The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-05-21
PATIENCE GROWN TIRED.

OtHSI man SlllllldIiy SlludtSu
would have done, is becoming
exceedingly wearysome. 1t ac-
C 1ses him of working for the
lOregon Pacific railroad company
at a monthly salary of S5S. Sew
| leral years ago Mr.. Waggoner was
! employed as timber inspector and
lsupply agent. He had as perfect
a right to accept this employment
as the editor of the Times had to
work for the Southern Pacific
company. This present day in
sinuation, that his employment
had any political Specification, is
simply disgusting campaign lie,
| The railroad commission, how
lever useless we deem it now, was
the result of general demand
fby the people for some state con-
troll of railroad rates. The Of
| 6ce of commissioner was created
by the legislature and the honor
land the salary was worthy the
ambition of honest and able men.
It,is no disgrace to Mr.. Wagon
er that Gov. Pennoyer saw fit to
tappoint him to that Office. 1t was
a tribute to his ability, his public
honesty and his genuine, worth.
Is it sin to hold an Office
1 fcreated by the people? The
Times does not say, and can not
lsay that he failed in any partic-
ular in his duty to the people
while serving them as: railroad
commissioner, He antagonized
the railroads something that no
railroad commissioner has since
done, and when the law was
changed giving the Legislature
power to elect the commissioner,
Mr.. Waggoner was defeated
through the influence. of the va
rious railroad companies. There
is nothing in Mr.. Waggoner's S
public record, to which Times has
SO often called attention, but that
rebounds to his credit. He is
we'll regarded as private citizen
and the puny efforts of puny
minds to defame him, while ex-
aspirating, do him no harm with
: sensible people.
We do not propose to abuse
anybody in this campaign, but
|the Times has so rersistently at
tackled Mr.. Waggoner because
he cannot buy his way into Office,
with a probable purpose of argu-
. ing by inference that Rickard' S
wealth entities him to the Office,
d that werarex constrained to make
a few pertinent comparisons
Pete Rickard has also been a
commissioner a public expense.
: He has been a. member of the
county court of Benton county
for four years. Are the people
satisfied with him in that capaci-
ty? Has a lowered rate of taxa
ton in this county been the re-
suit of the administration of this
great Tammany economist? What
has he*done as commissioner that
entities him to come before the
people at this time, and ask that
he be elected sheriff. with the
understanding that he*is to draw
two thousand dollars more from
) the taxpayers than another equal
ly competent man will draw, il
elected? =:
Geo. Waggoner. is not engaged
in 'liquoring up the boys" In
the first place, he doess1ot believe
in that way of geetinginto Office,
and he could not afford it if he
did. He expects to pay his own
deputy hire, and only get rea-
sonable compensation from the
county for hissservices.
4 1t must be admitted that Mr..
Waggoner might have been rich.
Had he the disposition that would
charge a poor neighbor twenty
4 cents for hauling sack of -four
few miles when going home
with an empty wagon, he would
not need to heaa candidate for
any Office. r.: =.
. Had GeosvWaggoner put his
money out, at usurous rates of
interest instead pf using it in the
development of home enterprises
he might now, were. he so in
clined, put his thousand dollars"
into campaign fund.
Who isthe:man to think of
self when he gets in a public Of
fee? A man like Geo. Wagon
er, who, whatever faults he may
have-and no man is without
faults-can never be charged with
greed and selfshness? Or man
whose principal recommendation
from the Times standpoint, is his
cash?