The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1906-11-13
Corvallis Times
CORVALLIS, OREGON,
TUESDAY EVENING, NOV. 13, 1906
A PORTLANDER'S VIEW.

4 PORTLANDER'S 5 VIEW.
In an article elsewhere a Port
lander demurs to the TIMES asser-
ton that it is not the fault of the
Oregonians that, though he is our
congressman, Mr.. Hermann is in
dicted, and therefore incapacltated
from rendering proper service to
the state in congress. The cores
pondent contends that Mr.. Her
mann has been dismissed from his
commissionership at Washington,
that he had been dismissed by the
president for alleged irregularities
and that all this was known before
Mr.. Hermann was either nominated
or elected.
The correspondent is right in his
Coutention as to the knowledge the
people had before the election OF
Mr.. Hermann's shortcomings. Mr..
Hermann was elected in defiance of
that fact and with full knowledge
that the president had dismissed
him. Voters however, wee told
that Roosevelt had his eye on Orc
gon and that Hermann election
was important as an endorsement of
the administration. 1t was the
trick of the politicians and it work
ed. Voters were duped, and Mr..
Hermann was elected. The result
is the present huniliating spectacle
of Oregon unrepresented in the
lower house at Washington.
Though he is congressman. Mr..
Hermann Is discredited. His in
fuence is gone. The mere repute
of completely in any way with Ore
gon land frauds is any mans un-
doing. tits an indictment for land
frauds that hangs over Mr.. Her
mann. He cannot help Oregon at
Washington. Nor can Mr.. Will
hanson for the same reason. The
state is simply unrepresented in the
lower house, and if neither will
decently resign Oregon must suffer
the consequences, and go unrepre-
sented until the terms of both ex-
pire.
In the meantime, those voters
who insisted on Mr. Hermann s
election have notable example Of
the folly of obeying the behest Of
politicians at voting time.
THE PORTLAND TRAGEDY
The Portland tragedy of yester
day in which a brother shot and
killed TIE man who wronged hi:
sister, presents SO ry aspects. The
brother pleaded piteously three
quarters of an hour for the marriage
that would save his sisters name
but when refusal met each entreaty
he grew d sperate and his revolver
ended the melancholy interview
and the life of the seducer.
On a corner not far away, al
this time, stood the mother and
sister hoping that the meeting
would bring to the latter hus-
bands name to SHE d her shame.
The sorrow of it all can only bs
understood by those whose imagin
alton is keen. In the Jail, the
brother reflects upon his act and
must wonder if Heaven approves
To slay is an awful alternative,
but to listen to mothers grief and
be in touch with sisters shame is
equally awful. The officers of the
lew had been tried, and they held
out no hope that by law the wrong
TO the sister could be righted. The
envi, ,onments of the unhappy family
have not been lessened, but there
has been vengeance. A warning
note has been sounded to the
scoundrels that seek out and prey
on the virtue of young girls, but a
hapless mother and sister are worse
off than they were before, for the
support of an avenging son and
brother and the counsel and COM
fort he would give, is held away
from them by steel bars.
AS to the dead man, he got wha,
he deserved though the pity of it is
that it did not come through the