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About Albany democrat. (Albany, Or.) 1900-1912 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 5, 1906)
Senator Bailey's Side "The democrats of Texas have not forgotten that exactly this same kind of a fight was made on me when I was first elected to the Senate six years ago. After I had won the Senatorship in a fair contest before the people, a coterie of dissatisfied politicians made a desperate attempt to defeat my elec tion by the Legislature. The present agitation was largely inaugurated by the same men, with some outside assist ance, and is predicted upon exactly the same transactions. "The first step in the campaign of malevolence and detraction was to have a purported interview with Roger Sul' livan of Illinois, assailing me, senc broadcast over the country. ' Mr. Sulli van promptly announced that interview as a falsehood. The next step was to circulate the falsehood that the Tenn essee railroad properties for which am the attorney belong to the Standard Oil Company. Some of the men who circulated that story know, and all of them could have learned with very little inquiry, that the Standard Oi . Company had no interest in or connec tion with these properties, and . that they wore owned by H. C. l'ierce, J. C. Vanblarcom, W. H. Thompson and many other leading business men of St, Louis." Concerning his connection with the railroad, Mr. Bailey says: "I accepted the employment and per formed exactly the same kind of ser vice that would have been expected of any other reputable lawyer. "The objection to my employment as the attorney of those properties must proceed upon the theory that a man in public office has no right to pursue any private business, and suci1 a doctrine, if applied to all men and all officers, would reduce the public life of this country to a point where only rich men or rascals could afford to accept an of fice. If I.had found that my time and strength would not permit me to serve as a Senator and to practice law at the same time, I would have abandoned the law without the slightest hesitation, because I have always believed, and acted upon the belief that the public service holds the highest claim upon every man who undertakes it, or, if I had found that there was any conflict between my duty to my clients and my duty to my constituents I would have declined all employment as a lawyer. " Glad Uoitioi Is Cuming Back. A Salem paper wants Homer Daven port adopted permanently by an Ara bian sheik. This would keep Mr. Davenport in Arabia, and the United States would (lose its greatest cartoon ist. The Democrat would not wish to see this happen, Whether Mr. Daven port draws any more pictures or not it is to be hoped he reaches home safely with hisifine string of Arabian horses and that ho lives to a good old age. He represents an clement in American lifo which does things, a genius who makes himself known in the world. He may have his fads, so have other peo ple, but they , are innocent ones, and much cleaner than those of some peo ple. The horse is a splendid fad for any one, the noblest of all animals and his fowls are about as interesting birds as one can find any whore. Altogether he is a splendid all round fellow. The Democrat hopes that no sheik gets him and that Oregon will some day again have the pleasure of seeing one of it8 ' most interesting native sons. I he Riot Act. An exchange says. Ex-Colonel Hofor, editor of the Salem Journal, rends the republican party the riot act because P. S. Malcolm is about to bo appointed collector of customs at Portland. "A few more years of that sort of thing, and the state will go into the domocrntic column, for tho demo cratic party in Oregon has leadership. Men like Govornor Chamberlain, who fight for public rights in state affaiis, naturally become leaders of the people Men like Mayor Lane, who do not hesi tate to apply the whip to a boodle repub lican council becomo loaders, The people aro getting tired ot the namby-pamby, meaningless, emasculated stnndpntism republicans, who havo no Idea of public affairs but to seek tho public teat." A Goo I'xample. Tho promptness with which Bnnkor Stensland was tried and convicted in Chicago was very commendable. But under the circumstances it was proba bly easy, for Stensland mnde no fight, and the court only had to slide down hill. . Mr. Stensland should spend about fourteen years in jail. That will be short enough. The examplo is a good one, and there should bo several others follow in tho same route. It is the one they havo mapped out themselves. The whole country is wanting some exam ples, and this is a good opportunity for them to secure them. Secretary Shaw says tho democratic party has no principles, Mr. Shaw has enough of them to provide a change every time the wind blows around. New Use lor Patent Medicines. A Chicago dispatch: The woman's Christion Temperance Union has dis covered a new use for whiskey and pat ent medicines, against the use of which as beverages the organization has made a worldwide fight for last half century. Today at the Cook county W. C. T. U. convention at the First Methodist church, the women demon strated the use of these liquors as "il luminating fluids." Whiskey of various brands and sev enty "popular" patent medicines will be burned in genuine lamp fashion. The demonstrating will be conducted by the medical temperance department of the union, of which Dr. Mary Wild Paulson of the Hinsdalo Sanitarium is the head. "Why, they will burn just like an alcohol lamp." said Dr. Paulson. "We do not change the ingredients of the medicines. We just pull out the corks insert wicks beneath 'mantle' burners and they burn qrightly. This is one of the plainest experiments we know of to show the large quantity of alcohol in patent medicines." The women figure that they have enough patent medicine and whiskey on hand to illuminate the room today and this evening. Ths New York Cimpalgi. Out here in Oregon it may not be much of our business who is elected back in New York state to serve the DeoDle as governor the coming four years, but the subject is a decidedly in teresting one, because the campaign promises to be about the liveliest in the history of the state. W. R. Hearst, the democratic and independent candi date, is a man who does things, one of the ablest men in the country, not an orator, but an organizer and financier, possessing rare executive ability. His newspapers have always stood for the best in government and morals, while other papers have straddled all over on prominent questions, Hearst has al ways spoken out for temperance and good morals. It is to be regretted that ho is in with Tammany, probably -the rottenest political concern in the coun try, about as bad as some of the repub lican rings of the country, but people who know Hearst will vouch for the fact that no Boss Murphy will run him. Tammany supports him because it has to or throw up the sponge. Hearst simply has Tammany by the neck. The republicans have put up a strong man against him, a man representing the best element of the republican party, who will get considerable of a support, but the indications are that a combination of circumstances will give Hearst a big support all over the state, while in New York he will sweep things. Municipal ownership has a strong hold on the people, and it wil' mean many votes. It will be a fight to the finish. Not a Common Ph.nomenn. The "dry" saloons of Eugene show decided traces of moisture when squeezed a little by District Attorney Williams. This is a common phenome non in prohibition towns. uregonian On the contrary this is not a common phenomena in dry towns. There may be some of it, and there are undoubt edly places where some alcoholic mois ture can be squeezed out by squeezing ! hard enough, but it takes rustle, and today in the dry towns of this valley it ' IB uuuuliui ii muiu la u bweuuuui pur). as much liquor drunk as there was when it was an open business from early morning until late at night. And yet it may be true that a certain class of men get liquor when they want it bad, and probably always will, because Mr. Harriman's express company is t fine medium for that part of the busi- Poor Train Service. Tho Portland papers havo taken up tho domund for bettor train sorvice. Tho roads of the Northwost havo more business than they can handle with their present equipment, and tho result is a train service along all lines mat is abominable. Shippers have been unable to got cars when tlioy wanton tnem and pussongor trains are notoriously behind. Tho railroad business is dc cidodly a public one, and tho public has a right to demand a prompt and effici ent service the same as if tho govern ment itself owned tho roads and was running the trains. Fer several months an overland train on timo has been a rarity, They have come in almost any old time, tho valuable timo of a travel ling public lost. Let their be a change. . Hearst a Rustier. Mr. Hearst has proven himself a rus thcr. Against tremendous odds he has placed himself at the head of a ticket in New York state for the highest of fice in tho state He has proven him aolf an organizer of remarkablo ability. The opinion was general that he would tie defeated for nomination, but he had more up his Bleeves than was imagined. He is a genius in his line regardless of the amount of yellow that prevails in his newspape ' lifo. Wood Sawing lu Alba ay. To the citizens of Albany who have wood to saw: Many wonder why they cannot get their grub oak, vine maple, or any round wood sawed as soon .as other wood. This kind of wood is generally left till the fir is sawed for the very good reason that there is little or noth ing made at it at 40 cents per cord. Three men do well sometimes to get 1 1-2 cords an hour sawed, that would be 60 cents. Pay your men and self 20 cents an hour each, (you have to pay even more than that now for men), how much is left for your machine horses, not to say anything about wear and tjar on horses, harness and ma chine, new saws to buy at $10.00 to $14.00 each, tools for gumming or $3.20 every time you get it done in Portland, belts, oil, etc., in fact a constant ex pense. You may say that is the dark side of the question. Well, look at the other side. In fir we can average twice a3 much and so get more than expenses and 40 cents would be right if the. season for full day wood-sawing was longer. Full day wood-sawing only lasts a short time in the fall. You would find this would not work for there is some wood to saw nearly every day and machines, horses and men have to be ready to go if it is only a cord, 40 cents for the day, divided as follows: 7c each for hired help, 26c for owner, machine and horses. Some people looking on the woodsaw business in the busy time figure they could make much in a year's sawing, U guess, it tney could gee it), but a good illustration of how it goes at 40 cents is that inside of a, year three dif ferent woodsaw men sold out and a couple of others tried hard to sell all summer. Now to come to the point, the citi zens of Albany are just a3 well to do arid as prosperous as sny other people in any other town in the valley, there fore it would be just and right for the woodsawyers of Albany to get as much for their work as the woodsawyers in our neighboring towns. The following are the published and established prices for woodsawing in Eugene: All kinds of split wood, 2 cuts $ .50 All kinds of split wood 3 cuts 60 Ail kinds of split wood 1 cut 40 Grub Oak and all round wood 2cuts .65 Grub Oak and all roand wo5d 3 cuts .75 GrubJOak and all round wood 1 cut .50 Pole wood or old boards, per hour. 1.50 Save when convenient to measure per cord 1.00 Portland prices are somewhat higher than these. Corvallis 5 cents less on grub oak and all round wood, and $1.25 work by the hour. The following are the prices we, the undersigned wood sawyers of Albany, agree to establish and mark same in plain figures on our machine, All kinds of split wood, 2 cuts . . .$ .50 All kinds of split wood, 3 cuts 60 All kinds of split wood, 1 cut 40 Grub Oak and all round wood, 2 cuts . 60 Grub Oak and all round wood 3 cuts .70 Grub Oak and al round wood 1 cut .50 Sawing by the hour 1.25 These figures will make very little extra once a year for the sawing of wood and it will be a great help to the wood sawyers that they may live. We trust that there are none in the itv Alhnnu who for tha aake-0f a few cents each year wiU try to beat d the ice3 R8 above Yours truly, Louis Maynard. B. F. Rozell. W. J. Brown. The Home Paper First. Oregon City has a daily paper, its first daily and only one at the present time. Almost a suburb of Portland the city is so close to that big city that a daily is handicapped there. Too big things are expected of it. In this age the weekly no longer fills the bill oven i in local matters. The public wants to ; know daily what is going on. It takes ' a big city to run a big paper, but a city tho size of Albany and Oregon City, can have a folio that gives the news , faithfully and promptly, filling a decid ed want that deserves a hearty support There is no question at all of the im portance of the newspaper in the life of a city. Imagine a place like Albany without any paper. It would be a Sahara desert. The big padded Port land papers with the extended news of the world, costing a fortune to secure, are appreciated, and people do well to take them, but they should first take their home papers which throw all their lives and energies into the upbuilding of the community, and also give them that support in advertising business so necessary to their success. The conventions are all endorsing W. J. Bryan. Oregon looks good to a Corvallis man just back from a trip through Califor nia. Trainmaster Charles Cline was in the city this morning looking after busi ness. Mr. Cline for a good many jears was a west side conductor. Saturday Night Thoughts. This week back east the political world has been interested in two con ventions held in New York state by the two leading parties. The democrats nominated for the leading position, a remarkable young man, one very prom inent for several years. Inheriting a fortune he has invested in newspapers and has made them pay besides securing for him a great name as a newspaper proprietor and business man. In addi tion he has dabbled in politics success fully. There are many different opin ions of him.' The conservative element do not like the Hearst style. He is too fast and they believe he is not honest in his methods of, securing support, while on the other hand there is an ele ment who like to see men like Hearst, who do things, come to the front and give a show. A good .man has been put up against him, which will strengthen the opposition against him in his own party, so that it becomes difficult to predict his strength and there is a strong sentiment that he willthat he is reall-v onlyknocking himself, fail to secure sufficient support to over come the loss from the conservative1 College students all over the country element. Whatever the result the , have beeun their scraps. campaign will be one of the most in- teresting in the history of the great state. Cuba has attracted particular atten tion thia want nn aitcnMnf- nf tho nnci- tion of the United States in reference ! to that government. Unable to run her own affairs the United. States has taken a hand in affairs with its big club, which has been placed in the hands of;. the 350 pound secretary of war, andlhe has been slinging it around in a livelymanner, until the little Cu- ban doesn't know whether he is afoot or horseback.SIt looks now as if when' the smoke rises Cuba will be one of Uncle Sam's unassimilated territories, half a son and half a stranger, taxed like a foreigner, chucked under chin like a member of the family. An American woman this week mar ried a Chinamarf down in San Francisco, This is af i ee country, and, perhaps ;a one senseshej had a right to, but it displayed.veryjpoor sense. It is possi ble the JChinaman also used bad judg ment. Anyway- these affairs always make our blood run a little faster. With strong prejudices against the. Celestial . and his yellow blood such unions are very distasteful and are not appreciated. This week the schools of the city have all been 'set going for the coming year. Nothing too good can be said of . j . . 4,u . . the efforts made to give the boys and girls of the country an education. Nor can of the best methods be advocated! too strongly. The schools of all kinds should be equipped in a man- ner for the very best service to be ob- tained, with competent teachers in charge, the best to be secured for the money, and no taxes should be paid more willingly than those tor the sup port of the schools, public and private. The rate should be made high enough to justify a high standard of excel lence, the best an up-to-date corps of trainedjteachers can give a school. An Albany man recently in San Fran- cisco tellsof the situation there at the end oflfiveZmonths. The streets are in o hnrrihlo ahanf. hut thorn ia no end in the life as men rush about mad after business, which they are- transacting in temporary structures quickly erected. rt .,. r . , ,,' , .. It willtake, years to rebuild the city. At the present time there are no deft- nite plans as to the arrangement of the streets and business centers. Tho fu- ture win see marvellous cnanges mcne city. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL, Arlo Armstrong, of Eddyville, haa been in the city. H. N. Cockerline went to Newport this noon on a business trip. Carl Hoaflinch went to Portland this afternoon to work the coming year. J. W. Sellers, of Ashland, is in the city on a few days visit with his sisters. Hugh Fisher and family and D. E. Hart went to Salem this morning on business. Charles Barrows, the horseman, of Salem, was in the citv today on a busi ness trip. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Cartwright, of Harrisburg, returned this noon from Nowport. Mrc, F. H. Pfeiffer and daughter Frances, returned from a visit with F. H. at Shaniko, now back on the Crook county stock farm. Fred Arnold of Shedd, was in the city yesterday. He is contemplating a trip to the Alberta country. A. Myer, of Chicago, is in the city on a visit the guest of his brother-in-law, E. H. Rhodes. Mr. Myer is a piano dealer Mrs. Rev. Pratt and child, of Glen dale, are in tbe city the guests ol N. T. Pratt, while on their way home from Salem, Mrs. Con Sullivan returned last even ing from Anacortes, Wash., where she had been to look after some property interests. Mr. N. S. Seleh, the Persian rug man, loft last evening for Eugene, where he will display his rugs for several days. He did a good business while in Albany. Frank Ward, of Salem, came up this noon to atte.id the marriage of his brother Fred Ward and Miss Emeline Hill this evening, a social event of much interest, the contracting parties both being natives of Linn county. ' ' n', w ( ' 1 MISFITS. Billy Hearst does things. The better the schools the better the town. The roads are in fine shape for coun try rides. i 4 Stensland got off easy. He deserved hanging. Hop pickers galore going home, trad ing on the way. Albany is in an era of genuine pros perity. Keep it going. Please Mr. Harriman have your trains run on time. Stensland is in jail and will be lone some until several others are also there. The knocker doesn't seem to realize The place for the whipping machines is in some of the big colleges. Too many students wait to enter col lege and public schools. Begin early and stay wlth Secretary Taft is now running Cuba with Roosevelt's big stick backed by 300 pounds avoirdupois. A man from California savs the San Jo3e scale haa 8wept things down there, Oregon had better look out. Just 26 people a day were killed in train accidents the past year, but most were employees of the railroads, . the Will the S. P, train never arrive on time. Always late, except the morn ing local from Cottage Grove. Governor Chamberlain is about to make an autumn trip to Burns.. This will test his nerves ana muscles. The H's are now it in New York: Hearst against Hughes. One syllable and the same number of letters. An even race. Portland Nimrous are getting ready to come up the valley with their dogs and hunt regardless of the consent of the farmers. Jlm Jettnes has deemed to go into the. saloon business in San Francisco, and it won't be long until he gets into the John L. Sullivan class. . Waahington has the Holy Rollers on hand and cantshift them upon Oregon, They rolled into that state, and its her misfortune, No one needs to be without a light hereafter. Just' put a wick in your patent medicine and toucn a match it. to Remember ye not the former things, neither the things. Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth. Isaiah xliii, 18, 19. The mortgage on Willamette Univer- sity, hovering over it for years, has been raised. Good, schools ought to be '. bve mortgages, Senator Fulton says Senator Bailey I of TCT5a '1""!:"? , one. Some one is trying to besmirch him Good for Fulton. The champion hen of the U. S. has ( ;usc completed a year of 300 eggs, remarkable lav and something to crow over. She is owned by E. W, Starnell of Alexandria, Va. The Democrat will have to change its tune: Hearst has been nominated and will be elected. That's the pres ent horoscope Things have changed decidedly. Jack London, the story writer has started on a trip around the world in a small boat with his latest wife and a cook and cabin, boy. Good bye, Jack for good. Some gravel hauled into the S. P. yard at Eugene makes a sound like a new depot, but wait. Albany has been alarmed that way several times without the depot following. Is The Dalles going to oe a mummy camp or point of commercial importance, asks the Chronicle at the ' end of an editorial on Business Cities. The city that prospers has to be business. The.S. P. is about to elect a lieuten ant to Lawyer Herrin of California, to run Oregon politics the way Herrin is running California politics. It lies be tween Fenton and Cotton, says the Journal. Mr. Gould's reputed financial agent, who has been in Portland, with the aid of the papers buying up everything in sight, has returned east, and he didn't buy anything. Wherever he stirred they had him getting a road for Gould. How many were killed in the Sar. n - At 1 . a a :il r rancisco eannquane aim uro win never be known. One man who ha- lived there for years declares it was as many as 25,000. Thence down to thf coroner with his six or seven hundred TELEGRAPHIC. Buffalo, Sept. 27. At a session which begun at 7:45 last night and last ed until 2:20 this morning the demo cratic convention nominated a state ticket with William Randolph Hearst ' at the head of it. Hearst was already in the field as the head of the Independ ence league's ticket. The democrats also took from the Independence league, Louis C. Chanler, for lieutenant governor and John S. Whalen for secre tary of state. Following is the vote for nominee for governor: Hearst. 309; Sulzer, 129;. Dix, 19; Necessary to a choice, 226. Danville, III., Sept. 26. Fast pas senger train No. 8 on the Wabash Rail road crashed throug h an open switch into a freight train near here today, and all but one of the passenger cars were burned. Last reports show six dead and one missing. Probably 35 or 40 people are injured most of them slightly. Folsom, Sept. 27. Adolpli Weber was hanged at 12:30 this afternoon for the murder of his mother last year. The governer refused to interfere though Weber expected help until the last minute. Marshfield, Sept. 27. Mayor L. J. Simpson plunged into the bay from a launch and Rescued a boy who had fallen overboard fifty yards away, yesterday afternoon. Both were exhausted when picked up. Princeton, Sept. 26. In a practice game of football at Lawi onceville to day John P. Kennery, the captain, was kicked in the head. He died an hour later. Pendleton, Sept. 27. John Ankeny, son df Senator Ankeny, of Washington, was indicted today on the charge of killing deer out of season at Bingham Springs last winter. As warrants are not served outside of the state, he will probably appear and pay his fine. Louisville, Ky., Sept.27 The tropical hurricane which has been churning the wate-s of the Gulf of Mexico, and do ing damage along its shore and far in land, is tonight whipping its way . through Alabama in a northeasterly direction. The loss to railroads is large and at Pensacola property and shipping dam age is reported to be $3,000,000. New Orleans furnished the subject for enormous wild rumors during the day, but authentic reports from there tonight indicate that while there is large property loss, there is no loss of life. San Francisco, Sept. 27. The matter of the new holding company has been decided upon by the Southern Pacific, Santa Fe and others, A.- W. Foster, and his friends have agreed to become jointly interested in a line of railroad between San Francisco and Eureka, in Humboldt county. San Juan. Sept. 27. The city of San Juan and the island of Porto ' Rico ex perienced a series of heavy earthquake shocks. today, beginning at 10:47 a. m. The people were thrown into a condi tion of consternation and indescribable alarm, but the resultant damage was comparatively slight, and there has been no loss of life. San Francisco, Sept. 28. Mrs..H. liould today acquired a chinaman for a brother-in-law. Her sister Ella Clem- mais married Sun Yue at San Frsn cisco. He lives in a tent, cleaning bricks on the streets for a living. Rainer, Sept. 28. Ella Oleary, a teacher, was arrested today charged with brutally whipping nine year old Edna Amon with a ruler and whip. Rainer, Or., Sept. 28. The Van Au- ker examination is being held today. Mo new evidence had been aducea up to 2 o'clock. PEtyDLETOtf, Sept. 28. Three prison ers in the county jail sawed out and made their escape last night. They had not been captured this afternoon. People Who Come ard Go J C Underwood, Cottage Grove. F G Haas, Salem. E T Price, Portland. H S Montgomery. Falls City. F A Chinnook, Portland. GJ Harbold, E D Baker, " U S Booth, T M Britten, " Postmaster Brown, Lebanon. Prof Barnes, Lebanon. P R Edson, Anidem. I A and Ella Johnson, Lyons. C E Pugh, Lebanon. Robert K Buster, Harrisburg. H A Cooley, Junction. R A Hirsch, Portland. Jos Meyer, " John Himler, Roseburg. C B Clement, Portland. Mrs A Strakeand M Strake, Alsea. S D Allen. Eugene. Dr W H Booth. Lebanon. Capt C L Dick, Salem Wm Nak, Grand Kapids. G C Wattles, Detroit. J S Doran, Buffalo. Nola Kirk, Portland. G A Smith. ' F C Graham. " E W Hall, " P H Krause. S F. Fred Davis, " C W Fitch, Corvallis. A J McMullan, Portland. Frank Wood, " J A Shermer and wf, Newport. 1) Misner, Lyons. F E Holman, Portland. Because of the impossibility to secur prune pickers a good many prunes have been ruined. Delinquent school children should be hustled into school. The law is a good ne to enforce. There are only four members in the Albany school board. The vacancy jhou'.d be filled. A man is deliveting lectures in the al'ey on Sour Grapes. Ovght to take n the dry counties.