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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 31, 1914)
it- i t " f TAGE six ;.) 1"!l IttFDFOttT) MATTj TtfTBTOK MttDFOTH), OTCE(10f. SATURDAY. OCTOftEft H1 !10H Republicans, Wake Up! '. ft ' $ . A. HOOTII Twenty Years After Twenty years ago today the democratic party was in com plete control ol! our government. Conditions were deplorable. Each mouth the governmental reven ues showed a deficit. Credits were at a low ebb. Factories and "foundries were shut down. Labor was out of employment. Coxcys and Kcllys, ragged and starving hordes, were marching on Wash ington. Strikes and lockouts were of daily occurrence. Tho administration in a time of pro found, peace, was borrowing money at a high rate of interest for daily running expenses. The people individually were in no better condition. Depression and demoralization existed from one end of the country to the other. "What an indictment, but every word of it is true, and this condi tion continued without a ray 'of light or hope until the American people, chastened in spirit and light in pocketboolc, marched to the polls on the 8th day of 2?o-f vember, 189G, and triumphantly' restored the Republican party to power. Today, twentj years after, wc again find the democratic party in full control, and it is the same old foolish, extravagant and in efficient democratic party that brought us to the verge of ruin twenty years ago. Credits are again shot to pieces. The buying power of the people is again at a low ebb. Labor is again every where out of employment. De pression and demoralization ex ist again from one end of the country to the, other and, strange fact and deadly parallel, the ad ministration is again in a time of profound national peace, levj'ing one hundred million dollars of direct tax on the people to meet the daily running.cxpcnses of the government. It is a long time to wait, and many of us will be hungry and ragged and broke, but, thank Clod! in two years from now an other glorious November day will come, as it came twenty years ago, when the American -people will go to the polls and put them out for another twenty years, or until the people again forget. t .i.s. wituvce.mui: ., - WAKE UP! The democratic machine of this state is waging a campaign which, if successful, will do more to bring the direct primary into disrepute than anything the rankest as sembly advocate in Oregon could possibly do. Last May the republican party nominated its candidates in the biggest primary ever held in the state. In this primary the republicans cast almost twico as many vote3 as all the other parties combined. Booth for Senator and Withycombe for governor received by direct voto the en dorsement and approval of a substantial maj ority of the republican voters. Booth for senator receiving tho largest vote ever cast for a candidate in a primary in the stato of Oregon. The republicans selected R. A. Booth because he was an able man and a good man, because he stood for and represented the best in American citizenship. Now, what happened? The democratic machine, knowing that Booth was a big man who had re ceived a big endorsement in the primary, and knowing that sufficient republican votes were registered to elect him, deliberately planned and set about to break down his char acter and reputation in the minds of republican voters. Governor West, "tho Mad Mul lah" of Oregon politics, was turned loose on him. Irresponsible and conscienceless, ho has been running "amuck," up and down the state, in a campaign of charactor assassin ation that is a disgrace to the commonwealth, and disgusting to the reputable members of his own party. The democratic newspapers of the state, littlo and big, directed all their mud bat teries at Booth, operating on the theory that if you lie about a candidato or an issuo early in the campaign, and keep it up persistently, clay and night until election, you will be rewarded by fooling a snag of voters. The democratic politicials, pursuing'tho same general plan, are going about the state, some whining and some bellowing, but all lying, misrepresenting and defaming, and they are aided and abetted in every town in the state by a little bunch of shady citi zens who always form the dirty and bedraggled political fringe of every community, and whose only visible means of livelihood is the drippings from the wheels of tho ma chine, and who, at the bidding of their masters, go about whispering foul suspicion and innuendo into the ears of unsuspecting and credulous republicans. The time will come, and come quickl y, if this sort of thing is permitted to go un punished and unrebuked, when the good, able representative men who hold in esteem their good name and fame will not allow their namos to go before tho people for these positions of public trust, and the field will be left to the trimmers, grafters and the pro fessional politicians. How long are tho Republicans of Oregon and of Jackson county going to allow this organized gang of office-hungry conspirators to fool them. Every day all over the state this outfit is writing and talking in defense of the direct primary. Who is attack ing it? Certainly not the Republicans, who went out and nominated their candidates by a direct and uncoerced vote in a big, harmonious and lawfully held primary. It is simply a proposition of fighting windmills to fool Republican voters. Why should any Republican vote for Chamberlain for senator? He is now mak ing his campaign on the grounds that ho should be sent back for six more years to sup port deomcratic measures and policies and conversely to vote against every principlo and policy that you believe in. Wakiup! Come to the defenso of your candidates, whom you nominated and selected, and on the third of November take this aggregation of character pirates to such a training that they won't dare to try it again in another half century. C tf V. V. IIAWI.KV Republican Ticket - For United States Senater: R. A. HOOTII v Kor Cengressman: W.C. IIAWLIOY For (loveruer: .JAMIOS WITIIYCOMUIO For Treasurer: Til OH. . ICAY .For .Justices Supremo Ceurt: HIONRY.J. HI0AN HIONRYL. HIONSON I, AW HUNCH T. HARRIS THOMAS A. M'RRIIHO For At.torucv General: (IIOORCIOM.HROWN For Superintendent of Public In In structeon: .1. A. CHURCHILL For State Engineer: JOHN II. LIOWIS For Commissioner of Laber: 0. F.HOFF For Railroad Commissiener: FRANK.!. MILLION For Water Superintendent: J. T. CI1INN0CK. For Stale Senater: . ' - J I. VON DIORJIIOLLEN For "Representatives, Eighth Dis triet: W. P. M 10 A LEY FR 101) I). WAONIOR For .Joint Representative, Ninth , . ,- .District: WaL T. VAWTER liFor Count v Commissiener: FRANKILMADDION For Countv Clerk: 0. A. CARDNEIt ' . . For Sheriff: W. ILSINCLEU For Ttecerder: OHAUNCIOY FLORIOY . , For Treasurer: FltI01).L.COLVia Ji'oiv Surveyer: j A.-.i'Vty'AMwrcn s. tioio For Corener: W.W.USSIUOU i f Here in Jackson County, coming d own toxthe purely local situation, this committee, composed of 47 representative Republicans, is willing to go on record as being proud of our candidates. They are all well- known and respected citizens of Jackson county. Able, honest and trustworthy, and they should have tho unanimous and loyal support of the party that nominated them. JACKSON COUNTY REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE (10111 Adv.) A .