Senator Lane.
The verdict of the people has
been ratified by the legislature
and I Jr. Harry Lane is now Unit
ed States Senator from Oregon.
The position is not only one of
great honor it is one ol tremend
ous responsibility.
Jiy virtue of his high office he
may bring either fame or shame
to the state which he has the
honor to represent. States arc
known by the character of the
men they send to Washington. A
reactionary senator invariably re
ceives his commission from a re
actionary state. Senator Lane re
ceived his from the most progres
sive state in the union. Jle made
his campaign on a progressive
platform, lie declared war on the
law breaking corporations and the
tariff protected trusts. He made
no extravagant promises but
promised some constructive legis
lation which if enacted into law
will remedy existing conditions
The people believed in his hon
esty; they had confidence in his
ability and they elected him. It
is now up to Senator Lane to see
that every pledge is faithfully awl
honestly kept.
The Democrat has no expecta
tion oi being disappointed in the
new senator. We venture the pre
diction that he will be found in the
front ranks of the progressives,
fighting the fight of the plain peo
ple, lie is not the type of man
who will turn his back upon a
just cause or repudiate a platform
pledge. lie has entered into a
solemn contract with the people
of a progressive state to represent
them at the national capital. That
obligation will not be violated by
Harry Lane. I le may be depend
ed upon to "keep the faith."
Senators Mean and Calkins of
Lane, ami Representative Meek
of Washington, declined to ac
cept the verdict as rendered by
the people of Oregon, and voted
for I Sen Selling for United Stales
senator. We venture the predic
tion that none of the three gentle
men named will again be afford
ed the opportunity of ratifying
the people's choice.
o
The men who toil are entitled
to consideration at the hands of
the Oregon legislature. A just
vv o r k in e u ' s compensation act,
stripped of all jokers and designed
to afford adequate protection to
the worliingman should be one of
the first laws to pass during the
present session.
The I 'ortlaiuf Journal is right.
The indiscriminate sale and car
rying of concealed weapons
sliould cease. Place a revolver in
the hands of a fool and you be
come an accessory to the crime of
murder.
A Confession of Faith.
At last the Democrat finds it
self able to agree with President
Taft. The Marine Hand played
ragtime at a recent White House
reception and according to the
press reports, the president liked
it.
The Democrat said so many un
kind things about Mr. Taft dur
ing the recent campaign that we
lose no time in commending the
president's taste even though we
are unable to agree with his views
as to the tariff and the trusts.
I ''or a number of years the writ
er attempted to cultivate a taste
for classical music. We even
went so far as to applaud when
those who were considered judges
of "technic" gave the signal. Kach
time the palms of our hands came
together we lied, and every time
the smiling musician responded
to the encore we felt all of the tor
tures of a repentent hypocrite.
We smiled when all the instincts
of the human animal told us to
curse. We congratulated the mu
sician when each word of praise
burned the very roof of our
mouth. We offered ourself as a
sacrifice on the altar of musical
opinion and suffered the tortures
of the l. untied.
lint those days are past and
gone. We herewith publish our
declaration of independence, and
assert that every iikmi, is, ami of
right ought to be. a lover of the
musical, but much libeled rag
time. President Taft is right for
the first time during his adminis
tration and the Democrat desires
to be the first to extend con
gratulations. Governor West has declared
war. Insinuations directed to .the
manner in which lie lias conducted
the state penitentiary and other
institutions is the direct cause of
the hostilities between himself and
the members of the legislature
who have been attempting to
bring into disrepute the present
administration. His demand for
a full and complete investigation
of these institutions appears to
have taken the wind completely
out of his opponents.
There is at least some consola
tion in the fact that a fight be
tween the executive and legisla
tive branch of the state govern
ment may prevent the passage of
a lot of useless laws.
The Party Label.
In Oregon a reputation for
strict party regularity is a liabil
ity rather than an asset. This is
particularly true of the candidate
for county or municipal office.
Party lines have become an an
cient memory and party organ
ization lives only i'li the minds of
those who are the nominal heads
of the party. There are some ex
ceptions to the rule, however, and
Portland may be taken as a not
able example. The party ma
chinery in the metropolis of the
stale is in the hands of the young
men, but in spite of their hard
work and untiring efforts to main
tain an organization, the same
contempt for party lines is mani
fested to a greater or less extent
by the electors.
Now the Democrat sees no cry
ing need for a return to the old or
der of things. We are not one of
those who have a profound re
spect for ancient traditions and a
supreme contempt for the new
order of things in Oregon poli
tics. Hut we do believe that the par
ty label has come to be a liability
to the candidate for county office.
Without organization it is a seri
ous handicap, and as far as we
have been able to, ascertain, has
never been of any real service to
the public. It shouldn't make any
difference to the tax payer wheth
er the next county clerk or coun
ty shcrilt believes in a tarill tor
revenue only. What the taxpayer
does want is a man who is both
competent and honest.
The Democrat therefore sug
gests that the party label, as ap
plied to county and municipal of-
hcers, be abolished at this session
of the Oregon legislature. Let
there be one county primary in
which ability and integrity are the
only yard slicks by which the mer
its ol the respective candidates are
measured. Let the state and legis
lative officers be elected under the
present system and held to a strict
party accountability. Maintain
an organization, and let them
stand or fall with the party, at the
hands of whom they receive their
nomination.
ALBANY DEMOCRAT WAS
ESTABLISHED IN 1865
Oldest Democratic Paper in the
State; Early History of
Publication Recalled.
In view of several reminiscent items
alxmt the early ilays of llie Democrat
the record of the files of the paper
show an interesting story of the
changes in management.
J as. O'Mera established the paper
in August. 1K65, and was followed by
Abbott. It row n & Travers. Mr. Trav
els retired in Nov., 1S(jO, when the pa
per was run by Abbott & Itro'wu, af
terwards by M. V. llrown associated
at different times with V. II. Shep
herd and Judge C. It. licUinger. the
latter afterwards U. S. judge for the
district of Oregon. In August, 1870.
Mr. ltrown assumed sole management
of the paper. In Aug., 1S74. Ltrown it
Stewart, the latter now manager of
the Commercial Club, appeared at the
head of the paper. In April. ISd,
Mr. Hrown's name was at the head
of the paper, with Mr. Stewart asso
ciated with him. hi March, I SSI,
Stewart & Grey assumed control of
the paper, Grey retiring: the following
August. In June. 1SSJ, Stewart it
Chambeilain appeared at the head of
the column, the latter being the pres
ent I'. S. senator. Mr. Stewart was
elected county clerk and retired from
the paper in Oct., 18SJ, when Cham
berlain & Stiles became owners of it.
the latter having just completed four
vears as private secretary of Gov.
1'haycr. Dec. 22, 1883.-Mr. Chamber
lain sold his interest to K V. Nutting,
who bad been working on the paper
since Sept., ISSO. and the firm name
became Stites & Nutting. In Keb,,
1S"5, Mr, Stites having been appoint
ed postmaster, retired, and the paper
was afterwards run by Mr. Nutting
until last May, when the present man
agement took charge of it.
Arthur M. Geary, the genial gradu
ate manager of the l Diversity of
Oregon, was in Albany this morning
en route home from Corvallis where
the varsity glee club gave a concert
last evening
T. 1.. Stone, one of the leading busi
ness men of tVrtl.ind, was numbered
among the delegates who attended
the meeting of the retail merchants
yesterday. While here he was a guest
of Attorney Mark Weathertord
District Attorney Gale S. Mill left
this morning for Salem where he was
called on legal business.
IKES HIT TODAY
A. G. Clark GivesSound Advice
to Members of Oregon Retail
Merchants Association.
TELLS THE MERCHANTS TO
GO AFTER THE BUSINESS
Business Dont Walk Up and
Introduce Itself in These
Days Says Speaker.
In his adress delivered this morn
ing before the members of the Ore
gon Retail .Merchants' Association,
Albert E. Clark, president of the
Portland Ad Club, pounded home
some truths which struck a popular
chord with the delegates.
To reprint in full the speech deliv
ered this morning is the only way in
which the same could be properly ap
preciated but the space is not avail
able. A few of the following para
graphs have therefore been selected
as deserving of special mention:
"The day has gone by, when busi
ness walked up iuid introduced itself
you have to go after it and keep after
it and when you get it, take care of it
by taking care of all the details that
go to make up a successful business.
"The grandstand don't care a rap
whether your ancestors came over in
the Mayflower or in the steerage.
"All that they want you to do is to
hit tlie ball.
"Slipping a wish into a slot and
taking out what you wished for is
biuicom. This is the day of the best
man the man who can concentrate
who knows the power of direct appli
cation the short cuts.
"The man who scatters his energies
is headed for the high cliffs.
"We want men who' can carry tin
flag a little farther up the hill.
"Some men advertise in the way
they wear a grouch. Being known
as a grouch is the next thing to going
armed. Hut it's mighty poor adver
tising. "Some groeeryinen advertise by the
pile of half decayed fruit and vegeta
bles that can be seen stacked up in
the show window the most valuable
space in the store windows fly
specked and dusty, advertise in a very
effective . way that that store is a
mighty good place to pass up.
"The very moment a firm comes
out in the open and advertises that
it proposes to furnish goods of a cer
tain quality and follow certain high
principles, it has established not alone
a standard of excellence, but has pro
vided itself with a great incentive tor
living up to it that of selfish interest.
"Advertisers are learning the lesson
that money and energy are wasted if
goo'ds and service do not measure up
to the advertising.
"Truthful and fake advertising are
both alike based upon public confi
dence. "If you cut out the fraud, you raise
the value of the space of the truthful
advertiser.
"Every dishonest advertiser- saps
the effort of every honest one un
dermines confidence in all advertising
and lessens the producing power of
the honest advertiser's expenditure.
"I know it to be a fact that adver
tising in Portland is on a higher plane
than it was a year ago.
"1 know that publications scrutin
ize copy closer than ever before.
"Newspapers make advertisers
change their ads before they will take
them and 1 know where dealers have
been forced by a newspaper to make
good on complaint of a customer.
"All this improvement is taking
place.
"There is a broader, brighter rain
bow arching the heavens and the ad
vertising skies of the future were nev
er so promising.
"Hut it requires work and co-operation
on the part of the advertiser and
ihe publisher to police the advertising
seas.
"It is your business and my busi
ness to do our part in clearing up the
advertising atmosphere.
"A truth is an asset and a lie is a
liability
"If a lie gets in your way. it's prop
er to blow your horn but don't shut
off your speed.
"The Portland Ad Club has done
much to improve the advertising in
Portland."
4 a;."'..
REVERE HOUSE PROPERTYTO
BE REMODELED BY OWNER
Several Modern Store Rooms
to Be Installed in Building
by Charles Pfeiffer.
That the building no woccupied by
the Revere hotel is to be converted
into a modern business block iV-llow-ing
its vacation by J. C. H amine! next
mxmth was indicated last evening
when Charles Pfeiffer applied to the
city council for permission tu remodel
i be lower floor of the st uctiire.
Ac; .'ding to .1' lturu"i . the
local architect, who will have charge
of the work of remodeling the build
ing, the walls of the first floor on
the north side of the building will be
taken out and replaced with pressed
brick and plate glass while the cast
side and south end of the buildint?
will be replaced with steel lath and
stucco work..
The south end of the building will
be covered with metal shingles and
the windows will be replaced with
those of the wired glass variety. The
east side of the building will be cov
ered with cement and the stairway
that now opens into Kirst street will
be torn out and a new stairway con
structed opening into Ellsworth street.
Mr. Pfeiffer plans to convert the
lower floor of the hotel building into
modern and convenient storerooms
for business purposes and it is said
that lie already has renters for all of
the rooms of which there will be sev
eral. Mr. Hammel expects to move into
his fine new hostelry within the next
few weeks and a small army of peo
ple are now engaged in getting every
thing in readiness for the opening of
the finest hotel in the Willamette Val
ley. As soon as .Mr. Hammel has
moved, the carpenters will begin the
work of remodeling the lower floor
of the building for Mr. Pfeiffer.
The total amount of improvements
to be made on the property will not
exceed $1000 according to the archi
tect. The application of Mr. Pfeiffe-
to remodel the building was referred
to the committee on fire and water
and the city engineer last evening
FIE5ELS COLTS DEFEATED
CHRISTIAN CHURCH TEAM
Crack Aggregation of Indoor
Players Win Contest by the
Score of 24 to 4-.
By tlie score of 24 to 4 "Ficscl's
Colls." the fast aggregation of indoor
hall tossers recently organized bv
Harry J. Kiesel. last evening- defeated
the Christian church team at the ar
mory. The "Colts" outclassed their op
ponents in every stage of the contest
mil by their splendid work in the first
game they have played during the sea
sou, clearly demonstrated that they
were fully prepared to meet any in
door baseball team.
The game last night was fast anil
snappy .and Ficscl, the crack indoor
pitcher of the state, twirled a splen
did, game. His curves broke nicely
Icir him and he allowed but one base
on balls and retired twenty-two bats
men via the strikeout route.
Dowlin and Leininger played a fine
game for the Christian church and
Shea. Kerry, Dooley and Stellmacher
starred for the "Colts." The game
last evening was witnessed by a fair
and enthusiastic crowd of fans who
occupied places in the balcony and on
the lower floor of the armory.
A. P. Johnson of Corvallis was in
Albany yesterday attending the mer
chants' convention. He is a member
of the committee on organization of
the state association.
Y C. Winslow, a prominent young
attorney and secretary of the Saletil
Husiness Men's League, is attending
the merchants' convention.
X. H. Martin received a letter today
from Mr. C. I.. Hill, a former resident
ot this city. Mr. Hill is now a resi
lient of Il Paso, Texas, but says that
he prefers Oregon to Texas.
SUMMONS.
In the Circuit Court ofthe State of
Oregon, for the County of Linn. De
partment No. 2.
Arnettie Mitchell, Plaintiff,
vs.
II. D. Mitchell, Defendant.
To 11. D. Mitchell, the above named
defendant:
You are hereby required to appear
and answer to the complaint of the
above named plaintiff in the above
entitled Court, now on file with th
Clerk of Said Court within six weeks
from the date of the first publication
of this summons; and you are here
by notified that if you fail to appear
and answer said complaint as hereby
required, plaintiff will take a decree
as prayed for in the said complaint
herein ,to-wit: A decree dissolving
the bonds of matrimony heretofore
and now existing between plaintiff
and defendant; that plaintiff have cus
tody of the minor children of plain
tiif and defendant, and that plaintiff
have such other and further relief as
to the Court seems equitable.
This summons is published in the
Albany Weekly Democrat once a
week for six weeks by order of the
Hon. D. B. McKnight, County Judge
of l.inn County, Oregon, made on
January 13, 1913. and the date of the
first publication hereof is January 24.
1013. v
C. C. BRYANT,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
Jan 24-Mar 7
News on This Page is
From Daily Issue of
THURSDAY. JANUARY 23.
MRS. TOZIER WEATHERRED
ADDRESSED MERCHANTS
"Relation of Consumer to the
Retailer" Was the Subject
Assigned.
The subject, "Relation of Consumer
to the Retailer" was handled by Mrs.
Kdyth Tozier Weatherred at the meet
ing of the Oregon Retail Merchants
Association this afternoon and she
clearly portrayed the power of Oregon
women if they concentrate their pa
tronage on home industries. Mrs.
Weatherred in part said:
"The women buy at least 95 per
cent of all commodities that go in the
home supposing they call for Ore
gon or western manufactured goods,
the home factories would have to in
crease their capacity and payroll in
order to supply even the home de
mands. Every community must have
a pay roll to maintain their town.
The laborers use the products, the
groceries, the clothes, etc., sold by
the merchants, a pay roll is an endless
commercial recprocity to every com
munity. My work for the manufac
turers association of Oregon is to ed
ucate and enthuse the women of this
state along the lines of patronizing
home industries and to buy so far as
possible of their local merchants. It
is also my endeavor to get merchants
to carry home industry commodities."
Mrs. Weatherred told of the work
accomplished by the women of Wash
ington and California by their loyal
ty to home industries.
She even went into the country life
.question and showed the close con
nection of the highway to the country
and its industries are being dependable
on the other. Mrs. Weatherred de
nounced the filling up of our home
land with Japanese when the soil
should be cultivated by those who
make agreeable country neighbors. -
the giving of supplies for our public
institutions, the construction of build
ings and its furnishings to outside
concerns and other materials which
are purchased of eastern factories
which, if the money was left at home,
would mean greater prosperity tu Ore
gon. DR. J. L. HILL DEMOCRAT
EMPLOYEE IN YEAR 1866
Austin Watts of Portland Not
Oldest Living Ex-employee
Says C. H. Stewart.
According to the claims of Manager
Stewart of the Albany Commercial
Club, Austin Watts of Portland is
not the oldest living ex-employee of
the Democrat, that distinction belong
ing to Dr. J. L. Mill of this city.
According to Mr. Stewart, Austin
Watts was employed on the Oregon
Democrat and not on the States
Rights Democrat, the latter being
established in the year 1865 by James
O'Meara, a talented Irishman.
Dr. Hill was given employment as
a pressman on the States-Rights
Democrat in the year 1866 by O'Meara
and shortly after that, Mr. Stewart
was given a position as carrier and
printers' devil. Mr. Stewart is there
fore the second oldest living ex-employee
of the paper. He later acquir
ed the paper and conducted it from
Ihe year IS06 to 1888.
C. H. Hurkholder, a prominent
merchant of Cottage Grove is in the
city attending the retail merchants'
convention, lie is a member of the
finance committee of the state asso
ciatiou.
NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLE
MENT. Notice is hereby given th-t the un
dersigned administrator of the estate
of W. A. Anderson, deceased, has filed
in the County Court of Linn County,
Oregon, his final account as such ad
ministrator and that said court has
fixed Monday, the 10th day of Febru
ary, 1913, at the hour of one o'clock
m the afternoon, as the time for the
hearing of objections to said final ac
count and the settlement thereof.
HEWITT & SOX'. AN Admfn?s'7rator.
Attorneys for Administrator. J10F7
EXECUTOR'S NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned was by order of the County
Lar,x of Ltnn County, Oregon, on
the 3rd day of January, 1913, duly ap
pointed executor of the last will and
'"'anient of Anna Schlosser, deceas
ed. All persons having claims against
Ihe estate of said deceased are hereby
notified to present the same, with the
proper vouchers, to the undersigned
at his residence, in the City of Albany
Oregon, within six months from the
date of this notice.
Dated this 3rd day of January. 1913
ur-,.,HARRY SCHLOSSER,
HEWITT & SOX, Executor.
Attorneys for Executor. J10-F7
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.
N'otice is hereby given that the un
dersigned, administrator of the estate
of Jefferson D. Creel, deceased, has
filed with the county clerk of Linn
county, Oregon, his final account in
the matter of said estate, and the
county court has appointed Monday
the 24th day of February. 1913, at the
hour of one o'clock in the afternoon
of said day. at the county court room
in the coutr house in the city of Al
bany. Oregon, as the time and place
for hearing objections to said final
account, if any there he. and for the
final settlement of said estate.
i9n'"cd lh's 21th t!a of Janu:"'''
RALPH E. McKECHXIE.
L. M. CI RL, Administrator.
Atty. for Admr. J24-F21
TOATTENDBANDUET
Oregon Merchants Convention
Will Close with Dinner at
Armory Hall.
FRANCIS PFEIFFER READY
TO FEED THE MULTITUDE
Merchants Will Go By Special
Train to Corvallis Early
Tomorrow Morning.
Fr ancis Pfeiffer, the local caterer,
has been busily engaged all day with
a large force of assistants, making
preparations for the big banquet
which will be served at 7 o'clock this
evening at the armory to four hun
dred and fifty retail merchants from
all parts of the state who are here at
tending the seventh annual convention
of the Oregon Retail Merchants' As
sociation. The banquet this evening will be
the largest affair n't" its kind ever given
in Albany and will mark the close of
tlie most successful convention ever
held by Oregon retailers. The ban
quet which consists of many courses
will be served by forty or fifty Albany
young ladies and several young nieii
and preparations have been completed
to feed the entire crowd at once.
The delegation of merchants from
every corner of the state includes
some of Oregon's most prominent
men and a large number of them will
respond to toasts at the banquet this
evening.
Chairman. G. T. HockciiM.iith of the
general committee having the ar
rangements for (he convention in
charge, and to whose efforts much of
the success of the convention is due,
is especially desirous of having the
balcony at the armory filled with la
dies during the progress of the ban
quet tonight and the ladies of Albany
are urged to be on hand at 7 o'clock
this evening and secure seats in the
balcony.
While all local merchants and the
members of the committees for the
convention would like very much to
take their wives and lady friends to
the banquet, this was impossible ow
ing to the great number of merchants
from other cities and towns that are
to be entertained at the dinner.
Tomorrow morning nearly two hun
dred of the merchants in attendance
at the convention here will go by spe
citl train to Corvallis where they will
be the guests all day of President W.
U ,, rr "J. thc Oregon Agricultural
College. The people of Corvallis have
arranged to entertain the merchants at
a big banquet which will be served in
the evening. '
UNITED STATES SENATE
COTS DOWN PENSION BILL
According to a telegram received
by Cyrus Walker from Congressman
Hawley, the United States senate to
day cut the Indian war veteran pen
sion bill from S30.IX) to $12.00 per
month.
The house passed this bill last Aug
ust and it provided for a thirty dol
lar a month pension for the veterans
of the Indian wars.
According to Congressman Hawley
the bill will now go to the conference
between the two houses and he ex
pects that the amount as fixed by the
senate will be materially raised.
Cyrus Walker is grand commander
of the Indian War Veterans of Oregon.
D. C. Burkhart, a former Albany
photographer and now manager of
the Arcade Theatre at LaCrande. is a
member of the party of LaGrande
business men in Albny attending the
merchants' annual convention.
' SHERIFF'S SALE.
By virtue of an execution and order
or sale to me directed issued out of
the Circuit Court of the State of Orc
" 'or Linn County, in the case of
J. O. Brown, plaintiff, vs. D. G. Mur
r?ry, V" .MorKan- A- E. Pfeiffer. and
i j f-hrls'y nd Elmira Christy, his
wife, defendants. I will on Monday,
the 24th day of February, 1913, at the
hour of one o'clock p. m., at the front
door of the Court House in Albany.
Oregon, sell at public auction to the
highest bidder for cash in hand the
following described real property, to
wit: Blocks Numbered Two (2) and
Three (3) in Woodle's Riverside Ad
dition to the City of Albany, Linn
Lounty, Oregon, as the same appears
and is designated upon the recorded
plat of said addition to said city, now
on file and of record in the office of
the County Recorder in and for said
County and State. To satisfy th
judgment rendered in favor of the
?'yfX and asainst the defendants.
W. T. Chntsv and Elmira Christy, for
the sum of $2325 82. together with ac
cruing interest thereon at 8 per cent
per annum from January 20. 1913: and
the costs and disbursements of this
suit taxed and allowed at $21.50. and
the costs and disbursements of this
execution and sale
ci. ; . .D" H- BODIN'E.
Sheriff of Linn County. Oregon.
Dated this lamrary 24 1913
C. C. BRYANT,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
First publication Jan. 24, 1913. last
Feb. 21, 1913.
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