Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-10-05
Banquet
Given at Albany in Honor of
Walter Pierce by
Winburn
The Ashland Millionaire Who
Gave Pierce $4,000
Turns Out

(By Harry N. Grain
God bless Jesse Winburn."

mus ulu w dlIST M. Hl6TCe, uem-
ocratic candidate for governor and
beneficiary of the philanthropic
generosity of Mr.. Winburn to the
extent of a $4,000 addition to his
campaign fund, sound the keynote
of the non-partisan dinner given
by the Ashland millionaire at the
Albany hotel last night.
Mr. Winburn's banquet was
heralded in honor of Mr.. Pierce
and his candidacy, but the gather
ing of 100 newspaper men and po-
litical warhorses got away to
bad start and wound up as a Win
burn love feast, with Mr.. Pierce
among those present.
In applause honors Winburn
scored first, Woodrow Wilson Sec
ond and Pierce had a slight edge
on j. r. Hunt, ex-senator from
Multnomah county and republican
baCkslider, for third place.
Moses Toastmaster.
Bert Moses, of Sap-andSalt
fame and old among the proteges
of Winburn, in the capacity of
POSTMASTER, first blew the note
that was echoed through the
speaking program, when he sang |
the praises due Winburn as a pub
lie philanthropist and guardian |
angel of the financial end of the |
Pierce campaign.
All of the speakers were duly
thoughtful of Winburn and his
$4,000 contribution to the cause OF
true democracy"
Asserting that he was no, 'aI-
together a freak" Winburn soft
peddled the party savior attitude
OF his admirers and plunged into
an explanation of his conversion
10 the Pierce cause, opening with
the flat denial that he was a for
mer Tammany man, or that he
had ever been in any way connect
ed with Tammany hall. He de-
elared that during his 80 years in
new York he could not remember
Oh ever having voted for a Tam
many candidate and that, on the
other hand, he had been an active
campaigner for republicans and
later in the Bull Moose cause.
EyynloSy,a
Wlnburn attributed his conver-
SION to the Pierce candidacy to
the democratic nominees stand on
tne taxation question and the ac-
'iou OF Governor Olcott in not I
only refusing the proffered sup l
port of one of Winburn's personal
iiieads, but in subsequently dis
missing this dear friend" from a
honorary post in the states EN-
ploy' While mentioning no names,
"lnourn made it clear that he re-
ieffed to Pop" Gates of Medford,
"hose Ku Klux tendencies re-
suited in his dismissal from the
state fair board.
Flerce, after eulogizing his
suardlan angel" as a public spir-
.teu philanthropist and "a stu
lent, turned to Winburn and
-uanhea him for his help in the
lSmpalgn, 1T is not the money, C
= A4'nough that comes in handy, but q
,ne spirit in which it was given I
Pierce. u - a
referring to an editorial in
. Des'eruay mornings issue of the
- iesohian asserting that he had e g
eeiared himself as opposed to the p
'.ate I. tair and proper maintenance Il
:. me asylum, penitentiary and
,'ner state institutions, Mr.. Pierce u
:, -eolared that the statements were 81
Wholly untrue. 7
never said that was opposed Id
. me state fair. What l did say al a
, as mat was opposed to a second =
ta.e lair and cited an appropria- q
{ -aue by the last legislature =
80, $4,000 for second state
-. (Mr. Pierce's reference :,
- was to the appropriation NJ
l@ue ior the Pacific international y y
'5s'oek exposition of Port -
$.
Continued on Pago Fiyo1 uC