Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-10-03
sTAND-PATTERS.

yon. and in Ashland, who are in IA
yor of progressing backward. They
see no good in the Oregon system.
They call it wild-eyed populism and
long for the good old times when
the political boss ran the govern
ment and special privilege ran him.
There are but few of such left and
those are mostly they who have been
a cog in the old machine. These
Dersons have a cordial hatred for
Jonathan Bourne because he had a
large part in destroying the machine
and putting into force the new code
of the peoples rule in Oregon. They
hate the recall, the initiative and
referendum, and the primary system
and corrupt practices act give them
the cold chills.
The world has been moving rapid
ly during the last few years, but
these men have been standing still
They have failed to note the forward
movement. They resent the en-
croachment of the people on theil
persimmon patch. They fail to dis
Germ harm in the usurpation of the
powers of government by special priv.
ilege because they were part of the
machine through which it was ac'
complished, and whatever individual
favor came down from the system
fell on them. To such the untruth
full poison circulated by big business
against Roosevelt has been swee
morsel. They do not care to seel
for truth. 1t is enough that Roose
welt set the grass afire which ha'
resulted in topping over cherished
bosses, and they grasp with avidit!
the absurd stories thrown out agains
him and circulate them with fiendisl
glee.
They fail to comprehend how ut
terly out of touch they are with thu
sentiment of their community or hov
far out of line they are with the ne
cessity of the times. The influenc,
of these men, once strong in the esti
nation of the community, has wanet
until they have become a negligible
force in public matters, yet they Sc
if not They are out of joint wit
the times in which they live. The
are sour on the world and look upol
this grand forward movement as
calamity
Such are not necessarily bad cit
zens Some of them are SINGER
Christian gentlemen; some of thel
honest leaders in business circles an
men of high moral character. The
are just out of step, that is all. The
will soon come to see their erro
The result sure in the coming ele,
ton will help to wake them up.
They may not rise to ieadersh
again, for they have been too slo
in catching the step, but they will
aroused to the big fact of the time
that the people are determined tn
! this government shall be their go
, ernment and that the agencies
government shall be their agents.
This article is prompted by l
$ cent perusal of the record of w.
Hawley, congressman from this d
trict. He has not yet been arous
to the big fact, Every act OF
in congress has been squarely In II
s with the reactionaries, He suppo
|. ed the Cannon machine. He adv
s Gated the Payne-Aldrich tariff.
It voted for the amendment in the po
d office appropriation bill allowing
It railroads an increase of some t
S million, seven hundred thousand d
s lars per annum for carrying
i mails. He voted Tor the ocean 81
e sidy bill providing an increase
/ more than a million dollars "
It for carrying ocean mail. He vol
n for the bill to sell the Alaska c.
d mines to individuals at $40 per ac
n He voted for the ship subsidy b
e When the commerce bill was bef,
II the house he voted for the amel
ment allowing combinations and I
r. nopolies among railroads. In tru
IS every act of Mr.. Hawley in congr
'f has been absolutely out of line W
ID the progressive sentiment both
v Oregon and the nation.
THE RACE NOT TO THE SWIl