Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-05-22

The President has become alarmed
Unless Mitchell, Hermann, Williamson
are convicted, something will drop.
That Scott. .McGinn Heney still hope
to involve Fulton the best posted here
do most solemnly declare. The gossip
of the clubs say that McGinn will not
be Judge and that Fultou's scalp is to
dangle at Heney's belt. An agent of
the President is TO be sent here to look
up THE RECORDS OF ALL PARTIES
CONCERNED. expect to be on the
ground when that happens and keep
readers Of this paper posted on what is
taking place.
There will be one newspaper pub
lished WITHOUT STRINGS ON 1T,
WITHOUT A MUFFLER to silence
the escaping steam. The people ought
TO get hold Of the other side Of the mat
ter for awhile, at least.
Senator Mitchell is working hard
preparing for his trial in few weeks.
He still has the little rooms At Hotel
Francis, Ninth and Morrison, WHERE
HE KEEPS WARM WITH A LITTLE
OIL STOVE, and has piled around him
stacks and stacks Of letters and docu'
ments touching on the case. Ex-U. ;.
Senator John NJ. Thurston and Judge
A. s. Bennett are with him almost ev-
cry day and working from morning to
night on his vindication. 1t is pitiful
TO see man Of the age Of Mitchell,
who has occupied seat In the U. 3.
Senate for quarter Of a century, who
has lived amid the luxurios and splen-
dors of Washington society, whose
daughter is duchess in one Of the old
royalist families Of France, who was
ON THE POINT OF SUCCEEDING
SENATOR MARK HANNA as chair.
man Of the inter-ocednic canal commit
tee-houscd like this and prosecuted
like a felon.
Mitchell cannot 60 out Of the house
and move about, but he is followed and
watched by government spies and de-
tectives. They dog his footsteps about
the hotels and even trail him on his
calls to private houses.
OF course, it is said, Mitchell aud
Hermann are grafters, that Mitchell as
senator took 1000 from S. A. ID. Puter
TO INFLUENCE HERMANN AS
LAND COMMISSIONER TO ExPE-
DITE FRAUDULENT TIMBER
CLAIMS, and that Heney can prove
where Mitchell put this money in a
bank, ote., etc This story has been SO
repeatedly published that it is widely
and generally believed.
The Capital journal has asked it'
readers 20 suspend sentence until all
the facts come out on the triaL The
journal has opened headquarters here
AT Portland, and its editor will attend
the trials if he is permitted TO do 81
and write his own report. He will try
to hear the testimony, the arguments
of counsel, the rulings Of the court, the
instructions TO the jury, and form hi
own opinion of all.
Personally, 10 the editor it looks un
reasonable that two men like Mitchell
and Hermann, who have gone through
the whole corrupt school Of politics an!
the training and test Of public ofiie'
for twenty-five years, who had count
less opportunities to enrich themselye
without much risk of discovery, shoul'
at the end of their long career as hon
orable public servants be caught doinl
AS RAW, COARSE, FOOLISH AM
UNREAsoNABLE AN ACT AS TAX
ING TWO MARKED ONE THOU
sAND-DoLLAR BILLS FROM
MAN LIKE PUTBR.
If two professional gamblers (exous
the eomparison), who had successful.
pursued the game (for politics is
game, a gamble, a lottery for a quar-
ter Of century, and in their advances
years were hauled up before a justie
of the peace for a simple trick like slip
ping cards OF the bottom of the pael
or pulling them out Of their sleeves
the situation could not be more ridieu
lous or prepOsterous than the Pute
| (eonvicted) charge against Mitchell
and Hermann.
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