The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1893-04-27
HOW .oTHERs DO.
Spokane Politics, Singing Schools, and
Pretty Girls for the Fair.

| ETGbCy O1r1S lot Lne Fa1r.
The republican party of Spokane Falls,
Wash, has placed full ticket in the
field for mayor, city officers and council-
men, and being about two hundred in
the majority in the city, they hope to
elect their ticket next Tuesday. Last
year the democrats elected the mayor,
and a majority of the council, but the
democratic administration has not given
general satisfaction, and change is
likely to occur. In more forcible Ian
guage, less elegant perhaps, the dem
ocrats have been weighed in the bal
ance and found wanting" They have
been too extravagant. Their salaries
have been t.of proportion to the good
they have done, and it seems to have
been a luxury, that the city is not
willing to keep up. The republican
party of this city in the past has been
controlled by professional politicians.
a Ia hyend, and these bosses controlled
the primaries and the elections, until
they ran to party to ruin; and the peo-
pie had to defeat them at the polls to
shake them. In the republican primary
elections yesterday the ring bosses were
defeated. The clean, honest element of
the party carried the primaries and con-
trolled the convention, and have placed
good ticket in the field.
The democrats nominate today. IF
they place fair ticket in the field the
election will be close.
The ties which have bound political
parties together in the past, and which
have made nominations equal to cleo
tions, are of the past. Party ties are
| ropes of sand in the hands of the poll
tician who can tie all right, but the ties
do not bind the masses to do things
which they do not want to do. This is
intended to be free country, and free
people depending upon popular gov
ernment have no safety when a party
can compel them to do thing that
their sense of right abhors and honest
men will hail the day when manipulated
party ties do not tie.
want to see the republican party
win. want to see il returned to power,
for it is the friend of this government;
O0b l. WdAb w SEC IL
Your correspondent has learned that
folly is not confined alone to the coun-
try, and to small towns. Spokane has
its share of that human frailty.
There are singing schools in this town.
They do not use the buck wheat notes,
do, ra, me, ia, and they do not call the
exercises singing schools. They call
them music lessons, and they use the
gamut for all there is in it. They have
an italian (dago) teacher with a name
as near Picanini as they can get it this
is the style you know. The art part of
it is to see how much brilliant noise one
can make without striking tune. This
is called music.
Spokane is going to send one of its girl
citizens to Chicago to sing at the worlds
fair, and it would make you sick to read
the Spokane newspapers upon this pain
full subject. There is so much soft soap
in it about the girls being ''out of
sight," etc. Every girl in town thinks
it is herself who is meant. One news
paper wants a committee to choose the
sweetest-voiced girl. Another wants
the loudest, and a writer in the papers,
proposed to send the prettiest girl, re-
gardless of voice, for she could not be
heard singing in such a big crowd, but
she could be seen. Just think of it.
Poor old moss-back Oregon would be
ashamed of that kind of talk. Beauty
indeed Beauty can be made of wax.
Any girl of good sense, that has musical
plishments is beautiful enough
Intelligence is beauty. Send sensible
girl and you have sent beauty.
Spokane, April %.