Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-11
SPREAD EAGLE TACTICS.
The Times and Its Legal Lumi"ary il! IN
Their Favorite Role.

Inc COrVafllS Hines puDllSHeS great
''cock and bulI' story concerning some
investments which it claims the presen.
candidate for clerk, J. A. Gellatly, made
in and about Sumpter, Baker county,
and the legal luminary and adviser of
the Times previously writes another ar
ticle on the same subject entitled
Golden Eagle Candidate and first sent
and published it in the Albany Democrat
in the attempt to obscure its paternity
and TO give the. Times the excuse to re-
publish it under the insincere disguise
that it originated outside of the Times
and the knowledge of lis advisers, which
is untrue.
Mr.. Gellatly was born and raised
in this county near Corvallis on his
fathers farm, adjoining which Mr.. Gel
latlv now owns: and has owned a nice
farm for many years. He has always
been sturdy, prosperous, Industrious,
upright man and farmer. His services
in the recorders office attended with his
genial, kind and obliging manners, and
work is so well known to everybody in
this county that it would seem "bore"
fer this paper to infict the public as to
| his good and excellent qualities as pub
lie officer. Without doubt Mr.. Geflatly
has been one of the best and most COM
petent officers which Benton county has
ever had. The same ability in man
which will make him a good recorder
will enable him to make just as good a
clerk. :, But the Times would have you to
/ infer that because Mr.. Gellatly- made
some investments in Baker county that
such investment would disqualify him
and impair his qualification for clerk.
| If so, is every man disqualified to hold
Office because he has made some invest
ment outside of Benton county? If so,
how many electors will We have ia the
county otherwise qualified to hold any
Office but who must be disqualified be-
cause they have investments in another
in Lincoln, Multnomah, Baker or some
other county will please hold their hand.
Nolone holds up his hand; then We must
infer that we have no candidates who
should run for Office.
| Then the Times claims because Mr..
Gellatly sold his home just before taking
a trip to Sumpter it should disqualify
him and cause the people of Benton to
disregard him. MIR. Gellatly performed
| the duties Of recorder two years and a
half before he owned house in Corval-
lis. We presume MIR. Gellatly found a
satisfactory chance to sell his house and
soldit, but we have not made,any par
ticular inquiry about it, because it is
none of our business, simply private
business transaction of Mr.. Gellatly's
which does not concern US neither does
the public care. Mr.. Gellatly owns and
has owned his farm in this county for
| years. The fact stands out bold and un-
disputaple, that Mr.. Gellatly is preemin-
emily qualified to make equal to the best
clerk that Benton county has ever had.
Then the tales unfolded instead of be-
ing arguments against Mr.. Gellatly sim
ply show up an imaginary disposition in
the Times to convert s'molehills into
mountains and to 'strain at sawmil1
to swallow gnat."
The truth about Mr.. Gellatly's trip is
in shart as follows: About two years
ago Mr.. Gellatly lay sick at his home in
Corvallis several weeks with typhoid
fever which, as in nearly every case of
! that disease left him in a condition of
weakness and so that at times he needed
more exercise than the confinement in
the. recorders office''gave him. His doc
! tors advised him to. stir around out of
doors to avoid another spell of sickness:
So Mr.. Gellatly first made trip to va
quina. bay, then went to Baker county to
| visit short time with some relatives
and while OH such last visit his investi-
cations led him to make some invest
ments there, but in doing SO Mr.. Gel
Iatly did not wrong the Times or any of
| the democratic or other candidates, or
any of the people of Benton county or
other person, but it simply concerned
Mr.. Gellatly and the persons with whom
he dealt.
This paper would regard it as border
| ing upon silly proceeding to ex-
plain these matters, if it were not to call