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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1912)
T,T CAPITA! ??URWAL. SALEM. OREGON. MONDAY, MAT 13, 1912. PAGS THRX3. Cheaper Cables to Europe The New Cable Letters. Twenty words across the Atlantic for $1.50. Thirty words for the same price at eek-end. Save mail's delay and anxiety. Full Information and Rates by Telephone THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY THE BEST BREAD BAKED. Ib a pretty big claim to mak (or our products, but a trial will convlrfce the most skeptical of Its truth. How could It be otherwise when we employ the best material and the best baking skill obtainable. Order a loat today, and It will have a permanent place on your table hereafter. Capital bakery 431 Court Street Phone M Roseburg Strawberry Carnival May 16, 17, 18 The Fourth Annual Strawberry Carnival at Roseburg will be held on the above dates, and the SUNSET 06DEN SHASTA) ROUTES Will sell round trip tickets from all points on its lines at ONE AND ONE-THIRD FARES Tickets on sale. May 16, 17, 18, with final return limit of May 20, For further particulars call on any S. P, agent or write JOHN M. SCOTT, General Passenger Agent, Portland, Oregon. IN THE CIRCLE OF YOUR acquaintance there must be many who have bought their Jewelry here and they ought to be the beat judges of what bargains they got for their money. Engagement, wedding and Mourning Rings, Signet and Keeper Rings, Gold and Silver Watches the best timekeepers ever made Chains, Charms, Brooches, Bracelets, Thimbles, etc Eardrops, etc PREFERENTIAL VOTE AT THE PRIMARIES The presidential preference pri maries now being held in states where the laws provide for them are great Improvements over the old methods of selecting delegates, but are never theless defective. What Is lacking in all direct primary laws so far is the preferential vote. When the voters bare threes or mora candidates to choose from they should be given the opportunity , to declare their second and third choice, as well as their first, so that the successful candidate shall be the real choice of a majority in stead of only a plurality. In the Democratic primary In Neb raska, the voters were called upon to choose between Clark, Wilson and Harmon. Progressive democrats fav ored either Wilson or Clark. Re actionaries wanted Harmon. The pro gressives were clearly in the majority, but there was danger that In dividing their vote between Wilson and Clark, Harmon might secure a plurality. That this did not actually happen was due more to good luck than anything else. There would have been no dan ger with the preferential vote. The progressive democrat, whose first was Wilson, could have marked Clark as his second choice or vlca versa. Then there would have been no dan ger of Harmon or any other reaction ary Bllpping through unless the maj ority of the votes should be react ionary. As the direct primary plan spreads, the predatory Interests will see their opportunity In securing the candi dacy of as many progressives or pseudo-progressives as possible, un less the preferential safeguard will be adopted. So far, the preferential vote is only In use in this country in Grand Junc tion, Colorado, where city officials are elected by that method. It has proved to be very satisfactory. The old gang trick of dividing the oppos ition through a multiplicity of can didates no longer works in that town. The voters mark the candidates In order of their choice. If no one has a clear majority for first choice, the lowest candidate Is ellmlted and his vote distributed among candidates marked second choice on his ballots, Then. If there is still no one with a clear majority the next lowest In ellnv Inated and his vote redistributed. The final choice is sure to bo the one most satisfactory to a majority of those voting. In the Oregon Republican pri mary there was a situation very sim ilar to that In the Nebraska Demo cratic one. It Is fair to assume that LaFolIette comes nearer than any other candidate in the Republican field to standing for all the things favored by Oregon progressives. Had the contest been only between him and Taft or between him and Roose' velt he would probobly have been the choice of the voters. But all three were candidates. The reactionary vote was solid for Taft. Many pro gressives were so Impressed with the danger of Taft getting a plurality that they voted for Roosevelt, although LaFolIette was their real preference, because tliey were under the Impros' alon that Roosevelt had the best chance. In spite of this, the l.aFol lette vote was so large that It Is easy to see that the senator would have won but for fear of Taft. Be cause Oregon does not have the pref erential vote the Republican voters have been driven to endorse the can didate who Is only the second choice of the progressives of that state. Perhaps progressives of both par ties will profit by experience of this year sufficiently to see that by 1916 all states have not only the direct primary, but the preferential vote at well. "'Arrow COLLAR For Summer WW. 3 for Bo. Ctwtt, Pwihixly Cnmtwny. Troy. New York LEGISLATURE ORGANIZED ALOG SEW LINES y.RiYs iwn SMI! FS. A 15-year-old boy In New York found a bundle of stock certificate worth 1510,000. He returned them to their owners, a brokerage firm, which opened its great big corporate heart and gave him a whole quarter of a dol lar. Truly "virtue hath its own re ward" on. Wall street. . The talk of recalling Attorney-Gen eral Crawford Is the stillest kind of rot. Even conceding that his opinion was wrong, there is nothing to justify even thinking about a recall. If the recall of judges means the recall of every one of them whom the supreme court reverses, then we had better get along without it The recall Is a weapon of defense ,and the people should be wary about using It to grat ify spleen. The most that General Crawford could possibly be accused of would be making a mistake in inter preting a law. ' The scientists are educating each other at Corvallls. They began the task yesterday with a dlsertatlon on the "Bacterial Flora or Oregon Waters." Prof A. ft. Sweetser, of the U. of O. doing the disseratlng. This morning two subjects were discussed, the first being "Myxomycetes of the Willamette Valley," and the second Legislatures Under the New System." Being stated separately the two lat ter are presumably not the same thing. A Corvallls man insists there is a real hell of real ftre, and takes two columns of the really valuable space of the Corvallls Gazette-Times to prove it to his own satisfaction. Just such verbose mistakes as he make the newspaper men think that If there Is not a real hell there ought to be, Miss Maud Mitten, of New York, wants $50,000 as peroxide on her lac erated affections. She says that Col. Edward Harrison Power, of Chicago, aged 50 years, after writing her 1400 Impassioned love letters, finally grew cold. What In the name of heaven did Miss Mitten expect? After that production, a man's affections ought to be good refrigerator material. A MODERN AUTO' PARCEL DELIVERY Salem Is to have a modern auto parcel delivery. This has been estab lished by Mr. G. L. Falk, a well-known young man of this city. He will make deliveries for different stores and for any private individual, calling at the house and delivering the package to the place designated. The charges will be moderate, running from ten cents a package up according to the size. This Is something that Salem has needed for some time and Mr. Falk will undoubtedly meet with good suc cess, ills stand Is at the Commercial Book Store, and his phone number Is Main 64. Pudge W. H. Hollls, of Forest Grove, was in Salem Saturday seeing some of the leading men who take part in state affairs. He honored The Capital Jour nal with an impersonal call, as he said, "merely to get In touch with pro gressive currents of thought as they center In a newspaper office that Is open to suggestion from all sources, high and low, wise and unwise, but inclined to play the open game with the general public." Judge Hollls was a conservative member of the last leg islature, and did not vote for all the big grafts and grabs. He is a candi date for senator from the joint district composed of Washington, Tillamook, Polk and Lincoln. He will probably get a big vote and be a member of the next senate, and The Capital Jour nal believes the people will do well to give him their votes, regardless of party. Judge Hollls Is inclined to be a more conservative member of the senate than he was of the house, and has some good ideas on the subject. Wants Things Different "There ought to be an effort," said Judge Hollls, in his quiet way of ex pressing himself, "to get a legislature organized once on a different line. The old way of giving the speakership and presidency of the senate to the best trader who gives promise of big ap propriations right and left, and who hands out the big committees right and left to get his job, Is obnoxious to the people. They are onto that game, and will not stand for it again. Oil? more such legislature will result In abolishing the legislature as it now exists and I would not blame the people for abollslng It. I do not know what we can do to hold things down, but taxation has reached the limit. If The Capital Journal will hammer away on that line, I will be glad to back it up. Plain buildings that are comfort able, without marble floors and terra cotta finishings and tiled art entrances are good enough for charges on the state, whether It Is a young fellow at the state university, a young lady at the normal, or some one at the asylum or the reform school. We don't all have bath tubs and hot and cold water and perfumed soap In our homes. Three or four boards looking after dairying, three or our boards looking after public lands, three or four boards, boards of regents and other boards and commissions looking after them and arranging courses of study and selecting textbooks and Introduc ing gardening and animal study and bird study, and experimenting with lizards and frogs, and taxes going higher and higher Is enough to make any man swear something I never do unless it Is to myself. I did not vote for the big grafts last time, and shall be less and lens Inclined to vote for them. The simple life for the Individual Is better, and It Is better for the state. Hammer away at them and make them come through. I used to teach school, and I don't regret lick I ever gave a bad boy, It was making a better man of him, If he did howl. Cut off the fads and the nos trums, and let ub get down to the necessaries of life. Bread and gravy boiled meat and vegetables, Is a good enough political diet." will Iff tip Greatly Reduced ' Have you seen those chic suits that we are selling at such low prices. Suits that have style, lines and wearing quali ties combined , Divided into three lots $15.G0, $19.53 $25.C3 Ut I. Serges, mix- tures and fancy suitings, plain and trimmed mod els, not a suit worth less than $25. v Special $15.G3 Lot II. Serges, cheviots, mixtures and fancy suit ings, plain and fancy styles. Suits that sold for $29.50, $32.50, $35.00. ! . . !,.!.,...' Special $19.50 Lot III. Serges, Basket weaves, fancy suitings and mixtures, the very perfection of art in tailoring and design, Sold for $39.50, $45.00 and $60.00. Special $25.00 U. G. Shipley Co. 145-147 North Libertj Street Sm. urf Urt Sm, SAUM, OREGON PopuU. PricM The Telegram hit the bullseye when it advised candidates not to have their pictures in newspapers. By the time their mugs are put into ''cuts" and then printed on newspaper they are sufficient to justify any respectable citizen In voting against them. BARR'S JEWELRY STORE M-f - Capital City Steam Laundry J PHONE MAIN a 105 s Our Wagons Go Everywhere Just Out Come In and let us play the New May Records on the New Kdlson "Opera" phonograph. It's a Peach We also have May stock In Co lumbia and Victor Records. Some new "Red Seals." ClIAS. E. ANDERSON 247 North Commercial Street. Salem, Oregon. Wiley B. Allen Store. DECIDE YOURSELF. The Opportunity Is Here, Ducked by SuIpiu Testimony. Don't take our word for It. Don't depend on a stranger's state ment. Read Salem endorsement. Read the statements of Salem citi zens. And decide for yourself. Here Is one cane of It: A. J. Wood 733 N. Front street, Sa lem, Oregon, says: "About two months ago I began to suffer from kidney and bladder trouble. The kidney secretions were too frequent and painful In passage and caused me much annoyance, I had often heard Doans Kldnoy Pills highly recom mended and thinking they might prove of benefit, I procured a box at Dr. Stone's Drug Store. I can say that the use of this rid me of every symptom of kidney complaint. strongly advise other kidney suffer ers to give this remedy a trial." The above statement was given January 30, 1900, and was confirmed on November 20, 190!), by Mr. Wood. lie said: "The statement I gave In WOO, publicly recommending DoHn's Kidney Pills was correct. This rem edy cured me of kidney trouble and I have had no return attack." For sale by all dealers. Price, fiO cents. FoHter-Mllburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United Stntes. Remember the nnuie Doan's and take no other. House Builders to Birds. Did you know that the boys of one1 of the Bronx public schools, New York city, have done some remarka ble interesting and creditable work in building homes for blrdst The story of these "Home-Builders to the Birds" has been written for the June St. Nicholas by Harriet Gilles pie. 'By coupling the Btudy of history and literature with the study of birds," the boys' teacher is quoted as saying, "Some of the . boys made houses that had a double Interest. For example, one lad who lived near CONTRACT FOR THE STEEL BRIDGES LET The contract for the construction of the big Btcel bridge across the Wll lamotte haB been lot to the Southern Pacific construction department, and work will begin at once. While every body connected with the contract, or Its letting, Insists that the fact the contract was let to the S. P. construc tion department Is merely an Incident, most people will read between the lines and figure out for tl.emselves the S. P. hns an Interest In much more than the contract to build the bridge, However, Salemltes welcome the be. ginning of the work and will bo glad to see It finished, and the cars run nlng across It, no matter who owns It or them. WILLAMETTE DEBATER WON FIRST HONORS At the Interstate oratorical contest held Friday night In which representn tlves from Oregon, Washington, Idaho and California participated, Harry G McCain, a student of the Willamette university, won first honors, and Roy A. Murray, of Un Angeles, second The contest was held In the auditor! utn of the Methodist church, with good attendance. Mr. McCain's ora- tlon was on the subject of ''Liquor vs, Liberty," which also won him the $100 prize offered by the Inlercolleglat Prohibition leneuo. Mr. McCain will be the representative of the coast tho nutlonnl prohibition oratorical contest, to be held at Atlnntlc City, N, J within s few weeks. Henry Ferris, Iladar, Nebr., Is the father of 10 children and for the past 20 years has used Foley's Honey and Tar Compound with tne best of re sults. He tells us: "I think Foley's Hooey and Tar Compound Is the best cough medicine In the world for I have used It for the past 20 years and ran recommend it to enyone needing a cough medicine." Dr. Stono Drug Co. A 'Nervous Wreck Mis. Mao McKnlght. of Ornnogo, Mo., writes "I was simply a nervou wreck. I could not even walk across the floor without my heart fluttering and I suffered with such bearing dow Hennatlons every month. Iydla Iv I'luliliain's Vegetable Compound Iish not only done my nerves a world of good, but has relieved me from pnln and I am recommending It to my friends." Because your cane Is a difficult one. don't continue to suffer, but try I.y dia K. rinkham's Vegetable Cotn- , pouud. the cottage that Edgar Allan Poa oc cupied when he lived In Kordliam, New York city, made a bird-house that reproduced the Poe cottage with considerable fidelity. The old-fash ioned shutters, the plain doorway, the simple porch, the shingled roof, the red chimney, and the little cramped windows squeezed in undor the eaves, all gave it "a very realistic look. He believed in making the most of local opportunities, and he took the house In his neighborhood that had the greatest traditional in terest, and adapted it to bis purpose." i t irv Ask Your Grocer for it "II II I 9 1 1 w Ft" i wpi" nnmM mm hp.'; fm ) m wr wwi m AutomobileMotor Cycle and Accessory Dealers of Salem APPERSON 8. . ANDERSON, Also Agent for Ileo and M'Ichlgaa Great Western Garage 117 N. High AUBURN W. 8. FITT8, Agent Also Agent for Met. 418 Court Street. Phone fll nr rrtrr otto wilson Kl lit IC Also Agent for the Chalmers LJJJL Vil pDOIle Cor, fomerclttl and Center m m -t E-M-F MOTOR SALES CO. i7 ft E. M. . "J0"-FIsnders W "1 1 "1 c. L. Hone, Mgr. i!4 8. Com'l St r-t s- m ra FORD AGENCY, E. 11. Whiteside, Mgr. h I ttC I J Also Agents (or K. C. 11. and Losler SJL-S 4 lii h. Liberty St Phone 867 14J ir CihJ Al A'u f ' Hopmobllt J M J1 Capital Garage Phone 7SJ mrrw A TkT MOTOR wattsuipp INI II A N rvrfrc Amn.nnltln, Fishing Tackle, Etc li Tlini 1 CCLti North Commercial Street 1'hone Ml MAXWELL n,Ifc2iasE" lfM.r4. WW M-4MiL Capital Gursge Phsne 781 r rn i ir simonton motor co, tihtrl A Ml 1 Also Agent for Mllrhcll W phone m 151 North High Street HARLEY.DAVIDSON hauser iihos. srVvr7D rvVrc " Molorcycle Supplies and MO I UK LYLLLb Minneapolis Motorcycle TLinO MOTOR FRANK MOORE hi I SIX re - Bicycles, Sundries, He. V C YLLLb Conrt Street Phone US tlllAIMITI M"1 Sulem Vulraiilslng & Rubber Co. VI II I AIM! I Nil Retreading, Section Work, Patching. V Wt-V IMIIUlMVl Satisfaction Guaranteed. 819 Center. AUTOMOBILES ..""S 3? f 111 Locomobile Einbry and Company f IriJl Car fir Hire KelljTnKk rlion Mala I iC. 2t Stole St
