The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-04-25

again, should be turned down in Port
land, and every county in the state.
Let the professional offi:r-holding
class quit debating to the people, and
become the servants of the people in
stead of their masters"
The populist candidate for congress
in this district, Marcus Quinn, has
opened his campaign, having delivered
two speeches at Hsppner. Hs advo-
cltes tariff for the workman IN, gov
ernment ownership of railroads and
everything else embodied in the
Ona' a platform. AS d cue for hard
ii nes and all evils that beset the
people he recommends the election of
nole but populists to Office.
1t is difficult to see where the A. P.
A. friends are going to get off in the
c,ining presidential election unless
they bring out candidate of their
own. They are bitterly opposed to
Mckinley, who is almost sure to be
the republican nominee. and demo-
cratic state conventions almost every
where are passing resolutions that are
not harmonious with the A. T. A.
idea, so they will have little choice but
to nominate ticket of their own.
According to Spanish estin t5e 8
there are only $4,000 Cuban insurgents
in arms, and many of them are mere
boys. If this is true it is so much more
to the glory of the patriots. When
$1,000 patriots. and many OF them mere
boys, can so successfully cope with the
army of Spain, it is time that nation
was CO ming to realization of the fact
that the spirit of Independence will not
he crushed. AMI that Cuba must be
free and independent nation.
Labor as he may to keep down ap-
preparations, Speaker Reed has found
his iron will avails nothing, and it is
now assured that this will be another
biliion-dollar congress. Already the
appropriations that will be made by
this session have piled up to more than
half billion, and that much more
will be dnled out during the next. 1t
SO ans that whenever the republicans
get in power it is the same old story OF
extravaganza and disregard for the in-
erests of the taxpayers.
Congressman are nothing more than
human beings, and sometimes they
display that pugnacious trait that pre-
dominates in the race. This was the
case yesterday when Money of Missis-
sippi called Hall of Missouri liar, and
the latter administered to him a thump-
ing which he deserved. IL is undigni-
fed for our congressman to resort to
force, but it is no more Of stain upon
their dignity than it is to allow their
veracity questioned and not resent.
The Portland Telegram thinks the
only possible show for democratic sue
cess in the second congressional dis
trict is for Judge Bennett to withdraw
from the ticket and urge the substitu-
tion of a sound money man. This
would indeed be brilliant move"
A sound-money man standing on the
platform adopted by the Portland con-
vention would be a beautiful hypo-
critic, and would merit the rebuke
which he would certainly receive.
Such combination would place the
democratic party in exactly the condi-
tion the republicans find themselves,
st adding everything, and trying to
catch votes both comm and goin'."
The 'straddle" on the money ques-
ii IN made by the republican state con-
We ntion just suits Senator Mitchell, as
everyone knew it would. He informs
the IOregunians Washington CORES
pondent that either the platform of the
Mi ,neapolis convention or the plat
form of the recent Ohio convention
would suit him as the financial plank
i, the national republican platform.
The senator does not seem to realize
that this is year when parties must
be counted as ''sheep or goats" and that
" straddles" will not suffice. His
party, as we'll as all others, must de-
clare either for gold standard or the
free coinage of silver.
The Ia iff question will be of fsecond-
ary consideration in the coming cleo
tion in Oregon Farmers all over the
state rea ize that return to the high
prices which prevailed under the Nc
Kinley law would be ruinous to them,
and will resent any candidate who ad-
vocates the ere-enactment of the 1890
tariff law. They also realize that the
wool industry has suffered to some exc
tent since the duty was removed in
1894, hence they will not oppose
the levying OF reasonable duty on
that article. The idea of placing a
light tariff on wool, both as a revenue
aud protection measure, also meets the
approval of many who four years ago
we're strong advocates of free wool.
This idea, we believe. is acceptable to
, majority of the democratic candi-
1ates for the legislature from Eastern
D., egon as it is to the candidate for |
congress, therefore the tariff issue is
20 a great extent eliminated.