The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1894-06-30
EDITORIAL NOTES.

H6 uaGlOudl IG0puUllCau ledSUo
convention, now in session in Denver,
Colo, has adopted bi-metallic and wo :
man suffrage pianks, the latter as a
matter of education.
The gold reserve in the treasury is
decreasing daily, and Democracy ap-
pears to be powerless to stop the out
flow. Four years of Democratic rule
will be.enough for the country for the
next half-century.
David B. Hill says an income tax
is not Democratic, and Wilson and
Cleveland think it Is. Tammany Democ-
racy IS far different from the lately
improved article, of which Cleveland
and Gresham own the patent.
The Oregon senate will not have a
solitary Democratic member, the only
one elected having been counted out
in the revised returns. There will be
clear sailing for Republicans in the
next legislature, and the party can
make history for itself if it is so IN
clined.
A Democratic exchange, becoming
weary of writing editorials descriptive
of Republican victories and assigning
reasons therefor, devotes column in
a recent issue to Sunday Schools. !"
This is more interesting reading mat
ter than articles on Stree trade" and
the "robber tariff"
Too severe censure cannot be given
to senator, member of the higher
brancn of the national Legislature,
specializing in securities about to be
effected by hi vote. The New York
World is correct when it says that if
there is no law to punish senators
guilty of such action the U. S. senate
is purchasable body, and the sooner
the fact is known the better.
1t is hut natural that people, easily
excited under ordinary circumstances,
should so keenly feel the blow that
struck down their beloved president
that riots should ensue and attempts
be made to wreck vengeance upon the
countrymen of the murderer This has
happened ID France since the death of
President Carnot; but the police sys-
TEN is so perfect that in nearly every
instance the mobs have been dispersed
and property and life protected.
Wall street is coming to the aid of
the administration In replenishing the
gold reserve in the public treasury, and
they will be no losers by the operation.
This is as 1t should be, for President
Cleveland has always been friendly
towards the bankers of New York city,
and they should reciprocate when the
oportunitY presents itself. 1t may be
difficult task for the fifty millions of
bonds and New York brokers to stop
the increasing deficit, but Democracy
is in the saddle, and it is riding after
it's own fashion.
Senator Hill, of New York, is fair
representative of what might be termed
a "simon-pure" Democrat; but there is
a wide difference between what he con-
siders Democracy and the opinions
entertained by the trainers of the Will
son bill. The fact is the party has
swung loose from its moorings and Is
drifting on an unknown sea it knows
not whittier. In 1896 1t may unite
with the Popullsts or any other organ
ization that will give it the least hope
of success; but defeat is almost certain,
and the dismantled old hulk will oe
driven around by adverse winds until
it strikes rock and becomes an abso-
lutte wreck.
The exhibition of such bitter feelings
as was manifested last Tuesday In the
French chamber Of deputies over the
choice of candidate for the position
occupied by the dead president was
very disgraceful, and can only be ex-
cused by reason of the mercurial tenn
perament of the people; but sufficient
respect and sympathy should have