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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-05-10
ANYTHING TO WIN.

The question is occasionally
raised as to why with a majority
against them, Democrats have
been elected regularly every two
years to fill the ''paying" Offices
in Benton county.
There is one, and but one an
swer. 1t has been the policy of
the trio of Democratic bosses to
sacrifice every non-paying office
on the ticket, and bend every
energy to capture the ''paying'
ones. The Business Democrat is
after the crumbs that fall from
the tables of the sheriff, assessor
and clerk, the Willy Sachem is
interested only in the election of
those who can throw legal busi-
ness to him; and the other-well,
he is always a candidate for one
of the paying offices himself.
With them party success is ever
subordinate to personal profit.
"Anv alliance to ensure victory, "
has been their motto, and the
Democratic cloak has been used
to cover a strange variety of coali-
tions.
A few years ago the "saloon
vote" was the deciding factor in
the elections in this county. AS
went the saloons so went the
election. In those days the sa-
looms of Corvallis were not the
quiet, orderly resorts they are now,
but were conducted on the wide
open, stand-from-under plan. Yet
their support was necessary to
Democratic success, and, as he
says himself, Judge McFadden
"acted as wetnurse for them"
With the growth of the Ore
gon Agricultural College, the de-
mand came for more strict en-
forcement of the license law in
Corvallis; the saloons passed into
the hands ofa better class Of men ;
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-05-10
DID GOOD WORK.

Every Oregon bill save two,
was passed by the Congress jus1
closed. Not in years has the Or.
egon delegation so thoroughly
cleared its docket of local legisla.
ton. Mitchell and Hermann
worked as faithfully and effective.
ly as OF old, and Senator Fulton
gives promise of attaining the
prestige once held by the grand
old statesman, Joseph N. Dolph.
No new man has ever made bet
ter record than that of Oregon's s
junior senator during his first
year in office. His career of use
fulness is just beginning, and nc
young man in either house OF
Congress has brighter prospects
of becoming one of the promi-
nent men of the Nation. Voters
of this District will continue the
present effectiveness of Oregon's S
delegation in Congress, by re-
electins Mr.. Hermann by an over
whelming majority.
The following are the princi-
pal measures and bills of import
lance secured by the Oregon dele
CATION:
The Lewis and Clark appropri-
alton of S475, 900, introduced III
the senate by Senator Mitchell
and in the house by Congressln II
Williamson.
The Cello canal bill appropri-
alton of 500, 900 for the improve
ment of the Columbia river as a
rider to the sundry civil bill.
The bill giving the state of Or
egon title to land for a site for a
fish hatchery on Wallowa lake in
Eastern Oregon. introduced by
Senator Fulton.
Other bills: Transferring Fl.
Dalles to the Oregon historical
society; limiting lieu sections OF
land of like character and value
to those relinquished; increasing
pensions of Indian war veterans;
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-05-10

1t is not at all complimentary
to Hon. John Daily, John Whita-
ker, Marion Hayden, R. !. Mich
OILS, Thos. Cooper, and the other
gentlemen that have represented
this county in the legislature,
when the Times tells the people
of Benton county that they ''can
cut off the gratis and turn the
grafters down if they will stop
sending dodgers, schemers and
t1icksters to the legislature"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-05-10
NOW IS THE TIME.

The first big Republican rally
of the present campaign, was held
at Woodburn last Saturday night.
Leading Republicans were in at
tendance from nearly every por-
ton of Western Oregon, and
many prominentspeakers address,
ed the meeting. Hon. Dan ].
Malarkey, of Portland, was one
of the orators of the evening, and
his remarks were most enthusias-
tically received. He said in part:
On the first Monday in June the voters
of the state select their congressman and
their state and county officers. This
district will return to congress man
who has there rendered Oregon faithful
and efficient service and will continue to
do so. But what would impress upon
you most tonight is that you are voting
in June not only for candidates tor state
Offices and representatives, but are vot-
ing. as the case may be, either for or
against Roosevelt, and That a vote for
the straight Republican ticket in June
really helps Roosevelt more than. a vote
for the Republican electors in November.
We cannot realize or estimate the
moral effect and the enthusiasm that will
be created in her sister states by record
breaking majority in Oregon in June for
Roosevelt and the Republican ticket.
Every thousand above the previous rec
ord will elsewhere bring 10000 more
votes to our candidate. Let this, then,
be our battle cry from now until the polls
close on June 6-"Twenty thousand ma
jori,y for Roosevelt and the straight Re-
publican ticket
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-05-10

the rowdy element became scat.
tered, and the churches took or
new life and influence. The
Democratic bosses held a confer.
ence and it was decided that the
.'blackleg" must be discarded 70,
the Puritan" A new coalition
must be formed. War was begun
on the saloons. Bacchus and Bac-
chante were cast aside, and the
Goddess of Reform found an ar
dent wooer in the erstwhi1e sutton
of the Goddess of Wine. All the
rancor of the ap state has since
been displayed by the Democratic
bosses toward their old compan-
IONS in arms-the keepers and
Ihabitues of the saloon. AS Judge
McFadden says: ''that is good
bait to catch the bible-backs."
Let it be said to the credit of the
latter, however, their eyes are
now thoroughly opened to the
true condition of affairs.
During the transition period
while the affections OF the Demo-
cratic bosses were being transfer
red from the saloons to the church
SIT was necessary to enlist the
aid of a temporary ally. The
Populist party held the balance
of power in Benton county at
that time, and it "looked good"
to the trio. An alliance was form
ed with that party and it was
given the glory, while the Dem
ocrats got the Offices. To accom-
plish this result it was necessary
for Judge McFadden to "stand
aside" in the Democratic-Popu-
list convention. He has never
recovered from this humiliation.
Writing on this subject about
year ago, he said: Il was never
as mortified nor disgusted in my
life as when 1 saw Pop Robinson
in the chair in the capacity of
Democratic High Priest"
This, briefly, has been the his
tory of the Democratic party in
Benton, since it became the
plaything of the little coterie who
profess to own It. The policy of
sacrificing every Office that had
mo money in it," for those that
''pay"; of neglecting all others
and bending every energy to car
ry these, is the one that has land
ed these Offices every two years
in spite OF an adverse majority.
The merits of the candidates on
either ticket have had nothing to
do with it. Judge McFadden
has said so, and he ought to know.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-05-10
The four columns below are
published by the Republican
Central Committee of Benton
County, Oregon.
Edited by GEO. L. PAUL.
REPUBLICAN, TICKET.
COUNTY.

Senator
w. E. YATES, of Corvallis
Representative
VIRGIL CARTER, of We Is
Sheriff
J. NJ. CAMERON, of Corvallis
Clerk
RICHARD SCOTT, of Willamette
Recorder
T. T. VINCENT, of Kings Valley
Commissio ioner-
l.. III. HAWLEY, of Dusty
School Superintendent
G. w. DENMAN, of Corvallis
Treasurer
W. T. LAFFERTY, of Corvallis
Assessor
GEO. COOPER, of Philomath
Surveyor
T. L. READ, of Wren
Coroner
S. N. WILKINS, of Corvallis
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-05-10
Gen. Thorp and 7. Fred Yatt

Gen. Thorp and J. Fred Yates
organized a Roosevelt club in
Willamette precinct, last Friday
night. After organization was
effected a rousing meeting was
held, and large number signed
the roll. The officers of the
club are: J. E. Thompson,
president; George Mercer, secre-
tary.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-05-10

establishing Portland essay office
authorizing sale of unsold portions
of Umatilla Indian reservation,
and others.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-05-10

Benton county is going to con-
tribute her. share Of those 20, 900
votes for Roosevelt in June.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-11-15
The City Council Has
Ordered Bond Election
100000 ASKED FOR.

The city council held special
session, Or called meeting, last
night, to consider the matter of
sewerage.
Every alderman was in his
seat, and the mayor presided.
Alderman Knapp moved that
the council authorize the
mayor and city attorney to draw
up notice for calling bond cleo
ton for sale of bonds to the
amount of $4,000 for the pur-
pose of sewerage system and
also to increase the water and
light plant, same to be held at
the same time of city election.
$4,000 to increase the water and
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-11-15

If we do not keep in line with
other nations in the way of ex-
panslon or growth, we will inev-
itably succumb in the struggle
of life in which all nations are
engaged, sooner or later. Self
preservation demands growth
and development, on the princi-
pal of the survival of the fttest
in the battles for supremacy, "
and if our republic doesn't ex-
pand as other nations do, it is
but a question of time when the
imperialistic powers will swallow
us as the big fish eat little fish,
and the little fish still smaller"
Formerly an American was
desplsed, maltreated in foreign
countries; now, thanks to our
policy of expansion, and strong
military and naval arms, Euro
peans raise their hats, fgur-
atively speaking, to Americans
abroad. That's what our sane
and sensible" expansion policy
has accomplished.
And where is the consistency
of northern papers criticising
Mr.. Rooseve1t's Panama policy?
Does this policy not accrue to
the benefit of the South infinitely
more than to the advantage of
the North? Will not the South
receive almost the whole exc1us-
i've commercial benefit of it?
And was the acquisition of the
canal-zore, without a drop of
blood being shed. not a marvel
of states manship? Any imper-
ialism in the legitimate pur-
chase of this strip of land?
In not one instance can any of
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-11-15

our colonial policies be
tortured into a sem blance of in
perialism. Nowhere has it as
sumed the form of conquest by
force of arms, such as is wit
messed by Germany, in Africa;
Russia, in Asia; and Great Brit
tain, in the Transvaal. For this
kind of Imperialism the Ameri-
can nation has no use, and will
never countenance it.
Our people have, however, sat
down" upon the mugwnn1p i
false cry of Imperialism, Id
manner which I trust the de
cratic leaders will not Tor
when they get ready for ano
presidential cam paign.
Give us Bryan and Folk
our next presidential caud
and, if the cry Of Imperial
never more heard in the
will bet my bottom dollar
will be elected with al
whelming majority. The AZ
have spoken to that eIfec
most emphatic manner.
Even Judge Parker realizs
to what his defeat is due, tor
his statement, issued after thN
election, in which he outlined the
correct financial policy to be pur-
sued during the next Campaign,
he never alluded with one word
to Imperialism.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-11-15

The Rome Tribune expresses
it's views in these words: I'VE
are of the breed of democracy
represented by Thomas Jeffer-
son in its foundation, and repre-
sented today by William Jen-
nings Bryan, if you please"
And the Nashville, Tennessee,
News says: The American peo-
pie, as a whole, like what Mr..
Roosevelt stands for-power,
ACKNOWLEDGMENT, show. Their
strongest wish is for ma
terial prosperity, and they want
things done, no matter bow"
With this latter conclusion l do
not agree. The American PEG.
pie want things done RIGHT,
with a comparatively few excep-
tons who persist in doing all
things wrong, but these being,
unfortunately, of the most inf1u-
entail order, they lead the masses
into all manner Of snares and
pitfalls. Yet, let an influential
man, who insists on right, arise,
and see how the people will flock
to his support! Of this Joseph
W. Folk, democratic candidate
for governor of Missouri, who
was elected by large majority
in the face of Roosevelt having
also received the electoral vote,
affords a conspicuous example.
One advocating the suppression
of all forms of corruption in mu-
nicipal and governmental affairs,
and the other honorable and le-
gitimate expansion. Both these
principles strike a sympathetic
chord in the average Americana
breast.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-11-15

light station and extending the
mains; and $4,000 of said amount
to be putinto sewerage system,
motion was carried.
On motion of Aid. Radcliffe the
price of first-class wood at the
water and light plant was in
creased to $1.6O per cord.
The clerk was authorized to
employ help for the balance of
the week, five days, at So 90 per
day to assist in receiving taxes.
The mayor was authorized to
have the clock tower closed and
locked in for the protection of
the clock.
Several minor matters were
passed on.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-11-15
EDITOR ENTERPRISE:


In many states that gave Roose
welt a large majority, democrat
lc governor was elected. This
shows that the democratic party
is anything but dead.
The masses of the people are
as much in sympathy with true
democracy as ever. But what &C.
counts for the overwhelming de.
feat Of Parker and Davis? I will
tell you. IT WAS THE CRY OF I'm
PERIALIsM!" With that cry the
American people are NOT in sym
pathy. It was this false cry the
people showed under" in the
most emphatic manner, not the
Democratic party, as the numer-
GUS local and State elections
showed, whic'. gave large dem
ocratic state majoritics.
l have argued against the cry
of Imperialism ever since it was
first raised. There is no sense
in it. There is vast difference
between legitimate expansion
and Imperialism. What foreign
imperial nation would have re-
1inquished the Pearl of the An
titles "-Cuba-after it was once
n-lts grasp, as it was in ours?
But we had no legitimate right
to retain possession, and, there
fore, allowed the Cubans to pad
die their own canoe" Not so
with the Philippine Islands. We
purchased them of Spain for
$20,000,O0O, though any other
nation would not have paid Spain
one dollar for them, but held
them as an indemnity for the
war expenses. After having
purchased the islands, they be-
came United States property,
part of our domain, and we cam
not, under the constitution, re-
linquish them.
But the cry of imperialism"
being raised by that republican
mugwump, Senator Hoar, of
Massachusetts, Sarl Schurz, and
other mugwumps, both repub-
lican and democratic, took it up,
with the result that the demo
cratic party was defeated at
every subsequent election, and
so emphatically in the last that
the democratic leaders, I tr1st,
will have learned a lesson from
it. And so they have, 1 am glad
to see. The Atlanta Constitu,
tuition, and many other demo
cratic papers in the state and
elsewhere, have found out
where the Shoe pinches." Il
attributes the defeat of the dem
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-11-15
SIGNIFICANT *
BY HERMAN WETTSTEIN.

ocratic party to "the mugwump
element, to which was conceded
the privilege of making the par
tvs nomination, and every phase
OF the campaign was shaped at
its dictation." It looks upon
this element as having been the
determining factors whose dag
gers still dripped with the blood
of the party's candidate (W. J.
Bryan) of four and eight years
ago. 1t was so of the gold tele-
gram and of the wild and reck-
less charges concerning the Phil
ippines."
The Charlotte News says: AL
seemed to prefer Mr.. Roosevelt
to Mr.. Mckinley, or Mr.. Bryan
to Mr.. Parker But you
blamed us powerfully for voting
for Mr.. Bryan four and eight
years ago, and now the returns
show that he was more of ia
vorite in New York itself than
Mr.. Parker was this year in his
own state"
The Macon News com ments
thus: William Jennings Bryan
is today the most commanding
figure in the democratic party.
His was the strongest and most
commanding personality in the
campaign which has just closed,
just as he was the central and
favorite figure at the St. Louis
convention. His splendid SER
vices in the late campaign in
creased the admiration of his
friends for him, and won the re-
spect and applause of his former
enemies within his own party"
The Savannah News says of
''Imperia1ism:" The people are
not now as afraid of imperialism
as they were" They never we're
afraid of it worth a cent" On
the contrary, the administra-
tons colonial policy is one of it's
"redeeming features" to which
alone it can attribute it's victory,
not to its financial policy.
AS to the wild and reckless
charges concerning the Philip
pines," to which the Atlanta Con-
stitution refers, the Savannah
Press has this to say: "The peo-
pie of the United States we're
told by Judge Parker and his
coadjutors that the experiment
in the Philippines had already
cost tie nation six hundred mill
lions and would cost a billion in
time; they were told that the
growth of imperialism was not
only expensive, but was a men
ace to free government"
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-11-15
Union Thanksgiving Service.

A Union Thanksgiving Ser
vice at the First M. E. Church
Thursday November oath, at
1890 a. m. A Testimony and
Praise service by Rev. Cum Minis,
and sermon at 100
l. Doxology.
2. Invocation.
3. Voluntary.
4. Song No. us.
5. Prayer.
6. Scripture Reading.
7. Song No. 227.
s. Sermon, Rev. Hagan.
9. Collection.
10. Song No. 3O1.
II. Benediction.
All the business men are invit.
ed to close their stores in time,
at least for the HOO o'clock ser.
vice.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-11-15
T turkey Dinner.

The ladies of the G. A. r. and
Post II will serve dinner at Odd
Fellows Hall Thanksgiving day.
Everybody is invited to partake
This will be one of the finest of
the season. Do not forget the
date, Nov. Oath. Dinner IS cents.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-11-15
Great Storm on Atlantic Coast;
Eastern States Suffered Sever

New York, Nov. IL.
storm which swept up the All
tic coast from the Gulf of M
co yesterday and last night
velopiug into a gale as it M
northward, resulted in the m
complete tie-up of wire COM
IGNITION that the eastern sta
have experienced since 1888 4
arraged train schedules, par
ed trolley lines and piled SEQ
wrecks along the coast.
and snow accom- panied the sta
adding to the destructivenea
the gale. Telephone and
graph poles borne down by
weight Of snow and ice incru
wires gave way before the sw|
of the wind, and whole Sc
were cut off.
SCOPE OF THE STORM.
Both the telegraph com
and the telephone com
with long distance wires
reported their fields of
tons restricted to the
bounded on the west
delphia, on the east
and on the nor tn bv
N. Y. The big BRO
Germs in Wall sire
whom, under nor
operate THOUSAND
wire, today fe
helpless.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-09-26
ADJUSTMENTS

In can American Tramp, b.
b. Kldder, the well known play
wright who wrote "A Poor Rela
ton" and Peaceful Valley" for
Sol Smith Russell, solves the
problem that has vexed the rural
communities for years. In it
Mr.. Kidder attempts to show
that with kindness and just ap-
probation of man. even if in rags,
and the consequent respecting of
his rights will impel even the
most confirmed hobo to think he
is on earth for a purpose. IN
this play the author promises a
new and rather novel motive, that
of rascally husband insuring
the life of his wife, then stupify-
ing her with drugs, hiding her in
an attic Of a deserted (and sup
posed to be haunted) house, sub
stituting another body for hers
and collecting the insurance
thereon. Through the medium
Of an ordinary tramp the wronged
wife is liberated and restored to
rights that had been wrested
from her and the guilty pun
ished. There is said to be a
happy blending of pathos and
wit in ''An American Tramp.
Jos. Keurney plays Happy
jack, Miss Blanche Henshaw,
the dainty little soubrette; Miss
Edna Clayton, the WeE known
opera prima donna, late Of the
Castle Square Company; Miss
Virginia Melville, a clever char
acter IrishWoman, and in fact
every part is in the hands of
competent people, and the play
is said to be one of the most sue
cessful comedy melodramas on
the road this season. At City
Opera house tonight.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-09-26
WAR DISPATCHES SUMMARIZED.

General Kuropatkin reports all quiet
along his entire front and it is evident
from the tone os the days advices
that the two armies are not yet in
close touch. A dispatch from Mukden
says that the Japanese are moving
forward with extreme slowness.
Chefoo reports that two hours of
heavy firing was heard by vessels
passing off Port Arthur, but there is
no confirmation of the dispatch from
St. Petersburg published in the Paris
Matin saying that the emperor had re-
ceived private dispatches to the effect
that a general assault on the positions
was in progress. Like the majority Of
reports originating in the European
press it is obviously an invention.
1t has been some months since Port
Arthur was in communication with
any outside point and the only news
from the beleaguered fortress has
come out by way OF Chefoo and Toxic.
On it's face the Matin story is in
credible.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-09-26
MANY LIVES
ARE LOST
Fifty to Seyenty-Five Are Dead
And More Than One Hun.
dred Injured.
Misleading of Orders Said to Have
Been the Cause of the
Disaster.

Knoxville, Tenn. Sept. 26.-Two pas
senger trains on the Southern Railway
collided near New Market, Tenn, at
10:15 a. M, resulting in the death of
between so and IS persons and the
injury of 100 to $50 others. The trains
in collision were the eastbound pas
senger from Knoxville to Salisbury, N.
c., and local passenger from Bristol
to Knoxville. Every car in the east
sleeper. None of the passengers on
the westbound train were killed.
A large number of people were going
from Knoxville to New Market to at
tend the funeral of w. R. King, a
prominent citizen of that place. James
King, one Of the dead, was brother
of W. r. King.
The Southern Railway officials have
given out the following account Of the
wreck:
''NO. Is, passenger train from
Knoxville for Bristol, and No. 12, a
passenger train from Bristol to Knox
vile, collided just west of New Mar
ket, Tenn, at 1918 a. m. The en-
gines and coaches were badly dam
aged The wreck occurred on curve.
The baggage car and engine of No. Is
were destroyed; the engine, one com
bination car, one baggage car and
three coaches of No. IL were almost
totally wrecked The four sleepers on
No. IL did not leave the track and
were not damaged. No passengers in
the sleepers were injured, but between
SO and Is coach passengers were killed
and 100 to $50 injured. Both engi-
neers are under the engines" :"
The cause of the wreck is said to
be misreading of orders by the con
ductOr OF No. Is.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-09-26
Cylinder Blew Out.

One of the cylinders on the en-
gine of the east bound passenger
train blew out just after the train
left Solway this afternoon and as
a result the train was delayed
nearly an hour. The damage was
repaired as much as possible,
however, and the engine was run
to Cass Lake, where a new en-
CINE was substituted,