The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-10-18
ADVANCE STEPS OF OREGON'S
GOVERNOR
ada Wallace Unruh, President Ore
gon W. c. T. ID


Oregon's chief executive, Governor
Oswald West, goes on apace. Short
ly after invoking martial law for the
cleaning up of some OF Portland's
roadhouses, he donned a khaki suit,
and bestriding his good brown mare
started for a cross-country ride TO
Boise Idaho, TO attend a governors
meeting. Some who wished his efforts
to come to naught rejoiced and said:
This is the end of the spectacular
campaign" 1t soon developed, how
ever, that this ride of the governors
was for the purpose of studying the
conditions in the interior, and at
tracing attention which would gain
him the ears of many who would not
ordinarily hear him in his various ad-
dresses.
Law Enforcement From the Saddle
The governors law enforcement Of
flee was carried in his saddle bags, it
appears, as witness the fact that
things began to move as he passed by
on his inland tour. In Redmond,
whose mayor was a saloon keeper
and also a gambler, the governor ask
ed that official to resign, intimating
that if his resignation were not forth
soo hn a YV
one. The suggested action was swift
ly taken, though under protest, and
not with very good. grace. Farther
on, on the east line, at Huntington,
Governor West found large sized
campaign being waged by the Metho-
dist pastor against a segregated dis
trict, and conditions uncomfortable
in ordinary print. Here, also, he de-
manded the resignation of the mayor
and added the request that he resign
his position as bank cashier or face
an investigation. This campaign
aroused a great deal of interest
throughout the state.
Finally, our good governor, without
any forewOrd, came to Portland with
the avowed intention of cleaning up
the place if it took the remainder of
his term of office. A special prose
cutor has been appointed and the city
at this time is in state of ferment
Law breakers have announced their
intention of recalling the governor,
and the saloon interests are making
threats of all kinds against him.
The latest action of the governor,
and that which interests us most, is
the attention he has given to ship
ments of intoXicants into dry terri
tory. An open letter, addressed TO
saloon men and express companies,
has gone to the public to the effect
that sales and shipments to dry terri
tory must cease even though brew
cries are closed and express COM
panies are brought to court
A mass meeting, at which the gov
ernor was the principal speaker, and
which was attended by thousands of
men and women, was held recently At
our great tabernacle In the course
of his address the governor declared
that he believed in the regulation of
the saloon, but that it was a law
breaker and could not be regulated;
that every brick in the Weinhari
brewery was stained with the blood
of some broken-hearted woman He
said that hitherto the state had been
managed by the brewery interests,
but that their time was past, and that
from this on, whatever the cost, the
state should be free from their domi-
nation.
These are times when temperance
people awake in the middle of the
night and wonder if they have had 4 /
marvellous dream that the day will
dispel. Meantime we know that our
governors life hangs in the balance
and that his blood may be the price
III HIS III az CT y hIte IloDoHeIS dIc
praying for the protection that God
gives his own. and standing by, as
women may. The almost absolute
certainty that the women OF Oregon
will be enfranchised this fall gives US
hope that next year we may, in such
a battle, do something besides pray.
Governor Gilchrist has secured the