Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1898-05-23
JOURNAL ax GAYS. /.

$4,000 is nne Republican debt
for Marion county.
What has been done with that 2 =
port Of the two experts which CO.
Marion county over $500?
Mark Hanna is free trade Flagg' s
idea Of great statesman. He said 50
at Marion Saturday.
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Let Salem haye grand rose fair
this year. 1t will be pleasant to have
something more fragant than politics.
It's too bad Kincaid can't have d
certificate OF character r. III Flagg
the free trade protection free-silvei
gOldite.
admit that the Republican party
made great mistake when IL nOmi
mated and elected Terrell county
judge-Bob Hendricks at jefferson.
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McCulIorh said AT Marion Satui-
day that all the ability in ;he car
vass was mr his side Of the house, ,tha
iuy OF them could draw up a hil'.
lie pr'hahiy meant bill lile
Terrell's.
There were never 80 many irdepend
ent voters aS at .pi,sent. That's or
timing our corrupt cprIniy. school dis
trict aud city administrations hay
d .re fer MS.
Ia his >p'cch a. Marion McCullucl
referred 20 new and untried planks y
the Uninn DI.lfuFm. He meant ecOi,
pmy, thing lhii las been untTIed i.
Marion county aiTrirS for some time
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Never has our county, ,sclIp,i i:siti
or city been So badly 10 debt as 60"
after continuous Republican ~
Its nice for the party b1sses. but Ii :
tie severe On the tax payers. But wi
care for the taxpayers? say the bosse'
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Wheat is going steadily down agaii
apd is quoted in POrtls nd at 93 cents.
Schoonmaker's arrival fro:h New Jer-
sey with new installment Of golG
standard speeches should have doomed
the market instead .-Roseburg Re
view.
THAI report - the county experts
showed thousands OF dollars OF war
rants Illegally drawn, and shortages
in at least Two county offices. but our
county court has not yet acted upon
1t, nor recovered cent.
Did anybody ever accuse Charley
Moores of telling the truth? He says
he didn't get paid for correcting his
own record. Just the same he made
affidavit to the account and drew $3.50
for IS days alleged work. aHe drew
his money March 30, 1895, and the
number OF the warrant was 1882. Try
it again.
Now Prof. Staley comes out with
certificate OF character for Prot. Ac.
herman. This is equal to Scott Bo-
zorth vouching for Dunbar. These
two experts haven't been able TO get
nominations from the Marion county
Republicans, but that hasn't pre-
vented their drawing over $500 for
exporting the county books. By the
way, has that experts report been
acted upon yet?
The record OF Will r. King in the
Oregon legislature has been scanned
by the Republican press OF the state,
and the only objection they can find
to 1t, the only act they have dlscov-
cred TO assail, is that he opposed the
appropriation for the state militia.
The record OF Mr.. Geer has been scan
ned, and he Is found TO have been op-
posed TO nearly every measure OF
remedial legislature that was proposed
while he was a member. Further
comment Is unnecessary, - Times
Mountaineer
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Isn't that reasonable, though, that
Mr., Geer, as Mr.. Tooze says, had no
knowledge Of his nomination until the
school children passing by where he
was working In his field, cheered him?
What picture for the artist? Say
do you suppose he really understood
what the children meant by such un.