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THE OREGON I DAILY JOURNAL; PORTLAND FRIDAY, EVENING, JANUARY 8, 1915. 5 NEWSPAPERS DECLAR E OREGONIAN IS SEEKING TO DICTATE POLITICS Many See, Sinister Motive in Effort to Force prganiza ; tion-of Legislature. VIEWS ARE SUBMITTED Commwpts on Portland Xoralnf Paper's Tactics Arc Caustic, and Repre ' '. . Mat Voters of State. ' Declaring that the Oregonlan Is at ' tnmpting- to set itself up as a dictator . of Oregon polltlen, newspapers all over t the state are making vigorous protests. 'Many of them ee sinister motives ' back of the OreponJan's determined 'effort to force the organization of the legislature long before that , body meets. ' There Is scarcely a patferj In the state - that liaa not' expressed Its' disapproval of theOregonlan s method and its as- sumption of authority to dictate. Among them are the Medford Mall- Tribune, Salem Journal' and Salem statesman. Cottage Grove Sentinel. Ashland Tidings, Yaquina Bay News. -rJewberg Enterprise, Gardiner Courier, Springfield News, JunctionvClty Times, Gold Hill" News, Cottage Grove Leader, Independence Monitor, Heppner Ga-xette-Times. Couullle Sentinel, Rogue ' River Courier, Oregon City Enterprise. . Forest Grove News-Times, HarnsDurg Bulletin, Condon Times, Fossil Jour- nal and Eugene Guard. - -People Were "Mistaken." Under the caption, "A New Career," the Medford Mail-Tribune says in part: "The people of Oregon supposed that the right of choosing a speaker be- ' longed to the members of the house of f representatives and that It was their province to' pass upon the fitness of the various candidates for the office. J '-"In tills the people were evidently mistaken. The Oregonlan assumes the divine right to organize the legislature: 'it ordafns that it be organized to carry S out Its schemes to promote the pre- posteroos' ambitions of its editor, who seeks to become United Statf senator. lt has therefore resurrected Ben Sell . Ing front the graveyard of political ob- llvion In which its own support in ferred him. and decreed" that he be . chosen speaker as a preliminary to . candidacy for governor, four years .hence 1 "To elect Mr. Selling. In addition to 4 brazenly -bluffing and calling in , old time bosses like Mathews and Burke to I. aid It,, the Oregonlan is indulging in tha most sinister form of 'log rolling.' To secure the unwilling support of the Multnomah delegation, it has parcelled out-the committee assignments in ad vance, rewarding its friends, punishing Its oponents, bartering positions and patronage for votes. "When the legislature meets, if the - Oregonlan is able to carry out Its pro gram, It will already have been organ ised. Its rump caucus wUl have cut .and dried a program of legislation. " The country members can fall in line -"or take their medicitfe." "r&4?:-i.ni.'-"rJUhm X So'eated. . Many of the papers look with dis-&mM-.tlM lao. suggested , In the Jtntrtetlnaf'the state so vaa to Increase Multnomah's representa tion In the legislature from 19 to SO. The Gold Hill News says; ' "Greed knows not satisfaction. The 'evil intentloned scheme ; to redistrict the state for legislative representation i was hatched In Portland a serpent's 8K. in very' truth. The - official '-(s)trumpet for this proposed betrayal of the' country districts, is you've guessed it! the Portland Oregonlan. .In. all probability,' comments that ' grandmother, of evil, 'the measure will '"be proposed at the forthcoming ses ' slon.' WhlcU means that it will be. . rBrieflv. the scheme would give to ", the. north a perfectly .corking control : of the state legislature at the ex pense of 'he country. It would add 10 legislators to the Portland machine, al- j ready a Juggernaut of no small tonnage. Jackson, Josephine and Curry counties now have a representation of seven legislators. Under- the proposed plan these three counties would elect but 'four,' the namber Jackson county now ; has alone. Friends, feller 1 patriots, and folks generally! Is this a state of affairs to be desired V . Capital Journal Outspoken. T- The Capital Journal ia very out spoken tn its protests against the Ore gonlan dictation. It does not let a day 'go by that It does, not have something to say on the subject. " "On of the Important ' lessons due ; In this contest Is a demonstration that the state and Its people are not to be 'governed .from the Oregonlan tower," V says the Salem paper In a recent edi ' torlal. "And It is not true that, as the? Oregonlan contends. Mr. Eaton's 'contest Involves any opposition .of the ' country to the true lriterests of the metropolis, "i What Mr. Eaton stands .for is opposition to the dictation of tho -Oregonlan and the handful of special interests which, it represents. The peo , pie are not going to revive, under an ; other form, its system of boss dicta tion." -.'i In another editorial the Capital Jour ial says, in part: ...A' ' Hew Precedent Set. J ' "Because the Capital Journal advo cales independent action on the part of 'the legislators In the matter of or . ganlaatlon, and' for all other purposes of legislation, the Oregonlan Jumps to the conclusion that Salem "wants some thing.' Its onlx conception of public ..'business seems-to be that no paper or individual may take an Interest in It without having some private graft to J work through. That has been Its own rule of action so long that It places all other, papers on the same low plane.' "Immediately following the election, the Oregonlan announced that W. Lair Thompson would be president of the senate. Shortly afterward It I stated that Ben Selling was the choice for speaker, its .misrepresentation of the real tacts causing many members-1 elect to send their pledges of support to Mr. Selling. For three weeks pa&t tho members of the Multnomah dele gation have been holding a miniature legislature in Portland, under the lash of the Oregonlan, framing up a pro gram to be put through when the real session meets in Salem. "This open declaration of state con trol by Portland sets a new precedent. It is an unheard-of proceeding, and one fraught with danger to. the people of the state, to have all the legislation of the session cooked up for them tn the home of the corporations and in terests. It is open and defiant bossisra not In harmony with the Independent spirft of the times." j They're "(Jetting Wise."; ! The Oregonian's attitude when it is accused of framing a political ma chine reminds the Junction City Times of "Nero" in the zoo. The Times' savs: "In every part of the state the pa pers are rallying to the support of Mr. Katon. Nothing strange In this, either It is Just a case of 'getting wise' to the smooth, underhanded effort the Oregonian is making- to deliver the leg islature Into the hands of the Multno mah machine. It will snort and bluster at tho mention of it being identified with any machine. It reminds one of when the keeper In the zoo stirs up tt'e, flea-bitten lion. 'Neuo' emits a roar or two to the edification, of the spec tators and then all is over. The Orego- iita.ii ieis oui a nowi or two wnen you mention machine politics in connection with it. and the howl amounts to about as much as Nero's roar." Machine History. Becalled. .me abiuuiiu xiuings, in commenting on the "Machine still at work," recites a little of the history of the 1913 leg islative session. It says: "In 1913 the Portland machine named the president of the senate. He was a Portland lawyer. The Portland ma chine named the speaker of the house. He was a Portland lawyer. Tho Port land machine named the chairman of the senate ways' and means committee He was a Portland dentist. The Port land machine named the chairman of tho house ways' and means committee He, too, was a Portiamler. Ana of most of the other important senate and house committees the chairmen were named by the Portland machine,, and In each case the holder was a Port lander or an outsider who had been pulled into tho organization." Sees Bocks Ahead. That the "bull-dozing, band wagon, sandbagging tactics made use of by the Oregonlan" may prove the undoing of its candidate, is the prediction of the Cottage Grove Sentinel, j Continu ing, that paper says: "The Oregonian's method has so galled the country newspapers that a number of those that might otherwise have taken no part have comei out flat footed against this attempted usurpa tion upon the part of the I Portland daily. A determined stand on tho pari of . the country press will put suffi cient, backbone Into tho country mem bers to keepr them from being fooled by the band wagon movement. The country members have about 48 votes. Portland has but a dozen. With four fifths of the votes; only a little back bone is necessary to elect the country candidate. Mr.; Eaton." Old Political Stuff Not to Be Tolerated Annual Banquet of Jackson Club Will Be Held at Commercial Club To night. ' When Colonel Robert A. Miller, president of the Jackson club, begins to hand things to the speakers at to night's annual banquet of the club, no mercy 'will be shown anyone who tries to inject the old political stuff Into his remarks. The banquet one of the famous dollar' kind will - be held in the main dining room of the Commer cial club and Colonel Miller expects fully 350 people, men and women, to sit around the board. The occasion will be strictly in formal. Governor West and Judge Munday of Vancouver, Wash., will be the chief speakers, but impromptu ora tory ' will spurt from every corner of the room, particularly from those per sons who come from a distance. Dele gations will be on hand from Corvallis, Vancouver. Oregon City . and other places. All the addresses will be in formal and- Colonel Miller says the best speakers of the state, men and women alike, will feature the program. Music will be in charge of Dr. Clem ent C. Shaw, lately of Chicago, as sisted by F. Hampson Wing, violinist; Mordaunt A. Goodnough, 'pianist, and Miss Margaret Hanson, soprano. Mrs. Sylvia McGulre Thompson of The Dalles, a reader of darky dialect, will give several selections. AD CLUB 'SATIRE' TO EVERYBODY WITH IMPARTIALITY Leading Citizens of City Be Harpooned and Lam pooned to King's Taste. ALL SKITS ARE ORIGINAL Seven Acts Will - Comprise Begular BUI; Stag; to Bo Bald. After O ril ing Is Finished. Theft of AutQ Is Admitted by Boys Harold Xellaad and Joseph Bobson Taken Into Custody; Sellwood Tpuths Are Bow All Bounded XJp. The arrest of Harold Kelland, aged 19, at East Sixteenth and Tacoma streets, and Joseph Robson, aged 19, of East Nineteenth and Sheri dan streets, rounds up . the gang of Sellwood youths, led by 17-year-old Earl Riley, Circuit Judge McGinn's "honor boy," that for the past three months has engaged in burglary, auto mobile thefts and holdups. . Kelland and Robson, who were ar rested by City Detectives Moloney and Swehnes. confessed they had stolen Dr. E. B. McDaniel's automobile from St. Vincent's hospital Saturday. The machine was found at East Third etreet and Hawthorne avenue, several hours after being stolen, in a damaged condition. Robson was pa roled by Judge McGinn at the time the Judge put Riley on his honor. ing. They are "Kiekln. Little Chicken Stlckln' on Behind,- -My. Red Cross Girl -Good-bye," and "Old "Daddy. U. S. a. ::v'V:":v'". . H. a. Whipp is ."General Brannigan Holdover, ' ex-admiral of the Swiss navy"; N..A, Hooso appears as "No body Home, from Brazil, where ' the nuts come from"; H. I. Bowman Is Hector Hangback another real ad miral"; Dr. R. H. Emerson is the man who 4ia partial to Chicken; Tom Keat ing; is "Old Doc Tack, a. hasty messen ger." and sings one of the leading roles. Following the usual -custom the 1915 Satire" will be a stag party. Tickets are on sale at the Ad Club rooms, Portland hotel. The jinks will be open to the; .public. An XmproTod Quinlno. Lnnr eomtifnatlnn of laxattvrs T1VE BROMO QUININE makes the Quinine In this form ban far better effect than tbe ordinary Quinine, and It does not affeet the bead. Remember the fall name and look for oatnre of U. YV. GROVE on box. Pnce 23c. Ad. FEAR OF PNEUMONIA : HALTS INQUIRY INTO N. Y. SUBWAY TIE-UP Passengers Summoned as Witnesses Suffering From "Smoke Bronchitis," - V 'United -Prna Leased Wlre.l New. Tork, Jan.. 8. Tjively times for the New York subway management seemed assured today in connection with the inquiry into Wednesday's tie- up . of the system, resulting in the . death of -one woman and tho narrow escape of hundreds of others from suf focation in iralns . stalled In' the big tub.;--'.-JrM;:;,'i- i vaS&'V:;;' District Attorney' Perkins has sum moned as witnesses, in his investiga tion 6 subway passengers and 27 po licemen and firemen who took part in tho rescue work, i He; said: it ;WOuM take -two orv three .days to determine whether or not . anyone was criminally responsible for the accident.' - ; tr"I intend going clear, to tho bottom of this case." he said. propose to learn why passengers were kept In tho stalled subway trains for more than an hour, and also .why .tho firemen wer not called sooner."; .' Two hundred victims of the accident,' said the doctors, were suffering from "smoke bronchitis," .i and would ' fall easy prey to pneumonia. : ' " J " . The districc attorney accordingly postponed examining them until Krl hxy, remarking, however, that he might question ' some of- the , experts he wished to consult concerning' purely technical questions later 'today, .. Among the charges against the man agement were these: ----- ' - ' ; " - That- the insulation of the electric cables in the tubway was eight years old. ' ' 1 ' ' , . : : '. . i -That the guards locked the doors at tho stalled cars when tho insulation took fire, refusing to permit the pas-, sengers to escape until they' wero half suffocated. - .'",- ' ' That an' hour elapsed between ;th, timo the short circuit which was re sponsible f or ths accident was reported . to the subway officers and: tho alarm of fire In tho tube, ; That tho cables were overloaded. - . ?x Investigations were being conducte! by Governor Whitman, Mayor Mltchel and Coroner Riordan, independently of District.Attorney Perkins. -' j - - ' Senator Levrla ; Ill.yjC Springfield. - 111.. Jan. 8. Senator , James Hamilton Lewis Is seriously, ill of acute indigestion. . - . , - - Next Thursday night will witness the "1915 Satire" and gridiron sizzling which the Portland Ad club has planned to mark the retirement of one set of officers, the seating of another lot of men for the coming year and the harpooning of some of -Portland's leading citizens. The scene of j3laugh ter of the innocents will bo. at tho old Baker theatre, Eleventh and Morrison streets. . It will begin at 8 o'clock.. J Seven act3 will comprise, the, regu lar bill of entertainment, each act be ing composed strictly of Ad club tal ent. During the progress of the show it IS confidently asserted that about every prominent concern in -Portland will be held up to good natured ridi cule not in a spirit of vindictiveness, but because they are big enough to offer shining marks for Javelins of wit and humor. , Even- some of the big preachers of the city may have some of their pet foibles exploited to their discomfort for tho moment. One of the acts is located in heaven and shows a bunch of present-day news writers from all the papers of this city trying to get-together to send down a syndicated re port of . the happenings along the Golden Wav Merrill , A. Reed is the author of this bit of ridicule. All of the acts, except the musicians, are being herded at the Commercial club each evening, where Walter Gil bert of the Baker Players is whipping them into shape. "Lemons" is tho title of a travesty which will hand the police force and Mayor , Albee a few souvenirs, and in which B. H. Lerner, A. C. Merrill, Sol Stiller, R. H. Atkinson. M. Moses sohn. George Vinton. Fred Newton, McCormack Snow. J. 1. Duffey and Glen B. Miller have leading roles. Of course the Ad Club, quartet will be headlined, but not this time in their usual harmony work. They will offer a genuine one-act musical . comedy classy and real music. The skit is called "The Battle of Chile Con Carne," and features three original songs writ ten by Dean Collins and J. H. Keat- $20,000 Stock of the Goodyear Raincoat Company 343 -- WASHINGTON STREET - 343 Consisting of Scotch Tweeds, Silks, Imported Mohairs. Cantons, Cravenettes, Balmacaans and Gabardines for Men, Women and Children. To Be Closed Out at Once, Regardless of Cost, for the Benefit of Creditors! SPECIAL NOTICE I desire to state that all of the goods and values will be found exactly as described below and that not a single garment will be reserved. The doors will be opened at 8:00 every morning, the sale continuing until the last garment is sold as required by law. L. F. 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