East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-11-05
ri. K. Hall
Candidate for
Joint Senator
Against c. \. Barrett.

Democratic candidate for election as Joint |
Senator for the Nineteenth Senatorial Dis
triCt has made his home in the state OF |
Oregon during the last fourteen years and /
mas lived in La Grande during the past ten |
years.
DR.. Hall served the county Of Union as
Coroner during 1905. 1906 and 1907, and i
the city Of La Grande as mayor during the l
last two years. During this latter period
DR.. Hall was the moving spirit in obtaining
for La Grande a gravity water system cost
ing Sl60.000.00, after the project had been
on foot about twenty years, had been
talked about and futile attempts made to
get it through. During the same period
the city Of La a-Grande has installed new
and complete sewer system costing in the
neighborhood Of s250,000.O0, and has plac- I
ed bitulithic pavement on thirteen blocks /
Of her streets as well as improved other
three miles OF streets by macadam.
The people OF La Grande and Union
County are going 10 give DR.. Hall ma
jOrity in the coming election Of from five
hundred to seven hundred, believing that
his rustic and come along with me
methods" will add strength TO the Eastern
oregon legislative delegation and that such
assistance when added to the strength OF
other members Of such delegation will en-
able Eastern oregon TO come into her own
and to rid herself Of the domination of the
served as her lord and master for many
years.
Opposed to Dr. Hall in this campaign is
Mr.. c A Barrett who is purported to be
the republican leader in Umatilla county.
Mr.. Barrett has been a persistent office
seeker during the past twenty years. First
for the office OF sheriff, from which the
people excluded him because Of his evident
incapacity Through continued persistent
~
Barrett finally secured the nomination as
| representative for Umatila County in 1905,
| and when the best people of the County
were not watching slipped in. In 1905,
Mr. Barrett was again nominated to the
| legislature in Cmatilla County and being
| apprehensive that the people knew him
| offered a trade with the democrats. There
| were two republicans one Of whom was
Mr. Barrett, and one democrat in the field.
| Mr. Barrett proposed to trade his State
ment No ! votes for Democratic support.
| but in the end when near election time
| switched and withdrew his henchmen from
| the support Of the democratic nominee,
| but nevertheless received support from
| that party. they being fooled into the belief
| that he might be straight politically in one
| particular Mr.. Barrett went to the legis-
| lature where he strenuously upheld his
| assumed leadership of the republican party
in the great County OF Umatilla by being
/ the first member on MS rect AT every StS-
| sion to move that the reading Of the Jour
| nal Of the previous day be dispensed with.
| This arduous duty having been performed.
| Mr.. Barrett as regularly relapsed into the
| state of "inocudous desuetude" which is his
| normal state and remained therein until ar
| oused therefrom by some of his several
masters inythe house who would thereupon
dictate to the great republican leader OF
Umatilla County which way he should move
| and what to do.
In the summer of 1910, it was necessary
| for Mr.. Barrett to seek denomination and
| now he was in quandary. There was tc
| be an assembly for the purpose Of choos-
| ing candidates. Yes, he would go down
| for, perchance, the assembly might be easy
| So he had his cards printed got a bertf
| in the assembly car. and went to the as
| sembly. This body, however, would have
| none Of him. being composed of men whose
| political vision was protected by the glas
| OF perspicuity which his dust had NJ
| effect. Having lost the first chance, Mr.
! Barrett burned up his assembly cards anC
| Immediately embraced the second chance
He became an anti-assembly candidate. Tn
| race is begun,-wth brains, without an.
| mistaken political policy one side, ant
Mr.. Barrett with his vast political expert
| ence lodging ability and disrespect for tn
| peoples law the other. There is a Law
| called the corrupt practice act" whicl
| was adopted by the people Of Oregon Il
| 1909 and which Mr. Barrett pretended t
espouse. It matters not the 'republica
| leader" Of Umatilla County must be electe
| the candidate Of the republican party; and
| throwing all semblance of respect for tn
law Of the people to the winds, he spen
money right and left-spent S347.S0 In ex
| cess OF the 10000 allowed by the law. II
secured the nomination. The Secretary c
| State, however has respect for the peoples
Il aptc nd In tbarayyith when n
had obtained proof that Mr. Barrett had dis
obeyed the law, notified the two district al
torneys in the Nineteenth Senatorial Dist
rict as well as the district attorney
Marion County where the proof OF the ir
fringement was discovered, and filed wit
each Of them Information In his possession
The law provides 1t to be the duty of on
and all Of these district attorneys to persu
this information and If he finds the proc
sufficient to prosecute in the court whic
has Jurisdiction which, in this case, is tn
Circuit Court. The district attorneys 81,
II as their opinion that the proof is pos
tive. The penalty provided for infringe
ment OF the corrupt practice act is disqual
| fcation for office II elected, and the II
fringer is also subject to criminal pros'
/ cution.
Lo How Is the great republican leader
| fallenl 1t is our belief that the men
Umatlla County whether they be republ
cans, democrats, prohbtionists socialis
| or the followers Of some other politics
| faith are men "for a that" and that the
| are not willing that such men as Mr.. Ba
rett is politically, shall go before the peop
Of the great State Of oregon. and befoi
their law making body, with the abili
to say "I am the people Of Umatlla Coui
| ty." Vote for NJ. X Hall.