The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1891-02-21

KNOCkED OUE

As we were eye witness to the aSsaS-
slnaton of the Cascade county bill We
deem II proper to present some of the
facts m the case, that Nsidents Of
other portions Of the county rs well as
of this section may have y fair under
standing OF IT, II was apparent from
thc first, that every member of the
Wasco delegation was inimical TO the
division of the county, even f., o. Me
Coy who was endeavorng to have n
portion of Wasco added To Sherman
ruunty 50 that Moowhich is owned
principally by him might be made the
county seat by the new votes, could
ind objections 70 the segregation of
the county down this way. Mr..
Johnston the representative of the
balance of the county when approach
,l about this hill refused to consider
tins portion of she county ut all, but
blindly obeyed the dictates Of his mas
ter He was requested, even though
he should vote against the bill, to state
our position fairly which he promised
10 do, hui when the bill came up for
its third reading he rose up in his seat,
and lied more than Anauias, Mccoy
WAS passive accessory TO the act,
Johnston the cowardly hired assassin.
In the senate Watkins refused to listen
10 any reason, and insisted that he
should and would kill the bill if he
could, which 10y the way he could not
have done. Hilton said that he would
,.ve the bill n chance, and would see
iGatit was not indefinitely postponed.
&c, fortunately perhaps, was not put
40 the test. The delegation from The
Ilalles we believe did not make any
light against division, though they no
doubt expressed their opinions, with
the sole exception OF l.. i. Mcfarland,
10 whom is due the fact that the bill
was killed by indefinite pos;ponmcnt.
Johnston promised 10 let the bill 90 to
vote, and we give him credit for
keeping his word i'll this respect. As
tae roll was about To be called Welch
of Clatsop left his seat and going to
Mcfarland said: "NUu do not want
this bill do you?n TO which McFar-
aud promptly replied, mo, kill it,
Welch then made the motion to in
definitely postpone, which was car
red. We believe the bill had fair
show Of passing the house had it gone
to a vote, and We do not believe it
could have been indefinitely post.
p0ned had it come UP at any other
time. The senate had just sent the
Portland consolidation bill to the
house with some very Objectionable
amendments and the house; especially
the Multnomah delegation were savage.
Mcfarland was present in the interest
of The Dalles water commission bill,
and had been then, is yet, condemning
Johnston for trying to dictate to The
Dallcs what was best for it. He was
asserting all the time that The Dalles
with its square mile of territory had a
right TO say what it wanted, and
that ii was not the business of any one
outside of The Dalles to interfere.
While claiming this for The Dalles he
dictated to the people of the AGO square
miles Of the proposed county of Cas-
cade what they should do, and what
was best for them. We always knew
that Mcfarland was only removed by
an almost imperceptible partition from
the realms of driveling idiocy, but had
supposed that the glimmerings of in
telligence that occasionally gave proof
that his intellect was really in work
ing order, were generally of a respecta-
bic tendency inclining towards the
decencies. We were mistaken. The
balance Of the county and The Dalles
have decided that they had no use for
pleasure and pride to make it interest
ing enough in the future, that we will
be remembered. Our present delega-
tion i'll the legislature will hear from
this section and so will any one up for
office who is suspected OF being friendly
to any one Of them. They have repu-
dated US as their constituents, and
both the dirty scrub Johnston, and his
aiders and abettors are repudiated for
all time by the people of this section.
ss--Sr-ssz-.s-.-rs~I-~-su-rzs
General Sherman and Admiral Por-
ter, two of the central figures of the
late war passed away during the past
week, the latter dying last Friday, and
the former Saturday. General Sher-
mans body was buried as he desired at
St. Louis. The lives of both are a
part of the history Of the nation and as
such familiar to all.
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We respectfully suggest that repre-
sentative Johnston return to the
classic precincts ofDufur by the cele-
brated Barlow pass, Illuminating as he
plods along on the vanity of earthly