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The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-09-27

who fondly looks back on the days Of
Lincoln and sees the danger of stand
ing p9; in short, a Progressive Re-
publican is an up-to-date Democrat"
The star of Democracy never
shone with greater splendor than
now; now, when her principles are
advocated by the united members Of
her own party and, too, advocated
and adopted by one-half the following
of the Republican party. The stand
patter Is doomed to defeat. There Is
Maine, gone Democratic. Rock-ribbed
Republican Maine! Whether II be
due to the regulars or due to the
progressives, we know not; but we
do know that 1t was the work of a
people interested in the success and
welfare of their state and of the ma
tion. The people do not like Aldrich-
ism and Cannonism. They revolt
against them. Insurgent movement
we learn was weak in Maine. This
being true, what can we expect Of
Ohio, where Republican insurgency Is
rampant with a "stanG-pat" platform
and a "hitched-tight candidate for
governor" and a "hitched-tighter can
didate for United States senator?"
The glorious victory in Maine is an
inspiration indeed to Ohio Democ-
racy. 1t is the most tremendous po-
litical upheaval that has taken place
in any distinctively New England
state since Abraham Lincoln was
NJ in cd DrnCidnnt f0rA.
tells overwhelming Republican woe
throughout the country on Nov. s. II
the Republicans lost Maine, how can
they hope to win in Ohio, with its
strong and aggressive Democracy
united under the matchless leader
Judson Harmon-the best governor Of
the best state in the Union? The
conservatives must not delude them
selves with the thought that The new
progressive movement will soon
wane and the former order of things
be restored The insurgency in the
Republican party Is a protest against
greed, frenzied finance and monop-
oily; nay. more, multitudes in the
United States have felt long since
that this government, as we have It,,
is not "of the people, for the people
and by the people," There is a return
to the principles upon which our ma
tion was founded, principles which
have been but too often almost for
gotten.
The Republican candidates for
state Office in Ohio, at the Kenton
meeting, committed themselves to
the stand-pat policies. In so doing.
were they standing for the people, or
for the old guard? The answer I
have to give is not that of Demo
crat, but that of Republican daily
paper of Ohio, of eminent respect
ability and high standing. The Ohio
State Journal of Sept. IA, in speaking
of the Maine election, says editor
tally: "It is undoubtedly the peoples
work. No one must suppose that tho
progressives got together and organ
lied a conspiracy to defeat tho Re-
publican party. That may he the
stand-pat idea, but it is far from the
truth. The progressive contingent
was the creature of public senti-
ment that didn't like the way things
were going. They didn't like Aldrich-
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-09-27

A train load of veterans were re-
turning home from Atlantic City today
on B. C o. fast line No. Z, due in this
city at $3.50 a. M, and accompanying
the veterans was a splendid drum
corps. When the train stopped at Mt.
Vernon the drum corps rendered Dix
lie" in honor of Daniel D. Emmett, the
author of the Dixie" whose remains
repose in Mound View cemetery.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-09-27

as to franchises, It favors an income
tax amendment to the constitution.
It demands the election of senators
wants uniform school book law. It
stands for the principles Of the
initiative and referendum. 1t urges
the extension of the teaching OF agri-
Ilture. 1t demands the promotion
of non-partisan judiciary and calls
for improvement in labor legislation.
Nationally, it demands economy
and business methods in the public
service. 1t asks a revision of the
present excessive tariff duties, SO as
to reduce the prices to the consumer.
1t asks that the burden of tariff tax
alton be taken from the articles Of
the cheaper grades. 1t insists upon
gradual reduction in tariff taxation,
so as to make it rather a means OF
raising revenue than an instrument
of eXtortion.
After discussing at length the sub
jects of national extravaganza and
tariff revision, Mr.. Pomerene said in
conclusion:
The evils from which our body
polite has suffered, both state and
national, must be corrected. The man
or party who does or encourages
wrongs is not to be trusted to right
them. The party machines of Cox
and Guilbert bode no good to the peo-
pie. If you want CoXism continued in
Hamilton county, vote the Republican
ticket. If you want it's jurisdiction
extended from Hamilton county to
the capitol at Columbus, and thence
throughout the state, vote the Re-
publican ticket. But If you want re-
formation, sure and certain, vote for
Democracy under the leadership of
Governor Harmon, whose master
mind can see the right, and who has
the courage to do the right.
The Republican party of today may
grant some reforms, but If so, 1t is
not because she leads in reform, but
because she will be driven to it.
Public sentiment drove her to give
whatever assistance she has given to
the tax problem in Ohio, and to what
cftT dooiptt1HCO dig hdo oi'Sh AA
hunting down the graft in the state
house. There is not reform in ma
tional legislation within the last ten
years which has not been the re-
suit OF advocacy by Democracy under
the Leadership of William j. Bryan.
This is true of railroad rate legisla-
tion; of the pure food legislation; Of
employers liability law and safety
appliance law, and of every other
important measure which has been
written upon the statute book. Priv
ilege does not grant favors to the
public; she exacts them from the
public.
Every measure, state and national,
which has been adopted for the we'll
being of society within the last ten
year, has been, by the leaders of the
Republican party, first condemned,
then condoned. then adopted.
On with the fight. We cannot fall.
Every election, district and state,
within the laxt six months shows the
awakening of the Democratic spirit.
| Remember the state of Maine and
take courage.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-09-27
MEXICAN STATE FLOODED
PEOPLE ON HOUSET0PS

remained on the roofs of the houses
in the pouring rain. All live stock
In the district was drowned and the
crops ruined and, according to res
ports, the people only escaped death
from drowning to suffer the more
horrible one of starving.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-09-27
LORlMER LOSES OUT

Is Unable to. Postpone Probe Until
After Election.
Chicago, Sept, 24.-Tbe senatorial
committee investigating William
Lorimer's right to a seat in the Unit
ed States senate overruled the mo-
ton for a continuance until after the
fall elections. The committee decid-
ed that the investigation should start
at once.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-09-27
REAL PROGRESSIVE
Defined BY HOGAN
Why People Revolt Against
Stand.Pat Officials.
HoGAN's HITS.

. Behind the fortified walls Of
a prohibitIve tariff gigantic
combinations and trusts have
been formed.
A progressive Republican is
. one who loves Democratic prin.
cipIes and wants to adopt them.
What can we expect Of Ohio,
! whore Republican insurgency is
rampant with a "stand-pat" plat
form and a "hitched-tight can.
didate for governor" and a
! "hitched-tighter candidate for
United States senatorr
Our opponents insist that
graft 10 not a party question.
This does not come we'll from
/ those who offered their protee-
ton to the grsfters two years
! ago and who would be silent
now were they not driven from
/ under cover by Governor Har.
!. mon.
The need Of legal adviser
. In full sympathy with the ad-
ministration is most apparent,
. and | trust that the reelection
of Governor Harmon will also
insure the election of all his as
|. sociates on the state ticket.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-09-27

Mrs. Margaret Bethge of Colum-
bus is spending several days in Mt.
Vernon the guest of her sister, Mrs.
Barbara earle.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-09-27

Mr.. and Mrs. j. P. Brereton of North
Gay street and Miss Florence Brere-
ton of Salem, Ohio, spent Friday with
friends at Zuck.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-09-27
Wants to Return to Canada

Vesta, Mimi, July Il. 1glU.
I went to Canada nine years ago and took up O
quarter section of railroad land and q homestead,
but my boys have never taken up any land yet. 1
still hold the railroad land. had 10 come back to
the states account of my health. Please let me
know at once II get the cheap rates to Ponoka,
Alberta. Yoars truly.
GEORGE PASKEWITZ.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-09-27
They Sent for Their Son

Maidstone, Sask., Canada, August 8, 1910.
My parents came here from Cedar Falls, Iowa, four
years and were we'll pleased with this country
they sent to Occur d'Alene for me. have taken up
homestead near them and am perfectly satisfied to
stop here. IEONARD DOUGLAS
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-09-27
LEONARD DOUGLAS.

Send for literature and ask the local Canadian Gov
Agents for Excursion RAtee best districts In
which to locate. and whom to go. Address
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-09-27
Takes His Brotler-in-Law,s Word for 1t

I shall go to Camrose this fall with my cattle and
household goods; ! got poor crop here this year.
yants TO come there. He formerly lived in Wilton
North Dakota. am going TO buy or take homo.
stead when get there, but do not want TO travel
two times there. for take my brotherinlaw's word
about the country, and want to get your low rate,
Yours truly. PETER A. NELSON.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-09-27

II. NJ. Wiliiams
AIS Gardner Bldg. Toledo. Ohho
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-09-27

New districts being opened up for settlement Many
farmers will net. this year $40 to el6 per acre from
countries are there. Good schools churches, spen.
did markets, excellent railway facilities. See the
County fairs. Letters similar to the following
received every day, tesfyinR to satisfactory condi
tions; other districts are as favoraby spoken of:
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-05-31
BEST SELLER OF TIE rTrrIEs

Best sellers there We're and ever
have been. In the eighteen-fifties, a
certain young man named Mitchell
was writing them. His books were
read by old and young; they sold like
hot cakes, as We say; like bread, as
the more sober idiom would have it.
Our fathers read those books, if we
ourselves did not; sometimes they read
them to our mothers. 'rhe Reveries
of a Bachelor" is still read today; but
my copy of it is gray and dog's-eared,
like a school boys Virgil; the bravery
of its gliding is tarnished; yet how
crisp were the pages sixty years ago.
The "Reveres' came into the world
with pseudonym to cloak their au-
thor's modesty: Ike Marvel was the
pseudonym, and we buried its wear
er, bachelor no longer. though still
an amateur but yesterday. Ike Mar
vel had survived his literary genera
| ton. and even in his hey-dey an old
world flavor was tasted in his style;
the gentle sentimentalist was one that
knew the Spectator papers and had
smoked his pipe late over Ste.ne and
Goldsmith 1t is hard to see how ne
was the worse off for it-or his read
| ers, either.
1 treasure my copy of the 'neyer-
| les " though l picked it up for song
at stall where none but the manned
of the book world find their way. 1t
is a shabby old book, and its two en-
cravings have only stained the pages
| that they adorn. But as l turn the
pages of "Over a Wood Fire" (the best
of the Reveries, as it is the firsD,-
! smoke. signifying Doubt. and Blaze,
signifying Cheer, and Ashes, sign!fying
| Desc ation-they take on new
meaning to me. and a double interest
The authors sentimentality seems to
me less obvious than before; his hu-
NOR less facile and less reminiscent
1t is pleasant to think that l am not
the first to get pleasure out of that
cigar of his-A Cigar three times
Lighted. Tramping through the
woods. one comes upon the dead ash
es of a camp fire. Does not that make
the woods more interesting territory
Here I have a book that some one
else mas marked as suited his whin
of the passing moment-the passins
moment of half a century ago! Some
thing of the fellows temperament
know from the record of ii that n,
made here. And the book-this cop!
of it-has had its little history, tina
it tells after its own pretty fashion
| cannot do half so well; and some
thing keeps me from transcribing
feel guilty enough in trying even t
retell it, From The Point of View,
i'm the June Scribner.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-05-31
AVIATION \ FACT.

When Glenn Curtiss sped through
the air from Albany down to little
old New York at an average speed of
"a As miles per hour he made the
world take notice. Heretofore we
have had flights by aviators; Curtis
made a trip of 1877 miles along a
much travelled route; made it with but
one stop and beat the time of the fast
express trains, Aviation is now a fact.
T, merely remains for the airship
makers to perfect a feasible passen-
ser craft That they will do this all
in good time and make air travelling
as safe as trips by land or sea can
scarcely be doubted. The passenge,
airship may not be a biplane. It is
not likely it will. 1t may be a com.
bination of the dirgible and the aero
plane. But the airship we will have
hat soon.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-05-31

and room on the ballot, for many
more" says the Optimist. Some of
these bills have merit, for it is a fact
that many of our counties are too
large. But when considering the
matter one should look to Hood
River county and ask the citizens of
that bailiwick how much in the way
OF taxes their whistle cost them.
Much territory does not make a
prosperous county; it takes taxable
property and population, particular,
ly the former. In many cases, as in
the case of the formation of Hood
River county, such divisions are good
for the territory left in the old coun-
ty. but the citizens of the new coun-
ty are up against hard propo-
sition."
The East Oregonian knows of one
Hood River property owner for whom
division meant an increase of GA
per cent the first year division was
In effect. His name is E. A. Schiff-
Ter and his tax receipts show that
during the first year of Hood River
county he paid, upon the same iden-
teal property $3.50 more in taxes
than ne had paid the previous year in
Wasco county.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-05-31

tiative step in the matter and were as
sisted by other parties that they were
able to get to take the different parts
In this matter we would hardly believe
that either the preacher or the NOM
bers of his church consented in their
own minds to sell their principals or
prove traitors to the cause they rep
resented as the writer of the above in
Inmates in the statement that il is to
be supposed that the temperance peo-
pie of this community will not be so
vigorous i'm their work in the future.
Now we do not believe that any party
who took part had the smallest idea
of hindering the work of temperance
or any good work, but did what they
did as a matter of kindness and SO far
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-05-31
OUR WAY THE BEST.

Illinois is furnishing a splendid OBJ
ject lesson of the results of electing
United states senator's by legislatures.
One after another members of the
legislature that elected Lorimer are
pleading guilty Of having been bribed
into voting for him. Lorimer's legi-
innate majority is fast melting away
and indications are that he will have
to resign his seat in the senate.
How is that for a spectacle; a
United States senator elected by votes
purchased at SO much per head. The
senate is the upper house OF con-
gress. 1t is supposed to be a digni-
fled and awe inspiring body, a check
upon the lower house. Yet a sena-
tor from one of the principal states
Of the union owes his seat to crimi.
nal work on the part of himself or
his political henchmen. How many
United States senator's have been ell
ected by the votes of men who were
bribed but have not "squealed %
How many senators have been elected
through indirect bribery in the form
OF political promises? 1t would be
shorter work to go through the senate
chamber and pick out those who
were elected upon their merits
throrcl, honect methods
Now frankly, does not this Illinois
spectacle make you appreciate Ore
gon's plan of electing United States
senators by direct vote of the peo-
pie? There are people who object to
Oregon's present senators for politi-
cal reasons. Such objections are to
be expected. But is it not a source
of satisfaction to know that whatever
criticism may be made of Senator'S
Bourne and Chamberlain It cannot be
asserted they acquired their seats
dishonesty? Each man was endors-
ed for office by the people in free
and open race. Each man was the
popular choice for senator and the
legislature but ratified that choice az
q majority Of the members were
under pledge to do.
Is not this plan of procedure i'm
measurably better than the Illinois
way? Surely It is, all regardless of
the partisan or factional affiliations
OF the present senators. The Oregon
way Of electing senators is the one
and only proper way. Furthermore
the people Of this state, republican,
democratic and otherwise. are going
TO stand by statement No. /. The
people Of Oregon have no desire to
see this state thrust back into that
pit ~ corruption from which 1t es-
capped but few years ago and in
which Illinois IS now wallowing to its
sorrow and to the disgrace Of the
people Of that great commonwealth.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-05-31
May has done very well.
FAMOUS AMERICAN SCHOOLS.

The venerable academies at And
over, in Massachusetts and at Exeter
just across the line in New Hamp-
shire, come nearer, perhaps, than any
other of our preparedness to bridg-
ing the gap between the average high
school and such American develop
ments of English models as are repre-
sented by Groton, St Marks, or St
PauPs. They were started in the
heart Of Puritan New England, in the
midst of the war for independence,
and for over a century they have kept
alive the sacred fire with which the
young nation was burning at their
birth. No other schools have helped
in the making Of so many distinguish
ed men. nor are any, perhaps, so sat
urated with traditions so peculiarly
American
In their early days, when most of
the boys were working their way as
they went, raising vegetables to help
pay their board, bundling up as If for
sleighride on Sundays to listen to
three sermons in an unheated church
and on Monday reciting what they
''uiu remember VI lne ulSCOuTSeS OF
the day before; in the day of Master
Eliphalet Pearson
%. Great Eliphalet q can see
him now
Big name, big frame, big voice and
beetling brow. -
the boys boarded with the towns-peo-
pie. and looked out for themselves
very much as If they were at home Of
late years, as the type of boys has
changed with the changing times, II
has been found advisable more and
more to gather them-especially the
younger ones-in dormitories controll-
ed by the schools.
Eventually, I suppose, they will be
all lodged in school buildings The
newer dormtories, like Dunbar Hal
at Exeter and Bancroft Cottage al
Andover, are quite as fine as any
buildings at the more fashionable
schools, and discipline in them is
much the same, but many of the Sc
date old colonial houses, with their
broad white faces and green blinds
are still used as boarding-places, and
the practice Of encouraging a strong
sense Of personal responsibility still
survives.-From some American
Preparatory Schools" by Arthur Ruhl
in the June Scribner.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-05-31
LOOK UP THE COST.

During the next six months the tax
payers of this state and especially
those living in proposed new counties
will do well to look up the probable
cost Of division in increased taxation.
Thus far Hood River county is the
only new county created under the
initiative and the The Dalles Optim-
ist remarks that because that Job was
accomplished we are promised a
surfeIt Of county division measures
thts fall.
LAS nearly as we can count them
now there are about fifteen bills
being "signed up for presentation
tn the voters, and there is still time,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-05-31

Editor East Oregonian:
Please publish the enclosed matter
along with the enclosed article COM
ing out in the issue of April s.
Echo, Ore. April 1.-THE District
School" farce in two acts, was Civ
en- here last night in the I. o. o. F.
hall by local talent; the hall was
crowded, there being between two
hundred and three hundred persons
present. The receipts We're over $50.
The parts of the different characters
were well representa-. The proceeds
of the entertainment will go toward
the minister's salary
The most interesting feature If the
entertainment is that it stands as a
monument marking a new epoch in
Echo. For hereafter it is expected the
prohibition workers will be more tem-
perate in their efforts, for had it
not been for the NEAR beer" men
and their families taking part. they
would have been unable to have put
the play on the stage. As it was not
more than half a dozen of the entire
company We're church members.
The writer would have given some
| attention to the above matter sooner
but for the fact that he has been in
the hospital in Spokane for several
weeks. This little article of thirty
two lines seems to have been intended
| for a reflection on three parties, the
"near beer" people the officials of
the town and the Methodist church.
This is dry territory. so declared by
the voters of this county. and if the
writer had reason to believe that the
law was being violated it seems to us
pursued was to have reported such
facts to the town authorities or to the
prosecuting attorney and let ar in
vestigation be made, and If the writer
did make such report to the first or
last named parties and they refused
or neglected to make the necessary
investigation, surely they are not to
blame. IF the writer was not in pos
statement or inference, dry pen and
closed mouth, perhaps would have
been more becoming. The statement
is made in the above that the near
beer" people were the principals in
the program referred to-the truth Of
the matter is that the church mem
bers were the ones that took the mi
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-05-31
Knees Became Stiff
Five Years of Severe Rheumatism

The cure of Henry J. Goldstein, IA
Barton Street, Boston, Mass, is anoth-
er victory by Hoods Sarsaparilla.
This great medicine has succeeded in
many cases where others have utterly
failed. Mr. Goldstein says: 81 suf-
fered from rheumatism five years, 1t
kept me from business and caused ex-
cruciating pain. My knees would be-
come as stiff as steel. ] tried many
medicines without relief, then took
Hoods Sarsaparilla, soon felt much
better, and now consider myself en-
tirely cured. l recommend Hoods"
Get 1t today in usual liquid form or
chocolated tablets called Sarsatans.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-05-31

a short time ago the Spanish war
was vivid reality. Now it is a men,
ory recalled only when a band of vet
Grams such as those of Malabon camp
of this city are called together In
time the husky veterans of the Second
oregon and other Spanish war regi-
ments will walk with halting steps as
do the "boys of '61."
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-05-31

as the temperance and church people
are concerned we hardly think that
their principles are on the market for
the consideration of fifty dollars, or
even more, and the preacher is in
clued to the idea that his are not on
the market at any price.
A. NJ. LAMBERT.