Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1898-01-26

. our jails. But IL don't follow tha
we must respect the big successful
thieves who ought To occupy them.
5 WASHINGTON. Jan. %. Land Com
missioner Hermann today transmit
ted letter TO the senate opposing al
extension OF the Cleveland forestry
reservation order. This applies largely
TO Oregon and Washington. IL will
almost certainly be allowed tU expire
March /, and will open $4,000, 900 acre
Of land To settlement.
That "letter" will do the business
10 has done 10 before. Binger ha,
saved that land for the settlers many
a time. He must be governor or SEN
atOr.
Col. Dunno, OF Portland was NJ itch-
ell Republican. but he was not In the
push at Salem last winter. or course,
he will name some II Ike Patterson 5
strikers in Marion county for his sub
0rdinates.
Mr. Geer. can now come out openly
for governor, as he is no longer can
dldate for the Custom House.
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So far we have not heard OF a
Young Mems Republican club headed
| by boy under 80 The Republican
party is not a kindergarten.
There will be so few laboring men
left In the country, that IL may pay
better TO ge TO work soon than To be a
lu1 nj
even To steal.
A Portland man who has been offer
my to sell a half block alongside the
y Ray man for $500, now that city
water aud sidewalks are built asks
$500 That's what improvements to
one man does for anyother mans
land
Those Pops In Linn county have o
debts, the lowest tax levy in the state.
aud their whole assessment bill for
1897 was only S233S as against S30Ol
and S3S9S for two preceding years by
Republicans. or course, the Repub-
licans were sound money men, and
sound money always comes high.
or the forty reindeers imported by
Uncle Sam, (Alger, Mcbride, ct all to
relieve the starving (Y) klondikers
only fifteen arrived in New York city
alive, and the Democrat will wager a
pound OF babbit metal that not one of
them will eyer see Dawson city. This
was the greatest fool business OF the
nineteenth century Albany Dem
ocTat.
IL takes lirstcass business man to
run the Salem WaterwoTks, Electric
Light Plant or WOolen Mills, but TO
handle the public school system any
second. hand politician Is good enough,
Ye gods, where is the public pride in
our schools
An Albany paper says Salem lady
recently became SO excited over an in-
door game OF baseball that she de-
molished the chair on which she had
been sitting.
Whatever John G. Young, Peoples
contributed TO the peace and harmony
of the Republican party in Oregon,
aud he's the one man the Republicans
have real cause To fear.
DO the voters OF the Silver Repub-
lican, Populist and Democrat parties
in Oregon wish TO strengthen the
hands of their friends IN congress ?
The only way they can do so is TO elect
two congressman and a senator TO fill
places now occupied by men who vote
every time for perpetuatlOn OF the |
gold standard.-Eugene Guard. Yes, |
aud elect some man who can hold the |
job without making himself ridiculous |
begging appropriations,
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The people don'ti want any office
seekers or cheap.John politicians cleo |
ted school directorSlthiS year. They |
want first class men.
Now OF course, something must be |
given Cornmeal Ike. The Republican, \ |
party can't exist unless both he and |
Andy are in office. That might as
well be understood,
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Men who can't afford To take any
ordinary ONCE can aUOrd 10 serve the |
public school system.
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II begins To look as though Pete |
darcy might be invited to assume
judicial honorS,
IL is argued that tas no salary at
taches, the people can't have hTst-
c'aSS business man on the school
board. or course, second class
business man or no business man at
all can easily afford To take the place
aud Is theu privileged 10 make all out
Of II he can, \ man good enough 10
be apublsc school director is good
enough To hold any oillce in the gift
of the people,
No poor mau need 40 without
prnueS. \ Salem grocer Offers fine
ones at two cents pound. lie ad-
yertises In this paper
President llawley should read the
Oegontan, Statesman aud other Re-
publican papers before he writes any
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