The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-03-14

There is no likelihood that the pres
ent congress will make much progress
toward the settlement of the financial |
and tariff questions, and the celebrity
with which appropriation bills are be
ing pushed through indicates an early |
Those who have presi
Dental bees buzzipg in their bonnets
are especially anxious that they should
not be placed on record. And yet the
republican press refers to the last as a
do-nothng, incompetent congress.
The republican politicians are howl
ing themselves hoarse in their effort
to make the tariff question theprincipal
one. in the presidential campaign.
They are afraid to handle that OF
finance, which the people are consider
ing the most seriously. The latter are
well aware of the fast that under the
present tariff they are getting the
necessities of life much cheaper than
they ever did. They now pay only
SO for suit of clothes that formerly
cost nearly S2O.
The result of yesterdays school
election should be satisfactory to those
who have the right conception of the
free institutions vouchsafed by true
American principles. Our public
schools, and in fact all our political
machinery are too sacred to be in
trusted to either secret society or
any church denomination. Churches
and secret societies are right enough
in their proper places, but their sphere
is not to dictate who shall or shall
not hold Office Or teach our children.
The ST. Louis Globe-Democrat es-
Inmates that the expenses of the two
political conventions, for each of the
two political parties, to be held in
Missouri this year will cost 5000, 900,
OF, ST ,250, 900 each,, and that the ex-
pense of the campaign in the state will
be another $5,0OO,OOO, making the
election expenses for the year $40, ,0O0,-
600. This it thinks is not extrava-
gance, nor is IL money wasted. But it
is more than eight dollars apiece for
every inhabitant of the state, or about.
$40 for each legal voter. -A
The candidacy Of Mathew s. Quay
for the presidency is only paralleled by
the announcement of Calvin S. Brice,
that he would accept the nomination
on the democratic ticket. What a
nice pair these two old reprobates
would be running for the highest Office
in the nation. For the republican and
democratic parties respectively to NOM
mate them would virtually be giving
the presidency over to the. populists.
PETER, Simpson, Mrs. Leese, or even
our lamented Pennoyer would be an
easy winner against these two old
mountebanks. =
The Wave, published at San Fran
cisco, advocates the nomination of
Senator Geo. G. Perkins, of California
for the second place on the republican
national ticket. Senator Perkins has
many admirable qualities to fit him for
a: a:republican nominee. He has big
BARREL" hence g-eould . contrib
ute literally to the campaign fund,
and IS closely associated with a
numbereof huge Transportation cor
which is another fitting
qualification; but he leans toward sill
yer, and that will ruin his chances.
The Wave had as we'll cease waving his
banner @ --
The republican party in Multnomah
county is in a deplorable condition.
1t is divided into two factions, with
Joe Simon apd his following at the
head of one faction, arrayed against
Mayor Frank, District Attorney Hume,
John Minto, James Lotan and Jack
Mathews. With such leaders there is
little to encourage the honest element
in the party. Every one of thelead-
ers on either side is a professional
politician, who is in politics for rev.
enue, and is as corruptas Judas. There
is an old saying however to the effect
that "when thieves fall out honest men
may prosper" which affords hope
that Multnomah county may not be
turned over, body and soul, to either
of the opposing elements. IA set of |
officers may be chosen who owe al
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