Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-06-05
COUNTRY PRESS HAS GIVEN THE
EXPOSITION ITS LIFE and popular

EXPOSITION ITS LIFE and popular
ity with the masses Of the people Of
this state, and not dollar of the
$4,000 advertising fund and not a
courtesy has ever been shown them.
There is a State Press Association, but
who among them has ever been recog.
nized for anything but demands for un-
limited free advertising for the fairf
The mails every day are burdened with
the press copy, prepared for all the
country papers, TO tell of all the won
derful dancing maidens and hootchie-
kootehie parades that can be encoun-
tered on the trail, and the hundred and
one grating enterprises ready to take
in the rural populace on their arrival,
strung all the way from the union de.
pot to the entrance Of the fair grounds.
1t is certainly a harvest time for the
Portland grafters, from the high lords
and titled muckimueks Of the fair
board down to the humblest member Of
Mayor williams's angelic police hosts
The tremendous interior development
Of Oregon has not been materializing.
The result may come about after the
Lewis and Clark fair, but most Of the
fair visitors so far have been Of THB
PLEASURE CLASS, WHO
ARE WELL FIXED AT HOME and
are not coming west to look up farm
home or TO swell the population by
raising family: Fakers, spectators,
hot-air artists, bank robbers and
cracksmen generally, there will be a
small army Of coming to Oregon this
year. But the honest farmer and tiller
Of the soil will not come TO a state not
opening up new territory with rail
roads. Here is the record Of Clatsop
county, as given by the Astorian:
"The census returns Of Clatsop coun.
ty have been nearly completed. The re-
turns show an increase in the popula-
tion Of Astoria during the past five
years Of about so per cent. In nearly
every country precinct the returns
show a falling of, in some instances 25
per cent The decrease is more notice
able in the farming districts, and a
very poor showing is made. From the
returns, il may be deducted that there
are no new farmers coming to Clatsop
county. 1t is an admitted fact that
thousands Of farmers from the Eastern
states are coming to the Pacific coast,
but cLATsoP COUNTY HAS NOT
RECEIvBD OR ADDED TO ITS POP
LATIoN ONE SINGLE FARMER. &.
The latest turn in the land fraud
cases is the roar of Secretary Hitch
cock over Judge Gilbert's naming
Judge De Haven to try the land fraud
cases. 1t was supposed that Prosecutor
Heney had named that judge, but il
seems the judiciary itself was consult
ed, and that De Haven is not just what
Hitchcock wanted 1t is even rumored
here that he is the judge who once
fined Heney for contempt of court in
Idaho or some other hoe. At any rate,
= there is blood on the moon, and the tall
tower hath been belching great
blotehes of red paint into the political
atmosphere. Judge Gilbert is not a
personal enemy of THE OREGON
MEN WHO ARE TO BE CONVICTED
II 1T Is POSSIBLE FOR HITCH
COCK TO BRING 1T ABOUT. That
J he should have named judge who is
not redhot to convict Is nothing short
of infamous in the eyes of those who
want to sweep the Oregon delegation
out of existence. The statement of the
Baker City Maverick who says would
be guilty of contempt of court if Judge
Bellinger were alive only shows that
muzzling the entire press Of the state
. in the interest of securing convictions
at any price is part Of the program
The Journal editor stated long ago that
! he would attend the land-fraud trials
in person and publish,a truthful report
of what took place there. The threat
of being fined for contempt of court
1 viii not keep him away. The Maverick
q writer does not know the meaning oi
! "eontempt of court" as it cannot b'
committed by any act or publication
after the court has adjourned. But
those kind of people imagine that they
5 can do all things, right or wrong,