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Newspaper Page TextATHENA PRESS Twick-a-Week Tuesday and Feidat f. b. boyd, publishes. Entered as second-class matter, March 1, MXH, at the poitofflc at Athena, Oregon, under the Act ot Congress of March 8, 1879. Subscription 'Rates: 1'er year, In advanot, 12.00 Single eoplea In wrappers, 5c. Advertising Kts: Local reading notices, nrstlnsertion,10cper me. Each subsequent insertion, So. All communications should be addressed to I he rRKHS Athena, Oregon ATHENA, MAY 27, 1904 WHY MOT BE FAIR? Why not be fair? In a political cam paign there is the same just cause for fairness in the review of the candidate's capabilities and fitness for office that there is in the everyday editorial review of general topic, comment and discus sion. However, some newspapers when they come under the ban of a political campaign, seem to exercise what evi dently appeals to them as "political thunder," but which in reality is noth ing short of willful misrepresentation, malice and mud-slinging. As an in stance of this practice, we have an ex ample in Umatilla county. The Pen dleton Tribune recently attacked F. B, Ilolbrook, the democratic candidate for joint representative, and after he is first charged with being a transient, living on wages, the paper now charges him with being a land hog and a water hog, and seeking to own all the north end of Morrow county and as much of the Echo country as he can reach, and in sinuates that Mr. Ilolbrook is now trembling under the frown of President Roosevelt and Mr. Newell. The facts' concerning the irrigation enterprise are known to almost every one. In 1890 D. V. Bailey and others commenced the construction of the "Bailey Ditch," taking the water from the Umatilla river, a short distance from .where it. etopOon Into the Columbia, and below any other irrigation enterprise on that stream. Mr. Bailey, having spent his fortune upon it, faild and went out of business and the enterprise languish ed. The Bailey ditch was to cover about COOO acres of sand dunes and sage brush west of Umatilla. The pro ject was practically abandoned, when it was taken up by the late lamented 0. B. Wade and others, but nothing substan tial was done until about four years ago when Mr. F. B. Ilolbrook became in terested in the enterprise, organized a company to complete the reclamation of these lands, and has so far succeeded that a city has been built at Irrigon, containing a thrifty and home-building population, a blacksmith shop, a news paper, stores, church and one of the best schoolhouses in Morrow county. More than 808 tracts ot land have been purchased from the company by actual settlers who are devoting their time to the careful cultivation of these small tracts. Of the 2108 tracts only one con tains more than 50 acres, and of the re minder, 153 are of 5 acres or less. Mr. Ilolbrook has been and is a suc cessful man, and has done in the desert what few men have done on better land. During the last fourteen years and since the Bailey ditch was taken out of the Umatilla, the Allen Ditch company's ditch and a dozen other large ditches have been taken from the Umatilla, enough to occupy all the water in the river; but in seepage and other ways it finds its way back to the river before it is required by Mr." Ilolbrook. No one using water above interferes with him, and he encourages everyone to take out water above him, because their pros perity is his prosperity. Why not be fail? . . In his address during commencement exercises Tuesday evening, Will M, Peterson paid a glowing tribute to the Athena public school, to its pupils, its principal and its efficient teachers. That today Athena has one of the best graded schools, not only in the county, but in the state, rests entirely with the effici ency and thoroughness of method on the part of the instructors employed in the different departments the past year. To this united effort on the part of the teachers due credit being here given to an able and conscientious school board was this result attained. With prac tically nothing to start on, and the school in a chaotic condition, it has been raised in one year to a par with the leading schools of the state. Further in the course of bis remarks Mr. Peter son touched on the subject of teachers' salaries. He reiterated a fact well known, and one which is being faced by all school boards, not ODly of Oregon, but in other Pacific Coast states as well the question of a raise in teachers' salaries. In way of illuctration he named amounts for salaries, to which some criticism is heard. Mr. Peterson, in drawing his comparisons, did not in timate in the least that the amounts named were to be taken in the literal sense, but figuratively. The question of higher salary in the school room is one that will have to be met point blank in Athena, as elsewhere. To have a good school requires good talent, and talent demands a salary commensurate with its ability. Mr. Peterson merely advanced facts that are potent to all who are con versant with the situation. Speaking of William Lloyd, democrat ic candidate for commissioner, the Mil ton Eagle says: "William Lloyd has lived in Umatilla county for more than thirty years. He is a pioneer of pioneers. His life has been temperate, wholesome and up right. He has the confidence and es teem of every man who knows him, and he is known to a very large circle in Umatilla county. His business attain ments and ability are at least equal to Horace Walker, and in the opinion of most men are superior. Those who be lieve in temperance for the sake of tem perance should remember that on the question of liquor licenses outside of the incorporated cities the question as to whether the license is granted or refused is determined by the county court ot which William Lloyd is a member, and while he is not a member of the prohi bition party, he is temperate. He never drinks liquor in any form at any time and has never tasted tobacco. "Of particular interest to the people in the east end of the county is the fact that, with the exception of school sup erintendent, William Lloyd is the only nominee on either ticket whose resi dence is east of Pine creek. One-third of Umatilla county, and the richest por tion of it, is included within this sec tion. This section bai more miles of road per inhabitant than any other sec tion of the county, with the exception of the city of Pendleton, and it does seem that the loyalty of the people in this section, all other things being equal, should see to it that this section gives William Lloyd for commissioner a prac tically unanimous vote." In answer to the criticism ot Judge Hartman and the county commissioners for buying the poor farm the Echo News delves into the following facts: "Until this purchase was made, for which the Tribune condemns Hartman, the county poor were kept at the poor house in the city of Pendleton, where there was a comfortable building, beau tiful trees, an attractive lawn and plenty of shade, but where the in mates, whether they desired healthy and profitable ex orcise or not, were wholly barred from doing anything useful. Their keep un der these circumstances amounted to several thousand dollars a year, which under these circumscances could not be avoided. The poor farm as a real estate investment worth all that it cost, and it affords the inmates not orly an oppor tunity for a healthy out door life and plenty of exercise, but an opportunity as well to in some measure support them selves, and this they are doing, and are saving to the Umatilla county taxpayers almost the cost of the farm each year." Foley's Honey and Tar for chUdrea,s&tc,sure. No opiate. The COMMERCIAL1 LIVERY, FEED and SALE STABLE. Best Turnouts In Eastern Oregon Stock Boarded by the Day, Week or Month w I KING BROTHERS Prep DEMOCRATIC TICKET. .State. Supreme Judge Thomas O'Day. Dairy and Food Commissioner S. M. Douglas. Presidential Electors John A. Jef frey, T. H. Crawford, W. B. Diller and J.H.Smith. District. Congress, Second District J. E. Sim mons. ." District Attorney, Umatilla and Mor row J. H. Raley. Joint Representative, Morrow and Umatilla F. B. Holbrook. County. Judge G. A. Hartman. Sheriff T. D. Taylor. Clerk J. E. Cherry. Recorder W. H. Fowler. Assessor C. P. Strain. Commissioner William Lloyd. Representatives W, D. Chamberlain and Wm. Blakely. School Superintendent W. S. May berry. Surveyor O. C. Berkeley. Treasurer S. G. Lightfoot. Coroner Dr. T. M. Henderson. Precinct. Justice of the Peace O. G. Chamber Iain. Constable George Tittsworth. REPUBLICAN TICKET- Presidential Electors W. V. Hamp ton, J. N. Hart, W. H. Gore, James A. Fee. ' Supreme Judge F. A. Moore. Food and Dairy Commissioner J. W. Bailey. Prosecuting Attorney G. W. Phelps. Joint Representative Dr. W. G. Cole. Congressman in Second District J. N. Williamson. Representatives John J. Balleray and Henry Adams. County Judge Henry J. Bean. County Clerk Frank Sating. Sheriff O. A. Barrett. Treasurer E. J. Sommerville. Recorder W. H. Folsom. Assessor W. T. Rigby. Commissioner Horace Walker. School Superintendent Frank K. Wells. Coroner Dr. A. W. Botkin. Surveyor J. W. Kimbrell. 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