The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-03-18

in the past. If republicans must
fight all their old in-the-party
quarrels over again, it will be a
waste of time to nominate
ticket.
The statement mentioned has
been republisled in the Oregon
ian, thus giving it publicity,
that makes it necessary to correct
its palpable errors. This the
GAZETTE hopes to do fairly and
without calling into question the
motives of the republicans who
differed in their opinions and ac-
tions.
The charge that DR.. Logan,
the republican candidate for rep
resentative, was defeated because
he was opposed to Mitchell was
unqualifedly false, as every re-
publican in the county knows.
That he was defeated by republi-
can votes is true, and with one
single exception every republican
who worked against Logan, be-
longs to the faction whose organ
is the paper which charges his
defeat to the former supporters OF
Mitchell. One of the most active
anti-Loggan republicans CANVASS
ed the county for that paper.
The chief question entering
into the U. S. senatorial contest
at that time, as far as Our county
was concerned, was the matter
of securing appropriation for im-
proving Yaquina harbor. Sena-
tor Mitchell was known to be
very friendly toward Yaqulna,
and our citizens who placed pub
lie welfare above petty politics,
desired his rcturn to the national
senate. DR.. Logan, on the
stump and privately, announced
his intentioH of supporting Sen
ator Mitchell. However, one
may differ with DR.. Logan in
politics or otherwise, no one
doubts his sincerity, and there
was not the slightest reason for
any one who favored Mitchell to
vote against Logan. The
plain fact is that three-fourths, if
not all of those republicans who
voted against DR.. Logan were
opposed to Mitchell. No possible
good can come from now enquir-
ing into their reasons for sup
porting the populist candidate.
The statement was also made
that a check for 500 signed by
Senator Mitchell, was cashed
here the day before election, pre-
sunably to be used i'll defeating
DR.. Logan. This is, more pre-
su1nably, a downright invention.
The article further states, "The
candidate for joint representa-
tive in Lincoln county (Daly)
was not considered safe for Mitch
ell, and Humber of names were
submitted to llim (MitchellD by
a certain party here, from which
to make a selection to replace
the doubtful Lincoln, county
man, and one was selected. The
Lincoln county man, forseeing
disaster, withdrew, and the man
selected by Mitchell (selected J."
This explanation is wonderfully
simple and painfully false. The
correction must be wonderfully
simple and painfully frank. The
Benton county delegates did not
have the faintest idea of no,nin-
ating the candidate for joint rep
resentative, that Office falling by
right to Lincoln county; but
when they met the Lincoln
county delegates stated bluntly
that John Daily was the only
candidate from their county, but
on account of objections they
could not elect him. They
gave no reasons but asked Ben
ton county to select a man.
Thus the Benton delegates did
not force or even request the
nomination, but had the duty
thrust upon them. Mr.. Lake
was selected because he had been
a candidate for representative be-
fore the Benton county republi-
can convention. He had not
been in politics before and it is
probable that Mr.. Mitchell had
never heard of him. The nom-
ination was as much of a sur-
prise to Mr.. Lake as to any one
else.
We have stated nothing here
that cannot be easily proven. 1t
is unfortunate that such recitals
should become necessary at a
time when the best efforts of
every republican should be di-
rected against the forces of free
silver,