The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-07-30

dSAS Cuo HeaIly SuppOIC vi SVSiy
republican, whether a member OF
a league club or not.
I If you are member of repub-
lican club, do your utmost to make
it a vigorous and active one.
/ IF it has become dormant, re-
vive it.
Insist upon having frequent
meetings, and have them address
ed by speakers, both local and
Those brought from distance.
ISpeakers will be sent out by the
league, who will go from club to
lclnb.
| See that your club is prepared
for such meetings.
Attend the meetings yourself
land induce your nelghbors to at
tend them also.
| Endeavor to have the clubs In
your county unite in county
league, so that speakers sent to
your county may be managed i'll
practlcal way and all matters of
the campaign receive proper at
tention.
IF you do not belong to a club,
ljoin one.
If there is no club in your pre-
cinct, organize one, even if you
can get but ten members. The
secretary will send you blanks tor
this purpose upon application.
The situation at the present time
is peculiar, and calls for. patriotic
and thoughtful action. Through
four years of misery and gloom,
the republicans of Oregon have
waited for the time to come when
they might cast their votes for
William Mckinley and the pro-
lection of Oregon's industries,
and yet, now that the time so
: ardently longed for has arrived,
: a new issue has been raised to
turn them aside from their right
, Gus and patriotic purpose. Let
. every republican who remembers
, the prosperity the country und-
er republican administration and
the prosperity of Oregon under the
tariff which bore the namo of the
statesman who is now the repub
lican nominee for the presidency,
and who saw this prosperity stricK-
en- down as with a plague in 1892,
by the defeat of the republican
nominee at the polls, take sober
: thought of the situation, and de-
termine solemnly in his own mind,
whether it is not his imperative
and patriotic duty to vote for the
t man and the party whose names
, are synonyms of prosperity for
} Oregon and for the entire country.
5 Behind Mr.. Mckinley are the
: thrift, the providence, the indus
TRY, the business, the intelligence
: and the honor of the country.
Behind Mr.. Bryan are the discon-
t tent, the unthrift, the improvi
, dence. the ignorance. the paternal-
: ism, socialism, the anarchism and
!, he dishonesty. of the country.
That there are many honest and
: earnest. though mistaken. men
, who favor the independent free
, coinage of silver, cannot be de-
: MED, but the elements named are
the controlling ones in the present
silver movement. Can any repub-
: lican, whether he be a veteran
grown gray in the party service or
new recruit marching to his first
battle, contemplate the asc csndency
of these elements in the govern
I ment of the country with other
: than the most direiul forebodings?
etCan any republican find in tri-
l umph at the polls of any ideas he
0 may happen, for the time being,
t to hold in common with Mr.. Bryan
t anything whatever to compensate
# him Tor helping to elevate these
elements into power i'll the United
States. postponing or defeating ut
f terly the protection to American
: [laborers and producers, and for
y another four years at Feast keeping
the government out of the hands
OF the only party through whose
management the country has found
prosperity?
, These are matters which should
f receive sober and thoughtful CON
III sideration from e cry republican
u of Oregon. When this has been
e given. we feel certain that every
. patriotic republican, unswerved by
}. demagogic appeals to seclionalism
e or class prejudice, and not forget
ting the real cause OF the distress
= he has suffered since the defeat OF
E the republican party in 1892. wall
i not only decide that duty TO h $
/ country and his state and himself
/, demands that he vote tor Wm.
Mckinley. but that he shall do all
lin his power to induce others to
: vote for him.
r Firmly relying upon the intelll
: gence, the common sense, the pa
trotism and he loyalty To their
| party OF the republicans OF Ore