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THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. WEDNESDAY, JULY 22 ' Established 1873. Published Daily Except Monday SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By mail, per year .... By carrier, per month WEEKLY By mail, per year, in advance Entered aa second-class matter July 30, 1906, a' the postoffice at As toria, Oregon, under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Orders for the delivering of The Morning Astorian to either residence or place of business may be made by postal .card or through telephone. Any irregularity in delivery should be immediately reported to the office of publication. TELEPHONE MAIN 661. THE WEATHER Oregon, Washington and Idaho Showers, thunderstorms; cooler ex cept near the coast. F. A. SEUFERT HERE. The coming of Mr. F. A. Seufert to the mouth of the Columbia river, after all that has been said and done in the recent fisheries contest in this valley, is very significant and must be construed as of distinct importance by every man down here. Irrespec tive of the sharp and able fight he . directed in the interests of the wheels and traps and the .tacit admis sion of defeat that marks, his coming, he is here with very broad and friend ly ideas, and while cherishing all his technical principles as applied to the industry, will make his new enterprise to harmonize with the business and its customs as they prevail - at this i end of the river. Mr. Seufert is no narrow-gauge ex perimentalist; he is not given to idealizing and standardizing every thing he is interested in; he is given to taking things as they are and bet tering them as they prove susceptible to change and improvement; and while it is said that he intended to cut Astoria out of all his future calcula tions and enterprises, as centered at the mouth of the Columbia, he will find he has too many friends in this city to make so harsh a policy prac ticable; and he is too politic to adopt such a course even if it were. He has been here; he has gone over the north shore ground, to Megler, to McGowan's, to Ilwaco, to Altoona, with a view to selecting a site for his new cannery; he has re ceived overtures from one or two owners of plants already for his pur poses; he has intimated nothing, to anyone, as to what, where, nor when he will close any deal; but the assur ance is out, with his authority, that he is to come here and set up a dis tinct and valuable adjunct to the sal-1 mon fishing industry, and Astoria, with every other community on the lower river has the right to be glad of it and to proffer,and do, what she may toward making Mr. Seufert real ize that he is coming among friends and people who will adequately ap preciate his pluck and public spirit, while cherishing the comforting as surance that such men as A. B. Ham mond and F. A. Seufert have not come to the mouth of the Columbia primarily, nor peculiarly, for their health, and that their investments hereabout mean something of certain and unqualified value to the whole country, and the two great industries they stand for. ' THE PUBLIC WANTS RELIEF. There is nothing' at all ambiguous about the present status of the tele phone question in Astoria; the people want early and distinct relief and a service vastly nearer the demands of the day and more nearly compensat ing for the money they are paying out. The issue has been clearly drawn, frankly stated, and has the absolute and unanimous endorsement of the whole community, including the rural service end of the business. ..All the public agencies for discuss ing and disposing of such affairs in Astoria, are deeply interested in the outcome, and the people are squarely behind them in the work of compell ing relief. There need be no hesitancy at any point; the work of the council and the Chamber of Commerce will be readily met when it is known that the old conditions are to be set out and new and equitable returns made for the money the people are paying for telephonic communication, no matter who shall furnish the amended service. There is one feature that, alone, will raise an obdurate phase of oppo sition, and that is the introduction of a dual system. We do not want this absurd, costly, and troublesome con- by THE J. S. DELLINGER CO. ....$7.00 ... .60 ASTORIAN. ............ .$1.50 Jition at all: and those in whose hands the course of securing the new service lies, will do well to eschew all propositions leading up to such a contretemps, for it is certain to add to the complexities and general dis satisfaction if it is thrust upon the community, especially in the matter of the double and unessential cost. We believe, with everybody else, that the matter is going to work out happily and successfully; and along with all others, we are not caring who shall contribute the relief, the old, or a new, concern, so long as it comes, and comes quickly and soundly. CASE OF MUTUALITY. Th'e Astoria, Seaside & Tillamook Electric Railway Company has been carefully routed through, and out of, the city by 'a line of gradients that conduce to its safety, comfort, des patch and utility, and one that does not, so far as can be determined at this writing, interfere with nor in vade any private or public right, and which has, undoubtedly, the approval of those whose money is behind the project; and all-things being under stood and appreciated in a civic sense, there is a chance for the development of the mutuality existing as between this enterprise and the municipality, in the matter of ordaining, at the proper and propitious moments, such street improvements along the line of that route, as shall contribute, with out extra cost to property 'owners in terested, to the early success of the project. We do not know that the com pany has anything to ask of this sort, and broach the matter as one of live interest and general concern, in ex pediting the , completion of a sorely needed enterprise and .materially as sisting it in a fashion that means something to all concerned. There may be points 'on the proposed line, within the limits of the city, that will need exploitation and improvement by the city at some later day, and if these are anticipated by a few months or by a year or more, no one will be the loser, and the community gener ally will be radically aided by accel erating the big task of the company, either in whole or in part, by per mitting the earlier use of the organic system of street improvement where it shall become essentially contribu tive of this particular enterprise. If the city and the company can find common and timely ground for action, each may serve the other to very genuine and general good. Twenty-Five Cents is the Price of Peace. The terrible itching and smarting, incident to certain skin diseases, is almost instantly allayed by applying Chamberlain's Salve. Price, 25 cents. For sale by Frank Hart and leading druggists. Help for Those Who Have Stomach 51 Trouble. After doctoring for about twelve years for a bad stomach trouble, and spending nearly five hundred dollars for medicine and doctors' fees, I pur chased my wife one box of Chamber lain's Stomach' and Liver Tablets, which did her so much good that she continued to use them and they have done her more good than all of the medicine I bought before. SAMUEL BOYER, Folsom, Iowa. This medi cine is for sale by Frank Hart and leading druggists. Sample free. Subscribe to the Morning Astorian, 60 cents per month, delivered by carrier. COH;EE ' Why doesn't your gro cer moneyback every thing:?, Can't get the goods or the money. Yemr grocer return! roor money If rti on fit SchlUisf'i Beit; par him STATEMENT NO. 1 A Political Critique Worthy the Reading of Every t Voter in Oregon. The following article by Joseph Gaston, is reproduced from last Sun day's Oregonian, for the supreme ex cellence of the treatment given to one of the livest questions before the electorate of Oregon, and in the ful filment of a plain duty the press owes to the people to extend such en lightenment to limits not covered ev en by the great paper in which it originally appeared: It is apparent from the correspon dence of the Oregonian that the "statement" is" arousing more dis cussion since the election than before. It is equaly apparent that the situ ation is misunderstood by the friends of the statement. Well-meaning members of the Legislature find they are pledged to eTect a man Senator who is opposed to their political prin ciples. They never dreamed this was possible. How ' has it been brought about? The primary law provides that the voter shall declare his party affiliation on registering; and at the primary election he gets the' ballot of the political party thus declared; and he swears to his statement. It was as sumed that no , honorable man would make a false statement. But what are the facts? Disregarding all honor and fair dealing, a large number of Democrats falsely declared them selves to be Republicans in order to get the Republican primary ballot and vote for a Republican for Senator that would be obnoxious to his party, one that ueorge . cnamoenain could defeat at the polls. How do we know this? While the registry of voters in this city was pro ceding leading Democrats openly de nounced the fact that Democrats were registering as Republicans, and it was so published by The Ore gonian. Since the election "the Grants Pass Observer has estimated that 200 Democrats registered as Re publicans in that town, and that 10, 000 Democrats falsely registered as Republicans in the state. Immedi ately after the election the Oregonian declared that Cake s majority over Fulton was due to Democrats voting for Cake. None of these statements have ever f t puted by l).nc- cats or anybody else.. Now tor the record. The total vote cast for the two Republican can didates for Senator in the primaries is 48,940, while the total vote cast for the Republican candidates for Repre sentative in Congress is 46,953; show ing that 1987 voters marked Repub lican ballots for Senator that did not vote for the Representatives. Where did these 1987 votes come from? Nowhere in the world but from Dem ocrats falsely registering as Republi cans. Their interest was wholly in the Senatorship, They could have no hope of electing a Representative. No Republican would have voted for a Senator without also voting for some man for Representative. So that it is a dead moral certainty that at least 1987 Democrats falsely regis tered as Republicans, swore to the lie, then went to the primaries and marked the Republican ballot with the name they thought Chamberlain could defeat; and then went to the polls and voted against the man they voted for in the primaries. What is the plain English o'f this business? The Senatorial primary election was corrupted by Democra tic ballots falsely sworn in as Repub licans. The result is a barefaced fraud and swindle without a single element of legitimacy, honesty or fair dealing to support it. For more than 1000 years every court in every civilized country has uniformly held that fraud vitiates and annuls every transaction founded upon it. Sup pose the Derriocrats had broken into the polls, stolen out of the ballot box es 5000 votes cast for Fulton and put in their place 5000 votes for Cake, what an uproar there would ' have been all over Oregon. But what is the difference in stealing the ballots and replacing them with spurious oth er ballots, and in falsely swearing that the voter is a Republican in or- der to give him a secret opportunity to vote for a man he don't intend to support at the polls; and which vote was cast for the sole and only pur pose of confusing and defeating the man who relied "on that ballot, and the party which .honestly acts upon such a ballot? There is no difference. One crime is as bad as the other. If the 1987 Democrats who voted for Mr. Cake in the primaries had stuck to him ta the pollr as they were in honor bound to, he would have beat en Chamberlain by 465 votes. They not - only deceived and humiliated Cake by their treachery, but they mis- led him into expending a large sum of money on the election in a, hope less race for the office. ' But whether these perjured Demo crats voted for Cake or Fulton it make no difference.- They intended to vole Icr the weakest man, and their offense is not in voting for one or the other, hut in falsely pretending to be Republicans and thus corrupting the ballot-box and destroying the in tegrity of the primary election by turning traitor and voting against their own nominee. If this is not a fraud then there is' nothing that can be fradulent. And if this crime against the ballot-box is condoned tature might as well dispose of the' Senatorial office as public auction. t What words can truly proclaim the dishonor and Infamy of such a trans action? Throughout the lengthy let ter of Judge Lowell recently printed in The Oregonian, this fraud is spo ken of as the "game" of politics. Oth er letters printed in The Oregonian demand that the fraud be carried out by the election of Chamberlain to the ' Senate. It is possible that there are rcsyvwiuuic iiucus wuu ilium yvimwa . is nothing but a "game"; that we are now down to the ethics of the race track and the card room on vital questions affecting the very existence of a republican form of government? For years angry protest has gone up against the alleged crimes of the bos res.t In former days when the vatcr deposited his own ballot there is no doubt that bosses bought and sold voters like cattle, and stuffed and robbed' ballot-boxes in desperate straits. But that was in violation f the law and with open prison doors staring the offenders in the face. But here is a case of ballot-box stuffiing through perjury and fraud directly in oursttance of the very, letter of the primary law, and no criminal prose cution can ever reach the malefactors. if you doubt it read the law. But we are told 'that the people must rule, that Senators must be el ected by the people, "Vox populi, vox Dei." But the primary law does not secure election by the people. It is in its present lorm a scneme 10 cheat the people every time; and that is why it is opposed. Under this law- anybody can compute for the great office of United States Senator A few dollars expended in the sa loons wil procure names enough to get on the ballot. There is no limit, no standard, no safeguards, and no co-operation among voters. Jvvery county has its favorite 'son and he must run; every selfish interest has its advocate, and he must run; the sa loons can nominate the Prohibition ticket; the trusts run their lawyers; the city outvotes the country, the grogshop outvotes the church, and money sweeps everything. In the melee the "game," the plain people are .confused, divided, cheated, and a man nominated by a fraction of the party vote that nobody wants. This "game" has been thus worked twice on the people already. Bourne was a minority man, thousands of Demo crats voting for his nomination, and he got the election as a choice be tween two evils. Gearin could have beaten Bourne as Chamberlain has beaten Cake if he had made a can vass. He would have done so had he not been assured by interested parties that a Republican Legislature would not elect him. It would not do to have Gearin elected then, for such a result would have raised such an uproar that there would have been no show for Chamberlain now.! And Chamberlain is a minority man too, not getting a majority of the votes for Senator as stated by Judge Low ell. The total vote for Senator was 112,364. Chamberlain got 52,421 votes nearly 4000 less than a majority. If the people are to elect, the gross de fects of the primary law must be amended so as to secure a square deal and not have honest voters cheated by the ballot-box stuffing of corrupt schemers, Mr. Swinford, of Eugene, Jias suecrested a very cood plan. But in the meantime what is to be done with Chamberlain? The Republican "Statement" mem bers of the Legislature feel the em barassment of their position. If they vote for Chamberlain their party will damm them. If they turn him down a lot of people who don't know the defects of the primary law woll howl "traitor." Is the Republican party such a pack of helpless idiots that it cannot rescue its Legislature from the humiliation of electing a mousing Democratic politician 'to the United States Senate? The only safe course for "Statement" Republican members Id Cent Novels 1500 new novels 10 cents and 15 cents each. Bertha Clay, Mrs. South worth, Medal, Eagle and Magnet li braries. Read two and returnl them and get one in exchange. Send for FREE catalogue of titles SEE SHOW WINDOW ltman's For .THIS WEEK ONLY 10 Per Cent REDUCTION 10 Per Cent Off on all COTTON HOSE NOW IS the time to Supply VOUr needs. The Foard & Stokes Hardware Co. is to place the honor and welfare of the state above all other considera tions and promptly, openly and fear lessly repudiate the whole infamous fraud that secured Chamberlain's el ection .because it was a corruption of the ballot box, and then elect an hon est, square-deal Republican without delay. To vote for" Chamberlain is to ratify the fraud, become an accom plice in the crime and go over to the Democrats. To hesitate, equivocate. palter or compromise is ruin to good names. Courage, backbone and a clear conscience arc the stuff for great emergencies. No man is bound by a fraud. The deceit practiced by the Democrats at the primaries has released every member of the Legis lature from his pledge. If the pledge is maintained under these facts, then corruption will ko on from had to worse, until fraud and perjury be come the rule in politics, and every election a market vile. If the ballot-box is corrupted, political power ir poisoned at us tountain neaa, ami every evil will follow in its course. Beware of the insidious beginnings of evil. Legislators sworn to main corruption and keep on the safe side, tain the law cannot temporize with To excuse one crime only leads to the commission of another. To con- lone any violation of law is a cor ruption of the public conscience, in vain do we teach our youth to emu- ate the noble examples of the found ers of the Republic; in vain do we proclaim our devotion to the uncom promising principles of Lincoln and Roosevelt if we consent to the cor ruption of the ballot-box. tne cur rent of history is strewn with the wrecks of mighty nations founded and defended by men ccual to our greatest heroes. They all teach the same moral first freedom, then glory when that fails, wealth, vice, cor ruption, barbarism at last. The only imperishable foundation for freedom and justice is a pure ballot-box and the unswerving enforcement of the law. Croly puts into the mouth of Cataline a fearful picture of the fall of the greatest nation of antiquity- lesson to all suceeding times and men. When laws were silent, con science dead and vice supreme, des pair hurled back the awful truth: For there henceforth shall sit for Headaches are brain signals that your system is in some way disorganized and unless the cause of the trouble is removed they will become more and more frequent, and gradually increase both In duration and intensity. The" sympathetic nerves are weakened by the repeated attacks, and the malady finds an easy lodgment whenever the bodily and mental conditions favor its return. On the first sign of headache you should at once take BeecpantaPills Complete recovery from sick headache, bilious headache, , nervous headache, throbbing headache speedily follows the use of these famous pills. They settle the Btomach,sStimulate the liver, act mildly on the bowels, improve the blood and quiet the nerves. f The tonic and strengthening properties of Beecham's Pills build up the bodily health and fortify the system against subsequent attacks. For all headaches, disorders of the stomach and nerves, Beecham's Pills are , The Needed Remedy In boxes wltb lull directions, 10c. and 23c. Book Store household gods Shapes hot from hell- all shames t and crimes; Wan treachery with hi thirsty dag ger drawn Suspicion poisoning his brother's cup, Naked rebellion with his torch and axe, i Till anarchy comes down on you like niuht, And massacre sals Rome's eternal grave." It was all true of Rome; and like causes will produce the same results in America. Then let a mighty pro test go up front evefy true Republi can from Clatrop Beach o Steins ? fountain and from the golden sands of Curry to the rock-ribbed hills of Wallowa, that the frauds upon thev ballot-box at the primary election must not and shall not succeed; and that now and hereafter unscrupulous politicians must be shown that they can gain nothing by ruch dishonor able scheming. Portland, July IV Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy Would Have Saved Him $100.00. "In 1902 I had a very severe attack of diarrhoea," says R. N. Farrar of Cat Island, La. "For several weeki I was unable to do anything. On March 18, 1907, I had a similar attack, and took Chamberlain's Cholic, Chol era and Diarrhoea Remedy which gave me prompt relief. I consider it one of the best medicines of its kind in the world, and had I used it in 1902 believe it would have saved me a hundred dollar doctor's bill." Sold by Frank Hart and leading druggists. Boy's Life Saved. My little boy, four years old. had a severe attack of dysentery. We had two physicians; both of them gave him up. We then gave him Chamber lain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea remedy which cured him ad believe that" saved his life. WilliatjTH. Strol lintr. Carbot. Hill, Ala. There is no doubt but this remedy saves the lives of many children each year. Give it with castor oil according to the plain printed directions and a cure' is cer tain. For sale by Frank Hart and leading druggists. , Subscribe to the Morning Astorian. 60 cents per month, delivered by carrier.