The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1901-04-19

A PARTY fforty-two people from Blu
chanan county, Va, arrived last Friday
night and have gone up to New Vir-
ginia on the Cowlitz river-Chehalis
Bee Nugget.
WITH Notifications at Forts Flagler,
Casey, Worden, Lawton, at Port Or
chard narrows and Point Defiance the
incoming enemy of the future can be
assured of a greeting that is warm in
the eXtreme.-P.-I.
ALTHOUGH it is only about a dozen
years since the nomination of Benjamin
Harrison for President in the campaign
i'm which he was elected seven out OF
ten men who figured with most prOmin-
ence at the outset in the voting are now
dead. These are Sherman, Gresham,
Harrison, ingalls,, Blaine, Rush, and
William Walter Phelps. The three
who are alive are Depew, Alger and Al
lison.
THE town Of Guy, in Whitman coun-
ty, has been guyed to the limit of for
bearance, and the government has
granted relief to the extent of changing
the name of the postoffice there to Al
bion. There are other towns and sec
tons in Washington deserving similar
good Offices. When we read in Lewis
county papers that Miss Blank, of the
Big Bottom, spent last week with
friends in town. or that "Mr. Rider,
from Horse Heaven, is so-journing in
Yakima" we feel that the time has
come for similar changes.-W. G.
Trade.
IT must be eXasperating to the anti
imperialists to see the tide continually
running in the direction of the man
whom they delight to call Emperor
William L. Everything seems to be
coming the Presidents way; Aguinaldo
not only captured, but taking the oath
of allegiance and issuing manifesto;
things in Cuba smoothing out in the di-
rectiOn of peace and property; and in
this nation at large good times existing
everywhere. 1t is enough to make an
''anti'' want to leave the country forev-
er and live and die in foreign land
Tacoma News.
CONTRASTED with the Mare Island
yard the condition of affairs at the
Port Orchard station will show that
one station is on the wane and in the
course of d few years will be abandoned
while the other is forging ahead, taking
rank with the best docks and yards O.
the world. While at one station 45(
workmen were discharged from The
construction department few days age
on account of lack of funds at tn,
other, men cannot be secured in suffi
cient numbers and the commandment O
Port Orchard station has asked tn,
department for permission to advertise
for worlmen SO that the extensive plan
for the improvement of the station ma,
be carried out.-Port Orchard Indepen
dent
THE Summer Herald, in two col
umn editorial deplores the low depth t
to which the Democratic party in thi
state has fallen and points out many
reasons for its impotency. Among othe
arrangements, this one stands out
1--WE have no Democracy here now
Who say we have? Let him show us
sample. Is it Rogers? Is it Hart? L.
it Ballaine? Is it Blethen? Is it Haz
zard: Save the mark! Well, then
who is it, or what is it, or where is it
And what, moreover, is the sense O
utility OF a Democratic paper pretend
ing to say that a party, headed by sucl
a brand of cattle, DESERVES to succeed
Every thoroughbred knows better
Every adherent to the true faith know
that the Democracy can never affort
to choose to its leadership men who ar
lmbued with doctrines alien to its own.
THE program for the visit of Presi
dent Mckinley and his party to tn
Coast has now been completed, and vii
include an hours stop in Olympia
where Mason County people may hav
the opportunity of seeing "real liv
President Following. is the itin
erary through the state of Washington
Thursday morning, May 23rd, tn
president will leave Portland at
O'Clock for Tacoma, going by way O
Chehalis, Centralia and Olympia, stop
ping about an hour at the state capito
and reaching Tacoma late in the after
noon. The night will be spent i'm Ia
coma, and the following morning
boat trip will be taken on Puget Sound
ending at Seattle at about PIP. NJ. TIL
remainder of the day the party will
stay in Seattle, and late that night will
leave for Spokane, going by way O
Ellensburg, North Yakima, Pasco
Wallula and Walla Walla. Sunda,
they will remain in Spokane, as tn
President will not travel on that day
Most of the cabinet members and secre
taries will accompany the party.
Millions Given Away.
1t is certainly gratifying to the publ