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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-09-07

known to be thoroughly corrupt, and
constant menace to all the best interests
of good government.
Unity with Populists.
Mr.. Bryan hardly appeals to the
thoughtful citizen, with whom political
parties are only agencies for public good
to the extent that they stand for funda-
mentally right principles and honest ad-
ministration, when upon the one hand he
is presented by the Populists and on the
other by Tammany. The joining hands
with one constitutes an offense against
safety in governmental administration,
the alliance with the other an offense
against political decency, making it
doubtful as to his ability, no matter how
strenuously ne might try, to secure hon
eSty in the conduct of public affairs in an
administration over which he presided.
1t is not difficult to predict what would
be the outcome of any administration
based upon the socialism OF Popnlism and
the rapacity of Tammany.
Reaffirming of I6 to1
| am told that not a few Democrats
who refused to sanction the nominee and
platform of the Chicago convention will
aid the nominee presented at Kansas
City. doubt if there are many who will
do so. Why should they? The same
candidate has been named, the same doc
trines announced, only in more offensive
way.
1t must not be forgotten tha, the re-
affirming of the principles of the Chicago
platform was the repledging of an inten-
ton, when opportunity is afforded. to de-
base the country's currency. 1t was re-
assaulting the Supreme Court of the
country. 1t means realliance with the
elements of disorder, as against the prop
erly constituted authorities of peace, in
tegrity of property and person. 1t is the
announcing once more of a desire to get
into power that the sacred right of pri-
vate contract under the guaranty of law
may be abrogated. 1t is the acceptance
of those elements of socialism which work
injury to both government and people.
In fine, the reafiirmation at Kansas
City was the re-asserting of the utter
ances made at Chicago, which, revolu-
tionary then, are none the less so now.
A source of menace to the country then,
they are equally so now; and every man
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-09-07
eRYAN'S SOLnOQUY.

dedicated to soft citizens.)
l favor Free Silver and paper,
l honor Free Trade and Free Gold,
In fact, l shall play any. caper
That brings me vote, young or old.
I preach 1.-THE consent of the governed
And practice Imperial sway
III promise all things to the voter
Who stands on my platform to-day.
l know I'm a talker from Way Back,
And gifted with gall" and with mouth
1t matters not how l maneuver,
I'm sure of the Red, Solid South!
favor Expansion" and taxes,
But don't wish to justify wrong,
And believe in the riot of Red Shirts
If they vote for me often and strong.
I'll promise all things If elected,
And do what l please when I'm ins
I favor all virtue in office,
But wink at tough Tammany sin.
/ know I'm a Blower and Actor,
By hiding my Sixteen to One
Behind Anti-Imperial humbug,
That soon, like Free Silver, is gone
l know I'm a Howler and Hoodoo,
But the Farmer and Miner don't sec
That my Anti-Imperial clap trap
Is Paramount Fraud, just per Sc.
A Dictator, I'm bold to my party;
force them to do what think,
And still to the trough l can lead them,
But can induce them to drink?
And when the election is over,
If I should the White House attain
I'll turn and twist with the Rabble-
Bamboozle and fool them again!
JOHN A. JOYCE, Washington. D. c.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-09-07

The evils and burdens of the present mo-
ment growing out of the Spanish war
are to be laid as much at the door of Mr..
Bryan and his party as at that of Mr..
Mckinley and his. His explanation of
his reason for wishing the treaty ratified
is wholly superficial and does not bear
analysis.
Policy on Philippines.
l imagine that self-government will
come quite as readily through the admin
istration Of Mr. Mckinley as through
that of Mr.. Bryan. 1t will not come I'M
der either until the Philippines are fitted
for it, property rights safe and personal
ones protected. l hardly believe Mr..
Bryan could do more than send COM
mission there, as the President has done,
in order to take steps looking to sup
planting the military government with a
civil one.
The country will not sanction the i'm
mediate abandonment of those islands to
disorder and pillage. When time comes
that there is safety in a constitutional
home government, only remaining within
the sphere of the influence of the Unit
ed States, and public sentiment is to this
end. it can be put down that Mr.. Nc
kinley's administration will readily grant
it, for 1 believe it is generally admitted
that no one is more ready to put himself
in touch with public sentiment than the
President, or act in accordance there
with with more alacrity. If Mr.. Bryan
means an immediate abandonment Of our
control in the islands he must certainly
fail of support, for no thoughtful person
will sanction a policy which will make
the country ridiculous in the eyes of the
world.
Would Not Trust Him.
If Mr.. Bryan and his party had stood
out as they should have against the Span
ish war and had opposed instead of as
sisted in ratifying the Paris treaty, they
would be in a better position to confront
Republican plans and purposes, for they
would at least be consistent with their
action. AS it is now, they urged the war,
but now wish to avoid the consequences
in order to gain political power by so
doing. AS it is, l don't see that Mr..
Bryan is less of an expansionist, through
force of circumstances which he assisted
in creating, than is Mr.. Mckinley. The
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-09-07

who stood out against them then ought
not on some new issue, which does not in
any degree lessen the danger of these for
harm, fail to denounce and defeat them.
| do not think that the fact that here
and there may be some elements more
conservative in the party than seemed to
be the case in 1896. makes any difference.
Mr. Bryan still gives official voice to the
party's views, maps out its campaigns
and writes its platforms. Mr.. Bryan 5
intimates and advisers are still Populists
and self-seekers, with the added cOntin-
gent of Tammany bosses. He has neither
use nor care for any man who is con-
servative in his views or careful in his
utterances.
Effect on Gold Basis.
If elected President the public must be
prepared to see Mr.. Bryan as chief execu-
tive and those associated with him as
cabinet counsellors construe every law
bearing upon the currency and the pow
ers of the Treasury Department in such
a manner as to nullify as best they can
it's provisions in so far as they bear upon
the question of the maintenance of the
gold standard. His Populist allies boast
that they seek power that they may bring
about the repeal of the existing laws and
to this end they are Mr.. Bryans cham
pious and defenders.
He can and will keep the country in a
state of ferment and uncertainty in an
attempt to bring about the larger use Of
silver as redemptive money. The ex-
periment is too dangerous a one to be en-
tered upon by any on the grounds that
the gold standard is so fixed in law that
it cannot be disturbed, no matter who
may be President or Secretary of the
Treasury. The law ought to he executed
with construction favorable to it to
fully carry out its provisions and not in
a manner antagonistic to them. 1t is
not a perfect law, but can be made SO by
it's friends. 1t can be made abortive by
it's enemies once firmly entrenched in
power.
Bryan and Recent War.
1t will hardly do for any sound money
Democrat or Republican to support Mr..
Bryan because of a supposed better po-
sition he occupies than Mr.. Mckinley on
the question of colonial possessions de-
spite his worst position on the question
of the monetary standard. the Supreme
Court. the enforcement of law and the
right Of private contract. Mr.. Brya s
position can hardly be as satisfactory a
one on an analysis growing out of the
Spanish war.
He and his friends, in order to put the
administration to a political disadvan-
tage, urged on the declaration of war
with Spain, and when it was over Mr..
Bryan, personally at Washington,
through personal advice and solicitation,
brought into line a sufficient number Of
Democratic Senators to ratify the treaty
Of Paris, despite the fact that it provided
for the purchase and taking sovereign
possession of Porto Rico, and the Philip
pines, without any provision for giving
them any home government whatsoever.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-09-07

Republican doctrines as against pure
Democratic ones, rightly interpreted and
Incorporated into the administration of
public affairs. But as between Repub-
licanism and Populism, filtered through
the channel of Organism, prefer Repub-
licanism.
Denies His Democracy.
There is no Democratic doctrine pre-
sented this year and no Democratic can
didate. Mr.. Bryan was first named by
the Populists because he best stood for
Populistic doctrines He was only in
dorscd by the convention at Kansas City,
called under alleged Democratic auspices,
because Bryanism, Populism and Democ-
racy as now made up are synonymous
terms.
The combined forces of the elements of
discomfort of the country having gathered
in one fold and found without dissent
to respond with an equal degree of salts.
faction to each ones peculiar ism, it
seems to ME the part of wisdom to meet
them in another election. and again DEM
Onstrate that the electorate OF this conn
try in every critical time always stands
ready to do that which is wise, putting
down the wrong thing and putting up the
right
To Vote for Mckinley.
I am going to vote for President Nc
Kinley, and do whatever / consistently
can to aid in his election, not because I
favor all his policies or approve Of all his
political acts, but because under all ex-
isting conditions believe the affairs of
the country will be better off in his hands
than in those of Mr.. Bryan.
l hope some time to see the Democratic
party re-created. advocating Democratic
candidates and Democratic principles,
but it cannot be more than a disturbing
force in the country's daily history until
it rids itself of a leadership which has
brought it to it's present low estate and
ceases making itself the lying-in asylum
of those elements of discomfort which,
er would work injury at home and loss Of
standing abroad.
Advice to Democrat.,
1t can live under defeat without COM
plete and ultimate destruction, but vic
tory gained by it with a candidate holding
the views of Mr.. Bryan and a platform
pledging the party to carry out the things
advocated at Chicago in 1896, and in
Kansas City this year, would work such
results to the country that it would pass
out Of political power at recurring cleo
ton, without the smallest minorities to
do it honor.
"Unwept, unhonored and unsung."
The Democrat who wishes to save his
party's future will only aid that end by
defeating Mr.. Bryan and burying his
platform. Its ultimate recurrence to pow
er and prestige lies in the independence
of Democrats who are such on principle,
and not through expediency.
JAMES H. ECKELS.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-09-07

difference is certainly not great enough
to make any man surrender his convic-
tiOns ON other great questions to accept
him upon one.
1t may also be fairly doubted whether
a man with so many erroneous ideas as
to the conduct of the domestic affairs of
the nation can be trusted to have right
ones when it comes to managing our
foreign properties.
As to Porto Rico.
AS to the question growing out of the
Porto Rican tariff, l believe the admin
istratiOn made most egrcgious error, but
as Democracy is now constituted and con-
trolled it stands for nothing so far as a
tariff policy is concerned. 1t has aban-
doned all the advantages of its position
on this question, by advocating in its sill
yer policy the very worst kind of protec
ton. Mr.. Bryan stands responsible for
making it a party unable to manfully
advocate a Democratic tariff doctrine.
1t is to-day under Mr.. Bryan's leader
ship. a party emphasizing a desire for
special privileges and class legislation, ap-
pealing' for the support of every element
Of discomfort by falling in with and ad-
vocating the particularly special legisla-
ton which such element stands for. Its
demagogy is manifest on every hand.
Raising the Boer Issue.
What thoughtful and inquiring person
can possibly believe that either Mr.. Bry-
an or the delegates at Kansas City are
really deeply solicitous to the extent
which it is made to appear that they are
as to the alleged wrongs of the Beers in
South Africa? Is it not manifest, through
the thin disguise of love of human
freedom, rights and republican form Of
government, that Mr.. Bryan and his fol-
lowers hope for the German and Dutch
vote as a determining factor in the cleo
tion because of racial affllia tions with the
Beers and supposed race prejudice
against Great Britain, and not because
the question or the integrity Of the Boer
republics is so dear to them?
1t is absurd that the great questions
with which we have to do affecting the
vital interests of the United States shall
be overlooked in a debate upon how Great
Britain shall conduct its own affairs, es-
pecially in the face of proclaimed reaf-
irmation of the Monroe doctrine, which
means, properly interpreted, that the
people Of the United States shall attend
to their own affairs and let European ma
tions look after theirs.
Confidence in Germans.
Having voiced such sentiment, the
Kansas City convention. under the in
spiration of Mr.. Bryan, Immediately pro-
ceeds, for political effect, to express a
wish to interfere with European gov
ernment in a matter strictly its own I
think such politics cheap, and unstates-
manlike, quite beneath the dignity of any
great party or leader.
l shall be surprised if any German vot-
er, heretofore the bulwark of the coun-
try, against every assault upon the in
tegrity Of the country's currency system
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-09-07

Postoffice statistics are significant
From June 80 1895. to June 80, 1899,
there was gain of I. 600, 600 in the num-
Der of money orders issued, while their
value increased by $4,000, 600, and the
average amount of each order from 500
to $40. This is another proof of the
existence of Mckinley prosperity.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-09-07
Labor Prosperous in New York.

In New York State the Bureau of La
Dor Statistics shows that the number Of
employees in 1858 of the largest factories
in the State has increased in the last
three years by 56,321, or 1877 per cent,
while the increase in wages is $21, AGO.
SOf, or 1872 per cent.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-09-07
Farm Mortgages and Interest.

In 1890 the farm mortgages of the
State of Kansas amounted to the vast
sum Of $24O, 900 900, much of it bearing
the exorhitant interest Of u per cent,
was reduced in 1899 to less than Sal Co.,,
600. certainly remarkable evidence Of
the prosperity of the farmer. The pres
ent rates of interest on Kansas farm
loans are the lowest ever known.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-09-07
Labor in Mic higan.

Labor Commissioner Cox, Of Michigan,
says in his 1899 report: Wages show
decided increase over those of 1898, and
an average of more than 10 per cent in
crease over 1897. The greatest gain is in
the fact that all idle labor is now steadily
employed at remunerative wages"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-09-07
Sheen Worth Money Now.

Sheep are higher than for twenty years
and worth about double what they were
four years ago.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-09-07
Wages on the Great Lakes.

Wages of employees Connected with the
shipping on the Great Lakes have been
generally advanced.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-09-07
hat Cnwa Are Wort II !.

The total value of the farmers and
dairyman's mich cows is 53 per cent
greater than in 1896.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-29

was a bit of uneasiness as she was
picked up, and special car was taken
to see if her brakes were in good order
and her journal boxes well packed.
Away she went with the others. and
nothing happened until the train reach
ed Iron Hill. 1t had TO side track
there for a passenger train and TO pick
up three or four cars. In backing down
the long siding No. 1414 suddenly left
the track, breaking loose from the car
ahead and the caboose behind and run
ming at right angles. Fortunately
she did not run oyer the main track,
but took the other direction and
brought up against the coal dump and
reared on one end. she stood up there
like i ladder planted against 4 house
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-29
INTERNATIONAL CASUALTIES.
Thirty Killed and sixty-seven
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Found En-
trenched and Surrounded by
Thousands of Chinese.

Thirty Killed and Sixty-Seven
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Found En-
renched and Surrounded by
Thousands Of Chinese.
LONDON, June 20, 4 a. m.LThe cas-
ualtles of the international force attack
Ing Tien Tsin were: Americans killed,
3; wounded, 2. British killed, &;
wounded, L. Germans killed, 10.
wounded 81; Russians killed. 10;
wounded, 81.
The gun fire of the Americans and
British is described as beautiful"
After the relieving force pushed on
TO relieve Admiral Seymour, Chinese
regulars, under General Mich, says a
dispatch from Shanghai, again attack
ed Tien Tsin fiercely and bombarded
the foreign settlement with a terrible
fire.
Col. Dorward, British, commanded
the column that relieved Admiral Sey-
mour. American marines participated
in the achievement. The admiral was
found e~ntrenched and surrouded by i'm
mense masses Of Chinese who were
driven off by the relieving column after
a brisk fight. His men had made a
brilliant resistance, never failing in
courage for fifteen days of continuous
fighting. During ten days the men
were on quarter rations. They started
with provisions for ten days and they
could have held out a day or two
longer.
The column was a few miles beyond
Lola. Deeming it hopeless to attempt
to break through the hordes, Admiral
Seymour began a night retreat I o.
ward Tiep Tsin; but he came into col.
lission with a strong force of Chinese
arriving from the northwest and could
neither advance nor retreat. There
was nothing to do but to intrench and
70 stand seige. He vainly attempted
photographic communication.
Seymour's men caught several Chi
nese who said the legations had been
burned and the ministers killed. 9th
| ers said that the ministers had been
imprisoned.
The Chinese displayed fanatical courage
in the attack.
Four thousand Russians left Tien Tsin
four days after Admiral Seymour, but
they never got in touch with him.
Railway communication from Taku to
Tien Tsin has been restored and the force
is advancing toward Pekin. Fighting was
in progress "Wednesday in the vicinity
of Use Chulin. Large preparations are
being made to support and reinforce the
Pekin relieving column. Twenty thous-
and troops of all arms, largely Japan
csc, have now been Anded. The fate of
the member of the legations is still a
mystery. If they are dive and unframed
at Pekin the. Chinese government
deserves some crsdi3 Shanghai CORE
spondents think, for restraining the ia
natical mob.
the Daily Express asserts that the i'm
perial palace in Fekin was burned on
June 16 and that IT, attack or the palace
was made by revolving Chinese troops.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-29
IS c CONCERNED.

LONDON, June PSI p. ma rep
resentative of the Associated Press was
informed at the foreign Office this
evening that the viceroy of Nankin
has t~elegraphed to the British consul
general at Shanghai that he had re-
ceived, June 25, an imperial rescript
as follows:
THE foreign legations at Pekin con-
tinue as usual to receive every protec-
ton from the imperial government"
On the other hand the officials of the
Chinese embassy say they have reason
to believe the foreign ministers at
Pekin were given their passports June
10.
The foreign Office is much concerned
at the latter report and hopes it will
not be confirmed, as it would be an
Unexpectedly adverse development
which would possibly mean a declara-
ton of war.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-29

which it appeared that Vice Admiral
Seymour sent word that he seized a
small arsenal north of Tien Tsin,
where he was being bombarded by a
large number of guns and had lost
forty killed and seventy men wounded.
This message, it was explained. vas
brought by a servant in the employ of
one of the legations, who was thor
oughly trustworthy. He added the
damage done to the foreign settlement
at Tien Tsin was comparatively slight,
except in the case of the French and
British concession. which had suffered
severely. The British casualties were
four men killed and fifty wounded, in
Guiding six officers.
Mr.. Broderick also said the govern
ment had no news of the legations.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-29
FATE OF THE MINISTER'S.

LONDON, June 2S.-The world again
has to depend IN rumor in regard to
the fate Of the supposed exiles from
the Chinese capital. 1t is generally
accepted that they have been compelled
to leave Pekin, but whether coast
wards, under a Chinese escort, or as
hostages on the way to the possible
new capital, their plight must excite
the gravest anxiety, as even if they
are in the care of a Chinese escort this
is hardly considered a good guarantee
of the safety of foreign devils" in a
country swarming with their most viz
ulent enemies.
A telegram from Jardine, Matheson
& Co., dated Shanghai, this afternoon,
suggests that the ministers are still at
Pekfn, but admits that there is no
news from the capital.
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WERE SAFE JUNE 25.

SHANGHAI, June 2S.-The Daily
News has a despatch from Wei-Hai-
WEI dated June q, SAYING: The rail-
way terminus, which is eight miles
north OF Tien Tsin, is destroyed.
Captain Bayley wishes it published
that it is due to the Russians that any
one is alive at Tien Tsin.
The American consul t~elegraphs
that the American mission at Wei-Hai-
Wei has been completely destroyed.
From official sources it is learned
that the legations at Pekin and the for
elgners there were safe June 25."
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-29
Two Ginnts From the Caucasus.

Included in the Russian exhibit at
the Paris exposition is a very complete
forestry section in charge of two giant
gamekeepers from the Cars vast pre-
serves in the Caucasus. One of the
most interesting of the exhibits there
is that of a stuffed bison which was
shot by the Car Nicholas himself in
one of his battues. OF the three spe-
cies of bison known to exist two are
native to Asia and one to America. The
specimen here shown belongs to the
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-29
OIL NEWS.

Special to the Register.
CADIZ, o., June 2S.-The we'll on the
John c. Jamison farm, just west of
town, is in and is dry. The Jesse Shan
non well, near Flies, which was at
first pronounced dry, but later sold to
the Ohio Oil Company for $3.50, is
claimed to be making forty barrels.
About forty wells have been located
in Monroe county, west Of Bowers
town. The land near the CLANCY well,
in that section, is owned in small tracts
and the operators are thick.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-29
BRITISH %CAiuALTIEs.

LONDON, June 2SlEAdmiral Bruce,
in command of the British forces at
Taku, reports to the british admiralty
the following casualties:
At Taku, June y, one seaman
wounded.
At Tien Tsin up I'd the forenoon Of
June %, four seamen killed and Lieu
tenants Stirling, Powell and Wright,
Commander Beatty ami forty-four mid
shipmen and seamen Wounded"