Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-05-17

graph wearing Scottish rite turban
and the secret embloms of the order
displayed on his forehead. In n politi.
cal campaign 1T IS THE HEIGHT
OF FOLLY TO PARADE A MANS
FRATEREAL OR RELIGIOUS AT
FILIATIoNs. TO advertise a candi-
dates lodge or church is unamerican,
and City Chairman llill has promptly
resigned, or been pulled off as the viii
liams campaign manager.
The row between the Lewis and Clark
fair corporation and the State Lewis
and Clark fair board is attracting much
attention. The ultimatum Of President
JET Myers and Secretary Ed Giltner
produced about as much effect on Pres
idcnt Goode and his executive commit
tee as an italian bootblack withdrawing
his account from the First National
bank. Governor Chamberlain named
principally Democrats on his commits
sion. Jefferson Myers, John II. Albert,
@. Y. Harry, Couch Flanders, Frank
Williams, Richard Scott Of Milwaukee
and other patriots who are making sac
rifcos Of their time, fortune and per
sonal comforts, TO promote the upbuild.
ing Of the state, made fiat demand
on President Goode TO know what was
being done with space, with conces.
sions and especially with free passes.
II has long been rumored that CON.
CESSIoNs HAD TO BE SECURED
AT ABOUT THIRD HAND, and un.
told stories of uncountod shekels were
lost in passage between the remote
missionaries and the Worlds Fair
strong box. This was very CALLING 10
the unselfish patriots Of the state
board, and in their public spirited in
dignation they arose to inquire. Pres
ident Myers has given two of the best
years Of his fair young manhood to pro-
noting this fair, as he says, "practi'
cally without remuneration. Just what
he would consider remuneration no one
could estimate. That he has given up
his law practice, his farming and his
real estate business, and political as
pirations, aud thrown his whole strength
and energy into the Lewis and Clark
fair business is undisputed. That Gov
ernor Chamberlain 3 whole board has
served faithfully and for little or
nothing is probably a fact II was
natural, right and proper that they
should want 10 know about the emol-
uments appertaining 10 concessions and
free passes. II is also fact that only
one solemn and honorable body could
properly handle the concessions aud
passes. Forsooth, il would make bad
work il concessionaries had to meet
the rules and regulations of a trained
band of artists on the state board, and
also of the Lewis and Clark corpora
tion proper. That suave, princely and
public-spirited monarch of the Guild
Lake government preserve, Col. Goode,
can attend to all that sort of business.
JEFF Myers and Edmondo Caesarowitsch
Giltner are as children who should be
seen and not heard when il comes to
dealing with the royal revenues and the
issuance of complimentary pasteboards
SCAT, SAID THE GREAT AND ONLY
GooDE, AND THEY SEATED. II
does not yet appear who will receive
free passes, but it may be set down
that all public officials, all big fnan-
ciers and corporation officials will be
passed, from this and other states. That
is the rule. Only the sovereign citizen
pays. The fakir who works the hay.
seeds and their families who attend,
the midway grafters, the hundred and
one skin game operators licensed to
plunder the unwary at all such expo
sitions, these predatory hordes win get
halffare tickets il they do not 60 in
free. But in justice and fairness to
the state board that body ought to
be allowed to issue some passes to their
relatives, stenographers and friends,
The members Of the legislature who
voted the 100000 of state money
ought to be remembered and probably
viii be. Mr.. GOode ought to be good
to those who made HIS GOODNESS
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