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Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-10-16

/ changing the city charter, the
Alansnlen nominated a complete
new ticket for city offices, with
Mr., Settlers at it's head as the ap-
proved candidate for mayor. thus
making the contest for mayor un-
der the new charter a three
cornered affair. For city commits
sioners they endorsed G. A. He'll
berg, A. s. Skyles, e. B. Hauke
and John Arnold, all klansmen.
Because R. w. Skallerud, who
had received the yellow ticket en-
dorsement for port commissioner
in the primary, riled the Dever
faction of the khan in opposing the
mayorality candidacy of Settlers,
it is reported that the Dever force
viii now "single Shoot on a dark
horse in opposition to Skallerud.
The Ku Kluxers hope to profit
materially by. the patronage to be
dispensed by the port commission,
as all of the three successful can
didates for the commission carried
the approval of the khan in the
primary and are unopposed for Of
flee now. Skallerud and his fol-
lowers in the khan are reported to
be against Settlers because Settlers
refused to serve his brothers when
ne declined the recall nomination
for shariff
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-10-16

| Law Enforcement League, as it is
now called. Because of his loose
ness in the matter of law enforce
ment, especially as the laws re-
lated to liquor trafficing and vice,
Sheriff Nelson had not been bit
terly fought by the klansmen, al
though his wife was a Catholic.
But Nelson's flat refusal to dis
charge Vince Bakotich, one of his
deputies, brought upon his head
the fun ire of the khan. Bakotich,
veteran of 20 years or more of
police work in Clatsop county and
an efficient officer, was, as an Of
ficer, Objectionable to the klans-
men for two reasons; first, he was
Catholics; second, he had been
an active enemy of the klansmen
and his personal investigations
had revealed not only the identity
of many of the~Ku Kluxers, but
had uncovered and hindered much
of their conspiring.
Offered to Compromise. -
That it was Sheriff Nelson's re-
fusal to discharge Bakotich and
not his own shortcomings that cost
him his job in the recall election
of August IL, and that it was the
khan that engineered the recall
through the Law Enforcement
League, is amply evidenced by the
fact that after the recall petitions
had been perfected and an opposi-
tion candidate named, Nelson was
given chance to save his official
head by certain officers of the Ku
Klux Klan, who informed him
that if he would then relieve Ba-
kotich of his star the recall would
be dropped.
Nelson's reiteration of his re-
fusal to fire Bakotich, although
the deputy, who knew of the offer
made by the klansmen, volunteer
ed to quit, resulted in the calling
of the recall election.
When the recall started o. B.
Settlers, Astoria attorney closely
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-10-16
Would Discipline Mott.

James Mott, who has invited the
displeasure of the Kluxers by re-
fusing their advances and declin-
ing to pledge his vote as a prob
able state representative to "Kap"
kubli for the speakership, is an
other office seeker for whom the
nightshirt brigade has it's guns
out. The word has been passed
around that in this contest the
klansmen are to Single shoot" for
another dark horse, who entered
the race too late to get his name
on the ballot. He is A. A. Ander-
son, attorney, and a klahsman of
the first water.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-10-16
ROSTERS BARRED FROM
MAIL BUT CHICKS TAKEN

Washington, Oct. 16.-The old
barnyard rooster can not travel
by United States mail, but day
old chicks, according to post
office department announced to-
day, still MAJ be shipped from
place to place, provided their
journey may be completed within
70 hours. Moreover, these chicks
may be insured against loss, but
not against death.
Harmless live animals, rated as
inoffensive, and not requiring
food or water in transit, may go
by mail along with baby terri
pains, soft shelled crabs, blood
worms and chameleons. Under
new regulations live alligators up
to 20 inches in length are the
only live alligators Uncle Sam
will handle.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-10-16
Klan Breaking Apart.

AS l said before, the Ku Klux
Klan is now high in the saddle in
Clatsop county and riding hard.
But they are riding to a fall. AL
ready discord and dissatisfaction
with boss rule are wrecking the
movement. The leaders are fight
ing among themselves over the
division of spoils already secured
and in prospect, and the good
members are losing their enthus-
iasm. In the heighth of its power
the khan was reputed to have ia
the neighborhood of 500 members
in Catsop county. At recent
meeting called to select and en-
dorse candidates for the general
election ticket only 200 were pres
ent, and these were so divided as
to be beyond control of the lead
ers. The sponsorship of the com
pulsory school bill, which is a di-
rect~ blow at the Lutherans, lost
the Ku Kluxers scores of memsurs
and more votes in Clatsop county
Nothing but the vague hope OF
success for their local canc:dates
in the coming general election
with its prospect of public plum
der, graft and patronage to be dis
pensed, is keeping the khan from
splitting wide open.
At its recent nominating and
endorsing meeting the khan pin
ned it's token of approval on Wal
ter M. Pierce, for governor; o. p.
Hoff, state treasurer; B. F. Han
son, state labor commissioner; S
S. George, superintendent of pub
lie instruction.
Dissention in Ranks.
Principal interest centered,
however, on the selection of can
didates for city and county off
GERS, where the spoils would not
be so foreign to their clutches. To
recover the loss sustained when
the voters deprived their success.
full candidates of offices to fill in
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-10-16
SATURDAY GRID
SCORES UPSET
ALL FORECASTS

curnrises were the rule rather
4ban the exception in the foot
hau world last Saturday after
noon and fandom has not yet com
nletely recovered from some OF
The shocks it suffered.
Yale,s defeat by the Iowa
eleven was the first news TO upset
the old dope bucket and was fol-
lowed in rapid succession by re-
rorts of the Washington-Idaho
pame. in which the Vandals held
the mighty Sun Dodgers to lone
safety for two points, and the
inset administered by Coach
frank IS Pacific University aggre-
cation in blocking the supposedly
nowerful oregon Aggie offensive.
The Aggies nosed out 80 vic
tory.
oregon s. defeat by the Multi
nomah Club eleven was not
wholly unexpected, but the size of
the score, 20 to 0, was startling
to the lemon-yellow followers.
The purported strength of the
Washington State College eleven
was also disputed by the results
of its Saturday clash with Con
zaga. The Cougars had difficulty
in edging out with the long end of
a 10 to 7 score.
In the south Southern Cali
fornia defeated Arizona Is to O.,
Stafford won from Santa Clara z
to 0. and California recorded the
only walkaway in trimming st.
Mary s Al to 0.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-10-16
People of Oregon
Really On Trial
In Coming Election

OF no organization and no news
paper. He has been governor fol
all the people, and good govern
or, one of the best governors OF
any state. He has maintained his
appointed men who would admin
lister efficiently, asking no politi-
cal support from them in return.
He has conscientiously avoided
debating patronage to his ap-
pointees, or even recommending
job-hunters to them. He has held
them responsible, not for political
or personal loyalty to the appoint
ing power, but for results for the
state of Oregon.
Olcott is a marked contrast to
the old type of governor, who
usually was political spellbinaer,
a political boss or the creature of
a political boss or machine. This
is the type the people of every
state have been familiar with. We
have had several governors in Ore
gon who were not of that type,
but none who was SO entirely diff
ferent from that type as Olcott has
proven himself to be.
Olcott has proven faithful to
the whole people. He has proven
to be an economical and able ad-
ministrator, who had the faculty
of selecting the best men for ap-
pointees and of inspiring them to
realize that they were free to do
their best for the whole people. He
has not played politics. He has
avoided building up political or
personal machine or organization.
He has been on the square with
the whole people. %The question is,
do the people of Oregon appreci-
ate this high type of governor, or
will they turn back to the old
type of spellbinder, boss or politi-
cal manipulation?
1t really is the people of Oregon
who are on trial.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-10-16
KLUxERS LOSE GRIP

Continued from Page one.)
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-10-16
Transmit POWER FROM
NIAGARA TO new YORK

New York, Oct. 16.-Transmis-
sion of power from Niagara Falls
TO New York is a possibility of
the future, in the opinion of DR..
W. 3. f. Alexanderson, chief
engineer of the Radio Corporation.
This prediction followed the sue
cess of 16 hour test of electron
tubes in place of large alternators
In transmitting wireless messages
across the Atlantic ocean.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-10-16
(From the Oregon voter.)

Ben w. Olcott is not on trial; it
is the people of Oregon who are on
trial at the coming election.
The question is whether the
people of this state really appre-
ciate a nonpolitical administra tion
that is honest, economical and
above all, efficient. The efficiency
is due to the quality and caliber
OF the governors appointees. The
most capable men in Oregon were
appointed, and were chosen re-
gardless of politics. Will the vot-
ers of this state remember this,
and does 1t mean anything to them
II they do remember it?
The politicians are either
against Olcott, or are lukewarm.
Many are against him because he
refused to play their game. They
are supporting Pierce, just to get
Olcott out, hoping that four years
hence they can elect republican
SoVerHor VINO Will play the game
in political way.
Many republican politicians are
simply lukewarm. They are sup
porting Olcott, not because tney
like him more, but because they
like democrat less, especially
Pierce. They are also afraid lest
Pierce will prove a bull in china
shop - doing immense damage
without any constructive good to
make up for any part of the dam
age. This fear and dread of Pierce
is real, and prompts feverish ac-
tiyity in the republican camp to
re-elect Olcott, but there is no love
for Olcott behind their activity.
No organization in Oregon to-
day, and no great newspaper is be-
hind Ben w. Olcott for reelection
in any way that implies enthus-
iasm for Olcott. That reason is
that Olcott has done the bidding
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-10-16

Continued from Page One)
lower house of the Legislature
without marked complaint from
her constituents, had the women's
vote sOlidly behind her, would
have received the Purity League
vote without aid of the khan, and
the result of the balloting showed
her to be the favorite in those
precincts where the khan was a
negligible factor.
Open Fights Lost.
In the only two instances where
endorsed candidates had nothing
Dut the o. X. of the Ku Xlux to
recommend them, the outcome of
lne election was a direct repudia-
'ion OF the nightshirt party, al
tnough the strength shown in one
Vi these contests by the yellow
ticket candidate was disturbing.
Despite the fact. that the khan
tnrew the strength of its machine
ulfectly behind Rev. Joseph JEFF
liey' for the republican nomina-
lion for state representative,
asalnst e. N. Hurd, incumbent,
and lanes Mott, and instructed
us members to single shoot for
Jeffrey, the minister was decisive
iy defeated.
Que perhaps to the concentra-
slOn Of the khan forces on pro-
sfam to completely control city
s'1lees, S. A. Void, with nothing
~ recommend his candidacy save
' sne endorsement of the khan, came
"i'nin Il votes OF defeating e. G..
uearhart for the office of city po-
a Se Judge. Void was practically
AAHown, while Gearhart has
yea for years in the capacity
- police Judge and had never be-
t te been opposed for election. He
u dlspleased the khan, how
AR & oy flatly refusing to join
vneir Organization, and his office
~ % Practically the only one in
dis.y [s eity not controlled by invisible
~ Police Officers Fired.
p.. ne intent of the khan to doni-
for foe II possible, city government
sno,, me political leverage and
elea-1 mus to be secured, was
E,r. T4iy evident through the Ku
AIa7,o ampaign. The kluxing of
~ or L' BremHer and the entrance
CHI. chief political appointee
ti.s OF Police Carlson. into the
s.s an We're followed almost imre-
~. ley by a ''reorganization., Of
natss Zee . department. that elimf-
.~o patrolmen, Leo Gramms
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-10-16

because it is built on reason. Scientific
authorities admit its poweri S. S. S.
builds blood-power, it builds red blood
cells. That is what makes fighting
blood. Fighting blood destroys impuri-
ties. 1t fights boils. It always wins !
1t fights pimplesl 1t fights skin erup-
tionsl 1t builds nerve power, think ng
power, the tight-dsted power I lat
whirls a man up into success 1t giFSs
women the health, the angelic com
pIerfOn and the charm that moves the
worIdi These are the reasons that have
made S. s. s. today the great blood
cleanser, body-builder, success builder,
and it's why results have made tears
of 10y flow from the souls Of thou
sandsi Mr.. Y. D. Schan, 557 18th St.,
washington, D. C., writes:
II tried for years to get relief from
bad case Of 5oiLs. EveTyfhirg failed Hnft
I took S. S. S. an Eoar Gbsolutely cured
ond II tras S. s. S. that did It."
Try II yourself. S. s. S. is sold at
all drug stores in two sizes. The larger
size bottle is the. more economical
S.S. -. lie G., yoiirse agaia
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-10-16
Dissention in Ranks.
HammanAutOStaee
Effective May 22nd
Three Stages Daily

Effective May 22nd
Three Stages Daily
Leaves Salem Stage Terminate:
No. ]. 1880 a. m. No. 8, 1880 a.
m. No. 8. 4:30 p. m.
Leave Mill City:
No. 6, a. m. No. 2, 1886 D. m.
No. A, 4 p. m. No. connects
with east bound train at Mill
City, No. waits for west bound
train at Mill City.
JOS, HANNAH. Prop.
Salem-SiIverton Division
Leaves Salem Central Stage Ter
minal, 200 a. m, 11:00 a. M. $500
p. m.
Leaves Silverton News Stand. 500
a. M, 100 p. M, 600 o. m.
Salem m-Independence-M Monmouth
Division
Leaves Salem Central Stage Ter
minal, 1900 a. M, 800 a. M,
11:00 a. M, 1900 p. m, $500 D. m.
Leaves Monmouth, Monmouth ho-
tel, 6:15 a. m., 100 p. M, 6:15
p. m.
Leaves Independence, Beaver ho-
tel, $3.50 a. M, 1000 a. M, 1:15
p. m, 400 p. M, 6:3O p. m.
We make connections at Salem
to all parts of the valley.
Extra trips by appointment.
j. w. PARKER
General Manager.
SILVERTON-MOUN1 ANGEL
PORTLAND
c. & M. Stages Schedule
South Bound Read down
Dly. Dly. Dly.
No No 3 NO
Pm PM AM
$500 1880 $500 Portland
SOS 3:35 1906 Mt Angel
$50 400 1920 Silverton
Ar Ar Ar
North Bound Read Up
Dly. Dly. Dly.
No 2 No 4 No
AM pm Pm
1890 400 $3.50 Portland
s:25 1855 6:25 Mt. Angel
500 1880 500 Silverton
Lv Lv Lv
Sunday only--S:00 pm I'm Portland
Stages leave Stage Terminal Port
land and Steelhammer's Drug store
Silverton
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-10-16
Klan Packs Juries.

Of the law enforcement branch
es of government, however, the
khan lacked control of only one Of
flee, that of sheriff. Juries in the
justice court at Astoria were be
ing packed with klansmen, and it
was openly charged and never de-
MED that through County Com
missioner Fry the circuit court
jury list was also made to read
like an accurate roster Of Ku
Klux mem bers.
Crystalization of sentiment
which had long been voicing dis
connected threats of recall against
Sheriff Ole Nelson for alleged mis-
conduct in office, was brought
about late in the spring through
the klan's control of the executive
committee OF the Purity league, or
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-10-16

and John Cornos, who had been
raised Catholics, and their re-
placement with members of the
khan.
Repeated attempts had been
made to secure the discharge OF
Fire Chief Ed Foster, also a Cath
olic, on trumped up charges re-
garding his conduct of the duties
of plumbing inspector, all of them
trivial, but in this direction the
Koo Koos have so far been un-
successful. 1t is to be noted with
significance that prior to the klans
entry into Astoria Foster had been
generally acclaimed an efficient
officer.
Except for the fact that the vot-
ers approved the proposal to scrap
to old form of city government
and substitute the city manager
plan in the spring election, the
klansmen would have had reason
to rejoice over the success of their
city ticqet in the primary. For
mayor they nominated o. G. Mar
vestad, understood to be pledged
to the perpetuation of the policies
and practices of the Bremner ad-
ministration; e. B. Hauke for city
treasurer; R. A. McClanathan,
city engineer, and ]. A. Hellberg,
F. G. Green and J. d. Smell as
councilmen. Their candidate for
constable, w. e. Blackstock, was
also nominated.
Foreign Vote Controlled.
The acceptance of the city man
ager plan, however, did away with
all of these offices except that of
constable, and left the candidates
with nominations for offices that
did not exist.
Analysis of the vote cast in the
primary proved the strength of
the khan in the precincts popu-
lated by the foreign element, and
its weakness in the purely Ameri-
can portions of the city.
While the results of the primary
election did not react to any pa-
terial local advantage to the ku
Kluxers in Clatsop county, the
campaign had enabled them to
large part of the
public office holders to their DOM
ination. 1t is always difficult to
determine definately who is and
who is not a member of the Ku
Klux Klan, except those VINO All
the interests of the klan's activi-
ties and growth have to make
their identity known, but person
al associations and alignment in
political activity in Astoria had
definitely placed District Attorney
j. o. Erickson, Chief of Police
John Fry, councilman
and county commissioner; John
councilman; o. C. Narves
tad, councilman; Leo ]. Tuomala,
Justice of the peace; E. E. Gray,
school board member, and Mar
shall Thurston, Warrenton, all in
the camp of the klansmen. Sew
eral other officers and public en-
ployees in the county were strong
Iy suspected of membership in the
1lan, but definite proof of their af-
iiliation was lacking.
Klan Packs Juries.
Of the law enforcement branch
IS of government however, the
klan lacked control of only one Of
lice, that of sheriff. Juries in the
Justice court at Astoria were be
ng packed with klansmen, and it
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-10-16


Before drawing the curtain on
Astoria it might be timely to emu
merate few of the others who
have graced the khan meetings
with their presence and who have
been actively interested in the Or
der, men such as DR.. M. H. Smith,
DR.. G. B. Pittinger, DR.. Swart, D.
q. Lagassee, shoe merchant; Olaf
Anderson Jr., Ash Houston, George
Cobb, S. P. & S. conductor; Rob-
ert Grubb, S. P. e S. conductor;
Dad" Reed, S. P. & S. conductor;
Frank Berg, druggist; Fred Will
son, photographer; Jack Burgess,
contractor; Tony Canessa, dan
merry foreman and supposed Cath
olic; Mr. Noble, local manager for
Lang & company; E. H. Flagg, ed
itor of Warrenton, and the follow
ing United States postal employees; :;
Tell Willikson, Andrew Olsen, Ray
Crush, Louie Ness, Louie Torkel-
son, Arne Larson, o. ]. Peacock,
Hans Bue and William Wilson.
(Tomorrow-The Klan in Pen
dleton.)
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-01-19
Nature Mans Great Enemy.


Love nature? interrogates DR.. Ed
ward f. Slossen of the national re-
search council.
Never! he filings back to his own in
terrOgatiOn.
Nature is the constant and unremit-
ting enemy of mar. Never for a mo-
ment may he relax his fight against
her. If he does she will overrun his
fields with weeds. and he will be with
out food. Unless he fights her away
from his house by coats OF artificial
paints she will lead it to decay and
her rains will come in and make him
miserable. She may attack him with
pestilence at any moment if he does
not fight her with sanitation, or over
come him with flood or volcano. She
pushes him back always into the chaos
of the jungle from which he has
emerged only by mastering her. She is
treacherOus and unsleeping. She lies
in wait. Eventually she will probably
overcome man and the world Will move
backward toward the mollusk. Love
her? A corpulent OppOrtunity.-PhiI-
Odelphia Public Ledger.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-01-19
Best Lovers

A cosmopolitan party of women, all
much Travelled, were discussing in the
lounge of big hotel in London, writes
a correspondent. ''WhO are the best
lOvers2" The verdict was unanimous.
Shakespeare, said one woman, knew
what he was doing when he created
the supreme lover and gave the role
TO an Italian. The pure Athenian
Greek was voted n very poor under
study, not TO be thought of in the
same day. Compare an Italians self
less homage expressed so delicately
as to be merely an atmosphere, with
the cold summing-up OF the English
man, the self-suficiency Of the Span
lard, the Germans matter-Of-faet cat
alOguing OF qualities and defects, the
Swiss calculation OF pros and cons,
and the selfish appraisal OF the other
northern countrymen," she added. A
Frenchman's manners as a lover leave
nothing at all to be desired, contended
another woman, "the southern French
man sometimes even approaches the
Italian. but that Is surely due to his
having Italian blood In his veins"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-01-19
Methodist Episcopal Church
Glenn A. Baldwin. pastor.

Glenn A. Baldwin. pastor.
Sunday night service, ''The Cen
tenary in Europe" illustrated. This
is the second of illustrated numbers
portraying the work of the Methodist
Episcopal church in other lines.
Next Wednesday at the church sup
per, DIR. Snyder of the Presbyterian
church, will present the work of their
church.
The Young Peoples Department
will give the pageant "In Darkest
Africa" the last part of February.
They have begun working on it.
Every Friday evening at the Kollej
Khan Kwarters Us Open House Mite
for the young people to have a good
recreational time. This Friday we
begin the tournaments in checkers,
chess and dominoes, etc.
Mr.. Carl Howard will have charge
of the Touring Party on Sunday eve
nings in the Epworth League, taking
Miss Ruth Fiesbach's place who is
unable to guide the party, due to i'll
ness.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-01-19
HEALTH HAS ITS HANDlCAPS
A Well Man Occasionally Feels Too
Much Like Sinking Work
to Have Fun.

A man who works with his brain
after passing a sleepless night, or
when in the clutches of some discOm-
forting indispOsitiOn, often does not
see how he is possibly going to get
through with his days stunt He goes
at it, however, and is almost always
surprised to find that he works more
rapidly and successfully than when
fine and fit. We suppose this is be-
cause, feeling the necessity, he con-
centrates more determinedly on what
is before him. The fact that he is
rather tired and i'll, and therefore has
little temptation or ambition to go
atield in the flesh or the spirit, may
also have something TO do with it.
Whatever the explanation, it is the
truth.
Perfect health is Il glorious thing to
have, yet its relationship to success in
life is much exaggerated. a very
large percentage of the worlds best
work has been done by men who did
not feel well most of the time they
were doing it. Astounding health, like
unlimited riches, involves its -tempta-
tiOns and its handicaps. One feels
too much like cutting short the hours
of labor and going out and having
fun. Thus the theory of compensa-
ton works out.
The spirit, not the body, is what
really counts-the will, not the stOm-
ach.-OhiO State Journal.