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AKtrUUTD TTDTXGS Monday, November a, 1QH AC8 TITO Ashland Tidings SEMI-WEEKLY. ESTABLISHED 1878. Issoed Mondays and Thursdays Bert B. Greer, - Editor and Owner ChM, F. Greer, Mgr. and City Editor BiUie Briggs, - News Reporter SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One Tear $2.00 Biz Months 1.00 Three Months BO Payable in Advance. TELEPHONE 39 Advertising rates on application. First-class job printing facilities. Equipments second to none in the interior. MACHINE CONTROL. EFFICIENCT THE CHRONOMETER No subscriptions for less than three months. All subscriptions dropped at expiration unless renewal Is received. In ordering changes of the paper always give the old street address or postoffice as well as the new. Entered at the Ashland, Oregon, Postoffice as second-class mail matter. Ashland, Ore., Monday, Nov. 2, 1914 INDICTMENTS AND POLITICS. Governor West's attacks on R. A. Booth offer a parallel to the cam paign of United States Senator W. E. Borah in Idaho. Senator Borah was indicted through the influence of po litical enemies of conspiracy to de fraud the government of timber lands. He demanded a trial. The prosecution submitted its rase. Bo- In its palmy machine days Califor nia furnished a concrete example of absolute control by special interests through party machines and the utter helplessness of the electorate under it. The facts here stated are those coming directly under the personal observation of the writer. He was in attendance on both conventions and knows whereof he speaks. At the California state republican con vention in 1904 Abraham Reuf head ed the San Francisco county delega tion and held the balance of power. Gillette was nominated through ma nipulation of that power. The same year at the democratic state conven tion the San Francisco county dele gation, manipulated by the same Abraham Reuf, held the balance of power and forced the nomination of Bell. Both Bell and Gillette were machine hand-picked candidates, and whichever way the election went the machine won. What chance had the people under such a system? Their only possible hope lay in bolting the party tickets and voting for inde pendent candidates, which, indeed, they seldom had an opportunity to do, for the power of the machine was so great as to utterly discourage in dependent candidacy. However, the same year the machine bore down too hard in Los Angeles county and met defeat in the struggle for tax assessor. The county assessor had been elected as a machine candidate. but had refused to follow its dicta tion. He readjusted assessments so that taxes of utility companies were greatlv increased, so he fell under rah's attorneys called no witnesses and made no argument. Within five j the active displeasure of the machine minutes, upon the first ballot, he was acquitted. The men who were responsible for that indictment were afterwards sum marily removed from office by the president of the United States for misconduct which amounted to fraud, in obtaining the indictment against Borah. R. A. Booth was indicted for con spiracy to defraud the United States government. He plead repeatedly for He was a candidate for renomination. Eight hundred and four delegates were in the republican convention He failed to get a single vote for nomination. Notwithstanding that, be became an indipendent candidate and was elected by a majority of about three thousand. Which illus trated fairly how utterly out of har niony with public sentiment and de mand party machines had drifted. This was the first visible evidence trial. For four years the indictment j of the smouldering fire which the -was held over his head because the men who were responsible for the in dictment would not permit it to come to trial. Seventeen times his attor neys tried in vain to have the case taken up. He did not submit a sin- next election broke forth in a politi cal volcano that utterly enveloped and destroyed the machine. However, the fires had been smoulering for years. Convention after convention the people attended gle dilatory plea. He faced the issue In the hope of destroying that power, squarely. He did not put a single i They failed, but at last came away witness on the stand. The accusers : with a new notion. Reform was Un made their own case; presented it possible within the organization uncontradicted to the jury, and the i Special privilege was the power be- Jnry said "not guilty" on the first hind the machine and reform was ballot. I vain chimera. Fond credulity was This Is the history of the Booth , dissipated. Xo longer could they ease out of which Governor West; cling to the hope that the thing to seeks to make political capital. He he reformed would mend itself, or would have the people of Oregon be- ; that an organization grown sleek and lieve that all men who are indicted, fat by spoliation had the virtue and no matter how indictments may be ; honesty to correct the wrong obtained, are guilty. j Ephraini was joined indissolubly to Mr. Booth in his address at Port-1 his idols. The local political pot is beginning to boil. Candidates galore are abroad the land. Those who assume par tisanship essential in national poli tics cannot properly contend it essen tial in county politics. County poli tics bears alone on efficient admin istration good service effective, acceptable effort. There business, not politics, is the chronometer. The same rule should be applied as maintains in the suc cessful business enterprise the same relation between the official and the public as is properly established be tween the private employer and the employe the tenure should be deter mined entirely upon efficiency in service. Successful business men do not gauge service by sentiment re sult is the basis of action. A good employe one who delivers the goods is valuable, and the longer in ser vice the more valuable he becomes by reason of his familiarity with the details of the work. The business man who applies the rule of changing employes every little while simply for change, or because some one else needs the job. is doomed to utter fail ure. . His business will soon sink into the same state of disorganiza tion, inefficiency and unprofitable production that marks the average public business. To have apprentices always on the job is bad business. The good business man retains an employe so long as he delivers good. profitable service. He discharges him the minute he fails to do that. That is the reason well-regulated pri vate enterprise succeeds. The con verse accounts for most public busi ness failing. The people too often do not exercise good business judg ment in selecting servants and retain ing those who perform the service ac ceptably. Sheriff Singler should be retained n office because he has rendered ef ficient service and is better quali fied, by reason of his experience in the work, for the coming term than he was for the last or another man could be without experience. Chauncey Florey has had a lot of experience in handling county rec ords. He has made good. Not 'only is he popular and trustworthy, he is competent as well, and his familiarity with the work at hand is valuable to the taxpayers. He has passed his days of apprenticeship and is now a full-fledged, efficient hand at the business. He should be retained in the employ of Jackson county. land struck a hard blow at his accus ers, and especially the governor, when he pointed out some things in connection with West's record and these timber cases. Mr. West, he says, assisted Francis J. Heney and Detective Burns fn packing the jury box, and he offered evidence to prove his assertion. After West had completed his work Nothing is so dangerous to corrup tion and graft as a recent idea. It becomes courageous. It dashes down and breaks In pieces. This oppressed spirit finally burst up through the bottom of California's political strnc ture and the spiked flail of partisan ship was not sufficient to beat it back. Out from the smut and the filth from the festering womb of as a detective, assisting Burns. Burns, i political corruption came this new on August 1", 1905, sent a telegram thought, resolute, aroused and power to Washington. Mr. Booth read a ful, and the machine flew disconcert copy of this telegram as follows: j ed and scattered before it. The peo- "Jury commission cleaned out trie i pie became at last conscious oi mei old box from which trial jurors are power and courageous enough to en selected, and put 600 new names, , force it. every one of which was Investigated j But the struggle leading up to that before they were placed in the box." j point is marked by inefficiency, ex He also read a number of Mr. travaeance and waste. History re- West's reports upon these prospective I peats itself. The long struggle of the Jurors, taken from the files In Wash- ; people against corrupt political pow Ington. One of them was a report er. Too often accomplished only by upon D. E. Swank of Marion county, ! the blood of the bravest and best of and is a fair sample. He said: a nation. "Pretty good old man, a straight j But in America the machine ha populist and socialist; has been a not gone far enough to destroy free rank reformer In his time but now ; exercise of the ballot as Mexico has believes that through graft and mo nopoly everything has gone to hell. and it is too late to save the country. done under a constitution almost identical with ours and reform here I was brought about through exercise He is one who would be In for con-' of the ballot a peaceful revolution vlctlng anybody, especially if he were j while in our sister republic resort a republican politician. I to arms was necessary, dissipating Mr. West made reports to Burns 1 blood and treasure and devastating upon prospective Jurors to be placed I the country In an ill-directed strucgl in the box and reports of Mr. Burns ! for supremacy, only to find that one on the same men said: 1 machine is vanquished while anothe "These men would convict Christ." takes Its place, and free government These names were placed in the box and these are the kind of men Mr. West considered would make a good and Impartial Jury. pace In lndeendent free government These things throw a light in con- j They must not give way an Inch. The nection with these timber cases which states of the nation are taking notice i by the people for the people still lan guishes. Oregon and California have set the has never before reached the public and which reveals the shadow on the governor's interest In the case and tils political methods. Twelve men hand-picked by West tried Booth and raid that Booth was Bot guilty. Former President Taft thinks that after the great conflict Is over there will be a universal desire for peace. True, but by that time half the able bodied men of Europe will be enjoy ing eternal peace. and one by one are adopting simiia laws. Stand firm. Do not bow to party machine dictation, but exercise your free ballot for measures and men with an eye single to retaining power you have so laboriously gained. You have something you do not need. Somebody else needs It and has what you want. Twenty-five cents puts your proposition before two thousand people through the "For Trade" column of the Tidings. "I AM FOR MEN." The Tidings editor long ago deter mined that for him the day of "yel low dog" partisanship was over. Sorry to admit, in his younger days he was that kind. . He could see noth ing good in anything that did not bear the regular republican brand. And then the awakening came. He discovered that partisanship was Che instrument through which politicians had the voters rake the chestnuts out of the fire, and there was a great lot of personal favors and very little principle in it. Since then he has tried to examine into the personal merits of opposing candidates, with out regard to party brand, and sup port the one he was convinced would be most to the interest of his com munity. It is not enough that a man is a good republican; he must be a good man for the place. One who can and will deliver the goods. In determining who the Tidings would support for congress this rule was applied. The records were searched Hawley bad been in office eight years. What had he accom plished? The records would show, but they showed only that when Can non blew his nose Hawley sneezed. That was all. He lacked individual ity and punch. He stood for prohibi tion, but for four campaigns secured the solid backing of 3,500 German Catholic votes who wefe opposed to prohibition. He represented Oregon, but the records showed on practically all important issues Hawley was eith er "absent" or "not voting." But five bills passed, and those by "unan imous consent." On the other hand we watched the candidacy of Mr. Hollister. His record showed him clean on moral issues. He stood for equal suffrage and national prohibi tion. He had a clean and successful business record. He was a good public speaker. He was a man of principle and force. He was a south ern Oregon man. Too long had southern Oregon influence been nil. both in state and nation, and that entered into our consideration. When the investigation came to an end we could see but one proper result for this section: the election of Freder ick Hollister and the retirement of Mr. Hawley. m mm ii i iii II 11111111111 The Oldest National Bank In Jackson County f THE CAMPAIGN IS OVER. THE GOVERNORSHIP. j Member Federal Reserve System ! FIRST NATIONAL BANK Capital and Surplus $120,OOOAO DEPOSITORY OF City of Ashland County of Jackson State of Oregon United States of America IMHHHMII till MH I IIHUMMWHWHIll tween opposing factions that are sin cerely struggling for the public good. ATTEMPT AT COERCION FAILS. The campaign is nearly dosed. Tomorrow the last chapter in the election of 1914 will be written by the voters. It should be settled by a fearless, independent ballot. There is much more at issue than the as cendency of any political party. The campaign of Dr. C. J. Smtih tas had the ring of true sincerity clear through. His was the speech of an honest, progressive, fearless business man. He is lour square on moral issues without the least hint of eva-; sion. He stands erect and is not afraid. He discusses, without fear. the great issues of the campaign. He is a man with a mission. His pro gram is constructive. He knows why he seeks to be governor of this great state and does not hesitate to state the reason for the faith that is. in him. He wastes no time on word pic tures on the greatness and glories of Oregon or its Eiin-kissed hills. He understands that God made these and wants to know what the men and women of Oregon are going to do to make them more glorious. He Is dominated by no machine and shack led by no manager. He makes his campaign in his own way with con fidence in the righteousness of his cause. There is no question as to what the voters of Oregon ought to do and there is little question as to what they will do. DR. C. J. SMITH will be elected by such a majority as to prove a lasting lesson to corrupt ma chine domination. He has made a splendid, clean campaign, the effort of a patriotic. Christian statesman. (Portland Journal.) In Oregon there are two principal candidates for governor. They are C. J. Smith and Dr. Withycombe. No other candidate has even the most distant chance of election. Votes cast for any other candidate will be votes thrown away. They will be votes cast without the slightest chance of exercising direct influence on the result. They will be votes cast without the slightest hope or expectation of being thrown for a candidate who may win. Either C. J. Smith will be elected governor or Dr. Withycombe will be elected governor. It is from these J two candidates that the people will make tneir cnoice. There is a wide difference between the two men. Dr. Withycombe thinks "this nation made a mistake when it failed to elect," as he says, "that great statesman. Taft," and C. J. Smith is a follower of the Wilson Lincoln school of thought. One is a reactionary and the other a progres sive. Their candidacies are a clean cut contest for supremacy between reactionary government and a gov ernment of progress. It is no time for a division of strength among progressive forces. All the standpatters will go solidly for Dr. Withycombe. Every voter who believes that we should not turn backward ought to be behind C. J. Smith. Votes thrown to other than these two candidates will be futile and wasted. (Editorial from Aurora Observer.) That Congressman Hawley and his campaign managers are fearful of de feat is evidenced by the attempt made to "whip into line" the newspapers that refuse longer to overlook Haw ley's failure to accomplish anything for the first district or for Oregon. The Observer, exercising its unques tioned right to support the candidate it deems best fitted for the position, selected Frederick Hollister as its choice, chiefly because it admired him for his integrity, his energy and his ability as a business man. His success in private life and the uni versal respect in which he is held in his own section of the state, together with his sound, broad views upon every question of importance to Ore gon, appealed to the Observer as solid reasons for wishing to send him to Washington to succeed W. C. Haw ley, whose chief success has been in drawing 17,500 and mileage annually from the. United States treasury for nearly eight years (together with $75 a month and other compensation from the Woodmen of the World as one of their head managers). Be lieving Hawley's services were harm less rather than effective, the Ob server declared its support of Mr. Hollister In the certainty that he can and will accomplish the vital things for this district and this state which Hawley has failed to accomplish. Shortly after announcing its sup port of Mr. Hollister word came to Aurora from the republican congres sional committee, of which Ronald C. Glover (Hawley's private secretary) is secretary, that the Observer must be "brought Intd line," that the Ob server MUST NOT BE ALLOWED TO SUPPORT HOLLISTER. This at tempt at coercion and intimidation by Mr. Hawley's private secretary failed to receive the sanction of a single business man of Aurora, for not one ever requested the Observer to support Hawley, thereby recogniz ing its right to be free from that coercion, intimidation and pressure which Glover was so ready to apply. The Observer resents this attempt at intimidation, as every decent news paper in this district should, and feels only contempt for the motive and the spirit that prompted It. Other news papers may have had the same ex perience. Whether they have or not they will condemn vigorously every such effort at coercion and control of the editorial columns of any news paper. Such tactics will win Hawley no votes, and brands the author of them as a kindergartner in politics, without knowledge of political moral ity or respect for it. Practically all the newspapers in this district are advocating the elec tion of FREDERICK HOLLISTER for congress. They are tired of do nothing representation by stand-pat Cannonites. Many of these papers are republican but they think more of Oregon than of their party. Phone news items to the Tidings. When you vote for license you vote for that which you KNOW will do harm to your fellownian you vote to LICENSE a man to harm your neighbor for the money be will pay for the privilege of doing the harm. And the saloonman will use the license you give him to make drunkards so that he can pay you what you charge and have some money left. How can a man use his head on this proposition and cast a wet vote? It's so damnably wrong. "Wet and Withycombe." shouted one of the local wets. The saloon ad vocates seem to understand perfectly where they stand on the guberna torial candidates. Dr. Smith is well known to be for dry. Withycombe says nothing but has the solid back ing of the wet bunch. Phone new Items to the Tiding. AN" INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER. Now and then one sincerely asks, "What is an 'independent' newspa per?" The question is pertinent. An independent newspaper is one that realizes that no party or other combination of men has a monopoly of all good ideas and high principles. It is a newspaper that deliberately preserves its freedom to stand for what it conceives to be the right wherever it finds it no matter what label it may bear. It is a newspaper that insists on finding its opinions in the mental processes of its makers, in contact with the realities of life, instead of having them cast in the mold of the official pronouncements of partisan chiefs. It is a newspaper that makes no pretense of infallibility; that shirks no Issue where it believes a vital Issue exists; that declines to be drawn into personal, partisan or po litical controversy on the mere asser tion of Interested parties that a great Issue is Involved. But over and above all this the Independent newspaper seeks the "higher ground" of agreement be- Children are Entitled to Underwear Comfort and Fit as Well as Grown-Ups They get both in Athena Underwear. Children from ages about two to six are broad in stature in comparison with height, while those from six to sixteen are usually tail and thin. These facts have heretofore been over looked in designing children's underwear. Athena underwear for children is sized by ages not numbers. Ask for "age two" for a two-year-old child, "age ten" for a ten-year-old child, and 60 on. 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