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ASHLAND TIDINGS Thursday, October 17, 191?. PAGE TWO Ashland Tidings SEMI-WEEKLY. ESTABLISHED 1876. THE MEDFORD GANG. The political manipulators at Med ford have no politics. They change j from republicans to socialists of democrats to prohibitnionists as the occasion demands. The organization is for political spoils and it is not itnrtiMilaf vhat i,r,liHrnl niirtv is B. W. Taloott, . - - City Editor, lnstrmcn, thrnuch which its design is accomplished or wheth- Issaed Mondays and Thursdays Bert R. Greer, Editor and Owner SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One Year 12.00 Six Months -1-00 Three Months 50 Payable in Advance. TELEPHONE 39 Advertising rates on application. First-class Job printing facilities. Equipments second to none in the Interior. Entered at the Ashland, Oregon, Postoffice as second-class mail matter. Ashland, Ore., Thursday, Oct. 17, '12 THE INTERESTS. A great deal is being said this year about the "interests" and their corrupt alliance with politics. The interests have come -to be understood as a combination of big business working through politics in such a way as to control administration for its own selfish ends. Generally speaking, the "interests' are of na tional scope. At least the people have come to so believe. But, is it not equally true that these combina tions called "interests" have also taken lodgment in our community life and many times exercise a sinis ter political influence which results in the same abuses as are traced to the "interests" of national scope? Take Jackson county as an example. Some five hundred thousand dollars have been squandered during the past four years. Of course this reck less and loose extravagance has been accomplished directly through the county court, ; but has the county court been the sole beneficiary 01 its jowa laxity? The writer thinks not. The main beneficiaries have been the secret powers behind the court. Had the county court during the past four ISSUES. er any political party is needed to accomplish it. Through its control of the county court of Jackson coun ty during the past four years hun dreds of thousands of dollars of tax moneys have been squandered and the taxes have been raised to the limit. Certain localities and individuals have benefited from these reckless expenditures but little good has come to the citizens of the county at large. Now this gang is turning over heaven and earth to elect Mr. TouVelle coun ty judge and are fighting George Dunn tooth and nail. Eight years ago when the voters of Jackson coun ty elected George Dunn county judge he at once began to close up the leaks in the county treasury. He demnaded that a dollar in value be given the county for every dollar ex pended through the county court. This did not suit the exploiters. They were looking for benefits rath er than economical government. And the four years of Dunn's administra tion were lean years for the gang. Because Dunn refused to turn the county treasury keys over to them they designated him a "mossback." They had printed in the Mail-Tribune garbled photographs of highways constructed under Dunn's adminis tration and called them "Dunn's ele vated roads." They threw out every slander against Mr. Dunn that could be hatched in a dishonest and fertile brain. The people were misled and Mr. Dunn was defeated four years ago. candidates or tne gang s mail ing were elected and resulted in the worse than wasting of some five hun dred thousand dollars of tax moneys. "Now this same gang is again oppos ing the candidacy of Mr. Dunn. That is one bg reason why George Dunn Bhould be elected and why the hon est, intelligent voters of the, county who were here at the time and know THEY DON'T ELIMINATE GOD. years been free from these secret in-ithe animus behind his opposition fluences no doubt a different result would have followed. What is this secret influence of which we here speak? Some have designated it as the "Medford gang." It might more properly be designated the Jackson county "interests." For its alliance with the politics of Jackson county is very much like that o( the nation wide "interests" with the national administration. The national "inter ests" have controlled politics for self ish ends and the people have been are now enthusiastically for Dunn.' There are some people that have come into the valley during the past two years and that have not taken the pains to inform themselves as to the true situation who are now being worked upon by the, gang day and night to have them cast their votes for TouVelle. This work is having some effect because the gang is smooth enough to veil its hand bo that the claws are not discernible to the unwary. The, gang is depending robbed while the "interests" have ilul)0n the new voters to hold tne bal- grown fat. Is not exactly the same true in the politics of Jackson coun ty? Why are. the Jackson county "interests" secretly supporting the candidacy of TouVelle and openly fighting Judge Dunn? Is it not reas onable to say they are doing it with sinister motives and for selfish ends? Always the "interests" support the candidate through which they can ac complish their selfish ends and bit terly oppose those who are wise enough to represent the taxpayers and insist on economical, business like administration. That is why the "interests" now habitat at Med ford are supporting TouVelle and fighting George Dunn. PARCELS POST. There has.been a growing demand in the United States for a parcels post law. The demand mostly came from the farmers and the big depart ment mail order houses. As the' bill was first proposed it carried a flat postage rate on packages up to eleven pounds without regard to the dis tance carried. The adoption of such a bill would have resulted in great harm to small retail stores through out the ' rural districts because it would have put the large mail-order house in a position to outsell the lo--cal merchant. Senator Jonathan Bourne realized this situation. He believed that a parcels post should he adopted in the interest of the farmer but should be so arranged ar to not put the rural merchants to disadvantage. So he devised the plan followed out in the bill as final ly adopted. The rate is based on zones comprising a fifty-mile unit, the basis per pound for the first fifty miles, including rural delivery, being 5 cents and grading up to some 80 cents for over two thousand miles haul. The result of this unit system will be that the rural merchants will be enabled to use the mail for local and rural route delivery at a much less cost per pound than the mail order houses, as they will be com pelled to pay the much higher rate for the long haul. Thus Senator Bourne has given the people the ben efit of the parcels post without great ly injuring the local retail merchant. ance in, favor of TouVelle. Mr. TouVelle, personally, is as smooth a politician as the writer has ever known. He is a splendid mixer and is persistent. He makes himself a good fellow with every one he meets. He eats yellow-legged chickens at the church festival and is equally popular with those who know not the sound of a church bell. He can come as near being all things to all men as any candidate who ever can vassed for votes. Had the gang hunted for years they could not have found a "more representative" can didate. In another way TouVelle fairly il lustrates the acme of craftiness in playing the political game. He has a keen sense for the things that hurt and the things that help. No sooner was he nominated than he issued Btrict orders to Gorge Putnam that the Mail-Tribune should be silent as a sphinx as to his candidacy. He seemed to thoroughly agree with Mr Merrick that the best way to defeat a candidate was to have the Mall Tribune for him.. That nettled Put nam a little, but he and TouVelle had been long and close friends and Putnam, wanted to help the cause be cause it was nis own cause- tne same cause had been his four years ago and he had done fairly well with it and he itched for some more of it. So Putnam buried his pride and his ego in his shirt bosom and Tou Velle fell on his neck and buried ego and pride and all under a copious covering of grateful tears. It was agreed that the Mail-Tribune should howl long and loud about the Med ford bridge, but say never a word about TouVelle's candidacy. Tou Velle has proven himself an able dip lomat. He should be sent as ambas sador to France or Fiji, and most of those In the valley who are on to the secret .curves of the gang are willing that he should be sent there, but to make him county judge instead of George, Dunn, never, never! "We are informed that anyone who declares Wilson is not the best boss buster in the country is a liar. Any one who declares he is not the best trust buster is a liar. It is high time that all this vicious misrepresenta tion stopped and issues were dis cussed. "But Wilson is an issue. Ninety five per cent of the predatory trusts and monopolies are incorporated in New Jersey. Woollrow Wilson is governor of New'jersey. Mr. Wilson has control of the legislature in New Jersey. "Any day by express provision of the constitution of that state Gov ernor Wilson could drive out any dishonest corporation, compel an amendment to its charter or qualify its articles of incorporation. He could have done this any time during his administration. He hasn't raised a finger. VThe Standard Oil Company owes its existence to the state of New Jer sey, the Tobacco trust, the Sunar trust, the United States Steel Corpo artlon. These corporations paid $6,- 000,000 this year to New Jersey for the privilege of doing business in 4 8 states. If Wilson- is the boss trust buster why has he left these corpora tions alone when he could have done more than all the state and federal courts together? "As to bosses. Will anyone deny that Sulzer is a typical Tammany heeler and spoils politician? Will anyone deny that Taggart of Indiana, Sullivan of Illinois, Murphy of New York are bosses? Will anyone deny that Wilson approves Suizer and sup ports him? . Will anyone deny that Murphy, Sullivan and Taggart are supporting and will vote for Wil son? "Why? To put themselves out of business, pt course. Isn't it perfectly reasonable' to suppose that all the bosses will vote for Wilson, he being the best man qualified to throw them out of office? "These things appear to be issues to us in spite of the objections of our democratic friends." Sun. And further: The American peo ple claim to be against the triists, The most prominent feature in the testimony of trust representatives be fore the senate committee investigat ing contributions to campaign funds wag that every trust representative gave his testimony in such manner as to cast the greatest possible re flection on Colonel Roosevelt. Es pecially wag this true in the testi mony of Archbold and J. P. Morgan. Beyond question the trust testimony proves the interest's squarely against the candidacy of Mr. Roosevelt. How the people expect to whip the trusts by defeating the candidate they op pose is beyond comprehension. There is not a schoolboy in America but is sure that Mr. Taft has not the ghoBt of a show to win. That leaves the fight between Wilson and Roosevelt. Every trust representative, as indi cated by his testimony before the senate investigating committee, it bitterly opposed to Roosevelt. There fore the trusts prefer Wilson to Roosevelt. Why? Well, as seated above In the Sun editorial, Standard Oil, the Steel trust, the Tobacco trust, the Sugar trust and more than 80 per cent of all the great interstate trusts are incorporated under the laws of New Jersey. Wilson has been governor of New Jersey for two years. The con stitution of New Jersey gives power to the governor to annul or amend the charter of any corporation that violates the law. Maybe that is why the trusts prefer Wilson to Roose velt and why Wilson so completely dodged the anti-trust and tariff planks of the democratic platform in his speech of acceptance. uenuemen or America, you can never whip the trusts by supporting candidates which the trusts support. HlllllimIIIIHHIMlMHtHIIMMIIHH All Europe has been roused by what Professor Edward Albert Sha fer, president of England's greatest body of scientists, told these scient ists the other day in Dundee, Scot land, respecting his ideas of the ori gin of life. Most folks seem to think that sci entists are not paying enough atten tion to what God is popularly sup posed to have done in regard to orig inating life. Professor Shafer gave God no cred it at all. He thinks lifejs only a chemical action; that, in a swamp. some time, somewhere, a little salts, potassium, phosphorous, water and some other chemicals happened to get together, that there was a slight stirring, a movement, and life began. Even now, he thinks, if scientists will only watch the swamps carefully enough. It is not impossible that they I will see new life being created. By new life he does not mean the life that a parent passes on to a child, but brand new life, that has never existed before. It doesn't seem to us that the sci entists are really leaving God out of it. Even if they do discover that life is only a chemical action, can they tell us who made the chemicals, and by whose law these chemicals are converted into a mother, with her first babe in her arm? Perhaps it is true that the first stir of life on this planet was only a lot of chemicals bumping into each other and mixing up. But who made the law by which this stir becomes the loving heart-beat of a parent, or the love of a man for a woman, or the ambition that causes men to move mountains, or the fidelity that makes a man give up his life for what he believes is true? Common folk, who only know they are alive, but can't tell you how, ought not to make fun of scientists or condemn them, or put stumbling blocks In their way. Let them go on with their guessing and seeking. The chances are that some day they'll help us to understand, even more fully than we do now; how great God really is. PureMountainWaterlce Reduced Prices on Ice FOR SEASON OF 1912 Do not throw your apples away on a glutted market. Put them in cold storage for better prices. Your potatoes will not sprout or grow soft in cold storage. j Get our prices, which are as low as in the east. J We have a limited amount of dry wood for sale, and the best Washington state coal for the lowest possible price for cash. ASHLAND ICE AND STORAGE CO. TELEPHONE 108 i DO YOU BELIEVE IN THE OREGON SYSTEM? Italy and -Turkey are coming to peace terms. Turkey has plenty of trouble nearer borne. Who will dictate the business pol icy of Jackson county during the next four years? Will it be those who pay the taxes or the "interests" at Medford? TouVelle Is the candidate of the ' interests," Dunn is the can didate of the people. Scale receipts at Tidings office The Home Circle Thoughts from the Editorial Pen Riley's Birthday. Occasionally some man has sprung from the plain people who sings be cause he must. He was not trained to do it. He had no expensive col lege education which made him think of making literature. He sim ply had melodies that crooned in his brain and love for his kind that abode in his heart, and the result was true song. stead of kill off, he asks, and so be- fore 10 a. m. he mounts the auction block. A black shepherd sells first call. A shepherd's specialty is driving sheep. A little Spitz brings a fair price. Lap-dogging is a Spitz's spec ialty, and there are some women who prefer lap-dogs to children. Two fox terriers sell like hot cakes. Fox f terriers' specialties are rat-catching, and giving the neighbors nervous prostartlon. And now Auctioneer Shaw puts up for bids the last, an ordinary street cur, mongrel through five genera tions and altogether miscellaneous. What do you bid for just such a dog? What's offered for this fine mongrel Such a one was Burns in Scotland: such another was Beranger in ot J"8 uch nair, flesh and bones? France: and such, we are persuaded, i Bring on the chloroform, Mr. Pound- is James Whitcomb Riley in America. In each case their first friends and first audiences were composed of the keeper! But a little girl comes through the crowd. She wants that dog. Why? ThKcur has no special- plain people. Burns' simple love ', ty. Worthlessness i3" written all over Then you should vote to send Jon athan Bourne back to the United States senate. He is not only one of the foremost advocates of the Oregon system, but he has done more to advance pro gressive laws throughout the nation than any other man. La Follette says he has, Cummins says he has, Roosevelt says he has, all the truly progressive national statesmen join in commending Bourne for his stal wart and consistent progressiveism. Besides that, Jonathan Bourne has succeeded in getting better commit tee appointments in his five years' service in the senate than most other senators have gained in twenty years. Mr. Bourne is well up on the appro priations committee and has done more for Oregon in the way of appro priations than any senator Oregon has ever had. Mr. Bourne is not the nominee of any party. He is running indepen dent. The editor of this paper is af filiated with the progressive party in Oregon. In order to support Mr. Bourne the Tidings bolts the pro gressive nominee, Mr. Clarke. It does so because it believes in bo doing it is best forwarding the Oregon sys tem. The Tidings does not think it wise for the people to turn down a public servant who has made good. It deems it a reflection on the Oregon syetem and on the ability of the peo ple to Intelligently rule under it. For that reason the Tidings will support Jonathan Bourne. songs, Beranger's ballads about home folk, Riley's melodies about little children and Hoosier farms, went straight to the heart of the people who ordinarily do not ' care for poetry, because it Is above their heads. After all, most of us feel emotions more rapidly than we think thoughts. We cry or we laugh more readily than we ponder cloudy meta physics. And that is the reason we hail as our brothers certain -singers long before the critical pundits awake to the astonishing fact that these men have produced literature! Riley, the discoverer of "Little Orphan Annie" and many another quaint lad and lass, will live in our American literature just as surely as our Longfellows and our Poes. And that is why it was fitting to celebrate his birthday. He has been peculiar ly our kind of man one of us, living our kind of life, thinking our kind of thoughts, sharing our sorrows and our joys. So here Is to Jim Riley, poet, lau reate of the plain people. Lon may he sing for our delight! IF YOU ARK A PROGRESSIVE and do not like HAWLEY'S STAND-PAT RECORD vote for JOHN W. CAMPBELL For Congress from the First District, Hawley's record shows him to be a stand-patter of the stand-patters Every move he has made since he has been In congress was in com plete harmony with the Cannon-Ald-rich program. You cannot hope to get your government back into the hands of the people' If you vote for stand-pat congressmen. John W. Campbell is thoroughly progressive and will stand solidly in congress for progressive legislation. He is pro gressive rather than partisan, and is pledged to support progressive legis lation whether it Is put forward by a republican or a democratic admin istration. He stands for anti-trust legislation and revision of the tariff downward. (This is NOT a pal'd advertisement.) The "Medford interests" have run Jackson county for the past four years. Mr. Taxpayer, how have you liked it? This same "Medford inter est" is fighting George Dunn tooth and nail. Why do you suppose they are doing that? Mr. TouVelle seems to be satisfactory to the "interests," for he is being secretly aided and abetted by them in his gumshoe campaign. Story About a Dog. They must die. Sentence has been pronounced upon the whole five of them and the executioner is prepar ing his means with which to kill. They are friendless and homeless. Society has turned its back upon them. The law has them. J Perhaps it is well, in order to avoid some slight confusion, to state here that the five condemned are not men. ' They're dogs impounded by the great city of Portland, and the law has set 10 a. m. for their kill ing. But, Chief of Police Shaw to the rescue! Why not auction off in- him. He is friendless. But he wags his tail. His eyes appeal. The child wants him to love him, that's all. She asks them to hold back the chlo roform until she can go home and get her pennies from her little sav ings bank. - Only a cur dog, thought the chief of police, but what a price he brought the love of a child. You see, the chief had for years been rub bing up against human nature. He had seen it in the slums and in the environs of the aristocracy. He had known strong, able workmen to. be auctioned off in the wage-market. Always he had seen folks bidding in at lowest possible price the things of the highest value, for profit's sake. Always he had seen the poor, the friendless, the unspecialized chloro formed in some way or other put out of the way in behalf of the profit able. Here was pure love, backed by the pennies of a child's bank, of fered just for love's sake, and as the chief put the mongrel pup into the child's arms he must have said under his breath, "You lucky cur!" for the greatest of all specialties is the abil ity' to return love for love, at which there are few creatures more accom plished than a cur dog. Third Trial in Hearst Libel Suit. Los Angeles, Oct. 15. A new trial of a libel suit brought by William Davis of Pasadent against William R. Hearst was granted today by Su perior. Judge Bordwell, on account, of error. This will be the, third trial of fhe case, Davis having been awarded $35,000 in the first and $32,000 In the second hearing. La Follette's Weekly Magazine and the Tidings one year for $2.50.. If it is Tidings work It is the best. Turks Win Victory. Constantinople, Oct. 15. Crush ing defeat was dealt by a Turkish force to a large band of Montenegrin torops at Gisinje today. The Monte negrins were broken after a desper ate fight and completely routed. Postmasters On Civil Service List. New York, Oct. 15. President Taft, on board the yacht Mayflower, today signed an executive order put ting 35,000 fourth-class postmasters in the classified side. 4.4H.mMh.'M"H..M - 2! Before you buy that heater, call and inspect our stock, now on display ALL SIZES ALL PRICES SUNSET MAGAZINE and Ashland Tidings one year $2.75 to old or new subscribers. Regular price of Sunset Magazine is $1.50 per year. 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