The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1902-04-26

gon Beyond the election of two congress
,,on and = United States senator, the Roosevelt adj
minstraton is in way involved in the Oregon el'r
ton The election of state officers is business mat
ter that the taxpayers far more than u d"'S
the managers Of federal politics, and the inauguration
Of business methods nccad Of CRAFTS is of greatest
importance in this commonwealth
Multnomah county contains about oncfourth the
voters of Oregon and i'm that county there Is no Dem
ocratic ticket The fight is sQuarcy between two rae
tions of the Republican party One Of those factions
by dctorial methods, drove the other faction out OF
the county convention That faction assumed contr"
of the state conventions and put its slate through that
body, employing the unit rule with 90 delegates to
make any combination il saw fit.
That faction was in control of the situation in the
state conventions and will he in control of the state
government if succeeds in carrying out its program
This faction delivered its goods to Mr. Furnish and
nominated him. and if he is elected he will deliver his
goods" to it.
Shall this deal he cOnsummaed by the voters AT
the polls on June 2d or shall this deal be defeated by
the defeat of Mr. Furnish? Shall all the departments
of the state government be acionizcd according to
the program of the dominant faction in Multnomah
county? Shall this faction be put in charge OF
every state institution, it certainly will ID" II Mt
Furnish is elected?
As between mere factions Of the Republican
party, solely as Republicans the people would not
have much choice. But as between their methods, the
conduct of conventions there is all the difference pos
sibe For the past four years the state admhlStrl'
ton controlled by members of the other faction, has
been run broad party lines. No appoinlcr was
turned down because he belonged to one faction or the
other The state institutions and departments have
been conducted without thought of building mp amy
faction. ON the plan of the faction that stands back
of Mr. Furnish every institution, every department.
every board will be monopoizcd for his faction
Mr. Furnish has been at great expense to carry
the Multnomah county primaries. lie will be at som"
expense to secure his election. If he is true to his
friends that money must be made back, and political
appointments must be made at the demands of those
who put Mr.. Furnish in the governors chair What
the faction will do that controls Mr. Furnshs career
as "a state Official can only be Judged by their methods
as revealed in the state conventions and their practices
in the last legislature Those methods the methods
Of stand.and.delivcr more than the methods of good
government They are not the methods of good Rcpub
Leans, as pructiccd in Marion county, and the most
enlightened Republican states in the Union, 80 that
as between Republicans, judged by the best Republ
can standards, il is not wise to mconize the whole
state government by electng Mr. Furnish, and putting
him and Secretary of State Dunbar in control of every
board of every state institution and educational nst
tuition under the control as they will be- of faction
that has nothing commend it but kcencSs for plum
der and rapacty for spoilS. II il were square fight
between the two great political parties for the control
of the state government the situation would be differ
cnt But this is fight within the Republican party
factionizc the whole state government in the inter
est of faction whose methods are un Republicans I'M.
Democratic and m-Amcrican,
This is the political situation from a Republican
standpoint within the party But far more inn.
portant question confrons the taxpayer and that is
will Furnish or Chamberlain as governor do more to
bring about certain great business reforms that are
necessary in our state government? With the reck-
lcssness of the last Legislature staring the people in
the face with a state tax of "a mills, the time has
come to change the whole financial program at the
state house For six months TUE Journal and other
papers have been showing how, by simply putting all
state officials ON a HAT salary, saving of $4,000
year could be effected. The figures in detail printed in
THE Journal. have never been called in question
They show that the secretary of is drawing fees
and perquistes under - different laws, They show
that the state printing office has become costly graft
that can be enlarged To pay almost any campaign bills
that the hosseS may against the state These are