Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-05-24


UP attendin 6 jury. We acknow-
ledge a pl aaaant call from the
gentleman, and found him quite
entertaining.
The joint disc ussion at the court
house last Satur day night was a
very tame affair. The ball was set
rolling by Tol Cai ter, the republi-
can candidate for oint senator, who
made talk of abo At three quarters
OF an hour. AS fal' as pertained to
state politics it was utterly silent,
save and except tha he would not
vote for Pennoyer for United States
senator of elected. He was follow
ed by Major Bruce, the populist
nominee, who for short time gave
promise of speech on state mat
ters, but the "wheels in his head"
soon got to turning and he slid off
to turning out millions of paper
dollars and 1oaning them to land
owners at 2 per cent. Taken as a
whole their speeches were utter
failures, coming from such candi-
dates, The people expected to
hear something about state politics,
but they were completely disap-
pointed.
The practice Of the attorneys and
litigants in the circuit court of not
being present or ready for trial
when court is called should be set
down on by the court, as it is
source of much needlss expense to-
the county. The jurors were
brought here on summons on Mon
day. Of this week. Court convened
Tuesday morning and it was not
until Wednesday morning that a
jury case was ready. This was a
clear loss to the county of just ex-
actly $Ioo, by holding the jury idle
two days. The jury cases were
not ready on the first day, for some
reason and the jury was held.
When the court convenes and there
are 10 jury cases ready, unless the
excuse is manif.stly a good one,
the court sheulcl excuse the jury
and continue the cases, letting the
litigants suffer for their carelessness
or slowness, and not have the
county foot a big jury bill waiting
for some attorney or other to get in J
from political canvas. i
The honest fact OF the matter is
both Tol Garter and Major Bruce are {
too old for the responsible Office off
joint senator. They are too old and
feeble to meet and combat the
elements Of the legislature that con-
venes at Salem next winter. 1t
needs men Of physical as we'll as
mental ability to thoroughly repre-
sent as important constituency as
Benton and Lincoln counties. Much
of the legislative work is planned
and really performed at night, after
and exhaustive days session. With
either of the above named old gentle !;
men as senator the counties would !.
be without representation at many
critical periods. And again, with .
all due respect to age, both of these
gentlemen have their wits and in
tellects dulled by the hand of time.
They may have been quick and
strong mental men III years gone by,
but the inevitable result of time has ,
overtaken them. This matter
should be well thought of by Lin :
coin county at least. Lincoln '
county needs an able representative /
in the upper house. She needs a
man of quick and strong mental +
fore, one that can readily see the c
benefits or evils of proposed meas
ures and has physical as we'll as
mental ability to meet any emer-
gency. Don't make an error Of
electiug man that can't serve you
fully and completely.
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