The Corvallis times., November 13, 1906, Image 2

Corvallis Times
CORVALLIS, OREGON,
"TUESDAY IVENING, NOV. 13, 1906
James Flett sustained a serious
sprain of the ankle while on the
way to a football game. Here is
more indisputable evidence that the
rules ought to be again reformed or
the game be abolished.
A PORTLANDER'S VIEW.
In sn article elsewhere a Port
lander demurs to the Times asser
tion that it is not the fault of the
Oregonians that, though he is our
congressman, Mr. Hermann is in
dicted, and therefore incapacitated
from rendering proper service to
the state in congress. The corres
pondent contends that Mr. Her
mann has been dismissed from his
commissionership at Washington,
that he had been dismissed by the
president for alleged irregularities
and that all this was known before
Mr. Hermann was either nominated
or elected.
The correspondent is right in his
contention as to the knowledge the
ceoole had before the election of
Mr. Hermann's shortcomings. Mr
Hermann was elected in defiance of
that fact and with full knowledge
that the president had dismissed
him. Voters however, were tc'd
that Roosevelt had his eye on Or.
gon and that Hermann's election
was important as an endorsement of
the administration. It was the
trick of the politicians and it work
ed. Voters were duped, and Mr.
Hermann was elected. The result
is the present humiliating spectacle
of Oregon unrepresented in the
lower house at Washington.
Though he is congressman. Mr.
Hermann is discredited. His in
fluence is gone. The mere repute
of complicity in anyway with Ore
gon land frauds is any man's un
doing. It is an indictment for land
frauds that hangs over Mr. Her
mann. He cannot help Oregon at
Washington. Nor can Mr. Wil
liamson for the same reason. The
state is simply unrepresented in the
lower house, and if neither will
decently resign Oregon must suffer
the consequences, and go unrepre
sented until the terms of both ex
pire. In the meantime, those voters
who insisted on Mr. Hermann's
election have a notable example of
the folly of obeying the behest of
politicians at voting time.
BENTON BOY ABROAD.
Was Elected to a
Judge:
: t in
the
Famous Idaho District Is Expect
ed Here.
A PORTLANDER'S OPINION.
THE PORTLAND TRAGEDY.
The Portland tragedy of yester
day in which a brother shot and
killed the man who wronged his
sister, presents so ry aspects. The
brother pleaded piteously three
quarters of an bour for the marriage
that would save his sister's name,
but when refusal met each entreaty
lie grew d sperate and his revolver
ended the melancholly interview
aud the life of the seducer.
On a corner not far away, all
this time, stood the mother and
sister hoping that the meeting
would bring to the latter a hus
band's name to shie d her shame.
The sorrow of it all can only be
understood by those whose imagin
ation is keen. In the jail, the
brother reflects upon his act and
must wonder if Heaven approves.
To slay is an awful alternative,
but to listen to a mother's grief and
Bv overcoming an adverse ma
jority of 2,000 and being elected to
a judgeship in Idaho, lid. L,. isryan
a well known Benton boy, has
achieved distinction, The office to
which he is elected corresponds to
circuit judgeship in Oregon, and
is an Important position. In the
case of Judge-elect Bryan, he is
named to preside over tlia lamous
court in which thenortonous West
ern Federation officials are pending.
Judge Frank J. SnJ.th, before
whom so far the proceedings have
been had in the Frleration cases,
is the man whom the Benton county
man defeated. There is talk in the
papers to the effect that Mr. Bryan
had the support of the Western
Federation influences in his candi
dacy. The statement is that the
friends of Heywood, Pettibone and
Moyer, thought they saw advantage
for themselves in electing Mr. Bry
an and that their secret influence
went tor him. lhe story comes
from friends of t ne defeated jurist,
and may or may not be true. That
the friends of the federation hated
Judge Smith is certain, and that
for reasons of revenge they would
have sought his defeat is entirely
probable. That Mr. Bryan may
have profited from this fact is very
likely. He wouldn't have been the
astute person his friends have al
ways believed him to be if he had' nt
accepted any votes that saw fit to
come his way.
Judge Bryan will not preside at
the coming trials of the Federation
officials. He has been all along the
attorney lor the notorious Harry
Orchard a star witness for the pros
ecution. This wi'l debar him from
presiding, a tact for which he may
be thankful. The enormous re
sponsibility of presiding at triala in
which there is such bitter public
sentiment and such a diversity of
opinion, and into which the best
legal talent the country affords will
be drawu, will make the ta?k of
hearing the cases one from which a
veteran judge would shrink.
Judge Bryan is expected in Cor
vallis today or tomorrow to visit
relatives and friends, and to recu
perate from the strenuous cam
paign through which he has passed.
Here, he has many oldtime friends
who are rejoiced at his success.
He resided in Benton county until
he left five years ago to engage in
the practice of his profession at
Payette, Idaho. His success as a
practitioner there led to his nomin
ation for a place on the bench. He
is a young man of fine ability as the
Times often declared in the past.
His new honors are the proof of
the eld story that we never realize
what is in our own boys until they
go away from home.
Mr. Bryan served a term as coun
ty school superintendent in Benton
and was once a candidate for coun
ty judge.
About Congressman Resigning-
Voters to Blame, he says, for
Their, Election.
Editor Corvallis Times: The
Oregonian of this morning copies
an article from your paper in
which you say: ' The state is in
no sense responsible for the mess
in which it is unhappily and
unfortunately mixed." You refer
to our delinquent members of
congress and to the necessity for
better representation in the nation
al body than we now have. Of
course when I agree with you in what
you say about that, and it is perfect
ly certain that if our "members"
had proper self-respect or respect
for the public, they would resign
at once. The leech habit simply
shows how unprincipled they were
elected, But I cannot agree with
you that the "State", or rtther
the people, are not responsible for
the mix and mess. They are re
sponsible. The state, the people,
by their votes, put these men where
they are, and if they did it through
ignorance then they ars still to
blame, for it was their duty to
' know" . and it was very easy to
know better.
Every citizen who kept up with
current events knew that Hermann
was tainted with "official leprosy
when he was nominated for congress
and that he was turned out of of
ficial life at Washington for that
very reason. But with all these
facts staring them in the face, they
let the "leaders " thrust him on
the party, as their representatiAe
in congress and then the compliant
rank and file thought they had to
endorse him, and so he was al
lowed to shove himself io. The
" mix" and the "mess" and the
dishonor and the weakness
disgrace we now enjoy at the
tional capital is the natural
legitimate result, The state
the people by their want of
prehenEion to use the mildest word
I can think of, bred the conditions
they now have. The responsibi
lity is theirs and it is cowardice
to sees to shuttle it ott to othrr
shouders.
The situation in this district, is
little better, than in yours. Perhaps
the people will learn by what they
suffer. Sometime integrity will be
appreciated.
Levi W. Myers.
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A ROYAL SLAVE.
At the Opera House Next Satur
day Night.
Gordon & Bennet's beautiful ro
mantic drama of the Southland
"A Royal Slave" will be the at
traction at the opera house next
Saturday night. On account of
be in touch with a sister's shame is I tQe great p 'pularity of this pro-
equally awful. The officers of the ducti' a' d the consequent df
, . . . . ... imand for more performance, it has
l?.w had been tried, and they held , become necessarty to make the Cor.
out no hope that by law the wrong j Vallii date the 17 h instead of the
to the sister could be righted. The j 15th as first announced. The
environments of the unhappy family company have just completed a
have not been lessened, but there I week's engagement in Portland,
, . . - . ; where they were spoken or an un-
has been vengeance. A warning 1 usuauy strong attraction,
note has been sounded to the "In Mexico " is only one of the
scoundrels that seek out and prey numerous song hits in " A Royal
on the virtue of young girls, but a Slave." Perhaps no better idea of
, . . .. : the rich pulsing nature of Mexican
hapless mother and sister are worse j Hfe behd than by hear-ng
off than they were before, for the those Spiendid melodies, character
support of an avenging son and istic of the people and t'me, sung
brother and the counsel and com- J by sweet voiced singers, they carry
fort v, crU, i "o o ! hearers back to the days of Max-
, . - . ' . imilian in the land of sunshine
from them by steel bars. ot flowers Reserved seat
As to the dead man, he got what opens Wednesday morning,
he deserved though the pity of it is j '
and
sale
that it did not come through the
courts and ' have the sanction of
law and of public order.
When Teddy gets his - reforms
at work so only a few millions can
be transmitted by inheritance, what
a blow it will be to the children of
the average country editor.
BANKING.
The First National Bank of Corval
lis, Oregon, transacts a general
conservative banking business.
Loan? money on approved secu
rity. Drafts bought and sold and
money transferred to the principal
cities of the United StateB, Ea
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For good results, try a sack of
Corvallis flour, evervsackis guaian-
teed to give you the besr of results
and make easy baking, should you
fail bring back the sack after giving
it a thorough trial and get your
money back.
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ISpdcial Sale of
Notice to Creditors.
n the Matter of the Estate
of I
John McGeb, Deceased 5
Notice Is hereby given to all persona concern
ed that the undersigned has been duly unpoint
ed admistraior of the estate of Joha ilcGee, de
ceased, by the couniy court of the state of Ore
gon for Benton county. All persons havinar
claims aeainst said estate of John 3lcGes deceased,
are hereby required to present the same with the
proper vouchers duly verified as by law requir
ed within six months from the date hereof to the
undersigned at his i esidence;one milejsouih of Cor
vallis, in Benton county, Oreeon, or at the law
office of E E. Wilson, in Corvallis, Oregon,
Dated this November 9, 1200.
F. J. McGEE,
Administrator of the estate of John McGee, deceased-
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