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AN INDEPENDENT DAILY
PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.
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Reasons Why Republicans Should
Yote for Chamberlain for Governor
!!! o lU-KIIX with i( is a fnrrc and a pretense
to claim Unit there is a great polltifiil but-
tic on tlic old parly lines pending in On
yon. Hc.vond tin- election of two congress
men and a Tinted States senator, the Roosevelt ad
ministration in i " wii.v involved in the Oregon elec
tion. The election of state olllcers is a business mat
ter (hut. concerns the taxpayers far more than it does
the managers of federal politics, and the inaugural ion
of business methods inctead of grafts is of greatest
importance in this commonwealth.
Multnomah county contains about one-rourth the
voters of Oregon, and in that county there is no Dem
ocratic ticket. The light is squureiy between two fac
tions of the Republican party. One of those factions,
by dictorial methods, drove (lie other faction out of
the county convention. That faction assumed control
of the state convention, and put its slate through that
body, employing the unit rule with liT delegates to
make any combination it saw tit.
That faction was in control of the situation in tin'
state convention, and will be in control of the state
government if it succeeds in carrying out its program.
This faction delivered its "goods" to .Mr. Tarnish, and
nominated him, and if he is elected he will deliver his
"goods" to it.
Khali this deal be consummated by the voters al
(he polls on June 2d, or shall this deal be defeated by
the defeat of .Mr. Furnish? Shall all the departments
of the state government be fact ionized, according to
the program of the dominant faction in .Multnomah
county? Shall this one faction be put in charge of
every state institution, as it certainly will be if .Mr.
Furnish is elected?
As between mere factions of the Republican
party, solely as Republicans, the people would not
have much choice. Hut, as between their methods, the
conduct of conventions, there is all the difference pos
sible. For the past four years the slate administra
tion, controlled by members or the other faction, has
been run on broad party lines. Xo appointee was
turned down because he belonged to one ruction or Ihe
other. The state institutions and departments have
been conducted wit limit a thought or building up any
diet Ion. On the plan of the faction that stands back
of .Mr. Furnish every institution, every department,
every board will be monopolized for his faction.
.Mr. Furnish has been at great expense to carry
the Multnomah county primaries, lie will be at some
expense to secure his election. If he is true to his
friends thai money must he made back, and political
appointments must be made at the demands of those
who put .Mr. Furnish in the governor's chair. What
Ihe faction will do that controls .Mr. Furuish's career
as a state ollleial, can only be judged by their methods
as revealed in the state convention, and their practices
in the last legislature. Those methods are the methods
of stnud-nud-delivcr more than the methods of good
government. They are not the methods or good Repub
licans, as practiced in .Marion county, and the most
enlightened Republican states in tin Cnion. So that
as between Republicans, judged by the best Republi
can standards, it is not wise to fact ionize the whole
slate government by electing .Mr. Furnish, and putting
him and Secretary of State Dunbar in control of every
board, of every stale institution and educational insti
tution under the control, as they will be, of a faction
that has nothing to commend it but keenness for plun
der and rapacity for spoils. If it were a square tight
between tbe two great political parties for the control
of tin1 state government the situation would be dill'er
cut. Rut this is a tight within the Republican party
to fact ionize the whole state government in the inter
est of a faction whose methods are uti-Rcpuhlicnu, un
Democratic ami un-American.
This is the political situation from a Republican
standpoint within the party. Rut a far more im
portant question confronts the taxpayer, and that is
will Furnish or Chamberlain, as governor, do more to
bring about certain great business reforms that are
necessary in our state government? With the reck
lessness of tint last legislature staring the people in
the face, with a state tax of T.I mills, the time has
come to change the whole Huuucinl program at the
state, house. For six months Tiik .lot it.vw. and other
papors have been showing bow, by simply putting all
slate, oflieials on a Hat salary, a saving of $r0,0fl() a
year could be effected. The figures in detail printed in
Tun .loru.N.vi. have never been called in question.
Thoy show that the secretary of state is drawing fees
and perquisites under US different laws. They show
that the state printing ofllce has become a costly graft
that can be enlarged to pay almost any campaign bills
that the bosses may run against the state. These are
only samples of Ihe grafts that need to be abolished
and put on business hauls. How to get a eleun-up of
this accumulation of grafts, is the real issue before the
jumplo.
That these grafts should be abolished is univer
sally conceded by members of all parties, and has been
made prominent in every pint form. Public men have
date, pubiishel last Saturday and headed, "What I
Shall Do When (Sovernor," .Mr. Furnish does not
refer to the matter even by implication, when he
knows that the people at the beginning of a four-year
administration had some interest in a proposition
that meant a saving r IM,M)0 to the taxpayers, lie
says to the people "their every right shall be deeply
respected,' and he might have added at the end, "I will
be a good boy." He does not even say and has not
said that ir elected he will see to it that the Republi
can platform demanding staled salaries for all offices
been discussing how best to put a thorough business
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Fd.S, Payne, the
Salem Sketch
Artist.
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II K (MTV of Portland holds a man among
its citizenship, although there's no telling
how long it may do so. who is slated for
the 'iiitcilStutes senate. There is little
doubt that he will go there as it seems to be a joint uf-
lair between Providence and .lack .Matthews, n nas
"i been the ambition or this editor to close his career
with a lour around the world and to spend his closing
davs hobnobbing with royalty but fate has interfered
l and it seems now inevitable that he must undergo the
$ humiliation and torture of going into oblivion among
4 the job-lot or corrnplionists as lie is fond ol dcnomiu-
A ntiug the senate.
Q An unmitigated admirer of greatness in others,
v he never found but two men in the world on whom he
. could lavish unstinted and unvarying praise (5 rover
ft Cleveland and Henry Watterson. although there is no
telling what eulogy he may shower on Henry .Met Jinn
program info effect that won hi put all the hired hands
of the people on a stateil salary and put all fees into
the treasury. Tiik .Iociinai. has been hoping to hear
some word on this subject from .Mr. Furnish. Rut in
no letter or interview of private or public utterance
has the matter been mentioned by .Mr. Furnish. In
the statement over the signatures or the two cuiidi
shall be respected and carried into effect, lie will
doubtless say so when his attention is called to it lint
he lias not laid awake nights to consider the matter.
How does .Mr. Chamberlain treat this matter of
stale salary reform? He stated in his speech accepting
the nomination that he believed in the principle of
flat salaries, and in his letter over his signature pub
lished alongside of .Mr. Furuish's letter last Satur
day he repeats the declaration ami goes further and
denounces increase of salaries by creating commis
sions with salary attachments, and adds: " will
(til in my powvr lonkiiiy In tin- acroiiipH.shniviit uf Ibis
iykiiII." That has no uncertain sound, and is devoid
of the lutxy and nebulous utterances of .Mr. Furnish
about "deeply respecting the rights of the people."
The way to respect .the rights of the people is to show
some appreciation of the existence of abuses and a de
termination to contribute something to abolish the.se
abuses, especially when they are so plain and promin
ent as the extravagant compensation of some of our
slate officials. Tiik .lontNAi. does nnP'savvev" that
.Mr. Furnish is entitled to very many votes outside the
Republican party on this issue and a very few in it,
unless it be the votes of those directly benefitted by the
existence of grafts. Mr. Chamberlain, as announced
in our telegraphic news from Portland, goes for this
matter in the sledge-hammer style that alone will
smash auabuse that has ben nursed far beyond infant
ile proportions.
There are some very plain reasons why the pub
lishers of this paper and many other Republicans ,
euuuot see their way to support Mr. Furnish and find
It their duty to vote for Mr. CliHmberluin. They wont
to the Republican primaries with the full intention of
supporting the entire Republican! irket. They find
they cannot do that without extending the power and
methods of a high-priced despotism over the entire
state, one result or which will be the turning over of
helpless classes of citizens in state institutions to be
fanned by unscrupulous politicians for purely fac
tional purposes. Furnish and Dunbar may not crack
the whip on each detail of state government, but the
bosses who stand over them will do it because they do
not understand any other method.
Another plain reason is that Mr. Furnish and
those standing back or him are not at heart in favor of
putting through a business program in salary reform.
Their main newspaper spokesman has voiced the key
note of their sentiments by saying these is "nothing in
any day. He has always been for the regular Repub
lican ticket except when he was out for something
else as when he ran .Judge Xorthup against Congres
man lOllis. He never forgets a personal favor, with a
few exceptions. His loyal support of (Sovernor (leer
was due to the fact that (Jeer had entirely "iinbe- j
known" to him vetoed the bill passed by his own busi- j
lies delegation from Multnomah county and lie pro-1
ceeded to make :?7.",()(0 publishing Ihe tax list for ten
years back. Entirely "unbeknown" to him (Seer1
vetoed the Portland charter and lost the support of
the wholesalers of political novelties who are now
manufacturing a brand new senator for the people.
Fntirely unbeknown to him (Seer put up a textbook
commission that put the American Rook Co. out of
business in Oregon, which was a calamity, for if it
were on earth today it would be shelling out liberally
to help this editor ami his crowd of reformers to carry
Multnomah county. For these and other favors re
ceived any man would have had the heart or an ice
factory had he done such a thing as shut him out of a
state convention.
The fact that he went into the olllce of collector
ol' customs a poor man, and came out rich explains his
unvarying solicitude for the under dog in a light. That
explains his striking such telling blows for the success
of (Seo. F. Chamberlain for governor. His natural
aversion is to men with a sack as big as a circus tent.
His genial method of roasting public men in his edi
torial columns will make him a tower of strength to
secure a large appropriation for the exposition, and
enable Oregon to have a smoothly working delegation,
because he is in it. In the event of his success at the
coming election white-winged peace will brood forever
on Oregon politics. Although he headed a petition to
ask doseph Simon to be a candidate for senator from
Multnomah county in 1SIIS, when "Little .Joe" raked
in the jackpot of the Tinted States seuatorship the top
or the tower blazed with the sulphur or audible pro
fanity. There is really only one man in Oregon big
enough to be the next senator from Oregon, and that is
the man slated for it. II' is big enough to be the
whole Republican party, and it is time this fact was
more generally recognized and put into practical operation.
it." What have the people to expect from such
sources to ensure a cleaning up of the iniquitous un
constitutional fee and perquisite system that makes
the state house more resemble a disreputable collec
tion agency than the center of public authority?
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Mr. Fulton's Gratitude
OVFRXOR LORD, lo please Mr. Fulton, ap
pointed Dr. Fulton, State Health oflirer at
Astoria, and also apniutcd to ofllce a num
ber of Mr. Fulton's friends. Then (Sovernor
Lord came up for rcuoniiuatiou, Mr. Fulton, to show
his gratitude, helped to turn him down.
When (Sovernor (Seer was elected, to please Mr.
Fulton, he re-appointed his brother, Dr. Fulton, to the
sinecure or State Health ollicer; he appointed as boat
puller to the heal tli ollicer an Italian bar tender,
through whose influence Mr. Fulton controls the Ital
ian vote in ( Matsop county ; he appointed, or made pos
sible, the appointment or Mr. Fulton's friend as fish
warden, and favored Mr. Fulton in many other ap
pointments. When (Sovernor (Seer came up for renoiuiiuttion,
Mr. Fulton and the whole army of his friends, who
were holding olllce under Mr. (Seer, turned out in
force to help defeat him. Mr. Fulton's soul overflows
with gratitude.
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A banker is not necessarily a swift man before
the people. A hunker wm for mayor of the city of
Auburn, Illinois, the other day, anil was whipped by
his opponent, both in the streets and at the polls.
This is evidently a bad year for bankers in Illinois,
and it may be in Oregon.
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The supreme court of Porto Rice has reversed tin
decision of the lower court convicting S. Inglusins,
president of the Federation of Workmen uf Porto
Rice, of cnuspiwicy to wiise wages (vol, iv., p. fi&ll,
ami discharged him from imprisonment.
Haye the Reformers or
Scott Been Reformed?
tBmm WO years ago on election day, the Orcgoninn
1 said: "The chief source of such Ilepubli-
B can support as the faction fusion ticket re
ceives, is the Mitchell-McRride faction,
with its olllce holders and allilialed gangs. This is the
closest, the most selfish, the most exclusive ring ever
known in our politics. It has always been unscrupu
lous and always corrupt. It ruled with a high hand
for thirty years, till now, turned down for infidelity hi
the great principles which the Republican party lias
found if necessary to proclaim and maintain, it sets
up for 'reform.' "
Till! Jot'itNAi., being an independent paper, feels
it a duly it owes tin people or the state over, to ask tin
name or just one man ol' the "alllliated gang" or two
years ago who is any more devoted to pure politics
than he was then. It must be borne in mind that up
to two years ago that gang "had always been unscriip
ulotis and always corrupt." The people everywhere
are looking askance at this new alliance of Mr. Scoti
with a "gang" that has "always been corrupt," ami
only "set up. for reform" after being "turned down for
infidelity after ruling witli a high hand for lhirt
years."
Mr. Scott may argue, however, that, having be
come suficiently "organized" to triumph over the bet
ter element or (he party it is time that they he recog
nized. It should be remembered that the Oregoniaa
is now daily teaching Ihe people or Oregon that "or
ganizers" is what we want in politics and high ollices.
To he able to "organize" indicates ability or a high
order, and, theferore, success.
This year the gang was successful, and success
is what the Oregon iau says is the lest of excellence.
.Morgan is an "organizer," and should be placed,
therefore, in some executive olllce, where the people's
interests are to be looked after. Lincoln bad always
been a poor man, therefore, should never have been
thought of for President.
Wonder how many people the Oregoniaa thinks
it is fooling?
Just before the election two years ago, the Ore
gonian, in commenting on the political situation, said :
"Such influences as the McKinley administration
possesses in Oregon, is now, in the main, opposing the
Republican party through fusion arrangements with
its adversaries. Should the state be lost, or the legis
lature lost, the burden will lie at the door of the ad
ministration. With but a single exception, so far as
the Oregonian knows, the Federal ofllce holders of the
state, appointed through Mitchell and McRride, are
in fusion movements, endeavoring to defeat Reublicaa
candidates for the legislature. President McKinley
lias given his whole support to this faction, and if it
succeeds the people will know where to place the
blame."
That faction succeeded. Mr. Mitchell is now in
the Tnited States senate, as the direct result of that
factional movement. The very same "federal office
holders, appointed through Mitchell and McRride,"
are in ofllce. The Oregonian docs not even pretend
that any one of them is less "corrupt and unscrupu
lous" than he was two years ago. They aw "organ
ized" anil doing business under the very saute political
blanket that was doing service for their "dirty wak"
then, and the only difference the common voter can
see is that Mr. Scott has at last found congenial mil
pnny under the very same blanket.
And be seems to not only like it, but is actually
disposed to defend his conversion!
D. Solis Cohen in New Clothes,
H (JURAT many people had it in 'for Mr.
Cohen, of Portland, for parting his ".one
in the middle, but no one bus ever m a'd
him of mixing up in dirty politics for liv
iug. The new light the Oregonian throws on him M
be a revelation to many people who thought D Solis
was a pious cuss. owt Williamson bad m ii'h
prayer meeting record.
Rut, really, cartooning lion. D. .Solis Cohen nsn
gambler and Williamson as a liliputiau in the Iwiids
of a yelling cowboy, may be "politics," but the iih't
and thoughtful voter, ,(nnd the woods are full of him
this year) will wonder what good is sought to be ac
complished by such miscarriages. Young Murphy
shows some budding genius as an artist, but should
have some one with better judgment to cluiperone huu
as to conceptions.
When newspapers are compelled to picture an in
offensive citizen whose only crime is parting his nam'
at the equator, they must have little else to present
In the way of an argument. Mr. Cohen has Imh'H
known as a clean and high-minded gentleman, wli
was ready to respond to any call for a speech froni a
university graduating exercise to the dedication of
synagogue. Rut, alas, at some time in his life he a"