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OHM) "JAY OOnaiER. FK1DAY MAY. 29 7903 OREGON CITY COURIER Published Erery Friday by OREGON CITY COURIER PUBLISHING CO J. H. Wistovm, Wltoc and Builneu ManajM . L Weitoier, Locil lit:r. (tend In Oregon City Pottoffioo u 2nd-cl8 matter SUBSCRIPTION KATES. Paid In advance, per year 1 W months " Clubbing Hate. Oregon Ctty Couriw and Weekly Oregonlan -2. SgonCltT Courier ana weemy umnw Journal Oregon City Courier and Weekly Examiner.. 2.50 Oregon City Courier and the Cosmopolitan 2.85 Oregon City OourifT and the Commoner .0u JSjr-The date opposite your address on the er denotes Ihe time to which you have paid, fr this notice 1 s marked your subsci iptton U due. OREGON CITY, MAY 29, 1903. HERMANN'S LAND RECORD GET TOGETHER Having boon a radical democrat all of our lives and having been a r,nfe tree silver Democrat in 1896 and 190&, we yet believe that tho preson? is a good time for all democrats to get together on a commmon platform upon -which they can all stand. The following from the Atlanta Constitu tion, which was one of Bryan's stunchest supporters im each of his remark ablo battles for the presidency and against plutocracy ought to be read by every thinking Democrat and honest man in America and we pro duce it in full : The circumstances surrounding its publication are calculated to give to the open letter of Editor Metcalf to Editor Mack, of Buffalo, more gen t1 hearing than it deserves. It is hurled as a sort of pronunoiamento of Mr. Bryan to Mr. uievioanu, wuiun it certainly is not. Even the moiit Annan nl TAP fit' T TT1 11 st me that the onlv possible basis for, its interpret a Hon is found in the fact that Mr Metcalf lives in Nebraska while Mr Mack lives in New York. It would be most unfair and unjust therefore, to hold Mr. Bryan respon gible in any degree for the series of questions whicli Mr. Metcalf hurls at the innocent head of his brother in journalism, the able editor of the Buffalo Times. The latter gentleman seems, for some reason not easy to understand, to hve aroused the sus picions of Editor Metcalf. Bocause he has had the temerity to suggest that the opportunity presents itself for a gennino getting-together of all ele ments of Domocracy, Editor Mack is, evidently, suspected of disloyalty toward the leader and the princi ples to which in two exciting cam paigns ho gave his earnost, hearty irapport. The editor of tho Omaha World Herald unquestionably has the right to ask questions of whomsoever it may please his fancy. No body will deny him that pleasure or privilege' There will, however, bo a pretty general tondoncy on the part of the democrats throughout tho country to wsent the suggestion, whether oponly mado or simply implied, that there are any possible grounds upon whioh nny man can question the loyalty o; Norman E. Mack. Through the stress and strife of two of the most ixciting political campaigns in the history of tho country Mr. Mack was ono of tho staunchost supportors mid most loyal friends thnt Mr. Bryan had, and this, whon the vast majority of tho pooplo of tho state in whioh ho lives wore arrayed against Mm, losing no opportunity to consign to the obloquy of the insano asylum i 'very man who dare stand out against I ho dictum of tho old party loaders it ud support Bryan. If thero is one man in tho Stuto of Now York who luiB demonstrated loyalty to party and to principle and that under circum-1 srances and surroundings calculated to try a man's soul it is Norman E. Mack. Editor Metcalf will doubtless dis claim nny int ent ion of ' impugning tlto motives inspiring Editor Mack's appeal for democratic harmony. Thero '8 nothing of that kind in his words, it is true, but tho spirit of his open letter is unmistakable. The sugges tion that tho Buffalo oditor is in any mmiso tho personal representative of Mr. Cleveland is entirely gratuitous. When Mr. Mack appeals for harmony such as only can be secured by confin- iiig- democrat io attention to tho live hsucs of today instead of harking to issues that have played their part and passed from the stage, his mean ing is to clear to call for questioning. Harmony real harmony cnii never bt) .eoured by reopening of the old 'Wounds. Tbo democratic party has (hssed through ibo lire of about tho liveliest family fight known to tho uiolern political history. Thero can no reuniting of tho elements if one Hide insists in questioning tho good faith of tho ether. The time has .dourly wins for a happy family re ....imtn which bvironos shall U by gones, in which tlw animosities of tho V-ist shall be foittcn, and in which ,ssms which are dead shall give place to issues that aro alivo. The members of tho reunited family muft except one anotheiiu faith, and without questioning calculated to re open the old wounnds. Editor Mack boob this. It this sort T 1. C 1 11 C Tl. t T- 1-N I. .. josepn ocneu ocores Dinger ior rraua, uupnaty ana General Rottenness in His Connection With the Land Office. Sumpter, May 3. To the Editor : No honest citi zen, be he a Republican, Democrat or Socialist, can- con-, scientiously vote for Binger Hermann for congress. I am not a politician, nor speaking for any political party or against, I must say as a citizen, and advise others not to vote for Binger Hermann. Binger Hermann has lost to Oregon many millions of dollars' worth of timber and other lands through wi'lfu neglect of his duties. I know what I am speaking about, because I have brought the timber frauds of Oregon before the depart ment of the Interior, and have forced the present investi gation in these frauds by reluctant officers. I went through the Department of the Interior in Washington, D. C. pre sented evidence of the frauds, made inquiries and made the most obominable discoveries. I wrote to Binger Hermann and received letters from him, and therefore I am not talking through my hat. All the satisfaction I could get from Binger Hermann was that he referred me to silent partners of the frauds; to them he wanted me to hand my complaints. It was a case of sending one from Herod to Pilot. I did not listen to his advice, but went to Wash ington to Secretary Hitchcock and lodged my complaint in due form, the effect of which everybody knows, and no one felt the shock more than Hermann, Had I listened to Hermann timber stealing could not have been stopped I do not want to make the public believe these genera statements without other proofs than my say so. Any one can go to any land office in Oregon, look into the records which are exact copies of what Binger Hermann received and his decisions and behavior favoring apparent frauds amounting to millions of dollars, and that for many years gave Secretary Hitchcock just and pressing reasons to give Herman a free pass to Oregon. This is information to the honest and intelligent voter, and at the same time a challenge to Binger Hermann that he wilfully and knowingly lost to the State of Oregon within his term as Land Commis sioner, more than ten senators and ten congressmen can procure for Oregon in ten years. 1 challenge Binger Hermann if he dares to deny it. I am not bluffing but looking for an issue. I am standing on solid ground. Secretary Hitchcock cannot handle the special timber frauds any better or know any more about them in their details than the postmaster at Portland can personally handle every letter or know their contents. Sec retary Hitchcock was not slow to act when special cases were brought to him personally. Binger Hermann knew exofficio the inside of the cases tainted with fraud, but he never acted. He referred me to the receiver of the local land offices, Hitchcock referred me to special agents 'rom Washington. Such was the difference of action between the Secretary and Hermann; not difference inform only, but in substance ; one was wilfully blind, the other used search lights. Binger Hermann was and is persona non grata in Washington in general, and especially with the present administration. I was there and made it a point to test the wires, and I emphatically say that to elect Binger Hermann to congress is a disgrace to Oregon, a surprise to Washington, an insult to the administration, and a public calamity so far as the interests of Western Oregon are concerned. Binger Hermann, if elected, is not and can not be of any benefit to Oregon, even if he wanted to, and those who will vote for him are wilfully blind to their own interests. It is not my purpose to tell the public for whom to vote. As a Catholic priest 1 have no interest in party politics, J have no political friends, am not looking for political favors, as they are of no value to me; but since 1 have been looking into the timber frauds, having been asked to do so by so many people to save their homesteads against timber specu ators, 1 have found out that Binger Hermann was the main cause of this enormous and irreparable loss to the state of Oregon, of untold miseries to thousands of poor families on honest homesteads, and of placing fabulous wealth into the wrongful pockets of soulless corporations. If elected, he goes to Washington and knowa all about the inside business of everything, as some claim it, Evl dently so, like the. pJ experienced fox knows, the inside of the chicken coop, Voters, be intelligent and conscientious, and do not vote for the man who has so much hurt you and your children; put aside your feelings and follow your sense when you vote. Joseph Schell. Largest Clothiers in the northwest Corner. Tourtb and ttlorrison Streets Men's Summer Apparel Heavyweight garments cannot be discarded too quickly. It's time to don the summer suit. TJiere's only one safe course to follow. Buy your ClotHng uliere the reliability of the fabrics and the cor rectness of the workmanship are backed by the guar antee of a responsible firm. Outing Suits . . . . in single or double breasted and Norfolk styles, made of homespun, serge, flannel and tropical worsted materials and equal to Portland best custom tailor work. $10, $12.50, $14.50, $15, $16.50, $18 I Men's Medium-weight Suits and Topcoats extreme and conservative styles $10 to $35 We're headquarters for straw and Panama hats and furnishings for men--boys, to o '1 b xJ to have the Fair let us have a good one. ; A Fair that will make the breast f every Oregonian swell with pride. In this summer land of prom ise let us give to the World an exhibi tion of our resources that will lot all the world read as they run that Ore gon and the Pacific Northwest is as good country in which to live and die as can be found in all this land. of harmony he advocates, and at we soo it thero is no possible call for questioning his purposes or impugn ing his motives. Senator Hauna is opposed to the groat Stat, of Ohio endorsing Prosi ! clout Roosevelt for ro-electioon at tho Bopublieau convention in that state next year. 'We are suro that Mr. Ilanna will never eonsout to have any one en dorsed except himself. Ilanna is very much Impressed with the fact that Hsinua is tho best man the Rspubieans chu name for president next year. After all has been said and done that could be 6aid and done the Lewis and Clark Fair is a certainty. The referendum will not be put, into effect against tho Fair. There were not enough rotors in Oregon wko dosire to delay the fair te sign peti tions to that effect. It is well Ore gon is a great stato with a great future before her. It would be unbelievable to the people of the East to look this way and find native Oregonians so blind to their own interest as to rut a stop to the greatest show the Pacific Coast has ever had. Now as we are REPULICAN TARIFF REFORM The Des Moines Capital is prophesy ing that the tariff revision sentiment which has manifested itself in the Republican party will soon disappear, and likens it to the free silver senti ment which it alleges, appeared and disappared in the Rebublican party. The Capital is undoubtedly correct in saying that the tariff revision senti ment is not likely to last long in the Republican pnrty.i In fact the tariff reform republicans can be divided into two classes those who really want tariff reform and those who would like tariff reform provided it could lie secured through the Ro puublican party. The former, finding that tariff reform through the Re publican party is impossible, will leave the party in order to get tariff reform: the latter finding that tariff reform through the Repnbicnn party is impossible, will give up tariff re form in order to be in harmony with the party. This is true of the Re publicans who advocate free silver. Those who were in reftl earnest loft the Republican party j thoso who were Republicans first and silver men after wards, gave up free silver. Tho same division can bo Boon among the Re publican opponents of the trust, and the Capital might just as well have mentioned this element as the tariff reform olement. Those who want to destroy the trusts will leave the Re publican party and try to destroy them, while others will quit talking about the trusts as soon as it is evl dent to all, as it now is to many, that the Republican party has nointention of destroying the trusts. A like division will be found among the anti imperialist Republicans. Those who are genuinely attached to the doctrine of solf-Government will leave the Republican party and assist in the nvorthrow of colonialism. Those who are more attached to their party than to our form of government will stick to the party and risk the growth of imperialism in the United States rather than risk injury to their party. The Capital's logic is right as far as it soes. but it does not go far enough. -The Common. With much bluster and whistling to keep up courage, claims are made that the large party majority in the First District assures Mr. Hermann's election on June First. Yet, starting with that alleged assurance, the Her mann managers have been making desperate appeals to speakers through out Oregon to come to the rescue of the man who sets forth that he cannot by any possible combination of circum stances be defeated by Reames. Why this frantis appeal? Why this assembling of a plethoric campaign fund and the expenditure of large sums or money and the giving or time by busy men to add to any as surance already given, if the claims be true? The fact is undeniable that the Her mann managers realize that their can didate is in danger that, starting with a big majority and resting his claims to election upon partisan considera tions, he has been compelled to stir up ins fellow party men with excited appeals for help. The humiliating phase of the situa tion to him is that such help as may be extended to him in a majority of instances comes from Republican poli ticians who really do not desire his election, but who are for him because they expect to be candidates in the fu ture, are compelled to maintain their party regularity by ostensibly support ing Mr. Hermann. This is why, with a normal majority to begin wi;h, Mr. Hermann stares de feat in tho face ; why this apparent support is liomieycombod with defec tion here and there, until practically everywhere in the first district, he finds defection in every one of the 800 or 400 Toting precincts, the normal vote will .probably fail him. publi.an 1 candidate that now pre- vailes. Telephone-Register, Yamhill Co. Six hundred and ninety-five imi- grants were denied admission to the United States along the Canadian border alone, during the month of April. Most of those excluded were afflicted with some form of contag eous dissease. The scarcastio manner in which Postmaster General Payne belittled Ex-Cashier Tulloch's statement, made at Payne's request, should furnish the president with ample proof that the Postmaster General is afflicted with a moral obliquity which thoroughly incapacitates him for conducting a 'genuine investigation. II Binger Herman s reception in this city on Tuesday evening is a fair gauge by which to judge his work in other parts or the district, and we take it that it is from the reports we have read, surely there is some nec essary essential of success lacking. Several elements which are usually considered necessary to success by political managers are lacking in Mr. Hermann's canvass. Not the least of these is the feeling of distrust on the part of a largo number of voters. The average voter cannot be brought to support a man in whose honesty he has no confidence. When it is known that Mr. Hermann was dis missed from the land office at Rose burg in 1873 for violation of the law, and in 1903 he was forced out of the general land office at Washington for cause, it is not hard to understand the general lack of confidence in the Re- Cold Feet. That the Republicans of Clackamas county have "cold feet" could not be better illustrated than by the reception accorded to Hon. Mayor Grant B. Dim- ick and Hon. Gordon E. Hayes, two of the Republican shining lights of Clacka mas county and two of the best cam paign 'speilers"on the Republican side of fence in this part of the valley. Tney were extensively Bdvrtised in the news paper and otherwise to deliver them selves of a big pany speech at the Frog rond school bouse in the Btanora pre cinct on last Saturday evening. Dressed i i their best clothes, ith a spanking learn oi norses they drove out expecting to be met with a brass band and to see the woods afire with Republican enthu siasm and Binger Hermann red fire. When they reached Frog Pond school house they found a little band of faithful Democrats holding a club meeting with en attendance of about 15 members pres ent and participating. The ora tors were invited in out of the wet and went in and warmed themselves by the Democratic fire. By the time the Demo, cratic club adjourned one lone Republi can had shown up, Mr. Kruee, who lives juetoyer the fence from the school house amble in and "shook" bands with tho boys in a cold and clammy sort of way. Mayor D'mick is alwaya rei-ojice'ul and in order to keep his Republican auditor in the crowd he induced Mr. Thomp son, the Democratic committeeman for the precinct to preside at the Republi can meeting which he did and the little band of healihy Democrats and the one lone Republican made up the crowd and the Hermann enthusiasm was conspicu ous by its absence. The Democrats claim and Mr. Dimick and Judge Hayes are not in a position to deny that the Stafford precinct will cast practically a a solid vote for Reames, the Democratic candidate. New Residence. C. A. Williams, of Gladstone, has let the contract for the building of a five rorm cottage in that subdivision of Ore go i Cily to Johnson & Andrews, the c mtractors of this place. It will be a neat and substantial building and will be erected at once.