St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1908-04-03

The voice of the politician is
heard in the land and there will be
10 surcease from sorrow until after
the November elections, when the
agony will be closed by the usual
trip up Salt river by the alsorans.
Do not vote for anyone who is
not on the ticket. Some have de-
clared they will vote for Judge
Greene regardless of the fact that
he has not placed himself in the
race. Such tickets will not be
counted, and IL you vote for him
you throw your vote away. We
would vote for him ourself If he
was in the race, but as hc is not we
cannot as we do not wish to throw
our vote away, much as we would
like to give the judge a compliment
tary vote.
w. l.. Thorndyke of the Astoria
Leader is receiving unusual notori-
ETY. just now, through threatening
letter received from "One of the
Gang in the tenderloin district OF
that city. This letter was the re.
sponse made To- some remarks pub.
lished in the Leader recently criti-
cising the conduct of that rotten
spot in Astoria's social life. The
letter gives Thorn so days to get
out of Astoria aud threatens his
life IL hc remains. This is in keep
ing with the character of the in
dividuals who infest such districts,
and so long as city will permit
such moral lcpers To live in their
midst the lives aud morals Of their
people are in peril. II Is the hope
of every decent citizen that the
writer OF the letter may be appre
hended by the postal authorities
who have the matter under investi-
cation and when found will be
given the limit OF the law for his
crime.
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We wish to call attention To the
two pages of this issue devoted to
advertising the candidates IN the
coming election. We do not be-
lievc there is another town IN the
state with as enterprising set OF
business men as We have IN st,
Johns when they set their minds To
il. This is demonstrated by the
manner in which they have hustled
during the past weeks campaign.
The part we are proudest OF though
is the clean fight both sides are
making. This, too, in the face OF
influence from the outside which
has been brought to bear to induce
them to engage in mud Singing, II
is a matter both sides can point To
with pride when the campaign is
over. 1t will be no disgrace to be
beaten in a clean fight like this,
We appreciate this kind OF work |
and To show this, when the boys
approached us for these two full
page ads we cut the price in two.
II is the clean, straight, earnest
work that wins.
The Oregonian, with all its cru
dition, all its Solomonic wisdom,
almost a hall century's experience
in politics, is so unwise, SO unpol-
itic as to admit that il has no OBJ
lection to the primary law itself,
but objects to the working of the
law. Ii has the same objections To
the primary law and to statement
No. that horsethief has to the
Oregon code which would put him
behind the bars-that il is oper-
alive. The initiative and referen-
dunn and statement No. are the
means to take the control of politics
out of the hands OF few proies-
sional politicians, the greater part
OF whom are so rotten at the heart
they do not make even fair political
shysters, and because OF their inf
deity to each other bring about
their own ruin, and place it where
it belongs, in the hands OF the peo'
pie, and we think the people appre-
ciate this fact. If the Oregonian
would devote the space filled with
This silly rot to something looking
10 some good end instead of this
attenuated attempt to defraud its
readers of their franchise it would
-egain some of its lost prestige with
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