The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1914-11-13
GOODBY TO THE DEMAGOG

Clifford Pinchot, the busybody of
American politics, the jealous tale
bearer and envious tattler of two ad-
ministrations, the SOwer of discord
and the breeder of suspicious, the man
who organized the undertaking cam
paign against President Taft, the fell
low who locked the resources of Alas
ka against everybody but the Guggen-
helms, the self-proclaimed tribune OF
the people, put his popularity to the
test for the first time at the recent
election in Pennsylvania in cam
paign for the United States senate and
was crushingly defeated by the NAL
gned Boise Penrose The great COM
mon people of Pennsylvania in the
first direct election of United States
senator Enthusiastically expressed their
d.strust of Pinchot and preference for
Penrose by two to one vote in favor
OF the latter.
Pinchot is one of the rule or ruin
not dominate the Tot policies he set
about to destroy Taft and the republic
can party. An unusual combination
of circumstances played into his hands
and appeared to crown his efforts with
success The result of the election
two years ago lead him to believe that
he could continue to fool the Ameri-
can people, He craved popular favor
and public office. Pennsylvania ap-
peared to offer him field for ex-
plotting his personal ambition. For
several years Senator Boise Penrose
had been subjected to merciless
campaign of abuse and calumny,
| which Pinchot and his associates
hoped had discredited Penrose with
his constituency. Thereupon Pinchot
established convenient residence in
the keystone state and filed his can
didacy for senator. The progressive
party having no standing, the Ameri-
can party was organized in the hope
and expectation of rallying all Of the
disgruntled elements in opposition to
Penrose. Pinchot won the nomina-
Ition and had a fair field in which to
test his strength and the weakness of
his opponent. Pinchot was beaten by
250,000 votes, Penrose receiving two
votes to one for the ex-forester.
| The election from coast to coast
Twas full Of just such hopeful and graf
flying results. BY their emphatic YER
dict in repeated cases similar to that
of Pinchot's candidacy, the American
people expressed their disgust with
the undertaking politician. They in
sist on fair play and clean politics.
They will not forever tolerate sense
less agitation and vile and obscene
abuse of an opponent as the only rea-
son for choosing rival. This whole
some attitude of the public was par
ticularly well illustrated in this state.
The campaign against Senator w. L.
Jones was based solely on a mass of
fiction and lies accompanied with ven-
imous personal attacks. Ole Hanson
and his hackers were the chief Of
tenders in this respect and Hanson
ran a poor third in the race for the
senatorship, while Jones received a
handsome endorsement at the polls.
| Again this attitude of the common
people was strikingly illustrated by
their vote on the five initiative meas
ures proposed by Mr.. Kegley, of Ida
no, and his associates on the so-called
Joint legislative committee. The
league, organized to oppose these
measures, adhered throughout to it's
announced determination to refrain
from personalities of any kind, and
| dealt with the several measures on
their merits only. They offered facts
and arguments in their campaign,
while the joint-legislative committee
relied almost exclusively on a cam
paign of bitter personalities and
coarse invective. They met solid ar
Suments with irrelevant persifage
and meaningless abuse. All but one
of the measures were beaten, many
| of them overwhelmingly. The peo-
pie realize that if a person or a eli
que can not rely on the merits of their
candidacy or their policies that their
claims deserve no consideration, and
by their votes on November Sd they
have given warning to the demagog
that they want no more of him or his
proposals.
The people can always be trusted,
when they have the information to ex-
alt justice and truth and to reject lies,
humbug and unrightousness.