The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-03-01
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1AIe u1SpdUcneS from Ine seat OF gov
ernment intimate that the members of
the Washington delegation are very
much dissatisfied with the appointment
of w. b. Gilbert to the vacant iudgeship
of the ninth district. They think that
as Oregon has a minister to Turkey, a
judge in Alaska and collector of inter
nal revenues for the district of Oregon
and Washington, and as Washington
has larger population and larger re-
publican vote than Oregon they should
have been permitted to name the can
didate for the judgeship. That shows
how guileless the gentlemen are WASH
ington is undoubtedly great state and
strongly republican to boot. Washing
ton too had a candidate, in the person
of w. Lair Hill who is the peer of any
man on the Pacific coast whether
measured by intellectual ability, knowl-
edge OF law, or social uprightness. But
w. Lair Hill lacked one thing that for
ever barred him from receiving the sup
port OF our Oregon senators. His rec
ord as corporation attorney was not
satisfactorily attested. Had Judge Hill
been the hired attorney of the o. R. &
N. Co., or of the Union Pacific he would
now be judge of the ninth judicial dis
trict. This is the only passport to honor
south of the Columbia river at least the
only sure passport. To the everlasting
disgrace of our Oregon senators their
first nominee was a man whose political
record would disgrace Tammany chief.
But Joe Simon had been corporation
attorney and this alone was qualifica-
tion sufficient to cover all the crimes in
the decalogue. Every decent republi-
can in Oregon blushed for shame when
the kilograms repeatedly announced
that our two senators were supporting
Joe Simon. 1t is to the credit of Presi-
dent Harrison that the Simon medicine
was too strong for his digestive organs.
/ But what has he done now? Who is w.
b. Gilbert? Another corporation attor-
ney; better man than Simon undoubt-
edlv, but equally the hireling of the
Union Pacific. We say Simon had been
"a corporation attorney, and hereby hangs
a tale. In the Oregon legislature of
1889 Hon. E. l.. Smith introduced bill
for portage railroad at the Cascades.
Joe Slmon's law firm were then attor-
neys for the Union Pacific and Simon
and the whole Multnomah delegation
voted solidly against the measure. Two
years passed. The same bill was intro
duced and the same delegation with
Simon at its head voted solidly the other
way. How did this change of mind
come about? The new law firm of Gill
bert & Snow had meanwhile gone to the
railroad company aud engaged to do
their work for less money than the
company was paying to Simon, Dolph &
Bronaungh. Half an hour of Joe Simon
in the Oregon legislature would have
done more for the railroad interests than
Gilbert q Snow could have accomplished
in century, but the accompany was blind
to their own interest. Gilber & Snow
were hired and Joe Simon and his firm
were-fired. But Joe always gets even
with his enemies and Eastern Oregon
has reaped the harvest of his revenge in
the form of the Cascade portage. III
therefore corporate influence has backed
up the appointment of Simon to the va
cant judgeship it was reward for past
services and gentlemanly doucear for
good things to come. When the cor
poration could not get Simon it would
take, Gilbert-any body in its own inter-
est or pay rather than a stranger. 1t
is plain the railroad company wants the
earth. Seven years ago we elected one
OF their attorneys to the United States
senate. He is there still. Four years
ago we reelected one of their vice-p -presi
dents and he too is there still. Now
they have captured a judeship and the
( Lord alone knows what. they'll want
next. Meanwhile the Washington dele
CATION will do well to note that if they
want our support for any political APP
pointment they must name a corpora
tion attorney. No one. else has any
show for the support of the Oregon
delegation.