The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-09-17

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stricken camps. 1t will be time for
peace jubilee" when the nation cal
wash its hands of the sufferings of it
soldiers. and survey the condition o
its returning defenders without blush
ing in shame.
The people should not be too hard oil
that New York colonel who flunked a
Santiago. He was simply making ,
record to become future republican
secretary of war.
The Salt Lake Tribune gravely
stated that the late President Wood
ruff Of the Mormon church personally
knew and could call by name each O
his one hundred and thirty-two grand
children.
The goldbugs in Colorado tried hare
to capture the silver republican con.
vention and prevent fusion, but failed
although they had a man killed and
several wounded. Teller and the sill
VerlGes won OuU.
All possible honors will be conferred
on Rear-Admiral Dewey, the greatest
hero of them all, aud an effort will be
made to get congress to create the
grade of vice-admiral, which will be
conferred upon the daring commander
of the Pacific squadron.
The republicans will elect majority
in the next congress, but from present
Indications it will not be as large as
in the present house. The result in
Maine would indicate the beginning
of the disruption of the republican
party that will terminate in 1900.
There is scarcely doubt that Joe
Simon will be elected president of the
senate when the special session con-
venes at Salem on the 26th, and it
would not be very great surprise if
he were elected United States senator.
Simon has lot of strings to lis bow,
and knows how to pull them.
There was something out of joint
with the republicans in Maine. Their
majority decreased 20 per cent in the
election held on Tuesday. This is not
a very strong endorsement of the ad-
ministration. Probably "the wave of
prosperity has not struck the people
of Maine yet.
Governor Lord has been to San
Francisco. and as might have been ex-
pected after he was ''entertained" by
the army officers, telegraphs back that
the Oregon recruits there are all right.
1t is wonderful what effect q little
whitewashing will have upon a high
official.
After the coming election the votes
cast by women will grow less with
each campaign. Hundreds of women
in the state will not vote this fall. The
reason why but few of the gentler sex
will eventually take part in politics
and vote will become more apparent
later on.-Boise Democrat.
In another column we print u letter
from Col. Enos to the Oregonian in
which he takes that paper to task for
misrepresenting facts concerning the
acquiring of title to territory. Mr.
Enos is beyond question correct in his
statements, and history will back him
up in what he says.
Low freight rates are vastly more
beneficial to the country than cheap
passenger fare. 1t is therefore impor.
tant to this section that the Columbia
river be kept open to navigation, and
we shonld besIir ourselves to get the
department. at Washington to remove
all obstacles to the entrance of the
locks from below.
The editors of the United States will
meet in Portland in les. This will
bring to the Northwest as fine body
of men as were ever here, men who
while they will not boast of themselves
win, tell about the country. We
should begin fixing things up SO that
when they come we will be ready for
them.
l.. B. Reeder, representative elect
for Umatiila county, aspires to be
speaker of the house, and why should
he not be? Eastern Oregon might az
we'll have this empty honor thrust up
on it. Mr.. Reeder is republican, but
is not of the Simon contingency, and
his election would to certain degree
break the state of the Portland loss.
Ir the death of Prof. Johu W. John
son, of the state university. Oregon
has lost one of her brightest men and
ablest educators. Prof. johnson was
a self-made man, having started in life
as farmer boy, working his way
through the public schools, and finally
paid his own expenses to Yale. His
ilfe furnishes splendid example for
the youth of Oregon to follow.
Regardless OF the almost unanimous
protest of the people there will be as
many appointments to clerkship at the
special session of the legisla-
ture as ever or our figures are wrong.
The members have to reward their
friends and this is one way they can
do it. It is a rotten system, and the
who favors it should be given
q black mark as long as Klondlke
day in summer,
The. next senator elected ought to be
Bipger Hermann, but he will not get
there. The senator chosen will be
some one who has more capital to in.
rest in the senatorial fight than Mr..
Hermann is able to control. Besides
ne don't suit the Oregonian, and that
'ettles his case. The Oregonian's in
iuence will be largely felt in the sem
.torial contest this time.
Notwithstanding there is decline
n the price of wheat in Chicago, there
re more reasons to believing it will
ise rather than fall. The visible
upply Of wheat throughout the world
S not increasing very rapidly, and
8 there. is no surplus left over from
asst year, the demand must be tolera-
.ly brisk. Even wheat gamblers will
orces prices up when they see specu-