East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-02-12
Selling to Lowell.

Dear Sir: Your open letter to me,
published in Saturday evenings Jour
nal apparently calls for an answer.
In reply 1 beg leave to say that, mas
much as your premises are wrong,
your conclusions must also be
wrong
"In the first place you address me
| as a candidate for United States SEN
ator when you know, or ought to
| know, that l am as yet not candi-
| date, and it is not at all certain that
/ shall be. This will be determined
in the near future.
Should I enter the contest, which
you admit / have the right as an
American citizen to do, / will have
no apologies to make. We are both
| agreed that it would be unfortunate
Tor both the state and the nation IL
| Senator Bourne should be nominated
to succeed himself.
Not Millionaire.
| answering your questions: while
| do not consider it disgrace to be
'classed as a millionaire facts do not
justify your conclusions. If you will
consult Dunn or Bradstreet you will
lind that I am rated way below the
million dollar class
you are also mistaken as to the
forces behind my proposed candidacy.
nave only speaking acquaintance
with AL the gentlemen whose names
you nave mentioned, aid with ONLY
one OF them have l ever discussed nv
probable candidacy. so it is not true
that these are the forces that are he
hlnd me. Inasmuch as I am not a
club man, and in fact I am not even
member of the Commercial club.
| have not obtained my information
from these sources, but have felt the
pubic pulse in the only way / knew,
, That is by addressing letters to the
voters, inc'Iding business men far
mers professional men and laborers
5 throughout the state, outside of
Multnomah county
l II do not believe that you intend
l to question my veracity when you in
( innate that L have not received 1900
2 letters. 1 would prefer to believe that
this was written in haste and not in
tentional, but I say to you now that
4 if you will come to my office on Mon
day morning 1 will show you. not 1906
e but 1000 letters from voters outside
n of the county of Multnomah, who
s have promised me their support, oil
= urged my candidacy. or both Sever
= hundred and forty-one letters wer,
: received today.
e Did Not Defeat Dimicll's Bill.
q "ApSWpIinor 9notbar. Of ,.O,,r oroe
tons will say that you are again mis-
n taken about my being responsible 70
II the defeat Of Senator Dimicks bill il
the last legislature. 1t is true that
= voted against this bill. although i
It passed the senate. had nothin.
S whatever to do with its defeat in til,
) house. on this point 1 want to stat,
that my object in voting against thi
II bill was because I was reliably in
d formed that the passage of it woul,
e result in closing down of the mills il
= Oregon City and many other place
n in this state and as you will doubt
II less admit we have only too few fac
d tories and mills in this state now.
l. "As an evidence that I am a frien,
II of the working man. I want to sa,
that / was among the first men il
the city of Portland who insisted o1
J. closing the stores on Sunday. WheI
o I was n much younger man it wa
IL customary to keep all stores in Port
land open until noon on Sunday an
III ii was largely through my efforts tina
i this condition of affairs was brough
re to an end
Is For your information will say al
IL ho of = !,
p Retail Clerks association whic
10 brought about the early closing of tn
stores in the city of Portland, and
re is due more to my efforts than tha
u of any other single individual tha
Is the stores in the city of Portland ar
Il now closed at o'clock.
u at is also true that I alone wa
w responsible for cutting out that pal
w of the bill which allowed women an
10 girls to work co hours during tn
% holiday week in the stores of the stat
W and every woman and girl worllir
VI in the state of Oregon is indebted
u, me for this reduction in the workir
d" hours.
!" Opposed to Single Tax Theory
y, and while l may have more
- this worlds goods than yourself.
am not a millionaire but 1 am al
have been rich enough to give my en-
CO ployes during the last 1S years that
y" have been in business, share of II
~, profits in excess of $50,0O0.
"a 10 Answering another one of yo
" questions, l am utterly opposed to Il
ny single tax theory, and am glad tn
~, you have given me this opportuni
M ' to say so publicly.
rs "I plead guilty to having be-
~ prominent in establishing Stateme
- No. l, or the election of Unit
. States senators by direct vote of {
~ people, as well as all and every q
ny of progressive legislation that is NJ
~ on the statute books of the state
ee oregon, known as the Oregon syste
io and / want to say to you, Jud
~. Lowell, as. I have stated in sever
~ 80 letters 1 have written, that if
~ thought you could WIN l certain
Va would not get into the contest;
l" fact, l would not If I thought it W
OUT apparent that any other good deCC
the republican could win I have wait
TO long to see if some other candid;
l would not enter the race. If &C
nat clude to do So you will have an {
low portunity of reading my platform a
criticising it freely.
.I truSt that have answered.