East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-11-30
PLAN TO DOUBLECROSS
CONTINUED from pags H.

defeat. The declarations to that eff
feet were very positive and agreed
thereto, but they accepted a modifi-
cation Offered on my part to the effect
that if conditions should develop
which might make it advisable to ne
,gottate with Eastern Oregon, that the
! parties present should not meet again
land determine whether or not that was
advisable
| As Eddy was able to show the most
pledges I agreed to use my influence
| with my supporters to come to his sup
port so far as l could. and | proceed
| ed to do so, 1 thought that it would
be safe to count upon four of us and
we ought to be able to get the neces-
sary 16 by inducing Senators Corbett
and Johnson to join us. However,
only two of my supporters besides my
self could be induced to support Eddy,
and after As hours of effort we were
unable to increase the Eddy strength
beyond 13.
Says He Had Is
1t was then when we were all nres-
ent again in Senator Eddys room that I
Senators Joseph, Staples and Eddy |
himself, suggested that apparently |
the best hope of our combination to
Win was to give their support to me,
and within q very short time Is votes
We're pledged to me, some of them
subject to the approval of Senator
Eddy. Among these was the vote of !
Mrs. Kinney. ! needed only Senator
Garland or Senator Corbett or Sena-
or Johnson. They went to dinner
.ogethor, and he never showed up at
our headquarters in Eddy's room at I
H.
When I returned from dinner, about I
A 5 p. m, there was no one in Sena-
or Eddy's room, and remained there
from that hour until five
before midnight without see
ng or hearing from any of the Eddy
except that talked with
senator Joseph once over the phone. !
Met In Joseph's Office.
At o'clock when 7 talked with
Senator Joseph over the phone and
lie said he did not know where the
'oys We're, the Eddy supporters were
folding caucus with Senator Joseph
n his office. When they discovered 4
hat l knew where Joseph was they
oOved the scene of their caucus to the
tfice of Senator COrbett. In adjoin-
ng rooms We're the Eastern Oregon
delegation and negotiations were
pened between the Eddy forces and
he Eastern Oregon delegation to go
ITO caucus and to form a combina- n
ion. The whole evening was spent in g
his effort, but they did not actually II
o into caucus because Eastern Ore d
on would not consent. But as a re- III
ult of their combination ii was agreed a
lat neither the Eastern Oregon dele m
alton nor the Eddy forces would II
ave any negotiations with me or my OF
Importers This is how 7 have ap-
arently become an "outcast." tt
Sees Double Cross II
When I learned of this double st
tossing on the parts of Senators Ed d
Y. Joseph and Staples in particular, I IN
'ent to them and told them if that u
'as their method of keeping prom u
es, whether political or otherwise, &c
nat I was through. They each de- w
led to me that they mad made any Va
lch combination, but have the wort an
Senators Ritner, COrbett and others M
nat they did. I'll
There had been no such double 10
rossing, Misrepresentation and mill E
g about on this presidency of the
mate that I became disgusted and pl
uit, and | did not intend to announce e'
~ support of any one but the more l W
lought Of the methods of Joseph, II
taples and Eddy, the more I became fC
onvinced that they should not be in fC
pledged. my support to tu
enator Upton, without any promise II
+ agreement of any kind and with u.
he absolute and definite statement Vi
'hich l made to the public, that l
ought no fayors and no committee
ppointments.