The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-07-31
Editorial Notes.

GARREI A. HOBART.
Editorial Notes.
The JOURNAL for the campaign, only
% cents.
THE best time to fix road is when
ever it needs it, says an exchange.
SINCE politics came in season the
interest in Lie Cuban war has waned,
and but little appears in the press dis
patches.
THE political cloud of this country
has silver lining. 1t is to be hoped
that it presages good times, even if the
present is not so bright.
TAMMANY is for Bryan and that
must settle it, even if that corrupt
ring was turned town at the last cleo
ton. Brpan should be proud of such
support
THE Republican party will be max
ing great mistake, if it sets aside
the protection issue entirely. If the
laboring people have plenty of work,
the farmers and everybody else will be
prosperous; protection against foreign
goods and foreign immigration will
furnish the work, regardless of the
money basis, so long as it stable.
The populist nominee, Watson, says
he will hang onto the vice presidential
nomination, and Sewall the demo-
cratic candidate says he won't let 60,
SO the fusion forces have one candi-
date for president and two for the
minor office. Sewall, is said to be the
richest man in Maine, regular pluto
crat, who wants protection to COM
merce on account of the vessels he
owns, and has no place on the ticket,
any way.
TACOMA is evidently bound to gain
notorety, and the latest is the stealing
OF the official ballots from the city
vaults, the robbers boring through a
two foot wall and abstracting Just
what they wanted. 1t will be remem-
bered that the demo-pop. candidate
Fawcett, was elected mayor by just
two votes and the republican, Orr, is
contesting the election. It is alleged
that a recount would make him may
Grand now the ballots are missing,
before the recount is complete. A
committee of one hundred has been
organized and an era of reform will b.
inaugurated.-It's about time.
**.
BROADWAY RoUss, millionaire
New Yorker, who inaugurated the
"racket store" system, and still has a
grip on every one of them where the
proprietors failed to get enough of a
start to be independent, ffers one OF
his millions to anyone who will restore
his failing eyesight. He is visited by
hundreds OF persons, specialists, cranks
and mediums, who want TO earn the
reward. Eyesight is a priceless boon,
which even wealth cannot buy. Rouss
issues mammoth catalogue of his
"cheap John" goods, and they include
everything, and he is known for his
unique plan of phonetic spelling.
X
HE people IN this campaign should
sit down calmly and do some good
quiet thinking. The air is filled with
buncombe of all sorts. and the average
citizen is quite as capable of thinking
for himself as any politician or pro-
fessional orator. No man need be led
if he doesn't want to be; if he wishes
ring put in his nose, he may take it
for granted that he will be accommo-
dated, but it is submitted that if the
average American citizen will only do
some thinking for himself he can, per-
haps mol without considerable tanning
though, discover the wheat from the
chat, and find what is good for him
and the great majority of the people.
Ihe average man in almost any walk
g iifc talks too much and thinks too
little anyway Tacoma Ledger.