The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-07-04

the ticket. but Oregon can hardly hope
for first place.. The trouble with the
scheme is that Pennoyer does not even
pretend to be democrat. Should the
democracy retire from business aud
be absorbed by the silver party 1t
would be different thing. but this it
will not do. The democratic party
can neither be killed nor absorbed,
and is now about as lively corpse as
the other parties ever undertook to
bury.
If any one should tell you that Nc
Kinley is as good as elected, just ask
him to wait until the frosts OF Novem-
ber before he makes such assertions.
The doty majors hopes are liable to
be frost bitten on election day..
Franklin wished that he could live
hundred years longer to see what ad-
vance the world would make in that
time. 1t has gone ahead considerably
In science and invention, but as far as
men are concerned Franklin would
find himself second to nobody on earth.
| The Massachusetts legislature has
appropriated $500, 900 for good roads.
The farmers of the state have watched
the road building operations of the
last two or three years and have coh-
cluded that there is money in going
| ahead with the work.
Counting in clerk hire. mileage and
incidentals, q member of congress now
receives total of about Sl2 $50 for his
two year, service. Daniel Webster
used 10 get for the same period S332S
The expansion in the past has at
least kept up with that of the states
manship.
1t is singular fact that Gen. Wey-
Ter, with an army of 175, 900 men, is un-
able to do more than hold few cities
! and his trocha, while the insurgents
army of only 4o, 900 men has seized the
greater part of Cuba, and is gradually
driving the Spanish forces back upon
Havana.
Ganet A. Hobart, the republican
nominee for vice president. is one of
the wealthy men of New Jersey. He
is connected with half dozen differ
ent banks, is at the head of the East
New Jersey Water Co., and draws
salary of $50, 1000 year as attorney for
the National Railroad Pool.
The n,tno;t T,;b,,,,o ,rb;ol ,roa -,
many years the leading republican
paper of Michigan, has bolted the
money plank of its party platform. 1t
says 1.-THE platform adopted at st.
Louis is damnable unpatriotic and un-
republican, and that it is an unexplain-
ed and unexplainable reputation of
the past principles of the republican
party on the most vital ISSUE"
There is no toadyism about Henry
Watterson. In the course of an inter-
view with the representative of the
London Chronicle few days ago, he
said: 1--WE are republicans, whereas
you are monarchists. We detest your
social system thoroughly. 'Shoddy
Americans who come over here in hot
pursuit of social recognition we regard
with disgust, as you regard with dis
dain. There can be no affinity be-
tween democracy and aristocracy."
The Walla Walla Union places
Oregon, Washington. California, Kan
sas and West Virginia among the
states that will surely go for Mckinley
on account OF the financial plank in
the republican platform. Surely the
editor. of the Union has not been a
close observer of the recent election
in this state. for it was Enthusiastically |
a voice for silver, and if he is ais badly |
off on his estimates of other states as
he is on this, they are of little value
Mark Hanna does not believe the
American laborers are. interested in
the money question. He says: 81
have 5000 to 5000 men in my employ,
and l know by personal investigation
that TIE men who> are working in the
shops and the mines care little or
nothing about the whole financial
question. They recognize the fact
that it is one of the issues of the
campaign, but that is about as far as
their interest goes. It is the farmers
and the debtor class who are interested
In the free-silver question.
During the fiscal year, ending June
30, 1894, our exports Of silver bullion
in excess of imports OF silver ore and
bullion amounted to $50. .533. .702 For
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1895,
our net exports of silver bullion, less
imports of silver ore, amounted to S27,-
Ole, ,138, and for the first eleven months
of the present fiscal year ending May
31st last. to s29, ,927 1852. Thus within
three years our net expor of silver
have amounted to nearly $90.0 100000,
and nearly the whole of this has been
sent to Great Britain.
Builders of presidential tickets are
still busy and making all sorts of
orophesies anent the Chicago conven-
ion. The names of Boies, of Iowa,
Bland, of Missouri, Morgan, of Ala I
,ama. and Stevenson, Of Illinois, are I
ire most prominently mentioned In
with the democratic nomi-
nation for president, either of whom
would suit the masses. Whitney, of
lew York, Pattison, of Pennsylvania,
RUSSELL, of Massachusetts, and other
astern democrats, since it became a
that the silver men would
control the convention, have decided !!
o defer Gheir aspirations.
A Rare lnducemen..
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