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OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, AVRIL 29, 1893 Oregon City Enterprise. Published Every Friday. L. L. rORTKR, raoraisroa, F. I POINDKXTER, Editor ahd Mom. C. J. CURTIS, Political Editor. BUBaCRIPTlON RATES, One year 2 00 Rix months 1 no Trial subscription, two montbe S3 A discount o SO oenta on all subscription for on yesr, 2S cent (or til months, if pud in sdvance. Advertising rates given on application. i Subscriber will find the date of expira tion stamped on tbeir papers following their name. If this date is not changed "Within two weeks after a pavnient, kindly notify us and we win look alter it. Entered at the postofflce In Oregon City, Or., as second class matter. , BKFl'BLICAN STATE TICKET For Congress THOMAS II. TONGUE. For Governor T. T. GEER. For Supreme Judge F. A. MOORE. For State Treasurer C. S. MOORE. For Secretary of State F.I.DUNBAR. For State Printer W. L. LEEDS. For Attorney General D. R. BLACKBURN. For Superintendent Public Instruction J. H. ACKERMAN. DISTKICT TICKET For Joint Senator L. L. Porter. Clackamas and Marion. For Circuit Judge T. A. McBRIDE. For District Attorney T.J. CLE ETON. For Board of Equalization W. H. Smith. REPIBLICAN COrNTT TICKET Senator Geo. C. Brownell Representativet J. L. Kruse, John Dennu-on, Alex Thomson. ConntyJudge Thos.F. Rvan. Commissioner Richard Morton. Sheriff Max Ranisby. Clerk Adolph Aschoff. Recorder Thos. Randall . Assessot Eli Williams. Treasurer A. B. Marquam School Superintendent M. 8. Strange, Surveyor E P. Rands. Coroner H. A. Dedman. THE ELDERJAND THE PEOPLE, ttebster defines "Fusion" as being "the union or blending togetherof things, as if melted together." In political mat ters, in the common acceptation of the term, it means "the union of two heter ogeneous classes of boodler politicians seeking for the spoils of office." The definition of the word heterogeneous is "a conglomerate mass, considered in respect to the parts of which it is made up," and no word in the English lan guage describes the so-called union ticket nominated at Portland and in Oregon City more aptly. It is generally con ceded that the object of fusion was not the adoption of a platform, but a union ot two conglomerate particles for the di vision of the spoils of office. Had there been no offices to distribute there would bave been no fusion. The free silyer wiDg of the Democratic Party were in a bopeless minority, with no possible chance of electing a single officer. The boodler element of the Populist Party knew that if the choice of the convention had been left to the PopuliBt Party they could not have been nominated for office, bence in order that the office-seekers and boodlers of the Populist Party might se cure a Beit at the government crib, they went into this tripartite agreement with the Democrats and fell upon their necks and wept. Ti e better element of the Populist Parfy, called the Middle of the Roaders, knowing that they had been betrayed two years ago by men who promised to secure remedial legislation, and who re fused to take the oath of office, declined to be made parties to the compact. They are honest, sincere citizens, interested in securing an honest administration of state and county affairs, and rather than surrenuer me principles iney now Gear to the fusion element, they prefer to vote the Republican ticket. Tbeir actions in this particular will receive the commend ation of every honest citizen. The gold standard Democrats, too, are ashamed to associate with the conglomerated mass representing political heresies and have decided to secure an honest administra- tion of affairs through the Republican ' party. They do not propose to surrender the affairs ol Clackamas County or the tate into the hands of a horde of hungry office-seekera and boodler politicians, nor surrender their time-honored princi ples to anarchists and free-bootera. This is the situation in Clackamas County to day, and the result will be that the popo-demo-fusionista will be driven from the citadel and consigned to an Ignominious grave. Then there is another element in this fusion venture the Free Silver Republi cansof which Rer. Barclay, candidate for Joint Senator, is a prototype. Barclay is a Jonah and as he is minister ot the gospel we will compare him with the Jonah of old . Barclay wants to destroy the Republican Party, Jonah wanted to destroy the City of Ninevah. Circum stances over which Jonah had no control made him the prototype of Elder Bar clay, facile princeps of chronic kickers, the high priest ot professional calamity howlers. lie received a call to cry against Ninevah because of its cussed- ness, but aeema to have had a present ment that the job wouldn't pay and tried to jump it. We are not advised what awful wickedness the city planted by Ninas and watered by Sennacherib had been guilty of. Perhaps tbey bad Pop ulist Legislature who sold their souls for a mess of Bourne pottage. The people may have blasphemed the Golden Calf, declared against the money of the con stitution, or hinted that they were better off when wrestling with the flesh-pots of Democracy than trailing a Populist King across barren deserts to a Babylonian captivity. When Jonah found himself in the internal regions of the whale, our peripatetic prophet of Gallilee repented of his sins. We all do when they fail to pay the expected dividends. Jonah de cided that he would rather go to Nine vah and found a Populist calamity club than travel a perpetual traveler in the prototype of Jules Verne's Nautilus; so he offered up penitential prayers, made fair promises and was permitted to go ashore. As Elder Barclay bawls against the Republicans, so Jonah bawled against Ninevah: "Yet forty days and Ninevah shall be overthrown." Such a calamity cry as that, coming from a man whom we have no evidence had taken a bath or changed his shirt since associating with the whale, was enough to frighten a marble caryatid into convulsions. Just what awful pun ishment would have been inflicted upon the fair city we are left to conjecture. The Lord might have sunk it beneath a sea of bitter waters, as he did Sodom ; sent the seven-year locusts, or saddled it with a Populist administration. But the God of the Jews seems to have been open to conviction. That's where he differed from a Populist. After the hot wave prognosticator had put out his bul'etins, he got him out of the city and built a ackal a considerable distance from the spot where his curse was to get action and deliberately sat him down to see the show. He expected nothing lew lLu the utter destruction of the city in which were GO.COO infants, "also uiut.h cattle." On the morning of the fortieth day, we may well suppose, he arose bright and early. Beyond the Tigris the heralds of the sun are flaming in the sky Now the great day-god shows his shining disc, lingers a moment as tlio' loath to leave Aurora's loving arms, then wheels up in stately majesty and pours his gol den splendors full upon Assyria's mighty capital. The sun sinks like a jbbe of gold into the plain far beyond Zab, and the crescent moon is trying to clasp love's brilliant star to her concave breast. The ring of the hammer and the shrill cry of the herdsmen ere hushed, and from park and garden come peals of mirth and music. 'Hie hour grows late, the music ceases and the midnight quiet is broken only by the prayers of an ascetic worshipping the host of heaven and the whoop of an ui,- j happy married man going home from the Populist primaries in charge of a pair of policemen. No wonder Jonah felt that his star was evil that through no fault of his own a great three-cornered hiatus had been kicked in his political fence. So he went to the Lord, we may fairly infer from the trend of the matter and said: "Look here, you've busted me up in business. I'd be a hanged sight better off bad I taken my stand squarely on the Chicago platform and defended the money of the constitution, instead of joining the Populist Party and clamoring for currency contraction." The Lord 8ai1 unt0 Jonah, as the people will sy unto Elder Barclay : "The calamity clacker, like the cut worm and the cholera microbe, bath its uses. Here wai Ninevah growing care less. It had been prosperous too long under Republican paganism, to that it was losing sight of the eternal principles of the Jeffersonian Democracy. The old town had become dead to argument and indifferent to political duty; ao I stirred you up to grow a crop of anarch leal whiskers, an abnormal gall, the same as a Populist, and had you spout reform and calamity trom the beer kegs at the corners. You have served my purpose. You received f 80 from a Portland banker, refused to take the oath of office, sold out your party. Verily, yerlly, I say nnto you, it will be worse with you on the 6th day of June than It was with Sodom and Gomorah I SelahV No more apt illustration ot Elder Bar clay's gymnastic gliatlons can possibly be given than the above. We may be a little off on scripture, but the facts are unanswerable. POri LIST SCHEMES. The scheme of the Populists, to at tempt to divert attention from the real issues ot the campaign in Clackamas County, by attempting to make the people believe that there had been a combination between Brownell, Ryan and others will not have the desired effect. As a prominent Populist said : "We don't want to say anything about the hold-up, and the only way we can win this fight is to try and make the people believe there is a scheme ot some kind between Brownell and other candi dates on the Republican ticket. Of course we cannot prove that there is any scheme, but we will make the people believe it anyhow." That this is the avowed object of the Populists is attested by the fact, that both the Populists papers in this county never refer to any of the principles of the Party or to the Money question, but are contually harping on the Brownell et al combination. They do not expect to make any Populist votes by this pro cedure, but they think they can allienate enough Republican votes from disap pointed candidates, to defeat the Re publican ticket. There is not a Republican who was a candidate for office in the Republican Convention that can be made to believe this silly rot. They are imbued with a certain amout of common sense and are not the fools the Populists take them to be. They may (eel a little injustice was done to their political aspirations in the County Convenlioa ; that they were more entitled to a nomination than others who were nominated, but if they are loyal Republicans, they will hesitate long time before they will vote to put a Populist in office, considering the record of that Party in this State and the last Legislature. Neither the Populists papers or orators care to refer in any way to the hold-up in the Legislature. They have admitted their guilt; they have admitted they were false to their promises and sworn pledges ; that they violated every prom ise of reform made to the people and brought disgrace upon themselves, upon the Party tbey represented and upon the people of Clackamas County. They posed as reformers before the people and asked for the suffrages of the people upon promises of reform in the adminis tration of State affairs. They yelled tbemselve hoarse on the free and unlimi ted coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, and then played into the hands of a gon standard banker, and made it possible for the appointment as United Slates Senator of a man who was an advocate of the single-gold standard. Instead of taking the oath of office and trying to secure remedial Legislation; the abolishment of trusts, corporations and useless commissions, they sold themselves out, body and soul, to one of trie most notorious boodler outfits that has ever disgraced the State, fn con sideration for their services, they were paid by a Portland banker the sum of each, with the exception of the ring leader who was paid $2,000 and deposited it in the East Portland bank, saying that it was a part of his enumeration for services rendered in the Legislative hold-up. It is contended as a palliation for the crime committed, that there were a half dozen Republicans mixed up in the Leg islative hold-np. Admitting this to he true, for the sake of argument, will some intelligent Populist (if there be one) explain what is the use of electing Popu lists to the Legislature If they will sell out to the Republicans? Why not elect Republicans? If a Populist only goes to the Legislature to sell out to the I Republicans, thou it la a waste ot time and money to elect them . We can only judge the Populist In the future by their record In the past. True, it does not cost much money to buy a PopullMt, If the price paid at the lat session ot the Legislature Is any criterion. They are so anxious to secure an office, that thoy are willing to work for reduced wages, That it what thoy say In their Clackamas Oounly Platform. While the salary does not cut much ot a figure with them, yet on every other question of labor, thoy are in favor of the highest wages. Of course, there la not the chance tor pecu lation with the common laborer, nor the opportunities to steal that Is afforded a Populist otllce holder. If they can ride into office on a Platform of low salaries, and then tteal enough to make up the deficiency, the taxpayers will gain noth ing in the long run. A man that will reduce wagea and salaries, in order to secure a position for himself will steal. He would steal the molasses off a blind man't pancake. The efforts ol the Populists to try and keep the real Issues of the campaign trom the people will not pan out. When Populist takes the average voter tor a sucker, he often rum up against the wrong man. What the people of Clackamas County waut, is an ex planation ot the Legislative hold up. The Populists dare not refer to this matter Their recoid is before the people and if the people act honestly and in the interests of good government, honest officials, economic administration of affairs, they will render their verdict on the hold-up In no uncertain sound on the 6th day ot June. If they are honest to themselves, to the public and to the state, they will vote against every Populist that was mixed up in the Legis lative hold-up. Party ties will not hold an honest man to the Indorsement of rascality in their party leaders. Party affiliations will not permit of an endorse ment of one ot the most infamous crimes in the history of the State. The people of Clackamas County have not forgotten the actions of the Populist in the last legislature, and the efforts of the Populist papers and orators to at tempt to divert the attention of the volets from the real issues, with con stant rehash of the old stereotyped talk about "combinations." and the "big four," will not prevent the voters from giving an expression of their opinions on this nelarous business on election day. The voters ot Clackamas County must either endorse the actions of the Popu lists or condemn them. We have confi dence lu the honor of the voters ot Clackamas county to believe that they will do their duty and administer such a rebuke to the Populist Party at the polls, tnat it will drive them off of the political arena. CAMPAIGN LIKH. A witness false in one part of his tes timony is presumed to be false in others, is a maxim of law. A newspaier that will wilfully misrepresent facts in one particular will misrepresent them in others. This latter clause refers to the Herald. In last week's issue that paper pretends to show up Senator Brownell's record while in the State Senate. The whole article is a tissue of falsehoods from beginning to end and shows not only a want of respect for the truth, but an unpardonable ignorance as to legisla tive matters. An illustration of this is found in the statement made by the Herald that "Senator Brownell intro duced Senate bill No. 84, to abolish the Railroad Commission, had it referred to the Committee on Railroads, of which he was chairman, but never got it before the Senate for a vote on its final pas sage." Senate bill No. 84 was a bill introduced by Senator Denny to amend the laws of Oregon relative to the time at which ex ecutors and administrators shall report. Senate hill No. 44 was the bill intro duced by Senator Brownell to repeal the Railroad Comm'ssion. On page 404 of the Senate Journal is the following : REPORT. Sknate Chahbkkb, Feb. 12. 1805. Mr. President Your Committee on Railroads, to whom was referred Senate bill No. 44, beg leave to report that we have bad the same under consideration, and respectfully report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do pass. Geo. C. Bhownkll, Chairman. We simply publish these facts to show the supreme ignorance of alleged politi cal reformers and publishers of reform papers. Again, the Herald says: "Mr. Brown ell introduced Seualo hill No. 59, to cre- ate the office ot Bank Commissioner at a salary of $2,500 a year and actual trav eling expenses." This Is true, but the Herald fulls to state that the bill provided that the sal ary and exiMinses ol the Bank Commis sioner should "be paid pro rata by the banks," It was dune to protect deposi tors from dishonest banks and had the support ot Senator King, the Populist candidate for Governor, Space prevents a refutation of the charges made against Senator Brownell, but the above suffices to slio the dense Ignorance of the author of these charges. The best refutation ol all the charges made by the Herald last week against Senator Brownell it an article written to the Herald byW.8. U'linn ami pub lished In that paper on Friday, March 5 18U5. Mr U'Ken save: "The writer twnt about five weekt of the session at Salem, working principally (or a law calling a constitutional conven tlon in 18IHI, to submit a new constllu tion to the voters, Including the Initiative and referendum, and Incidentally togt the election laws so amended that the county court would be obliged to appoint judges of election In each precinct from three different parties, who should be recommended by the respective county central committees. The Republican political machine was strung enough to defeat both hills, though only after a very bitter contest In the State Senate. Hon. George Brownell led the fight In favor of these laws and made two of the ablest sweches of t!ie session in their favor e Tim immhiIm nf Orfftmii rannnt award too groat praise to Senator Brown ell and the other Republican Senators who defied the party whip and all the power and threats of the machine. "W. 8 U'IUn " This is a complete refutation of all the charges made against St-nator Brownell If all that Mr. U'Ken says was true on March 8, IH'.iS, it is true today. Mr. U'Ken will not deny writing that letter and the Herald cannot deny but that it was published In that pnHr on March 5, 189.). The campaign editor ot the Enterprise was a member of the Legislature in 1895 and knows what he is talking about, We can knock all such (alse assertions gal ley-west In the first round. We have the documents to prove sll our assertions and defy Mr. Brownell's traducers to prove any of the charges made. TO WHICH CLASH IX YOU llKLONUT Ol the men eager to enlist in war there are two classes; those willing to sacrifice their lives to their country because they believe this the best use to be made ol life and that the best use is the highest use, and that to die young or to die old Is practically the tame thing since either it a question of only a (ew short years These men of course must anticipate a happier existence in the hereafter. The other class is comiiosed of reckless ad venturers, cowards, who, but for a war in which to end their existence, would In all probability commit suicide out right. On the other hand there are two classes who are not eager to enlist in war. One of these Is comjmsed of men who, like the first of the preceding classes, believe that the best use we can make of life is the highest use, but who do not agree that the chief end of man is to die in war. On the contrary they consider that by living their tull natural lives a far better opportunity is afforded them to serve their country as well as their God than can possibly be given to the ordinary soldier in modern war, particularly should he be killed in the prime of life. For Instance, men who are ambitious, who are endowed with more than ordinary ability, but who are humble and God-fearing men, could by their good work lu endeavoring to avert human strife accomplish far more for their country than would be ossible under the mad excitement and reckless exposure to certain death invariably to be found iu war, especially if they be instilled with that human kindness, that love of Natuie, that charm for earthly existence, the things that make man happy, that inspire him to noble action and noble deed. The other one of these last two classes is composed of men who are selfish, who love life as they probably do riches and would like to have it ex tended indefinitely, but who care for naught elbe than their own individual selyes and feel that they are entitled to be left undisturbed so long as they do not Interfere with the rights of others. A great many of this class will be found in New York City. It does soem a pity to disturb their luoll'eiice slumbers, but if war Is ever necessary, those are tho yory men that should be (oiced to tht front willing or not willing. tf NKCKKT SOCIKTIK. Jul The antlplthy to secret societies hat once existed has changed durlngisae past lew years, Thore was a. time hat these organisation wore looked apoii with disfavor, and considerable opposi tion was manifest, csoclally io church circlet. But when It wat discovered that all of those secret socletlos ,were organised tor the purpose of the uplifting of mankind j the cementing more closely together ot the ties of unlveiaal brother hood and the practice of charity, opinion changed and they are now regarded wltl favor by those who once opposed them. Secret soclutles do more for charity than all other organisations combined. They care (or the tick, administer to tils' dying and protect tht orphans aud wldowt, They allenlate suffering, pro vide lor the destitute and are founded' upon principles that have redoundud to all mankind. Two thirds of the people ol the State ot Oregon belong to secret societies. Many of the opponents of secret societies are now en rolled as the most enthusiastic workers. Thore Is no religious requirements in secret societies, no attempt to dictate religious belied, but every member Is allowed to follow the dictates ot Ills own conscience. There is but one organisation In Ore gon that is opposed to secret societies, and that is the United Brethren church, of wh'ch Rev. II. L. Barcklay, Populist candidate for Joint Senator la pastor. Rev. Barclay la opposed to secret societies of every kind snd description snd hss preached sgalnst them, mis represented them snd refused to associate with tnemWs thereof. Hisanliplthy has grown to hatred snd ho has frequently abused his lel friends because they Ikv longed to secret societies. No lneinler of the church of which he is pastor Is allowed to be a member ol any aecret order. These facts sre well known to the various secret organisations and thoy proose toes press their opinion ol Elder Barclay at the polls on the Gil day of June. THE ItOAII TAX. There seems to be a misapprehension relative to the Road tat question In Clackamas County. According to the Views expressed by the Herald, an in justice has been done the County by the passage ol the Oregon City Charter bill In which the city Is allowed to retain 60 er cent and tho County 40 per cunt of the Road taxes. This does not mean, ss the Herald Ignorantly attempts to sssume, that 60 per cent of all the Road taxes collected within the corporate limits of Oregon City is retained by the City and 40 per cent goes to County out tide of the City. Oregon City Is the only City iu the State but what receives every dollar ol Road taxes. It Is generally c-i.codod that all Road taxes collected In each Road district, ought to be Sent on County roads In that districts, but as the law now stands, only 60 per cent ol the Road taxes collected in Oregon City can be spent within the City limits, the remaining 40 per cent going U the country districts. But the modus ojierandl of wilfully misinforming the people which emnnatos In the Herald office will fall flat when the truth Is published. THAT FINANCIAL MIIOWINU. The Populist organ of Clackamas County publishes a comparative table in which they attempt to show that there- has been a saving of $8,212.36 to the county during the Populist administra tion. As usual there is no explanation as to how this mouey was saved It It was saved but like all I'opulistic docu ments and arguments, it is misleading and intended to deceive. If there has been any saving it is not due to tho Pop ulist administration of affairs, but is en tirely due to a Republican county court. which allows and pays for deputies, cleri cal assistance, stationery, etc. The En terprise is preparing a table with full ex planations that will refute the table pub lished lust week and prove to the peojde conclusively that there is no foundation in fact for tne alleged saying made to the county. The Populists promised the peo ple two years ago that if elected they would make the salary of the office pay all deputy hire, etc. We propose to prove that they have not kept that promise. There are many other discrepancies In that financial showing that will not stand investigation.