Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1898-04-07
WooRuRN CITIZENS
Declare the Republicans Put Up a
Straight Party Ticket and Lost.


Straight Party Ticket and Lost.
WOODBURY., April Z.
! ED. JoURNAL:-In an article which
appeared ia THE JOURNAL Of April ),
concerning the election at WoOdburn,
| April two Statements we're made
which are misleading and malicious
as against both the voters Of the
the citizens ticket and the Republi-
cans who put up the straight Repub.
lican ticket.
The statement that the contest
was on the whisky question on the
council, when in fact, according to
the Woodburn charter the council
has no discretion whatever in the
matter. as the character prescribes
that it shall be by petition. and re-
quires petition TO the council,
signed by majority Of the citizens
both male and female Of the age Of
"A aud over.
End. "Anl that the better element
Of the Republicans were opposed to
putting up party TICKET
This is SANDER No 2.
II such citizens as Hoo. j. II. Settle.
mier, w. L. Tooze, o. A. Wendle,
Bancroft. Beech. 0. E. Thompson, F..
W, Settlemier and forsy-fye Others
who attended the caucus and put up a
straight Republican ticket are not the
better element of Republicans. then is
the statement true otherwise it is
false. And the writer ought to know.
ANOTHER STATEMENT.
WOODBURY., April 7, 1898.
EDITOR JoURNAL:-Like our fore
fathers who fought for the liberty Of
this country, we believe in suffering
evils $50 long as they are sufferable, 4"
but the liberation of the Infamous
falsehCods that have been published
in the Oregonian regarding the recent
school election here and the untIuth.
full statements made in the States
man, which was copied in THE CAPI
tai JOURNAL, on the late city cleo
tion, render it impossible for the
writer to further refrain from giving
to long suffering public the whole
truth. The school election was a
contest between tw 20 good men With
out regard to politics, and tn which
the women participated with no mo-
tive except moral force and eternal
fitness as a prompting power, which
resulted in the election of Mr.. Walker,
He being claimed as a Gold Republi-
cal. the bosses deemed it prudent to
claim victory on party lines; but as
a matter of fact no party lines were
drawn. 1t was only deception through
the use Of newspapers to endeayor to
mislead the masses.
In the city election it was different;
citizens meeting was called for the
purpose of nominating city ticket
without regard to politics, but the
powers that be in the gold standard
ranks called separate primary to
meet the following evening and
warned their followers to keep away
from tue Citizens meeting. AS a
consequence all who were placed upon
the Citizens ticket we're silver men.
At the Gold Standard meeting all
silver men were prohibited from vot-
ing under threat of prosecution. The
gold men put up a premeditated fight
and nominated only GOLD men for city
officers but when the votes were all
counted, and all elected with one
exception, were silver men, it was
different The gold men had not been
voting along the party line, but were
simply making an 'anti-saloou
fght"(?) Clever was it not e? They
suddenly changed in one short cleo
tion day from Gold Standard Repub-
licans to moral reformers Ye Gods
What an Influence has the silver
Union forces at WoOdburn.