The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-09-04
WOODY JOURNALISM
Some Extracts Reprinted From
Astoria Daily Bladder"
CHAMPION OF The PEOPLE
How the Bladder" jealousy Guard
ed the Cause of Truth, HUI
manity and Justice.

WhEe raiding a gambling house one
night last week the police came across
a file of a publication termed the AS
toria Daily Bladder" which was prompt
ly confscated. Through the kindness OF
the authorities the Astorian will be en-
abled from time to time to publish ex-
tracts from this newspaper" The col
lowing paragraphs via serve to some
extent to give people an idea of style
of journalism that flourished in Astoria
before the coming of the railroad:
(Selection No. 81
The following beautiful poem descrip-
tive of the beautiful wlndings and reach
ings of the Columbia river has reached
us from the pen of a admiring sub
scriber, a lady one:
l.
20 oregon, thy waters rolls
Adown thy hills and valleys between,
And it is rapture to my soul
And also ecstacy so great ween.
The crests and foam breaks DER the sky
And along the mountain and the fiery
Through the cultivated fields of barley
and rye
Where fourishes the Oregon grape and
the potato"
A total eclipse of Sister Luner will ap-
pear this evening. Punctual at o'clock
the fair sister will be hid behind the
shadows and we advise the political
ringsters to get in their work while it
lasts for there deeds is done in the dark
and not the light of day.
No man has got no Strings on the Blad-
der We are independent and stand aloof
from all but at the same time Is open
to reason, and would like to remind those
that take acceptions to what we say
that 1 am not here for my health far
from it,
There is a certain individual in this
burg who we are creditab,y informed has
his greasy eye on a fat political Job
which he needs bad Well, we are onto
his little racket and he won't get 1t not
much, if their is any powers left in this
editorial pen to cry out against any such
a business. The time has come when we
propose to take hand in the political
work of this section and friends comes
in every hour of the day to pat us on
the back and give lis words Of cheer for
so doing. The party referred to is
unworthy cub with a blasted repute else
where and here, and it is with pride we
say down with such. They are out for
the pap, and there is plenty of good citi-
zens, ourself inclusive which has priority
claims to such little emoluments. They
are little enough as the lord knows.
go
The ads in the morning sheet is not |
read only by a few catspaws who is
afraid to call their soul their own and is
down under the lash Of the gang. Par !
ties who see the ads Immediately come |
down to the Bladder to find out weather |
it is so or not and if it is not in our col !
umns they denounce the ads as frauds OF |
the first water. Why not get onto your
selves people and place your ads where |
they will be read. We guarantee fair |
square deals and about quarter the prices |
that is charged on the punk sheets up |
the streets.
The circulation of the Bladder is head |
and ears above any Of our cotempora-
ries and money says 80. We hereby de-
post the sum of one thousand shekels
gold coin in our safe, and WIN hand II
over IL our circulation can be proved not
as big as all the other sheets in thls
state combined except our friend the
Skamokwok Seagull which is in WASH.
and does not count in this offer. Our
brother scribe of the Seagull is on the
same par as us and running along neck
and neck Success to you brother.
The Bladder announces that 1t Will give
seventy dollars gold eagles per month
in order to remove the present editor OF
the morning rag and put competent
gentleman and no scrub in pace Ne
editor does this to show that he has at
heart the credits of this fair city which
is being disgraced by the gang on the
morning sheet. And furthermore they
is no man so competent to I'LL that job
as George McMullen, which we would
like to see get a birth somewhere. George
lushes occasional but is a good man and
1000 to better than the outfit that now
runs the morning rag.
The dirty dog we engaged from Mish-
ewashy to run our editorial space when
we was indisposed quit yesterday because
we would not pay him more than $2lbO
per month for the job, which Is Fat
salary these days and not to be sneered
at In times like these it behooves an
office to be careful Of coin and there Is
no twenties to fling round promlscouos.
At the present we are doing our own ed
itorial work on our own shoulders ana
friends is paying high compliments for
the same.
II is somewhat amusing to see our
morning cotemporary fail into lines after
the Bladder has cut out the path and leu
the way Yesterday we announced that
the funeral of Nick GEcomber was to be
held today and low and behold out comes
the amateur rag with the same story
this morning. The Bladder leads; ali
the rest follows.
The poem on Oregon's waters pub
lished in this issue will be reproduced
in the Weekly Bladder, by special re-
quest and such a work throws credit on
our poets, which we are g,ad 70 encour-
age by publication when not crowded out
by twenty-seven columns oil local news
more than we can get in which IS often
the case,
The crap games is closed down for
the most part We seen brother Neely
walking down Commercial today with a
2:4O smile releaved from the honorous
cares OF the seducing crap table for
few days. Wonder if that little chip we
put on the favorite hoarse last Saturday
night broke one of the games we can
mention? Ye editor is blooded when he
gets started.
Water rates is due.
The Ocean Wave came down yesterday
in place of the other boat. She will be
on the root again tomorrow.
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The state of politics in this county is I
very much mixed and we hear that more