Tillamook Headlight, October 15
1914
State Press Flashlights
TAXPAYERS KIND
CHAMBERLAIN NOT
TO CHAMBERLAIN
PRIMARY FRIEND
His Salary As Office Holder C. E S. Wood Reviews Sena
Exceeds $100,000 —Asked
tor’s Record—Recalls Re­
"How Was It Spent?”
fusal to Help Bryan.
If the people of Oregon desire the
election of a machine-made, machine-
and machine-controlled can-
owned, ___
didate for governor, they will vote for
Dr. C. J. Smith. If they desire the
election of a thorough businessman
and a safe and sane progressive citi­
i zen, they will vote for Dr. James
Withycombe.—Brownsville Times.
WHY DESTROY the INDUSTRIAL
PROGRESS OF OREGON ?
That’s wliat the so-called “Water Front” bills, Numbers
328 and 330 on the ballot, will do if passed at the Novem­
ber election.
Since R. A. Booth, Republican can­
didate for United States Senator, an­
swered the question, “Where did you
get it?” Republican papers have raised
the question for George E. Chamber-
lain, the Democratic nominee to an­
swer, “How did you spend it?” Some
industrious digger has compiled the
list of public offices Chamberlain has
held since coming to Oregon from
Mississippi and calculates that Cham­
berlain has drawn down more than
$100,000 in money contributed by tax­
payers. It is how Chamberlain spent
this money that Republicans are
curious.
One newspaper editor recounts that
Chamberlain has been Attorney-Gen­
eral. District Attorney, Governor and
United States Senator, holding some
of these offices more than one term,
and that Chamberlain since entering
public life has scarcely ever been off
the payroll, as he entered upon a new
job before the old one was worn out.
In his explanation of “where he got
It,” Booth told the stOry of hls life.
Democrats say that Booth is an aris­
tocrat and does not belong to the plain
people. Booth’s own narrative re­
counts how he was one of a family
of 12 children; that he lived In a log
cabin, worked on a farm and took
bis pay in chickens; punched cattle,
herded sheep and otherwise helped
support the family until he was 21
years old and paid for his first “store
clothes’’ by gathering wool from
bushes and taking the hides from
Bheep which died on the range. He
struggled bard for an education and
acquired it. He was a day laborer,
and day 4aborers are supposed to be
plain people. By Industry he met
with success and associated with oth­
er* he built tui a sawmill industry
which developed the timber resources
of interior Oregon.
Just why it should be, is not clear.
With a long memory, Colonel C. E.
S. Wood has been telling the voters Democrats insist that a low tariff
in Portland the history of George E. would help the country, would cause
Chamberlain regarding popular laws you working men and farmers to pay
and issues. Colonel Wood baa been less for the necessities of the house­
unsparing of Chamberlain's political
record and night after night be has hold, and still the cost of living is
been declaring Chamberlain a double­ high. When the revenue from the tar­
dealer, who wants to agree with peo­ iff system the Republicans built up is
ple on both sides of every question cut off, money is lacking in the Fed­
and who holds no opinion other than eral treasury and a war tax is im­
that of perpetuating Chamberlain in mediately planned by the Democrats
office.
And they may not decide upon it un­
In 1903, Wood and T. T. Geer were til after election, don’t you see? —
*s--r
candidates for the popular vote for
News
Reporter.
United States Senator. In that cam­
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paign Wood says be wanted to make
When
you
pull
down the town in
an active fight, but that Chamberlain,
fearing Wood might jeopardize Cham­ which is your home, you are pulling
berlain’s chances for election as Gov­ down yourself, and when you build up
ernor, insisted that Wood remain you are building up yourself and
quiet. As Geer received the popular your nighbor. Try to banish from
vote. Wood wrote the Democratic your mind the mistaken idea that all
members of the Legislature asking
them to support Geer for Senator. good things are away eff in some
When these Democrats asked Cham­ other locality. Give your town all the
Why lock up the thousands of acres of over-flow lands bordering
It
berlain for advice he told them to praise it can legitimately bear.
leave the Republicans fight it out certainly will do you no harm and
upon the navigable waters of the State and its miles of water front for
without Democratic help. This atti­ will cost you nothing; and above all
I
tude on the part of Chamberlain, as­ patronize your institutions—and don’t
the benefit of “future generations;” why not let the present generation
serts Colonel Wood, was in direct “knock” Don’t forget that there's an
have some of the benefit from the use of these lands?
conflict with the spirit and principle
awful hot place reserved for knockers
of the primary.
Industries of all kinds will be driven from Oregon and intending
Again, says Colonel Wood, Cham­ in the hereafter.—Yaquina Bay News.
berlain himself wrote to A. D. Still­
investors will turn their backs upon the State if these so-called .“Water
man, of Umatilla, recommending that
Many
people
seem
to
think
that
the
tlie Democrats hold an assembly to
Front” bills become laws. That is why every man, woman and child in
make nominations. Later when the pcstal savings system is a sort if a
Oregon will be adversely affected if these bills are passed by the peo­
Republicans held an assembly »hey bank, where they can deposit money
were assailed by the Chamberlain and draw it out at any time While
ple in November.
newspapers and charged with trying that is to a certain extent a fact, yet
to undermine the direct primary and it was not the purpose of the detinrt-
Oregon needs outside capital to develop its great natural resources
return to machine methods.
ment to make the depository in »hat
In hls campaigns for Governor, way a checking system The aim
but we will drive it away if we pass Numbers 328 and 330 on the ballot
Chamberlain, says Wood, argued that
I
at the November election.
the Legislature and Governor should was to offer a safe place of invest­
ment
for
those
who
placed
their
trust
be of opposite political parties. Cham­
If these so-called “Water Front” bills are passed by the people, a
berlain now argues that Congress not in banks and not to offer the I
should be of the same political com­ guarantee of the government that
vast amount of property will be withdrawn from taxation in this State
plexion as the President.
their money would always be avail­ I I
When nominated for Senator as a able and as safe as in the bank of
and this great burden will be thrown upon the rest of the taxable prop­
Democrat in 1908, Chamberlain posed england.—Itemizer.
as a non-partisan, declares Colonel
erty, resulting in a heavy increase in everybody’s taxes.
Wood, knowing that only with Repub­
These bills are vicious; they are destructive of the very best inter­
lican votes he could be elected, At
Some funny things develop during
that time Roosevelt was immensely a campaign. A condition exists now
ests of the State; they ought never to become laws.
popular in Oregon and Chamberlain which proves it forcibly. The hop
announced that he was a Roosevelt dealers solicited funds for the cam­
The way to defeat them is to vote “NO” 329 and 331
ft
Democrat, In December, 1908, Roose-
velt met Chamberlain in the East and paign from the hopgrowers on the
greeted him as Senator to-be. When promise that when hops were ready I
OREGON COMMERCIAL PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION
Roosevelt bolted the Republican ticket for market the growers should have
c »'
Yeon Building, Portland, Oregon
ajtd much of his popularity waned, top notch price. The hops coming on
Paid Advertisement
Chamberlain attacked Roosevelt, al­ for marketing the growers are told
i
though the latter, when President, had by the dealers that they can pay but
gone as far as he could to bring about io cents per pound. The growers
Chamberlain's election by a Republic­ I
claim that offers as high as 17 cents
an Legislature.
In the campaign of 1908, continue* are made in some markets, and that
Colonel Wood, Chamberlain refused to unless they are given a better price
attend the Bryan rally In Portland they will vote for state wide prohi­
and again absented himself from bition as a retaliation on the dealers.
Portland when Judge Alton B. Parker Thus help for the dry cause may
cnnie to speak for Bryan. Chamber- come from an unexpected source. All
lain was afraid that his plea of non­ will probably agree that the hop
partisanship would not hold good if he
was present at these Democratic ral­ business is pretty much of a gamble
I most of the time, and especially so
lies for Bryan.
Colonel Wood has stigmatized now.—Telephone Register.
Chamberlain as selfish, as a man
whose sole desire is to look after him­
With American factories forced to
self. He calls attention to the Cham­ close because of a short demand for
berlain cards displayed in this cam­ their products, the official stationery
paign whereon there I* uu hint of any rooms of the present democratic con­
I
party designation
gress are selling foreign made articles
Somewhat similar talks are being
made by T. T. Geer, ex-Governor, who to senators and representatives. On
is also reviewing the political changes the supply shelves of the democratic
which Chamberlain has assumed in congress are foreign made shears and
his office-seeking career.
Colonel I clocks, pocket knives, cutlery and
Wood Is Interested In defeating Cham­ many other articles of hardware I
berlain because Wood does not con­ which bear a foreign imprint. The ex­
sider Chamberlain a Democrat. Geer planation is that these foreign goods
Bays Chamberlain Is not a Republican,
were purchased at such a low price
but is "a man of pretense.”
American manufacturers could not
Old Soldiers Admire Booth.
compete, but it is regarded as strange
Grant Dimick. manager of R. A. that political expediency, if nothing
Booth. Republican nominee for United else, would not prevent the sale of
States Senator, has received the fol­
foreign goods under the very noses
lowing communication:
of democratic statesmen. It would
Newberg, Sept. 94, 1914.
I am ono of many members of Shi- ' not be a surprise if the complaint of
loh Post No. 77. G. A. R., who received American manufacturers would not
a letter commending Elon. Georg* bring about a house cleaning in the
Cham berlain ns a friend of old sol- house and Semite stationery rooms.—
diers. Have heard a number of the Observer.
Defeat of the proposed prohibition amendment will have no effect
boys expreae themselves In regard to
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the letter as a huge joke. It will be
"The next legislature," Governor
upon the efficient home rule or local option statutes now in force,
some time before old soldiers look to
Mississippi Democrats as ■pec 1*1 W est is reported to have said at Junc­
and each community will continue to determine its individual
tion City day before yesterday even­
friends.
To me the letter is a source of both ing, “its going to crucify the people’s
stand on the matter of granting licenses.
pleasure and indignation; pleasure most cherished possessions—direct
t
that It Is an assurance they feel the legislation—and we need a man in
P«id Adv.rtia.iMnt. T«xMMn «nd W«t. Earner« League of Oregon, Portland, Oregon.
need of every vote they can possibly
get; Indignation that I should be re­ the governor's chair who will give
garded as so devoid of sense as to be this crowd the fight of their lives—a
man who will stand up for the rights
caught by such trash.
• governor is fully as flighty as ever.—
There are about 50 members of Shi­ of the people."
loh Post and I know of but ono Cham­
Just how does the governor know Oregon Register.
berlain man among them. There may what the next legislature is going to
be two or three others, but I do not do when it has not yet been elected?
know them.
Notice of Completed Contract.
A* regards myself there can be no is he the seventh son of a seventh
»<«?
Can
he
gaze
into
the
crystal
ball
better man for Senator than Mr.
Booth. 1 have known him for over and predict months in advance just I Notice is hereby given, that U. G.
30 years with Increasing respect and what legislation will do, even though I Jackson County Surveyor, for Tilla­
admiration for him.
they have not been chosen yet?
mook County, Oregon, has filed in
N. K. BRITT,
Just how does he know that his this office his certificate for the com­
Past Post Commander of Shiloh own hand-picked candidates is
the pletion of the contract of F. C. Feld­
Post No. 77, Department of Oregon, only honest man in Oregon.
schau, for the construction of the
0. A. It.
Just how dose he know that the Concrete Bridge, over West Creek, at
Studants Grateful to Beeth.
people’s laws are to be crucified by Beaver, Oregon, and any person, firm
Student loan hinds, established to the men who have been nominated by
assist needy students through college, the people and who will be elected by or corporation, having objections to
file to the completion of said work
have long had the attention of R A.
Booth. Republican candidate for Sen­ them Does he think the people are may do so within two weeks from the
ator Having had a hard struggle to such utter fools that they are incap­ date of the first publication.
LA M B-SC IIR AI ) E R COMPANY.
earn his own education. Booth has en­ able of choosing good men when the
Dated this 14th day of October 1914
DOCKS : WAREHOUSE, ,
deavored to make the path a little choice is all in their hands?
J. C. Holden
FRONT STREET, BETWEEN 2nd A 3rd AVENUE WEST
more smooth for young men and wo- I It is quite apparent that our flighty
County Clerk.
gmu alio are iu the aarne poaiiiea.
Why make it impossible to build saw mills or any other
industrial, labor-producing plants on the rivers and bays of
Oregon?
That’s what the passage of these bills will do.
Why cripple the development of our great timber re­
sources; why cripple all future manufacturing in Oregon?
That’s what will take place if the people vote “yes”
on numbers 328 and 330.
STATEWIDE PROHIBITION MEANS
R. A. BOOTH
Booth's statement Included the dec­
laration that at times (lie sawmill he
managed employed 1300 men and tl|e
payroll exceeded $80,000 a month. Tlie
concern brought into Oregon more
than $10,000,000 of outside money and
farmers, merchants, laborers and en­
tire communities received the major
part of this sum, directly or indi­
rectly. The Republicans point out
that Booth's rise from a farm hand
and day laborer is to his credit and
that hundreds of other Oregon boys
are developing the same way. They
also point out that the Industry which
Booth's efforts built up brought Into
the state more money than the Gov­
ernment has appropriated for river
and harbor improvements In Oregon
since the state was admitted to the
Unioq.
purlng the period that Booth was
turning timber Into a stream of gold
which was flowing through interior
Oregon, spreading prosperity to work­
ers and merchants, the Republicans
declare that Chamberlain was draw-
Ing a salary from tax funds as an
office-holder. Having been born in
Oregon and lived here all his life,
Booth's supporters contend that he
knows its people and the needs of
the state as well as any man can and.
having made good, whether as a far­
mer, cowboy, sheepherder, bookkeep­
er or sawmill man, he can make good
in the Senate.
The Impression that Booth Is a mil­
lionaire has been gained because of
ti e great commercial enterprise which
ho caused to grow from almost noth­
ing and because of the large contri­
butions he has given Io educational
p.id other betterment works, Booth
confesses that he never was a mil
lionalre and that hls holdings In the
business he managed was very email;
iu fact. It is about 3 per cent, or
$65,000.
Insistently, some gif the Republican
papers declare that it Is as important
le judging the fitnbss of a man for
office to know hop* he spends his
* oney as It Is to know where he gets
»• They point to the large donations
>->ade by Boots to show where he has
nn spending his money for the ben-
f the commonwealth, and they
eking Chamberlain, ''Where did
nd it?"
BIGGER TAXES
THEY'RE TOO BIO NOW!
Vote 333 X NO Against Prohibition
Register before Thursday, October 15
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