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FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1906.
BROWNELL'S INDICTMENT.
There is being vigorously circulated
throusrhout the county by either Sen
ator Brownell himself, or by some of
his faithful lieutenants, the report that
there is pending against him no fed
eral indictment in the United States
Circuit Court or any indictement in
anv- other court.
This story is being given the most
vigorous publicity in the more re
mote sections of the county and also
largely among the Germans who are
too busy to keep in close toucn witn
the general news. To such Brownell
-poses as a man possessing angelic
dualities who is being much persecut-
,edand abused. But to other audiences
ithat know of the indictment and know
further that the fact of this indict-
tnent hanging over him causes Senator
Brownell more trouble than has any
XJther one thing or combination of
things in his preceding campaigns, the
wily senator resorts to the ridiculous
jextremity of attempting to prove an
alibi, the last resort of an accused
criminal. His defense thus offered
is plainly absurd, of a most flimsy con
Struetion and a reflection on his own
alleged and reputed political shrewdness.
V Statements of Senator Brownell and
bis per diem boosters to the contrary
Notwithstanding, there is pending in
the "United States Circuit Court at
Portland an indictment charging the
Senator with subornation of perjury.
Pending the trial of his case. Senator
Brownell is out on bonds in the sum
Of $4000.
If these statements are not suffic
iently convincing and any reader does
$ot care to accept them as the plain
and unpleasant truth, we will De
pleased to present for his inspection,
and we will do so if he will call at this
office, a certified copy of the bond on
ivhich the Senator is now awaiting
trial.
I But the Senator would have the
people of Clackamas County think
that there is "nothing in" the indict
ment that has been filed against him.
If there is "nothing in" the indictment,
if the accused man is entirely inno
cent of any wrong doing as he claims
to be,, if a crime has not been com
mitted against the Government, if the
Senator is unfortunately a victim of
circumstances or mistaken identity
why does he not secure a dismissal of
the charge? If either of the forego
ing propositions is the fact, why has
not the "influential" corporation Sen
ator caused the charge against him
self to be dismissed? Failing to ac
complish a dismissal of the indictment
although he has invited every influ
ence at his command to attain that
result; it must be presumed that there
is something in the indictment after
air. When a man gets himself in
volved in a case in the United
States Circuit Court, it is no laughing
matter. He is strictly up against it
and the guilt or innocence of the ac
cused is invariably established only
after the regular procedure of a jury
trial.
In such a predicament Senator
Brownell finds himself. He stands in
dicted by a Federal grand jury on a
charge of subornation of perjury in
directly conspiring to defraud the
Government. But he does not consid
er it necessary to clear himself of this
charge before he goes before the
people and ask them to continue him
for still another term in the official
capacity he has faithlessly ' filled for
the last twelve years.
The Senator says he submits his
record as his platform for renomina
tion and re-election. And of what does
that record consist? Innumerable
broken pledges, faithful and loyal ser
vice to the corporations in whose
salaried employ he is to the utter
disregard of a tax-burdened constitu
- ency; a constant dodging of all impor
tant matters of legislation wherein
the interests of the common people
and the corporations were brought
face to face, and lastly, Confronted by
a federal indictment.
Is this such a record as should com
mend any public official to the favor
able consideration of a long-suffering
constituency? Is such a record as
this even though, "according to pro-
gramme," going to be forever tolerated
in Clackamas county?
There is certainly a limit to the ex
tent to which Clackamas county people
will allow themselves to be buncoed
and the sentiment throughout the
county audibly declares that that limit
has been reached. The voters have
tired of buying this Brownell gold
brick which .has been found to be ex
ceedingly long on promises and dis
couragingly short in actual results.
They have been fooled long enough.
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- Count Boni is now wondering why
.- he fooled himself out of a steady job.
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The chief difference between grand
, larceny and high finance is that the
latter includes enough to pay the law
yers. o
Can any other county than Clacka-
mas be imagined in which a public of
ficial under indictment for assisting
to defraud the Government would have
the effrontery to seek further contin
uance in his official capacity? Or can
you conceive of any other public man
than George C. Brownell, the gentle
man from Clackamas, who possesses
the unblushing nerve and surprising
audacity that is required even in his
case to brace up a candidacy before
constituency he has so grossly out
ragedand betrayed, who would dare
go before the people and ask for their
suffrage before he had first establish
ed his innocence of any crime charged
in a Federal indictment that stands
against him? '
But it remains to be seen if the peo
ple of this county are going to endorse
such conditions. They have been re
peatedly fooled by this wily politician
the salaried hireling of corporations
until their patience has no further en
durance. Now, with a federal indict
ment facing him along with his other
short-comings, thepe is presented to
the voters of Clackamas county a dose
that is too bitter to take, especially
when the prospects of receiving any
benefit, as past experience has demon-
started, is so extremely remote.
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COME AGAIN, SENATOR.
Brownell in his desperation must
find some charge against his opponent
therefore he charges grafting in the
county printing. A grafting charge
comes with good grace from Brownell
but so long as he can only show that
the Enterprise received the entire
county printing for 1905, about one-
third what it cost to print the delin
quent tax list a few years ago, he will
have to hunt up a new accusation.
The Enterprise received for .1905
$1188.27 for all printing including the
printing of the delinquent tax list
while under Ganong's administration
more than $2800 was paid for print
ing the delinquent tax list alone.
Last year the delinquent tax list
cost the taxpayers $156.75. Come
again, Senator.
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NO FREE SEEDS FOR POLITICS
ONLY.
The question as to the propriety
of discontinuing the "free seed" prac
tice, or the objectless and promiscu
ous distribution of vegetable seeds,
promises to cause a lively fight in the
House of Representatives. Strictly
speaking, there is nothing complicated
about it, bu it involves a congression
al perquisite, and doubtless some of
the advocates of the practice in ' the
form it has so lately assumed are
imperfectly acquainted with its '"evolution."
Here are the facts in- a nutshell. The
House ' committee on agriculture, in
considering the agricultural appro
priation bill, decided by a bare majori
ty to strike out the item covering the
cost of the seeds distributed by the
senators and representatives. It had
been inserted ' as a matter of routine,
the appropriation amounting, as in
previous bills, to $240,000. The major
ity of the committee voted as it did
because the free seed business had
assumed the form of petty official
graft and was no longer meeting the
need which originally called it into
being.
Secretary Wilson, who certainly
cannot be accused of indifferdtoce to
agriculture or of ignorance of the true
interests of the farmers, says that "the
purpose of the early legislation for the
introduction and distribution of seeds
was to introduce into the country
seeds of new and improved varities
and of new crops in order to increase
the horticultural and agricultural pro
ducts of the United States." There is
no intention of abandoning this pur
pose or of refusing a suitable appropri
ation enabling the department to carry
out. But the number of requests,
as Mr. Wilson further says, for seed
packages has become so great that
it is simply impossible to supply new
varities or any seed having exeprimen-
tal value, and therefore, large quant
ities of packages of ordinary farm
and garden seeds have for some years
been sent out, congressmen, we may
add, thinking more of the political
crops than of the agricultural or'hort?
icultural H .-
It is. clear from Secertary Wilson's
statement that he would not be sorry
to see the graft element of the free
seed business reformed altogether.
The majority of the committee voted
right on the question, and the House
should indorse its position. Useful
and scientific experiments should be
encouraged by the government, but
not a cent for tribute to congress
men should De appropriated. rney
might as well ask for free hay or free
barbed wire or free brooms. Chicago
Record- Herald.
OUR COASTWISE LIGHTS.
Three investigations of the wreck of
the-steamer Valencia have been com
pleted, and the American public has
thrice been told that if there had been
life-saving station near the scene of
the disaster, had there been xa tele
phone line a signal station, even
the loss of life would have been far
less. But it has been shown, also,
that the negligence of the Federal
government is failing t provide, aids
to navigation on the Pacific Coast, has
been worthy of a Central American
ictatorship. In fact, there 'are -a
great many, matters concerning this
alencia wreck that are worth think
ing about. They are not novelties,
extract the .roots, and make it navig
able. The creeks, guts, sloughs, and
esturaries on the Atlantic Coast that
have not been made navigable defy
enumeration, computation, or any
thing except admiration for the gall of
the congressman and the senator who
demanded, engineered, and got the hill
for it all through Congress. And
every one ' of these made-by-hand riv
ers has a lighthouse at its mouth, and
buoys on its mudbanks, and beacons
by day and flashes by night, and its
beels and whistles and sirens. Here
skippers have to climb out on the how
spirit and peek over and smell and
taste and think what in tophet they've
run into now. San Francisco has a
commerce which makes Atlantic cities
outside of New York look mean md
pitiful. And you can hunt around for
six days outside when the weather is
thick, trying to find the Golden Gate.
You can investigate Montara Point,
and run forty miles to Point Reyes,
and go fifteen miles more and hail the
lightship, and miles more and listen
to the siren on the South-East Farral-
lone, or the bellow of the "calf" on
Noonday Rock, or of that on Duxbury
Reef; that's what you can do if you
earnestly ' desire to know just where
you are in a fog.' What you really do
sometimes is what the captain of the
Rio de Janeiro did, or the now for
gotten skippers of the endless craft
that have, piled up on the beach south
of the Gate.
It's different on the Atlantic. You
are met. way oat at sea by a big light
ship, and she passes you in to the next
one, and the lighthouses poke - up
wherever you see land, and you are
handed in like a lady with flashes,
flares, and flames to port and star
board, each (at government expense)
telling you just where you are.
And let the fog come down any
where from Cape Sable to Jupiter
Light, and instantly forty sirens bel
low out, and endless gas-buoys flare
out, and if a lady drops her pocket
handkerchief over the rail, there are
life-boats and launches, and tugs ready
to come out of the fog and return the
article and say "You really must be
more careful." '
All because the senators and con
gressmen of that State went to Wash
ington and got what they asked for.
Why is it that the entrance to Puget
Sound has to be hunted for as a wo
man hunts for her pocket? Why is it
that the entrance to the Columbia
River can be missed if one isn't quite
wideawake? Why is it thatthe mo
ment a coastwise vessel leaves the
Golden Gate in thick weather she has
nothing to guide her in her way ex
cept lights so far apart that, having
lost one, it may be hours before you
pick the next one? Don't just as fine
ships ply here as on the Atlantic?
When' we run on reefs and the seas
sweep us into the rigging and we
pray through shivering lips for help)
haven't we got a right to see the roc
kets of the life-saving crew and their
boat coming for us? Why is it? Don't
we pay enough? The Argonaut.
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Yes. 100,000 times each day.
Does it send out good blood
or bad blood?' You know, for
good blood is good health ;
bad blood, bad Jiealth. And
you know precisely what to
take for bad blood Ayer's
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One frequent canae of bad blood is a sluggish
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the formulas) of all our medicines.
Senator Tillman's hasty flare-un in
the Senate7 over what he considered
the unjust criticism of the President
anent the Tillman-Gillispie rate in
quiry resolution, is just a sample of
what may happen at any time when
Senator Tillman has charge of the
rate bill in which is centered so much
of the aspiration of the administra
tion. It was probably with malice
aforethought that the Republican mem
bers allowed Senator Tillman to
handle the rate bill. Any opponent of
the measure who did not want to show
his own hand, knew that there stood
Dener cnance or open rupture De-
tween the President and Senator Till
man than between the President and
any man in the Senate or the. world
who could have been entrusted with
the management of the bill. If there
a complete severance of relations
and rate legislation goes all to the bad,
then the Democratic leader and the
rank and file of the paVty will be forc
ed to shoulder the blame and if the
bill by any chance would emerge eith
er unscathed or still in recognizable
form, the leaders who are apparently
playing for a rupture will be able to
point with pride to their magnanimity
in turning the measure over to a Dem
ocrat with the explanation that they
knew all the while that Senator Till
man's personality and party affiliations
would make Democratic votes for the
measure when they were most needed.
The details of Senator Tillman's com
plaint was that the President had
treated the Sentate flippantly. This
was a thing that numerous Senators
ave wanted, to say at various times
in the past bu t none of them had ever
gotten up the courage. Senator Till
man, however, is not lacking in fight
ing courage. That Is one. of the things
the President admires in him, and
while it is a quality that naturally
may often tend to a rupture, it may
also help to mutual tolerance that will
make for peace. It does not much
matter whether it was the President
or Senator Tillman who was at fault
in the difference over the joint reso
lution. It would have suited a large
number of senators equally well to
see them at cross purposes whether
both or neither of . them had been
wrong. The trouble was principally
significant in showing what is liable
to happen between the President and
his strange Senate champion at any
stage of the rate legislation and .it
shows what some of the covert ene
mies of such legislation must have
forseen and hoped for when Senator
Tillman was allowed to have charge
of the bill.
only that promise to buld macadam
ized roads, and even then he is only
willing to appropriate a comparatively
small percentage of the cost of the
undertaking. But we are not blam
ing Judge Scott for other than his
failure to emulate the example set by
Clackamas. Because districts do not
macadamize is no reason why they
should not get their money back for
the purpose of fixing the roads. The
policy needed too, is township gov
ernment. If Judge Scott had agitated
this in connenction with the good
roads idea there would be a brighter
good roads prospect. Woodburn In
dependent. o
The Senate is now busily engaged
in showing the House the virtue In
having the last whack at a bill.
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If railroad passes. frankiner nrivi-
leges and free seed distribution are all ! !
cut off, what will be the use in being i A
a congressman anyway. !
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There is no prospect that the Sen-1 A
ate messenger that carries back the ?
rate bill will be lugging enough, to !0
make him round shouldered.
"A Stitch
In Time
Saves Nine"
can nowhere be more truthfully applied than
to your teeth. You cannot afford to neglect
- them. Each month of neglect increases the
c amount of repair work twenty-five per cent,
besides, poor teeth mean poor health. You
. ' cannot afford to neglect your, health. .By the
latest methods used by us we can fill your teeth
without pain, and do it well. If An expert
. eastern graduate dentist employed all the time
L. L. PICKENS
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Weinhard Building, Opposite Court House '
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A great many people are wondering
whether free acholol for use in the
arts will include the brand utilized in
painting the town.
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Just as like as not Gen. Wood was
trying to get even with the lot of
Moros who conferred the title of datto
on the Hon. William Jennings Bryan.
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The Secretary of State explained to
a caller the other day that a "modus
Vivendi" was the sort of a treaty that
did not have to get killed in the Senate.
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Although it has not yet been stated,
it may be explained that the visit of
the Standard Oil magnates to the
White House was for the purpose of
"making a purely personal visit to the
President.
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Clackamas court; y is in the throes
of a demand for a "new deal", and rhe
fight is on to down the Browne!! io
gime: L. L. -Porter is out for the
scalp of Brownell and has dared to
"beard the lion in his den"," so is a
candidate for the nomination for Sen
ator against Brownell, who desires
to be renominated. Roseburg Spokesman.
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MARION MIGHT FOLLOW SUIT.
either; they are abuses so old, so rat- 1 , .
ified by long custom, that we have al- A recent good roads meeting at
most a reverence for them, a kind of Macleay did not prove one of enthu
awed feeling whenever we acknow- siasm. The farmers would like to
ledge that they are abuses.
The first thing is that, while
Atlantic Coast has one hundred
ninety-four Ufe-saving stations,
The Chiness do not want to make
the slightest trouble for any foreign
ers who stay out of China.
have good roads without helping to
the ' pay for the improvement. That is the
and greatest drawback to the movement,
the Yet the farmers icannot be altogether
Pacific Coast boasts of .only fifteen, censured for pursuing such a negative
There are fourteen in the State of course. They are not rolling in
Maine. Another thing to recall is wealth and know, that, while good
that while the Atlantic is lTghted like roads are important to the welfare of
Market street, the Pacific is lighted a section, the system is a very poor
like a lodging house hallway. On the one. Instead--of dividing the money
Atlantic, when the congressman or among the several road districts, as
senator snags his fishing line in a in the case of Clackamas county,
The teachers of public schools in
Oregon, as in other progressive states,
are becoming interested in the sub
ject of teaching elementary agricul
ture in the public schools. The ques
tion is one of prime importance. Thoae
who have studied the matter the most
throughly have not yet reached very
definite " conclusions a-3 to the extent
to which agriculture should be taught
in the common schools. There is a
quite general agreement that there
is need of one radical chano and that
is in preparing text bJOs of. all kinds
in such a way that the will give the
rural side of affairs a fair chance
Rural Northwest.
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Attorney General Crawford on Tues
day rendered an opinionco-inciding
with that recently rendered by Dist
rict Attorney Harrison Allen in Clat
sop county, in holding that a woman
cannot legally hold the office of County
Superintendent of Schools. The opin
ion was written in answer to. an in
quiry frpm Superintendent of Public
Instruction J. H. Ackerman. This
of course, is the opinion of the attorney-general
and not of the Supreme
Court. There will be no one so mean
as to take official notice of this section
of our outgrown constitution. The
constitution is ignored by unanimous
consent in the matter .of the salaries
of State officials, county indebtedness,
location of state institutions and sev
eral other points less familar to the
reading public. The teaching profes
sion is almost wholly in the hands of
women and since the Oregon consti
tution was adopted the employment of
women has been revolutionized in our
industrial civilization. Exchange. . 1
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Sunday newspaper aid a humorous
weekly periodical in eolors.-
The mechanical work involved in
the making of this colored supplement
is a marvel of skill. The harmonious
arrangements and perfect blending of
the many colors used in its make up
portray artistic taste of the highest
order.
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PROVOKI NGLY FUNNY.
Have you eVer had a long, weary
Sunday before you apparently a
never-ending day when nothing imag
inable would provoke one of those full,
hearty, ""whole-souled laughs from
which is derived the old, favorite
adage, "Laugh and grow fat"? If such
a day comes to you again and you want
a merry laugh for the pleasure it gives
turn to the Comic Colored Supplement
of The Chicago Record-Herald's Sun
day edition. It is certainly an exter
minator of the "blues." Filled com
pleters' with fresh, breezy jokes and ir
resistibly comic illustrations in colors,
sparkling with and humor of an
enterprising as well as instructive
nature, it is a paper to amuse all who
creek, there is instantly an appropria- where roads are far better than in j see it. Four pages in colors and fonr
tion made to dredge that creek, and Marion, it seems to be Judge Scott's in black-and-white, this the best
embank it, and revetment it, and determination to pay out the taxes colored supplement issued by any raet
jetty it, and poke holes in the bars and paid by all districts in those districts ropolitan newspaper make? of that
The school and home agricultural
movement inaugrated by the Multno
mah Teachers' Progress Club and the
Principals' Association took definite
form in the Gresham school Friday,
March 9th. ' County Superintendent
'Robinson was present, and outlined
the plans to the pupils of the three
upper rooms. -
The country boys are to grow pota-
toes this year under the
of the experiment department
State Agricultural College. The girls
will grow fl6wers, sweet peas and as
ters, under the same supervisions. The
pollege, at the request of Supt.v Robin
Son has arranged the experiments and
are publishing a leaflet carefully set
ting forth the plans and benefits to be
derived therefrom. Prizes have been
arranged for each of the five competi
tive districts into which the county is
divided, also general county prizes.
To facilitate this work and to carry
out other similar movements the pu
pils have organized two clubs. The
boys' organization being known as the
Boys' Experiment Club, while the girls
organization is known as a Home Cul
ture Club. These are the officers
elected : Experiment Club ; president,
George Cummings; vice-president, Joe
Ross; secretary, Emory Roberts;
treasurer, George Faris; Home Cul
ture Club; president Grace Lawrence;
vice-president, Edith Gordon; secre
tary, Janie Ross; treasurer, Alta Fox.
East Multnomah Record. (Gresham.)
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