Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-05-08
Another Imported Mouu..b.nl.

Another Imported Mountsbank.
Oregon has bad enough Of ex.
reverend political mouotebanks. There
was Rork, who for several years spread
himself ali over Eastern and Western
Oregon passing the hat for PopuIism or
shouting for prohibition at ten dollars
night Ex-Rev. Joe WsIdrop, a
kind Of cross between q shOrt-haired
female and a fiddlestIck. IL still at large.
Now comes ex-Rev. Harry Watkins,
ex-rebel, ex-slaveholder, ex.Texas
Democrat, who speaks Of the 'sNigro,D -
and the "wab, !" he is among rs. They
are here today, gone tomorrow. They
come from Texas, from Michigan, from
Kansas and they go--weII they go a.
rule, where Rork went, to the bad. They
all want to give the people more money
and in the mean time make Pennoyer
United States Senator.
Governor Pennoyer and his cohorts
OF ex-reverends are sweeping and
securing the state for POpulist votes.
The ex-reverends are all working under
his directIoD and all singing bis song.
Their expenses are paid but they never
fail to take up collection.
The people everywhere should be
warned to give the dunghill shyster
ex-reverends wide berth. For min
ister or real reverend we have all re-
spact 30 long as he 10 a gentleman and
attends to bis own business In life,
But the ex-reveTend political agitator
for revenue should be bodily fired out
of the cOuntry's politics. The cast-off.
worn-out pulpit demagogues Of other
states have flooded Oregon long enough.
The ex-Rev. Harry Watkins delivered
his TRADE Of almanac jokes at Tnrner
last night to an audience furnished him
oy fraud. 1t was given out that there
would be other speakers there aud then
they shut them out from replying to
be farrago OF lies that was put off on
them by clown and comic actor, who
. out to instruct the farm
srs how TO vote. He started
u by saying that Texas was
! Populist etate, that jeff Davis and
Bob Tombs taught Republicauisn, that
Abraham Lincoln was the Simon pure ,
riginal first POpulist, that silver was /
lemonetised, that the Populists wanted
Sold, silver and treasury notes of full le- Z
,al tender redeemable ia coin, and that
he PfohibitloDists agreed with them /
q their finance theories, etc, etc, ad {
ibitum and no-end-um referendum Ell Q
!. He wisely prefaced his two hours 4
ak by requesting that no one inter- G
lpt him by asking any questions, 1
'hich no doubt would have r
roved very embarrassing 10 him. I
Lis principal stock in trade was, let &
he government give us more money, b
nd it to the people on land, at per 4
mt, per annum. Establish postal v
wings banks and loan the peoples de- q
1sits TO the farmer, etc. He made q b
tiful plea 10 pass the hat and the "
lpes present shelled out about ten q
ollars In silver coins which are not "
'monetlzed, which are as good as g
Id, but which would not be worth tf
ty cents on the dollar IL the Popu. W
ts could have their way. 1t is pity ~
'xey and the Populists could not be of
rnished with supply OF their irre- In
enable fiat money and let them live &
1T for awhile. liz
Ex-Rov. Harry Watkins will lecture OF
various places in the county. He al
.s but one "tale" to tell. Citizens ~
ould not be duped by his request to ~
terrupt him with no questions. He
II not bear questioning in his polit. an
i theories, his public morals, his st
st calling, or his career as reverend.
The Republicans have not yet held
litical meeting at Turner. When .,
ey do they will talk sound finance by
d no cast-of ex-reverend, spindle pr
anked, Keeley-cured. ex Tennessee ~
. ex-Texan will be imported to do v"
eir talking for them. They will -
md or fall as common citizens of
egon, with common interest in =