Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-01-20

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The people haYe no use for a South
ern Pacific senator, a Wall street sen
aior, silver trust senator, a gol'
trust senator. Protective tariff sen
ator, or free trade senator.
Give the people a senator who vii
70 to Washington and live on hi
1900 year and put an end 70 repre-
sentatIon by boodle methods or b''odl'
men.
The national sense Of honor Is -
corrupted that 10 become senator
man Is first expected TO spend money
20 corrupt the primaries 10 selection
Of legislators; then he Is expected "
corrupt the legislature itself: then he
IL expected 10 set up machine within
the party to reward his strikers;
throughout the whole campaign 70 be
senator he must maintain corrupt
ing alliance with the big corporation
THE JOURNAL says 10 the legisla-
tors, do not sully your hands by
electlng such senator. Go home TO
your constituents and be able To say
the rest OF your lives: | contributed d
nothing to the corruption Of politics,
to the degradation OF the senate, aud
10 the humiliation OF my country. j
voted 10 elect an independent man
senator, who will represent the people
in dIgnitied, self.respectlng manner,
but without the taint Of plutocracy. '
The Republican party will learn
that ID cannot rule without principle.
It's subterfuge OF international bimet-
allIsm TO catch votes will be laid bare
before year rolls around. II cannot
give satisfaction TO the conflicting
elements that were deceived into sup
porting It's "subterfuge." A senator
at this time should be Republican,
but he should be man who did not
participate In the gigantic national
fraud OF November o.
Elect senator who will stand up
not only for gold and silver as primary
money OF full debt paying power, but
for the coinage OF national treasury
notes also full legal tender and all
three kinds Of money receivable and
interchangeable for public and priv
ate dues. A higher tariff levied upon
the necessities OF the people will only
Impoverlsh the people unless they are
supplied with larger volume OF cir
medium. A tariff for the
and loaning money
,enteTs can only lmpoyerlsh, IL IL a
iouble system OF spollation that should
be repudiated by the intelligence OF
the Oregon legislature.
Senator Mitchell has abandoned
The people on the money question aud
stands for the gold monopoly system
he condemned thousand times.
Worse still he stands for the Pacific
lobbery, and his friends do
not deny II, lie stands for an issue
II 5000, 900, 600 Nicaragua canal bonds
10 a private corporation. lie stands
'or a road bonding bill, the last straw
10 break the farmers back and dIspo-
less him OF his lands. No legislature
'hould ever meet TO send such man
% the senate. II left 60 the voice of I
he people such a candidate for sena 7
or would be showed under 10 10 |,
As champion OF free coinage and
election OF senators by ydirect vote Of /
lie people Senn;or Mitchell had some
claims OF respect.
but at the bidding OF subsidized
agents 81 the plulocney he
las abandoned both tlR,se positions
"a which he had consplcnously Won
lie g,od will OF the people regardless
Il party, Ne wish 10 h. understood
Is personally not unirleadly To Sena'
or Mitchel, but We believe the hour
laS arrived lor tl,c peonle of Oregon
q chs'ss thwugh their representa-
Ines what they would choose Il left
q themselves a Peoples senator he
,c Republican, nei.,crat or Peoples,
lc should b. AN Amerloan senator
landlng far he besl brain, Drawn
ud Impulses At all the American
.s,,,le, iqstrad uf "A creature at poli-
icial flna TO serse speclai Interests
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