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. 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.
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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.
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Republican Ticket -
For United States Senater:
R. A. HOOTII
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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
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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.)
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