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
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! 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
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speak. The local mudpuddle Is not
the polls and, with solemn mein, so big but neither Is It so congested
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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
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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
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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. Walker
REPUBLICAN-DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE
For County Treasurer
Qualified by Experience
General Election November 8, 1932
J. B. Coleman'*
Republican-Democratic Nominee
for
COUNTYASSESSOR
Efficiency, Courtesy, Experience
General Election November 8, 1932
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