THE HOOD RIVER NEWS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1910 3 jj Established 1900 I Butler Banking k THE OLDEST BANK IN HOOD RIVER VALLEY I I Interest Paid on Time Deposits Safe Deposit Boxes TUN MM MMtMt M ft (' - I t ' ' " - " r 7 , 'k corvaOMT itOT We have just received from E. V. PRICE & CO., the famous tailors of Chicago, their Spring line of beautiful all wool fabrics and new fashions, and we are ready to show you this complete assortment and take your measure correctly. Since Easter falls on March 27th this year two weeks sooner than last year -it is almost time to Think of Your Spring Togs We suggest that you make a selection of cloth now, and specify a convenient future date for delivery of the finished clothes say thirty, sixty or even ninety days thereby assuring you of first choice of cloth. We also wish to say again that these clothes are guaranteed for a year, the shape and linings posi tively guaranteed for a whole year, and the price is no more than for ordinary clothes ranging from $14 to $40 for Suit or Overcoat. Think It Over Today BRAGG MERCANTILE COMPANY raing Machines The Stewart Hardware and Furniture Company are now the sole local agents for Hood River and Vicinity for the world famous 1910 Model WHITE Sewing Machines, Several of our special representativesfrom our Sewing Machine Department will call upon and demonstrate to all the local residents of Hood River, the many new points of this wonderful ball-bearing, lock and chain stitch machine. If our special men happen to overlook your home during this demonstration, call in at our store at your convenience and see Mr. Wm. Isenberg, the manager of our Sew ing Machine Department, and he will be pleased to show you sojne of ou.r 1910 Models, If you live in the country, write for a catalogue to the Stewart Hardware and Furniture company HOOD RIVER, OREGON 'grange against assembly continued from last week should we ever refer anything back to the people? Just let our law in. 'i kern do It all aud we run the risk of lieing done, The American people, ami especi ally In Oregon, hae too much true patriotic blood and too much inde pendence to le whipped into oltedl enee an yon assemblyltes are trying to do. You admit that all the peo ple are harder to buy than a few and then you throw at tin the Insult that we are so easily fooled by "clap-trap and buncomb talk, circular letters, etc." In the name of fairness, in the name of Justice and In the name of common reason, where would yon das your last editorial on "The lirange and the Assembly?" Could It lie possible that Jonathan could excel it In "clap-trap and buncomb" argument? Yea, you people do think that we grangers and the multitude of pro gressive voters are not quite capable of selecting officers. Someone should il i it for us. Oh, how kind you are. If your definatlon of a Mugwump Is correct they nre becoming quite pop ular, especially in our national cou gress. There nre many of us who prefer to remember for what our party has stood. To consider for what it Is now standing, and to have a voice in that for which It Niiould stand In the future. Hut say Mr. Kdltor, why not stick to our SFcw cf Our meri torious Grticies Griffin's Magnetic Razor - $3.00 Our very best i qt felt Syringe 2.0Q l.oone's sanitary Tooth Brushes 33c Tree Weight Sidlcti powder iSc Koliabte headache Remedy 25c Dolly Varden Candy 75c Hood River Stationery - 50c William's Hair Tonic a dandruff eradlcator ... 75c Bath Brushes from $1.00 up. Amandine Cream ... 25c Mydrogre Peroxide, full pints 50c Eastman Kodaks from 1 1.00 to $65.00 PLATH'S DRUG STORE 3A Stera cn lf Ccrtiar Eipecltllr Prttcrlpllent OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS: LESLIE BUTLER, President P. McKERCHER. Vic. Prcudcnl TRUMAN BUTLER. Cuhin R. T. COX. Director E. H. FRENCH, Director f .ill H. H. Baii.et W. E. Colby 1 III! fed BAILEY & COLBY Electric Wiring and Fixtures i All kinds of Electrical Supplies at Moderate Prices Office ind Display Room at J 17 State Street snop rftonc in-. Kcsidcnce Phone M-L T subject. Time forbids us .answering all your witless RDd meaningless phrases, all of your sarcasm which adds nothing lo a debate and all your many slurs, which aren't even laughable. You say that "if you have any thing to nay, you nay it direct." Here in our hand on that proposi tion. You started this scrap, and we are on the defense and uuder obli gation to make rebutai argument to much of your foollBhnees. Were It not for this fact, this arti cle would be very short. You throw a slur at our organization and the one to whom you owe your existence when you say that "No dignified pol itician should hide behind the petM conts of women." Many women who are members of our order are just as much interested In securing better laws for the Hmelloratlon of society as any man who ever ran for an office. And there will not be an other decade tiefore their political independence will In?, not given, but declared. Your sarcasm In compar ing the last legislature with the one that never organized Is simply too childish for an editor to write. Fol lowing your argument It would le better to neterhavea legislature at all, as you say ''It would be cheaper." And then you place so much stress upon the cost of our primary election" Ihw. True, we also have a standing army nnd a large navy to protect this government which is quite ex pensive. Though our primary law Is expensive yet our political history of this state tells us that it Is abso lutely necessary to nominate our officers through this system In order that ninny of our politicians might become ttetter law abiding citizens aud society in general be better gov erned ami protected. In your con clusion you say "There has been no effort to disrupt the primary law by those who are espousing tne cause of the assembly." And then you tell us how the law has to be changed. Oh, how accommodating you nre. Why dont you tell us that you are racking your brains trying to study out just how you can get nominated and elected the right men to do this job for you at our next legislature. Oh.no! You are such Innocent law Abiding citizens, if we grangers were trying to evade the intent of a la w, as you assemblyltes are doing with our direct primary law, what a set of anarchists we would le. Hut we care nothing about that argument. Admitting you have the legal right, which our primary law says you have not, will yon please tell us Just why you want to knock out our primary law and go back to that old convention or assembly plan of nominating ohVers, when It has proven to be so unsatisfactory, so uncivil nnd so disgraceful. You will not answer our objections to your assembly scheme. We have tried you twice and you dare not tell us In what way you can prevent the repllltlon of the many disgrace ful political scenes we have had In Oregon. We have seen that double headed convention with Its secessionists. We have seen our Fulted States senator pulled off the convention platform. We have seen a I.O DED DOFHLE ItARREL SHOIGFN used as n per- suider at a precinct convention in North Porland. We have seen CAYENNE PEPTER placed on a HOT STOVE at a pri mary ward convention in South Portland In order to break up the meeting so thnt the majority faction could not elect delegates. We have seen the same object ob tained for the same purpose by using ASAFtETIDA instead of cayenue pepper In South Portland. We have seen political parties split so wide open that one faction would often vote for spite and not for prin ciple. We have seen our legislature meet 40 days and 40 nights and not organ ize either house. We have seen some of the most vicious legislation caused by log rol ling for senatorial votes. We have seen many deadlocks in our legislature so fierce over the elec tion of a United States senator that practically nothing was done, not even legislate on "nine-foot bed sheets nnd eight Inch hat pins." We have seen many good, honest voters so disgusted over party nom inees that they would stay away from the polls nnd not vote at all. We have seen all of these wrongs and many more similar ones, all of which nre the results of the old con vention system, and our direct pri mary law with Its statemeut No. 1 has placed a check upon such dis graceful scenes. You know these statements ARE TRFE aud YOf DARE NOT DENY THEM. To us It seems strange that any loyal citizen would desire to go back to our old system of nominating officers. Mr. Editor, again we ask you wherein we are wrong and how we are go ing to avoid the repitltlon of these same troubles after our direct pri mary law Is knocked out. And we would also like to know your honest opinion of the objects nnd advan tage of your assembly scheme. In conclusion we desire to say that If you cannot lay aside all that super fluous "CLAP TRAP" TALK am: STOP EVADING THE PRINCIPLE O.PESTIONS OCR CONTROVERSY IS AT AN END If you desire to use solid argumentlve language iu favor of the assembly scheme and In opposition to our direct primary law we shall be pleased to continue tilts discussion; otherwise this Is our last rebuttal article. Jno. H. Mohh. Master. Ll KM. a C. Ill st. Sec. Approved by committee, of eight. Pine Grove grange. CASCADE LOCKS Miss Mary Nest lee. of Portland, spent Saturday and Sunday of last week with friends here. Tom Munkers of Portland spent n few days with his daughter, Mrs .1. F. llosch, recently. Dr. llosch has sold his residence and six lots to Dr. Dtterhrant of Forest Grove. Consideration $'"". John Dutilap recently spent a few days in Portland. C. W. Thompson returned last week after u visit In Portland. Mr. and Mrs. W. A "liver of i n derby.lt C, spent a week Mrlng friends here. They st.ite tin- weather was cold up t here. II C. Levy left tl.is we. k for a trip to New York I