The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-06-27
Editorial NOTES.

The republicans condemn President
Cleveland but adopt his fnancial
views in their platform. This is in.
sincerity which is bound to be recog-
nized by the voters at the polls.
Congressman Ellis has returned to
the state, and persists in holding hat
the ST. Louis platform is sort of l8-to-l
expression on the financial question.
He probably interprets 1t to mean lo
for Mckinley and the manufacturers
and one for the people.
The beet sugar industry at St. Louis
was encouraged by the republicans in
their campaign declarations, but the
silver industry got it where the chicken
got the Ak. If the sugar beet indus
try should be encouraged by promises
of special legislation in its behalf why
no silver, also?
| During flush times Pendleton
doomed itself, or rather INDUCED in ex-
! travagances beyond its resources. and
now has bonded debt on which it is
paying $1,000 month interest. Pen.
dleton is only one of the few cities in
the Northwest that undertook to grow
beyond its resources.
Ex-Governor Russell, of Massachus-
etts, will be at the Chicago convention
but not as delegate. He goes there
to battle for the gold standard. He,
like all other Eastern democrats, C ,n-
not believe that the national conven-
tion will favor anything but the gold
standard. However, Russell is too
true democrat to bolt even if the con-
vention declares for silver.
The free silver republicans and pup.
ulists are using every effort to force
| Teller on the Chicago convention for
the presidential nomination. Their
efforts should be unsuccessful. Il would
be a repetition of the Greedy conbina-
tion os '76. Teller might be given the
second place on the ticket, but demo-
Gratis could never swallow him as a
candidate for president.
There will be great changes In the
senate after March 4 next. Thirty
senators will go out, of whom thirteen
are republicans, fourteen democrats
and three populists. The senate is
now tie on party questions. The
republicans haye forty-five senators,
the democrats thirty-nine and the
populists six. Upon the silver ques-
tion the free coinage majority is from
six to ten.
Of the delegates elected to the
Chicago convention scarcely two
thirds are instructed for free silver, so
if the traditional two-thirds rule is
agreed to there is little possibility of a
platform being adopted, unless one
side or the other gives way, and CT
this there Is no probability. Failing
to get two-thirds, the silver men may
attempt to adopt the majority rule,
which would cause a disruption that
never could be reconciled.
Ex-Secretary of the navy Whitney
has postponed his contemplated visit
to Europe until after the November
election. He states that he will attend
the Chicago convention, and will there
endeavor to prevent the democratic
party from falling into the hands of the
silver element. Mr.. Whitney believes
that free coinage would result in much
damage to the commercial interests of
the nation, and will endeavor to 30
convince the delegates to the national
convention.
There is decided shaking up of the
dry bones in the press of the nation
just now, and one can hardly tell
where he will be at by next Novem-
ber. Some of the Eastern papers
hitherto Democratic, are backing and
filling toward Mckinley because of the
gold declarations Of the St. Louis plat
form, and the Salt Lake Tribune, here.
tofore one of the ablest republican
papers in America. has come out
squarely against Mckinley and gold.
The East Oregonian thinks Con-
gresham Ellis talks in an interview
like man half asleep on the financial
question, and says she had better keep
his mouth shut than allow such air es-
cape as he did when talking to the
Portland Oregonian reporter" Really.
If we are to judge, the congressman
has been doing on nearly every ques-
tion of Importance the past four gears.
At least he has not been very wide
awake on matters of interest to Ore
gon.
1t Ia estimated that the total cost of
the St. Louis convention was near
81 200, 900 and that the democratic con-
vention at Chicago will cost as much.
Now who is going to foot the bill?
Will the politicians gracefully pay 1t
out of their store, or do they expect to
get even after they get into Office?
Politicians are not usually public BEN
efactors, hence 1t may be expected
that the masses will eventually be
called upon to pay the convention ex.
penses by indirect taxation.
-