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Editorial Page of "The Capital Journal" WEDNESDAY EVKMXC. September l:t. li'lli. CHARLES H FISHEB, Editor and Manager, PUBLISHED EVEBT EVENING EXCEPT SUNDAY, SALEM, OREGON, BY Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. m. a 1?NFS. CHA8. II. FISHER, President Vice-President DOB A C. AKDRESEN, Sec. and Treat. SUBSCRIPTION BATES viw h oirrlsr. nr rear 5.00 Per month IHUy by mail, per year , 8.00 Per mouth ...45c 35e FULL LEASED WIRE TELEGRAPH BKPORT EASTERN REPRESENTATIVES Kew Tork, Ward-Lewis-Williams Speclnl Agency, Tribune Building Chisago, W. H. Btockwel 1, People ' Gag Building. Tfce Capital Journal carrier boys are Instructed to put the papers on the Wtrsk. If the carrier does not do this, misses yon, or i.eglecta gettitng the MHr to yon on time, kindly phone the circulation manager, aa this is the only r we ean determine whether or not the carriers are following instructions. PhrMain 81 before 7:30 o'clock and a paper be Bent you by apecial Messenger if the carrier baa missed you. ANALYSIS OF MAINE ELECTION The Maine election is over and the results, except as to xact figures, are kn6vn. There seems to be a wide divergence of opinion as to what, if anything, it presages. Mr Hughes says he "is pleased and will press forwai;d with renewed confidence." Secretary Daniels says'it is encouraging to the democrats; a happy omen of victory in November." The New York World says "neither party has anything to brag about." The Sun says "it indicates the republicans and former progressives came together in a wave that swept over democratic hopes. The in bune puts it "the returns indicate a decisive republican victory " The Times concedes that Roosevelt carried most of the progressives with him into the republican camp." While Champ Clark briefs it into "we've had hell licked out of us." ' , With due deference to the World, Sun, Times and the big guns politically on either side, the returns do not warrant any of the opinions expressed by any of them. Analyzed carefully the returns show democratic gains, and important ones. The only question is were those gains large enough, supposing they hold through the country generally, to carry the democrats to victory In 1912 Mr. Wilson's vote in Maine was 51,11:.. lhe combined vote of Taft and Roosevelt was 7t,0:'.8. The majority over Wilson of the combined vote was 2.,92o. The total vote was 129,637. Mr. Wilson's percentage of the entire vote was r.9.44. Htonnn , f fu;t3 ' The total vote Monday was above 148,000 and of this vote but 59:', precincts out of (SVj had been counted. These gave the republican senator for the long term 78,049 and his democratic opponent G8.27:!; while for the short term the republican senatorial candidate received .b8, and his opponent 6G,8.52. The majority for the first was 9 770 and for the other 12,5:56. Averaging this vote be tween the two winners gives a majority of ll.lolt each. If the other 42 precincts averaged the same number of voters as those counted this would increase the total vote on senator 9,700, and this divided in the same proportion as the balance of the vote would add 5,:W5 to tlw repub lican vote and 4,1)65 to the democratic, increasing the republican majority to 12,:12:?, or about 12,000 less than the majority over Wilson. The total vote is given as above 148,000, but as the combined vote given for the two candidates in the 59:? precincts amounts to almost that number it is fair to presume the 42 precincts were not in cluded in the totals and that this will be about loS.OOO. In 1912 Mr. Wilson received :19.44 per cent of the total vote, but this year the democrats received 45.44 per cent. If the Maine election indicates anything it is that the result of the presidential election is in doubt. The democrats have made gains no doubt, but the question is whether these gains will offset the republican gains due to the return to the fold of the progressive voters. One thing that the Maine results does show conclusively is that the republican party, in Maine at least, is not as strong as it was in the old days before Roosevelt led his following into a new party, since a republican majority of 12,000 would have been regarded as an unusually slim one in those days, since the republican majority for president in 1904 was :Ui,807, in 1908 :H),584, and in 1912 the combined republican and progressive majority over Wilson was 23,925. With only a paltry margin of 12,000 to go on, if President Wilson is as much stronger than his party as most persons think he is has chances for carry ing Maine in November are not entirely gone, although such a thing was probably never expected by his party managers. ' That forty gallons of booze was cleverly concealed, but the importing of. milk from California to Oregon was what gave the scheme away. Oregon has milk to export and that is what made the policeman suspicious. The mysterious part of the affair is that the policeman tumbled to it. The circus is a thing of the past and the opening of school a thing of the immediate future. If this situation was reversed' the average school boy would like it better. The next event of state wide importance is the state fair. It promises this year to be-the best and biggest ever. All arrangements are complete even to that for special trains from Portland and Eugene. With an un usually wet season the display of vegetables will be the finest ever seen here and that is saying much. Another feature this year that is entirely new is that Coos and perhaps Curry county, will have a full display, some thing that heretofore was next to impossible on account of the distance and roundabout way of travel. The indications this morning are that in the Washing ton primaries, Poindexter, progressives republican, has beaten Humphreys, stand-patter, for the nomination for United States senator. The returns are coming in slowly but as between the two factions of the republicans the progressives seem to have made a pretty clean sweep. All is not peace across the Columbia, for it is so different absorbing the other fellow and being absorbed. LADD & BUSH, Bankers Established 1SGS CAPITAL $500,000.00 Transact a General Banking Business Safety Deposit Boxes SAVINGS DEPARTMENT Wall Street is offering to bet 10 to 7 that Hughes will beat Wilson, and the same odds that Hughes will carry New York. Wall Street is simply a gambling den, is al ways strongly republican because under republican tariffs it is fostered and in the' present instance the wish is father to the thought. It is a pretty safe course for the balance of the country to learn what Wall Street wants and then vote against it. Some of the emergency board talked real sassy to the governor and intimated rather strongly that the gov ernor's fund of truth would last a long while because he was so economical in its use. It was not a nice thing to say, but then consider the provocation. The governor had accused Senator Day, who used the naughty language, of going over to the Oregon Journal and siding in with it against him. State Treasurer Kay having made arrangements with the Ladd & Bush bank for advancing the money to carry the flax experiment until the legislature meets the flax growers can rest easy about their money. The state may get shy of funds but that has never happened to Salem's oldest bank. . ; The sympathetic strike that threatened New York has been 'abandoned and ithe street railway employes will have to make their fight alone. At the same time the news comes that the coal strike in Kansas and the south-" west has been settled, the men winning their demands. The coal strike in Kansas is off, the operators con ceding the men's demands. We know nothing of the merits of the case, but the fact is evident to all that no coal miner ever got paid what his work and the risk he takes, is worth. Politics makes strange bed fellows, Pinchot has crawled into the same bunk with the Oregonian. Bed might be the better word but "bunk" describes the situ ation more closely. Tomorrow Portland lays the corner stone of its big auditorium and also gives the Third regiment the freedom of the city. It will be a gala day, with lots of folks there from the valley. The band concert season is about over and one of the most delightful social features of the city vr ill be missed for another six months. Don't overlook the next one, for it is the last for the year. Mr. Hughes will begin his second campaign tour with an opening speech at Springfield, Illinois, September 19. If his work shows no better results elsewhere than it did in Maine, he is wasting both time and energy. The primary election in Illinois today is a reminder of old times when all kinds of tricks were resorted to along with an occasional fist fight. I 3 .?3M RippHngRltuniGS : P'M THE BULLY You've doubtless encountered that terrible gent, who'll fight at the drop of the hat, who wanders the village, on trouble intent, as sassy as Thomas H. Cat. He says he's the Terror from Bittercreek Bend, who ne'er was divorced from his goat, and he will consider that person a friend who treads on the tail of his coat. He bullies the undersized people he meets, and wrenches the invalid's nose, and chases the cripples off most of the streets, and tramps on the patriarch s toes. The chief of police, when the bully's around, has duties important elsewhere; he's pinching an orphan for beating a hound, or chasing a hen to its lair. It may be for months and it may be for years, men stand for this delegate bad; but finally some one undaunted appeal's, and spreads him all over the grad. Then people rejoice with a hearty good will, no longer distraught and afraid ; the bully they take to the dump on the hill, and put him to bed with a spade. OPEN FORUM "Back to the Farm" and City High Schools. Editor Capital Journal: Tour editor ial in the issue of the Capital Journal of last Wednesday on the back to the land question 'should incite all serious minded people to a keen interest in one of the most difficult as well as the most important economic problems now fac ing the American people. It requires years of experience to master the intricacies of practical farm management. The belief that nnybody can farm is entertained by those who have never tried to farm efficiently. If the American people are to con tinue to be the best fed and best clothed people in the world something must be done to meet the demands of the American farmer so he will be content to remain on the form and continue to utilize his practical knowledge in the production of food and other vital hum an necessities. Hunger breeds discon tent. A hungry people are a dangerous people. A great many factors are responsible for the movement of our fanners into the city. Without attempting even to name these I shall call attention to one only which inquiry has found tif be the most powerful cause for the tendency to abandon farm life. It is the want of proper facilities for the advanced education of rural children. Oregon has wisely provided for the advanced education of such of her coun try boys and girls as desire to pursue their studies beyond the provision made in their district schools. These may attend any high school in the state and the amount of their tuition, computed on actual cost of instruction, will be assessed against the school districts in which thev reside and paid into the citv school fund. I feel our school board is making a great mistake by trying to read into the law something that will enable them to charge an increased rate of tuition sufficient to cover interest on invest ment, deterioration of buildings and similar items. If such additional amount is not paid by the district the sum can be collected from the farmer bv suit at law. It will not take the average farmer long to decide how to settle these dif ficulties. Instead of being harassed about the amount of tuition to be paid tor the instruction ot Ins children he will rent a house in the citv where he and his familv will reside thereby ob viating the pavment of anv tuition at all. By the end of the school venr thev will have found city life so charming that n tennnt will be placed in charge of the old farm and the knowledge of the practical farmer so laboriously ac quired will be of no further service to the consuming public. Apparently some of our people are proceeding under the assumption that they have an innlianuble right to sup port both of home and municipality from profits in the traffic which comes from the farms. If any entertain such views they will prove not only a pleas ant dream. A rude awakening, is even now dawning oh their consciousness through the prodding of the steadily in creasing cost of our daily food. And the end is not in sight. The question as to whether we enn afford to erect new school rooms to ac commodate the increased enrollment from the country may very properly be answered by asking another question: "Can we afford not to build them?" FAIR PLAT. Salem, Ore.. Sept. S. 191(1. It might be a good idea for some of the restaurants to provide -ear muffs for the protection of patrons while other patrons are eating soup. Telling another man your troubles doesn't relieve your troubles. It merely adds to the other man's troubles. PENDLETON ROUNDUP ' : SEPTFMBER 21-22-23 et 'er Buck 7th Annual Presentation This famous Epic Drama of the West has won a fl world-wide reputation. Arena is enclosed by a quarter mile track. Seating capacity 40,000.. Low Round Trip Fares. From all Southern Pacific stations in Oregon on sale September 20-23 Inclusive Return limit September 23rd Ask local Agent for information. JOHN M. SCOTT, General Passenger Agent, Portland, Oregon SOUTHERN PACIFIC LINES CASTOR IA For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years Always bears the Signature The Nation's Favorite - Butter Nut There Is No Better Always Watch This Ad Changes Often Strictly correct weight, square deal and highest pricea for all klida el junk, metal, rubber, hidet and far. I pay 20 per pound for old rift. Big stock of all sizes second hand Incubators. AQ kinds eomgatesl Iron for both roofs and buildings. Booting paper and second kaad linoleum. H. Steinback Junk Co. The Eons of Half a Million Bargains. 103 North Commercial It, naa MS CAPITAL JOURNAL WANT ADS BRING YOU RESETS. HMD 1 11 aw- )V. yi ANTICIPATION CHAPTER XX. My feeling for Clifford at this time was a queer medley of a certain kind of love and disappointment. Yet. na 1 left him to try on the dress so that he might decide as to my wearing it. the love was uppermost in spite of his unkind ness. It is not easy to queneh entirely the love of a young girl who has known only one lover, her husband; especially if that husband is also the father of her child. I knew the dress was becoming and styluh. So I pirouetted gaily before him. "Yes, you'll do! " he aid after look ing me over. "I wouldn't have be lieved a thing would stay in style so long. Let me see it's nearly two years since we bought that thing. 1 remem ber it cost a pretty penny." A Slip. "Yes, I know." I replied happily, "and I tried to make you take a cheaper one. But you wouldu't. We were on our honeymoon, and you loved me. ' ' The Inst sentence clipped out unin tentionally. I was almost frightened to death after I had said it. and stood waitiug for Clifford to make au augry reply. But all he said was: "Go tnke it off, and don't be nl- ways referring, to the past. It's bad. form!" and he yawned. ! Much that I did at 'this time was' "bad form'' to Clifford. I hud never been taught to quell the natural spon taneity of you'll, and so often said and did filings that auuoved him exceedingly- I went to my room, took off the dress, and laid the other things I had intended to show Clifford back in the drawer without removiug their wrappings. Of course it was foolish to be so disnppoiut ed that he cared nothing about my hap piness in going to the dinner, but I was so young, so dependent on him for ev erything in my life. Then, too, I was unhappy that hud unintentionally dis pleased him by having the things charged at the store. Had I not known that he could well afford to give me whatever I needed. I should never have thought of doing it. But I knew that he had a large business, and that our household expenses were comparatively light, so had had no hesitation in buy ing what I needed. Then, too, Clifford never denied him self anything. His clothes, his cigars, his wines everything was of the best! He was athletic, and his gotf and tennis clothes were always the smartest he could find. As far as I could see, he never economized in any way. "I do wish you were going with me." I said, when I returned to the lib rary. "You'll enjoy yourself all right," he evaded. "I doubt it!" I replied, then I thought of the role I had decided to play, and added, "I shall certainly try to ,however. " Clifford gave me a sharp look as .1 declared my intention, but made no re mark, and the subject of the dinner party was not referred to by either of us again that evening. The Man's Privilege. But, foolishly, I couldn't help but ask Clifford where he was going that he could not accompany me. As soon aa I had voiced the question, I was sorry. jior ne scowled at me, and returned: "What difference does it make where I am going, so long as I have told you lit will be impossible for me to go with, you?" I "But would you like me to go out ; and not tell you where I was goingt" x vi-iuurea. "That's a different matter altogeth er. And, Mildred, I don't choose to b questioned! " He threw down his paper and stalked from the room. Yes. stalk ed from the room. Yes, stalked, that's the only word that expressed his exit. I felt sure his engagement was with L. G., else why should he object to telling me. $0 I. while distressed, was glad that I had decided to go without him; and hoped the young man who was to take his place would be agreeable. (Tomorrow Mildred on Her Own.)