The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1912-03-29
JOSEPH T. HINKLE

hepuUllCan Can0ldat6 Tor GDo Logls-
lature before the Primaries April 10th
is a native of Kentucky and came to
Umatilla county in 1884 with his
parents, who settled ON a homestead
in the Juniper country north of Pen.
dleton. He received his education in
the public schools of this county and
in Willamette University at Salem,
Oregon. and began his career in pub
lie life as publisher of the Farmer 8
Alliance Herald at Pendleton, 1912.
He taught in the public schools of the
county for three years, and was ad-
mitted to the bar in May 1897. He
Immediately opened law office at
Pendleton, where he practiced for IL
years, making a success of his profes-
sion and acquiring a moderate COM
potency. In 1908 be began directing
his energies and his savings from the
law business to the building of the
Hinkle ditch at Echo, one of the big
gest irrigation enterprises undertaken
in this end of the county. and one
which has added $1.000,000 to the
taxable wealth of the county and pro-
vided homes for hundreds Of people
where an uninhabitable desert ex
listed before.
In 1908 Mr. Hinkle retired from
active law practice and moved with
his family to his alfalfa farm at the
mouth of Butter creek, where be now
has 200 acres of alfalfa in a highly
improved state of cultivation, from
which he derives an Independent in.
come, as he says, to supply any
reasonable mans wants"
For the past year MIR. Binkle has re-
sided at Hermiston on account of the
school facilities for his children.
He is legal adviser for the city of
Hermiston. a numter Of water users
associations and private ditch COM
panies, and enjoys the confidence and
esteem Of the people generally, who
regard his remarkable success in his
own lines of endeavor as fair criter
on by which TO judge his ability 20
handle the affairs of Others
In private life he is clean aud whole
some, having an elegant and talented
family. aud is responsive TO every call
or move for the moral uplift and So
cial purity OF the community in which
he resides.
Politically, Mr.. Hinkle is Repub-
licau. having affiliated with the re-
publican party for the past l2 or IA
years. Prior to that he was a popu-
list, for which he claims he has no
apology TO make. Like many Of the
populists after the dissolution of that
party, he sought the Republican party
as the best available means for the
accomplishment of political refol ms.
He is prominent member of the
Peoples Power League of the State.
and one of the trainers of the direct
primary law aud Statement No. /.
However, he frankly states that while
the progressive legislation for the past
l2 years under republican control is
wonderful improvement over the
old methods. it does not follow by any
means that the so-called Oregon Sys-
tenn is perfect or that 1t may not yet
be infinitely improved. Instead of
hlindly lighting the progressive ideas
Of the day, those who are inclined to
critioise the system should devote
their energies to its correction and
perfection.
Mr.. Hinkle's hobby, If any, is irri,
cation and country home building.
He may, therefore. be counted for
any measures that will prom ote the
Irrigation of arid lands aud encourage
their settlement by thrifty farmers.
and so he may be counted for better
schools, better roads. cheaper railway
aud water transportation and any
measure calculated to make the ooun-
Try home more attractive aud desira-
| BILE.
Mr.. Hinkle's recent election as
permanent secretary and treasurer of
the Oregon Irrigation congress is not
onig Q reward of merit to himself, hut
an honor TO umatilla county. This
position viii give him prestige in the
legislature in all matters pertaining TO
irrigation and kindred subjects.
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