Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1912-04-16

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: congress. 1t was taken up at the
present session, however, passed by
both houses and signed by the presi-
dent, after it's provisions had been eX-
planned, and the business of the claims
of the settlers made plain to him, but
Jonathan Bourne had nothing to do
with it.
What we Republicans and Demo-
Gratis want is a man at his post doing
his duty" says Colonel Haynes. That
is also what Oregon wants, but that's
just exactly what she hasn't, in the
person of Bourne, and that is one of
the main reasons why this newspaper
is opposing him. While he hasn't
time to visit his own state to discover
for himself, at first hand, the needs of
his people, such absence doesn't mean
| that he is steadfastIy at his post of
! duty, oh no. Will the gentleman from
Ballston, since he knows so much
about it, please inform waiting pub
lie the exact per centage of roll calls
! that Bourne has answered when i'm
portant matters were up for final dis
/ position? Where was he? Playing
golf, probably, or, mayhap, at his cot
ton mills suggesting plans for still
further reducing the wages of the
starving children in his employ, and
thereby piling up a greater fortune to-
use in future long range campaign
pyrotechnics.
Bourne cries frantically of his un-
dying devotion to principle, yet what
principle did he represent when he
managed W. J. Bryan's Oregon cam 4
paign against Mckinley in 1895? HeI
talks of his fight for the peoples di
rect primary law in 1906, but forgets
that, 10 years before, Ben Selling was
fighting for the establishment of the
Australian ballot law at primary cleo
tions, and a registry law, both of
which have been since adopted He
lays great claim to fatherhood for
Statement No l and while, according 4
to our humble opinion parenthood of
such progeny isn't anything to grow
ohesty} about the facts are that Ben
Selling was an open adherent of the
plan in 1908 and, without his aid,
there would have been no Statement
No. l ticket in Multnomah county.
Bournes claim to be the represent
ative of the people of Oregon is dis
proved when it is recalled that he re-
ceiVed but about $4,000 votes at the
primary election, while more than
10000 Republicans voted for candi-
dates opposing him Bourne is an /
accident, whose senatorial ability is a
joke, whose interests are outside the
state, and who is entirely untitled,
judged on any other basis, to repre-
sent Oregon in the senate of the
United States.
Such Office calls for statesmen. IT
requires men broad of mind, wise in
counsel; and men who may gain and
hold the confidence of their coll
leagues, who will faithfully represent
their home state. not outside interests,
who are in sympathy with the admin
istration, not in opposition to it, who
know the needs of their people and
have the ability to secure adjustment
and relief
Largely through the inability or in
activity of Bourne, Oregons share of
the $1,000, 600 reclamation fund paid
by this state, and which was justly
due 1t, was lost, while other states,
whose congressional delegations were
active and alert succeeded in securing
the portion to which they We're EMIT
ed. The only great deed which
Bourne claims to have done is the Sc
curing of an appropriation for the
Oregon City locks, and this one evil
lence of energy on his part so occu-
pied his time, evidently, that he forgot
al about the balance of the state or
he service he might render it. Rep ,
'esentative Hawley also did valiant
service on behalf OF the locks and 1t /,
8 an open question whether It was ,
rot his influence rather than Jona- :
hans. that turned the rrick
The people of oregon have an OPP ;
'orunity to make beginning in Sc q
uring a delegation in congress COM :
with the state and its pro-
.ress. Hawley is the only man in that
'ody whose voice is heard and needed ,
n defense OF Oregon, and whose in ,
uence is sufficient to enact legislation d,
r secure appropriations for the state.
loaded by Bourne, we have Chamber
iln and I.anerty We gods! what
objection! No wonder that Oregon's
lnuence is nil, and the state tagging ;
ehind in the progressive movement.
1T us make start at a change.
But the weakest portion Of Colonel
.aynes' defense Of Bourne is the inn co.
lied assertion that Selling should be v
efeated because OF his religion. This c
lea is the weapon OF the bigot and
he ignorant The statesman from
allston should take day or borrow a
United States constitution some q
here. FOR its unbelievable that he al
7s one of his own. retire 20 a seclud- "a
corner among his tin pans and iron al
ettlos, and read that sacred docu- C,
cnt There ne viii find the doctrine rr
religious freedom enunclated. and %