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q , . THE MORNING OEEGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, 'APRIL" 23, 1902. J-SL-tK&'7ZL US3 SS 7tf -if "- - -. fia 4Hjm feV HH B". .V 'A. K t -SWsf rff.rr. svtr -k v. ' jhiibh w sfm sit m 'mv r"v-:v- s -n, iZ' mtnr .. . r fe-iH'iv m m vl . 1 -kjsz r4(f' YS vl ( IV V - PRINEVILLE, April 21, 1902. John Newton nee for Williamson, Republican noml Congrcss for the Second Ore- son District, halls from Crook County, the geographical middle-land of the state, and there can be no better introduction to the man than a glance at the situation and the conditions In which he lives and which find faithful reflection in hh character, t Crook County is a big country and a country by itself. From any point within its bound aries it Is from two to five days' Journey out to the state line; from any point on the county border it Is two days' ride to the opposite border. North and south, from Trout Creek to Davis Lake and the Lava Beds it is upwards of 80 miles; cast and west, from Grindstone Creek to the ridge-pole of the Cascade Range, It is 100 miles. It Is a land of heavily roll ing and broken surfaces. Everywhere it lies high; no part of it Is less than 2000 feet above the sea level; much of It lies above the 3000-foot line. Its loftier summits exchange greet ings with the caprock of Mount Hood upon neighborly If not quite equal terms. Mount Jefferson lies wholly within its boundaries, as do the two more easterly of the famous and beautiful Three Sisters. Crook County is still a pioneer land. No screech cf locomotive ever woke the echoes among Its rlm-rockcd hills. The freight wagon, the thorough-brace stage coach, the pack mule, the saddle pony and shanks' mare are the only agencies of transportation It knows. "Whatever comes In and whatever goes out must be hauled painfully over mountain roads or it must walk. It goes without saying that the Industries of the country and its general life are on a primitive basis much llfte that of the Willamette Valley before the first st'amboat found Its way above the Oregon City falls. Its mate rial foundations are the sheep, the cow brute 'and the horse plus the spirit, the energy,and the capacity of Its people. Crook County is remote, but verily Its people are bone of our bone, flesh of our flesh. No newcomers, no chance comers, no aliens are they. When they speak of "back home" they look not eastward, but to the wept to the Willamette Valley. Almost to a man they are children of Oregon of that old Oregon now falling into the twilight of historic perspective which Is so dear to those of ue who came before the railroads. At every turn one hears some familiar Western Oregon name or encounters some suggestion of old time Oregon tradition. The young man who drove the stage coach by which I came from Shanlko to Prlnevllle two days ago is a native of Washington County eon of "Stave" Scoggln. The man who keeps the nooning station on Trout Creek "where we stopped for dinner is a nathe of Clackamas son of Branch Tucker. Mr. Polndexter. who keeps the hotel In which I am writing. Is a native of Lane County, where his father was the first man to set up a forge i the days of long ago. Mr. Elklns, the Crook County roadmaster. Is the son of Luther Elklns. the old-time Linn County politician. Of some half dozen good fellows representing the lead ing business and professional life in Prlnevllle with whom I sat at dinner last night, all but one was either native of Wc6tarn Oregon or had lived there in his early youth. The leading lawyer of Prlnevllle. Is Western Oregon bred; the leading doctor traces back to Polk and Marion Counties. The principal of the Prlnevllle public school Is "Valley born" and a graduate of the State University. And the women every blessed mother's daughter of them, remembers her child hood In the sweet, green country across the mountains. Speak for five minutes with one-of them and you will not fall to be asked If you know the Woivertons, the Nelsons, the Wilklns or some other family of friendly tradition out of which she came to share the fortunes of some neigh bor's son who, with special enterprise or hardihood, had "made a home" on the dry side of the range. And the connection -with "the Valley" Is well maintained; all Summer long the roads across the Cas cade Mountains are worn with the travel of eons and daughters of the Willamette who fall not of. an annual pilgrimage "over home." where happily the old mother still waits to'welcome her grand children. These people are Oregon folk of the traditional and characteristic breed, but they are Oregonlans with a difference. A. new situation and new conditions have given them motives and ways of their own. The climate is more stimulating, and the effect Is seen in a greater en ergy, in a more general out-of-door aspect and In heartier manners. These people have followed no beaten path; they have not done things in a particular way because their fathers did them that way. Sons of unnumbered generations of molst country farmers, they live In an arid country and have had to develop ways of making the most of new and strange conditions. Their situation has brought them face to face with new. necessities; 5t "has brought them new problems; it has, put them upon their own resources, and set them to consideration of new interests. Of course. It has tended to de velop self-reliance, the spirit of initiative, energy of mind and hardihood of body. All this is a round-about way of telling what sort of man "Newt" Williamson is; for the man has grown out of the country; in himself he curiously sums up and reflects its history, its conditions,- its achievements and its aspirations. Mr. Williamson was born November 8, 1855, on his father's donation claim in Lane County, four miles from Junction City. The family was of the plalns-acrots type, with this difference, that they were of Northern rather than Southern genesis. Coming directly to Oregon from Iowa, they had come to Iowa from' Ohio. The mother was Ohlan by birth and of New England "extraction"; the father was bom in Pennsylvania of German descent crossed with the Scotch-Irish blood -which not uncommonly develops the propensity to get to the front In town meeting. The early life of Mr. Williamson was not notably different from that of many another farmer's boy in the then pioneer country of the Willamette Valley. He did household chores at all times and Trent to school when school kept. When he was 13 his father died and severer duties fell to him as the old est son in a household which had to pro vide for Itself. He had that first and r v AitrJL, i, KSftif?r) m s m - J - j"" - ts k m jrf-j n rr - tr m. r- h h mkt av v a v &&'"'&jy5fc' P fc tw flK best of all blessings, a good mother; and i In close sympathy with her through some trying years his youth was spent. The early schools of the Willamette Valley were singularly good. It was before the era of job-lot education under the graded school system. Each "scho'ar" was per mitted to follow his own bent; Individual ity was not lost under processes which take no account of special propensity or of special talent. Jn course of tlrne the farm was sold and the family went to Salem to live for the advantages of the Willamette University. The way to get a living was to work for It; and work they all did. faithfully 1 and efficiently. And in the meantime "Newt" attended the classes of the university. When he was 21 and with in six months of graduation in the classical course. his health, which had never been good, broke down com- pletely and In hopes of benefit from change of ctllmate he went across the range Into Crook County with the Idei of staging a few weeks. The few weeks grew to many; the months grew -into . years and Williamson Is still in Crook, easily the foremost man In a country where he went 23 years ago a youth with out experience, frail In health and with less than $10 dollar In his-pocket. In Crook County he literally took off his coat and went to. work; and he did any and every kind of work that offered. Pretty soon he had a few head of cattle- in a year or two he had gotten together a small band of sheep; In five years he had a ranch with two bnnds of sheep; and from that day until now he has gone steadily forward In the life of the county. Wealth, nor any thing like It. has not come to him; but he hasa good place- and a- good "plant" of stock, and stands among the successful and prosperous men of the county. Some five or six years ago, wishing to live for a time in Prlnevllle to give his children school privileges, he bought the two local newspapers, and combining them made for three or four years one of the very best weekly journals ever published In this state. Crook County Is traditionally Democratic and It Is only of late years that there was established that close balance In pol itics which" makes it always a matter of some doubt what the result of an elec tion will be. In 1886 Williamson was nom inated for Sheriff on the Republican tick et and was elected. He servedLhls term with entire success and at its end in 1890, was nominated for Representative in the lower House of the State Legislature. Again he was elected and again his of ficial service was successful and credit able. Two years later, in 1892, he ran again for Sheriff, but it was one of Crook County's Democratic years and the can didate for Sheriff with others went down to defeat. But under the. circumstances of the campaign there was no loss of pres tige in this outcome, and in 1896. when a few years of "Cleveland times" had given to the sheep men of Crook County a prac tical lesson in politics, Williamson was nominated for the State Legislature and was elected. Again two years later he was returned to the Legislature; and in 1890,' after a battle royal, in which he had to meet Judge Bennett, of The Dalles, as the opposing candidate, he was elected Joint State Senator for the counties ot Wasco, Crook, Lako and' Klamath. Thl3 election for a term, of four years' is now half served, so that Mr. Williamson Is still a member of the Legislature which Is to meet at Salem next January. If he Is elected to Congress hex will not take hto seat on the, 4th of March; and he will have the distinction of being the first man in Oregon to be at once a member of Leg islature in session and a Congressman elect, It Is a long road from the rim-rock ranges and lambing sheds of Crook County to the National Capitol at Washington; and it is worth while to trace the degrees by which Mr. Williamson has traveled It for of his election there Is no reasonable doubt. It was as editor of the Prlnevllle Review that he first came into character as a "prominent citizen." As the editor of a country newspaper he did things In original ways ways which pleased the Crook County people. Instead of devoting himself to the Job printing department of country Journalism he undertook to give the news of his county; and instead of clipping his editorials from far-away ex changes he wrote them himself and he spoke out plainly on local matters. The limitations of journalism In a remote country are obvious,, but Williamson made the most of the situation; and It is not too much to say that he made one of the most original and representative papers Oregon ever saw. This attracted notice both at home and abroad, and It was a natural thing that a man who had come hrough his pen to be the spokesman of his county a county not yet corrupted with the boss system, which seeks to re strain rather than to promote-'polltlcal as sertionshould be selected again and again to represent that county in the State Legislature. The next circumstance which served to bring Williamson into notice was .the con test which rose in connection with the Is sue of grazing In the Cascade forest re serve. About 1895 or 1896 a great area of the Cascade Mountains which for time out of mind had been used by the Eastern Oregon stockmen as a Summer range, was made a forest reserve and orders were made to keep the stockmen out. Upon the cattle and sheep interest of Central Oregon this had about the same effect as an order to drain the Willamette River dry would have upon the com mercial interests of Portland. The moun tain pasturage is what the Central Ore gon stock Interest lives by; to be cut off from it meant disaster to the whole coun try. A champion was needed and William son came naturally to the front of the fight. He had a ready and forceful pen, he had the resource of a full knowledge of the matter at Issue and he was dead In earnest. It was a fight for the Inter ests ot himself and his neighbors lit erally a fight for life on the part of the Central Oreeon range stock industry. In the name of himself and others he made written protest before the General Land Commissioner at Washington, Mr. Lame raux. Then he spoke to the country, at home in a series of careful articles pub lished in The Oregonlan, In which ever phase of the Issue was threshed over from the standpoint of special knowledge. L Appearing before the commercial bodies of Portland, Spokane, Walla Walla and other cities which had originally been on the opposing side, he brought them to re verse their action and give the weight of their Influence to the side of the stock Industry. All this was heavy work. It took time, research, unceasing vigilance, and it took a bold front. But the end justficd the effort, for the land office people were convinced of their error and, accept ing the plans suggested by Mr. William son, made such revision of their scheme as gave to the range interest what it re quired without injuring the Interests which the forest reserve was created to promote. It was a signal triumph, of tho greatest advantage to the range stock industry and to the general commercial Interests to which that Industry Is related. The peo ple ot Crook County failed not to give credit where credit was due and "Mr. Wil liamson's work found warm appreciation on the part of his home people. From the earliest times the coyote has been the bane of the stock and farming industry in Eastern Oregon. The Individ ual ranchman found himself wholly un able to cope with this insidious foe. Sev eral county organizations attempted by local bounty systems to make hea'dway against the "varmints," but to no gen eral or permanent good. Whenever Crook County killed a coyote under its bounty system It seemed that-two came to Its funeral from the prolific breeding ground of the regions adjoining. The stock or- ' and stm ls. or he flght Is not yet won: ganlzatlons took the matter up, but to First The lease system would have a no practical purpose. Again and again tendency to arrest the settlement and de the attempt was made to interest the State velopment of Oregon. , Legislature In the matter, only to have j Second It would suddenly and entirely one failure follow upon another. William- , revolutionize the present system of graz son, who was a member of the Legislature.' hins In thls fitate. session of 1899, took the matter up, and I Third Any leasing system would have after a hard fight covering the whole pe- an undoubted tendency toward concentra riod of the session succeeded In getting tion of land ownership into the hands of a through a law, which, with modifications few people. calculated to perfect it, is rapidly ridding J These positions have been maintained by the whole eastern country of the coyote j Mr. Williamson during the past year, In pest. Within three years about 50,000 var- j season and out of season, as the recog mlnts have been destroyed, and while it nized spokesman of the Eastern and Cen has cost a good deal of money, it is not ( tral Oregon range interest. None other of easy to think of a better use to which the range states have found so skillful the same money could have been put. and effective a champion, and In connec The annual saving in lambs, poultry and tion with this matter 3Ir. Williamson has infant ahlmal life In general Is now far J -won a distinct reputation throughout the more than the cost bf this bounty law, country, his utterances as they have ap In spite of its very liberal allowance of- peared In, The Oregonlan having been $2 per scalp. Under the scalp law, as nicked up and reproduced in everv nart modified by the last Legislature, the bur den of the bounty Is divided between the state and the particular county In which -r- the scalps are taken, the former paying two-thirds and the latter one-third. For this law and for the splendid results which have been attained through Its workings the people of Eastern Oregon are Indebted to the Inlatlve and political energy of Mr. Williamson. When the proposition to lease the range lands of the country was seriously made by the Department of Agriculture some two or three years ago, It was another bombshell In the camp of the Eastern and . Central Oregon ranges stock Interest. The arguments supporting the proposition were specious, and they had the backing of very powerful Influences. As soon as the danger was clearly seen a mass meet ing was held at Prlnevllle and measures were set on foot to combat the movement. WTHlIamson, of course, was an active man In this meeting, and It fell to him to take the laboring oar in behalf of the menaced range Interest. It was a great undertak ing, but there was no escaping it. The first necessity was to put before the coun try the practical facts and arguments which combatted the theories of the pro fessors in the department at Washington. Fortunately, the stock interest had In Williamson a man of special Intelligence, and with such writing ability as to be able to present their case fairly and ag" grcsslvely. 3Jr. Williamson took the con tention by the horns, and by a series of letters In The Oregonlan and by argu ments before commercial bodies, on both sides of the mountains, he turned the sentiment of the state and largely of the whole country from its original posi tion in favor of the leasing programme to the side of opposition. His contention was of the West. Last November Mr. Wli llamson attended the annual meeting of the National Livestock Association at Chi- i ' ; . cago to. .urge action on the part of that body against the leasing proposals. Hl3 efforts were highly appreciated, he was accorded a generous measure of attention, and had much to do in formulating the policy which has put the stock associa tions of the country In an aggressive atti tude toward the leasing scheme. Inciden tally, Mr. Williamson, acting for the Ore gon stockmen, made a campaign in the interest of Portland, which Is likely within a year or two to bring the National Live stock Association here in Its annual con vention. These instances Illustrate something of the relationship which Mr. "Williamson sustains to his home people. In one way or another. In truth, he has come to be their spokesman, their foremost and rep resentative figure. When any Interest Is at stake, it Is to "Newt" Williamson that the people of the east-of-the-mountalns country turn. It has put upon him a great amount of labor labor of a kind which has consumed both his energies and his money, neighbors to worked 'Newt "Really," said one of his me yesterday, "we have shamefully. He Is not man who can be hired to do things; what he has done has been done freely through public spirit. And as I look back over the past five years It seems to me that he has been loaded up with public duties, which have meant nothing more to him than to the rest of us. We owe him this I election If for nothing elEe than that he has been an unpaid wheel-horse In public ways since time out of mind." These facts make plain why It Is that Williamson Is on the road which Is to land him In Congress. He has been a worker whenever there has been anything to do. .In the ordinary sense, he is no politician. Until this lost fight for the Congressional nomination, Ke has never sought a nomination. He Is no- master of political arts. His promotions have not come through management. He Is not the nominee for Congress through the workings of a personal machine, but be cause, through essential public service, he has somehow become the representa tive man of his community and section. On the personal side, Mr. Williamson Is an Interesting and likeable man. His physical strength, originally uncertain, became, through a few years of outdoor life, thoroughly established, and he Is now notably vigorous and even rugged. Six feet tall, lithe of figure, and not stout at 200 weight, he Is' physically an unusually fine man. He has a clean-cut face, and a particularly fine eye, and withal a look of force and "quality." In any company he would be marked as a man on his" own account, a man with courage to speak out and a man worth hearing. His speech and manners smack of the country; he is cordial and off-hand without effusiveness. Every man, woman and child In the coun ty knows him, and south of Antelope Creek he has but one name "Newt." He knows and likes his own people; when he comes home he is glad to be there, wher ever he" is he "makes a hand." These are traits which Crook County, in com mon with the rest of the world, likes. Mr. Williamson's home Is In the town of Prlnevllle. though his ranch lies some 23 miles to the south. His wife and three daughters make up his family. Mrs. Will iamson, like her husband. Is Willamette born and brprL Before hor marrlace she was Miss Sarah Forrest, of the Monmouth neighborhood, in Polk County. Her mother was a Neely, of the well-known pioneer family of that name. "Nels" Neely, wide ly known as a breeder of cattle, and as the exhibitor at State Fairs of the fa mous mammoth ox. Is her uncle. Judge Wolverton, of the State Supreme Bench, is her cousin. The connection is a wide one, as all familiar with the domestic his tory of Oregon will readily see. It Is, too, an eminently respectable connection good people all, among tho very bone and sinew of the country. It Is not every man who comes to dis tinction who carries with him Into his larger life the warm friendship and per sonal good-will of his own community. One such Is "Newt" Williamson. If there Is a man In Crook County who Is not satisfied with the nomination, he la not In evidence. Every man I have talked with Is pleased "right down to the ground." It Is felt as a distinction to the county, to Eastern Oregon In general, and ln a personal sense, an honor worthily be stowed.. All this was manifest In the demonstratiqn which marked "Mr. William son's return home three days ago. Prlne vllle' Is not given to gaitles; her facilities for making a show of joyousness are not great. But there was no backwater In the swift current of her open and manifest tiengnt in greeting her favorite son. If there was anybody in town who was not on hand to w ltness the arrival, he was not missed. I have seen many greater occa sions, but never one more universal, more spontaneous, more hearty. Mr. William son will no doubt take part in many more stately and more striking events; but 1 fancy never in his life, no matter what may te Its distinctions or Its honors, will he feel quite the same softening 'sense of mingled pride and humility as when he d:ove through the decorated main sireet oi nis home town. He was mani festly affected by it, for though a ready and even spirited speaker, he had nothing to say but "a few words of gratitude, "l would rather," he- said, when the cere monies were over, "satisfy and please these good folks than by disappointing tnem, please all the rest of the world." A. H. HANNA SENDS A LETTER Ohio Senator Writes Mr. Bailey His Views on Oleomargarine. Mark Hanna has sent a letter to Food and Dairy Commissioner Bailey. It Is In answer to Mr. Bailey's telegram to Mr. Hanna, sent some time ago, saying that the people of Oregon are first, last and all the time against oleomartrarlnf. -f Bailey prizes the letter highly, In "spite of its equivocation, and will have It iramea. une letters reads as follows xour telegram relating to the Grout oleomargarine dm was received, and the expression of your views was given at tention during the discussion of the bill In the Senate. I appreciate fully the Im portance of the legislation and gave very earnest consideration to all phases of the question. The action taken will, I trust, prove to be for the best Interests of- all." BUSINESS ITEMS. If Baby i Cuttlne Teeth, ?. "u,?n? ue thRt old and well-trlea remedy Mrs. Wlnslow'a Soothing Syrup, for children teethlne. It soothes the child, soften the gumt albura all naln. cures wind collo and diarrhoea. PUT UP BY THE MACHINE HOW B-E3IO-SIMOX TICKET IS RE- fZATtriTPn ttv rrMO TiTrnt to --""-,- "ia muiji, j Nominees Have All Been Tried and. Faithful Followers o the . . Little Boss. The Demo-Simon ticket was pretty thoroughly discussed around the hotel corridors, cigar stores and other polltl- j cal strongholds yesterday. It was gener ally agreed that the Slmonltes exercised remarkable care In the selection of men who are known to be entirely obedient to the beck and call of their chief. From top to bottom the ticket bears the hall mark of the late machine, and shows the results of the efforts of Bates, Mackay, Ross and other ardent henchmen of the little boss. At the top of the list of Simon Repub lican nominees stands Richard Scott, can didate for the office of Joint Senator be tween Multnomah and Clackamas Coun ties. Scott has had his eye on this of fice for some time. He was a candidate for the nomination for this same posi tion, which was given to Herbert Hol man by the delegates to the state con vention from Multnomah and Clackamas Counties. N. C. Beutgen. candidate for State Representative, was elected to- the Council by the anti-Simon voters of the Eleventh Ward In 1S96. No sooner was he sworn into office than he gave his old friends and associates the double-cross and joined forces with the Slmonltes. J. C. Bayer, another would-be Legislator, has served Mr. Simon with zeal and unhesitat ing obedience In former Legislative As semblies. G. C. Mosler, S. J. Barber and Robert Krohn, candidates for legislative honors, are all followers of Simon, and. if elected, would doubtless support him. un til the end. Krohn, who teaches gymnas tics In the public schools, is a protege of N Richard Williams, member of the School Board, and self-appointed (proxy) dele gate to the recent Republican county con vention. Why .Williams want3 Krohn on the ticket is a mystery, but he i3 there Just the same to be sacrificed upon the altar In JUne. J. P. Kennedy, candidate far County Clerk, is a man who has always prided himself upon his party loyalty, and who has often declared that his Republican principles were as Ann as the foundation of the Rock of Ages. He is now Clerk of the Circuit Court, and his desire to continue In office has probably overcome the intense Republican spirit that he once possessed. W. H. Pope, who wishes to succeed himself as County Auditor, is a figurehead, for.. his chief deputy, Lw DJ Cole, Is the real thing around the Auditor's office. Pope Is the man who draws a salary of $2400 per year, when the law specifies $2000 in plain figures. Ed ward Holman, by E. H. Thornton, proxy. Is the fusion candidate for Coronec Hol man has enjoyed tho emoluments of the Coroner's office for more than 20 years, and most people think that it is high time for a new deal. C. E. McDonell, the pres ent County Assessor, Is another man who believes that public affairs cannot be run without his aid and support. On account of his close affiliation with the late ma chine, he will doubtless be inglortously defeated on election day. That Lou Wag ner, George E. Streeter and other mem bers of "de gang" are on the ticket is not surprising, for they worked energetically, for Simons success. Although the "fusion" ticket elicited much comment yesterday, there was lit tle enthusiasm displayed over It. The Anti-Fusion Democrats are pretty thor oughly disgusted with the whole thing, and the ticket Is looked upon as a good Joke by the Republicans. The fusion plat form Is not looked upon as a very sub stantial affair, and the whole movement Is losing ground at a rate more rapid than was first expected. The rank" and file of Multnomah County voters do not care to Identify themselves with any movement tending toward "fusion," especially when the true object of such a movement is the perpetuation of boss rule and machine methods. " COLLECTOR'S NEW BOND. D. M. Dunne Completes Fourth Year of Service. David M. Dunne, Collector of Internal Revenue for this dlatrlct, having com pleted a term of four years In the office yesterday, in accordance with the re quirement of the department furnished a new official bond yesterday. The amount of the bond Is $10,000, and George 3. Fletcher, United States Internal Revenue Agent from Washington, D. C, was here to superintend the transfer of the office from the old bond to the new one. Mr. Dunne was appointed Collector by President McKinley In 1898, and his term of office will continue until his succes sor shall have been named. With the 'filing of the new bond an Inventory of stock was taken, just as If a new Collec tor had been taking over the office.. The amount of stamps on hand, as shown by the Inventory! was $234,688. The business of the office has Increased considerably In the past three years, which is very gratifying, in view of the fact that many stamp taxes have been taken off during the past year, and Mr. Fletcher highly commends the work of Mr. Dunne and his assistants. Collector Dunne yesterday approved William N. Chambers, of Pullman, Wash., Deputy Collector, to succeed J. L. Mohun dro, who has resigned to take the posi tion of Registrar of the Land Office at Walla Walla. The district to which Mr. Chambers has been appointed embraces the following Washington counties: Ad ams, Asotin, Columbia, Garfield, Frank lin, Whitman. Walla Walla, Klickitat, Yakima and Kittitas. SMITH'S DANDRUFF CURE Positively cures dandruff, itching scalp, eczema, and "stops falling hair. Price, 50c, at all druggists. 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