The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-11-23
Editorial Notes.

NEXT Thursday is Thanksgiving ac-
cording to President Cleveland, Cover
nor McGraw and Pennoyer.
POULTRY shows will be held in Jan
uary at Tacoma, probably, the 9Th to
18th; at Seattle, IA to 10Th; and at
Vancouver Dist to 25th.
The next Democratic nomi nation
for the Presidency will be worth
nothing except as an advertiseme 4
for some patent medicine man.
Mr.. WILSON is doubtless confirmed
in the opinion recently expressed at
London that a republican form of gov
eminent is the most complex of any
on earth. We have no key to the
puzzle, says the st. Louis Republic,
dem.
EVERETT claims to have won in the
county seat contest in SnohOmish
county, the vote, as far as can be as
certained, being Everett. 1899; Sno-
homish, 1911, or 151 in excess OF the
of the necessary three-ffths in favor of
Everett. The Snohomish people talk
of Il contest.
CLARK county, this season, shipped
through one firm, and undoubtedly
carries the distinction of being the
banner prune producing county in the
Pacific northwest. 1t is estimated
that Washington and Oregon cOmbin-
ed will next season produce 100 carloads
for shipment, against 60 carloads this
season
THE campaign for the speakership of
the next house of representatives is
now opening, and many of the new
legislators consider that they have
the ability to control an unruly men,
bership. J. 0. B. Scobey who was
once the presiding officer of The
Dakota Legislature, is an excellent
parliamentariarn, and possesses the
executive ability to preside accepta
bly, over the house. The Southwest
combination" should secure that posi-
ton.
THE vote on the proposed constitu-
tional amendment in Mason Comfy
stood lS9 for, to SO against, only a
small proportion of the voters ex-
pressed an preference, probably
because not understanding the ques-
ton. The independent candidate for
congress also Jared bodybuilding to
get Il vote. The amendment no doubt
carried, as it is a good thing, permit
ting the state land commission to in
vest in school warrants and bonds, as
we'll as those OF state, county and
municipality.
IT is reported that John D. Rookie
Teller and the Standard Oil Company
have induced the Amoor Steamship
Company, to be operated in connec-
ton with the trans-Siberian railroad,
to locate the terminus of its trans
Pacific line at Everett, in which town
Mr.. Rockefeller is largely interested.
The same authority says that arrange
ments have been made in New York
to start the line Immediately, and
that the new whaleback steamer CITY
OF Everett will be operated to Vladi-
vostock, carrying building material
for the eastern end of the trans-Sibe-
rlan railway. The Great Northern
railway is supposed to be factor in
the combination.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has a first
class way of getting at his calumnia-
tors in the Democratic party, through
his message to the congress, which re-
assemblies next month. This docu-
ment viii have a wide circulation, and
is expected to literally burn up" those
who have been ridiculing the presi-
dent and his official course, and charg-
ing him with the blame for the late
landslide which overlook the Democra-
cy IN every section of the country. 1t
Is SAID that he will make an appeal to
the friends of genuine tariff reform
to stand firm in the faith and patient
~ await the dawn of brighter days.
In our opinion tariff reform in that
direction has gone about as far as it
will go in this generation.
THE Southern newspapers are at
last beginning to admit that elections
are not conducted honestly in the
South. IT took u vote against the
democrats to do it, but the truth is
admitted and that is one great step
toward reform. The Atlanta Journal
says; ''lf the legislature adjourns
without enacting a good election law,
1t will sorely disappoint the people.
The demand for such legislation comes
from all parts of the state and is urged
by the press. Both the state and con-
gressional elections furnished ample
evidence of the need of ballot reform
IN Georgia, In both those elections
frauds We're undoubtedly .perpetrated
by populists and democrats alike.