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urmmuznEBB EVENING CAPITAL JOURNAL WEDNESDAY, OCT. 10, 1888. Overland to California VIA REPUBLICAN' PLATFORM. Declaration of Con Principles and Asscr of Popular KigLt. Southern Pacific Company's Lines. ROUTE. Tine Between Sslpm and Sin Francisco Thlrlx-sli llonn. CU.IK0UX1A KXl'Bt-SS THAIX PAIT.'I 'flouilir'i Ty?j?nr 4-it) p. m. Lv. I'ortiiinii Ar. 10:10 u. m. Cin. m. IjV. HiiK'in l.v. SiTOn. in. 7:o.m. f Ar. Han Fran. liV. M-TOpni. OCAL I'AHUKNOKIl TIIAIN ( KAILY KX- Cr.ITl.SU.NHAY). WW n. in. liV. Portland Ar. I 3:1 p. in. ISa a. in. I.v. Hiilem Uv. 12:02 p. m. 1HO p. in. Ar. Kugeno I.v. B.OO n. m. PULLMAN BUFFET SLEEPERS. TOURIST SLEEPING CARS, Vxv itccoiiiinodiitlon of second clui pun fcetiucin nttached to express trains. TlioO. A 0. Uallroml ferry multcs con miction wltli all tlio regular trains on thu Kist Hlilo Division from foot ol K street, JlMtluml. West Side Division, Between Portland and Cervallis: DAII.V (KXCKIT HUNHAY) 7il0u. in. 123T p. in. rnrr Ar. TorTTamT CorvallU "ATT liV. M'MIMMVll.I.K KXIMIKh!) TltAIN KXCBIT HUNDAY). iI:TJ p. m". i:.j p. in. (I)AII.Y I.v. Portland Ar. Ar.Mp.Mlnn villa I.v. "TTOfJa. m, fi:l". fi. in At Albany and CorvullM connect with IraliiHofOri'ifon l'aclllc Hallroad. Kor full Inronnatloii reuardlni? rates, niaiw, etc., npply!to thu Company's auunt, HiIpiii, Oivroii. K. I1. WOllKltS. IL KOKIII.i:U, Asst. U. T. mid 1'hhh. A n't. Manager. Oi-cgon Railway anil Navigation ICOMPANY. 'Columbia River Route.1 'i'mliiH for thoonsl lenvo l'ortlnnd lit W:V a in mill 2 in dally. Tickets to and from principal points in tlio United States, Can niLiuiitl Jiumpo. ELEGANT PULMANN PALACE CARS KmlKnint Blceplni&Curs rim tlnoncJi!on oxpiuMt trains to OMAHA COUNCIIi IIMJFFS Ullll ST. Free of Clinrgo anil Without Clinngo. Connect Ioiih nt l'ortlnnd forHan Fran ilHooandl'iiet Hound Hlnts. For further particulars Inquire or I. A. Mnmilnir, iiKcnt of tlio company, "J 1". Commercial street, Hiilom, Urcuon, or A. U Maxwell, O. 1'. A T. A., Pertiund, OrCBOli. A. 1. MAXWELL . 1. AT. A. It HOLCOMB.IUi'nl.lMmiaKor. THE YA0UINA ROUTE. OREGON PACIFIC RAILROAD Ami Ori'KOll Development company's HlmniNlilp lino. 1M1 miles Hlmrter, 20 hours Iivm time than by any olhor miilp. Flint ciluM tlu-ouuli passeiik'er and frclKht lino Iniiil IMrtlnml and all points In tlio Wil lamette Milley to and fiom Han Francisco. TIME SCHEDULE, (Kxcept Humbiys): l,ravit Albany 1:00 1M lre Corvallis 1:10 PM Arrlvo Yiuiuliut fc.'W P M Uuvu Ymiulnn - ...... -li: 1,1AM lntvo Corvallis lfc.'ttAM Arrlvo Albany 11:10 A it O. A I), trains counoct ul Albany- and Corvallis, Thn above trulni connect nt YAQUINA with tlio Oictrou Doveloiiment Cob l.lno afHUmtrtshlps between aiiilna mid Sao FnmulMM. SAILING DATES. tmctuKiLS, kuomJian kuancusco Wllliitnrtta Vnlloy, Monday, Oclobor Klh Wltliimetto Valley, Hat in day, October 2oih KrRAMKItS. MIOU TAO.UINA. WllltiinelUi Vnlloy, Tuesday, October 2d Wlltiimetto Valley, Holiday, October Hill Willamette Valley, Friday, October 2Ulh This coiiuviliv rmorvnH tlio rnrlit in luttiKennllliiK ilaton without notice. N. It. lWimijoni from Portland and all Willamette Vnlloy point pan make close CHmtiivtlon with tlio trains of thu 1AIUI.. nut nsnl Albany or Corvallis, and If destined to Km KnincUco, should muiKi' in nirivii in i milium ine evening tMtfliru duto of satllnir. rvsecer n.l freight Itstra ,Ik tkr Iwmt. For Inronnatloii apply to .Momsi-m JIUI.MAN' A Co.. Frulaht it ml Tlclcet Aeot AX) nml arj Front st., lrtliitid, Or. urUt C. C. JIOOlTK, Ao'l (len'l Frt. A Puiw. Al., UrvKim lVelllo It. H. Co., LMrvulllH, Or. tl 11. HAHVKM,,Jr. Ot'il'l Frl; A Push. Agl. Onvon Development li., !l Montkiimery St.; Han Frmielseo, lil OTho nUVEHB' QTTIDB U lMuo'd Mwh and Bp., each rar. It la ut noy elopedia of uaoful Infor mation for all who pur. chaao lha luxuriea or the uooeitlllea of Ufa, Wo oan eloth you and furniih you with all tlii neoetiarr and unneooaaary appllanoea to rid, walk, danoa, aleap, eat, flah, hunt, work, go to church, pr atay at homo, and In various !, Mylei and quantltlaa, Juit flguro out what la ruqulrod to do all theao thing! COMFORTABLT. " 7ou oan max a fait saUmat of tlio valua of the UUYKUH' QUIUB, which will b aant upon raoaipt of 10 oanta w par pottaga. MONTGOMERY WARD A CO. 1U-U4 Ulohlgan Avanae, Oaieago.IU. STOCK PA1UI FOR SALE or RENT ! 630 ACRES Well WHtorwd and MUy ol tlmlHH-. Two WHMM and two Wra. 0xhI orahard. Meadow mid 1 avrm Uiw land, piny bead ofetttllo Vftlh ttia M& Ifwaared.aua iMirMKatuHiMh luruu il V1Hl h.u,ii- of dfrwl wi fhaO.ACft.lL A twrfalu Kr Eflouire at Office of Csoltal Journal, The Reonblicans ol the United Slates, assembled by their delegates in National convention, pnse on the theshold of their proceedings to honor the memory of their first great leader, the immortal champion of liberty and the rights of the people Ahtaham Lincoln; and to cover also with wreaths of imperishable remembiance and gratitude the heroic names of later leaders, who , have more recently been called away from our councils Grant, Garlield, Arthur, Logan and Conkling. May their memories be faithfully cher ished. We also recall with our greetings and with prayer for his recovery the name ol one of our living heroes whose memory will be treasured in the history both of Republicans and of the Republic the name of that noble soldier anil favorite ton of victory, Philip II Sheridan. In thu spirit of ihoso great leaders, and of our own devotion to human liberty, and wilh that hostility to all forms of despot ism and oppression which is the funda mental idea of the Republican party, we sond fraternal congratulations to our fel low Americans of Brazil upon their great act ol emancipation, which completed the abolition of slavery throughout the two American continents. JWc earnestly hope that we may Boon congratulate our fellow citizens of Irish birth upon the peaceful recovery of homo rule for Ireland. We affirm our uuswerving devotion to the National Constitution and to the in. dissolublo Union of the states : to the au tonomy reserved the states under the Con. stitution : to the personal rights and liber ties of citizens in all the Slates and Terri tories in the Union, and especially to the supreme and sovereign right of every lawlul citizen, rich or poor, native or foreign born, white or black, to cast ono free ballot it. public elections, and lo have that ballot duly counted. We hold the. free and honest popular ballot, ami the just and equal representation of all the people, to be the foundation of our republican government, and demand ef fective legislation to secure the integrity and purity of elections, which are the fountains of all public authority. We chargo that the present administration and tho Democratic majority in Congress owe their existence to tho suppression of the ballot by a criminal nullification of the Constitution and laws of tho United States. Wo arc uncompromisingly in favor of the American system of protection. Wo protest against its destruction proposed by tlio president and his party. They servo the lutcicsts of Europe; wo will Bupport tho interests of America. We ac cept tho issues and confidently appeal to the people (or their judgment. The pro tectivo system must be mainta'ned, Its abandonment has always been followed PAUL ' general disaster to all interests, except thoso of tho usurer and tho sherlll. Wo denounce the Mills bill an destructive to thu guncr.il business, thu labor and the farming interests of the country, and we heartily endoreo tho consistent and patriotic actions of the Republican Rep resentatives in Congress in opposing its pansago. Wo condemn the proposition of the Democratic party to place wool on the free list, and we insist lint the duties thereon slnill lie adjusted and maintained so as to furnish full and adequate protection to that industry. The Republican party would efTect a'l needed reduction of the National revenue by repealing tho taxes on tobacco, which are an annoyance and burden to agriculture, and the tax upon spirits used in the arts und fur mechanical purposes; and by such revision ol the tarill as will tend to check imports of such articles as are produced by our neople, thu production of which gives employment to our labor, and release from import duties those articles of foreign pro. dilution (except luxuries) the like of which can not bo produced at home. If (here shall still remain a larger revenue that is requisite for the wants of tho government we favor the entire repeal of internal taxes rather than the surrender of any part of our protective system at tho joint behest of the whisky tiusta and the agents of fareign manufacturers. We declare our hostility to the introduc tion into this country of foreign contract labor, and of Chinese labor, alien to our civilization and our Constitution, and we demand the rigid enforcement of the ex isting laws against it, and favor such im mediate legislation as will exclude such Ulmr from our shores. We declare our opposition to all combin ations of capital organized in trusts or other wise, to control arbitrarily the condition oi traue among our citizens, and wo com mend to Cougrcsi and to tho State Legis atures, in their respective juiisdietions, tuoh legislation as will prevent the execu tion of all schemes to oppress the people by undue charges on their supplies, or by un just rates for the transportation of their products to market. We approve the lei;- tslatiou by Congress to prevent alike un just burdens and unfair discriminations be tween the States, We teallirni the policy of appropriating the public lands of tho United States to be hoinesteudk for American citizens and set tlers, not aliens, which tho Kspublican parly established in lS6:, against the pcmtiteut opposition of the Democrats in Congress, and which has brought our great Western domain into such magnificent development. The restoration of unearu. oil land grants to the public domain for the use of actual settlers, which was begun under the administration of lrcsidebt Ar thur, should be coutmued. Wedquy.thit the democratic patty has ever restored oue acre to the people, but declare that by the joint action of republicans and democrats, about litty miliums ol acres or unearned lands originally granted for the construc tion of railtoads have twen restored to the public domain, in pursuance of the coudi lions luscrted by the republican party in the original grsuts. Wa charge the deni ooratic adminijtiatiou with failure to exe-, cute the laws securing to settlers titles to their homesteads, and with using appro, liatious made for that purpose to harass innocent settlers with spies and proeou tlous uuder false preltuce of exposing frauds aud rtudicating the law, The government by Congrvet of the Territories it based upon necessity only, to the aud that they may beoome Status In the Umou) therefore , whenever the con- unions oi population, material resources, public iatelligeuce and morally are tuoh as to seoute stable leeal rovtinniful theme, the people of such Territories should be permitted, a a riht Inherent i' them, to form for themselves a constitution and State government, and be admitted into the Union. Pending the prepara tion for Statehood, all officers '.hereof should be selected from the bona fide residents and citizen ot the Territory wherein they are to serve. South Dakota should of right be immediately admitted as a State in the Union, under the con stitution framed and adopted by the people, and we heartily indotse the action of the Republican Senate in twice passing bills for her admission. The refusal of the Democratic House of Representatives, for partisan purposes, to favorably consider these bill, s a willful violation of the sacred American principle of local self-government, and merits the condemnation of all just men. Tin. pendiog bills in the Senate for acts to enable tho people of Washington, North Dakota and Montana Territories to form conslitutions should be paused without unnecessary delay. The republican party pledges itself to do all in its power to fa cilitate the admission of the territories of Now Mexico, Wyoming, Idaho and Ari zona to the enjoyment of self-government as states, sucn oi tnem as are now quali fied, as soon as possible, and the others as soon as they may become so. The political power of the MormoD church in the territories, as experienced iti tho past, is a menace to free institutions too dangerous to be long suffered. There fore we pledge the republican party to ap propriate legislation asserting the sover eignty of the nation in all territories where the same is questioned, and in furtherance of that end to place upon the statute books legislation stringent enough to divorce the political from the ecclesias tical power, and thus stamp out the attendant wickeduess of polygamy. The republican party is in favor of the use of both gold and silver as money, and condemns the policy of tho democratic administration in ite efforts to demonetize silver. We demand the reduction of letter postage to I cent per ounco. In a republic like ours, where the citizen is the sovereign and the official the servant, where no power is exercised except by the will of the people, it is important that the sovereign the people should possess intelligence. The free school is the promoter of that intelligence which is to preserve us a free nation; therefore, the state or nation, or botli combined, should support free institutions of learning, sufficient to afford to ovcry child growing up in the land the oppor tunity of a good common school edu cation. We earnestly recommend that prompt action be taken by Congress in tho en actment of such legislation as will bet secure tho rehabilitation of our American merchant marine, and we protest against tho passage by Congress of a free ship bill, as calculated to work injustice to labor by lessening the wages of those engaged in preparing material, as well as those directly employed "in our ship yards. We demand appropriations for the early .ehuildiug ofouruavy; for the construction of coast fortifications and modern ordnance, and other appioved modern means of defense for the protec tion of our dtfcuseless harbors und cities; for the payment of just pensions to our soldiers; for necessary works of National importance in the improvement of harbors ancj the channels of internal coastwise, and foreign commerco; for the encouragement of the shipping interests of the Atlantic, Gulf aud I'acihc States, as well as for the payment of the maturing public aeut. i his policy will ive em ployment to our labor, activity to our va rious industries, lucrease the security of our country, promote trade, open new and (meet markets for our produce, and cheapen the cost of transportation. We a Hi nil this to be far better for our country than the democratic policy of loaning the government money without iuterest to "pet banks." The condust of foreign affairs by the present administration has been distin guished by its inefficiency and its coward ice. Having withdrawn from the Senate all ponding treaties effected by republican administration for the removal of foreign burdens and restrictions upon our com merco and for its extension into better markets, it has neither eflected nor pro. posed any others in their stead. Profess, ing adherence to tho Monroe doctrine, it lias seen with idle complacency the exten sion of foreign inllueuce in Central America, and of foreign trade everywhere amoug our neighbors. It has refused lo charter, sanction or encourage any Amor lean organization for constructing the Nicaragua canal, a work ot vital import ance to the maintenance of the Monroe doctrine, and of our national influence in Central and South America, and neces sary for the development ol trade with our Pacific territory, with South America and with the itlauds aud further coasts of the Pacific Ocean. We arraign the present democratic ad ministration for its weak and unpatriotic treatment of the" fisheries question, and its pusillanimous surrender of the essen tial privileges to which our fishing vessels aie entitled in Canadian ports uuder the treaty ot lolo, the reciprocal maritime legislation of IS30, and the comity of nations, and which Canadian fishing ves sels receive in the pons of the United States. We condemn the policy of the picsent administration and the democratic majority in Congress toward our fisheries as unltiendly and conspicuously unpatri otic, and at tending to destroy a valuable national industry, and an indispensable roouroo ol detcuse agalust a foreign enemy. The name of America applies alike to all citizens of the republic, aud imposes upon all alike the same obligations of obedience to the laws. At the same time that citizenship is and must lie the pan oply and safeguard of him who wears it, and protect him, whether high or low, rich or poor, in his cttil rights. It should and must afford him protection at home, and follow and protect him abroad in whatever Und he may be on a lawful errand. The men who abandoned the republican party in 1SS4, ami continue to adhere to the uemooratto party, have deserted not only the cause of honest government, of sauna nuances, or iietuom and purity of me uiu, wa especially nave uetciteu the. cause of reform in the civil service. We will uot fall to keep cur pledges be cause they have brokeu theirs', or bcoame their candidate has broken his. We, therefore, repeat our declaration of 1SS4, auipicKHHly begun under the republican administration' should be completed by the further cxteouou of the refeini system already eetabJHfccd by law, to ail tHc grades of the service to which it is applic able. The spirit and purpose of the re form should be observed in all executive appointments, and all laws at variance with the object of existing reform legisla tion should be repealed, to the end that the dancer to free institutions which lurks in the power of official patronage may be wi'ely and effectively avoided." The gratitude of the nation to the de fenders of the union cannot be measured by laws. The legislation of Congress should conform to the pledges made by a loyal people, and be so enlarged and ex tended as to provide against the possibility that any man who honorably wore the federal uniform shall become the inmate of an almshouse, or dependent upon private charity. In the presence of an overflowing treasury it would be a public scandal to do less for those whose valor ous service preserved the government. We denounce the hostile spirit shown by President Cleveland in his numerous vetoes of measures for pension relief, and the action of the democratic house of representatives in refusing even a consid eration of general pension legislation. In support of the principles herewith enunciated we invite the co-operation of patriotic men of all parties, and especially of all workingmen whose prosperity is seriously threatened by the free trade policy of the present administration. Additional plank submitted by Mr. Boutelle of Maine, and adopted by an almost uuanimous vete: The first con cern ot all good government is the virtue and sobriety of the people and the puiity of the home. The republican party cordially sympathizes with all wise and well directed efforts for the promotion of temperance and morality. BOOTS AATJ SHOES. WIW. BROWN & CO. DEALER IN- VIES -FOIt THE HOMEL ESS B O O TTlS S HlOB s" and Findings! CASH PAID FOR Wool, Hides, Pelts and Furs. No. 231 Commercial Street, SALEM, - - OREGON. 'i .aiN J A. mKo f 12oo ACRES -OF- VARIED UND fee fly Capital Jonrna -FOR Sale or Rent. Quantity ami Quality to Suit Purchaser. . . Lands near It. It. Facilities. The Cheapest Newspaper in Oregon! THE BEST FAMILY NEWSPAPER IN MARION COUNTY. A GOOD CHANCE Read Our Reduced Terms! WEEKLY, oue year, ?1.60. WEEKLY, six months, $0,75J -FOK A- Renter or Purchasei Now Read Oar Discount for Cash! WEEKLY, oue year, ?1.00. WEEKLY, six months, f0.50. WAS THERE EVER ANYTHING EQUAL TO IT? NOW ROLL IN THE NAMES, AND TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OUR ONE-r,HTRD OFF FOR CASH. TEAMS AND STOCK ON THE KAKM- WILL, BE SOLD To those buy Ins; homes. If desired. For Particulars call at This Office. Our Old Subscribers Now in arrears nro urged to take advantage of out big discount, by set tling old accounts ana joining the grand throng of one dollar subscribers. TO ONE AND ALL We say, send us your names. If you want to take advantage of our "one third oil" for cash," and are not where you can get postal notes or other convenient method of remitting, send us your name' and state that you will remit at first opportunity. This will ensure your being placed on the dollar list. THIS IS NOT A SPECIAL OFFER. But a solid, permanent reduction. We have eome to stay. it