The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-07-17
Republican National Ticket.
Editorial Notes.

Editorial Notes.
The populist and free silver parties
meet at st. Louis dext week and then
the performance begins.
EXTENSIVE forest fires are raging on
Vancouver Island, and several small
fires have started in the Cascades, and
in other parts, but no serious damage
has been done On the Sounnd yet.
The atmosphere begins to show signs
Of smoke.
NOWADAYS, when you meet man
tripping along the high places in the
Street, wearing partially bright
smile, and negligee attire, he is either
a populist or a new papa. The old
democracy is dead, and the average
populist appears to think he has a
mortgage on the earth, and that he
can foreclose and claim it as his own
this fall.
We would advise our friends to look
before they leap, to reason the thing
out and see where they "are at"
There's ample time between now and
November to read and study up on the
financial and other important ques-
tons. and determine what is best for
the people, and the country. There are
two sides to every question and an
impartial judge must hear both.
The wild and woolly" days of the
West are passed, but in its best days
nothing could compare with the reign
of terror created in the West side,
Chicago, last Saturday evening when
three men drove through the streets
in buggy, shooting right and lett.
Three men were shot, one fatally; and
the trio got safely away, without
leaving clue to their identity. No
reason is given for their running
amuck.
Truly this year has witnessed rhe
passing of the political bosses of all
kinds. The big republican leaders of
the East did not want Mckinley, but
the people did, and they got him.
The old Tammany and other bosses
completely dropped from sight at the
recent democratic convention.
Among the populist party the pro-
portion of "bosses" or "leadcrs'' is far
greater, but no one of them has vet
reached the position to do much dam
age. Politics must be becoming more
elevated when the bosses hunt new
jobs.
WE find that the republican press is
very generally condemning the cut
throat policy of the King County
politicians in their factional fight over
Senatorial candidates, and we agree
with them that about the best thing
to do is to see that some good man
outside OF that county is put forward
Z at the proper time. The republicans
cannot afford to endanger their chances
OF success by such folly, and if the
King County squabble goes much
further, the man who carries King
county, will have but a barren honor.
King county is waiting repetition of
the turning down SIZE got at Spokane.
AN appreciative fastener, in the
Springfield, Mass. Republican, gives
the West the following agreeable
send-off: "To the masses of the peo-
pie OF the East, the West is Gods own
country. The future of the nation is
bound up IN the future of the West.
The West must prosper or none Of us
can prosper. tits the great heart Of
us all. That vast stretch of boundless
hill and plain is an empire in ITSELF
and without it America could never be
one OF the few great empire states Of
the earth. II there is anything an
American can be proud Of, it is his
country; # there is anything an East
ernef can be proud of, it is the West. =