University
Eugene,
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est sworn circulation of any
newspaper between Portland
and Eugene.
The Courier is the State
Paper for the Equity Society
and thoroughly covets the
County.
OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1914
Number 31
32d Year
WHEN THEY FAIL
YOU. DOWN THEM
WHEN THEY MAKE GOOD, SUS
TAIN THEM
ANY FAIR VOTER WILL AGREE
Now have They Made Good or have
They not? You Judge
The Courier in supporting Walter
A. Dimick for State Senator does so
regardless of any party belief or af
fllations. This is a time when party
ties are thrown to the forewinds.
The Courier's support is given be
cause of the belief and in fact the
knowledge that Dimick will make
good in the future as he certainly has
done in the past.
It will be remembered that in the
1909 session of the legislature when
Mr. Dimick was a member of the
house, when every conceivable influ
ence of machine politicians, was
brought to bear to weaken the Oregon
system and especially the direct
primary and the election of United
States Senators through statement
No. 1, that it was this same Dimick
who led the fight and killed the bill
introduced to repeal the law enact
ed by the people, instructing the mem
bers of the legislature to ratify and
elect the people's choice for U. S.
senator.
That it was the same Dimick that
back in 1909 put the rollers under the
Bean-Brooke bill, which bill if passed
would have made it a crime for can
didates for the legislature to sign
Statement No. 1 or any other promise
when becoming a candidate.
That this same Dimick back in
1909 together with Judge Campbell
and Mayor Jones introduced and
passed in the house twice, a bill mak
ing eight hours a days work in all
manufacturing institutions' runniifg
24 hours in any day. This bill was
defeated in the senate.
In 1911 when Mr. Dimick was
elected to the senate, he again re
newed this labor fight, reintroduced
his bili, secured its passage .only to
have it reconsidered the next day and
referred to a hostile committee by
Ben Selling, president of the senate,
which office has the power of refering
bills. He did not quit, but with the
aid of C. Schuebel, who went to Salem
to help him, pulled this bill out of this
committee and forced its passage the
second time, only to see his pet meas
ure go down to defeat in the House.
Still he did not give up and in 1913
he again introduced the same bill ad
drew the fire of the opposition lobby,
and in the meantime Representative
Schuebel's ten-hour bill had passed
the House almost unanimously, "due
to Schuebel's efforts, and Dimick was
big enough and broad enough to drop
his own bill that he had worked for
for six years and get behind Schue
bel's 10 hour bill, which accomplish
ed the same purpose and put it thru
the Senate, and it is now a law upon
the statute books, and the opposition
lobby then realized that Schuebel and
Dimick had caught them off guard
and put it over on them.
Then again in 1911 this same Dim
ick led the fight in the Senate against
the road bonding scheme of the Port
land automobile dealers and road
machinery men and was one of the
men largely responsible for getting
this proposed legislation in such
shape that the bond dealers and ma
ohinorv men were unable to see
where it could serve their purpose.
and they joined in asking its veto,
which was done.
In 1913 he again fought this gang
of bond and machinery dealers, op
posed them from start to finish,
stood up against the interstate bridge
at Vancouver and told them at that
time that if they passed the bill and
lowed Multnomah County to build
the bridge, that at the next session
of the legislature these boosters
would be' back and ask the state to
take the bridge off Multnomah Coun
ty's hands, and the Courier now pre
dicts that such will be the case.
It will be remembered that in 1913
this same Dimick killed the plumb
ing inspector (graft) bill attempted
to be put over by the boss plumbers
allowed Multnomah county to build
of Portland, whereby their inspector
could compel (under the disguise of
. sanitary rules) any plumbing not in
stalled according to their idea, to be
torn out and re-installed to suit them
and at heir prices and the customer
pay the bill.
He also killed the electric wiring
inspector bill fathered by the boss
electricians of Portland, equally as
vicious as the plumbing graft and m
troduced for the same purpose to
fleece the public
In 1913 on the last night of the
session, when threatened with pnea
monia and under the doctor's orders
to stay in bed, in response to a tele
phone call at 2 o'clock in the morn
ing, he got up, went to the Senate
Chamber, killed Thompson's swamp
land bill and made it possible for
about 12,000 acres of swamp land in
Lake County to be saved to the pub
lic school fund. Gov. West was try
ing to defeat this bill but unbeknown
to the governor and after thef ormer
hud failed to stop this grab, Dimick
killed the bill.
In 1913 he fought for the election
of road supervisors but was defeated
by the road machine crowd, whose
bonding schemes he had riddled.
He has consistently, insistantly
and continually been on the side of
economy, has always stood against
excessive appropriations, has fought
and killed many of them to the bene
fit of the taxpaying public.
In fact he has been called an ob
structionist, in the Legislature, and
he has repeatedly told the public that
if he is re-elected to the Senate (if
there is one after Nov. 3) that it is
not his purpose to introduce bills but
rather to kill them. That is what is
needed today in the legislature, a fool
killer, and the Courier knows of no
one who can better fill the bill than
Dimick.
The Courier has not at all times
agreed with Senator Dimick. It
must "be remembered that he has vot
ed on at least 3,000 bills in the leg
islature. He may have made some
mistakes, a man would be more than
human if he did not, but the Courier
believes that if any have been made,
they have been made honestly, and
that he has not blundered in mistakes
that cost the taxpayer money. His
record has been open, clear, and above
board.
In the light of this record is it
surprising that the State Federation
of Labor at its convention held at the
Dialles in 1912 based on report of
its representatives who attended the
Legislature, said:
"Dimick was always on his feet
defending the plain people's rights."
If there had been 29 other men in
the Senate like Dimick, there would
now be no movement to abolish it.
The voters' of Clackamas county
realize this and are going to re-elect
him.
The candidacy of Chris Schuebel
for Representative should be backed
by every man and woman in Clacka
mas County who has the financial in
terest of the County at heart.
The following should be sufficient
proof to ronvin"e any man: ... -
Fiior to his election as Represen
tative in 1912, water power was not
assessed in Clackamas County. It
was not on the tax roll. The public
derived no income from taxes derived
from it's assessment.
When Schuebel was elected he im
mediately studied out a plan for the
assessment of water power in this
state, which is worth millions of dol
lars to the big concerns and specula
tors, and the Courier emphatically
says as a direct result of this labor,
Clackamas County today has on it's
assessment rolls an assessed valua
tion of $973,489.00 against the water
power of the Portland Railway Co.,
assessed by the State Tax Commis
sion. Schuebel is the man that de
serves the credit for this. Voters
do not forget this. '
Schuebel's record shows that he
voted and worked against $1,540,415
in appropriations and legislative loot
ing. He introduced and passed in the
House an Anti-Lobbv bill, with the
purpose of putting an end to big
business lobbying in the third house.
This bill fell into the clutches of big
business concerns in the Senate and
was put to sleep. Schuebel promises
to continue this fight the next session
and here is hoping that he will put it
through.
' Schuebel's record . further shows
that he stood right on all matters.
He gave a good account of himself
and was weighed and found not want
ing and was recognized as one of the
strong men of the session. Voters
you are not going to defeat him and
send a new man without experience
to fill his place.
He introduced another water bill,
being House Bill No. 15 eomoelling
all persons and corporations who ap
propriated water prior to 1909 to pay
the same price per horsepower as
those appropriating water power since
May 22, 1909. As the law now stands
any person appropriating water for
power purposes since May 22, 1909,
must TlflV from 25c to $2.00 per horse
power per annum. But all persrons
or corporations who appropriated wa
ter power prior to May zl, omy
pay 10c on the first 100 horsepower, 5c
on the next 900 horsepower, and one
ppnt. on all in excess of 1,000 horse
power. This is uniust discrimination
in the interest of the water power
trust of the State. The powerful lob
by that infested the Legislature was
able to defeat this bill by i votes.
Had this bill passed the P. K. l,
A P. Co. alone would have been com
pelled to pay in license fees for water
power about $05,000.00 He promises
to renew this fight. '
Voters this sounds good to the
Courier, and it should sound good to
you.
Lazelle Road Open
The Lazelle road which has been
for several weeks under repair is now
open to the public, altho not yet
completed.
Girls Wanted!
(Over 18 years of age)
To OPERATE SEWING MACHINES
IN GARMENT FACTORY
Oregon City Woolen Mills
E YOU WOT
RIGHT LAST YEAH
IF
YOU WERE, THEN STAY
RIGHT THIS YEAR
JOHN COOK IS THE "JOKER"
Kill the "Vindication" Nonsence and
Stand by the County Court
The Courier may be dead wrong
but it is dead honest in the beliet
that John Cooke wants to be county
judge because he would prefer the job
to running a hardware store.
It is also dead honest in the belief
that his candidacy is a part of an ar
rangement made months ago to down
the officials of last summer's recall,
put a brother-in-law of ex-Judge
Beatie in his place; put a friend of-
ex-Judge Beatie in Commissioner
Smith's place, and if it went through
yell "vindication" and "down with the
recall."
Last spring, just after the primar
ies, a letter was received and print
ed in the Courier, from some friend
of the old "county ring" who had
more mouth than discretion.
Perhaps you remember it.
It gloated over the defeat of Har
ris, Grisenthwaite, Mulvey and Og
glesby in the primaries and stated
they would "get the rest of them"
at the fall elections. It warned the
recallers to have the coffins ready
for November.
If there was any good reason for
a change; if Judge Anderson was
mismanaging the county, was wast
ing the tax money, was violating the
law in bridge building, was letting
private contracts to concerns with
out competition if he was doing any
of the acts R. B. Beatie was recalled
for doing then this paper would not
criticize John Cooke or his motives.
But in view of a year of general
satisfaction the court has given, and
the unquestionable honesty and pur
poses of the two new men, Judge An
derson and J. W. Smith, we DO ques
tion the motives or John Uooke in
asking the voters to turn them down
si.'l ?ra!'" Ww oou'.ity judge.
At the last hour he goes out among
the farmers and tells them how dead
wrong conditions are in county man
agement, and how HE could change
them.
And then a farmer with a pretty
good memory rises up and asks what
kind of promises Mr. Cooke made
when he ran for sheriff, asks. if he
did not promise to pay his- own dep
uty, (which he forgot to do,) and if,
after having been elected on a plat
form of economy and retrenchment,
he did not rush to the Salem legis
lature "with a petition to HAVE HIS
SALARY INCREASED?
Mr. Cooke has not denied these
charges. The Courier is open to him
to deny them if they are not true.
If they are true, are his present
declarations of things, he will do if
you will ONLY elect him, of any
more weight?
Mr. Cooke tells the voters he made
a good sheriff. No doubt about it.
So did his brother-in-law, R. B.
Beatie.
William Taft made a splendid gov
ernor of the Philippines and a dis
mal failure as president.
Both Taft and Beatie were recall
ed by the people, and the Courier
wants something alittle stronger
than Mr. Cooke's promises and his
sheriff record to ask the people to
pull down Judge Anderson and give
his place to Mr. Cooke.
The most of Mr. Cooke's condem-
nation of Judge Anderson is simply
poppycock.
He relates how the district funds
have been overdrawn, and let us il
lustrate:
For instance in Mr. McGugin's dis
trict the funds were overdrawn. Did
Mr. Cokoe explain HOW and WHY?
It was because the last half, of the
tax had not been collected at the time
Mr. Cooke discovered this shining
irregularity, and the county court
transferred the amount lacking
(loaned, it from the general fund) so
that Mr. McGugin could complete his
road work. And when the last half
of the tax was collected the money
went back "to the general fund.
Awful, wasn't it? The county
court should have been recalled for
helping out this road district on its
work.
There are some road districts in
this county that are awfully long on
roads and very short on cash. There
are others with a few roads and rich.
The only thing is for those able to
help build the roads in the foothills
and poor sections. It MUST be done
this way in justice, and the county
court will keep right on doing it.
Mr. Cooke would do the same if he
were judge, regardless of his just-before-election
declarations.
In fact Mr. Cooke would not do
anything very much different only
tnat he might ask for an increase in
salary, and forget the promises he
is so generous with just now.
There is nothing to his candidacy
only that he wants to be county
judge.
He never made a protest at con
ditions or mismanagement when, his
brother-in-law R. B. Beatie, was
judge.
Why didn't he jump in then and
"save" the county?
Why didn't he go out to you farm
ers last summer, when YOU were
protesting and tell, you what he
could and would do to help you
change the county management?
Never a kick from Mr. Cooke then.
He SUSTAINED the county court
then, didn't he? He thought the
county court you recalled was all
right, didn't he?
Now it is all wrong, because Mr.
Cooke wants a job. .
That's all there is to it. -
The Courier doesn't believe - he
should be given the job.
The Courier doesn't believe any
man in the hardware or any other
business should be made county
judge.
We don't believe there is a single
sound reason for a change in the
county court.
The newly elected members of the
county court are clean, honest, honor
able square men.
Don't think of retiring such men
just to rub salve on somebody's raw
spot.
Don't be an aid society to a bunch
that thinks it can "come back."
Don't think of reversing the ver
dict you rendered so strongly last
fall, and paving the way for a free
f or all political fight in this county
for years to come.
Use your head. Size up the situ
ation. Don't boost a "vindication"
program covered up with "reform"
promises that simply can't work out.
Vote for the men that are honestly
working to give Clackamas county
good management. Stand with them
and give them a show.
The man who uses reason to guide
his vote, can't well do otherwise.
Stand by as you stood by last sum
mer and the Courier will stand by
you.
Night School to Re-Open
The night school under the direc
tion of the Women's Club will re-open
in the public library in this city Mon
day evening Oct. 26, at 7:30 P. M.
This year all branches will be taught.
A Pair of Bluffing Cowards
When a candidate cannot
draw a crowd he proposes a
joint debate with his leading
competitor. If Withycombe
hasn't time, or doesn't care
, about being a drawing card for
Dr. Smith, the latter might, if
he is anxious for a joint debate,
tackle W. S. U'Ren. -Woodburn
Independent.
Oh, but he isn't anxious. Smith
knows Withycombe won't debate is
sues with anyone, and that is why
he makes the proposition. And
Smith knows he himself would no
quicker debate with U'Ren than
Withycombe would with hfm. They
are a spineless, sandless pair of cow
ardly bluffers.
Will be Tried in November
Jesse Bagby, a Molalla farmer, will
be tried November 7 on the charge
of assault with a dangerous weapon.
Thee harge is that he attacked his
brother in a dispute over property."
Fritz Bayson will be tried Novem
ber 11 on the indictment of selling
liquor to a minor. Boysen is mana
ger of the Belle hotel at Milwaukie
and the charge is selling liquor to Es
ther Gibson last spring.
Charles Johns of the Butteville
country will be tried November 10 on
the indictment of contributing to the
delinquency of a minor.
W. A. Scoggan of Mulino will be
tried November 11 for selling liquor
outside of an incorporated city. The
charge is made that he peddled li
quor from his home.
NO CHANGE NEEDED
Estacada Progress Urges Voters to
Stand by Anderson and Smith
Eastern Clackamas county knows
that there has been more good work
done in the matter of road and bridge
buildng under the regime of the pres
ent county court, than had been ac
complished by a half dozen of their
predecessors. The George and Bar
ton bridges speak for themselves and
the saving in cost to the county, on
the George bridge, as compared with
the lower Eagle Creek structure,
shows economy in the pending of
the tax payers' money.
The present county court is doing
able work and voters should vote to
retain Judge Anderson and Commis-
ioner Smith and forget the party
lines. Their opponents may be able
man, but a change is not needed, for
these two men were the choice -ef-the
people at the former recall and
they are making good and will con
tinue to do so. Estacada Progress.
IT'S SAME
SHORT END DEAL
HOW MUCH LONGER ARE YOU
GOING TO STAND FOR IT?
DO YOU LIKE TO BE BUNCOED?
Do You like to be Made Monkeys of
Year After Year?
In anything but politics, a man
knows when he has enough, and will
quit.
That's where he differs from a p.
The hog doesn't even know when the
swill is exhausted.
In any kind of a business deal that
doesn't pan out right, the men affect
ed will get together r.nd change
things. Tlv y won't sUnd for getting
the worst of it. '
But in politics they will stand for
being three-shelled, double-crossed,
blue-skied and buncoed until the last j
bell rings, and I am wondering if it
isn't about time to hear the last cur
few.. Year after year the two old parties
have taken turns of making monkeys
of you, until it would seem you could
swing around the cage pole, show your
teeth and chatter.
Year after year the candidates and
nominees for both old parties have
taken turns at throwing the spear i.
to you until you are about all scars
and scabs.
And once more they are asking
you to swear you like it, to throw
your hat in the air and yell "Raw,
raw, raw," for the man doctor or the
horse doctor.
The raw, raw. raw. is the appro-
priate yell. It's the way you have
oeen getting it year after year, cam
paign after campaign.
You promised to "vote 'er straight"
'cause dad did) and took it out in
aw deals.
Now, honest, you voters, both men
and women, haven't you had about
enough ?
Haven't you been fooled and hum
bugged enough to last you for at
least one term ot governor ;
What will you ever e-et out of a
pair of old party doctors, one of which
sings A Greater Oregon and the
other "A Single Item Veto?"
Can you hear the chords of a re
duced state tax levy in their swan
songs :
Can you see how we are possibly to
have "A Creator Oregon" under thel
same old sharps and flats?
Can you see how Oregon will ever
develop with taxation at the unen
durable point?
Why don't you stow the whole
bunco business for four years, rock
your party baby to sleep, and vote for
man who has more sincere desire
for the erood of the masses in one
beat of his heart than the pair of
doctors have in a hundred years' cir
culation? Come out of it!
Come alive and give U'Ken a chance
to work out some of the ideas that
will make "A Greater Oregon" some
thing more than words ifet to an old
tune.
Let the fortunes of the rich dea.
do a little something toward helping
the state that made them "dead rich."
I hey don t put pockets m a shroud
or checkbooks in a casket.
When the silent undertaker gets
his yard stick and embalming appa
ratus at work on the silent dead, he
will never rise up and protest against
using a certain percent oi that tortune
in excess of $50,000 to build roadu,
clear the waste lands, build irrigation
works, and give work to the army of
unemployed the state now supports in
idleness.
U'Ren stands for cutting out the
scores of duplicate offices and useless
commissions. He champions tne
$1500 exemption measure, for the abv
iition of the senate; for proportional
representation ; for state-wide and na
tion-wide prohibition; for giving every
worthy man the right to work; tor
making men pay taxes according to
their ability to pay; for breaking up"
the vast timber and wild land specu
lation holdings; for making every man
who works for the staH or countj
earn his salary as a private employe
does for the development of Ore
gon along lines that will develop, ra
ther than along the lines ot a song.
Try mm a whirl, voters.
The Lord knows vou can't put your
foot into it any deeper.
Give him a term or governor to
"show vou."
You've pretty nearly piayeu tne
Dresent strintr out: and you SHOULD
have had about enough of promises
and hot air.
Think it over asain.
Don't play the party dummy and
get the worst of it any longer.
Put an "X" mak before the name
of W. S. U'Ren November 3, and give
HIM a chance at Oregon.
If You Were A Boss
If you were the head of a business
loitein and needed an expert ac
countant you would pictc the man who
WAS an accountant, wouldn't you ?
Look at county business the same
is private business.
There is no better qualified tnf.n for
county treasurer than J. O. Staats.
The work is along the lines oi nis
life work. It's the job he is fitted for
that's all.
Mr. Staats can and will save this
co- nty a lot of money, because he tun
and will do the work. He won't sit
around, draw his salary and let depu
te earn his monev. It isn't his way.
Clackamas County will make a good .'
nv"-Btmf!.it in Mr. Staats because ne
hs" the qualifications fitness.
The county treasurer's office is a
""-'"t nflW now fhrit. it ha
tho tax collections. A man is needed
wh knows the business and who can
do the work.
Staats U the man put him In.
Chamberlain Here October 30
Senator George E. Chamberlain
will speak in Oregon City Saturday
night, October 31.
Eaton Jumps Forward
Clarence L. Eaton of this city has
been admitted to practice in the
United States supreme court, admit
ting him to practice in all the fed
eral courts of the country. ' Eaton' is
a young man with a splendid future.
Good Enough For Any Man's X.
It is said the Reublican Caunty
Comittee members and leading politi
cians are near political convulsions
over the sentiment they find through
out the county for Koahler for sheriff.
The Uswego German hasn t hired
any bands or made much noise, but
ever since the spring primaries he
has been everlasting and persistently
at work, touching elbows with the vo
ters and making friends, and now his
strength is alarming.
Mr. Koehler looks very much like
the next sheriff. He would make this
county an able official. He is a man
who will be all the time on the iob
if he is elected. Never a word has been
said against him. He is good enough
for any man to use the X on.
Whiskers and Spectacles
Tuesday's Enterprise printed what
that paper stated was the address of
President cede ot the editorial asso
ciation in lus retirement from the
position.
lhe Courier editor heard President
Bede's address read from manuscript
last Saturday, and it must have
shrunken some after Editor Brodie
got it.
Mr. Bede made some rather com
plimentary comments on the Courier's
editorial page and the backbone of
the men behind it.
Can't find them nowhere in the ad
dress the Enterprise printed.
But such omissionds will happen.
Editor Brodie is very near sighted
and then, too, he has a drooping, bay
mustache blocked out either of
which may account for the omissio,.
Square and Clean
Every day the chances of W. C.
Green for County Clerk grow better.
He irankly says he wants the olhce
and will give voters the very best ol
service in return.
There is not a voter in Clackamas
County, man or woman, who can give
a good reason why he should not be
elected.
He is one of the snuarest and clean
est men in Clackamas County good
natured. obliirintr. and courteous. He
wo'ild make the county one of the
most satisfactory and obliging clerks.
No man or woman would ever regret
voting for him.
The Courier hopes to see Mr. Green
elected and it looks very much a3 if
he would be.
Just Plain Business
The Courier backs the statements
of Mayor. Jones that the ONE thing
for Oregon City voters to do is to get
behind the amendment that will be
presented to the voters November 9,
and pass it.
it provides tor an s-mui tax to pay
off Oregon City's indebtedness in
yearly installments.
It further provides for a 5-mill tax
to pay the city's running expenses, un
der a budget, with restrictions that
expenses shall never be greater than
tnis nve muis.
It will pav our debts at one enu,
and stop debts at the other.
It's lust plain business a system
that should have been adopted long
ago. it s a system tnat nas got to oe
gotten down to or uregon city win
remain a city oi renters.
Think it over, and get in behind it.
H A LF WAY SUPPORT
Why Did Enterprise Go Half Way Up,
Then suddenly vjuiw
A while ago the Enterprise started
to take un the Republican nominees,
one euch day, and give reasons for
their election.
It took up four, county clerk, coun
ty treasurer, sheriff and county com
missioner.
Then it stopped.
There has been a loud silence since.
The wonder is why.
Can't it support Judge Anderson?
Can't it support Representative
Scheubel and the nominees Hunt and
Kraxburger?
Can't it ask for Senator Dimick's
return?
What is tho reason the Enterprise
only goes part way with tho nomi
nees ? It says it never bolts the Re
publican ticket (hasn't in 48 years)
then why doesn't it support them?
WHAT do you suppose it is wait
ing for?
Lest We Forget
Oregon City, Ore. Oct. 18, '14.
Editor Courier:
In last week's issue of your paper
I notice an article copied from an an
ti saloon league paper where it says
it was the Enterprise that led the
successful fight to make Oregon City
dry.
I want to say that in the start
there was.i't any fight to make Ore
gon City dry, but there were con
ditions in Oregon City that couldn't
be tolerated, and when these certain
conditions, or management of the sa
loons were brought to light the people
of the town threw ALL the saloons
out.
The fight, or exposure rather,
dates back to the fall of 1912 and
the Enterprise had nothing to do with
it. By referring to the Courier of
Dec. 6th, 1912 you will find an ar
ticle closing with these words:
People want to know if this
council or its individual mem
bers have any interests in these
saloons which refuse to obey the
laws. If so, they want to know
what that interest is. And
they are going to find out, are
finding out, and this paper is
going to help them.
Yours for the Truth,
Chas. F. Terrill.
LIVE WIRES HAD
Ell
CURRENT
AND GEORGE RANDALL GRABS A
HOT ONE
BOOZE WIRE WAS VERY WARM
Tt maletolt Got a Severs Shock, But He
May Recover
The biggest circus the Live Wires
have had for some time was Geo.
Randall's arguments against prohibi
tion. It sounded so iunny to these
hard-headed business men, who knew
what the benefits were to Oregon City
that they simply roared with laugh
ter. To add to the fun C. E. Spence,
master of the State Grange, asked Mr.
Randall which side he was arguing
for.
L. Adams made telling arguments
for statewide prohibition, and told
ot the benefits to this city. Stating
that the traveling and wholesale men
he came into contact with in his busi
ness were so impressed by the ex
cellent conditions in dry cities that
they would vote dry almost to a man.
Mr. Adams, in his remarks said that
"Mr. Templeton had made the state
ment that Oregon City was having
shipped in $5000 worth of booze per
month . now." Mr. Adams said he
looked up the shipment records and
did not find over $400 worth per
month.
Templeton sprang to his feet and
said, "Mr. Adams, you must have
listened to some liars, for I did not
say that."
Mr. Adams replying that Gtx.
Randall told him that Templeton had
made that statement.
Templeton said, "I did not say any
such thing to Randall." Randall wa
on his feet, "Mr. Templeton, you dlu
say so." Mr. Templeton: "What I dUl
say was $4000 worth. Mr. Adams
says these figurers are incorrect for
the books do nots how any such ship
ments." After a vote had been taken on two
of the measures under discussion, Dr.
Clyde Mount said he thought the ga-"
thering should not get into politics
and show where they stood on the
measures. He was supported in this
contention by Joseph Hedges. C. E.
Spence said he could see no reason
why a vote should not be taken on
each measure. Someone said Dr.
Mount was afraid of the results in re
gard to the Dentistry Bill and Pain
less Parker. It was decided not to
vote on the measures and to rescind
which had been voted on. J. J. Tobin
of the Board of Trade was permitted
to address the meeting on a special
matter and invited the Live Wires to
participate in the work of improving
Main Street, stating that overalls and
shovels would be supplied and lots
of real work.
Fifteen of the 29 measures were
taken up and discussed, both for and
against, but the prohibition amend
ment was the main topic of interest. '
George Randall opposed the amend
ment, on the grounds that he was a
hop grower and that a man should
have the privilege to drink if he de
sired. L. Adams, C. - K. Spence and
S. Macdonald took the other point of
view and presented strong argu
ments in favor of a dry state.
M. D. Latourette argued for the
creation of the otlice of lieutenant
governor, as did also E. P. Rands, T.
W. Sullivan and Rev. Edwards. C. E.
Spence vigorously opposed it. Mr.
Spence also opposed the measure to
give the state power to incur indebt
edness for irrigation ana power pro
jects.
Justice Sievers and J. W. Loder ar
gued against the three tax measures
submitted by the legislature.
Countv Clerk Mulvey and ttev.
FnrH arirued acainst the creation of
the two normal schools, and B. T. Mc-
Bain against the amendment lor the
merging of adjoining cities and towns.
.T. E. Hedires sooke for the non
partisan iudiciary bill; Attorney Sch
eubel opposed the tax code measures;
and A. A. Price opposed the equal as
sessment and taxation legislative
measure
It was a decidedly interesting ses
sion, and next Tuesday night the re
maining 14 measures win oe uis-
cusscd.
We Wonder
Dr. James Withycomba spent a day
the naner mi Is Wednesday, shak
en? hands with the employees. We
yonder if he ever spent a day tnere
iefore in shaking hands when he was
;not a nominee I
Over Until Next Week
Tlio fnnrinr hna Vipn dfihifred this
urooV VinrioH nn with ioh work and
newspaper copy. Extra pages will be
run next weeK to laxe care oi tne
several articles crowded out of this
Union Dryy Meeting Sunday Night
Next Sundav nitrht a monster union
mppt.inc is to be held at Shively'a
Opera House, in which every church
in the city will join. lion. ueo. v.
Brownell is to be the speaker of the
evening and the Alldredgo quartette
will Ring, ine committee is preuBi
ing for an overflow meeting, wihich
f necessary will be held in the Pres
byterian, church.
'.Tnfcn W Sent, nf ScottS MillsliaS
purchased the W. W. Alldredge homo
at 1401 Seventh Street and moved to
this city.
cuts the thick, choking mucus, and
clears away the phlegm. Opens up
the air passages and stops th eho.irse
coueh. The gasping, strangling
fight for breath given wa to ouiet
KfontViinw nnH nenceful sleep. Har-
-o!d- Bere,--May. Mirk, Tgritesi. "We
give Foley's Honey and lar to our
children for croup and it always acts
quickly." Jones Drug Co.