Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-01-26
MITCHELL
Opposed by a Republican
farmer Who Was Fer Him and
Supported Mckinley.

Rsttest that resulted in the election OF
Mckinley and Hobart, was fought
and won, oyer the issue Of sound
\ money and stable government, why
lnot the present legislature Of Oregon
begln at once the work Of getting
ia1lown to sound and more equitable
mad
.liabIgovernment?
~. Senator Sherman, at the close OF
Dur great civil war, remarked that the
lTTI'way for the government to resume
specie payment was for it to begin
1 to resume." We are very swift to
talk about the useless commissions
no. and the extravaganza of preceding
n Recommendations while we are before
ST the people asking for their suffrage;
but when we get into office, we don't
wish the emoluments of the offices
disturbed until our successors are
duly Installed. And thus from time
to time the promise of relief goes on,
while robberies, waste, and public
.plundering grows from bad to very
much worse.
The agricultural, and all physical
laboring classes, are sorley feeling the
| weight of taxation, that seems to be
required to meet the growing wants
of the hordes who rule over our
country.
The old demand of the slave power
used to be: "We want more land, to
work more negroes, to raise more cot
ton, to buy more land, to raise more
cotton to buy more negroes" etc.
We have reached an epoch in the
Management of government, where
EN- the leading object of legislation seems
-, TO be, to provide more tax, to pay more
officials, to create more commissions,
TO absorb more tax, to pay more off
i. cials etc. A prominent lawyer once
ap remarked to me, claw making is a
ieal science in this age of the world. "
In The sclentific part, seems to be, in
knowing how to levy tax, and draw
revenue from the people sufficient to
~ keep the greatest possible number of
goYernment commissioners, political
Sn henchmen, and public plunderers,
II feeding leachllke upon the industry
of an already overtaxed people. No
wonder the hobos begin to think the
j goyernment ought to support them
also.
~ The taxpayers of Oregon have been
under the ban of political trust, for
the last fifteen or twenty years, and
nj how much longer am unable to tell.
v 10 1852 the Hon. John H. Mitchell's
e1ort to succeed himself to the
a United States senate failed, but his
y abor was not lost, for his
voting forces were held in line, until
the closing hour of the session, and
then given to the support of his
partner, the Hon. j. N. Dolph. How
f1r the two partners at law, have
managed the politics of the great
state of Oregon in their own individ-
ual interests, probably is only fully
Known to themselves alone. In the
aboye contest Mr.. Mitchell posed as a
conservative in politics, rather anti
abroad; courted Democratic votes;
while Mr.. Dolph took the other horn
OF the dilema, and was radical, along
all Republican lines, but a pool of
their forces would have given strength
enough to make either of them
United States senators at any time.
As in 1885 while Mr.. Dolph was all
ready the recipient of a seat
IN the senate, union of their
streangth gave Mr.. Mitchell clear
field, and he at once became colleague
tohis partner through another term
Of senatorial service.
That they have been in collision,
and played to each others hand, is too
eyldent to give much room for doubt;
thai for the last two decades
they shave stood at the head,
and manipulated of the greatest
Iplitical trusts that has ever
aefeated the will of a people, L
Rye the fullest assurance. Its cloyen
'eet have not only shadowed through
--a M L..