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rAGK TWO DAILY CAPITA! JOtTRNAIi, SALEM, OREGON. MONDAY, JUNE 0, 1010. OF STATE i! I 1 . EMANDS THAT CIVIL RIGHTEOUSNESS INCLUDE BIG LAW BREAKERS AND NOT BE CONFINED TO PRO SECUTING SALOON KEEPERS OPPOSES SELF-MADE CANDIDATES FORCING THEMSELVES INTO THE OFFICE OF GOVERNOR-WILL NOT HIRE MEN TO CIRCULATE PETITIONS SUPPAND DEFEAT OF BOSSISM opposes Corruption of the People by Men Who Afterwards Make It Back Out of The Taxpayers M ases'to be a Candidate Unless the People Voluntarily Circulate Petitions Asking Him to Make Campaign for Governor Tjie annual Grange and Sunday school picnic at North How ell was held Saturday. There was a large attendance, and addresses were made by local speakers, Recitations and Songs by the Sunday schools of that neighborhood formed a large part of the program, In the afternoon there was an other progam ,and Col, E, Hofer was invited at deliver an ad dress on the publ c affairs of the state, He was introduced by. Prof, Fletcher, one of the faculty of the Silverton High School, who has a fine ranch at North Howell, He intro duced the speaker in a highly complimentary manner, and a vote of thanks was passed to Col, Hofer at the conclusion of the program, His address wasas follows: CLAIMS RIGHT TO SPEAK. After conducting a newspaper and taking an active part in , cur public affairs at Salem for . going on twenty-one years, I feel I have a right to Speak on state affairs, with which I Ihve tried to become as familiar as it is possible for a mere private citizen, We can claim for Marion county that we tiave one of the best and most careful county governments in the state, Our codnty tax levy was the lowest of any county for purely county purposes, I wish to thank you for this invitation to address a purely farmers' gatheing, Where could one discuss the affairs of 6ur state before a more representative gathering of the prop erty owners, producers and taxpayers than at such a gather ing, composed of the best farming population, and where the Grange and the Home are so well represented? I feel-if I can express the 'feelings that animate your hearts toward the wel fare of our state we shall not go far wrong, If we agree on 1he main policies that should govern us in the coming state flection, they will be good enough for anyone who wants to see Oregon develop into an ideal commonwealth, I believe in the people, and am willing to take my inspiration from them, and be governed by their decis'ons in public matters, after 1hey have been threshed out in such gatherings as these, I sim willing to print what I shall say about all public matters, and use my newspaper to back up my campaign, if I shall be called upon to make one, I donot wish to deceive any one as to where I stand on any public matter, and to evade no great jsTue before the people, NON-PARTISAN SUPREME COURT. H believe it is providential for the people of Oregon that o have this year four members of the Supreme Court to lect, Two of the Justices whose terms expire next January are Republicans and two are Democrats, All are honest, able and fearless In the discharge of their duties, and should lie returned by the people without opposition or compelling them to. go through an expensive campaign for their nomina tion or election. These Justices have supported the pro gressive policies Inaugurated by the people of Oregon when ever the question of popular rights has been involved, THE OFFICE OF GOVERNOR. Next In importance to the people of Oregon Is the office of Governoran office that is very close To the hearts of the people, In 24 years Oregon has had Republican Gov ernors only eight years, While Republican Governors have not been able To succoed themsolvesi owing to the bitterness of factional strife, machine domination, unsatisfactory use of the' appointing power and failure to use the veto axe where U should have been used on the head of a Republican legis lature, two Democratic Governors wero re-elected, Tliis proves that the Machine In Oregon has not enjoyed the rpspeot and confidence of the voters, and when It gained an eleotlon jvas not able to keep a majority of the people back of It. The Supreme issue this vear is whether there sjiall bo ilaoted a Machine-controlled Governor or a Qovenor who will respect and obey the mandates of the people. If tho Machine by means of an Assembly forces a Machine nom nao on the people ho will be defeated just as Missouri mid Irtd ana elected Republicans von those 9tato went Demo cratic, and states like Minnesota and Ohio wont Republican but elected Democratic Governors. THE PEOPLE SHOULD NOMINATE. 1 have been accused In the newspapers of belni a candf announce myself as a candidate for the office, I will say: For this particular office I do not believe a man should try to force himself on the party or the people by spending a large amount of moneyJp secure the nomination, Two Re publicans have tried that plan and both were defeated, I shall not hire men to go around with petitions to make my self a candidate, but jf the petitions come from the people voluntarily upon the principles which I am here to announce to this gathering of taxpayers and property owners in the groat farming body of Marion county, I shall go out and make a campaign and put my newspaper into the fight for reform principles, It is up to the people to ask some man to become a candidate, If you wanted a man to run a big ranch or some industry, youwould not take some man who was foisted upon you because he wanted the job but you would go out and hunt for a man Qualified to do the work, If you didn't do that you would be very apt to get an incom petent man ana pay very aeany Tor me experience, i ne people have no confidence in the self-made candidate who is r 'i .1 I J r lif. J.I.-J. ...ill Ll. ready io get on to any Kina oi a piauorm max win neip nun get the office and make back from the people the enormous p ...... i j.- l . cv. sums ot money max are someumes speni io get an uiiiutj, The Dsoole want a man tor governor whose hands are not tied bv the Machine and who has not been a participant in all the abuses of power that result in the high taxes we are paying in many parts ot Uregon the greatest obstacle io our aev elopment, o WILL HAVE NO MANAGER OR BOSS. I will spend no money hiring men to go around with peti tions and I will have no boss or manager, If I cannot become a candidate directly at the hands of the people I will not be a candidate, As an example of the way men spend money and "do things" in so-called practical politics, take the .office of state treasurer, Headquarters were opened in the Title Guaranty and Trust Building at Portland four years ago to secure the nomination of a man for State Treasurer, Large sums of money were spent sending out literature and sending men over the state and the plan succeeded, When the little bankers panic came on ana caught some of the Portland banks, the banker who had managed that cam paign had $430,000 of the state funds and school funds in a busted bank, He had drawn on the State Treasurer to pay for that nomination, But for the vigilance of a plain conclusion Governor, who had exacted double amounts of bonds from the Treasurer, the state would have lost that money, The money was lost so far as that bank was con cerned, The Baltimore bond company had to make it good, The banker has been convicted and sentenced to a term in the state penitentiary, and tho Sgpreme Court has sustained his conviction, and he has appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States on a technicality, and petitions are in cir culation for his pardon, It is stafed that the most prom- mem politicians in ine state are on nis petition tor a paraon, but I do not believe.it is the business of a Governor to pardon such men after they have had a fair trjal and had the ablest counsel, wagons in the city of Des Moines were busy flying back and fourth between the banks and the state treasury carting in the money about $300,000 that the report called for, as the Treasurer knew crovemor Larrabee was a man of his word and a business man and when he said he would check oveY the money and then certify to the report, he meant jus what he said and for the first time in many years there would be a show-down as to the condition of the actual cash in the Iowa state treasury, The Governor went into the vaults of the state treasury and stayed in there all the after noon and checked over every do ar and the money was counted and certified to as being correct, But as a resul of that policy of having the official reports show iust wha was the truth about the matter two banks and an insurance company that had been doing business with state funds in violation of law went o.ut of business but the state treasury funds were protected, as those institutions had better go broke with the state funds out of their coffers than to go broke with the state money in their precarious keeping, Governor Larrabee was re-elected and was the best governor lowa ever had,- data wr Governor and have been urged by many friends to PUNISH BIG MALEFACTORS. ' I believe the "bier bovs" should be made to obey the laws as well as the little fellows, In the minds of some ministers of the gospel "Civic righteousness" means nothing but the prosecution of a saloon keeper or gambler but I believe the time has come when civic righteousness should include the wreckers ot banks and men who violate their trusts even hough they hold ugh positions in the churches and Sun day school work, and stand high socially and politically, An executive who would so far forget himself as to put a pardon n tne sou nana ot a banker and politician and send .him out ;o renew olunderings of the unfortunate is not what the people of Oregon want in, a Governor, How are the people u imvo any commence in weir government, in tneir oank ng system, or in their state treasury if such things can be aone and go unpunished uo not expect that men wil spend large sums of money to secure nominations and elec ions or let otner men do it tor them, or have the money pu jp by large corporations, and then not make it back ou if the people, The Portland banker who secured the nnm. nation of a state treasurer was doing iust what might have been expected he was making it back from the man he nominated and at the expense of the people, Unless the people are going to get behind an independent man and see to it that he Is nominated and elected thev have nothing to expect but to be plundered by the Machine as- they have ueen tor tne past twenty years, and to . have their state .i uii i " 'ii i x r i i t . I uAUb &u jjiiii mgiiur, ana capuui Kept out ot-tne state ana ne state remain undeveloped, o WHAT AN IOWA GOVERNOR DID. When Governor Larrabee of lowa took office the State I reasurer stepped into his office and filed his monthly re port of the condition of tho various funds In his keepine. Ii that state the Governor was reouired to certify to a monthly statement made bv tho State Treasurer as to the exact condition of each fund and the amount of cash on hand. Governor Larrabee said ho would go into the treasury vaults ana cneok over tne amounts stated uy tne I reasurer as be ing on hand as soon as he returned from lunch. During the hour and a half between noon and the Governor's return to the state house at 1 :30 p. m. a half dozen express OFFICE SEEKERS AND OFFICE BOOSTERS. What have" the, people to expect if they elect one of the professional office-seekers and office-chasers to the Gov ernorship? Such a governor will have to stand in with the whole professional caste, to which he belongs, and he will not be able to stop the most gigantic graft of all the creation of new offices, and the raising of salaries of those aneauy in-uiiiue uy iiio legisiamre, now uicuone senator get several offices by being a member of the Senate forty days at tnree dollars a day Did that warrant unloading, a num ber of new judicial districts on the people of the whole state at a cost of about ten thousand dollars a year per distric for all time to come? Did anyone ever hear of one of these judicial districts with district attorneys and deputies and bailiffs and all the expense of other officials connected with holding courts being abolished, The creating of these offices is going on at every term of the Legislature and the political lords fill them with their relatives, law partners and fellow lords .of both parties. This is not said as a reflection on the integrity of any Senator because they have only done what the whole aggregation 6f graft have practiced for the forty years at the expense of the taxnaver. It is said to noint out the ridiculousness and futility of putting one of the orofes- sunal class of office boosters and standpat politicians for revenue into the office of Governor, I say when it is done in the name of Republicanism and pretendecf devotion to the cause ot good government, it is a fraud and a farce, and the people are foolish to expect any reforms to come from such a source, As well exnect the Fthionian to nhanee his co or, or tne leopard to change his spots as to ask one o lU! l 1 I it i I I rr r .1 uiib uiass to wieia tne veto axe ana lop ott any ot tne ever- increasing swarm of parasites who propose to get onto the yuiiuuai uajy Mitjei. vvnen tntjse same political imposters and professional tax-eaters propose to name the candidate nt 4U Dn..l.l! 'i. . r J. I.,.. e ...... ui ii ic neuuunuaii party in an assemmy ot tneir own com position, alleged to be in the interest of the people as wel expect a convention of gamblers to regulate the gambling ousiness or to make rules and to trame up a pro gram for morality and virtue, The people should elect i governor who will curb the aggressions of organized graft ana tnat is a proper name tor an average legislature from start to finish. (See sessions laws of 1909, where three fourths of all the bills are to create new offices, raise sal aries, or make appropriations ) THE OREGON HOUSE OF LODRS. The people of Oregon have been ruled for manv years bv a lot of political lords, not confined to one oartv, and these gentlemen are the real menace to reforms in our state .af fairs, These lords of politics want one of their number to become Governor of the state and lord it over the taxpayers for four years in ways that have not hitherto been possible, The people turned down this class when they elected Pen- . ... r .. I !. ...I. .1 i i "i m i i noyer governor ana again wnen tney Biectea unamD,eriain Governor. It was not a protest against clean decent Repub licanism that respects the people, but for sixteen years out of twenty-four the Oregon House of Lords has been kept out of the Governor's office which they now seek to capture, o THERE HAS BEEN NO SHOW-DOWN. For many years by the crookedness and corruptness of legislatures there has been no show-down or clean-up in state affairs, The Democratic Governor was kept busy vetoing bills and stopping further grafts and the big finan cial grafts have gone on without thorough investigation, The legislature in 1895 in which I was a mamber and fought the whitewashing of the treasury and other departments, did whitewash the state school land office and declared its work all right, when at the same time the Davis defalcation of about $30,000 has just been committed, The suits to collect that money were stipulated out of court bv the mnn- ev-lords of Oregon, and to this day no man knows who HiH 8t that money. The J, Thorburno Rooss prosecution has been carried on against him because he is a Canadian and was cauKht. and to cover Uo and protect bigger enm. if a Governor like Chamberlain had not iumrjedin and mnWo the bonding companies protect the state against a defalca- (Conlnuad on Pago 3.) Notico of Assessment Improvement ot Mission Street. Notice la heroby given that tho common council of tho city of Salom, Oregon, will at or about 8:00 o'clock p. m. on tho Gth day of June, 1910, at tho common council chamber's at Salem, Oregon, pro coed to assess upon each lot or par cel of land liable therefor, Its pro portlonato Bharo of tho costof tho Improvement of Mission streqt from a point 10 feet west of east lino of Commercial street In tho city of Sa lem, Oregon, to the west lino of Twelfth street In said city, accord ing to tho plans and spoclfleatlona adopted for such Improvement , and on file at the office of tho City Re corder. ' All persons Interested In said as sessment shall appear at said tlrao before said common council within flvo days following said date for tho privilege, If they so desire, to maka said Improvement In lieu of their as sessment. Done by order of tho common council of the city of Salem, Oregon, tho 31st day of May, 1910. W. A. MOOUES. Recorder. 6-2-3t Notice of Assessment Improvement of Highland Avcnuo. Notice Is hereby given that tho common council of the City of Sa lem, Oregon, will at or about S p. m., on tho Cth day of June, 1910, at the common council chambers at Salem, Oregon, proceed to assess up on each lot or parcel of land llablo therefor, Its proportionate share of tho cost of the Improvement of Highland avenuo from a point eight feet west of tho east lino of Broad way to the fair ground road in said city, according to the plans and specifications adopted for such""lm provement and on file at the office of tho city recorder. AH persons interested In said as sessment shall appear at said tlmo boforo said council and present ob jection if any they have to said as sessment and apply to said council within flvo day following said dato for tho privilege If they so desire to make said lmproement In lieu of their assessment. Done by order of the common council of tho City of Salem, Ore gon, tho 23d day of May, 1910. 6-4-3t Call for Bids Improvement of High Street. Notice is hereby given that tho undersigned will receive bids up to 5 o'clock p. m., on Monday, June, 6, 1910, for the improvement of High street from the south lino of State street to tho south line of Mill street In tho city of Salom, Oregon. according to tho plans and specifi cations adopted for said Improve ment and on file In tho office of tho city recorder. Tho city reserves tho right to reject any ' and all bid?. Said bids will be considered by tho common council on June Gth, 1910. W. A. MOORES. City Recorder. G-2-3t How's This? We offer one hundred dollars re ward for any caso of catarrh that ennot bo cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure, P. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Wo, the undersigned, havo known P. J. Cheney for the last 1R and believe thltn perfectly honorable in all business transactions anil financially ablo to carry out anv obligations mado my his firm. WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN. Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken in ternally. actlnK directiv iinon tho blood and mucouo surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent freo. Price, 75 cents per bottle. Sold bv all druggists. Take Hall's Family PIUs for con stipation. Of Interest to Farmers and Me chanics. Farmers and mechanics freauent'- ly meet with slight accidents and in juries which cause them much an noyance and loss of time. A cut or bruiso may be cured In about one third tho time usually reouired bv applying Chamberlain's Liniment as soon ns tho Injury is received. This liniment is also valuable for EDrains. soreness of the muscles and rheuma tic pains. Thero Is no danger of blood poisoning resulting from an injury when Chamberlain's Liniment 's applied before the parts becomo Inflamed and swollen. For sale by all good druggists. uapitai Nations Bank ? Salem, Oreqon Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profit, p1 -1 0,000. Officers anil a J. H. Albert Pni!innt J E. M. Crolsan. .Vice-President I Jo. H. Albert Cashier W JOnn A C'nmnn Goo. F. RodKers ii .1