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About The Madras pioneer. (Madras, Crook County, Or.) 1904-current | View Entire Issue (April 25, 1912)
THE MADRAS PIONEER Published every Thursday by PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. Subscription Rates One year $L50 Six months u Three months bU Entered as second class matter August 29, 1904, at the Postof fice at Madras, Oregon, undei the Act of Congress of March 6, 1879. Thursday, April 25, 1912. The Oregon Primary 11 Tf the Oregon primary had been held two weeks ago Presi dent Taft might, and probably would, have carried the state in a three-cornered contest with Colonel Roosevelt and Senator La Follette. If 20,000 votes or thereabouts normally Democratic had been cast in their own pri mary and the contest within the Republican ranks left to Repub lican electors, Taft might and probably would have carried the state. Not a Democrat who ap peared at any polling place and asked for a Republican ballot was for President Taft. Many of them were for La Follette; some of them for Roosevelt. It is a condition and not a theory, which faces the Republican party at every primary election. The normal Republican vote must not only be apportioned among the respective candidates, but the Democratic contingent which persistently and unscrupulously invades the Republican primary for its own purposes must be reckoned with. Democrats in a Republican primary account, for example, for the probable triumph of Laff erty. The Illinois and Pennsylvania elections had a disastrous influ ence on the Taft campaign in Oregon; and it is likely, too, that the personal efforts of Senator LaFollette, which vastly strengthened hia campaign, in flicted more damage upon Taft .than upon Roosevelt. But Illinois and Pennsylvania were facts that could not be refuted. Candor compels the statement that the overwhelming success of Mr. Roosevelt in these two great Republican states and the poor showing of the President caused many Republicans to hesitate and to reconsider their deter mination to vote for Taft. It was clear to many that Colonel Roose velt was to be a factor before the National Convention, though it was by no means obvious that he had more than a compara tively small majority of the dele gates. But the grim and dis couraging truth that stood out above everything was that the Republican party was rent and torn by dissension, that the Presi dent had yet the unshaken al legiance of only a minority of his party, that the Republican voters in many states were in open revolt against the Admin istration, and that the Republican party with Mr. Taft as its can didate would be threatened with a disastrous defeat if not an overwhelming rout. The deserts of President Taft, the success ful policies of his Administra tion, the admirable Jqualities oi his great personality, the high giomd upon which he pitches his; every act, the indignities heaped upon him by Colonel Roosevelt and his vindictive friends, the sound precedent against a third term for any President, were all forgotten or icrnored. The insurgents were in the saddle and they were go ing to ride to victory at any cost or through any hazard. The Oregonian enlisted under the flag of President Taft for the campaign in Oregon at a time when the contest appeared to be confined to him and Senator La Follette. It understood perfectly his weakness as a candidate, and the restless and dissatisfied temper of a large and irreconcil able element of the party toward him; but it greatly preferred him to La Follette, as it believed the Oreiron Republicans would, upon a complete and proper pre sentation of all the circumstances surrounding the respective at titudes of the two candidates; and it urged Mr. Tuft's nomina tion upon the voters with what vigor and persuasiveness it pos sessed. The appearance of Mr. Roosevelt as a candidate was an event not contemplated by the Oregonian nor by any body prob ably, outside the circle of his intimate counsellors. It took him at his word when he said he would under no circumstances be a candidate. The Oregonian had a high appreciation and full understanding of the great ser vice to the country Colonel Roos evelt had rendered as President and it was drawn into a position of opposition to him much against its will. But it dis charged nevertheless its duty to President Taft and its obligation to its own conscience without hesitation and without fear or excuse or repining. It plowed a straight furrow; it leaves the consequences to care ior them selves. The Oregonian has done its share to achieve the nomination of Mr. Selling and the defeat of Mr. Bourne. The retirement of Senator Bourne and his elimina tion as a factor in Oregon pol itics is no small achievement; in deed it is a great achievement. He has been a disturbing and demoralizing influence in Ore- nm 1 1 TT. 1. gon attairs all nis nie. ne nas degraded politics ; he has disor ganized and debauched party; he has been the voice of faction and the very spirit of strife and political manslaughter. He is in a measure responsible for the unrest, dissatisfaction, non-re straint, bitterness and disloyalty that we behold everywhere to- dav. He gives fealty to no good cause; he has contributed mucn by ceaseless agitation and out right example to more than one bad cause. Yet withal it is astounding to find men in Portland who pro foundly believed in President Taft and his policies urging the renomination and election of Senator Bourne because, they said, he was in position now to get appropriations for Oregon. They wanted Taft to be re elected, and they earnestly wished his Administration to be a success; but they manifested their entire want of political judgment or discretion by seek ing the return to Washington of a Senator who would stop at nothing to embarrass the Presi dent and would oppose him with all the great power of the Sena torial office. Moreover, those are the men who have been deeply anguished for many years because the times were out of joint, the public tendencies were in opposition to all constituted authority, and the soapbox orator was abroad in the land. Yet they would honor by conferring upon him a great and dignified office the chief agitator of all. If the Republican party shall find a nominee at the Chicago convention who represents fully its progressive purposes and who shall be able to reconcile its dis cordant and quarreling elements, The Oregonian will be pleased. Yet it would almost appear that the factions had reached an im passe. Perhaps a leader may be found who will wrest victory from a grave and perilous situa tion. We hope so. The Ore go Jan. Strong Wins Prize E. N. Strong, who has been manager of the Oregon Life In surance company for The Dalles and vicinity during the last three years, won the $100 prize offered by his company to the agent who secured the most bus iness during the year ending March 31, 1912. Ho was also leader for the quarter closing March 31 and for the three-year period' ending on the same day. The Dalles Chronicle. PRECINCT VOTE IN Q O a c rt rt a m a 2 W 8 Ashwomt 3 0 Si 13 3 lio Henvor Greek 2 0 3 6 0 7 Hear Creek It) 0 3 1 3 0 Item. 7 78 17 11 81 21 HlucUltnUo 1 3 32 4 38 Hreos6 Camp Crock 0 0 13 1 3 0 Cllno Falls 2 4 0 10 7 Cross Koys 4 8 2 14 1 7 Deschutes - 8 lit 20 6 21 17 Unycreck 8 1 8 21 1" 20 Haystack . 49 3 13 2 7 23 IliitKuek 0 0 11 3 2 11 llillinan 6 2 .. 3 13 6 14 Howard Utr.O 4 5 0 U Flfo 5 1 4 2 2 1 Ireland 1 17 -1 0 17 11 .luhnson Cicck 8 1 51 2 112 Kutcher 40 8 0 30 2 38 I.aldluw It 20 5 C 17 12 Union ta 1 1 10 3 2 10 Laa 1 3 '2 2 3 2 LyleGnp 13 0 14 12 2 28 Madias 14 4 5 18 0 32 Maury 0 0 0 2 0 0 Mill Creek 1 0 4 0 1 5 Montgomery 3 0 3 9 3 10 McKay 3 2 23 3 2 25 Xewsom 0 0 13 0 0 2 Powell Hutto 20 0 3 7 2 15 Redmond 2 2 1 105 9 82 Summit 2 J 0 0 1 2 W'armspritig ' 0 2 10 0 0 0 Willow Creek 11 0 0 0 0 12 Tatl.erow 4 1 4 39 10 20 White Butto 17 0 7 2 2 3 Prinevlllo 0 14 49 42 G 94 TOTALS 290 101 295 430 232 CIS Buy" 8 WOW and tret the LJ T benefit of our unusuallv low urices. We sell half-ply "A-H," guar anteed water, acid and fire proof roofing, for SI. 10 for a full roll (10S Squire Feci) Inclodinr cement trA mill lor Uylnr. We also sell Tar Paper at 60c a roll: buudinc paper at 1 40c a roll; deademnpieltat&l.ZO arollj j plasterboard, 80c. Write for free samples. COMTPLETB HOUSES PAINTS AH the milerlil requlr. ei to bull J your tiouie ii iupplic.1 t our direct, to.coniumer pncei which ire 25 to 506 beluw uiuil quotttloni, if for our portfolio of molcrn lomei ibowlnr lioute plain inj prlcei. Cirrlice tni wiron ruin'. btrn paint, bouie and Door filnt, iLlnjLo itiln, rool leak, etc.) ire lupplledby ui tl.60 fillon (S'l) we tell our "A-Ii" pure prrpired paint, luitiMe for ill pur poKi. Send for llg paint at lowcit pricci. rut only citnor, REPUBLICAN AND TOTALS REPUBLICAN rt tc to a o a u o -5 2 e 9 H a o a a rt is 03 Pi 3 s5 I) 0. 1 11) 21 2U 25 10 ll 5J5 13 14 0 17 17 18 5 13 13 7 15 I 16 5 1) 8 2 7 4 6 A 0 4 K3 83 70 70 27 55 40 80 21 13 ' . -It 4u 3D 80 10 31 10 23 10 7 9 12 10 2 11 7 3 0 4 4 ( a 12 it) 14 10 1 13 5 6 13 3 12 13 12 4 8 3 8 7 8 3 - " 117 39 86 40 5 10 31 10 7 ,25 . fK, ', 28 26 23 7 16 7 21 3 6 16 ' . 41 68 61 22 26 38 23 V , 26 . 20 . 5 15 14 2 10 6 8 4 0 0 -? .; 15 10 10 17 4 6 13 7 0 6' ' f j . v a 5 2 1 2 4 6 0 4 - H 10 .11 1 2 0 2 8 3 1 7 22 23 17 8 11 13 13 11 4 9 20 20 . 2 17 7 13 , 0 1 11 , 57 65 09 38 30 85 40 10 28 38 ' , ' i I 28 80 SU 32 G 21 14 10 14 10 ' . vi 17 20 10 10 13 7 10 9 8 0 ! 5 5 7 3 8 4 3 2 0 4 82 30 32 17 18 15 2t 21 11 15 30 37 38 32 18 29 12 11 9 21 1 1 2 0 2 2 0 1 1 0 4 5 6 0 4 3 3.0 0 5 8 13 19 5 9 7 8 5 0 1) 10 27 25 4 22 11 31 13 7 8 7 13 12 1 12 6 7 2 1 10 - 10 29 25 23 5 11' 10 7 1 Jit 73 89 85 90 0 OH 27 38 12 '49 " 2 3 1110 3 3 0 0 8 0 7 4 3 9 2 2 11 2 11 13 11 3 14 0 8 8 0 1 33 37 40 43 3 24 10 5 3 30 9 15 13 0 14 14 2 2 5 8 80 132 110 14 115 01 83 30 10 85 789 1014 073 570 511 557 537 300 200 434 700 733 514 331 01 852 2J0 IN ii 4 8 5 8 5 35 1 3 0 7 o m 3 42 9 B o 12 9 1 0 2 5 10 13 7 0 5 5 9 8 28 MADRAS DRAMATIC CLUB The Last One of the FRIDAY, MAY 3 SANFORD'S HALL 00D MUSIC-GOOD TIME MADRAS Are Now Making Three Brands of Flour MADRAS FLOUR (straight) HIGHLAND PATENT- ( 1 a ffW All our FLOUR is of natural color The only right color, flavor and quaiw All brands are first class for their gra Madras Flour H. F. DIETZEL, Proprietor IN THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARIES ' 1 O X) a w a CO u 8. a 04 0 E a u c a Season The New FLOUR MILLS) DESCHUTES FLOUR (2nd g Mill DeM0CRAT I 1 5 i ii Sill 2232 WestUke Ave. SMttU v.