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The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-10-31
SILENT As a SPHINX.

Time and again has Major VIM. Nc
Kinley, candidate of one of the great
political parties for the highest Office
in the gift of the people, been asked to
express his attitude toward trusts and
give an anxious public an intimation
of what, if elected, he would do to en-
force the antitrust law; but not word
has been uttered.
The New York World sent one of
its staff correspondents, James Creel-
man, to Canton to interview the candi-
date, and if possible, get an expression
from him on the question, and here is
what the correspondent writes:
'Not word did he have to say about
trusts-Not one. In single sentence
he might have instantly changed the
attitude of hundreds of thousands of
voters, but he refused to speak that
sentence.
81 heard him declare on Saturday
that the Mckinley law must be re-.
enacted-the law which has incubated
trusts. He seemed to find nothing
embarrassing in THAT subject. But the
antitrust law-ah-well, not word,
not a sylablep
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WORK IS ALMOST DONE.
Venezuelan commission Will Soon submit

Venezuelan commission Will Soon Submit
Report.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.-The Vene-
zuelan commission resumed its session
today and will probably meet frequent
ly from now until it completes its work.
Andrew D. White was the only absen-
tee. There was disappointment over
the fact that DIR. Baer and Professor
Dehaan, who have been at work at
The Hague securing original transla-
tions of manuscripts and documents
bearing on the controversy, had not
arrived, but the commission proceeded
to consider other details. Baer and
Dehaan sailed from Liverpool on the
Teutonic, which arrived at New York
this morning, and will probably reach
here tomorrow.
In accordance with the policy here
tofore pursued by the members of the
commission, they declined today to in
dictate whether they were confronted
with any difficulties which might pre-
vent harmonious agreement. Some
time ago, however, Justice Brewer in
timated that report would be ready
for submission by December l at the
latest. This would seem to indicate
that members Of the commission who
have been kept advised during the
summer and fall of all developments
will reach speedy conclusion, after all
documents are officially laid before
them.
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and issued by authority of the republi-
can campaign committee.
"The lessening of the quantity of
money always increases its price and
makes an equal portion of it exchange
for greater of any other thing" as
Mr.. Locke affirms, is the contention of
every silver advocate. And if this
proposition is true, this whole contro-
versy over the money question is set
tied. Money is made scarce because
gold was made the sole unit of value,
hence the price of money is high.
Make money plentiful, double its vol
ume by giving silver an equol footing
with gold, and the price of money
falls, the price of other things go up.
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70 MORE BONDS WANTED.

James B. Murray. a special New
York correspondent to the Oregonian,
quotes the following from Bryan's
speech at Patterson, New Jersey: 81
say to you now that my election
means that this nation shall open its
mints 10 the free coinage of both
metals at the earliest possible moment.
Not only that, but my election means
that this nation shall treat the silver
dollar just as it treats the gold dollar,
and that we shall not issue bonds to
buy gold" Then Mr.. Murray issues
long calamity howl in which he begins:
"If the treasury gold reserve is not to
be replenished by bond sales, we all
know it can't last long. Foreigners
would Immediately call for their loans
and balances here, and holders of the
1898 ,OOO, 900 of outstanding greenbacks
and treasury notes according to the
United States treasury statement of
October 1, 1885, would quickly with
draw the S123, 200, 900 of gold now in
the treasury. to either export or hoard
it, and leave the holders of the re-
naming s2OO, ,OO0,O 900 to take their pay
in silver"
What an awful calamity it would be
indeed, if the treasury reserve should
fail! But what corresponding cal
amity for the people of the United
States will it be if they are to be
mortgaged for the next four or five
generations in order to supply gold to
pay the interest on private and public
debts that call only for coin. If the
treasury gold reserve cannot be main
tanned except by the sale of bonds,
the sooner it is wiped out of existence
the better it will be for those who
have to pay the interest on the bonds.
A system of finance that compels the
people to pay three per cent interest
in order to make it stable is pernicious,
and if the calamity" Bryan's election
will cause is to put stop to the sys-
tenn, let it come at once. If the sup
porters of Mckinley have nothing
better to offer than the sale of more
interest bonds to keep up the
treasury gold reserve, God speed the
day when he will be defeated. We
have had a sufficient experience in |
bond selling for the present.
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WHY THIS ANXIETY.

Never before in presidential cam
paign have the republican managers
seen fit to send SO much "talent" to
the Pacific coast states, and there are
reasons for this. Never before have
the extreme Western states been con-
sidered doubtful, nor have they been
considered necessary to insure repub-
lican success; but this time they are
both doubtful and necessary, hence
Mr.. Hanna has seen fit to send his
missionaries of plutocracy, Schoon.
maker, Butterworth, Boutelle and
Reed, out to put up the fences.
The official explanation offered by
Mr.. Hanna why the coast states should
be. thus subsoiled with money, irri-
gated with eloquence and narrowed
with intimidation is that he considers
the fight won in the middle west, and
he wishes to make the victory more
overwhelming by adding the votes of
California, Oregon and Washington.
But a more reasonable explanation
ia that he fears defeat in the states
bordering on the Mississippi. and is
clutching at the Pacific coast states as
his only hope of landing Mckinley in
the White House. Illinois, Indiana,
Ohio, Michigan and even Wisconsin
are doubtful; but if Hanna can carry
them all he will still be short of
majority of electoral votes for his man.
If he can carry every state north of
The Marion. and Dixon line between
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-10-31
THE TWO CANDIDATES
Bryan Received by Big Aud
fences in Illinois.
MAJOR M'KINLEY
Receives Excursions From Six States
That Arrived by Free Trains to
See The Show,
The Decks of the Battleship Oregon
Stained With Blood on its First
Cruise The CuIprit in Irons.

BLOOMINGTON, ILL.,, Oct. 27.-Bryan
will make the last week of the cam
paign record breaker. Shortly after
I o'clock this morning he was talking
to the people of Lincoln, Ill. Al 9
o'clock the people of Bloomington were
listening to him. At Lincoln, when
the special car was sidetracked shortly
after o'clock this morning, crowd
OF ardent admirers of the nominee dis
turbed his rest, demanding speech
He spoke later to several thousand in
the public square. He said:
ga week from today the American
people are 20 decide upon the financial
policy of this nation for at least four
years, and probably longer. When
our opponents failed in everything
else, they commenced to make gloomy
predictions of what will happen if we
have free coinage of silver. You know
that whenever we complained of exist
ing conditions they called US calamity
howlers, but, my friends, the worst
those who have complained of the con-
ditions as they are, were speaking
words of praise compared with the
language used by our opponents when
they began to tell what was going to
happen if the free coinage of silver
comes.
"One of the most frequent phophesies
which they make is that panic will
come from the moment we have the
free coinage of silver, that all the peo-
pie who have money will lock 1t upy
and all the people who have mortgages
will foreclose, and there is going to be
a period of ruin here, and their
language fails to express their ideas on
the subject. They simply stand aghast
at the picture. 1 want to show you
that the free coinage of silver, instead
of bringing a panic, will stop the panic
the people have been suffering from
for years. Business failures have been
increasing and hard times have become
harder. That is what panic means.
We are in the midst of panic now,
and there is no way out OF the panic
until we stop falling prices, and there
is no way to stop falling prices until
we increase the volume of money which
measures prices"
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PRIMARY CAUSE OF FAILURES

From every stump it has been re-
iterated by the republican orators.
that during the years when the Nc.
Kinley law was in force the United
States ''enjoyed the greatest prosper
ity; mills were running everywhere:
labor was employed and happy; busi-
ness failures were almost unknown,
and that this prosperity was inter-
rupted by the repeal of the tariff law,
after which ruin and desolation pre-
vailed" This is offered by the ora
tors for the trusts as reason why the
tariff is an issue in this campaign, and
why its restoration on Mckinley lines
is all that is required to restore pros
perity.
Were these statements of the orators
true. they would certainly furnish very
strong argument for restoring the
.'cKinley tariff law. Carefully pre-.
pared statistics do not bear out the as
sertions. The Mckinley law was
passed In 1890. and was repealed in
1894. Here is the record of strikes
during the years it was in force and
for the year previous to its enactment
and the one following its repeal, as
compiled by the United States COM
missioner of labor:
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Mississippi and the Atlantic, he will
have only 205 votes of the 224 required
to make majority. Add Maryland
and Delaware, and the total will still
be eight short. California's nine
would supply this with one to spare.
Losing California, the votes of Oregon
and Washington would just fill the
gap.
This explains the anxiety of the re-
publican managers to carry the coast
states. The situation is one desperate
chance of carrying California or
Oregon and Washington. This should
spur the supporters of Bryan to e.
newed vigor and energy. These are
pivotal states, and 1t is unsafe to lose
any one of them.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-10-31
GIVES UP The FIGHT.

Mr.. Bryan is now devoting his tai
ents to denouncing ex-President Har-
rison and other republican campaign
ers. There is no better evidence of his
own hopelessness, for he, as we'll as
anyone, knows that this will gain no
votes for him.-Dalles Chronicle.
All, indeed, is this true? Have our
republican friends discovered at last
that vilification and abuse are not ar.
gument? Have they learned that when
abuse is resorted to that it is an evil
dence of defeat? Then, judging from
their choice expressions that Bryan is
a ''mattoid," and anarchist" "re-
pubiator" civilian" and o "traitor,"
it is evident they have acknowledged
defeat from the outset. Reasoning on
this hypothesis, the Chronicle empha-
cised it's acknowledgment of defeat
by quoting "Hon." Bent Killen in an
abuse of the supporters of Bryan. It
is refreshing to note that our contem-
porary has given up the fight this
early.
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COAL Gas EXPLODED.


Terrible Accident In a wiikesbarre
Mine.
WILkESBARRE, Pa. Oct. ga
terrible explosion OF gas occurred at
the South Wilkesbarre shaft of the
Lehigh & Wilkesbarre Coal Company
this afternoon. 1t is reported that six
men were so badly burned they will
die.
The mine was not in operation to-
day, and only about Is men, mostly
repairers, were inside. So great was
the force of the explosion that it shook
the surface for miles around. Smoke
coming up the shaft prevented the
rescuers from going down. The mine
is one of the most gaseous in the an
thracite region. Five years ago seven
men perished in an explosion there.
A party of rcscuers entered the mine
shortly before o'clock. They were
headed by William r. Jones and John
Joseph, miners. Jones and Joseph
were overcome by fire damp ane killed.
A second rescue party pushed into the
rock tunnel, where they found the
bodies of Joseph Worth, miner;
James Harrington, laborer; James
Tracey, contractor, and Thomas
Owens, miner.
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In contemplating these hgures II
must be born in mind that the McKin.
ley bill was not repealed until March,
1894, and that the present law did not
60 into effect until the 30th day Of June
following, also that the Mckinley law
was passed in February, 1890, and
went into effect on the 9th day of Oc-
tober of that year. hence the first full
year it was in force was 1891. Now
compare the number of failures that
occurred during the first year of its
operation with those during the last
full year of the 1888 tariff. They show
an increase of 675 in the number of
failures, and an increase of S52, $40
In the aggregate liabilities. Carry the
examination further and compare the
year 1893, when the Mckinley law was
still in full force, with 1894, when the
present law was in force for half year,
and it is found that the number of fail
ures fell off 3,426, and there was a
decrease of $3.50, 1913. .969 in the liabili-
ties. This, however, may be consider
cred unfair by the very techical, as
they claim the panic of 1893 was
brought about by the fear of a change
in the tariff, so we will compare the
years 1891, the first full year of the
Mckinley law, with 1894, when the
present law was in force six months,
and we find there were 314 more busi-
ness failnres in 1891 than,in, 1894, and
the Liabilities we're s6l, ,e9s ,293 greater.
With such facts to coptrovert, the
campaign orator relies considerably
Rpon the credulity of his hearers when
he asserts that the 1890 tariff law pro-
duced prosperity, or that its repeal was
the cause of business failures. With
failures increasing under the highest
protective tariff ever known, and pro-
lection claimed to be a safeguard
against financial disasters, there must
have been some other cause, some
other influence that brought about
such result; and was not that cause q
lack of money on which to do business?
Was it not for the lack of money that
the wheels of commerce were cloged?
Was it not that the volume of money
had not kept pace with the increase in
If this was the cause,
then how can the tariff become an
issue in this campaign? Why should
it be considered until the primary
cause of disaster is rectifed? Why
not begin at the foundation, and then
arrange tariff schedules later?
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-10-31
SIMMONS GOOD FIGHT.
Manager of a Coquille Cannery Put Rob-
bers to Flight.

Manager of a CoquilIe Cannery Put Rob-
bers to Flight.
MARSHEIELD, Or, Oct. ga. Il.
Simmons, manager of the Parkersburg
salmon cannery, on the Coquille river,
was held up in his Office last night by
two masked men, who demanded of
Simmons, at the point of a revolver,
that he open the safe. Simmons re-
fused, and the robbers began an assault
upon him with their revolvers. The
robbers "went for" the manager with
such fury that he changed his mind,
but the desperadoes did not hear him
say that he would open the safe. Dur
ing the scuffle Simmons caught hold of
the mask of one of the robbers and tore
it from his face, so that he recognized
him. This frightened the robbers
away.
Mr.. Simmons has several flesh
wounds on his head, and is under a
DOCTORS care. Who the robber is that
he recognized he will not disclose. No
arrests have been made.
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WHATSHALL THE HARVEST BE

The greatest campaign ever known
in American politics will close next
Tuesday, and upon the verdict that
shall be rendered on that day much
depends. This campaign has been re.
markable in mary respects, and there
has been most thorough discussion
of the questions involved. But the
most remarkable feature is that on the
one side has been arrayed nearly all
the corporations, trusts, syndicates
and boarded wealth of the country,
while on the other side is found a very
large majority OF the plain people
the farmers and laborers. On the one
side, we might say, were the pluto
Gratis, the "aristocracy" of America,
the bond buyers and bond sellers: on
the other the plain yoemanry of the
naSion, those who by the sweat of their
brow produce and create the wealth on
which their opponents fatten. On the
one side campaign has been con-
Quoted by committee that had untold
wealth at its desposal, with which to
hire campaign orators, get up attrac-
tive professions and run free excursion
trains from the remotest states to the
home of their leader, where they might
worship at the shrine of the golden
calf and listen to the speeches of the
promised ''Moses;" by the other the
campaign has been conducted compar-
atiyely without funds and the cham
pion of the great masses has gone from
state to state, unattended by pomp and
splendor, proclaiming the truths of the
issues he espauses, honest money,
equal rights to all, and government
through, by and for the people.
Thus the campaign has been con-
Quoted and thus it is drawing to close.
Undoubtedly the great majority of
voters ere this have their opinions
firmly fixed as to how they will vote
next Tuesday, and little can be said or
written to cause change. The money
question has been made the issue in
this campaign around which all others
have centered, and its every phase has
been most thoroughly considered, upon
it the election or defeat of the respec-
tive candidates depends. If majority
of the people are convinced that the
present financial system, which is
else than single gold stand
ard, furnishes a sufficient amount of
on which to do the business of
the country, then Mr.. Mckinley will
be elected, for none are mislead by the
claim that the financial plank in the
St. Louis platform is favorable to BIZ
and all are convinced that
the election Of the republican ticket
must result in a continuance of the
present financial policy for another
four years. But if a majority believe
there is not O sufficient amount of
money in circulation and that bimet-
alism will be beneficial to the Amer
lean people, Mr.. Bryan will be elected
president. With the issues so plainly
before the voter, his duty to himself
and his country is certainly plain.
If he belieues in gold monometalism;
Il he believes the government should
be run by and for the trusts, bond
holders and corporations, it is his duty,
he be, democrat, populist or
to vote for Mr.. Mckinley.
But If he believes in bimetalism, an in
:reased volume Of circulating medium,
\ government for and by the people,
,e can only voice his belief by voting
or Mr.. Bryan.
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The Oregonian boasts that Martin
Luther Pipes, the man who ran on a
Fl ee coinage platform for district at
torney in Multnomah county last June,
is out stumping the state for McKin.
ley, and cites him as a great acquisi-
tiou for republicanism in Oregon. But
the Bryan forces have been amply re-
paid for the loss of Pipes, who is the
only former democrat in the state who
is canvassing for Mckinley, whereas
there are Barclay, Stuart, Smith,
Montgomery and Clarno, all former
making from one to three
speeches day for Bryan and silver.
When any country is compelled to
go to another country to borrow gold
with which to pay its redemption
it is only question of time
when that country will cease to do
business. for the payment OF interest
10 foreign countries will eat up its
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: FRIEND, OF THE TRUSTS.


A Washington, D. c. special to the
S. F. Examiner, which, however, did
not appear in the Oregonian, says the
bankers of that city were notified by
Mark Hanna that their share OF the
McKinly assessment had been fixed at
$4,000. Upon receipt of this call, the
heads of the Washington banks held a
meeting and decided to make the de-
manded contribution. The same
authority says like demands have
been made upon all banks and trust
companies in the United States, and
from this source Hanna will be pro-
vided with s15, ,OOO, 200, the largest cam
paign fund ever raised for any political
purpose in the world.
Uquestionably the trusts and syndi-
Gates would consider Mr.. McKinley's
election good bargain even at this
price, for they would get their money
back through favors they expect. The
inside intererts in some of the recent
bond sales made half that sum out of
SluRlO uTduSdCtAOas LhC 4NCW YIN
World. which is now opposing the
election of Mr.. Bryan, gave the figures
of one of those outrageous deals in its
issue of February 81, 1895, and they
furnish passibly good reading at this
time. Here is the way the World put
it: Buncoed out of millions-how the
account stands:
Syndicate premium at 104.49. 49,, ,943
United States gets. .s65. 1I2, ,94s
What inside jobbers pay. :. .s69, ,94S. .5S7
Inside jobbers profit to 49,. 3,483, ,644
The public pay and the
United States should have
received. .................. 1S,o3l,IOO
United States has lost. ,418, ,759
The big trusts and syndicates believe
and know they can trust Mckinley. |
He has persistently remained silent |
when called upon to speak out against |
them. He has publicly endorsed the
financial policy of an administration
they have dicted. The trusts and |
syndicates know their business; they
know their friend and they know
where to put money that will yield re-
turns. Will the people know their
business on November Sd?
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A Campaign Contribution.

CHICAGO, Oct. 2S.-W. M. Hoyt, of
the firm of w. NJ. Hoyt & Co., import
ers and wholesale grocers, presented
to Mr.. Bryan today house and two
lots in Lincoln, Neb., in lieu of cash
contribution to the campaign fund. In
his letter, Mr.. Hoyt scored the gold
standard and declared that although
he is rich in real estate. he is poor in
nash
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Crime ON the Oregon.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 27.-The deck
of the line-of-battle ship Oregon was
stained with blood just before she made
her first trip to sea as United States
ship. A murderous assault made by
Ordinary Seaman Nicholson upon his
messmate Ordinary Seaman Tieder-
man, Saturday morning when the ship
was lying at Sausalito, is likely to re-
suit in the death of the victim, who is
now lying in serious condition at the
naval hospital. The offender, Nichol-
son, was carried to sea in the Oregon
in double irons.
Nicholson and Tiederman are both
landsmen, that is, raw recruits in the
naval service. Their quarrel began
over a trivial matter, Friday evening,
just before the men retired to their
hammOcks.