The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1910-09-01
Judge Grant B. Dimmick
Oregon City,, Oregon
Direct Primary Candidate
For
The Republican Nomination For
GOVERNOR

Judge DlmlcK was DoTH III MdIloh
County, Oregon, March 4th. 1869 /;
elected Mayor of Oregon City in 1899,
and reelected for four successive
terms; elected Presidential elector on
the Republican ticket in 1904; elected
County Judge of Clackamas County on
the Republican ticket in 1906.
| stand as firm defender of the
Direct Primary Law and Statement
No. !, as enacted by the people of the
State of Oregon by one Of the largest
majorities ever given an initiative
measure, and also the Initiative and
Referendum, for the reason that it is a
safeguard to the rights of our people,
and has been the means of giving to
the people of our state valuable legls-
lation.
| have pledged myself to the people
of the State of Oregon that if elected,
will, during my term Of office dis
charge my duty carefully, fearlessly
and honestly, and see that all lays are
strictly enforced.
That / will oppose any attempt by
the Legislature to destroy the Primary
Nomination Law or the Initiative and
Referendum.
That | will oppose all extravagant
appropriation of public funds, and also
the creation of additional salaried
offices, boards and commissions.
| am in favor of constantly improv-
ing our public school system, so that
it will be the pride of our state, and
give to the children in the rural dis
tricts longer terms of school each yeal
without too great financial burden
upon the parent.
We are now compelled to raise by
direct taxation seven dollars per pupi
for every child between the ages Of
four and twenty years, and in addition
thereto we set nearly two dollars pei
pupil from interest received from the
Irreducible State School Fund, but We
| find that those sums are wholly insult
cient to properly conduct our public
schools, and we are compelled to raise
additional amounts by special tax II
the several districts.
Now, to overcome that difficulty,
am in favor of amending our presen
, inheritance tax law, so as to have
good, strong, equitable inheritance
tax, and the amount of revenue de
rived therefrom to go into the publi'
school fund of the county in which thu
property of the deceased is located.
In order to further assist our publi
schools | am in favor of changing th'
law so that all corporation annual Ii
cense fees, corporation organization
fees and all other fees now collected
| by the Secretary of State and Stat
Treasurer be set aside as an additiona
school fund and distributed annually t.
the public schools of the State in tn
same manner as the interest derives
from our Irreducible State Schoo
Fund.
| believe that the whole expense o
State government should be raised b.
direct taxation in the several Countie
of the State, so that If the Legislator
becomes extravagant in making eX
cessive appropriations and in the crea
tion of unnecessary berths for salarie
officers, boards and commissions, tina
the extravaganza of the Legislator
will be Immediately felt by the tax
payers in the several Counties, an
economy in public affairs will then be
come live issue in State and Count
politics.
| am a firm believer in the improve
ment of our public highways, and be
lieve that we can accomplish NOR
along those lines by placing that wor
under the supervision of good, compe
tent, road engineers, as under ou
present system large part of our roa
fund is squandered.
Improved roads should first be bull
from the shipping points and marke
centers into the interior of the Cour
ties, so that the farmers and taxpayer
will reap substantial benefits from tn
funds expended therefor.
Counties should have rock-crushin
plants enclosed by stockades, so ths
County and State prisoners can be use
and guarded at small expense, ar
the product of those plants used in til
/ Improvement of our public roads.
| am opposed to hiring out our Stat
prisoners to private parties to mani
facture commercial products that al
sold in the open markets in direct con
petion to commercial products mao
by honest labor.
(Doid AIxy