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September 24, 25, 26, 27
Canby, Oregon
31st YEAR
OREGON CITY, ORE., THURSDAY, AUG, 14 1313.
No. 12
OREGON
CITY
SCALES THEY WILL BE
WEIGHED IN SATURDAY
Hundreds of voters of this county
believe from $25,000 to $30,000 could
have been saved to the county on the
timber cruising contract, by compe
tition. They believe that $9,000 too much
was paid for three steel bridges, and
they have the sworn statement of a
competent bridge builder to sustain it.
They believe $10,000 that should
have been taxed on outside sheep
grazing in this county has never been
collected, and they give the figures
and the law to sustain it.
They believe the Court house addit
ion could and should have been done
for from $7,000 to $9,000 less.
They believe over $50,000 could
haye been in the treasury that is not
there on these items alone, and that
taxation could and should have been
reduced that much.
Many believe that County Judge
Beatie ignored Oregon's health laws
and the demands of the state board
of health when fevers were raging in
this city and county and that he play
ed politics with conditions on which
hung human life.
They believe he granted a perpetual
franchise to big business concerns
from which this county never received
one dollar and never will.
These are the major charges against
Judge Beatie and Commissioner
Blair there are many other lesser
ones.
And what are you voters going to
say to the county court Saturday?
One man said he would vote to re
call but for the fear of the power it
bridge fund was, in debt $60,642.88.
would give the people, and the recall
WHAT A THINKER SAYS
OF THE COUNTY COURT
Editor Courier:
I want to say to the voters of this
"c unty that I have always been a
f'-iend to the county court and it is
almost like turning against my own
brothers, to turn against them, and
that I have not been influenced by
anybody in taking the stand that 1
do, but simply by the facts that the
court does not try to dispute. And if
my brother was a member of the
county court and would consent to
. handle the business of the county as
this court has handled it, I would
sign a petition for his recall. And
I believe, if all the voters of Clacka
mas county had studied the condi
tion of things as carefully and as
thoroughly as I have, that there
would be a very small minority in
favor of retaining the present board
The answer that Judge Beatie nnd
Mr. Blair made to the complaint
against them in the Enterprise of July
30th gives but very little light on the
subject of complaints against them.
It is not the AMOUNT of county ex
penses that we are kicking about so
much as it is WHAT CAUSED the
great county expense. It looks like
the court, because they had the power
to levy a tax on the whole county for
revenue, and there was such a great
abundance of cash available, lost all
thought of economy and just ran the
county's business as though we were
all possessed of nothing but gold.
Now I will just take up one thing
after another and show the taxpay
ers how little interest the court
seemed to have in the welfare of the
taxpayers of the county in every
move they made. Would you or I,
if we wanted to build a house and
wanted to get some carpenters to
come and help us on it, go and get a
couple of men and never ask them
what they were going to charge us
until the work was all done? Is not
that just the way the court did about
the inspection of the suspension
bridge? And then had to pay the
snug little sum of $350 for the job,
where if they had done the thing in
a business way, it could very likely
have been done just as well for about
one half that sum. Then . take the
court house work and every business
man knows the difference between
contract work and days work, and as
long as they had to have a superin
tendent any way, would it not have
been a great saving to the taxpayers
of the county to have let the main
part of the work to the lowest re
sponsible bidder and then had the
superintendent look after it? And
probably saved the county two or
three thousand dollars ot least. Now
the question that interests us is, why
did they do these things that way?
Then we pass on to the four steel
WILL BEATIE
ELL DARE
Friday night of this week at about
7:30 Rev. Henry Spiess of Clackamas
will give a public address on Seventh
and Main streets in this city, to
which both men and women are invit
ed. His talk will be on the matters of
the state health laws, Judge Beatie's
part in indeavoring to block the state
laws, and the rea I inside history of
the investigations on health condi
tions in this county.
Judge R. B. Beatie is invited by
Mr. Spiess to attend this meeting, he
and George C. Brownell are challeng
ed to be present and defend the ac
tions of Judge Beatie in this matter
which is one of vital interest to. every
resident in Oregon City and Clacka
mas county.
Mr. Spiess will show you people,
who do not fully understand the ways
and means that have been employed
to defeat action of the health laws in
this county, some things that will sur
prise you. He will present to you a
case that is absolutely conclusive, fi
Won't This be Nice?
A man informed the Courier Tues-
day that the County Court defenders
would see that the Courier office was
draped in crepe Sunday.
might run wild.
Do you hear any talk of recalling
any of the other county officers?
No, and you won't so long as they
do their duty.
This same danger was waiver like
a red rag when the initiative and ref
erendum were given to the people, but
last fall's vote was splendid proof
that the voters are not fools nor wild
men.
The far greater danger lies in not
using it next Saturday than in the
danger of its running wild.
Lose in this recall election and you
lose for many, many years to come.
Win and you put the fear in every
public official's heart and those that
come after.
Almost from the day Bob Beatie
went into office the murmurs began,
and barely six months had expired
when the taxpayers endeavored to
bring about a recall, which failed
because they had no newspapers to
help them.
These uprisings do not occur with
out a cause. Over 17 hundred tax
payers would not have asked for a
recall that will cost the county $3000
if they did not think there were
plenty and good reasons for recalling
Beatie and Blair.
Expenditures have been enormous,
taxation in the county is almost un
bearable, and results are what?
Break up this "county ring" Sat
urday. Put men in who will work for
the taxpayers' interests. It's for the
interests of the farmer, the business
man, the workman. ;
Do it, and see if you are not glad.
Pail, and see if you do not get the
gaff yet deeper.
bridges. Why did they purchase the
steel for all of these bridges from
one company, privately, when the
representative of another company
was right on hand and requesting
an opportunity to compete with the
company the court made the private
contract with? Did the court think
they were then working for the best
interests of the taxpayers of the
county? Or what made them do
that way? I have been told that one
of our old commissioners said that
one of the bridge companies offered
him a commission on all the bridge
material he could sell to the county
for them, but that is not straight bus-j
iness, unless they turned the commis
sions into the county treasury and
made a public record of it. Can you i
tell why they did that way ? Then
we come down to the timber cruise
which is the worst of the whole bus
iness. Judge Beatie said that "they
felt that a cruise that would stand
the tests of the courts could be had
by employing an experienced man to
do the work." I want to ask you
what good it does to hire an exper
ienced man to cruise the timber in
this county if he stays at home and
hires some one else to do the cruis
ing, and it will only cost. him about
one half to get it cruised what the
county pays him for doing it But
the whole secret of the cruise stand
ing the test of the courts is in the
way the contract , is drawn up. It is
all one-sided. The owner of the tim
ber has a very poor show to get sat
isfaction if he is not satisfied with
the cruise. If he wants to have it
recruised and the court is willing to
let him have it recruised, the court
and Mr. Neaser. together, choose a
man to do the work, the owner of the
timber has nothing to say about it.
(As I understand the reading of it),
and if the man that the court and
Mr. Nease choose to do the recruising
says that there is over 20 per cent
more than Mr. Nease' men made it,
or over 20 per cent less than they
made it, then Mr. Nease has to stand
the cost of the recruise, but if there
is not that much difference then the
owner of the timber has to stand the
cost of the recruise. Now why did
the court make such a liberal and
one-sided contract with Mr. Nease,
and then pay him such a price, when
most all the cruising is done just by
the common scrub timber men of the
county? Then why is it necessary
to have a man follow around after a
few of thesec ruisers at $6 or $7 per
day to see if they are doing things
right. Don't it look like it is aboutl
time for us to try and make a change
in the way the county work is done?
Respectfully yours.
GEORGE HICINBOTHAM.
OR BROWN-
DEFEND THIS?
nal, nailed down. He will show you
Judge Beatie's part in this transac
tion that has become notorious in
this county, and one Which neither
Judge Beatie or ueorge u. urowneu
have dared to defend.
Oregon City has been ravaged with
tvDhoid during the past year; it has
had scarlet fever and small pox. To
day it has about a dozen new cases
of typhoid in the city.
Thia mutter of nublic health and
the enforcement of health laws should
come home to our people. It is a
matter we should taks a vital interest
in. Come down to Seventh street
Friday night and near Mr. Spiess
tell you some things that should
make vou consider.
Come down and hear Judge Beatie
and George C. Brownell defend the
county judge's action if they dare.
Rev. Spiess will answer any cour
teous questions on the matter discus
sed and will explain any matter that
is not plain to any person. Don't
miss this.
After This Week
The Courier has given much space
to the recall during the past three
weeks. Next week it will get to news
matters that have been neglected.
You Can Vote
Whether or not you registered, any
man or woman six months in the state
and thirty days in a precinct may
swear in his or her vote Saturday, by
having six property owners testify to
the qualifications.
One More Date Fixed
For the third time a date has been
fixed for the hearing of excessive and
discriminating charges by the Pac
ific Telephone Co. in this city, and the
date is tomorrow (Thursday) at 9:30
in the Court room. i
The Wrong Bald Head
The writer of the Oswego commun
ication says all bald heads look alike
from the rear, and that it transpires
he mistook one as belonging to Jos
eph E. Hedges at Oswego, while Mr.
Hedges declares he was not in the
bunch, nor at Oswego that night.
Significant
Last Thursday night a farmer's
wife was going up the Seventh street
stairway, when she passed some mvn
at one of the seats. One of them was
a prominent Oregon City attorney
holding the Courier in his hands, ly
the way, not George C. Brownell and
he was excitedly saying to the men
"What can a man do? They've get
us, we can't answer."
In Explanation
In regard to the several addresses
made by Rev. Henry Spiess of Clack
amas and the address he will make in
this city Friday night, we wish to
state that they have been made by
special request of the people of the
county who wish to have explained
the health matters of this county and
Judge Beatie's connection with them,
and Mr. Spiess considers it his duty
to meet their wishes.
Mr. Spiess has no ax to "grind on
the recall. His name does not ap
pear on the recall petitions. His
splendid work for better health con
ditions has been independent of any
other recall charges. Alone this man
tackled the machine and he stopped
it. He has done a work for this
county and city that other men
shrank from, and a work every man
and woman should commend.
To Those Interested.
To save a lot of speculation, confus
ion and trouble, to those who are anx
ious to know the past life of M. J.
Brown, the Courier editor
Get a list from Bradstreet or Dun
and write to any business man in Lit
tle Valley, N. y.; write to the presi
dent of the Cattarangus County bank ,
E. E. Kelley; write to the postmaster.
J. H. Wilson; write to any preacher in
that city; write to the congressman of
that district, Charles M. Hamilson of
Ripley, N. Y.; to the state senator, F.
N. Godfrey of Olecum, N. Y.; to any
business man, the bank or the post
master in South Dayton, N. Y., the
editor's former home; to any business
man in bonora, lex., where he once
lived.
And when you get the replies, pub
lish them, or bring them to this office,
and we will publish them just as
they are written.
They say the "county ring" will
stoop to anything. We believe it.
We dare them to call this one.
Up Against the Ping
The recall speakers and backers
well knew they would go up against
every obstacle that the county ring
could devise in their efforts to .cam
paign the county, but they hardly
looked for the dirty work that has
been done to keep them from talking
to the people. The recall candidates,
Attorney G. L. Story and Attorney
Paul Fisher went to Oswego to speak
Saturday night and found no hall had
been secured, no advertising had been
done, and yet the committee had
made full advance preperations. This,
following a similar attempted block
ade the night before, shows what des
perate tactics are being employed to
FAULT OF
The Enterprise has an interview
from Robert Schuebel in which the
headlines state "Declares Judge
Beatie is stating real truths in his
various talks," and the quotations
from Mr. Schuebel statu in iibstaiice
that he (Mr. Schuebel) finds that
Clarence Simmons has a privj.te hook
account and bills of material used in
the court house addition and that
"Mr. Simmons says it w.s his,
or his stenographer's fault, tha;
the bill in the court hou.-e docs not
give a detailed statement."
Mr. Voter, just recall that the mass
meeting committee mads the report
weeks and months ago, and that Rob
ert Schuebel signed and read it, and
that now, just before election it is
discovered Clarence Simmons has
PRIVATE book account of the cost
of the court house, material, and that
AND THIS IS
COURT GIVES PRIVTE CONTRACTS TO
George C. Brownell asks who Ed
Olds, the contractor is. We will tell
him, and then we will ask him who M.
G. Nease, HIS contractor is.
Ed Olds is a bridge builder, and
the bridges he built were gotten on
OPEN contracts to the lowest bid
der. Judge Beatie told the Courier
editor he was one of the best bridge
builders in Oregon. He built the Bull
Run bridge, the Rock Creek bridge,
the Canby bridge, raised the cables
and renewed the timbers on the sus
pension bridge, west side in this city
and didn't wait for the county to pay
$350 for inspection; renewed the tim
bers in the Sasein bridge at Parkplace,
built the EsUcada bridge. And Mr.
Olds says he was never arrested or
indicted in hia life.
IS IN DEBT
$75,860 NOW
April 4, 1913, the County Court
said the road and bridge fund was out
of debt and had about $2,000 to the
good.
Friday, August 1st, the road and
bridge fund was in debt $60,642.88.
Monday, Aug. 11, the road and
bridge fund had gone behind $15,218
more, leaving an indebtedness on this
date of $75,860.88.
The Enterprise last week said the
Courier lied in these figures.
Mr. Voter, there is an easy way to
PROVE this matter. Go to the County
treasurer and the County clerk and
find out.
Do you think we would run such
a bluff just before election?
The figures quoted last week were
given by County Clerk Mulvey- from
the unpaid warrants. They were tak
en up with the County Treasurer,
Tufts the following day AND THE
STATEMENT IS TRUE.
Today the road and bridge fund is
in debt over $75,000.00.
In 102 days it has run in debt at
the rate of $743 per day, including
Sundays.
Where will the indebtedness be a
year from now?
Where will your taxes be when this
big debt has to be faced?
And four months ago they were
cackling like spring roosters that "the
county was out of debt."
Don't take Judge Beatie's word', the
Courier's word or anyone's else word
about the above figures. Go to the
county records and take THEIR
WORD.
Then vote for your firesides.
The Ways of Hon. George C.
Here is one of George C. Brown
ell's telling arguments against the
recall. He got rid of it at Canby
Saturday night:
Getting down to the question
of the Courier, Mr. Brownell
said he hoped his hearers wouldn't
feel too harshly toward its edi
tor, as he knew the editor had
stomach trouble and any mun who
had stomach trouble was pretty
apt to also have trouble with his
head. He pitied the editor of
the' Courier, he said, pitied him
and sympathized with him.
Some "argument" to this, isn't
there?
Reminds me of an anonymous letter
published in the Enterprise some
months ago, with these same telling
points in it.. We have always ' sur
mised from what attorney's office it
came.
The Courier editor hasn't any stom
ach trouble, but this matter has a fat
lot to do with the recall. If he was
in the seventh stage of indigestion,
here's betting George C. would swap
his conscience for the sick stomach,
and pay the - difference.
And they say this man, this Repub
lican renegade, this man who forgot
his party and championed "Honest"
Bob for county court, 4s today pass
ing out the order "If you can't save
Beatie, save Blair," and yet he pre
faces his Italian work with a Judas
kiss and a smile of friendship in bis
public speeches.
Clackamas county is strewn with
men George C. has picked up, boost
ed up and then discarded when the
wind blew from the wrong direction,
and now it would seem as if it was
Beatie's turn to go to the discard.
Brings Action for $50,000
Fred Ream of Willamette has
brought action for $50,000 against
the Home Telephone Co., because of
being shot in the linemens' strike riot
at Oswego in May. His claim is on
the ground that the telephone com
pany employed strike breakers, and
that one of them shot and crippled
him for life. Ream's attorneys are I.
N. Smith, Brownell & Stone and
Howard Brownell.
POOR STENOGRAPHER
it was his stenographer's fault that
the county court records do not cor
respond with Mr. Simmons' record.
A stenographer is a handy person
age on which to dodge just before
election.
You may take the county records or
Mr. Simmons' stenographer's mistake.
Isn't this excuse of Mr. Simmon's
about the limit?
If it were true, doesn't it show
the utmost neglect and utter incom
petency in keeping county records T
If a taxpayer wants to know what
a court house is costing must he have
to hunt up and take the PRIVATE re
cords of an employee to the filed re
cords in the Court house?
WOULDN'T THIS MAKE ANY
MAN WHO IS ALIVE ABOVE THE
EARS RISE UP AND SAY IT IS
TIME TO HAVE CLACKAMAS
COUNTY RUN ON BUSINESS ME
THE QUALITY OF MEN
Now, Mr. Brownell, who is M. G.
Nease, the timber cruising contractor,
and why have you such affection for
him? And what is HIS record that
he should be given a contract to cruise
Clnrtnmna rnuntv without comnetit-1
ion?
He was a former partner of Isaac
Gratton, who ran the famous "Mil
waukie Tavern," during the'time E. B.
Beatie was sheriff, and do you not
remember the time that Gratton and
Nease were sued by the' wife of a
poor logger on a charge that they
had got her husband's money and
they gave half of it back to her, and
do you not remember that Joseph E.
Hedges wag Nease's and Gratton's at
torney ?
And do you not remember that in
1905 Gratton and Nease, then running
the Milwaukie Tavern, were indicted
A WOMAN'S VIEW
Courier Indictment and Half Hearted
Explanations Don't Go
In regord to this recall controversy
I will say that we feel very sorry as
my husband has been acquainted with
Mr. Beatie all his life and we had
hopes that the accusations made were
a result of wrangling and would prove
to be mistakes and finally be over
looked. We still think the court may
not have done much worse than its
predecessors, but we have watched
closely the reports, accusations and
criticisms of one side, half-hearted de
nials and explanations that did not
give satisfaction from the other side.
There have been serious . charges
charges against the court and we
wondered why they let it pass with
only a confusing explanation that left
us at sea as far as understanding was
concerned. We were vibrating between
the two factions until the smaller
matter of tax rebating popped into the
foreground and the court clapped an
indictment on the culprit quick as a
hawk could pounce on a chicken and
that made us feel sad, for the tax re
bating episode must be the only one
the court felt safe in challenging.
That leaves us but one conclusion: all
other charges must be more or less
true.
Mrs. George Waldron
To Make It Plain
In order that there may be no con
fusion or injustice, we wish to make
it plain that the interview published
in the Enterprise with Robert Schue
bel is in no possible way connected
with Attorney C. Schuebel, and while
the latter has had no part in bring
ing about the recall, yet he is out and
out in his stand for the recall and says
he will vote for it Saturday.
Oregon City Boy Killed by Gun
A terrible accident happened to
Gus Melvin, a 15-year-old-boy of
West Oregon City, which cost his life.
He was in the mountains with a camp
ing party, and while hunting his shot
gun was accidentally discharged, the
ful force entering his shoulder
nearly severing his arm, and the shot
penetrating his lungs.
Dr. Powell of Molalla, was sum
moned and he rushed the boy for the
hospital here. Meeting Dr. Mount's
car the boy was transfered and the
auto speeded to its limit for this city,
but he died before the hospital could
be reached.
IS THIS YOUR CROWD?
You workmen is what George C.
Brownell wants to your interests?
Does he play your game 1 Has he
a thought or a wish in common with
you only when he can use you ? Ever
think of it? Well, do.
Does Joseph L. Hedges ever play
your game, ever put in a day's work
for your interests? Has he any time
for you? As between you and the
giant corporation he represents, do
you doubt where his heart is ?
Robert Beatie do you think he
cares for you, your taxation and the
high rents that follow high taxation?
Was he ever one of you ? Hasn't he
always been a political pet and had
fat jobs thrust upon him from assis
tant U. S. marshall at Pendleton to
his present position of County Judge?
PiMr nut a moil, if vnn ran. whn in
'fighting the recall, who has not his
own personal interests in view, and
see if those interests and men ever
stood for the workmen of Oregon
City.
And on the other hand, back of the
recall, are the toilers, the taxpayers,
the common men.
Size them up, pick our bunch,
and remember that what you vote in
Saturday goes in to stay.
It's a Big Business Bunch against
the herd.
Canby, Wilsonville are taking much
interest in the coming events. Exhib
its will later be taken to the Oregon
State Fair,
THODS AND CUT OUT THIS
WORSE THAN MONKEY BUSI
NESS? Further, in this interview Mr.
Schuebel is quoted as saying he aiso
finds Judee Beatie correct in his rig'
ures of taxation as stated by Mr.
Beatie in his Mulino speech, but does
NOT give one single line, figure or
statement in proof. At Oak Grove
Judge Beatie made these same state
ments, Robert Schuebel was present
and he stood up in the meeting and
told Judge Beatie either the state
ment he had just made or the sworn
semi-annual published statements of
the county were false, and that he
(Schuebel) would take any man and
prove it by the county records. He
also published a signed letter in the
Courier subsequent to this, challeng
ing the Court to submit the matter to
a committee.
Voters, the case is yours decide it
'
by the grand jury in Judge Mc
Bride's court, that they appeared in
court with George C. Brownell astheir
attorney, pleaded guilty, and were
each fined $100.
If you HAVE forgotten. Mr. Brow
nell, see the court records, State of
Oregon, vs. Isaac Gratton and M. G.
Nease, Nov. 13, 1905 the indictment,
and Nov. 15 the sentence. The indict
ment charges the crime of commiting
an act that disturbed the public peace.
Had you lorgotten this, Mr. Brow
nell?
And in the face of this Judge Beatie
let him a private contract (barred
out all Clackamas county men) and
then has the nerve to say Jjdge Mc
Bride, the man whosentenced Nease,
recommended him to Judge Beatie
for the timber cruising contract.
Voters, the case ia yours.
15 THERE NOTHING BACK
OF THE COUNTY RECALL
E litor Courier
George C. Bro.uell in his Canby speech and others of the
County ring have stated there was nothing behind the recall in
Oregon City hut E. D. Olds and M. J. Brown.
The daily cartoons in the Morning Enterprise picture Olds
and Brown a", the whole thing , in the recall, and as standing
alone in the movement. '
Let nie tell yovi voters of Oregon City that there are more
than two men behind this movement for better government in
this county and that they have been behind it from its start
months ago; men wao have spent their time and money to bring
aiiout the special eu-ction for next
Let me inform you that this
ir. fifteen minutes; tat E. I). Olds
t, but that it had its beginning in
tors the best men in Oregon City.
And I will cite some of the men
c'te those who George C. Brownell nor any other men dare say
have any other than the best interests of the people at heart in
His effort to recall ihe county court.
January 4 there appeared in
bridge letting contracts arid how
contained a sworn affidavit from
ured the bridges ami computed
This exposure tvas typewritten by Attorney-John Clark in
his office in December and it was dictated by Senator W, A. Dim
ick and myself. .
Previous to this on November 13, 1912, a check of $10 was
given to me by the Gladstone Real Estate Co., and signed by
Cross & Hammond, to help defray the expenses of the expert's
work and other expeuses
Nov. 15 C. II. lye contributed $10 to this movement, check
So. 419.
Nov. 19, a joint note of $40
E. I). Olds to the bank of Oregon City, which money was turned
in to pay the oxpei ses of this bridge investigation. The note was
paid and 1 luue it.
Dec. 18, 1L E. Cross contributed $10 for the work, check No.
20. . .
Others have aided in the work
1 am simply giving the attorneys and showing to the Twilight
writer in thejUourier that all the Oregon City lawyers are not in
the County ring.
Voters of Oregon City the recall has something behind it other
uin cartoons.
Senator W. A. Dhiick's record in Salem is proof that he stands
with the common man; the fanner"
has worked for their good in helping bringing about the recall. -
v II. E. Cress ycu all know,
in in the Live Wiro meetings and
ic money on our loads and urged that a taxpayers' league be
formed for thj proration of tho
John Clark ha been many
v.ints to see a ch.iage brought
county management.
C. II. Dye is ou-i of our City's
onservative busiiuss men; a
opinions on all public matters
who would noo favo" the recall of
cause.
Then there is vtorney Paul
ing the county for the recall 6f the
Attorney George W. Storey
the recall woik, making speeches
Attorney C. Sckeubel, law
recall.
Is there nothi ng behind the recall in Oregon City? Voters
btok over this iist o' Oregon City's attorneys. Compare them with
l:e men who are attaining every nerve to put Beatie over and
then decide w.'iich side has YOUlt interests.
Yours, E. D. Olds. .
A LITTLE STORY OF
THE
According to the Enterprise,
Judge Beatie made this dirty strike at
the Courier in his Canby speech Sat
urday night:
In regard to the county print
ing, the judge said that the bills
for this amounted to about $1,
200" a year, and that one of the
recall leaders was "sore" be
cause this sum did not go to his
print shop.
We could correct his figures by the
statement that in two months the En
terprise has been paid more than the
total amount above and the county
court expenditures are proof of it.
We would correct the other state
ment by saying that William Mat
toon, present county commissioner,
came to the Courier office, before the
recall petitions had been filed and
told M. J. Brown if his attacks on
the county court were because the
Courier was not getting a fair deal on
the printing, and that he knew it was
not, he would see that it was chang
ed. We would not have used this prop
osition, of Mr. Mattoon's but for the
dirty insinuation of Judge Beatie that
DARE YOU
Judge Beatie:
You say in- our justification on the
recall ballott "that the Court acted
entirely with the law in building all
bridges."
The Courier and hundreds of voters
of this county say you did NOT act
within the law in the several cont
racts with the Coast Bridge Co., or
the Kellogg Creek bridge and we defy
you to prove it or dare you to sub
mit it to five of the lawyers of Ore
gon City George C. Brownell, Grant
B. Dimick, George W. Story, Joseph
L. Hedges, W. S. U'Ren.
We dare you to submit it, dare you
to do it before election, or dare you
Saturday. .
recall movement was not born
and M. J. Brown did not hatch
1912, and it had as its origina
who are behind it, and I will
the Courier an exposure of the
the deals were put over. It also
a bridge expert who had meas
the weight of the steel.
Avas given by W. A. Dimick and
financially and otherwise, but
and the taxpayers and that he
and you know how he has stood
protested at the waste of pub
taxpayers. ,
years in Oregon City and he
about for economy and closer
pioneers and is one of the most
man whose judgment and
are sought by many and a man
the County Court without full
E, Fisher, who is out campaign
County Court.
former city attorney is also in
in the different precincts.
partner of W. S. U'Ren is for the
DEAD INSIDE
we were in this fight for the dollars.
Mr. Mattoon, member of the coun
ty court, made this proposition to M.
JT. Brown in the Courier office on the
24th day of June, 1913.
He came to the office, subscribed
for the Courier, and asked the editor,
M. J. Brown, if he thought the voters
were going to get out petitions for
his recall after July 1. M. J. Brown
told him he did not think so, as it
would be too much work to cover the
county again. Then he brought up
the printing matter as related above.
We wouldn t quit.
Then he went before the grand
jury and helped to get the Courier
editor indicted he and Judge Beatie
were the two witnesses.
The Courier didn't quit, as you have
no doubt noticed.
If it was "striking" it has had its
many golden opportunities in the
past two years in Oregon.
It didn't run in six columns of
Theodore Roosevelt campaign matter
just before the election as the En
terprise did.
' The Courier can't be bribed or
bought, and some day the people of
Clackamas county will KNOW it.
"CALL" THIS?
to do it afterward.
Your justification of the timber
cruising contract, as printed on the
official ballot is that you employed a
cruiser recommended by Judge Mc
Bride and that increased taxes from
the cruise will result.
WHY didn't you invite competition,
recommended by the voters, and get
this work done just as well as it is
done for one-fourth what you pay
Nease ?
Why did you provide in the con
tract for 40 per cent guess work?
Why did you provide in the con
tract for cruising farms, worthless
timber, etc?