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VOL. XIV. NO. 25.
CITY EDITION
PORTLAND, : OREGON; SUNDAY MORNING, -. SEPTEMBER .10. ,4916.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
' ' ill flAlfJE lilfllD
DIH OF ORATORY ;
Voters of Pine Tree State
Prepare; to "Point the
Way f$ the Nation at the
Polls Monday. (
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HUGHES AT ROCKLAND,
JAMES AT LEWISTON
Big Gunners From Rival
Camps Fire Broadsides in
"Closing "Speeches.
i- , ,
By Perry Arnold.
Rockland. Me., Sept. 8. U. V.) Mr.
Average Voter of the- state of Maine
staggered off to bed tonight drunk with
oratory, satiated with old-fashioned
torchlight parades, feasted with cam
paign facts ' and ready on Monday
proudly to register Maine's ancient
tirerogattva of"DOintlng the way" to
the November elections everywhere else
In the United States.
Here In Rockland tonight. Republican
Candidate Hughes concluded the Re
publican side of the campaign In a
blistering assault on the Democratic
entrenchments.
James Speaks in Le-wiaton.
President Wilson's "personal repre
sentative," Senator Ollie M. James,
wound up the Democratic fight by a
1 t-well-enough-alone plea delivered be
fore a big crowd at Lewiston, where
Colonel Roosevelt let loose his recent
broadside.
Both sides were disclaiming any be
lief In the old maxim that "As Maine
goes so goes the nation," but just the
same neither 1 overlooking any bets
when-It 'comes to garnering the! votes.
Torchlight processions are popularly
supposed to have gone out of style
in politics, at least a couple of decades
ago, but they have been revived
throughout Maine. Hughes has wit
nessed a couple of them and the Dem
ocrats have not been outdone in dupli-
Li,vAtinfc the i jgtuot for their orators. ,;.
!'' . xiiuepuoiican nominee toaay swept
. .aS" ' i.HT . ' . .... . . 1 . A A
town mrougn tna state m regular
whirlwind fashion, scattering 'speeches
all along the tins. He brought out ft
brand 'new. Issue tonlight-xeorlatlon
of theJUamocrat's shipping bill as 3e -
sintcrive to an nonorea American in
dustry. That it was a popular theme
In Maine was evidenced by the cheers
with which the candidate wan greeted.
He mixed this criticism of the shlp-
filng bill with a powerful plea for se
ectlon of the Republican party as di
rector of the nation's destinies that
the -protective tariff principle might
be reapplied and with a denunciatory
assault on the administration's elght-
(Concluded on Pe "jvo. Column r'lve)
Relief From Car
Shortage Now Near
O
Southern Pacific: Expects to Receive
SO Empties for X umber Kills Tonight
or Early Tomorrow.
First relief from the car shortage
that has been playing havoc with in
dustries of the Willamette valley is
expected either tonight or early to
morrow when a train of 50 empty cars
will arrive at Ashland for distribution
by the Southern Pacific company
anion; the lumber mills.
Assistant General Manager Dyer's i
' statement that the relief would be fol
lowed by special trains of other cars
from day to day was welcomed by lum
bermen yesterday with great joy. They
were Interestedly waiting, however, to
nee whether the cars could be secured
according to the promise.
General Freight Agent II. A. Ilin
shaw said yesterday that the traffic
department is assisting the operating
department In getting shipments of
merchandise unloaded as rapidly as
possible to make cars available for the
lumber trade.
"The great trouble is that eastern
railroads are not returning our cars,"
said Mr. HinshaW. "When we send
them loaded with lumber, the local
. dunanda of those roads keep them
away from the west again. The east
bound movement of trafflo at this time
Is far heavier than the west bound.
; so that we see our loaded cars un
leaded back there and, with no loads
for return, they are shifted about here
and there handling the abnormally
heavy business offering elsewhere.
"Our tar service department is try
li.g to check up these cars and get
them returned, either loaded or empty."
F. G. Ionaldson, secretary of the
Willamette Valley Lumbermen's asso
ciation, declared that, despite assur
ances of the -railroad, Friday's short
age of cars was the heaviest since the
dearth of rolling stock began.
Heavy Rains Cause
JDamage inArizona
Jarr Sections Horthwert of Phoenix
TTnder Water; Many Xancbes of tits
District Are In on dated,
Phoenli; Aril., Sept 9. (I. N. S.)
Large sections northwest of Phoenix
are under water and are menaced by a
serious flood, as result of tremendous
rains In the past few days. Cava
creek has broken Its banks and many
ranches have been inundated.
The towns of Ray, Hayden and Wln
kelman are already Isolated from the
outside world. The canal systems
throughout this district have suffered
heavy damage and two power houses
are reported flooded. A break has
cpened la the joint head dam and con
siderable loss may be caused In that
.section.
NEWS INDEX
SECTION ONE 16 PAGES
Vain Camsalga Eada.
Gmut Thrlea Dofaatad.
Bouzn aniajia Katake DoBTitch,
twiiiil Iavada Seibiav
Bittar OuiHtn hi Waahfnrtoa.
Hnrhc' Tour of Wast Waaatisfectory.
foiat ataxic Commission
atmit
Plan.
Maine Drank m Politic.
Wilaea Discussed at Clvie
Lancheon.
League
Why Ediaoo Is Supporting Wilxm.
Sou mania's Deciaioa May Be Epochal,
foci Coaeitioaa in Camay.
Fanner aUlate Lna Difficaltie.
Wilson Campaiga Tuna laereaMd.
Itlnarant Maroaant Arrastad.
7;
I.
9.
10.
President BaaUta Pressure (or War.
Oaaadiaa Induatrial Disvutss Aet.
Wilsons Welcomed in Kaw Janj.
Germans oa Safanse at Verdaa.
Carman to Plonie This Weak.
Nabraaka Governor Takes luue.
Four Sara on a German Submarine.
Prison. Befonn in How Jars jr.
Plana for Multnomah County Fair.
Important Poet for Chaa. D. Mahaffia.
Development for Timbered Aran.
Oriental Trad to Be Dttcuaeed.
Americanization School to Ba Baaumed.
BUgaa Contact Inspire Optimism.
Stamp Tax Vow Off.
Minaral Eskibit Cairn Attention.
Field to .Opaa fat" Timber Expert.
Of Intereat ta Flax rowan.
BrHUh Baply Expected Soon,
Additicoal Bpcrts Jfew.
Plana for Claokajna County Fair.
Pendktoa Bound-Vp Approaohaa.
Demand on Emeia;eacy Board Ex
pacta. Vancouver SchooU to Baaume Tomor
row.
Albanv Oollar to Oven Sept. 18.
11.
18.
II.
14.
It.
Stats Preaenta Cut Against Bonnet
xnompaon.
Paaaant of Beaaon at MeMinnvtlla.
II.
Dr. W. T. Foster Ueedi Hygiene So
ciety.
SECTION TWO 16 PAGES
Page.
1-4.
.
6-1.
9.
10-1&.
is.
Sports Bows and Goaaip.
At Oamn Withyccmbe.
Automobile and God Boadi.
Baal Estate and.Buildinji.
Want Ads.
Marine.
SECTION THKEE 8 PAGES
Pas.
i.
t.
3.
4.
6.
Kaw Plays in Haw Tork.
Photoplay Newt.
In Vaudeville.
In Btageland.
Editorial.
Brief Information.
Journal Travel Guide. .
Town Topic.
Fraternal Note.
Aquaplaning Popular Sport.
4. Illustrated Mew Beviaw.
T. War Zcna Observations.
S. Gudbtand an the Hillside By
Georcena Faulkner.
Cartoonaa-ram By Charles A. Ofden,
A Column of Smile.
SECTION FOUIWIO PAGES
Pace.
1-4.
6.
4.
7.
The Week In Society.
The Bealm of Musts.
Woman's Club Affairs.
Fashion Ohatter Bv H ma. Qui Vive.
simplicity In Draae By Lillian BuasalL.
In Portland's school.
ty I
I. Popular Science.
SECTION FIVI3 12 PAGES
(Fiction Magssina.)
SECTION SIX 4 PAGES
(Comic)
Wife Slayer Caught
.. Lynching Averted
ijjick
St. Clair Captured Pollo-artng
Chas In ZdsJio la Which Many Per
sons Partlelpatsd.
Boise, Sept. 9. After a two days'
manhunt' of a whole countrysiae,
women as well as men participated,
Nick St. Clair, who Frfflaf morning
shot and killed his wife near Sweet,
Idaho, was captured tonight by Sheriff
Nichols of Gem county and Is now In
Jail at Payette.' St. Clair had climbed
the precipitous cliffs of Squaw Butte
to evade the posse and succeeded in
l doing so, only to run Into the arms
I of the sheriff of the county in wh!:h
the crime was committed. Threats
of lynching caused Sheriff Nichols to
nnTorsa taklns
Mrs. St. Clair was shot si timi
by her husband, who met her on a
road between Sweet and Montour, after
hunting for her for several hours. St.
Clair and his wife had separated and
It was in an effort to take their 5on
from his mother that the Bhooting oc
curred. Militia Troops May
Now Apply for Aid
General Orders lesued Make 93,000,000
Available for Support of Wives and
Children or Mothers.
Washington, Sept. 9. (I. N. S.)
General orders; ltsued by the war de
partment cotrtain instructions rela
tive to the appropriation of :,000,000
by congress for the support of fami
lies of enlisted men of the o.-ganized
militia or National Guard.
The order will be read by company
commanding officers to all enlisted
men of their commands, and the men
advised mat iney are privileged to
make application for the support of
their families.
The attention of all is cailed In order
to the fact that the word "family" as
used In the law includes only wife.
children and dependent mother.
Each family will receive for Its sup
port a sum not exceeding $50 a month
The law's benefits began on the date
of its approval, August 29.
Another Christmas
Ship Is Proposed
Plans 7or Carrying Cargo of MOk to
Starring Babies and Children of Po
land Disco seed.
Chicago, Sept. 9. Another Christ
mas ship for war-scarred Europe was
proposed tonight. Its cargo. If plans
are carried out, will be milk and its
destination Poland, where starving ba
bies and children have been deprived of
food.
Polish citizens gathered here todar
and discussed plans. Dr. J. P. Zaleski
and Dr. Casimlr ZurawslV, of Chicago,
members ot the Polish National De
fense committee, left here tonight for
-Washington, where they will confer
Monday with E. P. BIcknell, director of
the American Red Cross. Popular sub
scriptions are expected to provide a big
cargo of condensed milk.
Twelv Hurt in Crash.
Chicago, Sept. 9.' Twelve persons
were injured, two possibly fatally, to
night when an Illinois Central suburban
train crashed into a street car in South
Chicago. The motorman and conductor
Of the car were held pending an investigation.
MEET
DEFEAT THRICE
T
French Make Grand Assault
at Verdun, Carrying Entire
System of Trenches in
Front of Douaumont Village
BRITISH CARRY REST OF
GINCHY IN GREAT SMASH
Gains of From 500 to 600
Yards Made; Germans Are
Blowing Up Hallcz Forts.
Paris, Sept. 9. A grand assault by
the French forces carried the whole
system of German trenches In front
of Douaumont, the war office an
nounced tonight in reporting opera- j
tions in the Verdun region.
The assault was delivered on the '
201st day of the great battle around
the French fortress. The Germans,
weakened by the withdrawal of men
and artillery to stem the allied of
fensive on the Somme, fought desper
ately, but were swept back by the
irresistible advance of General Pe
ts ins men,- ';.
The counter-attack was the heaviest
blow, struck by the French since th
Germans began the drive on Verdun
with a smashing infantry attack on
February 22. It was preceded by a
blistering artillery fire that wrecked
the first line of German trenches.
The German batteries, at first active,
were almost completely silenced and
made only a feeble reply.
London, Sept. 9. (I. N. S.) The
Austro-German forces defending Hal
lcz, the fortified city 60 miles south
Of Lemberg, have blown up the re
maining fortifications of the town and
some of them have been occupied by
the Russians, according to a Reuter
dispatch from Petrograd tonight. The
fall of Hallcs is a mater of hours.
The dispatch adds that the bridge
across the Dneister has been blown up
and that the Russians hold. the left
bank of they river, Heavily helling the
retraitln . Teutons, Two troop- .train
era wrecked'by the Russian fire.
Tonight's official Austro-Huagarian
war office statement admits that the
Russians in the Carpathians, east of
the Clbo valley, "succeeded in taking
isolated portions of our front." . .
London, Sept. .-:(U. F.) In a
great smash against the Germans
north of the Somme, on a front of 6000
yards, about three and one half miles.
tnis arternoon, the British carried the
remainder of the village of Ginchy
and scored other Important successes,
General Halg reported at midnight.
The attack was made on a fiont
extending from Highwood (Foureaux
Wood) to the Leuze wood, a mile
northwest of Combles, where th-j Brit
ish lines join the French.
Territory In the region of Ginchy
near Leuze wood and east of the High-
wood was captured, the British ad
vancing on this front 300 yards for a
gain of 500 yards.
Northeast of Pozieres another great
smash gained 600 yards. British artil
lery caught the Germans massing for
a counter attack and inflicted heavy
casualties.
Some prisoners were taken in the
operations around Ginchy and 60 more
Germans were captured near Posieres.
The fighting at Ginchy, where the
British obtained a footing early In the
week, was particularly severe.
British artillery cannonaded Ger
man trenches on the Vlmy .ridge, oppo
site Souohez, and near the Inn known
as the "Red cabarat." There was re
ciprocal artillerying near CHonne,
Culnchy and between the La iatsee
canal and Neuve Chapelle.
Ginchy is the last remaining forti
fied place separating the British Irom
the important German railway ctnter
of Combles.
Combles is now under fire from
three sides, by the British from the
northwest and west, and by the French
from the southwest. Its fall is now
believed to be a matter of a few days.
Officers in Dark
In Dilworth Case
After Week of Tnvertlgation, Police
TJnable to Make Headway In Hew
Tork Murder.
New York, Sept. 9. (U. P.) Bronx
police and the district attorney ad
mitted that they knew no more tonight
about who murdered Lawyer Dilworth
as he motored through Van Cortland
park's "Lover's Lane" with a woman,
not his wife, than they did right after
the murder last Sunday morning.
Which Is practically nothing.
The difficulty," said Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Quigley tonight, -is that
apparently there was no man or woman
along that dark road that night who
could tell us of what happened, who
has not some reason .to conceal some
thing." Billings WiU Go
, On Trial Monday
San Francisco, Sept. 9. (U. P.)
With the trial of Warren K. Billings
on the charge of complicity in the suit
case dynamiting outrage set for. Mon
day, the authorities admitted tonight
that they are working on a new angle
of the case, possibly connecting the
suspect, with dynamiting activities in
Seattle and Canada. '
Billings, it is reported to local au
thorities, was at -work In Seattle just
before a ecowof explosives was dyna
mited there. Billings left here shortly
before, saying he was going to Seattle
to help unionise open shops there and
in Vancouver.
FAST AND WES
WITH the entrance of Roumania into theiwar and with Greece also about to cast her lot with the entente allies, the world'
eyes have been focused on the Balkan region for the past two weeks. The accompanying photographs show a detach
ment of Russian troops recently landed at Salonica, where every entente allied power now has an army, and a view of the
Greek harbor of Piraeus where sixteen British warships are now anchored pending developments.
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PERMANENT PEACE
Social. Political and Eco
nomic . Regeneration of
Mexico Is Proposed,
By Severance' Johnson.
New London, Conn,, Sept. 9. (I. N.
S) The far reaching - scope of the
peace plans of the American and Mexi
can joint commisKion was revealed for
the first time today. It Includes npt
only the settlement of the border
wrangle, but also the social, political
and economic regeneration of Mexico.
Every phase of Mexican life is beig
discussed, every type analyzed at tie
conference, the servile peon, the ma
rauding bandit, the rapacious landlord.
The American members of the com
mission have formed the opinion that
the murder of Americans and the
seizure of. American property. in Mexi
co are only the outward symptoms of
the Mexican disease. The belief that
the country must be born again, re
created, according to new ideals, before
the dangers of fresh" revolutions and
renewed border raids shall have been
elided.
TwelTe Steps To Be Considered.
The twelve differehf steps toward
this end to-be considered by the com
mission are:
1 Protection of ,the border.
2 Establishment of American garri
sons along a line of blockhouses from
the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific
ocean, a distance of 1800 miles.
3 The organisation of Mexico's
standing army Into various . detach
ments, which will be assigned to the
pursuit of Villa and other bandits. The
Carranxa envoys promise to Isolate
Villa so that he will no longer be a
menace to Americans.
4 The allotment of land to dis
charged soldiers and peons so they will
no longer have the incentive of follow
ing brigandage for a living.
S The enactment of laws enabling
these people to acquire the lands they
cultivate.
Would Teach Agriculture.
6 A system of government aid by
which these ignorant Mexican farmers
may learn to develop the land to the
full extent.
7 Reformation of the Mexican way
of levying taxes, which frequently
amounts to confiscation. "The estab
lishment of a land tax similar to that
in the United States.
8 The education of the peon and
lower classes in ways of living and
lines of industry which will make
them want peace instead of war. -
ft The establishment of present fiat
currency upon a sound rinanclal basis.
10 The husbanding and safeguard
ing of the national revenues according
to an agreement which guarantees
the purchasers of Mexicans bonds and
makes possible ,the floatlngf'iof a large
Mexican loan.
11 Immediate rehabilitation of the
juexican ranrua.ua at a cost or o,uu9,
000.
-13 A treaty between Mexico and
the United States -which will give
Mexico -this government's moral sup
port in tnese reforms.
As the border .question is of first
importance . It was taken up at the
first meeting. Df the plans suggested
by both Mexicans and Americans the
(Opaeladed on Page Eleven. Column One)
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Routnani
afis
at
Ru$$ian$Are Invading Serbia
City and Fortress Captured by
Bulgar-Teuton Invaders of
Roumania Is Retaken.
London. Sept. . (I. N. S.) Russo
Roumanian forces have retaken from
the Bulgar-Teuton invaders' the city'
and fortress of Dobritch (Bazardj'ik)
50 miles southeast of Bucharest after
a 24-hour battle beginning immediate
ly after its fall yesterday. ' Dobasci,
a small town near Dobritch,' also 'was
retaken. This first important success
scored by the Roumanians and their
Muscovite ally since Roumania's en
trance into the war, was announced
by the Bucnarest war omce -lomgni
as follows:
"Russian and Roumanian troops
drove the Bulgarians from Bazardjlk
(Dobritch) and Dobasci."
. In the northern Transylvanian . Alps
the Russo-Roumanian forces captured
six towns, including Toplitza. 14 miles
north of Orsova, the others being San
Mllal, Deline, Gulrghiurgen .and.Sen
miglan. They repulsed a counter at
tack sooth of Mehadia, IS miles
north of Orsova.
Invasion of Serbia Begun.
The Roumanian seaport of Constin-
za was again bomborded by Germin
and Bulgarian aeroplanes, according , to
the Roumanian war office statement.
A Russo-Koumanian army has be
gun an invasion of Serbia. Sweeping
southward from Orsova, taking the
identical course the Teutons took in
their whirlwind campaign through t'ae
little kingdom, the new invaders have
penetrated as far as Negotin, seven
miles inside of the .Serbian border,
occupying the town, according to an
Athens dispatch to the Dally News
Thus far the first blow in the long
heralded allied campaign for the isola
tion of the" central empires from Bul
garia and Turkey by cutting the Be1-lln-Constantinople-Bagdad
railway l.us
been struck. Indeed, the Athens dis
patch adds that the Russo-Roumanlen
troops are advancing toward the Orient
railway. To reach it they have. iO
cover 80. more miles.
Armies In Macedonia Threatened.
' Through this new Serbian invasion
the Teutonic and4 Bulgarian armies :n
Macedonia, are placed between two for
midable- threats: A Franco-British-Serbian
thrust from Saloniki and su
attack from the .Russo-Rumanlan
forces. An added menace lies In tho
possible thwarting of the, Bulgar-Teu
ton campaign in Roumania, which
would result In a simultaneous Rus
sian drive for Constantinople and
second Russo-Roumanian Invasion of
Serbia, from the east. .
The central powers are expected to
put up a supreme struggle -for the Or
lent railway, admittedly vital to the
continuation of the war. Military crit
ics here and in other entente capitals
predict that, the coming week will wit
ness the long postponed "big push
from Saloniki. Events decisive for the
outcome of the whole war are expected
to follow in Its wake.
Bucharest, Sept. 9. Striking sud
den blows against r the German-Bulgarian
invaiders, the Russo-Roumanian
forces have driven the enemy back
several miles, recapturing the city of
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Germans Admit Teuton Inva
sion of Roumania Has Been
Temporarily Checked.
Berlin,. Sept. 9. U. P.) The German-Bulgarian
invasion of southeast
ern Roumania has been checked tem
p6rarlly by thearrtval of strong Rou
manian and Russian reinforcements.
The Russo-Roumanlans, supported
by heavy artillery, are counter attack
ing with-great vigor north of Dobritch.
Official dispatches this afternoon re
ported that all these new attacks have
failed.
In southwestern Transvlvanln (ha
, Austr,an8 took tne of
ve yesterday
and drove back the Roumanians for
nearly three miles on "the Petroseny
Hatszeg road, said an official state
ment from Vienna tonight. 'The Rus
sians returned .to .the attack, however,
and by a strong blow against the Aus
trian right wing fprced the Austrlans
to withdraw to their former positions.
On the heights of the Cibo valley the
Roumanians ' occupied isolated posi
tions., .
Bnssian Brigade Annihilated.
A whole Russian' cavalry brigade was
annihilated in an engagement with two
Bulgarian battalions north of Dobritch,
according to Sofia dispatches .today.
The Russians, supported by Roumanian
ti'oops, advanced in thick waves. The
Bulgarians allowed them to approach
to close range and then mowed down
the whole brigade.
The Roumanians fled In panic, being
unable to stand up before the Bul
garian shell fire. The "whole battle
field was soon covered. with Russian
dead, the brigade commander being
among the killed..
Bnssian Appeals Ignored.
The ' Russians, - In despair, finally
appealed to the tisditional friend
ship between Bulgaria and Russia
and shouted . appeallngly: "Little
brothers!" "Nobody invited you to
this wedding." was the Bulgarians'
brusque reply, and the pursuit of the
fleeing enemy continued.
The Bulgarian soldiers are espe
cially embittered against the Rus
sians and Roumanians, the Sofia
newspaper Cambria reported, because
60 innocent civilians were assassin
ated In the barracks at Dobritch,
when the Bulgarians occupied the
town. Other civilians had been car
ried off by the Roumanians.
During the battle around Dobritch
women and children brought water to
cool the machine guns. '
Dobric and Dobasci, it was offi
cially announced, tonight.
The Germans and Bulgarians are
retreating in disorder.
At the same time the "Roumanian
right yWlng, Tesombir;.' Its forward
swing Into Transylvania, occupied. five
towns with but slight resistance. The
Austrlans retreated rapidly, before the
Roumanians' advance la this region.
The Austrlans made vain, efforts
to stop the advance of the Russians
north of Orsova, counter-attacking in
fore near Mehadia, but were driven
off. ; " i
Hostile aeroplanes bombarded the
Roumanian Black sea port of Con
stanza, "wounding three civilians. ,
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DOUBT BE CLOSE ONE
William E. Humphrey and
Miles Poindexter, Incum
bent, Contesting Aspirants.
Seattle. Wash , Sept. 9. The primary
campaign which in some respects hn
been the bitterest and the most vigor
ously contested in the history of the
state, virtually closed tonight, though
the actual battle of ballots will not
come until Tuesday.
The bitterness has been in the con
test for the Republican senatorial nom
ination, a race in which there are but
two eerlous contenders, William E.
Humphrey, whose ambition is to step
up from the house into the senate, with
Senator Miles Poindexter seeking re
nomination and re-election. It will be
a close finish, according to present in
dications, and if one should take the
Post Intelligencer and Times seriously,
western Washington will be erased
from the map in r&se of the defeat of
Humphrey, in support of whom they
are making .frantic appeals to local
pride with large preference to Seattle.
Working for Humphrey.
This; too, in the race of the fact
that the Times gravely announced at
the outset Its independence, and At
standing, for no candidate. Certainly
not intending to boost for, any particu
lar seeker, chronic or otherwise, now
it is editorially praying for Humphrey's
nomination.
George Turner appears reasonably
certain of the Democratic senatorial
nomination and might win In the No
vember finals over either Poindexter
or Humphrey.
In both the Republican guberna
torial nomination and for the Repub
lican nomination for representative in
congress big fields are entered with
the second choice vote complicating
the situation annoyingly.
Second Choice to Count.
Henry McBrtde appears the strong
est' in the gubernatorial struggle, on
first choice votes, though he
might be defeated by George A. Lee,
or colonel iioiana ii. Hartly, espec
ially the latter througn his second
choice votes of which many state po
litical observers believe he will have
a great many.
W. M. Whitney appears on the face
ot local things, political the stronger
of the 10 candidates for the ReDubli.
can nomination for the lower house
In congress, though former Mayor
John F. Miller and former Represen
tattve J. W. Bryan are showing up
well in tne campaigning.
Hameln Mourns for
Zeppelin's Captain
Copenhagen. Sept. . . Captain
Schrimm , of Hameln, Prussia, was the
commander of the Zeppelin downed In
last Sunday morning's raid on Loudon,
it was reported front Esbjerg today.
The whole village of Hameln ta in
mourning. - ;
T '
Page Starts for tUto Front.
Rome. Sept. . (L N. S.) -American
Ambassador Page : today started for
the front as th guest of General Ca
dorna. . ; x .
HUGHES' TOUR
OF WEST HOT
SATISFACTORY
Republican National Cam
paign Admittedly Lagging;
Candidate's Personality -Pleases,
Method Displeases ;
WHAT SUPREME TEST IS
WILSON TO FACE NEXT?
Presidency Has Been Clearing
House of Weighty Problems ,
to Unprecedented Degree,
Washington. Sept. (WASHING
TON BUREAU OF THE JOURNAL) .
Lagging. '
This still seems to be the word most
descriptive of the Republican national
campaign. It is an opea secret that,
the Republican campaign managers .
are dissatisfied .with .the results ot -v
the western swing of Charles, E. ' ;
Hughes. He failed to arouse the en- ,
thusiasm expected, and he fallej to) -bring
harmony where party troubles
are lively.
Perhaps too much has bean ex5
pected of Mr. Hughes, especially of ' ,
one who for six years had been re'
moved from active contact with pub
lie affairs. The Hughes personality,"
indeed, is believed to have created .a
favorable impression, but his manner
of attack has too frequently aroused,'
antagonism and the Issues do not ap ,
pear to be any better defined than""'
when ths candidate began his tour.
Tariff Strongest Talking Point. -
Reports haveit that further changes .
are to be made in the plan of cam ,
paign. Intimations are being given
to Hughes that he should concentrate '
his fire on two or three things, and
drop small political criticism that is -thought
to have detracted f rom ' the
force of his speeches Particularly " '
strong effort Is being made to havi""
him play up the tariff as the big Is
sue In the future, with Mexico, and
foreign war policy as the leading sld'r
lines.
The speeches 'of Hughes in the
Main campaign and later ' will ' be .
watched to see how far Hughes has ,
accepted the advice of his "leading
counsel" In congress and In the east. '
There Is every indication that Hughes,'
is not tif lad with his western tour, v i
or with the work performed ; by th
national committee, whlolf'has suf
fared, from the inexperience' of Chair- '
man Wlllcox, but is supposed to have
gathered new energy slnoe Frank H.
Hitchcock was advanced to the inner .
circle. .
Factional troubles are still threaten
Ing in sayorHl states visited' by -Hughes.
His trip seems to have made -little
difference one way or the other
in that regard, except that the honor -
of entertaining the candidate here and
there aroused contention and gave lo
cal factions something new to fight
about.
Situation la the West. '5
The Reptibllcnn managers are still
counting heavily upon the momentum .
of party majority to give them nearly :
all of the western states. That Is,
they contend that on the basis of the
figures of 1912 they wl'l carry these
states, confident that most . of ths',
former Progressives will vote for v
Hughes. The states of the far west
admitted by them to bo doubtful are- ,
Montana, Nevada. Colorado and Ari
zona, and their predictions are some
times modified as to California and
Wyoming. '
Democratic lenders say that Hughes .
is due for surprises in the region west
of the Missouri. About the only states
conceded to Huhes in that section
are Utah. Kansas and the Dakota.
Reports from the Pacific coast are so
uniformly encouraging since Hughes
passed through that the Democrat!
have stiffened their estimates on
Washington. Oregon and California,
declaring that all three give good .
fighting ground.
What Next?
With the clearing of the railroad
strike situation, the question Is asked,.
'What new test of supreme magnitude .
will President Wilson be called upon
to meet?" t .
Not since the day of Lincoln have
such mighty problems surged In upon
the president of the nation. Through
out his term, as a heritage from a Re,
publican administration, came the
Mexican problem, born In the throes ,
of revolution and disorder in 1910. For '
more than two years the world has
been at war, and the most Intricate '
questions and delicate situations havs .,
followed In rapid succession. Last .
came the danger of a affika of un
(Conrludfld on Page Twelv. Column Four)
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