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About The Daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903 | View Entire Issue (May 17, 1902)
s3Ry5ysff53WBSffWnflgteEBff,Wa..ll WIWBWrinnm'M' mot 1 i 0 JEbitorial Iftage of tbe journal AN INDEPENDENT DAILY PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE. DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOP. MENT OF OERQON. r.- -. I : 4l is.s ; w:., w 3M a Reasons Why Geer Was Thrown Down flT F GEER had been renominated he would have II gouu out over the state and made a jawbone II campaign, and talked hayseed Republican ism until the cowh came home, and he would have carried the whole ticket with him. The nation wouldn't have had to hire a lot of Eastern campaign orators to save the state, and Harvey Scott couldn't have made a trip back East to reproseut how many thousands were needed to carry Oregon. Charley Fulton wouldn't have been needed to tool for the whole ticket, ami pack Brother Furnish around under his arm, and make Fulton the great Republican leader who saves the whole state. As a candidate for United States senator Ful ton and Scott did not want a long, lean, lanky Waldo Hills farmer going over the state a second time, carry ing every county on mere oratory. With Geer out of the way, Fulton became the whole thing as the campaign leader on the stump, and Harvey Scott became the whole newspaper power be hind the incoming administration, and either one may be senator. Geer was dangerous, because he could carry the state by 15,000 and never sweat a hair or spend a dol lar beyond hotel bills. Now there must be business do ing to elect the ticket. With a candidate who cannot talk Republican ism, with no one on the ticket who can make a cam paign speech, Fulton and Scott are the whole thing. One can run the state, the other tin national cud of the party. So Geer was slaughtered to make a Portland holi day. A silent inexperienced man must be elected to the head of the state, or Republicans must snow under the Scott-Fulton hierarchy, and assert their rights to control the party themselves. With the complicated registration law there will be a smaller number of voters permitted to vote each year, and the bosses of Furnish will be able to keep their grip on the state for ten years to come. Geer was rapidly developing along lines of gen eral popular government. He was saying things for the direct legislation, direct nomination and direct election of senators by the people, I Ie seemed to mean it, too. That kind of a man might, get where he did not need the Oregonian or Fulton to make him great be fore the people, and such men are dangerous to these bosses. As Julius Caesar said of Cassias: "See yon lean and hungry Cassias. He thinks too much, lie looks quite through the deeds of men. I would he were fat ter. Let me have none about me who are not sleek and fat." So the Scott-Fulton-Rrowncll-Kuykcndoodle com bine got their daggers ready, and Geer weal down in the market-place of political ambitions. Hut his spirit haunts tint political situation. It will not down. As George Chamberlain said at Mncleay,, he may be the next I'nited States senator from Oregon. Oregon Political History Repeating Itself This Year f ' 1870 Governor Woods was turned down in a Republican state convention, and General Palmer was nominated. In spite of the fact that Woods went out ami umde the campaign for Palmer, who could not talk, Palmer was defeated, and Grovor, Democrat was elected. In 1S71 J. ( Tolman was nominated by the Re publicans and Mnllory went out and talked for a man who was no campaigner. Tolman was defeated and G rover was re-elected. In 1S7S Heekman was nominated by the Repub licans. Ho could not talk, and Thayer, Democrat, who made his own campaign, was elected. In 1SS2 the Republicans elected .Moody. He went all over tho state and made his own canvass, but did not try to make any speeches. In the campaign of 11)02 the Republicans turned down Governor Guor and put up a man who is giving hlj party a substitute campaign. Chamberlain is iiiak Jug his own campaign, and history will tell the result. 0 A; Question That Will Not Down IK ECENT disclosures as to army methods in the Philippines have again brought promi nently to the front tho question of what shall be done with these islands. President Schurman, of Cornell Collage who htudloxl the quustloii face to fnoa with tho PUlubiog, has wall said : "Any decent government of Filipinos by Filipinos is better than the best possible government of Fili pinos by Americans." And infinitely better is self-government by the Filipinos than "water-cure" and bayonet government by brutal military ofliecrs. Another sentence written by President Schurman deserves the careful attention of every citizen of this ceuntry: "The American people cannot be democratic at home and despotic in Asia; and independence is the only altmititirr In dcxpolixm in tin- Philippines, ex cept the admission of the islands as a state in the American Cuion, which is forever impracticable." The logical solution of the problem is that the Filipinos must eventually be allowed to govern them selves in their own way. This boon of independence should first be promised, and granted as soon thereaf ter as peace and order shall have been restored, as in the case of Cuba. Sacramento Ree. The Democratic platform in Oregon goes a step further, and says they shall be given independent self government as soon as they have been properly edu cated and prepared for that step in their evolution as a nation. That is the sentiment of men like Senator Hoar, and the best and most conservative Republicans. It Harvard, and like Daly, his Republicanism is of the stalwart and honorable variety. The people of these counties will make a great mistake if they do not return these gentlemen to the senate. ,Thoy are the antithesis of the thoughtless, reckless, don't-care-a d d style of breechclout statesmenship so prevalent in these latter days. They are men who will stand for what is right though the heavens fall, and as nearly incorruptible as they make men in these days. Tiik .TontXAL advises people of all parties to vote for such men and no honest man should vote for the opposite stripe in Oregon. ( vw$ ft 3hwnCj fj Ideal Man for Governor Who Can Say No AMISFIT-Purnlsh. Vote for me. Republican!. I'm a Democrat, tut I've tot Geer's clothes on.- Oreion City Courler-lleraM. ' V1 I Hi OR KG OX I AX has been clamoring for 1 a man in the governor's chair who "can say &tf il v understood. 'no.' " dust what is incut by this is not eas If Oregon litis ever suffered because of its Gov ernor's hick of ability to say "no," there is promise of relief in that direction by .Mr. Furnish. If there has been any one characteristic of his past career it was his readiness to say "ye to every thing that had promise of reward to 'Furnish. Tin: loi'itN.M, challenges any paper in the state to point tun a single instance in the public life of ..........,,... was the sentiment repeatedly uttered by President .Me- Kin ley. It is the sentiment of the best-thiukiug and most humane elements of all parties of the American people. Only the otHce-hohliiig class of politicians who want the islands exploited for political purposes call this sent tie. They call anything scuttle that savors of human ity, ami doe not propose to prostitute and exploit the Philippines for partisan purposes. Two Good Men Have Been Renominated SKXATOR DALY of .teuton county and Sen ator Howe of Yamhill county have been re nominated by the Republicans. There are men who have made good records for the people ia the upper house of tho Ore gon legislature. Senator Daly was the author of the Daly text book law that drove the iniquity known as the text book trust out of the business in Oregon. Senator Ho wo is a subtuttutitfl busis it inn of Cnrleton, Yamhill county, and whs one of tho pillars of tho sonnto In the siwetol ami regular sgedous of lSODaud 10Q0. Hp ,is a class mate of President Roosevelt m Working Oregon for Another Big Slice PORTLAND paper prints a page about speeches made in a tarheel state down south in honor of Oregon day at a midway show running there. The Hon. So-and-so is quoted as saying a grand thing about the resources of Oregon and the Pacific Furnish in I'mutiHa county where there was an op pnrtuiuty to secure a fee, where he did not say yim. The rnmtilla papers are alive right along with published instances from the records where he has said "yes" to every opportunity that has been offered to pocket a fee. Why, there is the very leak in our state's affairs that most needs corking, and the Oregonian is making the plea to stop fee grabbing is to put a man in the first olllce of the suite who has always said "yi." Tiik Jontx.u. is opposing Furnish because of his established predisposition to say ''yi'a" and take everv filing that is in sight. This is his 'history in I'matilia county. He is said to be an "organizer." He is evi dently it. No man in the state has succeeded in "or ganizing" more fees into a good thing than this same Furnish. lias he ever saiil "no" in his life when it was against his own interests to do so? A waiting public is listening for the Oregonian to print on its editorial page one single "no" he ever uttered. Sort out one instance of the kind from the official records of I'ma tilia county as they are published every day. It will be a sorry day for the farmers of Oregon if they vote to put this man at the head of the state government whose only claim is that he became an ellicient "organizer" through his collection of fees from the people of I'matilia county. The Weston Leader says "the records show that he drew $.8,(100 from this county as fees, or for ll'OO working days he drew $10 for every day." The Lead er also says that he charged the county $1,',00 for a delinquent tax list and settled with the printer for Think what a field this "organizer" would have at the head of the state government! At the end of four years he could easily buy the nomination for the presidency. Xo wonder the Oregonian said the next day after the state convention that his had been a "remarkable career," and that "with his capabilities there was no limit to what he might yet accomplish." Certainly not, if lie had the state back of him in stead of I'mntilla county. Harvey evidently knew his record as well as the people are beginning "to know it now. liy all means, we should have a man in the execu tive office who can say "no." Rut there are occasions when Mr. Furnish could also say "no" with a great deal of avidity for in stance if the people gave (Seer more votes for senator than they give him for governor. If he were asked if Geo. Chamberlain did right to give up his beautiful home to satisfy debts not of his own contracting, he'd probably say "no." If he were asked if the flat salary plank in the Republican platform meant anything' he'd probablv say "no." 2c coast, and most fulsome eulogies are inserted. It is not stated how much salaries the orators are drawing for holding down the old exhibit that has been carted around at many such midways, nor how much the Portland paper gets for booming the whole graft. The state pays $5,000 for the exhibit, as it has paid for immoral and demoralizing exhibits for midway shows at other large cities. This ollice is daily in receipt of prepared typo written articles booming the St. Louis midway in 1005 and Oregon is to put up $25,000. When will the people quit being worked for suck H's through their legislatures for those midwav shows? They take us for cheap and easy guys to be so easily worked to boom real estate schemes in some suburb of St. Louis or Skincnteles. The wonderful popularity of Mr. Furnish at home s not reflected in the press of L'matilhi county Of the sovon papers published in that county all but one tho Pondlotou Tribune, are SHpimrtiag Mr. Chamber' lain. "Wky Old ym HOMlimto W. J. Furnish for SQV- omtorr wns naked of drtuwitii f. r i.. ,... WM Uigiwi skeop eounUos to tho Ropubliean smto eoHvwtlaiL Tko roply was, Mr. Furnish ntod honor, atul -(. nctnleil moiiev." More Inconsistencies of Harvey Scott OX. H. R. KIXCAID.ex-secretary of st)((l I has the following leader in the (,,,. ' lie State Journal of .May 10th: The Oregonian recently published u leading editorial in which it defended and snn.rv supported the present lavish state expending and strongly ridiculed the idea that there could l.,.UIn! reduction, and charged those who favor any re,..tj0j, with dishonesty in pretending to favor so'iiiftlnng f get votes that all sensible people know cannot l,,.. complished. If its position on tin's question is ,.1TCC now it was false and misleading from IS!).', to isno during the state administration. Then it elaii).,r,..l al' most daily for a great reduction in expenses. ft sai,l the appropriations were monstrous, the fees and sal nries were outrageous, and everything ought t.. i,P cut down to bedrock. The man who disbursed tin- appro, printion was a "fee-grabber," ami received about SK 000 a year, when he ought to be cut down to Sinon, tj,J members of the legislature were "grafters," ami the wnoie nroou of ollice-holders were a nasty set of "taX- lung was all wrong, then. Rm !,. ...i. . 1 . . . ""i uiien uie ices nave increased by reason of increase in business, and must be double what they were in isdj. 00, during the great business depression, nobody he, a howl from the great disinterested moral reformer, V about fees being $3(1,000 a year, and ought r. IP ct down to $1500. The appropriations were enrev too large then, and the men who made them were a sot, of I "grafters," and should be forever debarred from hold, ing any position of trust, having been weighed in the balance nutl found to be extravagantly reckless and dishonest. Rut now, when the appropriations are vastly greater than they were then, no sensible person expects them to be less, and those who talk about reducing them are fools or demagogues, trying to get votes on false pretenses, and the appropriat ions and " expenses will be much larger next year than ever be fore and will continue to increase every year. These are the two contradictory positions of the Owgonian, the leading organ of the so-called Republican pnrtyof )regon, and the ablest paper so far as its editor is con cerned, on the Pacific coast and second to none info I'nited States. Its present position is more ream. able and nearer correct than its former, unjust, niiVjJ leading and apparently malicious position was, k both were and are extreme, and calculated, if not ii- tended, to mislead the great masses of the people b look t the leading paper of the state for correct info ination. The men who were so misrepresented uJ slandered then were not exactly in harmony with tb great paper on the money question and in thceleolMi of a senator, but the great paper has gone hack. itself and is now in harmony with the gang of "wf ers," and "taxeaters" who are now in complete conn of the so-called Republican organization in 0n? and are using it for all that there is in it. Thewfw what was awfully awful then is altogether lovely n the more the better, and will increase from year year until every member of the gang will tow. plenty. ; Will Meet the Wholes P MIIKX FURNISH came to toun the fir time it was announced that up W certain time he would meet his llej lienn friends, and later he would the general public. It is understood that when Geo. E. t'hamberU comes to town Saturday he will see the general p and people of one party will be just as welcome those of another. Of course, it was a slip of a newspaper tW fored the Republicans the first chance to get neit.-.. Mr. Furnish. At the same time it is not out of p to say that Mr. Chamberlain is not making a part campaign and is as glad to see Republicans as I ocrats, Populists, Socialists, Prohibitionists and' other kind of people who have the interests of' good state at heart. utiL"i Move Toward More Demo cratic Form of Governme fl"" T MAY not be generallv known that ' II coming election in Oregon a coiistitu II amendment estnblishine: the initiate referendum is to be voted on. The a meut provides that while the legislative power state is vested in a legislative assembly, consist a senate and house of representatives, jet thel reserve to themselves power to proi1 'avn"? amendments to the constitution, and to eitt" Uf . v the same at the polls, independent of the 1 assembly and also reserve power at their ow" to approve or reject at tho polls any act ef tf lative assembly. ft f1 jjfc flH SDHHlliiBm " bS!