Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-12-28
acoNsLpERARLY MIXED :,
Dark Pictuie of Politics BY Republican
Pepper.

Dark Plctuie Of Politics BY a Republicai
Pepper.
lTYoutg Herbert COndOn's editorial IL
tie Daily Eugene Register.l
Politics in Lane county is consider
ably mixed lust now The spring
conventions will serve greatly Il
straighten matters out, for then
oartv lines must of necessity be more
strictly drawn, and voters must ar
ray themselves on Que side or Tho
other,
Lane county is not alone thus pc
culiarly afflicted; nor is the state OF
Oregon. An over the United States
the same tendency TO mix up Is OBJ
served. IL has been generally hoped
and confidently belieyedi by Re
puhlicans that the return TO prosper
ily would practically solve the ques-
tiOns of economic and political dis
content which threatened the nation
previous TO the last presidential cam
pajRn. Since the passage of the
DingIey law the financial confidence
and business conditions of the country
have so improved as TO be matter Of
worldwide comment; still, strange TO
say, the silver sentiment has not en-
tirely lost its fOothOld, and the al
most Herculean efforts now being
made to gain popular political recOg-
nition, would convince any reasonable
man that the danger IS Imminent and
even deeper seated than mere pass
| ing fascination for the words "free
md unlimited" in the party plat
! form. The trouble is one of deeper
;eat than mere politics discerns. 1t
signifies that the currents OF politi-
cal disruption, though numerous, are
narrowing down into the one channel
of a semi socialism,, which has drawn
in PUpulsm, free silver, single tax
and general 'antagOnism to every
thing and every body possessing some
special degree of wealth or aggregated
capital, and it is along this line that
danger lies.
The Republican party has gone
farther than any other political or
yanization toward the amelloratiOn
If the condition Of the wage Garner
but too many of them are unappreci-
ative to the extent nf cutting loose
from the ship that has picked them
up a social drift, ito cast their lot
with a craft unsteady and to them
improved, and which has proved un-
reliable wherever trusted.
Straight party lines On questions
If vital interest are less characters
ic of the day, than are selfish pre-
ferences and ACKNOWLEDGEMENT; while
the tendency of our own Republican
party to truckle and cater to mug
wump turncOats who today fall at
the feet of q false and unknown god,
and tomorrow deny doing so, or claim
to be convinced of their error. is de-
q 1af ixro nf CT a foC n N
verSive of honest purpose and unap-
preciative OF true manhood and citi-
zenship.
The Republican party boasts of
principles which have saved the union
from dissolution and wreck, and upon
those principles should we stand,
whether it be to step up to more
complete victory, or to remain more
firmly grounded on our platform, even
though IL be temporarily defeated.
This is Republication.
[The above is from a thoughtful
and loyal young Republican, Of Lane
county. He has the intelligence to
see that the party has no future ex-
cept it rests It's case on foundation |
Of principle. And we heartily agree
with our young friend that men |
should take one side or the other
Men who make silver campaign in
the spring and hatch out full-fedged |
gold bugs In the fall, or vice versa,
ought TO be given time for the froth
in their skull to settle or blow off be-
fore being entrusted with the leader
ship Of any party.
Mr.. Condor Is also student enough |
to see that the grounds sDr political |
and social discomfort are deeper than
free coinage or the Dingley bill. His
classification of all opposed to the Re
publican party, as being drawn into
the channel OF enisocialism ani an
tagonism sto wealth, is unjust. He |
will find the enemies of social order
in the ranks of his gold standard |
party as well as among its opponents
And we predict that when the Bryan |
Union party is fully formed In 1900 it |
will be more tiercely opposed by the
and violent enemies of our
government than the party fayoring |
the gold standard and protecting ag.
gregated capital. The New York an
archists openly declare that an ad-
ministration friendly to capitalism
and trusts will most speedily destroy
all government and hasten the chaos
so devoutly prayed for by Johann
Most and his devoted followers. But
we did not intend to go into a discus
sion of the relative merits of the par
ties. The picture drawn by young
Coudon is strikinglY true of Oregon
politics and his denunclation of
chameleon politicians of the Mitchell |
trine IL daSarvad I'm