The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1910-08-25
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LAFFERTY TO APPEAR HERE.
Insurgent Candidate for Congress viii
Speak at Court House.

A. W. Lafferty, progressive Re-
publican candidate for Congress in
this district. has arranged to speak
at the Court House next Wednesday
evening, August 81, at 8:15. His
address will be preceded by concert
by the Hood River band.
Latferty is making hot campaign,
and has already become the leading
candidate. He stands for the Direct
Primary and on the subject of Assem-
bly, said recently:
"The power to elect would not be
worth shucks with the power to nom-
mate in the hands of the bosses and
corporations The first step in the
process OF making an official is to
nominate him. If no one can become
an officer without first being nominal
ed by an assembly, it can be seen by
a blind mln that the assembly will
name our officers for us. 1t would be
just as logical to say that an assembly
should meet every two years and
appoint our officers for the ensuing
years, as to say that it shall choose
our candidates for office. 1t all means
the same thing, and the former plan
would save the cost of holding
elections"
Dissatisfaction with Ellis for a num-
ber of years, as crystalized in opposi-
tion to the present Congressman, has
centered on the aggressive Portland
lawyer. Lafferty knows what Oregon
needs ut the hands of the National
Government, and he has the ability to
get it. He stands for returning to this
state the millions of dollars derived
from the sale of public lands and put
into the reclamation fund, which is
being used for the development OF
other states. Section 8 of the Re-
clamation Act which required return
of the major portion of this money to
the state which produced it, was re-
pealed in the last Congress by the
Ways and Means Committee, of which
Congressman Ellis is member. The
Interior Department has practically
construed the Homestead and Timber
Lands Laws off the Sta tute books.
Lalrcrty advocates creation of a
Federal Land Court, and this would
make mans right to take up govern
ment lands worth something to him
again. In recent speech, Lafferty
said:
IL stand with the progressive Re.
publicans and prefer the leadership
of men like Cummins, Dolliver, Beve.
ridge, Murdock and Madison to that OF
Aldrich, Payne, Dalzell and Cannon
In matter of conversation | am as
much opposed to giving our lands tc
railroad corporations and timber syn.
dicates as anybody, but | demand
liberality toward the poor people OF
the country seeking small tracts in
this state for their own use and benefit.
If elected. as ] now firmly believe
will be, | shall also demand that the
SIS, $50, 900 yielded by Oregon to the
irrigation fund in the past eight years,
and spent elsewhere, shall be returned
to us with interest and applied to the
arid lands of Eastern Oregon. "
The second district will make nc
mistake by electing A. W. Latferty to
Congress. He is 35 years old, Just the
right age to enter Congress. he was
raised on a farm in Pike County
Missouri, and served as prosecuting
attorney in that state before coming
to Oregon six years ago. He also
lectured on criminal law in the
Missouri state University. He was
elected in Missouri by an overwhelm-
ing majority on the Republican ticket
in democratic county. Lafferty has
worked hard for this state the past six
years and he is just as well liked here
as he was in Missouri.
Carl S. Kelly,
Lafferty's Campaign Manager,
9l4-l7 Lewis Bldg, Portland, ore.
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