Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1896-05-08
SOME RURAL TALK.
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great deal more money than 1t did
And perhaps we are better of than
we have any right to expect.
/ was sorry for Mr.. Moores. Just
as he was coming to what my boy
who goes to college the "free-oration"
the whole thing tumbled to the
ground and Moores crawled out from
under the tent like a boy that had
been caught stealing into circus. L
heard that THE JOURNAL man killed
a mule at Macleay when he was show
ing up Pennoyers record two years
ago. But Moores brought down the
house that time sure. One farmer
said it would have been more inter-
esting TO give us the inside history of
the Legislature instead Of the history
of the Republican party. But I've
known Charley ever since he was a
boy and he was always modest about
his own affairs. Preacher Belknap of
Turner, who was at the county con-
vention,and wanted on the legislature
ticket, was at this camp-meeting
where i attended. When he was at
our county convention he was for
Mitchell and silver. Now he's fight
ing the Mitchell candidates on the
ticket like sixty.
He was elected from Benton county
some years ago. My son lives up
there and writes me that he was not
q preacher there but traded off the
whole ticket to get on himself and
then conducted the prison investiga-
tion to which Pennoyer now refers.
| like old man Pennoyer. lie made
the best governor we ever had except
the present one, we don't know much
about yet. But now Mr.. Belknap has
got religion | suppose he is more hon
est in his politics than TO expend
Sl,700 on an investigation that
didn't investigate r. r. Ryan, the
Populist candidate for recorder,
showed friend Of mine a paper they
are asking all the candidates to sign.
| asked Preacher Belknap about it.
He said no man could be elected who
didn't sign IL, but he wouldn't tell me
what 1t was. He said the only trouble
was that so many were signing up
that nobody knew who was sincere
and who wasn't and I'd vote for no
man who'd sign away his political
freedom on any subject under the
sun. We wanted free and independ-
ent men to represent us and / told
him so and he sneaked off and said no
more. He aint very broad in the
beam no way. He's n good singer
and exhorter and all that but he never
could be elected again TO anything up
where he lived my boy tells me. 1t
has rained so much this spring and
weather Is so cold and backward we
are all feeling blue. There Is no
chance TO do farm work. The roads
are too bad TO go TO town at any dis
tance. We just attend school house
meetings and kick about the leglsla-
ture and hurrah for Mckinley.
My remarks about the legislature can
didates IN Polk county caused great
roar and got letter from one man
to let up or I'd beat the whole ticket.
| know Hatch and the clerk Mulkey
pretty we'll. They're pretty sharp
and will make all there is in it out of
the legislature which is pretty much
what they all do when they get there
and l about despair, Bnt Hatch and
Mulkey is both still hogs, the kind as
gets the swill. Mulkey is county
clerk and knows every man in the
county personally and will be elected,
no doubt, But them kind does us
farmers no good because they use all
they learn about public laws and
administrations for their own benefit
when they pretend to go to represent
us. If Jack Darcy would tell what
he knows about the Salem school
land ring "A whole lot of good facts
would come out and a whole lot of
us would vote for him. That was !
pretty sharp letter of Harry Lanes
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