Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1910-11-25
SENATE is UNCHANGF1
ANTI-sTATEMENT NO. Mr,m,,
WILL CONTROL LOWER Hors.a RVS
Republicans VIII Have Nro;o.,.,
on Joint Ballot; West Carries
20 Counties.

or the 80 members-elect Of tbo =
gon State Legislature, SO are Rennn', ne
cans, giving the dominant party - ~
jority of 76- on joint ballot M ma
bership of the two Houses is oon,l, ,"i'
ed with five Democrats and two p,s'' ipa
pendents. On the question of sta.' %
ment No. l the Republican MAJ
ship Is quite equally divided a n,one
mary classification showing 40 pa
licans favoring the Statement ana S'u, !,
opposed to 1t. 1t will be largely on a.,
issue that the organization Of ~ .'''s
Houses next winter will be fougbt IVY
1t Is in the Senate that tho g.. ~
ment forces are the stronger. OF ~.
26 Republican members of that ~ ~
Is are classed as Statement 10y
while the other IL do NOT faro.
principle. II. d. Norton, a bolaou.
from Josephine county, was electos
as an independent, but in no,it,oa
Democrat and an advocate Of Co.,
ment No. L. For that reason ~
Norton together with the three nas.
ocratic members-M. A. Miller of
Linn; Turner Oliver, of Union. 90
Claud Mccullough, of Baker-mar ~
included with the Is Statement D
publieans in computing the Stater,os.
strength of the Senate membersibn
This would give total of 10 memhor.
favoring the Statement as against !,
opposed to it,
1t is in the House that tho or.
Statement people have the better or
the situation. There are 81 Renub
cans in the lower branch of the Too
islature. OF that number 80 are va
ported to be Statement givir,
these forces an even break in the or.
ganization. This calculation presnmav
that the Statement people will ho,d
their men together and at the same
time receive the support of the three
nom Republican members-Timothv
Brownhill, independent of Yambi.
c. L. Shaw, of Linn, and A. ], Derby
of Hood River and Wasco, the last
two being Democrats. However If iu
reported that in the organlza.
ton of the House the ranks of the
people may be increas.
ed by two and possibly three of the
members who were elected as State
ment members.
Ran Better Than Chamberlain,
Drooffoa11u noY,, n1afo ro+,,.xa L.
hat Oswald West, Democrat, defeated
lay Bowerman, Republican, for Gov
ernor, by GAS votes. West carried 20
If the "a counties in the state, and his
otal vote was approximately 547ss;
being 4S,615. Vests vote
vas nearly $4,000 higher than that
given Bryan in Oregon two years ago,
when Bryan's vote stood S7,775 and
Taft's at 62,11S. West received his
,arty vote and dug dep into the Re-
vote as well.
Bowerman's greatest lead in any
was 279, in Columbia. West
;reater than that, his highest lead be-
ng in Jackson, with 1900, and in Multi
Iomah next with 1898 Chamberlain
arried 13 counties in 1908 for the
popular vote for United States Sena-
or and was elected by a narrow mar
in West carried counties Chamber
ain could never make inroads on dur
1g his three statewide campaigns
Counties which had been heretofore
trongly Republican rolled up a lead
or the Democratic candidate for Gov
rnor.
Clatsop, Vests home county, gave
i'm lead of 522, and Gillian Bow
home, gave the Republicans
lead of 10. Three counties where
ne normal schools are located voted
eavily. Bowerman lost Benton ana
ackson, but carried Umatilla BOW
cutting off of the normal
.hools in the 1909 session of the Leg
lature cost him these counties
West expended only $3.50 In secur'
lg the office, according to sta'e-
ent of campaign expenses which Was
led by him with the Secretary