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My dear ftflr. Hanley:
In June when I came to Oregon for
my annual nature romp they told me
that you were running for the Senate.
"He will win, of course."
"Win!" said they "they" are my
Big Business friends, Oregon's bankers,
railroad officials , newspaper owners,
managers, editors "hell be the joke of
the campaign."
"Joke, William Hanley of Oregon a
joke in Oregon?" and each of "they"
hastened to add: "Merely a political
joke. Bill Hanley personally is all
right; there is not a man in the state
who stands better with the people of
Oregon as a business man, citizen,
doer, man, than 'the sage of Harney,
but as United States Senatorial timber "
I was puzzled, and I laid down my
perplexities to one of my old penman
friends, a far-seeing student of public
- affairs, a man whose pen gallops abreast
the present hurdling times in the big
dailies and magazines of the Bast as
well as of the West.
He laughed. "I am surprised you
should be puzzled. You know Bill Han
ley and you know Big Business, the
Oregon end as well as the eastern end.
Well, there's your answer. Then, too,
you know the decision of Big Business
to make its last ditch stand at the com
ing election. You know that the word
has been flung west, south, everywhere
in these United States, to regain control
of the United States Senate, regain con
trol at any cost, and balk President
Wilson's death - to - special - privilege-reforms,
and there again you have your
answer.
"Think a bit and you will comprehend
that Bill Hanley is the last man in
Oregon that the powers you have named,
The System, want in the United States
Senate in these fidgety times, so we
public opinion shapers have all had our
orders:
" 'Play up Chamberlain and Booth to
the limit but keep the underground
knocker pounding Steadily 'Bill Han
leyV'only a Senatorial joke.' "
Since then I have been told, if once,
at least fifty times that Bill Hanley was
the Senatorial campaign joke, always by
the same brand of people, never by the
earnest, honest, times-distrusting voter
who is lying awake nights wondering
what the present unrest clouds portend
never by the poor devil Oregon family
head whose every body, mind and soul
effort is jacked to the breaking point in
an endeavor to make his yearly income
meet his annual living cost
Do you know, Mr. Hanley, that you
ought to be proud of the title, "The
Joke," in this campaign, the result
of which is to have a vital bearing on
the people of Oregon's, the people of
America's, affairs?
In my researches and public work I
have run across many of our country
men who at the beginning of their
public careers were adorned with the
title, "The Joke."
"You're a joke," was The System of
his day's answer when Abraham Lincoln
asked the privilege of leading his be
wildered countrymen back from chaos
to everlasting stability. Then the mar
tyred emancipator's "gaunt figure,"
There is unrest, fear-for-the-future
abroad in the land north, east, south,
west.
There is idleness, poverty, misery as
never before.
Anyone who speaks to the contrary
speaks falsely, for the evidence is every
where. The labor horrors of New Jersey,
Virginia, Massachusetts, Michigan, Colo
rado, California, Illinois, and elsewhere,
the impeachment of the governor of the
Empire State, the impeachment of fed
eral and state judges in Pennsylvania
and other states, the impeachment of
United States Senators and Congress
men, the exposure of the Standard
Oil's buying of Senators and Congress
men and the Sugar Trust's continuous
and contemptuous robbery of the United
States government; the wholesale cor
ruption of the ballot box, the in-the-day-light
murders of officials and private
citizens of our largest cities and the
brazen display of vicious and degrading
beastly immorality by our new-made dol
lar royalty, are un-put-downable proof,
not only of the country's condition, but
'of the fact that never before in the
country's history has a like condition
existed.
Everywhere, in every walk of Ameri-
can life, the evidence is overwhelmingly
that the United States is sick, danger
ously sick.
(I am not talking of the condition
brought on by the European war, I am
dealing only with the condition which
was with us before the European war
was dreamed of.)
This sickness was not germinated in
the acts of the Wilson Democratic ad
tninistration; it was with us before
Wilson and his Democratic Congress
were elected.
Whoever states to the contrary, states
falsely.
Bad as is the nation's present sick
ness, it would be worse if the govern
ment were still in the custodv of the
administratis which preceded Wilson's-,
Wilson and his Democratic administra
tion have helped stay the rapidly in
creasing sickness of the nation which
existed when the Wilson Democratic
administration took the helm from the
aid Republican regime.
The truth of the above cannot suc
ressfully be denied- The underground
Evidence is overwhelming to those who
have had, and still have, access to it.
I repeat, there is unrest, fear-for-the-future.
idleness, poverty, misery, as
never before, in the United States, and
it has come when the prosperity of the
country was never so great.
It has come during a decade when the
sroduction of the whole country has
veraged yearly over thre billions of
dollars more than the whole people con
sumed while producing it.
. I will repeat this astounding state
ment for ten years, while the United
States was enjoying unprecedented pros
perityprosperity to such an extent
that after the hundred millions of in
habitants of thj United States had paid
for all they had produced, and consumed,
there still remained a balance a profit
of three billion dollars each year, or
thirty dollars apiece for each man,
woman and child in the country, or one
hundred and fifty dollars for each
family. And yet during these ten years
unrest. fear-for-the-future, idleness,
"homely face," "store clothes," "country
speech," which later were deified by
his people and his country, were a joke.
When United States Supreme Court
Justice Hughes, then an unknown New
Yorker, dared to announce that he would
pillory the Life Insurance thieves he
was met with the System's chorus, "The
Joke." When Wisconsin thrust LaFollette
into the public glare, with the prediction
that he would be heard from later, a
loud, guffawed "The Joke" shook the
rafters. When- in his early days the
great Roosevelt showed those teeth,
which afterwards won the national blue
ribbon for biting into entrenched special
privilege dollar hypocrisy, "The Joke"
was deafening. And a brief . yesterday,
when the present commanding figure
of all the world's commanding figures,
Woodrow Wilson, asked the privilege of
applying his "pedagogic crudities" to
the ship of state's steering apparatus,
he was heralded "The Joke of the Twen
tieth Century." In all ages and in all
climes the first appearance in humanity's
battle lists of a people's real champion
has been met with contemptuous out
bursts of "The Joke." British Royalty
nearly burst its sides laughing when
Joker Oliver Cromwell's uncouth figure
came to London town, and "The Petit
Joker" was the title grinning Europe
gave to the eagle-epauletted little Cor
sica who later buried his heel in the
Adam's apple of Europe. Even the
meek carpenter of Galilee was hailed as
"The Joke" of His age by The System of
His day, when He started forth to put
Christianity on the map of Unbelief.
Indeed, you should be proud to be "The
Joke" of this Senatorial campaign.
For four months, in between playing
with the cattle, tossing alfalfa and suck
ing in this wonderful Oregon ozone, I
have been watching, studying, acid test
ing this Senatorial catch-as-catch-can,
hoping I might find opportunity to take
a hand for the good of the state to
which I have brought my children and
my capital the state, which after look
ing the country over, I decided was
nearer the garden spot of the earth
than any other hoping I might assist
in sending to the Senate the one man
who, in my opinion, Oregon most needs
to guard her interests in the present
snarly times.
. I think that I understand the Oregon
Senatorial game that I realize what
you are up against in your des.re and
efforts to do something for your state
and her people; but, how to assist you
is another proposition. Scores of times,
during the months I have been looking
on, I have been tempted to offer you
my services in some practical capacity,
stumping, writing, banner or pike
carrying, but here are a few of my
impediments :
I am a life-long Republican, don't
know how to be anything else; my
father was a soldier, in the saddle with
Sheridan, from the opening to the
closing of the Rebellion, when he came
home to die from his many wounds, and,
to the sons of such fathers, the grand
old party is something more than
"politics."
At the same time I believe that Wood
row Wilson is one of our greatest Presi
dents, that his administration has done
poverty, misery increased.
THERE IS ONE UNALTERABLE
BAROMETER OF THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE'S CONDITION, WHICH AT
ALL TIMES IS BEFORE THE EYES
OF EVERY MAN, WOMAN AND
CHILD IN THE COUNTRY COST OF
LIVING.
For years and years the cost of the
American people's living has steadily
increased out of all proportion to their
income until now it is at the breaking
point beyond the power of being met
by the American people from the income
of their labors. Hence the condition of
unrest, fear-for-the-future, idleness, pov
erty, misery as never before.
While the country has been at its
maximum prosperity, and that maximum
greater than any prosperity jjx the
world's history, the cost of the Ameri
can people's- living has been steadily
mounting out of all proportion to the
increase of the American people's total
income, until THE COUNTRY IS FACE
TO- FACE WITH REVOLUTION AND
THAT REVOLUTION BREAKING
THROUGH IN SPOTS IN A MORE
BRUTAL AND VIRULENT FORM
THAN EVER BEFORE IN THE
HISTORY OF THE MODERN WORLD.
Indeed, this is a terrific statement and
one that at first hearing arouses good
Americans to a 'frenzy of denial; but it
ia truth. For instance, nowhere in
modern history can there be found surer
indications of coming revolution than
.the Los Angeles dynamiting and the
Colorado labor massacre.
I would say flatfootedly to the voters
of Oregon, that THERE IS A CLASS-HATRED-BRED
REVOLUTION BREW
ING IN THE UNITED STATES,
WHICH, IF NOT STAYED, WILL
BURST FORTH AT ANY TIME IN
THE VERY NEAR FUTURE AND
WITH A BRUTAL VICIOUSNESS
WHICH WILL, BY COMPARISON.
MAKE THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
APPEAR A NURSERY CHARADE.
And right here I will say: I am no
socialist, anarchist or other propagand
. ist, whose political, economical or social
creed compels such alarmist language.
I am . merely a plain citizen, whose -breeding,
education, environment and
worldly possessions compel a conservative
visioning of all uncertainties which may
affect his country's welfare.
Then, too, .my loyalty to the past
thirty years' production of ray pen com
pels me to as smooth telescoping of
coming events as lies within me under
no circumstances can I afford to risk my
reputation for sound diagnosis. For it
must be remembered that I was the
one who five, ten, fifteen, twenty years
ago predicted in public speeches and
writings the Hellconditions which are
now with uas that I, as long ago as
1904, set forth in my writings and
lectures, the coming of the revolution
which is in sight and named the causes
which would produce revolution, and,
that the causes were the ones that since
then, .have in the Courts of Justice and
the halls of Congress and through state
and municipal investigations, been ex
posed to the whole country in all their
coarse, brutal, mean viciousness.
Then another thing I would say to
Oregon voters: "Do not let anyone brush
away my statement of coming revolution
with the argument, -'We cannot have
Personal
This page was written without the knowledge of Mr. Hanley or myself. It is a
voluntary offering of Mr. Lawson, who even insists on paying for its publication.
N Its contents should mean much to the voters of Oregon.
Mr. Lawson, for the past quarter of a century, has been a commanding figure
in the financial, political, and sociological affairs of the country.
His was the first voice raised against the practices of the mighty Wall Street
Brigands.
In his work "Frenzied Finance," in 1904, the world was told for the" first time
the astounding tales of Trust, Banking, Life Insurance, Corporation trickery and pil
laging, which today are common knowledge. His revelations were printed in all lan
guages. So astounding were they at that time that their author was called a mad
man, and his predictions, which have since come true to the letter, were held up to
the scorn and ridicule of America and Europe as crazy vaporings.
Mr. Lawson, because of his boldness of .statement, was repeatedly sued civilly
and criminally by the biggest lights in the American political and financial world
He threw down the gauntlet to the most powerful and vindictive business and finan
cial combinations, particularly the Standard Oil and its Wall Street allies, and
whipped them to a standstill, compelling the abandonment of every suit brought
against him. In the middle of, the fight he carried the war into the very citadel of
what he terms "The System," and single-handed shook Wall Street to its foundation.
He then starteM after the Life Insurance crooks, and at a personal expense of over
two million dollars and with the aid of a committee which he formed of the Governors
of seven states, in a remarkably, short time, drove to exile and prison, the powerful
Life Insurance crooks and brought about the reformed methods in Life Insurance
under which it is conducted today.
During both Roosevelt administrations his work and advice entered largely Into
"Roosevelt policies." With great personal effort he helped carry Massachusetts
and secured Roosevelt delegates to the Chicago convention.
Mr. Lawson's political efforts have always carried weight from the fact that he
does not hesitate to strike out straight from the shoulder for any man or party whose
work he considers in the interest of the people, and from the fact that he never asks
office or accepts favors from the successful candidates whom his efforts have aided.
Mr. Lawson's reputation for fearing none, asking no favors, accepting no re-.,
wards, and doing his own pen work at his own expense, has made his services much '
sought but rarely given. This offering of Mr. Lawson to Mr. Hanley, from the fact
that Mr. Lawson is at the present time doing all possible to assist Democratic Presi
dent Wilson in his reform work, doing his best to elect his son-in-law's father.
Republican ex-Congressman Samuel McCall, Republican Governor of Massachusetts,
while at the same time maintaining his friendship and loyalty to Progressive Roose
velt, is a valuable, as well as unique contribution to Oregon s Senatorial campaign,
and I earnestly commend it to the voters of Oregon. CLARKE LEITER
-more real good for the nation for the
people :than all the administrations,
since Lincoln's, combined. I mean it
more real good than all the administra
tions, since Lincoln's, combined.
Also I have worked, from the first to
the dastardly Chicago convention which
robbed him of the Republican nomina
tion, beside the great Roosevelt, for
whom I have always had, and yet have,
unbounded admiration.
Also I am enlisted in my home state,
Massachusetts, for the election to the
Governorship, of the country's greatest
living statesman, dyed-in-the-wool Re
publican, Sam McCall, upon a rock
ribbed Republican platform. And if to
these difficulties I add that I know
nothing of practical politics, and am
strong in my convictions that one of
the crying crimes of the times is the
hot-airing of the people at elections, I
know my unfortunate predicament will"
be clear to you.
Talking of hot-air I have faithfully
analyzed the vast volumes reprinted in
the Oregon press during the present
campaign and I have been surprised
that such horse-sense people as Ore
gonians will stand for it. It may be
of interest to the people of Oregon to
know that Senator Chamberlain is a
bully mixer, eats with his fork, wears
a- boiled shirt at dinner parties, talks
TO VOTERS
class-hatred-bred revolution in the
United States. . . . 'That we
are too law-abiding, too meek, etc.'
Oregon voters know what happened in
Europe . over night, and Oregon voters
have but to look back upon the terrible
happenings in our country during the past
five years to know that anything CAN
happen in the United States, and at the
drop of a hat, when the people of the
United States awaken to a full realiza
tion that they are being robbed to the
unbearable point, and that their govern
A Final Word to the IVlothers, Wives,
Sisters, Daughters of Oregon
In my public work three-quarters of my support comes from women. Of 450,000
correspondents in connection with my writings and public work, over half are women.
In analyzing the cause, for up to the publication of my Frenzied Finance American
women took but little interest in finance, and none in finance reforms, I settled beyond
doubt two things: women are more honest to a cause than men intuitively they can
separate truth from bunk. I ask the judgment of the women of Oregon.
If this page is truth of course you women will see to It that Mr. Hanley is over
whelmingly elected the women of Oregon can elect the next Senator if they ear
nestly set out to do it.
If there is a single material error, or a single unsound conclusion in this page,
ignore my plea and curse me out to your heart's content; I can stand it, for it does
not make a picayune's difference to me personally, who of the three is elected.
Please do not show any mercy in the analysis of this page, for bear in mind that
there can be no excuse for my error or unsound conclusion. This sort of stuff is my
daily diet, I have spent my life in it; I know the political, financial, economical game
from the upper side of its hair-part to the under side of its instep. Then, too, keep
the terrific seriousness of this Senatorial election before you. If this page is sound
to you, your state, your country, needs Mr. Hanley in Washington before things get
worse; thing3 are getting worse every day you women folk know that because your
butcher, your grocery, your clothing, your fuel and your rent bills show it. Your
daily paper, your women's journal, your magazine tell you, in shrieking language,
that things rum, white slavery, factory slavery, store slavery, immorality of all
kinds are getting worse, and" their getting worse has a big, big bearing on the big,
big question of the hour :"Will high cost living bring revolution?"
"They" may tell you that Mr. Hanley is not perfect; don't let that trouble you,
none of us are; but you can put it down as gospel truth that he is much better than
most of us. I wish I was as good as Mr. Hanley, and I bet that Senator Chamberlain
and Mr. Booth do, too; if we were we would be worrying less about our future
residence.
Perhaps "They" will tell you that Mr. Hanley is not for prohibition; do not let
that worry you either. I -know the man-animal from his soul-cellar to his heart's
cupola, and I can tell you that some of the best specimens I have ever bumped into
are on the other side of prohibition; however, don't let Mr. Hanleys notions about
Rum Regulation disturb you. I will go bail for them, and as you probably know,
while not a teetotaler, I am" a frenzied throw-every-drop-of-the-damned-stuff-into-the-ocean
Anti Boozeite.
Do not let "Them" tell you that Mr. Hanley is not sufficiently "polished" to rep
resent Oregon in the Senate. No one doffs his bonnet to "polish" lower than I do,
and when I tell you women of Oregon who do not know Bill Hanley that he is as
"polished" aa a thousand-year-old crown jewel inside, it is a safe wager that he is
"polished" enough for the United States Senate. Abraham Lincoln had no more out
side "polish" than Bill Hanley, and yet history speaks of him as the most "polished"
public man of his time. Think of Oregon, big, manly Oregon, the foundation of
which was only laid day before yesterday, and by men who slaved for their women,
idealized their children and went broke for a friend or their plighted word, men who
signatured with "their mark" and who considered an oftener-than-a-f our-times-a-year
bath or the wearing of a boiled shirt, ample ground for a lynching bee, think of
Oregon raising the "polish" question!
Do not let sentiment influence your Senatorial vote, for it will rot really be a
hardship if neither Senator Chamberlain nor Mr. Booth go to the Senate. Most of
you never had a Senatorship in your family and probably neither of these two worthy
gentlemen will shed tears if they miss landing this one. Senator Chamberlain has
already had a lot of fat publicjobs and Mr. Booth has a fine business to fall back on
if he takes a cropper.
Assuring you that I make this plea for Mr. Hanley only because I know that his
election at this time will be another spike in the System's coffin of the brand Pres
ident Wilson has been driving, and giving you my word that neither Mr. Hanley nor
any of his people have any band in this page or even know of my intention to write.
Believe me, most earnestly your,
THOMAS W. LAWSON
like a gentleman in Congress and out,
and wants like Hell to retain his job.
That Mr. Booth would die rather than
beat up his family or kick a dog that
he only wants to Sit in the Senate to
correct the inaccuracies of the daily
scripture reading, and that his anxiety
for election is solely on account of the
prettiness with which that fact could
be embroidered into his obituary, under
the caption, "He mellowly rounded out
his successful career with . a United
States Senatorship."
These things may be Important, ';.ut,
surely any good nickel-a-line-proi'es-sional-pen-pusher
could work them up
to an Aurora Borealised finish without
-ringing in, day after day, the thread
bare "tariff," "protection, "free trade."
etc., gold bricks, which, at every election
for a half century, have been exhibited
for the befooling and befuddling of to-be-tricked
voters.
I do not personally know either of
your honorable opponents, but from
what their press agents have said, I do
know that both are all right for
ordinary times and honors; that one
would make a rip-roaring Fourth of
July orator, club chairman, or South
American Ambassador, the other a first
class church warden, state charitable
commission chairman, or brilliant presi
dent of a world peace society, ana that
OF
ment cannot or will not stay the special
privilege class who do the robbing.
When ten years ago, I filled a thou
sand pages with detailed tales of
nefarious pillaging of the American
people by their great, most looked-up-to
individuals and institutions and after I
had been harried and hounded to the
limit of civil and criminal prosecution
in an endeavor to prove the falsity of
my awful charges, and when ridicule and
vilification had been exhausted to show
the absurdity of my assertions, simul-
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OREGON '
Mrs. and Miss Oregon Voter
May I have a-word with YOU? An
earnest, straight from the shoulder word
on matters of heart-beat interest to
YOU.
This word costs ME time, effort, and
money to formulate and get to YOU.
I cannot possibly receive anything of
value, tangible or otherwise, in return
for MY expenditure YOU may receive,
because of it, something of value to
YOU.
This being so, is it asking too much
of YOU to read it carefully and give its
contents YOUR best consideraiton ?
This is all I ask. All? No, -one
other thing tear out this page and pass
it along to some other Oregon woman
voter.
In asking this small service let me
illustrate.
Suppose YOU had come over 3000 miles
to Oregon to rest up from twenty-hour-a-day
tody and mind drudgery! Sup
pose during YOUR rest-up YOU could
not shut out from the natural beauties of
YOUR rest-up place the suffering and
misery of others! Suppose in the middle
of YOUR rest-up YOU saw an opportun
ity to do something towards alleviating
the suffering and misery of others and
suppose YOU took up YOUR pen went
back to the drudgery YOU had fled from
and formulated this page and personally
paid the money necessary to get it
where it might help the suffering and
, misery which had roused YOU to action.
Suppose these things, then would YOU
hesitate to ask the beneficiaries of YOUR
effort to do their bit in making it
effective? Would YOU! Mull it over
and perhaps it will give YOU the same
pleasure to pass this page along to some
other Oregon voter as it does ME to
take up MY pen in the interests of tens
of thousands of Oregonians, who, like
the following, suffer in the midst of
God's bountiful stores because men like
William Hanley are kept from seats in
the law-making halls of the people that
GOOD FELLOWS may hog the public
crib, that SUCCESSFUL MONEY
- MAKERS may satisfy their laudable
ambition for a perch on the ladder of
flamboyant fame perhaps it may impel
YOU TO SECURE SOME MORE PAGES
AND SEND THEM TO OTHER
VOTERS.
either would, with honor and distinction
to his state, grace an old-time, by-the-lief-of-Wall-Street
United States Senate.
But what these qualifications have to
do with the' selection of a member of the
1915-1921 United States Senate, which
will have to deal with the raw red Hell
condition, which forty years of System
robbing of the nation and the people,"
has fastened upon the country- is beyond
my figuring out. I itch, however, to
do something to help send you to the
Senate, where I KNOW YOU WILL
MAKE A MARK, NOT PERHAPS
WITH A MANICURED THUMB NAIL
OR AN OILED TONGUE TIP, BUT
AT LEAST WITH A STAKE DRIVER
taneously in New York, Philadelphia,
and Chicago, at great Washington birth
day gatherings, three of The System
heads proclaimed that- they would prove
to the world the untruthfulnes of my
charges and when they had finished their
elaborate arguments, the pith and con
clusion was the crimes I had exposed
were impossible to commit because the
American people would never stand for
their committing. Their violent argu
ments were hardly cold when the two
most prominent criminals whose practices
I had exposed, Standard Oil and Sugar
Trust, were convicted by different courts
up to the Supreme Court, of not only all
I had charged, but crimes much more
nefarious. And to show how in the
United States the impossible can quickly
become not only the possible, but the
commonplace, both these robbers of the
people publicly-in the court and before
Congress, confessed to crimes many
times blacker and more sneakingly
cowardly than what I had charged them
with.
I REPEAT. THERE IS A REVOLU
TION, A BLACK, BRUTAL REVOLU
TION ABOUT READY TO BURST IN
OUR LAND, AND IT WILL BURST
UNLESS THE CAUSES WHICH HAVE
INCUBATED IT ARE REMOVED, and
they can only be removed by men to
whom Almighty God has given the mind,
heart and soul to realize what they por
tend and to fearlessly destroy them.
Can Senator Chamberlain or" Mr.
Booth do the right thing in the United
States Senate to dissipate the about-to-burst
revolution? Can they? Is there
any possibility of their doing the right
thing if they do not even see the coming
of the revolution, to say nothing of
seeing the causes which have created it?
What does it matter to the voters of
Oregon whether Senator Chameberlain
is sent back to -the Senate or, Mr. Booth
is given the honorable title of Senator?
Millions of just as good men will never
be given the Senatorial job or title. But
it does matter to Oregon voters, if
revolution is on the way, that they have
in the Senate their best equipped men
to stay it, to dissipate it, and to destroy
the cause of it.
It is my intention in this page to give
some facts which will help Oregon
voters decide whether either Senator
Chamberlain or Mr. Booth is qualified
for the job which awaits tho next
Senator from Oregon.
Before doing so I will generaliz? a bit.
The curse of American elections ia
that the voters, the ones most vitally
interested in the election results, do not
bring to the subject the same horse
sense shrewdness which they apply to
their private affairs. Almost invariably
they are influenced in the casting of
their ballots by the clap-trap of the
candidates and their campaign handlers.
To illustrate. In the present election
the most important thing to every man,
woman and child in Oregon is the elec
tion of United States Senator.
"There are three candidates: Senator
Chamberlain, Mr. Booth and Mr. Hanley.
The election of the one best fitted for
the job, as against the election of the
one worse fitted, should be of more
import to every voter of the state than
the doing of any one thing, public or
private, which any voter will be called
upon to do between now and election.
And yet, what are the conditions which
Copy of one of scores of letters I
receive when in Oregon:
, Oregon.
Dear Mr. Lawfon
Her. ia my situation and I want come advice
from you. I have resd all your Book and maira
ne article! and have always believed in your
true intern for us strug-Kler. who are not ao
fortunate as you sr. in worldly KOods. Three
years ao after I read what you said of opportuni
ties In Oreron. I sold my machine shop in Iowa
. and brought my wife and six children to Ores-on
and bought this ranch for $14,000. I paid $4000
cash and had $2000 left. 1 am payinc 10c;,
interest. $1000 a year on the mortgage. Now my
$2000 has all rone in improvements and I owe
$1200 for improvements and the mortKace is due
and they say I must reduce it $000 and I cannot
jet it. I cannot even reduce it $1009. What can
I do? You say in your writings th.t the people
only ret 4 interest on the billions they have in
the banks. I have looked this up and it ia so.
and why can't I borrow my $10,000 mortraee at
cc T My place is worth all I have paid into it.
$17,000 and it must be Rood for the $10,000. If I
had paid 4o interest instead of 107r I would have
$1800 on hand now to reduce the mortgage.
- My space forbids me to give the entire
letter of this fearful-of-the-future,
honest, industrious citizen of Oregon,
whom I am morallv responsible for
BRINGING TO OREGON AND THE
CLUTCHES OF THE OREGON END
OF THE SYSTEM The System which ia
so fast driving our nation on ithe rocks
of dissolution and destruction.
I receive annually hundreds of thou
sands of such letters and inquiries from
all parts of the country, letters and
, inquiries wherein the very bloom of
American man and womanhood plead
with me for answer to the question:
"WHY, IN THIS LAND OF GLORIOUS
PLENTY, MUST WE, WHO LABOR
AND LABOR SUCCESSFULLY BE
ROBBED OF THE FRUIT OF OUR LA
BOR BY THOSE WHO DO NOT LA
BOR?" If it were possible at election time for
, me to put one out of each thousand of
my inquiries into the hands of every
voter of the United States, the next
Senate and Congress would be composed
almost entirely of MEN OF THE MIND,
HEART AND SOUL CALIBRE OF
WILLIAM HANLEY with the result that
writers of such letters as the above,
would in the next ten year6, with the
proceeds of their efforts, free their
ranches and farms from all mortgage.
Believe me,
Most sincerely yours,
THOMAS W. LAWSON
AND A BRANDING IRON, A MARK
WHICH FOR DECADES TO COME
WILL BE POINTED TO WITH PRIDE
BY EVERY OPEN-FRONTED WEST
ERNER AND WITH SNARLY VENOM
BY EVERY EASTERN DOLLAR WOLF
AND TRUST HIRELING AS "BILL
HANLEY'S, OF OREGON, WORK."
Trusting the following product of my
somewhat rusty pen will meet with your
approval, and that it may accomplish a
tithe of the prayers I put into it,
- Believe me as honored to sign myself,
Your friend,
THOMAS W. LAWSON
Prineville, Oregon October 21.
Oregon voters have allowed to cloud the
making of their decision? Senator
Chamberlain's and Mr. Booth's names
are mentioned a hundred times to Mr.
Hanley's one, and the affairs and views
of each have received many, many times
as much illumination as Mr. Hanley's.
This means that the voters of Oregon
will know on election day many times as
much of each man aa of Mr. Hanley.
This means that a large majority of
Oregon voters will go to the polls under
the impression that their only duty is to
decide between Senator Chamberlain and
Mr. Booth.
Is this right, is it fair to the people
of the state, to the state itself, is it
a square deal for the dead and gone
who toiled and suffered that Oregon, the
Nation, all the people should have the
advantages of the great scheme of ideal
government which they created and be
queathed ?
Let us see what these election methods
result in. No state in the union has
a better stock of statesmen raw material
than Oregon, yet a visitor from Mar3
to Washington in the past two years,
the most vital two years in the past
fifty, in search of thy ten greatest law
makers, would depart with the first and
second ten without knowing that Oregon
was one of the United States. I mean
by this no disparagement to the West,
or its able representatives, for number
one on the Martian's list would be
Senator Owen of Oklahoma, with Borah
of Idaho a close second.
Does any student of affairs who has
absorbed the mental atmosphere of these
real statesmen or who observed the
campaign of the inexperienced-in-politics
college teacher, Woodrow Wilson, believe
that any of the three would allow such
a campaign as the one I have been
watching in Oregon ?
Some cute politician may say that
the reason for Candidates Chamberlain's
and Booth's prominence over Candidate
Hanley, is their better equipment for
the office, to which I answer: The
study of public men and public affairs is
my profession. I know the statesmen of
yesterday, and day before yesterday, I
know those of today! I have studied
Senator Chamberlain and Mr. Booth and
Oregon affairs and I know Mr. Hanley.
Have seen him in action east as well as
west, and I am absolutely unbiased in
my views of all three. With my knowl
edge of the men aid the job awaiting
Oregon's next Senator, I am firm' in
my conviction that I do Mr. Hanley no
favor or his opponents any injustice,
when I unqualifiedly affirm my belief that
at the end of Mr. Hanley's first year in
the Senate he will crowd Senators Owen
and Borah for first place on the list
of real statesmen doers.
An American political campaign, of
all life activities, bring-s to the surface
all there is in a man. Woodrow Wilson's
campaign for nomination and election
were inspiring human interest educa
tional courses. Any red-blooded man or
woman would give over business or
social affairs to follow in their wake.
The same can be said of the great
Roosevelt. The campaign atmosphere
fairly sizzled with all the important
questions which affected the American
people and the nation. I should dislike
to be compelled to choose between a
thirty days' sentence to the present
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