The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-07-01
COUNTY OFFICIALS.
OER BOW TO THE PUBLIC.

With this issue the undersigned as
snnes Editorial control and manage
nreat Of TIE CHRONICLE. Our predeces
sor, On retiring last Saturday, says all
of the past, perhaps, which it was nee
essarv 60 say; but as our course leads, on
1T may not be amiss ii we say, with the
paragraphist, that: ''No man can ac-
compIish much, either in politics or
with wheelbarrow, unless he takes
sides" THE CHRONICLE takes sides.
In local politics there is no longer any
contest, but in the national field the
threshhold Is just crossed. We have
hoisted the flag of Harrison and Reid
because TIE CHRONICLE, to be success,
must be essentially progressive, and to
be progressive in Il national sense, in
the United States one must be republi-
can. The task of the republican party
in the next canvass is not to get the con-
sensusl OF a ma jority of the votes OF the
country That it already has. The
progress of America requires at its head
n party which is homogeneous which
has convictions and the courage of its
NSANASeAONc" n RoibN NAAOSC 10 ~
do osomethiag-and not merely to hold
offices.
The history of the republican party is
Il history of action, a history of deeds.
Whatever has been done in thirty years
has been done by it. We have not al
ways been absolutely wise, but we have
always been wise in our day and genera
tion-
There is no act of our past history far
enough back to be seen in just such
lights, which any honest observer will
say was not the best that could
have been devised by human brains.
Those acts which are yet under the
stress of human passion, the very last
acts we did, are slowly emerging from
the storm OF obloquy and abuse, and
taking gisibly the place they have al
ways really held, place among the
great deeds of great country.
The reproaches which were heaped
lIpon the last revision of the tariff are
disappearing before the light of its prac-
tical workings, and the country adjusted
to the new conditions will demand a
period of rest from the business agita-
t9ous OF which the democratic party is
the .nroli6c source.
Business men are everywhere begin
tag TO feel that some measure of stability
should attach to our laws, and that
statute of the United States which af-
feels business should not be pitfall and
a snare
&c
powerful specific as uncertainty.
IF there is to be a perpetual threat
against the laws on which business is
fozunded, what more ,exhausting condi-
stion can be imagined?
Kf dhe late revision of the tariff is
working it's way to favor, if business has
already adjusted itself to it, what reason
czn there be more controlling in the
next election than the desire of business
naeu to let things alone, to stand by the
existing order of affairs?
Such in brief. is to be the future
position of THE CHRONICLE upon the pol
itics of this nation, to carry out these
principles, and with an acquaintance oi
over thirty years in the newspaper field
In Oregon perhaps further introduction
Is unnecessary.
We invite all old patrons to stay with
us, and to bring as many friends with
them as possible, sanguine in the belle
THAT we shall be able to serve you all
EaithfulIy, in every manner, to the ex
tent of our ability. Very Respectfully,
D. G.. IRELAND