East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-05-08

one can rely on the police record for
fun information on the subject.
As mayor OF Pendleton DR.. Smith
stood for law enforcement. He took
an advanced position at a time when
sentiment on the subject was lax.
Sixteen years ago IL was more radical
to oppose gambling than it is to sup
port prohibition today. All friends
of DR.. Smith know his personal SEN
timents have ever been for clean con-
ditions and that he has never feared
TO show his colors. His position to-
day is in line with his lifelong con-
victions.
The Portland Oregonian is opposing
DR.. Smith because his record is good
not because it is bad. The oregonian
is bitter partisan and il is vehem-
ent against true blue law enforce
ment. 1t is in this campaign walking
arm in arm with organized vice. Its
fight on DR.. Smith is the greatest
compliment the doctor has ever re-
ceived and it should insure his nomi-
nation.
The following editorial by the Chi
cago News is Of interest in view of the
developments in Colo
The Colorado rado:
Trouble In the Colorado coal
fields the issue is
squarely Joined on the question of
trade unionism. Because the strikers
have persisted for more than seven
months in demanding the right of
collective bargaining with their en-
ployers, while the coal operators have
as persistently denied recognition to
the United Mine Workers of America,
there have come shocking conflicts
between state troops and miners
armed with rifles. Much blood has
been shed in skirmishes and pitched
battles. SO it has become necessary
to send federal soldiers into the dis
trict to stop the fighting and restore
order.
In his public declaration on the
subject John d. Rockefeller. Jr.,
director of the Colorado Fuel and
Iron company. says positively that the
company does not purpose to submit
to the unionizing of its workers. Mr.
Rockefeller wishes to believe that the
great body of the Colorado coal min
ers is being urged against its will to
join the union. He says that less than
10 per cent of his copany's employees
are union men and he expresses in
dignation because few men seek by
violent means to coerce many others
into joining the union.
Mr.. Rockefeller's indignant protests
would be more convincing IL it were
not for the fact that the coal oper-
ators for years have attempted to
stifle trade unionism in Colorado. Fur
ther, in the management OF the mines
some elemental rights of citizenship
seem to have been disregarded. The
strikers have therefore argued that,
III order to obtain justice, a strong
trade union is essential. They are
virtually helpless, they say, when they
are forced to bargain as individuals
with the employing companies.
In these circumstances it is not hard
to understand the bitterness result
ing from this long industrial war, with
its battles and sieges. its ghastly
death and its other horrors. Almost
incredible mismanagement and intol-
cradle lawlessness led up to the state
of war that now has developed in
Colorado. The forces of law and JUS
tice are weak indeed If they fail to
bring permanent peace with little fur
ther delay out of this condition of
violent anarchy.
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II DR.. Smith was not already safe
winner of the democratic nomination