Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-11-04
LET THE NTELLGENCEoF THE VOTERS DECIDE

The morning paper of this city yesterday printed
a statement signed by Walter L Tooze, chairman, and the
secretary Of the county republican central committee. 1t
attacks the Capital Journal as a liar and a vllifier OF
character in general, and reads just like Walter Tooze
sounds when he goes on a rampage and uses his voice to
its fullest capacity. He is one Of those individuals who
is incapable of thinking while he is talking and as ne
talks most of the time the result may be easily imagined.
He considers himself the republican party of Marion
county, and for all we know or care he may be, because
that is none of our business. 1t is up to the republican
voters to say whether Walter TooZe holds a blanket
power Of attorney to speak for them and herd them to the
polls. However, we seriously doubt if this is the case,
knowing the intelligence of many of the voters OF the
party and the conspicuous lack of it on the part OF the
resounding and effervescent Tooze.
The Capital Journal has at this eleventh hour no de-
sire to enter into a lengthy discussion of the political sit
uation which this statement by Mr.. Tooze invites. The
facts are known to the people and they viii make use OF
them as their intelligence and conscience dictates at the
polls tomorrow.
The Capital Journal makes enemies because it prints
facts that some persons, most frequently politicians,
would like to have suppressed. 1t exposed the Kerr sal
AIRY grab and proved its case, and compelled the promot-
ers of the scheme to entangle themselves in a mess OF con-
Trajectory statements in an attempt to explain 1t away.
1t fixed the responsibility upon the governor of the state
because of his repeated public Endorsements OF the salary
grab before its exposure, and because in his official posi-
ton as ~exofficio member of the board he was In a position
to head off the treasury raid.
1t has criticised the state military police because they
were unnecessary in the first place, and because in the
second place they were hand-picked by the governors
political lieutenants, not for fitness but for their avail
ability as political strikers. They were used in the prin-
airy to work against MOser, Ocott, Simpson and other re-
publican candidates for governor. Members of the force
have been caught red-handed in bootlegging at Medford,
in houses of il-fame in Portland, in insulting law-abld
ing people in eastern Oregon, and one Of them at least is
behind the bars for seditious utterances against the gov
eminent. In face of these facts, scarcely tive weeks ago
Governor Withycombe issued a statement especially
commencing the work Of these men, but now through Mr..
Tooze in the statement published yesterday, he seeks to
shift the appointment of these men upon his republican
party colleagues, naming Gus Moser, Secretary Olcott,
Treasurer Kay, r. N. Stanfield and X. K. KubE, as re-
sponsible for the organization. These men may answer
as they see fit, but we presume that they will say truth
fully that the matter was left entirely in the hands Of
the governor.
The Capital Journal has from time to time told about
Governor Withycombes management of the state prison
and especially his appointment and retention of the motor
ious Joe Keller as parole officer; of his management Of
the flax business and his appointment to office of incom-
petent men simply because they were politicians of the
narrow Withycombe brand These charges are not lies;
they are facts that have never been refuted, and, no mat
ter how the election goes, never will be.
The Capital Journal is not concerned with election