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THE oREGoNIAN's CONSISTENCY

THE OREGONIANS CONSISTENCY
In leader this week on Oregon Republican poll.
tics in MultnOmah county Mr., Scott writes: THAT
while Mr.. Simon himself is absent, his immediate adj
herents are forming fusion ticket, whose object is
the defeat of the Republican nominees for the legis
lature, and incidentally of the Republican nominee
for governor"
Will Mr. Scott plainly answer this question: Is
not what you Simon of doing exactly what the
faction you training with DID DO two years ago
and DID DEFEAT the Republican ticket in Multno
NAH county? Who has changed front and made II
alignment Scott or Simon?
Again Mr.. Scott says "They (he Republican
party will not be inclined to favor the use Of federal
patronage to strengthen the hands of a man who is
fighting the Republican ticket" Then why did the
boilers OF two years ago and this year, have all the
federal offcehOlders their side, and now make
Postmaster CrOasman's deputy Jack Matthews, their
state chairman, with Collector Patterson and every
federal oficeholder in Oregon the main push, and the
whole thing? It is very consistent to charge Mr..
Simon with doing exactly what the Scott-Fulton fac
itOn are doing.
In place of his daily editorial eluogizng the fac
tiOn he with, few years ago Mr.. Scott was
daily writing editorials denOuncing the faction Here
extracts from his editorials Of June, 1898: "The
Mitchell Republican ticket stands only for Mitchell 1t
does stand for the principles and purposes Of the
Rppublican marty II is a desperate cOmbna-
tion, without scrupe principle All the leaders Of
that unscrupulOus combination are today the leaders,
and Of them nominees, Of the faction, Mr. scott
eulOgizes the only sound Republicans.
In the same editorial of 1898 he says: "The chief
strength of their machine lies in their common and
joint ability to work up great vote among the ire
spOnsble vicious, semicTimnal and criminal classes
The effort s to make ma jOrites enough ntheprecincs
OF vile resort in the city the votes of repu
table citizens in other parts" The man who was able
to handle the above elements is now made Republican
state chairman, and Scott, with his assistance, was
able to dictate the nomination for governor
In the same paper, few years ago, il this item:
"The chief spokesmen of the Mitchell party are w r.
Hume and Dan J. Malarkey. These men are that
party's orators and Oraces. They are its men of udg
mcnt and character. What must the party be whose
leaders are Hume and Malarkey? What, asks Pope
must the priest be where the monkey is god? What
must the party be whose heads are Hume and Ma
larkey?" IL will be recalled that Hume was the nOm
nee against Simon, and Maarkey is now ON the ticket
that Scott s supporting. Scott is not only making
monkey of himself in this campaign, but is trying to
simianize and gorllaze the whole Republican party
by making gods of men like Matthews and Malarkey?
Mr. Scotts somersauts and Inconsistencies have
become the most lAughAblc and at the same time the
most serious phase of Oregon politics The faction he
with until few months ago, AZ well as the rest of
the Republican party, and all other parties must hold
such performances in supreme contempt They must
behold with horror what such an inversion of the very
womb of Oregon Republicanism must lead to,
All he condemned and denounced as unsOund and
dangerous to the public welfare for many years, with
great ability and perfect consistency he now cuIogzcs
as safe and sound Repubicansm and wants to put il
into power in every department of our public affairs
lie thus stands sefcOnyicted as false mentor, and
seeks 10 make his readers swallow all that he himself
has bolted to get in with what he conceycs to be the
popular political SWIM and for his own sclfaggran-
dzement ramples under foot the very men who have
fought his battles and saved him from the pernciOus
purposes of those he has now got into bed with.
His character is best illustrated in his editorial
uterance the day after Governor Gcer vetoed the
Portland charter when he said that veto had saved the
taxpayers of MulmOmah county from the c0nse-
Quenccs of their own folly. Yet for that Veto en-
dorsed nv the OrcgOnan, Scott Joins hands with fac
tOn he has always denounced to freeze Governor Geer
out of Republican state convention. Consistency,
thy name is (nt) Harvey Scott