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Monday, October 12, 1914
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Ashland Tidings
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A CONGRESSIONAL BLANK.
W. C. Hawley is a congressional
blank, filed away in the dusty ar
chives of the national capitol, and is
used for reference whenever the "old
guard" needs a reactionary vote. He
has been card-indexed and tagged.
He is classified as harmless, but nec
essary. He has been taught to eat
out of the horny hand of former
Speaker Joe Cannon and is one of the
few remaining cogs, in the bent and
broken wheel which was built under
the Cannon-Payne regime. If he ever
performed any real service to his
constituents they never heard of it.
If he ever made a brilliant speech it
has been expunged from the Congres
sional Record. If he ever did any
thing else of value aside from draw
ing his pay, the Washington corre
spondents have failed to record it.
Hawley is a ladylike, well-meaning
incompetent. He never measured up
to his job when he was elected and
is no further advanced at the present
time than he was when he first re
ceived his commission of office. The
republicans of the first congressional
district were "stung" when they gave
him his nomination. The entire vot
ing population of the district was
"Btung" again when he was elected.
The great majority of Oregon
newspapers concede that 'the state
ments made above are correct. It Is
not news. It is merely a statement
of facts which are already quite fa
miliar to the thinking people of the
state.
In past campaigns Hawley has won
by default for lack of aggressive op
position not because people were
satisfied with the service he rendered.
But this year he is opposed by a
brilliant lawyer and thorough busi
ness man of high integrity and abil
ity who is real congressional timber
in all the name implies. A man Of
great force, ambitious, energetic, a
southern Oregon man, comprehend
ing fully the needs of the first con
gressional district, whose election
will prove a great advantage to the
state. A man of flesh and bloody is
Frederick llollister of Coos Bay, and
the voters have the opportunity of
substituting him for the political
corpse now at the national capital.
They will not fall to embrace this
opportunity to vote for the man who
will force this district to the front in
congressional action and advantage.
The penny wise and pound foolish
policy of the city of Ashland in the
past has resulted in a bad mixup both
as to the city charter, the ordinances
and the finances as well. The city
charter has never been codified. It
is scattered from one end to the other
of the recorder's office. Some of it
cannot be found at all. The charter
is the fundamental law of the city
and no important action can be legal
ly taken except in accordance with
the charter. Nobody can , tell what
the charter contains. It should be
codified at once and put in ..intelli
gent form.
The same condition maintains in
regard to city ordinances. New ordi
nances have been passed from time
to time repealing old ones and no
proper systematic record has been
kept of them till now no one can
determine what are or are not the
laws of the city.. All city ordinances
should be properly codified.
The charter provides that the re
corder shall publish a complete state
ment of the finances of the city each
year. This has been utterly neglect
ed by the present recorder and now
it is found that the finances are so
mixed as to. bring out warm discus
sions at council sessions as to the
true condition of the finances. Such
is unquestionably a wasteful system.
Nobody knows just how the finances
stand.
Mayor Johnson and Councilmen
Ware and Cornelius have been insist
ing for a long time that these mat
ters, especially the finances, be gone
thoroughly into and proper reports
be adopted according to the charter,
and not long ago Mr. Ware compiled
and printed a statement of the gen
eral fund for 1913 with a view to
determining Just the status of the
fund. Now Mr. Cunningham, chair
man of the finance committee, con
tends that his findings are faulty if
1912 finances are considered, and in
the meantime nobody knows. The
people should Insist that the next ad
ministration adopt a systematic plan
of accounting so that the true state
be understood by the council, that
in the future there may be no need
for difference between the council
men as to what the true financial
state really is.
These slipshod methods in doing
the city's business are resulting in
great waBte, much more, indeed, than
It will cost to put the records in
proper shape and keep them so in the
future.
The Tidings stands with Mayor
Johnson and Councilmen Ware and
Cornelius in their effort to bring this
about.
NOT SUITABLE.
With a salacious police case at is
sue the front, row in the court room
filled with bald-headed men raven
ous for sensation with embarrass
ing testimony being produced to
prove the facts and a woman occu
pying the judge's bench it would
never do. Before the office ot re
corder of the city of Ashland is as
pired to by the gentler sex the char
ter should be revised so that the of
fice of recorder and police jud?,e w'H
not need be exercised by tb9 sama
person. Otherwise modesty forbids
woman to aspire. That sort of casq
frequently arises in the administra
tion of police court justice in any
city.
Hawley will not be in Oregon dur
ing -this campaign. He says he is
"standing at his post and will leave
his campaign to the people of his dis
trict." That sounds fine. ' However,
on August 8 last Mr. Hawley was ap
pointed on a committee of forty-eight
to attend the funeral of Mrs. Wilson.
He was not in Washington at the
time. He was in Denver attending
a meeting of the directors of an in
surance society, for which service
he draws ?100 per month. He does
not seem to stand as solidly "at his
post" when a side issue salary of
$100 per month is at stake as he does
when that catch phrase looks like a
vote getter. In fact, it wots not of
the results whether Hawley "stands
at the post." The first district of
Oregon has been "left at the post"
ever since Hawley has bad the honor
to mis-represent it.
Parents, if you wish your chil
dren to receive individual instruction
you should arrange to place them in
Mrs. Hardy's private school. Call be
tween 4 and 5 o'clock. School will
permit visitors after October 9. 130
East Main street. 37-tf
Tidings "For Sale" ads are active
little real estate salesmen.
The Home Circle
seized with a parching thirst. But
parents are learning. So are govern
ments and law-making bodies. The
world moves and the part that is
moving fastest is the rural district
The young man on the farm is being
given his chance. Th federal gov
ernment old Uncle Sam himself is
looking out for the farmer boys and
girls and paying big salaries to ex
perts and specialists who know how
to make country life interesting as
well as profitable. Nowadays the
farmer boy seldom hears the com
mand, "Don't do that." He is told
to DO and shown how to do it. His
education is being turned into a game
which he plays with almost the same
ardor as he used to play hookey in
the old don't-do-that days. In the
last generation a boy who might want
to build a bird house, for instance,
would be bidden to exercise his bud
ding architectural genius in con
structing the woodpile. Now the fed
eral government encourages him to
build bird houses and will show him
how. The ' Department of Agricul
ture's farmer bulletin 609 is entitled
"Bird Houses and How to Build
Them." It is as fascinating as any
of the how-to-do-things articles we
used to read in Golden Days, The
Boy's Own Book, St. Nicholas or
Harper's Young People when we were
youngsters. Send for it or, better
yet, let your boy send for it it's
free and let him build bird houses
this winter. The importance of birds
as insect destroyers is supreme. And
there is a decided movement to make
neighbors of them. Many birds, if
furnished with a safe retreat, will
more than pay their rent to their
landlords.
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Political Announcements
Paid. Adv.
For County Clerk.
I am a candidate for county clerk,
subject to the will of the voters at
the polls on November 3. My service
In this capacity during the last two
years is the sole basis of seeking your
support. G. A. GARDNER,
Jacksonville, Ore.
For
WOMEN FOR CITV RECORDER.
There has been some agitation
lately for a woman as a candidate
for city recorder in the coming elec
tion. The Tidings is not opposed to
women in office, but the office should
be selected with regard to its fitness
to the candidate. City recorder, un
der the Ashland charter, Is not suit
able for a woman. The recorder is
both police judge and city clerk. It
Is the duty of the recorder to try aTl
police court enses. During the past
year several cases have arisen that
would have been extremely embar
rassing for a woman police magis
trate to hear, especially a single lady.
Such cases are continually arising.
Prospective candidates should not
lose sight of that. The clerical part
of the work Is not only suitable for
women to perform, but such work
has been acceptably undertaken by
two bright young ladies during the
past several years, and they have
done it well, but when their scope Is
extended to trying police cases It is
impossible modesty will not permit
it
NEW RAILROAD FROM ROSKIU RG
TO COOK RAY.
The city of Roseburg has voted
half a million dollars in bonds to
aid In the construction of a railroad
from that place to Coos Bay. At the
same time "a commission of ten citi
zens was elected to carry out the en
terprise. If the people of Roseburg now act
wisely and contribute this fund only
upon the condition that the road be
completed to Coos Day it will be
worth millions to the town, but if
they proceed to build till the fund Is
dissipated and the road left unfin
ished it will be a huge mlBtake. Lit
tle good will come to Roseburg from
extending a line of road Into the
hills with no tidewater terminal; but
If it is handled so that a road will be
completed to tidewater It will be
worth millions not only to that city
but to southern Oregon.
S Thoughts from the Editorial Pen
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Creating Impressions.
Listen, daughter. Don't cry and
don't make your mother think that
her little Iamb has been abused. - Yes,
I know that the stranger spoke to
you. Disrespectfully, you say?
Called you "Kiddo!" Well, daugh
ter, perhaps the man thought you
answered to the name of "Kiddo."
You see, he only arrived here this
morning. He happened to notice you
at the depot . when he got off the
train. Yes, I know you only went
to the depot to see if any of the girls
had gotten back from the city. And
then you say he happened to be
standing on the hotel porch this af
ternoon when you went to the post
office. I know, of course, you could
hardly help glancing In his direction
when you went by and when you and
Flossie Fay passed that way later, it
wasn't your fault that Floss asked
you, loudly enough for him to hear,
if you weren't sick and tired of living
in this poky old town. So when you
took a walk this evening he saw you,
sauntered after you and at the corner
near the drug store he overtook you
and. raising his hat, asked, "What's
your hurry, Kiddo?" And you ran
home in teaiB, to tell your mother
how you had been Insulted. Thauk
God for that. You're Dad's girl yet,
But don't blame the man. He knows
that there are kiddos in every town.
He meets them at the depots. He
notices them passing and repassing
the hotels and going to and from the
postoffices, and he always sees them
with Flossies. Rut those men will
never speak to the small-town girls
who mind their own business and
keep off the streets. Now tomorrow
If you help your mother with the pre
serving, not a soul will harm you
So dry your eyes no, not the powder
rag use cold water and a soft towel
That's right, smile.
County Recoidcr of Jackson
County, Oregon.
I hereby announce myself as the
democratic candidate for the office of
County Recorder, to be voted on at
the general election on November 3,
914. If elected, I will do my duty
as I have in other responsible posi
tions that I have held.
LEE L. JACOBS.
Not a property In Ashland but that
can be sold by Tidings "For Sale"
ads In less time and at less cost than
through the regular agent channels.
Try it ; l .
Holltster is capable congressional
timber. He Is honest and clean, and
In the council of the nation will
stand high as the highest. lie
Is a man of exceptional business
acumen and political sagacity. He
will get things for Oregon.
'Don't do That"
How many times have you heard
a father or a mother command a boy
In the words quoted above! How
often our fathers and mothers pro
hibited us from doing this and that!
And right away the desire to do the
prohibited thing grew stronger than
ever. It's human nature. We don't
change much In this respect even
when we grow older. That, perhaps
is why it Is so hard to completely en
force certain laws against habits
such as cigarette smoking or the use
of liquor. 8hortly after the antl
cigarette law was passed In Indiana
many persons began smoking cigar
ettes just because the state's com
mand, "Don't do that," lent a certain
piquancy to the satisfaction of smok
Ing. And everyone- has heard of the
persons who, when liquor is easily
obtainable, never really feel that they
want a drink, but who, the moment
they come Into dry territory, become
For Sheriff.
I hereby announce myself as the
democratic nominee for sheriff of
Jackson county to be voted on at the
general election, November 3, 1914.
J. F. HITTSON.
(Present chief of police ol Med
ford.)
County Recorder.
I hereby announce myself as can
didate on the republican ticket for
county recorder. If elected I will
give my undivided attention to the
duties of the office. Election No
vember 3, 1914.
CHAUNCEY FLORE Y.
County Coroner,
I am candidate for coroner of Jack
son county, subject to the will of the
electors at the November election. If
successful at the polls I pledge my
best efforts. W. W. USSHER.
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For Sheriff.
Hereby announcing myself as re
publican candidate for sheriff at the
coming election, I stand on my past
record of efficient service in the fn
terest of the taxpayer, and respect
fully solicit the support of all voters.
W. H. SINGLER.
County Surveyor Democratic Cnndl.
dute Subject to Election, Nov. 3.
I respectfully refer you to my past
record as a basis upon which to judge
my qualifications for the above
named office.
During the present term I have
been chief deputy county surveyor
and have been actively engaged in
the practice of civil engineering and
surveying in the county for the paBt
six years.
If elected, I will endeavor to serve
the public in a manner that will re
fleet credit upon the office.
A. T. BROWN
County Treasurer. .
I hereby announce that I am the
republican candidate and nominee for
the office ot County Treasurer.
FRED L. COLVIO
, State Senator.
I hereby announce my candidacy
for state senator from Jackson conn
ty, on the democratic and prohibition
tickets. I am out to win. I am for
a dry state and for Jackson county
I shall use my best efforts, if elected
to represent this district in an ag
gresslve and acceptable manner.
TIIOS. E. NICHOLS,
Eagle Point
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VAUPEL'S
THE Ql'AMTY STORK.
Are Yon Awake ?
Stock Ranch Cheap. Ask About It
House and lot leased lor $180 for one year.
For sale lor $1,500. Where can you
invest money to beat that?
320 acres flood farm land worth $75 an acre
offered at $50 for quick sale.
A $3,500 modern residence offered at jjreat
discount. Inquire.
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