East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-05-09

will enforce the laws He endorsed
Governor Vests action in cleaning up
.Copperfield. He is the only candidate
Of prominence in either party who did
so. He declared at that time and he
has declared since that governor
who does not use every honest ef-
fort to see that the criminal laws are
enforced is derelect in his duties. He
relieves in using new methods il
necessary. In other words we assume
that il he finds officials in league
with wrong doors and the regular
channels Of prosecution are closed he
VIII take the big stick in hand as Gov
ernor West has done and work
cleanup without the aid of quibbling
or antagonistic petty officials.
This type of executive is exactly
what Oregon needs. A governor of
that type can make the law a thing
OF life, not a dead letter. He can
put the fear of God into the hearts OF
those who live by vice. He can make
negligent or cowardly officials get
busy or get out of office. He can
make community life in oregon
cleaner and better. He can make this
finer state in which to live and rear
children. He can do much to stop
degradation and to help oregon go
forward along natural lines of in
dustrial, commercial and moral ad
vancement.
1t is particularly important that
during the next four years oregon
should have a governor who will be
stalwart for law and order. Next year
the tide of immigration through the
canal. will set in and the northwest
will have a new problem to face. Let
Us have our best foot to the fore. Let
uG show the newcomers that Oregon
is state where people live through
industry, not through debauchery and
/ crime. Let this be the goal of the
thrifty immigrant not the mecca for
the white SLAYER and the castoff from
the slums of the old world. Let us
have a governor who will represent
the best thought of the state, not one
who will be moral reactionary and
an easy tool for the forces of or
ganized vice.
DR.. Smith is the man for the place.
He is the ablest man running for gov
ernor, he is a man of character and
courage and his stand for law enforce
ment is exactly what is required. Let
local people get back of DR.. Smiths
candidacy and give him vote next
Friday that will show emphatically
that he is supported by his old home
town and his old home county.
4 eff Gen. Grant were president the
armies of the United States would now
be on their way to
sIf Grant Were Mexico City" said
President" r pres ntative
Campbell of Kansas,
In a recent address to Grant Post, G.
A r., in Brooklyn. This and similar
remarks reused the veterans to dis
sent. They had read Grants Me-
moirs, Mr.. Campbell apparently had
rot. says the New York World.
Gen. Grant took part in the Mexican
var. Almost forty years later writ
ing in expectation of death at Mount
McGregor he described it as "un'
holy" He said he was bitterly OPP
posed" to the annexation of Mexican
territory, and regarded war for that
J purpose as zone of the most unjust
ever waged by a stronger against
weaker nation:" as "a conspiracy to
acquire territory out Of which slave
states might De 1Orineu.
What Grant would think today oi
conspiracy to annex Mexican oil and
mining territory is thus apparent. o'
the gravity Of another enterprise OF
conquest he wrote: THE Mexican
war Of 1s4s-4s would be an impossi.
hility in this generation" Mexicar
officers are generally brave" The
Mexican people, in celebrating Cha
pultepec and Molino del Rey as vic
tories. show patriotism" which We
might initiate with more regard tc
truth"
Once. and once only, Grant wal
willing to go TO war In Mexico-no
against sister nation, not to rob her
but TO aid her in driving out Maxi
milan, who had been imposed upor
the country by Napoleon ILL.,
There would be no more lingo tall