The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1906-05-25

''vote 'er straight" and "down the
Weaver citizen movement" Presi.
dent Roosevelt was not awed or
caught by the wiggle-waggle cry,
but stood solid1y with Weaver and
the citizen movement Against
the regular republican organization
and on his side victory rested. Has
not all the country, if not all the
world applauded Weaver, the citi-
zen, and Roosevelt. the president,
for not voting straight in Pennsy1.
vania? The state was 100000 re
publican but Weaver in his citizen
movement with Roosevelt S backing
elected a state treasurer by 100, 900
majority. Why did Ohio that gave
400, 900 majority for Roosevelt,
give its democratic governor IS. 900,
| and how was it that Minnesota
went gloriously for Roosevelt, and
at the same time by the same voters
went triumphantly for Johnson not
a republican governor? Is intelli-
gence, or partisanship Gods mark
of reform and progress. as evidenc-
ed in the votes of these states where
the "yap" of the party chairman
was as effectless as cat trying to
climb its own tail, and where the
voice of the awakened people voting
for their own fresides and homes
and not for party was the thunder
ing and irresistible voice of the In
finite.
What but perty idolatry disgrac-
ed the republicans of Kansas in the
case of Senator Burton, the convict
| ed CRATER? And how has it been
in Oregon? Would not the party
wiggle waggles have told you that.
had the late Senator Mitchell not
been elected, the administration at
Washington would have been dis
credited? When, where aud in
what way did the last election of
Senator Mitchell bring glory to the
republican party? His arrest, his
denial in the senate, his trial, his
conviction and the awful end of it
/, all,-jid all that bring halo ol
glory around the party in Oregon
J or in any way aid the administra.
) ton at Washington?
What about Congressman Viii
hanson? What of his conviction
for fraud on the government he
= swore to support? All over East
ern Oregon when he was running
, for congress, the party wiggle
waggles screamed "vote for Viii
e hanson so the administration al
:. Washington won't bediscredited.'
| And last of all, there is Binger
and the aurora borealis 1uster he i!
shedding on our grand common
: wealth of Oregon. He it is tha
> the world hears OF as representative
t of the citizenship of Oregon. HI
e it is that they caught with a sna1
shot on the rear end of a train a
:, Salem to show how utterly deal
Z was the fondness of the presiden
i for him. He it was that the wig
e gle-waggles said must be elected 81
r Roosevelt's policies would not b.
discredited. Contemplate if yot
, can, Binger Hermann of Oregon
E in his present disgraceful plight
/ bringing honor and glory to Theo
e dore Roosevelt! Think Of Her
mann, wearing the brand that tn
!, guilty wear, indicted for fraud OF
his country, slipping in and out
of the corridors and lodging oc
casionly into the house to draw hi
| monthly stipend as congressman
from Oregon. and then remember
, that the little wiggle-waggles fooled
, the voting yeomanry of this distric
into sending such a man to Wash
| ington to bring forsooth, crowninf
glory to the administration o
Roosevelt!
What does it all mean? Is ther,
not too much that Is good in repub
, licanism for that party to be mis-
= represented and humiliated by ths
: blight of Hermannism? Is it no
a burning shame upon the grea
and oea@5.lus masses of that party
E that . -.9wd of little wiggle-wag
! gle hoses should have deceived
dup md brow-beaten them ir
: oi>ct.nS such whitening blight:
a upon the name of Oregon to the
0 highest places within the gift O
f the people? 1t was at Washington
d recently that Theodore Roosevelt
: said: "After considerable exper
b ience in almost every kind Of gov
5, ernmental work, I have never ye