Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-03-08

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EDITORIAL COMMENT.
The Roseburg Plaindealer says the Democrats
of Oregon getting ready for the funeral; they
have commenced to organize hearse clubs.
The Smoot case is being considered in the u. S.
Senate, and the different phases of the Mormon SUI
perstition being threshed over very vigorously
by different senators. After it is all decided what
will it all amount to? The superstition that is fash.
ionable becomes the religion of today the religion
that is questionable becomes the superstition.
The old earth will keep On revolving whether
Smoot goes out stays in.
Here is a good lesson for our temperance
friends 1t is said that $625, 600, 900 spent in
Germany last year for alcoholic liquor This is an
average of $35 per head for persons over IS years
of age. With this a basis our orators who are
to ora,e next month at Pniom ath can draw hor-
rble examples enough to drown out all the argu-
ments of their opponents. This does not include
beer and if reports true, beer is also
sumed IN Germany.
They had prize fight in Jefferson last
week. which some of the school boys attended, and
on Saturday the authorities suspended a number
keep him out of school. An application of birch,
well laid on, would have been much effective.
Until pupil is old enough to behave properly he
is old enough to be punished, and we think it is
not too late to call these boys back and start them
again on the right track by means Of applica-
ton of the good old coil of hickory' We ought
to know; we went to school ourselves when a
schoolmasters standard of usefulness Was the
strength Of his good right ARM
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The revolution in New York State is over, and
Senator Thomas c. Piatt is laid the shelf, never
to be resurrected. He declares himself too
old and too tired to fight longer, and retires as
gracefully as possible under the circumstances The
new boss of the Republican party in New York is
Governor Benjamin B. Odell, Jr. For gen
Grafton Piatt has been the undisputed leader of
the party in his state Deserted by friends whom
he had supported for years, he found it necessary
to yield the reins of leadership to themaseru grip
of Odell, who is in absolute control.
1t is up to Odell to carry the State for Re-
publicans in the November election A victory
will put him in the front rank OF Republican lead
ers, defeat will crush him and humiliate him be-
claimed too lenient for the last few years, and he
has left too much of the detail work of the cam
pagns to his lieutenants, to the detrment of the
party's interests This must be stopped and
Odell is the man to make the change. 1t is con-
ceded that many changes will be made in the pre-
sent officers. Chauucey Depew will not be re-elect-
ed Changes in the Craftsmanship of state and county
committees will be made at once. Active work.
for the campaign will be inaugurated and it is the
Governors prediction that with good honest we'll di
rected work New York's 80 electoral votes will be
safe for Theodore Roosevelt in November. Sol
mote it be.
Kings Valley is no longer to carry off the houors
in developing for overdone eggs, she has al
rival in Albany, which has lately worked off al
good stock of these articles in manner very COM
mendable There appears in an Albany paper ofI
recent issue says the Telegram a story which re-
counts the rotten-egging of masher by the broth
made the victim of the insulting attentions of one
these brainless eXcrescences The young lady IN
volved took the proper course. An improper pro-I
posal followed by arrangement for meeting at
o'clock on the Albany steel bridge, and iu the in
term there was ofganized, on the report of the
young woman, party of male friends, headed byl
the brother, who, armed with eggs of last year'sl
vintage, made things interesting for the vulgaran
when he appeared upon the scene. For few min
ues the masher led in sprinting match, in which,
the work of the stern chasers effective to the
most satisfactory degree. If there is any being
travelling about in the guise of a full-grown man
whose presence the world could agreeably dispense
with, it is this pin-headed bundle of good clothes
that we know as the t'masher." Like other mex
pressibe evils, however his presence has to be toll
Grated, but this Albany young woman and the
youthful male friends have shown us how he may