Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-10-27
Urinary
INTEREST
GROWING
|,,nds of the Candidates are
Hustling for a Big
Registration

rsore Is nothing doing in the
nr;mary contest. Candidates
ouietly getting as large a regis
,,on of their friends as possible,
& ,his Is one beauty of the direct
nary All the aspirants are in
0stad in registering their friends,
the result is total registration
# tbe direct primary that will be
sge What is known as the Ges-
machine is busy. Some of its
( mhers employed out in the coun'
S driving prunes have been brought
nd are hard at work for the slate
slate has assumed pretty def
proportions, and will be well
ntifed before November Sd, the
n of the primary.
For City Marshal.
rbe tbree-cornered fight for this
90 continues with the best of
I'D feeling between Messrs Gibson,
bngcor and Knight. All are conf
mt and there is no talk of combi-
Btions. 1t is going to be a ques-
bn of getting their friends regis
&red, and getting them to the polls
I'M three men are admitted to be com
htent to fill the Office in good shape.
The Mayors Office.
This prize is not going begging.
kldge Hubbard is an old-timer, and
politician who lets no grass grow
|nder his feet. He was in the city
buncil and served as county judge,
hid is familiar with the duties of
he office George Rodgers would
hther not have had the office, but
|is friends, especially the younger
usiness men of the city, demanded
bat he make the sacrifice. They
|ointed out that his service in the
legislature would only last 40 days,
lille the Office of mayor was for two
EARS, and that the city demanded
lie time and attention that he was
Die to give the place. Judge Hub
lrd is also a man who would have
isure to attend to the duties of the
ice.
For the other offices there is no
ntest. There is feeling that the
ndidates should more fully tell the
'ople where they stand on matters
&c public improvements and en-
rcement of laws and granting fran
ises. The people generally are op-
'sed to granting franchises for
ere speculative purposes. They
ant something doing, not hot air
hemes.
Mayor Waters Out of 1t.
Mayor Waters has been ap-
coached by many of his friends, re-
rdless of party, asking him to run
ain, but he has told them all he is
t of it. He says he has not tried
much to give the city a partisan
as he has tried to get
'eet improvements, permanent
ldges and new street car lines go
into the country. He has great
th In the Salem and Mehama cleo
c line, and is working day and
sht on the right of way problems,
d securing charters through the
"ns it runs through. A new sur
Is being made direct from Stay
TO Lyons, and up the Santiam to
timber. The people of Lyons
illy offer more business than Me-
ma, and there are less obstacles
the right of way. Mayor Waters
gratiiied at the way the people on
z finest streets are accepting the
oposition to put down bitulithic
He hopes whoever is
osen mayor will be a man who will
allow public improvements TO
as he says he never worked
'rder in his life than he has the
st two years to get things agoing
'hg those lines that will make Sa-
Il cleaner and more beautiful
y and credit TO the state. What
wanted is a Mayor whose heart
IN That work and who will not al
improvements TO be blocked and
He'd on and queered on any sham
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