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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 4, 1905)
4 THE MORNING ASTORIAN. ASTORIA. OREGON. MONDAY, DECEMBER 4. 1905. FORT STEVENS SAYS Answer to Mr. Abercrombie's Deductions. COMMUNICATION IS SIGNED Has t Good Deal to Say that Will In terest Foot Ballista ia Astoria Re call the Aid Always Given this City Ia Hours that Were Dubious, Etc The Atorian is in receipt of the fol lowing Utter snent the Thanksgiving football pi me between the Astoria ami Fort Steven teams. It is not a literal copy of the letter which was duly edit ed as are all letters reaching tin of fine charged with undue personalities. The substance remains and U given publicity, in order that both sides may be heard in the premises: "Sir I enclose an article pertaining to the Thanksgiving football game. It i not meant to be & refutation of Mr. Abercrombie's statement. It is mere ly the views of an interested speeta tor. Iiease print in your next edition. "Thursday, November 30th, Fort Stevens football team played in Astoria to decide a tie game played early in the season. "The grounds were in poor condition, owing to excessive rainfall. The side and yard lines were almost obliterated. In all other respect, conditions were favorable. The first half commenced by a kick off to Astoria. Probably, the referee failed to notice that, when the Astoria man, carrying the ball was stopped by Lieutenant Cooper he passed the ball to another Astoria player. It may be there is no such thing aa a "dead ball" Possibly, the officials were blind. One of 'Astoria's substitutes evidently for got he was not in the game. lie stood on the side lines, coached, directed plays, and even undertook to manipu late the yard line. Where were the of ficial. "Astoria made everal gains upon se curing the ball at the kick-off. Thess gains were easily offset by Fort Stev ens. They carried the ball with appar ent ease toward Astoria' goal. At no time during the game did Astoria se cure the ball from Stevens by holding the soldiers for down. Waa Astoria's representative dreaming when he stat ed through the columns of the Astorian, that Mich was thej case "Tom and Jerry might have accounted for iU Had the flrt half lasted five minutes longer, Ft Stevent would have secured a touchdown. "The second half commenced by As toria Licking off. Astoria's full back must have seen stars, had weak knee, or something of the sort. He kicked the 111 about fifteen yard sending it over the side lines, lie certainly did not understand the art of kicking or nossihlv his feet Kt tangled. Astoria secured the ball Why is it that As toria was not obliged to kick off again, a should have been the case when the ball goes out of bounds on the kick off. After di-puting over this point for at least three minuti-l the of ficials succeded in obtaining a rule book.. It's strange the orlk-iala did not have some one read it for them. If they could read, they did not under stand the meaning conveyed, tine of the rules stated that in ca-e of "un necessary delay" the ball should be placed in play by the referee, after time had been taken out. Did this rule cover the disputed point! Did not Cap tain Watson of the Fort Stevens team ask for time! Instead of observing this rule or even waiting to decide the ques tion in dispute, one of the Astoria play er grasped the ball and placed it in play after paaing at )eat ten yards ov er the reguftitpoh dMancat from the side line. Why did not the referee carry the ball out,! Why did he allow the ball to be carried over the prescribed dis tance, thus enabling Astoria to place the ball in the center of the field, di rectly in front of the goal! Then, why in the name of common sense, did he allow Aoria to line up, and secure a paeudo touch-down, when only one of Ft. Steven's players was opposing them ! Did the officer know that no team is allowed to place the ball in play, un less there is at leaat five men playing on the opposing team? Even then, an opposing team after unusual delay, is allowed time to prepare for defense. Where were the official T Where they asleep or can they even prritend t understand the rules and regulation governing a football game. As to the man that wrote the article in the Astorian commenting so freely upon the course pursued by the Fort Steven team, he might to "go away back and ait down." Since when has the length of a football line been in creased! According to the way he figured the gainsi made by Astoria, that field must have been one hundred and twenty one yard in length or else it is possible that Astoria made a touch-down and dkl not know it. Has he forgotten how to add or did he ever know how! "If Astoria is so confident of defeat iikg the Fort Steven Football Team wny 1 11 mey win not play a re turn game on a neutral field with neu tral officials! Where are their laurels, if they refu- to uphold them! The brilliant writer in the Astorian failed to mention the fact that Astoria's foot ball management did not even allow the Fort Steven team the losers per cent are 01 me gale receipts. s that sportsmanlike! Does he know the meaning of the word! Does he call it fair! Will any candid gentleman call it such! Did Steven show a yel low streak when Astoria secured their best players when they played at Mult nomah! Who made it possible for the Astorian to have the fastest hose team on the coatt ? Why did Astoria cancel the game with Seattle! Simply because Astoria could not play and win without our players. Captain Watson of tho Thirty-Fourth prevented Mult nomah from gaining a touchdown. Where were the Astoria player at that period of the game!. Have not the soldier always aided Astoria in every way possible! Why should they be misrepresented! "John V. Rowan, private 93 Co., Coast Artillery, Fort Stevens, Oregon. An in terested spectator." DEMOCRATS UTTER AN INITIAL CAMPAIGN FALSEHOOD ACCUSE ASTORIAN OF DOUBLE DEALING IN FIGHT The best place in the city for regular or short order meals ia the Palace Res taurant; private dining rooms for ladie and careful attention given to each and every patron. Commercial street, op posite Page building. Igr 1 EAT SALE OF. lain Coats Umbrellas BEGINS MDflY, DECEMBER 4 With our usual aptitude for getting next to the good things, and ourreadines to take advantage of every opportunity tjhat will bn bcnenYkl to ourselves and our patron WeJ have just consummated another mnm moth purchase whereby we become the possessors of another great sample line of ladies rain coats and la- Letters Upon Which Charge is Predicated Are Pub lished In This issue to Prove the Lie and Its Animus. THIS PAPER ABSOLVED FROM ACCUSATION AND NAILS TRICK No Attempt Has Ever Ben Mads to Di ctate or Influence tho Ptnonal Vote of Liquor Dealers Letters Written t 0 Counteract Any Orjsnlc Work by Them in Campaign Justifiable Pr oceduro Against Dirty Work by Pro Gambling Forces Let tho People J ndge tho Equities Raised. dies and men's umbrellas at THIRD LESS THAN REGULAR PR IGI Cornea at a good time bio, just when the rainy seiaon is fairly begun. Prices: 35c to $4.50 Rain Coats $500 to $1950 All ladies and chihlrena trimmed and untrimmed bain going at One ctlf .PricG Where the New Things Make Their Debut. The Democratic powder i quite dry now. A pinch of it was exploded through the megaphonic columns of its morning letter press yesterday i and aa usual with the Democrats, the essential clement of the whole alleged ex pose was left out of the repoprt. Mr. Dellingers letter to Manager Crofton is nt publi-hed. They claim it was dt roved: All right, here is the sum and substance of it, as it left the writer's hands, taken from memory aa no copy was kept: "ASTORIA, OREGON, NOVEMBER il, 1903. "MANAGER A. CB0PT0N, PORTLAND, 0REC0N: "MY DEAR SIR:-"IN COURSE OF """CONVERSATION Willi V6u, SOMETIME AGO, YOU SAID THAT YOUR ASSOCIATION WAS AGAINST GAMBLING AND IN FAVOR OF LAW AND ORDER. YOUR KINDRED ASSOCIATION HERE THE ROYAL ARCH, IS OPPOS ING THE REGULAR REPUBLICAN TICKET IN THIS CITY, IN THE IN TEREST OF GAMBLING AND DANCE-HALLS, AND UNLESS THEY LET UP ON THIS THEY ARE LIABLE TO RUN UP AGAINST TROUBLE. I WOULD RESPECTFULLY ADVISE THAT YOU COME DOWN HERE AND STRAIGHTEN THINGS OUT SO THAT THEY WILL KEEP THEIR HANDS OFF, AS AN ORGANIZATION. VERY TRULY YOURS. J. S. DELLINGER." To thi letter Manager Crofton of the Ilrcwers and Wholesale Lienor Deal ers A-ociation of Oregon, replied in the following teinis, low it; "PORTLAND, OREGON, NOVEMBER so, 1903. "MR. J. S. DELLINGER, ASTORIA, OREGON. "DEAR SIR. THIS ASSOCIATION IS NOT VERSED ON THE MUNICI PAL FIGHT IN ASTORIA, HAVING DECIDED SOME TIME AGO TO ALLOW THE LIQUOR INTERESTS THERE, WHO HAVE A GOOD ORGANIZATION, TO HANDLE IT ENTIRELY AS THEY SAW FIT. IT WILL BE A MAT. TER TO BE DEEPLY REGRETTED IF THE LIQUOR MERCHANTS SHOULD ENDEAVOR TO FORCE UPON ANY COMMUNITY ANY POLICY REPUGNANT TO DECENCY OR IN VIOLATION OF PUBLIC SENTIMENT. "IT WOULD ALSO BE A MATTER TO BE REGRtTTED IF ANY POLI TICAL PARTY SHOULD SEE FIT TO NOMINATE, AS ITS REGULAR TICKET, CANDIDATES WHOSE SOLE IDEA OF LAW ENFORCEMENT WAS TO RESTRICT AND PERSECUTE THE LIQUOR MERCHANTS. "YOU WILL UNDERSTAND THT WE HOPE NEITHER THE .ONE NOR THE OTHER OF THESE SITUATIONS OBTAINS IN ASTORIA, AND IF THE TICKET TO WHICH YOU REFER IS ENTITLED TO THE SUP PORT OF THE DECENT CONSERVATIVE ELEMENT OF OUR BUSINESS, I WOULD SUGGEST THAT YOU LAY THEIR CLAIMS FOR SUCH SUP PORT BEFORE THE KNIGHTS OF THE ROYAL ARCH AT THEIR NEXT MEETING. YOURS RESPECTFULLY, "A. CROFTON, MANAGER." This is the predicate upon which the iVmocrntic organ seek to found charge of double purpose ami deception iigiiinst Mr. Dcllinger as a lending Hepubliian and a the proprietor of the only Kepulilimn puper in the city. It is too silly for deliberate enlargement, but in jntice to the. Ui -publican party, of which Mr. Dcllinger is a devoted and active member, and for the siike of maintaining it record in this campaign, it is expedient to sny a few words as to the motive that inpire.d the correspondence here published: In the first place, it may as well be understood now, as Inter, flint 1'iis paper is not trying to dictate the vote of the saloon men in this city, nor ia it endeavoring to even influence that vote. The saloon men of Astoria are the best judges of their own status in this fight and mpable of guaging the effect of their personal and collective alignment, now, upon their future standing and business. The Astorian has never had any fight to make on the saloon men of the rcutable sort; it's flies for the past year will plainly in dicate this;; but it has a fight coming on the Democrats sm) their trailers aa against their proclaimed and undented policy of opening up this tuwn to the vicious vagaries of the gambler and the dance-hall man and this fight will be uncompromisingly fought tilt the last hour of the campaign, and then some. In its course of avowed opposition to the leaders of this abnormal issue, the man who directs the policy of thia paper had the unqualified right to take rtuch steps as he deemed fit at a certain juncture, to deter the saloon men and others, AS AX ORfJA.VIZATION, from taking a hand against the popular will of this community, and he did it. That is all there is to the hue and cry of the megaphonie organ. As to the sneer that this paper Is putting up a plausible front to the decent citizenry of this city, and also trying to allure tbe-aupport of the vic ious element, the 1905 record of tlie Atorian is a bahl and defiant answer. Thia paper has made one fight for decency and the correction of public morals in this city and won it and it is going to win another. It is too late in the day to accuse the Astorian of oveit purpose or action in such a conting ency as now exixia. Its record ia made and it present course is in strict con formity with that record. It ia flatly and unquestionably against the plan of the Democrats to throw off tho restrictions now operative again-4 the two worst community evlts known, the open gambling den and the other incarnate den, the oeii dance-hall. On this head there need be ho controversy. If there la any dust throwing in this campaign it will coma from the peppers without any record; thia paper is committed to the decent end of thia fight and will not fudge on a single element of its fixed relation nd preconceived alliances, whether it wins or loses on the 13th day of JVeelllber. The gamblers and the dance-hall men have been active in striving to forte the saloon men, (that l, the rrppect able dealers), to declare themsehes aa allies with the iVmocrwtic Una up for an "open town," and to prevent u h an organic coalition the letters upon which this article U based, were written. Their publication in uo way IHerferee with the work the .Woilan has set It self to wrform, and no malicious on travrntion of its purpose will deter It for a single moment, in prosecuting, to the Dual end. the defeat of the bold ami corrupt object of the IVmnevat and their controlling owner. There may I Mime, not given to scrutinising political methods, that do not know the real purHMr of the IemurU in mak ing thia fight, and for their beiietU wo will say again that their aide purpose is to lay a precursory ground a oik for carrying the June eleetlon, by hulling the municipal leverage in January. To do this, they think the most alluring bait possible la a "wide open town" and it ia for a venal minority. To hide the actual design from too pn-.iiti eyes they give every poilde turn and twist to their public utterance in en attempt to smother the real and cer tain motive that actuate them. It is too late for them to enter a formal denial of the charge that they intend to OI'KN TDK CITY WIDK; no one would credit the denial now, and they are forced to use the seine kind of stuff they projected yesterday, to at tain to any publie attention at all lt the legal wind that conceived and brought forth this poor attempt to be little an honest tighter come again. The people ill take cure of him and hi co adjutors and the AUtkui will help them do it, cheerfully. FOR C0UCII AND COLD. Nothing is better than syrup lar and w!d cherry. 26c and ftOe a bottle. Sold by the Owl and Eagle Drug Rtorea. i J Ghe iL. j BEEliiJHlVB l' Our StocK of Furs Is Still Complete What Is more acceptable for a pres ent to a lady than a !ianUome fur T Our prices on fura are lower than ever, Isiaiise they iiave been latter bargains for us. lok them nvt-r at hast. Ladies rretenctte till re duced in prices. Selling out all hata, every one must go at a price. Street and trimmed hata. Our trimming season 1 Is nearly at an end. Wo will not carry over a hat. . ' .-, , Children! and mUaea street hats for J X5he jJ