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25th YEAR.
OREGON CITY. OREGON. FRIDAY. MARCH 6, 1908
No 43,
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FOR NUMBER 1
Republican County Central Com
mittee Hits the Trail.
GIBSON SETS OFF FIREWORKS
All Seek Shelter Behind Solid Breastworks and
Throw Up Their Hands.
Meetings of county committees are
usually tame affairs. Not so, however,
the sesion of the Republican County
Central Committee that assembled last
Saturday in the County Courtroom in
Oregon City. Most of the precincts
were represented either by the com-
mil 1
CHRIS SCHEUBEL, Chairman of the
Republican County Committee.
mitteemen in person or else by proxy,
the members seeming to realize the
importance of the questions that might
come up, J. H. Wewer coming from
the distanct precinct of Cascade and
Mr. Tracy from George, and other dis
tant precincts being represented in
person by their respective committee
men. Many not members" of the com
mittee were in attendance or lingered
outside the Courtroom evidently sus
pecting that "something might drop."
Gibson Sets Off Fireworks.
The session was hardly under way
when John Gibson, of Harmony pre
cinct, arose and stated that he had a
resolution to offer. The disturbing
document was handed to the acting
secretary, Livy Stlpp, who glanced it
over with a disapproving scowl, then
arose and read it. In substance the
resolution declared against Statement
No. 1 and was an effort to commit
the Republican party of Clackamas
County to the support of the legisla
tive candidates who should Ignore the
pledge to support the people's choice
for United States Senator. George W.
Dixon, of Canny, who is a candidato
for the Legislature on a Statement No.
1 platform, was on his feet in an in
stant. In a forceful spee,;h he de
nounced the resolution ad an effort
to extort from the people a precious
privilege that they had won alter years
of strife and persevereuce. He said
that he believed in Statement No. 1
and that he believed the people of
Clackamas County would resent as an
affront any effort to commit the party
to a contrary policy. Gibson backed
up his resolution with a fiery argu
ment, and Chris Schuebel, chairman of
the committee, calling dolf Aschoff
to the chair, replied with equal spirit.
His charge that the "fine Indian hand"
back of the resolution was not that
of Gibson, brought back, the retort
that Schuebel himself was not capable
of draughting an instrument so subtle
in meaning, so apparently harmless on
Its face and yet so comprehensive in
its effect. TJut Gibson did not deny
the insinuation that the resolutlonwas
part of a plan to commit Clackamas
County Republicans to the candidacy
of Fulton for United States Senator,
and he later admitted that while he
was a candidate two years ago for the
Legislature on a Statement No. 1 plat
form, he was out now to do all he
could to return Charles W. Fulton to
the United States Senate.
Jim Campbell Stems the Tide.
The purport of the resolution was
now fully comprehended by the com
mittee. Jim Campbell, war horse of
many political battles, arose and in a
speech for party harmony poured oil
upon the troubled waters. He urged
Gibson to withdraw his resolution and
at the conclusion of Ms discourse mo
tioned Gibson to an adjoining room.
There were a few hurried whispered
words, Gibson returned to his seat,
arose and stated that with the con
sent of the second he would withdraw
the resolution. Thus the members of
the committee were not permitted to
come out in the open for or against the
principle that is to be the political
issue in this and every other county
in the state during the coming cam
paign. Adjournment was taken until
1:30 p. nr.
Afternoon Session.
The smoke of battle had cleared
away when the committee, after
breathing the fresh air and partaking
of the noon-day meal, reassembled.
It immediately got wn to the busi
ness of apportioning delegates and ar
ranging the time and place for holding
a county convention. It was decided
that the county convention should be
held in Oregon City April 25, and that
primaries for election of delegates
thereto should be held in the differ
ent precincts on March 25th. The
convention will elect delegates to the
state convention and possibly recom
mend planks for the platform that will
be adopted in the state convention. As
the convention will be held subsequent
to the nominating primaries it will
have nothing to say about candidates.
The delegates that the several pre
cincts will be entitled to send to the
convention were apportioned on the
basis of the vote cast for Supreme
Judge at the last election. Each pre
cinct was allo.vcd one delegate at
large and one for every 30 votes or
major fraction thereof cast for Su
preme Judge.
Trouble Brewing.
Routine business was drawing to a
close. There seemed to be a feeling
in the air that something was yet go
ing to happen to ruffle the serenity of
the hour. When Dixon, of Canby, arose
muffled whispers went around and as
he began to speak many crowded in
from' the corridor. Statement No. 1
has been assailed during the morning
session, and it was evident that its
friends had been busy during the noon
hour. With an eloquent speech in be
half of that measure, Dixon drew forth
a resolution which he presented for
the consideration of the committee.
In few words it committed the Repub
lican narty of Clackamas County to
the popular election of United States
Senator as embodied in statement ino.
1. Charley Miller, of West Oregon
City, immediately moved to lay the
resolution on the table, and his mo
tion was seconded by John Bradley,
of Oregon City. Bradley spoke again
for harmony, but the motion to table
PROMINENT
ATTORNEY DEAD
nd
Keep Bright a
Will Keep Busy
You
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bright interior and sparkling LUectric Sign getting an advantage over you?
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nowadays consider shop-window lighting a necessity, whether they remain
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A show window brilliantly illuminated with Electric light will make
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And don't neglect the Electric Sign. It is soliciting, "tomorrow's"
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It is a solicitor that never becomes weary never stops work costs little.
Portland Railway, Light & Power Co.
Q. G. MILLER, Merit
Oregon Qity, Oregon
LEADING MEMBER OF BAR IN WIL
LAMETTE VALLEY SUCCUMBS
TO PARALYSIS.
WAS ACTIVE IN POLITICS
Tilmon Ford Passes Away at Salem
After Three Weeks'
Illness.
Tilmon Ford, for many years recog
nized as the leading member of the
bar in the Willamette Valley, died
Monday afternoon at the home of his
cousin, W. M. Kaiser, at Salem. He
had been ill about three weeks, suffer
ing from an attack, of paralysis, burial
being made in Odd Fellows' cemetery.
The services at the grave were con
ducted by the order of Odd Fellows, of
which the deceased was a member.
Mr. Ford was born in Missouri in
1843, while his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
John Ford, were crossing the plains
to Oregon. The family arrived in Or
egon in the fall of that year and set
tled on a farm north of Salem, where
Tilmon spent his boyhood days.
Taking up the practice of his chosen
profession, Mr. Ford soon won recog
nition as a reliable legal adviser, a
tactful trial lawyer and an orator of
unusual ability. Like most of the old
school of attorneys, he spent little
time searching for precedents, but was
well grounded in the principles of law
and equity. The suits which brought
him most to public attention were the
damage cases against the Southern
Pacific arising from the wreck of a
passenger train at Lake Labish in the
early '90s. He was attorney for near
ly all of the claimants, and won every
case.
His ability as a public speaker made
Mr. Ford a strong factor in politics
and he served two terms in the Legis
lature. He was chosen one of the
Presidential electors from Oregon in
1900. As a stump speaker he pre
sented convincing arguments in an
entertaining manner, and was one of
the most popular Republican campaign
speakers in the State.
Mr. Ford left one sister and two
brothers: Dr. Angle Ford Warren, of
Portland Charles; D. Ford, of Seattle,
and Frank Ford, of Rochester, Mont.
the resolution was lost. It then came
up on motion for its adoption. A spir
ited debate followed. Chris Schuebel
called Everhart, of Molalla, to the
chair and took the lioor in behalf of
the resolution. He regretted, he said,
that the question had been made an
issue at this time, but inasmuch as the
principle that he believed, the people
of Clackamas County cherished had
been assailed, he believed that the
Republicans of the county wanted to
know where the men who represent
ed them on the committee stood. He
had spent too many days and nights
battling for this right of the people to
sit by and permit corporate influences
to crush the life out of it. He said
the Republicans had a 40,000 majority
in the State and there were certainly
Republicans in the party clean
enough and capable enough to be elect
ed Senator by the people. He did not
believe a State overwhelmingly Re
publican would elect a Democrat to
the United States Senate, unless the
Republican candidate was so corrupt
or so incapable that he ought to be
defeated. He urged the committee to
go on record as expressing the senti
ment of the Republicans in Clackamas
County unalterably committed to the
doctrine of the popular election of
United States Senator, as embodied
in Statement No. 1. He referred to
letters from absent committeemen
who had sent their proxies, declaring ,
themselves, as well as the precincts
that they represented, emphatically in i
favor of Statement No. 1.
On the vote the resolution prevailed '
the Courthouse and as those In at
tendance filed out many stopped In
the corridor to listen to Commissioner
Lewellen's denunciation of those who
were attacking the people's rights and
privileges by false pretenses and by In
direction and subterfuge. He had been
declared out of order when he attempt
ed to address the meeting, but he took
opportunity to let it be clearly known
Where he stood.
LITTLE .EXCITEMENT .AT. THE
POLLS. .BURNS WINS
FOR CHIEF.
Only 116 Votes on the Head of the
Ticket Good Set of Officers.
At the election of the Fire Depart
ment held in the rooms of Fountain
Hose Co., Monday, there was little in
the way of a contest and few were out
to vote. The polls opened at 10 A. M.
and closed at 4 P. M. The judges of
the election were Charles W. Pope
and John Finucane, while Sam Stow
held down the clerk's chair. Less
than two-thirds the strength of the
department voted, there being 120
votes cast.
For Chief of the Department, Chas.
E. Burns, Jr., of Columbia Hook and
Ladder Co., received 08 votes and Clar
ence Brunei-, of Hill Hose Co. No. 3
received 48; for assistant Chief, Al
Cannon, of Fountain Hose Co. No. 1,
received 59 votes, and Edward Rech
nor, of Cataract Hose Co. No. 2, was
a close follower with 50 counts.
In the field there were four candi
dates for commissioner, and the three
successful ones with their votes, were:
John Gleason, Columbia Hook and
Ladder Company, No. 1, 102; Henry
W. Stratton, Cataract Hose Company,
No. 3, 89; David Williams, Hill Hose
Company, No. 3, 03. Forty-seven votes
were cast for G. M. Caldwell, of Green
Point Hose Company, No. 5.
CANBY'S FAIR INDUCEMENTS.
Offers Permanent Grounds to the
Clackamas County Fair Association.
Level Tract Near Railroad.
Canby has come to the center with
an offer to the Clackamas County Fair
Association of a line tract of land as
a permanent location for the County
Fair, and to back up their offer they
have invited the Committee on Sights
of that association to go to the little
village by the river brink and eat tur
key next Monday and view the sight.
The committee is composed of the fol
lowing gentlemen: Thomas F. Ryan,
George Lazelle and T. J. Gary.
The offer by the people of Canby
is in the manner of a long-term lease
on certain property along the S. P.
railroad, and, being within a short dis
tance from that village, this tract be
ing large enough to admit of the usual
buildings necessary lor the proper ex
hibition halls, grand stands, etc., to
gether with a half mile race course.
The offer also includes many of these
buildings and .the fencing in of the
property.
At the conclusion of the viewing by
the gentlemen on the committee the
good people of Canby will entertain
in royal manner and will make a
strong endeavor to have the fair lo
cated in their village.
But the matter has not been decided
as yet. There seems to be a large
feeling in favor of Gladstone Park as
a permanent location, and for many
reasons the latter place has the great
er advantages, the proximity to the
outside world that is, its being so
conveniently located in reference to
the population of the county generally
and then the gate receipts would, in
all probability, be greatly augmented
by the outside visitors from Mutno'mah
County. Then, again, there Is a very
decided feeling against the feature of
a race course, and that being well
grounded. It is quite a well-known
fact that the county fairs in other states
that have racing for their main at
traction, as Is always the result, and
the fact of the lagging interest In the
exhibits where the attractions run to
racing, is a barrier that will not be
easily gotten over b ythoso interested
in the movement for horse racing.
MR. ll'REN WOULD
NOW GO BACK
Throws Challenge to Debate Broad
cast and Later Asks Cake To
Resign With Him.
MULTNOMAH REPUBLICHNS MIXED
They Have a Smoker Saturday Are All Broken
Up Looking for Other Counties to Follow Suit
Republicans in Multnomah County
are in a pretty bad mix-up since they
turned down Statement No. 1 at Port
land last Saturday. The Republican
press of that county are making a
strong endeavor to smooth the matter
over and have the thing appear as a
jolly little smoker and are hoping
publican Club with an invitation to
speak at its hall, corner of Front and
Glhbs Btreets, Thursday evening,
March 5, at 8 o'clock. I shall amrm
and endeavor to sustain and Justify
the principles of Statement No. 1 for
the election of United States Senators
from Oregon.
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GEO. W. DIXON, who fathered the endorsement of Statement No. 1 by the
Republican County Committee.
JOHN GIBSON, who made the fight for Fulton
Committee.
in the Republican Central
by a large majority and the Fulton
forces had not only failed to pass their
resolution dealing a body blow to
Statement No. 1, but had precipitated
a resolution endorsing it. Amid great
excitement, Miller arose to declare
that measures bad been taken that day
to put a Democrat In every corner of
It Is generally conceded that horse
racing will kill a county fair, if given
time, and it is well understood that the
gentlemen on the committee are well
aware to these facts and will exercise
Judgment in this regard that will tend
to the continuation of Clackamas
County Fairs.
against the Inevitable that other coun
ties will join the ragged procession.
But they will look in vain, In refer
ence to the matter, the Oregonlan Bays
in a half-hearted way:
"Now that the smoke of battle has
cleared away, the leaders of the hosts
which battled Saturday look for the
rest of the counties in the State to
follow the trail Multnomah County has
blazed and hold conventions to put
the "kibosh" on Statement No. 1.
"While Multnomah County Republi
cans were going on record against the
Statement, party leaders in Lane Coun
ty were following suit. Party standard-bearers
clamped the lid down on
Stutement No. 1, and a number of the
speakers peppered W. S. U'llen with
verbal hot shot."
On top of this hotbed of antls comes
the announcement from W. S. U'Ren
that he will meet any and all speakers
In a tilt over Statement No. 1, and in
this ho has been nceommodatod by
the South Portland Republican Club
giving him a chance at a smoker last
evening. In accepting the Invitation,
he issues the following wide-open chal
lenge: "To Messrs. C. W. Hodson, S. C.
Beach, A. A. Bailey and other anti
Statement No. 1 Republicans: I am
honored by the South Portland Re-
"I am authorised by President Llllis
to divide the evening in Joint discus
sion of this question with any Repub
lican who may bo chosen by yourselves
to represent the opposition to State
ment No. 1. I invite all of you to be
present and ask questions, and hope
that Mr. Beach, especially, will be
present and ask the questions he
thought of after I left the hall at the
club meeting early In last month. I
shall remain to the close of the meet
ing and promise my opponents the
same courteous consideration I ask
for myself. Como, let us reason to
gether. Respectfully yours.
"W. S. U'REN."
There seems to be a very sorry con
dition In the Republican ranks. A
split-up that threatens to shako its
foundation. The leaders know this and
there Is no one who feels it more
strongly than U'Ren. He would like
to patch the matter up now and of
fers to withdraw. In strength cf his
latest views he writes- a lengthy epis
tle to H. M. Cake, in which he cites
the seriousness of the situation, and
offers to withdraw from the Sena'orial
conflict if Cake will do the same, and
decide on some good man to run on
Statoment No. 1. To all of vhlch
Cake refuses.
IN THE LEAD
MT. PLEASANT CIVIC IMPROVE1
MENT CLUB GOING AHEAD.
ALONG EVERY LINE
Membership Increasing and
Work Ih the Battle Cry.
Good
At the regular meeting of the Mt.
Pleasant Civic Improvement Club
Tuesday night the election of officers
took place who will serve for the en
suing year, and are as follows: Presi
dent, A. A. Pease; vice-president, Bert
Clark; secretary, S. T. Roman; treas
urer, Mrs. A. C. Warner. Miss Mollle
L. Holmes was appointed chairman
of the social committee. The commit
tee who will have charge of the lum
ber for the proposed sidewalk, made a
report and it will take 12,7000 feet of
lumber and the cost of same will be
about $112.
The financial committee on the con
struction of the walk consists of Mrs.
J. Y. Humphreys, Mrs. Ralph Miller,
and Mrs, Ilert Clark, and report that
they have $50.00 on hand In the treas
ury for the building, and the work
will be pushed along as rapidly as the
lumber Is on the ground.
The members of the Civic Improve
ment Club have been untiring in their
efforts to improve the appearance of
one of the mostly sightly suburbs
Mt. Pleasant, of Oregon City, and by
their hard work a great deal has been
accomplished. They worked faithful
ly by giving entertainments to raise
funds for the building of the sidewalk
from Mount Pleasant to the head of
Fifth street, and they are now to
build a sidewalk extending from Mount
Pleasant school house to the Tabor
residence about a mile and a quarter
below the school.
Maple Lane Grange.
Maple Lane Grange will hold Its reg
ular meeting on Saturday at the Maple
Lane Grange hall. At noon a hot din
ner will be served and a splendid mu
sical and literary program for the lec
turer's hour will be rendered. Dele
gates to the Clackamas County Grange
convention will be chosen.