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University Of Orcnon I it'.riiry i Medford 1 FORECAST Kuir tonight tuid tomor row. Uglit frost tonight. BUNE WEATHER Maxim urn yot'rilny, 77; Minimum ItKlii)', iiU. Forty-sixth Yt'iir. liully Kl.'V.'nlh Ti-nr. MEDFORl). ORKdOX. AVKDXKSDAV. ()( TOUKK IS. U)1(i NO. 179 yJLxiL1.1j mm m LIKE LINCOLN THAN ANY MAN OFfRTII Ids M. Tarlicll, Famous Authority on the Great Emancipator and Histor ian of His Time, Draws a Striking Parallel Between Him and the Pres identMany Features in Common. liy 'MllmX I'.liONNT.Ii. NI'.W YOllK. Oct. 18 "The more I stiuly Wooilrow Wilson, the inure I see the pimitlel he-hvi-i-n him iiiul l.in-i-ohi. Wilson uiiiki-s nic think of I,in eo!n in his intense Anierieiinisin, i n his entire devotion to the wull-briii;r of the iiveriiqe ltinn of our country :md not to imv purtie. itlur f ii v o r e il iihl M. Tnihcll. Thus I tin II. Tiu liell heynn. in her i-tmlv in the iniiet Ciraineivv 1 "a ik sec tion, wli-n I iiskeil her whetlier there renllv wiis. a parallel between Lineoln imi! any mat! of our time. Ilraivs t'oiniuii-ison. Ilnrdly anyiine could jtWe a more niitlioritalive and iinprrjmlirrd ans wer lliaii she. The life of Lincoln limn has been one of her deepest stud ies. To Lincoln she lias devoted some of her best ami most famous books. ".Mont presidents," said Miss Tar licll. "no matter how peaceful their times, have, serious, problyms, . and most of Ihem are inclined to think that no president since Lincoln has had suck troubles. In the (.,,e f Wilson the, parallel has more to rest on. "Moth men had a pretty clear is sue that they kept to the front. With Lincoln the main idea was the preser vation of the I'liinn. Wilson is seek ing to keep the peace, with honor. "Wilson makes up his mind what his object is: he sticks to it, and you can't fii-l him avvny. That was Lincoln. Hi st tick to. his object like n dog to a bone. .Slow to Decision. "Wilson, like Lincoln, doesn't make up his niiiul rpiickly, or without deep tliniijilit. A decision with him is not ii mailer of impulse. Wilson takes his time. He jrets all the facts. He weighs tlicni, drawsj his conclusion anil then lianas on that. Anil while he does this bis mind is open to new facts. "He lias no pride of opinion. His mies accuse him of shifting his position. An intelligent, honest num. "lien in a po-ition where the facts shift, must chan-jc bis position. Otb erwise he would be doamatic. ''Lincoln, too, used to he accu-cd of shirting his position, but lie replied thai whenever hi- was convinced his view was wrong he would change. It was the true view he was after. "I think there have been lew ocens. ions in our history in which intelli gence called more urgently to a man to shift his position that in Wil-on's case. And this was so because tor u long time every morning he was con fronted by a new set of facts in a new set of circumstances. Trying to I'l-eserve Pence. ''Lincoln used to ny before the war Hint the dispute about slavery should be settled by ballots and not bullets, so Wilson's position is that in a civ ilized world rca-onablc processes and not bullets should settle disputes. "Wilson, amid a world in anus, has been trying to preserve the little body of international law that the world had worked out. He has prevented the world from stepping back entirely (Continued on page two.) U. S. 10 CARE FOR ATHENS, Oft. 17, via London, -tober 18. On the initiative of tin central empire's Wa-htnuton been ji-ked to iH'tniit tin American legation here to take charge of Au-trian. Itul L'aruin and Turki-h interc-t in cne i.l h declaration or' iv:ir Iiv ftteece nr jher complication-. ! Vrmiinn ha- -7 d REGENT STREET RUINED BY RAID OF ZEPPELINS Berlin Reports That Raid of Septem ber 23 Upon London Destroyed More Than Ten Million Dollars' Worth of Properly, Killed 400 Sol diers and Inflicted Great Loss. I'.L'III.IN, Oct. IS.-Kycwituesscs of the Zeppelin raid on England on Sep tember report, according to tile Overseas News agency, that bombs hit the (iiimsby barracks, killing more than lull soldiers, and that about sixty men were killed on board a cruiser which was hit by a bomb. It is said that Itcgeiit street, London, was for the most part laid in ruins. 1 Ten .Millions damage. "Kye-witnesses state that more than Hit) buildings were badly dam aged, some of them being completely wrecked," says the news agency. The damage is estimated at more than C2,0(I0.0U0. Kegent street, London, which is the main artery of com merce, was for the most part laid in rains. In a southern suburb of Lon don an ammunition factory was hloun up. "In Liverpool a bridge and tracks were damaged so badly that it will be impossible to use thein for a long time. Several benzol tanks near the Thames were damaged. "The Orim-by barracks were hit and more than -10(1 soldiers were kill ed. A cruiser with four funnels, which was anchored in the Iluinber was bit by a bomb and about sixty men were killed. Two other warships were badly damaged. At Hull some buildings were damaged so badly that only the walls remained. , . . ,, Jiainnge at Leeds. "(Ii'eat damage was inflicted on anuuuaition factories nml railroad stations at Leeds. An alcohol fac tory and other buildings at Ports mouth were struck, twelve cars load ed with horses were destroyed, a dock was damaged and railroad car- were blown up." The news agency gives a quotation attributed to a London newspaper in which the theory is advanced that the pui'iM'sc. hf the Zeppelin attacks is not the killing of women and children, but the curtailment of the production of ammunition by causing the supeusion of work in ammunition factories after waruings of Zeppelin raids have been given, rather than by the destruction of the lactones. The news agency says tin- newspaper stated thousands of working hours were lost in one week, and continues : "(lerman papers compare these re sults with the affirmations of British papers that the air attacks caused no damage. They point out the fact that the liriti-h government blocked the (-allies of the Hearst International N'ews Service because it sent out 'in correct reports to New York about the successes of (Jeniinu airship-.' " lliitWi Itt'iMirt a Denial. The official ltriti-b air account of the Zeppelin attack on the night of Sepl ember issued the following night, said no reports bad been receiv ed of any military damage, it was said a considerable number of -mall dwelling houses and shops, two fac tories, a railway station and some empty railway trucks were destroyed or damaged, and that thirty persons were killed and 111) wounded. GIANT ZEPPELIN BROUGHT DOWN BY BRITISH AIRMEN ni ' The pittuiv shows plainly the Mmctuiv of thee glnnl of the air Meel f 1 -Milieu ork with the hnie In the ha kgmnjid. The Z'p juM missed Lord Major at A public evbibitiun. .No charge ia uuide, but sltfht-frecin RUINS CHECK E T Bucharest Reports Resumption of Of fensive and Pushing of Falken Itayn's Armies Back Rain Inter feres With Fighting Along Somme Deadlock Along Russian Front. LONDON, Oct. 1H. -Official an nouncements today from the entente, side report an effective stand by the Uuiuanians against (Icueral Von l-'al-kenhnvu's armies along the Trausvl- vanian bonier and the sanguinary re- pulse liy tile l-rencli ol heavy tu-riiiim assaults (in the new French positions in Sailly-Sailliscl, on the Solium front. The approach of the cold season is accompanied by no diminution in ac tivity in most of the Kuropean battle areas. In some of thein, indeed, the efforts of the belligerents apparently are being redoubled. This seems not ably true along the eastern front from YulliYiiia to itiuuauia, whence contin uous fighting is reported, with a vir tual deadlock the re-ull so far. Ki-ivc licpoltcd Chocked. I-'urthei- south, the attempt of the central powers to drive a wedge be tween the Ktissinus and liiuuauians near Doina Watra. in the southern Carpathians, is in an uncertain stage. Lerlin has reported the capture of some heights, hut l'etrograd claims tlio repulse of nil the Teutonic at tacks. Temporarily, at least, the tide of battle apparently has changed along the Transylvanian luii-dcr. llerlin has conceded the stiffening of the Kiiman ian resistance along this front, and llucliarest advices today declare that King Ferdinand's troops, arc milking a successful stand at one point at least, in the l'redcal region south of Kroiistadt, where they are pushing (leneral Von l-'alkcnbayn's armies back. Kroiu the Kmuanian viewpoint all the military news is reassuring, it is declared. Russian troops in force are report ed helping the Ktimnninus to defend the passes from Traii-ylvania into their territory. On Somme l-'ltuit. On the Somme front Herman at tacks were delivered against the rrench line both north and south ot I the Soninic. Three assaults bv tb 1 DRV RANSYLVAN A I Oermaiis upon the French in Kailly- Knpids, where In- will speak tonight, Saillisel are declared by Tans toll for his deparinre early tomorn.w have he'n repaired with heavy losses ! morning l'r other Mifhi'jan cities ;uid to the Geinian. who also were re- j YiumjiMowii. (.. where he will make nelled nt'ter thev had ained n tnolhi" ' lh last speech id' hi- third tomorrou . in a Kreiieh first line trench in Hern-yen-Sjinterre, south of the river. On the Iiritih front, in the Somme region, progress by Ceiiera) Hair's forces between the Albert I'apauiue road and Kesboeufs i reported, de spite the prevalence of rainv weather. "Itain fell heavilv dnriinj the ni-hl ."! -ays today's official report from thej'd' his car and .-Unk hamU with a front in France. '"Notwithstanding ! "imnber of adtniiei-. this, we made process at "various! Thu train left for Niles, Mich., at points between the AHiert-Ibipnume ! :" l- road and Les Koeuf-. We have taken some prisoner." ROOSEVELT SPEAKING i AT KENTUCKY TOWNS I 1nMK, ,,. ls. , ,, LOL'ISVILI.K, Ky.t Oct. 1 S. Theo-I Mount Pasubi... in the Trent ino. v. dore Ftoosevell came to Kentucky to-'terdav broke the !a-t A it-t'io-1 1 .in -day. Hear platform addresses airman lines of lv-i-unce in l!ie ic-jou 14 eastern Kentucky towns w ith t between Co-ina-ji and l.'t.ile. sv- the principal speer h this evening at a 'Louisville park, were on the day'H 'program. SPECULATlONiSRIFEOVERGERARDSRETURN HUGHES ELECTION POLLS INDICATE rfe--E IMPERILS PEACE MINNESOTA FOR fEH SAYS mm WILSON 40,000 y- t i-'?vrv Alleging Domination of Wall Street in ftS Xsl Republican Campaign of Candcm- frLt ft yf. iJ'S JSv nation and Praising Reforms of E If Administration, Secretary of the I ' t ff t El ' N it"jLXS Treasury Speaks at Chicago. is. K ! i tlx I 'W hjfr si&M lir tk f ; v r. i W Lit , t JAS V CrEEARp -- -Sh. I - - The in rival of James V. (iei aid. f and Mrs. (ieral'll, shown here, has liegun seelllatioll as to the reasons for Ills departure from (ieriniiny. (.'erald has denied he licars any peace ovcr tllles. The liiMpiel Mrs. (icranl is shown rallying was pieseuleil to her l-y a reception eoiiiiniiiee of piiiiiihii-nt city, slate and national olllcials. I t'lllCACO, Oel. 18 Charles ' Hughes spent virlnallv tin entire day en route Jicnn Sioux ilv, lit., 1 i puints in Michigan, wlieiv he will speak late (inlay anl ttinilil. f Mr. Muj-lu's' I'iisl -pcec-li til' tlie day, n I'eai'-plat t'nrm address, was down on the program t'r Nile-, where he will remain liltrni iiiiiiiitc. Me i due ti reach Kaliiiaain at -I p. m., and to remain tin-re an hmir and a hall". His program calls i'ov his ar- Irival .-.htirtly hi'I'uic 7 o'eltn-k al (irand Charles , Ihu'Jics was greeted by il number of republican leaders and a crowd of several hundred when he !nrrived in Cliica-o ,i 11 ::S() a. in. Ite ' fore (he (rain was switched to an ! eastern railroad preparatory to -tail-! inir on the trip HnoicJi .Michigan, .Mr. Hughes appeared on the rear plat form ! ITALIANS BREAK AUSTRIAN I LINES IN THE TRENTINO i the Italian fd'lt'ial -laleicent i-ued j today, and -torimd 'he Au-triai north of the miuhhii ot 'Casfdn me, IN RAID OVER ESSEX IN SEPTEMBER. THE CREW BEING KILLED IN -.V and nn Idea of the innminnth promrt ions nt a 'Zeppelin Mill W gained by coiiimri.-oii of the ure kr! monster' striking the cotljtge In its ! t Ii plunge. HHP' of the (innwin air-hip are heing shown to Ixnidnners by the are Invited to Uivp coins in collection bo.vs for (ho benefit of tlie Red t'ros society and Kitchner memorial fund. oiled states ainliassiiilor to lierlln, I 1 ,HmLK, Uta., Oct. 1 S. Reaching a inaxinium velocity of 110 miles an hour, the tropical hurricane pausing inland from the (Jiilf of .Mexico early today, swept over .Mobile with ter- j rifle force ranin for about two I hours before, it tie-ian to subside. Not I wil hstandini; the forco of the wind. the damage done In .Alobile proper was est im a led at not exceeding a Tow thousand dollars. One life was lost, a nero woman killed by a live wire. There were no other reports of casualties in this city. C AIA'KSTO.V. Tex.. Oct. I X. All danger that this place would feel any serious effects of the tropical dis turbance Is believerl to have, passed. XKW OKI. KAN'S. La., Oct. IS. An east to Miulhcnst unle was hlow- I inji U'.t miles an Immii at Fort Morgan, Ala., at the entrance to .Mobile Hay ! at i;: !." this mornin. aecordliiK to (a radio niessaue receivt'ti hnre. j The storm st rink Fort Morgan I altoul -I a. in. All telei apli and telephone cou neetioiis between .Mobile and New Or leans was lost after ! a. m. 1 Kt'forts to reacb Feusacola from New Orleans tailed aficr S o'clock. SALKM. Or.. Oct. IS. liev. II. I ''Hlt'J of A Mia ii w a-, elect eel prc-i- j d Ml o I lie Ol e'.'oii 'aptl-l eo!eiitioil al the annual inceliji- here today. L'ev. F. I;. ( le.cnjcr ol I'l iidieton am! liev. .1. M. V'l i o I'ortlaiid were elected .I .....I ..i rv f.., ...... i : ' i 1 1 c!v. : l e pi e-i CIIICACO, Oct. IS.- I'raiM- for I'resiileiil Wilson's diplomatic and legislative aidiievenients and charge that "Wall street ha- always ilomin ated ilie republican party," and that vietorv for that iiarty next month would endanger the country's pros perity were voiced here today by Wil liam (i. McAdoo, secretary of the treasury, before a political meeting in a downtown (heater. "The American people are licinjj asked (o put in peril the peace and prosperity the country is now en.joy in under 1'ioidcnt WiUou by turning their "itvernmctit over to the inexpe ieuccd Mr. Hughes and the ora nixed band of iiteompatihle elements which are supporting hiii," said Mr. Me Adoo. "For two month- thev have eon deuined every act of the democratic administration i" the most unfair and untruthful manner, but the American people are still without a detinite an swer from Mr. Iluuhes to what they will do with the v.ovei nment if they Met pos.se-siou of it. lloosevclt DoiuinaleH. "Tlie only definite thinu we liavi had in (he campaign came from Col onel Itooscvtdt, who said at Ilnttle Creek, discusiinu: the Lusitnnia: 'You ask me what I would have done. I would havu seized every interned (ler "man ship." Al r. McAdoo then (pmlcd (iermaiiy's declaration of war on Portugal In1 cause of seizures of (icrman ships bv that eouid ry, and added : I "Mr. oo.-evells action would havi j resulted in war he! ween the l'nite j Slides ami ( lei ninny, and now come t M r. 1 1 ml; lies ami nilmits, as far as h lis ever ilefiuile, his accord with the bellicose a 1 1 ilude of M r. Woosi'vtdt, This is shown by his reply at Louis ville to the oiicstion us to what hi , won Id have done in tlie Liisitaniu ease I lie said in substance that he would have threatened (he kaiser o effect ivelv that 'the Liisitania would never have been sunk.' This is characteri t ill e ji-CMi i nr .mi. 1 1 ui lies acii ii sk- . : . i i I 1. . ...I .. 1. : d what he would have done alter the Liisitania had been sunk. I challenge him to answer that ip(stioit. "Who can doubt that if Mr. Ilo-he is niadeju'esident, Mr. lioosevelt wil he (lie dominating influence and di rector of our foreign ami domeslic ! policies l'resldeiil's Power. 'A president has it in his power b pliiiiLM' the eoiintrv into war at imv moment. A single misstep, a rasli a or blunder on his part is all that i (necessary. Il does not reipiire eour 'aiie or statesiiniiiship to provoke war. I Any wildman or blunderer in tlie pres idential chair can precipitate such a i calamity." Tahiti" up domestic affair, Mr. McAdoo said that the democratic ad- ministration had inntiyurated the sys j tein by which the country's money mild be kept outside of New York. 'He said he believed Mr. Iluuhe if fleeted, intended to cs.d)li-h a -en- fContluupa on puce lx THE A IRSHIP S FALL 4 . : If Straw Votes Hold Good, Wilson Will Win Gopher State by Landslide Peace Sentiment and Weakness of State Ticket Factors, Says Gardner. 1 i By (I1LSON GARDNER. ST. VM., Minn.. Oct. IS. It8 tho same here as In the Puciflc coast states. Wilson ls runuinn very strong how atrong is tho only ques tion. Will ho carry Minnesota? Chair man Wehaton of the democratic statu committee is almost ready to claim the state. If he dared to Hay what he really believes, I know he would claim it. Hut, in a state which counts its republican majorities in terms ot seventy-five to a hundred thousand, such a claim would sound like an Idle partisan bluff. The political situation is nothing short of remarkable. All the polls and straw votes taken show such uu overwhelming Wilson sentiment that the results are doubted, even by thoso who take them. Something, they think, must he wrong. The vote must represent some local condition or some passing sentiment. If these straw votes were taken at their faco value Minnesota would be for Wilson by upward of 40.000 majority. Curried by Roosevelt. Four years ago Roosevelt carried Minnisota, polling 1 25,856 votes. Wilson polled 106,426. TaTt polled (j4t3:t4, According to the straw votes recently taken, the Roosevelt vot now seems split about even between ., 'Wilsun undvIIughe. " ltv MintieapoMn ' and St. Faul, Roosevelt gets rather more than half. Supposing Wilson . holds bis democratic votes of four years ago and gets half of the Roose velt following, his vote would be 169, :tr4. Civing Hughes Tuft's vote and half the Roosevelt vote, Hughes would get 127,622. This woiild givu Wilson a margin of 42,092. This would mean a Wilson landslide. Reihaps that is what will happen. Opposed to this ultra-Wilson show lug Is the fact that the republicans are not through with their campaign. The party Is well organized and has an ample war chost and there are still several weeks before election. The principal reason for the Wil son sentiment Is :"IIe kept us out ot war." The peace vote and the labor vote are unanimously for Wilson. This part of the country has likewise had uninterrupted prosperity and tho voters feel that they are called upon to choose between a continuation ot things as they are or a plunge Into the unknown. They choose things as they are. Senatorial Fight. Hughes will not be helped here by the republican state ticket. Tho re publican candidate for United States senator to succeed Moses Clapp Ir, Frank H. Kellogg, who for years has been tlie attorney in the northwest, for the steel trust. Kellogg was also special counsel under Roosevelt's ad ministration in prosecuting the Stand ard Oil company the prosecution which lias "dissolved" the trust and "reduced" the price of oil and tho profits of John l. ! Kellogg is a good talker and is making a hard cam paign, but be is finding It uphill work. The democratic candidate for senator Is Dan W. Lawler, a well known St. I'aul attorney and ono ot the best spellbinders In the stato. The present governor, J. A. A, (Continued on pagilx) STATE iLHIA STILL IN SERVICE l!(ISTll.V. O.-t. IS. Tho Cuilnl Siiiti", i-iii-iiil con it nl' iipn-iil ntli'ii loiliiy tlint iihtiiIht of tin- Mutt- mil ilin kitc Mill in M-rvii-i' I'm- li-ili-rnl mililiiry inrm.-i-, niilivilliManilin-.' 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