Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-04-03
BROWN OUT FOR GOVERNOR.
Reform Sheriff Out on a Speeping
Reform Ticket.

(Extract from Baker City Her
aid, February 2, 1909
Harvey c. Brown, for the past 1
years sheriff of Baker county, an
nounces himself as a candidat,
for the nomination OF governo1
on the republican ticket, subjec
to the voters and not the machine
of the party, at the primaries or
April 20, 1906.
His platform is as follows:
The primary law and the elec
ton of all officers by direct vote
of the people.
Adjustment of all machine.
and bosses. and let the people
rule.
Enforcement of all laws, city,
county. state and United States
and the repeating of the same il
not the proper laws for the peo.
pie.
The abolishment of the use o1
money for campaign funds and
purposes by any candidate, fac
ton or corporation, only as actual
legitimate expenses.
And last, but not least, woman
suffrage.
HARVEY BROWNS STATEMENT.
I believe il our new primary
law because it gives the people a
chance to select whom they want
they are not compelled now to
take what the old machine and
the bosses put up for them at the
old conventions.
I am a Roosevelt republican,
who, in my opinion, is one man
that is strictly honest, and one
that monev does not tempt, and
think it time that the republicans
of Oregon were turning down the
old machine and bosses and get
ting in line with the people, be-
cause If they do not they viii
turn them all down, as they have
evidently done in Portland, and
get men from another party who
will do as the people want done.
The use of money for compaign
purposes am strictly opposed to,
only as legitimate expenses. Be-
cause people for the right don't
put up money for that purpose,
but corporations, wholesalers and
retailers in Legitimate business
and gamblers will put up money
to no limit to hold on to and
further their interests in the city,
county, state and United States.
And if they don't put up the
the money, and candidate does,
he generally. as past records
will show, by grating or usin.
public money, will go wrong al
ways to the detriment of the
party and the people at large
And here I want to urge the re-
publican party in every county
to nominate the right kind of
men for senators and representa-
tives to be voted on at the next
general election.
Now, last of all, but not least,
woman suffrage. believe in it
because if a mother is capable
of raising boy from the cradle
to manhood, she is also capable
of voting and helping to make
laws that help govern the boys
after they are men. And if any
one in the world has any in
fuence over men for the better
ment OF mankind and good gov
it is a good mother,
wife, daughter, sister or sweet
heart, and we will all have to
admit there IS a very large ma
jority of this kind of women in
our glorious old Oregon, my ma
tive state.
Now as for my record, it is l.ere
in Baker county, from childhood.
Aad as to my record as sheriff, 1
have done the best I could 1rr
the people under the circum
stances, and can say I am on
man that is just as free today q
I was the day / went in ofhce
and / will admit that I am H.
orator or public speaker, but On
of the best single handed talker'
in this county on these subjects,
and l expect some great criticism,