, 1886-07-01

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were for prohibition, and 80 agairst
leaving majority Of 40 in favor
of licensing the liquor traffic. Very
few have seriously expected prohibi-
ton to carry here from the start, and
the result Is generally looked upon
as being the best that could be de
sired under the circumstances. From
other points we have the following
up to the time OF goi ng to press:
Discovery - for. II against.
DunTcness- for, Sc against.
SEATTLE, June y.
Following is the vote in the diff rent
wards as the evening paper went to press:
First ward, sos; second, 7l2; third, 54J;
fourth. Sol. In the first ward it Is estI-
mated that the vote Is q majority OF 500
against prohibition. in the second ward
80 against, in the third ward SO 10 lCO
for, and in the fourth ward about even.
The election passed of very quietly and
orderly.
The Oregouiaa attempts to throw
discredit upon recent anti forfeiture
meetings in eastern Washington by
saying that the resolutions were
worked up from railroad head
quarters. and are so nearly similar in
substance that common parentage
is betrayed Ofcourse the Oregonidn
is ingenious enough to lead an oc-
casional gudgeon astray as to its
real motives. The great mass of the
public, however, read between the
lines that it would be o,erioyed if the
completion OF the Cascade branch
road could be indefinitely postponed,
so that all eastern Washington might
remain as long as possible tributary
to Portland. a great journal that
cannot be broad enough to desire
justice to long-suffering people,
even at the expense of its own city,
betrays so much of the pettifogger
that it loses the candid respect of
right-thinking citizens. With q
direct outlet from eastern Washing
ton to Puget Sound, the o. r. & n.
monopoly down the Columbia to
Portland would be broken, and the
bulk of traffic from our eastern coun-
ties would seek tho shorter and
cheaper outlet. The people realize
this, and, seeing the facts in the
same light from different points, it is
not strange that their resolutions
are about the same tenor everywhere.
These things perhaps strike Port
landers with melancholy sound, but
not even the smooth sophistry of the
Oreqoridn can alter the situation or
materially tone down the facts. East
ern Washington has begun suit for a
divorce from Portland, and no
amount of pettifogging can disturb
the equities of the case. Two years
ago the forfeiture advocates said they
feared that the railroad company in
tended to build up to the mountains
on either side, secure the valuable
lands, and allow the grant to be for
feited over the expensive part of the
line where the land was we'll nigh
worthless; they would not have raised
an objection had they really believed
that the company actually intended
to complete the read. Now, they
want the lands over the uncompleted
part Of the line forfeited for fear the
company will complete the road,
| Consistency is a jewel uncommoHly
rare and valuable, and for that reason
perhaps the Voorhees, forfeiture folks
never happened to stumble across it.
Possibly if Senator Van Wyck owned
farm or two in eastern Washington
he might sing different song; and
the Oregonidn-well, if it were just
now located on Puget Sound we
might safely count upon hearing It's
best efforts concentrated against the
Van Wyck proposition.