Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-11-02

The Peoples Candidate

Thomas w. Lawson, great friend of the
people, who for the past quarter of cen
tury has been fighting Trusts and Frenzied
Finance, and who comes each year to Ore
gon to rest from his arduous duties, writes
to the voters of Oregon as follows:
Suppose YOU had come over 5000 miles
to Oregon to rest up from twenty-hour-a-
day body and mind drudgery! Suppose
during YOUR rest-up YOU could not shut
out from the natural beauties of YOUR
rest-up place the suffering and misery Of
others! Suppose in the middle of YOUR
rest-up YOU saw an opportunity to do
something towards alleviating the suffer-
ing and misery of others and suppose YOU
took up YOUR pen-went back to the
drudgery YOU had fled from and formu-
lated this page and personally paid the
money to get it where it might help the
suffering and misery which had reused
YOU to action
No state in the union has better stock
of statesmen raw material than Oregon
yet a visitor from Mars to Washington
in the past two years, the most vital two
years in the past fifty, in search of the ten
greatest law makers, would depart with
the first and second ten without knowing
that Oregon was one of the United States.
| mean by this no disparagement to the
west or its able representatives for num-
ber one on the Martan's list would be
Senator Owen of Oklahoma, with Borah
of Idaho close second
Does any student of affairs who has alb
sorbed the mental atmosphere of these real
statesmen or who observed the campaign
of the ineXperienced-in-pol college
teacher, Woodrow Wilson, believe that any
of the three would allow such a campaign
as the one | have been watching in Ore
gon?
Some cute politician may say that the
reason for Candidates Chamberlan's and
Booths prominence over Candidates Han
ley, is their better equipment for the of
flee to which | answer: The study of
public men and public affairs is my profess
sion. | know the statesmen of yesterday,
and day before yesterday. know those of
today! | have studied Senator Chamber
lain and Mr. Booth and Oregon affairs
and | know Mr.. Haney Have seen him
in action east as well as west and am
absolutely unbiased in my views of all
three. With my knowledge of the men
and the job awaiting Oregon's next SEN
ator, | am firm in my convictions that |
any Injustice, when | unqualifiedly affirm
my belief that at the end of Mr.. Hanleys
first year in the senate he will crowd Sen
ators Owen and Borah for first place on
the list of real statesmen doers
IF WILLIAM HANLEY is. HERALDED
THE NEXT UNITED STATES SENATOR
FROM OREGON THE WORLD WILL BE
ON IT'S TIPTOES TAKING NOTICE. AND
OREGON FOR A LONG TIME AFTER
nTTr
THE UNITED STATES IN LARGER.
BRIGHTER-COLORED LETTERS THAN
EVER BEFORE
In the event of Mr. Hanley's election
the world will ask: Who is this man who
has smashed the two powerful political
machines, and beaten down odds that ap-
peared unsurmountable? What is his Sc
cret? Whence his power? Why his
need?
And the answer will be: His personal
ity. His simple. old-fashioned honesty.
His country's and his peoples pride. The
world will be told this by legion of sim
pie folk. by legion of toilers, by legion
of oppressed and suffering, as, with one
voice, they shout: HE is WITH US. FOR
US. OF us. HE HAS HEAD, HEART.
SOUL AND CONSCIENCE. ALL OF
WHICH WILL BE WITH US, FOR US. OF
US, WHEN HE is IN THE NATIONS
WITH US. FOR US. OF US. WHEN THEY
WERE AS LOWLY AS WE.
Messrs. Chamberlain and Booth are the
candidates of mighty parties and the
mighty parties have mighty press. Either
could have given Oregon voters a campaign
worthy of senatorial candidate. Mr.
Hanley has no press. He and his helper
can only get to you as do by buying ex-
pensive advertising space but, even with
give you my idea of the kind of educa-
tional matter which should be submitted
TO oregon voters at this critical election.
As YOU read my facts recall whether you
have been shown any of them in this cam
paign. Then ask yourself. is IL possible
that they are facts, and If they are should
Oregon miss this opportunity of sending to
the senate the man who understands the
real conditions of the country, or the man
who knows nothing of the burning ques-
tion of the times? And II they are not
facts. how can their fallacies be pune
tured?
This latter will be simple
THE QUICKEST AND MOST FEASIBLE
WAY TO PUNCTURE THE FALLACY OF
MY ASSERTIONS WILL BE FOR SENA-
TOR CHAMBERLAIN AND MR.. BOOTH
TO DO so IN MY PRESENCE. AND MUCH
AS ! WOULD DREAD THE ORDEAL OF
MEETING THESE SEASONED DEBAT-
ERS, FOR ] HAVE NOT BEEN ON THE
PUBLIC PLATFORM. EVEN FOR A SIN
GLE SPEECH. IN OVER THREE YEARS,
] WILL AGREE TO BE ON ANY PUBLIC
PLATFORM IN ORGoN, UPON NoTIFI-
CATION THAT MESSRS. CHAMBERLAIN
AND BOOTH WILL BE THERE, BE-
TWEEN NOW AND ELECTION.
Why is the cost of living high?
Because there Is OF the country's sixty
billion dollars OF stock and bonds-draw-