The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1894-11-17
The Times MOuntaineer
SENATOR DoLPH.

SENATOR DOLPH.
Some papers in Oregon are nomlna
ting candidates for the United States
senator, who will be elected at the
next meeting of the legislature, and
Judge Lord, governor-elect, Hon. I.
H Tongue and Hon. @. W. Fulton
have been named for the position.
They claim that Hon. J. N. Doiph is
not sufficiently Populistic on the silver
question to represent the Republicans
of this state. Any one who has stud
led the history of the Republican,
party for the past thirty years knows
that it has never occupied any equi-
vocal position on the money question,
and the solid basis upon which our
currency rests with the nations of the
world has been the result of its fnan
cial policy. Mr.. Dolph is thoroughly
in harmony with his party on this
subject, and fully endorses the plank
in the national platform of 1892. and
also in the state platform during the
last campaign. A few Republicans
may have become wild, in favor of un-
limited coinage of the white metal;
but the party has always occupied
solid and safe ground on financial
ques ions.
The Repu blicans of Oregon are no
more in harmony with the Populists'
platform on silver than they are in
favor of the other strange notions of
that organization. The citizens of one
or more countries in this state may
consider their local interests better
subserved by free silver; but this
opinion is confined to small localities,
and Repu blicans in Oregon are in har-
mony with the national platform.
Oregon raises wheat and wool, and
is more interested in the appreciation
of the price of these in the markets
of The wcrld than in that of the white
metal. Our grain finds sales in the
Liverpool market. and everyone knows
that England deals on a gold basis
If our mints were to turn out silver
dollars in unlimited quantities it
would not affect the value of this.
The price of all products is governed
by supply and demand. and the free
coinage of silver cannot regulate these.
Those anti-Republican papers that
are attempting to make capital against
Mr.. Dolph by falsly stating that Ore
gonians desire free-silver represent
ative in the upper branch of congress
are not exponents cf the wishes of the
people. For personal and other
reasons they desire the defeat of Mr.
Dolph, and to accomplish this are
willing to publish any possible
Misrepresentation of facts. They have
begun their work before the legislature
meets in order to influence the mem
bers, and make them belisye that their
constituents throughout the state des re
U. s. Senator in favor of unlimited
coinage. This is not true. In the
campaign last June Democrats stated
in every county in the state that
vote for Republicans members of the
legislature would be a vote for Mr..
Dolph to be returned to the senate,
and on this issue the Republicans car
ried Oregon by a larger majority than
was ever before received.
Mr.. Dolph has proved himself the
peer of any in the national legislature,
and Oregon never had In Washington
City more earnest, untiring worker
for her best interests than be has
proved himself. On the national
subject of protection he has taken a
position in the front rank of its de-
tenders, and during the great
battle waged on the senate floors |
in the last session there was no
abler champion OF the cause than
Hon. J. N. Dolph of Oregon. Judge
Lord, Hon. 7. Fl. Tongue and Hon.
@. W. Fulton are good men and hon
est Republicans; but in this particu-
lar epoch in the history of the country.
Oregon should not change we'll tried
and able senator, of many years ex-
perience, for one who would have tc
be inflated into the ways of legis.a-
tion.