The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-10-26

Bloomfield and Daniels complain
that all the work of this paper seems
to be directed against them personally.
So it is, and we are glad to know that
even at this late day they have come
to realizing sense of the situation.
1t has taken considerable time and
work to beat this idea into their heads,
but fortunately it has not been with
out result. This paper represents the
people of Clarke county, and in oppos-
ing Bloomfield and Daniels in their
political schemes reflects the ideas and
the will of the people. We oppose
these men because they assume die
tatorship over the affairs of Clarke
county. We oppose them because
they will not permit the people to run
their own affairs, but insist on run
ming things for them. We oppose
them because their political methods
are the methods of a self constituted
oligarchy, methods Astounding in trick
cry and machine work. We oppose
them because they insist on making
every mans ideas on the temperance
question test of his republicansm.
We oppose them because they have de-
stroyed the republican party in Clarke
county. We oppose them because they
have picked up the most disreputable
so-called minister of the gospel on the
Pacific northwest coast and set him up
as leader of the republican party.
We oppose them because they alike
villify the dead and the living who
have not thought as they think. We
oppose them because they have stead
lily engaged in crusade against the
best interests of Clarke county, sought
to destroy the county fair, abused the
the pioneers, and supported nothing
that did not emanate from their law
office or the added pate of their Cos
pei mate. We oppose them because
they have converted the noble old re-
publican party into a machine for the
accomplishment of the schemes of the
ring masters and temperance clique.
We oppose them because the people
of Clarke county have declared in con-
vention that they will not submit to be-
ing ruled by these bosses and the ma
chine. We have opposed them, and
ever will oppose them in the future,
for the discord they have wrought in
this community, setting one family
against another, neighbor against
neighbor, friend against friend, ac-
complishing nothing but evil and pre-
venting Others from doing good.
II it has come to this, that the repub-
lican party must be run by Banks,
with his unsavory reputation and ia
naticism, added to Bloomfields polit-
ical tricks, with Daniels and Whipple
thrown in to do the dirty work, it is
time for the republican party in this
county to die. 1t is time for the peo-
pie of Clarke county to form coali-
ton with staying qualities sufficient
to rule public affairs without the In
reference of any political party. 1t
is time for the people to demonstrate
their own power, and vote down the
ticket set up by these ring masters.
A vote for any man on that ticket is
simply vote in favor of Banks rul-
ing the county, in favor of Bloomfield's
trickery, and to sustain Daniels SER
Witty. They represent the so-called
republican ticket, and that ticket rep
resents them. 1t is impossible to d.
vide one from the ether. A snake can
be scotched only by bruising its head,
and it ia the head of this whole in
EQUITY that the people and this paper
are after.