The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1900-05-27

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The defeat OF the Clatsop county
Aguinaldo ticket in June is as fOreOr-
dained and certain as the defeat of the
Aguinaldo national ticket in November.
The people Of clatsop county are not
in the humor to treat with patience
the pretenslons of local reformers any
more than the people of the country
are inclined to listen to the mock decla-
nations and declarations Of the Chica-
go platform demagogues. Oregon is
Too busy Just now preparing for the
wonderful era Of trade expansion which
is bound to follow the reelection Of
Mckinley and the enforcement Of re-
publican principles and policies. This
is not the year for calamity howlers
and socialistic theorists Of the Bryan
school OF politics in the affairs of the
Nation. the state or county. The peo-
pie Of Oregon know as well as those
Of other sections of the country that
the Bryanites can't carry single
Northern state east Of the Mississippi
and north Of the Ohio and Potomac
rivers, and that every single Western
state that was deluded into the cheap
money tidal wave of 1896 has fallen
solidly back into its old republican
lines. With the grand possibilities be-
fore the people OF every section Of the
Nation the people Of Oregon want
hard-headed. earnest and energetic
workers. not cranky theorists and re-
formists in charge Of the national. state
and county governments; and their
votes must be given to the republican
tickets in order TO get them. Oregon
fires the first gun in campaign which
will knock the forces of traitors and
anti-progressionists into confusion and
ultimate utter extinction. That gun
viii have no uncertain sound or ef-
feet. The majority for congressman.
for the legislative candidates. who will
help elect the next United States SEN
ator and for every other candidate on
the republican county tickets, down to
the office Of constable. will be the
greatest ever known in Oregon. The
year 1900 will be record breaker for
the republican party in the volume of
its vote and in its triumphant and
sweeping success throughout Oregon
and the Nation. Four years ago the
enforced idleness and general prostra-
tion Of industry and trade, succeeding
the four years experiment of demo-
cratic, anti-expansion, free trade gov
eminent had brought many of the
people of Oregon, in common with
those of other sections Of the eoun-
try, to the verge of ruin and despair.
Mr.. Bryan and his heresies captured
many vote for the fusion ticket which
no sort of combination on it viii ever
obtain again. Every channel Of com
meree, industry and trade in the Ma
tion is now enjoying the highest meas
ure Of prosperity Every workirgman
in Oregon is employed at liberal
wages; every business interest is stead
lily expanding and every dollar paid
to employer or employed is the equal.
and will be kept so, of the best dollar
known in the wcrld. This is the record
of four brief years control Of the
affairs of the Nation by the republican
party. The future never in the whole
history Of the country looked so bright
and encouraging. Who wants, and for
What reason, change? The peo-
pfc of Oregon will shun the candidates
on any ticket that rests upon the
proposition to change this situation; to
dishonor the Nation in the sight of the
world; to convulse the whole busi-
ness and Industrial interests Of the
country by reversal Of the policies
which now prevail-as they would shun
pestilence. The people Of Oregon
believe in the flag and in the expan-
sion Of the power Of the republic to
the utmost limit of its possible extent
throughout the West Indies and the
islands and countries Of the Eastern
seas. Let no voter in Clatsop county
be timid or afraid. The people of no
section of Oregon, least of all in Clat-
sop county, or in the Nation are going
to try any experiments with Bryan
and his crazy, non-descript followers
This year. They would as soon vote for