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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1912
Page
4
George W. Perkins admits backing the Roosevelt boom and recalls contributing to Taft’s campaign. The piece argues private money funds partisan campaigns and proposes Congress allocate equal funds to both parties to remove Wall Street influence. It asserts a public campaign fund would ensure fair, above-board presidential contests.
The writer urges a national reform to end private financing of presidential elections. Oregon should push for platform planks at Chicago and Baltimore calling for government funding of campaigns, arguing large gifts from financiers corrupt outcomes and that public funding would advance democracy.
The speaker argues against Champ Clark for the Democratic nomination saying it would be fatal for the party. He contends that praising Western and Southern Democrats was misguided and now insists on blunt truth.
Massachusetts returns show a tighter Roosevelt Taft race than elsewhere with Taft likely to win some preferential votes or delegates if not the majority. The president’s entry into the contest appears to have stemmed a stronger anti Taft tide, though his timing is questioned.
The New York World denounces Champ Clark as a presidential nominee, arguing a Democratic candidate must win not only the party vote but independent voters. It calls Clark an old fashioned politician lacking personal charm and questions his readiness on tariff reform, finances, and foreign policy, ending mid-thought.
In a volley of letters from readers of The Westerner editor des on the origin of the Houn Dawg song nominated by Missouri minstrels for the Democratic campaign hymn. A Oakland California correspondent argues the tune is an old German cradle song dating before 1499 with the German title The Lay of the Dog and the Ozark tunes as refrains. Pendleton May 1. Heintze.
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