The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1893-06-10

the home-rule bill, he answered: "If
the government should propose that,
considering the pressure already bear
ing upon the members, it would be
necessary to provide supply of un-
dertakers"
The campaign against honerule in
Ireland is being vigorously pushed by
the conservatives i'll parliament, and
the grand old man, single handed, IS
managing his forces in very clever
manner. This measure may be de-
feated at this session, but the friends
of human liberty on the other SIDE OF
the Atlantic will not be forced to wait
long before their brightest hopes will
be realized.
The decision of the secretary of the
interior in regard to The Dalles Mill
tary Road Company's land that over
laps the Northern Pacific grant has
created great excitement in this por-
tion CT Oregon. Very many have pur
chased the land in good faith from the
road company, and Mr.. Hoke Smith
has opened this for public settlement.
This will be resisted to the bitter end,
and if it results in nothing more seri-
GUS than litigation in the courts it will
be very fortunate.
The Democrats have not be in pos
session of the administration of ma
tional affairs four months, and several
very complex questions demand solu-
tion. What shall be done with Ha-
waii2 is one. and the currency and free
trade constitute others. If Mr.. Cleve-
land will read carefully the history of
the country since 1861 and follow Re
publican precedents he will manage
affairs all right; but if he adheres to
the platform on which he was elected
the country will suffer the worst dis
asters.
The greatest American delineator of
Shakespeare, Edwin Thomas Booth,
has passed to the silent majority. He
was horn near Baltimore, Nd, in
1888, and for years has held promi-
nent position among the great actors
of the age. His early inclinations
were towards the stage, and he made
his first appearance in one of the char
acters In Richard Ill. when only six
teen years of age He has visited
Europe and Australia, and his con-
ceptions of the creations of the great
poet have always been received With
great favor. By his death a vacancy
has been made in the ranks of those
who represent the highest plane of
classical drama, which it will be most
difficult to fill.
The Democratic papers that are now
opposing the Sherman silver bill, de-
manded unlimited coinage at the time
it passed congress To satisfy this sill
yer craze, which had as many adher-
ents among Democrats as in the Re-
publican party, Mr.. Sherman intro
duced his measure as compromise,
and the free silver advocates were par
TALLY satisfied. Now, when together
with the widespread fear that the
tariff will be repealed, it is causing
financial depression, the same people
are blaming Republicans for pernicious
legislation. At the last session, when
the house was largely Democratic,
measure to repeal the Sherman act was
defeated. If Democracy could be con-
sistent the American people would
place greater confidence in its profess
sions; but this it has never been, and
perhaps never will be.
Major Mckinley was renominated
for governor of Ohio by the Republi-
cans in session at Columbus yesterday,
and in accepting the honor outlined
the policy of the party in clear and un-
mistakable language. The history of
the country for the past thirty years is
that of the organization with which
Gov. Mckinley is affiliated, and he is
proud of its record. To day, when
there is tremulousness in all fnan-
cial centers, the protective tariff never
had more and frmer friends. Mr..
Mckinley is the idol of the party, not
only in Ohio but in every part of the
country, and the old buck eye state
will re- elect him by the largest ma
iority it ever gave candidate. Four
years of Democracy, we believe, will
be sufficient for the American people
for the next generation, and, if IN 1896,
William Mckinley, of Ohio, heads the
Republican national ticket, he will be
the next president of the United
States.