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VOL. VII. NO. 23.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 4, 1910.
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CKeers of Enthusiastic Voters Greet Ex
Judge McGinn and Dan Malarkey, Who
. Tell Why "Leaders r Oppose Direct
Primary Biggest Gathering in State.
- Before 3000 'enthusiastic, cheering, shouting, stamping people in
the Armory last night, Senator Dan J. .Malarkey and Judge Henry E.
McGinn' told of the issues of the present campaign, j They told the peo
ple whaj : the: assembly movement meant,' what the leaders of the move-'
ment wanted' and Expected In the event of the success of the assembly
movement.! .They 'related the history of Oregon politics, its- past corrup
tion and , dehaunchery. v 1 ' ---
They -called to mind the years through which.' the people 'struggled -to'
throw off the yoke of the boss and ; the grip of. the machjne, .and
how victory had finally come through the enactment of the 'direct pri
mary law. alt. was the greatest gathering of voters that ever preceded
a primary contest in Oregon. 1 t t - ' t
The Bpeakers delved deep into r0cent political history and showed
'blow these old-time leaders, and-thelr satellites had hungered for the
old days, how they had continually struggled agalnsr the new condi
tions until they; had finally, evolved the assembly scheme as a means
of evading the terms of the law and nullifying its provisions.
Speakers) Tell Truth. ..'.'
- ; The assembly movement and the assembly leaders were handled with
out gloves.' ' Both Senator Malarkey and Judge McGinn told unvarnished
stories of the workings of the assembly, movement,1 and of the actions
of the assembly .leaders. The corporation control of the old convention "
government" and Its effect on . legislation ; was , told in , graphic terms
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: wnut ine apeauera were le.uuiK viif"
stories, .the great audiettca. swayed wun
their words. As Ahey poured suggestive
shots against the assembly anl the
: leaders, their voices were drowned .with
' applause. As they hurled defiance und
discredit at the assembly propaganda,
the people stamped and shouted. , It
was not . ; lukewark meeting. It was
fcllve and awake to the pending Issue.
It made Us Inclinations evident In no
uncertain terms. If . the ;.ojnlnjiJ3t1lX.
" if the anti-assembly forces U any ln
dex, there Is , an avalanche J, starting
' which will on September 2 4; engulf and
bury the whole assembly camp, leaders,
camp followers,' propaganda and all,.
Cheer Xoosevelt.
The name of Roosevelt pronounced
early In the speech of Malarkey as the
greatest leader of Insurgency and the
cause of popular government In Amer-
' lea, evoked repeated echoes of applause.
The speaker's euttlng sarcasm as he
told of 'packed conventions and legis
lators bound and delivered to candidates
of special Interests, compared: with fhe
position of a man who supports the
people's choice" aroused instant response.
His demand to know If " the assembly
men are more regular than he because
they advocate the violation of the prlm-
' "ary law also went home. .
Thomas B. Kay, of Salem, a candl
. date for state treasurer t presided - and
lntrodiiced. the jiepakers. ,In a . short
speech he reminded his. hearers that
It was the Republican party that en-
- acted the dlreet primary law, and 'the
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Certain That Their Policies Will
Clash at Conservation Con
gress; Claimed Pinchot Is in
Charge. - .,..,
United Prew Utted Wire.) '
St. Paul, Sept. 3. A cat-and-a-dog-tlme
that's what ' the National Con
servation congress, which opens in St.
Paul Monday morning, promises to be.
' Taft vs. Roosevelt will be, the lineup.
The clash of their policies 1 Inevitable.
Taft has declared for state owner
ship of water "powers. "
Roosevelt has declared against them.
Taft praised Reed Smoot's senate
bill, which provided that water power
shitfl be turned over to the states. '.
Roosevelt' declares , that "state's
. rights"' Is a cry that Is started by the
interests.
Taft la placed with the state rights
conservationists.
- Roosevelt ; is a federal conserva
tionist. ' ' ' '-
Taft Speaks rirst.
Taft speaks the first day; 'whether
or not he touches on the question of
state rights will hot .matter, for he has
already declared himself. ; ,
Roosevelt speaks , the ..(. second ; day.
During his .recent trip he has attacked
state's rights, and the prospects are
that he will de so in his St. Paul
Speech. ' ' , -
The third day of the congress, when
discussion will be thrown over to the
delegates, will sea two sides ranged up
' along the lines of the Taft state rights
and the Roosevelt federal lisues
" 1,1 ' .' BajriTObfas-WogiaS.. .
The western governors and delegates
claim that thej. Pinchot conservationists
have stolen the program .and tiave ; so
arranged It that at every session One
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ROOSEVELT-TAFT
PROMISES TO BE
FEATURE MOND AY
MGINN GIVES
PEOPLE HISTORY
OFASSEIWITES
Candidate Describes Origin of
Assembly, Declaring, Jt
Sprang From1 Corporations;
Upholdsi Direct Primary. '
Judge Henry, E. McGinn followed 8en-e-tor
Malarkey In the great anti-assembly
mass meeting at Armory last eve
ning and was given an ovation as he
faced the big audience. After the an.
plause had subsided so that the judge
couia luaKo nimBeir neard he began his
address by the statement that "Tie de
sired to give his hearers a text He
desired. to do It -without any; Idea of
levity or of 'frivolity, but . because ' it
was so applicable to the question that
was oerore the people of the state at
this time. Hie text was taken from
tne sermon on the Mount where it is
ueware of false prophets which
come to you clothed in sheeps' clothing.
jinwaraiy they are ravening wolves. Ye
shall know themf by their fruits. . Do ye
gather grapes from thorns or figs from
misties? ' ' y
' ''By their fruits ye shall know them,,,
said Judge McGinn while the audience
nowiea its approval, do ye expect to
reap popular rights from the Portland
Railway, Light & Power company, the
poutnern j'aciric and Standard OUT
"They have got nearly all , of '.' the
country now, and through the Ouggen
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(Soeclnl DlH-trh to The Jnafo.l -
Ban , Francisco, Sept. I. -Another tig
shake-up In the San Francisco police
department Is impending. Chief of Po
lice John Martin is to get' the off teal
ax within a few days, provided Mayor
P. H. McCarthy can get JuBt one more
of the four .commissioners to. stand In.
Commissioners Joe,. Sullivan and Percy
Henderson are with "-him, but thus far
Commissioners O'Connell and Spiro have
declined to ejd him in removing Martin.
As'a causefor the determination of
McCarthy, to get Martin's scalp, the fol
lowing story is being circulated: ' :
It is alleged, that Cleve Dam, who is
McCarthy's attorney and representative
of the administration, recently called' a
number of saloon men, merchants and
others to make certain "arrangementa"
for McCarthy's benefit Just what these
"arrangements" were IS not made clear,
but.lt Is asserted that "the mnyor'j.jni;
Drj 1 fUUIId ll!ftt'!ICT153'1ccii precedxd
by the special messenger of Chief Mar
tin, ; and he was - met by "-a' frost
wherever he went. " ' ''
McCarthy riles Into area Bags.
Those who claim to know declare that
when McCarty learned what had hap-
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ATTAINS 8151 FT.
HEIGHT IN FLIGHT
Leon Morane Sets New World's
Record for Altitude; Nearly
Frozen in Highly Rarified
. Atmosphere. . .
(VQlted Frew Leased Wire.)
Paris, Bept 3. A new world's record
for. aeroplane height flying was estab
lished here today by Leon Morane, a
Frenchman, who reached an altitude of
8161 feet, 109 ftet better than the rec
ord he made last Monday,
Morane was nearly frosen and had
to be assisted from his machine. He
was numb and It was with the utmost
difficulty that he was able, to maplp
ulate i his Blerlot monoplane. ' :The
height attained today Is believed bv
aviators to be about tl)e limit, owing
to the intense cold encountered at such
altitudes. Morane's machine , worked
perfectly and he could have gone much
higher had he not been prevented by
the cold. . t .
He Z.esseps rails With Wane.'
' The other Interesting aviation Incident
or the day was the accident to Jacques
De Lesseps' Blerlot monoplane. De
Lesseps, one. of. the channel crossers.
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per.ed. his rage knew no bounds, He Im
mediately consulted Commissioners Hen
derson and Sullivan, both of whom are
hisclose friends, and they are Seged
to have agreed with him that Martin's
iff KuZrt be met "S-
Not .o witb O'Connell and Spiro Thev
are not ready to help McCarthv ...T.-
plan of revenge. While neither the may
or nor the two W named commission
ers will dlecuss the matte iMrL;
w,th ' ,&rty .f,M u"eied vloVeX
MoCartiiy rears FUaaen.
Another thing that is behind the de
sire of 'McCarthy to. remove Martin Is
his effort to square himself, in a meae
ure witH Harry. Fiannery, the deposed
polioe commlsstoneri who la Martin's
avowed enemy, ajid who. 5urin h ..
few dayw; hn roma ftufc 1
htThas egun a bitter fight against).
McCarthy. The mayor, whose eudden at
tack of the Hetch Hetchy water rop
osltlon ' and palpable ; line-up for the
tepnng vauey , water comoanv ha. a.t
the town in a ferment, feels it Is dan-
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W. J4 CRITTEND0N AT ' ;
-. ASTORIA PENS NOTE-
j.. .;...THENJLLS.HIMSELF
(Siw!l blepatch to The JnurpHl.l
Astoria, Or., Sept. 3.-EarIy
this evening a young man named
W. 'j; Crittenden, whose home Is
said to be at Coeur . d'Alene,.
Idaho, walked Into a local saloon,
borrowed a pencil from the bar-
"Wire George A. Crittendon7
Tacoma,. .Wash., and , Mrs. J A.
Foster, Coeur 'd'Alene, Idaho,
both at their expense."
He then stepped back and shot
'himself in" the breast with a-38
calfber revolver,' dying ; almost
instantly. The deceased ' was
labout 28 years ' of age, - and
'worked 'on the Spencer seining
grounds during the past season.
' The , cause- of the act is not
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Taft Advises Senatorial Candi
, dates, to Eliminate; Burke
-Stands Pat; Wilson Yields to
Political Necessity.
-- (Special Ktoatcfc t Th Joorn.l.)
. Beattie,. Sept. 3.-s-"The president of
the United States and leader of my
party need appeal to me but once. 1
withdraw."
. This is.the 'substance of a statement
coming from ex-Senator John L. Wilson,
which will be published Bimdav morn
ing, announcing his retirement from the
race for the nomination for United States
senator from this state,
Tbis is the climax of a long and bitter
campaign between Wilson and Judge
Tnomas Burke, bpth from King county.
several days ago a telegram from Presl
dent; Tart at. Beverly rarae to Seattle
asking for party harmony and request
Ing that King county present a united
front to the insurgent candidate, Poin-
dextery' -The merchants of Seattle also
got together and asked the rival King
county , candidates ; to agree upon ' the
withdrawal of one and to throw their
entire strength to one candidate in an
effort to defeat insurgency, Frefjuent
conferences have been held for the past
two.-days,-, scores of politicians partici
pating.? it- is reported that the mer
chants'. Offered to reimburse Burlje for
the etpensea of his campaign. ' -i
n y: " Taft rights itadaxtsr.
' 'FlHaily Wilson agreed to retire in the
interest of party harmony, arid his state
ment tomorrow deals with the exigencies
of the case and urges party unanimity
and support for Burke.
w'M'tw - ttUt "iif 1 tTlB-' BrencTenTa
I confidential." i Ji. 5 .
It is reported that Ballinger also had
a hand In the consummation of Wilson's
withdrawal, representing the adrainistra.
tion.i which haa-expressed great concern
over the sp'read of Insurgency in this
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SENATORS
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STEl'EFIS MERGES
DEPARTMENTS OF
ELECTRIC LINES
Coolidge Made General Man
ager, of Both Oregon Elec
tric and United Railways;
Wickersham Chief Engineer.
President John F. Stevens of the Hill
interests in Oregon yesterday issued a
circular announcement, effective tomor
row, September 6, appointing C. A.
Coolidge,. general manager of -the Ore
gon Electric, general manager of the
United Railways, vice L. B. Wicker
sham, and naming Wickersham ' chief
engineer , of the Oregon Electric and the
United Railways.
... Ia other words, the operating and en
gineering departments of the two elec
tric lines, of the Hill system will bt
practically marged under two heads, to
report to the president, Mr. Stevens.
Mr, Coolidge was appointed general
manager of. the Oregon Electric a few
months ago to succeed Guy W. Talbot,
who resigned when the road was sold to
the Hill Interests to become general
manager, of the Portland Gas & Coke
company. Mr. Wickersham was chief
engineer and general manager of the
(Continued on Page Nine.)
(Special Dispatch to The Jntirtul.) .
.San Francisco. Sept. 3. -The arrival
here of the Norwegian steamer Sark
with 000 tons of coal from China1 is
the first step in the invasion of s the
local market by the Chinese Engineering
4 Mining company, limited, one of the
wealthiest and 'most powerful British
ooneerns doing business in the far east
For. more than a year thla aggregation
of British capital has had its agents
Investigating the field in - which- the
Western Fuel company has so Jong en
joyed a lucrative monopoly,
Its plans are all laid,; and ; with the
Sark comes the announcement that the
new concern Is here to Stay, and that
it has come prepared, to supply the
whole Pacific coast With all kinds of
coal of good quality and at prices that
have beeh only a. memory since the coal
tnwt-tmlnerl I'tuitiui. or tnrTOBfWtTT,
-; Passage Was Uads la Beoret
-The arrival of the Sark was a sur
prise to the local shipping world as well
as to-the. .officials of . the coal trust.
The .Chinese company owns the port Of
Cliing Wan Tao, where the Sark loaded,
and had no difficulty in .' withholding
news" of the steamer's deDarttfrejElie
EMSKED BANDITS
JUniMEN
AND STEAL $6000
Armed Posses on Trail of Five
' Highwaymen Who "Commit
Bold Crimes on New York
State Highway.
PAYMASTER AND DRIVER"
ARE SHOT TO DEATH
Assailants Believed to Have
Been Foreigners Employed
by Atlas Brick Co.
(United Pre Leaned Wlre.V "
TTi'idaon. N. Y.. SeDt. 3. Armed posses
with bloodhounds, led by Sheriff Payne
and Deputy Sheriff Jeffers, are tonight
scouring the mountains , '.and palisades
of Columbia county for five masked
bandits who today held , up and killed
Dertt Fowler, paymaster of the Atlas
Brick company, and Ms driver, George
Ragsdale, a negro, ana escapea wun
S6000 In gold and currency."
The crime, rivaling in daring and dra
matie intensity the most noted "stick
up" of the "wild west," has aroused
the quiet countryside and the police of
Poughkeepsle. Haverstraw ajm neign
boring towns; have been requested to
keep a sharp lookout for thtf- five as
sassins. ;' ' --'- .,-".-i-y.s,.v.-.,r'
; Bobberr Carefully Planned. .
The holdup was accomplished 'with
such ingenuity as to show that It was
planned by a master criminal mind. .
'Young Fowler, who was 24, was the
son of Everett Fowler, president of the
Haverstraw bank. He had been em
ployed for some time. aa the paymaster
of "the big, Atlas Brick company, on
the outskirts of Hudson, employing be
tween 400 and 600 rjen and .having a
weekly payroll of $6000. .v; 'v; i-;-:y
The company keeps Jt account In a
bank -at Newburg, 40 'miles down the
Hudson.1 Fowler has been going1 down
weekly by train to Newburg to draw
the money for the pay roll, Ho re
turned today with 36000 In an Oxford
bag. He was met at the depot here by
Rngsdale, driving an open buggy. Rags
dale had been. employed by the' company
for a number of years. , -
Place Well Seleoted.
' There Is but one stretch of wooded
road on the route from the depot to the
brick plant and the robbers selected
this for the crlme . It Is two miles
from the depot and only 300 yards from
the brick plant. - The employes of the
plant heard a, number of shots and a
short time later Ragsdale's horse, draw
ing an empty Buggy, dashed into the
yard, -j The , laprobe was covered- - with
blood. A number of men rushed up to
where the shots had been fired.- They
found Fowler uhconsclous and Ragsdale
dead, lying at. the side of .the road;
-Ragsdale had been shot in the neck,
chest and abdomen with a 44 caliber re
volver. Any one of hia wounds would
have proved fatal. His head was al
most severed by the wound in me necit;
which at flr3t.seemeu.t0. have been in
flicted with a shotgun. , Fowler was un
conscious from a gaping wound in the
chest. The road was tramped down as
by a number of men and there were
signs of a struggle.
Eighteen empty cartridge shells were
found nearby.
Tells of Holdup.
Fowler, was rushed to the Hudson
hospital. He was placed on the operat
ing table and given, strong stimulants,
under which he recftvered sufficiently
to tell of his experience. i - -
Fowler declared that when within a
few hundred yards or the brick plant,
five men, masked and armed, sprang
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local shipping records of yesterday ahow
the Sark still on the Asiatic coast.
It was originally announced that the
steamer Inverklp would bring a trial
cargo of Chinese coal to thla port. The
coa-l trust- prepared for this by filling
every bunker along the waterfront and
every barge that was available for stor
age, so that when the trust buster ar
rived it would have to lie in the stream
piling up demurrage charges while
waiting for. a chance to unload. It was
then, announced that the Inverklp would
gorto Prince .Rupert, and the men in
whose grip the local coal situation lies
breathed easier.
All this time, however, the- Sark was
plowing Its way toward the Golden
Gate and is flow safely Inside.
" Company's Agent Has Been Busy. ' ,
TTCC7cninose company.:, naa been, iavlnff
Ihls plans quietly for more than a year.
and pas made all arrangements with the
harbor; commission for the handling of
this and subsequent cargoes. 1
The Sark wl II be ; docked at Pier Sfit
where everything Is In readiness to di
charge , the ship and transfer the coal
-n- ;r-t'ontinuedon rage "Ntlte.lf , '
ROOSEVMK-
PLEA FOR TARIFF.
At Sioux Falls, S. D., Urges Re
vision. That Revises in Ac
cordance With Public Weal,
Schedule by Schedule.
COMMISSION WITH POWER
; WOULD END LOG ROLLING
Protection Settled " Policy" but'
Must Be Maintained as a
. Principle, Not Privilege.
ratted Proas Leased Wire.
Sioux Falls. 8, D., Sept. 3. Tariff day
with the Roosevelt special, ac rose the
long agricultural teaches of Iowa and
South Pakota, ended here tonight, when
30,000 people cheered , the Roosevelt
tariff policies.
It appeared that all , southeastern
South Dakota' had gathered at Slout,
Falls, and the thousands, bursting
through all bounds as soon as Roose
velt arrived,, practically pushed his au
tomobile through the streets. "
Later the crowds, or that portion that
could,; gathered under a. mammoth tent
to hear the colonel speak. . Here tonlarht
an attack , by tolonel Roosevelt on the
present: system ct tariff 'making came
on the heels of the Indorsement at Sioux
City,; Iowa, today of. President Taft's
efforts Howard tariff revision by i-oin.
mission, the maximum! and minimum
tariff provisions and the r Philippine
clause of the tariff law. . f, ; -,
Grave Dissatisfaction 'WJth Tariff.
"The tariff Ought to be a material Is
sue and""trti! finoTaion, declared tha
colonel here, ''but If, instead of a
square deal, we get a crooked deal, then
it becomes very emphatically a moral
issue. The' American public does not
wish to see the tariff so arranged as to
benefit a few wealthy men.'";
In attacking the present system of
tariff . revision the colonel ' went the
whole; way when he declared that very ,
little Improvement would follow any at
tempt to revise t)ie tariff as it has been
customary to revise it, and that the
thing to do waa to "change the method."
"The people know,"- he eaid, "that the
system by which -the present tariff law
was made, which is the same system by
which Its predecessors ' were made, en-'
courages a- scramble' of selfish interests
to "which; the all Important general In--terest
of the public is necessarily sub
ordinated." - -.;--' -- ;;,;.. i. .;.
The colonel- added that ; there was,
grave dissatisfaction with the present
tariff..--.-;?;: k' -'v-- "I -."- . ;
. : ; Qualified: Indorsement of Taft.
With - typicat: Roosevelt suddenness,
the first- reference to President Taft or
his administration on the. present trip
was made In ' the colonel's speech at
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Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma
and Arkansas Swept by Bad
Storm That Works Big Dam
age to Property. 7 " " "
;
Joplin,, Mo., Sept 4. Fully a
score of people were Injured and
1260,000' damage done by a cy
cyclonic Btorm that struck here
last night. The storm centered at
Galena, Kan, where 10 mflls were
wrecked. The' gas tanks supply
ing the town were . wrecked, and
the town la in tlurkneus. .-
COMMISSION PLAN
RAGES
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SHaff
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- By the lntcfnatliinal Sows Sofrlr.) , t
Kansas City, Sept. 3. A terrific atorm ;
is raging in the southwest to-night. Tel-"
egraph service has been crippled In sec- . '
tlons of . four stales, Kansas, Missouri,
Oklahoma and Arkansas. Reports !-ceivt-d
here- Bay the worst of the storm '
extends over - Joplin, Mo., and Fort I.
Smith,' Ark.1 Heavy damage has htn
dort. The storm assumed cyclonic pro
portions as the evening wort; on,
Telephone wires suffered , the.- tm
fate as the telegraph lines. .
f Communication Cut Off. - :
As the Storm paused over ("offrvvlll-,
Kan., it was driven on by a terrin.- gdi
Webb -"City,:' Carthage ..ami 'Joplin. all
ret of the towns liv that section.' Fort
Scott, Kan., was the next, tn be .It,
CoramunkaUon with, .'klatnnn city
was f ecu red only by rout In It !r,t
from h-.id VlA Wlihhi, K:ii, s
hundred mil uut (- tne w r- ;
The pemh and apj'U' r.p
ern Missouri hu mifffi' -l h
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