University Ex
Eugene
OREGON- CITY
34th Year
OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1916
Number 3 1
COTOIM
LABOR VOTE
ILL
HELP M WILSON
SENATOR HOLLIS PREDICTS BIG
VOTE FROM WORKINGMEN.
WILSON WILL WIN
MANY CHARTERS OF FREEDOM
Labor Helps Those Who Help Labor.
No Other Would Dare to Aid
the Cause of Workers
There can be no doubt that the la
bor vote in this campaign is very
strongly for Wilson. Union labor in
particular is favorable to him in ac
cordance with its declared policy that
"Labor helps those who help Labor."
The list of helpful things done for
labor by President Wilson is impres
sive. He began by placing in his cabinet
as secretary of labor a union coal
miner, William B. Wilson, a man of
courage, power and intellect. No one
has attacked the ability or the record
of Secretary Wilson. He has proved
his worthiness of the trust conferred
upon him, and the judgment of the
president has been vindicated. He is
the first labor union man to sit at the
cabinet table.
The Wilson administration at the
very outset passed an eight-hour bill
for women and children in the Dis
trict of Columbia. There was no de
termined opposition to this measure
by republicans in congress. The
question of the eight-hour day had
been investigated for thirty years. Its
merit was conceded. To claim at this
late day that it should be "investi
gated" is political buncombe pure and
simple. It is the obstructive tactics
of the confirmed stand-patter.
Next followed the exemption of
labor unions and farmers' associations
from the operation of the Sherman
antitrust act. This was Labor's
"Charter of Freedom." It was ac
companied by the abolition of ex
parte injunctions, and the guarantee
of jury trials in contempt cases.
Then came the "Seamen's Charter
of Freedom." Sailors were the only
men who could be arrested and re
stored by force to their jobs. This
particular form of involuntary servi
tude was abolished by the Seamen's
act. The Wilson administration
stands pledged to its strict enforce
ment. The child labor bill, prohibiting the
products of child labor in interstate
commerce, had been pending in con
gress for years. President Wilson
insisted that it be passed before the
last session closed. Here was the
"Children's Charter of Freedom."
Then followed the Compensation
act for workmen killed or injured in
government employ, another act of
justice too long delayed.
These conspicuous laws for labor
were buttressed by many others of
which labor heartily approved, such
as the income tax, the Alaska railway
bill, the inheritance tax, the govern
ment ownership of armor and nitrate
plants, the federal reserve act and
the rural credits bill. Moreover, the
eight-hour day was enforced in all
government departments, and other
conditions of labor were greatly im
proved.
The climax was the Adamson bill
for the eight-hour day on railroads,
not on the ground of expediency, but
because President Wilson thought it
was right.
It is a very striking fact that all
these things helpful to labor were put
in force through the federal govern'
ment, not through the state govern
ments. How can they be defended,
under the traditional democratic doc
trine?
To begin with, it is the first and
basic principle oi the democratic par
ty to protect the great mass of people
from the aggressions of the powerful
few. It is the belief of the democrat
ic party that those who gain undue
power, financial or otherwise, will use
is for their own benefit to the great
disadvantage of all the rest. It has
been our experience that the powerful
few have received their most faithful
service from the managers of the re
publican party.
But, while the first and basic prin
ciple of the democratic party has not
changed since its beginning, the meth
od of carrying that principle into ef
feet has changed greatly. At the be
ginning of our government the fear
that struck deepest into the heart of
the average man was the fear of a
military dictator. The democratic
party was impelled, therefore, to op
pose a strong federal government, for
fear the people would lose their lib
erties.
And so it came about that the first
policy of the democratic party was to
oppose a centralized form of govern
ment, and stand strongly for states'
rights. This continued to be their
policy down to recent times.
But meanwhile a financial giant
had developed infinitely more power
ful than any military despot. Com
binations of capital, directed by gi
gantic captains of industry, advised
and defended by the keenest lawyers
"attained a power that was stealing
the rights and happiness of the peo-
SON AND ATTORNEYS
SUED BY OLD FATHER
DESTITUTE AND INFIRM, MAN
ASKS THAT PROPERTY BE
RESTORED TO HIM
Fritz Timmerman, aged, infirm and
deaf, unable to understand or read
English, is before the circuit court of
Clackamas county with a complaint
filed on Monday, to prosecute his son,
Carl Timmerman, for the alleged
fraudulent acquisition of title to prop
erty in the northern part of the coun
ty valued at $10,000 and to cancel the
deed thereto and a mortgage against
the land.
The complaint says that while the
elder Mr. Timmerman was suffering
a nervous breakdown and was ill, his
son, Carl, induced him to deed away
his property and only means of sup
port with the understanding that the
document was simply a lease. Stat
ing that his will, during his enfeeb
led condition, was always subordinate
to that of his son, Mr. Timmerman
alleges that he signed the deed while
physically unable to do so and upon
the repeated and urgent requests of
his son.
Mr. Timmerman, a native of Ger
many, is 77 years old and has been a
resident of Clackamas county for 40
years. For the past six years he has
been undergoing a nervous breakdown
and at present is an inmate of St.
Joseph's home for the aged at Port
land, where he says he is in debt for
his living expenses.
The old man brought a suit last
year to have the deed given to his
son cancelled and his complaint in the
present action says that through a
conspiracy between his son and at
torneys for both sides he was induced
to drop the action. The case was dis
missed on April 19, 1915. He names
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Timmerman as
defendants in the present action and
includes C. Schuebel, an Oregon City
attorney, at trustee.
On the occasion of a minor fire in
the home on the Timmerman proper
ty, Fritz Timmerman alleges that his
son collected $42 insurance money and
that he and his wife, Harriet, accused
the aged man of setting the Are and
others in the same neighborhood in
the hope that they could have him
committed to the insane asylum as an
arson fiend.
Devoid of means and infirm, the
old man says he was forced to take
up his residence with Carl and Har
riet. He characterizes Harriet, Carl's
wife, as a "fortune hunting widow
from California with numerous chil
dren by a former husband." Threats
to commit the old man to the asylum
forced him to leave the shelter of his
home and seek refuge in St. Joseph's
home at Portland.
Another son, Julius Timmerman,
learning the conditions by which Carl
and Harriet are alleged to have gained
title to the old man's property, volun
tarily released a $2500 mortgage
against the place. The present action
asks that the deed conveying the prop
erty and a $400 mortgage be declared
cancelled. Milo C. King of Gresham
is attorney for Fritz Timmerman.
pie more effectively than any Caesar
or Napoleon.
These financial and industrial gi
ants found it to their interest to work
through the strong federal control
that had developed under republican
administrations. They obtained the
passage of laws that made their plun
derings and encroachments secure.
It was useless to oppose them by
state action, for they were more pow
erful than states. It was cowardly
to abstain from forging a federal
weapon for fear the common enemy
might pluck it away from the people
and use it against them.
And so the democratic party, still
true to its basic principle of protect
ing the many from the aggressions of
the few, has been forced to change its
policy, its method of carrying its bas
ic principle into effect. In certain
cases, therefore, it has abandoned the
doctrine of states' rights and used the
strong arm of the federal government
to achieve its purposes. Other mat
ters, with which the states could suc
cessfully cope, it has left to the ac
tion of state and local authorities.
Our republican friends are aghast
at this change of front. They tell
us how differently old-time democrats
behaved. They are suddenly much
concerned for the sacredness of states
rights. In fact the traditional poli
cies of the two parties have been
largely interchanged.
But our friends the progressives
are very much attracted to the effi
ciency and humanity of modern de
mocracy. They see their platform of
1912 very largely translated into leg
islative and administrative action.
And, best of all, labor men feel
that they have found a real friend, a
president who understands them, who
wants to help them and who does bet
ter by them than he or his party
promised. They realize that if the
president is defeated, it will be be
cause he stood by them in their hopes
and aspirations. They know full well
that if he is defeated, no other pres
ident will dare to champion their
cause. And laboring men, under
standing these things, will surely help
President Wilson, because his defeat
would be their defeat, his victory will
be theirs. By Senator H. F. Hollis
of New Hampshire.
TAXES FALL OFF
151234 IN YEAR
ASSESSOR JACK FIGURES LOSS
TO COUNTY FROM REDUCTION
IN TAX ASSESSMENT
ROPERTY VALUE $23,038,965
Non-Tillable Lands Bring Revenue on
$7,851,865. Public Utilities
Taxed Separately
A summary of the 1916 tax assess
ment rolls prepared late last week by
County Assessor J. E. Jack, shows
that Clackamas county will derive
ust $55,235 less from taxation this
year than it did a year ago. And
this in spite of the fact that a reduc
tion of approximately $1,148,00 has
been made over the assessment of the
previous year by droping the assess
ment against the Oregon-California
grant lands. Therefore, it is appar
ent from Mr. Jack's summary that
$992,765 of the deficiency due to the
absence of the grant land assessment
ha3 been made up for in other ways,
lthough the levy has not been great
er than before.
The total value of all taxable prop
erty in the county, excepting that
owned by public utility corporations,
is placed at $23,038,965 by Assessor
Jack. This, as stated before, does not
include the assessment against 98,
206 acres of O. & C. grant lands
which last year were assessed at $1,
148,000, and it does not include the
public service companies assessment,
which is' made by the state tax com
mission, and which was $6,085,961 for
the year 1915.
The heaviest revenue to the county
comes, according to the assessor's
statement, from the tax assessment
on 417,618 acres of non-tillable lands,
which is $7,851,865. The next hea
viest is upon 106,049 acres of tillable
lands, assessed at $6,385,020. The re
port also shows that there are 7041
head of horses and mules in the coun
ty as well as 16,003 cattle, 10,543
sheep and goats, 5321 swine and 1552
dogs.
The summary prepared by Assessor
Jack showing the total value of all
taxable property appearing on the as
sessment rolls, as equalized by the
county board of equalization, , is as
follows:
106,049 acres of tillable lands, $6,-
385,020.
417,618 acres of non-tillable lands,
$7,851,865.
Improvements on deeded or pat
ented lands, $1,515,090.
Town and City lots, $3,705,660.
Improvements on Town and City
lots, $1,486,265.
Automobiles, $135,650
Stationary Engines and Manufac
turing Machinery, $430,485.
Merchandise and Stock in Trade,
$519,730.
Farm Implements, Wagons, Carn
ages, etc., $124,105.
Money Notes and Accounts, $12,-
200.
2,500 Shares of Stock, $109,000.
Hotel and Office Furnitiure, etc.,
$16,530.
7,0441 Horses and Mules, $333,400.
16,003 Cattle, $358,655.
10,543 Sheep and Goats, $20,215.
5,321 Swine, $26,305.
1,552 Dogs, $8,790.
Total value of all taxable property
$23,038,965.
SABBATH SCHOOLS
HOLD CONVENTION
STREET PARADE IS FEATURE OF
IMPORTANT ANNUAL MEET.
OFFICERS ELECTED
A program of unusual interest fea
tured the quarter-centennial conven
tion of the Clackamas County Sunday
School association, held at the Presby
terian church in Oregon Lity on
Thursday, Friday and Saturday of
last week. Twenty-five years ago the
first convention was held in the same
church.
Prominent workers in the state
Sunday school ranks were in attend
ance at the local convention and
workers from all parts of the county
assembled to take part in the pro
gram, which started on Thursday
evening with a union prayer service
led by the Rev. A. J. Ware.
The most interesting ceremony of
the convention from the public view
point was the street parade on Satur
day morning. Several hundred Sun
day school children and their elders
paraded Main street in Oregon City
between admiring rows of citizens.
The line of march was led by the
boys' band and A. C. Howland acted
as marshal.
A number of interesting talks,
special musical numbers and prayer
services were the attractions that
drew Sunday school workers to the
Presbyterian church throughout the
convention. Sunday school problems
(Continued on Pag 8)
WEST LAUDS WILSON
AT STREET MEETING
FORMER GOVERNOR ATTACKS
LIQUOR TRAFFIC AND SUP
PORTS TAX AMENDMENT
Woodrow Wilson's record as pres
ident of the United States and the
reasons why he should be re-elected
by the people he has so faithfully
served, were presented in clear and
forceful style to a crowd of 300 vot
ers at Seventh and Main streets on
Monday night by ex-Governor Os
wald West. Mr. West likened the
United States to a huge corporation
and drew for his audience a logical
parable to show just how President
Wilson's program and actions would
have benefited the masses concerned
in the management of a private indus
try. "He has been working, directing
every thought and energy to the wel
fare of the common people, people like
you and I, who should, now that our
turn has come, show our appreciation
for this service. President Wilson
has set up a new form of management
in our federal corporaton. He has
cleansed it of the filth that was in
bred by too close contact with the
Wall sreet crowd. He has taken pow
er from the hands of Wall street mil
lionaires and put it in the hands of
the people of the whole land," said
the former state executive.
Mr. West directed attention to
some of the many wonderful legisla
tive acomplishments of the Wilson ad
ministration. He pointed out the ben
efits of this legislation to all classes
and showed the wonders it was work
ing in the improvement of conditions
in America.
At the time of and following the
former governor's address, a Wood
row Wilson league was recruited
among the large audience that lis
tened attentively to the speaker. It
is estimated that more than 200 names
were signed to the league's roll at
this meeting, making the total mem
bership of the league more than 500
persons. Dozens of republicans hes
itated to sign the roll because of their
partisanship, but when they learned
that it was a non-partisan organiza
tion, merely requiring that a voter be
a staunch supporter of Woodrow Wil
son, scores of these republicans
signed.' -
Mr. West vigorously attacked the
proposed brewers' amendment to the
state constitution, calling it the work
of crooks and schemers trying to dis
rupt the homes of Oregon that their
own purses might wax fat on the pro
ceeds. He supported the tax limitation
amendment and asked the support of
the congressional candidacy of Mark
Wetherford of Albany. He pointed
out the fact that W. C. Hawley, pres
ent member of the house of repre
sentatives and the man whom Weth
erford would succeed, had not one sin
gle acomplishment to his credit for
all the time he had been at Washing
ton. 'Hawley has been pussy-footing
around with water on both shoul
ders," said Mr. West. "He is playing
the game with the wets when he is
among the wets and he is the finest
ehurch member and ardent dry work
er in the land when he is among the
dry forces. I can promise you per
sonally that Mark Wetherford will
do as much in congress at W. C. Haw
ley did. Hawley did not do anything;
therefore, I am safe in making such
a promise.
In connection with the fight against
the booze traffic Mr. West took time
to sternly score Paul Wessinger of
the Weinhard brewery interests as an
enemy to society and a crook of the
first rank. He said:
"Booze is a battle between the
home and certain selfish interests, of
which Paul Wessinger is a type. He
has no right to roll around in the rot
ten wealth and the automobiles he
has acquired by tearing little children
from their mothers and fathers from
their homes. I am for the little wom
an who sits at home while the booze
business takes the pay check that
should be bringing food and clothes
to her little ones and while the hus
band and the father of her children
is drinking his life away. For every
pound of hops and barley that goes
into Paul Wessinger's dirty vats a
child is taken from the homes of this
state to supply the demand for drink
ers. How many men do you suppose
Paul Wessinger has sent to the pern
tentiary? How many crimes have
been committed as a result of drink
ing his booze?
"No man has a right to engage in
a business that capitalizes the weak
ness of others. The battle to better
conditions has been waging for cen
turies, but you can't fight that battle
when you're full of booze. I am
fighting this thing for the little worn
en, the mothers, in the homes of Or
egon and if we don't get Paul Wes
singer and his bunch this time we
will get them next time or the next
time. And when we get Oregon dry
we will go after the other states un
til there is'nt a drop of booze left in
the nation. We will have national
prohibition, and in fightng the booze
traffic we don't care how we do it
just so long as we get the results."
Mr. West landed some hard vocal
blows on Julius Wilbur and Fritz Boy
sen, and other such lawbreakers,
classing them as the worst type of
social evils and praising Clackamas
county officers for their efforts to rid
REN
ILL
OF
POLITICAL"BEE"OF LIVE WIRES
BRINGS OUT POINTED DIS-
CUSSION OF BALLOT
BEER BILL BUMPED BY TALK
Grant Dimick Reverses on Initiative.
Constitution No Longer Sacred,
Says O. D. Eby
In the absence of the speaker ap
pointed to uphold the afflirmative, not
one favorable word was spoken for
the so-called people's land and loan
bill, the negative of which was pre
sented by John W. Loder at the poli
tical "bee" held by the Live Wires of
the Commercial club last night. The
meeting was attended by more than
100 members and their friends and
some highly interesting arguments
for and against each measure on the
November ballot were presented.
Judge Grant B. Dimick, denouncing
the people's land and loan law, called
it the work of political fanatics and
grafters, and said that as long as
such men as W. S. U'ren accepted the
money of doting old women like Mrs.
Fels, that the ballots of Oregon elec
tions would be shamed with such
visious proposals as this rabid single
tax measure has been proved to be.
The proposal was strongly denounced
by several other speakers.
In connecton with the discussion of
the Pendleton Normal school bill, the
negative of which was supported by
the Rev. J. R. Landsborough, O. D.
Eby, assigned to the affirmative argu
ment, made the startling statement
that not a single lawyer or jurist in
Oregon knows what the constitution
of the state is. This, he said, was
due to the fact that every one want
ing a measure upon the ballot initiat
ed it as a constitutional amendment,
whereas the constitution should be
merely the sacred boundary within
which all statutes must come. He
said that this and other constitution
al amendments should be voted down
simply because they would tear to
peces the state constitution. By
tatutory enactment, Mr. Eby said,
such measures should be attempted.
J. E. Hedges, who was a member of
the state legislature at the time when
that body killed four Oregon Normal
schools in one action, supported the
proposition to put a Normal at Pen
dleton, calling attention to the dire
needs of the state and to the propri
ety of establishing such a school at
Pendleton.
The Rev.- Mr. Landsborough made
the suggestion that the $125,000 ap
propriation asked for Pendleton be
used to establish ten normal schools
in different parts of the state in con
nection with the high schools. It is
his idea to make these ten schools
serve the students of each community
without necessitating travel or a
great outlay of funds on the part of
the state for creation and mainte
nance of imposing institutions. He
would keep these ten schools of a high
standard, asking the same entrance
requirements as are asked at the pres
ent school.
Grant B. Dimick, who injected
much interesting discussion into the
meeting, denounced the Oregon initi
ative, for which he was such a faith
ful worker before its adoption. Mr.
Dimick presented his reasons for this
change of mind, saying that the lmti
ative has been the cause of many po
litical crimes in this state; that it is
the cause of clusterng upon the ballot
each year such awful proposals that
the securty of the state is in disgrace
with eastern capital. Judge Dimick
said he was more anxious to see the
initiative removed now than he had
been to see it pass when he was work
ing for it. The referendum, he held.
was much in favor and very valuable
Most of the propositions on the bal
lot were debated and those remaining
will be discussed at the regular meet
ing next Tuesday noon. The brewers'
bill received considerable attention
from the meeting last night. Ralph
Shepherd supported the proposal and
Chris. Schuebel opposed it. Several
other speakers denounced it. Judge
Dimick entered the discussion again
to say that the prohibitionsts them
selves were personally to blame for
the existence on the ballot of this bill-
He recommended that voters leave the
present prohibition laws alone and
vote "no" on both bills that mikht ef
feet prohibition. Because prohibition
workers promised two years ago that
the prohibition law merely meant the
death of the saloon evil and that im
portation would not cease, following
their promises by making the ex
pense of importing beer so great that
drinkers almost always imported
stronger drinks, mostly whisky, the
desire to start the manufacture of the
lighter beverage had been created.
said Judge Dimick.
the county of the foul influence of
such men.
H. G. Starkweather, chairman of
the democratic county committee, in
troduced the former governor and at
the mention of the name of Woodrow
Wilson loud cheers and applause
greeted the speaker.
IRK
DOROTHY CASE GETS
A LEGAL BIRTHRIGHT
FAMILY FEUD IN COURT TURNS
THE HEART OF JUDGE H. S.
ANDERSON
A birthright was given to little
Dorothy Case and Thelma Case is
honored in death, as she sleeps in her
tiny grave in Riverview cemetery,
Portland, having the stigma of pos
sible namelessness removed, through
a decision rendered by County Judge
H. S. Anderson on Monday. At the
same time the contract marriage
or the common law marriage was de
clared valid so far as Clackamas
county probate matters are concerned.
Judge Anderson rendered decision
in the action of Mrs. Ralph Smith and
Cassius M. Case to displace Leona
Charters Case as administratrix of
the estate' of Ernest R. Case, husband
of Leona Case. The women are sis
ters and Cassius M. Case is a brother
of Ernest R. Case, who was killed at
Parkplace on October 3, 1915, by Sam
Case, another brother.
The evidence of the prosecution
hinged largely upon the allegation
that Ernest R. Case and Leona Chart
ers were not legally married, and the
allegation was admitted by attorneys
for Leona Case. They proved to the
satisfaction of the -court, however,
that the contract of marriage be
tween the two was binding and that
both had thought of it as binding
during the lifetime of Ernest
Pictures of the little grave of Thel
ma Case, marked by a simple head
stone, were introduced as evidence by
attorneys for Leona Charters Case,
mother of the dead girl. The other
daughter, 2-year-old Dorothy was
brought before the court, and in ren
dering the decision by which the little
tot will have a name on her journey
through life, Judge Anderson men
tioned the baby:
"We have more than property
rights to deal with here. We have
more than a mere matter of dollars
and cents to consider. We have to
remove a stigma from the name of
this little baby, a stigma which might
blot her entire life and in rendering a
decision I am giving Dorothy Case the
right to the name which the facts in
ths case indicate she is entitled to."
Judge Anderson said.. , '
VIFE SHOOTS TWICE
AT WILLIAM FISHER
DIVORCE CASE PENDS, WOMAN
HELD IN JAIL IN WANT OF
BAIL. JEALOUSY CHARGED
An attempt to kill her husband,
William Fisher, at his home at Sandy
resulted in the arrest last Saturday
of Mrs. Catherine Fisher. Mrs. Fish
er was taken into custody at Sandy
immediately after the shooting by
Deputy Sheriff Deaton and within an
hour Sheriff W. J. Wilson had arrived
at the mountain town. Mrs. Fisher
waived preliminary examination be
fore Justice of the Peace Pomeroy and
was bound over to the grand jury.
She is held in the county jail here in
default of $2000 bail.
For ten years the Fishers' lived at
Sandy. Recently Mrs. Fisher left the
home and went to Portland to live
apart from her husband. She filed a
divorce complaint against him in
which cruelty is the chief allegation
and the action is pending in Judge
Campbell's court. On Saturday af
ternoon, Mrs. Fisher went to Sandy,
apparently with a premeditated plan.
She entered the home of her husband
about five o'clock, and as he stood at
the telephone she fired two shots from
a revolver. One of the shots was not
located, but the other narrowly
missed Mr. Fisher, imbedding itself
in the wall a few inches from the tel
ephone at which he stood.
Mr. Fisher dropped the telephone
recfiiver and snatched the trun from
his wife's hand. Mrs. Fisher fled to
the home of a friend and there she
was found a few minutes later by
Deputy Sheriff Deaton. Mrs. Fisher
declared that she had been preparing
to go to the office and surrender her-
seif to the law, and she said:
"I wanted to kill my husband be
cause he had ruined me,"
Officials here understand that an
other woman enters into the case and
that jealousy inspired Mrs. Fisher to
attempt to take the life of her hus
band. The woman was Drougnt to
Oregon City late Saturday night and
at one o'clock Sunday morning was
locked in jail.
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CHAMBERLAIN SPEAKS
George E. Chamberlain, sen-
ior United States senator from v
Oregon, will speak on Tues- J
dav evening at Busch's hall.
J The senator is asking the re-
election of Woodrow Wilson
. and will present the political
. questions of the day with the J
M knowledge trained bv intimate
j contact with the affairs of na- !
tinnal povernment. J
The Courier $1.00 per year.
PART! MEETINGS
ENLIVEN VOTERS
LARGE AUDIENCES HEAR DEMO
CRATIC COUNTY AND STATE
OFFICE SEKERS
GILBERT L, HEDGES POPULAR
Idle Talk of Opponent ia Laughable.
Meetings Continue This Week.
Republicans Attend
Democratic meetings, addressed by
local candidates for state and county
offices, have proved the sensation of
the past ten days, and the attendance
has been increasing at each meeting
in a manner that is causing no end of
concern among the strictly partisan
"old guard" of the republicans.
Sad to relate, indeed, is the fact
that a large percentage of each audi
ence has been republican. The people
are awakening to some very pertinent
truths regarding certain office-seekers,
and if the returns on November
7th don't show the biggest "invisible"
split in the republican forces of the
county n local matters, the Courier
editor will be tempted to hurl his new
fall hat into the Willamette river on
the next morning.
Tuesday night a fine crowd heard
District Attorney Gilbert L. Hedges,
J. E. Jack, G. F. Johnson, C. W. Ris
ley and Ed Fortune at West Linn. It
was one of the most enthusiastic
meetings of the compaign and, sig
nificantly, many well known republi
cans sat in the audience. Wednesday
the democrats spoke to a good audi
ence at Logan. This evening they
will appear at Needy. On Friday '
evening the local candidates will bo
at Wichita and on Saturday evening
a big crowd wll no doubt be on hand
at a meeting at Sandy.
The awakening seems to be county
wide. Take the case of District At
torney Hedges. The voters know that
he has won every damage case against
the county and has saved them the
neafc -aum of $31,000.00,. -fflwy knoKs?'' '
that he has won every case he has
ever taken to the supreme court for
Clackamas county. They know that
he has won 14 out of 15 liquor cases
tried and that out of some 700 indict
ments and complaints drawn in crim
nal matters, no court has ever de
clared a single one defective. They
know that right now he has a big tim
ber assessment case pending before
the supreme court on appeal, and
which, if won by the county, will
make the big timber barons of the
northwest pay their just proportion
of taxes the same as private parties,
and there is a general feeling among
taxpayers, republicans and democrats
alike, that District Attorney Gilbert
L. Hedges is the man to win that case.
The taxpayers know, too, that he
has preserved the prohibition fund
voted last December at the budget
meeting, and that he has kept the
same intact after paying all expens
es, including deputy hire, out of fines
collected in law enforcement. . They
know, also, that he has advised tho
county court on hundreds of intricate
legal points, and that the county court
has never gone wrong on his advice.
These are the things which appeal
to the voters, rather than the childish,
inane prattle of an inexperienced man
whose partial service of his term as
ity attorney was featured by the
rawest "booze" decision ever "put
over." The voters know these things
and they know also that this oppon
ent's campaign buncombe of economy
in entirely inconsistent with his pres
ent lavish expenditure of campaign
money. Do you think the public
can't figure these things out? And
do you suppose the public doesn't
know that one Clackamas county edi
tor was paid $150 by this Stone per
son a few weeks ago on a "chattal
mortgage," and three days later came
out editorially, proclaiming the re
publican candidate for district attor
ney as the man of the hour?
The voters also know and trusts
J. E. Jack, and figure him a man who
will not betray their trust in the leg
islature. They know G. F. JohnBon
is competent and his past work in the
assessor's office gives him an edge
which spells efficiency in the admin
istration of that office. And they
know C. W. Risley is a business man,
one who will serve the public well as
county commissioner and will give
his best efforts for a business admin
stration? Ed Fortune? How few in
Clackamas county do not know the
democratic candidate for constable?
Mr. Fortune has spent many active
years in this county and his record is
as clean and untarnished as is his
character.
Risley in Hospital
C. W. Risley, democratic candidate
for county commissioner, was operat
ed on at the Oregon City hospital
yesterday morning by the Drs. Mount.
Mr. Risley has been suffering for
spme time from an infection on his
hand and the source of the trouble
was removed by the operation.
The Oregon City Courier and the
Oregon Daily Journal (except Sun
day) for 14.75.