The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-05-13
Pointed and Peppery.
CORVALLIS. Nav 9. 1898.

10 THE EDITORIALS | am DEM
ocrat, | read with a personal in
terest your editorial asking the
voters to drop their politics and
support MIR. Tongue for congress
because of his work in behalf of
Yaquipa harbor. | beg to reply
to your appeal or rather to com
ment upon it.
You say that Yaouina's friends
in congress have been regularly
retired. and that the power at
Washington reasonably begin to
doubt our sincerity in petitioning
for government AID for improve
ments when we always knock out
every senator and congressman
who lifts his voice in favor Of Ya-
qilIna. Bat whose is the fault
that our "orkerS are retired
What blame can be ali:cheu
to the democrats or populists Z
The republican, legislature coald
have return cd Mr.. D,,lph to the
national senate, but did not And
the GAZETTE advocated his retire
m=nt. You asked democrats to
vote Tor a republican, because of
Yaquina's interest and yet you
opposed one of your own party
who was also IL friend of Yaquina.
1t was republicans who downed
II .rmann. 1t WAS republicans
who defeated Mitchell. 1t was
who retired Ellis.
Why does not your republican
party keep Yaquina's- friends in
congress.
Lst me tell you that these
eclipses OF workers for Yaquina
are not mere political accidents.
Did it ever strike you as peculiar
that the same man who whipped
in the republican lorces to defeat
Dolph, also engineered the fight
y against MITCHELL? Was not Jona-
than Bourne the leader in both
BATTLES against these men?
1t pleases you newspapers to
ascribe their defeat to functional
politics, the money question, etc.
These things were only raised TO
receive sympathy and support.
Dolph, Mitchell, Hermann and
Ellis were defeated by business
interests for business purposes.
Portland and the transportation
centering there, are
quietly but effectively operating
against Yaquina and Astoria.
Fortunately. in defeating Yaqui- |
la's friends so far, they have not
succeeded in filling their places
with Yaquina and Astoria ene-
nies. But they expect to event.
lally control matters TO their
wishes.
If the o. r. & N. Co., the North
oaclfic Terminal company and
,ther large corporations can afford
o put tkeir business interests
'bove their party inclinations, so
,an the people of the Willamette
V"lley. /
I do not believe that the Ga
.ETrE nor any republican who op-
posed Dolph or Mitchell is in a
position TO ask democrats or pop
lists to support Tongue because
If the Yaqaina matter. Many OF
IS will vote for Tongue but it is
because we really believe what
'ou only profess.
Perhaps the fact Mr.. We Itch is
/ Cleveland democrat and hasn't
'et even made bluff at a silver
lr:umcnt, makes 1t easier fer us
o vote for republican congress
nan. but still it remains that rc-
'ublicans a'e more narrow and
more blindly subservient to the
rack OF The party whip than are
democrats.
Now, are the republicans of
Benton and Lincoln counties, who
profess so much interest in va
luina, going to allow their politics
u lead them to play lnlo the
lanls of the Portland concerns
With you, is it the party or the
,eoplc?
(Llberty Is taken to omit a part
If the letter at this point. 1t con
erns a legislative candidate on
he republican ticket, and raises a
question that the GAZETTE prefers
lot to discuss.-Editor.)
| am not deeply concerned in
he ''grand past" of any party.
t is the practical future that ap-
,eals to good sense. The party is
'nly vehicle and if we cannot
,et to our destination in one cart,
there are others.
JEFFERSON DEMOCRAT.