The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-11-13


WASHINGTON is all right.
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Now for a long pull and strong
pull together and the thing is done.
Everybody is talking good times.
THE next legislature of Washington
will consist of 112 members-of whom
81 will be Populists, Is Silver .Repub-
licans, Is Democrats and % Republi-
cans. From the foregoing it will be
observed that the Fusionists will be
able to control state politics with the
utmost ease, electing United States
Senator to succeed Senator Squire.
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THERE is no question but what the
turn has come in the hard times tide.
The lumbermen Of the Pacific Coast
willsee better results in 1897 than
they have for several years. Good
times casts reflections on mems faces
and there is more cheeriulness and
better feeling than there has been for
many day. But the change will
not be felt in day. 1t will come
gradually as did the hard times.-Aber-
deem Bullitin.
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The Office Of State printer is likely
to be an empty honor to Gwin Hicks
unless he can either raise enough
money to buy out the plant of o. c.
White, the present incumbent, or get
hold of an outfit large enough to
handle the work. The state does not
own printing Office.
LET the result be what it may, how.
ever, it is the duty of all citizens tc
abide the result and seek by every
means in their power to promote the
welfare and peace of the whole county
and it is the glory of the American
people that, no matter how fierce the
contest, nor how much passion RACES
before election, her seventy million
people can settle down to the every
day affairs O. life after the contest is
over. And the stagnation which al
ways proceed national election will
give place to the renewed activities oil
business which invariably follow after.
wards. Let progress be the watch
word-Herald.
The Governor and state administers.
ton are coming in for some blame
for the results of the late election
While Gov. McGraw's premature senat-
orial boom, the candidates selected and
the record of the present state admin
istration have had more or less to do
with the large majority against the re-
publicans, probably a thousand votes
would cover the defections on that
score, the other 10000 can o.,ly be
accounted for ny the fact thai. the peo-
pie thought they wanted free silver
and they voted it straight. 1t was
not men but measure > that knock ed
the republicans out. The saints Of
biblical history " ould have met the
same fate. TIE republicans should
begin now b e work of building up .
clean, new organization for the future
battles.
The system of loading lumber or
Puget Sound ports, has changed ma
terially within the last few years. The
advent OF the tramp steamer has put
new feature into the market. One
of these vessels come in now and mus,
have two million or more feet of lum-
Der delivered within very few days
This has made the piling up OF foreign
cargoes necessary IN order to save
demurage. In former years sailing
vessels would have thirty or more lay
days as these vessels could be kept
without much expense. As soon as q
sailing vessels reached dock it was
customary to discharge almost the
entire crew and hire new one when
starting out on new voyage, but in
case OF the tramp steamers the crew
are mostly skilled men that have to be
retained. There is now at Tacoma,
atramp steamer which will carry two
million FIVE hundred thousands feet
Of lumber to England. This vessel has
to be loaded in thirteen days: an aver
age of two hundred thousand feet .
day. Before this vessel arrived about
one-half Of its cargo was out and ready
for loading w. g. Lnmberman.