Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-02-24
PORTLAND POLITICAL REVIEW
{ Special Correspondence to THE joURNALl
PORTLAND, Feb. %.

PORTLAND, Feb. %.
PoPULIsT CANDIDATES.
The managers here watch more close
~ than aught else the evolution of the
Popnlist leaders. Especially is this
true Of the candidate for congress.
Present indications point TO the proba
bility that Hermann will insist on
being named again for congress. He
has in the past been able, though
machine Republican, to catch the
granger aud labor vote. This fact
chills the ArdOr of the experienced Pop.
ulist who does not like to meet Her.
mann In this race. Spaugh, Ramp,
Hendrex, Holt, Cundy, Elliot, Wake
field and Upton are candidates. Nc
Mahon and John P. Robertson will
swing the Marion county delegation
against Upton and are both in the
field.
THE GovERNoRsHIP
now lies between Geer, Ford and
Denny. Ford 10 regarded here as the
famous Republican Ishmaelite. 1t is a
fact that in the convention of Republi-
can clubs all knew he was loaded and
IL was not intended he should speak.
But he finally did 80 and his speech
was not considered wise from a party
standpoint. The objection to Geer in
the country is his vote to repeal the
mortgage tax law. This will give him
Portland support and with the scatter
ing vote may nominate him. The OBJ
lection to Denny is his being the
champion of the somewhat aristocratic
trespass and game law enacted by the
last legislature. At the same time this
would give him the support Of the big
ranchers who like their own game pre-
served on their own lands, and of the
sportsmen's clubs all over the state.
or course Col. H. H. Northup, the
Portland Grand Army man, may be
named as the Republican winner, but
1t is not likely. The Grand Army is
not regarded by the managers as 80
tremendous political force as it really
is in every state in the union. Not
that II takes part in political conflicts
as an order, but that it sways tremen.
dous political force. All these men
named are strong men, loyal RepublI-
cans and would poll big vote.
STATE SUPERINTENDENT.
The Office Of state superintendent of
schools is the greatest plum in the box
and / have yet to see newspaper in |
the state even mention the matter. 1t
nearly as much printing as the !
of1ce OF state printer, and its in |
cumbent is by virtue thereof q mem- !
ber OF the state board Of education and |
several other boards in control of |
great many state institutions and more |
patronage than the Office of governor.
While the Office does not exist in the |
as separate Office it has
grown to be q separate state department,
,vershadOwing the executive and aslo
judicial functions in con.
Itruing school laws, having a hand
n erection Of state institutions and
Of lands for all such purposes.
Why nothing is said about this Office is
! mystery. Can the Portland bosses
hope to groom some willing tool of
heirs to occupy it while the people
'leep?
Capt. O'Brien is said to be lying In
wAit for the Democratic nomination
or state printer. He is Pennoyer's ex.
pert who passes on all the state print
ng bills and measures up all the
thousands Ofdollars worth of work that
. performed by the Republican state
printer Being Democrat and a labor
nan he has had the scrutiny OF all the
work done in the office the past eight
Years and knows just what there is in
1. He will make a strong pull for the
place.