The Oregon scout., April 17, 1890, Image 4

THE OREGON SCOUT. 'wcro furcrntd wo.- hiMlMmk ami
. 1 tintrni'. But c;i'i -kin y and li'mcst j
AMOS K. JOKKS - - LDITOl!, impa'ttial treatment -vf the people of f
. . ' Union nrc an m H .r.u- lli.it
Pit and fWv OffiVinl lWr helo,,g U, lhl l"1,u,;f. !" .,,M' U,l "' '
v..- ..vj JtiBa"Hig Hii.-t:iK ii ii r niyn
;-.-: : : : j anything IJOod 1 out I'ni m or its
Thursday, April 17, 18JH), people. The facts arc it ?h n "
mistake" if ever tells tin truth about
THItH AND NOW.
Miuwmm.lliiLEijjmijJWHnOT.iA;jjijjj-jii.ri
a "vvoiti) to Til. convention.
llcforo another ifMic of Tin: fcVorr
is laid before, the people the county
dcmocarlic convention will hnvo met
and placed in nomination a county
ticket to bo voted for in .June, fcclectod
a central committee to look after the
intercuts of the party for the next two
years and eloctcd delegates to repre
sent the democracy of Union county
in the ulate convention. Never before
in the history of the party, in Union
county, Iiiih so .much depended upon
the wise .and disercto action of its
representatives in convention inborn
bled as will devolve upon that con
vention, not iiiono in tlio interest of
the parly but of the whole pcojilo, as
matters of muck importance to their
welfare, in local affairs, will be- con
tingent upon the action of that body.
Tho republican convention was evi
dently manipulated by a few hehein
crs for their own scWhh ends and not i
tho interests of the people, and
anything. When it Males that "any
whobo minds aro not stooped in stupid
ity and whose judgement is unpre
judiced will Ik; forced to acknowledge
that the Union county court house is
a dilapidated piece of architecture,
was never a nafe building in the lirnt j
place" its editors know that they arc
wilfully and maliciously uttering and
When the wire pullers of La (Jrande
wore circulating their petition to the
legislature for the purpose of the pass
age of tlio enabbling act for a vole on
tho relocation of tho county teat they
promised the pcoplo thai in tho event
of the enabling act being passed and
tlio vote of the people moving the
county seat to La -Grande, the resi
dents of that place would put up the
necessary county buildings and bear
tho expense of removal. This promise
caused many to sign that petition who
othenviso would not have done so.
I I fere is what the Gazette taid about
that time. Wo quote from an editoiinl
IMP
publishing an unmitigalcd falsehood. )
in
while pome of tho men that were
placed in nomination nro trustworthy,
competent and above reproach, many
of the others are not, and while the
selection fchould liavo been judiciously
mado from tho various portions of the
county," the reverse of this was the
ease. Tho democrats should wisely
take ad vantage of tho mistakes made
by their opponents, and by a fair and
equitable distribution of the offices
.through the various sections of the
cou:ily" and by a judiciousselce.tion of
honest fair-minded men to till them,
place beforo tho pcoplo a ticket that
will bo victorious in Juno. To com
pass such a result much will depend
upon ino men who compose tlio va
rious delegations. It is too often tho
case thai these delegations arc mostly
composed of men chronic office seek
ers who by manipulation have got
themselves elected as delegates for the
solo purposo of advancing their own
chances for oflico and who caro noth
ing for tho intorcsts of tho party or
people so long as thoy can mako their
own sefiish schemes succeed. What
can bo expected of a convention com
posed of such conflicting factions?
Wo know nothing about tho plans or
purposes of any of tho delegates that
will meet in convention next Mon
day, lnit Tin: Saoirr has no hesitanoy
in saying that tho people of Union
liavo but ono candidate they wish to
plaeo in tho field, and that is Union
itself as a candidate for tho county
seat. Wo aro in hopes that no resi
dent of Union will put himself for
ward, or accept tho nomination for
any olllco unless it is by tho desire of
a largo majority of tho convention un
solicited by him. Thoro is ono man
in this city however, whom, if tho con
vention sees lit to noininato for tho
oflico of clerk, recorder or shei ifl", will
reciovo a rousing support, not only by
tho people of Union but of tho ontiro
county. Wu alludo to Mr. John Klliott.
Tho nomination for treasurer will
naturally fall to sonio ono residing
at tho county scat, but it is an ollico
of minor importance. Tho samo
things that tend to disorganize a coun
ty convention will work tho samo way
in tho stato convention. .If delegates
aro sent thoro who aro olllco seekers
tliotnsolvos, ready to mako any com
bination or trado for their own agran
disment, rogardlesss of everything else,
what kind of a state tickot may bo ex
pected? Tho only proper course to
pursue is for tho precincts to sond men
who aro not a.piring to any oflico as
dolegalcs to the county convention
and for tho county covention to send
the samo kind of men to the state
convention. Tin: Scout may bo
counted solid for tho national demo
ornoy and for tho county democracy
if honest and competent men are
placed in nomination.
"ON I! 111(1 .MlSTAIti:."
They know as well as tho jtople of
Union that the court bouse is not
dilapidated and that it in just as safe a
building as there is in the county.
Again they know that no one" of the
circuit Judges ever refused to hold
court in it, and when they assort that
one half of the western wall caved in
about six years ago and was rebuilt
they konvv they are asserting a false
hood known by every resident of
Union. Why do they make thoo
assertions? Has the habit of nlisre-
picsenting Union and its county seat
grown upon them to that extent that
they can't tell the truth without apolo
gizing for it?
Tho Gizette further asserts that
"there is not a particle of doubt that if
Union is successful in tho county scat
question, one of the first things that
will greet the cars of tho beloved tax
payers will be the cry for a new court
house." Where did this imaginary
i
cry for a new court house originate?!
J JSot in union, for no ono has ever
heard any responsible citizen of Union
even intimate such n thing. Tho idea
originated in tho brain of the editor of
the Gazette. Neither the people of
Union nor of any other section of tho
countrv liavo any reason to clamor
for n new court hoiiso. Tho one they
have is a good safe commodious
and convenient building, sufficient
for all tho needs of the county for
years to come, anil tho people of no
section of the county would more
earnestly oppose tho extravagance of
erecting now county buildinus than
the people of Union, The editors of
tho Gazette arc aware of these facts
and their only purpose in making
these misrepresentations and in pub
lishing those contemptible statements
is to cover up the truth, mislead tho
people and by unfair means pave tho
wav for moving tho county seat to
La Grando, and burdoning tho tax
payers with an additional debt of at
least ono hundred thousand dollars.
in its issue of Feb. 8, 18S9.
Till! AUSTKA I.IAN SYSTUM
and
Tho main points in tho Australian
ballot America nixed, are.
I. All ballots must b printed
distributed at the public expense.
2. Tho names of all candidates iniiht
bo printed tin the same ticket.
It. Tho ballot must be dolivored to
tho voter within tho polling plaeo by
sworn officers of election.
1. No ballots may bo voted save
those delivered.
5. The voter must be guaranteed
absolute privacy in preparing his ballot.
(5, The seoreey of the ballot must
bo made compulsory.
AVANNAMAICKIt'S MAIL HI5UV1CN.
The lust issue of the Lu Grande
Gazette contains a lengthy editorial
under the caption of "Ono big mistake"
which for cheek, gull and unblushing
falsehood in without a parallel. This
is the Ii ret instance in which we Uuvo
over heaid of an editor apologising to
his patrons for telling the truth.
What is tliuiu in thuG.i.utte's write
up of Union to apologizu for? It is
truo that many things that is suid in
that writo-up wore in eoullict with
what it had been repeatedly asserting
in regard to Union for mouths before.
To liavo boiii consistent tho Giuutte
should liavo said Unit tho whole write
up to fur as Union and its people
Tho Daily Union, Ogdon, Utah, gives
a rather startling anil interesting in
sight into the manner in which our
mail service is conducted. The article
is too longthly to re-pulish in those
columns, but tho substance of it is
that Supl. White bus been conducting
tho service in a manner calcul.ikd ,o
promote his own interests at tho o.v
ponso of good service Ono of the
charges U that mails for Oregon,
Idaho and Washington have bion held
over 21 hours at Clroon Kiver, and
worked by clerks who should have
been icsting. White is trying to make
a record for economy and running the
service short hundod. The result is a
general kick from Omaha to Portland.
Knurr ato numerous and aggravating.
Mails are carried by, out-going mails
not taken and letters mis-sent ; mails
duo from tho oast comes un trains
from the west, and vie Mma. In
fact a i Afire completely Ifaphuzord and
demoralized service than the west hai
had for the past four months, or since
tho inauguiatinu of th "fast mail,"
could not be poiibk'. A nd way to
lodiu'otho surplus would bo to employ
a suffioiout force to pcifonn service
decently. W'v presume, however, that
tho matter will be fully jnwstig.itoJ
this Stimuli i by a r ivi.tl commit:..'
in H 1 oci.d tr un at mi ) i. i i .i
UlPiis.oid d"M .i il , i
next wuiu-i li. a i
Bulwtcrib? for Tub ouk.on sioi r.
A correspondent of the .Scout mourn
fully usserts that "our taxes arc high
enough at present and to remove the
county property, and to build new
buildings at this time will necessarily
incur a heavier rate of tax for seven or
eight years to come, and then it will
not better the county when the extra
expense shall have been paid." If
tho enabling act passes and the tax
payers of Union county are not satis
lied that tho county scut can bo re
moved without inflicting additional
burdens upon tho tax-payers, it will
he their duty to vote the removal
down. That's all there is to that prop
osition. How does that sound in comparison
with the utterances of the paper now?
After they had got tho enabling act
in tho legislature, this is the way the
Gib clause read and the wav it passed
tho legislature and became a law;
Section 0. Should the legal voters of
said county decide to change the loca
tion of said county scat, and should the
same be located at some other point
than where the samo is now located,
tho county court shall not have the
power or authority to appropriate any
sum of money to exceed .$5,000 for
tho construction of new county build
ing, and shall not have the power or
authority to levy any tax upon the
property of said county in excess of
two and ono half (2) mills on the
dollar of tho taxable property of the
said Union county annually for said
purposo. -
Thus it will be scon that by false
promises and misrepresentations they
got tho enabling act passed, and noy,
if by a continuation of the same tac
tics, bribery and repeating at tho polls,
they succeed in getting the county
seat removed to La Grande, if 25.000
will bo spout for county buildings
and tho foundation laid for structures
that will cost many times that much
in tho long run.
If tho taxpayers think they will
get off with any amount less than
ono hundred thousand dollars they
dont know tho men who aro manipula
ting this scheme.
LA GRANDE
HAVANA PUESri
DRILLS,
GANG, SULKY
AND
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STODDA11D HARROWS,
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Every Implement Warranted, and PIUCES TO SUIT THE TIMES.
CAliIi OX US Oil OUIt AGENTS BEFOKE P.URCIEAS G.
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EAGLE VALLEY JOTTINOS
Mis, Win. Wriso is on tho sick list.
Tho owners of the irrigating ditch
known as tho R. Young ditch met at
the Craig school house a few days ago to
tako into consideration, the advisa
bility of enlarging tho ditch. Work
is to commence on tho l lth. I. N.
Young is foreman on tho ditch.
Mr. Pres. Huwley purchased forty
acres of land of W. Loomas, recently,
for which ho paid if 1000.
Mr. R. J), Gibson has sold his stock
t5 A.T. Neill.
Mr. Henry Habcock, of Sturgill's
bar, on Snake river, arrived bote a few
days ago and will reside in Eagle val
ley horcaftor. llonry has been fore
man of the Sturgill bar ranch for about
two years.
Mr. G. W. Moody has sent off an
application for a patent on a new kind
of hay stacker.
Wiso and Cameron have rented
Mrs.-Nollio Heck's ranch for this year,
and G. T. Perry has rented his ranch
to Thos. Vale.
A littlo wind storm visited this
place Monday, tho 7th inst, and blow
down somo of tho fences.
Mr. Cleaver, formerly of Crackor
creek, but now of this valley, talks
somo of building an Odd FjIIow's hall in
tho near futuro.
I seo by Oharley Criuim's report to
tho Republican that ho trim to mako
tho pooplo think that over 50 per cent.
of tho stock in Eagle valley died this
winter. Tako tho number that was
fed in this valley and tho number that
died and it will not show a loss of over
10 per cunt. Wo do not deny that
there is a few dead animals in tho val
ley. If a person cannot say anything
good about a place ho need not say
anything bad.
Mr. Win. Nash's children are on
tho sick list but are not seriously ill.
NliWTON JhSADl OHI).
A Scrap of Pavsr Saves llor Lllo.
It was Jiul su ordinary scrap of wrap
ping paper, but it savod tier lifo. She was
In the lnt stage of coiHiiinptloii, told by
phys-loituis that .bo vn lucurslilu nnil could
not live ouly a uliort Unio; she wcikIkh! Iosk
tlmit sovfuty pound. On a piocc ot wrap-
plug paper h rend of Dr. King's New Ills
oven , nl Rot u aaiplf bottle; It helped
her, bc bought a liirgu bottlo, " hold her
nioi ti, Ihu; Ii im 'tl.er and grow hotter fsst,
coiiilinii .1 it- ii Hid is now strong, lipnl
iii : j im ; , weighing lo pounJ.
i , r tu u . t n .i - seuJ stamp to W. II.
1 . '1 iW . ajsultb- Trial bottlfN if
tbU wtmiU-r:iil DWoovory frc at llrown'
ilrug store, Union, Urcguu. x
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