Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-11-26

mean by Republicans in your talk
about the assembly or the conven-
tion, and the support of its dictates.
If you mean the Aldriches, the
Paynes, the Cannons, then / am not
a Republican and never will be; if
you mean the Beveridges, the La Fol
letteS, the Hughes, the Roosevelts of
the party, then / am a Republican,
and no man can read me out of the
party. l stand for the progress of
the party, for its advance, not for its
retrogression
Party Disrupted Itself,
ut seems to be the belief that the
direct primary law has disrupted the
Republican party. The Republican
party has disrupted itself. You cam
| not deny it. Let us be honest with
ourselves and with each other. In
all the history of the state the voters
of Oregon have only once gone out
of the state with Democratic vote.
In that time there have been 10 gov
ernors elected and five of these Off
cials have been Democrats, which
have beaten onvention-nominated
Republicans. OF this five only one
was elected under the direct primary
law.
do you want to know the reason
why these defeats were due? Then
look at the records of the politics of
the state. Look at the records Of
Portland politics in 1908, when the
Portland Club on Fifth and Alder
made $4,000 profits in the month of
Decefber with marked cards, and
1,n q
thug and the strong-arm man, and
red lights cleaned everywhere.
Democrats Removed Evils.
''Who got rid of these things? Die
the Republican party organization
do it? Who put the gambling helli
out of business, closed the red lights
forced the dives to obey the law
You had to get a Democratic sheriff
Democratic district attorney and
! Democratic mayor to do 1t. And
was because the people had to d
this that they went to the direct pri
mary for relief.
} "And the other day I saw Harve
I Dale parading the streets of Port
: land, as he use dto do in the oil
days. And he was doing busines
here until the police judge threw
s bomb into the public print. Dal
came back after the assembly admin
istration came into power.
Who Will BE Represented?
"You say you are going to hav
) an assembly. I ask who will
Z there, who will compose it, who wi
4 control it? I will tell you. TIL
agents of the street railways an
3 the gas companies and of the preda
3 tory trusts, and combinations OF tn
} big railroads will all have seats. TIL
men who have franchises to guarC
! the men who fatten off the fruits q
\ the red light district the men VIII
own dives, they will be there. Blu
: the wage-worker, the small taxpay
er, the merchant and business mar
the honest people of the state, wi
!. not be present. How in Gods nam
Y could they be? What chance woul
) they have to be selected?
"In all the history of the state
4 have known but one senatorial elet
) tion by the legislature under the oil
Z system that was honest, and that wa
Z the election of Senator Fultoi
y There never was a time, except tha
{ when the senatorship was not pu
3 up for barter and sale. / know b'
> cause I was there and through it,
g remember the time when the Nortl
3 ern Pacific put up 5000 to defef
2 the election of Senator Simon, an
& we only had $4,000 ourselves. An
3 l remember other political can
Z paigns where the interests paid on
: whole campaign expenses, and n
Z man had to put up cent in his ow
i behalf.
Firmly Against Assembly.
1T is because of these memo
q les" concluded Judge McGinn, "thi
: l am opposed to the assembly. ! d
1 not want any young man of the pre-
= ent day to go through what / hay
3 gone through. ] am against the a
z sembly and all that it means, and
3 intend to fight 1t in every precin'
a and village and hamlet Of the stat
s. if necessary, to defeat II \"