The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-11-05
PORTLAND LETTER.
Politics the One Absorbing Toplc %
Conversation in State Metropolis
Another "Moral Wave"

Conversation i'm State Metropolis
Another .NIoraI Wave"
Special Correspondence.
Portland, Or, Got. 2S.-Perhaps the
funniest thing in all this campaign Is
naper in favor of silver written oy a
wife in answer to paper IN favor OF
gold by her husband.
Rufus Mallory is distinguished
LAWYER of this city. He is the partner
of Joe Simon, the famous politician.
The firm used to be Dolph, Mallory q
Simon. Since the senator's defeat he
has withdrawn from the Irm, and or
ganized new firm composed of himself
and his son and his sonin-law.
Mr.. Mallory is forcible' speaker,
and he is an ardent gold man. His
wife, Mrs. Lucy S. Mallory, is friend
of silver. She publishes bi-monthly
called "The Worlds Advance Thought
and the Universal Republic. In the
September October issue, the editor.
Mrs. Mallory, publishes paper by her
husabnd. Rufus Mallory. entitled 1.-THE
Gold Standard" and in the same issue
Mrs. Mallory replies to her husband IN
an editorial under the caption, 1.-The
Silver Question.
1t is not for me to say who gets the
best of the argument, but it is no favor
itism to say that the wife "argufies'
pretty lively against "her august lord
and master" as the queen speaks of the
king.
This letter is sent to several papers,
and probably before it appears in some
of the papers to which I sell it, the
election will have come and gone, and
many hopes on one side or the other
will have been blasted. This much it
may however. be permitted me to say:
that whichever side wins, this republic
will live, and times will be better for
us, because owing to short food crops
in many parts OF the world, there will
be stronger demand for our abund-
ance, and, consequently, much better
prices for food products. Other misfor-
tunes will benefit us. Whilst l am
sorry for those other, l needs must be
glad for eve uns"
The latest "big gun" to talk politics
in Portland was Mr.. Boutelle, OF
Maine, and member of the house of
representatives of congress. By the
by, why is it that a member OF the
house is always spoken Of as con-
gresham? A senator is also congress
man. Congress is composed OF the two
bodies, the house of representatives and
I'D hnp ut
body is a congressman. In old times
whenever one spoke or wrote Of con-
gress. he always prefixed it with 1.-THE"
-"the congress.
That's a side remark. Mr.. Boutelle
is man of fine presence and excellent
voice. When 1 heard him debate in
the house, he was rather Vigorous"
and he is great waver of the "bloody
shirt" Those Maine men are very
Union, and they have hardly yet for
gotten the war. There was an i'm
mense crowd to hear the son Of the
Pine Tree State. Probably five thou
sand people were crowded in the Ex-
position hall to hear him. He made
dignifed, argumentative speech, but he
ldChOu GAO SlAOOG12hCSS Va DCA ouUtOA-
worth, nor was he SO 'hale fellow,
well met" as was Ben Tillman.
Do you ever have moral wave"
in your town? Every now and then,
we have one here. Just now there is
great clamor for the rigid enforce
ment of the law which says saloons
shall close at A. M. 1t seems that
looms hot hou buc Of
ter midnight have become awfully vir-
tuous, and they have organized to spy
on those who have business later. OF
course, every law ought to be enforced;
but l modestly confess that am not
very warm in my sympathy for the
"motive" that inspires the new move
in behalf of ''good citizenship" Jeal-
ousy is truly an ugly toad, whether it
be as to love or to liquor.
1t is not known much outside of Port
land that the public library here has
very fine set of plaster casts of the best
pieces Of ancient statuary. 1t cost
$4,000, and it is the gift of ex United
States Senator 81. W. Corbett. The
casts are in beautiful gallery on the
second floor of the magnificent library
building, also a gift to the city. by
lady now dead. Yet doubt if over
thousand Portlanders have seen those
statues, although admission is free sew
eral times week.
Portland is getting to be quite club
town. We have the Arlington, an ex-
elusive aristocratic affair with rather
limited membership of the upper ten
which leaves me out. Then there is
the Multnomah Athletic Club, which
like the Arlington, has building ex.
clusively for it's own use. The Airing.
ton Club owns it's building, but the
Multnomah leases it's. The Concordia
Club is comprised exclusively Of He
brews. 1t has an entire second floor Of
handsome two-story building facing
the Oregonian's tall tower. The Com.
mercial Club is composed of business
men, and it occupies the entire top
floor of the Chamber of Commerce.
This is gastronomio affair. It is
composed of business men and profes.
sional men. 1t is the club that usually
entertains distinguished visitors,
though when / came here there was
nothing said to indicate, as far as am
concerned, that the club knew any
thing about what the Governor of
North Carolina said to the Governor
of South Carolina. EZEKIEL.
Tandem Records Broken.
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