The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-11-05
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CONVINCING ARGUMENT IN "a
voR OF AN APPoINTIvE
RAIL WAY COMMISSION.
Democratic Assessor OF Umat'Iia
County Is Making Telling Speeches
in WaiIa WaIla County.


Umatilla county, Oregon, is making an
excellent address to the voters OF
Walla Walla in the present campaign.
He speaks principally on the railway
taxation question, and his speeches
are doing much to convince the voters
that the only chance of securing the
enactment of an appointive railway
commission bill is to vote for the
democratic candidates on the state
ticket and the democratic nominees
for the legislature. The following Is
the speech delivered by Mr.. Strain:
When l meet people Of Walla Walla
know am in good company.
Wherever one goes in your state he is
justified in feeling the same as
surance. l do not come here as the
champion Of any party. and feel
as though I am addressing men who
are not party slaves.
Wherever your history is known the
name Washington is uttered with re-
spect, because men who are truly
free are truly great, and greatness
compels universal admiration. True
greatness does not consist SO much
in genius as it does in honest simpli-
city.
Your state enjoys a high reputation
because her citizens know what they
want and how to get it, without the
consent of any mercenary boss what
ever Wherever we go in this coun-
try we find political high-binders
whose mission it is to blackmail indie
pendent freemen into the camp of one
party or the other. Down south these
men are democrats. In New England
they are republicans In the doubtful
states they belong to both parties. But
no matter what party they represent
or what land they inhabit, they de-
base it. They always seek to control
the dominant party. Having accom-
plished this, they draw about their
candidates the holy vestments of some
great statesman deceased. They also
fiaunt their country's flag only to dis
grace it. But these men can flourish
only in an atmosphere of ignorance an
prejudice.
You elected honest John Rogers,
the populist governor of your state.
You sent George Turner to the U.
S. senate and every one of you who
act. You are going to do better next
Tuesday than ever before; you are
going to elect the whole democratic
ticket. You have learned that polit-
cal parties are only machines. They
possess different names just as wag-
ons do but they are all designed to
serve the same end. You may prefer
a Balm wagon. So long as it's man.
ufacturer puts honest material in it,
you will use no other. But the moment
you find a rotten spoke here, and a
wormeaten axle there, that moment
you try some other make. And if all
the wagon manufacturers should re-
sort to the same practice, you farmers
would probably build wagon factory
of your own.
/ have heard it rumored that you
have found some unsound material in
your republican ticket this year. Now
If this be true, l feel confident that
even the most partisan among you will
reject such material, and those of you
who are truly free, will repudiate the
whole machine, just as you would a
wagon That has one rotten hub. The
spokes might all be perfectly sound
and every part true, but you would
not buy the wagon. You would teach
that man Balm to put honest timber
IN every part of his vehicles, This is
the way to get good wagons and it is
also the way to get good government
If your party has wilfully put one
bad hub, or one bad spoke. in it,
county or state ticket there is M
surer way to make the next on,
sound in every part than to vote tn,
straight democratic ticket next Tues
day.
The enemies of Turner accuse him O
professional office seeking.
1t matters not Ubofbor tl,;c bo 49,,
or false. If he were a mere medfocr
charlatan seeking power solely for hi
own benefit, it would be your duty t
balk his ambition. But he is a ma
OF pre-eminent ability, a great states
CURED CONSUMPTION.
MRS. b. w. Evans, Clearwater, Kan