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.
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, 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.
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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.