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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-01-05
A CURE FOR CORRUPTION.
Dr.. Roberts Advocates Very Stringent
Methods.

DIR T. F. Roberts preached yeSter-
dav at the Church of This World, on
1.-The States Prison and Reform" ba-
sing his remarks on the widespread
misdoing of public officials, says the
Kansas City Star. He commented on
the fact that the crimes were not COM
mitted by the so-called criminal class,
but by men who had sustained good
regulations and who were in many IN
stances men of wealth. He declared
that this master evil of the epoch had
sprung up in its present far-reachlng
manner soon after the Civil war and
had been fostered by the rapid accu-
mutation of wealth since 1865. He
traced the growth of popular feeling
toward public institutions and said:
The public is by many regarded as
a legitimate object of prey. The sense
of obligation to the public rests but
lightly. A man who would ScOrn to
rob or defraud a man who is loyal and
truthful in his dealings with indlVidu-
ais has no scruple at being the reverse
in his dealings with the public. The
public, in the minds of many, is
thing so vague and indefinite that they
find it both difficult and inconvenient
to establish moral relations between
it and themselves. Special legisla ton,
the obtaining Of franchises, the return
acts conceived of as relating to the
public. and not subject to the stern re-
qurements of morals as between man
an dWOman. We condemn the man
who holds up a street car conductor.
That is a crime against the individ-
ual. We think little of it when a street
car company holds up q city. The
larger the victim the less the crime.
The lobby is a word synonymous
with improper means and methods to
influence legislation. The lobby pro-
duced a twin evil. the "sandbag." The
lobby fent to capital cities to secure
legislation; now it has to go to prevent
legislation. 1t was a game we'll suit
ed to both For if men would pay
money to have certain laws enacted
they would also pay money to have GER
tain other laws not enacted. These
evils have grown stealthily and steadi-
| ly. They are generally believed to ex-
| list: in q certain sense they are ac-
cepted in a mattr-o of fact WaE, as
! though they belonged. to oar form OF
government and We're inseparable from
| it, But the seeds of death are within
| them.
| The causes of the evil are general
| The whole people are the guilty ones
| | accuse the public. l arraign Oul
modern age. l charge our custom anC
habit with moral delinquency; ant
when l think of the absence of the
| ideal. when 1 think of a nation will
bent knees at the shrine of mammOn
| when I think of subsidized press anC
a timorous pulpit, the wonder is tina
we have not sunk deeper still in un
| cleanliness and corruption.
| After devoting some time to an ex
PLANTATION of what remedies We're flu
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-01-05
To Be First for Roosevelt

TOPEKA, kaS. Jan. 5-The renrb-
lican state committee is in session
here today, pursuant to the call of
Chairman Albaugh. for the purpose Of
deciding upon the date and placa for
to the republican national convention.
1t has been practically decided BIZ the
committee to hold the convention early
in March in. order to be the first STATE
convention of 1904 to come out strong
for the denomination of President
Roosevelt
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-01-05
Postpone Bryan Meetings.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Jan. 9Th
meetings of the jefferson League, Wit
William J. Bryan as the principa
speaker. advertised to take place il
tomorrow night. have been POSTPONE
until next week. This change ha
been made necessary by a change ii
the plans of Mr.. Bryan, who will moi
a week later than he first intended.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-01-05

tile in uprooting the evil. the speaker
declared that he believed the real rem
edy was a simple one. He said If the
law made it impossible for profit to ac-
crue from any legislation wrongfully
secured or franchise obtained by cor
rupt means the problem is solved.
Continuing, he said:
The problem is one for wise men in
the law to work out. But suppose, for
example, that a law were enacted
whereby any franchise found at any
subsequent time to have been secured
by improper methods, that it should
became null: that all property rights
under it should be invalidated; that no
matter what its stocks or bonds or
property might be. by whomsOeVer
held, the title was at once wiped out;
suppose it should become law that
with corrupt means or influence should
be by that very fact a nuliity, where
would be the profit in boodling and
bribery? OF course it would come to
pass that under such legislation there
would be thousands and thousands of
innocent investors in stocks and bonds
of companies who had improperly Sc
cured their franchises, and the innO-
cent would suffer. 1t is time for us
to face the fact that never since the
fall of Eve has there been crime
committed upon this earth but that it
ces the innocent. 1t is no more pos
sible to separate the consequences of
wrong and i'll doing from innocent suf-
ferers than it is to separate matter
from the reign and sway of physical
laws. This principle is applied to the
process of the courts. If a verdict is
rendered in one of the courts, and it
is found out afterwards that the jury
was Influenced, the court does not for
Il moment hesitate to set aside the YER
dict and order a new trial. But no
matter through what cesspOols of COR
ruption a franchise may be dragged,
it becomes valid and binding. Take
the profit out of wrong doing, elimi-
nate the dollar, fix it SO that it will
have no cash value whatever-then it
would become the business of every
man, of every citizen, Of every in
weston, of every owner of a dollar to
see to it that councils and legislatures
We're clean and above reprOach
And another remedy is this, and this
is far cry, and before it is made eff
fectiVe many generations perhaps
must come and go; but the ultimate
remedy is to awaken the people to the
fact that the final basis of morals is an
intellectual one. That in the long run
there is no profit; no advantage. no
gain can possibly come to any man
through violation of moral principles
as the race has substantially agreed
upon. Let us institute the ideal; let
us teach the youth that character is
the thing of highest value within the
possible attainment of men: that
wealth is thing to be had if posi-
BILE, that it has no sins to wash away,
no crime to atone for; that man is the
only derelict. the only delinquent: but
that life without character. integrity,
justice. loyalty to the ideal is a door to
the pit.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-01-05
MCBRIDE MEN HOPEFUL.

Dave Larimer. the Politician OF
the Spokesman Review, who is one OF
the best posted men in his line in the
state. writes as follows to his paper:
Any casual observer, familiar even
in a general way with political condi-
lions in this state, who will take 10
day trip to Puget sound and there as
certain the views Of representative
politicians of all factions, will be I'M
pressed by three things:
First. that Governor Mcbride is on
the up grade; that his chances of re-
nomination are exceedingly bright;
that the sinister forces opposed to him
are frightened at the wonderful
strength which he is developing, and
| frankly acknowledge, as rule, that
he is stronger today than he has ever
been.
Second, that present appearances
point to State Auditor j. D. Atkinson
as the man most likely to be selected
by the anti-McBri republicans as
their candidate for governor.
Third, that in the event Governor
Mcbride is turned down, the pressure
on ex-senator George Turner to be-
come the democratic candidate for
governor will be SO strong that he will
! find it difficult to resist it.
There will be no southwest combi-
nation formed against Mcbride. The
southwest is hopelessly divided. Nc
Bride, to all appearances, will have
Clarke, COwlitz, Wahkiakum, Pacific
and Mason counties, with strong
fighting chance for Thurston county.
Lewis and Chehalis counties will prob
If a northwest combination is form
ed it will be for Mcbride and not
against him. That he will have his
own cOunty-Skagit-iS assured; even
his bitterest enemies acknowledge that,
but a fight is being waged on him at
home in order, if possible. to divert his
attention from other localities. The
result of the Belingham election rem
ders it practically certain that Mcbride
+ will have WhatcOm county. This
gives two Of the three large counties
| in the northwest.
! An interesting factor in the north
| west is the probability that Secretary
of State Nichols will carry SnOhOmish
county against the Ankeny faction
which wants to unload Nichols and
nominate F. II. Brownell for congress
Nihcols' friends claim the county and
his enemies. while not willing to ac-
knowledge his claims, admit that there
is a possibility of his winning.
| Nichols is a railroad man. and he
! doesn't like Governor Mcbride per
sonally;. but his closest friends admit
| that even if he carries Snohomisf
county he can't win a nomination
without the aid of the other countie:
of the northwest. To get the aid o
them, his home delegation, bitter a:
may be the dose, must swallow Henri,
McBride's candidacy for governor.
In King and Pierce counties the sit
uation is clouded to some extent b.
approaching municipal contests il
Seattle and Tacoma. At the sam
time, the governors friends believe h
will have Pierce county and that h
will be able to seriously divide tn
King county delegation. 1t is admitted
that it will be practically impossible
, to send solid delegation from Kin.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-01-05

The members of the city council are
showing a cOmmendable spirit in CO.
operating so cordially with the COM
mitteeS appointed by the Commercial
Club to promote street paving, the So
luton of the water question and other
improv ementS now under cOntempla-
ton. BY thus pulling together for the
good of the city. much will be accom-
plished and the city will soon gain an
enviable name abroad for its public
spirit and enterprise.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-01-05
Ohio's Governor Refuses Extradit

COLUMBUS. o., Jan. 5.-The GOV
ernOr today on the ground that ne bt
lieved w. NJ. Hahn innocent of II
charges made against him revoked u
was 10 have been taken to New IOl
to stand trial on the charge of stealth
$4,000 from the Manhattan Insuran
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-01-05
Minister Beaupre Arrives.

NEW YORK, Jan. 5.-Minister Beau
pre- arrived from Colon today. He de-
clined to discuss Colombian affairs ex-
cept to say that Il better feeling pre-
walls
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-01-05
Six Hundred Girls Rescued.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. Six hun
dred girls We're rescued uninjured
fire escapes from Smith & Sons mill
today. At no time did they shoy
panic. The property loss is $4,000
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-01-05
CITY OFFICIAL PAPER
WEATHER..

Tonight and Wednesday fair, cooler
tonight.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-26
LuMBERMEN IN POLITICS.

TACOMA, Oct. 25.-The chief issue
in the present warm State campaign
has been injected by 1900 lumber
manufacturers and dealers of Puget
Sound, who are determined to leave
nothing undone toward securing an
extension of the Accent lumber rate
to Nebraska, Kansas, South Dakota
and other Missouri River points. The
rate of 40 cents per hundred pounds
now applies only to st. Paul. The
rate is $50 cents to Omaha, which Is
only a mile farther from Portland,
where the Hill and Hartman lines
join.
The opposition of the lumbermen
applies equally. to both systems because
last summer they rejected theirrequest
for a lowering of the rate in the ter
ritory named. Lumbermen are ac-
cordingly pledging the holdover Sena-
tors and all candidates for the next
Legislature to all measures which will
secure a Accent rate to the Missouri
River. Candidates are signing the
pledge in numbers.
The Northwest lumber industries
pay annually in wages SAT, 900, 900, be-
sides freights of $22. 100000, the lat
ter forming more than one-third of
the gross earnings of the Great North
ern and Northern Pacific last year.N
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-26
SALINAS GIVES GREETING
TO PERKINS AND NEEDHAM

! SALINAS, Oct. 25.-Congressman
Needham was accorded a great recep-
ton here tonight. Shortly after dark
great bonfires were lighted on the
principal streets and for fully an hour
before the meeting there was con-
tinuous display of pyrotechnics in the
vicinity of the large pavilion where
the meeting was held. Senator Per-
kins divided the honors with Congress
man Needham, each making a strong
speech.
Needham talked nearly an hour and
a half on the insular and isthmian pol
icies of President Roosevelt. He was
frequently interrupted by prolonged
applause. His attack upon the Demo-
cratic platform and Judge Parker's
letter of acceptance and speeches kept
the audience in laughter for some
time.
After the meeting closed a man who
said he had voted the Democratic
ticket for forty years shook hands with
Needham and Perkins and said he was
going to vote a straight Republican
ticket this year.
You knocked holes in the Demo-
cratic PLATFORM he said to Needham,
big enough to drive my wagon
through, and / guess I'll get in with
the party that is doing things"
Senator Perkins paid great tribute
to Needham's ability and standing in
Congress, and enjoined his hearers to
remember the great good already done
the Sixth District by Needham. His
value" said Perkins, will be greatly
enhanced by his reelection" Continu-
ing Perkins appealed to the young men
to place themselves in the ranks of
the party representing progress and
prosperity.
Senatorial candidate Lynch and AS
sembly candidate Cooper made strong
speeches.
Monterey County Republicans conf
IDENTIFY expect a majority for the ticket
of more than double that of two years
ago. although the total registration in
the county has fallen off. The large
losses, however, are in Democratic dis
tricts. The Republican strongholds
have a greater registration than usual.
This afternoon Perkins, Needham
and party visited the town of Spreck-
els, four miles from here. Their stay
was short and no speeches were made,
but the visit to the great sugar REIN
cry aroused as much enthusiasm
among the employees, many of whom
left their work long enough to shake
hands with the visitors.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-26
REPUBLICAN RALLIES
IN THE CITY TONIGHT
Julius Kahn and E. A. Hayes
Secretary Metcalf Wires That Per-
kins Won the Collier.

In regard to the legislation in Con-
gress for the building Of steel collier
at Mare Island Navy Yard, Hon. Victor
Cabinet wires this message to General
George Stone, chairman of the Repub-
lican State Central Committee:
WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. rs, 1904.
Congressional Record shows that
Perkins obtained the amendment in the
Senate. VICTOR H. METCALF.'
When the foregoing telegram was
shown to prominent Republicans last
night the remark was made: THE sup
porters of Bell who have been attack
ing Senator Perkins will now turn and
attack Mr.. Metcalf."
REPUBLICAN RALLIES.
There will be two Republican rallies
in San Francisco tonight, one in the
Fourth and the other in the Fifth Con-
gressional District The meeting in the
Twenty-eighth Assembly District at
Occidental Hall, on Third street near
Howard, which was at first scheduled
to take place Monday evening, October
"a, was postponed until tonight. Fail
ure to engage the hall rendered the post
ponement necessary. The list of speak
ers, however, remains unchanged. Ju-
Illus Kahn, the party's standard bearer
for Congress in the Fourth District;
F. A. Marley, nominee for State Sen
ator, Seventeenth District, and William
Mindham, candidate for the Assembly,
Twenty-eighth District, will address the
people. The meeting will be held I'M
der the auspices of the Republican
State Central Committee
At Phelps Hall, 81 Devisadero street,
there will be a rally tonight of the
Republicans of the Thirty-seventh As
sembly District. E. A. Hayes. nominee
for Congress, Fifth District, will speak
to the voters. F. G. Jones, nominee for
the Assembly, and Senator E. 1. Wolfe,
candidate for reelection in the Twen-
ty-first Senatorial District, will also adj
dress the meeting. The Thirty seYenth
Assembly District is relied on to give
the Republican ticket magnificent
majority.
Four years ago Mckinley carried San
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-26
Voters Of Mayfle|d
Are Out for Hayes

SAN JOSE, Oct. 25.-There was a
bis political demonstration at May
field in honor of E. A. Hayes. the Re-
publican nominee for Congress in this
district tonight. 1t was the largest
political gathering ever held in the
town, and there was an abundance of
enthusiasm. A band concert and nu-
merous bonfires enthused the crowd
before the meeting. Ralph McComish,
president of the Mayfield Republican
Club, presided.
E. A. Hayes delivered stirring adj
dress, dealing with the tariff and the
issues raised by the national platform.
He urged the election of the entire
Republican ticket This was neces-
sary, he said, to insure the carrying
out of the policy advocated by Nc
Kinley and now being put in force
by Roosevelt. Hayes said a Republic
can Congressman would be able to ac-
complish more at Washington than a
Democratic one, and he promised if
elected to work for the interests of
California and the citizens of the San
ia Clara valley. Hayes was well re-
ceived and he was frequently ap-
plauded.
The other speakers were: Major
Kyle Of San Francisco, Edward Distel
of San Jose, Fayette Mitchelltree, cam
didate for the Assembly in the Fifty
seventh District, and F. E. Mitchell.
candidate for Supervisor.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-26

party? Do the principles Of law which Mr.
cleveland thought last March protected manu-
featuring monopolies change in October. and IL
so, Goes the change affect the Belmont trusts
or only those which suspected Of seeing in
the perpetuatfon of Republican administration
try?
Judge Parker. in his speech on Monday. also
said: Many years have passed since my act
i've participation in politics. In the meantime
a startling change has taken place in the
method Of conducting campaigns; a change not
Tor the better. but for the worse a change
that has introduced debasing and corrupt meth
DDS which threaten the integrity Of our Gov
eminent"
1t is astounding that Judge Parker should
be willing to challenge the comparison which
this statement inevitably calls out. When
Judge Parker last actively participated in pol
New York State Democratic Committee, which
elected David B. Hill Governor. He was
been in our political history methods more
debasing and corrupt than those of the Hill
machine in New York and they eliminated
in the steal of the State by frauds and the
overthrow Of the Hill machine in consequence
This was the machine which Mr. Parker ran
until, a reward for running it. he was
made Judge by Hill, and these are the meth
DDS he deDlores.
Again, Judge Parker speaks of the campaign
contributions by great corporations. He states
that some Of the enterprises which have I'M
duly thrived through favoritism have become
so rich and strong that they and do con-
tribute vast sums when it is made clear that
II will be advantageous to them. Judge Par
ker Is describing precisely and exactly the
sources which gave Tammany Hall its strength
and the cutting off of which in the pres
ent election would remove every chance OF his
carrying New York State. There is not an
honest man in political life who does not
know that this is the and knows that
Judge Parker is seeking to be the beneficiary
OF the very methods which he affects to de-
nounce
Again. Judge Parker says: Political con-
tributions by corporations and trusts mean
corruption. They cannot be honest A cor
poration will subscribe to a political party only
because the corporation expects that party,
through it's control of public officers, executive
or legislative. to do something for the benefit
Of the corporation, to refrain from doing
something to its injury No other motive
can be imagined: that in the nature of things
no other motive can exist"
II is astonishing that Judge Parker should
have the temerity to say this when his own
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-26

intimate associates and supporters. the men
who conducted his campaign for the nomina-
ton and who now conducting the cam
paign for his election, represent these very
corporations which he affects to denounce, or
else owe their political strength solely TO
the contributions they have received from them
in the past and expect to receive from them
in the future.
When Mr. Hill last April in the State con-
vention which put Judge Parker forward for
the Presidential nomination declared that the
trusts should be regulated by the State and
not by the nation, and when Judge Parker
himself declared that the common law was
sufficient for their regulation. knowing full
we'll that this meant the abandonment or
every effort to regulate them by the Federal
Government, Mr.. Hill and Judge Parker We're
bidding for the support of the great corpora
tions and bidding for this support with reck-
less disregard of the interests of the public.
Now, as a last despairing effort. he inyeighs
against them and seeks to obtain votes by
thus attacking them in a manner utterly I'M
worthy of the candidate of a great party for
the high office of President
Judge Parker's statement in yesterday s
speech that the President and the trusts COM
b!ned in an effort to satisfy the country
that trusts were opposed to the present adj
mnistraton" is simply preposterous and
smacks of the rashness of desperation.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-26
MEET TO BUILD
Up THE WEST
ns-Mississippi Congress
Delegates Gather at st.
Louis for Annual Session

ST. LOUIS, Oct. 25.-Eight hundred
delegates to the ans-Mississippi Com
mercial Congress assembled to-day In
Congress Hall on the Worlds Fair
grounds. During the sessions, which
will continue through Saturday, mat
tiers Of Importance to residents of the
transit Mississippi region will be dis
cussed, such as Irrigation Good
Roads," River Navigation" and In
terstate Commerce Laws"
Previous to the opening Of the session
a meeting Of the executive committee
was held, at which 1t was decided
to limit the report OF the committee on
resolutions to 500 words. 1t was also
decided to hold only one session daily.
The meeting was called to order by
the chairman of the executive commit
tee, Thomas Richardson of Portland.
Or. who introduced B. c. Kerens of st.
Louis. Kerens, in the course of his re-
marks, said:
The Trans Mississippi Congress has given con-
sideration and suggested and carried through
amendments to mining laws; has promoted
sought the better protection Of the forestry
on the public domain. and has labored for
the many harbors Of refuge and commerce on
States. where over 1000 miles Of the Pacific
Ocean washes the shores Of California. Ore
Much yet remains to be accomplished. AS
the United States continues to expand and
increase in population. necessary legislation
and improvements. well public policies
viii become apparent. Many subjects OF ma
tional Importance Will be brought forward in
the present session. Discussion of every sub
Ject is the best mode Of arriving at a correct
decision.
Alexander II. Revell of Chicago
spoke on the subject, "A Single Six
Year PRESIDENTIAL Term" He favored
change from the present four-year
system.
A number Of delegates made short
impromptu speeches, reviewing the
work accomplished in the way of in
dustrial and commercial advancement
in the Western States. The congress
then adjourned until tomorrow morn
ing.