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Published Weekly at Independence, Folk County
Oregon, cn Iriday.
Entered as Second Class Matter August 1,1912 at the Post Office at Inde
pendence, Polk County, Oregon, Under the Act of March 3, 1879.
CLYDE T. ECKER, Editor
NINA B. ECKER, Associate
A5A Ii. RUB' SSQli JjI.
nocrutb C d'dnte For
COUNTT CLEHK OF POLK COUNTY
Your subpart for My re-election to
secorsdlerm will be kppreelMte.l.
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Independence, Oregon, Friday, October 16, 1914
VViiero ia Judge Holmes?
An tli-ciiuii every U-n years would
h . w I i u lent himiiP'SH.
be better. CalamiU
Ji .1 Meik i hImjuI as high now as it was when th tow
jumped over the moon.
.Senator Chamberlain is home. The senator is wise.
Me runs a great deal better when he is hero.
E. M. &M1TII
Republican NomlnrB For
COUNTY CLKHK, POLK COUNTY.
Vote for efficiency and economy,
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By (lie way Salem is heintf kicked around in this cam
lin, one would imagine it was locaied in Kansas.
berlain man am'r.ig them. There may
le two cr i'.i' i: others, but I do not
know them.
Aa regards myself there can be no
better man for Senator than Mr.
Booth. I have known blm for over
30 years with Increasing respect and
admiration for him.
N. E. BRITT,
Past Post Commander of Shlloh
Post No. 77. Department of Oregon,
O. A. R.
Students Grateful to Booth.
Student loan funds, established to
assist needy students through college,
have long had the attention of R. A.
Booth, Republican candidate for Sen
ator. Having had a hard struggle to
earn his own education. Booth has en
deavored to make the path a little
more smooth for young men and w
en who are in the same position.
Paid Advertisement by the Republican
Moo res, Chairman, Portland, Oregon.
Dead through this LETTER and
sec if ft is not fair than THINK
OUT YOUR OWN OPINION
By JOHN 0. TUHHER, tttsntf? zrA K$omitom, Saiaffl, On
Ssjt.21
SNAPSHOTS AT
NOTABLE PERSONS
General Smith-Dorrien, Noted
British Commander.
All Ana B. Robinson lias to do is to continue to circulate
anions the ueonle and make himself nirreeable. The voters
will do the rest.
No, Beatrice, Joe Cannon will not come to Oregon and
take the stump for his old pal, Willis ilawley. Joe has
all the trouble he wants at home.
There are peveral candidates in Polk county who will
lave to load the newspapers with advertising if they ex
ect to get anywhere and then that won't be very far.
FRED J. KOLMAN
Republican Nominee for
TBEASUkEK OF, I oLK COUNTY.
A full day's work and faithful survice,
Your vole is boliciU'd.
(I'uid Advert iemei,t
One, Mrs. Jessie Hardy Stubbs, who came to Oregon to
(ell our women how to vote, h being generally repudiated
Jessie will, however, stay with uh until after election us
her pay check does not stop until then.
C. R. CAN FIELD
Kil'UliLlCAN NOi 1NLK FOE
COUNTY SURVEYOR
Eollclls your vole on a platform of
Efficiency, Kcoimuiy and Science.
If ducted all latrons will receive
fr mi t atitiituiii and tht ollire will be
open during buninoes bours as ex
pec tud.
(1'aul ndvvi tisoment)
All houth Oregon, regardless of polities, is backing Fred
Ilollister because he is a live wire and a booster. The
Willamette Valley should do likewise and profit thereby.
No political or sentimental reasons should prevent the dis
carding of a dead one.
Ihe balem Statesman is mutiny; in behalf of our do-
nothing congressman, and in its desperation is not particu
lar what it says. If Mr. Hawley can persuade three other
newspapers in the district to do as the Statesman is doing,
he will have four newspapers enthusiastically supporting
hi in.
CHAMBERLAIN NOT
PRIMARY FRIEND
C. E. S. Wood Reviews Sena
tor's Record Recalls Re
fusal to Help Bryan.
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KrjiubUcnn NuMum J
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SHERIFF
OFPoLK COUNTY
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MONITOR $1.50
BEST BUY
With a long momni-y, Colonel C. K
8. Wood has tn'.-n tpilliiR the voters
In Portland the history of Of-orgo K.
Chitnihi'rliilu ri'minlini populnr lawa
and li-sm-s. CdUiih'I W'onit has heeti
unsparing of Cliainlicrlai !i's pcilitical
record and ninhl after ni,;hl lie lias
bivu diH'lai'iiiB t'liuMilx-i'liln ilmit)!.'
doaltir, who wiihIh to ar.r.v with i . u-
j plo on both hid.'M of cvor ipn : mei
j and ho ImliU r.o opinion r t'.ian
.that of porpetualiug t'lwnih. i lulu in
I oifice.
j la l!)(i. Wood and T. T Oocr wore
' rnndidates for ihe popular oi for
! fulled Stalfi Senator In that eiiin
paimi Win. 1 .i:1 he wanted to make
Mil aettve fie hi, tim that fliambei'hi'.n,
fe.'i'iiiK W ee. I i n ikIk Jeopardiie t'ham
berlain's li-aitoes. for eloetion us Uov
einor, inn. led that Wood remain
quui. As lieer rm-iinl ihe popular
vote. Wood wrote the iemoera!i
iiirmhers i-f ih l.cti.slainro itisklng
them to Kiipiort tieer for Senator.
When these I Vmoer.v.s asked 1'hain
hi 1 1 en for adviee he tM them to
!'' ive the Kepnh'.ieana f;( lit it out
WMhont 1'emi.i rutie help. This tttti
tude uu th,. t,.,,t ,,f fluimberlaiti, an-
rriH oienei w oo.l. was In itireet
fouflli t Willi ihe spirit und priuciple j
of the primary.
Pemocrat in l'JOH, Chamberlain posed
j as a lion partisan, declares Colonel
1 Wood, knowing that only with Repub
lican voles lie could be elected. At
that time Koosevolt was Immensely
popular In Oregon and Chamberlain
announced that he was a Roosevelt
Democrat. In lloeeniber, 1908, Roose
velt met Chamherluln In the Kast and
greeted III in as Senator -to-bo. When
Roosevelt bolted the Republican ticket
and much of his popularity waued,
Chamberlain attacked Roosevelt, al
though the latter, when President, had
Hone ns far as he could to bring about
CliHmberlaiu'a election by a Republic
an I.OKlalaturo.
in ihe ceinimiKu of lio!, eontiiiues
Colonel Wood. Chamberlain refused to
attend (he ltryan rally In Portland
and again nhsented himself from
I nn land when Judge Alton H. Parker
ciiine to upeitk for ltryan. Chamber
Iain was afraid that hia plea of noil-parth-aiiidiip
would not hold sood if he
was present at these Democratic rul
Iii'm lor 1 1 1- an.
Colonel Wood has stigmatised
C1-, imh -rt:i 111 as selfish, as B man
wli. se sole desire is to look lifter him
hi If. lie calls aiteirtion to the Cham
beilaiii cards displayed in this cam
p.i:j:u whereon there is uo hint of any
party designation.
Somewhat similar talks are being
nude by T. T. tleor. ex Governor, w ho
Is also renewing the political changes
which I'hainlierlain has assumed In
his office seeking career. Colonel
Wood is interested In defeating Cham
berlaln beeause Wood does not con
sider Chamberlain a Democrat. Oeer
says Ch:imterlain is not a Republican,
but Ib "a man of pretense."
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Photo by American Press Association.
When General Sir Horace Lockwood
Smith Dorrlen was praised by Sir John
French as the savior of the left wing
of the allied armies in France It was
not tbe first time that bis worth as a
soldier had been recognized. In fact,
it is quite an old story with Smlth
OorricD. lie has been commended for
meritorious conduct In many cam
paigns. In the present war General Smith
Dorrien commands one of the army
corps sent by England to France to
assist In repelling the German Inva
sion. He la one of the favorite and
most trusted lieutenants of Lord
Kitchener, under whom be has served
for many years. Ue was educated at
Harrow and entered the military serv
ice lu 1870 at the age of 18. During
tils career be has received many med
als niu) In 1900 was miide major gen
ial and knlbt commander of the
It.-ith He was promoted to lieutenant
nerai in I'.MXl and general In 1912.
lien he wns created grand com
pandor of tbe Hath.
A Gtrman Field Marshal.
Field Marshal Kolinar von der
'!:. whit was appointed military
"lei nni .it Die i oniiiered portions of
o!iJ nil after the invasion of that ua
i I i the Uei inaii troops. Is oue of
; ie, i stniiegistK of the kaiser's
i.oni s-i eniv oiif years ago, he
it in Cn- war itli Austria In lStHi.
1. 1 ihe l-'ran.-o Prussian war he
.. i-.eiiera! staff of the Bee
tle made a reputation as
et while tie was the coin-tin-
l-'irst army corps on the
h-inuli-l between YXKI and
FOR a statement concerning the effect of the dry
policy on Salem, and in answer to the article
by K. B. Lockhart, published in the Saloin
Statesman August 23, 1914, and in the New
Republic under date of September 11, 1914, I sum
mit tho following:
December 1, 1913, Salem closed her fifteen 63
loona, three restaurants, two wholesale houses and
withdrew liquor permits from eight drug stores, thus
denying herself the annual revenue of 15,400. The
saloons employed sixty-five men, the restaurants
twenty-five. Together they had a payroll of $5,700
Dec month. Practically all those who conducted
saloons an 1 those employed by the saloons and res
taurants h .ve left town. All the building3 occupied
a year ago by saloons are vacant, except six that
hv ben occimied br tenants who left another
:,uilHnr vanant. moving onlv to better their location
ftpverni nf tho bpst hiiildlncs In town have their
windows b isrded ud to serve as billboards. There
are now n ore than five hundred modern dwellings
for rant in Salem.
Rental l.ituma have ereatlv depreciated. Store
wrnnortv n i Statn Street, which for five years had
rented for H85 Der month, was re-lcased within four
months after the city went "dry" for two years at
the rate of $110 per month. This Is but a fair sample
of the redt ction all through the business section ou
property t) at waa up for re-leasing or renting since
the city went "dry."
BUSINESS UNBEARABLE.
Everr merchant In town, except one a radical
PmhC. has eomDlalned of the poor business done
this year, end In order to keep going have dispensed
with all their surplus help, thus throwing a good
many clerks out of their regular monthly stipend.
Many of these have now left Salem, seeking work
some place else. Three shoe stores have been closed,
two by the sheriff and one voluntarily. One of the
largest dry goods stores has been sued for the first
time in Its twenty years' existence. Salem has been
the closing of fourteen places of business, other than
saloons, since the first of January, 1914. Does this
look like big improvement?
Now I will show you how Mr. Lockhart fixed up
his prohibition article. The $20,000 public market
building had the roof on before the town went dry.
The only work that has been done on the building
this year was the lathing of the first story and the
plastering of one room, which is now occupied by
four stalls, constituting the public market. The
$40,000 insurance block is being built by Geo. F.
Rodgers under a permit which gives the estimated
valuation at $30,000, and for which the contract was
less for less than $13,000.
BUILDING DURING DRY PERIOD.
Compare these facts with Mr. Lockhart's statement:
For the last wet year the building permits from
January to August, inclusive, totaled $388,925, and
from the first of November, 1913, to the twentieth
day of September, 1914, $268,160. I start with
November first in order to show some real prohibi
tion facts. During the campaign of 1913 J. G. Vo
get, a howling prohibitionist, published a statement
that if the town went dry he would build sixteen
new houses. So immediately after the election in
November, 1913, he procured from the City Recorder
sixteen permits, and under those sixteen permits he
began the construction of nine houses of three and
four rooms each. Only two were completed far
enough to receive the windows and doors, and they
have never been finished. No work of any kind has
been done on these frames since last December.
I met Mr. Lockhart last Saturday night in Mr.
Bechtel's real estate office, whom he was trying to
induce to give him an exaggerated statement as to
busine-M in real estate, ana i a.meu una n u uu
deliberately lied about the building permits, and be
said the hoy who had given him the figures had made
a Mistake and in his Stateman Sunday morning he
makes a statement tlTat the figures of $415,085 In
his article published in the Statesman August 23
should have been $219,160. He found his mistake
mighty quick alter he knew I had a check on the
building permits.
CITY IMPROVEMTCXTS STOPrED.
The $9,000 fire engine was purchased early In
1913, after the money had been appropriated by the
City Council in 1912. The Capital Journal, the even
inK nnner. chanced its location and installed a new
press, the Statesman is in the same old quarters,
and the only new things it has are a telegraph oper
ator and some type metal. One new church, costing
$500, has been built since the town went dry. The
Capital Business College is at the old stand, while
Willamette University is still looking forward to
"the greatest year in her history." Let it be noted
that tbe enrollment at the grammar schools opening
day 1913 was 1510, and for the same day this year
14t;y. It would teem that closing the door of the
saloons meant closing the door of the schoolB.
CHKRRV Fill! AM) WHO MADE IT.
During the campaign of 1913 a statement was
published, purporting to come from the Ministerial
Association, to the effect that if the people would
voto dry they would establish a coffee club for those
who could not afford to belong to the Illihee, Elks
or Moose, and that the churches would finance th)
Cherry Fair to the extent of the usual support from
the saloons. The Board of Trade, which had al
ways conducted the Cherry Fair, being unable to ob
tain any aid front the Ministerial Association, re
fused to go ou with the Fair. The Cherrians, an organ
ization of 100 (no prohibitionists), rather than see
a year pass without a Cherry Fair, became the spon
sors. Each member gave a week of his time and.
$5 in money in order to have a Fair. The attend
ance was about one-half what it was In 1913. Not
a concession took in enough to pay expenses. You
can take it from one who knows, the Cherrians will
never again finance a Cherry Fair.
di;cki:asi:i hank deposits.
The amount of deposits in Salem banks shows a
decrease of $309,942.69 since the town went ary,
and this in spite of the fact that $485,000 receive!
for bonds sold in Boston was on deposit in the
banks in January, 1914, statement. This money
was distributed to Salem people and left here. It
was used to pay a refund on sewer assessments and
to cover warrants outstanding.
NO WAGES TO GO.
A leading schoolman told me that he did not know
how the children would be equipped this year, but
that he expected many of them would have to be
aided with books, owing to the fact that so many
parents have been unable to secure work this sum
mer. Tho contractor mentioned by Mr. Lockhart I
have been unable to find. A prominent but why
continue? Tho list could be extended indefinitely.
I have shown enough to those who will see. Clar
ence True Wilson is reported to have said in a pro
hibition speech that Salem last year had Bixteen po
licemen and this year has only one. Common sense
would tell anyone this statement was false. Just
remember that it is the hypocrite, "the wolf in
sheep's clothing," that always gets your goat.
I regret very much the necessity of making public
to the world the business condition of Salem, be
cause I expect to live here for several years to comd,
but with the hope that others may be saved I cast
the city's future a Bacrifice upon the altar of th
State of Oregon.
Aro you going to voto io kill tho Hop Industry, to
bring about thoso conditions?
Don't you fool that timos aro hard enough now?
HOP GROWERS AND
DEALERS ASSOCIATION OF OREGON
(PAID ADVERTISKMKNT.
Old Soldin Admire Booth.
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1'iein i noon. I nnm-j tinoth
vrruiui rnmseir wroto to A. O Still-
m.-i-i, of I'mt'ilia. reei.mmeii.Hns that
the llfnu-eniis hold an nsfemhlv lo
ni.iko tii.tniiiHtiona Later heu' tho
Keptlblloau-t liei.l nil assembly thy
Were j.v.i;.-! tv thP Ch.iinbcrbiii
n M-aper ami ihiirged with try ,:;.:
to Uiideiiiune the direct pum.iry and
rotiiru to lu.u-hir.e met! od.
In Ir.s campaigns for Ooveruor.
Ohamb. rlaln. Wood argued that
th Lie.. -,t!.l Coventor should
be of opposite poltlhal partle Cham
berlain i oa aru. 6 that Cotsgrvsii
tiiniiil be it ii,,. !-.,,u,i political
Pl.xi. tl the i'ti-sd.-tl
Ui-u uotien;i,.i tor Meuuuir
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Republican nominee for United
States Senator, has received th fol
low lug communication :
Newberg. Sept. 14. 1914.
I am one of many members of Shi
loh Post No 77. ii. A. R.. who received
a loner commending Hon. George
Chamberlain aa a friend of old sol
diers Haw beard a number of th
bov express themselves in regard to
tb letter as a hug Joke. It will b
Some lime before old soldiers look to
Mississippi Democrats as special
friends
To mo the tetter Is sonrct of both
pleasure and indignation; pleasure
that It Is an assarwnce the fl the
d of sverv vote tho can ooaalblv t
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BAHON KOLViR VON DER OOLT2.
UH17. During tnls period he perfected
a defensive scheme nt Koenigsberg.
Enst Prussia.
In 1SS3 Baro i von der (loltz went
to Turkey to r habilitate the nrniy of
Abdul llanild. He remained there
tw elve years mi I brought order out of
confusion In spi e of many ililllettlties
Tbe army, howi ver. was not n success
In the Balkan i nr As a writer Von
(let Jolts has distlimulshed hl-n'elf.
II f- Mist impel .tut work nun "Leon
ii.-nil.i tla mid Ills Armies." published
III !7T Ue Mho wrute "A Nation In
Al ius.'' ivhlrb bis been tmnsluted Into
w vera I languages.
FRED HOLLISTER FOR CONGRESS
Travels at Roots.
Hoots travel unitizing- distances In
earrb of their requirements. A tim
Ih-i inert-haul, excavating for a sewer
In England, found an elm root one and
quarter Inches III diameter and sUty
three feet luug. running through s bed
ot sawdust from the tree to the uear
eel wHter
The aggregate length of root thrown
out by some plants is almost Incredl
Ide A cucumber will, within Its short
lite of alHiot hnlf a year, throw out
troin ten to fifteen miles of roots
Clover roots will go straight down to
a depth of sit to nlue feet In search
ot moisture, and coltsfoot, one of the
most powerful and fHTslsteut of weeds,
sends Its suckers down to an even
prvater depth. -London Stray Stories
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Lost th Point.
The Teacher Now, children, listen
to this Thomas Campbell, the fa
mous poet, once walked six miles to a
priutlug otfli-e to have a comma In
one of his itoeon clninged to a semi
colon Why did be take all that trou
ble? Bright Boy -'Cause be didn't have
oo tellyphone. Cleveland Plain Dealer
Publicity.
"IPs bad thing to talk about your
neighbors " '
" That right" replied the man who ,
la all bunlness "Pobliclty Is worth
on.ethlng these days. I shouldn't t
tniuk or talking about anybody eicvpt I
at adTertudug rataa," - W ashuigtun
htau.
The congressional fight in the First District is not one on purely politics 1
lines. Men and women of all parties have combined to elect Fred Hollister be
cause Western Orepon fhould nave a representative in Congress who can "do
something and Hollister "fills the bill." Eight years of the "service"
Hawley has rendered is enough. It is certainly tirre for a change.
tFaid Advertisement by W. J. Ri,t)
Mr.