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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.
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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
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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.
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Governor Odell is personally in favor of the nom
ination of Roosevelt in 11101. At Charleston, South
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In these days
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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
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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 .,,!
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Grand total for stato printing office lrtfrt1g
for four years. ; $lo3.0ia
The above expense to the state for the printing
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