The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-12-02

three possibilities for The Dalles with.
in the next twelve months. When
we get these the city will begin to
grow and prosper, every house will
have tenant, and everybody will
be doing a good business. Let all who
have Interests here work for these
three possibilities.
Some poor idiots declare that Mark
Hanna is about to retire from politics.
Just as well think the millennium is
at hand. Marcus and Brother Abner
are making a fat thing out of politics.
They are fsecing the nation. aud SO
long as this is possible Hunna will
stay in politics. He will be the chair
man of the republican national COM
mittee next year if he lives.
The gold combination is not much
disturbed over the result of the recent
elections. 1t fears Bryan's candidacy
and has again become active in demo.
cratic politics The friends of the
Chicago platform and Bryan must be
on the alert everywhere, as the gold
combination may try to get in its
work in places where they would be
least suspected of so doing.
That house gwen Admiral Dewey is
causing him more sorrow than any
thing he ever had. Because he gave
it to his wife and she in turn gave it
to his son George, the donors raised a
howl and now Dewey wishes that he
had stuck tn his determination to re.
fuse the gift. However, since some OF
the O. ors object to the disposition he
has ~. fit to make of the home, the
admiral announces that he will refund
the amount any one. subscribed if
called upon to do so.
The Pendleton Tribune and La
Grande Advocate are the only papers
that have come under our observation
that undertake to justify Governor
Geer's silence regarding the Plummer
affair. They insist it would be beneath
the governors dignity to deny the ac-
cusation that he bargained to sell an
appointment. It's the first time we
had known that the governor was too
dignified 20 repell an attack upon his
good name. We are glad the up
country papers have enlightened US.
1t is not to be wondered at that
Albert M. Dewey, special agent of the
government departments of labor, is
favorable to trusts. He is the ap-
pointe of trust administration and is
socialist besides, and since socialism
in its theory is nothing but a great,
big trust, he could not very consistent.
ly condemn the industrial combines.
1t is PROBABLE, however, that Mr..
Dewey is sent out disguised as labor
representative, while he Is in fact
working in the interests of the trusts.
It would be a relief if those who
contributed to the Dewey home fund
would cease their howl about the dis.
position he has made of the property.
While Dewey did not raise himself in
accepted the gift, and he was in
discrete in giving it away asshe did,
the people who forced it upon him are
the last ones who should complain
They did foolish thing in giving him
the home. but they made the donation
and he was at liberty to dispose of it !
as he saw fit.
The Salem Sentinel is wrong in as
serting that b. r. Plummer, who |
claims to have paid Governor T. T.
Geer 81 900 for appointment as super
intendent of the penitentiary, should
bring suit for the Office. Plummer
also asserts that he released the COVER
nor from the contract upon receipt of
$1,000. If Plummer lies, Governor
Geer should prosecute him criminally,
if he tells the truth, and there seems
to be no denial, Mr.. Geer should step
down and out, and the state house
should be fumigated.
One cannot but feel pity for the
ignorance displayed by some of the
republican editors who are pointing
TO the Ohio election as great victory
and gloating over the fact that Nash
carried the state by $4,000 plurality,
Ind citing this as a re5uke to democ-
'acy. The fact is Nash's total vote is
ess than any republican candidate for
governor has received since 1890. He
'eceived $4,000 fewer votes than did
Governor Bushnell in 1897. If some
'epublican editors would study elect
on returns little closer they would
lot make such errors.
The Philippine insurrection as it is
'alled, but in reality struggle for
is virtually crushed,
or Aguinaldo and his followers cannot
nuch longer hold out against over
shelming forces. The Filipinos are
whipped in Luzon. but there are
thousands of other islands to subdue,
nd the present administration will
nd long before peace throughout the
is established. The little
rmy of $1,000 men we haye down
here, that is costing US half a million .
ollars day, will find plenty of work ]
0 do before all the islanders bend the I
see to American supremacy. In fact
we propose to hold the island in.
we will find it necessary to
arrisou all of them with blue coats,
nd the army we naye there now will
g found inadequate to the undertak-
10. If we hold the islands with an
rmy of less than 500, 900 men we will
o exceedingly we'll.
There never was in the United :.
tates a more vindictive, narrow !,
linded, phariseeical, ,..hypocritical pub '
cation than Harper's Weekly, as t
,stified in the low, contemplate,
ean, inhuman fights it has made on
,ch distinguished Americans as t
orace Greeley, General Hancock, t
,mes G. Blaine and VIM. J. Bryan. n
here never was man connected with a
le sheet from its puritanical pub =
shers aud the "man.milliner" Curtis .
,wn to the mammop-worshiping.
toad eating crew of penny
liners, who now emblszoh their :.
,mes in big letters on its pages, in - :,
anyway worthy to blacken the shoes n
the strong, virile, manly Americans y
haa alandared and reyiled We'll | a,