OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1906.
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FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1906.
FRIDAY'S ELECTION.
Of great importance is Friday's elec
tion. It is important because for the
first time will the people of the state
take a hand directly in nominating
candidates for office. From the regis
tration of voters, which is surprising
ly large, it may be expected that a
big vote will be polled. Interest in a
campaign was never greater in Clack
amas County. Meetings everywhere
have been largely attended and the
addresses of all speakers have been
received with attention.
The position of the various candi
dates is understoon. In the very
thorough canvass that has been con
ducted, the particular interests, if
there were any, back of each candt
date, have been exposed to the public
view. So the voters are not witnout
Information as to the position of every
candidate and what may be expected
of him. So if any mistakes are made.
the people themselves will be direct
ly to blame.
CORPORATIONS VS. THE PEOPLE,
In the campaign that closes with
Friday's election, the Enterprise in
fulfilling the duty it believes is due
the public, has given considerable
time and attention to exposing Sena
- tor Brownell and his methods. We
have done this because we believed
that the people should know just
where candidates for office stand,
what interests they represent and what
may be expected of them in event of
their nomination and election.
We have shown that Senator Brown
ell is notoriously the candidate of the
corporations, that he is receiving their
open support in the campaign, that he
carries with him letters from the O.
W. P. Company and the Southern Pa
cific Company, in which he is indorsed
by those companies as the logical can
didate for the State Senate. But this
is not all. We have called attention
to the fact that Brownell is under in
dictment by a Federal grand jury and
is out on $4000 bonds awaiting the
trial of his case.
The people of Clackamas county
have for some time desired a cleaner
order qf things politically than that
by which the county has been so gross
ly outraged and disgraced. They feel
that the time has arrived for a house
cleaning. In the case now before the
people, the voters constitute the jury
and their verdict will be returned Fri
day. If the retirement of the man who
has dpminated Clackamas county poli
tics for twelve years and an end plac
ed to his methods, is desired, it is
within the power of the people them
selves to bring this about. But if they
are satisfied with the present order of
things, then perpetuate in office the
man whose record consists of a suc
cession of broken pledges, the prosti
tution of the public interest "to cor
poration greed, and, lastly, practices
that have caused his indictment by a
Federal grand jury.
The voters are in possession of these
facts. They know what the situation
offers for them. They wiil have only
themselves to blame or the selection
that is made. '
A LOCAL SITUATION.
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 a further con
tinuance in his official capacity? Or
can you conceive of any other public
man than George C. Brownell, the
gentleman from Clackamas, who pos
sesses the unblushing nerve and sur
prising audacity that is required even
in his case to brace up a candidacy
before a constituency he has so gross
ly outraged and betrayed, who would
dare go before the people and ask for
their suffrage before he had first es
tablished 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 on Friday will en
dorse such conditions. They have been
repeatedly fooled by this wily politi
cian, the salaried hireling of corpora
tions, until their patience has no fur
ther endurance. Now, with a federal
indictment facing him along with his
other short-comings, there is present
ed to the voters of Clackamas county a
dose that is too bitter to take, espec
ially when the prospects of receiving
any benefit, as past experience has
demonstrated, is so remote.
WILL CLACKAMAS DO IT?
At any rate Senator Brownell evinc
es no desire or intention of seeking
the place that unquestionably belongs
to a man accused, as he is, of a viola
tion of the Federal statutes in a con
spiracy to defraud the government.
Instead, he has paraded brazenly be
fore the people whom he has outraged
as a legislator and seeks their suf
frages for still another term, and in
explanation of the charge against him
resorts to an alleged alibi to further
decieve a constituency that has al
ready tolerated too much. There must
be something in the indictment against
Senator Brownell, otherwise it would
bave been dismissed before this time.
And It Is the common report that the
government authorities are in posses
sion of strong evidence against the
Clackamas county senator, evidence,
in fact, that is equally if not more in
criminating than that on which con
victions have already been secured in
the United States Circuit Court at
Portland.
Are the voters of Clackamas County
then going to indorse such a man for
the highest office within their gift?
The Republicans' of Clackamas
county have always been loyal in their
support of President Roosevelt and
the fundamental principles of Repub
licanism. The indorsement of such a
man as Brownell under these condi
tions is nothing other than a slap in
the face of Roosevelt whose adminis
tration is back of the pending prose
cution of these offenders.
And besides, in what an embaras
sing predicament would the voters of
this county be found if they nominate Nicaragua were settled for all
by j i
and elect Brownell, should he after- Mark Hanna and the grave discussions
wards be convicted of the charge ; between the lock and sea level types
with which he is confronted? This re-j are really a sort of a dead lock with
suit, Mr. Heney, the government's i the Senate as much at sea as ever as
is reasonably to which is to be- chosen.. In the
meantime sentiment is -. growing in
favor of individual responsibility as
nrnspflntnr. has RTfttf1 is rfiflsnnflhlv
assured, in view of the strong evidence
in possession of the prosecution.
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There is every reason to believe
that those who have looked for canal
legislation at this session of Congress
are to be disappointed. The opinion
grows that the interminable making of
testimony is only a part of a consist
ent policy of delay and obstruction.
The Senate is popularly known as
"The House of Detention" and It is
likely to justify its name in Canal
matter. There has really been no
progress in Canal affairs since the
vacillations betwefen Panama and
opposed to responsibility vested in
commissions, and yet stronger approv
al of doing the work -of construction
by contract.
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The figures go to show that the
coal miners have been getting high
wages as compared with former years
and the operators have been making
larger per centages of profit- than ever
before. Nevertheless the strike has
been declared and it is the consumer
who must pay the bills while the
miner and operator divide the profits.
BROWNELL'S LETTER
mr. brqwnell is out in a circular letter asking the
people of clackamas county to renominate him to the
state senate for the- fourth term. in his letter he
says he stands by his record as contained in the senate
Journals, he says at no time, has he ever acted in the
interest of the railroads or other corporations. if
that is true, why did he strangle in the, committee sen
ate bill no. 130 and senate bill 137 in the legislative ses
sion of 1899? these were bills that the railroads were
bitterly opposed to and they were referred to the rail
road committee of which mr. brownell was chairman and
he never allowed them to get before the senate for
consideration. one of these bills reduced the passenger
rate on railroads and the other required pullman and
sleeping car companies to pay a tax.' in whose interest
was brownell working, the railroads or the people,
when he smothered these bills in committee? he only
voted for the fellow servant law after every other
member of the senate had voted for it, his name as pre
siding officer, being called last. he would have voted
against the measure if there had been any chance to
defeat it.
in the last s'ession of the legislature, that of 1905,
mr. brownell after trying to kill in committee the kill
ings worth bill, dodged the issue and hid where the ser-geant-at-arms
could not find him when the friends of
this bill forced it to an issue. he knew the people
would condemn him if he voted against it and the rail
roads would condemn him if he voted for it. numerous
other measures of this kind could be cited.
mr. brownell says that he passed the initiative and
referendum measure in the legislature. everybody
knows that this " measure was drawn by a committee
composed of the leading citizens of the state.- mr.
brownell had no more to do with its passage than any
other member of the legislature who voted for it and i
believe every member from clackamas county voted for
this measure, at least i did.
if mr brownell is not the agent and representative
of the railroad companies, why do they give him passes
to give out with such a lavish hand? why does mr. morris, -'
of the o. w. p., and mr. fields, of the s. p. write letters
helping him in his present campaign? why does the o. w.
p. run special cars to his meetings and carry people
free of charge?
mr. brownell says that he is a poor man, that his
property would not pay his debts; yet he spends from
$100 to $200 on each of his political meetings. where does
this money come from? who furnishes it7 threre can be
but one 'answer. the railroads.
( mr. brownell says he tried to pass the eight-hour
law. it is known. that he did nothing of the kind, that
he promised to support this measure in ordl?r to get
the labor vote of oregon city and then laughed about
how easily he had taken them in.
mr. brownell to prejudice the people makes a false
statement concerning the amount of money paid for the
county printing. the printing of the delinquent tax.
list when ganong was sheriff cost the county $2800. last
year the enterprise received $156.75 for the same work,
and this was largely brought about through the present
tax law which was framed by the committee on assess
ment and taxation of the state senate of which commit
tee i was a member. the present law is much more strin
gent on delinquent taxes than the old law and its ef
fect on the publishing of the delinquent tax list is
shown by the figures of $156.75 for last year and $2800 a
few years ago. if i was working in my own interest,
rather than that of the county, i would hae worked
against this measure, rather than in making it a law. . !
as to brownell's indictment,. he induced fred sievers '
to go down to the united states court and swear to a ,
vlot of falsehoods in order to prevent and protect him,
brownell, from being indicted along the same lines that
meldrum was. brownell was in grave danger of follow
ing in the footsteps of meldrum and being indicted and
tried! for practically the same crime of which meldrum
was convicted. he was willing to have sievers go into
the united states court and perjure himself to save
brownell from indictment. yet after getting this man
to commit this perjury brownell is now abusing sievers
for being caught at it. if sievers had succeeded in fool
ing the united states court and not been caught at the
perjury that brownell induced him to commit to save
brownell's neck, then brownell would have considered
sievers a sharp, bright man. but for sievers to be caught
and involve brownell, is the greatest crime that sivers
could commit.
. i l. porter.
Importance of the Teeth
"When a pretty girl parts rosy lips and reveals de
cayed teeth, inflamed gums and a disagreeable
breath, how quickly the charm is dispelled, and
how painful and mortifying must it be to her to
be the victim of such a condition. '
-Many ladies whose faces are' unattractive in re
pose, become positively charming when their
smiles reveal clean, white teeth, well cared for.
Though ladies may be dressed in the richest ap-
parel, with eyes Enchanting and features perfect,
if they have decayed and broken teeth, diseased
gums and foul breath, their friends cannot ap
proach them without a feeling of repugnance. -In
twenty-four hours we breath twenty-five thous
and times. . "What must be the effect on the deli
cate structure of the lungs when for days, months
and years the air we breathe is drawn through a
a depository of filth and poisoned by being mixed
with effluvia rising from decayed and ulcerated
teeth ?
Why endanger your health and life when a few
hours' work will make your mouth clean and
beautiful? .
"We do painless work and guarantee it.
An expert Eastern graduate dentist with us all the
time. n
Seventeen years' practice in 'Oregon City.
Both Phones.
L. L.
Weinhard Buildings
PICKENS
Dentist
Opposite Court House
CANDIDATE FOR TREASURER
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fellow citizen, I can congratulate you and also myself, that no County in all
our great State stands higher in the matter of financial credit and modern
improvements and conditions than old Clackamas. I have endeavored to con
duct the business intrusted by you to me economically, wisely and well, and
appreciate the fact that the loyal support and good will that I have received
from nearly all of you has enabled me to make the showing outlined above.
. I am a candidate for the Republican nomination as State Treasurer and
with the united and loyal support of you men of Clackamas I can get it. As
boy and man for 25 years I have been with you, never for one Instant forget
ting that the interests of Clackamas County and its inhabitants were mine,
nor losing sight of the fact that I have always had the respect and support of
so many of you. In this contest for nomination as State Treasurer I am op
posed by Bankers and interested Corporations who want the funds of the
State controlled by their employees, so that, they may have the use of the
same, without giving the state any return. None of them stand on the platform
that I do, and which I believe is the one that the people have a right to de
mand, and which is simply this: "The moneys of the State belong to the
people of the State, and 'when used by Bank or Corporation should draw in- .
terest, which interest should be paid into the State Treasury, and not be di
vided between the State Treasurer and the officers and stockholders of Banks,
That the State Treeasurer should be prohibited from receiving anything more
for his services than the salary allowed him under the law; that he should
not be interested either as officer, stockholder, agent or employee of any
bank or institution, where the funds of the state are deposited or loaned."
None of the other candidates for this nomination, with the exception of
A. C. Jennings are In favor of either working for the salary fixed by law or
the payment of the interest received from the banks where state funds are
deposited, into the State Treasury; with great pleasure would I meet them
or either of them upon the platform and defend the stand that I have taken
in this matter; I feel that you and evefy disinterested citizen of the State will
agree with me that the position I have taken is right. In conclusion I desire
to state, that if I am fortunate enough to be elected as your State Treasurer,
that I will perform every duty in connection with said office so faithfully and
well, that it will give satisfaction to every citizen of our county, and will make
the State at large admit that the men of Clackamas are all right.
Trusting that I may have your support at the primaries on the 20th day
of Apr jlr I remain as ever sincerely yours, THOMAS F. RYAN.
The Smthfield ham has long been
famous, but the beef trust has not yet
come around to putting "Garfield
hams" on the market.
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Secretary Taft has declared to the
Military Cimmittee of the Senate, that
"young lieutenants should not burden
themselves with wives on their present
army pay." This order is good as far
as it goes, but perhaps the present
pay might be sufficient for a man and
his family if the preposterous regula
tions which require an officer to have
three or four times as many clothes as
a civilian requires were modified.
The New Jersey legislature has ap
propriated $350,000 for fighting mo
squitoes thus putting in a questionable
light the summer resort managers who
i advertise there are no mosquitoes in
-TV Jersey.
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Mr. ' Benjamin F. Barnes, Assistant
Secretary at the White House, has
been appointed city Postmaster in
ashington. His appointment was
made by the President without con
sulting anyone in Washington or else
where and the oldest paper in the city
is in a state of great indignation,
claiming it an outrage, a subversion
of local rights, sensibilities and so
forth. It was doubtless refreshing to
the President to be able to appoint one
person thoroughly known and tried by
himself and without the annoyance of
having to listen to the tiresome recom
mendations perfunctory and other
wise of the friends of a dozen rival
candidates. Mr. Barnes had forced
upon him an unenviable notoriety be
cause some weeks ago, it is was nec-
pessary for him to call upon the police
to remove irom tne wnte .House a
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boisterous and recalcitrant. but well
dressed woman. This Washington pa
per with Senator Tillman of South
Carolina and Congressman Sheppard
of Texas, tried hard to make a Na
tional issue of this incident utterly
without significance. Mr. Barnes will
doubtless make an excellent post
master. He is known and esteemed
by Postmaster General Cortelyou, who
was associated with him when he was
Secretary to the President. They
were long together in the White House
and will now again be under the same
roof for the city post office Is situat
ed in the same massive building known
as the United States Post Office De
partment. : o
Sarah Bernhardt was compelled to
u!ay in a tent in Texas because of the
Theatre syndicate which closed the
houses to her. In Canada the popu
lace turned out and pelted her with
old eggs because she criticized Canad
ians. Evidently Sarah has hit on a
better advertising scheme than that
of having her diamonds stolen.
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Senator Piatt is enthusiastically in
favor of reducing the amount of puu
lic matter turned out by the Govern
oient. The Express companies whicn
he represents in the Senate have never
been given the contract to distribute
It.
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' J. P. Morgan has paid $50,000 for
. a collection of manuscripts of the poet
: Burns. Still he is no better off so far
as a knowledge of poetry is concern
ed than the man who buys a copy at
40 cents or borrows it from a Carne
gie Library.
REDUCE STATE TAXES
VOTERS OF CLACKAMAS: ,
DO NOT BE MISLED BY CLEVERLY WRITTEN LETTERS OR
STATEMENTS OF CANDIDATES IN PAPERS. AS THE ONLY CANDI
DATES FOR STATE TREASURER WHOSE PLATFORMS FILED WITH
THE SECRETARY OF STATE PLEDGES THEM TO PAY INTEREST
ON STATE'S MONEYS INTO THE STATE TREASURY ARE OUR COUN
TY JUDGE, TJHOS. F. RYAN AND A. C. JENNINGS, OF LANE COUNTY -ALL
OTHER CANDIDATES FOR THIS OFFICE ARE BANKERS OR IN
THE EMPLOY OF BANKERS, AND THEY MUST PAY THE INTEREST
ON STATE MONEYS TO THEIR REAL EMPLOYERS, THE BANKS IF
YOU WANT TO HAVE YOUR STATE TAX REDUCED AND THE OFFICE
OF STATE TREASURER CONDUCTED ON BUSINESS PRINCIPLES
VOTE IN THE PRIMARY ON APRIL 20th FOR JUDGE THOS, F. RYAN.