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TAFT PLANS FIGHT FOR ELECTION BEVERLY, Mass, Aug. 28 Openty preparing battle ously for a second term during t invasion of the West and North west, President Taft today caused the announcement that he would devote the next two wee lute rest. No visitors w come. The pr nt aince his electiot ing his trip, while de presidential cc he assail the motives of S Follette and his followers in tempt to attract support from pro-| gressives. | Announ been made that the prop » Tent see will be a time lotted to the southern s spent in Michigan, whe gressives are work The president bt lantic coast, New England Bouthern states safe f The Middle W states are the debatable which the president necessary for him to explain views. | In the West the tariff and scientific revision will be th dent's text. Reciprocity 1 be etplained. In the Northwest he Will discuss Alaska at length, and will attempt to checkinate the pro- gressives by declaring that he doing everything to safeguard Alas kan resourfces. TAFT SCHEDULE IN. SEATTLE Will Humphries has just r word that President Bill Taft will to vigor 1} be wel for the fi is warlike st time Dur ar al > be him Coast are ground on feels is his ived hit these parts on or about October} 16 next The make same the circle that he took two years ago. While} im this state he will visit Tacoma and Bellingham and then come to Senttle. The complete state is as follows Vancouver, §:30 a. m. Saturday, | October 14; Kalama, 9:20; Kelso, | $:50; thence to Castle Rock and} Chehalis, reaching Olympia at 1 p. m.; Tacoma, 4:20 p. m On Sunday, October 15, the presi dent will climb Mount Rainier as far as the Tacoma & Eastern and the automobile road will permit He is due back In Tacoma late Sunday evening will th: “swing around president itinerary in this} Commercial Club Calls Special Meeting A special meeting of the Com mercial Club will be held tomor row night for the purpose of dis cussing the proposed consolidation with the Chamber of Commerce. All members of the club are ex pected to atend as the meeting wil! undoubtedly take decisive action. According to the Commercial Club committee they oppose con solidation because the Chamber committée insists upon placing the) control and management of the! proposed consolidated organization in the bands of a few as Ie the case with the Chamber of Commerce now, The Commercial Club is es sentially a democratic organization All members havea voice and a vote in every club action and the members thus far have stood firmly against surrendering this principle DON'T KYOW A POLICEMAN. ARRESTED William White was arrested yes-| terday because he don't know a city policeman when he sees one William will probably know ‘em after this, however. When Patrolman James Johnson, | disguised as a hardy working 1 tried to buy a little in a restaurant Holgate st. -yester laughed scornfully Johnson was he said, because thirsty ‘Thereupon nti ay waiter | and said “Nix very deed, awful sorry, in was it is alleged, White! to abso: | ‘They Make M ADOLF, we ARE SHORT MIT AD DER SAME TIME WR MUST HAF AN ABBEARANCE OF |] PROPISIONS. OF BLENTY To Gar. BLEASE HITE UNTE UND MAKE A NOISE LIKE and ISS GROANING MIT a You Hai GOMPERS, Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, who sin the city after an absence of jeight years, is today the foremost labor leader in the world. He was first elected president of jthe federation in 1882, one year jafter its organization, He has lserved in this capacity ever since except for one term, when he was [defeated by John McBride. a candi |date pushed rorward by the social Jist labor party | Gompers has seen tion grow under his le a membership of a its present size of ne lion members. Began at 15 rece d is education in the labor move nt Whea > ears old he wa. king 12 and 14 hours a day at his trade as a cigar He conceived the idea of organizing with his fellow cigar an association for ctiof®, He is today yet mber of the executive commit of the Cigarmakers’ Internation al union Gompers has withstood the at tacks of ene! * within and with out his organization for nearly J The most memorable flict in which he has personally engaged is, perhaps, the boycott against the Buck Stove and Range Louls, of which the the organisa dership from thousand to rly two mi | maker It looks ax though the voters of [the city will divide on the court house bond issue according te whether they happen to live in the north or south end of the city | The Queen Anne Study club has endorsed the report of the Municipal league, which opposes the bond issue, maintaining that {t will conflict with the plans of the “The. ‘Smart Set” The Smart Set of New York, of Seattle, of any American city, | what is it? It is made up of those born to money, those whom money married to title and those whose money enabled them to climb up, in a society sense, upon the sacrifice of every hu- mane sentiment which the Al- mighty implants in man or woman. It has no morals, Its men trade wives when the law al- | lows. Its women abhor motherhood. Its children know |not their own parents. It sells its girls. It cheats its boys. It contemns its aged. It holds no worthy aims. accomplishes no sensible pur- pose. Love, generosity, help- and| fulness it knows not, but it is@ing as» “hay ruled by envy, jealousy, covet- jousness, selfishness, and its ambition and effect are to pro- mote these evil traits in others. It believes not in God but in DER TABLE DER PEOPLE DIVIDING ON COURT HOUSE BOND ISSUE It 8 a 4 Is Ms ALL THE DINNER THeRe 18 f Vib FooD ~/; y GROAN, Ps 2 CHACKAS! S, ban we \Lanoant WE «: SPLENDID RECORD OF HERE TODAY Van ¢ enemy James leave dent Gompers Committed Contempt sentenced to ment for ompt | The case was ra won, Vice organized was the prest ars imprisos con federation we the sume ca were pending be Van Cleave died and the St. Louis plant was unton d, and a complete victory for the American Federation of Labor was won, | McNamara Case. At present the most momentous problem facing the o of} which Gompers is president ts the forthcoming trial of the McNamara brothers In Low Angeles As a latter of faet, there ts little doubt but that this le reason for Gompers’ Western to jompers will apend a whole month | in Cal beginning Labor Day, | when he will deliver the address in| San Francisco, the most solid union | town on the continent His Personality. Gompers is a small man physical ly But when b appears on a speaker's stand and raises hii voice, now and then snapping his powerful jaw, one at once recog nizes that he ts a big man in every other way invotved the in fore the courts rota, municipal pl civie center The Rainier club, a se dorses th commission for a Valley Commercial thend organization, en bond Issue, despite the report of the Municipal league. The proposed civic center is over a mile north of the county property on which It is proposed to erect the new court house. Italian love songs and whangs his| guitar until the early hours of morn. | Peter Spario, same address, acted | as a committee for the neighbors, | and reported the affair to the po-| lice, and they in turn sought out| the singer and implored him to sing more softly and whistle with less feeling But not Frank ame, and the | were baking. When midnight breads and cakes and the stillness | seemed Intense, he took from the Peg above the flour barrel his |guitar, and seating himself by an open window, fingered out love dit-| ties, fitted to words. | | The whole thing floated out that open window, and the less senti al neighbors sighed and awak ened—and another committee went to the police. | SAVES DEATH PELLET (iy United Press Leased Wire.) POTTSDAM, Pa., Aug, 28.—Fifty ears ago Philadelphia newspapers printed a story about the death of 3. E. Davis of Pottsdam, on the| field of Gettysburg. Now| ‘. Davis is receiving letters from his old army comrades congratulat ing him on the fact that the s wasn't true. Davis has been w ch charm for nearly h ury the bullet that plerced bis throat during the fight at Gettysburg. ee ee ee ee erry Round TAG THE STAR—MONDAY AUGUST 28, 1911. ADMIRAL TOGO, IN UNITED STATES, HAS TO TRAVEL IN PULLMANS Japa tograph shows how he travels at home. Pulimans. - pas! at ‘the Groaning Board,” Tee-hee! Words by Schaecfe ow! 0-0-0w! Dere iss Too MUCH FooD famous fighting admiral who Is In Seattle today. Here he has to stick to etuffy | = tor, enuously The pho- to pugilistic performances {n church or out FOR TAFT WASHINGTON, Aug. 28—Cut ting his visit to th® Coast short be cause of the program {n other states. wident Taft will only remain in of planned, The president arrive at Ban Francisco at 11:40 o'clock Monday night, October 9, and leave at 9:46 o'clock Wednes day night, October 11 CHURCH BOXING BOUT STOPPED (By United Prone Leased Wire.) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Aug. 28 The “white hope” Industry will not be encouraged by the Unity Meth. odist Protestant church after all The boxing bout arranged for as a feature of an entertainment will be eft off the program the de in woe are pas: cha day “because Pp. “DEATH Ch (By United Press Leased Wire CHICAGO, Aug. 28. national ath car den cars. this car becomes a battering that crushes the wooden cars. | favored passengers in the steel car | comparatively wongers in W nee than the 4. polish the steel coach made up of The safe, but ram | the Rev. L. T. Hardin. ia) opposed A movement} pe is afoot among | al travelers te the sing trains otherw In case of a collision | the | cars have less | did in the WATER SHUT-OFF Water will be Madison at cluding the territory ne from shut off on 40th ay th st. and east of 40th av. N eday m August 29, from 9 a In the first edition of The Star each day now a free Help Wanted” department is being printed It is pri marily for the benefit of men and women who are looking for work But it helps thé ¢mployer, who can insert an ad, free of cost, and the départment is of real interest to all readers These free help warfted ads run exclusively in the first edition of The Star, ON THE STREETS AT 11 old | East | e Music by Condo Foo..! YOu G MITOU CAN'D iN 2T | end a EQUALIZERS DID $ finished ¢ One equal) ured the junctior fonda also of ite last « dorse Aw Pa Wet of Metropolitat to get off « pany's lea of th u * Ce tract of $900,000 A big by the building corpora in & Btone-Webster ¢ quite signific MeCord, the a ford bondholders » on paeor Stone neilm cipate In the board, having b fighting the atreet The assessed ght was m that } y for the ¢ d the "FURTH’S MEN There is more than one fighting municipal ownership. Seattle Electric Co. found fact wa ow raw-|ty, a man who way of; it The a new Furth for has Jake hi council council h of the Kinnear wtitioned for an | city Mne. need! Park car Jine ha extension of the charter, OME GOOD 1 THINGS; TOTAL VALUE $250,000,000 «..’ notoriou: Rainier franchise » giving time to provides that must contain a the right at a the franchise withont @ ion on"it. This {8 ob- in the eyes of Jake. & the people must blanket in jonable f repre people's b nlueR ¢ placed by the » a quarter of a billion DIDN'T LIKE IT and need It badly asked a franchise. expressed ness to grant it on the terms of the But counell to violate the charter. The endum mn put in ja The people © Seattle Eleetre d the line, Furth at he is willing, but y council won't Jet him, counci) telis him that it to gant the franchise, n ing to violate the chan ter and bind the people down tog long term franchise exter n of the |; . th ttle agains on King cou d, a doilar UREN SPEAKS TOMORROW Ww. U'Ren of Oregon, Father of direct legislation,” will address the Munitipal league at a Juncheon at Hotel Washington tomorrow noon. At 2 o'clock be will deliver address at the Civic Forum, Christensen hall, Broadway -an@ Jadison, on the initiative and fefer the The wil city city its ng- an Jake wants the pe The Store That Saves You Money Second and James St, Seattle PACIFIC AV., TACOMA | Bargains Extraordinary [%% Tuesday will be the buyers’ harvest at this always busy store. READ THE REASONS wWwHy— in by fast freight in time for school, ble-breasted; materials, cassimere, worsteds, tweeds hd 500 Boys’ Odd Cogts, nd fancy mixtures; all strictly wool fabrics; Norfolk and Rusia Styles manufactured to sell as high as $7.50 the coat; bought for cash from a first-class but needy specialty boys’ coat mania facturer; will coat Shop early; they'll not last the day hand ‘em over to you tomorrow at, ‘3 i BARGAINS IN READY-TO-WEAR ce illinery The largest selec of Re Trimmed Hats are at Tempting M ra) Kye % tion creating great tention styles at $2.98 $3.98 $4.98 Are marked at quick - selling prices, You'll see no better in the stores at a third more, $6.50 HOUSE AND STREET DRESSE $1.79 ; aadies’ Wash and Street , the Dress, $1.79, in-. All the latest summerjstyles: A most choice collection. $5.00 SILK PETTICOATS $2.39 Silk Taffeta Petticoats in all the wanted shades. Cash buying enables us to sell these Petticoats at $2.39 instead of $5.00. ¢ $18.75 LONG COATS $5.00 About 20 Long Coats left®in weight; values to $18.75. Out they $5.00 cach ; $35.00 SUMMER SUITS $10. A good line of sizes in Ladies’ Suits; sold all season up to row, the suit, $10.00. NEW FALL SUITS $15.00 TO $50.00 On every express what is true in Ladies! Fall Suits arriving All the beautiful 300 more of Dresses tomorrow stead of $6.50, and materials * 28. & jerk Stores before came on the two bottles of bard cents. nd sold the cop) Mammon. It has its kept Nquor for 5° ministers and churches for the |display of robes and millinery, |the airing of its pomp and | vanity. Its idol is the disguised | Moloch of the ancient Ammon- ® | ites, and its destination is hell jon earth. | It produces little save drones, drunkards and degenerates. It means nothing that lasts, Wien Togo was told to take com.| that helps, or that satisfies. | RSENS HO | mand It is the locust that feeds on| PORTLAND, Or.—That 300 Chi And whip the hostile Russian band, | honest crops and dies when the | "ese chjldren may be edudated af In many histories, ‘tis said | It is the cess-|°" the Chinese standard, a sehoc | Season changes. will be started in Portland . f il be started in Portland boon by ee icohe, “aa wane sok in bed. | pool into which drains the|s coterie of wealthy celestialn His loving wife said: “You can't) «wage of enlightened society, |It is the horrid composite of| SALEM, OR.—Secretary of State was the reply he made.|the sluggard, the glutton, the Olcott is busy cutting “tips” fre strange enough, his wife| pander and the prostitute. bo gs -seynage Ah) Sagan _— | And it is smart only in that joi ont New England Joy it makes you and me feather | cott |its nest and supply its maw. About Puuland club und their friends en |NEIGHBORS BAR BAKER’S MUSIC foyed a real old time Rhode Island | clambake at Edmonds beach Satur- |e whistled in the morning, and he day, The steamer Telegraph car whistled in the night ried the joy seenere 4° the beach, |i{e whistled in the darkness and he where the Edmonds Yacht club had whistled in the light a number of women straddled ¢ arranged a fine reception ball. Af) ‘That's what the neighbors say|% the bannisters and slid down ter the clams—tons of had \ayout Prank Geraic, baker, on Pike 7 been ‘stored away, there was), They even add that he sings\e kek tk kk hk RR HHS dane SAN FRANCISCO. When Kirk Gentry for the United Cigar company, knelt the store, safe change for a the stranger whom he trying to accommodate struck him in the face with brass knuckles and fled with $710 from the strong box Aug a O'CLOCK. fall mat and fashions are represented, You will find the $15.00 Suits as cleverly $50.00 § Look these over Buy a Noon dition and watch the ads. + Other handsome, affairs here upeto $12.50, See these sure. th t as the ts buying , Sheetings, Etc., Ete. 7e COTTON CHALLIS, 4! . in a wide rang for kimonos, d Tuesday, TOGO'S COURAGE sec vefore ShuT up Bargains in Wash Goods ’ 25c SUMMER WASH GOODS, ttc Linette of the linen thread finish; sheer Batist and Dim ties. In fact thrown out all faney goods in this class for a final clean-up Tuesday Pretty flowered effect de figures, etc soft, clingy Turkish Bath fabrics for midsummer dresses, waists and 1 | kimonos; values Yard 1 C | aoubie tt | for use; 20c Linens Burmah Cotton Challis new patterns; suitable quilt covers; 7c values yard of pretty, rperies Of 1 i 4c TOWELS, t4c Towels, x42; extra heavy unbleached; hemmed ready kind, Tuesday, each 20c PILLOW CASES, low Cases are made fr | of a standard sheeting and are } durable 42x36, We bought the mill output, hence the very low price; worth 20c, Special, each 81x90 PEQUOT SHEETS, 73c_— | We have just twenty dozen to sell at this: pricey 81x90; full double bed size Pequot Sheets;msuall¥ sold for $1.00, Six only to a custome 73¢ The Seattle Daily Star Delivered at Your Home Irish perfeetion andies, fine SESE ESE EERE EEE Or we ee ee To show my appreciation’ of the fair and sqv policy of The 20¢ BATH Seattle Daily Star, 1 herewith subscribe The r for a period of one month, and thereafter until ordered stopped. to be delivered to the following address, at the of 26c per month Sn city, or 20¢ per month by mall. hs size to 26¢ rate 5 25c SOIESETTE, 12! fabric comes softly finished. for dresse 2c 2 Inches wide, in close imitation waists, underwear This ever-popular | hese 3 yarn mercerized of pongee; suital etc.; solid colors, white and cream; name stamped on every yard wld elsewhere at 2 For 1 Pue we offer them for half 12:2¢ 15¢ CHEVIOT SHIRTING, 9c Mill Ends of Shirting Cheviots, firm, heavy wear ers, yet soft; 30 Inches wide, in medium dark hades of blue and gray; come in stripes, checks | &t, each and solid colors; suitable for men's shirts or la- dies’ house d 8; lengths 3 to 10 yards; worth from in the piece Mill End pric 9 vy Scotch linen, in neat floral and o. . ‘ c scroll designs; regular 5 —— The Always Busy Corner———Second and James St. NAME size yard The any more of Oregon tips, w said O1 day yay kkk hhh ehh he te ey |, Cut out and mail to The Star, Seattle, Wash, Phone No, * KANSAS CITY.—Balked by & the erush in their euorts to ® reach the lower floor of a de. * partment store where a cut price sale being held, # 50c DAMASK TOWELS, 29¢ Hemstitched Damask Towels, made mane e 22x40 he Guarantees the best service at the tore furniture 4 est cost to movg d pianos at Bekins 1 4 pack, ship here was East MADISON * * + * co * * * Cedar At 12th 4 areca aa ea a en as