THE MolfATXG OREGON IAN', MONDAY, NOVEMBER G, 1922 3232 th: INK The republicans who sign this address are concerned over two things: The effect of the election in Oregon on the state's reputation, and its effect on internal economies. Oregon has gone democratic heretofore, in the sense that it has elected democratic gov ernors and a democratic United States senator. The state survived and its people are not unprosperous. . But the election of Walter M. Pierce as governor would not be passed by with the sim ple statement that Oregon had gone democratic. - The' Nonpartisan League, that blight of North Dakota, with which Walter M. Pierce has flirted, would claim a victory in Oregon. The Socialists, whom he served by introducing a bill for sovietizing employment for the giving of jobs to all comers at the expense of the taxpayers would claim Oregon. The Ku Klux Klan, whose favor he obtained by declaring his sympathy with the school .monopoly bill, would claim Oregon. Read, Think and Heed We do not, fellow citizens, tell you that the election of Mr. Pierce would be in fact a victory for the Nonpartisan League, the Ku Klux Klan, the Socialists, the I. W. W. and the Bolsheviki. But we do say, and we say it with emphasis, that whatever the true signifi cance of Mr. Pierce's election, should that disaster overtake us, his, election would provide because of his questionable affiliations, his radical speech, and his unguarded conduct, a plausible excuse for wild tales and wilder claims that would belittle Oregon's reputation for sanity. As men who desire to be known as faithful, loyal citizens, as men who are in position to observe the hesitant expressions, the concerned looks of inquiry, already directed toward this state as an outgrowth of the campaign, we would impress upon all voters the gravity of the situation that confronts Oregon. This appeal is not reserved for republicans. Let those democrats who are devoted, to Oregon's welfare and Oregon's good name not aid in inflicting this blow upon the state. Let democrats recall that Mr. Pierce is not a steadfast democrat, that he does not believe in party, and that he has assumed the party label only as a convenience to the fulfilment of his own selfish designs. Read, Think and Heed We invite you to contrast the two candidates for governor, Ben W. Olcott and Walter M. Pierce. Walter M. Pierce is a man of wealth. He laid the foundation for his present large for tune as a county clerk in the days of the unbridled, extravagant fee system. He later added to the security of his fortune by obtaining special favors from the state land board, then headed by a democrat. These favors were in the form of loans from the school fund six times the volume that the small and uninfluential farmer could borrow. He has served in four sessions, of the legislature and his record is an almost unbroken one of approval of salary increases, new millage taxes and appropriations, all of which have done so much to make the tax load upon farms and homes almost unbearable. During his campaign, a natural talent for acting has enabled him by dramatic gestures seemingly to promise things which he did not in fact promise and which no man on earth could singly do. His speeches have been a constant procession of misleading figures. He has grossly mis stated the cost of state government. He has grossly misstated the proportion of the taxes that farmers pay; he has grossly misstated the amount of money in banks; he has grossly misstated the supervisory cost of building state roads; he. has grossly misstated the com parative cost of roads in Oregon and Washington ; he has grossly misrepresented the compar ative costs of state government in Oregon and other states; he has grossly misquoted his opponent's position as to high taxes; he has grossly misrepresented that his opponent was largely responsible for taxes voted by the people themselves ; he has grossly misrepresented that his opponent was not in favor of lower taxes. No mean exaggeration, no false innuendo, no untruthful implication has been deemed unworthy of use in his campaign for votes. Sf'v Read, Think and Heed , V Ben W. Olcott has been your secretary of state, and for three years has been your governor. He is not a man of wealth. If he is not elected he will have to hunt a job that he may support his family. This is not a bid for your sympathy, but to point out to you, fellow citizens, that when Ben Olcott had the opportunity legally to feather his nest by taking two salaries, when he was both secretary of state and governor when he had a chance legally to pad his fortune with public funds as Walter Pierce did in a different way, Ben Olcott accepted only what he earned no more. Ben Olcott longer than two years ago recognized the imperative need for reduction in cost of govern ment and for an equalization of the sources of tax revenues. He asked of and obtained from the legislature the authority and the money to carry out his plans for tax reform. He appointed a commission, of which Walter M. Pierce was one of the members, and Walter M. Pierce promptly injected his political ambitions Into the work of that commission and made it impossible for it to conduct a full series of orderly public hearings in the state. Walter M. Pierce, after having been given this position of trust by Governor Olcott, diverted the incomplete information he obtained as such public official to his own political ends, claimed for himself the issue that Olcott had raised, and turned against the governor who had thus honored him, charging him with extravagance and disinclination to solve the tax problem. Ben Olcott is the antithesis of his opponent. He is never blatant. He is not an actor. He is incapable of dissembling. He is not wealthy. He has never profited from public office. He is not talkative. He is a modest, prudent business man, such as you would freely trust with your own private affairs if you needed sound judgment and efficiency. AND HE NEVER DOUBLE-CROSSED A PERSON IN HIS LIFE. If there is any tax reform it will be based on the detailed report, yet to be prepared, of the commission Ben Olcott appointed. The legislature of this state, the people who have the referendum as a reserve power, will not submit to indiscriminate, unintelligent assaults upon sound principles of taxation, no matter how radical or impulsive or dramatic the next governor may be. Read, Think and' Heed We appeal to you not to be swayed by the political tactics that swayed so many in the day of greenback ism and in the later day of populism, to their everlasting shame and discomfiture. , We appeal to all citizens, regardless of party, to reaffirm this state's immunity from the virus of radicalism. ' Radicalism has reared its head in Oregon. It has voiced itself in a revival of the time-rejected doctrines that the state is the proper keeper of the religion of the individual; that the majority's creed is the divine creed; that the child belongs not to the parent but to the state. It has reared its head in the doctrine that there is a distinction in the quality of Americanism defined by race, or color, or religion, or piace of birth. Passions, heretofore subconscious, have been brought into active being. Thoughts men once rejected as unworthy' have been revived by the precept given by unscrupulous aspirants for place and power. Men have been impressed into alliance with strange gods by the mystery of sheeted figures and flaming crosses. It is time for all sane men to come to the aid of sane government. Trust the. men who have been honest with you in the past. Beware of him who demands office as a reward for sudden reformation. Beware of those who have wronged you in the pa st and now come asking your favor with oily promises. Who are these- who say they speak for brotherho ods and demand your allegiance to candidates of their own selection? Did you ever hear of them before this campaign? Who are they? . Read, Think and Heed OREGON TAX LEAGUE, j By S. B. Cobb, President.. Executive Committee: Ben Selling, Portland. E. D. Cuslck, Albany. T. T. Geer, Portland. Paul Wallace, Salem. W. S. Bowers, Baker. W. E. Dennis, Carleton. Robert W. Sawyer, HeiiU. Paid Advertisement by Oregon Tax League. Yeon Bldg., Portland, Or. ESTITE LI IS TARGET WIDOWS UNFAIRLY TREATED, SAYS JUDGE GATEXS. Gatena was appointed to the circuit court by Governor Chamberlain and since that time has held that post, having been elected twice. WOMAN ON STREET SHOT Present Statutes Declared Relic of Days When Woman Was Considered Slave. That present property laws, re garding women's rights in their husbands' estates, are obsolete and a relic of the days when woman was considered the slave of her mate, is the opinion of William N. Gatens, democratic candidate for circuit judge. e Judge Gatens, who has been a pio neer in widows' pension and juve nile court work, is now advocating a chr.nge in the statute which gives a widow only one-half of her hus band's real estate in case the man dies without a will. According to Judge Gatens, this provision o law works untold hardship on women. At present, when a man dies with out a will, the widow not only re ceives but half of the common prop erty, but is allowed the use of her home only for one year after the death. After that year, she must pay rent and cannot be supported out of the revenue derived from the estate. Judge Gatens was educated in the public schools of this city, attended the University of Oregon and was graduated in 1S94. He entered pub lic life as a deputy district attorney under, George Chamberlain, and when the latter was elected gov ernor Judge Gatens was appointed private secrotary. Tn 1909 Judge Miss Agnes Cranston Wounded at Sandpoint, Idaho. SANDPOINT, Idaho., Nov. 5. Au thorities, are seeking the, person who, perhaps accidentally, shot Miss Agnes Cranston yesterday as she was walking from her brother's store to a bank. She was shot in the neck, the bullet being found by X-ray, just under the point of her jaw. Whether the bullet came through accidental discharge of some small firearm in the vicinity, or if It was a stray bullet from some high pow ered gun fired outside the city, were matters of conjecture. Miss Cran ston's condition is not serious. CHITA ASKS DEPARTURE Foreign Warships and Consuls Ordered to Leave. TOKIO, Nov. 5. (By the Associ ated Press.) Chita government of ficials have ordered foreign war ships to depart and are demanding that the Chita government be recog nized by foreign powers, according to dispatches reaching here today from Vladivostok. The Chita orflclals resent the action of the officers of foreign warships in refusing to request their governments to withdraw their warships. This is regarded as a discourtesy. All former officers of the white army are being sent to Moscow by the Chitaites. CHEST CALL MOUNT CHURCH FOLK TO TAKE BIG PART IN CAMPAIGN. . Pastors to A'lslt Beneficiary Institutions and Preach Sermons on Needs. "The call of the community chest to the ministers of Portland should take precedence over all other such calls, and we may have many of them," said Dr. B. Earle Parker, pastor of the First Methodist Epis copal church, in speaking of the part cha pastors and church people will be asked to take in the forth coming drive. ' One hundred of the Protestant ministers of the city will go this afternoon on a tour of eight of the beneficiary organizations of the chest. The Institutions, selected with a view to showing the varied activities to which chest funds go, include the Albertina Kerr nursery, the White Shield home, the Volun teers of America, Woodmere Old People's home, Portland Commons, St. Rose's Industrial home, the Boys' and Girls' Aid society and the Work ing Girls' home. The tour is being arranged by J. J. Handsaker, chairman of the church division of the speakers' bureau, the suggestion for such a tour having been made at a meet ing of the federation bf churches. Serving on the committee with Mr. Handsaker are Rev. Ward MacHenry and Dr. B. Earle Parker. The ob ject of the visit to the institutions is thoroughly to acquaint the min isters with the work, so they may !1 G. F. f J ft- t ' I, - ft , "s ' - 1 i .t, H ircuit judge Dept. No. 7, Probate Department For 17 Years a Successful Lawyer A vote for him is a vote for clean, honest, impartial courts A SQUARE DEAL FOR ALL VOTE 37 X G. F. ALEXANDER (Paid Advertisement by Alexander Campaign Committee) " . . be qualified to speak on the chest needs from their pulpits either on November 12 or 19. APPLE MEN RAP ROAD Great Northern Is Blamed for Opposing New Line. WENATCHEE, Nov. 5. Conditions governing fruit shipments, threat ening, losses to Wenatcnee valley growers of millions of dollars, were the basis of protests embodied into resolutions by a growers' mass meet ing last . night at the Wenatchee commercial club. The Great Northern railway was blamed in the resolutions for its failure "to furnish the necessary equipment to transport the product of the valley promptly," and con demned for "putting forth every ef fort to continue its strangle hold on this section and to prevent the con struction of other railroads into the territory which it terms its own." Apple Men Fear Frost. HOOD RIVER, Or.. Nov. 5. (Spe ciaL) Apple growers of remote districts whose crops are unpro tected from cold, were gravely alarmed tonight over the threat of snow. A storm, accompanied by low temperatures such as prevailed last November would result in a loss of a heavy percentage of the district's apple crop.. The car shortage has resulted in shipping concerns limiting' daily deliveries of growers to small quantities on a pro-rata tonnage basis. BETS BACKANDY GUMP From $5 to $100 to Be Covered at Merchants Exchange. That Andy Gump, who wears no man's collar, will Bat be elected to congress is being prated by a cer tain individual of Portland, who haa let it be known at the Merchants' Exchange that bets from io to $100 will be covered. While Andy Gump's campaign has been widely discussed along the wa terfront and the clean-cut effort of Colonel Bush, his campaign man ager, to "put him over" has been applauded, the probable outcome of the programme of Sydney Smith, cartoonist, has not been generally forecast, and the injection of wa gers against the success of the can didate is a new angle. It i ight be added that up to the time the ex change closed last night the betting offer had not been generally circu lated, but when Colonel Bush hears of the incident he is expected to reply with a shower that will make it look as if Uncle Bim had struck it rich again in Australia. The prestige of Oregonian Want Ads has been attained not merely by The Oregonian's large circulation, but by the fact that all its readers are interested in Oregonian Want-Ads." voter ATTENTION Oregon Good Government League, Inc. Recommends That You Vote For the Following: VOTE 314 X YES FOR SCHOOL AMENDMENT MULTNOMAH COUNTY THIRD CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT GOVERNOR 17 WALTER M. PIERCE CONGRESSMAN 15 ELTON' W ATKINS STATE TREASURER 18 O. P. HOFF STATE SUPERINTENDENT PUBLIC INSTRUCTION 24 S. S. GEORGE PUBLIC SERVICE COMMIS SIONER 28 GUS E. ERICKSEN COUNTY COMMISSIONERS 82 DOW V. WALKER 81 J. H. RANKIN CIRCUIT COURT 34 LOUIS P. HEWITT 31 W. T. VAUGHN 36 ROSCOE T. HURST 32 ROBERT TUCKER STATE SENATE 39 MILTON R. KLEPPER 43 W. J. H. CLARK STATE LABOR COMMISSIONER 26 B. H. HANSEN LEGISLATURE 45 L. H. ADAMS 46 CYRIL G. BROWNELL 49 THOS. H. HURLBURT 50 OLIVER B. HUSTON 51 R. J. KIRKWOOD 52 K. K. KUBLI - 53 LOUIS KUEHN 64 GEO. A. LOVEJOY 57-WM. F. WOODWARD 47 E. R. CAMPBELL 54 D. C. LEWIS 66 MARSHALL W.' MALONE 60 BERT E. HANEY J JOINT REP, CLARK & MULT. 74 FRED J: MEINDL COUNTY AUDITOR 83 SAM B. MARTIN CITY AUDITOR 86 GEO N. COSMUS CITY COMMISSIONERS 91 ALVA L. STEPHENS 96 GEO. B. 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