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About The Medford mail. (Medford, Or.) 1893-1909 | View Entire Issue (May 4, 1900)
r Published Ererj rrtJij Morning. A. 5. BUTON. HAN WAI BORN TO HUSTLt. Ha ti ot tow darai but quit t plenty. SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 PER YEAR talma In the Poatolhca it Medford, Oregon u BeeondClasa Mall Matur. Medford, Friday, May 4, 1000. Our Clubbing List. Tan Mail and Weekly 8. F. Call $2 00 " " Examiner 2 35 . " " " Cbroulolo 2 25 - i " " Oregoulan 2 00 . " Cosmopolitan ... 2 00 " Sunday Bulletin.. 2 00 ' " N. Y. Tribune.... 1 66 " ' Weekly Clnoln- natl Enquirer, - 1 75 STATE TICKET. Supreme Judge CHARLES E. WOL- VJ PERTON, of Linn County. Food and Dairy Commissioner J. BAILEY, of Multnomah County. DISTRICT TICKET. W. Representative In Congress, First Ore gon District THOS. H. TONGUE, of Washington Oounty. Prosecuting Attornev, First Judicial District C. B. WATSON, of Jackson County. Joint Representative, Jackson and Douglas Counties E. D. BRIGGS, or Jackson County. COUNTY TICKET. Representatives, MATTHEW STEWART, of Talent, W. A. CARTER, Gold Hill. Countv Judge, N. L. NARREGAN, Medford. Sheriff, ALEX. ORME, Foots Creek. Clerk, GUS. NEWBURY, Poentx. Recorder, PETER APPLEGATE, Central Point. Commissioner, THOMAS RILEY, Eagle Point. School Superintendent, P. H. DAILY, Gold Hill. J. C. PENDLETON'Table Rock. Treasurer, MAX MULLER Jacksonville. Surveyor, GARL T. JONES, Medford. Coroner, G. B. COLE, Medford. The Jacksonville Times has gone into mourning. It ia in the slough of despond between the devil and the deep, blue sea, and will be damned if it does, and be damned if it don't. Sometimes persons are hoisted by their own petard, or un wittingly get into the curious track of a boomerang. The Lake County Examiner, published in Lakeview, the home of Mr. Daly, the fusion candidate for congress from the First district, printed, last week, a two column bietoric account of Mr. Daly's life. There is much said ' in the article tout is not to Mr. Daly's credit The Mail will print excerpts from mis article next week and our readers will thus be given an oppor tunity to judge whether it is Mr. Daly or Mr. Tongue who is best fitted to serve the people as congress man. "In nominating a railroad mag nate for representative and a bank president for congressman in the persons of G. T. Baldwin and Dr. Daly, democratic leaders have brought sorrow and tears to those disoiplea of Jefferson and Jackson, who cherish consistency and love the common people. They fail to understand how leaders can feel ingly resolve to put their feet on corporations and at the same time select their statesmen from among Dancers ana railroad presidents." Klamath Falls Republican. All classes of citizens who intend to make Oregon their home, and will have interests to subserve and be advanced, and who take pride in the progress and influence of the state, should remember that the best service in congress can only be had from those of experience, and that it is a matter of business to retain a representative in his position who has had an opportunity to learn the duties attendant there to, and the intricate, puzzling, and too often oircuilous, methods of do Jng business, Especially should REPUBLICAN TICKET this be dons If the man has ability and ii In all respeota well equipped lor the important service be li ex pected to render. Mr. Tongue has had a great amount of experienoe, ia a good lawyer, an able debater, a vigorous and aotive man in the prime of life, ambitious to excel and make for himself a name and place among men, and should be returned without question as pre eminently the man to represent Oregon in shaping events under the iww una changed condition ot af fairs so intimatoly affecting tho state's oommeroinl interests. Vote for Mr. Tongue and have a live and ablo representative. Whkn Attornoy Colvig noiuia ated Prim for county judge, last Saturday, he stated that Mr. Prim voted for Bryan four years ago and then he paused for applause but the delegates did not applaud neither did the spectators until the pause had paueed quite a pause and then a couple or roiiows iook up the cue where Mr. Colvig had paused it and gave two desperate stamps and then toe pause was raised and Mr. Colvig proceeded to tell of the other (?) redeeming traits of Mr. Prim many chapters in his life not being touohed upon, however. Our Beagle correspondent says "The brilliant meteor has come and gone and the next event of particu lar mention will be the Kepublioan cyclone whioh will pass over Ore' gon on June 4th and over the whole United States in November. Of such magnitude will this cyclone be that it will be noticeable in every state in the Union and its effeot so pleasing and satisfactory that Dem ocrats will do homage to the Repub licans that gave them a continuance of Mr. McKinley's prosperity." Someone has been putting that cor respondent "next to himself." As a guesser he is all right-r-still a fore cast of such nature is not difficult to foresee. The American people are not fools. Democratic office grabbers may still keep up a pre tense and delude a few of the peo ple but the great majority will not heed their humbuggery. The young business men of the county are almost without eiceD tion in favor of the retention of Gus Newbury ;n the office of county clerk. This fact alone is worthy of consideration. I he day is past when men are chosen lor onice be cause they are the oldest qualified members of their party or are per son ally popular. As the business of the country expands and grows in volume it gravitates into the hands of the younger men, whoee vigor and strength, to say nothing of their being more uj-to-date in business methods and more in touch with modern times, better fits them for the discharge of these duties. Mr. Newbury is one of the best of the county's younger class of busi ness men, well qualified, and lully informed in every particular of the business of the clerk's office. He should be retained in the interest of every class represented in the county. A new idea has been set afloat called the "democracy of labor." It is suggested that there is democ racy in government to the extent that the majority shall rule, and that it is the result of system and organization. Why not apply the rule to labor? The idea, it is true, is somewhat nebulous, and just how the application can be made has not yet been explained. The' pur pose appears to be to get rid of modem feudalism where the land owner, or proprietor of the enter prise or industry shall not be free to dictate to the laborer, or dis charge him. It is a beautiful de mocracy, and rounds like the ap proach of the millennium. But will it work? Who shall dictate to the man who owns the business? The destiny of man is labor and if be bas no work of his own, he must work for some one else, and that some one else has a right to super vise and direct his labor. Any other idea would subveit all busi ness and result in bankruptcy. The idea of a "democracy of labor" is catchy and fascinating, and a de lightful theory, for dreamers, but its cold, logical consequences would be endless riot and anarchy. This is another vagary that will be buried with the rest of democracy's nim-nameries. The action of ihe county repub lican 0' nvention in choosing N L. Narregan for the impartant office of county judge was one of wisdom. This position is one from which every element of political preference should be removed, and the fitness and character of the nominees made the main points of consider ation. That these were carefully considered by the convention is proven by the well-known character of Mr. Narregan. He is a widelv read, well informed lawyer, an able scholar and a refined gentleman; not a word can be truthfully said of hii character or life whloh would aot asalnat his .candidaoy for the offlne to whloh he was nominated bv his friends and neighbor; hii life, his aBsoolationi and his work have been a combined influenoe in fitllntr him for lust auoh a position as that of county Judge. Voters of this oountv should coneldor well bo fore oftBting their ballots, sinoa tho Incumbent of tho Imluo's ollloe lias inuah to do with the affairs of widows and orphans, tho settling up of estates, sale of proporty in trust, eto., and certainly there is no one who would want to know that his widow or orphans would be comuollud to doal with any hut an official whose name was a syno nym for honesty, integrity and oharauter as Mr. Narrcgnu's ia Tun Populist party is so torn and rent upon the question of fusion that it will out but a sorry figure in the coming election. The bitter ness of the middlo of-the-rosdors who represent the principles and party organisation, agaiust the bolt ing spoils-bunting fuslonlsts, make them practically two parties with uo aumiity uetweeu mo vuutuuu' ing elements. The Lebanon Pop ulists resolved: "That we are op posed to fusion with Uemooraoy, because the latter is directly op posed to almost every priuoiple of our platform." Because "Dernoo racy is opposed to Government money by demanding its redemp tion in gold and silver." ueoause "a 'redeemed Democracy' is promising Democracy out of office." "Wu call upon all honest Populists to cast aside the fusion deception and or ganize in every preoinot and down tax-eaters, violators of tbe people s rights, arid last, but not least, the snake in the grass, the ofhoe hunt ing politician who calls himself a fusion Populist."- This is straight goods, and shows the decisive cleav age that exiutB between tho two wings of the. party. While the spoils-hunting element baa aband oned all pretensions to principle, and is plowing with the Democratic beifer for a nose in the crib, the straight Populists are resolving against their perfidy, and denounc ing them as inspired and control led only by the savory smells of the political flesh pots. The more there is seen of Goebel- ism in the criminal larce that is being enacted in Kentucky, the more deep and dark the conspiracy appears, I'erjury and subornation of perjury are called into requisi tion to support fraud and violence, and the whole Hoebel machinery, conceived in iniquity and brought forth in anarchy, is an outrage on human rights. The traitorous and red-handed ravishers of justice who are strangling the liberties of the commonwealth, should be made to feel tbe righteous indignation of an outraged public. Not content with strangling the . inalienable right of every American freeman to cast his ballot and have it counted. these false and treaoherous emis saries of evil, steeped to the eyes in crime and malice and wreaking with rage for the blood of innocence, are now endeavoring to blast the fair names of honorable men, and if need be, bring them to the gal lows for a crime which was the logical result of a foul conspiracy, fashioned and fostered by their own hands. Goebel paid the penalty for the assassination of liberty, by being himself assassinated. The villainy he consummated upon the public, was executed upon himself. He tell by tbe anarchistic methods himself inspired. The lawless spirit he invoked burned and rankled in the heart of outraged justice, and its recoil wrought bis death. What else could have been expected? No man in this age of jealous regard for liberty can hope to ride with impunity over the brave spirit of American freeman. Assassination is ordious, whether of man or liberty, and in neither case is to be condoned or excused. The ciimes sought to be perpetrated in Ken tucky, under the forms of law, will ever remain a bated blot on the fair fame of the state. A Warning to Saloon Men. To Whom It May Concern: Saloon keepers and others are warned and en treated to not sell or furnish Intoxicat ing liquors of any kind to my husband. Dr. L. Wlggin. If they do, they will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. To anyone giving evldenoe load ing to the arrest and oonvlotion of any person or persons so selling or lurnlsh ng to L. Wlggin any intoxicating liquors, a reward of S25 will be paid. DIRS. Li. wiooin. Card of Thanks. We desire to thank those of our neigh bors and friends who were so vary kind to us during the illness of our daughtor and sister, and who tendered so many kindly ministration at a timo when death had entered our hourehold. Jbssb Wilson and Family. A Snap If taken within thirty days forty aeres all in orop, ten-room, two story bouse, big barn, smoke bouse, granary, brick milk bouse and outbuildings. For terms and. particulars sail at this office. HB PROUD OP. ii,. ,iMutmi haa now started In. and ovorv tax payer ana 01. payer aim iu 1.... ... ...miallilaii Interest in so ouriug tho best offlciala that my be had. Among tho moat import ant offloos to be till I at this oleo tion is that of district attorney. C. B. Watson, tho present ineumbont of that office, is a man well-known throughout Southern Oregon, In fact, more than ordinarily well ac quainted throughout tho state, and his reuord for the past two years as district attorney Is 1111 open book. It is safe to say that tho district has nover had a district attorney against whom less might be said so far as tho administration of his ollloe IsoouoernedtlmiiMr. Watson. A comparative statement, certified to by tho varioiiH clerks of tho district, Bhows that the expense In curred by hi in is not more than one half that incurred by Mr. Jeffrey, his predecessor. This statement is not made to attack Mr. Jeffrey In any way, for tho expenses Incurred by him were not greatly in excess of those of other district attorneys preceding him. The law passed at tho last session of the legislature known as the "district attorney bill" and the "in formation bill" resulted in placing the district attorneys upon a salary and relieving the county of the ex pensive fee system as it related to that office, and, also, of. placing it within the discretion of the Court to call grand juries or dispense with j them. These two laws have been an important factor in enabling district attorneys to reduco tbo ex-j pensus incident to tho administra- tion of that office. During the ses-: sion of the legislature w! ich passed these laws, Air. Watson was at-1 tacked by some newspaper for being active in securing the paaaage of these acta. No one can deny : that he was perhaps an largtly instrumental in securing tbe par- sage of these laws as any other man, and perhaps, more so. Suf ficient time has past to measure the value and result of them, and it is safe to say that the Slate of Oregon has saved by these two laws alone, not less than fifty thousand dollars since their passage, and that this district bas been the recipient of its proportion of such Biiviugs. The expenses incurred by Mr. Watsou in the discharge of his office during his incumbency is only about one- half that of his predecessor for tho same length of time in Josephine County, less than one-half 111 Jack son County, about one-half in Klam ath County, and less than one-third in Lake County. 11ns is not wholly due to these two laws, but largely the renull of the care and painstaking of Mr, Watson himself. A man past tbe middle ago of life, having had twenty-live years experience in the praotico of law, with a large share of experience in oriminal mat ers, he has been able to determine without the exnenso of litigation the morit of orimiual oases before be brings them; oare fully investigating each case with out incurring an expenso to the county, he is able to determine be forehand whethor the matter should go into court or not. Tbe result of bis painstaking, judicious manage ment and legal knowledge is shown by the record be has made as prosecutor. The records show that he has not lost a case in tho cirouit court lu either Klamath or Lake county; that he has lost three cases in Jackson County and three in Josephine; that he has a remark able number of convictions on plea of guilty; and that, though he has tried a great many cases in all the counties, only one demurrer has ever been sustained to his indict ments and none to any information. This is a record whioh fully justi fies the confidence almost univers ally expressed in him as an officer, and is certainly tbe very beBt re commendation that a man could have and the best argument to be made for his re-election. If all officers could succeed during a term as the record shows ho has, very little complaint could be made in regard to expense and iiieffloinoy. The complaint of youth and the education of district attorneys at publio expense cannot be made against him, and his reeleotion would be an assurance to every tax payer that no experiment is to be tried, for we know what ho can do by what he has done and tho bost recommendation for the election of any officer Is auoh a record made by him in the discharge of the duties of that office. f rom tbe word that comes to us from all sides, we bespeak for Mr. Watson a most flattering majority in all of the counties of the district. For Sale or Exchange. 200-aore farm situated five miles from Ashland and about six miles From Med' ford; 00 aoros under plow; all fonood; tair nouro: spring wjuor. win cx ohanee for rosldonoo In Modford. AIbo eno block of building lots in Ashlund, 600x240 feet; Insldo property; nice lo cation ; fonood; some fruit. .12, E, Miner, Qnld Hill, Oregon. Tub Mail Is the best county paper. A KBCOKD TO F. K. DEUEL & CO. The First of YOU WILL FIND A good uBHortment to pick from, containing tho lut oBt Htyk'H. Kor Liuliou wo hayo both tho (liui.o and MtiBlin; for donllomoii, lklbrifgan, in Egyptian and funcy colors; also a light weight in natural wool. You'll Find Our r.ii.v.ui. .1 11 u a F. K. DEUEL &, CO. Snrinft Opening in Hardware! We have a Kull and Complete Assortment of Seasonable Hardware Bargains ' nAfinrM THAI O Kftkou, Hooh, SimdoH. Spad-i uAnUtil lUULO, "g Forks, Sock! Drills, olo.i Tho ".stoan.s Hall Bearing" UrTho Heat Made. -- Kor a Choapor Mowpr we hovo tho Stearns Vi to la-inon cut; The CELEBRATED ACORN STOVES A Carload Just Received! Boyden & Medford, Oregon. Garden Seeds May's, Bo wen's, Ferry & Oos, AND COX'S CALIFORNIA GARDEN SEED5. G L. DAVIS. Southern Oregon REAL ESTATE EMPLOYMENT AGENCY. AND STBWART CHBSSMORB, Prop. Ofllccon Seventh Street, noil door to Ilakory. Bury the Dead, and Deal with LIVE Hen I 21 acres, good land $ 525 2 acres, little homo 300 House and lot 125 100 aeres, best land In valloy, part In alfalfa, wo!) fenced, fair build ings, per aore ..; 45 22 aoros, small orohard, alfalfa, fair buildings, woll located 2000 820 aoros stock and grain ration, good outside range, dark, rioh soil, best bargain In the county, at, per acre 10 If you want to buy, sell or oxoliungo proporty, loan or borrow money, ront houses or farms, or seouro employment, call on us. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Stewart & cnessmore. May Ih a good timo to olutngo to Summer Underwear. Our HnoH nro now coinploto, unci tho goods tlio (Iiiohi. aVwVBVMaV1riMttHafeatiaakiaattaaafei At If M. 4r M i j "j Prices All Right. All J HI llflUJCDO am law aal mmm aw sr-k Lnmi muiii-iiu tho "1'liua," in the same sizes as!: an oxceiient inaciuno. j; fiieholson $ flEc I ho liardwaro M011.4: .. We Aw the ... EXCLUSIVE ASents In litis City for .. J to & Sana's COFFEE. Tka AcknowM(4 LtaJir at lh World'! Hair The Grocer, i - Market Keport. Tho following aro tho prions paid by our morohitnta this week for farm pro duoo. This list will Ira changod each week as tho prloes cnango: Whoat 471 Oat 50 flour 11.50 per 100 lbs Barley tl.10 " " " Mill Pood 00a " " " Potatoes, II" " " Eggs 10 per do B.ittor 174 nor lb Hatis, dry, 0.14 ID lb Ik lb lb lb Macon iu Hams ....15 Shoulders, 00 Lard, 10 Hogs llvo 044 Bee Suppllea. X havo just rooolvod a full lino of boo supplies suoh us foundation combs, frames, hives and smokers. 11. H. Howard ac Oo. A Bargain for Someone, Sovon hundred acros of land nearly all tillable two and one-hall mlloBoant of I'hoomx depot and sovon miles from Modford. nood orchard as good wheat land as Is In tho vulloy, good aorn land, two good housoB, good outbuildings, five good springs of water, plenty of fire wood. Will sell oattlo, hogs ana horses with farm. Will soil reasonable. O. T. 1'AYNIS. Land For Rent Five aero traot of land in South woBt Medford. Property Is unimproved but I will build housn If desirable renter Is soaurod or I will toll proporty. G, It, Young, at Hotel Nash, until Saturday night, April 28th. - Superior job printing at this onoo.