The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1913-10-31

as second class mail matter.
and file of the third party, sound at
heart and righted in understanding
now that the establishment has come,
have been flocking back to the old
party by the thousands. Republican,
ism, rejuvenated, VIGOROUS and strong
in the old faith and purged of the sor-
did, office-seeking politicians, has
been rapidly regaining its strength.
The thousands have been coming back
to escape the disgusting association
with that very element that had led
them from it's ranks.
This movement has been so strong
and has assumed such proportions
that the most unsophisticated novice
in politics could plainly see that the
Bull Moose movement had reached
high tide and was doomed to disap
pear as had the populist and other
like eruptions. OF course the poll
ticians like Heney and U'Ren, who
are ever seeking to ride on the crest
of the incoming tide, wer" not slow
to detect the significance of the return
to republicanism. All decent and
loyal republicans had hoped. how
ever, that such creatures had forever
! read themselves out of the party, and
/ that they never could find their way
/ back. But they have come back, and
come brazenly asking for office, in
| spite of the ignominy of their posi-
ton. Think of Francis j. Heney re-
| joining the party that one year ago
he was shouting maladictions at from
the public platform in every state
where he could get a hearing! Heney
back in the party that he so fiercely
and so violently denounced as cor
rupt to the core, made up of liars,
thieves, degenerates; party devoid
of honor, decency and patriotism, and
sunken in the mire of political har-
lotry. He proclaimed it a party unfit
to receive the support of any self
respecting man, a party degraded and
debased beyond hope of reformation
or regeneration, party that was dy-
ing of vice and of rotteness. And to-
day Heney is one of the first of that
loud band of false prophets to aban-
don the field of Armegeddon and
claim membership in the party that
he tried so hard to destroy. His pres
ence is a poison, and it is to be hoped
that the people of California will ad-
minister to him the rebuke and de-
grading punishment that he deserves
A brief editorial that appea led in
this paper recently, in which d snail
shot was taken at democracy, musl
have Sorely hit the editor of the $40
Kane Democrat, juding from the way
he flutters. He opines that the Gu
lette editor is suffering from imbicil-
ty, as the result of accumulated years
Is it not possible that the Democrat
editor is similarly handicapped? In
former days, if our memory is rot at
fault, it was not necessary to resort
10 trepanning to get a joke through
his skull, or inject a sarcasm hyper
dermically in order to reach his blood
cOrpuscles.
Mrs. Pankhurst, the Carry Nation
of Merrie Old England, has managed
to break into the United States. She
has discovered a marvelously simple
and effective way to defy the law and
foil it's purpose, the hunger strike
She was first barred from entering
this country, but on threat that she
would starve herself the authorities
relented. That is the way she secur.
ed release from English jails, and II
seems to be her open sesame to the
free exercise of her will in everything
Here is an opportunity for the con.
victs of the country to effect gener,
al Jail delivery without risk of injury
tn anyone.
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