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REFORM SLOGAN OF DR. SMITH DERIOEO Oldtimers Say Pendleton Ran Wide Open During His Term . of Office as Mayor. CITY RECORDS ARE QUOTED Gamblers and Inmates or Disorderly Mouses Shown to Have raid MontlUy Assessment, Closing Only When Grand Jury Sat. PENDLETOX, May 7. (Special.) tr. Smith's campaign assertion that he Inaugurated a reform administration while Mayor of Pendleton is received here with derision, broad grins and sly winks of significance by all the old timers whose memory goes back to the inajruraiLy regime. sy official proor on record at the City Hall, by the clear recollection of every resident .. lieie at xne lime and by even the reluctant admission of Dr. Smith's closest Pendleton friends, there is not a scintilla of evidence showing where . he ever exerted himself in changing conditions, where he ever accomplished a diminishing of vice, where he ever made Pendleton different from what it was in general conditions, or where anything at-all was done to be no ticed by the people, until his successor. Judge Hailey, took office, ana when Judge Hailey was succeeded by Judge Fee. A number of old-time residents have been Interviewed to get an impartial opinion on this matter, but all say the same. None knows anything of his 'reform administration," and few real ly believe that Dr. Smith even believes himself in saying it. Authorities Are Xamed. Among some of the well-known pio neer residents who are quoted is Mayor Matlock, serving his second term, and a Democrat, also former Circuit Judge Lowell, ex-Judge Fee and R. L. Oliver, a prominent pioneer. Dozens of other statements can be adduced. Mayor Matlock says: "It seems a Pity that Dr. Smith should be getting oft! so wrong this way, apparently in trying to get the women's vote and support as a reformer by posing as a reform Mayor of Pendleton. When he was Mayor. Pendleton was just like other towns. It was running wide open and gambling was going on full swing. When the tip would be given out that the grand jury was coming the places would csole on Sunday, the Kamblers would, close up for the time and the grand jurors would find every thing tine and dandy. "As Mayor of Pendleton, Dr. Smith's administration was no better than any other administration of those days, and Pendleton had nothing in the re form line until Tom Hailey became Mayor. Pendleton today is running strict lines of law observance in any old-timer here will tell you mat noining of the kind prevailed n iien j-t. smith was Mayor." Krontler Spirit Prevalent. Judge Lowell. one of the best known pioneer attorneys of this part viesun. iranKiy states that he can recall nothing to mark Dr. Smith's ad ministration as Mayor with reform ef fort. He says: "Pendleton in those days was like all frontier towns of nearly 20 years ago. 1 have lived here for about 23 years and remember the time clearly rnough. The saloons were running 20 hours a. day, seven days a. week, when Dr. Smith was Mayor. If they closed at all, it was of their own volition to take a rest, and not from compulsion. Gambling was going on here as it was in other towns, and I did not hear of any effort being made to put a stop to It. The town had a restricted dis trict and the women paid their regular monthly fine, which ,of course, was a left-handed way of taxing them. "There was no reform of any kind that I can recall until JudsrA TTniiov was elected. He stopped the gambling. jib was rouoweu later by Judge Fee, who followed the reform policy of his predecessor. That was the first step toward reform in Pendleton, and noth ing of the kind happened when Dr. Smith was Mayor." Reforms Evd ol." R. L. Oliver, pioneer resident of Pen- Aims to recau any inauguration of reform during the tenure of office as Mayor by Dr. Smith in 1898. Mr. Oliver said: - ...... ...... .uitea cnuuu 10 re member far before Dr. Smith was Mayor oi i-enaieton, and l remember when he was Jn office. Things went on then just the same as usual, without any changes or refgxraht any one could notice. If there was any inauguration of reform during the Dr. Smith admin istration, I did not see it." Judge Fee served as Mayor shortly .ifter Judge Hailey's administration. His own administration is known to have included certain reforms, and the first reforms of Pendleton's city gov ernment are associated with Mayors Hailey and Fee and not with Dr. Smith's tenure of office. Judge Fee says, in part: "I cannot recall Dr. Smith's term of office as Mayor as a reform adminis tration: there was no change that I can remember. The only change in the earlier days came when Hailev was in office. He stopped gambling. The town ran about as usual during Dr. Smith's administration, so far as my memory goes." Major Lee Moorehouse, pioneer, for mer Indian Agent and rancher, cor roborates the preceding statements from his memory, while adding that al though he was on his ranch most of the time, he was in touch with city affairs in Pendleton, but fails to remember that Dr. Smith's administration con tained any reforms. System of T-'inea Shown. But these matters are not wholly the recollections of old-timers, nor are they based upon newspaper files. They are shown by the police court records during the year Dr. Smith was Mayor of Pendleton. These records are avail able for inspection by anybody in this city and moreover they were kept by a City Recorder who was and is a staunch Democrat. A careful examination of the police court records reveals the fact that Dr C. J. Smith held the office of Mayor from January, 1S9S. until January, 1SD9. His record along the line of law enforcement is as follows: January. 189$ 13 women fined for living in disorderly houses. None for gambling. February, 1S98 17 women fined for living in disorderly houses: three fined lo each for gambling. March. 1S98 IT women fined 3 each Tor living in disorderly houses; three men fined J 10 for gambling. April. -898 18 women fined $5 each .for living in disorderly houses: four men fined J12.50 each for gambling. May. 1S9818 women fined 5 each for living in disorderly houses: four men fined $12.So each for gambling. June 189810 women fined J5 each for living in disorderly houses: two "; uuea nt.au each for gambling THE MORXIXG OREGOXIAN, FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1914. tor living in disorderly houses; five men fined S12.n0 mrh 1nr Fimhlin August. 1898 17 women fined S5 each for liyin gin disorderly houses; four men fined $12.50 each for gambling. September, 1898 13 women fined $5 eacn tor living in disorderly houses five men fined S1S.50 each for gam- wiiilB. October . 1898 13 women fined $5 cacn ior living In disorderly houses three men fined $12.50 each for gambling. November, 1898 14 women fined 5 each for living in disorderly houses.- niieu lot gamoiing. December, 1898 13 women fined 5 tacn ror living in dosorderly houses none fined for gambling. in an editorial nrinlal I i. . .1 . - twmguL, Hie Pendleton Evening Tribune scores the wicuus ui jr. onuin ior attempting to make capital out of his administration as Mayor of Pendleton 9r1H rfi.... that if he is defeated the blame will resi entirely upon them. The Tribune -ewevvs iuuy me Pendleton situation n loaa ana says: , Friends Are Blamed. evening xrinune sounded a , . e - incuuif or ur . . 1 1 1 j i. n several wppks u . -1 -" " " Jayor or Pendleton, which commenced on the fir r t.. 1898. and terminiiattul r. n i ; . j ' . hsj. .is rool friends, how eVer. bV inRirincr Wl.. . - - - i l iiis reuora aJ Mayor was an enviable one; that he inaugurated rfrmo . i i .. . . i . . -- -' 1.011 uiALcu in Sena his name thundering down the ages as , '""'"S " Benighted people .u ul OI lne wilderness, leav ing Strewn nlnno- i i , ' . : wiuunjum marcn of law enforcement the parched bones , I saioon men and Mary Magdalens. made It necessary for the -- n, majce public a true report, taken from the Police rt 'T or nat was actually done during the one-year term as Mayor of Pendleton by the now Demo- ""uc candidate for Governor of this 7 iacls are not published in the interest of any other candidate tor the nomination for Governor, Dem ocrat . or Republican .but because w feel it a duty, unpleasant as it is, to let the people know that the newspapers and friends of Dr. Smith who are at tempting to mislead the people by claiming that he made war on the social evil, closed the saloons and put a. ban on open gambling while Mayor without ny' ,U abso,utely false and without any foundation of truth 'John Hailey, Jr., yas City Recorder during the year Dr. Smith was Mayor and the records seem to have been ?hICi y6,1?t- They bo fou"d at the City Hall and examined by anyone Interested. Why a local paper should depend upon Its files instead of the Police Court records, carefully kept by so good a. Vt o d rw--i D i , . -1 , . - -Mxi. nauey, in- dlcates a desire on its part to throw " "'e eyes or me voters of this county. Gamblers' Assessment Raised. "The Marv AT ., 1 .... . . ... .. .i wcie until o each the first month t-it- oi. 2 LOYAL TO PARTY Republican Candidates Turn Down Prohibition Offer. BOTH SEEK RE-ELECTION F. J. Miller, of State Railroad Com mission, and J . H. ' 1etvis, Engi neer, Say They Will Xot Make Race Unless for Own Party. Saturday The Last Day of T h 1 s Of lished precedent. This violation of the 'i"weu eacn montn during the 12 months he was Mayor, and in addition to this flagrant abuse of his authority as Mayor, the unfortunate women were subjected to a monthly examination iT. ''y111011 they were charged a. feel in which the Mayor and other doctors of "The monthly fines imnosed nWnn mblers who oneratert COMMISSION DECIDES AGAISiSX gamDiers who operated games of chance were increased from 10 a month to $12.30 under Dr. Smith's ad ministration. The first month Mayor Smith was in office the records show lu gamDiers failed to pay their reg ular monthly assessment, but the next month and every month thereafter un til November, two months before the end of his term, they were regularly fined for operating gambling dens. In those days it was customary to close down gambling a few weeks before, the grand jury met and to couse it to re main closed until after its adjourn ment, but it frequently happened that members of the grand jury lost large sums of money while in attendance at such session. For 35 years, one old timer says, before Dr. Smith was elect ed Mayor, it was the custom to place the lid tight on gambling a few days before the grand Jury convened as a mark of respect to that august body. It was always a bore to many of the members who suffered from ennui dur ing their stay In the city without an opportunity to play "double out" or place a small bet on the "eagle bird" or "singleO." So Change Seen. "No change in the old custom of handling the evils with which all cities are beset took place in, Pendleton until three years after Dr. Smith was de feated for re-election. T. G. Hailey, a Democrat, who succeeded Dr. Vincent, made an attempt to change - the old order of things, but it was not until Judge Fee was elected that the saloon received its firt inu n,hA voked the liquor license of a saloon keeper ior violation of a city ordi nance. It is stated on good authority that the first saloonman in the state to suffer revocation of his license dates back to the time Judge Fee was Mayor. "If Dr. Smith is defeated for the nomination he seeks, the blame will rest entirely upon those who hoped to make capital out of his administration of the city affairs of Pendleton during the year 1898. It is absolutely a blank so far as law enforcement is concerned. It, in no respect, indicates that a man of reform ideas was at the helm. The records show a shameful disregard of the law, evasion of his oath of office the tactics of an artful dodger, a. trim mer in Politics, a man f ........;.. - on the most friendly terms with the good and bad. SEATTLE STRIKE SETTLED Teamsters to Get Better Pav hnl Cnion Will Xot Be llecognized. SRATTTR TW.ir 1 Tl ...-! " J Alio oui&C Ul L I1C teamsters for higher wages and recog- " ' ' mo union. Begun last July STlH whllh .m,..A4 . 1. i . .. . WIO employment or 45 extra. nnMisimAn . I. i . . . ... " vj ouuuiiug vi sev eral men and the destruction of thous- uuLia.ru wortn or harness, has been ended by arbitration. The Unlnn ia ti .AAnn.tj ... . - - .vusiiicu, uui me men get better wages and the right to wear their Union buttons. It is expected that all the Union teamsters will obtain employment, ex cept a few who were convicted of de stroying property. Officers of the American Federation of Labor sought I a settlement last November during the I annual convention of that body, but the Seattle Employers' Association pre vented an agreement. Centralia Switchman Disappears. SALEM". Or.. Mnv 7. rsnioi Frank J. Miller, chairman ot the State Railroad Commission, and .Tohn Vr Lewis, State Engineer, announced to day that their nominations by the Pro hibition party were entirely unsought and that if defeated for the Repub lican nominations they would not seek the offices as Prohibition nsrtv nr.. inees. lint h n ro mnHMai.a election. Both say they are staunch Republicans and vnitu , t v. t ). . doing anything to injure the chances or election of any person who might defeat them foi. thn i;ni.hn,.n- - .. indorsement. 1 am arrflifthlv Bnm.iD.j '- .... . ..... ... oaiu .u i . Lewis. in rpci.ivo V. p.nhiKi,i.- . dorsement for State Engineer, which came to me entirely unsolicited and without pledge that I run If defeated in the Republican primaries. I am a Republican and hAliavA in .ni.iui.; but if defeated in the Republican pri maries on May 15 I will not be a can- aiaate on me Prohibition ticket." Mr. Miller made the fniinwinr "I am and alwavs hava haon a ta publican. I have in th nasi k nn ored with nomination and election, both i-t-t: Denaior ana tailroad Commis sioner, as a Rpnilhlir.nn .. .1 T - - . am UU IV asking the Rpnnhliiun rr . ' . m . t-" . J .u. 113- uuimiia Lion. If the nartv to vhlrli T nainn. .1 not see fit to renominate me my hearty and loyel support will be given to the nominee of my party and I will unhes- .iuiijr uraiae tne ironioitlon nomi nation. If I receive ;he Republican nomination I will Er.tfniw r.. - d J L indorsement n r the T i v.t . ; . j , . - ' iiariy u nuuiuer 8umi citizens who honor " tueir connaence. "No n 1 P fi :r d wan aarst r MA v.. . i- iiv.niuii.ion party, regardless of any action by my own party, as I am in- lurmeo. was asKed of certain candidates Miiva. T-v. ; .. "' LiJL of the law. but Mayor Smith saw , "I10' 0t?el oKic- While thoroughly ing wrong in foJowInK iJ olT JSl irSn?. 1" -h0n0r. sl,own me- y first duty is to support the successful nominee of mv nartv whna..A- v. IMPORTANT CASE ENDED WATER COMPANY RULES. Body Condemns na Unreasonable Con ditions Imposed by Public Serv ice Corporation. SALEM. Or TvTa v 1 ia ii t . . J vupctiai. ah deciding the controversy between Mary "' ' imcr ana otners against the Douglas County Light & Water Com pany of Roseburer. th Ktnt. Poti. j Commission today ruled on .vcrsi points of interest to natrons nr t,,,km utility companies in connection with disputed bills and cases where the same company is supplying light and water, or other kinds of snrvir. tn. same consumer. The plaintiff alleged that her elec tric service had hn i of her failure to pay a water bill that was in dispute. The Commission de clares it "does not recognize as a rea sonable regulation the practice of dis continuing the supply of product by a Utility tO a Customer whr. ........ , , ers payment for future service, pending uci.ciiiuiiai.ion oi a dispute between the utility and the consumer." The Commission hvahtIb. av its disapproval of "requiring payment u . tti 1 La' (1 t I'M 1 I ir nnA r.ase - -' as a condition precedent to the furnish ing of another cIarr nf v, . . . . sam utility." The same rule annlies ul i a tun samf f () iyi n 'i n .r ... .. i ..v. .. electricity and gas, orpower and light, or any other two classes of utilitios The Commission finds that the prac tice of aggreeratins- a nnmK c connected biii I H i n i. win, . cupancies, or tenants, through one serv lve and meter, under a single minimum, is not a reasonable requirement of a water company, and contrnt-v tn ,- company's DUblisbed ratni i i 1. . The decision likewise pnndomn. supplying of a customer at a flat rate when the tariff provides only for metered -service. The hearing of the case at Roseburg was informal and th rnmnt..4 1 made no order, retaining jurisdiction for the purpose of makinc- n case its recommendatlonn o promptly complied with. Albany Man Dies at 8 7. ALBANY. Or.. Mav 7 George H Hnw ; ,i . , . ....... H L .1 L J .1 1 1 ri County for 28 years, died at his home here yesterday. Mr. Howe Is mirvlv.H z CENTBiT.Ti - cial.) Special agents of the Northern looking ior Allen McGregor a switchman, who started a J15.000 per sonal ininrv anit oco;n- . v. :, . -rf - --. e.a.i,,i. uic muroaa company in the Lewis County Superior . uui. who recently disappeared. He was found one evening lying be side the trirb i Tj . - o.uu wtiu ii e had fallen from the top of a. car when w. nana n Ola wrcni'h Imtca Tt.. i i was pried off. it is said. T. sr. C. A. Contract Is Let. LA P.u A vnt' r . A r . . . ' ispecial.) Hulme & Spaeth, of La Grande, were th successful bidders on the contract for the plumbing and heating ot the MWJ- M- C A. building which is being erected here. The first real work was done today and the were completed this evening. The main July. 1898-15 women f3 " 7 "I.ttle building will be of brick Hat dissatis faction is an unknown thing to men who wear the Go r do n Hat Mighty Sale Hart Schaffner & Marx Good Clothes These Prices Quoted Are Absolutely Genuine Reductions Remember Friday and Saturday Positively Final $20 H. S. & M. Suits at $14.85 $25 H. S. & M. Suits at $19.85 $30 H. S, & M. Suits at $24.85 $35 H. S.& M. Suits at $27.50 opTrlcM Hart Schaffner & Marx All Blue, Black, Full Dress and Tuxedo Suits Included. Rousing Furnishing- Goods Specials Shirts lffl F?briC "i8' Bft Cufs' detach?d Uar to match; also stiff Special aD1 Slzes- $1.05 25c Tour-in-Hand Wash Ties, in ve'ry" "neat" stripes'and" plain "effects A tog assortment of patterns to select from. Special at 20? Qq $1.00 Silk lisle Underwear, in pink and white only ;" shirt with W or short sleeves, rlrawere n fu ii. t iU "" im iraj or . . - --' . ' "-"ij1"- just me unaerwuar lor rrr" , I uu immediate wear. Special at, garment. Sam'l The Men's Shop for Quality and Service For men, women and chil dren. Sold regularly at $1 a box of 4 pairs; guaran teed to wear four months without holes; colors in black and tan for women, black for children, all col ors for men. Spe- Or cial at, per box OOC -Mall Orders Rosenblatt & Co. Northwest Corner Third and Morrison G. W. Hnwft njr. t. Tw Cb?" ln eooa condition when over, aeain ric,h,i s...,. .71 x umy. receivea here, however; Receipts con- wheels. "a uuue neavy. i i "EGGS IS EGGS," SAYS RULE Oriental Product -Must Bear Lahpl Defining Origin. SEATTI.R M5 Tk. iT.-..j r.. - . j . ' " fiuieu states Department of Agriculture has ordered that hereafter all cases of Chinese ejrfrs shall be branded "produce of China" Heretofore they have been l.h.iio'j fresh pullets." Chinese esrizrs are flmniu. u , ... - .uau oiana am, a.iiu reauuy pass fi nnll.t Car Overturns and Three Hurt. LA GRANDE. Or., May 7. (Special.) Merton Davis is today suffering from a broken right leg. Miss Rita uale bodily bruises and a x- hind her ear, and Miss Agnes Bedeller . taceraiea lace at their homes in Ijnion today, as the result of the overturning of an automobile in which they were riding with Miss Helena Ja cobs, who was driving, and who not hurt. Onlookera utt. traveling about LEWISTON VOTES BONDS K District Determines to Build Miles or Hard Surface. Ten LEWISTON, Idaho. May 7. (SDeoial i "It is our intention to leave no turn unstoned." said R. I sheppard today at a meetin&r of thn cnnH i . . .. . of the Lewiston Commercial Club. "v are greatly elated over thA people of L.ewlston Orch maxing ten miles of trunk roads. This acretcn or tract will be one of the con necting links of the Idaho state high way to come from Grangeville to Lew iston and which will be extended on to the Washington state highway " Tnis is probably the first hard-surface pavement to be laid in any rural district in the states of Oregon, Wash ington or Idaho. Cheese Production at High Point. EXCLUSITE AGENTS FOB GORDON BATS It Impossible to make up a first-class suit of clothes for less than You have the selection of our entire stock at the above price. Our regular prices were up to $5(X Highest grade of woolens. The very latest in all the different weaves. Remember any suit m our house to your order today or tomorrow . . $28 Portland I ailorin Co. Morrison street. Near Sixth Portland Hotel Block HENRY W. JACOBSON, Manager. Ot MATTER 111 1 236 Washington Street I I