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About The gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 22, 1914)
THR GAZETTE-TIMES, HEPPXKB. ORE., TIH'RSDAV, OCT. 22, 11)14 r f.V. 8FVES i t 4 , t At my place 2 miles southeast of Lexington on FRIDAY, OCTOBER Ml I will sell at Public Auction my entire herd of dairy cows, also one No. 1 1 Simplex Seperator. SALE BEGING AT 1 O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON. R. W.SNYDER " t t Y t ? ? Y f Y Y t ? Y y ueamng ana n Your Patronage Respectfully Solicited Mrs. Wilhelmina Friedrich, Main St. Are you better off now than you were under a Republican administration? Are you satisfied? If you believe in the principles of the Republican Party, if you are convinced that these prin ciples are best for the country, then prove it by voting for your standard bearer, Robert A. Booth, Republican candidate for the United States Senate. You know that, under Republican presidents the people of the United States have good times. You know that under Democratic presidents you have Democratic times. Remember the prosperity under McKinley, Roosevelt and Taft. Remember the conditions under Cleveland and Wilson. The issue in this campaign is not one of personality. It is not one of non-partisanship. It is a question of whether you prefer prosperity under Republican administration. Do you have eno""h work? Are your wages good? Is your business what you want it to be? If you are sat' ' with present conditions, well and good; if you believe that the present situa ' .ter than .der McKinley, Roosevelt and Taft, you know what to do. The way to bring back prosperity is to help elect a Republican Senate. The Republican candi date in Oregon is R. A. BOOTH. This is a Republican year. Vote the ticket straight. (Paid advertisement, Republican State Central Committee, Imperial Hotel, Portland, Or.) t essing CLOTHES BROUGHT HERE WILL BE MADE TO LOOK LIKE NEW. I DO ONLY CLEANING AND PRESSING, J For Representative BERT N. STANFIELD Republican Nominee For MorrowandUmatOla .Counties. PAID ADVERTISEMENT. House For Rent. Good residence property, large enough to accommo date fair sized family. Also good barn on premises. Inquire at this office. tf. of Quality Y Y t Y T f f f ? Y Y t Y Y ? WHY YOU SHOULD VOTE FOR Republican Candidate FOR United States SENATOR WHY IS THE HEKALD? (Continued from page 2) pose of feinting an Imaginary blow, but were real incidents in the crea i tion of the Harlan Horald, which the paper should have been called. On New Year's night of this year the owner of the Palace Hotel gave a little dance, as he himself said. . in order that the poor farmers might have a little fun and company for once in their lonly lives. Give the man his duo, he did not wish to make any money out of the enter tainment himself. He just wanted to return some of the many kindness es he liad received at the hands of these said farmers. But what hap pened? These farmers insisted on staying all night and were so un mannerly as to pay for their rooms, and occasionally they got thirsty whilst they danced, and again they were so rude to their host that they paid for their drinks. Now when closing time came these unruly guests insisted that eighteen hours was not long enough in which to quench their burning thirst. There fore, though against the law, the bar of the Palace Hotel kept open, which was not quite fair to the law abiding saloon keepers whi had paid their license too. But what could Wilkins do? He had to consider his guests and their wishes were para mount to the law. True he could have given them the refreshments, and thus been without the pale of the law, but his guests would not stand for such hospitality. A min ion of the law, not understanding the true situation and being an of ficious sort of a fellow any way, ac tually arrested the proprietor and a still more unappreciative court, not being able to see the matter as it stood, was so dead to the laws of hospitality that it fined him $100, and that was more than the Palace had made that night. I know this is so, because Mr. Wilkins himself told me so. Now there was another man just as stupid as the judge who imposed tho fine. He was the editor of the Gazette-Times, who actually thought the judge was right to enforce the law according to the oath he had taken and he actually said so in his paper. From that moment his fate was sealed; his monopoly was to cease. However, it took some little time to get a man who could be relied upon to see these things in their true light. The trouble is that the journalistic profession as a whole Is one which attracts men of ideals, men of hon or, men who are so foolish that they even forget at times who butters their bread. In time a man was found. This was one L. K. Harlan, who was then managing a small pa per in the city of lone. Harlan was not too satisfied with the amount of support that he was getting in lone. True the local men of affairs had put him on his feet and supported him through the most trying time of their commercial year, but it was not enough, and now that Harlan was getting a little independent he wanted more than the 'merchants could give. The town was too small for a man of his ability, any way. As he had recently done from Con don, so he now looked from lone for another place in which to make a little raise. In his journeys in search of the "fall guy", he met J. L. Wilkins, and Wilkins, who was no fool in his reading of the chapter of self-preservation, recognized in Har lan the man for whom he searched long and found at last. I said in my preoration, it will be remembered, that this class of man enteres through the back door every once in a while. Wilkins was searching for Harlan and Harlan was looking for a Wilkins, and when they met it did not take long to decide that they could be mutually helpful. Harlan was to put the Gazette-Times out of business with the least possible de lay and Wilkins was to find the ad vertisers and to arrange the finan cing of the infant until strong enough to stand upon its own legs. Harlan's part was easy. All he had to do was to smear a little soft soap over the simple farmer and hustle around for news and advertisements. He was there with the soft soap iu great style; in fact he put it on so thick that some of his subjects near ly smothered and turned sick. As one farmer put it to me, "What is the use of that man saying in his paper that I am one of the most pros perous farmers in the Black Horse, when every man in the country knows that I am heavy in debt?" "Do you subscribe for the paper?" I asked him. "No," he replied, "but the always sends it to me just the same." And he is not likely to get that man to subscribe for a paper in which he can place no more reliance than in the Harlan Herald. But for a while he got along fairly well with the smearing part of his campaign. The news part was easy for a man of L. K.'s versality of imagination; if it was not at hand it could at any rate be made. The getting of advertisements was not quite so easy so here Wilkins had to help. The Gazette-Times installed a modern typesetting machine and it became essential that Harlan should have one too. Here was where Wil kins was to be useful. But Wilkins could not go to the public and ask for financial assistance towards the prosecution of his private revenge. An excuse had to be found. Well, it was a well known fact that the ed itor of this paper is a strong prohi bitionist, and although he was too broad a man to foist his private opinions upon the public, yet it was pointed out by the wily one that he! might at election time. And so it came about that the liquor interests were touched for a substantial da nation. It could be paid either in cash or in agreed monthly donations of $5 or more, or it could be ta!en out in advertising of a certain agreed amount. But that deposit cn the typesetter had to be met. L. K. Harlan, MANAGING EDIT OR of the Herald, lia3 said that his paper dees not belong to a syndi cate. I have already proven cut of his own mouth that it does belong to a syndicate, but that was not the one to which L. K. thought I referred. Had L. K. been wise enough to take a well-merited rebuke without giving me the lie, I would not have disclosed the syndicate to which he. In his guilty fear, imagined I re ferred, but "The guilty flee when none pursueth." Now I distinctly wish my readers to understand that I find no fault with the wets for supporting their own paper, each class of the com munity has that privilege. Where I do find fault with them is in their lack of judgment in the man they chose, and that most hurtful policy of silence. Mr. Harlan says his paper does not belong to a syndicate. Mr. Har lan might then enlighten us as to what those men who found the de posit for the machine are getting for their money. Are they making him a gratuitous present of that money? I hardly think that any of my read ers will believe so. If they are not being paid in dividends they are be ing paid in work of some kind or another which is not of a kind that they care to have made public. But this is the policy of silence to which I referred in the first part of this article. The Herald is similar then to the papers, of which I spoke in the first part of this now too long answer, in its policy of silence, in the man ner in which its editor was obtained, tho class to which this man belongs, and its dark and entirely bluffing way of hinting at horrible and mj'S' terious things to come. Take it all through, it is in a fair way to be come one of those pestilences to which I have alluded, whose very existence is a plague to the coismun ity In which it is given away, and an offence to the good feelings of the people; I mean A YELLOW JOUR NAL. Mr. Harlan writes of me as being deceptive and hypocritical. Well well. And what does the public think of this man who is running a paper with the avowed intention of breaking a man with a large family, a man who was in this county when the MANAGING EDITOR was "mul- ine and nuking" in his cradle? A man who, so far as I can ascertain has never done any man wrong, and whose only fault consisted in report ing a police court case in which one of the silent promoters of the Her ald was fined, and rightly too. . What does the public think of this man who, .whilst taking money for the continuance of bis" filthy rag from the interest most opposed to tho church element, and with com mercial murder in his heart, prints long articles on the advisability of going to church? As if the church element were green enough to fall for anv such nolicv so obvious. And this man calls me cunning. With regard to the braggadocio of which the MANAGING EDITOR accuses me: I remember one eve ning when one of the leading young men of the town asked him if he was running a paper in which Joe Wil kins owend the controlling interest: Joe Wilkins representing the saloon interests, he denied it saying: "I will print, as by law required, the names of those who own this paper, and you will find that only my brother and myself own this paper." And did he really suppose that either the young man or myself were so simple that we expected to se Mr. J. L. Wilkin's name, or shall we say, that of Mr. Vic Groshens, or any other backers appear in the list? Not much. But it was highly amusing to see him try to deny the allegation. He told the young man in my pres ence that his gift to his brother was equal to a present of $2000 cash. What, then, is the paper worth? Why had such a rich journal to post pone the payment of $50 on the typesetting machine for two months, and finally get an outside citizen to guarantee the payment? $2000. Some Bull. I thank the MANAGING EDITOR for his kind remarks re my charm ing personality (which I admit is well put), and deeply regret I cannot return the complement. A. L. SPARLING. Reports of meetings of the Grange in all parts of the state show the farmers lined up solidly against all the freak measures on the ballot, $1500 exemption and eight-hour law Included. The Eugene Register "''Is the pro posed $1500 exemption ndment "Sugar Coated Single Tax. Sclo Is to have a new prim, j plant, a new hotel and perhaps an other drug store. Logged off land seems to be in de mand around Coos Bay for small farms. It. L. Macleay will erect a cheese factory at Gold Beach. Port Orford cedar is selling for $95 per thousand, 'WLEAOUEIf Mj Two "Taxpayer Waze Esrasra" BREWERS PUT UP FUNDS KNOWING THAT OREGON DEY MEANS BETTER BUSI NESS FOE ALL LINES SAVE ONLY SALOONS. BY ORTON E. GOODWIN, Publicity Department, Committee of One Hundred. The great campaign to make Oregon "wet" has failed. The exposure by Dr. Cora Talbott, secretary of the 4 ' Taxpayers ' and Wage Earners' League," that tho organization consisted of two persons, Mrs. Duniway and Dr. Talbott, and was fi nanced by the brewers and distillers to make Oregon "wet," threw the fat kilo the fire. '. The brewers and distillers know that all kinds of busi ness save theirs is better in a dry town. They know this has been proved by figures and facts from Salem, Oregon City, Roscburg, Albany, Ncwberg, Ashland, Corvailis, Pen dleton and many other towns. Organization Spreads Untruths. So they organized the "Taxpay ers' and Wage Earners' League" to spread misinformation about Ore gon dry. They know bank deposits in dry towns have increased in number and amount. They know bad debts are almost unknown in all dry towns. They know collections are better. They know arrests from drunkenness are almost unknown. They know every dry town in Ore gon U prosperous. So, they became desperate. Taxpayers' League Is "Joke." Then they organized the joke "Taxpayers' and Wage Earners' League." Dr. Talbott was secre tary. She became disgusted when she learned money was being col lected by the brewers and distil leries by the use of her name, and she resigned. Then Mrs. Dumway advertised lavishly, announcing thai the money the "league" was using was pro vided by the brewers. The campaign of misinformation carried on by employes of the -league, who arc also employes of the breweries nnd distilleries, is now known all over Oregon. Brewers Spending Your Money. Every man, woman and child has to spend ?20 a year with tha saloons. If yon do not diink, same one else lias to pay YOL'R share. So, it is YOUR money the Ore gon brewers ir.ul Eastern distil leries have been using to uersuaile YOU Oregon wet will do . YOU good. It is believed they expect to spend over 200,000 of YOUR money. They know Oi'ejsn i:j will put them out of business anri help every otLer kind of business in the state. Although the breweries and dis tilleries know Oregon dry is for belter business, prosperity and more work, they are fighiing it. No Saloons; Brtte.' Business. We have bad bad times with the saloon, haven't we? Why not try no saloon? It can't make things worse and is certain to make things better. The reason is: Money spent on the saloon can not be spent for groceries. Money spent in the saloons much of it goes East. Money spent for dry goods and groceries stays in the towns and makes better business. The members of the Committee of One Hundred are all Oregonians. Most of them are business men. They ask you to vote Oregon dry, because they know, as the brew ers also know, that Oregon dry means better business, lower taxes, more work and a return to pros perity. For the experience of all Ore gon dry towns has proved this to be the case. s Paid advsrUsement by Commutes of On Hundrsc, 7i Morgan Bids., Fortlud, Or. 350 men are working steadily on the big Hill terminals at Flavel. The Tallant cannery at Marsh field has resumed with a large force,