The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-07-02

Telegraph r>pNrts s-a",ed Camara
to Phi!ippins LIN, aud lave him in
the Mediterranean now. Probably
when the truth is known he will still
be at Cadiz. Spain is not anxious to
send another feet over TO Manillia for
Dewey to destroy.
The Pennsylvania democratic state
conyention was enthusiastic in its en-
dorsement of William J. Bryan, though h
it's platform deals only with state mat
ters. George j. jerks. of Jefferson
county, was nominated for governor.
Georgia democrats are true patriots,
and in their convention, held at At
lanta Wednesday, indorsed the war
policy of the pr esident. The conven-
tion declared for the free coinage of
silver, and commended the position
taken by William j. Bryan on the
money question.
The way wheat is falling in price it
looks like the argument of those so.
called "silver FOOLS" that ''under nor
NAL conditions an ounce of silver and
a bushel of wheat are about of equal
value" is nearly correct. Wheat and
silver are getting mighty close to-
gether.
Our forces around Cuba have been
successful in cutting cables, and have
several times thought they had
all of them destroyed. but Blanco and
Cevera are still able to get dispatches
to Madrid. Maybe they have discov-
cred new plan for sending messages
through the water without the use o1
wires.
The Spokane Chronicle has changed
management and politics, and here
gold standard paper. The Chronicle
is splendid newspaper, and in the
past has been an able advocate of the
peoples interests. With its change
of front we fear it will fall into the
position of a party organ.
Some of the gold papers are taking
time by the forelock and informing
farmers that the recent fall in wheat
is not on account of the endorsement
of the gold standard on June 9th in
this state. Certainly not. Nor was
the rise in wheat last fall owing to the
change of administration n the United
States, though those same papers tried
to make it appear so. prior to June 9th.
A copy of the L. A. w. Bulletin and
Good Roads has been received and is
an interesting publication. 1t treats
of subjects in which all are interested,
for good rords are things that are in
dispensible. Every producer and
every traveller is entitled to good
roads over which to haul his products,
or ride with pleasure. Good roads do
more to stimulate business than almost
any other one thing.
When in 1776 new nation was born
into the world, John Adams said its
birthday ''ought to be solemnized with
pomp and parade, with shows, games,
sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illumi'
nations from one end of the country to
the other from this time forward and
forever more" The Dalles will heed
Adams admonition, and will solemn.
ize the nations anniversary in man.
ner approved by that old father of the
republic.
Blanco's refusal to exchange Lieut..
Hobson and his conrad es was no more
than any other conservative general
would have done. Hobson and his
men know too much about Santiago
to allow them to go back Into the
American army. All America can
now ask is that the Spaniards keep the
hero of the Merrimac and his men out
of harms way until Santiago shall
have fallen.
If the vote at the last election was as
nearly a full vote as was that cast
at the state election in 1896, it
would indicate decrease in the popu-
lation of Oregon. The total vote for
congressman in 1895 was S9,554, this
year it was S2,SS4, a falling off of 6e70
votes. However there has certainly
be en- an increase in population, hence
there must have been some 1000 voters
who did not go to the polls.
Americans can certainly afford to be
generous to Spanish soldiers that are
taken prisoners by bringing them to
America, giving them square meal,
a cigarette, and some friendly advice
to sin against Cuba no more. The
hired cutthroats are more to be
pitied than blamed. They have not
prosecuted Cubans from choice, but
because they were slaves of Weyler
and BlancO.
The New York World, always demo-
cratic, but of late opposed to some of
the teness of the party, sees in Bryan
the coming leader of 1900. 1t says OF
him that she has it in him to become
the national Henry George, giving
eloquent expression to what is slum-
bering in the minds of the masses"
Bryan is indeed leader of men, and
today comes nearer voicing the senti-
ment of the people than any other man
in the United States.
On the first day OF July young Philip
81, Sheridan, the namesake of his
father, Gen. Phil Sheridan, will enter
West Point as a cadet. His entrance
has been fixed for that day as celebra-
tion of the golden anniversary OF his
fathers entrar ee to the nations train
ing school, for it will have been just
fifty years on that day since the father
stepped from the ferry boat at West
Point and began his school life at the
One of the outcomes of the present
war with Spain will be the early build
ing of the Nicaragua canal. What
commerce has demanded for years,
has been recognized as a necessity to
national defense. Had there been
canal across the isthmus, the Oregon
would not have had to travel $4,000
miles, and our feet could virtually
protect both coasts. When the canal
ia constructed. il will mark a new era