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Daily Capital Journal
Salem, Marion County, Oregon
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In 1910, B. F. Mulkey writes to Congressman W. C. Hawley inviting him to joint debates across Oregon's First Congressional District to clarify their stances on key issues like direct senator election, primaries, and opposition to Speaker Cannon's influence, promoting progressive Republican ideals.
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B. F. Mulkey Asks Congressman Hawley to Joint Discussion of Cannonism and Other Political Issues---He Thinks Public Should Know How They Both Stand.
Jacksonville, Or., Aug. 31, 1910.
Hon. W. C. Hawley, Congressman First Congressional District, Salem, Oregon:
Dear Sir: In order that the issues involved in the present campaign for the nomination for congress may be thoroughly developed, and in order that the people of the First Congressional district may know just how each of us stand on public questions, I hereby most respectfully and cordially invite you to a joint discussion to be held at Ashland, Medford, Grants Pass, Roseburg, Cottage Grove, Eugene, Albany, Marshfield, Tillamook, Corvallis, Dallas, McMinnville, Hillsboro and Forest Grove, in this district.
If you have so arranged your itinerary that it would be difficult for you to comply, I shall be pleased to join you in these discussions at such times and places as your previously arranged program calls for. Unquestionably the people have a right to know how each of us stands on the question of direct election of United States senator, the direct primary nomination of officers and the position that we would respectively
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take in the organization of the next national house of representatives, in case of election.
I am opposed to Speaker Cannon, and am as strongly opposed to the election of any other man who holds Mr. Cannon's ideas of parliamentary organization. If I am elected I shall vote for Victor Murdock or some other man who holds with the progressive Republicans of this country: and I am as anxious to secure the development of the rivers and harbors of Oregon as you are.
The public have a right to know whether you are to continue your old alignment in the organization, or whether you are to stand for the highest impulses of the Republican party and the awakened conscience of the American people, as represented by Cummins, Dolliver, Murdock, Norris, Bristow and other leaders representing progressive ideas.
Trusting I may have an early and favorable answer, I am,
Yours sincerely,
B. F. MULKEY.
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First Congressional District, Oregon (Ashland, Medford, Grants Pass, Roseburg, Cottage Grove, Eugene, Albany, Marshfield, Tillamook, Corvallis, Dallas, Mcminnville, Hillsboro, Forest Grove)
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Aug. 31, 1910
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B. F. Mulkey invites Congressman W. C. Hawley to joint discussions on political issues including direct election of senators, direct primaries, and opposition to Speaker Cannon's parliamentary organization, advocating for progressive Republicans like Victor Murdock.