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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-01-23
NEWS SUM MARY
General.

General
Probe will be made by congress in
to Colorado and Michigan strikes.
Liner Bulgarian Prince sends calls
for help. Vessel Is reported afire off
Sandy Hook.
James Smith Of Boston prepares to
wage fight over large estate of late
Lord StrathcOna.
Bandits enter Pullman on Michigan
Central and rob passengers.
Mayor Mitchell of New York orders
police to exterminate gangstcrs.
Two rich Secillans are assassinated
In streets of Chicago.
Troopers at Trinidad. Colorado,
strike fields charge crowd of women
using their sabcrs. Four women are
injured.
Hucrta is believed to have present.
ed a new plan for his resignation.
Aged MaderO learns through NOV
ing picture that his son Raoul is fight
ing with rebels under General villa.
Japan means to protect her own in
tcrests and subjects in Mexico.
General GOthals may accept positi-
on as police commissioner of New
York.
Two persons are dead as result OF
floods In California.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-01-23
Local,

SimOnS arson case goes to jury:
HermistOn burglary case ON.
County librarian leaves TO COM
mencc organization Of branch librar-
les.
PHI. S. girls will play Walla Walla
girls this evening.
Express rates TO take tumble Feb
ruary I.
Supt. McNary of state hospital has
neat plan for irrigation system.
VIII r.. King comes west to fight
Maxwell land & Irrigation Company's
suit before supreme court.
Advanced wheat land prices cause
discussion.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-01-23

The East 0regonlan has the largest paid
circulation Cf any paper In Oregon, east Of
Portland and over twice the circulation in
Pepdleton OF any other newspaper.
The Washington herald., 1914-09-20

II seems strange TO charge the Democratic party
NTH sxtravaqance Ever since il was born economy
has been its slogan Its last national platform IN
weighed against the prohigae waste OF money through
excessive appropriatons and demanded a return to
that simplicity and economy which BELTS demo
cratic government" The fact is, however, that the
approximations made by the present Congress- mol
including the proposed river and harbor BILL exceed
lby S1oooooooo the amount of the appropriations en-
acted BY the last Republican Congress- sum- cum
ously enough exactly concident with the size OF the
burden now about to be laid upon the people
The Democrats have no one to. blame but them
selves for the dilemma in which they now hna mem
srIves As long ago as the 10th of last April, Rep
resentatve Fitzgerald the astute chairman OF the
Committee on Appropriations, uttered an emphatic
warning He said that in a few months he would
be called upon to review the record of the Demo-
cratic party in the matter of the expenditure of pub
liz rnonev whenever l think of the horrible mess
shall be called upon to present to the country on
behalf of the Democratic party" he added, i am
tempted to quit my place" He charged his Demo
cratic colleagues with piling up expenditures until
the Democratic party is becoming the laughing stock
of the country" In the Senate John Sharp Williams
protested earnestly against the extravaganza winch
was adding to the burdens of the people. Congress,
even with its enormous Democratic majority, did not
see fit to follow the wise counsel of Mr.. Fitzgerald
and other leaders, and the day of reckoning has
come
There was time, not long ago, when billion
dollar Congress was denounced as the acme of ex-
travagance 1t is now billion dollar session. The
appropriations for the current year aggregate the
enormous sum of $IoSooooooo, not including river
and harbor bill of S53oooooo which the Democrats
in the Senate are insisting upon enactlng into law
As the appropriations of the last Republican Con-
eress were Io3Soooooo it is plain that the Demo-
Gratis are responsible for increased expenditure
about equal to the proposed tax. This is the new
issue which is to be fought out before the people,
and il is one which cannot fail to possess popular
interest Ordinarily the people do not object to
generous appropriations because the burden Is not
directly borne but in this case, if it can be shown
that Sroooooooo might have been saved by wise and
prudent administration there is certain to be srenu-
GUS objection to paying the increased taxes which
will increase the already high cost of living.
The Washington herald., 1914-09-20
II. Situation on the Pacific Slope.

The disintegraton Of the Progressive party on the
Pacific Coast has not been confined to California.
The returns from the primary in Washington are
most significant. In King County, in which Seattle
is situated Roosevelt received in 1912, 26SS7 votes
Last week the Progressive party poled only 7S42
votes. The Wilson vote of 1912 decreased from
10000 to $780, while the Republican vote increased
from 1900 to nearly 10000. Representative Hum
phrey, Republican, who was attacked on the ground
that he had been too bitter in his arragnmen Of the
Wilson administration, received u per cent of the
Republican vote although he had three candidates
against him. an Endorsement which is not likely to
decrease his aggressiveness.
The Republicans from the Slope are intensely
interested in the possible return of their section to
the Republican party, inasmuch it would, in the
event of the election of Republican House, occupy
a commanding position. Mr.. Humphrey for instance,
is the ranking Republican member of the Rivers and
Harbors Committee, and would become its chairman,
a position never before held by far Western man.
His name has been also seriously mentioned in con-
nection with the leadership the floor should Mr..
Mann become Speaker Mr. Hayes, of California,
Mr. MondeI, of Wyoming, and many other members
from the far West, certain to hold important
positions so that the outcome of the election far
as the Pacific Coast and Rocky Mountain section is
involved, is matter of genuine concern.
The Washington herald., 1914-09-20
Roosevelt. Aid to tn. Democratic Party.

Another important political development of the
week was Col Roosevets formal utterance in New
York against any fusion between the Progressive
and Republican parties
In MARYLAND the Republican Senatorial nomina-
ton has been secured by Edward C. Darlington, for
mer chairman of the Progressive party in the State
Col Darlington believing that if he could secure the
SUPPORT of Col Roosevelt thus insuring a combina-
ton of the Progressive and Republican vote, he had
chance to defeat Senator John Walter Smith, the
Democratic nominee, sought the desired Endorsement
Did he receive ii? Not at all On the contrary, Col
Roosevelt read to the Maryland delegation type
written statement which sent cold shivers down their
respective spines 81 do not believe it would be right
in the contest this fall" he said for the Progressves
to support the Republicans in any State, matter
what the Republicans in those States may say or do
His reason delightfully."- characteristic, that he
would not like the Republican machine to "gleefuly
and screamingy announce that the Progressives have
surrendered to the Republicans" He counseled
therefore that the Progressives in Maryland put up
third ticket and if his advice is followed it means
the certain return of Senator Smith, and the Repub-
| ican party might as well go out of existence
This action, following his sanction of the with
drawal of the Progressive nominee for governor OF
Pennsylvania in favor of the Democratic nominee
| has been the leading topic of comment among the
Republican leaders in the Capital during the past
week 1t is known that in Maine last Monday enough
Progressves acting under the advice of their leaders
voted for Gov. Curtis, the Democratic nominee fol
governor to insure his election and the Congressmer
from New Jersey, in which State primaries to b
held next Tuesday, confidently expect considerable,
Progressive assistance. In the Springfield Mass.
Congressional district an open combination has beer
made whereby the Democrats will support the Pro
igressye nominee for member of the governors coun
Gil in return for which the Progressyes will supper
Prof Lewis, the Democratic candidate for Congress
against Representative Gillett
i In Vermont, also the Democratic-Pr Progressive
combination is apparent. Charles A. Prouty, nomi
mated for Senator BY the Progressves is to be ais
the nominee Of the Democratic party, the object bein
The Washington herald., 1914-09-20

sOn the eve of an election circumstances have
forced new Issue into the campaign -
The Democrats are about to impose an additional
tax burden of SIoooooooo the American people
They claim that this tax is made necessary by the
them would have been glad to have escaped the
political danger of forcing increased axaton upon
the people but the President has compelled them 10
take action. They are now seeking the least neon
venient and Questionable method Of lesyng the tax,
but amount of sagacity will enable them to avoid
a protest which will be long, deep, and loud
There are two objections to the Democratic claim
that the increased taxation has been made necessary
by the European war In the first place, the figures
show that the revenues were decreasing nightly
before the war broke out besides which it viii be
On the contrary it shown recently that the value
of imports at the Boston customs-house in August,
1914 exceeded by 100000 the value of the imports
for the same month year ago. The fact that the
revenue from these imports decreased $682ooo tells
the story In addition to this the claim is TO be made
by the Republicans that if the Democrats had prac-
ticed the economy which they preached. they could
easily have saved the enormous amount of money
which they propose to take out of the pockets
of the people If this can be proven-and Repre-
sentative Payne, of New York, will soon deliver a
speech in support of this assertion-the Democratic
party will be put upon the defensive before the
Try. 1t is no wonder that the Republicans in the
Senate have determined to prolong the debate upon
the war bill until the responsibility for the
pected imposition has been fully placed.
The Washington herald., 1914-09-20
Ilmportant Pnmarie. This Week.

lNm.O[lAuL
Primary elections win be held next Tuesday in
Massachusetts and New Jersey.
In Massachusetts, no less than I2,6oo candidates
are to be voted for and the expense to the State tor
the printing of the ballots alone will be $4,000 Incl
deutay this shows something of the cost of the pri-
mary system. The candidates for governor-DaSid
In Walsh. Democratic Samuel w. Mccall, Repub-
llican, and Joseph Walker, Progressive-are unop-
posed It's an interesting incident Of the campaign
that Mr.. Walker two years ago sought the Repub-
lican nomination for governor, being defeated, and
left the Republican party because Mr. Mccall did not
get the Senatorshp which Mr.. Weeks secured. He
has been marooned in Europe and will not return
until this week Some of the Representatives, as, for
instance Mr. Winslow and Mr.. Paige, have no Pro-
gressive candidates against them at the present time
but a name will probably be written upon ballot
on election day No one foretell the outcome OF
the election but If the Progressive vote should de-
crease oue-third which was the ratio of its falling
of in Maine last Monday, Mr. Mccall has chance
to win. The Congressional delegation now stands
evenly divided, eight and eight between the Repub-
icans and the Democrats The outlook is that after
the election there will be twelve Republicans and four
Democrats.
In New Jersey the interest in the primary is not
as great as it will be in the election next November
Representative Kinkead, having been nominated ior
sheriff of Hudson County, is not a Congressional
candidate and Representative Hamil has an opponent
in State Auditor McGrath, but in the main the pres
ent members of the delegation will be renominated
without serious contests In Representative Eagans
district which is safely Democratic by at least 1900
the Socialists will nominate woman, Mrs. Gertrude
Riley for Congress The Congressional delegation has
now two Republicans, Mr.. Browning and Mr.. Drukker
but the Democrats expect to lose two and possibly three
districts on election day. President Wilson's admins
traton is to be the chief issue in the State although
the Republicans will not fail to emphasize the injury
to manufacturing interests occasioned by the low
tariff There has been in New Jersey, as elsewhere
tremendous slump in the Progressive vote, but, as
already stated the Democrats hope and believe that
the Progressive combination in Pennsyl-
vania will have moral effect in the adjoining State
of New Jersey.
The Washington herald., 1914-09-20
The New Gold Fund.

The approval of the Federal Reserve Board of
the 100000 gold fund to meet foreign obi
cations will help the financial situation materially.
1t is probable that the amount of $tsooooooo, as
originally suggested by the bankers committee, should
be raised but if the former is found to be in
sufficient the rest will be forthcoming
For the time being, at least, the $Ioooooooo will
help the situation. The fund will lead to the earlier
opening of the stock exchanges, which is bound to
be the real test The fact that London has taken
uncomfortable part of the New York City bonds in
dicates that foreign liquidation may not be enor
nous as we have feared and that market will not
be swamped.
The New York banks, owing to the new New
York City bond sale, preceded by foreign liquidation
during the last few days the New York exchange
was open are below their legal reserve requirements
and it is assumed that outside banks will raise most
of the funds 1t is their plain duty to do so because
New York has had to stand the brunt of the trading
which has come from all over the United States
Our new financial system which the Federal Re
serve Board hopes have effective within six weeks
is expected to remedy any such condition as now
confronts u.s. We are still running under an archaic
system.
In England the Bank of England inmediatel,
would be able to pay its Indebtedness in gold SINH
larry there would be no difficulty in France and Ger
many where the Bank of France and the Imperia
Bank control The difficulty with us is that our solc
is scattered ai oyer che United States proper in
depreciation of the Federal Reserve act will place
all intent and purpose our gold in one place Nc
bank or group of banks will have to beg or appea
to patriotism for the gold which belongs to them
The Washington herald., 1914-09-20
ARMY ORDERS.

Mai Harry L. Psttus, ouartermaste
Corps will relieve Lieut. Col. WlinaIl
E. Horton, Quartermaster corps Iro,n
his temporary duty pertaining 70 lhS S "
fitting Of transports atNeWport News
Va Lieut.. Col. Horton viii return 70
Governors Island. n. Y, via TINS CITY
for consultation with the quartermaster
se IJsnt col, Wfliiam E. Horton, Quarter
master Corps, accompanied by clVlllan
inspector. will proceed from Governors
Island. n. Y. to each Of the folloHlnS
stations on the Atlantic Coast on oflcial
bnsiness pertaining to the Quartermas-
ter Corps: Fort Williams, Me; Eort
Preble, Me-: Fort Mckinley, Me. ForI
Constitution, n. H.: Fort Warren, Mass.
Mas Mass; Boston. Mass: Fort Rodman,
Mass; Fort Adams, r. / Fort Gre1le'
r. l.. Fort Wright. y. Y: Fort Terry
n. Y; Fort slocum, n. y; Eort I To,aa
n. Y; West Point, n. Y; Fort Hamll-
ton. n Y: Fort Hancock. n, J.; Fort
Du Point. Del; Fort Howard, Nd: For'
Washington Md; Fort Hunt; va WASH
Va: Fort Caswell. N. C.; Fog Moulirie'
s. C: Fort ScreveD. Ga,
Lieut. Col Charles r. krauthon, quar-
termaster Corps aeGo 26.ad "a tbS by foia
lowing stations on the Gulf Coast on
oficial business pertaining to the quar-
ternaster Corps: Key West Barracks
Fla: Fort Morgan. Ala: Jackson Bar
racks. La; Fort St Philip. La; Calves
Mai Frank A. Grant. QUartermaster
CORPS, accompanied by a civilian inspec-
tor. will proceed to the following sta,
tions on the Pacific Coast on onciaI
business pertaining to the Quartermaster
Corps: Fort worden, Wash; Fort ward
Wash: Fort Stevens. Greg; Fort win
field Scott. Cal; Fort Mcdowell, Cal.
Alcatraz Island. Cal; San FRANCISCO
Cal: Fort ROsecrans. Cal
The Washington herald., 1914-09-20
HISTORY BUILDERS.
The Fines. Of a Printer for the Post
master GeneraIship.
ny Ots. z. .. EDWARDS.

Shortly after Thomas L. James enter
ed President Garfieid's Cabinet as Post
master General. he said to me that he
could not help feeling q sense Of salts
faction that he who had learned the
printers trade and who had been the
editor of a country weekly should at
last have been named as Postmaster
General, for that is . department which
IL brought into the closest touch with the
editors Of the United States.
Ibid II ever occur TO you that except
ing In the large cities the postofice "a the
only visible symbol Of the Federal gov
eminent which IL to be seen anywhere
in the United StatesE' he said. Even the
smallest backWoods village represents
Uncle Sam through the postofice.
II learned some years ago that u was
a secret ambition Of Horace Greeley to
become some day Postmaster General Of
the United States, and this ambition was
due 10 the fact that Benjamin Franklii.
also a printer and editor, between whom
and Greeley many thought they detected
a strong intellectual similarity. was the
FIRST Postmaster General. holding that
ONCE under the confederation which was
established Immediately after the close
Of the Revolutionary war. Greeley's am
bition was never realized. although TO
his own establishment he was afterward
nominated for President Of the United
States. The Postohice Department has
at various times been committed to the
charge Of men who have been trained
as printers and who have become editors.
like Amos Kendall. Montgomery Blair
was also an editor.
Il was speaking Of this at one time %
whitelaw Reid. who. II he had had ths
slightest desire for the ONCE. could have
been nominated for Postmaster General
at least twice in his career.
Mr. Reid said that It was especially
appropriate that a man OF editorial
training, and particularly II he had also
learned the printers trade, should be
placed In charge Of the Postofice Depart
ment. He also said
81 think the most interesting coin
cidence associated with the selection for
important political place Of men who
were by SOcation editors Is illustrated
by the election Of Schuyler Colfax as
Speaker Of the House Of Representatives
at Washington, and. after his retirement
from that office. to become Vice Presi-
dent. was the election Of James O. Blaine
as Speaker of the House.
Both CoIfax and Blaine were editors
-CoIfax Of a paper In Indiana; Blaine OF
! two papers, one at Augusta, Me-. and
later. one at Portland, in the same state.
Both were editors when elected to Con-
gress and each had gained dlstlncton IN
| his own State as an editor.
"'Colfax was the first man whose voca-
I tion was that Of an editor to be elected
! sneaker Of the House, and Blaine. who
was Colfax's successor. was the second
editor to be elected 10 that important
| place.
I don't recall ever having heard this
singular coincidence referred to. but l
! have often thought Of II and upon one
| occasion I spoke to Mr.. Blaine about IL
| 1 inferred from his answer that the CO.
| incidence had never occurred 10 MIN
] CCSJpyri-hf, 1914 by Z. ]. Edwards Al rights -
| ssTTedJ
The Washington herald., 1914-09-20
NOW THAT THE PEOPLE RULE.
whas TAsv Are Doing Compared
Win what the Isbs.es bead.

whether the direct primary IL in ali
respects q good thing or not. II has
already had one effect which IN wholly
beneficial II has proved to be a great
engine for the exploding OF fiotlons, the
whitening OF claptrap, the analhliation
of bosh. Prior to its appearance IN the
political system everything that went
wrong was saddled on the Fnalign boss,
who straddied the neck or the vfrtuous
and groanlng voter and made all his good
intentions 90 astfay.E An invisible gov
ruled; the honest voter wanted only pure
government. but his viii was always
thwarted: II In his despair he threw on
the yoke OF one machine, 1t was only to
fan under the heel Of another. Free him,
ana the desert OF machine politics would
blossom as the rose; the corrupt boss
would be ground into the dust by an
emancipated and unterrlned electorate.
Well, the voter has been freed. He can
expel the children Of darkness from
power and raise the children Of light In
their places. In Illinois Il was the cor
rupt invisible government, ever defeating
the will OF the voter, that sent Lorimer
to the Senate; and now in Illinois the
intelligent and emancipated voter has
given 5000 plurality To Roger c. Sullivan,
a boss who can say to Lorimer, Thou
art my glass." BY a majority OF three
to one he has nominated Uncle Joe Can
non. the stiffest-necked reactionary that
ever defied the uplift; and all the old
Republican sons Of Belial. from Nc
Kinley to Rodenberg. have been nomi-
mated overwhelmingly. In Pennsylvania
the emancipated voter has renominated
Penrose, and Nowhere has the voter i'm
pressively defeated any Of the children
OF darkness. save in Ohio, and even there
Foraker was defeated by a hardened old
engineer Of the ancient Foraker organ
ization, and not by one Of the truly good.
The Chicago Tribune, which still holds
to the belief that the direct pricary Is
a means to better government, says:
''If Roger c. Sullivan were the nominee
of a Democratic State Convention a pro-
test would mount to the skies from Ne
tropolis to Belvedere against such be-
trayal Of the plain people" But. as The
Tribune admits, the plain people seem
TO have done it." What Is the answer?
Are We TO abase our heads to the dust
and admit that the plain people are
worse than the men who formerly made
their nominations for them? No: but TO
confess rather cheerfuIly that the men
who formerly made the nominations
were not so much worse, after all, than
the plain people: to rejoice in moderation
that an immense amount OF cant and
humbug has been swept into the ash
The Washington herald., 1914-09-20
NAVY ORDERS.

Rear Admiral n. r. Usher. staehed
commandment. navy yard, Norfolk. va
to commandment, navy yard, New YORK
Can't. Albert Gleaves. detached com
mandant, navy yard. New York, n. Y;
to command Utah.
Commander Waldo Evans. detached
command Albany; to home and wait
orders. ,.
detached receiving ship. at San Fran
cisco. Cal: to West Virginia
Lieut.. Ounior grade) p. II. Hammond
detached Wyoming; to duty under in
struction at the University OF Michigan
Lieut. Ounior GradeD R. T. 8 Lowell
detached Bureau of Steam Engineering
to Harvard University.
Lieut.. Ijunior grade) ]. c. Latham &c
assistant 10 the naval attache, Parls
Lieut.. Gunior grade) Byce II. Muir, &c
treatment at Naval Hospital. New 1ork
Ensign r H. GlennOn. detached Michl'
gan: to Warrington
Ensign s X. Day to Utah.
Ensign c. X Martin. detached Mary
land; to Chattanooga.
Ensign F. II. Kelley. jr., detached
CHATTANOOGA; to Maryland.
Paymaster Clerk E. \. TarPley. APP
! pointment revoked. -,
Pavmaster Clerk Benjamin Borkwitz
! appointment revoked.
The Washington herald., 1914-09-20
NavnI Mines In 1879.

The Germans made use Of naval mines
in the Franco-German War. but not
with much success. KEEL, Wlhelmsha-
ven, and other ports were defended py
mines which were not required, as the
French fleet was effectually prevented
on other grounds from attacks on-the
Prussian littoral. The only effect OF
the mines was TO Impede the entry OF
German ships into their own poSts'
and thus to bring about several cap
lures: while the subsequent removal OF
the mine fields led TO fatal accidents.
That the prevailing views Of mine de-
tense were hopelessly confused Is proved
by the fact that the French spent three
months in installing the mine field at
Toulon. and failed to complete that at
Cherbourg before the conclusion Of the
war-London Chronicle.