The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1883-09-28
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John Kelly's Professions Of being
anxious fsf hsrmony sre doubted be.
cause be insists that Tammany shall
have = delegation OF les own st the
State Convention. "fsut after slI,''
said we'll known Democrat from the
interior Of the State. "ho IL right. He
knows that such thing as an ANAL
guniatiDn Of the rival interests oi
Tsmmany, the CoaDty Democracy and
Irving Hall 10 impossible, and 10
politics ss in actual life the survival Of
the 6ttest must prevail. Whatever
faction prevails before The Convention,
let II DO tho party that the people wiIl
bold responsible for It's actions"
A really remarkable feature OF the
preliminary skirmishing which now
prevails before the beginning Of the
active Gght, Is the clamor In the Re-
publican ranks for new party aud q
new ticket. This would seem TO indi.
cate that the old one 10 very weak, and
that its representative leaders had bet
ter be placed on the retired list.
A Boston gentleman, not = politician.
tells me that in business circles there
10 not one half the opposition 10 Butler
and tho Democracy whish MasAachu-
Setts Republicans would have US boz
lieve. Tt is only the Hoars, the
Adamses aud their followers Of the
metaphysics and brown-bread-for-
lunch order Of politics that sre opposed
10 him. They have no sympathy for
the masses, and no. feeling in their
ice-coated hearts for any one outside Of
their own stony set. Nov, whatever
Butler has done, and / am willing to
admit that he has been guilty Of some
demagogism, yet be has teen by all
odds the most popular Governor among
tho people at large we have had FOR a
long time, and IL things come to crisis
the people will recognize Buffers
WORTH"
The Senatorial Committee on Labor
and Education, still continues its in.
veatigationS. bnt everybody is getting
tired Of it. SenStor Blair ~ho is the
moving spirit Of the body is As ignorant
Of the real object Of the work If The
Committee ~ his associates. He docs
not know what questions to ask, snd
his system Of investigation consists in
letting every ore. Who wishes, appear
before the committee and talk himself
10 sxbuaEtation. The smouht Of crude
speculation snd distorted facts which
has been gsrneTed In by Senator Blair
il simply ridiculous. Even John
Swinton Of tie .SUn. could not resist
the temptation of talking rubbish. He
said that few reporters and correspond
enta earn less than $1,000 a year, and
a great number go a. high as s25, ,00o
that fsw editors aud leading editorial
writer's get less than $4,000 year
aud that 30 far aa proprietors Of infu'
ential newspapers are concerned, thei'
earnings reach over 100000 year,
| Mr.. S~inton may derive bis knowl
edge from the journalism which i
ostensively devoted TO the interests o
labor, and if the workers on IL wer
paid such salaries as he claims, Il e<
plains very satisfactorily Why thes
papers have constantly to pass aroun'
the hat for support a. labor meetings
Now, have al extended acquaintanc
among Newspaper men, and of tn
better class at that, and ! can count O
my fingers the number that make
a5, 900 year, and those that do it ar
the slaves OF the pen. They have to b
, at IL day and night almost. and ii the
have families they can devote but littl
attention to them. As regards th
ten or twenty-five thousand dolls
men, they are either specialists or co
respondents like Gath, whose work is Z
extended that it is almost machir
!. made, and is subdivided among subo
!. dinates whom the employer must pa
. A canvass of newspaper offices VI
show that there are more men in real
: responsible positions, whose incomes I
! not exceed twenty or thirty doila
: week, than lerhaps Mr. John Swint,
has an idea Of John sSwinton's stat
! uents are harmful because they "
encourage a lot Of young men, prin
/. pally undergraduates, TO rrnh into
q profession where the golden apples q
! not alone few, but where they frequer
. " turn into dust in ones hands, a
!. wherein they will inevitably ruin th'
prospects and their lives.
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