The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1897-09-21
NOT CREDULOUS.

ICLE "credulOuS, or JnaG ne
Chronicle thinks the people too
cIedulous," because it suggested
that it would not be a bad thing to
retain Mr.. T. J. Black as collector of
customs. We fail to discover from
whence the Oregonian derives its
inferences. We did not say he
he would be, but that should be re-
tanned.
The Oregonian then proceeds to
turn the subject into the channel of
mitchell Republicanism and to
point out that the Mitchell push
are determined to send that gentle
man back to Washington ~ all haz
ards. Admit this for the sake of
argument, and then what does the
Oregonian and the Corbett Republi-
cans purpose doing? To use lis own
language, put Corbett Republican
in Blacks place, whose efforts will be
devoted to further corruption of the
Republican party. The Oregonian
nor the Corbett Republicans are in
fatuated with Geer. He is simply
the most available instrument con-
Venient to do their work. They do
not want Geer in the office, because
they could not use him there; but
he is an available candidate fo1 them
to fight what they are pleased to call
the Mitchell Republicans with.
The Oregonian is like a rattlesnake
in August, blind to everything ex
cept its ability to strike wlthot warn
ing, and cognizant of the increased
power of its venom. 1t has gone
wild on the silver question, and is
about the only Republican news
paper (if it can be classed as such)
but that knows the silver question is
dead beyond the hope of redemption.
The editor of the Oregonian knows
that upon the adoption of the st.
Louis platform John II. Mitchell ac-
quiesced in the demands of his party
and made dozens of speeches during
the campaign in every one of which
he indorsed the national Republican
platform. Tne Oregonian uses the !
silver question as a bug-a-boo, but |
it neither frightens nor deceives any
one. The people have not yet for. |
gotten the Oregonian's Endorsement
of Jonathan Bourne and the free !
silver Populist faction at Salem last
winter, that made NIitchel's defeat |
and the appointment of a "sound |
money man, Mr.. Corbett, possible? ?
Is it these ''sound money friends of !
Mr.. Corbett who now demand Geer, !
even at the risk of disrupting the |
Republican party? Is it these sound |
money men - the Barclays, the .
U'Rens, the Bournes-who stood SO !
firmly behind Corbett, because, per !
hapS, his money was sound, who now !
demand the appointment of Mr. /
Geer? who pour their sound money
plants into the ears of the Orego- !
nian, and pull the bed-clothes over
their trembling heads at the mention
of the ghost of silver? 1t would /
seem so. "IIere IS a question on
which earnest men Will not be Jug
gled with indeed, and the cry CT
Mitchell and free silver, albeit COM
ing from the point of vantage of the |
Oregonian tower, will not deceive /
nor delude the honest men who COM
pose the rank and file of the Repub-
lIcan party.
We have the profourdest admira-
ton for Mr.. Geer, but being a good !
Republican he should accept the de-
cision of the Oregon delegation, of
whom, unfortunately, Mr.. Mitchell
is not one, as made in the interests
of the party. We are credulous
enough to believe this, but we are !