Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1899-01-20

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are scattered and rendered Ineffective
la few men are able 70 guard thei
personal matters, but the entire re
fern organization gets a black ey
and the majority escapes responsible
lty, because tneIr questionable meas
ures and practices have all more o
Iess endorsement from individual
members Of the opposition. 10 whose
record they can point and be ex
cused
The duty Of the minority Z
solIdly oppose the majority inay mol
apply 10 every bill before the leglsla
ture, but It certainly applies 70 al
appropriations, 70 creation Of new
tburdens on the people, 10 building ~
Of monoplles and favored classes by
legislation, and 70 all forms Of extra
yaganee. On these lines the Union
members should stand like a solid wall
fcr the protection Of the people.
every man a brick A Willy and
sagacIous majority will e'en trick
the minority into voting for Jobs just
for the purpose OF preventing them
from going before the people as a re-
form party at the next election.
The minority should hold pub.
lIcly announced caucuses. to protect
the people. and even instruct their
members 10 prepare an entire appro'
prlatlons bill 90 the lines Of reform
aud offer IL as a substitute for the
majority bill II that contains Inn
broper items Of expense. Thus alone
can the people be shown which Is the
real reform party. The Republican
party Is today divided 10 Oregon into
two wings conservative, economi-
cal. console ntlous set Of men who are
az careful about voting public money
a. they would be about spending their
0wn. These men oppose clerkshlps,
CRAFTS, codes, iunkets,
oeu or1ces and Tote Tor all measures
from the standpoint Of the people.
They killed the sugar bounty bill
psssrd b. the house aud threw a house
resolution 70 revive that 10000 Job
Ihio the waste basket. The house
goied 70 increase the supreme court
5Bi ne senate killed the job.
without ATTY personal reflection on
lny member of any party who
voted Tor these bills that the senate
siiled, aud Others that may yet be
passed in the house aud killed Ia the
.enate. We wish 10 ask. how will Union
ncmbors stand before the people and
point 10 their record on these matters
when the Reform element Of the Re
publican party has made better rec
ord than they have IL should be said
10 justice 10 the six Union members
Of the senate that they have stood
solldly with the best element OF the
Republicans 10 making Reform
record. but We do say u deliberately,
that unless the entire a mambers OF
the Unlon party do pull themselves
together aud act as an uDit against
some OF the most transparent In.
proprletles " this legislature, they
may not have a ghost Of chance 10
90 before the people as reform party
next year. People who want reform
will have 10 go 10 the reform wing Of
the Republican party because there
may bo no democratic, Popullst or
Union party LETT TO ~ 10. The minor
ny owes a sacred duty to'the people
aud II should develop the leadership
aud the political sagaoity 10 act as a
solid body instead Of allowing each /
man 10 make a record for himself !
lrd the entire Organization be de
'troyod aud humillated by the I
diosyncmeies aud alterations of la
lIYiduals. Ia politics adherence 10
'rIuelple is everything.