, 1886-10-21
That "Dolph Bill"

The Dolph bill is worrying the
Voorhees, organ of this place tAdams'
Signal almost to death. 1t sees that
its So called great champion of popu
lar rights, by his trickery, has gotten
into a predicament from which be
cannot honorably e1tricate himself.
It sees him roaming ever the terri.
tory telling one story in one place
and another in another about the
treacherous work he did relative to
the Dolph bill. 1t sees the guise
| stripped from his pretentions as a
friend of the people, and him going
about the territory foaming mad and
abusing everybody, because the true
friends of the best interests of the
people have not seen fit to allow bis
deceptioDs to remain covered up.
Of course his organ, edited by per
son who is dependent upon him for
an Office which allows him to live of
the people, has deep sympathy for its
benefactor. This is sort of natural
you know. But that the bent of
nature should be so strong as to lead
the sympathizer to attempt such
gross deception of The people who
read the organ as appeared in it last
week, is little remarkable; espec-
ally so as this sympathizer has also
for years, up to the time he donned
red fir collar, as a peor mans
friend
The Voorhees, case has become des
perate indeed, when his organs deem
it necessary to make such statements
IS the following: "All of the land
that would have been forfeited in
klickitat county by the Dolph bill is
included in small, narrow strip ly-
ing in the high Cascade mountain
range, south of Mount Adams, a snow
clad peak eleven thousand feet in
height" THESE lands are further
described as SO poor that a buzzard
would hardly deem it safe to fly
across them. Now these statements
are either true or false. If false,
they are grossly, maliciously false.
If they are true, why has this same
editor and organ been fer years tel
ling the farmers of Klickitat valley
that they We're the slaves and down
uodden of a soulless tyrant-the n.
2. Co. which held them in its
iron grasp by tho throat? Why
have the Klickitat county pa
Ders sung the same strain
for years? Why has the organ here
copied their sayings? Why did
Voorhees, sing song SO plaintive to
the farmers of that county two years
ago about the relief he would be able
to procure for them IF they would
only vote for him? Why did the re
publican farmers Of that republican
county take Voorhees, at his word and
give majority of PA, and why will
they this fall give him a majority
twice as large to stay at home?
These questions can all be answered
by the statement that in the county
of klickitat there are fifty townships
of land. which area embraces the
klickitat valley entire, and the best
agricultural lands of the county,
which are covered by the Columbia
river grant. Over much of this vast
area, $4,000 acres, are scattered the
best farms of the county. On much
of the railroad land there are old
settlements and valuable improve
men's- The farmers have waited
long years 10 get title to the:r homes.
and Mr.. Voorhees, promised to obtain
for them the relief they needed and
didn't do it
The present position Of the Voor-
hees organ of this city is an insult to
the klickitat county farmers. 1t
virtually says TO them [ have hum
bugged you for years about this
forfeiture question and your own
papers and Voorhees, played you the
same way.