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County Judge Extra Facts and Argument* Concerning the November 8, 1932, Election—Centering On the County Judgeship. PHIPPS ANNOUNCES PLATFORM Hpcaklrig of honesty and Integ rity, we think, contrary to the opin ion voiced by one newspaper, that lawyers average about the same as laymen. Pick out fifty men from any vocation, even newspapermen, and most likely you will find some who could comfortably sleep In a roundhouse. Exrayed for honesty, we'll wager the bar association will show as few broken bone* as the editorial association. WHAT OTHERS THINK OF THE INDEPENDENTS I Want to Be Your Hired Man SEES NEED FOR CAREFUL, WISE COUNTY JUDGE In stating this, in part, my platform and business credo, I have not lost sight of the fact that the commissioners’ court, E. "Pop ” With the filing of C. candidate, consisting of three members, Gates as independent controls all of the financial the county Judge race with four business of the county. The entries Is vying with the offices of commissioners’ court is com district attorney and county sheriff posed of the county judge and In Importance In this hottest of the two commissioners, and two of many hot political campaigns Jack- these constitute a majority son county has witnessed. The of controlling the vote on all busi fice of county Judge, which has a ness measures. The judge, The crowning Jewel of the Pipes six year term, IS one of the most therefore, cannot with certain IministratIon Is th»- Medford air Important and the voters should ty, state a definite policy un Rort which cost $120.000 00 borrow make their choice carefully. less he is assured the coopera ed money. A California contractor, The three strongest contenders tion of at least one of the com who claims to have built several for this office represent three dis missioners. airports, said It should not have tinct types: cost over fGO.OOO.OO. Ixxik it over The county judge, however, Earl H. Fehl, who received the and make a bid for It. has jurisdiction of all probate republican nomination In the spring and guardianship matters, in primaries in a field of five candi cluding will contests. He is If, in order to reach the airport, dates. has been making his cam judge of the juvenile court, and Pipes piped .Medford’s million dol- paign one of out and out reform. A also has jurisdiction of certain lar water a mile and a half further general harangue against the way criminal cases and actions at around to reach his own ranch, how other offices of the county are con law. He also is a member of far around would he go to pipe, ducted and sweeping promises that the district bounary board, ditch and drain Jackson County? he will see that they are conducted which is important in the con "right” play prominent parts in his trol of our schools. Also, with campaign speeches and statements This depression Is worse than In his paper and the Dally News. the advice of medical authori we figured. A perennial candidate ties, he commits the insane to He stresses claims that law and for Governor has shrunk up so he order have broken down In Jack- the state hospital, and per WILLIAM E. PHIPPS, candidate for county judge, forms many other important Is now willing to be county Judge. son county and makes solemn was nominated at the recent primary election by a plurality functions independent of the promises that they shall be re of 737 votes and a substantial majority of all the Democratic two county commissioners. ¡’op Gates declares he “came out" stored. He has also made it great votes cast. Having been a practising to beat Fehl. If he really wanted deal of noise about the recall of He came to Jackson county, Oregon, 36 years ago; was ad lawyer for many years, I can Circuit Judge H. D. Norton. (We to heat Fehl he would have "staid mitted to practice law by the supreme court of Oregon in 1898 say with certainty that all of wonder what better man he would in.” Pop figured, however he was and has handled many important cases in local, supreme and these functions will be proper offer for the place.) And he further playing safe, for if he couldn't federal courts, and is a member of the local, state and Ameri ly performed. The probate rec declares that he will see that taxes chisel in himself he might elect can bar associations. ords of Jackson county are in are lowered and that the taxpayer Fehl whom "the gang” could handle a decidedly tangled condition When a comparatively young lawyer, he was appointed city is not made the prey of the ''gang.” like they did at the county budget because for the past; 12 or 15 attorney of Medford, which office he held for 18 months, re Attorney W. E. Phipps of Med hearing. ford. the democratic nominee, has moving then to Ashland, where he was appointed city attorney rears the office of county udge many years of experience as a law of that place. While in this position, he performed all of the has been occupied by laymen If an "Independent” candidate yer behind him. He Is not the type work, without assistance, for the issuance of a series of bonds. instead of lawyers. Many been persuaded by his friends that seeks sensational publicity by I hese bonds were approved by the legal departments of sev tracts of real estate in this » "d against his will and better attacking other officers of the eral bonding houses. Although drawing only five per cent in county have clouds upon their Judgment, to run for an office, what county, nor by picking to pieces terest, they were sold locally at par. Also, he there established title which eventually will have will these same "friends” persuade the present administration. He has a precedent in this state by making the fines of his prosecu to be cleared by expensive liti him to do If he is elected? gone about his campaigning with tions pay all the expenses of the legal department, and in ad gation. because of faulty pro out a lot of noise, willing to stand dition, turned over to the city treasurer a balance of $463.45 bate procedure. No doubt the framers of our Once upon a time the old hens on hiR own merits as a citizen, and at the end of his one year term. Such an incident never oc curred before nor since. constitution intended that the on his past record of quiet but con who had lost their charms became office of county judge should Mr. Phipps also has a record in an administrative capacity. Jealous because the younger roost- structive work for the city and ^^.ers cackled and cavorted around community in which he lives. He He was a member of the Medford school board for a term of at all times be filled by a law with the pullets, so they started a has practiced law In both Ashland three years. When he was elected, the school buildings were yer. because jurisdiction of so “whispeging campaign” and told and Medford for several years and in a badly rundown and dilapidated condition, and it was prin many important legal matters the awfulest things about the pul there Is no doubt but what these cipally his work and influence that brought about their repair was given to the county court. qualifications being lets—the very things they them- towns will give him fine support— and rehabilitation. By careful conservatism, he saved this Other school district many thousands of dollars and at the same time equal, the county judge should which In Itself Is an excellent selves had done when they were the high standards of the schools were improved. When he unquestionably be a lawyer, he recommendation. pullets. Gates has always been a booster, was first elected, the superintendent of city schools and one being charged with so" many member of the school board had constituted themselves the duties that require a nowledge Fehl has said that if he in elect- and there is no doubt but what he purchasing agents, and bought all of the school supplies. This of the law to perform them ed he will move the county Judge's has a record of achievement be hind him. He has been instrumen was remedied at the second meeting of the board by motion properly. office down on the first floor of the tal In getting highway improve of Mr. Phipps, which required all future supplies to be author If I am elected county judge courthouse. We go him one bet ized in an open board meeting, and by a majority vote of the there are certain other func ter. If the voters of Jackson Coun ments, has backed the fruit Indus board. Also, he invoked the law, which had prior to that time tions I can and will perform try and the tomato Industry in the ty elect Earl Fehl county Judge, we been disregarded, that requires competitive bids for contracts. regardless of the attitude of valley to the last ditch. His cam believe the office ought to be mov paign calls for harmony in county If elected county judge, he will follow these precedents and the attitude the county ed to the basement. affairs and for reduction of taxes. will require that all the county supplies be purchased by the commissioners. I can and will He points out that he owns consid commissioners’ court in open session, and from the lowest demand a survey and inventory Each of the candidates, Fehl, erable property in the county and responsible bidders. The court shall not delegate this power of all the property belonging Gates and Pipes, is supported by a that he Is Just as Interested in fair to a purchasing agent. It is a well-known fact that all com to Jackson county. When dally newspaper. Phipps refuses and reasonable taxation as anyone, modities are sold for a discount for cash, and the county should elected a member of the Med ford school board, one of my to barter away the peoples’ rights which is a good argument. receive the benefit of this discount. for the support of any paper. The Several years ago the legislature created for Multnomah first acts was to require a And there you have the picture county, what is known as a tax conservation commission. It thing never before done—a smaller county papers, however, ^^nd the common people, including of the three men— has saved the taxpayers of Multnomah county millions of dol survey and inventory of all One a radical of the “down with lars. In 1923. our legislature made this law applicable to all property belonging to the of the heaviest taxpayers, arc ^^Kor hi mbecause they know he will the gang ” and wholesale reform counties of the state. It provided for the appointment, by the school district. This survey dis be absolutely fair and give the type. The second, a man who has governor, of three commissioners. Governor Pierce appointed covered considerable property county an efficient and economical accomplished much in his lifetime, William E. Phipps as chairman of this tax conservation com of which the board had no administration. but who has not had to knock mission of this county. There was no salary attached to the knowledge. others in order to do so, and who office, but the commissioners served gratituously. Under this I can also certainly say that Any candidate can win a straw has not cared if his achievements law, the commission was the final arbiter of every public bud money raised in the several allot, provided he can fix up and were not pointed out and his back get in the county, including that of the county court. Jack- road districts by special elec- (Continued on page 4) (Conttnued on page 2) (Continued on page 2) raw the straws. NOW PICK YOUR MAN FOR COUNTY JUDGE
