The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1906-05-24

Holt, Ashland Senator Dufur, The
Dalles; Edgar B. Piper, Portland ;
Lutte Pease, Portland; Senator A. W.
Gowan, Senator j. II. Smith, Astoria |;
Senator Reed, Douglas county; Sena-
tor George Bates, Portland; Senator
will r. King, Ontario Senator Ben
Selling, Portland; Senator S. A. Daw
son, Albany; Senator Justus Wade,
Union; DR.. j. l.. Hill, Albany; Sena-
tor Donald Mackay, Portland Charles
A. Fitch, Oregon City; Senator
Joseph Simon, Portland; Geo. W.
Weeks, Salem; A. j. Beatty, Cinema
wa; Frank Williams, Ashland, now of
Portland George Stout, Portland; J.
Ii. Raley, Pendleton; Mr.. Wood, Nc
Minnville; l.. A. Robinson, Baker
City; Colonel II. Hofer, Salem; John
&. Young, Baker City IL. X. Kincaid,
Eugene.
"These men are some of the wit
nesses. Many of them are not Repub-
licans. If the men who printed aud
circulated these villainous ISLANDERS
have any spark Of manhood in their
character they will either offer some
evidence from these and other credi-
BILE witnesses, or else publicly explain
that they were deceived and apologize
through the public press for the
wrong they have done. This is the
only possible Ieparation that can be
made, because in practice there IL no
legal punishment for political liars.
The law reports are full of cases prov
ing that the law and the courts ale
impotent against the campaign liar. I"
Absurd and Untrue.
Edgar B. Piper, managing editor of
The Morning Oregonian, sai1:
81 was In Salem during the legisla-
tive sessions of 1897, 1901 and 1903 as
the representative of The Portland
Oregonian, and was very frequent
night and day visitor at Mr.. Jonathan
Bourne, Jr. 3, heaquarters. If, as
has been alleged, there had been dis
reputable conduct on the part of those
who we're entertained by MIR. Bourne
it could hardly have escaped my no.
tice. saw no dissipation of any XII I'D
during either of the sessions named
on the part of those whom / met at
the headquarters witnessed no con-
duct unbecoming gentlemen, and GER
tainly saw no questionable women, or
suspicious thereof, in or about his
headquarters. The charge that his
headquarters were 'harem, or that
there is the sIih htest foundation in
truth upon which to base such an ale
CATION is absurd and untrue.''
Serious and Orderly Men.
Hon. Frank Williams, a member of
the State Commission of the Lewis
and Clark Fair, in speaking of the
unsigned slanderous circulars issued
about Mr.. Bourne and his headquar-
ters at Salem during the holdup of
1897 says that he went to Salem at the
beginning of the session in 1897, and
also during the sessions of 1899 and
1901, for the purpose of working 10
the interests of the submission of the
in tiative and referendum amendment
to the Leople. He says that during
the session of 1897 he roomed in the
Eldridge block and spent great deal
of time in The Bourne headquarters,
both during the day and evening, and
knows from personal knowledge that
there were no dissolute women or
other forms of dissipation there. He
says: 81 never saw more serious and
orderly body of men. In fact, the
contest was SO bitter and nerve-trying
that dissipated man could not have
sustained it. In this connection it is
well to remember that every one of
the men who frequented those head
quarters is still an honorable and re.
spected citizen"