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The Sentinel get the delegation from here, We pre for that some other man get the re ublican nomination and we do not be A Woekly Nowtp&pnr With Plant? o f Bnekbona chance o f being picked at the big show at Chicago this week, yet we do Klbert Bed* * nud Elbert Mouth Publishers not believe him to be the menare that Elbert Bede______________________Editor some think him to be. We do not like his stand on the peace treaty. We do A first-class publication entered at C not follow him in his attempt, a some tag« Grove, Ore., ae second-class matter what weak attempt, to imitate the Business O ffice 412 Bast Main foresful, though somewhat erratic, style of the late Theodore Roosevelt, SUBSCRIPTION RATES yet we do not believe that as president One year_____ $2,001 Three months....50o he eould knock the props out from un Six moutke___ 1.001 Single e o p y _ _ _ 6« No subscription luted for leas than 50c der our country in the manner that some think he would. We think an administration by Johnson would com Member of National Editorial Association pare quite favorably with what we Oregon State Editorial Association have been passing through recently. Oregon Newspaper Conference Finding this way, we probably are Lana County Publishers’ Association better qualified than some to discuss the present situation in Oregon, which F R ID A Y. JU NE 4, 1020. lias been forced upon our attention by the fact that Judge Wallace Md'uni ant, one o f the delegates, has an A TRIBU TE A N D A TEAR nouured that he does not intend to When th*‘ editor o f The Sentinel ar support Johnson. He was bitterly op rived iu Cottage Grove only nine years posed to the nomination and still is. ago, one of the first pieces o f news lie was elected delegate by the voters given us was that the Methodist church o f Oregon despite the fact that he was hud been sueeessful in having returned known to be opposed to Johnson. He to it one who hud been (vastor for two believes that laws are for the purpose years. This news was given us by one o f carrying out the wishes o f the peo high iu the councils o f that church pie and that they should not lie frus O Mi but we remember that we were im trated in their wishes hy a fault in election laws, or by a traditional mis pressed by the fact that many outside o f that organization spoke o f the bnl interpretation o f those laws. Judge Mo Cam a at is one o f the most liaiicy of the mind of this man, who seemed worthy o f it bigger field. highly respected citizens o f Oregon. Church members and non church mem He once graced our highest court, re bers congratulated themselves that he tiring because he felt he could not had been returned, t^uite ns a matter afford to hold the position. As a law o f course, it seemed, a friendship grew yer he has few peers. As a scholar and up between the pastor and the editor. student he is equally without superiors. Judge MrOamaut, in his role ns del We were proud o f the friendship. On very few subjeets were our minds iu egate, intends to carry out the wishes | complete harmony and often did the of the people. To the analytical mind 1 pastor and the editor take opposite there seems little doubt that he has | sides o f some quest ion that came up correctly judged the wishes o f the ma for discussion, but this pastor was one jority in Oregon, even though it might who arrogated to himself the right to hnve been safer for his political future, thiuk for himself, and the right he ar if he has any ambition for such a fu rogated to himself he granted to oth ture, to have followed honored custom ers. It seemed to us quite remarkable and to have followed the course fol that as the years rolled by that friend lowed by delegates o f the past who ship grew stronger while minds re carried out the instructions given them mained equally distant on many o f the by a plurality o f the voters o f the subjects of the day. From our side we state, even though the instructions of could not help but admire the analyti that plurality might have been con cal brilliancy o f the mind that eould trary to the wishes o f the majority. argue a point without the lenst show Few would have criticized such action. If, however, his desire is to be of o f raueor because the other did not follow the same line of reasoning, a greatest service to the state, his pres mind so broad that it granted to others ent action is a potent means to the the same privileges that it demanded fulfillment of that desire. Judge MeCamaut may he putting for itself. From that storehouse so rich in himself in the position o f the person Knowledge, so embellished and forti who gives his own life in the attempt lied by close communion with the writ to save the life o f another, but we . ings and logic o f others, those who ioubt it. We believe that he sincerely listened to his sermons or discussed believes that he is doing what the ma public and moral qucstiona in private, jority o f the people want him to do. I f such is the rase, he is to be com enriched their own minds and were plimented upon this display of back better and wiser for the contact. As one proud to have been on the itone, but in any case he has called list of his close friends we can say the attention 'o f the people in a most that this community is better because forceful manner to an imperfection iu Robert Sutcliffe made his home here. ossr Oregon system which cries for cor Many are wiser and better, mentally reetion, for this is not the first time and morally, because they hail the op the state has been put in the ludi portunity to listen to him and associate crous position of instructing delegates with him. Even outside the family for a candidate which the majority many feel a distinct loss, feel that a opposed, and to whom the delegates boml o f love has been severed, that selected were opposed. something has been taken out o f their lives that can not readily or easily be replaced. Why* one who had done so much for the world, why one who apparently had TMagi Ottlars Think sad What We so many years o f usefulness left, why Thmk of ths Thing« Otksrs Husk one who seemed deserving o f the best the world hud to give, should be called from this imperfect to that all perfect The stork is a punctual old bird. ■World above in the meridian o f his ea • • • reer, at a period when it seemed he Many a person has been saved by eould be o f greatest use to his fellow man, is a question beyond mortal to hesitating. explain, unless it be because he was Pin money is the kind you stick fit to go while so many left behind who would be little missed need the someone for. extra years to prepare them to meet A Chautauqua is about the only busi their Creator. talk. We wish to pay a tribute and drop ness that succeeds • on • • a tear to one worthy o f admiration Those who do not enjoy flattery are and affection. those who do not receive it. • • • M cC AM ANT SHOCKS US. When a person starts on the right track, help him to make good. The recent primary election has • • • show n with greater force than before The man who is flattery proof is too some o f the weaknesses of the Oregon independent for good citizenship. . system. These weaknesses have been • * • pointed out before but keen interest The bluffer lives in fear that some in elections is so lacking that it takes one will knock out his underpinning. a rude shock to drive the truth hom^. • • • Here in Oregon, for example, not a When a man has a severe nttaek of delegate elected to the national con rheumatism, he has no other troubles. vention favors the nomination o f Hi • • * ram Johnson for president, vet that Patience ceases to be a virtue when delegation is instructed for him. From you allow others to impose upon you. the fact that those known to be * # • strongly opposed to the nomination of Lives there a man who will take Johnson received the highest votes for oath that he has never acted a hyp delegates, it is not a great stretch of ocrite? the imagination to presume that a ma * * * jority o f those voting thus expressed No man who would make the most their wish that Johnson be not nom of an opportunity waits for the op inated, although their vote o f disap portunity. know jnzt whnt he mi aim, only to do proval o f Johnson was so split as to • * • give Johnson a plurality and the right There are too many people who think the opposite o f whnt he wishes you to? to claim, under the Oregon law, that nothing is wrong as long as they don’t • • • the delegation from this state is his get caught. What n tremendous mortality rate and that the people o f this state have • * • we would have if every young man and instructed the delegation for him. Doesn’t it make you feel likp kick young woman died from having to give The Hentincl did not support John ing yourself when n man winks at you up the young man or young woman son. It wished to see some other man mysteriously and you try to appear to they couldn’t live without,__________ Ten miles used to be a long wat| H A T a difference in these motor-car days, when every point in the county is hardly more than “ just around the comer.” W \ People’s ideas are chang ing, too. Th ey’re beginning to fig ure out how m uch it is cost- ing them to keep a car. And the man who is doing the greatest amount of figuring is the man with the m oderate- p ric e car. HINGS WE THINK n There still seems to be a notion in some quarters that any tire is good enough for a small car. T h a t’s n o t what the man w ho owns i t thinks. In recommending and sell ing U. S. Tires we are trying to see his side of the propo sition— finding out what he wants in a tire and giving him that. Ill Large or small, U. 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