Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-04-10
DITozIAL


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slBglsD1 reform blll. and aDgiiIign %
cyaDnsfssloDs Cniesf tLese bills
cysid 5e bfygZht ~ q s0'e, tbe Pop
.lists declare that a. q gaFty they bad
~ Interest 10 any Dfgsnizati0O,
MERELY o. aliYB a Republican senator
~ iJe clsose0. II tbey can make al
this plain % toe people they can 20
issfgre tiie peol.e - party 10 Is.ss
Eitil sIHsc bof.e - a hearing. II
c4aoJt " established that tue thir-
teeB PDpBt.-t- Nefe responsible Tor
iise failure % house u sixty members
~ OggsBiZe. Neither can the refusal
- tse thirteen POpulists % take sides
a. tbe Mitchell and an'i.Mitcbeii Re-
publican battle ~ made Out p0iit
tea. cfialc. The las u party instinct /
aDd political s.li-preseryatiOn die
satsa ~ ruef1 KeepiDg out u that
quarrel Mayor PennOyef's lieuten-
sbts ufged them % 90 70 Mitchell's
rescue. But II vas not the lfst time
PenuOyer had urged POpulists 90 %
disaster. They we're very shy about
going over 10 Mitcbellism as NOsler
lad done aud they we're right.
l'Opulists HOuld have deserved moth.
ing but contempt bad they become
the sponsors ~ dccadent Mltchelllsm,
Of an aid society % Mark Hanna.
'fbe sOul 81 their party would Dnw be
wandering 10 the limbo where Mitch
ellis bas gone gilnimering.
WecanBOt refrain from c0ntempIat
ing abat a different opinion the peo-
pie WouId nOw have Of PennOyer and
NJ Mitchell, II the latter had not sold
out 10 the gold standard. aud the
0fmef had not combined with Sol
Ilirsch IN the November election.
when hls police turned their backs
and wi0ked the other eye at all the
repeating aud ballot box frands in tie
city ~ Portland Oregon would have
given her electoral vote 10 Bryan and
Mitchell would have been
reelected senator aud PennOyer could
have had anything Ia the gift OF this
state. As the story gOe-, Sol Iiinch
j mt word 90 Pennoyer, that n he did
not take his police away from the
pills, there would be a riot, hts saw
mill Would be- burned and his political
power ns mayor all taken away by
Dew charter In the next legislature.
? nd II worked, MultnOmah county
rolled up nearly 600 majority for Me
Rinley. or 1000 10 1000 mere than they
syer had there. Wagon loads Of men
we're hauled about the city aud voted {
as often as they could be lined up :
Oregon was saved the disgrace" Of
sulng Tor Bryan, and the Re0ple Of
Oregon were saved having Mitchell :
iad Pennoyer eanonlEed as Saints.
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