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A FEW NOTES ON THE
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MEET AT FOSSIL
Next Thursday and Fri
day, Sep. 29 and 30.
JUDGE CAMERON WILL 0E
. LIVER ANNUAL ADDRESS
Masy Otktr Prominent People to
Tako Part ia Program-Condon
aad Fossil Ball Teams Will
Crou Ball Afaia.
Next Thursday and Friday,
September 29th and 30th, the
annual gathering of the Fossil
Caledonian Club is to be held in
Fossil.
The reputation of the Caledon
ian meetings held under the aus
pices of this Club has grown to
such an extent that they are at
tended by Scotchmen and others
from all over Eastern Oregon,
while from Multnomah county
there always comes a goodly
number of loyal Caledonians, in
addition to the performers spe
cially engaged for the occasion.
The champion piper of the
Pacific Coast, James H. McDon
ald, who won the championship
medal In open competition at San
Francisco about three months
ago, will, as usual, handle this
important part of the program.
The genial Judge Cameron, af
ter a lapse of several years, is to
be present and will deliver the
annual address.
Others who will take part in
the program are: Frank Hennisy
with his comic, songs; Jock Cole
man, who appeared in Condon
two years ago and who is a close
second to Harry Lauder; Mrs. R.
A. Sullivan, who will be the star
soprano singer; Mrs. W.D. Deav
er, an old favorite soprano sing
er of the Club; Mrs. Jessie Ber
gen, pianist of rare ability, who
makes her first appearance with
the Fossil Ciub; Miss Susan
Hayes, of Fossil and A. B. Rob
ertson the well known local sing
er. There will be a ball game each
day between the Condon and
Fossil teams and a Grand Ball
each night
J.M.Dyer was over from May
ville on Tuesday.
Wm. Case returned on Wednes
day evening from Portland.
Mrs. S.B. Couture went to Ore
gon City , yesterday where her
brother, John Adams, is sick.
Townley, the Home Bakery &
Grocery proprietor, is out for
bsinass with a 15 per. cent dis
count on all groceries. Read his
ad on page two. -
A. Larson, who has been head
miller for the Gilliam Co. Milling
Co.. 1 in this city for several
yelrs,''ihas accepted a similar po,
sition in the Albina mills in fort
land and left on Wednesday to
begin his work there. Mrs. Lar
son will join him in Portland a-
CALEDONIANS
bout November 1st. ' ,
THE ANTI-ASSEMBLY CANDIDATE IS A VOTE
THE
AS SEEN BY THE REPORTERS OF
THE PORTLAND DAILY PAPERS
Showing the Important Parts the Corporations Took in the Recent Multnomah County and State
AssemhIies--"Ticket Fixed up," says the Telegram--"Ahsence of Farmers at State As
semhly Noticeable," says the Daily News-175 Multnomah Delegates Poll
368 Votes forNomination of Hart -Other Facts for Voters to Digest
The assembly papers through
out the Btate have been trying to
convince the public that the as
sembly is not backed by the
corporations. The following
headline appeared on July 15
over an article in the Evening
Telegram relative to the Mult
nomah County Assembly which
was held the next day:
ASSEMBLY TICKET 13 FIXED UP"
Under this was a subhead,
saying:
Corporations Meet and Look
Over Prospective Legislative
Timber."
Under this bead appeared the
following item:
The city assembly last year
which recommended Jos. Simon
for Mayor has encouraged the
politicions to try it again on a
larger bcale, this time, with the
county, and next week with a
state assembly. The call issued
by the Republican County Com
mitteo is for 827 delegates, but
a full attendance is not expected.
No proxies will be permitted.
These delegates were selected
at precinct meetings held July 9,
many of the delegates being
picked out bv candidates. Most
of the delegates are pledged to
one aspirant or another.
Much of the work to be done
tomorrow is all cut and dried.
(Here the Telegram published
the "slate," fixed up by the
corporations, substantially as
nominated by the county as
sembly").
There was a meeting of men
representing the railroads, banks
and other interests held in the
Electric building Tuesday after
noon, at which time the legist
tive timber was canvassed. Sev
eral prominent Republicans were
asked by this self-appointed
committee to become candidates
for the Legislature, but they de
clined with thanks. As T. B.
Wilcox will probably be a candi
date for United States Senator
against Jonathan Bourne three
years hence, the senators elected
at this time will be hold-overs
and have a vote on Bourne's suc
cessor, and the candidates will
be picked with a view to further
Wilcox's chances. One of the
men who has been conferring on
the legislative ticket explained
that unless they had a list of
names to submit to the assembly
the members of the assembly
would not know what to do and
would not know who to indorse,
to help the assembly the legisla
tive ticket was being prepared. .
v Many names are talked of for
tW 'senate' , and house,'' but the
programme1 is practically fixed.
A tacit understanding exists as
to the men to be recommended.
The men who have been meeting
QILLIAM COUNTY "BOOSTER"
CONDON. OKEOON. FRIDAY. SEPT. 23, 1010.
in the Electric building are not
particularly concerned regarding
the rest of the ticket but are
vitally interested in the Legisla
ture. The Portland Journal of July
16, before the Aasembly conven
tion made any nominations, said
in a headline: ,
Slate Is Selected Succeeding
Night of Conferences At
Secret Sessions It Was
Agreed That Only Nomina
tions That Only Nominations
Can Be Made in Assembly."
Under the headline it pub
lished the following article, in
cluding the slate which it said
had been se'.ected:
Joint Senator, Multnomah and
Clackamas L. G. Clarke. '
Joint Representative Dr. J.
R. Wetherbee. 1
Senator, Multnomah C. N.
McArthur. -
Representatives J. W. Bever-
idge, S. R. Latourette, John C.
McCue, H. E. Collier of St Johns,
W. F. Stein, Charles Cleveland
of Gresham, George W. Staple
ton, Robert S. Farrell, Dr. H. 1.
Keeney, Edwin Caswell, Peter
Hume, W. B. Scott.
The forecoing slate is the pro
duct of repeated conferences be
tween representatives of large
financial and commercial inter
ests in this city and was finally
framed after midnight, with the
expectation and understanding
that the men named will be put
forward as the nominees of the
Republican assembly.
At the secret conferences
which resulted in this slate, it
was agreed that the only county
nominations which are of especial
concern to the large business in
terests, in this campaign, are
the nominations for the state
legislature. It was further agred
that men must be named who
would look out for these inter
ests and who would as far as
possible shape legislation in their
behalf. - Three of these confer
ences have been held within the
past eight days. The first took
place a week ago yesterday at
the First National Bank, the
second was held last Tuesday in
the Portland General Electric
building, and the third was at
the Imperial last evening, and
was protracted until 3 o'clock
this morning.
The representation at these
meetings was not identical in all
cases. But among ' those par
ticipating in one of more of these
conferences were: A. , L. Mills,
president v of the First National
Bank; B. S. Josseylin.'president
of the ' Portland Railway, Light
& Power Co,; T. -B. Wilcox,
president of the Portland Flour
ing Mills; Guy W. Talbot, presi
dent of the Portland Gas & Coke
Co.; C. W. Hodson, ex-state
senator: S. C. Beach, -census
supervisor, and ex-state senator.
At these conferences S. C.
Beach figured as the mouthpiece
and representative of the Ore
gonian. It was understood that
the various interests represented
were to name the legis'ative
ticket and that the slate thus
named would be put through the
assembly today without serious
opposition.
The S. C. Beach named above
is the Same C. Beach who knew
the "slate" so well before
Bowerman was nominated for
governor that he was able to say:
"Mr.t Bowerman will get 648
votes on the first ballot," and
Bowerman actually received 645.
So Beach knew that the slate
makers were not playing fair
with Andrew C. Smith, J. H.
Ackerman and other candidates
for governor.
The Daily News of July 21
said under theso headlines:
Every Political Tool Was There.
Choicest Gathering of Ma
' chine Party Workers the
" State Ever Saw Dumped Into
Assembly Meet Today." ' ' 1
If the entire state of Oregon
was raked and scraped with a
fine-toothed comb a more com
complete - and representative
crowd of machine political work
ers, could not be gotten together
than is assembled today at the
armory to select candidates for
the Republican voters of the
state. -
Every Republican machine boss
and party worker from the Cali
fornia line to the Columbia, and
from the Pacific Ocean to the,
eastern extremes of Baker coun
ty, is a delegate to the so-called
Republican assembly, and every
man who has a seat and a vote is
there for. one purpose to help
the old crowd back into power
and put the knife into the direct
primary law.
A noticeable feature of the as
sembly, which is composed of
about 800 men, is the absence of
representatives of the farming
interests of the state. Less than
a dozen men who could call them
selves tillers of the soil are in
attendance at the convention.
Another article in the News of
July 21, under the head, "How
They Were Pickdd," said:
The full beauty of the assem
bly plan of choosing candidates
for the peepul, instead of letting
the voters choose their own can
didates at the primaries, was
probably , best shown when the
disgraceful, crooked and fixed
nomination of J. N. Hart for at
FOR THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS
A
torney general culminated the.
degraded gathering of machine
politicians yesterday.
The office of attorney 'general
is most important to the corpora
tions; to control this office is
vital; so, per the usual conven
tion plan, this nomination was
left until the last, so that only
the "good and true" party hacks,
who knew what was coming,
would be left to decide things. .
The first vote taken showed no
majority. Hough of Southern
Oregon, an untried quantity,
having a mysterious following
that threatened Hart's success.
The second ballot showed 1097
votes, but still Hough was gain
ing and there was no majority.
something had. to be done to fix
things for Hart -r w w
City Attorney Grant was at the
tally booth, our old friend Brady
was tabulator and "Senator"
Beach was oa the job through
the hall Every delegation voted
before Multnomah tackled the
job; then Brady whispered the
result to Beach, who circulated
with the news that a lot of votes
were needed for Hart to win;
then Multnomah delegates, like
Max C Cohen, could be seen,
aad there are witnesses enough
to this, shoving inhandfulsof
ballots marked for the state can
didate. There were about 175
Multnomah delegates present
Some 368 votes , were publicly
counted from them.
Still there were not enough for
Brother Hart, and to gain time
the railroad attorney, Fenton,
protested against Multnomah
voting by proxy for the absent
members of the delegation with
out publicly deciding by a ma
jority of those present how the
absent should vote. Then it was
announced that Multnomah had
cast too many votes and another
poll was taken and this time a
large sigh of relief went up, for
Hart had enough. a
There were 1,225 votes cast on
the tfiird ballot that nominated
Hart Remember that there
were only 1,078 cast on the first
ballot and that no delegates had
arrived to vote in the meantime!
Abo remember that the big
gest vote cast was during the
contest for governor nomination
when the full assembly was
present and then but 1,209 votes
were polled!' .
The remarkable out-of-j(-int-with-the-times
meeting which
opened yesterday to do the bid
ding of the corporations, con
tinued its session this morning
and began the interrupted pro
ceedings by putting another cor
poration clamp : on . the .ticket
Wallace . . McCamant, ' special
spokesman for the interests,, was
added, the already top-heavy
railroad affair was almost com
SSEIK
i -
pleted. ! . .
Now tlal Cm4m ku ca-to-aateScfcoob,
let's work Isr a
ew PraUUat CLarca fcaMof
NO. 25
APPLAUSE FOR LAF
FEMBU1S Where He Delivers an
Address to the Voters.
SAfilE STORYALL OVER STATE
FOR BEEN OiMTE
Facts and Figures Presented by
Lafferty Arouse Voters to Need
of Better RepreMntatioD-Hii V
Slogan flakes Big Bit .
Burns, Or., Sept 17.-"Giv
Oregon the benefit of her owfl
natural resources.".-The fore
going was tne Keynote ol srtw
flours speecn delivered by A..
W. Laffertv. at th mnrthniiKA
here tonight before large crowd
of Harney county voters. The
audience demonstrated its ap
proval of the sentiments of the
speaker by frequent and hearty
applause.
The above report in the Ore-
gonian shows how Lafferty was '
received al! over the state. He
has visited in all the County
Seats in this district and has
made speeches which have been
received everywhere with en
thusiasm and applause. "Give
Oregon the benefit of her own
natural resources," is a slogan
which has won universal favor
for Lafferty from voters through
out the entire, district and the
people have become aroused by
the facts and figures Lafferty
has presented, showing where
the Beaver State has been de
frauded out of hundreds of
thousands of dollars through the
inability of the representation at
Washington, D. CL, to procure
reasonable appropriations .for
rivers, harbors and irrigation
projects, considering the amount
the state has paid into the na
tional 5 treasury for these pur
poses.1 It is high time that a
man or. Latrerty s calibre -was
sent to Washington to represent
the Second District of Oregon if
we expect to secure returns from
the tax paid for the purpose of
up-building the state. . ,
The deal was closed the first
of the week whereby the Frank
lin Brown ranch on Rock Creek
was sold to H. A Thiesson and
W. L. McCaleb of this city.
The ranch is under irrigation
from Rock CreeW; and the good
water right makes it valueable
property. Mr Brown will proably
remain on the ranch until next
spring when he expects to go to
Idaho. .
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Simpson
left on Saturday morning of last
week for Hood River where
they will visit for some time
with Mr. and Mrs. a E. Hall
They have not decided where
they will locate permanently.
Miss Ruth Seals of Ferry Can
yon while riding yesterday Vras
thrown from.' her horse and
suffered a fracture of the leg.
Dr. Donnelly was called and Re
duced the fracture. - -- j$