Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-03-21

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the appropriation is reduced. The
managers should send them a return
ticket, good for one day only.
n the Journal nan had not returned
from California several days before
the big wind storm Saturday night
would probably have been attributed
to him.
Should the grades of our streets be
arranged as a proposition In the inter
est Of private parties, or from the
standpoint of the public interest?
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IT'S an I'll wind that blows nobody
good. Saturday night it did business
for the roofing men.
Have the progressive people OF
Court street been put out Of the street
improvement business?
There may be a diamond o by
some one least expecting 1t. To silence
all directors, let us hope it may be
one of the Salem ministers. A minis
ter who will read The Journal ought to
have a diamond to go with 1t.
Sheriff Storey was turned down for
renomination-and it may prove a
Story with a sequel.
go
The war correspondents are getting
their news from the bottom of the
well-that is where the proverb says
even Truth lies.
When the earthquake shook things
up at Seattle last Wednesday evening,
S~eattleites fred from the churches.
They are evidently a little weak in the
faith, or else have a strong desire to
remain in that perpendicular burg.
Considering that the following item
appears in Harrison R. Klncaid's pa.
per, 1t is not so bad, and almost equiv
alent to an endorsement of the truth
Of the characterization:
THE Salem Capital Journal calls
Geo. C. Brownell the Abraham Lin.
coin Of Clackamas county"
Geo. G. Brownell can take
the full place of Abraham Lincoln
with some people who Judge a states
mans Lincoln qualities only by his
inches.
The Eugene Register has It all cut
and dried for Marion county. Il copies
an article from the Statesman, and
heads II: Harris Stock on the jump
Marion County VIII Have Delega.
ton for Him-Factional Fight Is over
The Harris Boom Has Taken on
New Life"
Among the legislative possibilities
In Marion county, beside some OF the
FIVE members Of the last house Of rep.
resentatives, the names of ]. G.. Ora.
ham, II. B. Thielsen and Geo. G. Bling.
ham are mentioned. The party might
do worse. Mr.. Thielsen would fight
hard for some good roads legislation,
as he is a practical engineer.
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The Journal Is not opposed to Mr..
Harris for congress. He Is a bright
young man and working hard to get
acquainted In all the seventeen coun-
ties. But the strenuous demands Of
Lane county a year ago that Mr.. Her.
mann be the nominee and that no one
else would do are remembered in Ma
rlon county, and the sharp turn Of the
Lane county politicians take away the
breath OF the average Republican who
is more Hermann now than he was
then.
Prof Charles Mills Gayler, OF the
University OF California. took his po-
etry class Of 100 goods to task satur.
day, He was trying TO tell the girls
about the beauties OF some new poem.
but they We're not interested. The
professor got mad and said; IF God
Almighty or the Angel Gabriel wrote
a poem IL would not interest you. You
are nothing but giggling girls" The
professor is so dunderheaded he does
not know that God wrote a poem, and
called it Woman, and the poem pre-