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The Jacksonville Miner The Jacksonville Miner Publiihed Weekly at JACKSONVILLE, OREGON I POLITICAL HOOEY I comes tails we lose. And we poor By R. CLAY CHAPPELL suckers fall for it and nsk for more, more the curtain is about Once Kntrred 11 xemnd elau matter February 19. 1032 State politics are just about as that great American at the post office at JucksonUII*. ttiegon. under to rise on bad but comedy, “The Battle of the Ins jJackson there is one place where the act of March S. 1879. county voters can get a -------- ---------- ! and Outs. run for their money. That I h right Editor and Publisher LEONARD HALL In a few short days we patriotic here on their own dung hill, so to ...Applegate Editor , Americans will strut proudly up to MAUDE POOL.. speak. The local mudpuddle Is not the polls and, with solemn mein, so big but neither Is It so congested Addreti All Communications to Box 138 as If the fate of the universe de- and most any citizen can make a Subscription Rates. In Advance: dended upon our doings, make a sizeable splash In it if he so de One Year................$100 Six Months................ 50e few hen-scratches on a sheet of sires. Anyway It’s better to be even Headquarters: naper big enough to make two pairs a tadnole in a small puddle than to THE NUGGET CONFECTIONERY of pajamas, and slip It into the be utterly squashed trying to be u Telephone 162 ballot box. bull frog in a big one. Then we’ll square our shoulders, There are plenty of important pat ourselves on the back and Issues here, too, big throbbing vital march away hugging to our bosoms ones, If anyone can ever discover (Continued from page one) the fond delusion that we, the sov what they are. And candidates to work on! something” which wins him hun ereign proletariat, have exercised dreds of lifelong friends, Beeson J the sacred and Inalienable fran- There are oodles of t hem__ all bids well to become Jackson coun j chise of a free, independent and kinds, shapes and sizes. Some of untrampled people. them were chosen by parties, some ty’s next sheriff. As a cold matter of fact we have by gangs, some by Tom. Dick or Of pioneer Jackson county stock, n’t done anything of the kind for Harry and some of them even chose Beeson being one of the best known we are hog-tied, gagged and fet- themselves. It is the bounden duty of every early day names in the Rogue river : tered so that we can’t even wiggle valley. Everett is a product of the our big toes. Most of our efforts elector to thoroughly inspect and hardy frontiersman who made this to be good, loyal, helpful citizens Investigate every one of these a “great country”—and it is not at are spent quibbling and w’rangling would bes: Look Into their public all inconsistent to picture descend over a few bare bones tossed to us careers; dig down deep into their ants of those first families pre by the political ring-master to keep private lives—past, present and fu- serving law and order in the fer us busy while the real bosses of tnre; and peek into their innermost tile country hewn from a wilder I the country stack the cards and souls. smack their lips over the juicy If you tap the right sources of ness. joints. information you’ll have a barrel of Why, nationally we haven’t really fun doing It, too. for you’ll hear We were surprised the other day a whisper in choosnig even the en more dirt about each of them than to learn that there rae many Jack tries in the great U. S. A. hippo they ever knew about themselves. sonville residents who believe that drome for everything is cut and That’s the beautv of small towns a vote of the people moved the dried while we snarl and snap over and rural communities—they have Jackson county courthouse to Med- our poor bones. imagination. ford. It did not—the Oregon legis- W’hen at last we are allowed to A teetotaler may stub his toe on lature stripped Jacksonville of the sit in. the chief political fakir a loose cobblestone and the inci courthouse by an enactment, spon smilingly tosses up a coin and in- dent be so magnified that he goes sored by William Briggs of Ash vltes us to amuse ourselves bv down in history as a drunken sot. land, that gave the actual push guessing which way It will fall. If As an examnle look what hap which shoved the official seat five heads come up he wins and if it pened to an Innocent young Jay- miles farther into the floor of the valley. Earl is to elect his strongest op And if Roosevelt wins, well—there And, inasmuch as casting a bal I ponent. Alright. Who will be the will be the ring of hammers in lot is a more or less personal mat strongest onponent? Figures bear these here hills November 9 and a ter, the district attorney race offers out The Miner’s claim that W. E. j new Roosevelt monument will rise this city and her sympathizers their Phipps has the greatest advantage, toward Jacksonville heavens. first opportunity to frown on the and undoubtedly will win the elec sponsors of that move. It was tion. • Mrs. Ernest Holbrook of San A Briggs and another reprseentative Francisco is recovering from a But the Tribune Is not backing from this district who railroaded broken arm sustained nearly two the moving bill through the Ore I Rhipns. It would like to see Pop weeks ago in a motorcycle acci I Gates the business head of Jackson gon state house. Jacksonville citi zens and helpers had prevented the i county. And. hence, it launches a dent. according to word received by election, which carried, from mov straw ballot which, according to her parents. Mrs. and Mrs. Frank The motorcycle on ing the courthouse through tech tradition, should Indicate the trend Cameron. nicalities and Briggs’ master mind of sentiment. And. if people had which she and her husband were conceived a new law which would always thought a straw ballot riding overturned two blocks from sidestep local efforts to keep the showed which way the fall election their home when a tire blew out. would go, why not make them be Although Mr. Holbrook was pinned old town intact. lieve that their candidate. Pop the beneath the machine, he escaped We doubt if Briggs has developed Weasel, was the Favored One and injury with only badly torn cloth swing all those antl-Fehl ballots ing resulted. any love for Jacksonville since— i . to his cause? It is a simnle matter ♦ ♦ ♦ and the district attorney’s office j to print any total desired in a • Previous to her departure early could certainly heckle a small town straw ballot, especially when every this week for her home In Aus now and then. interested person can cast several tralia. Mrs. Ella Cotchett was en- And let’s see, now . . . didn’t little hundred of the things at will. So. tertalned at dinner at the home of Earl Fehl say some mighty un Editor Ruhl paints Pop as the Miss Rose Buckley. Additional complimentary things about Jack strongest opponent to Fehl in an guests were John Orth of Medford sonville peoDle and their desire to effort to divorce Phipps’ following. and Mrs. J. Pelton of Fort Klam- ath. Although Mrs. Cotchett had keep the old courthouse here? If If you remember Earl Gaddis' expected her husband to return our friends’ memory serves them rightly, we believe Fehl’s active scheme during the primary, which here from England to accompany tongue hurled livid adjectives and failed miserably, you will remem her home, his plans have been gutteral curses toward Jackson ber that he attemnted the same changed, and he Is taking his home ville, her citizens and their char thing—that of swinging the anti- ward journey via Africa. acter, not unlike his present day Fehl voters into line with him. and overly dramatized accusations of succeeded only in giving Fehl the nomination. Gaddis came out the what-have-you. day before election with "vote for Gaddis, the only man who can de- Yes, we reckon it was only a few short summers ago that Jackson ,feat Fehl.” Oh yeah? ville’s townsfolk were contributing to one of the county’s biggest mis And a similar “oh yeah?” is carriages—according to Little Earl, j being whinped into Bhape for Pop the local abortion candidate. the Weasel and his pan-banging : cohorts who paint him as the great The residents who remember Moses to lead us safely through the that fracas—and they are many— sea of county judgeship evils. should know how to sympathise with Earl’s victims. And maybe We predict the v-8 stock will they’ll remember what office Fehl I reach a new low November 9. was trying to get then—just as he ! is now—by cursing a group of Another thing you may have people. noticed is the fact that The Miner, although consistently opposing We are reminded of William E. Hoover, has never put in a good Phinps’ editorial classic printed word for Roosevelt, the democratic some years ago In his Clarion choice for White House honors. which described the antics of “Big Well, after listening to the gover Foot and Monkeyface.” nor’s speech broadcast from Pitts burgh Wednesday evening, we can We don’t know whether you truthfully say our enthusiasm, ad noticed it or not. but there is snow miration and genuine friendship for on the hills, horehound candy in the man has come to life and the grocery stores and honking henceforth we will look unon noses in every family. Put more Franklin D. as one of the great than that, there is a Political Trick ! leaders of the country. being aftemnted in Medford. At I least we’d call it that. We can’t answer for the rest of I the country, but in our household It is in the form of a straw ballot Roosevelt is gaining ground like by the Mail Tribune, with more or nobody’s business, and we believe less—mostly less—denendable to another like speech will precipitate tals from week to week. And that one of the greatest landslides in REPUBLICAN NOMINEE raises the query: Why a straw bal the history of this nation. He is a man to whom all voters, lot? We’ll tell you why, if you regardless of party, may give their haven’t guessed it already. And to back up our conviction whole-hearted support with the cer we made a bet with Jack Porter tain knowledge that he will assume First, the editor of that asniring of the Porter Lumber comnany this in Congress the same type of force daily realizes that throughoutj week. A thousand board feet of his ful, aggressive leadership that has Jackson county there is a con stork in trade was placed against certed ant<-Fehl movement which a glaring advertisement, to apnear characterized his public career in seeks to defeat the little fellow I on the front page, in The Miner. If Oregon. with big words and ideas. And, to Hoover wins this paner will be Read Statement of Record and that class of voters, the strongest humbled not only by the defeat of Digest of Platform in Voters’ opposing candidate will appeal | its ambitions, but also by the ap- Pamphlet. greatly, for the only way to defeat i pearance of a Hoover ad on p. 1. —Paid Adv. M The Editor Speaking • • For Congress • JAMES W. MOTT vllle girl who torn her dross on a ■ rusty ecrow thus Inadevrtontly ex Southern Oregon's posing part of her anatomy. Be Best Music lieve It or not, InBlde of throo days I Awaits You at the gossips and scandal mongers hud her pegged, labeled and nulled to the cross as an utterly shame less Godiva, only more so, because the poor kid had bobbed hair. But all this aside. Voters, do your duty! Get the low down on all these office-seekers. Thon discard all BALLROOM those you have a personal grudge against no mat r what their char with acter, ability or Qualifications. Next call to mine! all your pet prejudices and cnst out all candidates that run and His Music counter to any of them even If It’s only the way they part their hair. Wednesday Bargain Night If von have any survivors after this weeding out process, junk half of them at random and, providing your conscience will Btand tho Saturday Night Men 25c strain, vote for the rest. Ladle« 10c And now let us pray—we’ll need 9 to 12 p.m. Medford to. DREAMLAND« KE PORTER 10c Each « A. C. 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