The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-05-30
THE FARMER CANDIDATE

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The campaigns is abput over, aud
little remains but to await the cour t.
ing OF the ballots. In Eastern Oregon
the campaign has been clean one,
every party running on its merits and
backing its candidates with eloquent
speakers and solid arguments based
upon the facts as the different parties
viewed them. Yet it strikes us one
issue has not been made sufficiently
prominent. That issue is simply the
interests Of Eastern Oregon. Two
,oaly of the candidates for congress are
from Eassern Oregon and surely the
entire delegation in congress should
not be given to the western part of the
state. The specious promises of Judge
Northup concerning the opening of
the Columbia count for naught. He is
too recent a convert TO be depended
upon and yet that very subject is of
more Importance to US than either the
money or tariff questions. 1t is true,
it has been worn almost thread bare,
but its Importance has not diminished.
We all believe that somewhere in the
management of the work at the Cas-
cades influences are at work inimical
to the completion of the locks. What
that influence is and how applied has
heretofore been, and is now mystery.
Mr.. Ellis, though four years in con-
gress has not solved it, nor do we be-
lieve he can solve it. We believe
Judge Bennett can and ,ciN if elected
to the office.
He is recognized as one of the ablest
attorneys In the Northwest, an anti
corporation lawyer, friend of the
people, tireless in the interests of his
clients. One who cannot be swerved
from his course by either fear or favor.
Such is A. S. Bennett and such is the
man who should be chosen to look
after the interests of Eastern Oregon
in. congress. In the harvest fields of
Eastern Oregon, Judge Bennett as
boy earned the money which paid his
way through college, and on the farm
he learned by hard experience the con-
dition of those who Till the soil. He
knows the struggles of the farmer, not
as fireside story CLEANED from books,
but conned beneath, the sun of summer
in the blistering HARVEST fields and
told again in the biting blasts of winter.
Wasco county should be proud of him,
and Wasco county farmers, and the |
farmers of Eastern Oregon should give |
him their unanimous support. All his |
interests are in Eastern Oregon. Here |
he has resided since his boyhood. He
has grown up amongst us, his lot is
ours. His property. his home, his
family. his friends, his all, all are here.
Our wants are his. Our desires are
his. Our interests are his. The
western part of the state, especially
Portland has paid but little attention
10 Eastern Oregon except at election
lines. Recently all this section was
for such action by congress
Is would insure the immediate COM
oletion of the canal and locks at the
but the silence at Portland
vas deadly in its significance. We
nave never had any aid from Portland
n the 20 years the locks have been
building. is it probable we>shoald get
my now? The party fences are all
lown, and it behooves Us to select our
not for his politics, but
IS we would an attorney to take charge
# our case. Let US measure the candi-
lates by the rule of which can best
ook after our interests. and if this is
one, A. S. Bennett will get such a
ote as was never before given a
candidate.