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the power of Multnomah county in the legislature,
which is now ton great.
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77// PROPOSED Ç0ULU Y 1 /I M/'/.V a
OUNTY I»!VISIONS and the formation of
new counties, constitutes about one-fifth
of the metiaures to be submitt-d t) the
voters on November 8.
With the local conditions effecting the proposed
changes, the people at large can have but small
knowledge; yet they must decide one way or the
ot her.
Because of this lack of specific knowledge the
people, most of them at least, must decide upon a
sort of general principle rule. As a matter of fact,
most Oregon counties are too large for the general
convenience of the people. When the counties
wen* formed, the population ci the then territory
of Oregon was quite small scarcely 50,(MM), ( »un
ties were necessarily made very large in the
sparsely settle«! districts.
In those dava the
principle means of travel was by horseback. The
blazed trail was the only highway necessary.
Every settlers cabin was a hotel which, in most
cases made no charge for entertainment. The
native grasses, which were then abundant, consti
tuted the only feed stable.
Now conditions have changed greatly. Instead
of 50,000 inhabitants, we have nearly 1,000,000.
The wild range upon which the early settlers
pasture«! their herds of stock, has given place to
the cultivated farms and our forests are being
converted into merchantable lumber. Instead of
the hlazed trail of the early «lays, good servicable
highways are now demanded over which to trans
port the products of the farm, th«* orchard ami the
forests to market. With the building of railroad,
to carry our prodoce to distant markets, the de
mand for better highways came an«i these high-
uavs, to be useful and serve the demands, must be
over easy gradients. This, necessarily, forced the
laying out of roads to follow the courses of
streams, so that freight wagons could deliver the
products of the farm ami forests to the market
towns.
When our counties were established, they cover
ed a section of the country on both sides of moun
tain ranges in many instances. In some cases
these inconveniencies have been remedied by
division, as in the cases of Lincoln ami Hood River
counties. In Several of the cases pending, the
same conditions exist ami in justice to the people
of th.ae insulated sections their petitions for divi
sion should I m * granted.
As a rule, small counties are manage«! more
«conomically than the large ones. Where counties
have been divided, ao far as we are informed, no
harmful results have followed. Because of the in
creased convenience for the people, the N ews be
lieves that the divisions in most « uses should be
made, if the case is of the proposed formation of
Nesmith and Williams counties Is* exempted. In
this case, while we believe the Nesmith proposition
is meritorious and should be granted, the Williams
projiosition was and is intended ».o defeat the first
proposition; as both proposed counties cover, to a
great extent, the mime territory. Nesmith county
was pro|<»scd first and we believe should receive
the sanction of the people.
The divisions in
Eastern Oregon, so far as we can learn, are all
meritorious. The addition of parts of Clackamas
and Washington counties to Multnomah county, is
a matter that does not concern the peopie of the
rest of the state to a great extent. Our only
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HEN JAY BOWERMAN and hiatus«
dates, (the N ews will not say ni crime!
concocted the assembly and which he
and they knew the legislature hail refused to
legalize, it was fur the one purpose of making.
Jav Bowerman, the railway corporation attorney,
the republican candidate fur governor. Fortune
has favored the schemers, thus far. Firrt, Gover
nor Benson was compelled to leave the state for
an indefinite fn-riod because of sickness. Thi«
placed President of the Senate Bowerman in the
(Kisition of Acting Governor. No sooner hail he
assumed the reins of command, than he commenc-
ed the second step of the scheme, and that was to
• « tire a majority of the delegates of the proposed
... -embly among his friends, who could I m * relied
upon to support hi- candidacy for governor. Again
was the scheme successful; for State Senator Beach
was able to announce the day prior to the meeting
of the assembly within three votes ot the number
Mr. Bowerman would receive. Thus another spoke
m tl.e a embly wheel was driven home, for Mr.
Bowerman w as named as the assembly candidate
on the first ballot.
His n «lotions committee, also, prepared a plut-
forin of principles, which was adopted by Jay’s
fri« nds as the platform of the republican party of
Oregon. Presumably the platform was .«.itisfac-
tory to him, for later on he prevented his state
committee from changing some of the planks to
which many republicans objected.
When the primary election occurred, Mr. Bower
man’s assembly platform was repudiated by Mult
nomah county r«*publicans and this county is the
republican stronghold of the state. This should
have bet n sufficient w arning to cause Jay to re
pudiate it as well. But it wasn’t.
W hen he commenced campaigning the state,
he found the West rocks and sh«>als so plentiful,
no matter in which direction he traveled, that he
must, if he saved himself from disaster, place
himself in harmony with the majority of his
party which, it ha«l l>een demonstrated, was anti-
.i.-x« rnbly. S > he abandoned th« platform which
he and his as-nciales had so carefully prepared.
No doubt lie did so with great reluctance. He
has since treated the once popular in his estima
tion structure as a sort of political joke and an
nounced that he had always endorsed the primary
law and bowed obediently to the mandates of
Statement No. 1.
Why did he do this?
Everybody knows that down deep in his heart,
he believes as firmly in assemblyism today, as he
did when In* li ft his chair as president of the stat«’
i-enate. to apeak in favor of the Mariner bill, the
purpose of which was to make the assembly legal.
But, he now wants votes and he is willing to
sacrifice principles and friends, if necessary, to
get them. Is such a |»olitical acrobat worthy to
be trusted in the important office of governor?
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ABSTRACTS OF TITLE.
Carefully prepare«! by competent ^un I experienced
einpl'iv <•*■ thoroughly fai liliar with th«* records of
Lilin County. Accuracy, neatness ami dispatch is
our m>»ttoa W’e nrc now abstracting the instruments
111«-1 I lily and can serve the public most eflicieiitly.
We use the most mold ii an«l up to date system of itb-
-tracting ’ \n unlimited amount of money to loan
on G per cent, per anuum* on approve»! farm security
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telephone or write
Albany Abstract Co., t g.
One of the m«*asures proposed to be decided at
the coining election is to provid«* for the holding of
a constitutional convention. The N ews believes
that this is simply a scheme to do away with the
reform legislation now upon our statutes, placed
then* oy the people. The fact that all of the big
business corporations of the state are backing the THE ESMONB HOTEL
scheme is sufficient cause to create a’suspicion that
Centrally locate«!, goo«!
there is a good sized nigger in the wood pile,
rooms, prices moder
somewhere. Should the scheme carry, the plan is
ate, couiteous
to fill the convention with corporation servants, so
treatment
far as possible, draft a constitution satisfactory to
Contt Morrtia »nd Front Street*
big business and then have the legislature proclaim
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it as adopte«! by the state, without submitting it PORTLAND
for ratification by the people. This has been don«1
in four or five of the states and corporation courts
have pronounced such action legal. This is a fine W eatherford & wyatt
scheme for the curjiorations to get rid of legislation
Attorncijs-at-Luic
t > which they object. But the N ews believes that
the people are onto the scheme. The on|y saf«*
Oilier in Blumtxrg tUorfr
course to pursue and at* the same tims save the ALBANY
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state a larg«» expense is to vote NO.
Voters should remember that the republican
candidate fur the state senate, Mr. Beatty, was a
delegate to the late and now condemned state
assembly held in I’ortland, a few weeks ago by a
bunch ot republican office aeekers and has been
politicians. No anti-assembly republican is under
any moral or party obligation to vote for candi
dates for office who l»oaated that the assembly
would be the death of the primary law and were
willing to engage in* an affair which they then
knew was a violation of the provisions of the pri
mary law. Especially should they be prevented
from becoming law makers.
GROCERIES
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The Scio Livery and Feed
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J. L. GAI.AVAN
Hack» connect »uh all tram» boll» at
We.t Scio and M anker».
(hir ng« ar« fl rat ria»» an«! <«ur Lone*
r»sl <!r!r«-r». Prim r,«a»onal>l«.
The Beat Place in Portland to Eat
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Pup’s Coffee House
at VV Mt end of tbe Vtoriimm Street
brulge.
Telephone, Exchange No. 11
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CHARLES J. MAHER
(Succeaaor tv Riner Hr««.)
PROPRIETOR.
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