Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-11-16

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The whole thing is just as much
OF hold-up as It would be If Won
were stood up at the point of a pistol
on the Nevada line and made to nav
80. AS it is now, the hold-up. takes
place at the station where you pur-
chase your ticket, only there is n
meek-looking clerk. instead of
masked man. applause
Herrin Controls Railroad Commits
sion.
We have a railroad commission.
What Is easier for Herrin? He al
ways controls that commission. He
has. a majority of officials in every
town. He looks out for the sheriff
ne takes care of the assessors and
so on down the line. All over the
United States this Southern Pacific
machine is operating. At the pri.
mary election at San Francisco when
delegates were being eletAed to the
santa Cruz convention-I knew Of
this outside of the grand Jury room
and so I can tell you of it-HerrIn
and Ruef sat down in a little back
room and figured out how much Il
would cost to control the convention.
IL was decided $1400 would do the
trick and so Herrin delivered that
amount OF S. p. money to Ruef. The
trick was turned. as you all know.
Now, what you have got to learn
is to fight hard against these condi-
tions. Herrin Is no worse than Ruef.
laughter) he simply has more ex-
cuses because he is intrusted with
larger Interests. He must see that
the Southern Pacific machine Is kept
uD all over the state; he must see
that It is always in good running
condition and capable OF making GO
miles an hour whenever It is neces.
sary.
Direct Primary Law.
"You have a sacred trust. You
inherited the grandest government
on the face OF the earth and It IS
your duty to know IT'S principles.
can tell you OF an easy way of re-
aiming your rights. You must know
the methods being used 10 down
you. The direct primary law Is the
only remedy. Most OF You do not 60
to the primaries. You do not seem
TO realize that they are the only elec-
tions that count. You must elect at
the primaries men that you know are
for you and not for Tom Fox. At
present any man who desires to bo
a candidate goes 10 Tom Fox or Jim
ellis or Bob Richardson. Gillis
sees Boss Herrin, n slate Is fixed up
and passed to he delegates who vote
it.
"You ask how II Is that with our
President Roosevelt opposed 10 all
these thing Bob Richardson Is post
master. Why that s easy? In tho
United States senate they have what
Us called the courtesy rule. II "A
candidate Is mentioned for Office and
one senator says he objects 10 the
proposed appointee the would-be
candidate is turned down out OF
courtesy. Now do you wonder why
Robert Deylin Is United States at
torney? Devlln is very nice man,
but there is a suspicion that when he
was up here he was a trlae too
friendly with 'Herrin. Perkins, SEN
ator Perkins, George c., he's fine
man. But he and Herrin are not
enemies. Even Perkins and Ruef
are good friends. Why did Perkins
give Ruef a certificate of good char
acter before the San Francisco grand
Jury when he knew Ruef handled the
Southern Pacific money. but he did
not care provided Ruef's men in the
legislature would vote for him per
klns) for United States senator.
did not come here TO pick on Per-
kins, but fortunately Perkins makes
too good an example"
Prosecution i'm Oregon.
From this point Heney jumped to
his prosecutions -in Oregon and the
dlfionlties he encountered in the
United States senate after he had
succeeded in having Bristol appoint
ed district attorney and wanted a
senatorial confirmation. In the
course of this part Of his talk he
branded Senator Foraker of Ohio a,