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AN INDEPENDENT DAILY
PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.
DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOP.
MENT OF OERQON.
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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
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' 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.
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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.
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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
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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."
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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 !,.
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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.
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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.
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