1 VT""",-" "r nrsrjrta&3Ujriit'.tt'--4 Ebitocial Pbqc ot tbe journal DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOP MENT OF OERQON. AN INDEPENDENT DAILY PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE. t? wr j Reasons Why Republicans Will Not Yote for Furnish w 1. FCRNISII has been born into the Re m II publican party too recently to merit L 11 the support of old-line Republicans. He is open to the charge of swift conver sion for revenue. IJe has had no legislative experi ence, has no ability as a campaigner; the party hon ored him sufficiently when it made him presidential elector, and now that he Jms forced himself onto the ticket behind the barricade of his barrel, it owes itself the duty of turning him down, to save its reputation. He was never known as a Democrat, but as an ofllce holder, and he became a Republican only to keep in the same relation to public affairs. There is great objection to Mr. Furnish on ac count of having downed a good man for nomination. It is always an ungracious and unwise thing to do, but he has done it, and done it simply because he wanted the ofllce. Mr. Furnish wanted to bo governor, and proceeded to invest some money in carrying the pri maries to get the nomination. It was not politics even of the second order to do that. The .lack Matthews combination had to have, u candidate for governor who would put tip money to cniyy Multnomah county, and he did it. That is not denied. He got what he went after, as others have done. It was politics, but it was not wise or great politics. At present there is no criminal statute against it. The greatest reason why Republicans should not vote for Mr. Furnish is because he is iynorunt or in different to condition that alarm the taxpayers in yvneral. He has not said a word, and does not seem to have thought about the actual conditions in which the state finds itself. He has no protests fo utter against the rapid increase or official expenses, at the constant raises of state taxes. It is conceded that ten mills ought to be the limit of city taxes. Hut the slate has risen pretty close to that limit, and if has been pointed out to him, and he has nothing to say. In his speeches he utters mere horse-laugh platitudes about standing on the Republican state platform, which is not very energetic on the salary question or against fees and perquisites. Mr. Furnish may not know that the Republican platform in IS!) I declared against fees and perquisites and in favor of constitutional salaries. Platform talk is cheap, and he must take the people for cheap guys, to tell them he stands on the platform when they ask him what are you going to do about a robbery of the taxpayer of $12()0,()0() in the four years of your udminist ration. The fact that Mr. Furnish wants to be a business governor ought to thrill him and the people at the opportunity to bring about an honest ami more business-like order of affairs. So far the thrills along this line have been marked by their entire absence. Mr. Furnish is not only as silent as an oyster about a better order of affairs in our state llnauces and revenues, but he is silent about the management of the public lands and the school lauds. He talks about be ing "A M'SINItSS MA.N.UIUR l'Olt Till! STATU' but is con tent to say he will put in his time and exhaust his en ergies on the state institutions. He may be able to effect some saving on the payrolls, or the clothing, on the bills or fare at the various institutions. Hut what a hypocrisy that would be, to cut oil' a few pen nies on the payroll or. someone working at 110 a mouth, and let a gigantic graft that amounts to thirty or llfty thousand a year stand untouched, lie may say, I will do all these things in good time, but would It not. be proper to say something about it on the campaign? Are all the groat, virtues or so groat and good a business man to be concealed rrom the tax payer, and is the taxpayer to be surprised like a child with a toy when good Mr. Furnish is safely lauded for four years in the governor's oillce, and surrounded by a political push that is known only for its reckless ness, ignorance and rapacity? 1'uder the circum stances the taxpayer may reasonably conclude that Mr. Furnish has no Intention of even keeping the Re- publican state platform on salary reform, or public lands., or anything else. So far as Republicans are concerned he has no just claim on their vote. o Trying to Choke off the Fight on the Merger S A.MFS ,1. HILL, president of tho Northern Se , curlttus Company and tho Groat Northern Railway Company, has been in Washington " the past week, and has boon in eanfaronco with Senator Hanua and other loading uion in tho party. Hill is alar mod at tho thron tuned action against the railroad Interests In which ho is intorostod In the states whoro tho welfare is of vital intoroat In con nection with tho morgor uf tho Jforthorn Pacific and 11 rent Northern. A diupatch slating that Western states intended to wage a vigorous warfare against the merger alarmed Hill, and he is now trying to head oil' adverse state legislation by inducing the administration to withdraw its suits and indicate a way in which the railroads can work in harmony, and at the same time not violate either the Sherman anti-trust law or the interstate commerce law. "What do you want?" Hanua is represented as having asked at a conference with Hill. "1 want this government prosecution fo stop, if possible," Hill replied, adding: "If in order to stop it .itmMtttttM"HM!MMmttMMMtf - WW vwvwvw vvwvw ntriftt no option, but must enforce the laws as he finds them. It is also reported that Postmaster-General Payne sided with the president, and argues that no matter what the financial interests of the country may do in opposition to Mr. Roosevelt, he has the mass of people with him in his fight against the trusts, and they will stick by him, even if the moneyed men of the country desert the party. O . Governor Odell is personally in favor of the nom ination of Roosevelt in 11101. At Charleston, South uuMHHmm ftf tt2 tMMtlitllllXXJUJX mm Man Who Would Talk to the United States Senate in His Shirt Sleeves wfMw : tEV )--''$ $. In these days leadership of the TILMON FORD IN ACTION. (Fiom Life by Ed Payne the Salem Sketch Artist. ) S THF Republicans turned down their only farmer candidate for governor it is inter esting to note who will lead as an orator who will have a little null with the. hay seeds. There seems to be a yreat scarcity of speech- H makers and the parly is being raked with a fine-tooth comb to liud speakers to go out and wlioop it up lor H the banker who was nominated. One of the southern it stales has a Tillman and Oregon has her Tilmon Ford and he is about the only prominent man left to pull Furnish out of the mire of defeat that threatens to overwhelm him and probably will in spite of all that can be done. Tilmon Ford is a whole circus by him self on the stump. He seldom takes a case in court, but when he does get into art ion before a jury some thing has to come he is about the only lawyer in Oiegou who gets sulllcieutly interested in a case to perspire profusely. In Tin: .lnniXAis skillful car toon you can see the prespiratiou rolling off him as he is hiving down the law and the facts to a jury of farmers. In the legislature Ford was against the Kastcrn Oregon asvliim bill and when it got into the supreme court a lot of the ICasiern Oregon politicians came down wiih a sack to get lord to take their case. He dumbfounded them by telling them he could not argue for the constitutionality of a law he had voted against on that very ground as a law-maker. Ford tt once took a case lor a seiner wno nieu on some mini that a lot of fraudulent claimants had tiled on. He dug up the facts that they had got waiters ami chambermaids to do the tiling and paid them to sign papers as claimants without ever seeing the land, and he knocked out the titles to nlout lot) quarter sections on a mere demurrer for the settler who paid him ten of the sniis-coulottc breech-clout Republican party in Oregon it is lefi-esliiiiL' to see one man "o to the front and help save the wreck of the state ticket who at least has Ids own bed to sleep on and has a lot of property and in some way represents the lax paying elements. It has been stated that the whole Republican legislative ticket of the .Jack Matthews faction in Multnomah county don't pay J?l." taxes. A man like Ford who owns several farms anil can stand up and call his soul his own jerks a little respectability into the fight, for he isn't trailing Ranker Furnish for what there is in it. He will say a good deal for Direct Legislation and while he will not hurt Furnish's feelings in any way he will say something for primary reform being a necessity in a state where nominations have got to he mostly a matter of who has the longest sack at least for important offices that so far Ford has. never been willing to buy. Til Ford as an orator would not be classed with the theatrical dude spell-binders and is as likely to ap nea r on the nlat form with his collar oil' as on. Rut he is a picturesque vote-getter ill a campaign and it is p among the possibilities that he may lie the next sena tor from Orcuon. althoiiiili his name is not yet before the people. If they elect one in the old way and all Hie Kiick-liolilers fail to make it there is one man who will 'o in without any sack although he can buy orf sell most of the candidates. While out for MelCinley g on the last canvass he was in Fastcrn Oregon andg looked up a number of pure-bred bucks for his sheep herds in Marion county. During the day he would ,m in lii'c tiino iii tin con-ills iiiid nens and round una bv night at the speaking place, get some bov to steer g h'iui to the hall and sometimes go on the stage in ag loii" dust v duster, his hair and whiskers full of alfal fa and sheep droppings on his shoes, his trousers jj vmII.w! mi mill his eves full of alkali, looking more likeH a cattle puncher than a presidential elector. Rut when he got peeled otV and fully into action on the 'rent national issues some of the fine ladies in the front seats would wake up and wonder who it wasH spouting yard-wide and all-wool Republicanism untilH there wasn't anv more calls for the band and they for-8 got their Florida water bottles. , That is Til Ford in action on a national cam paign. He has some curious ideas of gratitude for a politician. Once a friend did him a great favor when he was a boy. The man died and Tilmon went to his funeral. Now whenever the anniversary of that man's funeral comes around Til hires the best livery rig in town, puts on a suit of clothes he wears for that oc casion and a silk plug hat he never wears on any oth er, and drives to the cemetery at a slow pace as if it was the funeral all over again. Til Ford is an old bachelor but he has his sentimental spots and loves the children of some of his friends almost as much as if they were his own. lie has helped more than one young man onto his feet, but few of his benefactions ever come to public notice. One of his hobbies is wheat raising and it is said he can figure the cost of a cron to a cent, including the time spent by the renter gossiping in the fence corners, and he can take a drive to one or his farms nearly every not drive to the same one twice. day in the week and iloiiars. Hm:mMtt:ronmtmwmKrommm:mttMtt8:mmrott:tmmmummum:Htt: the Northern Pacific Securities Company must alter its scheme of procedure, that will be done; hut at any cost, there must be a halt." .Mr. Hill then it is understood, preceded to state that the "financial interests" which contributed so heavily toward the Republican campaign funds in KSSMI and again in 11)00 would think twice before con tributing again, unless the president consented to meet them half way in an effort to restore peace and har mony. A short time ago Hill is said to have made opon threats that his railroad interests in Minnesota would go after Governor Van Sant, and eternally blast that gentleman's future political chancer It is rooriod that he is now saying similar things against other govornors. The talk with Hanua resulted in a gathering at the hitter's house of President Roosevelt mid Post master-General Payne. Ostensibly It was nothing hut three friends taking break fust together, but really it was a meeting to talk over the situation ms tail lined by 1.1 UK It is understood also that Seimtur Hanua mlvisod uiodonttlou, and suggested that Hill's statement of tho threatened enmity of the financial Internes should bo considered from the standpoint of practical pull ties. It U uudmvUxHl Uiat the provident tulil Junior llnuitn ho had already studied tho ruse from all points of view, and had nunc to the conclusion that In- had Carolina, last week one of the exposition officials said that "if we are to have a Republican president and President Roosevelt cannot be nominated, Governor Odell is the man for the place. At a luncheon in the Woman's building, he was referred to as "a possible president of the Tinted States." Governor Odell said that he ardently hoped to be a delegate to the conven tion that would nominate President Roosevelt for reelection. As has been expected the city canvass as mado by the school census shows a largely increased popula tlou in Sacramento over the figures returned as a re. suit of the federal census taken two years ago. The federal census gave the population at that time as 20,'2i&, while the canvass just completed by the school census marshals shows the population to he .'12,717 an Increase of JMUn. J. P. Morgan's syndicate will have a fine inoluii to divide uh tho flotation of the big shipping trust, vkother J. P. takes the members la on his $12,300,000 fee fur services In organising the trust or not. Cuuiu lloul He CasteUne 1ms been elected to tly I'lwirk Chamber of DopuiW. 'Pbay must bo hard up for camimigu material over in France. State Printing Graft On Its Last Legs wtfk ANY OF the state papers have copied 11 Thk Journal's exposure of the stale & life printing extravagance and all confess that facts have been made public that were never known before. All three state platforms demand that Hie state printer be put on a salary and still there are quih biers who pretend that the state constitution stands in the way . The state labor convention lias declared the true attitude that the state should occupy in the matter the state should own tho printing ofllce, or else the state work should be done in commercial offices. Few people understand that now the state print ing office is ownedfy a private citizen who leaner ih, plant to the state printev. The people elect a statr printer, but he becomes merehj the lessee of a prirat, party who owns the state printiny office and yets ((" share of the proceeds. . . The Journal charged that this private state printing ofllce was kept in the state house and that the state furnished light and fuel and wafer and janitor care free of all expense to the owner, and that he did not even pay taxes on the same. Relow will be found official proof of the facts as stated by Mr. Frank C. Raker, himself, the owner of the state printing plant. We reprint Mr. Raker's let ter to the Dayton, Ore., Weekly Herald of April 2o. . Portland. Ore., April IS, 11i0i. KniTOit IlKitAi.n: 1 notice in "Rrother Ilofcr's Fniirnul" an excerpt from your paper on the "State Printing Office Graft;" and while 1 have no disposi tion at present to occupy much of your space in ex plaining the true status of the state printing depart ment, yet I am constrained to make reply to just two sentences in your rather unfriendly criticism namely: "At present the state printing oillce is owned by Frank C. Raker, ex-state printer. is kept free nf nut in the state house." Any one reading the above would have a perfect right to presume that your favor making the state printer pay rent to the state for the privilege he en joys in the capitol in the matter of rooms, lights, fuel and water. Now, let us see whether or not the state printer lias any warrant of law for being in the capi tol, and by what authority. Section I'O.H, Hill's Code, says: "The state printer shall have and keep open a printing office at the seat of government of the state, supplied with material with which to perform the duties of his ofllce, and shall be prepared to do all the work that may be required of him in pursuance of law." And your attention, Mr. Conoway, is further directed to page (ISl of Senate Journal of 18!)!), as fol lows : "Senate Concurrent I'csolution Xo. 12. Where as the joint committee of the legislature appointed to examine the accounts of the state printer has ap proved the action of Hon. R. P. Karhart and lion. Geo. H. McRride, while acting as secretary of state, in providing suitable rooms and other conveniences in the capitol building for the state printinj! office; ami whereas the establishment of such office in the. capitol lias promoted the convenience of the legisla ture while in session and of the several stale depart ments during the recess thereof, therefore he it "Itcsulvcd by the Senate, the House Coneuriiny That the action of secretary of state, as custodian of the state capitol in providing said rooms and lights, fuel and water for the state printing office is hereby approved, and the secretary of state is instructed to continue the same." Now the next sentence namely, "The presses shake the walls." The presses stand upon solid brick foundations, built from the ground up to a level with the floor. Xo part of the presses touch the floor, being independent of the building. And in this connection let me quote a sentence, from Rrother "Hofer's Journal" tewit: "R. what right and authority is a part of the state hou-e used for a printing office?" In reply to his question, $ attention is respectfully called to above sen ion of Hill's Code, and to the above resolution, and let me add especially that a Democratic senator introduced the said resolution in the senate, and that not a sin gle vote was registered against it, and that when the resolution readied the house, a Democratic member moved that the house concur in the adoption of the resolution, and it was concurred in without ap position. You will perceive that 1 have not entered into discussion of the merits of the state printinu flrt' question, but simply have submitted some facts. Frank C IIakkk. The plain undisputed facts about the state print ing office are that it has cost the state as follows for tho past four years: Appropriations for the vears 1S!)!)-P.K)0 . .$7.V-J JJJJ Appropriations for the years 10OM0O2.. fil.-"""" Items from other funds for printing and .,,! oxponso Uirm"- Grand total for stato printing office lrtfrt1g for four years. ; $lo3.0ia The above expense to the state for the printing 4