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THE MORNING ASTOUIAN. ASTORIA. OREGON. THURSDAY, MAY 14, 190! REPUBLICAN RALLY (Continued from page 1) author was a democrat, republican, popu list, prohibitionist or a Methodist. "If a man should ask me why Gover nor Chamberlain should not 1 rc-eleeteJ and I should reply what his being a democrate is a sufficient reason. 1 would cover the ground precisely. We do not : need and should not have a democratic governor in a state wmen na a repuu lican majority of 25.000. But in this campaign the democratic brethren, know - ing they have no chance for success on their party name or record, art quite frisky in their claim that 'party lines should be disregarded and only men be voted for.' Very well, this will do, if the democrats will agree to break their party lines into smithereens and come' over to u, not in a body, perhaps, but in even considerable number. But since there is every reason for theui to disre gard; their party lines, and as most of them are Roosevelt men, anyway, and there is no reason why a republican should not support his party nominees, we will welcome them in unlimited numbers. Come on, brethren and let us make it unanimous. You deserted party line in 1904 until Rosevelt carried the state by 43,000 majority, and if you will .-take your present diagnosis with ' r . .. sufficient liberality, the republican ma joritT will be nearly equal to the entire r "And we will accept their yearning : r . , desire to vote for 'men.' What havei they in the line of 'men that will ap peal to the common people in the mat ter of breaking their necks in a great rush toward the democratic band wagon? The only reason thus far given is found in the "Great I Am speeches of Gover nor Chamberlain in which it is claimed that about all the virtues known to man Are clustered about his person and what principles of good government have been held in abeyance since the birth of primeval man are waiting for his pro vidential advent in order that they might be put into tangible practice. Just what grudge the Almighty has had against preceding generations that the appearance of Chamberlain has been so exasperatingly delayed, will always re main a mystery. We, of this age, are alone to be congratulated upon this special act of divine favoritism. "And yet, there are those who imagine that there were some really good things done by those who have preceded hira in the state affairs of Oregon thus show ing 'how some people will Tjecome the unconscious tools of seductive hallucina tion.' "It has now been fully two weeks since the governor began informing the people of the wonderful things he has done for them during his 'incumbency,' and in no instance that I now recall has he given any other state officer or even the state legislature, any credit, what ever for any good thing that may have been done. He has been the whole thing . and it has not been even necessary to prove it he freely admits the claim without equivocation. And yet, about the first thing he did after being sworn into office was to fully approve and sign a new law amending the assessment laws which made no provision for levy ing any taxes for the year 1904, either for state purposes or by any county court for county purposes. For this act of negligence in signing a bill with out reading it, he was afterward com pelled to call an extra session of the legislature, costing the tax payers sev eral thousands dollars these same tax payers whose votes he now so earnestly claims on the ground that only his col leagues and the state legislature make mistakes. But he, never. No, never. "I intend to examine some of his pre- Five Reasons Why You Should Use ' RUBEROID ROOFING To MaKe a New Roof or Repair Tour Old One 1. Same cost of Insurance as Iron. 2. Most Durable Roofing Made. 3. Easy to put on 4. Is Guaranteed to Give Satisfaction, 5. Has Stood All Tests of Heat and Cold; wet and dry weather. ?iiE FARD 8 STOIiES C0. ASTORIA AGENTS. postetxuis claims as he sots them forth in his bombastic speeches in such vain glorious term from day to day. In his speech at La Grand, he fell into his usual vein of self-oiilogy, and declared that when the la! session of the legis lature passed the million dollar appro priation bill he 'sent them word they had gone too far' and that they had bet ter leave off the emergency elmise so the Hople could 'referendum' it. Hut if he had 'kept his oar out' the legislature would lave passed the bill in time for j the executive veto and the legislative , wV(i t,.imnul,, it ofiN 0,)jtvli,ma,)U, features. Instead of this, however, he claimed it was an improper measure . . o ( ) upon nearly two years afterward, and in the meantime the state's expense t are running on just the same and practi cally every dollar of that bdl will have to be re-appnoprinted, no matter how the vote in June may be. And inter est will have to bo paid, besides. It will lie an expensive piece of business for the people in any event which could have all been avoided if the governor had promptly vetoed the measure in stead of maneuvering over to the people for political effect. In his defense the governor says it is not the mere amount in money but the principle the jeople should veto.' But the question is. 'Why did not the governor veto the pernicious principle on the spot, instead I of shirking it with all its attendant 1 . . , .. , ,, , added expense, upon the shoulders of I the people? I.et the people not be fool- r , . ,, ... ed bv such shallow pretense as this. "Another instance of his promptly t, . , . ,. saving the state from impending mis- . . . . . 1UI llllir in set luiut 111 Ills urv mini i,ru that 'a soon as I was elected I figured out a way to apply to Oregon the scheme of taxing the gross earnings of corporations and an inheritance tax.' Gracious, heavens! Why Secretary Dun bar had been working on this proposi tion for four year, in conjunction with myself, and had been recommending it to the legislature long before Chamber lain was even elected district attorney for Multnomah county. In my last mes sage I strongly advocated both these measures, but we now have it. for po litical effect, ( and to induce republi cans to step out of their party lines. that 'as soon as I was elected I figured a way, etc.' What this great state would have done if Chamberlain had never left Mississippi, it would perhaps be impossible to conjecture. Mayhap a kind Providence would have taken pity on an unfortunate people and raised up some one else able to 'figure out' a scheme of salvation. The governor further glorifies himelf by saying that 'two suggestions were made and adopted by the legislature, the corporation tax law and the tnx on inheritance and these two have pro duced good results in three years we have collected three times as much revenue a in the four year of the prvious administration.' This is true, but I modestly refer you to my last message to the legislature where you will find 'these two suggestions' as necessary to offset the increased appro priations demanded for the Lewis and Clark Fair. In fact, I am quite certain that bills had been already introduced providing for these 'two suggestions' even before my message was deliverer or Chamberlain was inaugurated. But what does that matter when a man has gotten under headway in the matter of 'figuring out a scheme' for political effect? It is the destruction of party lines we are after 'non partisan vot ing that is, on the part of republicans. "But it would be difficult to mention all the preposterous claims which are drifting into the crafty governor's po litical net. Another I recall is included in an advertisement in a Salem paper of a few days ago, in which it is set forth that the governor's promises have been fulfilled, one of which is that 'he promised a flat salary law, it passed and beginning in January, the fees of the secretary of slate and state treasurer will be jiaid into the treasury, benefit ting the tax payers about $35,000 a year.' Now. there is no way of fully describing Mich an absurd claim as this save to chiiracteiie it as nn instiince of supreme gall. For two campaign' prfor to I'htunbei Iain's election the re publicans of Oregon had declared lu favor of a tlat salary law, it was recoin mended by myself to the legislature be fore Chamberlain's inauguration, the bill was introduced by a republican and it was passed by a republican legisla ture, and every well informed man in Oregon knows that the record will show this. Hut, a-ide from that, the governor could not in a thousand years show- where the sum of fcLVOOO a vear will lie saved to the taxpayers of Oregon by this law, or even half that sum, al though it is a good measure. "It i significant, however, that the governor, while Ism! fully claiming whatever of 'good has come from the flat salary law neglected to say that the governor's salary has been increased sixteeen per cent above what it is at present. But. perhaps, that is one of the good features of the law which he forgot to mention. A man cannot re member all these things 41s he goes long, but what about the 'saving to the tax payers? "With remarkable modesty, he also declares that he 'promised that the money in the irreducible school fund should be loaned and today it brings in about $45,000 a year for the benefit of the school children of the state.' In his speech at 1-a Grande he siid 'I took the matter up with the other member of the board and told them that fund must be loaned out, and it was loaned out.' Sure! The Great I Am 'and the bud said 'Let there be light, and there was light.' Once again, we are able to faint ly conjecture what might have been the fate of this great commonwealth if Chamberlain in his youth had decided to move to California instead of to Oregon, although it should be remembered that in that event, our southern state would in all probability have escaped the re cent earthquake disaster, for you will observe that in its travels northward that seismic disturbance lost its grip as ,soon as it crossed the Oregon line. It couldn't thrive in the domain of Cham berlain. It was a foreigner, and the democratic party balks at foreigners. ''But as to the lending of the school iund, what were the other two members of the state hind lioard doing all this time? What did we elect Dunbar and Moore for? Why are the democrats try ing at this time to elect a secretary of state and a treasurer? They would not be needed if Chamberlain should le .elected governor, and their salaries, pven though thpy lie ever so flat as well be savedj "But the facts are that during my administration timps were exceedingly good and the sales of public lands were fnornious, thus adding to the irreducible .school fund. Kvery dollar of this fund that was applied for during that time was boldly loaned, where the security was sufficient, and Governor Chamber .Iain's uncalled for intimation that funds were withheld from borrowers desiring them for purposes of gain, does him no .credit as a man wishing to beat all fair. This is, in fact, an intentional misrepre sentation, wholly for political effect and J challenge him to name a single safe opportunity the state land board hod Jto lend a dollar during my administra tion where it was refused. "Merely to show how purposely mis leading Chamberlain's claims for politi cal effect are, I wish to say that in order that the loans of the school fund might .not be confined to ordinary borrowers and that the increasing amounts might not remain in the treasury idle, a law was passed in the middle of my term .two years before the advent of Cham berlain, even before his appearance had been included in the prophecies provid ing that the land board might invest the surplus funds in school or municipal bonds. This was in answer to sugges tions by the board. The attorney-general decided, however, that under this 'Jaw no money could be loaned for less than 6 per cent, and as school district could get money at a cheaper rate, none .was so loaned. In the report of the state land board, dated October 1, 1902, signed my myself and the two other members, and more than three months prior to the rise of Chamberlain, it is said, 'we would suggest and recommend that the law be amended, authorizing the board to invest in school bonds at five per cent, and requiring the authori ties having the sales of such bonds to give the preference and right to take them." , "A law was passed in accordance with .this recommendation, and the ensuing loans have followed partly in conse quence. And you can easily see that Governor Chamberlain had no more to do with it than had Paul Kruger. The other members of the board had been .working on this proposition for two years, and, success being at hand, Cham berlain comes in, says to the other mem bers of the board 'this money must be loa::cl' 'mid It was loaned!' It only 1 inquired n wave of tlio executive hand iMid the thing w.t done, School loans from the irreducible J'uiul are on voluntary application by desiring borrower, The state doc not advertise for borrowers, and it will be observed that the governor does not men tion how he got the borrowers for who"e transaction" with the state he is a tone to lie credited. This would, ill deed, be intcrc-sting, but he leaves the interesting part of his claim to the im agination of his listeners, lie merely said 'let there be light,' and Ihoro was light. "There is another interesting phase of this non partisanship effort on the part of the Demoer.its. It will 1 re nicuihcivd that the Governor says, in substance, that he went upon the streets and personally found men, though not before intending to do so, whom he er suaded to come to the state house and borrow three quarters of a million of dollars of the irreducible school fund, that would have hern otherwise idle, etc. And be proceed to viy that this, great feat of hi shows the absolute necessity of having n democrat on the state land board a 'non-partisan' board. But to insure a board of this kind it will In' necessary to elect at least one republican and this, in turn, will necessitate the defeat of either the democratic candidate for state treas urer, Mr. Mntlock, or the democratic candidate for secretary of state, Mr. Sroat. And the question is np to the governor, 'which of these gentlemen is to le selected by His Kxcellency for pub lie slaughter at the polls and by demo cratic agreement?' The public interest demand a non-partisan bourd, you know and of course the Democratic program Is .to sacrifice one of these gentlemen a question that must lie of special inter est to iHith Mr. Matlock and to Mr. Sroat. "In a sudden burst of confidence at IjiGrande the governor confided to the people that he had reduced their taxes and, therefore, presumably, should lie re-elected. I hope every voter under stands that the amount of state taxes paid each year depends upon the appro priations made by the legislature and noti by any lioeusjioeus legerdemain the governor may lay claim to in the exigencies of a campaign. The amount .levied this year for state purposes is $1125,000, to all intents and purpose, as much as at any time in the pnst, in deed, more, if we deduct the amount which the state is now receiving from indirect source, and for which Gover nor Chamberlain i no more to be cred ited than his predecessor or his present colleagues in the state government. "In this connection it is pertinent to refer to the fact that under the admin istrntion of his predecessor, the private secretary of the governor received for .his services the sum of $1,R00 a vear and his stenographer $1,200. But im mediately upon the inauguration of Governor ChamWlain the salary of bis secretary was raied to $2,100, and that of his stenographer to $1,H00. And it is just as well to remember that salar ies are never raised by the legislature unless it is asked for by interested par ties. And somebody foots tlie-e bills. 'Permit me to puncture another bom bastic claim to the effect that 'manv re forms have been iti.inguratcd at the state prison,' among which it is men tioned that 'prisoners, who, prior to that time, had been fed in their cells, yare now fed in a common dining hall, all partaking of the some ration.' Hut his excellency negectfd Uy add that tint dining hall had been built during my administration and had not been used simply for the lack of funds to .furnish it. This was at once supplied in ample quantity by the same legisla ture that raised the salaries of his private secretary and stenographer ho that he could not only furnish the din ing hall but had money for many other .purposes which was not before avail able. , "As to the penitentiary, which is under the exclusive control of the gov ernor, let me call your attention to the fact that under my administration the .total expense of running that institution the first two years was $1)5,800 and for the succeeding two years it was $00,400. Under the first two years of Chamber lain's administration it was $120,700, and under the last two he asked and there was appropriated the sum of $110,000, in adition to the betterment fund, amounting in round numbers to nearly $24,000 more making $134,000. The differences in these figures speak iqr themselves, and, as I remarked before, are paid by sombody, probably by the tax payers. "What is known as the 'betterment fund' is the money earned by the pris oners laboring in the stove foundry, which, during my administration and always before, had been turned into the general treasury and was not available for meeting any of the exM'nses of the penitentiary, whatever, but upon the ac cession of Chamberlain this was placed at his disposal for any purpose adjudged necessary at the prison. But in spite of this the expenses there have steadily Increased beyond the ratio of increased population. You ee It l decidedly help ful to have thee matter explained be for you vote. "And yet another bubble require at tention, In his opening speech the gov cinor refer to- the annroiiiiatiou bill now under the referendum by the peoph and su it was clearly a inlut iti of the constitutional provision wjiidt pro vide, that law making iippiopiiation for the salaries of public nlllcrr ami other current expense of the state, shall contain 110 provision on any other subject. ' There, he would give the peo ple an opportunity to call the referen dum umiii it. But this would have more weight if it were not for the fact that .two years la-fore that the legislature passed precisely such an nppropritlon and it contained the emergency clause declaring that the 'safely .health and public peace' demanded it immediate passage, Where wa the governor' eagle eye at that great exigency in the welfare of the common people in whose interest two year later he rose up a on man and declared that he would die in the la! ditch before he would jx-rinit a measly republican legislature to suc cessfully engineer a conspiracy against the right of the down-trodden tax payer? "Indeed, the appropriation bill of lIMK'l w much more objectionable in this re scft than the one two year, later and the unconstitutional proliuti that staggered the governor in ltK5 was there In all it hideousnes in 11X13. yet he permitted it to become a law without the slightest outcry. Why. do you up- noc? I tie referendum wa then at hand and the bill contained the bated and loaded emergency clause that two yearn later caused a veritable mnic in the executive oflli-e. Can it Is1 that the approaching campaign, as he looked at that last of two 'clearly tiiicoostitution al' bills, had anything to do with it? Certainlv not Who would he so bate to ay so. Not I. "But they cannot all I noticed. Some good work ha been done along land matter, but such as would natural!? be accomplished by any administration under like circumstance. The state land lioard consist of three member and each of the other two ha done a much and In many lntan-e more, than Governor Chamlieriain In managing the vast landed interests of the state, but they being modest men do not cry out as to their very great accomplishment In the matter of performing their du ties. At no time ha the state lieen In the slightest lunger of losing one acre of land or one dollar in money In nnv of it laud transaction, notwithstanding all the outcry on the question. The Kcpublieans should not be cajol ed or deceived bv these frantic effort to get their votes in June. We have a .good ticket from the candidate for United States senator down and it should receive the cheerful support of every member of the party. The special and secious effort to create a sentiment in favor of Chamberlain js being made to Mipport the claim th.it Mr. Genrin is a 'lioo-cvclt democrat,' but everyUidy knows that during tin- next presidential campaign Mr. Gearill will he found sup. porting the democratic candidate. Mr. Bourne was nominated as fairly us any man on the ticket and his prodigious efforts during the primary campaign were along educational lines and in sup port of a principle that we have all been contending for during the past twenty years. We want the direct election of United States senator ami we can gel that principle permanently established in the public affairs of Oregon if every republican voter will remember hi op portunity and avail himself of it when he enters his voting booth on the 4th of June. "It is a time when the republican voters should cheerfully support the re publican nominees, and while recogniz ing the many good qualities of our democratic fellow-citizens, to lienr in mind that we registered as republicans liecnuse we believe n the principles of the republican party and that the arti ficial cry of 'no polities' and 'party jines should be eliminated' is manufactured for republican consumption only, and that the doctors who promulgate the diagnosis themselves utterly decline to take the prescribed remedy." CLATSOP REPUBLICAN ITINERARY. The following is the itinerary of the republican speukers for the campaign in riutsop county, as arranged by the county republican central committee yesterday: LEWIS & Cf,AKK-Speaking by coun- For County Judge C. J. MfflAl Regular Nominee Democratic Party. MOTTO: Continuation of Good Road Work; Completion of Court House; and Upbuilding of Clatsop County. A shipment of Fancy CooRies and Crachers Received Today. Ws have some very fancy Dill sour and tweet pickle, All kinds of fresh fruit and vegetables. . Cards for Blid Kye matclui redeem ed by AST0RIAGR0CERY Phone Mala 181 821 Commercial 8i ty candidate. Friday, May 25th. KVKNSKN Sieaklnjf by county can didates, Saturday, May 20th. HAMMOND Speaking by lion. Fred W. Mnlkey, candidate for the federal enatorship, short term, and all county candidate. Monday. May 28th. WAUKENTO.V-Speaking br Hon. Fred W, Mulkey and county candidates, Tuesday. May 2lth. WKNT11 HIT Speaking by county candidates, Wednesday, May 30th. 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