The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1891-08-08
HANDBURY or DOLPH?


pose of meeting Senator Mitchell and
the Hon, Bingcr Hermann, accompa-
MED 10y u delegation consisting OF
Captain Lewis of the [. :. land office,
aud +. T. sharp The said editor is
full of wrath against Major Handhury,
some ofwhich is righteous, proper and
well directed. For instance, he says:
senator Mitchelland Mr.. Hermann
were given TO understand very dis
tinctly, and in SO many words, that
the citizens of The Dalles meant no
,tisrespect To their representatives when
they failed to meet them there, that
many of them would travel twice the
distance TO do them honor, who would
not go as much as Il yard to meet them
III the company of Major Handbury,
Gnd that asl tar rs; the Major is con
Cerned The Dalles has no use for him.
1t was urged upon them that we be-
lleve the whole business has been con-
uucted under rail road influence, from
the time of the first enlargement
of the original plans-an enlarge
lnent which is beyond the need
of any vessel that will ever go through
the locks-to the present moment.
Now there is whole lots of truth in
this statement, truths which the writer
hereof when in charge of the Wasco
San iterated and reiterated until the
subject became tiresome to both writer
and readers. We undertook to show
and did show that there was wilful
lremeditated and gross mismanage-
nent of the money and of the work,
under the regime of Powell, and GER
lainly an effort to delay and retard the
work under his successor Major Hand
bury. We did not stop there, but
riaimed then as the Chronicle admits
low that the enlargement of the size
UI the canal was done ut the instiga-
tion of the o. ...R. * n. Co. but we went
further than the Chronicle has gone,
and showed that the dimensions of the
canal were increased, sby and through
tie efforts Cf Senator DOiph, and after
The election was over urged that be-
cause Senator Dolph was a traitor, he
be not reelected to the senate. If we
mistake not every member of the legis-
lature from Wasco county voted, know
ing what Dolph had done, to reseat
him. If The Dalles has suffered, she
has only paid the penalty of her sins.
When her representatives elected one
OI the principal officers, OF the Oregon
1ranscontinental to represent them i'll
tie I. ;. Senate, they no longer have
Kick coming. There should be no
politics, i'll the question of opening the |
Columbia, for it is Il matter of supreme |
import to all of US, but Major Hand
bury did not increase the dimensions
of the proposed locks, that neat and |
we'll executed flank movement, was
made by no less strategist than the
grizzly bearded senator from the o. r.
d N, which in this case stands for
Oregon. Major Handbury has sins
enough of his own to answer for, and
this piece of infamy, which did more
than all other things combined to de-
lay retard and indefinitely postpone
the completion of the locks, was the
work of the aforesaid 0. r. & n.
senator. Had the original plans been
adhered to, it would have been impos-
sible to have not finished the work
long before this. Major Handbury has
never shown any desire to complete
the work, and Portland has stood by
him in his effort to defeat the will of
the people of Eastern Oregon. That
the work has finally reached a stage
where it can be pushed to completion
rapidly if money enough is furnished,
Is not of any particular credit to the
Major but, is simply the natural result
OF time. The constant dropping has
worn the stone that should have been
washed away with the first flood. The
OpeningIof the Columbia can no longer
be politiral question, for the battle
has been fought on that line, and the
successful party has put the enemies
OF the scheme in charge of it. We
have no faith that any other party
would do any better, consequently look
upon an "open Columbia river, " plank
IN any political platform, with the I
same indifference we do the good old
stand by, Home rule for Ireland. +" i
We will get one as quickly as the
other through the influence of such
senators as Dolph, and we will get
Dolph in our political dumpling just as
long as Simon boils the pot. Hand
bury who is not an Oregonian, has
undoubtedly worked against the inter- !
ests of Oregon to the best of his
ability by following the policy of how
not to do it. What shall be said of
our own senator who by increasing the
size of the canal has nuodrunloJ ;tg :