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FALLS CITY NEWS
FALLS CITY OREGON. SATURDAY. NOVEMBER .4 191«;
VOL. XIII
COUNTY POLITICS.
SENATOR HARRY LA N E.
The political iim II h in Folk
County have been running in
“ low gear” and with the excep­
tion o f the race for District A t ­
torney there has been no excite­
ment or wasted energy.
The office o f District Attorney
is one o f the most important in
the county and should be filled
by a man who is thoroughly
competent and alive to the best
interests o f citizens lie rep­
resents. To him must the other
officials turn to for legal advice
in the discharge o f their duty.
Upon his legal knowledge, good
sense and judgement depends
the prosecution o f many viola­
tions or alleged violations o f the
law. With such a man in office
muny o f the frivolous cases may
be avoided and the county saved
much unnecessary expense. Up
to this time The News has taken
no hand in County politics other
than to urae that the voters do
not lose sight o f the principles as
set forth by the different parties,
but at this time we would urge
that the voters carefully, (and if
you like, prayerfully) consider
the candidacy o f W alter L . Tooze,
Jr., Republican nominee for Dis­
trict Attorney for Folk County.
You will have to travel far to
find a more brilliant, energetic
and competent lawyer than W al­
ter L. Jr. Mr. Tooze iB well
known in Folk, Marion and ad­
joining counties as a conscien­
tious and successful lawyer. He
is city attorney for Falls City and
has held that position for a num­
ber o f years, saving the city
many times the salary paid by
his watchful (not waiting) care.
Everyone in Falls City knows
W alter and we are sure that with
few exceptions, all will loyally
support him at the polls Novem ­
ber 7.
It is a lamentable fact that
some o f -the friends o f Mr.
Toozc’s opponent have under­
taken to besmirch his reputation
as a lawyer by circulating false
stories in regard to the collection
o f "W id o w ’s Pensions” in Marion
County. Thev have told that
Mr. Tooze robbed these “ pore
widders“ - As soon as Mr. Tooze
heard o f these stories he secured
sworn statements from these
widows setting forth the facts
in the cases and showing that he
had complied to the letter with
the contract; that these wo­
men in question had been denied
their pension by the County
Court o f Marion County and he
undertook to collect them with­
out cost to the widows in event
o f failure. Should he collect the
pensions he was to receive one-
half. These cases were carried
thru three courts before settle­
ment was made. He succeeded
in collecting the pensions and
received one-half o f the accrued
amount and the widows were
placed on the rolls and are col­
lecting their pension without
further cost.
The circulators o f these in­
famous stories became violently
ill as soon as Walter L. camped
on their trails and they have
been very busy trying to lay
blame on the other fellow. W al­
ter has proven that he is amply
able to take care Of himself in
this matter and we are confident
that he will show the same vigor
in looking after the best interests
o f Polk County should you by
your vote honor him with the
office.
Senator Harry Lane s|x»ke at
W agner’s Hull Tuesday night to a
fair sized audience. From
a
Democratic stand-point, we pre­
sume that he had made a “ killing"
in that be told only o f the good ac­
complished by the administration
and left unsaid the pitiful failures.
He was particularly strong on
the alleged prosperity, (not due to
the war, o f course), but to the
wise councils o f President Wilson.
W hen he spoke o f the great busi­
ness activities and the scads of
money floating around we imagine
that many o f his audience won­
dered.
The Senator vigorously attacked
the tariff and seemed to blame it
for the importation o f Hindu’s,
Japs and other classes o f cheap
lal>or. Just where cheap labor
fits in on the tariff question he did
not explain, and since the repeal
of the tarifi there has not been an
appreciable lessening in numbers
o f these people other than the call­
ing in o f the reserves o f nations
at war.
He also stated that if Hughes
was elected all the good laws en­
acted by the administration would
be repealed. We give the Senator
credit o f having more sense than
to believe such rot, but he eviden-
tally placed a very low estimate
on the inteligence o f his audience
or he would not have uttered it.
He pictured “ Teddy" as lusting
for blood, but forgot to mention
how this same Teddy while Pres­
ident o f the United States really
kept us out o f war, not by note
writing, grovelling and side-step­
ping. but by taking a firm stand
and backing it up by a determina­
tion, that the foreign nations re­
spected. He kept us out o f war,
yet retained the honor o f the na­
tion in so doing.
The Senator told a pathetic
story of his trip through the
“ South," the hot-bed or Dem­
ocracy, how he saw' little pinched
faces peering through the bars of
the cotton factories. How the
great and good President Wilson
declared that this should be no
more. The “ Child Labor Law’ ’ ’
v a s passed, but he did not tell
that the law’ in question simply
prevented the shipment out of the
stale goods manufactured by child
labor until after it had lain in the
warehouse 30 days; but after that
period o f laying in “ bond” that it
could be shipped anywhere with­
out hinderence, and the “ pinched
faces” are still peering through
the bars.
He forgot to tell how’ this great
humane President removed the
embargo laid by President Taft on
the shipment o f arms and am­
munition into Mexico, and allowed
them to prepare themselves that
they might be better equipped
to murder each other and the
hated gringoes. Talk about the
Mexican being inoffensive! He is
about as harmless as a rattle­
snake. He will pat you on the
shoulder with one hand and stick
a knife in you with the other.
Mention was not made o f the
“ 8-hour la w " nor o f the National
Guard’s outing on the border.
He pictured the horrors of the
great European war, but did not
explain President Wilson’s reason
for ignoring the plea o f the Gov­
ernors o f many states and the pe­
titions o f thousands o f American
citizens that an embargo be laid
on .arms and ammunition that the
hands o f the Americans might not
be stained with the blow! of the
millions being slaughtered across
the water.
When you get into the election
booth on November 7, to mark
your ballot for the men who will
control the policies of this nation
for the next four years, remem­
ber that it is essential that a R e­
publican President shall have the
support o f a Republican House
and Senate. Electing a Republi­
can President will not give us an
“ America First” administration,
unless we have also a Congress
that will enact the laws necessary
to prevent seizures o f our markets
by foreign producers as soon as
the war has ended and our war-
order market is no more.
In an effort to create the im ­
pression that business men favor
the reelection o f Woodrow Wil­
son,
the Democratic press is
making great display o f the an­
nouncements o f two or three
railroad Presidents that they will
vote for the Democratic Candi­
date. It should be remembered,
however, that these men are and
have been all their lives staunch
Democrats. There is nothing
new or surprising in the fact
that they will support Woodrow
Wilson in 1916.
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be avoided. He also stated tha
many o f the go»xl laws passed by
the Democratic party were origi-
The Republicans held a big rally nated and set in motion by Repub-
at Wagner s Hall Thursday night. Ijicans.
An excellent program had !>een
The great Democratic cry of
arranged by the ladies and the prosperity is, he said, “ a spotted
hall was taxed to its utmost seat-j prosperity" and is confined to
mg capacity.
states where they manufacture
The Dallas band played the munitions o f war or raise products
opening piece which was followed much needed by these nations at
by selections o f patriotic airs by war; that it had not yet struck
the High School Orchestra. Right Oregon to any appreciable extent.
here we desire to say that orches­
The much lauded “ Child Labor
tra performed with rare ability I ja w " contained a joker that ren­
and the citizens of Falls City may dered it ineffective in so far as
well be proud o f them.
preventing child labor in the
The Star-Spangled Banner, and Democratic South.
Colnmbia, the Gem o f the Ocean
w as sung by the audience.
Miss Aim ed* J. Fuller, Republican
Republican Rally
Hon. Walter H. Evans was then
introduced and he explained the
kind o f a government the people
desired and contrasted it with the
kind o f a government w’e now
have. He showed that Woodrow
Wilson as President o f the United
States was as much a dictator of
the acts and policies o f the gov­
ernment as the Czar o f Russia or
the Kaiser of the German Empire.
He showed the President’s vacila-
ting methods in handling the Mex­
ican situation, his determination
to oust Huerta at all hazards, his
capture and evacuation o f Vera
Cruz and the desertion o f hun­
dreds o f American and other
foreign citizens to the fury of the
Mexican mobs; how the comman-
der o f a German vessel turned his
ship’s guns on the city and declar­
ed that if any o f these helpless
and abandoned people were harm­
ed he would blow the city off the
face o f the earth. This same
German commander took these
people on board his vessel and de-
livered them to the American fleet
nominee for school superintendent
was in the city Thursday in the in­
terest o f her candidacy and attend
the Republican rally. Miss Fuller is
making a clean consistent campaign.
She is thoroughly alive to the needs
of the schools and if elected will con­
duct the office in a business-likeman-
ner and as economically as the best
interests o f the taxpayers and the
necessities o f education demand.
“ FAIR P L A Y "
W e received a letter Thursday
morning from W m . R. Miller, Cook
of Company “ L , ” written on one of
Mr. Piasecki's letterheads. It was
an explanation o f some alleged re­
marks against Lieutenant Piasecki,
and at the bottom o f the typewritten
page was the following in long hand;
'I f you believe in fair play kindly
print this letter.” W e do not under­
stand just where we come in on the
“ fair play” program that we Bhould
be asked or expected to print the
letter. W e have not the slightest
interest in what the "cook o f Co. ‘L ’
thought or said o f Lieut. Piasecki;,
and have not. to our knowledge,
been appointed to umpire any mud-
alinging contest between the cook
,
, .
and his lieutenant, or any other per-
anchored nine miles aw ay.
son. Of course, we should have
He advocated a national com- been D e l i g h t e d to print the
mission to regu late railroads and
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all interstate com m erce that the
present tangled conditions m ightI
BUY YOUR
Dry Goods,
Clothing,
Shoes,
Underwear,
and Groceries from
SELIG’S, Cash Price Store,
“ Meeting and Beating Competition".
Pendleton Normal School
letter, (p d a d v )h a d itb e e n a C c o m p a -
nied wither the requsite amount of
cash. While being an advocate of
fair play we also insist on " fa ir pay.”
Proven Necessity
(Copied from fhirtland Oregonian )
MONMOUTH. Ore.. June 26.— The Oregon Normal
school opened this week . . . students enrolled 786,
largest on record tor stale Normal In Oregon . . . .
how to care (or large student body a problem . . . .
800 being crowded into tvuditorium with seating ca­
pacity of 650 Galleries filled with extra chairs in
aisles
More than 150 students seated on platform.
New boarding houses completed, additions to room­
ing bouses built and tents used. One hundred girls
sleep on upper floor of st hool.
The official school rep art gives 150 grade pupila
I d Monmouth, for teacher- practice.
Announcement
To our old friends and patrons we desire
to announce the opening o f our store and 'th at
Read what those vau have elected to handle the
affairs o f your state and w ho are thoroughly informed
regarding school conditio ns in Oregon have to say
concerning measure 308 an the ballot at the coming
election:
we are now ready to serve you with our usual
promptness and courtesy.
Our Grocery Department
It will be our aim, at all times, to keep a
dependable line o f staple groceries.
Shoes and Clothing for Loggers
As has always been our custom, we handle
the very best in shoes and clothing for loggers
and mill workers.
Prices, low as the conditions
of tho markets will permit.
Falls City Logging k Lum ber Co.
'I 1 1 1 1 1 i I I I I -H - H -I-H H I J M 1 I 1 1 I I 1
WHEN
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GOOD S H O E S , L A T E S T S T Y L E 8 ,
A T L O W E 8 T P R IC E S FOR C A S H .
M R S . E. F ORSHET
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By J a m ,« W lthycom be. G o v e rn o r o f O regon:
"Oregon is iinqucstionab ly in need of more normal
school work anil Pendleton Is the logical place for a
school of this class In (Oust, irn Oregon ‘
By J. A. C h u rch ill, State- S u p e rin te n d e n t of Public
I nat ruction:
"1 trust that the voters of the State w ill assist In
raising the standard of nor schools by establishing a
State Normal School at P«s rtleton '
By P L. Cam pbell, Preal dent of the U n iv e rs ity of
O re g o n :
"A t least on. additional Noisnal School Is urgently
needed in Oregun."
By W . J. K e rr, P re s id e n t of tho O regon A g ric u ltu ra l
College:
"Since the people of Pendleton arv Initiating a tneasura
for the establishment of a Normal School at th'»t place.
It will give me pleasure >a> support this measure ’’
By J. H. A ckerm an, P re s id e n t O re g o n N o rm af School,
at M onm outh:
"A careful analysis o t the situatian will convince aay
one that Oregon needs a Normal School In Easton» Ore­
gon and Pendleton fills all the governateat requirements."
By the County School S u p e rin te n th ;n te of O regon:
"Resolved, that It 1% the sense of the County School
Superintendents of the Stale of Ormron. In convention
assembled, that the nest Interests of the schools of the
State demand Increased fa.-Illtles ft*r the training’ of
teachers, and that we, therefore, enthvrse the initiative
measure to establish a Normal School a t Pendleton "
By M rs. Charles H . Caatne r, Prestd ent of th e Oregon
Federation of W o m en 's Clubs:
" I most hsartity endorse the locatl en of sold Normal
School o l Pendleton."
P ro f. Robert C. French, F o rm e r P re s id e n t of the
N o rm al School Located at W e s tu e i:
"A n Immediate establishment of such a school at some
central point such us PendleCon would pe ove s great aaset
to the State of Oregon."
B. F. M ulkey, Ex P re s id e n t S o uth ern O regon N orm al
School:
" I shall support the Inratlon at an 1 Eastern Oregon
Normal School at PendletoB "
Stale Hoard o f Regents o f O tego i* N o im a l School
declares that “ the necessity f o r additional Norm al
school facilities in Oregon is apparent. ”
Portland Chamber o f Coninriercn ek'dontes treasure
308 and say Pendleton most lo g ic a l location foe N or­
mal school in Eastern Oregon*
308 X YES is a vote r w wo» chiimen
(P aid A d v.i
•eastern Oregon s t a i.
By J. H. Gwlnn
Kwrmal School Committee
, ssney . Pendleton. O n
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