The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-12-01
w. SCOTT.

a possible aspirant for the senator
ship from Oregon, and along with
that mention a contemptuous fling
as though there were something
wrong if Mr.. Scott should so aspire
is a thing occasionally encounter
ed in the newspapers of Oregon.
The why and the wherefore of the
fling in the premises, is a condition
difficult to understand or explain.
Why should not Mr. Scott aspire
to the senatorship? Wherefore
should other men have free scope
to desire public preferment, and
that blessed privilege and frequent
boast of American citizenship be de-
MED Mr.. Scott? If Mr.. Scott has
done something in his lifetime that
renders him ineligible to the sena-
torship, what is it? Is the fact that
he is and has been these forty years
editor of a newspaper, something
to disfranchise him from Office, and
that ought apparently to send him
to the penitentiary? Has Mr..
Scott influence and pen been all
these years a miasmatic poisonous,
yellow effect. blighting the growth
and development of Oregon; or has
it been all this time an influence,
helping to build up Oregon, seek
ing to promote and develop all the
interests of the commonwealth and
striving to pilot the state into a
higher, nobler destiny; and is ie for
this that MI. Scott should not dare
to be mentioned by his friends for a
great Office? Is it the fact that, for
years, the Oregonian, as conducted
by Mr.. Scott. has been everywhere
recognized as the greatest newspa-
per in the West, and Mr.. Scott as
the greatest editor in the West
are these things to incapacitate Mr..
Scott . for public preferment
and to make of the remote posi-
bility that he might be asked to ac-
cept place the occasion for a fling?
Mr.. Scott is a national figure as
an editorial writer, and his paper,
for years, has been known and
quoted from the Atlantic to the Pa
cifc, and from the lakes to theG Pull.
1t requires brains and great mental
ca1ibre to seize and hold such a po-
sition, and yet it does appear from
the references here spoken of that
these things are not assets for a
senatorship, but a positive handi-
cap.
Mr.. Scott is apparently a man of
probity, honor and unsullied integ-
rity; for during forty years of semi
public life, in a calling that peren-
nially invites criticism, there has
been no scandal, no charge, no &C.
cusation. no breath of dishonor
against his name; but honor and
probity apparently r not, in view
of late developments in Oregon, as
sets for a senatorship, and therefore,
Mr.. Scott is disqualified. Three of
those whom the people of Oregon
set ever themselves and sent to
Washington as lawgiyers are dis
graced,-three indicted inthe courts
and two convicted and condemned.
Is it the talents these three had
that are the real assets for senator
ships from Oregon, and it is by that
token that Mr. Scott is ineligible?
If so, it is we'll; for Mr.. Scott S
present position is far more emin-
ent. far more full of honor and res
pectability than a senatorship, even
with the occupant a man of purest
integrity; and yet, being a product
Of Oregon, a part and parcel of Ore
gon, and albeit, commensurate men,
tally with Oregon, it would be per-
fectly ftand beautifully appropriate
that he should be, as he ought in
thelogic of things to be, the united
choice of his party in Oregon for
SENATOR position that he is large
enough to completely fill, that he
is statesman enough TO have a