FAVORS
PARTY BOSS
Bonaparte Would Legalize a
. Regular Party Leader
HE ADVOCATES UNIQUE IDEA
Proposes That ".Boss Be Elected An
nually With Power to Choose
Party Candidates.
In an interview published Saturday
Secretary of the Navy Charles Bona
parte suggested the establishment of a
legalized "boss" in political parties in
each of the states and cities, the
"boss" t) be empowered to select the
candidates for the various elective
offices, thereby doing away with nom
inating conventions.
It is bard, he said, indeed, often im
possible to get men who are fit to be
come candidates. Unfit candidates
can be secured by the bushel.
"Now by a legalized boss I mean an
iudividnal authorized ou behalf of
each party to choose all candidates for
that party for eleotive offices within a
designated territory. "Of course,"
every facility should be afforded for
making independent nominations,
whether within the organized party or
without, so all citizens who may dis
sent for whatever reason from the
regular nominations may be able to
vote effectively according to their con
victions." The reporter asked whom Mr.
Bonaparte would choose bis proposed
legalized boss.
"He onght to be eleoted annually,"
said the secretary, "by the legal
voters of bis party at a primary held
under all the sanctions of law, and at
which only this one officer, or rather
position, should be fitted. I likewise
think it probable tnnt no one of the
persons who have been known as
'bosses' siuoe I have known of politic
ians would have been eleoted at such
a primary.
"Perhaps it might bo well to pro
vide that the nominator or 'legalized
boss I have suggested should be him
self disqualified to hold pnblio office,
but of this I am not sure. There are
certainly two sides to the question."
SACK SHORTAGE NEXT YEAR
Eastern Washington Farmers are Al
ready Alarmed at Prospect-
That the sack shortage aud high
prices will continue for another year
is shown by the following from the
Walla Walla Bulletin :
Farmers throughout Eastern Wash
ington are discussing the matter of an
expected grain sack shortage next,
year caused by a shortage of jute and
are wondering bow the crops will be
handled. At the present time the
jute mill at the penitentiary is being
run about a day aud a half a week,
when it should be turning out from
30,000 to 40,000. sacks a day
The shortage will, it is expected,
seriously bandioap the farmers in the
handling of their crops, as they will
have to depend on the foreign impor
tations of sacks, which are held at
such a high figure as to make the
question a serious one.
The direct cause is said to be a
shortage of jute caused by the revolv
ing fund of the state institutions,
which does not revolve. The fund
which is intended to answer the pur
pose of payiug the necessary expenses
of the various state institutions, is ap
propriated by the legislature and the
surplus goes back to the state treas
ury. It stays there until the legislature
meets and appropriates it again for
tho revolving fund, when it can be
used. Tbe legislature will not meet
uutil after the first of tbe year and
consequently tbe revolving fund sur
plus is now lying idle in tbe state
treasury and the supply of jute at tbe
prison is running low.
Farmers are fearfnl of tbe results
next year, as the sack question is one
of great importance in this section.
The prison made sacks usually sell at
from 6 to 7 ceuts each,-while the im
ported article cannot be obtained for
less than 11 or 12 cents. With tbe
present outlook the outside sacks will
have to be depended upon to supply
tbe needs.
Agitation is being made of a propo
sition to have the coming legislature
to pass a bill makiug tbe revolving
fund one that fulfills the functions of
its name, eo that a plentiful supply of
jute may be kept on hand for use dnr
ing the winer months in making sacks
and it is probable that an effort will
be made to introduce the till this
year.
Sacks for May delivery are now
quoted at 12 cents.
MATTERTfiKEN TO DEPARTMENT
Umatilla County Court Arraigns In
dian Agent in Letter to Hitchcock
A Pendleton dispatch says: Charg
ing that O. (J. Edwards, agent at tbe
Umatilla Indian reservation, has sub
jected United States citizens to person
al insult and questioning his honesty
and integrity, tbe oounty court of
Umatilla county has mailed a letter
to Seoretary of the Interior Nathan
Hitchcook.
Because of tbe indignation of the
Umatilla connty ranchers at tbe re
fusal of the iuterior department to act
upon the petition, recently filed with
Edwards, for permission to cross the
reservation by way of the regular
roads, driving stock through these
roads, under certain restrictions, the
court has been spurred into action.
In tbe.letter to tbe seoretary of the
interior the matter is fully explained,
tbe epistle telling of the inconvenience
to whioh ranchers are subjected by
being forced to drive their stock a
roundabout way in order to reach a
shipping point, and of other existing
conditions. It is charged by tbe court
in the letter, that it is their belief
that Agent Edwards has failed to de
liver the letter to the interior depart
ment and is the cause of the failure to
aot upon the petition.
Will Forcibly Take Coal.
The mayor and council of Mountain
home have served notice on tbe
officials of the Oregon Short Line
railway that if the threatened coal
famine prevailed tbey would forcibly
take coal from the first train through,
first depositing money for the same
with the agent.
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are expected to call aud settle by Oo-
tober 15. Otherwise cost of collec
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