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L Gorvallis Times. Official Payer of Benin Oantr. OOBYAXfJS, OBBGOIf, SEAT 14, Democratic Gounty Ticket. Tor Senator PnndersoB Avery. Tor Sheriff M. P. Burnett. for ClerK Victor P. Hoses. Tor Recorder Horace LocKe. Tor Commissioner Peter KicKard. Tor School Superintendent S. L. Pratt. Tor Treasurer W. A. Buchanan. Tor Assessor Thomas Davis. Tor Surveyor T. A. Jones Tor Coroner 0. J. BlacKledge. LOSING GROUND AND WHY. The people admire sincerity and love the troth. They despise du plicity and hate falsehood. Ul timately, they always recognize the truth, and can always be trust ed to separate fact from falsehood. This is particularly true in Benton county, where there is a citizen ship that i- honest, true and straightforward. ' In a newspaper bastard that no body fathers, that Mr. Woodcock himself says is not "his'n," the statement is constantly re-iterated that Judge MeFadden assumes to act as a boss of Benton democrats, and column alter column of silly nonsense on that subject is sent out to readers, the purpose being to de--ceive and dupe innocent and un suspecting persons with a view to helping certain weak candidates on the republican ticket. Here is a sample of the many lies this door step publication prints, "It is by satisfying the trio of ' bosses of which Judge MeFadden is the head .1 t j i : , . : . u : llldl ucuiulciiiv; cduuiuaica iu mis county secure a place on the ticket." (See Gazette, April 22nd.) Now, is that not a likely statement? Is it likely that Blackledge, J ones, or Tom Davis had "to satisfy Judge MeFadden" before they got a nom ination on the democratic ticket? Is it likely that Billy Buchanan, whom Judge MeFadden pleaded with and urged to run for recorder "this time, or is it likely that Horace T j-kf1- a Vin4 ' r- tfnticfn T11 rlrro ' lfr Fadden" before tbey were named for their respective offices? Is it likely that Peter Rickard who per sistently resisted the urging of E. E,. Wilson, Pun Avery, John Smith, Rich Irwin and many other democrats who pleaded with him to stand for commissioner and who did not finally consent until the very hour of the convention. Is it likely that he had "to satisfy Judge MeFadden" or anybody else before he could get the nomination? Is it likely that Victor Moses and Telt Burnett, whom every democrat in Benton county and many a repub lican wanted for clerk and sheriff, is it likely that they had to "satis fy" anybody but the hundreds of constituents that they have servedso well, before they were re-nominattd? Is it likely that Punderson Avery, who declined the nomination for senator in the domocratic conven tion two years ago, and whom democrats all overthe county pleaded with to stand for the place this year, whom republicans themselves went to after the republican con vention and asked to accept the democratic nomination for senator; is it likely that this Pundeson Av ery, whom nobody dictates to or aMcnrAre fr ICS it 1lVW tliafr lift 1l -1 A "to satisfy Judge MeFadden" be fore he could get a nomination? Is not the statement, "candidates on the democratic ticket must sat isfy Judge MeFadden before they can secure places on the ticket," one of the cheekiest and most un blushing lies that it was ever at tempted to foist upon innocent and trusting readers? Was it not a wise thing in Mr. Woodcock to print in his Gazette, "The Gazette or its owners are in no wise res ponsible for anything that may be "said in this department." (See Gazette April 5th.) It is well known to every demo crat and nearly all the republicans in Benton county that Judge Me Fadden could not, if he would, boss the democratic party in Benton county.' Every Benton democrat, like every Benton republican, is his own boss. The attempt by a news paper that cannot bear its own father's name to make them be lieve that they are bossed, is an in sult to them personally, and to their intelligence. They -know f Judge MeFadden tried in the dem ocratic convention two years ago to nominate Johnnie Irwin instead of Victor Moses, and that he failed. The same hand that writes for the Gazette now, wrote about the in cident in the Gazette two years ago April 8th, 1902, the Gazette print ed these words: , '-For: county clerk, a delegate nominated Victor P.Moses. MeFadden nominated Johnny Irwin. But the con vention stood by its decision in caucus and nominated Mr. Moses." The truth is, that before the con vention Judge MeFadden went among the delegates and did all he could to secure the nomination of Mr. -Irwin. He was for him in the caucus and made a speech , urging his selection. He thought Irwin much the stronger - man, and even after Moses had been selected by the caucus, Judge MeFadden went on the floor of the convention, and urged Mr. Irwin's nomination. But just the same, Moses was nominat ed, and he was elected, all of which is a condemnation and a conviction of the Gazette's idiotic statement, "The democratic candidates ' must satisfy Judge MeFadden before they can secure a place on the ticket." It is equally notorious that Judge MeFadden in the same convention was hostile to the candidacy of Howard Bush and snpporter of an other for assessor. But it is history that Howard Bush was nominated, and that he was elected by a maj ority of more than 140: In the face of the record, did Mr. Bush have to "satisfy" anybody before he could be a candidate, and be elected? Yes, he had to "satisfy" somebody, and it was not Judge MeFadden, but the democrats and the people of Benton county. Thus, how unblushing, how bare faced, how self condemnatory, ' are these lies that the department of the Gazette that Mrs Woodcock an nounces is not responsible and a fraud, seeks to foist upon the com munity? Are these lies not de moralizing to a people? ' Does a political campaign give men reason to put forth as the sacred truth that which everybody knows to be, and the owner of the paper himself, in effect, declares to be falsehood? A newspaper is a public educator, and if in it falsehood can be told with impunity and without public condemnation, what can be expect ed of the growing youth? What wonder that there is hoodlumism in the world, when the newspapers themselves, supposed always to stand for decency and truth, make light of the truth and promote falsehood with unblushing impun ity? If it is permissible to lie in the public prints, and if the news papers set the example, and if the example be not condemned, what may be expected, or what may not be expected of the next generation? Is it not indeed humiliating, is it not a crime, that first in the Ga zette there shall be published, "The Gazette or its owners are in nowise responsible for anything that may be said in this department," and thus, licensed to lie, the paper may proceed to say, "The democratic candidates must satisfy Judge Me Fadden before they can secure a place on the ticket." The inevitable effect of a cam paign of falsehood by a newspaper is to weaken the ticket in whose in terest the lies are told. People love the truth and hate duplicity. The republican party, like the democrat ic party, is not a party of falsehood and fraud. It is not necessary to lie in order to promote the interests of that party. To insist on false hood in its interest is to put the great masses of that party in a false light and to hold them up to a charge of which they are not guilty. . The Wyatts, the Newtons, the Coopers, the Carters, the Henkles, the Dunns, the Edwards', the Zierolf's, the Belknaps, and scores of other well known republican families are not men who want to profit by a false statement. They want no falsehoods told either to help, them .or their party". They cannot in the natural fitness of things, approve of a cam paign in thejinterest of the repub lican ticket, conducted solely on tissues of falsehood, told unblush- ingrly, such as, "The candidates on the democratic ticket must satisfy Judge MeFadden, before they can secure a place on the ticket.' ' The effect, and the only possible effect is to weaken the republican ticket. It is a confession of weak ness on the part of the candidate that the campaign must be based on falsehood and fraud. The only test that the masses of voters recognize as the true test for election, is merit. The candidates on a ticket that permit falsehood to be told stand in their own light, and lessen their own chances of successs. There are worthy men on the republican ticket, and a campaign of fraud carried on in behalf of others on that ticket is an outrage on them and damage on their candidacy. It instills any man for a set of candi dates or a newspaper that represents them to attempt to fool him. It is a deliberate insult to his intelligence and his honesty. It is a confession of weakness that he instantly recog nizes, and at once proceeds to in vestigate. The inevitable result is defeat, ignominy and discredit. Dem ocrats will continue to be elected to office as long as those who assume to manage f qr the republican ticket insist that they must lie to win. Day by day it will weaken every man on the ticket because there are hundreds of decent republicans who do not want to be insulted with a lie so idiotic - as "The democratic candidates must satisfy Judge Me Fadden before they can secure a place on the ticket" They are too decent and too self respecting to be mixed up and identified with and privy to a campaign of falsehood, forestalled by Mr. Wosdcock when he wrote "The Gazetteor its owners are in nowise responsible for any thing that may be said in this de partment." They are too self re specting to be aiders and abettors of a campaign of falsehood that in sult decency, that iS" demoralizing to a community, that promotes hoodlumism and that, as sure as it is continued and approved, will have a Daa enect on tne youtn 01 Benton county. , Doubtless W. E. Yates and his crowd think it good politics to con tinue in their fatherless, and dis owned organ, the malignant person al attacK tnat they hay.e kept up for weeks on the "business demo crat." It is perhaps satisfying to Mr. Yates and helpful to his candi dacy for senator for the "business democrat" to be made a target for venomous personal attack. Mean while it might be explained in the Gazette if the ' 'business democrat' ' has ever bought any town prop erty ! at very low. prices of non-resident clients; : or, has he ever bought any houses and lots of orphan heirs, also his clients, and did he drive a good bargain ? O J. Blackledge is the demo cratic candidate for coroner. He is an Iowan, who came several years ago to Corvallis, where he has since been engaged in business. He is a man of affairs, a gentleman in the fullest sense of the word, and in recognition of that new citizenship from the east that is settling in Benton and Oregon, he ought to be elected. Thomas Jones is the democratic nominee for surveyor. He is a self made young man. He was left an orphan at an early age, and by his own efforts has educated himself and pushed his way into his present position. Two years ago, he was elected surveyor, and he has dis charged the duties of the office with fidelity and ability. He gained his experience as a surveyor in several years service in railroad construct ion, and is one of the best surveyors in the country. His work is reli able, as many a farmer in the coun ty has reason to know. He is in every respect, a deserving young man.and support given him will be worthily bestowed. It was not necessary ' for news paper venom to have entered into this campaign. The Times pre ferred peace, and asked for it. The Times remained silent while a fur ions personal attack was waged byipartment" of the Gazette, the only the other side against it and its ed itor as well as other democrats who are neither asking office, nor are is sues in the campaign. But there is a limit to patience and forbearance. Readers will bear witness that the Times has stood for a good humored neighborly campaign with gentle behavior on the part of the newspapers. Jin half a dozen issues past the Times has remained silent and forbearing under a. malignant personal attack kept up in the pub lication over the way. This at tack has the sanction of the Yates coterie, and is in their interest. Apparently they think it good poli tics, and prepared for it when Mr, Woodcock the proprietor of the Gazette declared in effect a cam paign so indecent was to .be waged that the Gazette or its owners "would not be responsible" for it. Now, it is the most natural thing in the world for men who - are struck to strike back, and if in these col umns a vigorous defense is offered to the'needless unwarranted and ma lignant attack the Yates " gang has kept up, the public will understand the reason why. AS TO JOBS DAL? AND OTHERS. The headless,' fatherless, name-, less Vdepartment" conducted in the interest of the Yates candidates and with .their sanction and ap proval claims the Times - has said something that reflects on "Marion Hayden, Thomas Cooper, and ex- Senator Daly." It : was . not the Times but the crowd that is run ning the "department" that Mr. Woodcock says isn't 'his'n" that stabbed Marion- Hayden in tie back and let him down forever with the poor privilege . ot making a speech in the late convention, de clining a. nomination that was only make-believe.It is that crowd that is determined that Marion Hayden will never again be given an office in Benton county, but can merely be poulticed with a delegacy 'to a congressional convention, provided he vote right. As to Mr. Cooper, it was the same crowd, not the Times that scored him unmercifully and read him forever out of the party so far as hope of future honors are concerned : and which is willing now to sacrifice his brother in order to further their own candidates. It was Yates and his crowd that two years ago did everything they could to kill John Daly, and that in the Gazette campaign conducted for the purpose of nominating Yates in his present candidacy made a most bitter personal at tack on John Daly. In that at tack, published in the Gazette of March 25th, Senator Daly was held up as a man of very small calibre, and as a creature ot the democrats, all after the senator had served the county faithfully and effective ly in the legislature, and created there for himself and ' county an influence and repute surpassed by none. The attack was needlessly and wantonly made, and it was made in the newspaper campaign carried on to palm Yates off on the unwilling convention that named him after he had in fact, been nom inated the night before in a caucus attended only by a little coterie. In view of the record, the fourth of which has not been told here, it is up to these jobbers and manipu lators to keep still about the Hay dens, the Coopers, John Daly and others. Especially is this true of Yates who nominated a man in a republican convention once for com missioner, and the man failed to get a single vote for the office. The sacrifice of the Lbggans, the Wag goners, the Edwards, the Lakes the Zierolfs by the coterie that pleads and feeds - for "harmony" are memories that suggest that as to slaughtered candidates, Yates who by one scheme or another has jobbed half the men in Benton county, had better quiet his found ling "department" as it lies squall ing on Mr. Woodcock's doorstep, disowned and discredited. "MAKING CAPITAL." The Gazette, in its disowned and discredited department, states that the Times seeks to make capital out of the late tragedy. . This is one of those lies that Mr. Wood cock knew would be told when he wrote, "ine Gazette or its owners are in nowise responsible for any thing that may be said in this de partment." (See Gazette April 5.) Mr. Cameron is perfectly satisfied with the course of the Times with reference to the late tragedy. If he is not, let him say so over his own signature in that strange "de- thing of the kind in the known world, that door step offspring which Mr. Woodcock with fine manifestation of good taste and dis crimination, refuses to claim. If Mr. Cameron is not satisfied and there is further insistance that the Times is trying to make capital, illustrations can be given of what "making capital" out of the late tragedy would really mean. The subject is one, however, that the Times does not propose to pursue unless forced to do so by the "de partment" that carries a license to lie, and lies.- ' Who can resist the temptation to vote for Peter Rickard, for com missioner ? 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