Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-04-28
TIM DAVENPORT
ON STATEMENT |
SAYS nut FOR TT RAINING ALL
DAY THE WHOLE TICKET
WOULD HAVE CARRIED IN
MARION.

Sllvcrton, April 24.-(Ed. Journ-
Ia.) THE genuine Republicans OF
Marion county appreciate the good
work done by your paper In advocat-
ing Statement No. and If last Fri
| day. the 18th, had not been such
miserable day, without doubt
every oua of our candidates would
have been nominated. The country
Iprecincts would have carried them
triumphantly II the voters had
turned out as they should have
done. For be II known that the
farming population by large ma
iority are wide awake 20 the real
issue now presented to them for de-
rislon and they will not let go OF
II until Il Is decided right. The
present apparent upheaval against
the election of Y. s. senator's by
popular vote. was shown on election
day To be combination between
hungry politicians In the guise OF
Bedrock Republicans
All day Friday. In Sllverton. and
probably In every town In the coun-
| ty they were actively engaged I'm
electloneerlng against Statement No.
! men and for Fulton. Some strong
Republican partizans have been
fooled by the cry that Statement No.
Is merely a ruse TO elect Governor
Chamberlain TO the U. s. senate. hut
very short olghted such RepublI-
cans are. and OF treacherous mem
ories too, to be gulled by the pre-
tense OF such combination, that
they are OF the old guard, standing
solidly for the maintainence OF Re-
pabican principles. II Is very i'm
portant that those Republicans who
are ineXorablly addicted To voting
without discrimination. should begin
Ito look q "leedle oudt" and not get
into the wrong band wagon or fol-
low on beer cart. which is the fate
sooner or later OF the yellow dog
voter,
! Now, I solemnly afhrm. that II it
be possible 20 commit political
party To any principle or policy (of
which shrcwd people sometimes
doubt. the Republican party OF Or
egon has been committed 10 the
election of L. s. senators by the peo-
pie. II has been endorsed several
times by the legislature, almost
unanimously, by party conventions
and nv the lower house of congress
several times when Il was sOlidly
Republican. II aud the initiative
land referendum could not have been
adopted here without the indorse-
ment of the G.. O. p. Mind that
now; and further. that said declara-
tion had no strings Ia it--no ifs or
butts
II did not say. provided the peo-
Iple elect a Republican" and II any
lmember had offered such an amend
Iment. he would have been speedily
leNamined for lunacy. And yet, thar
Is Just what the re-actionaries are
trying Co bring ms TO. A shrewd
woman recently remarked that she
Thought there ought 10 be, for men,
an age limit TO the right 10 talk
nonsense. / endorse the proposal,
Properly considered. the reaction
aries are not Republicans: and as
1.-THE Democrats stand as unit for
the reforms We have. they are really
Ioutslde OF both parties -stragglers
derelicts, 50 10 speak The socialists
or prohihitiOnists would not have
them aud l do not know where they
could go unless the anarchists could
employ them.
The results of the late election.
fully confirm my opinion that the
Republicans OF Oregon. In the main,
are candid men who desire that their
party shall be the party OF the peo-
lp'e, and believe Il 90 he such. not
withstanding it's share of errors,
That it has been tricked time and
again 10y its trusted servants and the
politicians. all will admit. but the
rank and file are, in purpose, sound
90 the core. They endorsed the re-
form movement and they will not go
hack ON Il. even though few poll
tlcians take the back track in COM
pany with the liquor trust
They gave the convention system
la half century's trial, and found its
representatives too often unfaithful
TO the general interests. and while
they cannot fathOm the future 10
any great extent. they have sufiei-
ent proof already 20 warrant a con-
tinuanee and extension of the re-
form measures. From what | have
seen lately, | am fully convinced that
We are az the beginning OF a great
and general enllghtment among the
common people, as respects govern
mental AFFAIRS. Heretofore they have
been employed In partiEan politics
which has kept their party spirit
active and created prejudice inim-
ical TO the lust consideration OF real
politics. They have accepted party
eateh-words as genuine principles