Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-10-17
Editorial Page of The Daily Capital Journal
CAUSE OF REPUBLICAN DEFEATS.


c. S. Moores of Portland who is the republican party
Of Oregon if we may believe his ltterances has
muzzed Wthycombe, candidate for governor and taken
fu responsibility for the campaign OF Booth ior sena
for What he saws goes and he is saying great deal
nowadays through the columns of the Oregonian that
GREAT champion of the plain people, providing the PLAIN
people will be good ask for little, and expect less ne
issues more procamations than Mexican rebel general
Moores is standpater He has always stood for the 0a
order the convention and the machine opposed to the
direct primary and the right of the people to select tne
own candidates He questions their ntelgence OF tgi
honesty-perhaps both-and believes, no doubt hoheSt'
that ony select few are capable of sefgovernment IN
this country
In putting such man at the head of it's campaign com
mitee and keeping him there in spite OF repeated deIea
mainly explains the disasters suffered by the repuDca
Of Oregon lie does not represent Ce MASSES u V0 pa
has nothing in with them, and, judged by ms
actions entertans only contempt for their opinions ana
desires And the republican party will never win the We
tories at the polls that its apparent majority eiCCes
to until new men, strong and clean, with taltn IN e
Main people of whom Abraham Lincoln said: God must
love them because he made many OF he are paceu d.
the head of its affairs. ,4I
The republican party is not, should be sandpatl
party 1t came up into power under Lincoln aS al %
Sion of the masses against the Boubonism OF the demo
cratic party of the early Sixties whose leaders as some
one expressed it, "knew nothing and refused 10 learn
ANYTHING" 1t stood for progress and new oruer ol
things until Ongcontinued power caused Cne
ves of predatory wealth to corrupt its leaders and seize
the rens of it's control Then came the revolt the pro-
pressive movement led by Cummings, BrstoW Roosevelt
and other great leaders who voiced the protest OF e Ta
and file that the sacred functions of government had oee
prosttuted to the Of greed and persona! IereS
THE nslrrecton swept the party from power IN the ma
ton and in every state where the progressive forces aeo
to dominate the party organization In oregon niue
clique headed by Moores and the Oregonlan still cng 10
the wreck of the party machine and have been aoe 10
thwart every effort Of the people to regain possession OF
the organization that it may again become an nsCru
men for the urtherance of popular ideals anu progress
sve government 1t is said that the Progressive party Is
dvngt may entirely pass out of existence as an organ
zatonbut the seed sowed has taken root IN the nearS
and minds of tens of thousands of republicans and Tor all
time to come will find expression at the ballot box through
the fearless independent voting Of those Who though
thew register as republicans acknowledge no party ties
that would stfy their duty first of all to the MAINTAIN
ance of good government honestly administered IN the IN
n terests of the people.
IS State Chairman Moores and his organ the Oregoman
are the most dscreded political prophets IN oregon 9u
h they don't know it. They are cropping IN the DARK pnuec
by their own egosm and deaf to any counsel tha aoe
not harmonze with their views OF matters pohca
They cannot see the lowering clouds of another mpena
ing defeat and when they rear their heads from tne
h of the avalanche of November B. they VIII proceed
charge the disaster to everything but Its direct cause
Mooes and the Oregonian They are the real WrecKe
of the republican party in Oregon because tne honesI re
pubcans who are better citizens than they are parsans
will continue voting the democratic ticket until tnese rec
of odme machine politics are buried too deep Tor resi
recon and clean men and fair methods represent TN
principles the party of Lincoln once stood Tor IN the MS
i'll tory of the republic.