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OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, MAY" C,1 1893
Oregon City Enterprise.
Published Kvery FVldny.
L. L. PORTER, TRoHttTOB.
C. J. CURTIS, Political Editor.
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KEPTBLICAN STATE TICKET
For Congress
THOMAS H. TONGUE.
For Governor
T. T, GEER.
for Supreme Judge-
F. A. MOORE.
For Stale Treasurer
C. 8. MOORE.
For Secretary of State
F.I. DUNBAR.
For State Printer
W. L. LEEDS.
For Attorney Genrral
D. R. X. BLACKBURN.
For Superintendent Public Instruction
J. U. ACKERMAN.
DISTRICT TICKET
For Circuit Judae
T. A. McBKIDE.
For District Attorney
T. J . CLEETON.
For Board of Equalization
W. H. Smith.
For Joint Senator L. L. Porter.
Clackamas and Marion,
bepvblicax corxti TICKET
Senator Geo. C. Erownell.
Representative J. L. Kruse, Jobti
Dennison, Alex Thomson.
County Jndgp Thoe. F. Rvan.
Commissioner Richard Morton.
Sheriff Max Kamsby.
Clerk Adoloh AschotT.
Recorder Thos. Randall.
Assessor Eli Williams.
Treasurer A . B. Marquam
.' School Superintendent H. S. Strange.
surveyor r. r. nanus.
Coroner H. A. Dedman.
HERALD AND COCKIER.
Seignor Lombroso of Europe is author
of tbe statement that "all men are in
jane." Ad exception which proves the
rule is apparent to every thinking man,
and that exception is "idiocy." That
an idiot can own and operate a newspa
per and know nothing about the business
is demonstrated by every day experi
ence, and demonstrated in Oregon City
by perusing the columns of the two pop
olibts' carrion representatives of that
fast decaying political party. If tbeir
brains were sufficiently developed tbey
would come under the classification of
Dr. Lombroso, but being deficient in that
respect they are deemed harmless and
allowed to run at large. It will occur to
ttie careful obnerver iu the field of low
grade intelligence that the various foims
of mental impoverishment may be read
ily classified under two general heads
involuntary and voluntary. All involun
tary idiots are either congenital that is,
born that way or accidental, made so
by disease or injury to the cranium.
These are held in law to be utterly irre
sponsible for their acts, and are therefore
tbe only citizens in whose favor the lib
erty specified in our constitution is con
strued in its broadest and most absolute
sense. The two twin relics of barbarism
that preside over the destinies of the
Herald and Courier come under this
bead.
On account of the blessings ot total
depravity aud irresponsibility enjoyed by j
tbe voluntary idiot, and notwithstanding'
the many inconveniences attending the J
depleted condition of intellectual life,
it is a fact that mitnv persons voluntarily j
seek an indiiduality fioin which they I
will emerpe into voluntary idioti. This'
class will be easily recognized among the j
populist editors of the populist party of i
Clackamas county, who loet their party j
in the Bryan crusade, aud no party ot ,
any jespectability would take them in.
In this class may be placed fools, snobs, '
io) b, puliiLul (dualled, icioiiuuiB, anglo-1
maniacs and many others, all of whom I
are held irresponsible for tbeir venal and
petty acts of idiocy. . j
Voluntary idiocy is practically incura-i
bio; budden death or solitary confine-!
rnent lor lile might he an alleviation, but,
for unknown Hysons such a remedy is j
rarely resorted to. Most everyone is'
aware ot the mental incapacity of tome
and the capacity ot others, We see
everywhere wisdom, strength ot mind
and other dominant qualities, opposed to
the most abject and cringing servility.
High intellectual ability stands beside
and upon the same plain as eras igno
rance. We judge ot the one and the
other from surface indications and in ab
normal nasal protuberances, not re
stricted to pawn shops and second-hand
clothing stores.
Evidently the editor of the Herald is
suffering from megacephalomania, or
swell head, a disease prevalent among
populists and other ot that class ot re
formers," and is especially noticeable
among editors ot demo-popo newspapers.
It seems to be the outcome ot certain in
fluences and environments. It is usually
fatal in its character and few have been
known to recover from its effects. As
the name implies, it is purely a brain
disease, the first symptoms being an ex
altation ot mind, the patient imagining
that others see him as he himself.
It differs, however, from acute mania and
other forms of cerebral hyperoieUmor
phocia in thai it has no serious effects
upon the patient himself, those who
know him being tbe real sufferers. In
the first stage there is, as a rule, some
effort discernable upon tbe part ot tbe
victim to overcome this insidious mal
ady, but in the second stage all sense ot
the deadly power seems to be loet and in
the third and final stage the case is ut
terly hopeless. When in this condition
it is better to avoid the patient Not
that it will make any difference to him,
but it will relieve your own sufferings.
The Herald, is what, is known in the
terse vernacular of Hungry Hill and fin
Can alley as a journalistic "Nancy." A
trfle too dirty for decency snd too e peine
tor aggressive morality. It isoneof those
papers which an imbecile may under
stand much better than a roan of strong
mentality. Its editor has fired a couple
of shots at the campaign editor of the
Enterprise, thinking, perhaps, that we
may be induced to call general attention
to the fact that he is on earth, It is im
possible for us to accord a free notice to
every impudent pamphleteer and 22-cal-ibre
editor who attacks ns for advertising
purposes only. Nor are we in tbe habit
of taking time to notice papers which
exist by pandering to pruriency, know
ing that if given time tbey will stink
themselves into a state of innocuous
desuetude. A man may be pardoned for
handling muck if it be to build therewith
a Jacob's Ladder, or even a Tower of
Babel to reach high heaven, but the
Herald has no other object than that of
the barefooted schoolboy who makes it
squirt up between his toes. He simply
desires to enjoy the sensation. Not being
skilled in teratology we are enable to
assign tbe Herald io a proper place
among the mental misfits and moral ab
normities, so will permit it to amuse itself
by enjoying the publication of campaign
lies and its base and moral depravity.
The Herald is wasting its time and
using its ammunition on the editor of tbe
Enterprise, but as it has not and dare
not refute the charges made relative to
tbe legislative bold-up, it suffices as an
excuse to compel it to make some ex
planation of that disgraceful affair. If
the Herald and Courier will take a course
in some journalistic kindergarten and fit
themselves to reach tbe same class to
which the editor of he Enterprise be
longs, we may be induced to notice them
and discuss political questions with them,
but in their present infantile state we do
not feel justified in noticing inferior
journalistic freaks.
DRAWING THEIR FIRE.
The Populists are on tbe run. Being
unable to answer the charges made and
proven by the Enterprise on the Legis
lative hold-up; upon turning over tbe 16
to 1 doctrine of the Populist party Io a
void standard banker; upon the failure
to take the oath of office; to redeem tbe
many promise made to the people; tbe
violation of every pledge and obligation
made to the people, tbey now seek to
bide their perfidy and shame by resort
ing to subterfuge and misrepresentation
of tacts.
Tbey have opened their batteries upon
the campaign editor of the Enterprise,
but iu all the vituperation and abuse in
dulged in, they have been unable to
answer a single allegation made. Tbe
campaign editor pf tbe Enterprise is
not a candidate for office iu Clackamas
county, and there is no person in the
state of Oregon that enjoys the abuse of
incipient, rattle-brained so-called editors,
as he. He is haying more fun in Clacka
mas county than he has enjoyed since
he had the measles.
Never in tbe history ot Oregon was
there a more digraceful proceeding than
that whicb was enacted at Salem two
years ago by Bourne and bis Populistlo
allies. Nominated upon a reform plat
form ; profuse with promises of remedial
legislation; tbe advocates ot 16 tol,
they sold themselves, their party and
their principles to one ol the most
nefarious coteries ot political booulers
and schemers that ever disgraced the
state ot Oregon. When men who are
elected to the legislature to represent
the people: to enact laws for their guid
ance; when legislators who claim to be
great political reformers will assist and
abet such disgraceful proceedings and
allow all tbeir re I or m promises to go by
tbe board in tbeir efforts to assist Jona
than Bourne to prevent the election ot a
United States senator, they are deserv
ing ot the stigma and disgrace that
clings to all moral and political cowards
and outlaws. Tbe Populist party and
representatives ot Clackamas county
have plead guilty to the charge. They
have never denied, nor dare they deny
their participation in that venal crime.
They have shown by their actions that
they are imbued with the spirit ot
anarchy, sedition and political boodle.
They have proyen conclusively that the
pretended reforms advocated from the
stump two years ago, were tissues of
falsehoods, uttered with but one object,
and that to fool the people and elect
themselves to office, whicb they dis
graced and have made themselves nausea
ting stench in the nostrils of the com
munity, The action ot the Populists' of Clack
amas county in the legislature; selling
out their own party, deserting their
principles; combining with the boodle
element of Oregon, shows one thing, and
that is, that not only ire thev a disgrace
to the state ot Oregon, but thev are the
pliant Bhd buyable tools used by politi
cal bosses to Usurp tbe powers of the
people, trample upon the will ot the
majority, prevent needed legislation,
and cause a lasting reproach to be cast
upon the name of our fair young state.
It tbey were honest in their convic
tions; it they were earnest in their ad
vocacy of reforms; if tbey were actuated
only by a desire to legislate in the inter
ests of the people, tbey would have
answeted roll-call, created thereby a
legal majority of tbe house to do busi
ness, and made a record for themselves
that would haye redounded with credit
to themselves and placed their party in
a positron to comprise a formidable
element in future political campaigns.
But no. Seeming to be actuated only by
tbe greed of gold, willing to sell their
souls for a mess of political pottage, tbey
not only disgraced themselves in the
eyes of all honest people, but haye cast
contumely upon tbeir party. .
It is possible that tbey may have be
lieved that if they failed to organize and
pass tbe necessary appropriation bills,
Governor Lord would call an extra ses
sion of the legislature. But in this they
were doomed to disappointment. Gov
ernor Lord had too much sense to call an
extra besbion of such a legislature. It
would seemingly have been more in order
to called out the militia and driven the
defiled and polluted old carcasses of tbe
house out of tbe legislative halls of the
state capital. Jeans drove tbe money
changers out of tbe tabernacle. Why
not Governor Lord out of tbe state capi
tal? Justice and decency certainly de
manded such a course. The people will
accept nothing less. They . returned to
their constituents in disgrace and should
be forever ostracised from decent society
and comnunion with honest and upright
men.
Sedition and anarchy should have to
place in our body politic. There are a
large number of Populists and Democrats
who will not indorse the rations of the
Populidts at the last legislature. Every
man who votes for a man who bad any
thing to do with the legislative hold-up,
indorses tbe action of this boodle outfit
and are equally guilty of the monstrous
crime of 18U7.
MOW AND THEN.
Two yean ago tbe Populist leaders of
Clackamas county, and in fact through
out the state were condemning the state
militia, calling them "tin soldiers" and
demanding that the whole militia be
abolished. Tbeir attitude on this ques
tion was probably on account of there
being no Populists in the state militia,
and out of tbe 885 men now at Fort Mc
Kinley there are only three Populists.
The efforts ot the Populists to feign
patriotism during the present war Is
imply to gain cheap notoriety, Thoy
are not patriots. They are Spanish
sympathisers. They are In favor ot any
other country but the United States.
They opposed the Oregon National
Guards two years ago, and would be
opposed to them this year if thoy dared
to. They openly advocate the abolish
ment of the entire militia of the state,
because an anarchist has no use for the
state militia. Nine out ot ten ot the
patriotic soldiers came from the Republi
can and Democratic party, and ninety
nine out of hundred ot the anarchists
belong to the Populist party. No patri
otic American citiaen can conscientiously
vote tbe Populist ticket. No man who
loves bis country and his home can trail
into the Populist camp. All of the de
fenders of our national honor and the
grand old flag are numbered among the
Republicans and Democrats. All the
Spanish sympathisers are to be found in
the Populist paity.
This being true, the importance ot the
June election Is apparent. There Is no
doubt but that the Populist In the legis
lature will vote for a man who is opposed
to President McKlnley. They admit
this themselves and it requires no argu
ment to convince the patriotic voters of
Clackamas county ot this fact. This Is
an Important factor in this campaign
snd one which, should move every Re
publican to renewed efforts to secure the
election of the entire Republican ticket.
Oregon would be di Kg raced were a
United States senator elected who was
in sympathy with the Populists and
against President McKinley. Every
loyal, patriotic cilizen of Clackamas
county, who loves his country and its
flag should stand by McKinley iu the
present crisis and it lathe duty of the
patriotic people of the state to uphold
McKinley by electing the entire state,
county and legislative ticket. To do
otheiwise would mean treason and
might result in discouraging the presi
dent in his efforts to maintain the
national honor in the war with Spain.
The Populists of 18US are the Copper
heads of 1801. Tbey fight the govern
ment from the rear and extend their
sympathy to the Spaniards the same as
the Coppei heads gave sympathy to tbe
rebels.
A POLITICAL Itl'HHWIIACKKK.
Everybody in Clackamas county knows
W. W. Myers, candidate for county
judge. He is the man that was deputy
assessor and made such an unequal and
outrageous assessment that tbe two
members of the populist Board of Equal
ization were compelled to reduce it. He
is going around the county telling the
farmers that if he is elected county judge
he will make tbe corporations of Oregon
City pay all the county taxes and the
farmers will be paid for living in the
country. Outside of the preposterous
ness of the proposition, we desire to in
form the farmers of Clackamas county
that the county judge has absolutely
nothing to do with making the assess
ment of the county. Such statements
are misleading and intended to deceive
the farmers. Any person that will make
extravagant and misleading statements
is unworthy the support of the people.
Myers has had a checkered career In
politics in this county. Twentv-two
years ago Myers made his debut as a
candidate for sheriff. Since that time
he has been a candidate for every office
in every party ever organized. He was
a candidate on the Greenback ticket, the
Liberal Republican ticket, the Demo
cratic ticket, the Labor- Union ticket, the
Anti-Chinese ticket, the Prohibition
ticket, the Populist ticket, and is now a
candidate on the Fusion ticket. If all
the campaign promises made by him
were printed they would make a book
larger than the Encyclopedia Britaiiica
and just as reliable as a book of ;Enop's
fables.
The people of Clackamas county are
on to Myers and they won't do a thing
to him on tbe 0th day of June. If W.
W. Myers had succeeded in selling his
$4,000 ranch to the county court for
$8,000 tor a poor farm, it is possible that
he might retire from politics, hut the
county court was on to Myers' scheme
and he failed to sell his farm for twice
its real yalue. Myers is a political dem
agogue and always has his mil out for
any and every office he can get. He has
never been elected and neyer will be.
Mr. Myers pones as a farmer before tbe
people, but if he ever did any farming it
was before he came to Oregon City, as
be has followed the business of politics
and oillce-sevking during his residence
here.
WHAT IS A IIAKKM.
There swans to be a misunderstanding
relative to what was said Iu laat week's
Enterprise about "Jonathan Bourne's
Harem." There are two kinds of
"Harems" In this world. A so.'lal
harem which exists only In Turkey,
called a "sho-harem, and a political
harem that existed at Salom during tho
time the legislature was supposed to
moot, and la known as a "he-harem."
A "she-harem" is composed of a multipli
city ot wives and concubines presided
over by the bin mogul of Turkey, A he
harem was organized at Salem In 1807
and was presided over by Jonathan
Bourne. A he-harem Is a conglomer
ation of political outcasts banded to
gether for boodle aud the solla of office.
The price paid to a member of the he
harem was established at H0. There
were thirteen verdant Populists who
joined this he-harem in Salem. They
were bought and paid for by a gold
standard hanker of Portland. It Is to
be hoped that this brief explanation will
suffice to allay any misunderstanding on
this question. It was supposed that the
average Populist was familiar with
political expressions, and as they have
deaianded an explanation, it is here
given, with the hope that it will prove
entirely satisfactory to their diminutive
understanding. There Is no subject on
earth that can not be explained and we
always take plcaure iu giving our
Populist friend explanation, of different
subjects with which they seem to be
unfamiliar.
JOl KN AI.IHTIC llKSIONSIIill.lTV.
There iwmi to be a misapprehension
relative to the crigin of articles appear
ing on tho editorial pae of the Killer
prise. The campaign editor and not Mr.
Porter U r"nihl or all such
articles. Air. I'mlrr is one of the owners
of this pspr hut do? not Interfere with
or dictate the political policy of the
Enterprise.
Two weeks auo, n article apH'arod in
the Enterprise in which it was intimated
that E. P. Carter was a Populist. We
certainly owe Mr. Carter an apology
No greater insult rnuld be offered to any
man than to brand him with the sliglma
of Populism Mr. Carter resents the
appelation and juhlly. By so doing he
has showu hiumelf to be a gentleman
and thoroughly imbued wlih the princi
ples ot good government honestly ad
ministers!. Wo will never do any citi
zen an injustice intentionally and we can
not but adm'ue Mr. Carter's rulutaiion
of the charges made against him. There
are a large number of voters in Clacka
mas county who have honestly believed
in the principles of the Populist party,
but who cannot and will not Indorse the
sell-out $80 wing of that party. They
are willing to sacrifice their honest con
victions to prevent hood lor Populist poli
ticians from again getting a whack at a
Portland banker's sack. We desire to
apologize to Mr. Carter for calling him
a Populist.
IIOOUI.KIt II ARC LAY.
Rev. Barclay, candidate for joint
senator, has turned more political sum
mersault) than any acrobat on earth.
He was first elected to the legislature in
1804 on the Republican ticket. In 1800
he was re-elected to the legislature on
the same ticket, but before the election
was cold, he switched and joined the
free-silverites, lie was one of the
representatives that joined Jonathan
Bourne's academy of political grafters
and refused to qualify and take his seat,
and was one of the leaders of the hold-up.
This year he is running on the Populist
ticket. He indorses the actions of tho
last legislature and thinks they did a
smart political trick, lie is a smooth,
cunning, crafty politician and don't care
who knows it.
KANKAI.I I'OSITION.
Oh Winn Citv, April 27, 1808
To tbe citizens and taxpayers of Clack-
inn is county, Ore, :
1 wieli to make a statement in this
issue of the Enterprise, informing the
people of this county as to how I propone
to conduct the office of Recorder of Con
veyances, should I be elected In June
next, In reg'ird to paying a deputy from
the salary.
The state law provides a salary of
$l...Cfi i : y..r lit thut office. Out of
this salary I ugrce to pay a dnputy and I
also a.r-.e that the deputy will not be
from my Immediate family, but shrill be
chohou so 48 to make the salary of this
office support two families. The reason
I mi'rn th!i itcm'nt through the paper
is that I do not want any one to misun
derstand, tny poult on on this point. 1
am taxpayer of this county and 1 tin
Interested In Its welfare. Kesiieut
fully, T. P. Randall.
U'REN ANSWERS GIBSON.
Milwai'kik, Or., April 20, 1H1'8.
Editor Kuteqirin and John II, Gibson t
Mr. Gibson wants to know "what did
Mr, U'Ren do for the people while lit
was In the legislature, how many bills
did lis fall to get and how much money
did he get (or the failure to get uy hills
through the legislature T"
Neither myself nor any other populist,
so far as I know or have any reason to
believe, was ever offered or ever received
money or money's worth In any man
ner or form for anything I did or did
not do, or that any or all ot us did or
did not do, before, during or since the
late attempted vision of the republi
can legislature. Any charges or Insin
uations to the contrary are absolutely
false.
And now I wish to ask a question of
Mr, Gibson, who In the ordinary affairs
of life Is a good cltlieo and neighbor.
In that part of Virginia from which 1
am told you come, do the people con
sider it a right and manly thing to re
peat In print or otherwise, In the form
of an Innuendo, a malicious slander
against a neighbor when there is nu
evidence on which to base a direct
charguT Other Virginians I have known
would answer no, and If the form of Mr.
Gibson's question Is slanderous by over
sight rather than malicious Intent I
shall be glad to know It.
What did Mr. U'lten do for the
people?
With other populists, I refused to aid
either fuctlon of the republican party
to organise the lionise of Representa
tive in its own factional Interest, or In
the Interest of any candidate for United
Stales Senator,
Among the good results of that action?
Is the saving to the twopla of Oregon of
st least three hundred thousand dollars
in state taxes for the years 1K07 and
180K, as Secretary Klneald has conduct
ed the afluira of the elate on a basis that
will make the total eXHnaos less than
twelve hundred thousand dollars for
tho two years, after adding Internet
on the stale warrants.
The first rough draft of the general
appropriation hill by the Senate Coai
mittue in 181(7, adding to it the perma
nent charges that are not customarily
put in that hill, amounted t more than
fifteen hundred thousand ilullur. My
action with others, In refrming to sub
mit to the dictation of John 11. Mitch
ell & Co, and allow ttie House to be or
ganized In hi Interest a a candidate for
U. S. Senator, has mads the state tax
levy for 1807 three and one half mills,
against a state levy of four mills in 1805
and again in 1801, the two year for
which an appropriation hill was passed,
by the last republic in legislature iNert
did organize, and of which Mr. Brown
ell was a member.
The failure of the last legislature, (of
which sixty-six memlier out of ninety
were republicans,) to organic and pass
the appropriation bill, saved the tax
payers of this county $2412.10-00 on the
state tax In 1807 as compared with lMSKk
In doing this, 1 helped to save the slate
from being robbed by a swarm ot Idle
aud useless clerks. The Senate which
did organize employed sixty aoven
clerks, and twenty would have been
sufficient to do all the work.
This action ol thirty representatives,
of whom I wa one, and among whom
wero seven gold standard and five f.-ee-silver
republicans, three democrats, two
bimetallist and thirteen populists, has
been approved In fact by an overwhel
ming majority in the state convention ot
the republican party, to which Mr. Gib
son claims to belong ; by the state con
ventions of all other parties In Oregon
this year; by the republican governor
and secretary of state, and was approved
at the time by all populist and demo
crats as well as many other citizens
who wrote to mo oil the subject, I think
not less than two hundred men. So far
as I know, among those who fully un
derstand the matter, our action Is con
demned chiefly by disappointed and
defeated office seekers and their
personal friends In the Mitchell faction
ot the republican party.
In addition to this money saving to
the taxpayers, I helped to teach office
holder everywhere that it Is not well to
neglect the duties of their office while
they lobby for re-election; that a United
States senator's place Is in Washington
when the U 8. senate In In session, and
that It is not only wrong, but likely to
be unprofitable to neglect his duties and
attempt to dictate the organization and
policy of the legislature of his stale In
the interest of his re-nloc.tion to the U.
8. senate. W. S. U'Raii.
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