The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-12-04

what existing conditions demand we
may feel assured. The party of pro-
lection has never yet failed to frame
bill which has brought confidence and
prosperity to the country.-Recorder.
THERE are two sides to the question
of deficiency judgments. The rage to
repeal the law comes mostly from the
class who contract debts under the
present law, and these can derive no
personal benefit if the deficiency claim
were abrogated, as it could not affect
any but new contracts. AS far as the
principle is concerned for future con-
tracts, we do not see any injustice in
it. The lender will consider the risk
and protect himself in all ways that
he can before he lends. Ii the borrow
er has to pay more for the money he
borrows, he will postpone borrowing as
long as he can help it. If he can bor-
row less on his property than under
the present law it may be an incentive
to greater personal and family thrift
and that might be good thing. But
no legislation is can disturb existing
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Reporter.
PUGET SOUND has already attracted
large numbers of Down Fasteners and
especially Gloucester, Mass, people to
it's shores through its fame as the nu-
clens OF an immense fishing field.
They are still coming. The latest is
Mr.. Levi Nickerson, an inventor of a
superior oiled cloth and manufact-
urer of oiled clothing of every descrip-
ton, including mats, caps, coats, in
fact everything that the mariner,
woodsman and farmer may find use
for. Mr.. Nickerson calls his manu-
features "the improved Cape Ann oiled
clothing", soft flexible, no sticking,
breaking or leaking, and stands both
the heat and cold.
The completed roll of the national
house chosen at the last election
reveals total of 205 Republicans, 1877
Democrats and Is Populists. Five of
the Republicans-Messrs. Hilborn, of
California; Broderick and Curtis, of
Kansas; Linney, of North Carolina,
and Beach, of Ohio-are free silver
men, and two of the Democrats, Nc
Aleer, of Pennsylvania, and Elliott, of
South Carolina-are sound money
men. This divides tn ehouse on the
silver questions as follows: Sound
money, POP; silver, 1855; sound money
majority, H.-P.-I.
/ GovERNoR-ELECT Rogers has hit up
on a plan to take considerable of the
burden of state apportionment off his
shoulders. He favors scheme of hav-
ing county committee in each county,
composed of one member each from
the populists, democrats and free-sil-
yer republicans, te whom all applicants
must send their requests for share of
the loaves and the fishes. No name
which has not been endorsed by the
committee from the applicants county
will be given consideration by the
governor.
SOME OF the populist organs appear to
derive great deal of pleasure from the
occupation of figuring that change
of about $4,000 votes, properly dlstrib-
uted, would have given Bryan major
ity o. the votes of the electoral college.
This is quite true. and it is just as true
that change the other way of 10000
votes in seven states would have lett
Mr.. Bryan with about ITO electoral
votes. These calculations don't cut
any figure. Mr.. Bryan was the worst
beaten presidential candidate on rec
ord and that's all there is to the story
that is of consequence.-Nug
That's nothing. In any national
els ct'"n from Washington's time to the
present day. a change IF not more than
"O,OOO 'oles would have turned the
Scale, and at Cleveland's first election
IN 1884, just 540,votes in the state Of
New York would have elected Blaine.
There Is no getting around the fact
tibet the recent election was the great
est landslide in the history of the re-
public. The majorities of Mckinley
states are close to 1900 600 popular
votes, while Bryan's states give him a.
bout half million, leaving Nc Kinlev,s
majority million votes. The great
est popular majority prior to this cleo
ton was 10000 for Grant in 1872.