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TriE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. MAY 29. 1902. attorney for the poor man, and have had Men of all parties have expressed to me to fight the battle of the under dog, ami their sympathy and their abhorence of in fighting such battles I have in more the methods which have lieen used than one case antagonized certuin in against me in this campaign. Many terests which are now aiding and de«n<»crats have assured me that in Mark Between the Number and Name for Bach Candidate or Answer Voted For. abetting the fight being waged against order to rebuke the mud slingers at me. Tillamook City they will cast their An attempt has lieen made to cast ballots for me on the second day of June. w__ x a . * a -< • some reflection upon me because I am a Respectifullv submitted, stockholder and director in thvTdlamook B. L. E ddy . For Representative to Congress, County Bank which is soon to open busi For United States Senator. Vote for One. 1st District. Vote for One. OH ! OH ! OH I ness at Tillan.ook City. For the infor 12 T. T. Geer, of Marion County........... .............. Republican. mation of those who do not already Hiram Gould, of Yamhill County.................. .Prohibition. 29 know the facts I wish to say that my in The McMinnville News Gives 13 C. E. S. Wood, of Multnomah County.......Democratic. B. F. Ramp, of Douglas County................... ......Socialist. 30 terest in this bank is a minority interest Tillamookers a Pointer. and that I have not suddenly come into Thomas H. Tongue, of Washington Countv. .Republican. 31 McMinnville, Or.. Mai 24, 1902. |M>sseHsion of any large amount of money |.K. Weatherford, of Linn County............. .Democratic. 32 but am simply investing in this business [ to THE EDITOR TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT.] D ear S ir , — Please find enclosed an such savings as I have been able to ac cumulate from the practice of my pro article which will appear as an editorial .................... fession. The greater |M>rtion of the cap in the next issue of the News. You will ital stock is held by other men. I am see the purport of same upon reading it. For Governor- ♦ Vote for One. For Superintendent of Public Please copy in your next issue. not aware that it is any crime to lie con Respectfully yours. Instruction. Vote for One. 14 George E. Chamberlain, of Multnomah Co...Democratic. nected with a legitimate banking insti _ __________ O G. Y stes . tution. I am not aware that it is against li J. H. Ackerman, of Multnomah County.... 33 William J. Furnish, of Umatilla County........ Republican. the interests of the people to have a The enclosed referred to above is as .Prohibition. 16 A. J. Hunsaker, of Yamhill County.. ............. Prohibition. 34 second bank established at Tillamook follows : City. This bank is being established be “It is unfortunate that the communi 17 R. R. Ryan, of Marion County........ .................. Socialist. W. A. Wann, of Lane Countv...................... ..Democratic. 35 cause there is a demand for it and I be- cation signed, ‘Pro Bono Publico’ in the lieve that the people of Tillamook County Telephone-Register, May 8, did not bear realize that competition in banking will the real signature of the author,” writes be to lheir interest. 1 <lo not think they the same writer in the last issue of the Vote for One. will bear my grudgw toward any man Register, using another non de plume, For Attorney General. For Supreme Judge. Vote for One. To the Voters of Tillamook County ; who has helped to establish an institu this time signing himself “Puritan,” A. M. Crawford, of Douglas Countv .. ......... Republican. 18 Robert S. Bean, of Lane County........ .............. Republican. 36 tion which is organized for the purpose “Pitty ’tis, ’tis true.” If “Pro Bono The present political campaign being T. H. Goyne of Tillamook County...... ......... Prohibition. 19 B. F. Bonham, of Manon Countv.... ............. Democratic. 37 of carrying uii an honorable banking Publico’’ had signed his real name we about to close, I think it proper that I James H. Raley, of Umatilla County . ......... Democratic. should make a brief statement in ans business and which will seek to gain the are of the opinion that it would have 20 C.J. Bright, of Sherman County.... ............ Prohibition. 38 favor of the people by liberal impartial read C. W. Talmage. As the corres wer to some of the attacks whieh have and just treatment as well as by honesty pondent pretended in his communica been made upon me and fidelity. tion to be a republican, it would be in It is quite extraordinary that my An effort has been made to make great the interest of truth and common honetsy opponents are not setting forth the Vote for One. ( virtues of the gentleman who is mv ad capital out of my connection with this to have the name of the correspondent For Secretary of State. For State Printer- Vote for One. new bank. The charge or insinuation known. Everyone in this county knows W. W. Brooks, of Multnomah County.. ........ Prohibition. versary for the office of joint represen that I am able to tike stock in this bank 21 C. W. Barzee, of Wasco County....... .................. Socialist. 39 what kind of a republican Charley Tal tative of Yamhill County and Tillamook 22 James E. Godfrey, of Marion County.. ..........Democratic. Counties, but that the principal opposi Ixcause of having obtained money cor- mage is. He claimed to be a free-silver N. A. Davis, of Umatilla Countv...... ............ Prohibition. 40 tuptly in the Legislature is absolutely republican after he failed to get the nom J. E. Hosmer, of Marion Countv.......... .............. Socialist. tion to my election has consisted of 23 Frank I. Dunbar, of Clatsop County. ............. Republican. 41 false in every particular and I believe ination in the republican county conven J. R. Whitney, of Linn County........... ......... Republican. personal attacks upon myself. It dors really needs no denial. If the men who tion the second time for county treasure, 24 D. W. Sears, of Polk County........... ............. Democratic. 42 not seem to lx contended that my oppo made that insinuation can present as until it finally dawned upon him that nent represents any principles which are clean a record as to their past lives as I there were no free-silver republicans any ................ . ................ ................... ........... for the benefit of the State or the Dis can with regard to my career in the more, whereon he became, and ever trict, or that his ability or experience Legislature, they will have very little to since has been, a democrat ; and now are such as to specially qualify him for • For State Treasurer. Vote for One. answer for. is trying to conceal himself in “the rolxs the office in preference to myself. If my 25 Henry Blackman, of Morrow County ............Democratic. A certain individual has stated and of heaven the better to serve the devil.” enemies had put their campaign upon this basis and carried it on in an honor caused the statement to be generally cir 26 T. S. McDaniel, of Multnomah Countv..........Prohibition. Modern Surgery. able manner I should certainly have no culated that in the organization of the Charles S. Moore, of Klamath County.......... Republican. * 27 cause to complain. It appears,however, new bank I was the means of turning W. D. Nesbit in Baltimore American. 28 W. W. Myers, of Clackamas County. that a small number of personal enemies down certain capitalists who were going Old Bill Jones—a Hoosier man— to invest a fabulous sum of money in residing at Tillamook City have formed Was built on the Hoosier plau— a combination for the purpose of making Tillamook. He has also asserted that I Blood, flesh and brains was acting as attorney for these parties the political campaign a pretext and an To give him pains occasion for a tirade of personal abuse, and that by means of the knowledge He had. slander and misrepresentation such as which I obtained as their attorney I was His stomach ached sore from his birth, able to prevent their establishing a bank upon ordinary occasions the community at Tillamook. I never was the attorney His lungs would wheeze fall they were would not tolerate. worth ; For Joint Representative, Having resided in Tillamook County for these parties in any sense whatever His heart was slow, l^th Ref). Dist. Vote for One. for about six years,and having been born and my communications with them on And then would go within one hundred miles of where I now the banking proposition were entirely on 43 B. L. Eddy, of Tillamook County.................... Republican. Like mad. reside, and having come to Tillamook an equal with them in which I represented 4i Charles Grissen, of Yamhill County.................. Democratic. from a near-by section of the state, I my own interestsand the interests of my Bill Jones saw a doctor man— feel that the people of this county have friends and I was not their agent or at One who worked on modern plan— 45 T. L. Jones, of Yamhill County........................ Prohibition. Who hawed and hummed. had every opportunity to form an torney any more than they were my And pinched and thumbed opinion as to my character and capacity. agents or attorneys. Those negotiations His nose. I feel that they will not be imposed fell through Itecause in the first place, upon by false statements put forth dur one of the gentlemen who had undertak Then he got out his knives and saws ing a political campaign. lain making en to raise $12000.00 for the bank failed And carved on Jones without a pause. “Your stomach’s out!” my home among them, have invested my to do so and informed us that he could At last his shot savings in the county,and am rearing and not invest more than $5000. My friends mvself took into consideration the Arouse. For Sheriff. Vote for One. educating my children here and haye and Vote for One. For County Judge. matter of accepting him as an associate Eor to weeks Jones was stomachless, shown at least as much zeal and energy H. H. Aiderman, of Tillamook County....... ...Republican. 58 W. W. Conder, of Tillamook County ............Democratic. 46 as the average citizen in seeking to pro. in the bauk upon the basis of And then he told a great distress. J. D. Edwards, of Tillamook County......... ..Democratic. mote the progress and developement his taking stock to the amount of $5000, 59 J. R. Finley, of Tillamook County.... ........... Prohibition. His heart, he said, 47 but for purely business reasons it was Was just like lead, Seth F. Moon, of Tillamook County.......... .Prohibition. of the County. 60 C. F. Keller, of Tillamook County..... ................ Socialist. 48 decided that the gentleman should not Or worse. The publications to which I have ...... Socialist. 61 Jasper Smith, of Tillamook County ... ............. Republican. 49 alluded have not all emanated from one be taken into the concern, A consider He sought the doctor man again, man, but they have rather come from a ation for his feelings prevents me going Who got his knives and saws—and then Bill’s heart came next, clique or junta of persons who have been into details, but I will say that one im Although it vexed actuated by different motives and pur portant circumstance was that he seemed His purse. poses, but none of them caring anything to have some diiect or indirect connec For Assessor. Vote for One- for the purity of politics, for the good of tion with this same individual who is After this Bill’s lungs felt bad-- Vote for One- For County Clerk- now circulating these lies, and as busi Another fee the doctor had. F. L. Buell, of Tillamook County................. .Prohibition. the Republican party, or the interests of A. T. Bain, of Tillamook Countv........ ................ Socialist. 62 50 Tillamook county, or the State of ness men proposing to engage in a purely Jones’ chest was bare A. M. Hare, of Tillamook County............ ..Republican. Eugene Jenkins, of Tillamook County ............ Democratic. 63 51 Oregon. Everyone of them would be business undertaking, we wished to Of all but air choose our own associates. John Sheets, of Tillamook County................. ..Democratic. glad to sacrifice purity, to sacrifice the Homer Mason, of Tillamook County .............Republican. 64 Un breathed. 52 As to Mr. Gangloff's proposed connec The doctor next went searching for interests of the Republican party, to Socialist. ...... B W Turner, of Tillamook Countv ........... ............ Prohibition. 65 S. H. Phillips, of Tillamook County. 53 sacrifice all the interests of Tillamook tion with the bank I beg to say that I More things in Bill’s in te-rior. county and larger interests, if they could have no knowledge that lie at any time All nature s aids - only bring about the downfall of the ever offered to invest in the bank more Left, ere his blades jxrson who happens at the time to be than one thousand dollars, so that the Were sheltered. For Surveyor. Vote for One- the object of their malice. This is talk about the great amount of money He took Vote for One. For County Treasurer. Bill’s brain—and thoughts, I which these people were to invest is F. L. Sappington, of Tillamook Countv...... ..Republican. proven by their methods of attack. 66 Elmer D. Hoag, of Tillamook County......... Republican. guess— 54 baaed upon their proposition to take L L. Smith, of Tillamook County ............ ..Democratic. They have refused to come out into the $0000 worth of slock in a bank which And also made him liverless— 67 P. W. Todd, of Tillamook County...... 55 open, refused to make their charges Removed his splcem— definite, but have resorted to midnight they wished to Iw largely financed by The whole machine— plottings, anonymous communications Tillamook people. This is the plain un E-ry. and the posting of anonymous and varnished truth about my preventing the And now Bill Jones— A Hoosier man— investment of $100,000.00 and the turn, For County Commissioner. Vote for One- contemptible lying placards,while honest ing down of the construction of four saw Through cience deft Vote for One. For Coroner- people slept. There’s nothing left W. T. Doughty, of Tillamook County ............ Prohibition. 56 Richard Allen, of Tillamook County.......... ..Democratic. 68 It has been and is the design of this mills, etc., etc. I think as near as these To die. people ever came to going into the mil) C. E. Reynolds, of Tillamook County ............. Republican. G. W. Bodyfelt, of Tillamook County........ .Republican. combination, not only to injure me 57 69 business was to start a windmill. politically, but if possible to in some The Registration. A. M. Ginn, of Tillamook County............ .Prohibition. 70 There have been many other false and way undermine the little professional 1902. 1900. success which I have been able to achieve contemptible insinuations and charges Bay............................. 78 ... 92 in Tillamook county by means of hard circulated which 1 will not take time to Beaver....................... 58 ... 62 work and faithful attention to the in answer. I believe 1 am sufficiently Blaine ....................... 38 ... 31 known to the people to stand upon my terests of my clients. In order to Carnahan ................ 26 ... 25 Dolph ....................... 18 ... 30 accomplish their object, they have record and I believe that 1 have always Pairview.................121 ...107 printed insinuations as to my profes- stood for decency in public and private Koley.......................... 30 ... 26 life, for good government and for the sional conduct that are absolutely false, For Justice of the Peace, Garibaldi.................... 65 ... 60 For Constable, 1st Dist. Vote for One. Hebo....................... 57 ... 60 libelous and contemptible. I absolutely education, progress and developement of 1st Dist. Vote for One- Hoquarton................ 133 ... 114 deny everyone of those insinuations and the county. I do not Ixlieve that my Little Nestucca ........ 73 ... 74 73 H. Anderson, of Tillamook County................ Republican. stand ready to satisfy any reasonable friends and aquaintences will permit 71 J. L. Voaburg, of Tillamook County............. Republican. Nehalem ..................... 110 ... 90 man by referring him to the records of themselves to lx influenced by the flood Netarts...................... 39 ... 39 Sand Lake................. 31 ... 26 my office and to my clients themselves. of slander and vilification now being South Prairie............ 74 ... 87 ; My conduct toward my clients would poured out by a certain small but active Tillamook ..................183 ... 180 seem to concern them and myself only, and malicious element at Tillamook Union......................... 65 ... 56 but I am perfectly willing that any citi- City. II the kind of campaign which Barnegat.................... 9 ... 7 For Supervisor Road District, 1 zen of Tillamook county who thinks it has been waged against me can win in No ■ 1. Vote for One Total................ 1208 1166 ■ worth while, may know the facts as Tillamook County then it is of no use for 72 E. H. Lane, of Tillamook County ................ Republican. to the insinuations which have been any man to run for office unless he is I acceptable to the ten or a dozen tian- * printed. It has been charged that I am a cor. derers who can always lx found ready poration attorney and therefore cannot to take a hand in a political fight, I wish to say that upon the campaign lie in sympathy with the common people. It would not lie discreditable to which I have recently made through For Constitutional Amendment, For County High School. , lie the attorney for such corporations as Tilllaniook and Yamhill Counties, I Vote Yes or No. we have in Tillamook, in any honorable have retrieved the warmest possible en Vote Yes or No I cause, but it so happens that when I couragement. I have found the Repub. 74 “ Initiative and Referendum Amendment.” Yea. 76 Por County High School ............... .................... Yea. have gone into Court in Tillamook licans well satisfied with my nomi 75 " Initiative and Referendum Amendment.” No. ELECTION JUNB 2, 1902. For County High School ............... ................... No. (county I bare generally gone as the nation and working for my election. 77 Official Ballot for Nehalem Precinct Tillamook County, Oregon, A Fecu Words June 2nd, 1902. S'l'A'l'E. from £Dr. Eddy. DISTRICT. COUNTY. PRECINCT. P. W. TODD. Regular Democratic Nominee for County Treasurer.
