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Ye Smudge Pot
By Arthur Perry.
In super-hysterical circles, it 1b
feared that the sun will not come up
next Wednesday morning, unless their
prido and Joy is elected, lint astron
omers Btato emphatically that Old Sol
'Will make it all right.
The Ixud Nose Blowers Union, No.
430, huvo started their winter contest
with Espee freight engines.
Tho only thing .that can be said in
favor of peon pants, is thut they ure
better than none at all.
A LADY TALKS
'Iflelievo mo, I will bo glnd when
this jawing is all over. Thoy used to
coclc their pretty selves up to the
counter, and tell me what a fine ma
chine thny had, but now they go wild
over a baby just like themselves.. It
don't make any difference to me, but
I hate to listen to a campaign speech,
before I have to tell 'em 1 can make It
hqme without 'em. (letting me to the
front door, Is one of the vital issues of
this campaign, if 1 read my list of
mimes, thore would bo, well, I'd liuto
to say whnt In this town. I'm free,
white and 24, and I don't have to sling
hash, except to eat, but if the worse
conies to worse some of the angels
Will have horns. I nln't got a mean
disposition, but does my chin look
weak? I'm the type of girl that has n
backbone, and when I Blap 'em, they
don't get funny and say: 'Ain't the
akeetors bad this evening?' The last
ono I smacked claimed he had the
harbor's Itch, his mug was so red, next
ay. He never showed up for three
days, and when ho did, I nsked him
Where lie had been, and he fouled me
again, lie said, 'I've been writing n
letter to my mother in Montana
Hain't tho men the cats pnjanuis?"
T" ROM the opening of this campaign The Mail Tribune lias had one
jL supreme object in view, the welfare of this state and this com
munity.
To preserve and further that welfare three things had to be dune
in this election in the view of this paper.
The defeat of the compulsory school bill.
The re-election of Governor Oleott.
The election of Mr. Gaddis and the business men's ticket in Med
ford. "With the personal issues in this bitter campaign this paper has re
fused to become involved, for the simple reason that it seemed rather
:: waste of time. "We have no political nxe to grind. Whether this
party or that gets this minor office or that, will make very little dif
ference to this paper or to anyone else.
But whether Oregon is to amend its constitution, so that the
mother of a child will not be allowed to educate that child as she sees
lit.
Whether the affairs of this state are to remain in the hands of an
efficient and industrious 'business man like Ben Oleott, or handed
over to a political emotionalist like Mr. Pierce.
Whether Medford's sound and businesslike financial policies are
to be continued or overthrown, all these issues are supremely im
portant, something to materially and permanently effect the welfare
of every resident of this state and this community and it was there
fore on these throe issues that The Mail Tribune has concentrated.
'
We believe very few people will vote for the Compulsory School
bill if they understand exactly what it means. For we believe very
few people will vote against their own self-interest.
' Disregarding the spirit of religious intolerance which actuates
tho measure, disregarding its unquestioned unconstitutionality, this
bill if passed will not only increase state taxes by over a million dol
lars a year, but will render any immediate growth and development
of this state absolutely impossible. In only one other state in the
union has the ennctmVnt of a similar measure been attempted, in
Aliuhitiau. and there the people voted it down over two to one. It
should be voted down here as emphatically. ' It will do no good, it
will, if passed, do great economic harm.
Our opposition to Mr. Tierce is not because he is a Democrat. We
don't fare a hoorah about the political label he wears. Our opposition
is based upon the fact that Mr. Pierce is a typo of tho old-fashioned,
glib-tongited professional politician willing to do anything or say any
thing to get votes,-lacking in sincerity and sound judgment, and we
are everlastingly sick of the whole tribe. We don't want a politician
at Salem.'-'They are too unreliable and ultimately too expensive.
Xow as to the city election. This is really more important than
anything else to the people of Hertford, for the proper administration
of city affairs, effects every individual in li is everyday life every clay.
On the verge of financial collapse seven years ago, Medford's
finances were reorganized, placed upon a sound business basis, arid
by rigid economy and good management over $200,000 was paid off
the city debt and the city water system put upon a self-sustaining
basis1.'- The election of Mr. Gaddis and Councilmen Jacobs, Butler,
Alcnderfer, Janney, Paul and Dressier mean a continuation of this
policy That js the only real issue in the city campaign. We can't
belicvo the people of Medi'ord will be so blind to their own self-interest,
as not to elect them.
Eleventh Hour Mud-Attack on Gover
nor Oleott is Made
NO WONDER MR. PIERCE WEEPS
, : (Eugene Register)
Governor Hon W. Oleott has
( been so busy campaigning over
; the state that It Is feared hero
, that lie has had to ncgloct some
ot the duties of his office. That
conclusion bus boon rcuched by
, reason of the fact that ho seems
', to be failing woefully in his efforts
. to find for Mrs. H. Pumphrey, ot
( this city, what she describes ns a
i beautiful and vicious bulldog
, -which wns picked up several
weeks ngo by a tourist passing
. through tho city.
, The hero list of Mr. Carnoglo, for
which medals and cash are awarded
each year, was issued today, and no
candidate from Oregon 1s thereon.
-Otto Ourgel niovod on Wednesday
Into his now bungalow at 10:116 Church
St. (Pendleton Enst Oregoniun). But
he don't do it any more.
Instead of laying tho blamo for beat
ing the bruins out of a lady, with a
clawhammer, on the gossips, where It
belongs, tho Los Angeles lady on trial
for tho crime, says her companion did
It. Nobody knows which Is tho most
harrowing the brutal, fiendish mur
der, or tho brutal, fiendish tattling
that Inspired it.
Turkeys that havo been subsisting
on grasshoppers all summer, are now
represented to the public as milk fed.
VOTE FOR GEORGE DUNN.
TITR MAIL TRIBUNE is glad to endorse George Dunn of Ash
land for the slate senate. An old pioneer, universally respect
ed, Mr. Dunn can be depended upon to show that good judgment and
fairness, in the state legislature that he lias always exhibited in his
dealings with his fellow citizens in Jackson county. Mr. Dunn
should be elected by a large majority.
SMASH THE SNEAKING POLITICIANS.
AN ELEVENTH hour cause is a bad cause.'' Any political argu
ment that has to be shoved under your door under cover of
night, that can't stand the light of open day or tho free play of op
position has something seriously wrong with it. If you are . tired of
these sneaking, underhanded political methods the only way to stop
them is to vote against any candidate who seeks to profit by them.
When tho last-minute squad find such practices don't pay, they will
stop and not until then.
The endorsement given to Governor
Oleott by a number of prominent Ma
sons, its published- in the press, should
do much to counteract the contempt
ible - mud slinging" campaign that is
now being conducted by the opKisi
tion. The "independent press" Is so
hard put to find legitimate material
with which either to attack the Oleott
official record or to defend the official
record of Mr. Pierce that it resorts to
the puny tactics of crying "mud sling
ing" when the Pierce record Is ex
posed. They do not attempt to deny
the-record, no allegation has been
made that the charges against Mr.
Pierce are even In the slightest degree
incorrect. Part of his record has been
published by actual photographs, other
parts of his record relating to legisla
tion have been published by inetns of
citations of particular bills endorsed
and voted for. Throwing .Mr. Pierce's
record at him Is called "mud slinging."
The record is indeed a rotten one, but
it is no fault of those who are expos
ing him. When a man is a candidate
for public office it is not only a legiti
mate piece of campaign work to give
the people his public record, but it be
comes tho positive duty to those in
charge of the campaign to publish it.
Were empty charges preferred
against Mr. Pierce, such as are being
spread ull over Oregon by those who
are trying to elect him, there would be
some ground for complaint, for if any
body In this campaign has a real griev
ance over "mud slinging" it should be
the governor of Oregon. Malicious ru
mors are being circulated about him in
every part of the state, rumors that
take advantage of tho depraved state
of the human mind that permits it to
become permeated with religious
prejudice.
For example, one is to tho effect
that the governor has appointed Fath
er O'Hara as a member of tho board
of regents of the University ot Oregon.
This is not only absolutely false, but
is an appointment that never was even
considered.
There has also reached every corner
of the state word to the effect that Mr.
Oleott is a Catholic, that his wife is a
Catholic and that his children are at
tending a Catholic school. As a mat
ter of fact the circulators of these
stories know very well that the Olcotts
are Protestants, have always been Pro
testants and that the children attend a
public school and a Protestant Sunday
school. It is bad enough to drag the
candidate through the mire of religi
ous warfare without dragging in his
wife and little children.
Another favorite yarn of Pierce ad
herents being maliciously spread
nround among the fulthful Is that the
governor is a member of the Knights
of Columbus. The distorted intellects
which serve as purveyors for this
niece ot gossip oven go so far as to
cite the place where he was initiated
That kind of stor:es may very pro
perly be designated as "mud slingin
because of their utter falsity; they
are propagated in the minds of bigots
spread by the tongue of slanderers
who roll these sweet morsels of gossip
beneath their slimy tongues or hti
them to their bosoms with a frenzy
of delight that normal minded people
find it difficult to understand. They
take advantage of race and religious
prejudices to accomplish an end which
they could not gain by fair means
This indeed is real "mud slinging."
The efforts of the "independent
press" to designate the publication of
the Pierce official record as "mud
slinging is but an effort to defend Mr.
Pierce with a smoke screen of sym
pathy to which he is not entitled be
cause his official record is such that
it has no other defense.
The frank avowal of O. G. Drown
grand master of the Masonic lodge
Milton D. Myers, Frank J. Miller, John
B. Clelland, Earl C. Kronaugh, Wm. C
Hristol and Wallace McCamant, all
past grand officers of the grand lodge
of the state of Oregon or high officials
in the consistory, to the effect that
they believe Mr. Olcott's defeat would
be a public misfortune, should at least
silence these serpent tongues of slan
der among those who have been clrcu
lating these stories under a false ap
prehension.
COMMUNICATIONS
Another Dflmte WantoU.
To the Editor:
PU'uh proHont this challense through
tho columns of your paper.
To ltnwlos Moore:
1 hereby challenge you to debate
the issues of the campaign, with me
at Antioch schoolhouse Monday
niKht, November G, 1922. You to
open debate, .10 minutes, I to have
35 minutes to Ben I your oratorical
obituary.
Very Truly,
I,, M. SWEET,
licaglo, Ore., Nov. 2, VJ'2'2.
Objocts to Fnljcr's Stand.
To the Editor:
In regard to the issue written by
E. C. Faber, he has the same old
story to tell in regard to our sheriff
and other officiate whom he calls
wet. I want to say to the people and
voters of Jackson county that just
such men as Mr. Faber and his few
followers cost this county three or
four thousand dollars for a recall to
try to put Sheriff Terrill out of of
fice. And I want to say that the tax
payor is the ono who pays the bill.
I want to ask Mr. Faber if ho is a
law-abiding citizen, does he believe
in the voters having their rights at
elections and does he believe that the
majority of the -people should rule?
No, ho does not, or he wouldn't be
harping on things that's passed.
If this man Faber and a few of
his followers would read the Bible
with it they might be
J. B. "WATSON,
Central Point, Oregon.
has
nor
Mason Opposes School Bill.
To the Editor:
The Grand Lodge of Oregon
never said officially at any time
has it undertaken lo compel its mem
bership to say that it or any of them
were in favor of the nresent desig
nated "Proposed Bill for an Act On
Compulsory Edueation to Amend
Soetlnn 5259 Oregon Laws."
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Quill Points
.0 Religion, what political games are played in thy name!
The meek not only inherit the earth, but manage to keep rather
good cooks.
Bcnuty hints are unnecessary,
liiuting.
Beauty gets what it wants without
RipplingRhuiiiQS
p won rieon .
,-WAMhU f arm hand to am on
ranch. Innulro August Carlson, Col-
lego Inn Cufc. (Coos Hay Tlnios). All
applicants will probably suspect as
much.
'. The sorrowful announcement Is
mndo that "Armonla needs flour," as
they always do, at this time of the
year,' the Idea being to bury every
Armenian beneath six feet of dough.
i The member of tho Hates delegation
who bolted the family ticket and start
ed taking tho Portland Journal to get
tlio truth about Pierce, digested one
tHBiie, and is thoroughly convinced he
is not tho man for gov.
I ; .
i WILLAMETTE VALLEY NUTS
HAVE WORMS" (Salem Capltul
Journal). Same here.
THE WISE AUNT.
M
Y AUNT .TANK is passing wise, and her husband's love she
holds, for she feeds him up with pies ea-e she lectures him
or scolds. As a cook she's hard to beat, gorgeously her husband
fares; it's a privilege to eat anything my aunt prepares. If she
thinks it right to. say things unpleasant to ear, she won't speak
while Uncle Jay is hungry as a steer. For all hungry men de
spise words of warning and advice, 'but when they are full of jiios
they will listen once or twice. Wives by thousands every day on
the path of error tread, throwing household pctwe away, jawing
men who should be fed. When my Uncle Jane, sereme and chaste,
tells him of a hat she saw. For that hat she makes a hid, saying,
'Now, so help mo John, I have worn my old bum lid till I, blush
to put -it on. You can buy yourself cigars, you can play your bil
liard game, while my wornout bonnet jars every fibre in my
frame." Filled with pastry, Uncle Jay. heaves it wide forgiving
smile i "Go buy that hat today -l would see my wife in stylo."
and affirm with serpent tongues that
ha hns even taken the "Fourth de-'nntl keep with it they
..'... ... . . . fh.-tuttnH
irwnr. " '1-lila u O ln Pin I. T II I flP n f Hill f -
circulated for tho express purpose of
satisfying the bigotry of the class of
people to whom this sort of stuff ap
peals and create an enmity and ill will
against the governor, who is not only
a member in good standing of the
Masonic fraternity, but is also a mem
ber of the Shrine.
The governor s calumniators are not
satisfied with dragging the governor,
his wife and little children into the
mire of their filthy bigotry, but in the
roll of ghouls they desecrate the
graves of the dead and circulate a
story to tho effect that tho governor's
sister is a Catholic nun in San rran
Cisco, when the truth Is that the only
siister that the governor'ever had died
serveral years ago, and at the time ot
her death wns a teacher In the Metho
dist Sunday school.
Hecause the governor has direct con
trol over appointments at the peniten
tiary, lies havo been viciously circu
lated to tho effect that BO per cent ot
the employes in that institution are
Catholics. Investigation shows that
thero is but one Catholic employed at
the penitentiary and he is a flax ex-
Vert who was brought there by the
into Governor Withycombe.
REPUBLICAN TICKET
For -Representative
W. C. HAWLEY
For Governor
HUN W. OLCOTT
For State Treasurer
O. P. HOFF
For Justices Supreme Court
GEO. 'H. BURNETT
JOHN MeCOURT
JOHN L. RAND
For Superintendent Public instruction
J. A. CHURCHILL
For Xnbor Commissioner
C. 11. GRAM
For PWbllc Service Commissioner
T, K. CAMPBELL
For Ju-dge Circuit Court
C. M. THOMAS
For Stato Senator
GEORGE- W. DUNN
For Representatives
JOHN H. CARKIN
RALPH P. COWGILL
For County Commissioner
GEORGE ALFORD
Republican County Central
Paid adv. Committee.
BUSINESS MEN'S TICKET
For Mayor,
E. C. GADDIS
For City Recorder,
M. L. ALFORD
For Cltv Treasurer,
MARY HAS WELL WEDBER
Councilmen, First Ward.
J. W. JACOBS
J. W. BUTLER
Counclliucn. Second Ward,
E. H. JANNEY
O. O. ALENDERFER
Councilman. Third Ward,
0. W. PAUL. Pd. adv.
The Ministerial iixsoc ialioil of the
eilv of l'urlland.took the dignified
and right position that It was not
within the proper province of that
association to take aution on a quasi
politieal question upon whi'-h nn'in
bers of their own conzreKatiens were
divided ill opinion. Surely the dignity
which imprc.-i-i-'! ili-elf upon thai a
( iatien. Ii.r nite ii Mniiii-r and
more fulsuine n-asmi, ;ipiili'- v.'ith im
pelling force against involving In
dignity, the honor anil the nneiei.l
fame anil rite of -Masonry in any of
its branches in an unnecessary and
undesirable politieal controversy such
as this.
It is time for the public to know
and to understand, and therefore to
be taught, that -Masonry does not
sanction nor permit its votaries to
use Its organization in political de
signs. It is lime now, the instant,
for the uninformed members of that
honorable and ancient order to know
and to teach that no one has the right
to subject the opinions of Its indi
vidual members to any cult, any pur
pose, any design or any object sub
version of the liberties of each man's
opinions and the rights of American I
cilizenhip.
The great body of men In Oregon,
who mean to be fair and just In their
conduct, behavior and contact win,
their different societies and bodies of
Masonry to which they belong, ci.,-.
tainly :ire entitled to use their own
Judgment and act iti conformity with
real right. So one has the right t
ihroitle their opinions or the expr.-H-i..iis
of (hem. No one, olwetseil with
the overwhelming importance of their
own turhulant ignorance, whatever
his rank or title, has any right to suli
vert doctrinal truths and teachings of
our order to suit and support the
cause thus created. Leadership is an
ordained duty of sacred obligation
not to mislead: and there does not yet
live that man in this world, who can.
for his personal ambition and unsat
iated bigotry, subject the actual ,M.
sonic teachings to base design. No
body of men will remain associated
together any length of time in any
cause when their leaders subvert the
principles of that cause to a purpose
which the principle denies.
V. C. BRISTOL.
Vast Grand Master of Oregon.
Portland. November 4.
COUNTY TICKET
STATE REPRESENTATIVE
Having been nominated by tho
people at tho May primary, I hereby
solicit your support and votes as one
of the two State Representatives in
tho legislature, to be elected at the
November election.
Adv. JOHN H. CARKIN,
Condldate for Representative at the
November election. If I go, I go to
serve the best interests of tha state
and of Jackson county especially. Adv
J. O. KIGO.
Having been nominated for Repre
sentative to tho Legislature from Jack
son county, Oregon, I solicit your sup-
port and voter 'S one of the two
Representatives irora Jackson county,
at the election on November 7, 1922.
Paid. odv. ALICE E. HANLEY.
STATE SENATOR
I have been nominated by the Re
publican party for State Senator and
hereby solicit your support at the
election on November 7.
Adv. GEORGE W. DUNN.
CITY TICKET.
TREASURER
I am an independent candidate for
City Treasurer, and If elected promise
to do my full duty according to law.
I will appreciate your support on No
vember 7. L. E. BEAN.
Adv.
In announcing my candidacy for the
otiice of city treasurer of Medi'ord I
feel that my thirteen years of clerical
work qualifies me for tho position. If
elected I will obey the law in every
particular, will transfer no funds ex
cept as provided by law and will keep
each account in its proper place so
that any taxpayer can ascertain the
general condition of the city without
dolny. LINNIE HANSCAM.'
Adv.
I am a candidate for re-election for
the office of City Treasurer at the
general election November 7th and
hope my past record will entitle me
to your support, which I will duly
appreciate.
Adv. MARY HASWELL WEBBER.
RECORDER
I am a candidate for re-election for
tho office of City Recorder. I havo
faithfully conducted my official duties,
my books are open for inspection at
any time, and I will appreciate your
support. M. L. ALrVKO.
Adv,
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Alice E. Hanley
TO THE JACKSON COI XTY VOTERS:
This Committee composed alike ot lifelong Democrats and lifelong
Republicans appeals to you to'support Miss Alice E. Hanley, our independ
ent candidate for the Legislature. She has made a success of her own
farming business In this County, and like you, has suffered from high taxes
and she has a remedy for them, and is in every respect entitled to your
support. Her campaign has been particularly made against Ralph Cowglll
for reasons which we feel you will know as applying to Mr. Cowgtll's
qualifications.
Sincerely yours, . -
INDEPENDENT AMERICAN VOTERS LEAGUE,
Hy Alan Brack in reed,
Paid adv. Secretary Executive Committee.
Hittson
makes his last offering
of the season on
Used Cars.
See that superfine used Big Six he is of fer
ing at $1250.00, the real bargain of the
season.
Overland Sport Model 90, wire wheels, in
excellent shape, an exceptional snap at
the price we offer.
One Ford roustabout, good condition,
$175.00
,A party left two good cars here t j trade
for sheep or cattle.
, ... , Hi the Trail for Hittson's
Hittson Motors
Don't Forget the Armistice Day Celebration '
J Medford, November 11