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rflHE issue in this state this year is not on National questions.
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The question before the people in .Oregon, .irrespective of
party, is how do you stand on the Direct Primary and other laws
wjhich have made of us one of the most progressive states in the
' . Union? Sudden conver-
KEEP THE STA TE GO VERNMEN1 sions are always regarded
1$ THE! HANDS OF ITS FRIENDS witlf suspicion' by "most
; " people, and the oltician
who gets his nomination in a state assembly, and then goes out on
the stump and professes to love the direct primary and everything
connected with it, may honestly be viewed with suspicion, if not
actual distrust. The thought then occurs: Are these men who
have experienced eleventh hour conversions to be trusted in bur
legislature and in the governor's chair?
' The people have secured certain laws in this state which prac
tically have done away with the "old machine" methods in politics,
and if they are' foolish enough to place the power in the'Tiands "of
men who as candidates are known to be thoroughly opposed to
these laws, they will later on bitterly regret their action. ' In this
campaign there is just one thing to do, and that is stand by State
ment No. 1 candidates men who have come out and said where
they stand, as a matter of principle. These are the men who
should be supported by the voters who are loyal to the progressive
principles of the politically rehabilitated Oregon.
The leading candidate in this state, Mr. Bowerman, ever a cog
in the assembly machine, and a political "four-flusher," of much
renown, is making a dirty fight on Senator Bourne, because the
latter, knowing Bowermans insincerity, and his penchant for train
ing yrith the republican "ring" at all times, ' refused!, and very
properly, to vote for him. The issue is not Mr. Bourne. He is
not before the people for office. The issue, as we said in the out
set is whether or not the people are going to turn over, the machin
ery of state government to a lot of assembly disruptionists, and
give them an opportunity to scuttle the primary law, and cripple
and put out of bussiness the referendum and other safeguards to
the riasses of this state. That is the issue, arid Bowerman's puer
ile attack on Senator Bourne and other prominent primary candi
dates, is merely for effect, and to take the eyes of the voter away
from his assembly record.
From private sources of information, it is believed that Bower
man will fail to carry his own county at the November election.
The masses have no confidence in a man who, after refusing to
accept the dictum of the people at the direct primary, proceeds to
be nominated by the "ring" assembly at Portland. He now comes
out when he wants the votes of the people, and says "he is satis
fed with the primary if the people want it, " when he all along
knew that the people wanted it, and put it on the statute books as
a law, which he refused to accept as a nominating factor in politics.
As a bundle of inconsistencies, the "boss of Gilliam county' is
entitled to the palm.
MR., Bowerman, candidate for governor, has made a bad politi
" cal blunder. ' After writing ati'd publishing a good letter,
from which we quote in another place,, he has allowed somebody
either C. N. McArthur or C. B. Moorea to write a letter and has
v published it, which is acrimonious, ill-tempered,
A SENSELESS abusive and not germane to the issues. It is
BLUNDER " "directed at Senator Bourne arid made entirely
personal to him, is in decided bad taste through
out and cannot help but injure Mr. Bowerman" before the voters,
tfie letter is not a natural effusion of Mr. Bowerman, but he has
allowed himsjlfjto be used by bitter and yindictiy? forces that are
not actuated so much by a desire for his success as by a. determin
ation to abuse Bourne. Such a course will no longer appeal effect
ively to the peopleIn fact, it will arouse animousities and empha
size differences that were in a fair way to be avoided this year.
The News, which very much desires the success of Mr. Bowerman,
is exceedingly sorry , to .see this egregious mistake. Burns News.
TOLITICALjarties are no longer the outgrowths of sentiment
A" ' nnH nrinrlnlp. TViav hava rnma nnHor tha nracHrnl financial
political
and high
protection, and operates with its beneficiaries on
PRINCIPLES a profit-sharing basis. It has what is known as
NOT PARTIES a gentlemen's agreement with the trusts. Un
Mer this agreement the party is let in on the
ground floor and the trusts are let in through the back door.
.The struggle is no longer between the so-called democratic and
republican parties; it is between the progressive element in the
whole community and the retrogressive element in the community.
The divisions in the coming elections is likely to ,be not according
to principle a consummation devputly to be wished.
.It the peopl a.retq . accomplish results in their war against the
machmes, yiey njuft abandon the fetish of party loyalty and vote,
nqt,forwhat is "regular," but for what is right ,The machine is
merely ,an. expression of . the evil of partisianship, and if that evil is
to be destroyed he people imust forget that they are democrats
and republicans and remember only that they are citizens and
patriots.
methods of , the day, and are now .stocked and bonded by
leaders. The republican party is the party of -privilege a
business affairs.
Frank Cummins was down from
Westfall on Monday.
J as. Waddell of Baker city, Interest
ed In Vale oil lands, is in-town this
week.
J. R. Weaver cashisr of the United
States National bank is in Portland
this week.'
Pete DuFord made a buisiness trip to
Ontario last Saturday.
E. B. McConnell of Burns, formerly
of this city, was is town the fore part
of the week. He was returning home
from a trip to Boise. Mr. McConnell is
interested with the Coles of this city
in the Silyies irrigation project.
Mrs. J- R. Weaver is visiting with
relatives in Ontario this week while Mr
Weaver is on a business trip to Portland
Miss Nell Loveland la' spending the
week In Pertland.
Miss Carrie Hopkins was the guest
of Miss Blanche Stewart in Boise over
last Sunday. Miss Stewart was form
erly stenographer for the Malheur
Forwarding Co. of this city.
Mrs. Pefferle of Baker City was In
the city last Saturday the guest of her
niece Mrs J. R. Weaver.
T. W. Halliday is in Portland this
week as a witness in the Clark case.
M. W. Scott was in town from Beulah
on last Saturday.
Miss Bohemer and brother of Payette
were Vale visitors last Saturday.
Leonard Cole left for Portland on
Sundav, having been subpoenaed in the
Clark case.
C. A. Logan of Cord
this week.
W. H. Brooke of Ontario was a bus
iness visitor in town on Tuesday.
New Restaurant
HARVEY HOUSE
First-class Cook. Meals at all hours.
Good Meal for 35c
20 Meals for $5.00
was
in town
,P,ROF. Shaw, like all knowledgeable men who go there, sees a
great future for the Malheur Valley. So did the Hopes, the Mal
letts, the Highs, the Browns, the Greens and the Johnsons, and
other pioneer families who settled there a generation ago and have
made yearly demonstrations of their belief and practice-Oregonian.
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BQWERMAN isn't fooling anyone with his professions of
friendship for the primary Jaw says an exchange. In fact it is
making it worse for him. Elected on the assembly ticket he rep
resents assemblyism and the old caucus methods, and the public
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sees . through his game.
THE regulars are after Bourne red hot. That will
friends for Oregon 's senior senator among the people.
make
THAT the politicians are going to support Bowerman is heard
from ringleaders. But the masses in the party are not.
Frank Newman was in from the Har
per ranch onTuesday.
Miss Esther Crossie of New York
City was the guest of her uncle Frank
O'Neil the fore part of the week. Miss
Crossie left on Tuesday for San Farn
sisco. They had not seen each other
since 1868.
Agent Ralph B. Hoyt of the local
Short line office, who has been enjoying
a well earned vacation, returned to Vale
last Sunday. The greater part of his
time was spent in Salt lake City with
his mother.
R. R. Maines who has been substitute
agent of the local railroad office during
the abscense of Agent Hovt for the last
month and a half, left Monday for
Boise.
Councilman Thos. Jones returned on
Monday from an over Sunday trip in
Boise.
Electric
Light
Solid comfort and en
joyment to cheer the
long fall and winter
hours of darkness is
making the use of
Electric Light in every
home a necessity.
Cost of installing and use
of electricity is gladly ex
plained without cost.
Won't You See
Us Today?
Vale Light and
Water Company
Vcsen Building
For the Ambitions
9 mbettfttp
education
by mail 'or those who cannot attend la
praoo. All lOBtrnrtion, mourning nnu
xunlnaliona, i n-r.n. iw
1 1 . i. n- M I.m nr nnlvim .
iy, wonsn't clubs, (ranges, engineers and
tion Is raqnired. Tbls nail eoaisa awaoa
OpportynUy tot you.
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Correapondene Study Department
UnlTeralty of Orcroa
Bacon - - Orogaa
Of Local Interest
i
"FlVERY honest citizen of this great state of Oregon has a per
sonal and financial interest in the welfare and prosperity
of every section of the state" says the Lane and Douglas Anti
Division committee in circulars sent to every newspaper in the
f state the past week. The committee is
OTIS COUNTY IS urging the people of the state to vote
STRONpL Y OPPOSED "NovV on the creation of all new coun
ties because proposed Nesmith county,
to be cut out of Douglas and Lane counties would mean financial
ruin to those counties. "
The same is 'true here in Malheur county in the proposed crea
tion of Otis county. The many people who would be taken in the
territory would be brought to financial ruin on account of heavy
expenses which would be incurred through the building of a court
house,' paying of salaries, etc.
The Otis county measure is fostered only by the selfish inter
ests of DrewBey alone. This little hamlet aspiring to become a
county seat, is attempting to mutilate this great territory for pure
ly selfish motives. All other surrounding towns, within the terri
tory sought to be created as a county, are solidly opposed to the
measure. Brought down to a fine point the issue is Drewsey
against the best interests of all the territory embraced within the
limits of the counties of Malheur, Harney and Grant Malheur
county people will BufTer most as a larger proportion of territory
is to be taken from this county. A few Drewseyites, not more
than four or five, have seen fit to pollute the purity of the initiative
by putting forward their local selfish interests to the votrs of Ore
gon, who have no way of properly understanding the conditions of
the people in the territory to be embraced, or who cannot inform
themselves of the enormity of this attempted crime.
There li only one proper course to follow and that is for the
votera to vote down the creation of all new counties.
IP you believe in the American principle of justice and fair
play, vote an emphatic NO on all county divisions until a law is on
thy books leaving such divisions to settlement by the people of .the
tcrritorV afTected-'not by the state at large,
R. E. Baker of Skull Springs was
registered at the Arlington on Satur
day. Mert Thayer. Manager of the Empire
Lumber Co. returned Monday from a
several days business trip to Boise.
Thos. W. Claggett made a trip to the
Owyhee country the fore part of the
week.
A. F. Hill of Westfall was in town
the fore part of the week.
Chas. E. Besgrove was in from the
oil well on Sunday.
A Drewsy visitor in town last Satur
day was A. S. Beede.
I. M. Addington the Brogan merchant
and J. A Schutte also of that city were
in Vale last Saturday.
A. A. Brown of Ont ario was a Vale
business visitor the fore part of the
week.
J. E. Kelsay of Westfall was trading
in town on Monday.
K. &. Keed and wife or Lawen were
visitors in town on Monday.
D. E. Kerfoot, democratic nominee
for Sheriff, was in town last Sunday
meeting friends and voters.
Miss Ninon Oakes, sister of Ivan
Oakes the civil engineer, arrived in
Vale from The Dalles last Monday.
Miss Oakes may spend the winter with
Mr. and Mrs. Oakes.
E. H. Test of Ontario was in town
Monday, having accompanied Hon.
Sidney Story who spoke tit the court
house that evening.
Brogan people in town last Saturday
were: Miss Iva Lyon, Frank Richter,
E. L. Tschirgi and L. C. Bartlett.
L. C. Bartlett of Brogan spent sev
eral days in Boise the past week.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. R. Hill of Walla
Walla were Vale visitors last Saturday.
Mr.' Hill is the postofTice inspector. '
H. M. Gilliam, the Westfall mer
chant was in town Monday looking after
For Dsn
with tender,
sensitive feet,
the Florsheim
77 "Flexsole" aids
f I walking and nrevenrs tat "tired
feeling." ' A light pliable sole that
bends in the hand yet affords the
protection of
a heavy or- f
dinary sole.
6.00
At the Big Shoe Department
of the Vale Trading Co.
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H. C EASTHAM
ATTRONEY-AT-LAW
Vale - - , Oregon
HAYES & ANDERSON
ATTORNEYS-AT-LA W
Vale Oregon
W. H. Brooke,
V. W. Tomlinson
BROOKE & TOMLINSON
Attorneys-at-Law
Will Practice In All Courts
Money to loan on improved Farms
ONTARIO. OREGON.
S. D. Taylor G. M. Roberta '
Physicians & Surgeons
Vale. Oregon
Dr. C. C. Burrow
DENTIST
Nelsen Bldg. Vale, Oregon
DR. W. W. LOONEY
Physician & Surgeon
Nelsen Bldg.
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Vale,
Oregon
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Civil Engineers
Office: Nelson Bldg.
Vale.
Oregon
E. B. FULTON
ARCHITECT
Office, Nelsen Bldg. - Ye. PfeRn
SPARKS & HAWTHORNE
CIVIL ENGINEERS
General Engineering
ONTARIO. OREGON
JOHN E. JQHNSON & SOjNS
SURVEYORS AND ENGINEERS
We make a specialty of Irrigation pro
jects i V "
ESTIMATES of CONSTRUCTION
AND CONTRACTORS
VALE. OREGON
L. W. BiURTCH
Civil Engineer and Surveyor.
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICA TION
Department of the Interior
U. S. Land Office, at
Vale, Oregon, September 26 1910.
Notice is hereby given that Elbert
C. Palrner, of Vale, Oregon, who, on
March 10, 1909, made Homestead
Entry, Vale, No. 0356, for EH SW,
W SEV4', Section 14, Township 18 S.,
Range 44 E., Willamette Meridian,
has filed notice of intention to make
Final commutation Proof, to establish
claim to the land above described,' be
fore the Register and Receiver of the
United States Land Office, at Vale,
Oregon, on the 11th day of November,
1910. '
Claimant names as witnesses:
P. H. Bass, D. C. Wells. Herbert
Cole and H. B. Pickle, all of Vale,
Oregon.
BRUCE R. KESTER,
Register.
a
Senator A. S.
Of Olympia, Will Speak in Vale at the
E
uth
COURT HOUSE, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 26
Subject
Curse
Prohibition,
to Good Government
Senator Ruth was presiding officer of the Washington Senate last session, and
is a forcible and interesting speaker. Thousands have heard his addresses
during his tour of the state.
Admission
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