The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-05-20
Democrats had raised the cry Of econ.

country and proof w3s being made every
day that it could not be run by ten cent
congress- Democratic economy was well
illustrated when bill was brought be-
fore the senate recently to refund the
dollar and . quarter per acre excess paid
by those who had pre-empted or COM
Emuted lands inside of railroad grants
that wer afterwards forfeited to the gov
ernment. Every republican in the sen
ate, gave one, voted for the bill. Every
democrat, without exception voted
against it. And what wars their excuse?
They pleaded that an election was COM
ing on and that they must practice
economy. '.That money! said Mr..
Ellis, belongs to the people by right
and justice and would be theirs today
but for a democratic congress.
Another class of politicians ask to be
| put in Office who are going around the
country preaching what Chauncey
1 Depew calls the gospel of dispair. They
tell US the country is going to destruc-
ton and that our banking and financial
System is the worst in the world. Mr..
Ellis was old enough to remember the
character of our banking system, before
the republican party came into power.
Money was not only hard to get but if
one started to market with q ten dollar
bill, worth its face when he left home,
before he got his purchases made it
might not be worth ten cents. Every
merchant in those days carried little
book called a bank detector and when
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took out his little book and told you how
many cents on the dollar your bill was
worth. Thanks to the republican party
every dollar in the country, whether in
gold, silver or bank notes, was on a
parity with every other dollar He had
no sympathy with the school of dispair
/ Luce who is preaching to the people be-
yond the raging John Day, tells them
tfiguratively speaking, he supposedly that
the farms of Oregon are plastered with
mortgages six feet deep. Mr.. Ellis had
attended court recently in Mr..
Luce's own county and out of
I eighty cases on the docket
there was only one mortgage foreclosure.
He knew Gen. Weaver years ago as a
jealous republican and Weaver's zeal
for republicanism never left him till the
party refused to elect him governor.
Then, all at once, he discovered some-
thing wrong in the party and he Joined
the greenbackers. They rewarded him
by running him for. president. After
ward as half-and-half greenbacker and
democrat. he was elected to congress.
Then he went over to the democrats
again. Then he turned prohibitionist.
and, now, in partnership with the man
who has been trying to prove that
Shakespeare didn't write his own plays,
he is preaching calamity and woe and
blaming the republican party for it all.
ifelected to congress Mr.. Ellis would.
vote with his party on all party ques-
tions, but his first duty would always
be towards his constituents. He would
be the servant of all without respect to
party. He had told his hearers where
he stood and if they believed their in
i terests and the interests of the people
would be safer in the hands of Mr..
Slater or Mr.. Luce or Mr.. Bright, it
was their duty to vote thataway. The
party to which he belonged had been
entrusted with the peoples interests
since 1861, saving four short years.
I Four years of democratic rule was found
to be enough. He believed the re-
publican party would be retained in
power and if so, the interests of the
people would be best served by one in
harmony with. the. administration. If
elected to the Office to which he aspired
his highest ambition would be to serve
the people in an acceptable manner.
Judge F. A. Moore was then called on
but he said the ethics of the judiciary
precluded him from saying anything.
The next speaker was Judge j. c..
Moreland, who said he had drank in re-
4 ipublicanism with Horace Greedy in the
dark ways of 1856. He believed in the
record of the republican party. If the
democratic party had ever done. any
4 good for the country he would like some
one who knew what that good was to
get up and tell it. The democratic
party had no stable policy. They had
been the enemies of the country's pro-
gress and had fought this progress at
every stey. He expected to stick to the
republican party as long as that party
} leads in the, path of public progress.
The war tariff started in 1861. In 1888
a republican congress reduced the tax
!. on.wool and every democrat in Oregon
raised howl. In 1855 the "Stuffed
Prophet'' said wool should be free and
the democrats bowed in meek submis-
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they cannot be assimilated, because our