St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1914-06-05
FOR CONGRESS
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The newspapers did worse |
than to ignore the work | am
doing in Congress and in the
courts for the public. They
actually tried to poison the minds
of the public against me as an
individual, well knowing that
they could not attack my public
record. The Oregonian closed
an editorial supporting Nc
Arthur, Sunday before the prim-
airy, with the statement that
There are excellent reasons
the end that any person or cor
poration may start a daily news
paper and compel the press as
sociations to furnish their out
of-town service, and at a reason
able price, just as any citizen
may now compel "A railroad to-
carry him as a passenger if he
tenders the fare. When | in-
troduced this law, Mr.. Bond p.
Geddis, agent at Washington for
Mr.. L. c. Scripps, asked me to
let up on my fight for the bill.
and TO apologize for my state
ment in the Congressional Record
that the press associations were
controlled by the money power.
MIR. Geddis told me that Mr..
Scripps owned the Portland
News; that Scripps also owned
the United Press, or the major
ity of il, that serves both the
News and the Journal in Port
land, and that if | did not
apologize and drop my fight,
Scripps would have bis paper,
the Portland News, fight me for
reelection. | refused TO sur
render.
5. For an Interstate Trade
Commission. with powers to
control private trusts, like the
Steel Trust. the Tobacco Trust,
the Oil Trust, the Harvester
Trust, and all other trusts, even
90 the extent of fixing maximum
prices TO be charged for any
commodity, when found to be
controlled by an absolute monop-
oily, pending the elimination of
the monopolistic conditions and
the restoration of free competi-
ton.
These are not empty promises,
| have put all these propositions
into the form of specific laws.
All that would be required TO
realize them would he To elect
2l9 Congressman n majority
willing 10 serve the public. |
have taken my office seriously
have worked like slave the last
"a years. and, of course. the in
terests will try TO defeat me and
put in stand patter or n non
entity.
had not been i'm Office six
Laiferty should be left at home"
The Portland News. fayoring
McArthur's nomination. habit
ually followed the lead of The
Oregonian. and would close It's
editorials supporting Macarthur
and opposing me. with the state,
ment that There are other
reasons not necessary 10 mention
why Lairerty should be de-
feated. +"
| refuse 10 be killed OIL politi-
cally by any blank cartridges.
| challenge these newspapers
To produce leaden bullets and
show wherein | am unfit, lf
any person can show where |
have ever been immoral. on COM
mitted any oilense against any
law of any country, Twill resign
from office.
AS a cap sheaf 10 the campaign
of newspaper infamy, ON the
afternoon before the primary.
large and glaring paid advertise
ments were inserted in all the
afternoon papers. when IL was
too late for me 10 expose the
fraud in the same papers, head
ed: Congressman Latlerty for
Prohibition. :" That piece of
trickery alone cost me at least
5000 votes. Every reader of the
advertisements supposed | put
them in the papers and, of
course, those who are against
prohibition were incensed that
Twas using the influence of my
political office in that fight. |
The advertisements were insert |
ed by my political enemies, who |
well knew the head thereon was |
false, and who well knew that |
the printing of such advertise
ments, supposedly coming from |
me, would put me in a false |
light. and cost me thousands of |
votes. | have taken nopersonal
public stand for or against
prohibition. and shall not try
to influence the people either
way on the subject. | shall
vote for the resolution sub
mitting the question to the
states, il il comes to vote be-
fore the November election,
and if il comes to a vote after
that i shall vote as Multnomah
County votes ON the subject in
November. No Congressman
has any right 10 vote otherwise
than as desired by a majority of
his constituents, when that de-
sire has haan cIaarlv axnrocoad