THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 22 '
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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-
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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
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leading druggists. Sample free.
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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
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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:
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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. ,
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