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About The Santiam news. (Scio, Linn County, Or.) 1897-1917 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 16, 1910)
■_ -J Politicullij Independent Entered at the poatoffice at S<io, Oregon, a» «econd ria»» mail matter. PUBI ¡SHED T. l . KtlIToK HCHH< HI l*T l< »N HATLX Si 25 .. 1 SO .. 1 75 .. 2 00 75 50 (£ One year in advance .......... One year, at end of year On- ye«r, at end of 2 year* One year, at end of 3 year» Six month» in advance........ Three month» in advance... Single copy in wrapper.... ATJVK14IIHIX <11«AT KM; ro Car of thanks ........................................................................... «1 S|>e<*ial obituary notice», per im .«XI Extended wedding comment», per line Display aria, to bet-hanged weekly if desired, one column wide each insertion, per Inch .......................................... 15 Buxines» local» per line first insertion .............. .. ... Hl Each subsequent inaertion per line ................................... ' ■!> lx>ng time standing art«, eontracta marie on application. H -........................ !! OFFICIAL Rrgula'i an Ball Sl'PPUES al--« > ReceiveJ direct from A. J. Reach A- Co., makers of the best goods on the market. ICE CREAM. CIGARS, DRINKS, TOBACCO. STATIONERY. POST CARDS anti GROCERIES C. C. COUCH OREGON PEOPLE SHOULD DE H EL! EV ED . ............................................................................................. ... • ahc ^antiarn )lnv5 4 In Oregon the .stale government haslieen rescu ed from the clutch»*« of the big business interests or. more plainly speaking, front the hands of the political bosses, who played into the bands of the big business concerns. Now these I x >*« hm and b g business concerns have turned insurgents and an* attempting, through the assembly, to rescue the' state government from the hands of the pen] Id and place it again in the hands of the Eusiur Bá concerns, through tl.eir subservient servants, th politcal busses. The Oregon insurgent is the antithesis of the national insurgent The former is laboring to take governme >t away from the |«-> p’e, while the latter is endeavoring to n store government to the people. Mr. Roosevelt prefers th« term "progressive” for the national movement , but the N ewt think- that a even stronger word t an "insurgent” would fit the Oregon brand. At ali events, most people believe national in surgents are working in the interests of the com mon people. We know that the Oregon insurgent is working in the interests of the old time political boss and the big business interests. ■ " 1 ■ HE OREGONIAN states "the direct primar. has come to slay." This declaration shouk I.VSI'MEXIS AND l.\STUC E.V7 S be quit- I ■' to the I'euple. for most ol us have labored under the impression that th« 7 WHOLtSAU DEALER IN N A RECENT ADDRESS, ex-I’resident Roose Oregonian was op|»sed to th«- direct nomii.atiuii ol velt objected to the term "Insurgent" as candidates, e.*|»ecially candidates for the United applied to that wing of the republican |>artv States senate. If the direct primary law is to sta> which believes in u revision of the tariff downward and tn control the selection of candidates, it i.- ami, also, in making the big business concerns of 'certainly, the duty of every cit en to comply witl ■ !.-nt to the l;i'-v. just- the ; r.t. Lkfionc Moia 175 Hi I Si Commerciil St. One of those provisions reads: "Every candi ns the smaller business concerns and the ordinary citizen. Mr. Roosevelt thinks the term "Progress ' dale shall have equal opportunity, etc.” The lat T ive” conveys the better idea of the movement. republican assembly selected a candidate foi A. G. MAGERS, Prop. Salem, Oregon Webster defines the noun "Insurgent” as "a |X*rson governor and is maintaining a headquarters it who rises in opposition to civil or political authori Portland, at which place a rejralarly organized • ............................... ........................... .... . . i . .............................. ... . ty, etc." This definition fits th«* present insurgent campaign committee works to bring a'>out the movement, almost exactly ami which seems likely nomination of th said candidate selected, by th«* to revolutionize the entire political conduct of th.- primary electors. There are three other candi government which has ln*en maintained since the dates of that party who aspire for the position of c ose of the civil war and which, under the so-call* i candidate for governor: neither of whom has a • 4i> itill\ pi<-p:ir<*-l by competent an I experienced e I "business interests" has gradually usurped th«* machine behind him. Evidently the Portland • inpi.iti thoroughly f:ii »»liar with the records of proper functions of government, until th«* present ¡headquarters is maintained for the purpose of Linn (’minty. Accuracy, neatness and dispatch is time. Now th- people are in revolt. They are causing all assemblyites to cast their votes at the our motto, \\ c ar«- now abstracting the instrument* resisting, in a civil manner of course, this inni- primary election for .Mr. Bowerman for governor li I i til v i i-l can -«erve the public most elliciently. quitous system. This is what Mr. Webster says is No one will, probably, deny this conclusion. But I" ■ I'T i. in-1 up t< <lat<- s\>tcrh of ni>- are Messrs Dm mirk. Hofer and Abraham, the other an insurgent. 1 1 ’■ An unlimited amount of money to loan But whether Insurgent or Progressive, the move candidates before ‘hat party, receiving a fair deal? on •« p» i c«-iit. per annum on approved farm security ment is just the same, and it is sweeping over the Are they receiving equal oi |s»rtunit.v with Mr. "in i!iovi i\ i,n. office telephone or write entire nation with u force which cannot but be a Bowerman? No one will say they are; for it is the a >urcc of alarm to the Cannon-Aldrich crowd and purpose of the assembly to concentrate the votes i g CURL teter to the big business interests which have been re of all who believe in the assembly, for the assemb ceiving legislative fuvors from the government. ly candidates. Mr. Bowerman was the assembly Insurgency mny be, however, for a g«*»d or a choice. He. with other assembly selected candi bad purpose. A vast majority of the |>eop|e of dates, will receive the solid assembly vote and, of Oregon applaud the insurgency of the congress course, will be given a better opportunity than men who fought through the special and regular anti-assembly candidates. They are to be given a sessions for the interests of the people. They l>e- preference ami, in giving this preference, the pro |i«ve these congressmen were endeavoring to re visions of the direct primary law is lieing violated. store government to the hands of the people. That Can mon who wilfully violate a law. be very' strong is to say, make it subservient to the voice of the friends to that law? ptwple and to mak«* the financial and business con Any plan which violates a law, either in letter ditions as favorable for the working, producing or spirit, cannot be in harmony with that law, classes of the people as they are for the people which the Oregonian spates is the purpose of the who are notorious as the givers of monkey dinners. assembly. No sensible nor sane man can object to th«- The fact is. the first and secret purpose of the governmental conditions oeing made equally as assembly is. to gradually undermine ami eventual favorable for the toiling, sweating laborer as it is ly overthrow the who!: system'of popular nomina now for the pamj»cred son of wealth. The people tion of public officials. But the Oregonian and THE ESMOND HOTEL believe that insurgent congressmen endeavored, other leading assemblyites is finding the movement Centrally located, good in a manner, to reach this result and, therefore, is affecting only the old-time bosses, cor|wmtions, rooms, prices moder most of the people are insurgents; as the late pri etc. The masses of the people will have none of ate, coll it volts mary ami state elections indicate. it. It is now too late to switch, and that paper is treatment In Oregon, however, we have a different class now endeavoring to ■ igarcoat thodosc, so that the J. 11 POUX D, prop. of insurgents. Mr. Webster describes the Oregon present opjiosition will not increase to indigna- Conrr M< rrboa aad heat Str rti ■ LCl'KAAOR TU insurgent just as distinctly as he dues the I-aFol- tion. f’OKTLAN.J OREGON J. L ( ALAVAN leUe-Cummins-Beverige type. Both ty pes nre en ,M >st people are fully awakened to the purpose deavoring to overthrow established law. But there of the a- einbly. From the manner in which Hack, connect with all train» holt at is a vast difference in their purpose. The national delegate to the assembly were selected, the |»eo- W eatherford & wyatt W<at Scio and Munkora. insurgents are arrayed against the big business pie know that it is an attempt to restore the old Our rigs are fir.t claw and our Imrave concerns who have sucurvd control of the govern- corrupt convention system; in which the great Attorneijs-at-Lai© good drivers. |*ricee reawnable. inent through congressional action. The congres- mass of the iwople hid very little to say. So all Office in Blumberg Block s onai insurgents endeavored to have this con- real friends to popular government, look upon the ALBANA ; ; ; Guaco g sessional action modified in the interests of all assembly with suspicion. Only bosses, hangers on The Beat Place in Portland u Eat the people. and lickspittles ar« sup|>orting the movement. T I Standard Liquor Co ... Wines, Liquors and Cigars ABSTRACTS OF TITLE Albany Abstract Co., Scio Livery and Stable A. o. etH*e to that th«- i<h*a or prin.SpI«- of th«- LstfflDlies, lepl and Hltyal lawyrr»' »a«rmbly ia that juilgi-» ought The Oregonian want* to know the to m chiHH-n without regent to politic». diff«-ren«-e Iwtween the Republican as The idea of the R«-|Mibh«-an a>»«-mlily 1» sembly th it nommated two »u pre me that jiirig«-» ought to b«* choaen accorti- court justice* and the lawyer»' assemb log to politic». Th«a<- «Bffrrenc«-» are ly that nomina cd their opponent». e ut.ly «iemonatratc«!. Well, here to the difference. The The law provides for the nomination lawyer»' aasem -ly wa» held in accord of candidate» by aa»ambi««-» of 10U ant« with law and in conformity with elector», by petitions of a percentage both the Spirit a id the letter of the of voter», an«t by primary citation«. •tatute. The Republican a»»cmbly wa* Political parties cannot nominate by held in violation of law and contrary to assemblies nor by petition. They must the »pint and letter of the »tatute. nominal«' by primary eketiona and in that m one diff. r net. Anothrr differ- I no other manner. Political partu*e are i I * i» at PRILL, M. D. dstiiMHl a» urganixations that have coat a certain |>crrentage of vote» at th«- last preceding election. The Republi al W«-»t end of the Morrison Street can party and th«* Democratic party brklg». Telephone, t «change N>>. Il are the only existing political parties in Oregon und« r that definition. All '<’IO i : i OREGON harles j. maher other groups or bodies of citixens than th*»e political part«« « must mccaanrily (SucceworU- Riner Broa.) nemtnst«* their randulate» ami promul- PROPRIETOR. gate their ideas through cither petitions — Manufacturer and Dealer in— or assemblies which are pnnfefed bv law. If the Republican amiemblv had M BJtcRIBR F or been an aao-mbly of e!«-ctors h«*M un der the -am«* provisions of law as the krruir Wwk Midtrd lawyer»' a«s«-mbly ami not purporting Grrisp Trlmmiag AU Wwk Strictly Guaranteed (Continued on Page 5) $1 50 PER YEAR SMUBUKH. 0HG0N Physicians Surgeon J Pap’s Coffee House C A. SHANKS Ihirntss and Saddles THE SANTI AM NEWS s
