Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-05-09
MAKING oREaoN POLIcIEs A NATIONAL IssUE.


Senator Bourne has not only made himself figure in ma
tonaI politics. but has made Oregon Policies national ISSUE
In the last national convention the Oregon delegation went
instructed for Taft for presidents but CuSlng Taft and RooSe-
welt policies.
They represented the old political graft idea Of anything to
get Offices and to hi with the people and principles SO long
as We get power,
The divine right of king of two hundred years ago was fol-
lowed by century Of the slave holding OgaCy OF the South
That has been followed by the hereSy OF an alleged Supe-
or class ruling the people through the name OF political par
ty by official machinery,
The machine in the name of the party let the people do the
vong but the machine pepetuated itself and its select circle
and grated the taxpayer.
The hgher-upS of the machine used one office to get anoth
er with and put all their relatives and friends into soft places at
public expense
That has been the third political generation that has fat
tened on the people in the name of the government and that
OgarChy is overthroWn in Oregon.
That is the basic outCy of the privileged cIaSS-the gov
erning class Republicans IN 0egon-tha hoWS and pro-
tests against the Oregon policies,
This class wants offices and privileges without permission
OF the people, offices for tehl twenty years offices without
regard to merit or the value of the services rendered. so long
as they are n Oftce1ther divine right to hold soft Jobs
The Initiative and Reteendum the Direct Primary Direct
Election of Senator's and the Corrupt Practices act and the
Recall are fatal to the continuance of the hereditary right to
hold office,
The presentation Of the cod hard facts of the struggle in
Oregon and what the people have accomplished by Senator
Bourne has aroused the nation to more determined warfare
against the ofiCe-hoding caste and special privileges
Public officials who recognize the new order of things and
willing to submit themselves to the laws and take their
orders from the electorate are deserving of far treatment
But those who wish to hold office or get new offices by g
nong the people, by returning to the methods that have
been deliberately abolished by the people, the people will give
no consideration.
The Oregon policies have not been enacted bindy, but
grew out of great need where political power had been
abused in conventions and where delegated power in the Leg
iSature was tramped under foot
These abuses cannot be restored and the effort of the ma
chine dictate state and county and legislative candidates
to override the popular choice Of the people doomed to fail
ure.
No state or county OF legislative candidate who is unwilling
to obey the law and take his instructions from the people has
any claim to recognition from the dSntereSted voter,
The politician who hopes to succeed by direct or indirect
evasion Of the Primary law in Oregon may promise places
and buy support at the primary but the dSnteeSted voter
cannot be bought influenced to limit his own political power
The campaign headed by Senator Bourne will bear fruit
moi only in Oregon but all over the nation and the fearless
presentation Of the Oregon policies has advertised the state
as leader among the SiSterhood of states
Let the people of Oregon take heart and meet the advocates
Of the political methods Of the past in the open field and teach
them that the will of the people the supreme law OF the land
The Republican party has all h gain and nothing to lose by
strict compliance with the laws enacted by the people, and by
repudiang the men who plot its overthrow by seeking to
place il in false attitude of hostility to the majority