Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-05-16
LENTLEss OPPOSITION OF INDE-
PENDENT VOTERS.

PENDENT VOTERS.
In the political campaign In a,
presidential year all the old junk
that q political party has accumulat-
| ed for twenty years COMES FOR
WARD AND CLAMORS FOR REC
OGNITION.
The snorting warhorse, the back
number, ex-federal office holder, the
man who could not get second
term, or who quit first one nnder
fire, all thes, unselfish patriots
come forward with their spoon out
| for more.
what has the aggregation that has
dominated Oregon Republicanism
for twenty years got to its credit TO
DEMAND FURTHER HONORS UP
Ion? p. e
When men will stand up and tell
lyou that the state university lands
were wasted, THAT THE SCHOOL
LANDS WERE STOLEN, that the
swamp lands were boodled away to
cattle kings, that lieu lands and base
lands were made the subject OF law
less speculation under Republican
ADMINISTRATIONS, and no one Will
publicly deny It, and tho same men
who did these things ARE NOT CON.
,DEMNED BUT PUT IN THE SAD
DLE. what can the people do but
repndiate them at every opportun-
lity?
The Capital Journal has stood for
reforms within the Republican party,
but 1T warns the machine that THE
PATIENCE OF THE PEOPLE rs
EXHAUSTED.
They will not be lined up to rat
ify machine programs as they have
been In the past.
Mems political records are going
to be HELD UP AS NEVER BE-
FORE and belonging to the majority
party Is NOT GOING TO SAVE A
MAN who is unfit or who has had
a had record from merited defeat.
The people realize that the ma
chine would take away from them
every right and vestige OF protec-
tion to decent administration, and
would foist upon them THE PRO-
vESStONAL DISCIPLES OF GRAFT
POLITICS.
Does the machine condemn Dun
bar for pocketing 100000 Illegal
fees: does II condemn Steel for pour
ing state school funds into a rotten
lbank: DOES TT OBJECT TO
| aNl Dtst fhthh
The people are Mlssourians and
have got to be shown where the ma
chine does anything but defend and
gloss over abuses.
II will be said that such talk Is
only driving one machine out OF Of
fee TO make room for a Democratic
mpohipe.
That Is a right the people have
and AS A LAST RESORT THEY
WILL ALWAYS EXERCISE THAT
PRIVILEGE.
| III the federal appointments In Or
egon In the future are to be made
from the cast-otf and rejected repre-
sentatlves OF the old Portland poll
tlcal machine, Roosevelt or Taft will
have something to answer for.
Let the delegation In Washington
take warning, let the President be
assured, that MEN WITH TAINTED
RECORDS WILL NOT BE AC-
CEPTED BY THE VOTERS.
II Oregon is to be kept In the Re-
publican column In November. there
must be a line drawn against graft
ers for federal appointments, and
this includes THE AGENTS OF IN
CORPORATIONS THAT HAVE VIO-
LATED THE LAWS.
In saying this The Capital Journal
expresses no personal opinion, but
voices the deep-seat"d determination
OF the people themselves.
What Is the use OF sustaining
party organization that stands for
good PRINCIPLES but eliminates In
the appointment OF bad men. who
make bad records. PUT THEIR PAR
TY ON THE DEFENSIVE AND
THEN LEAVE THE STATE?
Republican voters are not mere
lb'ind-folded cattle TO be rounded up
In the corrals once a year by lot
of sharDers who cannot look any
man In the face after what they have
done.
I Resentment at abuse OF the nPrtv,
al grinding itS most sacred obi ga-
ton IN the dust and mire OF personal
plundering.-a-la j. Thornhurn
Ross machine methods - HAS
GROWN APACE AND WILL MAKE
ITSELE FELT.
These words of warning are
throw" out In the hopes that decent
and thnrghtfnl Republicans viii
APPRECIATES THEM FOR WHAT
TINY ARE WORTH, win give heed
TO the demand for better. cleaner
order os thing. and that they VIII
not die up aud fort upon the peoD'e
too much of the ancient and rotten
hierarchy that arrogates to itself 70
be the only Simon-pure Republican
ism IN Oregon.
THE PEOPI.E, OE OREGON DE-
MAND IPAnFRSHIP THAT DOES
NOT HAVE 10 PE PASSED Wy IN
g." CNCE AND WITH DOWNCAsT
} EYES.