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OREGON CITY, CLACKAMAS COUNTY, OREGON, MONDAY, MAY- 1903.
No. 11.
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HE WILL LOSE LINN
TURNED THE TRICK
MILLER ON STUMP
BEAVEN TO PREACH
HANGED TO A POLE
HERMANN TO SPEAK
REFUSED ALL OFFICES TO ACCOM
ADDRESSES THE VOTERS AT FROG
HE WILL DELIVER MEMORIAL SER
PROMINENT GERMAN CITIZEN SUICIDES
REPUBLICAN NOMINEE WILL TALK
HERE NEXT THURSDAY.
REAMES WILL CARRY THAT COUNTY
BY PROBABLY 100 VOTES.
PLISH HIS OBJECT.
POND SCHOOLHOUSE.
MON TO L A. R. AKD W. R. C
AT DAMASCUS.
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Campaign Is Quiet One And Albany Will Wit
ness Unusual Spectacle of Hearing Bath
Candidates Speak the Sane Day.
ALBANY, Or., (Staff Couespon
denoe. ) Binger Hermann will lose
Linn county by probably 100 votes.
This estimate is gathered from a talk
with the leaders of both parties. Ex
State Senator Percy R. Kelly, who
was a candidate for Republican nom
ination for congress, is going to take
the stamp for Hermann in Linn. He
says that in his judgment Hermann
will have a plurality of not less than
60 and not more than 100. Mr. Kelly
is a fair and honest man, and he oould
not consistently predict anything than
the election Lof Hermann, even if it
must be a small plurality. -
The fact is Kelly feels that he.
should have . had the nomination and
there is good reason for his feeling
just that way. He knows that Her
mann was beaten in the convention,
and he also knows that Claud Gatch
never could have been nominated. In
the wild scurry for votes in the Eu
gene conention, when Hermann's fol
lowing was leaving him, Mr. Kelly
Mr. Gatch got their heads together
to no purpose, unless it was a cross
purpose. Gatoh wanted Kelly to with
draw Jnjiisyavor, but Kelly knew that
Gatch could never be nominated.
Gatch tookthe position that 'he was
high man and the other candidates in
opposition to Hermann should throw
their .strength , to him. But Kelly
could not do this' even if he had been
. so disposed. Kelly had some friends
in the ClaokamaS delegation, and they
would never go to Gatoh and told
that gentleman Jso. Mr. Gatch went
home to Salem and told his friends
there that he could have landed the
nomination ;if Kelly had helped him
and this sort of talk has not helped
things.
The late Congressman Tongue never
carried Linn county in any of his
campaigns and Tongue was by far a
stronger man than Hermann is.
Then Linn county is Bometimes with
good reasons classed as a Democratic
county-and as Mr. Kelly puts it: "We
Republicans have to face the enemy."
"I understand," said Mr. Kelly, and
a smile played over his countenance,
"that George C. Brownell, after his
return to CI. kamas oouaty, boasted
that in leavingjjthe convention as he
did was the most astute political move
he ever made in all his life. "
The Recordjcorrespondent admitted
that he had heard something of the
sort.
"Now let me tell yon," deolared
Kelly, "that Brownell slunk out of
that convention hall like a whipped
dog, and a badly beaten one. It is
no credit to him that Hermann was
nominated or to Hermann either."
Albany will witness the spectacle
of having both Hermann and Reames
speak at the same time. Reames has
the court house and Hermann the
opera house.
The campaign here as in other
places is quiet and even the Democrats
cannot see how Reames can be elected
in the face of the normal Republican
plurality in the First District. Fur
nish carried the district, notwith
standing Marion county handed him
a gold brick, and Hermann cannot
possibly make a poorer ran than did
Mr. Furnish.
Owing to the visit of President
Roosevelt to OrecoDi Citv Mav 20. the,
eighth grade examination which was
announced lor that date, will begin
Tuesday the 19th, and will be com
pleted - Tttursdaty and .Friday lol
lowing.
J. C. ZINSER,
Superintendent of Schools.
The new Cane man Park pavilion
will be finished by May 24. The
dancing floor will be 60x100.
J. H. Howard Tens How Be Induced tbe State
Federation of Labor to Hold Its Next An
nual Convention ia This City.
J. H. Howard, secretary of Federal
Labor Union, has just returned from
La Grande, where he attended the
State Federation of Labor, and is re
joicing over his success in inducing
the Federation to hold its annual
meeting in Oregon City next year. Mr.
Howard exercised a great deal of tact
in the first instance for the purpose
of getting the convention here and re
fused the caucus nomination for
President of the State Federation.
This was a caucus of the anti-Harry
forces held in Portland several days
before the convention and its nom
inees won out. Mr. Howard also re
fused to (accept the nominations for
first vice president down to fifth vice
president. After the officers of the
Federation had been elected, Mr.
Howard was placed in nomination by
Horace A. Dukes, of Portland, or
ganizer for the American Federation
of Labor, for a member of the legisla
tive committee, but Mr. Howard de
clined. He was then nominated for a
member of the auditing committee,
but refused to accept, all of the time
making a play to keep out of office,
with the idea uppermost in his mind
of springing Oregon City for the place
of holding the next convention. '
When the election of officers and
Committees were over, the convention
devoted its time to choosing a place
for its next meeting and Portland,
'Astoria, Pendleton, Salem and other
towns were named. Salem made the
strongest fight for the place and ex
hibited letters from Board of Trade,
Central Labor Oounoil and Illihee
Club. Howard laid low and the cham
pions of their respective towns made
long and brilliant arguments. Ore
gon City had never been mentioned
up to this time and Mr. Howard had
used the ruse of steadily refusing all
offices. Miller, of Salem, 'adopted a
like method of refusing offices, but
finally consented to go on the audit
ing committee. This gave every town
in the state an officer, with the single
exoeption of Oregon City.
This was Mr. Howard's time for
action and he got on his feet He
said that the preceding year the Port
land delegates had opposed his elec
tion for vice president on the ground
that Oregon City was a suburb of
Portland, and was entitled to little
or nothing. The delegates soon saw
the drift of Howard's remarks and the
whisper "Oregon City" went through
the convention hall Mr. Howard ad
vised the convention to select the city
of Portland as the best place for the
meeting. He said that Portland had
the natural advantages 'and the most
unions but also stated that the gentle
man who had advocated the selection
of Portland had failed to say what
part of Portland should have the con
vention. In his judgment Oregon
City, which had been called a sub
urb and a part of Portland, was en
titled to the convention. She had got
nothing in the way of offices, while
every other town in Oregon had been
favored. Howard proceeded to do a
little more talking, when some of
the delegates shouted :
"Sit down; you'll get the conven
tionl"
The first ballot told the story and
Portland received nine votes, Salem 33
and Oregon City 68.
Mr. Howard said this morning that
Oregon City would give the State
Federation a royal reception on the
first Monday in May.
Several entertaining features will
be introduced, a banquet will be
tendered the visiting delegates and
an illuminated street parade will be
held at night He speaks of the people
of La Grande in the highest terms and
says that the 'delegates are loud in
the praise of the treatment they re
ceived there. '
Discasies the Political iscaes of the Day and
Puts In Hugs Against the Eesablican
Nominee For Congress. ,
Colonel Robert A. Miller, the
Chesterfield of Oregon Democracy,
opened the campaign at Frog Pond
chool house Saturday night The
audience was small but enthusiastic
and applauded the colonel to the echo.
The little school liouse, with the
classio name of Frog Pond, is itnated
in the precinct of Tualatin, j The
colonel drove from this city Saturday
afternoon and upon his arrival was
ereeted by prominent citizens and
the Frog Pond Brasa Band. The
Cliesterfieldian countenance of the
colonel was wreathed in smiles as he
mounted the platform.
"Fellow citizens and ladies, said
the colonel. "I am here tonight at
the request of the Hon. A. E. Reames,
Oregon's next Congressman ; from the
first district. (Prolonged applause. )
This ia the first gun of the campaign
in Clackamas County and I am the
one man chosen to pull the lanyard.
(Cheers. ) I will not detain yon long
but will tell you why you Jshould
cast your votes against Hermann, who
defeated me in one of the hardest
fights he ever went up against. The
Lord was on my side but the votes
were on Hermann's. (Laughter and
applause. )
''Mr. Reames is a young and an
honorable man. He was never kicked
out of office. President Roosevelt and
Secretary Hitohoock never toolfj HJm
by the seat of his pantaloons) and
dropped him out of the top story of the
Interior Department. Why? Because
they never had a Reliance. (Laughter.)
Mr. Reames is , a native son of this
great and glorious state of Oregon.
He grew up with the state and il now
district attorney of the first' judicial
district He is a lawyer, of ability
and distinction and his character as a
man and his record as a public official
has never been besmirched. I could
keep you here all night, telling you
of the virtues of the Democratio can
didate, but I won't (Great appla
use.) The late lamented Furnish
(groans) carried the county of Clacka
mas by nearly 400 pluralty. Will yon
go to the polls on the first of June and
give such a plurality as this to Binger
Hermann? (Cries of No I No 1 You bet
we won't I) Or will yon go to the
polls and vote early and often for
Oregon's favorite son? Will yon re
turn to Washington a man who has
been repudiated by the great leaders
of his own party? Answer me, will
you do this' scandalous thing? Tour
frank and open faces assure me that
you will not. (Deafening applause. )
; "I am a Democrat," continued the
gallant colonel, warming up to his
hearers. "I have always been a Dem
ocrat and always will be. I was a
Democrat before some of you were
born, but I am younger than' my party.
(Cries of "You're right," and
"Thats' so.") The Democrat party
is an ancient and honoraple party. It
is the party of Jefferson and Cleveland
Bryan and ,Altgeld, 'Chamberlain
and Judge Galloway, Gib Hedges and
Bob Beatie and many other great men.
It is only my modesty that prevents
me naming others. (Cheers. )
"In the beginning," conoluded this
ardent Democrat, "the good Lord
created the Heaven and the Earth. As
soon as he completed this stupendous
job, he created the Democratic party.
And later, like the locusts that
plagued Egypt, came the Republican
party. (Loud hisses. ) My friends,
the moral of all this is, vote for
Reames. Strike a blow against the
trusts. Thank 'yon. for your atten
tion." (Applause.)
FINANCIAL CONDITION 000D.
General Secretary Beach Makes Fine
Showing For Y. M. C. A.
General Secretary and Physical
Director William H. Beach, 'ot the
Young Men's Christian Association,
has completed his monthly statement
of thefinancial affairs of the associa
tion for the month ending April 80.
These statements enable the people
of the city to determine the work the
association is doing. The receipts
lor last month were f loo. oo aa tne cus
bursements t88.40. The treasury con
tained $52.04 on theC April 1st and
now has $64.49,. The association has
an indebtedness of $4421 and after
this is paid will still be ahead $20.28.
Mr. Beach is working hard, under ad
verse conditions, to make the assooia
tion'pay its way and is making an
excellent snowing.
Arrangement Are Practically Complete For
the Observance of Becoratlon Day m
Saturday, May 30.
On Sunday, May 4, which is tbe
day designated as Memorial Sabbath
throughout the state, Rev. J. H.
Beaven will deliver the memorial
sermon to Meade Post and Meade
Relief Corps, who will attend the
Baptist Church in a body at 11 o'clock.
The committee on arrangements for
.tlie observation of Memorial Day held
a meeting yesterday afternoon -and
made final arrangements. About half
past 9 o'clock on the morning of May
80 the school children will form in
front of the G. A. R. hall and will
T)e taken to tflie hall where they will
present flowers to the comrades of the
Grand Army and to tlie Women's Re
lief Corps. The procession will then
be formed, under the direction of
Grand Marshal C. P. Mars, who will
name his aides this week. The first
halt will be made on the suspension
bridge, where a service will be held
by the Relief Corps, assisted by the
Grand Arm y, in honor ot the sailor
dead of the war of the rebellion, and
the; waters will be strewn with flowers.
Arriving at Shively's operahouse,
publio services will take place, and
the following program will be ren
dered: Prayer, Rev. W. S. Grim; vocal
solo, Mrs. Kate Ward Pope j memorial
address, Mrs. Emma Galloway, past
deartment president of the Women's
Relief Corps ; vocal quartette, J. W.
Loder, Mr. Weldon Shank, Rev.
Prank H. STixsell and' Mrs. John W.
Loder. After these services, the line
of march will be taken bp to , Moun
tain View cemetery, where the ritual
istic services of Meade Post G. A.
R., will be held, and the decorating
of the graveB of the" fallen . heroes
will end the ceremonies Viof the day.
f FRANK BUSCH,
The Hotisef tf
FRIDAY
May 8
FRANK BUSCH,
The Housefurnisher
Was Despondent and Had Domestic Troubles
and Took His Own Life Over Sixty
Years of Age and Quite Sane.
"Despondent over domestio troubles,
a German farmer named Doefe, living
two miles east of Damascus, hanged
himself last night in a canyon a half
mile from his house. His body was
found at ten o'clock, hanging to a
pole on a fence, and he had been dead
for some time. Gabriel Norris found
the body. Doefe was about 60 years
otf age and had a wife and married son
at Damascus. He was perfectly sane
and had had no trouble with anyone,
so far as known, and domestio troubles
a believed to be the cause of his
rash act For a week past he had
seemed despondent but his suicide was
a great surprise to his neighbors.
Doefe was a well to do man, and
owned a large and profitable farm.
Coroner Holman was summoned from
Oregon City this morning and has
gone to hold an inquest.
R. L. Holman, leading undertaker,
Oregon City, Or. County coroner.
Dyeing at
i BARBER
: LEAYE ORDERS FOR DYEING AND CLEANING..
Ouf representative, will be in Oregon City Tuesdays '. ' j
. and Saturdays. ;
Gents Clothing Cleaned, Colored and Repaired.
All work left at Johnson's Barber Shop will receive
prompt attention. 1 . .
OREGON STEAM DYING AND CLEANING WORKS
'''"iSra'B'nrnBlcIe 8teeVOorner 8th, Portland, Ore.
rnlsher
You can save money for yourself if you do your buying
here. We can put pennies into your saving account
everyday. The little we save you on every purchase
is what will count in building plenty for you in your
'saving fund.
Friday is our busy day, and all who appreciate a real
bargain will find us ready with something that every house
has use for. We will put on sale:
100 12-quart XXXX heavy galvanized Milk and Water Pails,
weighing 4 pounds and will last longer than one dozen o
the cheaper kind. The regular price is 75 cents, bat it will
be sold for
50 Cents
on Fridays only as long as the present stock lasts. On
inquiry you will find a list of other goods reduced at the
same rate and sold Fridays only.
WIU Probably Make Visits to Other Points Ia
Clackamas County Before tbe End of the
Congressional Campaign.
Hon. Binger Hermann will open the
campaign in Clackamas County by
speaking in Oregon City next Tin w
day evening. He will go from t Is
city to Hillsboro, but expects to vi AX
the county again before the campai ea
closes and deliver possibly two other
addresses at Clackamas County points.
Judge Ryan, as congressional com
mitteeman for this county, is making
all necessary arrangements for the
opening meeting of the campaign
here.
Rev. A. Hillebrand. Tinntar nt Rt
John's Church, delivered an address,
at the Parkplace school last Friday
evening, before the Mothers' Improve
ment Club, on the "History of Educa-.
tion. " He disoussed the srHaet in all
of its. phases, and his
warmly received. Judge W : iiam
Oalloway said yesterday tha the
address was one of the finest he had
ever heard on this subjeot ; . ...
Clackamas County Record $1.75
Johnsons
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FRANK BUSCH,
The Housefurnisher
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FRIDAY
May 15
FRANK BUSCH,
The Housefurnisher
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