Rent
at $30 per month amounts to $360 per year. To start a home involves a
payment of $10 down and $3 per week, or $166 per year. Money paid for
rent is lost when the rental expires; money invested in a homegives you
an ownership that cannot be taken away except by due process of law.
Rflirrlin O4? Ever stop to think what boarding costs? For a man,
UUai U 1 1 1 p $40 is a fair price $480 a year. Should there be two
to' support, at the above rate $960 per year would be the cost. Compare this
with $166, the first year's payments on a home $960 absolutely gone with
out a thing to show for it, or $166 invested that can never be lost, and prac
tically $800 saved. This is a proposition that can be figured out to the
dollar.
Hotel Life?
Take the average hotel for example. The cost
is fully $75 for one, while for two the amount
expended in three months would pay outright the cost of a homesite. It's
getting right down to the mathematical facts that makes the present-day
methods of securing a home appeal to those who are spending their money
f oi the privilege of living.
xy in Hyde Park
mild a Home
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