The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-06-10
, Ofegon,s Significant Election.

4, - s4i4o eiiIict mdetl Tue dtle1tlON Oh tle
country is centred on the news from the
scenes OF war, Oregon furnishes pleas
Ing diversion for majority of the
American people by firing the first poll
tical gun Of the year. She has done this
by rolling up o handsome Republican
majority In tho state election. Oregon
did not accomplish this feat on local
issues, but upon issues for. the gold
Issues, but upon issues Of national I'M
portance. The Republican platform de-
clared for gold standard. The en-
dorsement was unqualifying and there
was no room for doubt concerning its
language. There was a recognition
frankly that the United States is on q
gold, basis and declaration for main
tanning that position.
This open course by the Republicans
Of Oregon resulted in two things. 1t
drew the lines between two parties, the
Republican party and that comprised
Of all the silver elements; 1t also Sc
cured an Overwhelming Republican VIC
tory IN the state. including the election
of a Republican governor, a Republican
congressional delegation and practical
solid Republican legislature. It was
blow to the free silver party, for the
campaign was purely upon that issue,
and the silver men forced the fighting.
The result means that Oregon has
served notice that It Is perfectly salts
fled with the action Of the country In re-
solving to maintain the safe monetary
basis in the election Of 1896 The action
Of the party in Oregon in adopting
platform that left no doubt Of the mean
Ing OF its language was approved by the
people of the state, and other states will
follow on the same line, wherever this
issue is forced by those who still cling
to the exploded deprecated dollar idea.
Oregon has done herself honor.
The significance, OF the election Is ma
tional, and those who watched the course
OF the campaign In Oregon see In It a
lesson that Is OF least worthy OF the con-
siderat!on OF thoughtful people. The
New York Post. while it Is not sup
porter of the Republican party, and Is
dailycriticls!ng the tariff and some other
policies of the Republican Congress
and administration, comments on the
election in the far western state, In part
as follows:
The instruction Of the Oregon election
to Congress Is that the Republicans
should make no compromise with the
-Populist-Sllver combine In
reference to "coining the scigniorage,"
or issuing more greenbacks, or doing
any other act which looks to depre-
clated currency. The people are pre-
pared for this Issue not merely in Ore
son, but everywhere else Undodbted1y,
the silver-mining states will adhere to
silver. Perhaps the south will adhere to
1t by way OF Furnishing the Republicans
for appointing negro postmasters or for
other reasons akin to that, but It is
plain that the northern stalcs generally
are not to be swerved from the gold
standard, and especially that they will
tolerate no watering OF the currency
while the precent war Is in progress. All
the Indications point to n Republican
victory in the west next fall, including
the trans-Missouri states. The prosperl-
ty flowing from good crops and remu-
neratlve prices for wheat has opened
peoples eyes in Kansas, Nebraska, and
the Dakotas as we'll as In Oregon.
lt.t. III,
portance Of maintaining the national
credit is more generally recognized than
IT has been at any time since the aglta-
ton OF the silver question begun, the
Oregon election and the circumstances
under which It was held Is OF more than
ordinary significance, as directing the
attention OF the public to the points
above referred to.