Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1898-05-02
KINCAID OR DUNBAR 2
Information About Two I'm
Dortant Candidates.
MITCHELL LIES ABOUT NNCAlD.
Has Dunbar Protected the People
Of CIatsop County
MITCHELL LIES ABOUT MSCAlD.

The Republican politicians. especi
ally Of the Mitchell stripe. propose %
carry Oo a campaign d personal
abuse and SANDER against Mr.. Kin
caid, whom they could not Use fOi
their fsetional purpC ses to force Nj
Mitchell upOn the people as Cuited
/ States senator when he had proven
recreant to his ayoved principles.
10 The ratification, by the Mitchell.
lites, at Salem, Hon. Harrison r
Kincsid was twice referred 70 as q
traitor, etc. and now comes the
Mitcbeliite organ, at Corvallis. and
says 10 a long abusive editorial:
The amount Mr.. Kincafd recei ves
each year as secretary Of state, in
salary and fees, is said 10 Be over 3d.
600. and Ii is not unreasonable 10 eX-
pect that an Officer receiving such a
handsome remuneration for his ser
( vices would do his whole DUTY. Nor
Z is IL unreasonable to ask for his retire
ment when be fails 10 90 his duty.
Mr.. Dunbar is practical unpre
I tensions man, who will attend TO his
Z full duty and who will feel an inter
est 10 and look out for the welfare Of
all the states institutions.
But the Corvallis organ utterly
fails to show wherein Mr.Kincaid has
failed to perform his duty.
The charge that Mr.. Kincaid's sal
AIRY and fees are $4,000 is a lie that
has been exploded 50 often it is too
stale to he repeated. The fact is he
performs all the duties Of secretary
Cf he state, auditor, insurance com
missioner and school land commits
sioner for half what it costs 10 any
other state, ard most Of il is collected
in fees and and never costs the tax
payer cent. The Republicans do
not intend to lower his pay.
WHO Is Mr.. DUNBAR:
THE JOURNAL Office had call from
Frank /. Dunbar, county clerk Of
Clatsop county Friday. He is the Re
publican candidate for secretary Of
state.
He Is pleasant, handsome looking
young man, rather above medium
stature. He has large soft hand
that give one sort of loose pendu-
lous grasp,
Mr.. Dunbar has regular quarter
pitch sloping shoulders, that give him
a somewhat etfemminate appearance
and his somewhat slender frame is
rather loosely put together.
He has large forehead and features
indicating to the student Of physiog-
nOmy considerable inte llect and love
OF order, but his features are lack
ing in tirmness and dogged determin-
alton and qualities Of resistance.
His whole makeup is Just the oppo-
site Of Harrison R. Kincaid, the
grand, old man OF the state house who
is the present secretary Of state aud
candidate for reelection.
Kincaid is a solid stub-and-twist
built man with considerable Of the
rugged granite in his makeup. He
can say no with regular Zach Chand-
Ter emphasis.
Dunbar is right from a county
where the taxpayers have lost about
$4,000 by defalcation at the hands of
the Republican county treasurer.
Mr.. Dunbar may be in no wise respon-
sible for this defalcation, but if Kin
caid were county clerk from a Pop
ulist county where there bad been
such a defalcation, and where be
had drawn two juries that
acquitted the defaulter as Dunbar
has, there would be severe and
proper condemnation by the Repub,
lican press. Mr.. Dunbar is Of the
easy, inYertebrate style OF politician
that are mere putty in the hands Of
men like Charles Fulton who was the
lawyer who cleared the Republicaa
defaulter Ward. For this reason
Dunbar is dangerous man for the
Republicans themselves TO put in
charge OF the Office OF secretary OF
state, where over two millions Of bills
must be audited IN four years.
Dunbar is just the kind OF man the
gang" who kick at the application
OF the brake TO Doodle LIethods want
10 that Office. 1t would be
an unparalleled misfortune 10
turn down man OF sterling
integrity like Kincaid who is yerit-
able watchdog Of the treasury, and
put 10 a man Of easy manners, soft
voice aud who would offer no resis-
tance 10 the raids OF the spoils ele-
ments OF Republicanism as represented
by the constituencies ring who have
looJed Clatsop county, and whose re-
cent defalcatiOn with costs Of two
criminal trials will foot up 70 about
$40, 900, or seven mill tax on the
Ol Clatsop county. Why put
a man like Dunbar in a higher posi-
tion? Personal abuse OF Kincaid will
not elect him.
County clerk Dunbar afforded no
protection whatever to the people OF
Clatsop county. He has not enabled
them 10 collect back a dollar Of the
lost public money, but has chosen two
luries SO notoriously incompetent or
dishonest as to not only acquit the
oefaulter but TO merit severe roast
from Republican Judge, Would MT.
Dunbar protect the people as secre-
tary OF state or the Republican bood-