The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1902-06-07
WHAT DEFEATED FURNISH.

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WHAT DEFEATED FURNISH.
II was mostly mismanagement ana
not getting started right. II he hau
come out when the fiat salary move
mont was started and got right
straddle OF IL and got those thin legs
of his clapped around the big end OF
that proposition, like the boy riding
tho trick mule at the circus, he might
have gone around the ing'
Then, after having given the Geer
push the grand bounce at the state
convention, he might have sent some
one up TO Salem and rubbed them the
right way of the grain and got them
all into line with smooth talk ana
polltical soft-solder, and, with ms
friends all harmonlzed, Geer woulu
have fell in and gone out and can
yassed for the ticket.
In Geer and Ford Salem has two Oh
the best campaigners in Oregon OF
any other state. They are different
I'm their methods, but about equahy
directive. and either one could nave
elected Furnish alone and single
handed.
The Republican ticket hadn't real
good campaign talker among Hs
makeup. unless we counted the Attor-
lney.General Crawford, and Ackermah
for state superintendent, and they
both had non.politlcal offices. SO the
burden Of the song fell on Charles
Fulton.
Furnish not only failed TO catch
onto the winning program, when all
now concede was the Hat salary ques-
tlon. but he got bad management
right from the start, while Chamber
lain had deyllsh good management
all through. Nature was against EUR
nish. bill" is too slender for goou
hatrack. The people of Oregon IKE
10 see good broad.shouldered, full
benled rod.necked, round'faced speci
men of manhood get up and talk about
being their governor. They want
man who hns a siXteen-inch colla
and gets up steam enough to bust
- suspender button once In awhile
Furnish may be a swift man, a speed
man. when on the right track, ana cal
rying no extra weight, and the ger
eral belief was that he's smaE
~ enough to make good governor, bu
~ 4, he don't look II. He made a mistak
~, when ne chose Charley Fulton to max
all his canyass-Fulton a pronounce
y candidae for the senator. lie wa
nd antagonlzing an other aspirants'
But they had 20 have their wa
and II they had won Charley Fultc
and Jack Matthews would be u
greatest men in oregon, and gre
many would bow TO them who vi
now scof at them,
''' A funny thing happened When FL
- ton and Furnish struck Salem Fu
nlsh had ignored Hat salaries up
that time, and here a bright your
Republlcan went up to his room al
made him write IL right into d
speech. and when he read Il at {
armory il was the only place he s
4 a cheer,
u No such campaign has ever be
run In Oregon where all the ma
\ llent" orators We're kept on the ticf
and history has repeated l'seH'
\ every man who has tried TO beeol
\ governor by proxy has been sat up
In one way or another
~ Il Is safe to say the next time
- Republicans win take up man
- governor who is at least physioa
the equal of boy athlete at the
Il NJ. c. A.
They viii take up a man like Cha
berlain. who has square should'
fun deep chest. and on from Wit
shanks a cannibal could carve a
licious steak.
Chamberlain's appearance hell
him All through the campaign,
'vss looked like a man who could be Z
lloal ernor. and talked like man who
Oal' not handing out shelf-worn stock
snt his audiences.
her lie viii not give the people seee
y be hand stun In his administration,
rom when the dignitaries and potent'
'''e' OF the whole world come TO Fortl
during the Lewis and Clarke ENl
tion they will be met by eourt'
gentleman Who viii know what to
An an able and On-hand manner,
who win have all the appearance
being a strenuous well'fed. full'we
American OF the Western stripe