Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1895-05-09
OREGON sEEA roRsHIfs. /"


ticle it pnnts on the recent senatorial
election 10 Oregon misstatements Of
fact. The most sgregious error is the
It tltement that 'public opinion was
soIidly against DOlpb." One sort Of
public Opinion--that which marches 10
armies Of the commoDUeal and looks 10
such sources for historical aud seieLt dc
truih-was against DOlph. But the
business sense Of this state and the
busi Dess men Of this state, who are st
work when others are following COxey
armies, aud at home when others are
building bOnfres and paFading the
streets-this portion Of public OpiDion
supported Dolph as the friend aud ex
ponsnl Of sOupd economic doctrine. A
plain Misrepresentation is that the
lower house u the legislature was or
gspized ia senator Dolph's interest.
That Il was not 80 organized IL oDe
reason why be failed Of election. An
other ststsment which will not bear
examination Is that all ex-state ofiic
ets aud present state officers, excepting
PeDnoyer, Lord, KiDeaid and IdIemaD,
we're "DOlph men."-POrtiaDd ore
gouian.
No one goes 10 the Portland Oregon
ian 10 ascertain facts about the public
men Of Oregon. If they do they will
ne woefuIIy mislead, because it has
Systematically vlllifed Oregon's beet
men and kept still about or lsuded the
rAscals.
or cOurse, the Oregonisn will lie
about the article in the May Overland
entitled ACCOMPLISHMENTS Contests
IN Oregon" because il was not inspired
10 the Oregonian sanctum. Lie num-
Der one is where Scott classes himself
amoHg the business men Of the state,
when the fact ls the VIII Die OreRonian
establishment has been az nearly bank
rdpt for the past two years as 1t could
be and live. The property Is hopelessly
nortgaged 10 an eastern insurance
company aud Chine.e loan companies,
Until the big food drove people to rent
rooms ln the tall tower building, the
Oregonian's unpopularity with Port
land business men had kept II nearly
empty Of tenants and the proprietors
could not pay the taxes. Yet this 10
the concern that insults poor men aud
talks about being solId business con-
Germ.
The fact Is the man who has nc
debts and has silver dollar lett at the
end OF the week ls a solvent citizen
aud IL entitled TO a respect which the
Oregonian Is not. Its clnch and mon
opoly methods are despised by every
true citizen, and only thOee read II who
are 80 situated that they are compelled
10. II wRs a fit organ Of Senator Dolpb
the eandIdats Of Wall Street, and the
representative Of European bondhold-
ers on American .,rallways. II tk'
lower house was not organized by the
Dolpb element II was not the Oregon
iAn's fault Speaker Moores aud the
chairman Of the principal committees
~ far as II wss possible, we're DOlIt
men. The Antl-Dolph candidate fl
speaker, Wright Of Marion, Was chair
man OF the wAys aud means commit
too by courtesy, but the COMMITTEES
itaelf Was Dolph men, Two 10 one
"That Il was not 30 organized u one
reason why he failed Of election" say
ths OTeEonian. Speaker moores vii
smlls when be reads this. lie prot
ably ga not use bis power So speaks
~ much "a bshalf ~ M Dolph A. th'
lnsallals demands of ibs Portland ma
chine would haYs bad him, bat 10 in
sinnsis that bs used Il against hr
Dolph is q slander ou hleaksf hoofss