The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-06-26
EDITING MADE EASY.

The republican national committee,
with headquarters at Washington, d.
c., is very c0nsiderate to the over
worked editors of the country press,
and has kindly consented to relieve
them of great load of responsibility
and mental strain, offering to do their
editorial work free of charge. We are
in receipt of letter from the COM
mittee that SAYS:
''The accompanying matter, prepared
by the editorial staff of this committee
is being supplied to papers in a num-
Der of the close states which have in
dicated desire to make use of it in
whole or in part, as miscellany, WASH
ington correspondence, or suggestions
for the editorial page.
"Should you desire, it will be sent
you each week free of any expense, to-
gether with such documents as may be
issued from time to time, and you will
be at liberty to make use of such por-
tions as youchoose as your own matter.
If accepted by you it will be supplied
i to no other paper in your city.''
This is very considerate of the re-
publican committee, and no doubt the
offer will be accepted by thousands of
editors throughout the country. AS
result, the thought of few scheming
politicians in Washington will be
voiced throughout the land as though
an honest sentiment to the country
press. The accompanying matter"
mentioned in the letter, is by no means
confined to facts, in evidence of which
we make few quotations. Here is
one of them:
"The silver mine-owners and their
political allies have resorted to a new
device to deceive the people, who are
rapidly discovering the impositions
they practiced during the late cam
paign. The dangerous characters who
were then hired to stir up dissatisfac-
tion and sow seeds of anarchism and
riot in the cities, are now being sent
through the country districts for the
same purpose. They travel in gaudily
painted wagons, bearing false or mis-
leading quotations from distinguished
men, which are distorted into apparent
support of the free coinage of silver,
which is now worth less than one half
what it was when these utterances are
alleged to haYe been made. To con-
ceal their real purposes these men pro.
fess to be obtaining subscribers to a
free silver publication, with which is
furnished a copy Of book BY Coin
Harvey, whose writings are now recog-
nized as not only untruthful Eand mis-
leading, but purposely and maliciously
so and an imposition upon those before
whom they are placed. This attempt
to distribute the seeds of distrust, an
archism and riot in the agricultural
communities for the purely selfish
purpose of making market for the
property of silver mine owners and
placing few politicians in Office, de-
serves the contempt of those upon
whom it is being imposed. 1t is of the
same class that by which the tin
peddler wagons spread falsehoOd
through the country in the congress
sional campaign of 1890, but is vastly
more dangerous to the country from
the class of employed, the doctrines
they disseminate and the desperate
schemes of those who support them in
this performance"
Another paragraph says that the
"recent SILVER republican, conference
is said to have had as its real object a
plan to unload Mr.. Bryan as the leader
of the silver cause. Mr.. Bryan has
too many 'isms' and is too erratic to
suit the men who are putting up the
money in behalf of the silver cause"
The accompanying matter" con-
tanned enough copy to furnish editorial
for this paper for three or four days,
and was all about on a line with the
two extracts given above. Lazy editors
all over the country will accept and |
publish the trash, and from now until |
1900 we.may expect to be confronted |
with this slush that is intended to !
make editing easy.