THE DALLES -WEEKLY CSRONlCLE, FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1892.
Tk Weekly Chroniele.
OFFICIAL PAPEIt OF WASCO COUNTY.
Entered at the Vostoffice at The Dulles, Oregon,
as second-class matter. -, :
SUBSCEIPTIOS KATES. . .
BY WAIL (rOSTAOK PKKAID) III ADVANCE.
Weefchvl year 1 50
-45 months. .- 6
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Dalles, Oregon.
Everybody 'know s the agriculeural ex
". '. hftiUs at owr last two-district fairs out a
sorry figure in the pavilion. Everybody
knows that the farmers took little intei
est im the f fairs and that very few of
them were in attendance. The question
is,will the exhibit and attendance be
any better this year? And if not, is it
"really -worth while to try and hold any
more fairs, or work for an appropriation
from the-state for their support? If the
farmers won't take an interest in the
fairs,' then is it 'not better to abandon
- the farce of an agricultural exhibit alto
gether, and let the trotting association
which is an entirely distinct institution,
mnd which has kindly iven the grounds,
free of -charge to the agricultural fair,
for 'the ;past three years have their
trials of-speed at whatever time is most
. convenient to them. But if the country
has taken little interest in the fairs the
city has taken less. There was un
doubtedly good- exense for this last year ;
tfaei fair happened immediately after the
fire, but ; there was no excuse for the
year before, and it is even doubtful if
the fire stopped one single exhibit from
the merchants of the city last year.
We .firmly believe we never will
have successful fairs unless the city goes
to work and helps to make them so.
- Let the business men and others do, as
they are doing in La Grande and Island
city,, namely, offer special premiums for
special exhibits, separate and apart from
the cash premiums-offered by the agri
cultural -society. These premiums
..would,: in most cases, operate as the
meet -effective kind of advertisement,
and their. value would come back to the
' donor in increased tiade. As a sample
' of tbe-characUsrof the La Grande and
' Island city premiums, we find in the
La-Grande Chronicle, that a furniture
firm gives a $40 bed room set for the
best-display of jellies; a clothier gives a
$25 suit for the best stallion; another a
$35 suit for the beat colt; Knapp, Bur
rell &. Go., give a Deering mower for the
best exhibit of potatoes ; a saddler gives
a saddle or single harness, worth $40, for
the -best -saddle horse ; a stove dealer
gives -a $e range lor tlie best display
of canned firuit; a dealer in musical in
struments, gives a $25 guitar or mandolin
for the best exhibit of worsted embroid
ery ; -stockman gives a $40 half-breed
colt for.fcbe best pure-bred sucking colt
of draft bred ; a nursery-man gives $25
worth of fruit trees for the best general
display of fruit grown by exhibitor in the
district:; .agrc-ervu)an gives 25 pounds
of tea for "the best display of butter;
Michel I, Lewis,. Staver & Co., give a $00
road eart'fof the largest and best display
of vegetables:;, a patent fence company
give $25 .worth of fencing material for
the best milclicow ; .Frank Brothensgive
a $40 set of harness for best span-of -carriage
horses owned by exhibitor ; a dry
goods toun gives a $25 silk dress for best
quilt, jflain patchwork ; another dry
goods man .gi ves a pair of $30 portieres
for best exhibit of silk embroidery:; an
other a pair of $20 blankets for someth
ing else, and so on. Would it be any
wonder if the LeGrand fair should prove
a success? .With -such liberality it could
not be anything else and the same re
sults would follow the same causes here.
Will our business .men and capitalists
take the hint? Then we'll have a .fair
and, possibly., not till then. .
Senator Peffer of . Kansas, has been
airing his notions on finance, in" the U.
S. senate. The republic was going to
the dogs, of course. This was his major
premise. There' was no way to save, it
except by destroying usury. - He ' be
lieved congress had perfect authority to
lend money to the people as much as to
provide for carrying the mail packages
or determining-the rates which the
railroads mav charge for carrying
freight- ' or ' paseengers. His - bill
whose passage he was urging, provides
that ho corporation or firm is hereafter
to receive more than 5 per cent interest
on short time, nor more than 4 per cent
for a year or longer. All of which goes
to prove that all the fools in the country
are not confined in the lunatic asylums.
When congress hall have power to com
pel s man to loan his money at 4 per
cent, when the law of supply and de
mand has fixed . its price at 5 or 6, or 8
or 10 oer cent, then coneress will have
. -
nower to fix the Drice of wheat or any
j - ,
other commodity. -Senator Peffer's at
tempt to fix the price of money, by con
gressional interference, is as likely to
succeed as if he attempted to fix the
subscription Drice of newspapers. The
thing cannot be done.
The "Portland Telegram thinks if the
democratic state convention had put a
free-sirver Dlank in the platform Pen-
Tiover would have taken the stump for
Yaatch and Hermann would have been
beaten in the first district; while, if the
platform had suited Eastern Oregon
voters, Slater would have been elected,
and then the grand newscould have been
heralded to the Jlinneapotis convention
thatOresron had gone democratic. To
this the EastOregonian a bedrock, dyed
in the wool democratic 'sheet answers
"For the life of us we cannot see where
the benefit would have come in. Al
ready congress is overflowing with dem
ocrats, so called, and more of them
would only add to their accomplishing
nothing, but to waste time at the peo
ple's expense. There is no need of more
democratic congressmen until those al
ready in congress prove themselves real
servants of the people. The trouble
with the Telegram is, it believes more in
a shallow victory at the polls than in
accomplishing something after the elec
tion." Brethern, brethern, this lack of
harmony will injure the good old cause.
The mayor has issued a call for a
meeting to be held in the Court house
tomorrow night for the purpose of select
ing candidates for the various city offi
ces, to bo voted for at the coming city
election. It is hoped that a good repre
sentative meeting may convene and that
candidates mav be selected who will
, represent the majority of the voters of
the municipality. There is absolutely
no issue before the people, excepting
only that of economy and a faithful and
honest discharge of the duties connected
with the several offices and these are is
sues that are always before the people
at every election. Under these circum
stances let a full representative meeting
convene tomorrow night, let good men
be selected for candidates and let us all j
without regard to race, color or previous
condition of servitude, get in and sup
port them.
The Chronicle has . -undertaken the
work oLprocuring, from the merchants
and capitalists of this city and county, a
generous list of special premiums to be
given for agricultural and other exhibits
at the coming district fair. As soon as
the list is complete it will be published.
The. liberal response which The Chron
icle has already met with in talking
the matter up among The Dalles mer
chants, ' gives assurance that so far as
premiums for exhibits are concerned the
farmers will have no ground for excuse
this year for not doin? their best to make
the fair worthy of the magnificent resour
ces of this district. . The. premiums, so
far as we are able to report at this writ
ing, will consist of such things as valua
ble agricultural implements, carts, har
ness, saddles, cooking stoves, groceries,
dry goods, clothing, articles of household
furniture, and many others both useful
and ornamental. The people may be
well assured that all or any of these
premiums will be well worth contending
for; and, so far as we can. judge,
there will be plenty of them, and they
will be distributed so . as to cover
every worthy exhibit to be made.. It
will be understood that these premiums
are all additional to the cash premiums,
same as last year, which are given ' by
the state. Now let the farmers look out
for their best samples of grain and veg
etables, the orchardists their best sam
ples of fruit, the stock men their best
specimens of domestic animals, the
women their best samples of butter,
jams, jellies, needle work, embroideries,
etc. etc, and if The Chronicle does not
surprise you with a list of special prem
iums, we greatly miss our guess.
Because a plat of land up about
Tongue point, wjiich has been held for
fifty years to tho detriment of Astoria;
has recently been platted, with a rail
road avenue in it 100 feet wide, and 40
foot luargius on both sides,-some people
down by the deep, sad sea think the pro-
jectors of the Astoria and Portland K. R.
should 8top work immediately -"and i
wait for the Northern Pacific" to decide
what it proposes to do about it. Take !
the friendly advice of Tiik Ciikomcle,
neighbors; and push your A. and P.
through to transcontinental connections
just as quick as Providence will let you.
Waste no. more time cuqnetting wiih
moss back.
FRUIT JARS.
JELLY GLASSES.
-W Hurts ALK OIC KKTAII.
Crockery and Glassware,
Platedware. Cutlery, Lamps,
Toys and Notions, Hammocks,
Fishing Tackle, Stationery, Etc.
Agent for NEW HOME and WHITE SEWING MACHINES.
' tV" Needles and uttachmi-nM for ull machines. V
Cigars and Tobacco.
181 Second St L. RORDEN & CO., ISI Second St.
JOHBKRS AND UKTAILF.RS OK
Headache ; Hardware, Tinware Etc Etr
iUyiultefromderntoriiju!hor VVC ' W d Cj CLL., LLly.
The people's party in Portland are I
making vigoroas preparations for -capturing
the offices in ;the coming city
At the 'ate Minneapolis convention,
Ingalls, of Kansas, sent to the desk the
following resolution which passed the
house unanimously: "Resolved, That
the secretary of the convention prepare
a full report of the national republican
convention of 1856, I860 and 1864, and
cause it to be sold at the cost of printing,
and a similar arrangement should be
made for the publication of the proceed
ings of this convention." This ought to
make an interesting" document. In
whatever. light men .may view political
parties and principles, it is a remark
able fact that every plank in the first
platform of the republican party has
Bince been incorporated in onr national
laws.
We called attention a few days ago
the efforts being made by the merchants
of La Grande to enconrage and promote
the success of the district agricultural
fair to be held at La Grande in Novem
ber, and urged that similar efforts here
would insure the success of our district
fair. A late dispatch informs us that
Union county lodge of the,farmers al
liance has supplemented the merchants
efforts in a way that ought to promote
profitable rivalry among the farmers
themselves, and materiallycontribute to
the success of the fair. The lodge has
decided to place on exhibition at the dis
trict fair, a display of fruits, vegetables
grains, grasses and other prodncts.to rep
resent their section of tbeconnty. They
have invited the alliances from other
parts of the countv to do the same, and
the result should be a competition
which wili attract much attention from
strangers attending the fair. Why
should not the alliances and grangers of
this second eastern Oregon district copy
the example of their brethren in Union
county? Or why should not Three Mile
creek compete with Five-mile, and Five-
mile with Eight-mile and Eight-mile
with Fifteen mile, and these or any of
them with, Wamic, or Hood River or
Hosier or The Dalles? We have got the
stuff wherewith to make a creditable ex
hibit. A little effort last year at the
Portland fair, and we carried off the
first prize for the best exhibit of fruit,
while we had the whole northwest to
compete with. A little effort to make
our coming fair a success and thus ad
verti.se our resources would come back
to us With a thousand-fold increase.
'Chauucey Depew is credited with sav
ing that lif Blaine had not written the
-election, iney nave issued a platform Clarkson letter ; he Would have had
.-containing eleven planks the first of J Depew's support for the presidential
wmca ucmanastnac no-empioye ot die , nomination ; and more than that, if
. ity shall receive Jess than $3 per day,
and that eight hours -shall constitute a
day's labor. Another plank demands
that all city work shall be -done by the
dayj, "instead of by contract. Another
demands municipal ownersfaip of the
entice street railway system to be opera
ted at cost for the benefit of the people ;
another demands ownership of lights
' and water, to be furnished at oast and
another free bridges, to be located by ;
popular vote. It is not surprising that
. the lastjplank should demand free quar
ters, at the expense of the eity, for all
bams and tramps who may be willing to
congregate thereof nights, too lazy to
.work for means to provide lodgings at
their own expense, or too shiftless and
improvident to take care of any wages
they may lwe earned. The people's
party ought to succeed. They are won
derously magnanimous with other
people's money. '' " .
Blaine had announced his candidacy at
a reasonably early date before the
Minneapolis convention Harrison would
not have been a candidate. Senator
Hale accounts for Blaine's strange con
duet by saying that "He did not want
to be a candidate, but seeing his friends
insisted upon his candidacy, whether he
was willing or unwilling, he resigned.
The mass meeting at the Court house
last night fully demonstrated that in or
der to ascertain the choice of the peo
ple for any office in their gift we must
adopt and observe some system similar
to the Australian primary election law
There is no question that numbers voted
who had no more right to vote in The
Dalles. than they have to vote in Pata
gonia. Of course these votes were cast
for individual candidates and as there
was no principle at stake they were al
lowed to pass. Had it been otherwise,
the votes would have been scrutinized
more carefully.
Everyone Knows, - -says the Spo
kane Review ' the influence that
his fatalistic superstition bad over
Napoleon his implicit belief that
the fates had willed his destiny
thus and thus. No matter how free
from superstition, one cannot help feel
ing much the same in regard to Blaine,
and to agree with weird credulity that
Henry Wattersori stated the case rightly
when he said; "Blaine will not be nomi
nated ; if nominated he wilLbe defeated ;
if elected, he will die the day before his
(inauguration. Fate has decreed that
The fifteenth plank in the republican j Blaine shall never be oresident."
.platform declares ;in favor of the cession!
,of the arid public lands to the states on i Democrats find bat email comfort
territories in which they lie, nnder such
. congressional restriction s to disposi
tion, reclamation and occupancy by the
, - Wtlera as will secure the maximum
" benefit to the people. This plaak ought
to be popular in many of tbe state? west
Of the Mississippi.
from the election returns in this state.
The issues were squarely drawn on the
congressional ticket and the returns
show a republican- plurality of over 9000.
There is not the slightest probability
that this vote will be diminished in
Novemler. '
Today we issue No. 1 of volume 4
of the Daily Chboxicle. For eighteen
months it has been a daily visitor at tbe
homes of hundreds of readers. It may
not have accomplished all it hoped to,
but it has the satisfaction of the convic
tion that it has always honestly battled
for what it believed to be right. It has
filled an empty niche in the journalism
of this district and the peoples' appre
ciation is shown by the fact that the
daily and weekly editions have a larger
circulation in the country tributary to
The Dalles, than any other - paper pub
lished here or elsewhere.
The people's party in Kansas will
probably nominate Jerry Simpson for
governor. There is a bitter fight in the
party over the nomination and the sock
lere statesman will be sprang as a dark
horse in the hope he will secure .the
nomination and heal the factional di
ferencee. '
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A full line of Lumps, Glassware and Dishes of all kinds. Silver plated Knivet,
Forks and Spoons. When you are selecting your Christmas presents
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look through my stock and you will get something useful -as
well as ornamental. ' '
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Cascades,
Sunday, June 19th,
Thursday, " 22d.
Sunday, " 26th,
Thursday, " 30th.
The Steamer will leave The Dalles at
7 o'clock A.M. Returning will leave
tbe Cascades nt 2 P. M.
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Building Material and Dimension Timber, Doors, Windows, Moldings, House Furnishings, Ete
Special Attention given to the Manufacture of Fruit and Fish
Boxes and Packing Cases.
Factory .Tcl Liumber TZVwrci. At Old 3?t. ZSalloa.
DRY Pine, Fir, Oak and Slab WOOD Delivered to
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Invites you to her cool
and shady groves to
join her in celebrating
,! Cyclone Thresher.
Whatever difficulties or inconven
iences may have attended tbe first trial
of the Australian ballot law it is beyond
question that, it has met the approval of
the people by an overwhelming majority.
It may need revision by tbe next legis
lature bnt its main features have come
tostav.
Word comes from Omaha that tbe
leaders of the people's party at that
place have now fixed on Senator Stewart
of Nevada for president, and Congress
man Watson of Georgia, for vice presi
dent. - . .
Send for Catalogue
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THE DALLES. OREGON.
The 4th of July,
A fine programme has
been arranged, includ
ing base ball, foot .ball,
and other games. Ar
raneements w i 1 1 b e
made with the -
REGULATOR
For the trip. Watch
this space for program.