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i OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1904 ' OREGON CITY COURIER. Published Kvsry Friday by O,iG0H CITY COURIER PUBLISHING CO. SHIRLEY BUCK, Local Editor and Manager. H. L. McCANN, EJilor. ftiSeredln Oregon Qty Puntotnceiia 2nd-claas matter SrjBSCKll'TION BATiit faldiuadvance.peryiifcr Bixmoutlis 1 60 75 Clubbing Iitifea Oregon City Courier and Weekly Oregoman .$2.00 Oregon City Courier and Weekiy Courier Journal - 2.00 Oreggn City Courier and Weekly Examiner.. 2.50 Oregon City Courier and the Commoner 2.00 Oregon City Courlor and Twice..a.Week Journal 2 25 Oreeon City Cornier and Weekly Journul ... 2.00 The date opposite your address on the paper donotesthe tlraetowhlctiyouhaTepald. If this noticeig marked yonr subscription i due. Democratic Nomine8. Supreme Judue Toomas O'Day. Congressman 2nd District Robert M. Veatch. Dany and Food Commissioue' S. M. Douglass. Presidential Electors John A. Jef fry, T. H. Crawford, W. B. Diller, J. H. Smith. For Joint Rnpresentative for Clacka. mas and Multnomah J. E. Hedges. For Representatives 0 . W. Evans, S. Hutchinson, W. W. Jesse. For Sheriff Chas Ely. In Clerk Millard OiUall. For Treasurer N. F. Nelson, FoAsRessor T. R. A. Sellwood. Recorder II. W. Lang. For Supt. of Schools H. G. Stark weather. For Commissioner J. II. Kitching. For Surveyor A. MS Kirchem. order. What la blowing up your own ship over the enemy's mine or sinking two hundred Japs beside Cupid's work in Chicago where a ladv eigi teen years of age adopted a young man, an orohan, twenty years of age, -n order that she might give him a guardian's consent to marry herself. A Rev. Mr. Nye, perhaps reflecting on the jokes of the laie Biil Nye, Re cently undeitookto pass a few on Free Masonry in Ohio. He opened up the first act by reading what he claimed was the first three obligations of Ma sonry. The juke was so huge that sev eral men not only grasped the joke but also the joker, who had great difficulty iu persuading them to desist. Perhaps he felt that he had made a mistake and read a part of the initiatory ceremony instead of the obligations and that bia reading was being exemplified. In answer to the Coukibr's inquiry in regard to the apportionment of school lands, the County Superintendent in" a published lttter says: "Inasmuch as ?ty reply was ignored by the Courier, ec." As no reply to the inquiry has been received by the Coukikk from Mr. Zinser or from anyone else, it is hard to under stand how it could have been "ignored." We state positively that we have re ceived no communication, either oral of written, in answer to our quest'on ; and any statement implying the contrary is absolutely ialse. John Mrreiiiii.t, tays ttiat "Iu every strike, both sides got lickud." And the public? A mkxican smuggler was shot times while trying to swim the 0;r,,'i' ;rrt week, The way of tranS-Greaser is haid five Rio tiie It may be just as well for Judge I'ai ker to Bay nothing most of the time as it would be for him to say the ' identi cally same thing all the time. ..Abraham Lincoln seems to have been very much opposed ("criminal aggres sion, " for he said "Those who deny free dom to others deserva it not for them selves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it. All honor to Jefferson the man who in the concrete pressure of the strmrgle for national independence by a single people had the coolness, fore' cast, and sagacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document an ab stract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so to embalm it there that today and in all criming days bhall he a rebuke ami mumbling block to the various harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression." as readily as another but as the Repub lican machine of this county has had the means ' and the desire to employ them, thy are one and all in its service. A week before election they begin to. bustle around like a new England whaler getting ready for bis season's cruise. A good horse and buggy eupplant walk, ing, good cigars supplant the corn cob and even a new suit sometimes takes the place of a duck coat and overalls. The erstwhile banger-on suddenly becomes a man of influence and means. He drives over into the canyon and sounds Mr. blank to ascertain "where he is at." If Mr. Blank is not very enthusiastic about attending the polls and argues that he does not care to lose a day, why, Ihis big hearted interviewer will eeaA a man to assist for a day. If Blank shows a slight disposition to go and vote as he pleases, the interviewer changes his tac tics and tells him that the election id a quiet one and "it makes no difference nohow" and that his judgment about Btavina at home is sound. And so it goes until the day of election when thete corrupters of g od citizenship make the efforts of their liv.s. Many and earnest are the little side talks with young inexperienced voteis, newcomers who do not understand conditions, irresponsi- bles who are susceptible to the aroma of a good cigar. Nobody has laid himself directly liable. Quite a number have done nothing intsntionallywrong, and yet the voters have done that which it was not their intention to do. The plan of operation varies somewhat, but the aim" and results are the same. Not every Republican candidate is nec essarily a party to this transaction but nevertheless be is a part of the crowd that countenances it. There is every reason to believe that these hirelings will be out again this years as in the past. Every observing citizen knows who they are and they should be pointed out to all who do not know them and their woik. S Eoie teiea Farms ami Un I For Sale at Low Figures and on Easy Terms Write for Full List Mb. James II. U.uti'iiao, of the De partment of Commeice, says he has enough evidence to enable him to des troy the beef trust as soon as President Roosevelt is e'eeted. Why not before? Kiisi'o ndi.no to General iYood'a recom meudatiou that soldiers be able to swim, General Funsion declares that it is not necescary ; it i only necessary for them to nave toe reputation of being able to. It is understood that Senator Smoot has received warning that if he wants to read his title clear next winter he had better be mighty careful and not let Utah or Idaho go Democratic in November. Twhi.vk hundred dullard a year is That a Republican Clerk and Sheriff cost the county in excess of the amount paid to a Democratic Clerk aud Sheriff. Can the tax p:yers of this county afford such a luxur ? N Dank Hknukhson has posted back to Iowa with his crutches, reputation and rheumatism. His ambition for metro politan method? has vanished. He Bays that all the time he was in New York, like Josh Whitcomb, he kept asking, "Where is the fire V , Chairman Cowukri), of the Demo crats Congressional Committee, gives notice that the Democratsexpcct to carry New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, In diana ati'1 Illinois besides those states which Mr. Roosevelt concedes. All of them are warming up. lif Sheriff Shaver is really in earnest in his protestations of a desire to con duct his office economically, why did he not give personal oecurity on his special bo id as tax collector ,aa '.he law permits, instead of putting the county to an ex penro of ;ui .25 in bonding him in a guaranty cnmpnnv? In his speech before the New York Chamber of Commerce last week Secre tary Tnlt declared, as reported by that thick-nnd-thiu administration organ, the Tribune, that Agnlnuldo and his forces were our allies during the contest with Spain. Let's toe; isn't that one of those truths which wore rcccntl I'liissilU'd as "anti-imperialist lies"? Perhaps Sec retary Taft will not toll 08 how we cam? to tire upon our allie? Tu n increlsini5 number of clover fields to be seen lit Plackai jkw county, is good evidence that thd funnel intend to restore the vitality ol woruout soils, to prevent newer soils from retrograding and to supply their cows with good, wholesome food. There g probitbly no county in the atnta where farmer have changed ihelr methods and met iiew conditions so rapidly as In this county. Two weeks ago the Courier made the statement that the County Clerk had failed in his last semi-annual report to set forth the amount if outstanding and unpaid county warrants, as required by law. The truth of this statement has beeu denied in some quarters; but we re-assert it, and call your attention to the provisions of the law as found in Bellinger and Cotton's Code, Sec. 2(339 and 204.3. The hrst section reads as follows: , "It shall be the duty of the County Olerk of each county, on the first day of April and the rirat dny of October ol each year, to publish in one issue of a weekly paper having general circulation in the county, a report showing correctly the number and amount of claims al lowed by the county court, and on what accounts, the amount of warrants drawn and the amount of outstanding warrants unpaid." Sections 2040 aud 2611 provide for the publication of the reports of the Sheriff and the Treasurer. Section 2042 reads as follows: "The Clerk shall prepare and attach to said reports a summary which shall Bh'iw, in all respects, the exact financial condition of his county at said date." The report required by Section 2039 is in reality the "Clerk's Report," is sign ed and certified by that officer and should contain, according to the law as qu ted above, a statement of the amount ol unpaid warrants. Heietofore such statemont has been made; but the pres ent Clerk choones to transfer it from his certified report to the uncertified sum mary. In doing so, he has certainly failed to make bis reports according to law. No doubt this has occurred through carelessness as a wilful neglect to make statements, subjects the offender to a fine'. it una oeen claimed that, so long as the statement of unpaid warrants appears somewhere in the Clerk's reports, It is immaterial whether it is in his own re port, or in ins summaiy ot the various reports, but it is of the utmost impor tance that it be in its proper place. First, the law states specifically that it shall be iu the Clerk sown report; sec ond, the people want a certified state ment of the county's indebtedness, and under the present reports, that Is not given. Can it be that the clerk is unwil ling to certify to the statement he has made? If so, the county court should order htm to do so immediately. Tiieuk is certaiuly good reason to bo- lieve that Cupid is not a Russian, elso his strategy cou'j not be o! ucl h'h There is a class of professional people in this county w hose business is rushing only once in two years. During their va- cation they may be seen on the streets of Oregon City ami on the nail kegs ol the country stores, telling exploit! of themselves that would retiie Arabian Nights heroes to the outer gates. They are, according to their own testimony, inclose friendship with the entire Ore gon delegation in Congress, and that said delegation is ready, anxious, aye, yearning to have them accept positions in the diplomatic corps and iu the cabi net. Quite different is the real estimate to be placed on this class, who are shift lo.'s grafters with absolutely no consist ency or convictions on anything. As a k.i'.'a"0' t'l-itl'T V.'! sTTe one part- We feel that we must again suggest to the voters of this county the import ance of the election of our joint repre sentative. Much is eaid by our county officials of the increased state demands as the cause for our larger taxe-. Heaven knows they are large to a limit, second only to that of the taxes in Rushia where, we are informed, more than fifty per cent of the products of the farm aud la boring classes are required to- meet the outrageous demands of the government We question the absolute truth and va lidity of the argument, as we suspcet much of the cause of the incrtafe lie in the court house. But ' Ssumingfor the present that the statement is true logically, we can insist that there should be a change in the legislative makeup. Mr. Hedges has, for the past ten years, been demonstrating that he is careful, conservative, aud wa.clilul for the interests of those whose interests are in his bands. With him in the legislature we may expect to have a constant watch kept on extravagant legislation and a champion of careful and reasonable laws. The opponent of Mr. Hedges is Mr. George Holcomb, of Multnomah county, who, in 1001, was in the legislature ge a Democrat, and who has since that time flopped to the Republican party and in duced the representatives of that party in convention to place him upon their ticket for the same office held by him then. He must be a shrewd politician, but we cannot believe that either Demo, ciats or Republicans can place much confidence in him under tb circum stances. He was one of the mr-st ar dent and strenuous advocates in tu is state of the Kansas City platform, yet, in this limited time he has allied him self with the majority party in Multno mah county, and denied the rightfulness of his position of only thiee years ago and is seeking office as a candidate of the party farthest removed from the principles he then advocated. He has become a modern politician, and his change must have been with a design to become a regular member of the opposi tion for the sake of office and political advancement. Mark the name and vote for J. E. Hedges. Of no less importance is the election of the other members of the legislative ticket, C. W. Evans, S. Hutchinson and W. W. Jesse. The contention of the Republicans, alluded to above, that our increased taxation is due to legislative action, is an intimation that the Repub lican leaden in county affairs intend to give the legislative ticket the cold shoulder. Indeed, there is good reason for doing so. Reckless appropriation of public funds affects every individual in the state. The Clackamas county mem bra 61 the last legislature were pood men, considered 48 men and neighbors, but hai any one heard of any vigorous and effective protest on their part against making the appropriations that have so greatly increased our burden of taxation ?yVith the Democrats united against the Republican legislative ticket, aud with the county officers laying the blame for our heavy taxes on the shoulders of the legislature, there Is no reason why Clackamas county should not be represented in the next legisla ture by a solitl Democratic delegation. 40 Acres in Julia Ann Lewis Claim, 2 miles from Oregon City, all good, level land, at $50 per acre.- 128 Acres, level, living water, on Molalla, 60 acres in cultivation, rich soil, on main road, $40 per acre. 344 Acres on O. W. P. & Ry. line, 160 acres in 4 1 cultivation, small house, large barn, orchard, living springs, two million feet tim ber, $0 per acre. 100 Acres, level, 60 in cultivation, good build ings, 1 miles from terminus of O. W. P. & Ry. line, at Springwater, 40 per acre. 82 1-2 Acres in famous Logan country, 60 1 acresJn A 1 cultivation, new frame dwelling j , cost $1500, large barn, living water, $50 per ! acre. ! 160-Acre Stock Ranch in Sec. 17, T. 4 S., ! R. 5 E., two acres cultivated, small house and barn, two million feet fir and cedar, land mostly good, range immense, $5 per acre. I 225 Acres at Logan, 100 acres in cultivation, 50 more nearly ready to break, house, barn, fruit, good neighborhood, $30 per acre. 80 Acres 4 miles from Oregon City, 200a cords wood, over-half good land, improved 1 .. . . ! j j ...:ri ..,r (nr 1-10 tarms on xnree siaes; wouu win yay ui place; 20 per acre. Will trade. I 349 Acres. 220 in A 1 cultivation, orchard, IT buildings, 7 acres hops, 6 miles trom mud- m bard, $35 per acre. 90 Acres on main plank road, 45 acres in good cultivation, large frame barn, no house; land rich; $3000. 41 Acres, 5 miles from Oregon City, 2 miles from New Era, 25 acres in cultivation and in crop, living water, good orchard, buildings only fair; crop and all, $1500. 1 Two or three thousand acres of good land near line of O. W. P. & Railway, in lots of from 80 acres up, and from $1q per acre up to $15, on easy terms. 30 Acres, 2 miles from Oregon City, 16 in cultivation, orchard, all varieties of fruit, splendid little place, on main road; $2800; terms. & SHAW 233 Washington St., Portland, Or $S Main St., Oregon City, Or. m (Editorial Continued on page C; ,1f a t'ip"'.l ; Bu'ckleia&'Kleirismith Machinists and Blacksmiths Have remoyed to their new building on 12th and Main Sts. And by adding new machinery are to do all classes of work able Building and repairing of 'Engines. Saw-Mill Supplies, Boxes and Collars in stock. Babbit Metal, low and high grades. Emery Stands, Swing-Saw Frames, and Arbors. Pulleys on hand and made to order. Machine Blacksmithing. Plow Shares Ground and Saws Gummed. i 3S