The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-06-20

DCAOiS Guo pcOD!e dt every piCSANch
tial election during the past twenty
years. The platform is go worded that
it will drive the free coinage republi-
cans away from the nominees of the
party, and has not a feature that will
draw democrats TO them. 1t leaves
Mr.. Mckinley and Mr.. Hobart to seek
their support solely from the gold
standard republicans. While the plat,
form is strong one, those who formed
it exhibited very poor politics.
Contrary to expectations Judge Ho-
bart, OF New Jersey, received the nom
ination for vice-president on the re-
publican ticket instead of Gov. Morton,
of New York. Little is known OF
Hobart except that he is immensely
wealthy, and is able to contribute lib,
orally to the campaign fund. This OF
course is a necessary qualification,
since the Office of vice president is
largely honorary.
A Washington correspondent to
the New York Herald calculates that
in the Chicago convention there will
be 37S delegates favoring gold, az
favoring silver, and ITO doubtful.
Among those classed as doubtful are
the delegates from California, Neh-
raska and Ohio, most of whom will
favor silver. thus giving the silver
men very nearly two-third majority
The Oregonian is boss OF the repub.
lican party in Oregon, in its own
Imagination. 1t. boasts that ''we wi
get a gold standard platform at ST.
Louis: then We will have to put the
silver standard people out of the state
republican committee" This settles
it. The 1--WE" of the big Oregonian
will tell Hirsch and Bourn to go and
they will just get up and get, if they
want to.
There is no time wasted in melting
out justice in England. A man was
hanged in London few days ago for a
murder committed in April and two
others for murders committed in Feb
ruary. If in San Francisco justice was
like speedy the body of the brute
| Durrant would be moldering in the
grave instead of lingering in Jail
awaiting an appeal to the supreme
court.
The dispatches announce that Cleve-
| land, Carlisle and Reed contemplate
forming partnership for practicing
law in New York City. They would
form rather peculiar political COM
bination but as lawyers they would be
pretty solid. They are unquestionably
three of the brainlest men in the ma
tion, and the reputation they have
gained as statesmen would work to
this advantage in business.
No man, says the Philadelphia Rec
ord. has ever seen a Quaker ,beggar.
The members of this religious society
look after their own INDECENT quietly
and. delicately, and none but the COM
mittee of relief knows the names of
those assisted. The late Joseph
Jeanes, a Quaker of Philadelphia, left
S200,0 to be devoted to the charity
that begins at home. Yet the Quakers
are not behind any other sect in deeds
of general benevolence.
John M. Reynolds, acting secretary
of the interior, has affirmed the decis-
sion of the commissioner of the general
land Office, to the effect that a placer
claim may be taken up by legal subdi-
visions and does not need to be staked
or mark d on the ground. The de-
cision is an important one. as it inter-
prets the Law regarding the location of
placer claims.i heia- that the
locator rot 5required to bark the
5boundaffey o1s his claim when 1t is
aocE.-..---.e...l,nryeyed ground.
A chang D date in the time OF
holding county and tate-elnatinna-is is.
desirable because It would reduce ex-
penses. If Oregons elections were
held in Novem Der, on the day of the
presidential election, the cost of one
election every four years would be
saved. There we're 81, l51 votes cast
at the last general election. Two
elections in year means throwing
that number of men out of employment
for one day, besides it costs the tax
payers about $4,000 to conduct each
general election.
The preamble of the republican ma
tional platform. adopted by the COM
mittee on resolutions, arraigns Presi-
dent Cleveland so severely that it will
drive all democrats who favor the gold
standard away from the republican
nominee for president. Cleveland is
held in high esteem by all gold demo-
Gratis, and those who might otherwise
have supported Mckinley, because of
the declarations in the platform for
gold standard, will never do so now.
since the object of their admiration
has been thus severely criticised.
Judge O'Day makes fool of himself
in urging that Penuoyer should be
nominated for president at Chicago
because he can carry Oregon. Posi-.
bly, the Chicago convention may be
guilty of some very unwise acts, but it
will never nominate Sylvester PEN
noyer for president. Whoever gets
the nomination must be man who is
identified with the democratic party,
and not one who has gone of with the
popullsts while holding an Office of
honor and trust at the hands of the |
democrats.
Although the Washington repub-
lican state convention adopted F--t-
form favoring single gold standard,
republicans are as badly
divided on the moneyquestion as those
Of any other of the western states.
The Cheny Sentinel makes this state.
nent:
A majority Of the republican news
papers of Washington have protested
against the financial plank adopted by
,he Everett convention and it is even
claimed that the men who forced the
gold STANDARD declaration into the
platform are beginning to realize that
hey made stupendous blunder. Wei
10 not believe that 25 per cent. of the
'oters of Washington favor the main
enance of the gold standard"
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