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The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-05-07
THO MISTAkES:

The republican state convention at
Astoria made two mistakes, that will
cost them votes in certain localities,
in nominating two county official
for important state offices, who are
indirectly, if not directly, connected
with and responsible for defalcations
which cost the taxpayers of their re-
spective counties considerable money,
and whose records in these matters
will cause voters to question either
their integrity or capability.
Mr.. Dun bar, nominated for secre-
tary of state, while clerk of Clatsop
county, for three years certified to the
correctness of the scmi.annual state
ments of defaulting county treasurer.
Mr.. Moore, the republican nominee
for state treasurer, consented to COM
promise with himself while county
judge) as the only solvent bondsman
of an ex-countv treasurer who was de-
faulter to the extent that he paid the
county only about 80 cents on the dol
lar.
These acts may have been actuated
only by pure motives, but if they
were, it is evident that as custodians
of public trust. MIR. Dunbar and Mr..
More display carelossness that does
not recommend them to the voter as
competent and conservative officers.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-05-07
POLITICS AND SOLDIERS:

If any branch of the government
should be free from politics and partl-
san influence. it should be the army,
both the regular army and state mill
tia: but such is not the case in Oregon.
Our state militia has been made
political machine of the worst sort.
and for years has been conducted SOLE
" in the interest of one regiment to
the detriment of the other two. This
has been made more evident the past
few days than ever before.
When arrangements were perfecting
to form an Oregon regiment out OF the
First and Second regiments and the
Third battalion, and put the Oregon
National Guard on war footing, 1t
was thought justice would be done
every section, and that time OF
service and competency OF officers
would be taken into account in
selecting the regiment officers, but
all these have been ignored. Cover
nor Lord has given his ear over to the
First regiment in the appointment OF
field officers, and paid no heed to the
requests of others on the matter OF
capability or length of service. True,
he gave the Second regiment major.
but has entirely overlooked the Third
battalion. Col. J. NJ Patterson, of
the Third, was the ranking lieutenant
colonel in the state, is man who has
seen actual service, and is in every re-
spect worthy of promotion. But he
has been ignored, and men who are
comparatively new in the service have
been promoted over him. Thus the
Third battalion was left without re-
preventative among the field officers.
And more, after having ignored the
Third battalion IN the appointment OF
field officers, the governor has treated
with contempt the claims of staff offic-
ers to recognition. Lieutenant Fl. Fl.
Riddell, of the Third, is the second
ranking lieutenant in the adjutant's
department of the National Guard,
still he has been turned down, and an
officer young in the service has been
appointed instead. The same is true
of CaptainSurgeon o. G. Hollister,
who was the ranking surgeon N the
Guard, but bas been ignored for sur
geon young in the service.
So it has been throughout the max
ing up of Oregon's regiment. The
political machine in Portland has heen
considered, while the claims of these
who have labored long and faithfully
to keep the guard together for years,
have been set aside for the Portland
favorites. OF course the National
Guard throughout Oregon is composed
of too patriotic men, to now, in the
time of need, object to the insults that
have been thrust upon them. but the
action of the governor in making the
militia political machine now will
have a serious effect on the organiza-
tion in the future.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-05-07
THE .WHEAI TRADE.

The outlook for the wheat farmers
of the Northwest is at present very
fattering, for crops everywhere are
looking well, and the prospects for
high prices were never better at this
season of the year. The war with
Spain will make an increased demand
at home, and the almost certain failure
of the crop of California will greatly
lessen the supply, and as nearly all
of last yesr's crop is consumed, the de-
mand must be supplied from the pres
ent growing crop. Speaking of the
outlook, the Commercial Review says:
''The wheat market has now got be-
yond the exporting interests. and very
little buying is done for foreign ac-
count. The competition for the cereal
is now between our local millers and
California millers. The shipping
points of the Northwest are now watch
ing California buyers. Wheat during
the past fortnight has made long
strides, and shorts in the speculative
markets in California have been buy
ing extensively up north to cover
their agreements. The drouth in
California is more serious than that
state has had since 1S50-51, and there
is no doubt that that state will become
a heavier importer for the season of
IS9S-99. Wheat is in great demand
there and quotations have gone higher
each day. Shipments from Puget
Sound and Portland have been very |
heavy this month. From reports re-
ceiyed from the Interior, there is very
little wheat left; the exact amount is
hard at the present time to estimate,
but the graneries and warehouses are
almost cleaned up, and We doubt If |
1 900, 900 bushels is still in farmers or |
hands in the northwest.
The outlook at present is that there
will be little more wheat exported the |
of The season for it will all |
go to California.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-05-07
TOTTERING SPAIN.

Spanish people are, in a measure,
patriotic and loyal, but they have not
that patriotism that prevails in people
of less governed country where the
masses are citizens, not subjects. The
Spanish people have been so ground
down by taxation to support the 'no-
bility" and to prosecute unprovoked
wars, that they no longer have any
denced by the clamor of the populace
for the overthrow of Sagasta's govern
ment and the threat of revolution.
This. uprising WAS occasioned by the
failure of the Spanish fleet at the
PHILIPPINES to vanquish the American
fleet, an event the Spaniards had
right to expect because OF the lib eral
promises that had been made and the
assurance given them of the superior
ity of the Spanish feet by Sagasta's
government. But so soon as these
promises failed to materialize they
were ready to overthrow the govern
ment, al evidence that they have
had much of that love of coun-
try which makes patriotic peo-
pie ground out of them. And
a nation, not composed of patri-
otic people must totter and fall,
for any government not having the
support of the citizens or subjects
cannnt last.
Spain Monday could not occur from
like causes in America. where every
citizen is distinct element of the
government. Had the result of the
battle before Manila been reversed
and Dewey's fleet been annihilated, it
would have aroused intense sorrow
but there would have been no uprising
against the government: but every
American citizen would have been
fired with spirit to avenge the death
Of It's seamen and the loss of its ships
Why! Because they have love fo.
their country and its every institution
They are not an over-governed people,
who have little interest in the nation
except the maintenance of a lot OF
dreams and so-called aristocracy like
the Spaniards, hence when mistakes
are made by officials in power or ad-
versity oVertakes the government they
are not ready to overthrow it with
revolution. America is therefore
strong government, while Spain is
and ready to fall through |
-he dissentions of its own people.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-05-07
is GREER AFRAID?

Some time since W. r. King. union
nominee for governor, challenged L
T. Greer, republican nominee for gov
ernor, to a joint discussion, but the
latter suddenly discovered that he had
dates that would prevent him from
accepting the challenge, though as yet
the dates that would prevent such dis
cussion have not been published in
any republican paper of the state. His
henchmen. however, have thrown out
sort of challenge in the following,
which of course Mr.. King has too
much self-respect to accept:
"If T. T. Greer should consider it
not worth his while to cancel the dates
he has already made to meet the pop
ulist candidate fer governor, injoint
discussion, there are others in Marion
county ready to meet the challenger
W. S. Duniway will meet Mr.. King
any day, and many have expressed
themselves as desirous OF having the
two discuss the issues of the day pub
licly."
If Mr.. Greer and his strikers were
possessed of proper degree of de-
cency, they would either decline Mr..
Kings challenge, or acknowledge that
the champion expounder of the gold
standard and protection was unequal
to the occasion of meeting the silver
tongued young orator of Baker City,
instead of saying that Willis Duniway
or some other upstart would meet the
union candidate for governor in joint
discussion. Common courtesy from
one candidate for the high Office OF
governor to another would demand
that he meet him in debate or fatty
refuse, and not undertake to pawn OH
some hair-brained lieutenant upon him.
But Mr.. Geer is evidently afraid to
meet Mr.. King in a discussion OF the
money question or any other issue now
before the people, and instead of ac-
knowledging his inability, seeks to
hide behind the excuse OF pressing
engagements and would thrust off
young blatheskite like Duniway to
meet his worthy opponent for the
Office of chief executive of the com-
monwealth Of Oregon.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-05-07

that courses in present day genera
tions in her public affairs. We have
a conservative people. And Will Il.
King is a conservative young man.
He takes ali suggestions made TO him
kindly, but he considers and digests
before he acts.
Will King will be governor himself
if elected. Peoples party managers
and democratic managers and repub'
lican managers have learned that
King is man who makes no his own
mind. Ia the house and in the senate
King had the reputation of being
man who would not ''stand in' easily
on any occasion, and on anything OF
questionable character not at all. IL
is time for young man in Oregon for
governor OF exactly his type-a fear
less, in dependent man. whom no fac
tion or machine can control.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-05-07
BORN.
SHULTZ-May 1st, to Mr. and Mrs Schultz On
Mill Creek, a daughter.
FOUND DEAD.

Why did he do it? He had everything
to live for,-happy home, wife, friends,
money; but lie shot himself through the
heart Why?
He couldn't have given a good reason
himself. But everything looked gloomy
to him. He was in gloomy frame of mind.
1t was the way he looked at life that day.
He had been living in too much of hurry,
rushing and driving at business, hustling
through his meals, cutting short his sleep.
His nerves got on edge; his stomach and
liver got out of order; he grew dyspeptic
and melancholy.
When the digestion is out of order there
is little use trying to look on the bright side
of things, practically there isn't any bright
side. This is a dangerous condition to get
into. Yer it is easy to get into and mighty
hard to get out of it, unless you go about it
III the right way.
There is a remedy that has pulled thou
sands of people right out of this depth of
despair. 1t is DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery. 1t acts directly upon the stom-
ach and liver. 1t restores their natural
capacity to nourish and purify the system.
1t purges away bilious poisons, feeds the
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blood, and drives out the blue devil" " of
melancholy and nervousness.
]. L. Warner. No. 1900 o Street. Sacramento.
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been doctoring with as many as six different doc
tors here and in San Francisco for diseased ston-
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many times that would like to leave this world
In looking over the ads in the San Francisco
Examiner ran across yours, and now owe my
life and present good health to DR. Pierces med
icines. have taken fourteen bottles of the
Of Pleasant Pellets and am entirely well of
all stomach trouble. Can sleep nine hours every
night, and am now ready to 60 to work aRain.h
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-05-07
BROKEN PROMISES

When the republican party OF Ore
gon went before the people in the
campaigns of 1891 and 1896 they pro-
missed cutting down of expenses in
every branch of government, and de-
nounced the various and numerous
boards and commissions that were eat
ing up the substance of the taxpayers.
On this promise the Nominees of that
party were generally successful
throught the state. But noGe of the
reforms promised have been enacted
The legislature of 1895, which was
overw helmingly republican, failed to
enact a single reform, but insted in
creased the number of clerks in both
branches of the legislature, and in
creased every extravaganza that
seemed possible. The same was true
of county administration, where the
republican party was successful. Ex
penses were not cut down, nor were
taxes reduced. Then, in 1896 the repub-
licaus again went before the people
with renwed promises of economy and
reform. They carried the state
elected a large majority of the. legis
lature and about three fourths of the
county officials. What of the result?
The majority in the legislature elect
could not agree upon who should or
should not be United States senator,
and in consequence there was no
session, however, over sixty faiGhfnl
strikers were appointed to clcrkships
in the senate and became burden
upon the taxpayers, Notwithstanding
they rendered no service whatever.
And the county officers elected, readily
forgot their promises and continued in
the usual course of extravaganza that
had mark ed their action in the past.
With these broken promises plainly
before them, what have the voters of
the state to expect in the future if
they retain the same party in power?
Can they expect taxes to De reduced?
Can they expect the useless commits
sions and boards to be abolished? Can
they expect cutting down of expenses
in county affairs to the minimum?
Certainly not. But should the union
ticket be successful, what my they
expect?
First, they may look for the organ
ization of tie legislature in 1899, and
the abolition of every useless board
and commission; second, a reduction of
expenses both state and county: a re-
deption of every promise made on the
stump or in the union platform. 1t may
be argued that it is absurd to expect all
these reforms, but we think not. The
voice of the people against the repub-
licans nominees will be evidence that
the people of Oregon are deter
mined that promises made by parties
must be kept, and the people elected
on the union ticket will know that
they must reduce expenses if the
would be returned to Office two years
hence. They will therefore redeem
every pledge. because they are only
human, and will desire the success of
their party at the next election. If
the union ticket is elected through
out the state there will be no broken
promises the next two years.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-05-07
THE CITIZEN SOLDIER.

America is the only nation on the
globe that does not maintain vast
standing army, yet it has never been
defeated in "a contest with foreign
powers. But the record of the volun-
teer soldiery of America is filled with
glorious deeds, unquestioned patriot
ism and utter absence OF fear when
facing danger that has startled the
world. This has demonstrated that in
America long training in military SER
vice is not required to create an invul-
nerable army. When the nation has
called for defenders, farmers, mer-
chants and mechanics have fiocked to
it's support, and fired by patriotism
and bravery have developed into troops
that withstood the onslaught of vet
Grams.
From such material as this have the
American armies been formed, and by
their deeds of valor have amazed the
world. They have seen men unused
to martial strife perform deeds of hero
ism that baffied the exploits of old,
trained soldiers. They have seen the
raw recruits march up to the cannon's
mouth as if advancing upon friend,
and unfinchingly withstand charges
as if they were all their lives accus-
toned to doing battle. Thus have the
citizen soldiers of America won lau-
rels in the past. and so they will again
when necessity requires, and be vic
torious in the future. The safety of this
government rests with the citizen sol
dier who develops from the peaceful
citizen of today into the veteran of
tomorrow.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-05-07
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The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-05-07
DEWETS GREAT VICTORY.

For daring brilliancy and effective
work the battle won By Commodore
Dewey's last Sunday morning. was
one of the greatest ever known to the
world. Speaking of the advantage
gained by the Americans By this vic
tory, the Oregonian says:
Manila was military necessity.
Sixty-five hundred miles from home
port, with neither base of operations
nor equipment Tor waiting, Commo-
dore Dewey, with all the world, saw
his plan of campaign determined BY
his own exigencies. He could only
fight or fly. and of these alternatives
one was impossible for the man who
knew, even as he himself embodied
the traditions CT American naval Prov
ess, from the time of Paul Jones to
this day In the words of our ambas-
sador at St. James, ''he seen his duty
and he went for it thar and then"
But the military necessity of Manila
does not eliminate the possibility OF
skill and decision or their opposites.
Meager as are the accounts so far re-
ceived, they seem to show conclusive
ly enough that the American naval
officer has not forgotten what Farra
gut taught at Mobile bay and in the
Mississippi, that the only way to pass
fort is to goby it. Dewey has shown that
he is of that stuff from which heroes
are made by passing under the guns of
Fort Cavite in the dead of night. He
chose his time we'll, as all accounts of
the battle agree that the fighting be.
gan early Sunday morning, and in the
darkest hour. just before the dawn,
the Asiatic squadron was steaming in
to the Manila harbor. 1t is MOI unlike
ly that the course of the vessels took
them over a part of the torpedo field,
but there is no indication that the
Spaniards attempted to make use of
their submarine mines. The great
achievement of the event, what will
distinguish it in history, is the bold
ness of the American commanders
method. In his swift descent on the
Philippines he showed decision; and
by his night entrance into the bay he
proved himself both daring and brill
iant-ln a word, he revealed to the
worli military genius,
Spanish talk of glory under over
whelming odds is poorly justified; for
it must be remembered that the Span
ish forts added the weight of their
projectiles to that of the fire from
their ships. The battle, apparen tly.
was decided by the superior gunnery
and finer discipline of the American
sailor, com bined with the alarm Great
ed by the bold night attack.
OF the effect of the battle we shall
soon learn. And the one effect to be
ardently hoped for is that it may end
the war. 1t is the part neither of
sense or patriotism to clamor for more |
slaughter, if it shall prove unDeces- |
sary, as if we were savages mad with |
the sight and smell of our enemy's |
blood. If Spain is oblivious to the |
demonstration of our military genius |
and efficiency in men and machinery. |
the rest of the world will not be. And |
if she persists in the struggle now it
will be in the face of E1rope's angry |
protests against farther arrangement |
of commerce and further menace to |
the order of it's society and the stabil'
ity of it's thrones. Commodore Dewey's
squadron has STRUCK a mighty blow
for peace.