Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-06-01

mixing the babies up some, as the
friends Of Mitchell, Hermann and Will
hanson are as rule the staunchest
supporters of Williams, and yet when
it is pointed out to them that his re.
election is holding up the hands Of the
president in prosecuting themselves
well, WHO WILL BLAME THEM II
THEY DO NOT HELP DO ITO AN
other boomerang is the warfare Scott
has been waging on the plutocratic
families Of Portland who, for good rea-
sons best known to themselves, put up
their good hard coin to establish the
Portland Journal and IL has cost them
pretty nice sack. They have been
contributing to make plutoerats Of
Scott and Pittock for forty years and
GOT TIRED OF BEING ALTER
NATELY HELD UP AND THROWN
DOWN. SO they have founded a mo-.
nopolistic organ of their own and It
has been getting the best of the tall
tower publications in several respects,
and threatens to give them paresis, To-
comotor ataxia, and complications Of
several other fatal diseases and put
them on the bum generally, and a long.
suffering public rather enjoys the de-
struction Of the one obnoxious and dan
gerous press monopoly that has kept
Oregon under wet blanket for 10,
these many years. To get even Scott at.
tacks the Ladds, the Millses, the
Bateses, the Lewises and divers and
several other proud and naughty rep
resentativos Of the capitalistic class
WHO NO LONGER CAN BE HELD
UP FOR THE SOLE BENEFIT OF
THE TALL TOWER sTRoNGBoXEs,
and they are bad people and want to
ruin the city by their control Of street
ear franchises, by their large bank
ing influences, and their political cuss-
edness generally. On top Of all this
they are roasted as secret adherents Of
Lane and for being Republicans for
convenience and revenue only while
Scott and Pittock are the pure goods,
and who, while no longer the reigning
families, they are the ancient families
and the hereditary foes Of privilege
and monopoly.
Incidentally the tall tower spits fire
at the mention Of Jack Matthews name
lie is bad man, and the wicked first
families who control that awfully wick.
ed publication, the Portland Journal,
have had him in their employ. OF
course, 1T IS ONLY RECENTLY
THAT HE WAS IN THE EMPLOY
OF SCOTT AND PITToCK to make
Scott senator in 1908, and Pittock gov
ernor In 1906. At least Matthews and
his lieutenants were in charge Of the
campaign that reunded up the prima-
ries for a Scott delegation in the legis-
lature, and made a state delegation
that put the lamented VIM. j. Furnish
on the ticket. But having invested
its money in nomination, the tall
tower newspaper so adroitly eartooned
n. T.. Geer as TO drive him out Of the
harness, and the Furnish campaign
went into history as defeat from
which the party has not yet fully re-
covered BLAMING MATTHEWS
FOR THIS, it was not deemed safe to
entrust the Scott senatorial boom in
his hands and he was advised to stay
away from Salem during the legisla'
tive contest and Senator MeGinn and
Leslie Scott did business with country
members in such an effective manner
that FULTON WENT IN HANDS
DOWN and it has been all of with
Matthews ever since. This is political
history that the general public have
never fully understood. In casting up
the accounts Of things past and present
it will be seen that the Scott warfare
on the big plutoeratic families and
street ear monopilies of Portland does
not augur well for Williams election.
The talented young editor of the
Baker City Maverick, L. Bush Liver
more, has coined a new word. In the
course of three column review of
one of my articles (and the same paper
has eulOgistic sketches Of Francis }.
Heney, and tells how he won a divorce
suit by shooting man right through the
middle of the heart.) He refers to
this writer as "sLINGNd AN os-
PEN, DIPPED IN W.T.
RIoL HEATED BOILING HOT, AND
WRITES ON ASBESTOS ON A CAST