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Foreign postage conble rate. Eastern Business Office The S. C. Heck with Special Afrenoy New York, rooms 48 c0 Tribune building. Chicago, rooms G10 M2 Tribune bullrtins. aPORTLA'I, .MONDAY, JL1.Y 11, 1910. "MWU1W" AM) "INSURGENTS." Thus far the loud-heralded "pro srressive" war between insurgents and regulars has made little progrress in 60-callPfl ' insurgent states, and the only politicians who get glad tidings are Democrats, who expect to step in between the warring factions and make off with the spoils. In North Dakota, Senator McCum iber, stalwart, has defeated Marshall, insurgent, for renomination by 6000 Votes; Representative Hanna, stal wart, leads by 10.000 votes for re nomination; Representative Hegelson, insurgent, m-ins by 3500; and C. A. Johnson, stalwart, defeats the insur gent candidate for Governor nomina tion. In South Dakota, Representatives Kurfce and Martin, regulars, win re nomination. ' In Iowa, three regular candidates for Representative win by big leads, two of them for renomination; eight Insurgents are renominated for Con gress, only one of them in opposition to a regular candidate; and Governor Carrol, regular, is, renominated over Oarst, insurgent-Cummins candidate. In Ohio regulars are renominated In eleven of the twelve Republican Congressional districts. Democrats now hold nine other districts. In. Indiana the insurgency repre sented by Senator Beveridge is over shadowed by the probability of Demo crats winning all thirteen of Indiana's seats' in the House of Representatives, renewing their control of the Legisla ture and electing John W. Kern to succeed Beveridge. So that Republican voters thus far have declined to apply the Cummins-Beveridge-Bristow measuring stick , to candidates for party nominations within the respective hotbeds of in surgency. They have been willing to accept members of both factions, if those members are tit to fill office. The dissatisfaction of Cummins, Bever idge, Bristow and other insurgent leaders, over details of measures en acted by Congress, appears not to be shared by the rank and file with the unanimity that t,hese prophets. of "re form" predicted. Truth is, the record of legislation of Congress stands very much to the credit of the Administration and to the. Republican majority of Congress. The tariff act isfhe only real object of discord, yet as a protective tariff law it fills the purpose as well as any pro tective tariff law could. To be con sistent, Cummins, Beveridge et al. should be advocates of free trade or tariff for revenue only. The protec tion they rail at suits other localities and interests, while that .which favors their part of the country is a sore trial to other districts. It will not be gainsaid, however, that this factional trouble in Repub lican ranks bodes ill for Republican success at the polls this Kail. Its in evitable result will be "cut-throat" voting, which will make for Demo cratic success. The point to be borne in mind is that "progressive" politics, though heralded the country over as the salvation both of party and of Na tion from corrupt government, does hot stira tempest. "Regular" candi dates hold the confidence of party vot ers quite as strongly as do insurgents In so-called "progressive" states. The people, evidently, do not credit the claims of one particular Republican faction to superior political righteous ness. PERMANENT CHANNEL NEt'ESSARY. The Port of Portland dredges have begun their annual task of cleaning out the river channel between Port land and the sea. Surveys made by the pilots show that at a number of points where trouble has been en countered in the past the channel has again filled up and will need nearly as much dredging as was done last year. At other points where the dis charge from the dredges has beerH carrted well out on the banks, little dredging is necessary. It is now well understood that the thirty-foot chan nel from Portland to Astoria can be secured with much less difficulty than was encountered in securing the pres ent twenty-five-foot channel. It is also a certainty that Portland will continue to maintain a channel of any desired depth. At the same time it is necessary that this annual channel improvement be of a more permanent nature than much of it has been in the past. There is a great waste of money and of lack of best results where sand and silt are dredged out of a channel and dumped where they can drift back into the river,' cither at the point from which they were removed or at a point farther down stream. The Government has not been gen erous with Portland in the matter of improving the river, the enterprise of the Port of Portland seeming to cause a relaxation of Government ef forts In our behalf, but in the interest of a permanent channel which would require only a moderate amount of dredging, some plan should be devised for confining the silt and sand after they are once pumped out of the Tlver. The Columbia is a big river, and it will continue to bring down large deposits from its upper reaches. These deposits, which are always noticeable after the Spring flood re cedes, cannot be entirely avoided, but their hindrance to navigation can be minimized by careful construction of the channels and in removing the silt pumped out hy the dredge to a point where it cannot easily wash back into the river. ' , The port will always be obliged to maintain a dredge on the river, and it will also be necessary to have a dredge on the bar. The expense of operating the river dredge can be re duced to a minimum, however, rf the port is not obliged to handle the same deposits year after year. The ex-, perienee of the past few years, since the port has been obliged to handle deep-draft carriers, has demonstrated that we can never again drop back to the old "tide work" of former years. The great tramp steamers are rapidly superseding the sailing vessels, and they are so much more expensive to operate that owners will enter strong objections to any delays such as must ensue if the work of dredging is neg lected. Eventually the big volume of water that sweeps down the Columbia will be closely confined on both sides for almost the entire distance between Portland and the sea. This is not necessary as yet, but it is necessary that whatever deposits are dredged out of the river should be placed where it will not be necessary to re move them again next year. Port land is a permanent port, and must get its river improvement system on a permanent basis. , KErVBIJCANS REIYSIXti DEMOCRATIC DICTATION. Having no party business of their own, Oregon Democratic bosses and organs pretend to be sorely distressed about alleged assembly troubles of their Republican rivals. They aver that bosses are trying to get control of the Republican party through as sembly and they profess themselves worried over what they consider the sorry plight of their assembly oppo nents. But in no county where assembly al ready has been held, preliminary to state assembly, have -bosses gained as cendancy, nor has the Republican party been "ruined." In Coos, Polk, Marion and Lane conferences of party representatives have been highly suc cessful. Truth Is, the damage from these conferences accrues to Democrats, and they know it, though they won't con fess. The "get-together" meetings re duce minority factionalism of Republi cans by bringing them to common basis of reasoning and understanding, and thus lessening predatory chances of Democrats upon which they have been thriving in recent years. The more absurd does it continual ly appear that any group of Ameri can citizens should attempt to deny the right of other citizens peaceably to assemble and discuss matters per taining to the public welfare. The assembly privilege is the highest prized of American constitutions, statutes and citizenship. The frantic efforts of Democratic bosses and organs to prevent Repub lican assembly in Oregon have ad vanced the cause of party conference. They have exposed the purpose of op posing politicians as self-seeking and deceptive. Their partisan assertions of "machine" and their biased, colored newspaper accounts are strengthening the assembly movement. This movement is making for hon est, straightforward politics. It is brfnging about conditions wherein Republicans, who outnumber Demo crats In registration in Oregon three to one, can give expression to their majority will and carry out their majority mandates in election of high officers of government. PORTLAND'S OREA TEST STOCK SHOW. If the people of Portland, in pro portion to their interests, had given the Portland Livestock Show one:tenth the support it has always received from outside sources. It would have been a wonderful financial success from the beginning. It has brought together the finest displays of live stock that have ever been assembled at any annual event held on the Pa cific Coast. This year the programme shows a greater number of entries, than ever before. Harness racing at the Fall meeting will bring to Port land some of the finest-bred horses in the United States. Purses of $5000 and $10,000 for single races have at tracted a large number of entries from all over the West. As an example of the widespread interest in these races, the entry list of the 2:12 trot is signifi cant. For this, race alone there are en tered horses from Seattle, Spokane, Great Falls (Mont.), Corvallis, Mar tinsville (111.), Deer Lodge (Mont.), Portland, Albany, Santa Ana (Cal.), Chico (Cal.), Walnut Grove (Cal.), Salinas (Cal.), San Francisco, San Jose, Pleasanton (Cal.), Denver, Eu reka and Los Angeles. In the other races there are entries from a score of other cities in Oregon, Washington, California and Idaho, and from points as far east as Minot, N. D., and as far south as El Paso, Tex. High-class racing of this kind will attract Na tional attention to Portland. As the remainder of the livestock exhibit is fully up to the grade of the racing animals, the big show should break all records for attendance. THE FOREST FIRES. The loquacious "spieler" in front of a sideshow was dilating on the won ders of the section of big tree which he was exhibiting. "Think, ladies and gentlemen," said he; "think how much time it takes to raise a tree a thou sand years old." This, of course, was the vague and meaningless drivel that is typical of the sideshow spiel, but be hind the words there lurked a con crete idea suggesting the impossibility of easily replacing our thousand-year-old and hundred-year-old trees, and the tremendous importance of pre venting their destruction. From Vi salia, Cal., comes the news that an im mense forest fire is sweeping down pn the giant sequoias which since their earliest . discover- have been among the 'World's greatest wonders. A por tion of the forest reserve in which these big trees are located has already been swept by the flames, and nothing but a fa-orable shift of the wind can save the giant sequoias that are di rectly in the path of the fire. Nearer home, in the Coeur d'Alene district, in Idaho, two sections of fine timber have already been burned'over and the lives and property of many settlers are imperiled. It is unusual for forest fires to cre ate such havoc so early in the season, and the dry weather through the month of June is undoubtedly re sponsible for most of the trouble. But even in dry weather it is always neces sary that there be either some care lessness or a lack of vigilance on the part of some one In order to enable a fire to gather such headway as Is shown in the California and Idaho conflagrations. Th settler's "slash ing.", which formerly caused most of the trouble, has come under regula tion by law to such an extent that a forest fire originating from a slashing can easily be traced and the owner punished for his carelessness. The careless hunter and fisherman with his cigarette stub or smoldering spark of a campflre can leave a wake of de struction which is not so easily fol lowed to the starting-point and in which conviction and punishment are not so easy to secure. Another cause which has worked havoc in the past is the locomotive spark, but the railroads have been such heavy losers by forest fires that they are now annually spending large sums to keep rights of way clear of Inflammable material, arid have also equipped their engines with spark ar resters which aid in reducing the lia bility of fire. The special Interest that the railroads have in protecting the forests along their lines lies in the value of timber as a traffic-producer. James J. Hill, taking the average wheat yield of the country as a base for his figures, and making proper al lowance for time lost when land is in Summer fallow, has estimated that a single quarter section of timber of the average Oregon and Washington stan dard will supply more traffic for a rail road than would be secured from the same amount of .wheat land in 160 years. A heritage of this kind not only means much to the railroads, but It is of vast benefit to every citizen in the country. Not years, but centuries, were re quired to bring much of this timber to its present commercial value, and there will never be another timber "crop" to replace it. Every citizen should consider it a duty to preach and practice caution against forest fires whenever the opportunity offers. THE WAY IT WORKS. Given a disease, and Dr. William Jennings Bryan will find a remedy for it. Or given no- disease, and Dr. Bryan will invent one and prescribe just the same. At this time Dr. Bryan is engaged in a. heroic effort to force both prohibition and the initiative and referendum down the unwilling throat of unhappy Nebraska. The pa tient does not yield easily to the fre quent ministrations of the Old Doctor. The Democratic party there shows signs of revolt, which no doubt, greatly surprises and pains Dr. Bryan; but he keeps pegging away at his attempts to kill or cure. . This is the way he regards direct legislation: The initiative aDd referendum do not overthrow representative government; they merely bring the representative under the control of his constituents. The people will not resort to the initiative and referendum so long as the legislators do their duty and give olce to public sentiment. The initia tive and referendum are. as it were, a club held over the representatives to compel them to recognize their responsibility and give expression to the wishes of those who elect them. If Dr. Bryan will take the trouble to visit Oregon and study the initia tive and referendum in actual opera tion, he will learn some things he doesn't know, if he can learn anything from observation of facts and not from sheer theory. He will ascertain, for example: The initiative sets aside and super sedes representative government. The initiative and referendum does not bring the representative in any way under control cjf his constituents. It enables him to evade his responsi bility by failure or refusal to enact needed laws through the pretense of reference to the people. The people resort to the initiative and referendum when legislators perform their clear duty in defeating vicious, useless or unnecessary laws or class legislation. The Initiative and referendum is a club used by faddists, or cranks, or hobby-horsical statesmen, to force a Legislature to enact extreme or radi cal or local laws, and when the Legis lature declines, there is instant "ap peal to' the people." See the thirty two laws and amendments now to be submitted In Oregon under the Initia tive and referendum, including prohi bition, woman suffrage, employers' lia bility, taxation and so on and so on, down to nine proposed new county and county division measures. For the third time in successive regular elections the people are to accept or reject female suffrage, and for the third or fourth time in six -years they mrst pass on one form or another of prohibition or local option. Oregon is under the permanent menace of the single tax, or some other radical or revolutionary enactment, or variety of radical and revolutionary enact ments. Oregon is tired. It wants to get back to sanity and safety. It is pro foundly alarmed over the tendencies and possibilities of the Initiative, and it has so far discovered that the referendum is invoked mainly in sheer revenge by interests who are disappointed over the passage of a measure or measures not desired by them. There is a place for the ini tiative and referendum doubtless in our system of government; but op portunity for its unlimited use ought never to be given. TRICKERY OF STATEMENT ONE. t Statement One is no proper part of the direct primary law in Oregon. It attaches to no primary law in any other state. And the effort of politi cal tricksters to drive the people with the idea that the two things are, one and inseparable will not have lasting success. Statement One does not guarantee the people's voice for United States Senator, Bourne and Chamberlain politicians to the contrary notwith standing. In a state whose political registration in 190S was 86,000 Re publicans and 32,000 Democrats, Statement One has caused election, as Senators, of a Bryan-Populist and a Democrat. Although two-thirds the voters are registered as Republicans and less than one-third as Democrats, yet by jugglery of Statement One which has pledged members of the Legislature who "take" it to elect a man of an opposing party even though they know he does not represent the majority will of the state Republi cans have been tricked out of their political rights and have no repre sentatives in the United States Senate. This is called "direct election" -of Senators. So also, the choice of mem bers of the House of Representatives is called direct election, and is such in fact. But between the two modes is a difference. That difference is political Jugglery and trickery. Direct election of Congressmen never results In such a monstrosity as does the game of Statement One. Republicans of Oregon are represented in the lower house of Congress by two members of their own party. But they would not be so represented if Democrats could apply the method of Statement One to election of Congressmen. The principles laid down by Colonel Roosevelt In his recent advocacy of the Cobb primary bill in New York State, resist this duplicity and dis honesty of Statement One. One of his declarations was: "Under -our system of party government the voters should be guaranteed the right to determine within the ranks of their respec tive Organizations, who the candidates of the party will be. But in Oregon's system of free-for-all primaries and minority nomina tions and Statement One, not only are the majority voters -denied the right to determine who the candidates of their party for Senator shall be, but the members of their party in the Legislature are obliged to vote for the candidate of a rival party for Sena tor. This is not rational politics nor is It an enduring condition. The first step toward guaranteeing the people's choice is party assembly. The next is refusal to "take" State ment One,. And it may be added that the law does not oblige any- candidate for the Legislature to subscribe to the Statement pledge. The reasonable pledge to exact of them is that they shall elect their party's choice for United States Senator, not the choice of a rival party. The Multnomah Bar Association, in order to name a "non-partisan" 'ticket of judges, selected two Republicans and one Democrat, thus making sure that both parties are represented. In other words, two were chosen because they are Republicans and one because he is a Democrat. Yet the ticket is called "non-partisan," and also- the Bar Association. Presently the State Bar Association, also non-partisan, will name for Supreme Judges four men with particular reference to their party membership, probably Moore and McBride. Republicans, and King and Slater, Democrats. It is said that this business rwill make sure the ren dering of judicial decisions free from party bias that is, with balance of party influence. The most rational safeguard, however, amid present-day doctrines, would seem to be the peo ple's referendum on opinions of the court. Are judges more important or more intelligent than the people? Are judges above legislators in making the people's laws? The lawyers appear to be overlooking their consistent non partisan duty. Mr. Brownell has issued a public re ply to the recent letter of Mr. Moores, wherein certain episodes in the life and record of the Oregon City "re former" were exposed to the general view. There is no need for any one to trouble Mr. Brownell with applica tions for a copy of his alleged reply, for the reason that its substance may easily 'be given in the following: Brownell admits everything, and with astonishing impudence endeavors to show that because the old conditions, which he helped to make, were so rot ten he should be sent to Salem to re form them. No, this is not a joke. It is Brownell, and the old Brownell method, by which he has repeatedly fooled and -bamboozled the people of Clackamas County, including that tal ented letter-writer, J. L. Kruse, who has followed Brownell so long that he scarcely knows honor from dishonor, truth from falsehood, fact from sheer buncombe. But the worm may turn. Clackamas County has spat out Brow nell once. Will it swallow him again? "He has never been in my country. He should not speak of things of which he knows . nothing," says the Maharanee of Baroda in discussing Colonel Roosevelt's elaborate views on the best method of directing the af fairs of India. The particular utter ances of the lion-hunter which had offended the lady from the Far East were those that made the Guildhall speech famous. But no votes' are ex pected from the Province of Baroda, and there will be no retractions or qualifications of the language used. If the distinguished Colonel had con fined his speaking to subjects with which he was familiar, he would have refrained from mixing up in the Washington Senatorial fight, even for a day, and would have been spared the humiliation of placing his friend Poindexter in the- overcrowded ranks of the Ananias Club. Of course it is easy to understand why the Democratic organ should be grievously disappointed over the result of the Saturday Republican precinct meetings, but that hardly justifies, though it may explain, the unusual amount of lying done in its news re ports of those highly successful events. For that paper to break its own record for falsehood and misrep resentation about ' the assembly and the many Republicans who expect to participate in it is no small achieve ment. Times are, indeed, changing, for here comes a Douglas County woman seeking marital freedom and alleging that upon occasion her husband com pelled her to plow. In the old coun try woman was frequently yoked up with an animal and helped draw the plow. Evolution toward the handles is a mark of progress, anyway. Soon it will be time for those guar dians of the public safety who oppose assembly to get together in a back room and put forth a Statement One slate in the name of the common people. The assembly hires a hall and names its candidates openly, fairly, publicly. The arrtr-assembly machine doesn't. That is the difference. About this time, or a little later. look for a grand pilgrimage to O'vster Bay by one Jonathan Bourne, witlT the subsequent intimation from that emi nent statesman that T. R. is going to support him for re-election. Is Bourne not the original second-elective termer? Also the original -several other things? Just to show everybody how fortu nate we are that we don't live in the torrid belt. Old Sol has been doing his best, or worst, for two whole days For purposes of comparison only. The traction company has ordered registers on the "Vancouver ferry "for the convenience of the pursers," It is stated. That might be called a warm weather joke. Mr. J. J. Corbett admits that he was a miserable failure .as a prophet, but declares that Jeffries didn't do as he told him. He couldn't. Johnson wouldn't let him. "Universal peace will avert war with Japan," cries Mr. Hearst. We'd never thought of that. Among those not present at the Marion County assembly: E. Hofer. Not wanted. Well, who wants Yo see moving pic tures of that Reno funeral, any way? J SPINE FOH OREGON REPUBLICANS Such Is the Assembly Plan. In the Opin ion of This Correspondent. PORTLAND, July 10. (To the Ed itor.) I am glad that at last an. at tempt is to be made to "put a spine" In the Republican party of Oregon. There must be consultation and co operation. If intelligent irrid forceful action is to be had. A system must be judged by its results, and the present o-as-you-please" hit-or-miss plan must stand or fall by what it produces. Who can say from the standpoint of a Republican that the results here in Oregon testify to the worth of the present system? Is a system successful from the standpoint of the majority party that fills the executive and- other offices of the state and Nation with members of the minority party? The Repub lican party in this state represents a vast majority of the voters, yet one Democratic Senator and a Free-silver Populist Senator represent our state in the United States Senate. This is the result. Is the system that pro duced it a good one? If the Repub lican party of this state is to live, it must have the assembly in order that intelligent action can be had under the present law; and such assembly can be hay under the present law without perverting or violating it in the least. Democrats consult. Prohibitionists con sult, lawyers consult under the new aw is it possible that it is a crime only when Republicans consult? Let lis "put a spine" in the Republican party of Oregon. ' H. S. HUDSON. OREGON FRUIT-GROWING LANDS Cascades Best, SaK Wrltert Coast II an are Adapted for Dairying. SALEM, Or., July 9. (To the Edi tor.) In answer to the question: "What is a Jonathan Newtown?" They are two distinct, long-keeping apples; the Jonathan medium size, dark red, slightly striped; the Newtown yellow, above medium: both crisp and juicy in March, but differing in tastes. I am describing the apples as I knew them between 1853 and 1863, under the nomenclature of the Oregon Pomolog ical Society, which was merged Into the State Agricultural Society, which held its first fair on the north bank of Clackamas in 1860. The Oregonian is correct in suggest ing that the show be open to Wash ington and Idaho. - I see no reason why Montana and British Columbia may not be admitted as the King George III policy of Rooseveltian and Pinchotism is crowding Pacific Coast communities together. In self-defense. Hood River apple-growers have shown that the civilized world is with in commercial reach of the Pacific orchardists, and it has long been dem onstrated that wherever the fir, spruce, pine and hemlock trees grow, apple orchards will grow. Irrigation will produce the largest fruits of any given kind, but such fruits will be inferior in flavor and keeping qualities. It follows that Oregon has millions of the best of apple lands yet untouched. The writer has recently been on the seaward side of the Coast Range and also on the west side of the Cascades. He has concluded that of the two re gions, the Cascades will be best for. fruit growing, and th Coast Range for dairying. In either .district, the home-builder should get on the ground as soon as possible after it has been logged off and burned over. I was particularly Impressed with this view in looking over the ground of the fire of three years ago near Detroit. The sooner it is sold for orchard land, the better. JOHN MINTO. Booms Judge Hewitt for Governor. SALEM. Or., July 9. (To the Edi tor.) I have seen mentioned In the newspapers the names of several de sirable condidates for Governor of Oregon and I should like to submit the name of another man, who I think would be an ideal candidate for the position. I refer to Judge H. H. Hewitt, of Albany, president of the Open River Association. He is an able and suc cessful lawyer, universally respected, understands the needs of the state, and ready at all times to labor for the upbuilding of this commonwealth. He is a good speaker, a man of broad views. -a loyal Republican, and one who has the courage of his convictions and able to maintain them eloquently and convincingly. If he should be called upon to discharge the duties of the state executive, no grafters would be tolerated, and we would have a clean and efficient administration of affairs at the Capitol. Along with thousands of his other friends in the state, I would be de lighted to salute him as Governor Hewitt next January. I have not con sulted Judge Hewitt about the matter, but it is to be hoped that he will allow his friends to present his name for the consideration of the forthcoming Re publican state assembly. PIONEER REPUBLICAN. Roosevelt Bigger Than His Party f Tacoma News. The barest investigation of Poindex ter's record in Congress will convince Colonel Roosevelt that he has set his foot In the flax. Roosevelt always has stood for party regularity. Polndex ter's record is one of anything except party regularity. If the Colonel, re turning from the triumphs Incident to the hand-clasps of European royalty, has concluded that he Is greater than the party that made him, and that he can cut and dry any old "sort of mug wump and flipflopper for an important candidacy in the State of Washington we shall have an interes'lng test be tween one enlarged ego and the public will. But we don t believe he thus ar rays himself. Oyster Bay is a hotbed for distorted interviews with Roose velt. Every insurgent and regular that has stepped from the shaded porches of Sagamore Hill has beamed knowing ly upon the waiting press representa ttves and assured the American public by wire that Roosevelt is with themone and all. It is beginning to be a slap sticks act. Roosevelt's Mistake. Hoquiam Washingtouian. If Colonel Roosevelt has taken a stand for Poindexter, his action wil quickly reduce the Senatorial situation in the State of Washington to a con test between Poindexter and John L. Wilson. The Washingtonian said the other day'that these were the only two natural candidates, and. while we make no claims to the art of prophecy, this is so simple that all can see It. Colonel Roosevelt will gain nothing by arraying himself against Secretary Ballinger at this stage of the game. He will gain nothing by picking up the campaign of Poindexter. That he has done so will only cause the lines to be drawn tighter, and to Increase the strength of Wilson, who may be de pended on to stand as a rock for the demands of' this state to be freed from the binding cords of ultra-conservation. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt to the contrary, notwithstanding. Poindexter Exposed. s Chehalls Bee-Nugget. Poindexter, who would be Senator from this-'state if he could, stirred up a hornet's nest when he went into Ohio .and tried his insurgency tactics on the stump against Representative Tas'lor in that state, who was a candi date for re-election. He brought on himself a public expose of his past record, and, to say the least, Poin dexter sot by far the worst of It. In answering Poindexter's attack, Taylor delved into some history regarding Poindexter's activities in Congress, which every vcter in Washington should read. Mr. Taylor exposed an ugly record. LAKE DEMOCRATS DISCOMFITED I Their Prophecy, of Bosses' In County Asesmbly, Falls Eugene Register. Has it ever occurred to our Lane County Democritlc friends who have had considerable to say about the re cent Republican assembly In this coun ty, that there was no cut-and-drled programme fixed up for the meeting? True, there was talk of suggesting can didates for county offices and the dis cussion which took place in the assem bly showed that opinion was about equally divided for and against offer ing advisory candidates to the people in advance of the primary, the final idea to prevail being that such ad visory selection be postponed until after the state assembly. If there had been bossism present, and a regu lar programme arranged, it Is certain that a ticket would have been suggest ed. It was a meeting of representa tive Republicans, held to discuss what was best for the future success of the party, and what the assembly decided upon met with approval for the reason that Republicans believe in getting to gether for the good of the party, and staying together on matters that make for party success. Whether the assem bly to be held in September offers a county ticket or not the two assem blages of Lane County Republicans will be effective for good and will mean that, preceding each campaign in Lane, there will be a Republican assembly. ROOSEVELT Oil POINDEXTER, LIARt "We Discussed Polities," Says the One; "We Didn't' Says the Other. Aberdeen World. Assuming that Poindexter was not misquoted and he probably wasn't either he or Mr. Roosevelt has lied. Take your choice. Mr. Poindexter puts himself in a bad light. He is quoted as saying that "Roosevelt and I have always worked together." Yet he had never met Mr. Roosevelt before last Tuesday. "We discussed politics in all its phases," says -Poindexter. "We did not discuss politics," says Rosevelt. Once again, who lies? If an Indictment were to be drawn in this case upon the evidence now at hand. It would run against Poindexter. Object for a lie he had, and chance to win something by it if he could make it stick. Cheap way to win a few votes. It is up to Mr. Poindexter to explain. If he .does not explain, he is unworthy of any man's confidence. And yet there is no worse lie in this little af fair than . this man's attempt to win office at the hands of Republicans when in reality he owes his first al legiance to another party. Poindexter Is Really Democrat. Oroville Gazette in Kelso Kelsonian. That political mountebank, Poin dexter, says that if elected to the Sen ate he will pursue the same policies there he has in the lower branch of Congress. This means that he will line up with the Democrats on all occa sions and vote against every Republic an proposition. It is true he will nqt initiate any measure, because that is beyond his . capacity, as his record so far in Congress amply proves. But he will loyally follow the leadership of the Democratic whip, and .do all In his power to minimize the efforts of President Taft to secure the passage of legislation provided in the Repub lican platform. It Is an admission on the part of Poindexter that he has returned to the Democratic party that he deserted for office, and If there were a spark of manhod in the fellow he would openly announce himself a Democratic candidate for' the Senate, which he really is. Irrigation Praise In Yakima. Yakima Republic. We owe the inception of Government work here to Wesley L. Jones, and we owe the prospect that some day it may be completed to William H. Taft. We look to Senator Jones and Secretary Ballinger to help us carry the war into other strongholds and fastnesses of the jack and the rattler: Through them we hope to secure' funds for the high line and the reservation work. To Sec retary Ballinger we look for the injec tion of business-like methods into the conduct of the Reclamation Service so that this generation, and not our de mote posterity, may reap the first por tions of the benefits of the great work. Mr. Newell is a great and good man jn his way. but as a reclaimer of the desert he is a joke to every jack that ever hopped and to every rattier that ever skipped the tra-loo 'midst the waving sagebrush. Progress of Assembly. Lebanon Criterion. The nearer the time comes for holding the primary nominations, the more the people of the state favor the plans for an assembly to discuss and recom mend candidates for state offices. The Republican press of the state are united in favoring it. They do this from purely a matter of principle and because they think the state is best served by it. The country press would fare far better on the money side by a great scramble for officers in which a large number of candidates for every office would have to make announce ments and run cards, for which they would be only too glad to pay liberal advertising rates. The stand, of the press of the state on this question is a compliment to the integrity of the news gatherers of a great state. o Social Standing. Buffalo Express. "What sort of a social position has Jones in town?" "He used to stand pretty well, but he's a mere nobody now. He didn't re ceive any degrees this month, he didn't go to New York to meet Roosevelt, none of his daughters were married and he wasn't operated on for appen dicitis." t Waiting Their Turn. Judge. "Did you folks down in Bjngville see Halley's comet this Spring?" asks the visitor. "Nope," replies the native. "We never get any of those big shows until after they've played a year in New York." CURRENT NEWSPAPER JESTS. Jack I hear yon had some money left you. Tom Yes; it left me quite a while ago. Boston Transcript. New Employer But why did you leavs your last mistress? New Maid Klvens! Lid yez expect me f bring her along wld me? Cleveland Leader. "I tear the hero of the magazine serial will be bankrupt next month." "Why bo?" "He leaves a taxlcah waiting in the last chapter." St. Louis Star. "I can't do without matutinal coffee," said Mrs. Olltcrest. "Indeed." said Mrs. Flubber. with a slight air of superiority, "We use Queen of the Harem." Birming ham Age-Herald. "Do you believe," asked the lawyer, "you could decide this case purely on the evi dence?" ""yes," replied the prospective Juror. "I think I could, if the defendant would return the silver watch he stole from mo one time." Chicago Record-Herald. "What's my daughter studying now?" in quired the sugar magnate. "Hhe's practis ing on the scales." replied the music teacher. "Have her stop it. I have no intention of taking- her into the practical details of my business." Washington Star. "For years." admitted the old bachelor, "I have made the mlntake of hiding my light under a bushel." "Yes," rejoined the young widow, "I have often wondered why you used a bushel when a pint cup would have answered the purpose." Chicago Daily Ken; ' GROSS ERRORS OF PIXCHOTIJM West Needs Itlllxation of Resources, tint Tled-Conservatlon. ' PORTLAND, July 9. (To the Ed itor.) The editorial efforts of Tho Oregonlau to bring about a correct understanding of the aims and pur poses of the Roosevelt-Plnchot faddists In the matter of so-called "conserva tion," are to be highly commended by every true friend of Oregon and the West. It is time that the people should bo aroused from the hypnotic spell under which they have been held for several years by those who would establish a feudalism in this Western country. It is strange how meaningless, platitudes about "conserving the heritage of the people" and other like expressions, cir culated by the Industrious press bureau of the cranks and bureaucrats. shotiM so blind people of Intelligence to the real alms and purposes of this move ment and to the disastrous results, to the West, of its final fruitage. We are spending many thousands of dollars annually advertising the nat ural undeveloped resources of our state, and inviting people to come hera and utilize and develop them and help us bujld up a great and prosperous commonwealth, while at the same time many of our people, and, I regret to say, some newspapers and public offi cials, ate shouting for "conservation" under the control of bureau officials at Washington, D. C. Many who would indignantly deny that they are So cialists, or have any sympathy with the teachings of Socialism, are sup porting the greatest Socialistic meas ures that were ever seriously present ed or considered in this country the) ownership, control and development by the Government of the natural re sources of the country the coal and copper of Alaska, with the transporta tion facilities of that great territory, and the coal, timber and wattr powers of the West, all to be enjoyed, perhaps, by favorites o-f Government officials. ' Whether or not such a sys tem is to be desired, and the writer admits that there are nfany scductivo arguments in favor of the Socialistic view, the people should understand and appreciate that the whole proposed, system is distinctly Socialistic. Few people realize what a vast offi cial and political machine has been. uuui. up aruunu mis conservation Idea, or what great powers have been exercised by the late unlamented Plnchot. The absolute control of an empire by many millions of acres greater than has ever been taken up under the homestead laws of thu United States, has been exercised by that official. No citizen could pasture a cow or cut a riding switch on this; great domain without the written con sent of that feudal lord, or one of his minions. Such a complete reversal of the policy and practice of tho Gov ernment from the beginning, a policy under which our country has grown great and whose development has been, the wonder of the world, could not have been dreamed of 20 years ago by the most visionary. The theory upon, which the Government had always act ed until the advent of Pinchotism was that it held the lands in trust for the people, to be delivered to them when they should want to utilize them, charging only enough to pay the ex penses of the trustee. The people were encouraged to take up and utilize the lands, minerals and other re sources, and thereby develop tjie coun try. In a twinkling all is changed. The lands and minerals and waters suddenly become assets of the Govern ment to be held and administered for the revenue they will produce. In our blindness and folly we shout that a new savior has arisen. Great is Plnchot! Great is "conservation": It may be thought that such a com plete reversal of policy could come only after long discussion and consid eration by the legislative branch of the Government. But not so. No discus sion whatever was had or suggestion made that tho historic policy of the Government was to be reversed. A few harmless-appearing lines In an appropriation bill, and Executivo usurpation and intimidation have done the rest. And this intimidation! Was there' ever anything like it before in the political history of our country? A stainless private life, fidelity to the people and to the law in every publia station, all count as naught if the arbi trary power of a Plnchot Is sought to be curbed. Let a voice but, be raised in defense of the old policy, or in con demnation of the autocratic methods of the new, and if the owner of that voice Is of sufficient prominence to attract attention, the whole pack of hireling writers are turned loose to slander and denounce him as the enemy of the common people and the tool of cor porate interests. The cry seems to be support "my policy" or be condemned as a traitor and a grafter. The one great need of the West is the utilization of our great natural re sources, not their "conservation." Con served for what and for whom? Our great water-powers have been "con served" from the dawn of creation. What we need is some way to utilize, them to carry on the industries of tho country and to develop new ones, to run our trains, factories, plows, har vesters, wagons, and to heat and light homes. Do the people realize how much this so-called conservation policy retards and discourages all ef forts to develop these great resources? Do they realize that capital will not submit to petty anoyances of shallow and officious Government employes, and will seek other fields of invest ment? Do they wtsh the development of our state to stop? If so. let them continue to support Pinchotism, and the work is done. In 20 years from now, if that policy is pursued, .the population of the state will not be as great as it Is today. It is time for the people to awake, and the efforts of The Oregonian ought to arouse them. A clear understanding of the aims and tendencies of this new system ought to be sufficient to con demn It, and Is sufficient for all but the few who for supposed petty po litical advantage are ready to sneeze whenever the "wise men of the East" choose to .regale themselves with snuff. X. A. PEEIIY. The Colonel's '"Interference. ' yaklma Republic. It Is possible, but not probable, that Mr. Roosevelt will take a hand in the local political affairs of this state, though we think he Is too good a poli tician to do so. If he is about to adopt a policy of interference generally in local affairs, he Is getting ready to de stroy his UBefnlness In the most effec tive way known to public men. He failed the other day to influence the legislation of his own state, where he had every right, as a citizen to speak. He will asHuredly tall If he attempts to run the affairs of this state. We do not believe that anybody un derstands the feelings of the Western people on this subject. better than Roosovelt does, and for that reason, among others, we. don't think he will take a hand in this Senatorial same. -i