The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-05-14

OCTat1c convention two years ago
to nominate Johnnie Irwin instead
of Victor Moses, and that he failed.
The same hand that writes for the
Gazette now, wrote about the in
cident in the Gazette two years ago
April 9Th, 1902, the Gazette print
ed these words: For county
clerk, a delegate nominated Victor
P. Moses. McFadden nominated
Johnny Irwin. : But the con-
vention stood by its decision in
caucus and nominated Mr. Moses"
The truth is, that before the con-
vention Judge McFadden went
among the delegates and did all he
could to secure the nomination of
Mr.. Irwin. He was for him in the
caucus and made a speech urging
his selection. He thought Irwin
much the stronger man, and even
after Moses had been selected by
the caucus, Judge McFadden went
on the floor of the convention, and
urged Mr.. Irwin's nomination. But
just the same, Moses was nominal
ed, and he was elected, all of which
is condemnation and conviction
of the Gazette's idiotic statement,
'The democratic candidates must
satisfy Judge McFadden before they
can secure place on the ticket"
1t is equally notorious that Judge
.McFadden in the same convention
was hostile to the candidacy of
Howard Bush and supporter of an
other for assessor. But it is history
that Howard Bush was nominated,
and that he was elected by a mai
ority of more than I4o: In the
face of the record, did Mr.. Bush
have to satisfy" anybody before
he could be a candidate, and be
elected? Yes, he had to satisfy
somebody, and it was not Judge
McFadden, but the democrats and
the people of Benton county.
Thus, how unblushing. how bare
faced, how self condemnatory, are
these lies that the department of
the Gazette that Mr.. Woodcock an
nounces is not responsible and
fraud, seeks to foist upon the COM
munity? Are these lies not de-
moralizing to people? Does a
political campaign give men reason
to put forth as the sacred truth
that which everybody knows to be.
and the owner of the paper himself.
in effect, declares to be falsehood?
A newspaper is public educator,
and if in it falsehood can be told
with impunity and without public
condemnation. what can be expect
ed of the growing youth? What
wonder that there is hoodlumism
in the world, when the newspapers
themselves, supposed always to
stand for decency and truth. make
light of the truth and promote
falsehood with unblushing impun-
ity? it is permissible to lie in
the public prints. and if the news
papers set the example. and if the
example be not condemned, what
may be expected, or what may not
be expected of the next generation?
Is it not indeed humiliating, is it
not crime, that first in the Ca
zette there shall be published, "The
Gazette or its owners are in nowise
responsible for anything that may
be said in this department" and
thus. licensed to lie, the paper may
proceed to say, 'The democratic
candidates must satisfy Judge Nc
Fadden before they can secure a
place on the ticket" "
The inevitable effect of a cam
paign of falsehood by a newspaper
is to weaken the ticket in whose in
terest the lies are told. People love
the truth and hate duplicity. The
republican party, like the democrat
ic party, is not party of falsehood
and fraud. 1t is not necessary to
lie in order to promote the interests
of that party. To insist on false
III 1ulC1OSl ID W put lllC
great masses of that party in a false
light and to hold them up to a charge
of which they are not guilty. The
Wyatts, the Newtons, the Coopers,
the Carriers, the Henkles, the Dunns,
the Edwards, the Zierolf's, the
Belknaps, and scores of other we'll
known republican families are not
men who want to profit by false
statement. They want no falsehoods
told either to help them or their
party. They cannot in the natural
fitness of things, approve of a cam
paign in theiinterest of the repub-
lican ticket, conducted solely on
tissues of fa1sehood, told unblush-
ingly, such as, THE candidates on
the democratic ticket must satisfy
Judge McFadden, before they can
secure place on the ticket
The effect, and the only possible
effect is to weaken the republican
ticket. 1t is a confession of weak
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