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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND. MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 21, 1012. mam hi. 11 mm SCENE IN EUGENE DURING OREGON ELECTRIC CELEBRATION TUESDAY THAN ABUSE-TAR President Favors More Public ity, Fewer Personalities and ! . Greater Dignity on Part of Candidates for High Offices. 'V -A :i-ci - -:f vif Millie if I'i i 1 1 (United PrM JiMd Wire.) Beverly, . Mass.,. . Oct. 21. President "Taft's view of how a presidential cam- paigrf should b conducted were,"iven to . the United Press today In an exclusive Interview.. The president's idea of the', proper, way to elect a chief executive follows: , ' , , ' i J By President XViUiam Howard Taft, I (Copyrighted, 1913, by the United rrcss , , . 'Associations.' ,: : Mr. President,'? asked the- United Press correspondent? , "how do you per sonally : believe presidential, campaigns suouia d conauctearuft ; f President Taft answered: ; . "In such a way as to bring out as many votes of the citizens as possible. The great danger to. a republican gov ernment, as I see It, is the lack of Inter est in politics and -failure to exercise suffrage by a large number of citlsens. I regret to say I believe statistics show those who neglect this Important duty are generally .Intelligent and capable of exercising a , discrimination In voting .jthat.would...inak9 lor thezgopdpf ,ihj. '. government... Everything, therefore, should be done to bring out this vote in presidential-campaigns. . '. ':. , , Candidates Vast Advertise. "The press, of course, Is the chief !n- strument in keeping before vthe' people eontroversiea of the campaign; the ne- .jrceeslty for political activity and the 1. final act of suffrage, but other methods v i - ma veriismg are -comin g - into-vogue. 7he use of the billboard, electric signs and advertising panels in street cars are the logical outcome of a study of the science of advertising and publicity that so many Industrial firms have had occa sion to make. The great difficulty in such campaigns in the expense. j cam paign conducted In it states necessarily Involves the expenditure " of vast -amounts. At tlmeo it-seems -re -ot less easy to raise considerable suras by popular subscription, but in (he past the subscriptions, have been by persons of comparatively large financial - means, engaged in enterprises which might have such relations with the government as to be affected favorably or unfavorably! by governmental action. This has given rise, to questions of motives, many of I which are unfounded, that are likely to I make the collections funds moBfTHfff. eulti" - ., '..T..,. Decries Personal Attacks. "What do you think." the president was asked, "of the effect of personali ties In a politlcacampalgn?" President Taft answered": , "I doubt whether personalities have anything like the effect which those who use them think they have. Some times there is a real revelation of the character of a candidate, and so clearly proven to his detriment that he suffers. Ordinarily, the use of epithets and per ponal attacks on candidates pnlyanger IH M if-:- i w " '-rm J PCS!! !SoBi 'V1 -"";"' '!'FSSaPBBBBBSSS)SSjBaWSS- Persons Bearing ; Same Name of Democratic Candidate j v to Boost for Him., : The excellence of "the decorations and the large crowd are shown. Jesse Applegate, Democratic and Re publican.: catiaidateg, : renpcctlvely, for sheriff. .Applegate, is now a deputy in the off Ice of SherlffKancock. . Judge Stevenson was appointed by Governor ' West . to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the late Judge Bewell and is making a strong fight for election. , 111s slogan is -uooa roaas and more of them," and his supporters are predicting his election on that plat form,' Judge Stevenson took a leading part in good roads work immediately following his appointment by the gov ernor and during the short time he has been in office fully four times as many miles of rock roads - have been con s true ted as during any previous equal period. - ----- , .... During Judge- Stevenson a tenure of office the mechanical equipment of the county for rock road building has been doubled" .and ' several addltldnal "rock quarries opened up. That the people are in accord with the good roads movement is Indicated by the act that the county court has, in several instances, been served with notice that if it will levy a 10 mill tax next year for road construc tion the various road districts will vote an additional road tax. their friends and gratify their enemies, but. do not affect indifferent ones. ,These attacks lower the tone of discus sion and divert the attention of the pub lic from the real facts at issue. For tnat reason., the fewer personalities in. C0MRADES1VH0 FOUGHT SIDE BY SIDE MEET FOR FIRST TIME SINCE WAR '" (Continued From Page One.) States has never been ready for a war and in eaoh case we have paid dearly for our inaction. Wounded rive Times. "I "believe that the harbors of the northwest need greater protection, for the reason that waterways from the ocean enter so rar ihTSOTTfiarannmy could gain a great advantage in case a campaign of invasion were under taken."';, , - -. , ' . f . . ;.t General Woodruff left this 'afternoon for Seattle en route for a tour of the Visiting Delegates Discuss Theme Pertaining to Tem perance; Large Attendance '"ahd'MucrrlnteresrShown. The theme in practically every Protestant church of Portland Sunday was temperance. Sixty-two pulpits were filled by speakers for the W. a T. U. cause, either members of the union of etlorrftr repute or the regular" ministers using Is as the subject of, their address es. Extra large attendance was the gen cral rule of the day for all churches the city over. In a number of cases both morning and evening services were de voted to appreciation of the work of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. , In addition to Portland churches ob serving the day generally for the tem perance cause, many pulpits of surround ing towns were thrown open to leaders of the white ribbon movement. Tlio general response was so unusual that several of the women speakers, in the iwP.0. th.t camPalTi. the better, as J astern and southern states and a visit j mi yuuuu ib men inure niceiy to reacn a sound and Just conclusion." voters Somand Dignity. -Asked-if thepeople utiir axtrected-ilhrc nlty in high office, the. president an swered "Certainly. I am convinced that even the humblest voter wishes high officers of the government to conduct them selves with dignity and to refrain from . . descending to personalities which ordi narily w would not associate with men in prominent, conspicuous and official positions. ... I., believe the people are sen sitive on this - subject I am elad to think this is true, because when the peoif gun, lava v. utility mntx sen re spect In high offices, they are losing their own ideals of standards and low ering them." President Taft said that in his opin ion the contest at the coming election would be between the Democratic and pexarblicarrTartlPsnTyrntielnfapi parent that the Progressives would not carry more than one or two states if any. The aim of the Progressives he said, Is evidently to demoralise the Re ' publican party and throw victory to the rr'Democrats.'T -r : r- - with his son, Major James Woodruff, of the engineering icorps of the United States army, who as district engineer, ts-statkmeS-at-Vickeburgr-Mlesiselppir There he will be joined by his wife and will return to San Francisco in Jan uary. Until a month ,ago General Wood ruff was commandant of the Veterans' Home in Napa county, California. He resigned for the reeson that he be lieves he Is entitled to rest the re mainder of his life. - General Woodruff has been a soldier since he was old enough to-"tote a Hr-is wei I known in the north west, where he served through the In- i dlan campaigns of the ?0's in Montana, and from 1881 to 1S89 was raptaln of the commissary, at the Vancouver barracks.-"" During his career he was wounded llTlinejelblseJtMR.ef.durins; thejjiyil war and twice fighting Indlaps. V STEVENSON IS BASING CAMPAIGN ON ROADS . (ilpectnl to TJm JnoroKl.t Cornelius, vOr., Oct tl. Political af fairs in. Washington county have re mained rather quiet J thus far in the - campaign. - The only contests of note so far are those between Robert O. Steven 'son, Democratic candidate for county Judge, and D. B. Reasoner, his Republi- can opponent, and Jasper Reeves and BEN SELLING ' Leading Clothier. HUGE BREAKER HITS STEAMER, FLOODING " 7 ONE "STATEROOM (Continued From Page One.) upon the fact. Mrs. J. M. Kemp, na tional superintendent of several depart ments of the W. C. T. U., said that at no previous national meeting she had ever attended had the support of the churches been so whole hearted. - Big Attendance Beported. White Temple was crowded to capa city in-all- services -of the 4ay and In JfleMenUgJ.t. wajjnLecessarvoJhqldjan overflow meeting, iiunareds unable to enter the Baptist place of worship at tended the meeting at the Grace Metho dist church opposite White Temple. Mrs. Edith Smith Davis of Wisconsin, director of the-bureau of scientific tern perance Investigation and superintend ent of the department of scientific tem perance Instruction in schools and col leges, was the principal speaker in the evening at W. ' C. T. U. headquarters. . Mrs. Davis received frequent applause on making telling ; points Tin her address. One Instance was when she heartily condemned the taking of the Bible from the public schools. Her plea was for an education for children in which not only were mental and moral sides of their natures developed but the spiritual side1 also. She said that King; Aloohol was the man that caused the overthrow of i'ilim Jefferies-at-Reno-and-not Jaek Johnson, and she cited another instance of temperance victory In that of the clear eyed American athletes over the liquor ' stimulated athletes of Europe generally, at the Olymplo games at Stockholm last summer, t A beautiful tribute was paid France! E. Wlllard, founder of the W. C. T, U., by Mrs, 8tevens. '-- -.. .- TTribnta'" Paid- leader, 1- The annual W. C. T. U. convention ser. mon was preached at White Temple Sunday afternoon by Rev. Edith Hill Booker of Portland and the church was crowded. The greatest tribute to Fran ces Wlllard came from the lips of Rev. Mrs. Booker, who told of her life de voted to the cause of temperance and Of the numerous difficulties the great rounder had to overcome.-" She sard "The power of woman Is marvelous. I only wish we had the time to look into the Bible and Into history and see how many times women have fought and stood up for their rights, when oth ers slunk away. We are now voices crying out in the wilderness of world woe against the rnonstrcaity .of liquor traffic. We call en the United States to protect us from this evil to which we are forced to give our children as host ages." Work in jrew Eealand. Mrs. Anderson Hughes, formerly of New Zealand, spoke on the subject, "How New Zealand Grasped the Nettle" as the second speaker at White Temple Sunday night She told of the battle that was being waged in her native land for temperance, and of how her people were approaching the goal. She boosted for the English dependency nuuieast or Australia and Invited her barers to spend their next vacation being done through the equal suffrage ui wunten. Kev. Deimar H. Trimbl spoke at Centenary Presbyterian church Sunday morning on ine women's Christian Temperance - Union An Appreciation." He said that the W. C. T. U. uses four weapons in Us work, legislation, agita tion, salvation and education, all closelv allied. He said that while the effect of the work- of"tftr-vonisn warTar reaching, it was not thorough. He said they were working for their own pres-J ervation and the savatlon of the race. I "We need noble, pure womanhood that rf- win stand tor me right where man does not . She alone can pull man ud " said Dr. Trimble. Addresses Tonng People, Mrs. Eva- C. Wheeler, Orebon. seore-, tarj', and Mrs. Bessie L. Sctrvtll bf Mln. nesotai were speakers at Grace Metho dist church Sunday evening, Thy spoke at the young people's meeting. Mrs. Scovlll expressed it as her opinion that within eight years the national prohibition measure will have been passed. Mrs. Wheeler regretted th lack, of suffrage In Oregon, but wag With. "We will win with Woodrow Wilson," as their slogan Portlanders bearing the oognomeiv of "Wilson,' will meet tonight at 7 o'clock at the head quarters of the Woodrow" Wilson league headquarters in the Perkins hotel, for the purpose of organising the "Wilson Wilson? club.'. ' ''':s;V,-,v,;s''.''',:;. The club which i will be made up ex clusively by ' persons named Wilson, will be non-partisan in all things save in regard to Woodrow-Wilsori.'Whom the club will do what it can to elect presi dent bf the United States. ..- 'XFollowihgTprelimlnary' 'organisation the Wilsons will go in a body to the Bungalow theatre where they will listen to the address of O. C Wilson, who is to speak in . favor of the Democrats nominee's candidacy.;.; ':..,' X There are approximately 400 Wilsons listed in the city directory. Each one of them Is Invited to join the club. Captain A. ' Mv Wilson, a cousin c-t Woodrow Wilson, is acting as tempor ary president of the unique organisation; A. King Wilson, an attorney, is vice president;, R. A.' Wilson,, a druggist, treasurer; T. X Wilson, a painter, sec retary,, and J. Cliff Wilson, of the Bag gage & Omnibus Transfer company, cor responding secretary. - Following-organisation- tonight- the Wilsons will elect permanent officers. "The Idea of organising Is simply to get the Wilsons united in advancing the candidacy of Woodrow Wilson," said Captain A. M. Wilson, today. "If or ganised we feel that there are enough Wilsons - In the -country to elect the governor. Every person named Wilson ean trace their lineage baok te the same general tamily which sprang from Scot land and north of Ireland. Therefore the club is a family matter, that's all." hopeful that women of the state, when they did receive the ballot, would be able to eradicate the liquor-evil. This meeting was followed by the overflow White Temple service, the two apalters-from that place delivering tneir same addresses at Grace church. reversing the order of their appearance before .the congregation at Whlt Tem ple. The young, people's meeting was xargeiy aitenaea, tne church being full, Eugene Register: The Oregoji Eleo. irias ie k rprnana is !S.60, instead of $3.75, as was formerly the case with the Southern Paciflo company on ac count of their greater mileage, and the week-end return trip will be I4.9C In stead of $5, Of course the Southern Paciflo company will. meet both these rates and the fare has been reduced that amount. Message to Working Women All women work; some .in homes, some in church, some in the whirl if society, and in stores, offices and shops, tens of thousands are oa the never leasing treadmill. bread. All women, however, are subject to tho same ' physical laws, and Suffer alike from the same physical disturb ances and weaknesses, peculiar to their sex. Every woman, no matter what her station In life, should remember that JL.ylla E. Plnkham's Vegetable Com- pound is the great remedy for female ms7InWhlcTrime Should place her tru6t - im ii.suwsrg-''-- i ! .,,. ,.7 , if V ' -V ill -'J: . IWlMWear' K JSlJDays-.;. j'; .v: V... .v.v. Choose one of -these stunning new Man Tailored Suits or. an .easy-fitting. Coat or Z Raincoat; they're warm in fabric, correct in style and. there-faultlessly tailored 1 ' .' 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The waiter who brought me my breakfast had Just left my tray, and I had asked him to close toe aoor, realizing that it was getting rougher, but he paid no attention to my request ; It was less . than u.- minute after that when this big breaker came, and . I thought the waiter had been washed overboard, but I found out that he had sought refuge in another state room, .'..,,. .. "As soon as possible we were ' taken to the engine room, where we were dried out, and the captain then gave us his room,.. They refused, when we got here, to do anything for me. AH my clothes were ruined, and some of my things were lost. Among them was my trunk check." .-. - When Mrs. McNall and her son reached the hotel here she almost col lapsed, and kept to her bed all after noon and until late this morning. Up to noon she had been unable to wire her husband in Anaconda about her experi ence. :' :-.! ; : j ... She declared that the entire trip was a thrilling one. : On leavina- Marahfieid and in crossing the bar at Coos Bav. she declares the steamer struck bottom as,Jt watJhrowh from. lde.to; side Jiy the heavy sea. . After Dassina- over tha Columbia river bar, it is said that the Breakwater sent a wireless warning to auoiner steamer not to attempt the trin over the bar at that time. - Mrs. McNall had been vlsltinr with her son, a business man at Marahfleld. and was on her way to Anaconda. She win remain here, however, until her claims against the steamshin com nan v are adjusted, and as much of her bag gage as is possible is recovered. Too Much Law in Germany. Berlin, Oct 21. Every, twelfth Per son in Germany has been punished fori oviic uwmuuu ttiQ iuw,..accoraiiig 10 the first statistical figures upon the subject, ,. which ; have Just been made public. 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