Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-06-01

III tNtIN WAY SATISFACTORY 10 tue ht-
publicans, so far as the state and con-
gressional tickets are concerned. The
indications are that Bourne will lead
the ticket, that senatorial candidate
having strong hold on the people down
here. Among many others he has been
an investor in some of the many town
site propositions, to the tune of about
100000, and the long hard struggle to
get railroads into this part of the
state has left him and many other in.
vestors to hold the sack. But a bright
er day has dawned for the Coos Bay
country, and the latest announcement
of the Hartman management, order.
ing immediate construction of the
Drain Coos Bay extension has put
life and vitality into the whole situa.
tion. 1t has put mettle into the Re
publican state campaign for the peo.
Pile proverbislly turn to Republican,
ism for assistance when there are
things doing in the direction of great
er prosperity and rapid development
of country along any line.
General hopefulness prevails, ship
ping takes on greater activity, saw.
mills throb with a new life, and the
already prosperous lumber and logging
camps become recruiting stations for
the Republican party. The local work
ers everywhere feel that defeat of
state. national or local candidates is
a slap in the face of the impending
floodtide of material prosperity that
will inundate the whole of eastern and
western Oregon, and the Republican
party, with its proverbial good luck,
will as usual get the benefit of the
whole situation. The election of the
whole Republican state ticket is gen
erally conceded Political meetings
are being held all this week in various
parts of Coos county. Col. +. Hofer,
who is filing appointments in this part
of the state for the state central com
mittee, speaks at four places, closing
the campaign at Marshfeld and North
Bend, which can be relied upon for
the usual Republican majorities. The
county candidates accompany him, and
the first of his meetings at Myrtle
Point was a great success. The local
workers had the band out and Binger
Hermann IS old homo town will make a
fawless record of good deeds for the
cause of progress and prosperity, and
the development of the Coos Bay re-
gion along the line of the least resist
ance-via the Republican party.
Col Hofer made strong argument
for DIR. Withycombe for governor He
is strong with the people down here,
as was shown by the ovation he re-
ceived when he Unexpectedly appeared
at the Farmers and shippers congress
on Wednesday, and the audience in
the North Bend pavilion cbeered him
for several minutes. He did not talk
"politics, but made them laugh with
A good story, and left them in the best
of humor, and creating the ineradiea'
bic impression Of honesty and integ'
rity that is the striking Characteristic
Of the man. Col. Hofer referred TO
this in opening his campaign at Myr-
tie Point, which was attended by quite
a number Of the politicians from here
and Coquille. He said: 81 wish e.
pecially to commend James Witty
conbe as the true friend Of the young
men Of Oregon. In all his ten years
service as director Of the government
experiment station at our state agri'
cultural college be has ever been an
example of model citizenship TO the
thousands of young men and young wo
men who have gone there from all over
the state 10 acquire an education ana
have characters formed for usefulness
in the home and on the farm and IN
the workshops of Oregon. A man OF
correct habits, Of the greatest industry
and thoroughness in all that be ua'
dertakes, performing his duties as IN
structor, whether il be In. the class
room or in the larger Geld of holding
farmers institutes, with eonseieH
tiousness and sDglensss Of purpose.
he has had more 70 DO with making
better. a newer and a more prosperous
Oregon than any one man IN tho state
In Doing this he has not excited the
envy Of his associates nor called forth
the successful criticism Of his enemies.
IL he has any, As FOR the young p<o-
MA Who have been under him, they are
his friendS Go anywhere in the ssaie
and you win Gn4 the hundreds Of b0ys
asd girls who came 70 the Cofs-ins
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