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T1IE INC.OMFAH.ABU; BTNCO GAME.
The Oregonlan supported the pri
mary law and rrgrd its- adoption, bat
It had no Idea the law won Id be per
verted, mo aa to make-rr the instru
rnent of the nomination of the candi
dates of one party, name of the
other.
But though The Oregonlan was an
advocate of the primary law. It never
was an advocate of the "statement"
feature that haa been foisted Into It.
From the time when this was pressed
B the badlng or controlling feature
of the act. The Oregonlan haa de
nounced arid opposed it.
It has sanctioned and approved the
Idea of popular vote on Senator, prior
to the election, because this might be
a means of obtaining the judgment of
the different parties as to candidates.
The method, properly employed, is
suggestive or advisory, but never can
be given legal force or bearing. It is
no more than a petition by the people,
or by a portion of them.
Put a method that could only be
petitionary, or at most advisory, and
as such strictly -within constitutional
limits, is now exalted above usage and
law, and above the Constitution Itself.
:its purpose is nullification and super
eedure of the constitutional method
and Intent, and It is openly declared
that such Is the design or object of It.
Passing the legality and validity by,
are we to get stronger men for the
Senate by this" method? It has
given us Bourne. Cake was next
In the succession; but though the
Republicans have 25.000 majority in
the state, they wouldn't have him at
all: and immense numbers of them
voted to pass the question up to the
Legislature. In the hope and expecta
tion that some Republican fit for the
position might be elected. Chamber
lain wasn't wanted at all.
The vote for Chamberlain In June
was 52.000, for Bryan In November.
11,00 0. It means that 14.000 voters
who didn't want Chamberlain voted
for him. nevertheless to express their
disapproval of "the game."
Nobody believes that Chamberlain is
stronger In Oregon for the Senate than
Bryan for the Presidency. But people
hate fraud and Juggle In politics;, they
reject unconstitutional methods; they
detest contrivances that bring unflttest
and weakest men to the front. They
abominate false registration, which
partisans employ for nomination of
men In the primary, with Intent to
vote against them In the election.
The people of Oregon will not be
led by the Bournes and the ITRena
and the Cakes, to be delivered to the
Chamberlains and to the Bryan mi
nority. If these are the ultimate, no
body will want a Republican party.
"We shall take the Democratic party
straight not filtered through Bourne
and UTten and Statement One.
There Isn't a soul In Oregon who
doesn't know that the people of Ore
gon never have declared Chamberlain
their choice for Senator. But they
didn't want and wouldn't have Cake
foisted on the Republican ticket by
Democratic votes, under false registra
tion; and moreover, they wished to
express their righteous Indignation at
the Bourne-U'Ren scheme and to. em
phasize their rejection of It.
Now the last phase. The claim is
that every member of the Legislature,
whether he accepted Statement One or
not, will be forced by the law of the
state and by his oath of office to vote
for Chamberlain; for there la a stat
ute, adopted by popular vote last June
the new method of making laws
that "Instructs" every member of the
Legislature to vote for the candidate
for the Senate who has received the
highest popular vote. This now Is
offered as the paramount law. It has
been ordained by the people; it has
all the sacredness and force, under
our system, of constitutional enact
ment; no member of the Legislature is
at liberty to disregard it. Even if he
has declined or refused to pledge him
self to the "statement." he Is obliged
to rake the oath to obey this law, as
other laws, of the state; he must take
the oath or he cannot take his seat in
the legislative body: If he takes the
oath and does not keep it." he will be
guilty of perjury. This, it is urged,
will drive every member of the Legis
kiture to vote for Chamberlain. None
can refuse. For this very purpose
"to compel obedience to the will of the
people" this Initiative statute was
formulated and put through. It was
the Intention to force any and all who
might refuse to accept Statement One,
nevertheless to vote in the Legislature
for the man who might receive tha
highest number of votes in the general
election. So now, it is proclaimed,
every man is tied up, and Chamberlain
is to receive every vote of the ninety
members of the Legislative Assembly!
On the one hand those who ac
cepted the statement, before the elec
tion, must keep the pledge or they
will be liars; on the other, those
who refused to take It also must
vote for Chambcrtain. or they will
not only be violators of the
law. but perjurers also. It seems
to be pretty well tied up; it is
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what they call "a cinch" Just the
same as any other bunco game.
Certainly. If the "pledge" taken be
fore the election la binding, the com
mand of the law to those who didn't
take the pledge Is equally coercive or
more so. The object of these whole
proceedings of course was to "make
it unanimous." to compel "obedience
to the mandate of the people." and one
bunch of the members of the Legisla
ture will be "liars." while the other
bunch will be "perjurers." if the pro
gramme should not be carried out.
Tet there to a simple, lawful and
constitutional way by which both
consequences might be avoided. Some
think It would be Just as well for the
Legislature to brush all this rubbish
aside and proceed to the election of
Senator in the manner directed by the
Constitution and laws of the United
States. .
HKMY AND HIS WORK.
That Heney has done, on the whole,
a good and great work. The Oregonlan
fullv believes. That in some of his
methods he was not Judicious and wise,
it concedes. Tet It remains that Heney
has done a great work.
One principle of human nature he
has antagonized, which has rendered
his work unpopular. He haa used
certain malefactors for conviction of
others. Now it is a common thought
that this is wrong. It is said that
Heney has pushed certain men to ex
tremity, "who were no, worse than those
whose acts and crimes he has con
doned. Therefore it is argued that, since all
can't be punished, none should be.
The Oregonlan does not agree with
this reasoning or with its conclusion.
Heney. we have thought, has not al
ways done his work Judiciously, but
society has a right to use all possible
means for conviction and punishment
of those who rob and oppress It. It
has a right to grant Immunity to some,
for their testimony against others, and
to get at the proof against those who
are robbing it, how it can.
Heney, then, has simply been a pub
lip servant, pursuing public thieves.
The resistance he has met. even from
those who should want public thieves
punished, is amazing. The general
ground of the opposition Is expressed
In the Inquiry. "Why should this man
be let off and that man punished?"
Because legal testimony must be had
or nobody will be punished, and the
Iniquity will go on forever; and be
sides, society must always use, as it
has a right to use, the lesser crim
inals for conviction of the greater, so
as to break up the system.
. Whether anybody has. liked Heney
or not is nothing to the purpose. He
has been breaking up rings of thieves
In California and in Oregon,'and has
done some mighty good work. The
personality of Heney Is no more than
an Incidental factor. He has put a
stop to a mighty deal of wrong-doing.
Only by Indefatigable pursuit of the
principals In it could this be done.
Their satellites have been likely to
murder him. at any time. No man
could stand in his place without tak
ing that risk. In the case of Heney.
during years past, many have thought
of It.
I VF-STIGAnXO Jt lMiK ROOT.
The predicament of a court of
Justice, when it is suspected of wrong.
Is much like that of Caesar'a wife. It
was not enough for her to be able to
prove her innocence; she ought not to
have .been suspected. Perhaps the poor
woman was divorced in spite of being
completely blameless. The tongues of
malicious gossips wrought her ruin
though she was all the time an angel
of purity. Still Caesar thought it suf-.
flclent ground for putting her away
that her good name had been
smirched. As soon as the publlo begins
seriously to believe that the courts
are not impeccable their usefulness is
Impaired. Speaking of the contem
plated appointment of Secretary Root
to the Supreme bench it has been re
marked that he ought not to take the
place because It will be impossible to
convince the public that he would be
a fair Judge. This Is unfortunate, per
haps, for Mr. Root, but who could
dispute the wisdom of the remark?
When the public believes that a Judge
Is biased it is all the same, so far as
confidence in his decisions is con
cerned, as If he actually were blasod;
and when confidence is broken down
we are a long way on the road to
revolution.
Hence It would seem to be the plain
duty of a Judge who has been accused
of conduct unbecoming his position
either to clear his skirts completely or,
for the good of the country, to leave
the bench. This is evidently the opin
ion of Judge Mtlo A. Root, one of the
Justices of the Supreme Court of
Washington, who has been involved
in certain rumors of official miscon
duct. With the truth or falsity of
these rumors The Oregonlan does not
concern itself. The point that inter
ests us is that Judge Root has deemed
It his duty to demand an Investigation.
If the rumors are true, he urges, the
bench is no place for him. If they are
false -he thinks he deserves a vindi
cation. This is well, very well; but
how. much better would it have been
had occasion for the rumors never
arisen. The odor of scandal which
seems to surround the Supreme Court
of Washington would excite misgiv
ings even if nothing of the same sort
existed elsewhere. The slightest im
pairment of the honor of one court
tends to propagate itself and cast the
semblance of taint upon all. But it
Is not alone in Olympia that rumors
float and suspicion slinks about the
sacred purlieus of Justice.
Lawyers have been saying for years
that the decisions of the Supreme
Court of Colorado are so biased as to
be virtually worthless. That tribunal
has meddled disastrously In politics.
It has lent Itself to questionable tricks.
The highest courts of California nave
acted strangely, to say the least of it.
In the Ruef difficulties. Either with
or without grounds people all over the
country are saying that the California
Judges are the creatures of the corpor
ation ring which Ruef has served and
which Is seeking to see him safely
through his trials. When Folk had
finally convicted the St. Louis grafters
in the lower courts, the Supreme Court
of Missouri set them free with what
seemed to many to be indecent haste.
When Chicago was in trouble with its
street railway companies In the old
Terkes days, Judge Grosscup sustained
the corporations against the city so
uniformly and many of his rulings
looked so biased that much comment
was excited. To be sure the Federal
Supreme Court overruled him In the
end. but the mischief was done. The
seed of suspicion was sown, and Judge
Qrosscup's late decision In the Stand
ard Oil case, with his harsh comment
upon Judge Landis, has not helped to
cure the harm. ,
So we see that the Washington trou-
1 bles are of more than local import.
They are perhaps symptomatic of a
widespread and Increasing National
disorder and the question of how the
investigation into Judge Root's alleged
transgressions may best be conducted
is of great importance. A committee
of the state bar association has been
appointed for the purpose, but Mr.
J. W. Robinson, a Washington lawyer,
thinks a legislative committee would
be better.
Mr. Robinson points out in an open
letter to Chief Justice Hadley that no
bar committee can be expected to in
vestigate Judge Root's conduct fully
and fairly because every lawyer must
sooner or later plead before the court
where he sits. Mr. Robinson there
fore thinks that an investigation by
the bar must necessarily be an affair
of whitewash. Perhaps he Is right. It
seems reasonable to expect that the
economic Interest of the lawyers and
their clients will prevail over their
sense of public duty. It does in rou
tine court work and it might in an
investigation such as Judge Root re
quests. The state constitution-makes
the Legislature the tribunal for trying
the Supreme Court Judges through
Impeachment. Legislative wisdom and
Impartiality have not been conspicuous
in recent years either in Washington
or its sister states, and there is grave
danger that an investigation by a legis
lative committee looking toward im
peachment would degenerate into a
farce where pull and politics would
triumph over Justice: and yet It Is
likely that more could be expected
from the Legislature than from the
bar association, simply because it Is
Independent of the court, while the
lawyers are not.
It Is Interesting to speculate what
the result would be, were judges more
frequently confronted with impeach
ment proceedings than they now are.
Would reverence for the courts be in
creased or diminished? At first
thought one answers "diminished," but
it is not certain that such would be the
outcome. Public knowledge that legis
lative action on the case of suspected
Judges had been prompt, and wculd
again be prompt, would perhaps
rather tend to Inspire confidence in the
courts. After all It Is suspicion that
does the mischief and impeachment
proceedings would certainly allay sus
picion and sheck calumnious rumors.
THT5 HYSTERICA!. PROHIBITIONIST.
The American Anti-Saloon League,
which has been the most effective
agency yet organized for combating
the evils of the liquor traffic, has de
cided in the future to ignore the Pro
hibitionists. Trickery on the part of
their lay! allies is charged for the de
feat in many places where victory
should have been won. The wisdom
of the Anti-Saloon League in seeking
a divorce from an organization which
has talked more and accomplished less
in the way of lessening or removing
the evil it was fighting than any other
organization In existence will be com
mended by all who are sufficiently
broad-minded to take an unbiased
view of the liquor problem.
In order to understand why the Pro
hibition" party, with half a century of
effort to its credit, remains practically
stationary, it is only necessary to
read some of the wild statements
which it puts forth with the apparent
expectation that the public will place
credence in them. For example, we
find In the circular issued from head
quarters the remarkable statement
that "there Is no longer a Republican
organization, but a great whisky party,
into, which the frightened leaders of
the drink curse are at- last rushing
pell-mell in the vain hope of stemming
the tide already setting against them."
Any Individual or party that would
stand sponsor for such an extrava
gant and untruthful statement can
never hope to attain success that
comes only through winning the con
fidence of the people. Hampered and
burdened with narrow-minded bigots,
who thus attempt to smite the only
friendly hand that has ever been ex
tended their cause by a political party,
is it any wonder that the sensible, sin
cere reformers in the cause object to
their presence in the anti-liquor
forces?
"President Taft is the Incarnation of
the liquor traffic," says this pre-election
announcement of the Prohibition
forces, but it falls to state wherein
the Democratic candidate or the Dem
ocratic party has ever shown any fa
vors to the Prohibition party. Some
one should get out an injunction to
prevent the Prohibition party from de
stroying what is left of its stunted self.
SOVRCE OF AIX WEALTH.
Dollar wheat, 60-cent corn and 50
centoats, together with all other ag
ricultural products selling at corre
spondingly high figures, have placed
this country in a wonderfully pros
perous condition. This situation Is in
a general way apparent to all, but it
is the stranger who is most forcibly
Impressed by It. There Is so much of
this prosperity in evidence throughout
the farming districts of the West that
it becomes in a manner commonplace,
and it Is only when our attention is
called to it by a foreigner that we be
gin to appreciate what it all means.
The London Pall Mall Gazette, in its
Issue of October 28, printed a very In
teresting interview with Major W.
Bridges Webb, one of the largest grain
merchants in the world, who had just
returned to London after a visit to
Portland and other business centers in
the United States, tn response to the
question as to the Impressions he re
ceived in the West, Major yt'ebb said:
I was Immrnsely struck by t ha pros
perity of the Western farmer. Grain and
fruit have made him rich. Ther ar of
course mines also. The whole -West is
highly prosperous and the Western farmer
Is. In my opinion, the power or the United
Btates.. t
, In his interview Major Webb
touched on the recent panic in this
country and on the recovery now un
der way, expressing the opinion that
"the trade of the country must follow
on the great prosperity of the Wrest."
It is difficult for the human mind to
grasp the huge proportions of the gilt
edge collateral which the "West" Is now
turning into money that in a golden
stream is rushing into all avenues of
trade and industry. Slsice this crop
first began moving to the consuming
centers the prices have shown but lit
tle change, "dollar wheat" being in
evidence almost continuously. Based
on yesterday's prices, the wheat, corn
and oats crops alone of the United
States have a marketable cash value
of more than 2, 750.000. 000. These
are figures before which the wonderful
aggregations of capital massed for in
dustrial purposes seem small and in
significant. And yet they represent
less than one-half of the value of the
products of our American farms for
1908.
Not in the most prosperous times
which this country has ever known
has there been a year when good crops
and high prices, appearing simultane
ously, have combined to place at the
command of the American farmers
such a vast amount of capital as is
now coming back to them in payment
for the crops. This money will not
be stored on the farm, but it win And
its way into circulation. It will be
used for purchasing new barns, resi
dences, fences, automobiles, pianos
and other luxuries and necessities, the
manufacture and sale of which will
bring prosperity to a long train of
other industries. In the face of such
astounding figures of material wealth,
it is not difficult to understand the
rapidity with which this country re
covered from the financial paralysis
which for a few weeks worked such
havoc throughout our entire commer
cial and industrial system.
The distinguished Briton, TTajor
Webb. Is right; the Western farmer is
"the power of the United States," and
the trade of the country must follow
this prosperity which springs from
the soil and accordingly cannot be
eliminated or more than temporarily
interrupted.
Ten days have passed since the news
of Taft's election sent stock prices up
with a rush, andr while there have
been occasional declines, due to profit
taking, the inherent strength of the
market was such that yesterday new
rwnrHa n-ere scored in some Of the in-
! dustrials, and the entire list displayed
remarkable strength. The most sat
isfactory feature of the situation is the
fact that an unusual!,- large share of
the business is in investment buying.
It is estimated that the value of se
curities changing hands during the
week following election, for exclusive
ly investment purposes, was more than
il50,000,000. This money has all been
off the market since the trouble of a
year ago, the uncertainty of the polit
ical outlook making its presence felt
before business had a chance to steady
Itself after the panic. Present prices
on some of the securities are high, but
with a realization of the present hopes
for the future they may seem cheap
six months hence.
The International Sailing-Ship Own
ers' Union held a meeting in London
a few days ago to discuss the reduc
tion of grain freights out of Pacific
Coast ports. It was decided to retain
the old rate of 27s 6d, and as a result
the tramp steamers will continue to
handle a large amount of the grain
surplus that is to go foreign. Mean
while idle sail tonnage bearing the
union brand Is lying at anchor at every
prominent port on the Pacific Coast,
waiting in vain for cargoes that will
not be obtainable at union rates. The
only sailing-ship owners who can show
a profit under union rules are the
Frenchmen, who sail around the world
in ballast, and collect sufficient bounty
from the Government to pay all ex
penses. Some of the members of the Union
Republican Club, of Portland, are said
to be for Chamberlain for Senator.
Very well; lot us have no Republican
party in Oregon. We shall have none,
on their principles, anyway. When
men can't maintain, a party principle
In the election of Senator, it is useless
to try to maintain a party. Let us
have no Republican party in Oregon.
A nerveless, invertebrate thing, with
no principles, is no party at all. With
the Democratic party let us all act
hereafter, and save the trouble of
party division. Count on The Orego
nlan as an agent of this general har
mony. Since Bryan's defeat there Is tran
quillity in the Philippine Islands; and
the American soldier is having an
easier time. Had Bryan been elected
every malcontent in the islands would
have imagined he saw an opportunity;
Just as the great Civil .War in the
United States was prolonged a year or
more, at immense cost of life, because
the Confederates believed the anti
war and reactionary forces of the
North would compel abandonment of
the war.
A effort Is being made to get the
dredge Chinook for work on the Co
lumbia bar. The excuse for the with
drawal of the craft was that her boil
ers were unfit for service. As the
craft was doing excellent work in
deepening the channel when she was
retired, it might be a good plan again
to place her in service. Working un-deJ-
a low steam pressure, the present
boilers might be serviceable for a
period sufficient to accomplish much
good.
According to the famous Kentucky
Klick, the "plastic minds of the ris
ing generation" which behold their
fathers at the Courthouse registering a
lie on the. party registration books, may
not abhor lying and deceit as old rules
used to teach young minds to do. Well,
something is the matter, surely.
But one fine day lika these. Just a
little while later, will cause the peo
ple to dress in their fine clothes and
send them to the hill-tops to see the
snow mountains. Only a few now care
for the snow peaks.
"If you don't like the Statement-One
law," cry its advocates, "obey it until
you repeal It." But It doesn't occur to
them that they should obey the Consti
tution of the United States until they
repeal that.
Now that the Anti-Saloon Leaguers
have made the Prohibitionists useless
In Portland, some of the dry citizens
ought to move to Curry County, where
Chafin failed to get a single vote for
President
Of course Jt was gratifying to Mr.
Bryan to carry his own precinct; but
if he really wants to show what his
neighbors think of him, let him run
for Road Supervisor.
The women that Mayor Lane drove
off Fourth street have gone to other
streets, but the railroad can't. Now
is the time 'for the Mayor to distin
guish himself.
Has it been effectually proved that
the harder a candidate for the Presi
dency stumps the country, the more
certainly the country will stump him?
The people of Oregon need a Repub
lican United States Senator and they
know it. Surely they ought to have
what they need.
The Mayor of Vancouver, B. C, who
ejected a warlike Councilman fro si the
city hall, showed 'em his muscle, too.
This fine weather is not uncommon
there is no more work now to be
done than usual: it only seems so.
That fellow in Lake County who
cast the lone vote for a Prohibition
President knows who he is.
The election being well over, nobody
has anything to do but work, look
happy and be prosperous.
1908.
" the: people rile."'
Bnt Shall Those, Who Luck 40,000 of
Belna- the People of OrfROB, Rnler
The Dallas Optimist.
The country at large answered Mr.
Ri-mn-a nnarlea as to the rule Of the
neonle in no uncertain terms last
week, and the rule of the people will
not be disturbed for another four
years.
And here in Oregon the answer was
in louder terms than in almost any
other state, perhaps the loudest of all.
Over two to one of the voters of Ore
gon decided that the people, and not
Bryan, should rule.
a Tit ,bt ionic at our Dredicament!
Last April we allowed the Democrats
by the basest methods to defeat Sena
tor Fulton, for the nomination, name
Cake, whom nobody wanted save those
who wished to slaughter him to beat
Fulton and then in June choose
Chamberlain!
And 'now a good many are shouting
that Chamberlain was the choice of
the voters of the state, and that if he
is not elected at the coming session
of the Legislature, "the people" will be
heard from in no uncertain terms.
But remember this: by "the people"
we always mean the majority, as In
the case of the People vs. Bryan. But
in the Oregon case "the people" are
simply a howling mob of Democrats.
They are not "the people." They only
imagine they are because they out
witted the voters last April, and again
in June.
To say that the Republican voters,
two-thirds of the people of Oregon,
wanted Chamberlain is a base calumny
on the intelligence of every Repub
lican in the state. He was "elected"
through the puerile persistency of the
Cakes and the dishonesty of the. Dem
ocrats. If ' Chamberlain is turned down by
the Republicans of the Legislature,
the voice of this vast majority listened
to and a Republican elected to the
Senate, then there will be a terrific
howl, which some wlll say comes from
"the people." But it will not. It will
only come from the Bryanized Dem
ocracy, and they lack 40,000 of being
"the people" in Oregon.
TRUEST DEMOCRACY ON EARTH.
Thus Doe. an Admiring Briton Desig
nate the Government of Englnn.1.
PORTLAND. Nov. ll.-To the Editor)
-The celebration of the b.nhday of M
ward VII of England. King of Great : Brit
ain and Ireland and of the British Do
minions beyond the Sea. Emperor of In
dia, by the British residents o Oregon
and their American cousins last Monday
evening was an excellent exhibition of
both natlon'al and international right feel
ing and of the existing good relationship
between the old mother country and her
oldest daughter-nation in North America.
Some Americans are apt to view mon
archy In any form as being of an auto
cratic end egotistic spirit of government.
This is not the case in Grea.t Britain s
form of government today. The King
reigns, but he does not rule. He wears
the crown of Britain and the imperial
robes of the British empire as being the
representative head of the nation and
of the empire. The term of royalty as
used in Great. Britain signifies, in dimen
sion of size and quality, a distinct dif
ference from what is ordinary. Great
Britain as the first civilized and Christian
discoverer and the first English-speaking
settler of America, the greatest naval
power in the world, as well as the largest
mercantile, financial and commercial en
terpriser on earth, Is truly a royal na
tion The British empire, containing over
one-fifth of the surface and over one-fifth
of the population of the world, is truly a
royal empire. ... , .
The King is royal because he Is loyal to
his people s wishes. They, as units of a
royal nation and of a royal empire, are
truly royalists because they are loyal to
their nation and to their representative
head. .
This view of the British nation and of
its King and units is one of the truest
democracy on earth. -When the King
uses the plural "we," it means the dem
ocratic "we" of the people, and not the
autocratic "we" of the Czar' of Russia.
It Is the "vox popull, vox Dei." the voice
of the people, the voice of God.
The King Is called in England the de
fender of the faith of the English church
of Christianity, because Christianity is
part of the law of England. He is equally,
through his being the representative head
of the empire, the defender of the many
religious faiths of the people of that
world-wide empire, tn that his govern
ment affords protection and full liberty
to every form of faith, whether it be
Christianity, Moslem, Brahmin, Buddhist,
Pursee or paganism hi any form.
The King has well represented his peo
ple's ardent desire for peace on earth, and
so has earned the noble and enviable title
of the peacemaker throughout Europe and
America. He is the only monarch on any
earthly throne who "has ever been called
the Prince of Peace.
Such is the general view of Great Brit
ain and her King which America and the
world of civilized humanity should take.
BRITOX.
"The Thlnklea South."
Harper's Weekly.
It Is a list of states where the voters
don't think. Grouped lonely as above, the
Bryan vote looks bad. Spread out on the
map. It looks still more sectional and
worse. It made Bryan's nomination pos
sible. Without assurance of the eight
score votes of the states that don't think,
even Bryan must have seen that Bryan
was impossible. The South must manage
somehow to demonstrate that It cannot
be delivered wholesale to any adventurer
who gets the Democratic nomination. It
need not be Republican, but it must be
rational.
Old Wine tn New Bottle.
Harper's Weekly.
A fool and his money are soon dis
covered. The proof of the pudding is in the
way you feel about an hour after
wards. Too much cooking spoils the balance
sheet.
Where there's smoke there Is not
always a fire policy.
A little widow is a dangerous thing.
An Englishman is a Frenchman's
poison.
The Editor Contribute.
Harvard Lampoon.
How dear to my heart are the old jokes,
the old Jokes!
I sit and read them with infinite bliss:
I chuckle with mirth when a candidate
hands me
A wonderful, witty two-liner like thlst
-What's a. college Ice?
Radcltrte girl, I suppose!"
Facetious, now, isn't it? Here is another.
That nearly killed Noah when uttered by
hem.
But, gracious! the candidates bring it round
often; .
The fact that it's ancient's no drawback
to them:
"How was the dog show?
Oh, a bowling success!"
Last week a bright freshman brought round
to this office
(I give you my word that this story is
,ru"l) . j
The following new and amazing conundrum.
Which I think Is wonderful. Reader, don't
you ?
"Is the Crimesown read?
No, it'a yellow!"
How dear to my heart are the old jokes,
the old jokes!
And oh! how they comfort the candidate
chaps.
They'll kill me with laughtei I'm sink
ing already;
And when I'm dead they'll b sorry,
Dtrhapa!
GUILTY OF VANDALISM, SOT ARSON
Halloween Featlvltle of Riotous TJnl
veralty of Vahlnrton Student.
UXIVERSITr STATION". Seattle,
Wash, Nov. 12. (To the Editor.) The
six-decker leading story of The Ore
gonlan of Monday, November 2. pur
porting to describe the Halloween ac
tivities of the students of the Univer
sity of Washington, headed. "Students
Burn Kane in Effigy. Revolt at the
University of Washington, Burn Furni
ture in Big Bonfire," eTc, etc., has just
now been brought to my attention. Jus
tice to tho sttuation prompts mo to ask
of you sufficient space to correct some
misstatements contained therein.
E'irst, President Kane was not burned
In effigy, nor was' anyone else; second
ly, there was no revolt at Washington;
third, there was no furniture (desk or
otherwise) burned on a big bonfire (or
in any other manner); fourth, no facul
ty members "against whom tlie stu
dents apparently held pet aversions,"
were singled out for attack, nor were
any other faculty members attacked;
fifth, no "warnings" were directed
against the faculty to "keep their
hands off of student social affairs";
(these warnings were confined to mat
ters of the wearing of beards and in
dulging in bowling-alley "dissipation."
and homo entertainment): sixth, as far
as is known to the University author
ities, no detective service was ever
thought of, as the leaders of the pranks
have been known to the faculty since
the morning of the perpetration; sev
enth, no request has at any time been
made by upper-classmen to have the
"faculty restore order to a disorgan
ized student body," as the student body
at Washington has never been better
organized nor in better spirit.
So much for denials.' Now as to
statement of facts. I have in my desk
the written statement of a majority of
the "marauders," containing their
signed apology and their promise to
make good, all monetary damage. (The
faculty Is yet dealing with those who
have as yet neglected to sign up.) The
damages have been assessed at $10. $4
of which is .for a damaged manuscript
which will have to be rewritten. As it
was raining on the Sunday morning In
question, I personally took charge of
reinstating the furniture that had been
removed the night before, and hence
consider that I am qualified to state
what was really done. A bonfire, in
fact two of them, had bten built on .the
athletic field , about midnight, and a
tug-of-war and "moonlight football"
game were scheduled. The promoters
of the games did not arrive as per
schedule, and the students went roam
ing for their Halloween pranks. The
idea was suggested of moving the 'his
tory building" (a 20x40 shack 10 feet
high), around on the front lawn, biit
the students had not reckoned with
some steam pipes that had just been
connected up. They, therefore, proceed
ed to carry out the chairs and desks
and other effects and stacked them in
front of the building. The portable
blackboard, tacked to the wall, was re
moved, and other minor depredations
committed, which I am in no way try
ing to excuse. They also removed en
old flat-top desk from the 'office of the
head chemist, from another shack, but
exercised all carej possible to remove
all glassware and- other effects from
the desk and place them out of harm's
way. The billposters were, as some one
has called them, "an inane piank" at
best, but not one word on them in real
ity reflected one word of personal feel
ing toward any member of the faculty.
Hence, it would seem that The Ore
gontan's story has done the University
of Washington and its students a con
siderable injustice which, late as it is,
should be as far as possible repaired.
The students who participated in the
affair were, many of them, upper-classmen,
and among them are leading stu
dents of tho University in all that ordi
narily makes for its best interests.
Many of them' are sons of the best
families of the state, and hardly de
serve the severe reprobation given
them by these reports. I would not
be misunderstood as apologizing for or
condoning any vandalism because of its
inception on a college campus, but
branding mischief, reprehensible as it
often may be, as' "riot and arson" is
not helping out the 'situation.
HERBERT T. CONDON.
Secretary Faculty, University of Wash
ington. GAINES SPOKE AGAINST SLAVERY
Recollections of a Speech Made at Oak
land, Or., in 1855.
SALEM, Or., Nov. 9. (To the Editor.)
I have read with interest your editorial
in The Oregon ian of today, under the cap
tion of "The Slavery Question in Oregon."
Reference is frequently made to the arti
cle of Hon. T. W. Davenport- in the Quar
terly of the Oregon Historical Society.
There appear to bo some points in the
history of the events of that question
that were not fully developed; or at least
so it seems to me.
I might say here that my people were
formerly Virginians and Whigs. They
had freed their slaves when they moved
North and West. In 1865 I lived with my
parents near Oakland Or., and was 16
years of age; had Just read the life of
Isaac T. Hopper, and was a reader of the
New York Tribune, and, therefore, well
rooted in my anti-slavery beliefs. Some
time in the Summer of 1855, General Jo
seph Lane and Colonel John P. Gaines,
the candidates for Congrees from Oregon,
addressed the citizens near Oakland in a
joint discussion of the political issues
pending at that time. The meeting was
held about one mile below where the
present town of Oakland Is located, In an
oak grove, and the slavery issue formed
a conspicuous part of the addresses.
Colonel Gaines was the first speaker and,
to my mind, made much the best speech.
Several of his statements and stories are
well remembered to this day. Upon the
slavery question, he stated Jhat he was
from a slave state and was well acquaint
ed with the good and evil of the institu
tion, and" that he wanted none of it here
fcn Orejron; he could and preferred to do
his own work or have it done by free
labor. His speech surely indicated that
he was anti-slavery for Oregon, at least.
W. H. BYARS.
Exit the Publican.
Providence Journal. ;
The Journal voters' directory again
this year reveals the interesting fact
that neither the Republican nor the
Democratic party his nominated for
either branch of the City Council a
man who makes his living from the
liquor business. Is there any other
city of 200,003 population in the United
States where neither party has nomi
nated a brewer, saloon-keeper, or bar1
tender for public office? For several
years at least this has been true In
this city.
The Modern Knight.
Ned 'Cherry in Baltimore Star.
In days of yore men rode to war
In panoply of steel:
Today we ride or woe betide
No matter how we feel.
It's 90 miles or more.
We have three days to score.
When we get through
We're black and blue
And satisfied but sore;
But naught we' care save we get there.
And do the stunt for fair.
'We look askance at the ambulance.
Inviting sweet repose.
We shake our head and plunge anead.
For there our leader goes:
For we must ride, and ride,
No matter what betide.
Till our strenuous chief
(4ives us relief
We'll keep right by his side.
So what care we for these days three
M'e'11 do! We'll dare!. or die!
Genernt DlMoon to Accept the
Choice of Taft In Phllonophle Spirit.
Charleston (S. C.) Evening Post.
William H. Taft is. perhaps, a Mc
Klnleyized Roosevelt or a Rooseveltian
McKlnley, as you may choose. He has
the enterprise of Roosevelt and the
mode of McKlnley. Possibly the com
posite may be an ideal President. It
it undoubtedly because of the blend of
radicalism and conservatism he scorns
to present that Mr. Taft has been able
to triumph over Mr. Bryan.
A Conscienceless Nation.
Florida Times-Union.
The Democrats made an appeal to
the conscience of the American people
and found the American people did not
have any conscience.
Business Prejudice tar Tuft.
Knoxville Sentinel.
The election's result we attribute to
the unjust and unreasoning prejudice
the business men and capitalists of the
country, especially of the East, have
against Mr. Bryan.
Bryan Republic' - Ornament.
Memphis (Tenn.) News-Scimitar.
The result may mean that Mr. Bryan
shall never adorn official station. It
cannot, however, prevent him from be
ing in his role as a private citizen the
Republic's greatest ornament.
"A Man of Stability
Wilmington (Del.) News.
The people can be depended upon- to
stand for their own interests. They
have made it manifest that they real
ized that more was to be secured
through the election of a man of sta
bility, and possessed of a fair and Ju
dicial mind, than there was to be se
cured by the election of a man who
shifts his views with the wind and
who lacks the most vital element
requisite in a statesman.
Southerner Voted for Taft.
Little Rock (Ark.) Gazette.
You could go into any Southern city
and find men of the old Southern
stock, men born of Democratic parents
and reared amid Democratic associa
tions, the fathers of many such men
having" been Confederate soldiers, who
would not hesitate to tell you that
they intended to vote for Taft. Why?
Because these men are In business, and
they believe their business will pros
per better under Taft than under
Bryan.
Where T
Columbia (S. C.) State.
In viewing the scattering returns
that show Republican strength In al
most every quarter, we must ask
whether the people wish to rule?
Where is the revolt by the labor vote?
Where were the unemployed hosts?
Where the myriad victims of panic?
Where the revolters against bossism?
Where the opponents of the trusts?
Where those that rebel against the
ownership of the Government by a
few great corporations?
Prophesied Taft' Election.
Chattanooga News.
It has been our belief for a month
that Mr. Taft would be elected. At no
time since the campaign opened with
Bryan and Taft on the stump have we
believed that it was posssible for Mr.
Bryan to win. The country is slowly
recovering from the panic of last Fill.
This recovery has been accomplished
under Republican Administration, and
whether there Is anything in it or not,
the people had reached the conclusion
that it would bo best to not change
policies.
No Vindication of RnoaeveU.
Lexington (Ky.) Herald.
The unprejudiced observer who is
not concerned for Mr. Roosevelt's repu
tation or his place In history will see
little in the present situation that can
be regarded as an approval of the
Roosevelt ideas. In the East, where
Judge Taft was regarded as more con
servative than Mr. Roosevelt, as "a
safer man" from the standpoint of the
trust magnate, he has gained over the
Roosevelt vote of four years ago. In
the West, where there has been dis
trust as to his liberal pretensions, he
has sustained serious losses.
Will .Not Rock the Boat.
Louisville (Ky.) Times.
By temperament Mr. Taft Is one
averse to the practice of rocking the
boat. He Is not by nature or by prac-
tice an agitator. The people evident- '
ly were in a mood to say, "Let us
alone." They felt that under Mr. Taft
the country would be little disturbed
by drastic' policies or important leg
islation. They wanted a rest. Mr.
Roosevelt was the source of that feel
ing. Mr. Bryan's promise of sound re
forms they construed as a pledge that
might prolong the disturbances of the
Roosevelt Administration. And so for
a rest they chose Taft.
The Shallow Nebrasknn.
Nashville Banner.
There were developed in the long
and arduous pre-election campaign no
deep-seated and compelling reasons to
justify a calm and unbiased conviction
that the major public sentiment of the
country was prepared to reverse Itself
In Mr. Bryan's favor. On tho other
hand, the campaign, as conducted by
the Nebraskan, while studiously avoid
ing some of his formerly declared rad
ical policies, and measurably catering
in some respects to the conservative
element In his party, was nevertheless
In the main an appeal to radical senti
ment and a rather shallow discussion
of matters from an expediency point
of. view.
Democracy's Four lasuea.
Dallas (Tex.) News.
On four issues the Democrats stood
for policies that should have appealed
strongly to the good sense of the peo
ple. They stood for economy as
against extravagance in . public
expenditures; for tariff reform as
against a stand-pattery that moved tho
Republican candidate to content him
self with declaring for "a higher duty
on pottery"; for a change of adminis
tration from the party in power, which
had been in power quite long enough;
for a public service above that sort
of reproach which has fallen upon the
Senate of the Nation because of the
close and secret connection of its mem- '
bers to the "interests."
Whether all these issues have been
emphasized as strongly as they should
have been is a question that can now
be considered without affecting the
party's chance to win. As the New
sees it, they certainly have not.
Now There Will Be Trouble.
Daliy Astorian.
Within the next 30 days the Morn
ing Astorian proposes to put it up
to Republican Astoria, squarely and ..V
honestly, to take back the govern-, f
ment of this city into the hands of the
dominant party, or hoid its peace and
take its medicine In such doses aa the
"boss" shall prescribe it. And we warn
Republicans, here and now, that thero
will be no palatable medicines nor
minor doses, if they fail to acquire,
with their 500 majority, the complete
control of the situation. The rule of
the "boss" falls before this demand,
and this is the demand we are making
in the name of the Republicans of this
city.
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