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ROYALTY If FINCH FROii RACE Jttifek DRE1 SUICIDE;
PajTie of Ways and Means
Committee Eeminds Wit
ness of Gary's Remarks
Regarding Great North
ern Bonus.
(United PreM Leawd Wlr.l
Washington, , Dec. 21, Becausa An
drew Carnegie had been qutd In 'a re
rent magazine article assaying that the
tariff on steel was not necessary, the
steel magnate was invited to testify to
day before the house committee on ways
and means In the tariff hearing. When
Carnegie appeared thi morning he was
apparently willing" tell, everything
possible. He testified under oath.
Chairman Sereno E. Payne of the
ways and means committee, first ex
plained to Carnegie that the magaxlne
article had prompted the committee to
Invite him to testtfy. The steel king
nodded assent and then plunged into his
story.
Confirms Statement.
" He said that Gary and representatives
of the steel corporation had already tes
tified to the same effect and o ha con
side red hln statement in the magaslno
article confirmed. He declared that he
did' not believe it would be necessary
to go Into .details to Justify the, state
ment. ; '
"There are," said b, "mora- ways of
figuring the cost, of production, than
there are- ways of JcITling a cat. One
thing is certain, however, a ton of Steel
now can be made cheaper in America
than In foreign' countries. The steel
corporation pays 20 cents a ton. royalty
on its ore."
- Payne Interrupted -.Carnegie at this
point and reminded him that Gary had
said the steel corporation paid the Great
Northern company- 86 cents -a1 ton roy
alty. Carnegie replied: -
'TThe corporation ha not smelted the
iron from the Great Northern ores. They
have the right to cancel their contract
in 10 years. It is speculation in ore.
Cost of Production.
"My point Is that the cost of produc
tion, la cheaper here than abroad, that
no tariff is needed and that It is Impos
sible for foreigners to compete seriously
with home manufacturers.
"Gary Is a very able man. He knows
the steel business. Ha comes here and
tells you how his great concern does
not need the tariff but that others do.
His consideration and sympathy for his
competitors or those who should be his
competitors is something sublime. It
reminds me of the story of the monkey
getting the cat to pull -the . chestnuts
out of the fire.'-
Payne quoted; the report' of the Penn
sylvania Steel company as saying that
the ost of making some rails was
128.50 a ton. Carnegia replied:
"I say that if he made rails at 126.50
he sold them in Canada at a loss. The
tnek of that company could not be
shove par. The Pennsylvania company,
wnicn owns inn pinni. nuuiu buuh gci n
new management." -
Referring tt Gary's ability. Camegis
declared that If he had followed the ad
vice of- his friends, who urged him to
retain control of the. steel corporation
when stock was f 8 or 28 a share, as he
could easily have done, he would have
asked Gary to remain, and, following
custom, he would have made Gary his
"heife's W Scotch term," said he,
"which might be used. In, describing
Gary, file's a pawky chlel.
Carnegie then explained the intricacies
of the cost of production of steel.
HOIDUPSW '
ASTORIA CAFE
One Watches Customers
While the Other Rifles
Till; Both Escape.
Witness Kissinger Says He
Saw no Evidences of
Struggle.-in -the -Window
of Lawyer Fisher's Office
at Time of Shooting. ""
The Jury.
. W. S.. Abbett, tin shop. 425
Sellwood street,
B. E. Howes, agent for road
machinery, 408 College street.
John W. Davis, streetcar man,
148 Sumner street.
,W. E. Charlton, dairyman,
Sauvies' island.
8. I. Ogden, farmer, St. Johns.
Robert Service, blacksmith,
Rocky Point.
Charles J. Bush, laundry
driver, 74 Clark street
Charles H. Thompson, steam
ship agent, 128 .Third.
M. 1j. Lank, cigar dealer, 689
Jefferson street'
F.'W. Hanna, grocer, 221 First
street'' , J' v.' "' X - i'j
W. H. Musser, retired, 4T4
Tamhlll street ,
Albert Sunderland, retired
1000 Melinda avenue. ,
(Speclil DlHtch to The Joornsl.) -
Astoria. Or., Dec 21. At an early
hour this morning ; two masked and
heavily armed men entered the Horse
Shoe restaurant on Astor street and
held up the place. There were about a
dosen customers In the restaurant.
The first of the robbers held a revol
ver In each hand and these he turned
on the man back of the' counter.
While one watched the crowd' the
other opened the till and swept Its con
tents, about 160, Into his pockets. -
Both escaped. Thus far there Is no
Clue to their Identity. -.
CANADA'S POOR LV ;
BETTER SITUATION
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Ottawa, Ont.. Dec 21.-Although the
Industrial depression last summer kept
many laborers out of work and caused
much wnt, thore will not be so much
suffering among the poorer classes if
Canada this winter as thwe was last
Such Is the interesting report f con
ditions in tha larger cities received
here today.' - .'' . .v ' -
The reason for this- unexpected state
of affairs I the fart 'that the new Im
migration restrictions, have kept ut of
Canada many foreigners and It Was
lsrgely among the penniless iid friend
less new arrivals that most distress was
1 ormerlv found. Work being thus bet
tor'dlstributedi the laboring rlasses will
not face the hardship this winter which
has been thc,r portion for many pre
ceding years. -
, The Jury.
. W. S. Abbett, tin shop, 425
Sellwood street,
4 B. E. Howes, agent for road
4 machinery, 408 College street.
4 John W. Davis, streetcar man,
148 Sumner street.
' With the acceptance of two jurors
this morning, the jury for the trial of
James A. Finch for the murder of
Ralph B. Fisher on -the afternoon of
November 28, was completed. This aft
ernoon Arthur C. Spencer, special prose
cutor for the state, made the opening
statement to the jury, in which he as
serted, that Finch is guilty of a pre
meditated murder, and mat the defend
ant made threats against the life. of the
slain bar association prosecutor long
before the latter was killed. '
It became known this morning that
the much heralded testimony lof C. M.
Kissinger, one of the two men said
to have witnessed a struggle In Fisher's
office between Finch and Fisher, will
not bear out the affidavit made by C
H. Plggott, who attempted to set forth
what Kissinger will say.
In a statement made this morning.
Kissinger says that he and B. S. Watts
were standing on Morrison street just
before the shooting and that he saw
Finch go' toward the entrance of ths
Mohawk building. He is not well ac
quainted with Finch, but knew who he
was, and pointed him out to his com
panion, saying: "There goes the law
yer that this man Fisher has dis
barred." Soon after that he saw a man
standing with his back to the window
in Fisher's office, but could hot tell
who it was. He heard some shots fired,
but saw no struggle whatever, and did
not see the shooting.
The failure of Kissinger's testimony to
Denies Emphatically Story
Published in Interest of
JcArthur's Candidacy for
the Speakership Caucus
Situation.
Contlnued on Page Two.)
(Special Dltpatcb to The Journal.
Eugene, Or..- Dec. 21. L. E. Bean, the
leading opponent of C. N. McArthur In
toe race lor speaaer or me noun 01
representatives, denies most empnatic
ally that he has withdrawn from the
race.
"There is absolutely nothing to the
story whatever," he said. "I haven't
withdrawn and have no Intention of do
ing so. I am still in the race for the
speakership and I intend to stay in until
It is finally determined."
In regard to that portion of the. Ore
gonlan article stating that Beaif had
agreed in return for the support of
Statement No. 1 members of the Mult
nomah delegation to give them cht.tr
mensblps of one third of the house
committees, Afr. Bean said: -
"That is an absolute lie. I have nev
er .promised anything in the way of
chalrmenshlps or anything of any kind
whatever. I im in favor of a caucus of
not less than 40 members and In my
judgment it- will be secured. I am
working in the interests of the, caucus
and fully expect It will be organised. I
expect that, every Republican in ths
house will go Into the caucus."
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!. E. Bean of Lane county is not
out of the race for the speakership. He
contends, in the foregoing telegram
Trom Jiugene, inai ne is in tne contest
and is there to the finish. Ndt only
that but his friends in Portland con
tend that there Is absolutely no change
in tne speakership contest, that the sit
nation is exactly the same as It was
las week and that there Is no danger
of any Immediate change unless It Is
through securing added strength for
uean.
This morning the Oregonlan published
an article on the speakership contest
In which It -said that Bean had given
up the fight, that he had been unable
to secure a caucus of the Renubllran
members and that because of this fact
he had determined to step out of the
contest. As a matter of fact, the atorr
Is without foundation, and, in the opin
ion or memoers or me Multnomah del
egation and politicians e-enerallv. was
written solely to further the Interests of
the . McArthur candidacy. Which from
the first has been championed by that
publication. McArthur is recognised as
tlie Oregonlan's candidate for speaker
and the article is looked upon aa a
story written ,to benefit the candidate
at the expense of Bean and without a
foundation of fact upon which to rest.
It Is a fact that the speakership bat
tle is a complicated one and it is a fact
that the call for the caucus has not been
signed by 40 members, thus making it
effective. It is also a fact, however,
that McArthur is also a party to this
caucus call and that the failure to
secure a caucus Is as much to his disad
vantage as It Is to the cause of Bean.
As the situation stands McArthur has
some 10 votes upon which he could de
pend should he go Into caucus today.
Bean is credited with about an equal
(Continued on Page Three.)
HIIL-HARRIIMN BATTLE ON
Purchase of Colorado and Southern Strengthens Hill's
Position to Open Fighting PointWill Strirc
to Wrest South's Oriental Business.
ANN IS MOTHER
CALLS f OR
VENGEANCE.
"Oh, I wish rhaf I were
lawver. that-1 miahr
lay fh I s. case; beore
rnc juries.
Tfien I would call:
ubon hiqhj heaven ro
tannovvervjeanee upon
th "re rr i "Die deed n
VfJ. WILLIAM ZAYMJ.
Mrs. Peter , C. Hains, mother of
the Hains brothers, calls the son now
on trial a martyr, who was only do
ing his duty In protecting hlg crazed
brother. .
'V
HA1N5' MOTHER'S
STATEMENT.
.'WhenTer became
insane, after hU v
wi res conffesSton arid
rhe a enet-al pur him
infoThornro nf3 hands
weknew Thai- hewouU
bejauhjoi unto rhe
dearh.
li I 'vail h i rr- -
Mr.ryr.aindidm proud
of-hirn. 1 .
TOLD ROBERTS
HE'D KILL HIM
Star Witness Describes T.
Jenkins' Share in An-
nis Murder.
TRAGIC ENDING
OF MISALLIANCE
White Wife of Chinese Pois
ons Children and Dies Un-
fUnlte Press Vaumti WJrs
San Francisco, Deo. 21. Railroad
men believe the acquisition of - the
Colorado A Southern railroad by James
J. Hill will precipitate a bitter war
for foremost place, in the railroad
world. By his purchase Hill has se
cured his long wanted railway outlet
to the gulf and has brought the total
of his mileage close to that of Harrl
man. ... ..
Hill is now . recognized as the only
man who can1 menace the position of
Harrlman. The men who have been
watching his recent manipulations be
lieve he is. planning an aggressive cam
paign with the ultimate object of set
curing for his lines the volume of trade
between the orient and the southern
states. ' .
Hill now controls the Great North
ern, the Northern Pacific the Burling
ton , and the Colorado A Southern, with
a total trackage of 23,98 miles. Har
rlman's roads are the Union Pacific,
the Southern Pacific, the Illinois Cen
tral, the Baltimore St Ohio, the Erie and
the Georgia Central, with a trackage of
28,297 miles.
Railroad men say the discrepancy in
mileage Is counterbalanced In favor of
HHl by the rich country through which
his " lines pass. In addition to this,
the greater -part of Hill's lines are laid
through country that is yet to be exploited.
REID TOO 1CH OF A NABOB
S:k::y:,Xi : : v..
Barbaric Splendor of Establishment- of American Am
bassador in London Offends Republican Sim- -
. ; plicitj'-rEumor.That Eeid 3Tnst Go.
. London, I)ec.- 21.---Ruraors are revived
today that Ambassador Whitelaw' Reld
will lose his place when the next ad
ministration steps into power and the
statement is made in -diplomatic ch-cles
that the 'American statesman has dis
pleased Presidentelect Taft as well as
President ' Roosevelt "through the ex
travaganub with which he -has main,
tained his. station at ilia ennrt nf fit.
Jiames , . ,
; Reld, it is understood, would be e.uite
willing to keep his post, but the home
authorities are reported to have made
up their minds to recall him and replace
him with some diplomat who will live
In a style simpler and more becoming
the trajltlons ot the United States. -.
None of the attaches at the American
embassi would discuss the rumor or
mane any comment on the situation t
nay. . . . , '
(Cnlted Press Leased Wire.)
Flushing. U I.. Dec. II. Assistant
District Attorney Darrin. at the resump
tion of the trial of Thornton Jenkins
I-la ttia .i.nif1 infnttv with hi hrother.
Captain Peter C. Hains, of murdering
William Annis, announced toaay ttiat ne
would remain In office after the expira
tion of his term on January 1, to finish
the present case. .
The first witness called at the begin
ning ot the hearing was Charles II.
Roberts, a member of the Bayside
Yacht club, where the shooting took
place. Kooerts was an eye -witness.
He sata tne uerendant jammed a
revolver Into his face, saying:
"Keep off. keep off, or I'll kill you."
Roberts then related how Annis was
taken from the water, desperately
wounded.
Roberts said that after the shooting
he said to Captain Hains:
"The army ought to be proud of you.
Tou are a fine specimen of an army
officer." '
Then to the defendant he testified
that he said:
"Don't try to explain anything to me.
Tou are Just as guilty as your brother.
You prevented ne from stopping mur
der." The. witness said the defendant then
asked. "What could. I -do?- He was my
brother."
The witness declared that he crltl-
cisea Mains lor snooting in the ores
ence of women and; children and that
the defendant said:
"I'm lust as ' sorry for this as any
one could be. I have been trying to
v iimu irom aoing mis a long line
It could not be helDed."
Assistant District Attorney Darrin In
a statement made today declared that
Mrs. -Claudia Hains would not be a
witness In the trial of Thornton Jenkins
Hams.
S
NO "UNWRITTEN
: LAW" GOES WITH
JUSTICE CRANE
(United press Leased Wln.
Flushing, U - I., Dec. 21. Two unlooked-for
situations which confront
counsel for Thornton Jenkins Hains at
the beginning of the secrd week of the
trial of. the alleged conspirator In the
murder of William E. Annis-by Captain
Peter C. Hains Jr. may result In a com-
Flete reversal of the plans for the de
ense. .
In the first place. Justice K. C Crane,
who haa been responsible - for many
unique methods for the. expedition- of
the trial, has said with finality that
there Is to be no airing of the un
written law nor featuring of "dementia
Americana" In ;thli' t.ial. i
Secondly. In dismissing the Jurors
Saturday until Monday morning he li
clared hts belief that the It men who
hold, the -life of the prisoner in their
bands should be permitted to go about
they business unrestricted by the sur
yillwBce of a deputy or court officer.
der
Engine
Wheels.
(United PreM Leased Wire )
Piano, 111.. Dec. 21. Driven desperate
over what had bepnme revolting to her
as an unnatural alliance. Mrs. Georgia
8. Ah Wong, the American wife of a
i ninaman. todny poisoned her rour chil
dren with wood - alcohol and then com
mitted suicide by throwing herself un
der a fast Burlington Dassenaer train
Before she murdered her children she
wtote a psthetlc note In which she said
she had decided to kill herself and her
little ones.
"Ivlfe is so horrible that I cannot go
on." she said. "I Intend to prevent any
one maKing my oaugnter Dear the same
kind of a life I have led."
Mrs. Ah Wong tried to carrv out her
purpose thoroughly. After administer
ing the deadly draught to her little
ones, she stabbed the smaller, her babv
glrl. evidently wishing to be sure that
she would not revive. The eldest of the
children was 12 years old. All will
probably die.
The woman, whose life was wrecked
by her marriage to a Chinaman. Is said
to be the daughter of a wealthy Chlea
goan. She wedded her Mongolian lover
over 13 years ago and has been practic
ally ostracised ever since.
icSIyITre
just averted
Candle Flame Snuffed Half
an inch rrom Oil
Soaked Paper.
San Franc! s5o. Dec. 21. After an ex
hairstlve examination of the building of
i KosfBimis, an incorporated shoe
company, containing thousands of dol
lars' worth of stock. Fire Marshal Towe
announced today that ha had evidence
to show that an attempt at one of tha
most riagrant incendiary crimes In his
experience had been made after the
store closed last Saturday night.
J. J. Glppert,-; special i patrolman,
discovered that the store had been en
tered early yesterday. He notified po
lice headquarters and detectives went
to the building. The officers found a
pile of Inflammable materials soaked in
kerosene In a -cloakroom. Trails of
straw, soaked 'in oil, ran to piles' of
paper and straw in different ports of
the building. - In the center of the main
pile - was a lighted ' candle - on a box,
which 'atj the time1 of discovery was
burned' to within half an-Inch of , the
oil soakled paper on which It rested.
. The Felice declare that they have not
enough evidence to make arrests as
yet, bfit that '.several men are under
suspicion. , V.-- -;'-. - i
Child of Warren Edwin Bro
kaw, Economic "Theorist,
Dead and Two 111 Im
proper Food While 111
From Want.
(United Press Ltued Wlrs.t
Pasadena, Cal., Dec. 21. One child is
dead of starvation and ptomaine pois
oning, physicians are fighting for the
life of a second and a third is critically
ill here in . the' scantily furnished, cot
tage of Warren Edwin Brokaw, once ed
itor of the 8ingle Tax Courier at St.
I .mil. an Intimate associate of Henry
George and secretary of the Single Tax
conference in 18H3 at unicago.
Brockaw admitted today that while
he and his wife have busied themselves
writing books and treatises on the
"FUlanced Ind Tenure" the children
have gone hungry. Leonard, 8 years
old, who died, had not tasted food for
three davs before hts death, and for
three weeks had been given little nourishment.
Brokaw's two daughters,' sra In a
nrecarimis condition. Vaughn, 12
years old. is near death today, and the
condition of Inei, 10 years old, ls.crit-
ie . . . .
Admitting their terrible plight, Bro
kaw made the following statement: f
"XV arnt down to the last dregs of
poTerty- In an attempt to work our the
ory or tne Daiancea una lenura. no
have had little food. Had we had food
last week our -children would be alive
now. I was unable to leave my wife
alone with the children, so tnat l coma
seek employment. She Is deaf and can
not care . for the children. We have
lived for tho past three years on an
Income of $300 a year and have paid
out of that Income $100 Interest on
mortgages. Other expenses have cut
our fund for food supplies down $125
a year. Several days ago we ate some
figs we picked from a tree in the yard.
The children were all taken 111 and my
wife also became sick, but I felt no
111 effects. All had intestinal trouble."
The Broka w-children were reared In
a little world all their own. Their yard
was enclosed with a high board fence
and they were not allowed to attend the
public schools, their parents giving
them their education.
Brokaw declared today that he had
tried to raise Bis children "pure." He
said 'he did not believe childhood had
sex: that he . dressed hts children ail
alike, in boy's clothes, and taught them
to use, the neuter gender word "it ' -in
conversation when referring to each
other.
Mrs. Brokaw was formerly Miss Es
tella Backman. leader of the Women's
Single Tax propagamda In the east.
Officers of the Emergency league,
which has taken charge of the Brokaw
ease, reported today that there was lit-
little chance ror tne recovery ot eitner
of the little girls. Both are suffering
from ptomaine poisoning rendered more
serious by .the starved condition of the
patients.
MemBers of the Salvation Army to
day said that on Thanksgiving day they
took a basket nf food to the Brokaws.
whose destitute condition had been
brought to their sttentlon. Brokaw re
fused to accept the basket until all
meat, butter, eggs, milk and food or
that character had been eliminated, de
claring it was against his principals to
give his children such food or partake
of it himself.
Brokaw today admitted his peculiari
ties In the'matter of food and said his
children were accustomed, to fasting
from three to five days at various
times
SPOKANE JiXn WILL
GO AFTER GORDON
. (Special THapatch to Tha Journal.)
Spokane, Wash.. Dec. 21. In case the
State Bar association fails to Irv M. J.
Gordon, the Spokane County Bar asso
ciation will. This Is the substance of a
statement made by President I B.
Nash. Gordon was a member of the lo
,al bar for eight years. The Investiga
tion by the local association would be
to oetcrmlne whether he acted wlthtn
the limits ftf rnnJ nUl.an.kl. . , i
mnion i me legal profession
Chris Bons, Arrested for Sa
loon Holdup, Attempts to
Brain Himself Against the
Bars of His' City Jail
Cell.
Chris Bons, one of tho three saloon
ing. tried to take his life In the city
jail this morning.
Twice Bons persistently butted his
head against the iron bars of his -tell.
The trusties In'the adjoining cells yelled
for assistance, and the officers took
Bons out before he had injured himself,
except for a few bruises. Once outside
his cell Bons was seized with a fit and
ucted as if suffering from -severe
cramps. City Physician Zelgler declared
ha was malingering, however. Bons was
removed to the county jail-at noon, it
being thought best to separate him from
his two companions for a time. .
- - Asks for a Baaor. .
Harry Bensonanother of the saloon
robbers - caught In the room at East
Water and Hawthorne avenue with a
watch taken from-one of the customers
of A. M. Hvatt'a saloon on fTIth .lrl
when., it was held . up -Saturday night,
tried In . vain today to get possession of
a rasor. He told Jailer Branch that n
was very . anxious to shave before he
faced, the- grand Jury, but his request
was refused. . -: : ... ,
The attempt at suicide leads the of
ficers to believe that Bons. Johnson
and Benson have become convinced that
they now. face long terms In the peni
tentiary, and are willing to do anything
to escape that punishment.
Vanderhoof, the tramp who rode front
Hood River on tha train held up at
Clarnle. yesterday tried - to identify
Johnson, the leader of the trio, as one
of the men who stole a ride on the train
in his company.. He said Johnson wst-t
not quite broad enough,' across tho
shoulders -to be the man. Otherwise
the identification is complete.
In Trouble Before.
Bona, the . young man who tried ' to
end his life, was arrested two years
ago for a. statutory offence, but , es
caped punishment. He is a lank -appearing
' individual, but while In the
throes of' his fit this morning devel
oped - unexpected strength, and whUa.
lying on a bench In the police station,
gave Sergeant Kelnlin. a much larger
man, all he wanted to do in a atruggl.
Peter LJulectlch. who was held nt
and robbed at Third and Mill streets
last' Sunday, yesterday Identified Ben
son and Johnson as the men who. held
him up. - ' ..- ..
BIGGYlilGIIT HAVE
DIED BY ACCIDENT
(United Press teased Wire. -v '
Ran Francisco, Dec, 21. The coro
ner's Jury today visited the waterfront
to view the police launch Patrol, from
which Chief of Police William J. Biargy
was lost overboard on the night of No
vember SO. ' It is believed the iury will
bring In a verdict of accidental drown
ing in view of the demonstration marl
by boatmen that the launch rolls easily
and that ivwas possible for. a man to-
fall over the side.
It Is believed the Jury wilt, take into
consideration the possibility that Btggy
struck his head on a, ringbolt imbedded
In the afterdeck as, he leu, ana was
made unconscious. r-.- ,' -. , -
CRIES OF WOMAN IN V
BURNING JAIL IGN0B EI)
' ' (Special Dispatch to'Tba Joarnal.V ' '.'
Avereii. irv. 1. 1 .............
in me cnj jatt n "vn, ,.,. .v. .
last night by a fire that started In.
tne women s waru, yrcouirmuj nvm
stubs of cigarettes. 1 - ; -
As the woman was noisy whenplacel
In the cell, the nignt jancr psm im
attention to her cries for help until he
, . . . ... , . t 1. th. rioop 1 ft
the ward was opened, the Interior we
found to be wrapped In flames. ,Tbe
Dedding was emirwij- wimumc
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From the Newark (X. J.) News. '
The politicians in Oregon and all over the country are indulging in
a world of pettifogging: as to the situation. We are told that Demo-
J crats entered the Republican primaries; that the political views ol
e the state have changed in the six pionths since Chamberlain was
nominated; that the legislators are justified in viewing the results of
T November 3 as absolving them from their pledges of last summer,.-
4 Legal precedents are being looked up "and cited to show that the
nomination of a senator at primaries is unconstitutional, and there-
fore void. The entire resources of , the Qregon machine, backed by
machines everywhere else, are engaged in, an effort to secure a Re-
publican senator from Oregon. ".r.
Of course the contentious' abcrve cited are without foundation.
T If Democrats did vote "in the Republican prirnaries tliey did not do :
X so in sufficient numbers to determine the result, Oregon has not
changed -its political views in years. That she voted for Taft in no '
X sense indicates that shethinks less- of Chamberlain. As to the Irsal
aspects of the' cae, the primaries did not elect a senator, they
simply nominated a candidate for the consideration of - the JegUhi-
J tiire. Beyond all this and utterly impregnable io assault is the tmi-
vefsally admitted fact jhat George E. Chamberlain is the choice r,f
the people who are to be represented, in the senate of 'the Unj'tiej
2 States. , It is equally true that a majority of the legislature i -.T-
; emnly pledged to support him. lie rn be defeated, theref.ire, y t.
J. means that reflect honor upon the. legislature or vindicate Krjf.M ;.
a, .can governmeAjt. ; . ." ' , . '
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