The Oregon daily journal., October 30, 1914, Page 13, Image 13

THE OREGON V DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 30. 1914.
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SMITH VISITS
R.C.J.
TOILERS OF CITY AND
WINS MANY FINDS
One After Another Working
Men Assure Democratic
Candidate of Support.
imrcc a or kiht em ini-rrn
VUIE.O nnL nui ouuuiilu
Pontics Barely Mentioned and wiita Zt
Wu gsbjeef Was Brought Up
by Voter.
"Of course, I am glad to see you. but
don't waste any time on me; I'm all
right."
"We don't do much talking and make
no promise, but J guess you won't
find much fault with the way we vote,
'You shake hands Just like a friend,
instead or a candidate."
"I declare, doctor. If you could meet
them all there would be no use count
ing the' votes."
Dr. C. J. Smith spent Wednesday
among the voters, and the greetings
quoted above indicate the sort of re
ception he received. It was much the
same everywhere he went in the fore
noon at thee Portland Btove works' on
Hood street, at the soap works nearby,
in the stores of Montavllla, and In the
arternoon at the Union Stockyards.
The candidate for governor put in
ousy aay among men who work for a
living, and he said he had an enjoy
able time. II was out campaigning,
but it was noticeable that he never
asked a man to vote for him. The
question ot-.A voter's choice for gov
ernor, lf-.dtscussed at all. was brought
up by the Voter himself.
otes Wot Asked.
"No, I don't ask people to vote for
me," Dr. Smith explained. "I hold that
a man has the right to vote as he
pleases. I am not asking people how
mey win vote on governor, it a man
"brings up the governorshln Question
ihlmself, that gives me an opportunity to
"say I would like his vote if he thinks
I ran be of any use to him."
Perhaps It was because of his belief
in the voter's absolute Independence,
perhaps it. was because of his liking
ror people, nls manner of meeting
them his evident sincerity' in talking
with them whatever the reason. Dr.
Smith was warmly received by the men
he visited yesterday.
At the Btove and soap .works he met
practically all the men and received
many voluntary assurances of support.
A number of the men said they would
not only vote .for him, but would do
what they could with their friends.
Polities Wot Discussed.
"I don't care what your politics is,
like a man who seems to understand
people and to know something about
them; that's why I will vote and work
for you." was the statement of one
man.
At the stockyards in the afternoon
Dr. Smith met the men who work in
the pens. Many of tne employes had
quit for the day. but those who ware
there were visited and made acquaint
ed with the candidate.
"This is rather a nasty place," said
one man, busy with & pitchfork load
ing a car with refuse from the yards.
"Yes, it isn't just like walking on a
parlor carpet," said Dr. Smith, "but I
guess I've done pretlty much everything
you men are doing. This sort of thing
don't scare me."
Some of the men were unloading a
car of alfalfa, filling a big shed with
hay for the stock. Dr. Smith stopped,
shook hands with all, talked about al
falfa and the work the men were do
ing, but said nothing about politics.
deceived With Enthusiasm.7
"I guess he just came out here to
let us have a look at him," said 6ne
of the men after the candidate had
left. "He didn't ask me to vote for
him, but I guess- I will. He seems to
understand people."
In the big sheds where the hogs and
sheep are kept Dr. Smith was received
with enthusiasm by a small group of
employes. One of them knew the can
didate in Pendleton and -he took charge
of the proceedings.
"I want to say that I know Dr.
Smith, and he is Just the sort of man
we want in the governor's chair. He
has been doctoring people like us all
his life. He knows us at home and
at work. I want to say that Dr. Smith
will make the right sort of governor."
There were half a dozen men in the
group. Four of them spoke up, say
ing they were for Smith. The other
two did not commit themselves, but
they Joined in a cheer for Smith when
the candidate was leaving.
MCAMANT LONGS
FOR
HAPPY DAYS OF GANG
AND MACHINE RULE
Biggest Gathering Troutdale
Ever Saw, Leams Motives
of Withycombe Chaperon.
REPUBLICAN TOO WOBBLY
Farmers Turning to O. J. Smith Be
oaus Governor, with Mind - of
His Own, Is Wanted.
CLAN MACLEAY BENEFIT
To raise money for the British Red
Cross and Prince of Wales funds, Clan
Macleay, the largest British organisa
tion i0 the city, will give a Halloween
concert in K. of P. hall. Eleventh and
Alder streets, tonight, commencing at
8 o'clock. The following will take part
in the program: Miss Christine Den
holme, soprano; Miss Dagmar Kelly,
contralto; Hartridge Whipp, baritone;
Mr. Hoose. tenor; Charles Thompson,
baritone; Mr. Belding, selections; Miss
Trixle Williamson, Scotch dancing;
Pipe Major Macdonald, Highland pip
ing. A group of children under the di
rection of Miss Peterson will give exercises.
"This was thye biggest meeting ever
held in Troutdale," was the statement
of the mayor of that town at th close
of an address by Governor West there
last night.
There were more voters in the hall
than people in Troutdale. Farmers and
workers came from miles around to
near the governor speak, and at the
close pressed forward to erasD his
hand and tell him that thev believed in
him, believed in his policies, 'and most
or tnem said they were going to vote
against any turning back of the state
government to the old system, to the
old practices and to the old abuses
that permitted the school lands and
other public lands to be frittered away
with a wholly inadequate compensation
for the public treasury.
"We cannot afford to elect Withy
combe," said a tall farmer at the close
of the meeting. "We want a man
who will stand with his back to the
wall and fight the legislature, fight
the public land looterau fight the graft
ers and fight for the people and for
the taxpayers as Governor West has
done. Dr. Withycombe has no back
bone; hjj lets men we don't know lead
him around and talks abotft harmony
with the legislature. We need a differ
ent kind of man to that in the govern-1
ors orrice, and tne people all under
stand." Law Enforcement Is Issue.
Declaring that the independent vot
ers are going to be the deciding factor
in this election, a woman said the par
amount issue in the governorship is
law enforcement and that a candidate
whose managers were afraid to let go
out and make speeches wouldn't have
backbone enough to enforce law, and
that it is no wonder that women vot
ers all over the state are lining up
for C. J. Smith.
"The chaperone for Dr. Withycombe
in his trip down to Astoria yesterday
was Wallace McCamant," said Gov-
ernor West. Mr. McCamant has become
an active figure la the present political
contest. He rose la his place on the
stage, where he was surrounded, by all
the reactionary generals and. - waving
his hat. gave the Chautauqua salute
as Mr. Booth appeared on the stage at
the Booth-West meeting.
VcCam ant's Client Dodged Taxes.
"Mr. McCamant wants the good old
machine days to return. He doesn't
like the kind of government we nave
now, the government in which the peo
ple take so large a part. He is attorney
for Wells-Fargo, which, under the old
convention rule was paying taxes on
valuation of less than tlC.OOQ a
year, though it was doing a business of
millions. It was the farmers and fthe
great middle classes and the small
owners who were paying the taxes for
this corporation and for other great
taxdodgmg corporations until govern
ment of the people, by the people and
for the people was brought into vogue
through the Oregon system.
"Today, through the operation of
the people's government the big inter
ests are required to bear their -just
share of the public burdens and Mr.
McCamant' a corporation is now paying
taxes on a valuation of more than
$600,000 a year, or more than 60 times
as much as in the convention and gang-!
ster days. '
Great Interest Significant.
"Mr. McCamant' s great interest In
Dr. Withycombe's candidacy is and
ought to be of striking significance to
the voters of Oregon. It 1b an interest
that should picture to the people more
powerfully than any words of mine can
paint it, the story of what is going on
behind the scenes and what is expected
of Dr. Withycombe in cape he be
elected."
Though scores of people were stand
ing along the sides and in the rear of
the room. Governor West, who spoke
for an hour and a half, held the atten
tion of his big audience so completely
that not an auditor left the room while
he was speaking.
a recess or the legislature 10 days
from its organisation, this first ses
sion to be only for, tne introduction of
bills. ' This will give the people 39
days to become acquainted with the
measures.
"Heretofore so much business and so
many bills have been rushed through
the legislature with such haste that
the people have had no opportunity of
knowing anything about what the leg
islature was doing," he said. "Even
the members themselves were ignorant
of many of Hhe'-measures passed."
He also favors an amendment to the
present tag laws which will allow the
taxpayers to pay their taxes Semi-annually.
He also, favors the initiative
measure providing for $1500 tax ex
emption. The Women's Liberal League of
Oregon, which is opposed to state-wide
prohibition, will hold its last meeting
before election tonight at 8 o'clock, in
Swiss hall. Third and Jefferson streets.
Good speakers will address the meet
Favors Non-Partisan
Judiciary Measure
Judge- Stephen A. LowtH Gives TIews
In letter to Judge Henry E. McGinn,
Advocating Proposed Measure.
Arguments for the non-partisan Ju
diciary -bill which will be voted on
Tuesday are advanced by Judge Steph
en A. Lowell of Pendleton, In a letter
to Judge Henry K. McGinn, who is
strongly advocating the adoption of the
measure. The letter follows:
I have your letter and am pleased to
know that you feel confident there is
no danger of the bill restoring the
convention system becoming a law. I
have been fearful of it because its
friends will vote, and there is danger
that the opponents will not.
Relative to the non-partisan Judiciary
act. I shall vote for it as I would
for anything which looks toward a re
lief from the "vested interests". We
have inherited an idea that a man in a
judicial office becomes more and more
efficient as the. years go ry and thle
old sentiment of life appointments still
clings to Judiciary office. Myobsery
atioa has been and my honest belief is
that the only substantial progress that
the law has ever made, so far as the
courts are concerned, has come from
new men upon the bench, men who are
fresh from the people. ,
Men long in Judicial office are clois
tered in habit and in roind. They -live
in the past, hedged about with prece
dent. They are out of touch with the
common people, and in my Judgment no
man ought to be permitted to occupy a
Judicial office more than six years at
any one time. By continual infusion
of new blood in the judicial life of
state and nation, it may be possible
for the law to keep pace with advanc
ing' thought.
BOY MUST HAVE WORK
Who will, help this boy through
school? Francis Slondro, 18 years Old,
is snxlous to secure work. He is anx
ious to continue his study of English
in a night school he Is attending, but
in order to do this he must have m.
. 1... 1
il - . - 7 -
ployment. .4 Francis h ; been acctis-;
tomed to- manual laboligV Ariyone hat-';
lng any work- may call at the boy's
home. 388 First streets or, call up the
Associated Charities, ij&ain TIT or A-
ln. : . - -
i - - -Shoots
Alleged H$ld-Up Man.
San Francisco, Caili'Oct 30. Kola
Cellini, book dealer, f&iot and -killed
John Marino, who. heVsaid, had tried
to hold him up, and as held by the
police pending invstgbtion.
LAFFERTY COMES BACK
Sickness Hindered
McDonald Campaign
Candidate for "Legislature How Recov
ered and Will Make whirlwind wind-
Up; Policies Outlined.
Alva I. McDonald, candidate for the
legislature, Is Just recovering from a
long illness, which has kept him from
campaigning. He intends, however,
from this on to election day, to cover
the district and explain to the voters
his reasons for believing he should
be elected to the legislature.
Mr. McDonald was one of the first
signers of the initiative bill to save
the public its water fronts and tide
lands. He is making an active cam
paign now in its behalf.
He says he also favors and will-introduce
a bill, if elected, providing for
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Poinrthe Way to Knights
Downstairs Salesroom
You'll find here real shoe economy for $3. There's more service
more staunchness more style in these $3 shoes than in any others
at the price; more than in many that are sold at a higher price. Let
Knight show you real shoe-worth!
27 different styles in
Women's Shoes a
complete range of
widths and sizes in each
style.
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31 different styles in
Men's Shoes a com
plete range of widths
and sizes in each style.
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No Rent to Pay No Accounts No Deliveries in
the Downstairs Salesroom
KNTGHT'Sg
"The Steps to Economy'
Morrison Near Broadway
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HANL
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In snailing life's by-ways and mile-a-minuting life's highways; in vio
leting life's hillsides and buttercupping life's dales; in tenting beneath
Cod's blue and drifting His rivers' ripples, always I have had my dog
along. Why! because a dog is faithful.
Of all the virtues, faithfulness is the star one. If a man is sure of
faithfulness he can overlook the lack of other virtues.
If I had the remaking of our grand republic, I would have faithfulness
the foundation requirement of all law makers and law administrators, and
the republic would be a grand and everlasting one.
Faithful men can do little wrong, a faithful public servant no wrong.
I have been asked time and time again. Why have you taken up Mr.
Hanley's fight? And I answer: In William Hanley I long ago discovered
th dog's faithfulness combined with those higher human attributes which
go to make the ideal public servant; physical, mental, moral courage,
tempered with red-red blood heart throb" and soul quiver.
I profess to know dogs and men. My experience with both has been
vast. I rarely make a mistake. My dog pals of yesterday are my palsof
today, and tomorrow. And the public men whom I have white-crossed are
the ones I still count my beads with.
In choosing a dog pal, or a public servant, one has only to study their
every-day round-aboutings, if they ear-true and eye-straight for faithful
' ness, my experience has shown me it is well to cast the die.
I have said that I did not know Mr. Booth or Senator Chamberlain only
as their public records and their present senatorial campaign movied them. ,
. God knows it was not my desire, or my intention, to say aught in my Wil
liam Hanley effort, that would throw a sliver of shadow aslant their pub
lic or private characters.
My only desire, my whole intent, was to say to the people of the great
state which has awakened my whole being to an intense admiration: "I
.know a great man, whom I know would make a great public servant for
you, your state, and our country." , -
My only desire, my whole intention, was to show them how much they,
their state, and our country needed a great public servant, in this, their
present crisis.
My only desire, my whole intention, was to guide their vision to the
awful calamity which will surely come to them, their state, and our coun
try if they close eyes and ears to their God-sent opportunity to impress
into thdr service an exceptionally good public man.
This was all and if I have, in my fervor of heart, my anxiety of soul, or
my defectiveness of mentality, said aught in word or spirit, to bruise or
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pain eimer 01 wuiiam tianiey s opponents, 1 now and here offer my sin
cere apologies.
l teel it but lair, to Senator Chamberlain and Mr. Booth; to Mr
Hanley and myself, to say' this in my closinp; bit of this brief oen camDaien
Also to say with all the earnestness that here is in me : I trust the voters
of Oregon will elect William Hanley to serve them in the United States
senate, in the coming national crisis. I say it because I believe he is. re
gardless of what either of his opponents may be, the man for the place
But whether he is elected or not, I do most earnestly trust, that he will at
least receive the vote of every, man or woman of that class, for whose
welfare I have given the best part, and the best in that part, of my lift
the toiler, the. oppressed, the suffering. From all such I ask a thirty sec
onds', let-me-think consideration of my simple off -the-reel character study
oi my suDject. -
I have been asked if I knew,
really knew Mr. Hanley.
How well I know him can be
judged when I say: A while back
at least three years I was asked by
the leading American newspaper,
The New York World, to select, for
its Sunday issue, a list of the great-
to-be Americans, and I put down,
well toward the headrof a very se
lect thirty odd, the name of William
' Hanley of Oregon. At that time Mr.
Hanley was running for no office.
He did not even know I was mak
ing such a list, and there was no
screeching reason for my putting
him intr it. xrent that I. better
than his neighbors, knew that he
was the making of a great man
. 1 . T 1 ' 1 t" . 1
xrjai i , DCiievea ins on-xne-way
career would, later, on, justify my
judgment. I say this now merely
to show that what I have said in
this campaign of Mr. Hanley was
not said to fill in the political emer
gencies' chinks; that what I say
now I would have said long ago,
wlin tVi uroa rt "k1,iil o!l frr
its saying; that I sincerely believe
all that I have said of Mr. Hanley.
For my readers should bear in mind
that such great publications as the
one I mentioned would not honor 3
one with the making up of such a
list job if one had been in the habit
of picking at random, or picking
slipshoddedly. ' '
Toward midnight the vounar laundrvr
drew from his unique tub his only shirt to
find it had shrunk to a quarter its size.
PLUCK
Way back in the earlv days of the
west, when the cattle drive from Burns
to the nearest market place. Cheyenne, re
quired a Ions; six months, one of the driv
U1,? cr" J1 it a young recruit,
when the drive camped at. its first week
end, the cook Was amused at the request
of the Joan of his bean pot. The lad's
mother had said, on' his leaving home to
"rn nis uvilf in tne arrest htir world
"Billie, be Sure to keep yourself clean.'
Did tne lad sit down and weeo over his
first loss? To him, in those days of few
par men t luxuries and less money to re
place them. It was a serious loss. Weep!
No. he laughed and made jrlad the cook's
heart by presenting him with a shirt for
his baby. In this simple act, at the be
Kinnin of his career, we have Bill Hanlev
of "all his active after life. His quick
wit, his generous jrood nature turned his
loss into an opportunity to do a good turn
for another. ,
BRAINS
A quarter of a century later. In a lux
urious sleeper speeding; East, the laughing
boy of the boiled-shirt episode, now grown
to sturdy manhood ana cattle kingship,
said to one of his pen - pushing Eastern
friends, as he pointed to a long side
tracked freight: "A part of my 50,000
cattle taking a 2000-mile jaunt to Chicago,
and Just beyond in that one where the
engine heads west, are me of them,
dead, making the 2000-mile return trip to
Portland. Is not the Beef Trust kind to
the people of Oregon, and are not the
people of Oregon kind to the Beef Trust?"
and he lay back and laughed at his 4000
mile freight loss as though it had been
profit. In between laughs he told of the
years of wasted effort of the Western
rancher to balk the mean trust robbers.
How the trust in Chicago would bulletin
day after day into the wilds of 2000-miles-away
Harney County rise upon rise upon
the price of cattle, until the toiling ranch
er would get together his cows and steer's
and ship to the far - away market? And
how. upon their arrival in Chicago, with
tralnloads on trainloads from other to-be-pillaged
i Western Harney counties, the
price would be dropped and dropped until
the deceive! and distracted rancher to
save himself from being eaten up by yard,
feed and other charges, would sell for
whatever was of fteredg and return sadder,
but no wiser, for the following year would
see him again stripping himself for a
fresh skinning.
William hanley's tales were Interest
ing; he intended them to be. Brains of
the William Hanley caliber work in their
own way their wonders to perform. His
Eastern pen - pushing friend carried the
interesting beef " trust tales back with
him into the lairs of the Beef Trust
thieves' allies, Wall street, money and
other trusts, until well, the cattle of the
Harney counties of Oregon are no longer
given the 4000-mile Jaunt before being fed
to the Oregon high-cost-living victims,
for out of the Interesting tales of Bill
Hanley grew . the great slaughtering
establishment in Portland which has at
least annihilated the 4000 - mile freight
charge trust tribute.
(I cannot help saying here, while
pointing "to this example of Mr.
Hanleys unique and effective ways
of solving the people's problems,
God help the Trusts when Oregon
grants Bill Hanley the privilege c
telling his interesting tales in the
law-making and law-admiriistering
hall of the Nation.)
SOUL
One beautiful Summer day. when every
thing in Central Oregon was at its love
liest, when the twittering of the birds in
the tall grain, the droning of the hoppers
in the waving alfalfa, the ripple, ripple of
the rivers, the swish -swash of the ditch
flume, the blue, blue of the sky. and the
mellowness of the breezes all sang God's
great kindness to the dwellers of the
Garden of the West, this devil scene ' was
being enacted to prove that Bobbie Burns
lived In no different age from ours, when
his immortal quill sobbed, "Man's inhu
manity to man makes countless thousands
mourn." A prosperous ranch, a motley
crowd in front of the "home" which
father, with the aid of mother and the
kiddies, had built with their own hands;
a red flag and a loud - voiced auctioneer,
the weeping woman, a sullen ready-for-the-anarchist's-teachng
man, and a hud
dled group of terrorized children, and a
harsh "Going, going, gone," that" sounded
the death knell to all hopes . of a God
fearing, country - loving American family.
Then a big, twinkling-eyed, round-faced,
soft-voiced man of a group of "Please-O-please-God-bless-him-for
- he - has-blessed-us"
Oregon toilers.
"Now. don't talk any more about It. I
bid it in for you all. and it's all yours back
again, even better than it was before, for,
instead of 9 per cent interest on the mort
gage, you will only have to pay me 6 per
cent. There, there, if you go on this way
I will be sorry I did it."
Just a Word here with you Oregon
voters. 'Would you dare to go on
record with your ballots, that the
prayers of such victims of the Ore
gon end of the bank trust don't
count in senatorial elections as well
as in other walks of life? Do you
dare answer with your ballot that a
man who goes through life followed
by uch prayers stands no better
chance with his neighbors and his
countrymen than-
HEART
Scene, Broadway. New York City. Time,
shop-letting-out evening. Many of the
dwellers of Oregon don't know the scene,
so I will hurriedly thumbnail sketch it: A
great wide avenue with both sidewalks
cram - jammed with surging mobs. Pale-
.f faced, shrunken - formed, , pathetic - eyed,
drawn-lipped, sweat-shop slaves. Put all
the people that one sees on ail the 'Streets
in Portland's shopping center into, each
Broadway block, and that is what it looks
like, only they are different-looking peo
, pie. God help them, from the people of
Portland. The center of this wide avenue,
packed with a soUd procession of crazy-
. going vehicles, automobiles, society-
- liveried victorias and broughams dashing
mail wagons, lumbering vans and. wedged
into - every crack and cranny, countless
taxicabs; two gigantic policemen at each
. crossing., who every minute break the
procession that the mob may make a wild
dash for the "other curb." Do you get
me? Yes! 1 know yu think so, but you
don't. Any one wlu lias ever seen the
Broadway rush at store-lettlng-out even
ing time, cannot possibly vision it as it
is. Hell let loose and repeat, and then
some, is the only parallel.
One who might easily preserve one's
wit and nerve in the center of an Oregon
cattle stampede, can as easily go daffv
from their first experience with the
Broadway mob at shop-letting-out evening
time.
One evening two years ago, during the
trip of a lot of prominent Westerners, of
whom the most interesting and most dis
tinguished is Colonel Bill Hanley, of Ore
gon" (I am copying from the New York
papers), there stood on the curb of one
of the Broadway crossings' a working
woman mother, in her arms a babe, hang
ing to her skirts a four-year-old. Also
standing there watching the human
round-up, was the big twinkling - eyed,
round-faced man I have desecribed before.
The mother and the tot vainly essayed to
make the curb during the procession's
split, but the tooting automobiles, plung
ing horses and helter - skeltering of
humans terrified them, and, stupefied,
they nalted in the center of the avenue
as the policeman's whistle gave the signal
for the mad rush of vehicles.
The dashing horses of a society vic
toria were upon the horrified helpless
ones, when the man on the curb landed
at their heads and in a twinkle threw
them to their haunches; lifted the wdman
and the babe with one arm and the tot
with the other, just as the giant police
man with uplif ted- club came to their
assistanceT but he was not needed, for the
vehicle driver had felt that thrill which
comes to the crowd with the presence of
a real leader. They recognized in the
broad - brimmed, black - hatted, twinkling
eyed cattle king the man, the real man,
the man who needs no help, and a cheer
went up as the soft voice of Bill Hanley
rose above the din: "Officer, take the
kiddle, while I drive the wife and babe
across the trail, and be sure don't let the
stampede get to them."
(Don't think I overdraw my pic
ture. I got the episode first hand
from the newspaper editor who got
it from his reporter.)
Some of Mr.- Henley's detractors like
to tell of the sorry figure he would cut
in the effete East once he was away from
iis Jaiinch grass and sagebrush haunts.
The reporter who passed in the above told
nis editor that the only clear-headed,
good -form person present on that Broad
way block that evening was "Colonel Bill
from Oregon," and' when two days later lie
reported the following he added this to his
copy: "What a President of the United
States Colonel Bill Hanley, of Oregen,
would make."
NERVE
On the busiest corner of Wall street is
the real center of The System and all its
allied money and other Trusts: The bank
ing house of Morgan. There are detectives
at the one big entrance. No man or woman
gets by tnem tnto tne Morgan building who
by any possible slant of vision can be $on-
(Paid Advertisement, by Thomas W. &awsoa, Prinevint. Oregon.)
strued into the "suspicious" class. Bill
Hanley's merry eyes twinkled at these
dollar royalty guardians in a way which
must have read, "I'll bulldog you if you
don't watch out," for they passed him up
and were glad they did when the trailing
reporter whispered. "Colonel Bill Hanley,
of Oregon." Colonel Bill has a reputation
even in Wall street, and it is one that does
not argue well for those who attempt to
stay his lawful travels.
When a visitor finds himself in the big
Morgan banking office he need waate no
time getting to his errand, for there are
numerous mysterious individuals whose
duty it is to see he does no wandering,
particularly toward the door of the late
John Plerpont Morgan's private office.
But if by chancer one does get that far
into The System's inner Jungle he gets
no farther without the little potent "By
appointment" card. "Colonel Bill" act
ually got to the door before its big,
always - on - the - watch - for - cranks and
bomb tossere guard interposed his huge
bulk. "HaV,a you an appointment, sir?"
"No," said tfie soft voice which is so fa
miliar to Oregonians, particularly for
those looking for the way out of their
troubles. "But you just eay to Mr. Mor
gan that Bill Hanley. of Oregon, would
have a word with him." "I cannot do it.
sir. my orders are imperative. I cannot
disturb Mr. Morgan except for those who
have appointments." "All right, son, I
have no imperative orders, so I will do
it myself."
There might have ' been varieties of
trouble, both for the Morgan guard and
Mr. Hanley. if the door had not at just
that moment swung in as the vig voice of
the late head of all financialdom sounded
In its most Morganixed tone. "Well!"
Wall street in its back offices on dull,
rainy afternoons amuses Itself to figure
"out the number of people who have
dropped dead or been sent to the hospital
' for unexpectedly getting in range of that
Morgan "Well."
Before the door guard could speak up
-Mr. Hanley's soft "Excuse me, Mr. Mor
gan, but I am Bill Hanley. of Oregon, and
I thought I would drop in on you while
in town."
If there is one" thing that the great
Morgan could do better than another it
was to site up men. It is a Wall street
tradition that Jie never made a mistake in
his first - sight sisings. provided the sized
one had any striking characteristics. No
greater compliment was ever paid Mr.
Hanley than the one given him that day
by the late great money master. Without
an instant's hesitation be answered
"Walk In, Mr. Hanley. . What can I do
for you?" "I am sorry to say. Mr. Mor
gan, you cannot do anything for me.
While I was down in New York I thought
I would come in and see how you make
all this money I read about." The great
banker laughed long and Morganly. Just
wander about, anywhere you choose. Go
through the business offices, the private
offices, into the vaults, anywhere. Yeu
are welcome." The -reporter, who waited
with bussing eyes for the parting of the
Oregon Cattle King and the world's.
Money Monarch, afterward said that Mr. '
Hanley told him that he never had spent
i more interesting half hour.
HI, I I I IIH, --18 . !' 'I p
yj
PERSONAL
would embrace this, my last
opportunity, to thank the many
Oregonians who have by mail,
telegraph and telephone, so gen
erously signified to me their ap
preciation of my effort in behalf
of Mr. Hanley and crying-for-help
progressive statesmanship
Had I time, space and data
tools I might have made my ef
fort worthy of my opportunity,
but the always fickle jade caught
me hammocked in my outing
togs, far from my forge and an
vil, and I had to do with my
crude materials or not at all.
When I decided to butt in, the
campaign was nearly finished. I
was at the ranch, a day's travel
from Portland, the center of in
formation and statistics. have
not seen Mr.' Hanley or any of
his lieutenants since the cam
paign opened and have necessar
ily had to depend on memory and
a rusty pen for my material, and
it s pitch-f or ky.
Had it not been for my s'plen
did inspiration - generating 'sub
ject, I would indeed have made a
sorry mess of what i ached to
mould into a vote teaser. . How
ever, if my attempt produces one
tenth of the prayed-for effort, I
will be amply repaid, and the
good people of Oregon will have
a rmrTmtMtatia in ihm tlnltmA
1 States senate of whom they will
ibe proud. If my efforts have no
effect on the Senatorial cote,
will still be repaid, for W will
have again demonstrated ' as in
the past the utter futilities of
stacking facts against bunkum,
when the people are bunkum-
hungry. A,
THOMAS W. LAWSON
Prineville, Oregon, Oct. 23.
A. W. LATrSSTT, -
The Journal has attacked my record
i an "absentee' I am ready to meet '
the issue. 4
Many roll calls I have purposely re
frained fronvanswerlrig, because I hate -,
technicalities and dilatory motions, and ,
because I refuse to put in my time at .
Washington sitting around warming '
a chair while James R. Maim, the
stand pat minority leader, wastes the
people's time and money with such ,
tactics, J refuse to be the mere string
Jumper of Mr. Mann or any other ob- ,
structionist. I have never failed, alnc
I have been a member ot nouse ot
representatives, to vote on the main
question when any Important bill came -
to a vote.
Thi business or the last nouse coum
have been finished in half the time,
except for the dilatory motions and
maneuverings of Mr. Mann. I, as one
Kepuoiican, rerusea to vote ror ir.
Mann for minority leader and 1 re- ,
fused to support hl obstruction tac
tics in the house. f
On many roll calls, known to be njia- -torv.
. I have remained in mv office
when the bells would ring, and put in.
m v time answering letters from my
constituents and investigating rec
ords and facts enabling me to serve
their Interests by exposing graft and
proposing real reforms.
The Journal savs I nave been in Eu
rope twice-since my flection rour years
ago. i rue, out I spasi oniy eix wwi
the first trip, w hi city, was during the
summer of 1913, after the house hsd
passed the Underwood tariff law, and
was doing absolutely nothing while ...
waiting for the senate to act on the ,
same. I was back long before the cur-,
rency bill, the next measure considered ;
by the house, came up on the foor.
My next trip to Europe was during the
three weeks' Christnias vacation last .
winter, and I wa( Just gone from
Washington three rweeks. Mv .only
other absence fromj Washington dur
ing my whole four: years' service .
was three months the past summer
when I was in San Francisco and :
Portland working oti, the land grant
case, not for any private clients, but
for the people at lar.
No-man can say hat I have not
been a zealous member of the house.
I have secured the passage of more
?rlvate bills than aoyipregon member.
was first to introduce the woman's
eight-hour bill,, which" was later Intro
duced by La Follette In the senate end
is now the law. I was the first con
gressman to ever introduce a bill for
street railway ownership in the Dls,
trict of Columbia. Such a bill has
since been favorably reported and will
be voted on this winter.
If 1 had done nothing during my
whole term except to push the land -grant
esse to the supreme, court, fl
would have done more for Oregon than
all the hand-picked congressmen The
Journal will elect between now and
doom's day.
If I had done jiothlrrg hut draft and
introduce my MgricQHura't asset cur rency
bill, which some day will be the
law, I would have done more for the
American people than The Journal ever
did or ever will do. " I - -:
If I had done nothing but point out
to the American people how they are
being robbed. I woul.l have done more
for humanity than any congressman
The Journal will ever elect.
If I had done nothing except draft
and introduce my bill to convey the
forest reserves to the states, condi
tloned that the sfate shall hold the
land permanently in public ownershlo
for forestry purposes, marketing onlv
the ripe timber each year, which bftl
will some day be the law and reduce '
Oregon's taxes one .half, I would have
done more for the grest state I love,
than will all The Oregon. Journals that
will ever be printed
Tonight I speak at Kern Park at ;
Lents at 8;30. Tomorrow, 2.30 p. m.,
Hillsdale; 8:00 p. m.. Waverly.
fk. W. lyAf ffiKTl,
733-3 Pittock block.
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misery in the kidney region, severe
headaches, rheumatic twinges, torpid
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You simply most" keep your kidneys
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ake a tablespoonful in s, glass of water
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your kidneys win then act fine. This
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while It is only trouble. Adv.
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67 Or and Arm. V, between Conch and
Saris. Phones East 1433, B-8514.
orzxr sat ajtb jtxokt.
Report all cases of cruelty to this
office.- Lethal chamber for small ani
mal. Horse ambulance for sick ori
disabled animals at a moment's notice.