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THE 3I0RXIXG OREGOXIAX, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1908.
FRANCIS J. HENEY ATTACKS SENATOR FULTQN IN PUBLIC ADDRESS ON "GRAFT"
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you to render decisions as a member o the
Supreme Court that are satisfactory to .the
railroad orpo ration or you will not bo nomi
nated next time." No man tn Oregon can
now way, I want you to vote as United States
(Senator as the railroad desires, or you will
ot be elected by the next Legislature;" be
cause under the direct primary and Statement
2fo. 1 your United States Senators have their
ears to the, ground, watching to see what tha
people of the state want, whereas before you
had the direct primary and Statement No. 1,
they said, "The people be damned, what
dos the railroad want?" (Applause.)
But we will come back to that presently.
There are other cheerful subjects I wanted to
discuss tonight.
In the first place, I am an optimist In re
gard to the political affairs of this country.
I believe that conditions have been Improving
morally In the country, in business as well
as In politic, from the day that Theodore
Roosevelt became your President, (Applause.)
And I think they will continue to improve
until Bill Taft goes out of office as President.
' That may sound funny coming from an old
Jine. old-time Democrat, but I can't help it
If Theodore Roosevelt and BUI Taft have be
come Democrats In principle. (Laughter and
applause.) I am not going to refuse to sup
port them on that account.
Land Conscience-Hardened.
Now the fact Is that when I came hers in
Xmember of 1903. I found that in Oregon
thrre existed whst some magazine writer de
nominated the Land Conscience, and by that
he meant that there was a prevailing senti
ment throughout the State of Oregon that It
was rieht. at least Justifiable, to commit per
jury, provided you commited perjury merely
In securing a homestead under the homestead
Isws. or in securing a timber claim under
the timber and stone act. Now as a matter
of fact there was? some such sort of senti
ment prevailing to a considerable extent, to
jruoh an extent that I recollect hearing that a
vry prominent , attorney of this city and
state made a speech. I think it was at a.
prayer-meeting, at which he advocated some
axirt of an expression of public disapproval- of
the land-fraud prosecutions, upon the ground
that the timber industry is one of the great
est Industrie of Oregon and that under the
law as It stand? at present it Is not posslblev
or waa not possible I should not say as it
Stands at present, because the Supreme Court
of the United States has decided the Will
iamson case (laughter): I should have said as
It stood before that court got tihat new light
on the subject that it was . Impossible for a
b:g lumber company to do business unless
they violated the timber and stone act.
There was no law under which they could
acquire more than luu acres of land, and that
an the law did not authorize anybody to ac
quire more than 160 acres of land, and they
C"uld not build up a trust In the lumber
business on 160 acres of . iar.d, therefore It
must be right and proper to violate uhe law,
even though that required the commission of
wholesale perjury.
It seems singular that such a doctrine
could be preached by a prominent lawyer in
a church. The same doctrine had been
preached by the same gentleman to me pri
vately and by several others who were with
him. Subsequently I discovered the interests
of some of' the others, because some of their
associates, intimate associates. I found, were
mixed up In these land-frauds, and they be
lieved that it was not a good thing to prose
cute them.
Registers and Receivers Corrupt.
That suppceed Land Conscience now arose
in this way: Tour Registers and Receivers
throughout this state were Instructed to
cross-examine every applicant for a home
stead and find out whether he actually had
lived upon the land during five years and
made it his home to the exclusion of any
other place. Our Government had adopted
a beneficent policy of allowing each and evry
newcomer and there have been 27, WG new
comers I understand in the State of Oregon
during the past year to take up a piece of
land, and to acquire the ownership of It by
merely living upon it. cultivating It and
making It his actual bona fide home. " If he
was so poor that he had to go off to work
and come back to It again, that was all
right; we wanted to help him to make a
home; we were willing to permit him to do
that. But what was the consequence? That
lumber companies wanting timber held out
the inducement ib employes, to any man who
came along, that he could go into ao Im
merse forest where it would be Impossible
to think of such a thing aa cultivating the
Id nd for farming purrxiscs. put up a shack
loxlJ, visit it ouce In six months in the Sum
mer time, go there perhaps and Btay a couple
of days for a fish, on a fishing expedition, if
there was a stream near by. That waa all.
And tht-n when five years had passed around
go before a Register and Receiver and tes
tify in answer to the question, "When did
you fint establish actual residence there?"
such a dntc. the date that he put this cabin
up. ""Have you resided continuously upon
the land ?" "Yes." "If you have been off
the land at any time, state when' and ex
plain why." 'Nevtr for more than six
months at any one time, for the purpose of
making a living." That is the stereotyped
answer- Gotten up by whom? Gotten up by
corrupt Registers and Receivers; gotten up
by men put into those offices by the recom
mendation, aye, by the insifrtanee of your
Vnlted States Senators. Gradually as men
would come in who had made some sort of
a half-way residence upon the land and they
would say. "Why, no, 1 was off the land for
over a year;" or. some man would say, having
his wife with him and not wanting- his wife
to know that he would purjure himself for
a miserable piece of land, "Why, no, l can't
CKy that I lived on It continuously; I had
my home in town. My wife was out there
om e or twice or three times or every six
ninths with me, and slept in the cabin over
li'Rlit, but that Is all that I made It my
h.ime." And the Register or Receiver, or his
clerk would say. "Oh, you must not make
ihot answer you can't get the land If you
make that answer. You should say, Yes
to that answer. 1 resided continuously upon J
n inna. me man would think
i Here the electric lights went out and the
si-oHkor continued in the darkness), why, this
of rkc r who Is authorized to ewear me, to
take my oath and take my testimony, cer
tainly he must know what is right; it can't
be that he would be advising me to com
mit perjury; although right on that very
Hunk upon wbJch the answers were being
written was a printed requirement that the
rf fleer Kh.mld advise the applicant that he
would be prosecuted fnr perjury if he made
a tils statement to these questions, and al
thnuch each and every Register and Re
ceiver had In his possession special instruc
tions insisting that he should cross-examine
the applicant and his witnesses to make aure
if the bona fides of his residence there.
I wonder if somebody told the light and
px-er company that I Intended to discuss
public service corporations tonight. Pro
longed applause and lat.ghtcr.) Never mind,
when I reach that subject I will throw so
much light on It that you won't need theso
lights here.
A member of the audience t hope you hit
tl'.p fas light company too.
Mr. H-n--What Is that?
Same party I hope you will hit the gas
light company too.
Mr. Herey Oh. we will take Hhem all in.
Now thtn, whope fault in it If there grew
up among the people this feeling, this
sense of security in the commission of
Hm, one of the worst crimes In the cal
endar, tno. perjury a crime that has be
come mr common than any other that !s
committed in thi counrrv? I want to sav.
mid. sav it with duf deliberation, that in
my exnerience a an attorney it Is rarely
that 1 have cen a case tried, either civil
or criminal, in which them was not per
jury committed upon one side or the other,
and frequently upon both. That Is a shock
ing statement to be compelled to make.
It Is high time we called a halt.
We need a little bit of reform in .our
method of selecting officers, or the halt
won't amount to much, because, over and
beyond iho Xa-t that these Registers and
Receivers were willing to do this, and I
am sorry that it may give it a personal
tinge that John Hall happens to be on
trial at the present time, but it is nec
essary to let you realise where I think
the greaten blame lies; u la necessary to
state the facts.
rd Honest District Attorney.
It cms to me that an aggressively hon
est District Attorney, either in your state
or in jour Federal iiovernmenu can com
very near stopping the genert commission
of crime, and can set an example that wili
at lca.t during his term of office keep
"rime from growing ApplaU5e.) These
offenses of homesteads being taken- ud by
the hundred and by the thousand and I
am advised that as a matter of fact out
side of the State of Oregon where home
steads are being taken up today the proofs
that are going through the General Land
Office show the stereotyped answers in
about 90 per cent of the homesteads that
are passed today, showing that as a matter
of fact the public land, or what little Is
left. Is being gobbled up, not by bona fide
hdmeseekers. not by the people whom you
want to come to Oregon in order that Or
egon may become more thickly populated,
and In that way the business of this state
grow, but by men who are taking this land
up for the benefit of some coloration; I
say that that could not have crown ud
except for the fact that there was a pros
ecuting officer who In his heart approved
of it.
How does It happen that all throughout
Wyoming. Montana, the Dakotas, Nevada,
Idaho, Oregon, California, Government land
has been fenced up by the thousands of acres?
How does It happen that throughout all -those
states timbered claims are taken up by the
hundred and by the thousand fraudulently ?
How does It happen that in all these states
this same class of homestead proofs has be
come common?
The Css of John H. Hall.
I will tell you, my friends, bow It hap
pens. The District Attorney in each one of
those places, the United States Attorney. Is
selected by political pull; the Senators and
Congressmen are usually on the most Intimate
friendly terms with the corporations that are
being benefited. The result Is these District
Attorneys inave remained passive, have not
taken any action, and. while they have
known that these thousands of homestead
proofs were being made la this way and per
jury being committed by the wholesale, and
these timber claims taken In the same way;
while they havs known that, they -have failed
to take action.
Just as tn the case now on triat. It appears
that the attention of Mr. Hall was called to
the fact that In March of 1900 20.000 acres
of land were under one fence In Wheeler
County by the Butte Creek Land, Livestock
& Lumber Company, and from March 24, 1900,
down to October, 1903, complaint after com
plaint waa made to Mr. Hall about that
fence, and a complaint about every montlf"
was made to him, and the man who made
the most of these complaints came down here
and saw him and told him about It, and a
map was sent to him outlining It to him. and
so forth; yet nothing was done.
The small stockmen up. there 'complained
that they were not allowed to use that range.
As a matter of course It was his duty to
proceed. He didn't proceed. "Why?
No, solely because he wanted to Influence
the vote of Steiwer for United States Sena
tor, but largely because John Hall did not
want to antagonize the cattle men of this
state, who, throughout Eastern Oregon, were
fencing up thousands of acres ; largely be
cause politicians of influence were interfering
fn prosecutions.
Senator Fulton and His Latter.
And that reminds me that Senator Fulton
published a letter here not lcig ago in which
he demanded that I should make good the In
sinuations which I have made against him.
Well, I don't know whether you wlH think
that I have made good or not -when I have
finished, but I think you will at least agree
with me that Senator Fulton, when I have
finished with him tonight. Is In about the
condition that the man was In who was In a
railroad wreck. This man was In the Pull
man car, and when he woke up and found
he was In a wreck and that hta car was
turned over, he pulled on his trousers In a
Slurry and he got them on wrong side fore
most and somebody finally belped him out
through the window, and when they got him
out there they crowded around him and
asked: "Are you hurt much?" He looked
himself over and he said: "No, I don't think
I am hurt much, but I am darned badly
twisted." (Applause.) Now, I am going
to see in can't twist Charles W, just a lit
tle bit, and I am going- to confine my state
ments to facts, which 1 am prepared to prove
by documents that are right here in this paper
bag envelope. (The lights here came on.)
I am glad of that light, because I want to
look you In the eye while I talk about It.
I won't take the time to read papers to you
tonight, because I am. afraid some of you
will think you actually are attending religious
services and you may go to sleep on me
(laughter); so I will give you the substance
of what Is in these papers, and If Charles W.
Is not satisfied with the substance, he can
nave the letter.
Not Campaigning Against Fulton.
I am not making a campaign to defeat Fur
ton for the United States Senate, but I feel
this way about IJ: While acting as ygur
United States Attorney by virtue of appoint
ment by the late Judge Bellinger, who was
one of the finest men I ever met in my life
(applause), a man of unswerving Integrity and
high principle I say that while acting as
United States Attorney, appointed by him to
fill a vacancy. I came Into possession of cer
tain information In regard to Mr. Fulton.
Mr. Fulton Is a public servant of the people
of Oregon. If Mr. Fulton had not challenged
me to produce this evidence, it was still my
Intention to do so before I left- Oregon for
the last time, because I believe that the peo
ple of Oregon are entitled to know all that I
learned while acting as your servant. (Ap
plause.) If that defeats him for the United
States Senate, I shall be glad of ft (ap
plause), because I don't want to see success
ful crime in public office. (Applause.) I
don't want to see the man who prostitutes
his public office continue to fool the people.
I want to see the people turn film down Jf he
Is wrong, if he has committed crime. If he
Is morally a bad man, I want to see him
turned down in this country as quickly and as
readily as he Is turned down In England. (Ap
plause.) And you all know that Charles Stewart Par
nell. who was the greatest organiser that Ire
land ever had, when he had Just about ac
complished the object of his ambition to have
Ireland freed, was defeated, because It was
shown that in a matter that had nothing to
do with his public duty, a matter, however,
that the Knglish people insist, when, once
exposed, shall put a man out of public life.
Immorality It was. Charles Stewart rarnell
lost his usefulness. If the Fmglish people,
who have only a form of self-government, .
can insist that no man shall continue to hold
public office who has disgraced them, then 1
I say that surely this Intelligent American
people, this people that thinks it is the most
Intelligent In the matter of self-government
on earth, cannot afford to let Its public serv
ant be re-elected when it knows that he has
betrayed trust after trust, that he has done
things as a publlcv servant which are a dis
grace to him and a disgrace to the people
whom he represents. (Applause.)
What Senator Fulton Did.
Now, what did he do? Well, we will start
back, tn order to give him a good running,
to 1M7: and mark you. I only came to Oregon
In November, 1903; the Lord knows what his
history Is back of '97. In 189" they had what
was known as the hold-up Legislature, and I
regret that it is necessary to bring the
name of John H. Mitchell into this at all,
because, as we all know, he is no longer liv
ing: but he was a public man and a public
official at the time, and it is impossible to
tell the story and make It Intelligent without
naming him, and, therefore. I will name him
without any squ earn tshn ess. That hold-up
Legislature, you all know what it was; Mitch
ell was a candidate for the United States Sen
ate; Fulton was there and was known I mean
Charles v. Fulton now he was there as a
member of the Legislature, and was known as
Mitchell's sack-holder and distributer of funds;
at least, I have the affidavits of four or five
people In this envelope stating facts in rela
tion to that matter. One of them I don't
think you can go to sleep with this light, so I
am just' going to read, not all of these papers,
but just a little of them. (Laughter.)
Mr. Heney then read the following affi
davit: A. W. Mead's Affidavit.
State of Oregon. County of Multnomah:
Absolom W. Mead, a cltisen of the United
States, being first duly sworn, deposes and
says: ,
I am M years of age. I was present in
Salem during the session of the Legisla
ture, which waa known as the "hold up"
Legislature for the reason that a great
many of Its members refused to take part
in the organization of the Legislature, for
the express purpose of preventing the l e
lection of John H. Mitchell as United
States Senator.
It was generally understood that there
were two organizations in the House, one
cf which recognized Representative Davis,
of Umatilla County, aa speaker, and the
other (recognized . Frank W. Benson. of
Douglas County, as speaker. Benson repre
sented the Mitchell faction.
At that time -I was .emnloyed at tha
Portland Flouring Company's mill at Sa
lem, and the Chief of the City Police. Ad
dison Dilly, offered me a position as special
policeman, and I accepted it. I found that
eight other men had been appointed by him
to the same positions. The names are
Tom McNary. Frank Farreli. James Per
rine. Bert Savage, George Townsend. David
Barrett. Ed Arnold and David Scott. We
learned very soon after we had been sworn
in and commenced work that we had been
employed for the purpose of aiding the
Mitchell wine; to take and maintain posses
sion of the House of Representatives of the
Legislature, by force If necessary. We were
so informed by the Chief of Police, and
we were Instructed to go there before the
opening hour on a certain day and to pre
vent Davis from taking the Speaker's chair,
by force If we could not accomplish this
result In any other way. We all went to
the House at the appointed time and when
Davis attemcted to take the chair we all
got In his way. and Tom McNary and the
sergeant-at-arms of the, Benson faction. W.
E. Murphy, stepped in front of Davis and
told him that he would not be allowed to
take the chair. Great excitement and con
siderable discussion followed. A pistol,
which I had in my pocket, fell out on the
floor in full view of members of the Davis
faction and others who were atandinx
around, and I picked it up and replaced
it in my pocket.
All of our party were armed and most
of them, to my knowledge had pistols,
and some had both clubs and pistols. The
discussion ended by Davis agreeing to ad
journ for want of a quorum as soon as
he took the chair, and to then permit tho
Mitchell -faction to take possession and hold
a meeting. We received Instructions from
Benson to permit Davis to go ahead, and
we did so. Our party had been taken Into
-the House before the hour for the meeting
of the Legislature, and had been stationed
around the Sneaker's desk tn such a man
ner that It was Impossible for liim to reach
It without breaking through our party.
The day after this occurred we were in
formed by the Chief of Police that we
must look to the Mitchell faction for our
pay for our services, and that the Wity of
Salem had nothlnx to do with It. We had
heard this rumored for several days before
we stopped Davis from taking the chair,
the wav I have stated, and we all under
stood at that time that we were really in
the employ of the Mitchell faction and
that we were to do all we could to help
secure and maintain possession of the House'
for it.
After the Chief told us that we were to
look to the Mitchell faction for our money,
I went up to see Charles W. Fulton at the
Mitchell headauarters to collect the pay
for myself and several of the other boys.
I went to Fulton because It- was common
rumor that he was managing Mitchell's
campaign, and was handling the money,
and I was told to go there. Before going
there I had learned that McNary and Far
reli had been paid $10 a day for holding
possession of the session chamber of the
Senato during the night between sessions,
and Fulton wanted to pay us only $5 or $3
a day apiece, and I held out for $10 a
day each, but he refused to pay that much,
and finally paid me either $5 or, $6 a day
for myself and for each of the others for
whom I waa collecting.
ABSOLOM W. MEAD.
Fulton Bought Up Votes.
Now the only Important point Is that Mitchell
and Fulton, and Fulton acting as his manager,
were using the Chief of Police of Salem in
this little mix-up In purchasing the Legis
lature, and that Fulton was handling the sack,
paying out the money.
Now let us see' if he was handling the sack
for any other purpose, and in order that
there may be no question about what my
evidence is on the subject, I will read you
one more affidavit which will show you that
Fulton was handling the sack, purchasing the
members of the Legislature to go In and vote
for Mitchell. He may think that Is not cor
rupt; I don't know; perhaps it Is somewhat
like the Land- Conscience In Oregon; possibly
they had been doing it so much at that time
that Fulton got to think it was really all
right, like the six months visits to the home
steads: J. 8. Smith's Affidavit.
"J." S. Smith, a citizen of the United
States, being first duly sworn, - hereby de
poses: "I am 40 years of age, have resided 13 yearn
in the State of Oregon and am now occupy
ing the position of Assistant Warden at the
State Penitentiary at Salem, Or. In June,
1896, I was elected a member of the Oregon
Legislature to represent Linn County. Out
of a total vote of 4fi00 I received 1900 votes
as the Populist candidate, there being two
other candidates, one each on the Democratic
and Republican tickets. The Legislature to
which I was elected was known and Is still
called the 'hold-up Legislature. for the rea
son that a great number of the members of
that body persisted in holding out from at
tendance at the session, with the express pur
pose of preventing the re-election of John H.
Mitchell aa United States Senator. An or
ganization was effected in the Senate by the
election of Joseph Simon as President and a
form of organization was attempted to be
effected In the lower -house by two rival bodies,
one comprising the supporters of Senator
Mitchell and the other consisting of his op
ponents.' The latter body elected Representa
tive Davis, of Umatilla County, as Speaker,
and the former group chose H. L. Benson, of
Doug!as County, for Speaker.
"The Mitchell supporters attempted to hold
dally sessions by having roll-calls, which
were responded to by the Mitchell adherents
In botib houses. It required 46 votes to elect
M itchell, but the crowd headed by Benson
were never able to muster that many mem
bers at any roll-call, and the session ended
without any result whatever, insofar as the
election of a United States Senator was con
cerned. The most desperate efforts were made
by the Mitchell men to secure the requisite
number of votes, offers of money and positions
being the commonest means employed to ac
complish this purpose. The present United
States Senator from Oregon, Charles W. Ful
ton, 'was the leading manager of the Mitchell
forces and personally, assisted by Mitchell
ihimself, offered various sums of money In
order to Induce the legislators who belonged
to the Davis wing of the lower house to at
tend sessions of the Legislature an- vote for
the election of John H. Mitchell for United
States Senator.
Mitchell Had a Sack.
'It was currently reported at the time and.
In fact, was regarded as an undisputed cir
cumstance, that Senator Mitchell had at his
disposal $35,000 with which to secure iMs re
election; furthermore. It was apparent to every
one who had anything to do with this so
called 'hold-up Legislature that Charles W.
Fulton was the leading distributer of money
for Senator Mitchell.
"At a point which I fix as about the middle
of the legislative session, one James Powell,
of Albany, Or., came to me wnile I was
seated in the session chamber of the House
of Representatives and introduced himself to
me as a Linn County Republ lean who had
voted for my election as Representative. We
had a short conversation, which was renewed
when I left the house at the noon hour to go
to lunch at the Salem Hotel. Powell accom
panied me to the hotel and! on .the way there
informed me very frankly that he had been
sent for by Senator Mitchell and the latter's
lieutenants and commissioned to induce me
to attend the legislative session and vote for
Mitchell.
Fulton Offered Smith Bribe.
"Powell mentioned the fact to me that
Mitchell and his managers had plenty of
money to give to those who would assist in
breaking up the 'hold-up' by attending the
sessions and voting for Mitchell. He also
stated that Mitchell himself desired to see
me personally at the Willamette Hotel,
which was the Mitchell headquarters.
Powell added that there was something In
it for him if he could get me to do what I
have outlined above. I arranged to meet
Powell that same evening anddld so. He
accompanied me to the Willamette Hotel,
where I was met In the large reception
room where Mitchell and Fulton held forth.
As soon as I entered the room Mitchell and
Fulton invited me Into an adjoining smaller
room, where they urged upon me the induce
ment that I owed it to my own future
career to attend the legislative sessions and
stand with them. Fulton said to me. in
Mitchell's hearing and presence: I will give
you $3000 and pay you $1300 of that amount
down right now if you will go into tha
House tomorrow and make a speech explain
ing that you think there has been
enough of ' this delay and urge
that the members take action and
vote for Mitchell for United States
Senator. t prior to this interview I had
conferred with the leaders of the ani
Mitchell legislative wing, namely with
Jonathan Bourne, Joan C. Toung of Baker
City, state chairman of the Populist party;
SALIENT STATEMENTS MADE BY
MR. HENEY.
That John H. " Hall and Edwin
Mays failed to prosecute the Claude
Thayer land-fraud case.
That Pierce Mays waa fn the em
ploy of Claude Thayer.
That the indictment of Burke and
Gosslin was In the interests of the
Northern Pacific Railroad.
That Senator McBride interested
himself In Burke and Gosslin's be
half at the requess of C. W. Fulton.
That the cause of xnunictaal cor
ruption lies in special privilege.
That public-service corporations
go into politics to get special fa
vors. That the people will have corrupt
government until they get the public-service
corporations by the throat
and make them keep out of politics.
Frank Williams, of Portland, Or., then
member of the executive committee of the
Populist party, and with various other of
my fellow members of the Legislature, in
cluding H. L. Barkley, Republican Repre
sentative from Marion County and now
bishop of the United Brethren for the Pa
cific Northwest, on that same day, and sub
sequent to . the talk the aforesaid
James Powell had had with me; and I had
declared my intention to my political asso
ciates of accepting the proposed bribe in
order to furnish a clear case of the methods
that Mitchell and Fulton were pursuing to
procure the re-election of Mitchell.)
"Mitchell added his assurance to that of
Fulton. I remarked, 'Well, yon have this
man Powell here who has already talked to
me and you can arrange the paying over
of the money with him.' -
Money la Paid ever. -
"Mitchell and Fulton acceded to this and
I left their headquarter and went down
stairs to the lobby of the hotel, where I
was joined In a few minutes by James
Powell, who took me aside and handed me
two packages of greenbacks, one containing
$1000 and the other containing $5O0. I had
hardly got through with Powell when
Mitchell, who had followed him down stairs,
came up to me and took me by the arm and
said: 'We have $35,000 and the boys who
are training with you can have all of it if
they will do as you are doing and come In
and vote; the cab out here is at your dis
posal to get them here tonight and see us;
we want them, to vote right tomorrow
morning.
Fulton Demands Money Back.
"The next morning, in place of attending
the session, I stayed around in the lobby or
the Statehouse in company witkt my po
litical associates of the Davis group. When
the rollcall.had progressed to the point
where the reading clerk called rnlth of
Linn he had to repeat the call, but without
result. I vai not there to respond. Charles
W. Fulton rushed out from the House into
the lobby and approached me in a hurried
manner. Fulton said to me, 'Aren't you
going in this morning? I answered, 'Going
In where?' Fulton said, 'Into the session
this morning.' I replied, 'Not on your life.
Fulton then exclaimed, .'You give back that
money then I said, 'I will never give., back
a cent of it Fulton then became threaten
ing in his manner and gesticulated forcibly.
He said. In quite a loud tone, 'Then look
out for yourself personally Fulton's manner
was such that it attracted the attention of
a number of legislators and others in the
lobby (among them being Walter Lyons,
afterwards private secretary of Governor T.
T. Geer and now editor of the Independence.
Oregon, Enterprise, and H. L. Barkley).
Fulton noticed that a crowd was gathering
and began to retreat towards the House
session chamber. I followed him-up to the
door and proposed to him that he and I.
In order to settle the matter, should slgr
a joint statement setting forth nothing- bift
the actual facts of the bribery attempt, an
publish same in the Salem Journal. Of
siUon b WUld DOt areai my propo-
",I became an 'applicant for the position of
Warden of the State Penitentiary of Salem
Or., .immediately after the election of the
present Governor. George E. Chamberlain.
My application was Indorsed by such men
as John B. Waldo. ex-Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court of Oregon. Jonathan Bourne
State Senator W. R. Bllyeti. Hon. J. K
Weatherford. Bishop Barclay and many
others, and I was appointed under date July
1, 1903. Charles W. Fulton had been elected
United States Senator in February. 1603, and
attempted to prevent my appointment by rep
resenting the before described fact of at
tempted bribery In a false light to Governor
Chamberlain. The result was that Governor
Chamberlain made a persona! Investigation
of the matter, inquiring as to the facts of
Jonathan Bourne, Jifan C. Toung, Frank Wil
liams, W. S. U'Ren, of Oregon City, Or.
and others. The Governor stated, in "sum
ming up his view of the matter after com
pleting the investigation, that I had been
guilty of no moral turpitude and was worthy
of receiving the appointment asked for. I
was accordingly appointed.
(Signed) ' "J. s. SMITH.
"Subscribed and sworn to before me thia
23d day of January. 1906.
"Thomas B. iNeuhausen, Special Inspector,
Department of the Interior."
Bishop Barclay's Affidavit.
Mr. Heney then read the affidavit of H. S.
Barclay;
"H. L. Barclay sworn, on oath says: I
am Bishop of the United Brethren for the"
Pacific Northwest (my dlocease comprising
Oregon, California, Utah. Idaho. Washington,
Montana and part of British Columbia) and
reside at 403 Prescott street, Portland, Or.
"I was a member of the Oregon Legisla
ture which convened In January, 1897. at
Salem, Or., and I am personally acquainted
With J. S. Smith, who represented a portion
of Linn County. Oregon, in that Legislature.
I was chairman of the Committee on Cre
dentials of the House and in that capacity
rendered every aid possible, in conjunction
with 25 or more othert members with whom
I affiliated, to defeat the ft-electlon of United
States Senator John H. Mitchell. The lat
ter was aided by the present United States
Senator, Charles W. Fulton, acting as his
lieutenant and manager. In his efforts to
Induce the body of Legislators with whom I
was associated to organize the House for
the purpose of his re-election. This I and my
colleagues strenuously opposed. After the eo
called "holdup," lasting about 60 days or
more, the Legislature' adjourned without elect
ing a United States Senator, thus accomplish
ing tha defeat of Mitchell.
"During the course of the Legislature ses
sion above mentioned Charles W. Fulton and
Senator Mitchell both, according to well
founded report at the time, sought to bribe
the voters of certain members of the Legis
lature, among them being the before-mentioned
J. S. Smith. I recall distinctly the
fact that said J. S. Smith told .me during
the course of the session that Fulton was of
fering money for votes, and that be Intended
to 'call bis bluff I advised Smith not
to engage In his proposed undertaking, but
he gave me to understand that he intended
to go ahead with it, A day or two there
after Smith informed me that he had been
raid f 1"hm or thereabouts by Charles W. Ful
ton, with the understanding that he (SmlthA
should go into the House and declare himself
for Mitchell.
"I waa & witness to the altercation which
ensued between said Smith and Charles W.
Fulton when Fulton demanded the return of
the money which he had paid Smith, on
Smith's refusal to xo into the House and 'de
clare himself in favor of the re-election of
United States Senator Mitchell.
H. L. BARCLAY.
Governor Chamberlain's Statement. ,
Governor Chamberlain I have talked with
about this matter. He has not made an
affidavit, but I suppose his word will go
without swearing to It. and here la what
he told roe:
"Some time after I had assumed the du
ties of the office of Governor In January.
1903, and while I was considering the ques
tion of appointing J. S. Srndtlr. of Linn
County, Oregon, as one of the officers of
the State Penitentiary. Senator Charles W.
Fulton came to me during the session of
the Legislature of that year, and entered
a protest against the appointment of J. S.
Smith. Fulton urged as ground for my
declining to appoint Smith, that he (Ful
ton) had been present at--an Interview be
tween Senator John H. Mitchell and
J. S. Smith In Salem.- Or., during the Leg
islative session of 1S97. and that at that
interview Smith had been paid $1000 or
thereabout or was paid such a sum Imme
diately after tnat Interview). This sum,
according to Senator Fulton, was paid with
the nrtrrual understanding that Smith, who
waa a member of the Legislature at the
a of
-at- I
united States Senator Mltcbjell. should
tend the session and break the "bold up
by helping to make a quorum and declaring
himself in favor of Mitchell's re-election.
The particular point that Senator Fulton,
curiously enough, mae with me In regard
to this transaction was, that Smith was ab
solutely unreliable because he had agreed
to be bought and had refused to 'stay
bought. v
Fulton to Blame.
"I told Senator Fulton that It looked to
me as though the entire affair reflected
very little credit upon any party to the
transaction and that, if anything, the par
ticipation of Senator Fulton and Senator
Mitchell In the deal was considerably more
subject to criticism than that of J. S.
Smith. I had instituted an inquiry in or
der to determine Just what part J. S.
Smith had -had in the matter, and determ
ined to my satisfaction that he had done
nothing which should cause me to" de
cline to appoint him to office. I Inquired
of Frank Williams, John C. Young, and oth
er leaders of the People's Party familiar
with the entire facts bearing upon the at
falr and ascertained that they suspected
that money was being used by Mitchell
and hie friends to corrupt the Legislature
and that J. S. Smith had stated, to certain
of his party associates, -pri or to his going
to the Mitchell-Fulton headquarters in the
hotel at Salem. Oregon, that he intended
to find out whether this waa a tact and to
help deprive the Mitchell hosts of the
'sinews of war by himself accepting a
pieoe of their money
"When I questioned J. S. Smith- him
self about the matter, after Senator Ful
ton had protested against his appointment.
Smith was perfectly frank in relating ail
the circumstances to me and I formed tho
opinion, which I still have, that his action
In taking the money was regarded by him
and by the persons with whom he advised
prior to taking same, more as a piece of
political tactics than anything else, and I
did not understand that the money was to
be retained by Smith nlmself. but to be
used by Smith's party associates for de
feating the purposes for which It was
paid.
"It was furthermore made perfectly clear
to me that Smith positively declined to
carry out the conditions which were im
posed upon him by Mitchell in Fulton's
presence when the deal concerning the pay
ment of the money was made with Smith.
It was this Very declination on Smith's
part that formed the basis of Senator Ful
ton's protest against Smith's appointment
gs an office of the Oregon State Peni
tentiary. Having convinced myself that J.
S. Smith had done nothing in the transac
tion mentioned to merit my refusal to ap
point him to state office. I accordingly ap
pointed him Assistant Warden of the State
Penitentiary, a position which he still oc
cupies." Now that waa in 1903. and I started In
-189T. - Of course that transaction, the first
part of it, occurred in 1S97. It seems that
Fulton in effect admitted that he was there,
handling; the sack of Mitchell; he admits to
Chamberlain that he was present. We have
the affidavit of Smith and of several of the
oohem I won't stop to read them -to you,
because they are all to the same effect. There
is one from U'Ren stating that he knew about
it at the time, and one from H. L. Barclay,
who was bishop of the United Brethren for
the Pacific Northwest.
Fulton as Hammond's Attorney.
Now 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899; In 1890, as we
have Just shown In the case on trial, Fulton
was attorney for the Astoria Railroad Com
pany, A. B. Hammond, principal owner, and
for some of Hammond's other companies, and
a man by the name of W. E. Burke, some
what of a politician himself (I won't say ac
cording to the definition Just given), but Burke
and a man named Gosslin, who was secretary
of the Astoria Railroad Company and of
other corporations of Hammond, were wanting
to file on some lands at Oregon City, over In
the Tillamook country, , about the same 'time
Thayer had gotten hold of his claims there
or was getting uhem, which some of you may
know about.
So when they got up there they found
Moulton representing tJie Northern Pacific, for
which Carey & Mays were attorneys: and
curiously enough, Ed Mays was the Assistant
United States District Attorney; and curiously
enough also he District Attorney's office
took action in this case, though it did not
take action In any similar one very promptly,
but the action It took in this case did not
last very long either; only lasted long enough
to accomplish the purpose of the Northern
Pacific and of the Mayses.
Burke, In order to make -sure of getting
this land, came down and got some bums
out of the North End' that was at the time
when you had faro banks running here, as
referred to by your chairman of the evening
20 of them, to go up to Oregon City and file
on these timber claims. In order to get in
ahead of the scrlpping that was going to be
done by the Northern Pacific on this particu
lar timber. Burke admits that and Gosslin
admits it; they both admitted it at tfce time,
and Burke went before the grand Jury at the
time and the grand jury Indicted them. These
CO men did file, each one swearing' that he
was taking up the land for himself and had
imade no agreement of any kind or nature
by which anybody else was to be benefited
by it. ..Burke knew that was false, because
he had agreed to pay them $2 apiece to go
and make those affidavits in order to cover
this land. - Gosslin knew It was false, because
he was there when Burke brought them up
and knew . what the transaction was, as he
admits.
Burke and Gosslin Indicted.
But what happened? Mou-lton comes on
down here and be sees that the Northern
Pacific is getting cut out of this land that he
thought be had a cinch on, and suddenly we
find activity In the United States Attorney's
office. Pierce Mays now is attorney for the
Northern Pacific and Ed. Mays is Deputy in
Hall's office. First these men are arrested and
taken before Ed. Deady as Commissioner, and
Hall and Fulton appear before Ed. Deady,
and the men are bound over. . They waive
examination. Two of the bums are arrested,
also. Fulton goes and gets Henry McGinn
to have his brother-in-law and another man
furnish the bond for the bums, the only two
of the 20 they had found.
Fnlton Uses His Influence.. .
Then Fulton at once starts at work to do
what? To see that the laws of your country
are not enforced. This was late In 1899. We
find him knocking at the door of the United
States District Attorney's office from that
time on down to the present time, every time
a friend of his was threatened with indict
ment; using his Influence as a State Senator,
using his influence as an attorney for this
railroad, and corporations, using his Influence
as United States Senator, to prevent the en
forcement of the laws that he has sworn to
upftold. (Applause.) And so after Burke's
Indictment and Gosslin's indictment, relin
quishments to all this land are filed, and
the Northern Pacific gets what it wants.
Then there seems to be no necessity for any
further prosecution. The prosecution seems
to have effected Its Teal object.
Now Hall commences to move toward a
dismissal of the indictment. With the abso
lute evidence in his possession, with a letfnr
from Charles. Morris, giving him the names
of the 20 applicants, with their notice of
proofs published in a newspaper at Forest
Grove by Colonel Eddy, and paid for by Burke
and Gosslin out of the money of A. B. Ham
mond's companies, represented by Fulton
Bros., attorneys, a move was made on Blnger
Hermann. Fulton and Hall telegraphed and
wrote Hermann, Hall at Fulton's request,
within a week or two after the arrest, asking
-Hermann to recommend or authorize Hall to
accept a compromise by having the relinquish
ment filed. Compromise by having the relin
quishment filed? Why, there waa not one of
bhose bums there to show up to make final
proof, and what would he make final proof
on, unless the Hammond companies furnished
the $2.50 an acre to make ft with, 'and
Burke did not dare go there and carry It out
any further, and It they did not show up at
the time set for final proof the entries were
canceled. ' v-
Compromise! Compromise what? Why.
that reminds me of the compromise that
the monkey made with the cat. when he
got hold of the cat's piece of meet. He said,
"I will compromise this by keeping it all."
Why, the Government had the land; they
had no possibility of getting it. and it
would be clear and free at Jhe end of GO
days when they did not show up to make
their final proofs. Hall knew that perfectly
welt. Asking Blnger Hermann! Fulton and
Hall writing and wiring him to allow Hall
to act when he seeks to violate his duty aa
a sworn officer of the law! Seeking some
thing that he could crawl behind! The In
terior Department had nothing to, do with
the United States Attorney's office in prose
cutions. I would like to see the Secretary
of the Interior or even the president that
time and " epposed to the re-election
would stop me from going ahead with a
prosecution if I believed a man guilty (great
applause). And so they started in October,
1899, and Binger Hermann, the sly (laugh
ter), said, "I have no power In this; you
ran't pass the duck to me (laughter). I
suggest that you asply to the Attorney-General."
Fulton Writes McBride.
And then Fulton promptly writes to Sena
tor McBride, who was here in Portland,
and urges the United States Senator to
take It up with the Attorney-General, and
of course, to accommodate the active Mr.
Fulton, who Is always In the Legislature, to
assist in electing United States Senators, up
o the time he got there hirhself, he takes
it up with the Attorney-General, and the"
latter, as properly he should, says, "I know
nothing about this," and referred it back
to Hall for Hall to do his duty, and how
did he get It?
HaJl Gets His Annual Pass.
Just about the time that they came back.
Hall writes Fulton a letter, and says. "By
the way, I have not yet received an annual
pass over your road," and Fulton writes
back and says. "I have requested Mr.
Goslin" (this man 'under indictment) "to
try to get Smith, the secretary of the rail
road company, to see that you get your an
nual pass, and If he overlooks It, let me
know, and the next time I go to Portland
I will attend to ft myself."
Oh. yes, it Is a small matter, this getting
an annual pass over the railroad, but think
of the position of the prosecuting officer,
who under those conditions existing, would
apply to Fulton for such a thing; and in
March Hall dismisses the Indictment, though
I think he makes a contention that he got
some sort of a communication from the
Attorney-General consenting to it. I do not
care if he did, though I don't think he did
because the records do not show it. But if
he did, the Attorney-General could know
nothing about .it, and would have to act
solely and purely upon Hall's representation,
and I tell you that the time has come for
Lnlted States -Senators to keep their hands
off of criminal prosecutions In this country
and permit men to do their duty (great ap
plause). Ax6 o a clear case was dismissed.
Then Comes Thayer Case.
,Ali5Lthen aIon about the am time came
the Thayer case. Claude Thayer, the son of
Governor Thayer, was getting over a nun
S. i lm" over there and Leach and
Handler came over and Leach was willing
wUwth6 Whle tnins- and to,d " to
Pierce Mays, employed by Thayer, and Hal!
promised faithfully he would take car? of
the matter before the grand Jury, instead of
wll h put Ed Mfty l! hns to do It,
while Pierce Maya was drawing down the
money of Thayer. This man Leach who
whoiriShem: Whle thm d 'old tne
Wranri k' W" n5ver ut before the
grand Jury, but sat there coolin his fpet
outside the door all the time That ha
pened In 1902; another case Then follow
f.n dHwn' ln 1900 commenced thta com
?JL r? bUt th fence the Butte
held- 0w!nyKOf Wh!ch SteIw" was at the
head, which shows these men took nn
were tairi? lencJl on' wnlle homesteads
a up by tno Irl lo waited on
he tab!e t the hotel, and by a widow
lady who ran the hotel, and a widow worn
an. who was doing washing in the town ami
by a man named Sellers, who drova the
stage from Fossil and who never Taw 'he
Sl' and by Mrs. Hammond
1 deUtarohuTd B
proved Up before Hendrlck.. United SiTtll
Thayer comes back In 1902; these cases T
.a.ny wonder that people like Puter and
McKInley grew to think that there was no
aTweL t arrtIOI that they'mign?
as well go ahead acquiring lands fraudulently
?0n' bringins disgrace upon your state
as it finally did? .
Georgre C. Brownril'g Letter.
Now, there are a dosen of those cases, and
I am not going to take up your time with
them. I have told you enough about them to
Illustrate what I am talking about. Now we
come to another matter mixed up in this
George, C. Brownell's letter, and when I
finish with that I am going to quit the dis
cussion of Fulton and talk to you about some
other things. Goorge C. Brownell made
Mitchell's election possible. Brownell made
Fulton's election in 1903 possible. Without
him Fulton could not have been elected to
the United States Senate in that section. Be
fore his election Fulton had agreed to make
Brownell United States Attorney for the dis
trict of Oregon. Hall.'s term had expired in
January, 1002, an 3 this election took place
In 1903, so that he had really been holding
over for a year. Hall was present and agreed
that Brownell was to have his place, and a
special agent named A. R. Greene was here.
Greene did not like Hall, to commence with,
but finally got so he and Hall were so thick
that he helped Hall at the time I came here,
and helped to keep me from getting knowl
edge of facts that I should have known before
I knew them. He was helping Hall to get
reappointed. He did help him to such an ex
tent, and they fooled me to such an extent
that I am responsible for the fact that he
was re-appolnted, and I had him re-appointed.
We will come to that ln a moment.
Xow, while I did not know about It when
I came up here In 1903, Hall had already,
after Fulton's election in the early part of
1003 with the aid of Greene secured the evi
dence that Brownell was supposed to have
taken the acknowledgement of some forged
signatures on some public surveys In Henry
Me Id rum's office, which, it turns out, as a
matter of fact, Brownell did not sign I am
satisfied to that myself, having examined
them very closely and compared them with
genuine' signatures of Brownell, and evi
dently Mel drum tells the truth when he says
he forged Brownell's signature and some
body ele forged the other signatures. Now,
at that timer however, Brownell thought he
had signed these things because he bad been
In the habit of taking acknowledgments of
some of those people, and he thought that
at some time Meldrum had brought up some
papers and suggested that it was all right,
and that he thereupon put his acknowledg
ment upon them. It seems that Brownell
had formerly had a partner named J. U.
Campbell, and he did the same thing.
Hall Threatens Brownell.
Now HaJl sent for Brownell and saia to
him of course he did not come out and say
"If you don't withdraw from this race I'll
indict you,'.' but he intimated to him and
Insinuated that unless Brownell got out of
that race that he could not possibly get the
office because Greene would make a report
on him that he had made these acknowledg
ments to these forgeries and could not pos
sibly be appointed, practically saying to him,
You get our of here and help me, and I
will see that you are protected, George.
Now George concluded that he would play a
little of the same game himself and so he
told Hall that he was out of It, and as soon
as he got hold of Fulton, who came out here
that Summer with Mitchell, he told Mitchell
all about it, and told Fulton that Halt was
threatening him, and that he, Brownell,
wanted Mitchell and Fulton to support Camp
bell and to put Campbell In Hall's place.
Brownell Gels Double Cross.
Brownell did not know that Greene had the
same thing on Campbell, and could prevent
his appointment, and so he selected Camp
bell and told Fulton that Campbell was go"
ina- to divide the fees of the office with him
and that he, Brownell, would stay up in
Clackamas County and do politics for the old
crowd, an i Fulton agreed to that and Mitchell
agreed to it. Then along In the Fall of 10
Brownell . had told somebody about It, al
though George says that Hall told him that
Fulton "told Hail in -other words, that Ful
ton was-giving George the double cross.
Hall found out in some way, at any j-ate,
that as a matter of fact Campbell waa to
be appointed and that George was behind it,
and so he sent for George again, and on Oc
tober 20, 1903, he' got from George a letter
in which George released Fulton from his
pledge and asked him to support Hall.
Now, at that time, October, 1903, the first
case against Puter and McKInley was put
before the grand Jury. That case actual ly
Involved Pierce Mays, who was subsequently,
after X got charge, indicted ln the same man
ner; but he was not only not Indicted, but
he was the attorney for Puter at the time.
Puter went up to his office In October, Just
before he was Indicted, and there he saw this
letter from Brownell to Fulton and ex-
pressed his amazement and regret that Brow
nell was going to get out of the race, be
cause he considered that Brownell would be
friendly to him If he was appointed, and
that he would not be ln any danger; but Mays
told him it would be, all right anyhow if
Hall remained in; but Puter did not think so,
and Putfr was indicted.
He waa to be made the scape-goat, he and
McKInley, for the crowd; Just as they would
like us down in San Francisco to make poor
old Lonergan and a few of the other Super
visors, th miserable Ignorant fellows who
were put in there, and used by men of brains
and money, they waffled us to make them
the scape-goats while the higher-ups could
continue tp wear their silks bats and broad
cloth and belong to business clubs and go In
the best society. (Applause.)
Hall Agree to Protect Brownell.
Now, about that time Hall concluded that
he would go Kact and he went to Washing
ton and there rre saw Mitchell and Fulton
and they agreed to support him for reap
pointment ln consideration of his protecting
Brownell and Campbell from indictment.
Hall had held up George Brownell; Mitchell
and Fulton knew It, as this correspondence
shows, and I won't take time to read any
of It to you. but refer you to The Oregonlan
where It has been published. If you read
tnose letters you can reach but one con
clusion, and that is that Fulton and.
Mitchell knew about It. Fulton says Mitchell
did not show him those letters, or tell him
what was in thenf, but If you will hark
back to 1897 and think of the relations be
tween Mitchell and Fulton when they could
go together into a room and agree to pay
a man f.tooo for his vote, you will be satis
fled that Fulton knew Just as well aa
Mitchell did about the deal by which Hall
was threatening to prosecute Brownell un
less Brownell withdrew In his favor. I say
those letters ahow that to my mind most
conclusively, and I think you will agree
with me that it shows it to your mind, and
therefore I will not take any further time
on that. Now what difference does that
make if Fulton did agree with Mitchell to
support Hall for reappointment if he would
not prosecute Brownell? Do you stop to
realise that we are living In a country
wn ere our property rights and our liberty
must depend upon the faithful enforcement
-;aws? Io you stop to realise that If
the offk-e of Prosecuting Attorney can be
be"d war n this manner, and a man
appointed because he has agreed that he
ill violate his oath of office, that he will
!.t?-r0o?ecrtaP.r?,aCUt' mea Wh b"
Do you stop to realise that If that can be
done by men who have been honored by
Z" WI,h hlchest office that la within
your lft aa cltisen, of thl, atate. that
. mumt com whin ,nl government
must fall to pieces thla Hepubllo cannot
endure with such corruption? You are polluting-
the very foundations of justice when
you permit euch a thing to occur, and you
cannot place the stamp of approval upon
any men who have been connected with
such( a transaction. (Applause.)
The Fight for Liberty.
Now. let me ray a little about general
ities. After all that la what I am more
Interested ln. The uttlns; of a few men
ln Jail is not the food that we have ac
complished ln Oregon, nor the good that
we hope to accomplish ln San Francisco.
It that was all that I could look forward to
as the fruit of my work here and there,
I would feel that my time had been utterly
wasted. The fact Is that ln 1800. about
lilBu, people commenced coming here from
England looking for greater liberty to wor
ship; they wanted mo.e religious
freedom: they wanted the light ,to wor
ship In such form ria the In
dividual conscience dictated. Upon their
arrival here they ln turn became narrow and
each different community waa at different
times Inclined to persecute those who did not
agree with them. Gradually an understand
ing of what la really meant by liberty com
menced to epread throughout France. England
and the United States, and by 1776, at the
time of the Revolutionary War," the 2,000,000
people who oocupied that narrow atrip of
land along the Atlantic Coast who were known
as the colonists of England, had arown to
realize that the highest and best thing on
earth that human beings can struggle for to
liberty of conscience, liberty of action and
equal opportunity in this world. And so, be
lieving as they did in self-government, be
lieving that they were capable of exercising
Belt-government, thy demanded and insisted
that they should have representation in the
English Parliament, and when finally the
ships landed ln Boston with tea and the Revo
lutionary fathers went on board and threw
that tea overboard, when it waa said that the
tax waa small, they said, "No, It is a prin
ciple for which we are fighfing, and taxation
without representation is tyranny." (Ap
ulause.) You heard nothing at that time that
we can learn of now about it hurting business.
Those 3. 000.000 of people went into a long
struggle with the mother country and for
eight years they suffered privation, they were
risking their fortunes, they risked their lives,
for what? When a President of the United
States now attempts to get the people of this
Nation to realize that there is something bet
ter than mere money-makfcig and that we
must have a higher standard of morality in
business and political life, you bear the Torle,
of today crying. ' "It hurts business."
During the Revolutionary War thej
had their Tories who were opposed t
this fight for human liberty, who preferred
to remain under England and let her tryran
nize over this country, provided only they
were not Interfered with ln their money
making. (Applause.) And so ' ln 1860 to
1S65, when that great fight was made fol
human liberty under the leadership of Abra
ham Lincoln, (great applause) you found youi
Tories those who were not able to take ad
vantage of the war and make money out of
the people, crying "It hurts business." They
wanted to stop that great fight for the per
petuity of the Union and the liberty of thf
slave because forsooth it was hurting busl.
ness.
"It Hurts Business." 1
And so now in Oregon, when I started
here ln 1904 you found the cry going up,
you found men talking in the church, "Stoj
these prosecutions, it is hurting business, th
timber business of Oregon. (Applause.) An(
so when I got back to San Francisco an!
when we took the lid off that stink-pot dowi
there and showed what has been going or
you hear the cry going up the momenta w
commence to interfere with the men who ari
really lesponsible for these corrupt conditions,
"this sort of thing should be stopped; tneM
prosecutions have gone too far, they arc
hurting business:" and so when TheodoM
Roosevelt says, "The railroad corporations oi
this country have gone too far, they havs
robbed the people all we intend to let them
rob them; they shall no longer discriminate ln
favor of one man and against another; that
Is unequal taxation, taxation without rep
resentation, which is tyranny, and we do not
propose to be tryannized over by Harriman or
any other railroad magnate." (applause) I
say when he does that you find that same
class of men crying out. "It is hurting busi
ness an4 ought to be stopped."
The whole civilized world Is wafhlng
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An Indiana man says:
"I knew for a long time that coffee
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last five years I have been troubled
with my stomach hut didn't seem able
to quit coffee. Finally I took down
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"I tried milk and hot water but got
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a visit to my cousrrT she recommended
Postum, claiming that it had done so
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"She was lookirg stouter and was nol
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wouldn't allow any coffee to be used,
i "I came home and began Using
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provement which continued, until now,
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on the package which gives it its good
rich taste.
"I have thanked my cousin many
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It has done great good to my nerves
and whole system. Before I quit coffee
and began to use Postum I was troubled
with toothache and headache, besides
the steady old grind of stomach trou
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"There's a Reason."
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