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DAILY EAST ORElJOXIAX. PENDLETON. OREGON S.TTt'nrAY, MARCH S, lftoe.
ACE THREE.
OFFICIAL CAREER OF HARVEY K. BROWN
CANDIDATE
GOVERNOR
"Every law." sava Harvev K
Brown of Baker City, one of the many
repuDiican candidate! for the gruber
nutorlal nomination, "Is a blue law to
the man who wants to break It. It
follows that the only correct manner
or treating all laws ) to enforce them
If they are Improper law and should
be repealed, the enforcement will do
velop the fact. Every state has some
laws that are Ignored. A continued
toleration of this condition will mean
the fall of the republic."
There may be some question as to
Sheriff Brown's qualifications to Judge
or the ultimate effect of such a con
dition, but there can be no question
as to his personal belief in what he
sayB. For the past two years Mr.
Brown, as sheriff of Baker county.
has been waging war against the sa
loons and gamblers. His weapons
have been the law, and success has
been his. It Is a matter of history,
however, that that success hus been
attained at tremendous cost.
Sheriff Brown has completed two
terms as a "eform sheriff." Beciume
of an unwritten law In Baker county
no man Is eligible for a third term.
Brown Is therefore a reformer out of
a Job, or he will be In June. He con
siders his work not yet completed.
Likewise he desires a wider field. He
wants to be governcfr. He may or he,
may not be. Powerful special interests
oppose him.
At the same time Sheriff Brown Is
a welcome entry in the gubernatorial
race because he has Injected a new
element into the campaign. That ele
ment Is reform; not the Intangible and
abstract reform of carpet-bar politi
cians, but reform a la Folk. His plat
form's principal plank is law enforce
ment. This plank menaces many In
terests In Oregon. But Brown cares
not one whit. If elected governor he
says he will cause all laws to be en
forced to the letter. He has pursued
that rather unusual policy to complete
success In the county of Baker, and
he believes that he can duplicate the
Job In the state of Oregon.
The Fiiclit In Baker.
r-very conceivable obstacle was
thrown In Sheriff Brown's path when
he began law enforcement In Iluker
county. His own party leaders fought
him. His erstwhile closest personal
friends deserted him. Anonymous
correspondents threatened him with
death. In the mouths of all Baker
county saloon men and gamblers his
name Is anathematized.
Harassed by cranks on one Bide and
cursed by "open town" supporters on
the other, he has maintained the even
tenor of his way, "I am not fight
ing you fellows," he tells the saloon
men. "I am fighting nobody. I am
merely doing my duty hh a sworn of
ficer of the people. Here are the
statutes of this state and here Is my
oath of office. I have no option In
this matter. The law must be en
forced, hurt whom It will."
TIk Opening Gun.
It was two years ago at the very be
ginning of Sheriff Brown's second
term, that he began the crusade. He
really tried, to enforce the anti-gam-bllng
law and Sunday-closing law four
years ago, when he was first elected,
but he bumped up against a stone wall
In the person of the district attorney
who, besides being not In sympathy,
flatly refused to do his duty.
When Sheriff Brown vb triumph
antly re-elected he carried with him
to success Leroy Lomax, a brilliant
young attorney from Union county, as
district attorney. With the assistance
of a grand Jury In the circuit court,
the sheriff secured 153 indictments
against Baker county saloon men for
flagrant violations of the antl-gam-bllng
and Sunday closing laws of the
state. The Indicted men formed a
powerful combination to fight the
cases, and employed two of the lead
ing lawyers of the county to defend
them.
Itrtmn a Slniul-Putter.
Hon. John L. Rand, state senator,
now a republican candidate for con
gress, and Hon. Charles A. Johns,
mayor of Bnker City, and now a re
publican candidate for governor,
were the lawyers retained by the In
dicted saloon men. Before the coses
came on for trial they waited on the
sheriff nt his office and Implored him
to abandon his moral crusade. "You
will wreck the republican party of this
county." they told Brown. "The party
Is not In sympathy with tho move."
They spoke by tho card. They were
both party leaders Band of the
Mitchell wing, and Johns of the
Moody faction.
Profanity Is sometimes pardonable.
Sheriff Brown's answer to his accus
ers will go down In history. He said:
"If, as you say, the enforcement of
tho laws of this state will result In
wrecking the republican party of this
county, then to hell with the republi
can party of this county. It ought to
be wrecked. But it will not be. What
you mean Is that your leadership will
be wrecked, and there I agree with
you. There Is satisfaction In knowing
that a big majority of the republican
voters of this county will shed no tears
on that account. Ho far as I am con
cerned, this Interview Is ended. You
have my permission to go."
A SwwplnR Victory.
They went. Next day tho trials
commenced before a circuit Judge
who was the district attorney during
Brown's first term as sheriff, and who
had after his overwhelming defeat for
re-election been elevated to the bench
In the newly created Tenth district by
appointment. The first two trials ro
BUltcd in verdicts of acquittal. The
defense was that the anti-gambling
and Sunday closing laws had been
violated In Baker county for 40 years
and that custom .had therefore made
It not a crime to transgress those
laws. The arguments of counsel for
the defense consisted Inrgely of bitter
attacks upon the sheriff and district
attorney. The violence of these verbal
attacks were unparalleled.
Nothing daunted, Sheriff Brown
pressed the remaining cases to trial,
Tho regular Jury panel became ex
I'll"''!
hausted and a special venire was Is
sued. From among the farming dls
trlcts Jurymen were secured, who re
turned verdicts of guilty as fast as the
cases could be argued and submitted.
Despite the rulings of the presiding
Judge, despite the frenzied attacks of
the attorneys for the defense, the hon
est Jurors stood firm In support of
the law.
i It was then that among the saloon
men began to appear tiny white flags.
Disaffection was followed by open
mutiny, mutiny by rout. The com
bination was dissolved over the vigor
ous protests of Johns and Rand and
the Indicted men entered pleas of
guilty in all the remaining cases.
Nominal fines were paid, and the In
cident was considered closed. Popu
lar fancy, now with Brown, gave him
credit for a complete victory.
Instead, however, of being a decid
ing battle, It turned out to be merely
a preliminary skirmish. Just the mo
ment the grand Jury was discharged,
gambling was resumed full blast, and
all saloons made ready to reopen on
Sundays. It required exactly 4 5 min
utes for Sheriff Brown to convince the
saloon men and gamblers that he
meant business.
In three-quarters of an hour he be
gan raiding the wide-open Joints, ar
resting not only players and dealers,
but proprietors and spectators. In
the Justice court the men were forced
to enter pleas of guilty, although the
advice of Rand and Johns was to car
ry the cases to the district court.
The citizens of Baker City awoke
to a full realization of the fact that
the town wai "closed." Oddly
enough, the arguments of the anti-
reformers were found to have been
flimsy and without basis in fact. Gen
eral business continued good, even
better. Real estate values suffered
no slump. The heavens did not fall.
The tax levy suffered no decrease.
The mortuary record did not grow
larger. The end of the world did not
arrive.
Tho Last ItONort.
It was then that the saloon cle
ment conceived hte brilliant idea of
nominating Attorney Johns for mayor.
They calculated that with him at the
head of the municipal government
and wielding a police force favorable
to their way of thinking. Sheriff
Brown would not dure after a bluer
campaign, in which Sheriff Brown
took no part, to "butt In." Mr. Johns
was elected mayor. On the night of
the election, when the returns an
nounced his victory, the town was
flung wide open. The Jubilant saloon
men conducted an Immense open-air
demonstration, even chartering a spe
cial train to bring down from Hump
ter a shouting delegation of open-town
sympathizers. Gambling was resumed
full blost. Joy was In the air.
Quietly, unostentatiously. Sheriff
Brown and a handful of deputies be
gan raiding. Before the shouting
died and the captains and kings of
the liquor truffle had departed, they
were haled Into the Justice court.
Mayor-elect Johns was powerless to
do more than feebly protest against
the vigilance and activity of the sher
iff. Sitting on tho Ltd.
Thus It has been ever since. At In
tervals the saloon men, feeling strong,
have attempted to bluff the sheriff by
opening games under his nose. Be
fore a case-card shows on the faro
lay-out, before the nimble ball has
time to drop In the spinning roulette
wheel, Brown appears on the scene.
He has planted his 180 pounds of
steel-wire muscles and dominant will
on "the lid" and refuses to budge
therefrom. The saloon men have at
last given up the fight. They are
waiting, with what patience they can
assume, for the expiration of Sheriff
Brown's term of office. With Brown
out of the way, they aim to laugh In
the face of the law.
But Brown refuses to get out of the
way. He believes he has a mission to
perform. Furthermore, he fancies he
hears a call to a wider field of activi
ty. If he cannot enforce the law as a
reform sheriff In Baker county, he
desires to enforce the luw as u reform
governor of the state.
A Native Ordgoulun.
Harvey K. Brown is a native Orc-
goulan. He was born 35 years ago at
Pocahontas, a village near Baker
City. His father, a native of Ire
land, was one of the builders of the
west, an Oregon pioneer of 1861.
Harvey Brown spent the formative
period of his life on the cattle range.
At the age of 12 he was one of the
best known cowboys In eastern Ore
gon. When 18 years old he handled a
big horse and cnttle business. He
made frequent shipments of livestock
to eastern markets, accompanying the
shipments personally as far east as
the Atlantic seaboard. In later years
he went into mining. For four years
he was general manager of the Nelson
placer mine, one of the largest hy
draulic properties In this state. He
still retains valuable mineral holdings
In Stlcc's gulch, being president and
general manager of the Slice's Gulch
Placer Mining company. He also
owns and conducts a fine farm near
Baker City.
Outside of his aged mother, his wife
and 12-year-old daughter, Mr. Brown
has no relatives of that name west of
the Missouri river.
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Cured by our Hand Woven
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weaknesses relieved by
our Abdominal Belts.
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