Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-10-18
HARMONY AND VICTORY.

The Multnomah county repab {
Leans have reorganized their .
county and city committee. DR.. :
o. P. S. P1ummer succeeds Hon.
D. Mackay as chairman and w.
S. Dunniway succeeds Graham
Glass as secretary. The city
committee has also organized an
advisory body of one from each
ward, and the county committee
will doubtless do likewise by Sc
lecting one member from each
precinct in the county outside of
the city. !
This action was necessary be-
cause the committee as previous
ly constituted did not possess the
confidence of the party il the
county. 1t is decided and we
believe, an efectual effort to
quiet and to harmonic the fac
tional differences which have for
long distracted the party in that
county. So far as this committee
may influence the selection of
delegates to the city, county and
state conventions only approved
republicans will be chosen. This
will estop the nomination Of any
such speckled delegation as the
county sent to the last legisla-
ture. Multnomah county will
send republicans. to the legisla-
ture, and if it we're possible to
e supplant a hold over senator it
would surely be done. 1t is true
that the primaries are to be con-
Quoted with absolute fairness and
the convention free and open to
every republican seeking nomi-
nation. Of course this will be
so. When was it otherwise?
Withdrawal of the appeal taken
in the Lockwood primary law,
and holding the primaries accord.
ing to its provisions would be
grateful evidence of the sincerity
of this purpose, but this will not
be done, nor, indeed, need it be.
The committee is wisely plan
ming harmony and republican
success and they will surely
achieve both. 1t goes without
saying that this will be highly
appreciated by republicans
throughout the state. The Port.
land charter will cut little or nc
figure in the next legislature,
which is most fortunate for the
city, the state and the party.
The omens of republican vie.
tory next June are very auspi'
cious. There seems to be a well
defined purpose to insure the
election of republican governor
and legislature by avoiding the
nomination of any one who either
in the legislature or out of it ha:
been identified with any factor
or clique. This can be done
it should be done, and in no othe1
county is it more necessary to re-
publican success than in Benton
county.
The republican majority in
this county is small, and if the
candidates nAmed by the conven-
ton, especially those selected fol
the legislature, have been in any
measure identified with faction,
and personal politics" they can
not be elected. The convention
must insist that men are placed
in nomination who shall be accept
able to the republican party, and
so far as possible to all good cit
izens. They should be men Of
calm, cool, dispassionate and in
telligent judgment, whom no
clique, no faction, no individual
may possibly influence and con-
tro1-men who know what the
county needs in the way of legis-
lation and who have such mater
ial interest in the county as shall
add weight to their opinions and
strength to their purposes. Any
thing short of this forbids hope of
republican success.