The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1912-09-06
A RECALL BLUFF
AGAINST WEST
LIQUOR INTERESTS MAY Be BE-
HIND THE MOVEMENT
An ex-Mayor Of Portland Is
In Charge of the Sack to
Finance the Procedure.

Funds for circulating petitions for
the recall Of Governor West are being
collected in Portland. Headquarters
will be opened 10 few days, with
W. A. Storey, a former mayor of
Portland. in charge of the movement.
The governors prison policy and his
pardoning of conviots will te used as
a basis of the recall campaign. Gov
ernor West is opposed to capital pun
ishment, saying that one of his rea-
sons is that mo rich man is ever
hanged The state has Teen divided
as to the wisdom of his pardon policy.
When it was rumored that the
liquor interests we're preparing to I'm
ance recall campaign against the
governor. he said he would subscribe
$50 to the fund, as he wished to bring
the issue squarely before the people.
Storey declares the recall movement
has no affiliation with the liquor in
terests. He said:
Already $500 has been pledged of
total of $750O to $4,000 that | esti-
mate will be required to finance the
movement. want to make 1t clear,
however, that until every bent of the
necessary sum ia subscribed and paid
in this is as far as the recall movement
will 60. 1t is at present question
of raising the money, but the indica-
tions for SUCCESS are very favorable.
"Only this morning when / was
down town a number Of we'll known
business men took my address, that
they might keep in touch with the
, matter. Until such time as the money
is paid in and we are all ready to
| proceed, no announcement will te
made Of the persons who are starting
it, for we do not want it to be any
hasty. half baked proposition.
"I can say, however. that there are
no liquor interests, no houses of i'll
fame, or county or city officials be-
hind it. 1t is movement Of the peo.
pie. As for myself, / am devoting my
time to it because think that Cover
nor West is doing the city of Portland
i and the state inestimable harm. an6
1 1T is time that he should be recalled.
am doing it without any view tc
personal remuneration whatever.
81 regard this agitation as more OF
joke than anything else, " SAID W, ;.
U'Ren. ''If recall is started / am
confident that Governor West would
be upheld by the people by a vote OF
8 or to J. 1t would be landslide
In bis favor. He is now doing his lev.
al best to do what be thinks is right,
and am with him. you bet. Wher-
ever have been people regard this
recall talk as move hy capitalized
vice to get the governor,
Dow Walker, manager of the Multi
nomah Amateur Athletic club ant
foreman of the grand jury which de
clared Portland to be "wide open
city Saturday night said: "After the
report of the grand jury showing how
really Ease conditions are in Portland
4 do not see how anyone could seek tt
remove an official who is trying tt
better these conditions. do not thini
the governor has anything to fea
from a recall agitation. "
4 81 think it is foolish and ridiculou
| to attempt the recall Of Governo
West" was the forcible way IL
which W. B. Aver, president of th
Eastern & Western Lumber COMPANY
expressed himself. Evidently it !
move by those opposed to the clean
ing up Of the city of Portland. am
If successful. would pronounce Port
land to the world at largo as q cit
that desired to be unclean. But ther
is no chance that the recall will carry
1t has no weight and cannot gathe
any,