Show 7 TO 10 STEAL A S e w With rt t an at a assurance incredible it cr in any anyone nn anyone one but a political t highwayman n Sen Senator en ator Fulton of Oregon Oi gon called on Mr MI Taft the other day to get his bis assistance in a scheme to defeat the ejection of ot Governor Chamberlain to the United States senate s nate from Oregon It will he bf remembered r red that Fulton was as defeated for the time senatorial nomina nomination nomination tion in the time Republican primaries and that In the referendum vote yote the people of Oregon instructed etI the legislature l Ure to elect Chamberlain a g Democrat to the I senate enate although alt the state Is Iii normally Republican an Fulton and others of or his Ilk are now planning to defeat the pop popular popular popular ular will expressed at the polls by some subterfuge that will give a color of Justice Jh their proceedings pr ce anti and it is in behalf of this t scheme that the ih president elect elector of the United States is asked to with Fulton F ton No announcement has been b n tua nade e of ofIr Mr Ir grafts answer to the Oregon mans proposal pro prop sal but b t it ought o to tobe be taken ta for granted that he was aas as refused any help moral or actual If It there has ever eer been beena a no clear expression of ot the public will an Imperative mandate from electors elector to their representatives that mandate was given ghen in the Instructions to elect Cham Chamberlain Chamberlain That the Republicans R even suggest sugg st a it subversion of o these thi e Instructions dons and an the time election of ot another than Chamberlain is evidence elden e of or a political poll degeneracy in Oregon Republicanism that deserves defeat d eaL Stealing public funds or voting fraud fraudulent fraudulent lent votes or corrupting the electorate is bad enough but Senator proposal is If f possible po ible worse than all three of ot these political crimes rolled into one What he suggests is an open revolution In defiance of the cardinal principles of republican government a denial of or the right of or the governed to name those who shall represent them In n government Possibly the scheme to steal the th sen III in plain sight of or the whole na nation nation nation tion may be successful Oregon has seen a Mitchell in the senate and a Hermann in congress but it Is not thinkable that the next president of ot the United States can into tacit or active approval of such a scheme |