Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1896-10-29
From Little Elk.

w. J. Bryan a majority that will
entitle US the Bryan belt for the
strongest precinct in the county.
The same day will also end the
most remarkable contest at the polls
in the history Of Oregon. The re-
publicans r claiming the state by
their usual eight or ten thousand
majority, but for all this the Ore
CONAN acknowledges that they have
27I speakers in Oregon trying to
make converts for Mckinley. If
the republicans are so sure Of Ore
gon why do they import some Of
the strongest men they have in the
East to shout for Mckinley and the
gold standard. If they do not ex-
pect to attempt to use fraud, why
does the Oregonian cry fraud in ev-
cry issue, saying that Pennoyer will
Use the police Of Portland to carry
the election for Bryan? Who was
mayor of Portland last March when
the most damnable and d~isgraceful
proceedings ever heard ofin Oregon,
or even i'll the remote Southern
states, were enacted in Portland?
And by whom were they enacted?
By the same men who are now cry
ing out fraud, Jim Lotan, Joe ST.
mon, and all the henchmen Of the
Oregonian, who are now all consol-
idated to keep decent, law-abiding
citizens from voting. If any repub-
licans doubt this all they have to do
IS to hunt up an old copy of the
Oregonian of last March, and there
they will see in bold type how the
Portland police arrested the judges
OF a primary election and closed up
the polls, for the purpose, as the
Oregonian then truly said, of pre-
venting al honest election. Now
they tell you to look out for fraud
by Pennoyer and his gang of police.
Where are the gold republicans
this election? What false gods are
they following after? Their stand
ard bearer is at heart a free silver
man, and even voted when in con-
gress to pass a free silver measure
ver President Hayes veto, and has
always been strongly for free silver
ever since, until Mark Hanna cried
stop. John H. Mitchell has always
voted for free silver, Binger Her
mann is now and always has been
a free silverite. The republican
convention Of Oregon in 1892 de-
clared for free silver at the ratio of
10 to /. All the great leaders of
the great republican party were i'll
favor Of free silver. OF all the re-
publican leaders, not one of them is
as honest and consistent as Hon.
N. Dolph, who is a gold bug from
principle; and nearly all of the
speakers who are now stunping
Oregon for the single gold standard
were down at Salem at the last ses-
sion Of the Legislature trying to de.
feat J. n. Dolph because he was q
gold bug. And this is what the g.
o. p. is pleased to call consistency
and a republican doctrine.
Is 1t not a singular thing to see
Great loads Of Carlisle's gold bug
speeches being sent out from repub-
lican headquarters under the very
shadow of the Oregonian building,
and poor old Harvey Scott burning
the midnight oil writing editorials
which praise up to the very skies
this old political hack. When did
Harvey get to be such a good dem
ocrat, as he is pleased to call the
gold administration people?
Hard up for argument, must
poor, old Harvey be when he calls
Mrs. w. J. Bryan a "country-bred
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