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D. E. STITT, EdUor.
Entered aa aecortd-claaa mutter September 8. ls0H,
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FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1912.
Why They Don't Follow.
Senator Cummins takes oppo
sition to the new party move and
says that personal disappoint
ment, however keen, and individual-
dishonesty do not furnish
a proper foundation for a new
party. So he will stay with the
republican party even though he
did not approve of Presideut
Taft's renomination.
It is noteworthy that almost
without exception the other men
who were big progressive leaders
at Chicago take the same view.
La Follette does. So do Borah,
Hadley, Osborn and Poindexter.
Very likely this feeling by the
progressive seuators and govern
ors is due in part at least to the
colonel's attitude of "Me or
nothing." The republicnn con
vention would have been glad to
have named a progressive candi
date if it could have secured
anyone but the colonel. The
nomination was ottiered to Had
ley but he did not dare take it
in view of the declaration from
the Roosevelt headquarters that
if the convention named a pro
gressive he had to be from Oyster
Bay and no other place.
Roosevelt's attitude in thi'b
connection was entirely differeut
from that of Bryan at Baltimore.
Bryan saw he could not be
named himself and he did the
next best thing by forcing the
nomination of a thoroughgoing
progressive, in the person of
Governor Wilson. In Bryan we
have the spectacle of a man who
effaced himself to advance the
progressive cause. In the colonel,
if he persists in running on a
third party ticket, we will have
the spectacle of a man who in
sists on getting into the race
himself even if to do so he must
divide the progressive vote in
the general election.
In the eyes of the progressives
Bryan stands in far better light
than Roosevelt. It is easy to
see why he is more popular than
Roosevelt with his generals.
There are drawbacks to the game
when one man must always be
it. East Oregon ian.
Seeking Office Comes High.
It costs a pot of money to run
for office now-a-days, with two
campaigns to make. It is esti
mated that no less than a million
dollars was spent for Taft and
Roosevelt together in the pri
mary campaign. Vast sums were
also spent in behalf of the demo
cratic candidates. La Follette
got off the cheapest of all, with
an expense bill of only $60,000.
A man must either be rich or
have rich friends to run for
president, and if he is elected it
goes without saying that his rich
friends will have some influence
at the White House. Nor can
a man be a piker and run for
Congress, either. Senator Steph
enson spent $100,000 in his Wis
consin campaign; and was able
to show the senate that he had
spout it legitimately, too. A
popular Maryland senator whom
everybody wanted re-elected and
who had practically no opposi
tion spent $18,000, so expensive
were the requirements of the
nomination. Forty members of
the lower house have declared
that they will make no effort to
return to Congress, so costly is
the process of reaching its port
als. All of this shows that the
direct primary is not an unmixed
blessing, although one that the
modern voter will never consent
to do without. One of its tend
encies is to deprive the public of
the able man of moderate means
who finds that lie cannot afford
to run for office on his own hook,
and who hesitates to place
himself under obligations to
his wealthier friends Weston
Leader.
According to press reports
many republican leaders, now
that Woodrow Wilson has been
nominated, do not favor a third
party movement and are pre
paring to support the democratic
candidate. However, Ex-president
Roosevelt is not one of that
number. He wants another trial;
his ambitiou has not yet' been
satisfied. Perhaps he thinks
that he has not killed President
Taft sufficiently dead, politically.
The way of political opponents
is dubious. " ' . . '
Search lights are being used
to discover the difference be
tween a Republican and a Dem
ocratic steam roller, and the
answer is given that the latter
had a reversible lever. How
ever, we are inclined to think
the answer incorrect as the only
difference we can see is, the
Democratic concern had a master
in front of it.
Bryan killed his chances for
nomination in the Baltimore con
vention by being a man who
fearlessly denounced dishonesty
when policy would have counseled
silence; Roosevelt destroyed any
chance he may have had for any
election by pursuing a dishonest
policy that had its beginning in
the violation of the pledge he
made to the people. Sheridan
Sun.
Votes for Women.
In answer to the charge that
women would be office seekers if
they had the ballot, Mrs. Orlow
Black, a prominent , woman of
San Francisco, replied:
"The women who are interest
ed in civic and social work are
not so much interested in politics
and political leaders as they are
in measures for the social, civic
and moral betterment of the com
munity. They are interested in
things that work for the welfare
of the race, for its protection and
its conservation. The women do
not indorse everything that is
said at the lectures delivered be
fore them. They think for them
selves and have views of their
own; they want to hear both
sides of the case and that is the
first and most important reason
for their exhibition of interest.
I think they will try to keep out
of politics as much as possible
at least that is the avowed inten
tion of most of the women now.
But there may be times when
some reform they initiate or are
interested in becomes a party
measure. In such event they
will support the measure or the
men who champion it, regardless
of their political party affiliations.
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Clearing Exposition Grounds
San Francisco, July 11.
Seventy buildings have been re
moved from the 1915 Universal
Exposition site and the work is
still progressing. Within another
thirty days there will not be a
structure or an incumbrance on
the site. Nine pieces of property
west of Laguna street and ten
pieces east of Laguna street and
west of Van Ness avenue, are
still to be acquired. Condemna
tion suits have been brought
against all the owners and the
attorneys for the Exposition are
rushing these suits so that the
Buildings and Grounds Depart
ment will not be delayed in its
important work.
Explained.
"I thought you told me this place
was so healthy that nobody ever
died here?" objected the prospec
tive purchaser to the real estate
agent. - -
J did, and 111 stick to it."
"I'll bet vou will. You also told
me that people in this suburb didn't
have to pay grocery bills, because
the ground raised their vegetable
for the"
"I told you that too."
"How do vou account for the fact
that one of your prominent citizens
died of starvation yesterday ?"
"That was a doctor." -Cleveland
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Church Directory.
Evangelical Church
W. A. GuEFFROY, Pastor.
Morning service at 11:00 o'clock
Evening service at 7:30 o'clock
Sunday School at 10:00 a. m.
Y. P. A. Meeting at 6.30 p. m.
Prayer Meeting Wednesday evening.
CHRISTIAN CHURCH. ',
:, W. A. Wood, Pastor.
Morning Service at . , 11. a. m.
Evening Service at ' 8:00 p. m.
Sunday School ' 10:00 a. m.
Y. P. S. C. E. 7:00 p. m.
Prayer Meeting Wednesday 7:30 p. m.
BAPTIST CHURCH.
Preaching Service, 11:00 a. m.
Sunday School, 10:00 a. m.
B. Y. P. Union, at , - - 6:30
W. C. T. U.
Local Union meets every sec
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vangelical church at 2:30 p. m.
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