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hTURDAY. - OCTOBER 1823. v - THE OREGON ' DAILY "'JOURNAL PORTLAND OREGON i - STANFIELO ASKED TO SQUARE SWIFT L DEN A WITH FACT Robert N. Btanfield, in a statement printed below, contends that he ia not a "partner" of Louis F. Swift and of Swift & Co. He does not deny that he la. and has been, as sociated in business with Louis V. Swift and with Hwift & Co.; that the Kwift Intercuts are actively sup porting'hls candidacy for the United States senate; that Louis K. Swift und the Kwift interests want him in the I'nlted States senate. He attempts to befog these facts by an swerlngvthat he Is not "a partner" of Louis K. Swift and o." Swift & Co. Stanfleld's statement follows: To the lOdltor My attenlion has been called to certain advertisements and artlnlcs 111 your paper In which It 1 allpRprt that I am a partner of Swift Co. and of V. Swift. In various livestock and business enterprises. This allegation Is untrue, for I am not a partner In Swift & "o or any of Its ubordlnate establishments, nor have I any partnership arrangement with I... F. Swift. I have never met Mr. Swift ex cept at a stockmen's banquet In Chi raito and have never discussed business mailers with him. A I) M ITH OWMSd KIIARFS I own only i;!0 out of 4000 shares in the Columbia Basin Wool Warehouse company, which '. a corporation en traced in the purchase, storage and sale of wool, with headquarters In the city of T'ortland. I made my subscription to this enterprise In order to put Portland on the map as a wool center. The re mainder of the 4000 shares Is divided nriionc a IjirtEn number of stockholders, most of whom are business men of the clly of Portland., although Swift owns several shares of stock. The stock of this company was bought and sold on the market and the fact that I own a few shares arid that Swift also la a stock holder does not in any aense make me a co-partner of Swift. I own only five shares of the 1000 shares of the Livestock State bank at North Portland. Swift Is also a stock holder in this concern, but it is not a copartnership and those who own stock are in no sense partners. A number of the stockholders, both of the Columbia Basin Wool Warehouse company and the Livestock State Hank, also own shares of stock in the I'nlted States National bank of Portland. Senator fleorgc K. Chamberlain Is a stockholder and di rector In this bank, but it would be the height of foltv to charge liim will being a partner of (lie other stockholders and direclors of this institution. JSKM.H TO NWIKT I own no shares whatever in the Port land Cuttle Loan company. f am engaged primarily in the sheep business, although 1 have cattle and other agricultural Interests. I raise and purchase sheep and cattle and have fre quently sold both through the Union Slock yards of Chicago, and in some In stances have sold to Swift & Co., but I have also sold to various other packing plants In Chicago, Omaha. Kansas City. St. Joseph and North Portland. I have sold beef and mutton on the open mar ket, but the fact that I have sold at times to Swift & Co.. does not in any sense make me a partner in any of their enterprises. My business is a legitimate one and needs no defense. I am not a speculator, but a producer, and a large employer of men, and a large purchaser of all materials. I have at tjmes owned shares of stock in various enterprises, but it would require a very wide stretch of the imagination to pic ture me as a partner of the other stock Imlders. many of whom 1 have never Been and who are entirely unknown to me. I had hoped that the present campaign would be conducted in a clean and digni fied way with due regard for the Issues of the day and with no consideration of Irrelevant issues. 1 have no objection whatever to a full and free discussion of my record as a business man, pro vided this Is an adherance to facts. I feel that I have been misrepresented In the matter of the alleged partnership with Swill V Co. and L. F. Swift, I therefore lake this opportunity of in forming the public as to the exact state of the a f fa us. Yours very truly. H. N. stankii-;Ld. iiARt.i: rAsH f;Bi:i The Journal has never charged Stan field with being "a partner" of Louis F. Swift and or Swift & t'o. It did charge that Slanfield was associated with the Swift interests, and with Louis F. Swift In business. Stanfleld's whole letter Is an attempted technical evasion of the known fails. He 1m associated in business with SwiTt & Co. and with liouls F. Swift, lie luis not denied that. He cannot deny It. The Journal would like to ask Slan ' field : When you deny that you are n "part ner' of Louis V. Swift and of Swift A Co., are youuiot trying to evade the issue and be foe; the truth? During the time you were buying- up sheep and wool throughout the North west, until you came to be known as "the blrgest sheep man in the world." is it not a fact that you were uainr money furnished you by the Swifts and the Swift interests, paying them so much per head for the use of the money? TRCE OB UXTRCEI Did your present confidential cam paign manager. Thomas B. Neuhausen, Indorse that which was true or that which was untrue when he indorsed the charges made against you in 1111 that you were associated with Swift St Co. in business. If the Columbia Basin Wool Ware house company, of which you are a di rector, is not a Swift & Co. concern, by what authority does Swift Sc Co.' aud itor examine its books and accounts? I it not a fact that the Portland Cat tle Loan company is a Swift & Co. con cern ? Is It not a fact that you have close and Intimate business dealings with the Portland Cattle Loan company? Is it not a fact that the Livestock State bank is an offshoot of the Port land Cattle Loan company? If the Livestock State bank, of which you are a stockholder, is not a Swift concern, how does It happen that C. B. Swift is vice president of that Institu tion? tl.OOMO DEAL CITED You say : "I am not a speculator, but a producer and a large purchaser of all materials." Were you a producer or a speculator when you reaped a profit of $1,000,000 or more from the sale of wool stored by you in the Co lumbia .Basin wool warehouse during wartime, when it was needed for blan kets and uniforms by the soldiers of America In the camps, the cantonments and on the battlefields of France? You admit that both Louis F. Swift and yourself are stockholders In the Columbia Basin Wool Warehouse com pany and the Livestock State bank. Are you. then, not Joint owners in those Institutions? Are you not Jointly in terested In the conduct and the profits of those Institutions? Had it not been for the friendship and the credit extended you by Swift Inter ests before and during the war, would it have been possible for you to have become the "Sheep King of the World"? SWIFT CREDIT FACTOR Kxcept for the financial comfort and credit extended you by Swift Interests In your wool deals would you have cleared $1,000,000 In profits from the sale of wool during the war? Is it not a fact that all of the officers and head men of Swift &. Co.'s varied interests and subsidiaries In Oregon are actively supporting your candidacy in every known way? Is it not a fact that they have con tributed to your campaign fund? Js it not a fact that you are a stock holder In Swift & Co.? 7 Planes Entered In Stunt Exhibits On Armistice Day Seven airplanes have been entered for the Armistice day races and "stunts" which are to be held over Portland on the afternoon of November 11. The Portland post of the American Legion and the Aero club are cooperating with the assistance of the management of the Oregon. Washington & Idaho Airplane I company, to make the celebration a fea- Hire and success. Wilbur Henderson is I chairman of the program committee. The I program Is scheduled to start at 2:30 p. m. on the Lewis and Clark field. TRANSPORTATION 'BENCH LO IrjKpsUjiTsAJtSAnAirTsTZ NEW YORK HAVRE PARIS FRANCS Not. 4'Dae. 1 Dac. 2S LEOPOLDIN A 'Nov. LA LORRAINE Nov. 1 3 Dc 1 1 LA TOURAINE Not.tO Otc.H LA 8AVOIE No. 27Dao. 24 ROOHAMBEAU Dc. 4 NIAGARA no. i HAMBURG DIRECT Pugazl Broa.. Paclflo Coast Ag.nU, 10S Charrr Straat. SmUIi, or Any Local Saant. r ASTORIA AND WAT POINTS STR. GEORGIAN A Round TNS Daily (Eicapt Friday) Imm Portland 7:10 in., Aldar SI Dock LEAVES A8TORI A 2 P. M. FLA VEL DOCK FARC 92.00 EACH WAV Olract Connection (or South alaawhta. Nliht oat Dally, S P. m. Evary Day Eicapt Sunday J main iszz, di-zz V J bw!isi!2m BANCROFT PLEADS FOR LIFE OF SON Salem, Oct. 30. W. Z. Bancroft of Denver arrived in Salem Friday to plead with Governor Olcott to save the life of his son Emmett, who is under death sentence for the slaying of Til Taylor, former sheriff of Uma tilla county. The execution has been set for next Friday. With him Bancroft brought petitions bearing the names of approximately 600 residents of Pendleton, asking that his son's sentence be commuted to life Im prisonment. These petitions will be pre sented to Governor Olcott immediately upon hto return from Lincoln county next Monday. In a statement Friday Bancroft re viewed the life of his son and told of how illness at the age of 3 years had weakened his brain and l-ft him an in tellectual defective. BajflWroft made no effort to shield his son from blame, but said that because of his mental con dition he had no realization of the crime he committed or of the punishment he would receive. Bancroft visited the prison Friday aft ernoon, where he and his eon chatted for more than two hours. Penitentiary officials said the meeting of the father and son was pathetic. DEPENDABLE FREIGHT AND PASSENGER SERVICE CALIFORNIA SERVICE Regular Freight and I'asRFiirer SerTlee to COOS BAY, tlRKKA aad SAX Fit A NCISCO SAU.INtJ J-'KOM POItTLAKD, t P. M. SS. "CITY OF TOPEKA," November 7-November 18 Connecting at San Francisco with Steamers for l.os Angeles and San Piego. Regular Freight and Pasaanoar 8arlca to MEXICO, CENTRAL AMERICA and ALASKA.! Interco&stal Service Boston and Philadelphia. Nawsco Line MOO-Ton steel Ameri can Vessels. SAILINGS FROM PORTLAND S. . I.KHIIiH Oct. SS S. M.'WKST TOtit S K. i S. S. SPRINGFIELD Dec. II Tran-Pacific Service To All Oriental Ports. U. !S. Shipping board A-l Steel American Vessel. SAII.IMJ FROM PORTLAND N. S. MOVTAtil E Not. M H. S. A H F. Rt tS Dee. 17 . K. PAWI.KT Jan. IS t oil FL RTH Kit INFORMATION APPLY TO 101 THIRD STREET PHONE MAIN 8281 International Mercantile Marine Co. 8 Ideal Whiter Crosses JAlTOAJt Y rKBKUAJlT MAKCH, Itll West Indies Windward Islands Panama Canal South America LAEOXST ITEAMXU TO THS TSOFICS Whit 8 tax Una . . . B E MacmaU Aarurte&n Ltna ... S.8. Maw Tar Aokaricaai Liua . . . Si. raolk Philadelphia Liverpool Haverford Dee. 3 RED STAR LINE New York Southampton Cher bourg An twerp Flaland Nor. Dec. 11 Zetland Nov. H; Dee. m Kroonlaod Nov. !7:Jaa. I Laplasd Dee. 4Jas. 8 WHITE STAR LINE Cherbourg Southampton N. Y.- Olymplr Nov Adriatic Nov ! Nov. 87 Dee. 2t 17 Dee. Uj Feb. Celtic Baltic N. Y.- Cretie . I'anople New York Liverpool .Nov. f Dee. II Jan. II ov. I Dec. S4 Jan. tt libraltar Naples Genoa Not. t'Jan. i Dee. 1 WHITE STAR-DOMINION Montreal Quebec Liverpool Meraatlc Nov. IS Portland, Me Halifax Liverpool From PortlaadHalIfax ,"d Dee. 4; Dec. & Megan tie Dee. 11 Dee. U Logging Camps to Keep 8-Hour Day Despite Shutdowns Seattle, Oct. 30 (I. . S.) The eicht hour day without reduction in wages will be continued in the logging and lum bering industry of the Pacific North west, despite sharp curtailment of pro duction, according to leading members of the West Coast Lumbermen's associ ation here today. Because of advanced freight rates that have closed Eastern markets to lumber from this section of the country, rail road traffic officials have suggested a return to the 10-hour day and reduction of wages. Mailmen argue that in this way the advance In rates could be off set and the lumber Industry revived. Still further curtailment of production is indicated. More mills are closing each week, according to the lumbermen's asso ciation. The only promising factor in the situation, it Is said, is the opening of negotiations with a well equipped steamship line for carrying lumber to the Atlantic coast by way of the canal on a Mo rata "The Oregonian" Refused to Print This, My Answer to Mr. Franklin T. Griffith rr sstrvaUsna atMt ticket apply to local agenti e Oomeany'i affita, c P saRQSMT S Art., Balcony Fleor, etattla, Wat. Phsns main II. Fdltor Oregonian: Answering Mr. Kranklin T. Griffith's defense of Mr. NewHl and his present connection with the Grand Trunk Pacific, I wish to point out again to the people of 'this city that the basis of the 8 cent fare was the report prepared by Mr. Newell and that it was followed Mindly by the public servi.e commission. It may not be amiss in this connection, and getting down to particulars, to Mate that Mr. Franklin T. Griffith is the re cipient of the large, lucrative and com fortable si'.lary of $23,000 per annum ;is president of the Portland Railway. Light I A Power (i'o. Now. since this salary is contributed and made up by the street car passengers of thi? city, who are compelled to pay an S cent fare in order that Mr. Griffith mav thus enrich him I self, it is pertinent to inquire whether someone could not he found to take this : position for say $10,000 per year and in this way commence a policy of re trenchment. If the Portland Railway. Light & Power Co. is in imminent danger of insolvency without the 8 cent fares, obvi ously its insolvency depends upon the riding public paying 8 cent car fares and not upon any extraordinary ability pos sessed by Mr. Franklin T. Griffith. If Mr. Griffith can only keep the com pany from the bankruptcy courts by charging an 8 cent fare, a cheaper man could get the same result, for It does not require any marvelous ability to charge an 8 cent fare with Mr. Baker, mayor, and Mr. Buchtel. commissioner. Again we understand that Mr. C. M. Clark, domiciled in Philadelphia, is also receiving a large. lucrative and hand some salary in the sum of $12,000 per year out of the S cent fare paid by the riding public of Portland. We would like to inquire what Mr. Clark gives in return for this salary so received. We presume that his function Is to lend moral courage to Mr. Griffith in en forcing the 8 cent fare so that the Port land Railway, Light & Power Co. and Its group of foreign stockholders may be kept out of the bankruptcy courts It is remarkable that such high priced mc. as Mr. Griffith anC Mr. Clark can not devise some oth ;r ways and means to keep the company out of the bank ruptcy courts, except by exact'ng an 8 cent fare. In speaking of great men of such com manding abilities who avoid insolvency for their company by merely raising the fare of the poor straphangers of this city to 8 cents. I idmit it would e a hardship to reduce the fare for fear that Mr. Griffith could not draw his Jiri.OOO per year and Mr. Clark could not draw his $12,000 per year, for then perhaps some one man could do the work of these two eminent gentlemen. Perhaps Mr. Newell, when he finishes the work of the Grand Trunk, could be induced to do the work for a salary of $5000 or $6000 a year. The Southern Pacific was driven out of politics in California bv Hiram W. Johnson. I would suggest to Mr. Grif fith that It is about time for the Port land Railway, Light & Power Co. to retire from politics In Oregon and give the people a chance to be served by their public officials, including the mayor of this city, without outside or corporate Interference, It is my purpose to make a full, fair and impartial investigation of the oper ating expenses of the Portland Railway. Light and Power Co.. and I propose to do this through the help of fair-minded and impartial experts who have no strings of any kind connected with the Portland Railway, Light & Power Co. D4 KELLAHEB. Paid adv. For Congress W - 7- y' V i i v 3 1 t J MaflMMaflaMkMaMaM 43 X Esther Pohl Love joy Your Candidate and Her Work ARTICLE 0. 4 To the Moral Forces of Multnomah County Old American standards of mor ality have bcerf strangely broken down by the war. Over the nation sinister forces of evil are at work. Liquor has been outlawed, but liquor Is openly challenging the moral forces. In all communities atrenu ous efforts are being made to send to congress those, whose past records would lpad the 'liquor interests to believe that these individuals might favor a weakening of the Volstead act. In Multnomah county evil forces are debauching the young with liquor and the illicit sale of drugs. Juve nile delinquency is a major problem. Ignorance, vice and poverty go hand in hand. Together they threaten our social order. The moral forces of this community are awake. They are battling against these evils. Th.- churches are strug gling with renewed vigor. The teachers in our schools are definitely aligned. Women'j organizations have sensed the battle. The social service and public welfare bureaus, societies and leagues are in the fight. Can they win without support from our political leaders? Must we not choose for our political leaders those whose lives have been morally grounded? Dare we trust anv other? Ksther Pohl Lovejoy has dedicated her life to this battle. She lias never found it necessary to alter her stand upon any moral problem. Always she has been battling for clean liv ing, for mercy, for kindness, for sobriety. The intensity with which she enterpil the fight caused other communities to cp.ll for her assistance. At this time urgent appeals have been receiver! fro'n the National Ami Saloon League, ".he Methodist Hoard of Temperance. t lie Presbyterian ltoard of Temperance, the Interna tional Reform Hureau. Prohibition National Committee. National League Of Women Voters and National W. ('. T. I'., urging the voters of Multno mah county to elect Ksther Pohl Love Joy. She has clone battle against the immoral forces the world over. Men and Women of Multnomah County Tour vote is as sa red as Ihe ideals of your borne, your school, vour organization. your church. Help to strengthen these ideals. Ksther Pohl Ixjvejoy is endorsed by the combined temperance forces of Multnomah county, the Ministerial Association. Ruildinr Trades Coun cil. Metal Trades Council. Central Labor Council. State Federation of Irfibor. all local labor organizations, the sixteen affiliated railroad labor organizations : nominee o the Pro hibition and Democratic parties. (To Be Continued) VOTE 43 X ESTHER POHL LOVEJOY! (Paid Adv. by Oregon Popular Gov ernment League, B. A. Green, Sec.) PortC amm - All Opposition to Port Consolidation Removed Portland is to be congratulated that all differences have been ad justed and that the Peop le of Port land are solidly behind the Port Consolidation Measure. They mean economy in operation and a deep channel to the sea. The passage of these measures is vital to Portland's future. Don 'tfail to vote for both measures Vote310XYes Vote 510 X Yes OREGON PORT DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE L. W. Trimble, Secretary 1210 Gasco Building (Paid Advertisement) Know the Trath The framers of the Oleomargarine Bill would have you believe that additional state laws are necessary to regulate and license the industry and protect you from fraud and deception. SUCH IS NOT THE CASE, as the U. S. Gov ernment regula tions contain 79 pages covering Oleomargarine industry. They regulate, license and prevent fraud and deception: Laws cov ering manufacturer, wholesaler and dealer. THE REAL INTENT of the fathers of this measure was to KILL a legitimate OREGON INDUSTRY and CURTAIL con sinners' rights. KEEP THIS VICIOUS PIECE OF CLASS LEGISLATION OFF THE OREGON STATUTES BY VOTING SOB X NO ,liHlll!iillHlimiitl Paid Advertisement. iiiik m !tl mi y i.f fr- -a' "t - s 'sc.- v, '..'