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Vol. XU.
CORVALLI, BENTOOV COUNTY, OREOON, FlIDiVY, APRIL 22 1004.:
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The four columns below a re CHAMBERLA IN FA VORED IT.
published by. the Republican
Central Committee
County, Oregon.
of Benton
Edited by GEO. L. PAUL.
REPUBLICAN TICKET.
COUNTY.
Senator
W. E. YATEB, of Corvallis
Representative
VIRGIL CARTER, of WelU
.Sheriff
J. H. CAMERON, ef Corvallis
Clerk
RICHARD SCOTT, of Willamette
Recorder
T. T. VINCENT, of Kings Valley
CommtBioner
L. H. HAWLEY, of Dusty
School Papertntendent
. G. W. DENMAN, of Corrallis
Treasurer
W. P. LAKFERTY, of Corvallis
Assessor
GEO. COOPER, of Philomath
Surveyor
T. L. READ, of Wren
Coroner
S. N. WILKINS, of Corvallis
THE PLATFORM.
Resolved, That we favor the permanent
betterment of every highway in Benton
county, without regard to th-i political com
plexion of the section to which It leads
or through which it passea
Resolved, That we favor the liberal but
intelligent exenditure of public money for
road improvement, under competent super
vision, and limited to the employment of
such methods as will provide good roads
without imposing unnecessary burden on
the taxpayers. .
Resolved, ThH we favor an admiuistra
" tioo of county affairs which will render un-
' necessary a gradual increase of the taxpay
ers burden from year to year at a time
when the county is free from debt, and there
; is no demand for . heavy expenditure of
county funds.
Resolved, That " we favor an equal and
uniform system of taxation as prescribed by
the constitution snd laws of this state and
condemn in most severe terms a policy
which discriminates in favor of one indi
vidual and against another.
Resolved, That we favor the strict atten
tion of every county officer to his dutiesre
scribed for him by law, and the faithful '
observance of the obligations imposed by
his oath of office. Adopted by the Benton
county Republican convention, March SI,
COUNTY CENTRAL COM
MITTEE. J. R Smith, Chairman. !. Corvallis No. 3
Wm. Knotis Corvnllis No 1
8. L. Kline : Corvallis No 2
J. B. Irvine Corvallis No 4
A. C Miller :.. Kings Valley
Roht. McFarland Summit
Warren Norton Blodgett
J. H. Edwards Dusty
N. E. Newtou. Philomath
W. S. Tomlinson -. Soap Creek
T. J. Risley .Fairmount
Scott King Wren
J. E. Banton Alsea
M. D. Barpole Monroe
W. Parks Willamette
In its desperate efforts to pacify
taxpayers who are outspoken in
their protests against the amount
they have had to pay over the
sheriffs counter during the last
two years, the Times exclaims,
"Why, don't you know that. the
Lewis and Clark Fair appropria
tion is responsible for it all !"
When it was urging the pas
sage of this appropriation bill two
years ago, the i imes solemnly
assured the farmers of this coun
ty that "on a $500,000 appropri
ation, of which $250,000 would
be collected in 1904, .and an equal
sum in IQ05, the average that
each farmer would have to pay
would be $2.43 lor the two years,
or $1.21 each year."
Admitting the correctness of
these figures, it is evident that
the legislature did not lay a very
heavy- burden upon the farmers
of Benton county when it
passed the Lewis and Clark Fair
appropriation bill.
Nor, according to the resolu
tions passed by the Democratic
State Convention at Portland last
Tuesday, have the people of this
state any reason to complain at
the amount of taxes imposed upon
them by the legislature of 1903.
The Democratic convention com
mended Governor Chamberlain
for . his policy of economy. It
recognized the fact that the gov
ernor has the power to veto all
bills that do not meet with his
approval. We do not call to
mind that the Democratic execu
tive opposed anv appropriation
bill that became a law. If he
failed to place his veto upon the
Lewis and Clark Fair bill, Gov
ernor Chamberlain must share
with the legislature the responsi
bility for that burden of $1.21 j4,
which is giving the Times so
much concern.
- V. E. Wattera, of Btnttii, liked Hearst,
do: .
TURNED HEARST DOWN.
THE ONLY REMEDY.
It is by satisfying the trio of
bosses, ot which Judge McFad
den is the head, that Democratic
candidates 4n this county secure
a place on their party ticket and
to these bosses they owe their first
allegiance. However much regard
these candidates, when elected,
may have for their official duty,
their renorninations depend upon
the will of the trio of bosses, and
they must satisfy the bosses or
get out.
There is just one way in which
the Democratic party can rid it
self of this trio who exploit that
party for their own personal ends,
and that way is to defeat every
candidate named in a convention
ruled by Judge McFadden and his
right and left bower. The reme
dy may be severe, but every Dem
ocrat, -who has sought office and
found that nominations could be
secured only from the trior just
named, will bear witness that the
disease is desperate.
These three bosses regard the
election of a Democratic candi
date as a personal triumph for
themselves, and an indorsement
of the despicable methods employ
ed by them in the campaign.
It is Judge McFadden's boast
that the merits of the candidates
on either ticket are ot no conse
quence; that he can "give the op
position cards and spades and win
out"
Members' ot both parties who
have grown sick and tired of the
abuse and calumny which Judge
McFadden and his lieutenants in
ject into every campaign conduct
ed in this county, will unite in
showing their disapproval by vot
ing against the candidates these
methods are designed to elect.
As a result of the fierce fight
waged in the Democratic State
Convention over the passage of a
resolution instructing the dele
gates from Oregon to the St Louis
convention for Hearst, the jour
nalist candidate for the presiden
tial nomination can count on re
ceiving Oregon's eight votes only
in case he can develop surpassing
strength in the National Conven
tion. This seems to be the ver
dict of impartial observers, albeit
the Portland Journal, the leading
Democratic paper of the state,
takes a more hopeful .view of the
situation. According to that au
thority the delegation "will be
distinctly favorable to Hearst"
The debate which preceded the
vote upon the resolution was acri
monious. Cries and groans as
sailed the speakers, and turmoil
reigned while the orators spit fire
at each other. Delegates from all
sections of the state were eager to
go on record and, incidentally,
give others an opportunity to hear
them talk. Benton county's rep
resentatives were not remiss, and
the Poitland papers give them
special mention. The Oregonian
has this to say:
"Our partv is not limited to one
Moses," shouted W. S. McFaddeD, of
Benton, the next lucky gentleman to ob
tain the chairman's consenting eye. "We
have several Danels. We have more
than one man who will be the Moses to
wave nis wand over the Red Sea of our
discontent." Some of the delegates be
gan to gasp for breath at the Benton
County orator's tangled metaphors, but
the oblivious Judge McFadden proceeded
to give them more. .
"Some one elsa may come forth," be
shouted. "The ides of July are but three
months off. Are we Hessians ? Are we
harbarians that we need missionaries
sent to us from California? .Let our del
egates gi to St Louis untrammeled."
The chairman recognized a Benton
county delegate, but Thorns Guinean be
gan to speak also. The Benton aan:
stopped. "
"Another gentleman has' the floor,"
said the chairman to Guinean. " '
" But I'll only keep it a minute," pro-i
tested Guioean, and the Benton man sur
rendered. Mr. Guinean was a vehement
supporter of Hearst.
The Telegram's special corres?
pondect "on the spot" prepared
the following account for that
paper:
The Democratic party was not limited
to one Motes declared Wv 8. McFadden,
of Benton County. He proclaimed the
existence of several Daniels, arid further
he declared by way ot another metaphor
that "we had more than one man who
would be the Moses to wave his wand
over the Red Sea of onr discontent." And
then he announced that the ides of July
were but three months off and those who
heard him marveled;! the Shakeepear
ian wisdom of . the man, bat the Hears t-
ites were not yet defeated,
A Benton delegate arose. Then
Thomas Guinean did likewise. Both be
gan to speak..' "Another gentleman' has
the floor," said the chairman to Guinean.
"Well, I'll only keep you a moment.
assured Mr. Guinean, and amid laughter
Mr. Guinean began to speak, while the
srentleman from Benton subsided into the
small of his back. ;
M. F. Tarpey, Mr. Hearst's
campaign manager in the West,
bitterly arraigned the delegates
who refused to vote for the reso
lution. "The Democracy of Or
egon,' said he, -as well as. that
of all far Western states and ter
ritories is almost unanimous in
its preference fos Hearst as can
didate for President of the Unit
ed States and wherever such pref
erence fails of expression in the
conventions of the states and ter
ritories, it has been and will be
because of the fact that a few po
litical manipulators have been
able to hoodwink and deceive the
people as to " their true purpose
and for purely personal advantage
to themselves prospective and
assumed."
I REPUBLICAN TICKET.
' - :, . STATE- .
Supreme Judge- v- 7'
' FRANK A. MOORE, ol Columbia
Dairy and Food Comnilsiouer
;S J. W. BAILEY, of Multnomah
Presidential Electors . -"' . ;
J. N. HART, of fo&l
- JaS. A. FEE, of Umatilla
GRANT B. DIMMICK, of Clackamas
A." C. HOUGH, of Josephine. .
J CONGRESSIONAL
. RepresefiUti ve first District .
BINOB HERMANN, of Douglas
JUDICIAL
- - -Circuit
Judge - .
' E. p. rOTTEBvOf Lane
. District Attorney-' -
f GEOKGE U. BROWN, of Doutfas
NO FAVORITISM SHOWN.
" There is an attempt on the put
of certain Democratic papers in
the state, says the Telegram, to
associate the failure of a Con
gressional appropriation for. har
bor work and the improvement
of the lower Columbia .with the
face that the state is not repre
senled by a Demc cratic delega
tibn. In cher words, that in the
matter of sop throwing Congress
laces no necess ty ; to propitiate
the webfoot state, because it is
safely Republican, and the inter
ests of the commonwealth suffer
in consequence. , It has long been
admitted that the science of psy
chology will never reveal the
secret springs of Democratic
thought, conjecture : and theory,
but if, in its multifarious maua
derings, it has ever gone wider
of the mark, the instance local
ly at least is not of record. If,
as has been the case, a Republi
can Congress determines that
river and harbor appropriations
shall be eliminated from the Na
tional budget for the ensuing year,
and has consistently carried the
effect of that determination to all
sections of the Union without ref
erence to political alignment, it
is painfully difficult to understand
wherein the influence of men who
are opposed to the prevailing polii
cy would be more potent than
the strenuons efforts that have
been made in favor of Oregon by
the present Congressional dele
gation. Is it possible that Demo
cratic Senators and Congressmen
could be considered as approach
able on the basis of swapping a
birthright for a mess of pottage ?
While the people of Oregon may
regret the failure to secure the
desired appropriation, they have
no complaint to make on the
ground ot favoritism shown other
sections of the country. To the
contrary, consideration has been
shown for their interests in a very
important matter, possibly at this
time the most important, namely
a provision for the inauguration
of work on the Cehlo canal. This
is afact our Democratic brethren
have apparntly overlooked.
; JUDGE E. O. POTTER.
Born in Irving, Lane County,
August 25, 1856, E. O. Potter
spent his childhood and youth on
his father's farm, receiving his
education at the public schools
and afterwards at the University
of Oregon from which he gradu
ated A. B. m 1887.
Subsequently - the school con
ferred on him the degree A. M.
Upon the completion of the class
ical course he entered the law de
partment of the University of Or-
egon, graduated . irom mere in
1890, with the: degree of Bache-
or of Law. .. In June of the same
year he was admitted to the bar
of Oregon, and immediately com
menced the practice of law in
Mugene. From 1090 to 1594 ne
served as deputy district attorney
for Lane county. In 1896 he was
elected county judge and served
four years, since which time he
has devoted himself to the prac
tice of his profession. Judge Pot
ter married in Eugene, Miss Emi
ly Bristol, on October 16, 1890.
In his fraternal relations he is a!
member of Eugene Lodge No. 11,
A. F. & A. M., of Eugene Chap-)
ter No. 10, R. A. M., and of the
Woodmen of the World. :
That Mr. Frank C. Baker, dur
ing; his absence on "a sick bed,
was selected as chairman of the
Republican state central commit
tee is not only a tribute to his
qualifications and efficiency, but
an unusual testimonial of confi
dence on the part of the commit
tee members. Mr. Baker's polit
ical talents and wide acquaintance
fit him admirably for a position
of this kind, and we predict for
him the successful discharge of
his important duties. Oregonian.
The 'good roads' ' , resolution
read before the recent Demo
cratic convention, held in this
city, has not seen the light of
day since Delegate William
Bryans of Wren, swatted its
authors for their .assurance in
even mentioning roads when
they had expended the people's
money so extravagantly and in
many instances had made the
roads worse instead of better. -
The Times need not concern
itself regarding the reliability of
matter printed in these columns.
All editorials that appear in this
department have the sanction and
endorsement of the Republican
County. Central Committee; men
who stand high in their respect
ive precincts. The campaign ar
ticles in the Times are the offi
cial utterances of Boss McFad
den. No more need be said.
The following nominations for
precinct officers have been made
by Republicans: Summit, for
justice, Horace Underhill; for
constable, Elmer Norton. Kings
Valley, . for justice, J. D. Gra
ham; for constable, Sam Kibbey.
Philomath, for justice, A J. Wil
liams; -for constable, Albert Taylor.
A scientist, announces that the
earth will. last another 100,000,
000 years. Democraticcandidates
for president can live in hope that
along about the end of that time
there is a chance for one of them
to be elected president - You
are young yet, Willie.
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