all she could to get women the right to vote, one of the leading opponents was a fellow named harvey scott, abigail's brother, and unfortunately for abigail, the editor of the oregonian then as now, the most powerful newspaper in the state. harvey would advocate against giving women the right to vote. harvey famously said women would get the right to vote over his dead body. well, he died in 1910, and women got the right to vote in 1912, so i guess it all worked out for everybody. back in 1913, governor oswald west, the first progressive governor in oregon, beaches tol oregon be public property. to 1966 when a motel owner and cannon beach on the north coast tried to limit access to some of the beach to his hotel guests only and block the public from coming onto this area. governor tom mccall was in office in 1967. in may 1967,ally he flew down by helicopter with the press there, landed on the beach, dramatically true a line in the sand and said that this, too, was part of the public beach. later on, the legislature would endorse mccall's idea, giving the governor power to declare more of t