Abstract

Sprague-Conscience of Oregon

Oregon is the most solidly Republican of all the Western states. Although the witch-hunting hysteria has been particularly virulent along the West Coast, in Oregon a person applying for a position of public trust still need swear only the time-honored allegiance to the constitutions of the state and nation. This happy state of affairs is due in the main to the influence of one man, ex-Governor Charles A. Sprague, publisher of the newspaper "Oregon Daily Statesman," in Salem. Sprague is a Republican who has abandoned his party's predominant isolationism to support the foreign policy of the Democratic Administration. If the Republicans look westward for a Vice-Presidential nominee, they could do worse than pick this sixty-four-year-old publisher, often called "the conscience of Oregon.