The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-09-12
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Secretary of Agriculture Morton has
at last given up that Bryan will carry
Nebraska, and he regrets to give it as
his opinion that he will carry every
state west of the Mississippi river.
The successful operation of the locks
in taking the Sadie B through the
other day confirms our contention that
the canal could have been operated all
this season without further improve
ments.
The way to make The Dalles pros
porous is to furnish employment for
more men and women. This can be
done by starting manufacturing in
dustries. The first one to be estab-
lished should be wooden mill.
Bourke Cochran resorts to some fine
drawn technicalities. He is support
ing Mckinley for president still can
not accept congressional nomination
at the hands of republicans and gold
standard democrats.
If this is to be an educational cam
paign, why not have q series of joint
debates between the advocates of differ
emit policies? The democratic speak
| +;1 +;r,o1 a0(regon are desirous of dividing
,'. ---hlican brethren at
all times and places. -
The populace go out en- masse To
R-uo L. L..
wants an audience they run them in on
| free excursion train. 1t is only a
difference in the management of q
campaign with a representative of the
the plutocrats and representative of
the people.
In another column is published a
call for the organization of a w. J.
Bryan club. All who believe in equal
rights to all and special priviledges to
none Especially to the money loaners),
and those who believe that the inter-
ests of the masses would be- best SUBJ
served by the free and Unlimited coin
age of silver are requested to attend
and become membe of the club.
The candidacy of Palmer and Buck
ner is without excuse. They cannot
hope to carry single state. There
are but really two candidates in the
field. Democrats who do not want
Bryan for president can best voice
their sentiment by supporting Me-
Kinley, and on the other hand, re-
publicans who have discarded McKin-
ley will vote for Bryan.
When Vermont rolled up re-
publican majority of $4,000 the other
day, an increase of something like
10000, we were told that was an in
dication of how the presidential cleo
tion was going. Now Arkansas comes
in with an increased democratic
majority of nearly 10000 over the vote
cast in 1892. Wonder if this is also
an index to the result of the coming
November election?
The tact that The Dalles is shipping
more fruit right now than any other
evidence of the necessity of opening
the locks at an early date. Give us
cheaper freight rates, and our fruit
and melons will seek the markets of
the Northwest. People everywhere
want our fruits but they cannot pay
exorbitant freight rates to get them.
The Oregonian can no longer be
and support Major McKin-
ey and the republican national plat
orm. since the Indianapolis platform
declares for a gold standard, while the
St. Louis platform wants international
'imetalism. The Oregonian is single
,old standard organ, and to be con-
istent must drop Mckinley and take
lp the cause of Palmer.
The republican brethren in this con. .
ressional district who fought, bled
nd died under Judge Northup's bar. {
er last June can hardly be expected ,
D swallow Mckinley and, the ST. >
'ouis platform. Happily, however, \
ney can find paradise in Palmer's =
amp and standing place on the
Indianapolis convention, for Palmer
nd his platform are for gold with a o
angence.
If gold monometaIism is a good "
ling. why does the republican ma .
onal platform favor bimetalism by VI
ternational agreement? And if BIZ :"
etalism is desirable why should any :"
le oppose the only method of secur- "
g it? We have tried to get it by =
ternational agreement, and failed, =
en- why oppose Independent bimetal- II
m, which is conceded to be the only !"
cans by which it can be secured. =
Daniel S. Lamont, President Cleve- -,
nd's secretary of war, has come out q,
a letter pledging his support to Pal or
er, and the dispatches say his declar- 81
ion was "hailed with satisfaction at =,
@ republican headquarters" No 20
ubt it was. Republican leaders h.
low as we'll as anybody else Palmer n,
only the annex Co McKinley's cam or
ign, and was nominated for no other =,
rpose than TO elect Mckinley. u
A crowd of Mckinley admirers as P,
nbled at Canton, Ohio, few days lis
o to do honor to the republican cam m,
late for president. They did him Sc
rm, for they scattered circular on
.ding as follows: "A vote for Will
m J. Bryan is vote for rum, roman Dr
4, rebellion, priestcraft, national Az