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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (June 14, 1890)
1T SI I OK K. a j p Now that the republican party has carried the leg. A & MrvCl iV jf if Inture of Oregon by such a commanding majority it fj fV I W ) vv wU will be responsible for enacting some law that will .v.t.aHiD mar iTU. ?ive us a better electoral system. From one end of - the state to the other there is a demand for reform in i. mami'ku i'iiiii.i.r, our rotten political methods. The political corruntinn OUTUHD. OHICON. I MOKANI FALLS. WASH., ,, i i j f, , . 011 n. w. co" io" t.mhin !. I com.f M.in .. itr..ti. of Portland is so notorious and unblushing that even . .,7Z 7 . 777i.rZ7k the conservative residents of the rural districts too man, ,i mut ,uu. mu: jze the necessity of a change, while every decent man umciiiftion RATiiitfioiir m Adano. in the city demands it. So long as the state has no om Mf, ifMi Tnrtt Monthi, ii.ij registry law and no law for a uniform ballot theso cor- ,l"'-,h riiWc.pi.... ... .1. rupt political methods will prevail, and every close JE.'Vk:.' election will be decided by fraudulent voting and U.-.M, p., , :; :r:. - bribery. The voters of other towns are as much in- Th Wiit Ihori offort the Best Medium for Advertla- tcrertcd as those of the city, for every illegal or pur- rt of in, publication on th. Pacino Coaat. vmc( vo(e jn Portland nullifies the vote of some H-hminy, .1.... i-i, inho. ,lon('st elector in another precinct. The first great - step to be taken is the passage of a good, strict regis- I I llAT in tin-re alsmt the old silver dollar we try law, one that will absolutely prevent all but legal JJ have known no long that congress should sud- voters from going to the polls, and with this should donly place it upon a royal throne and full be an oflicial ballot and isolated polling places, such down to worship it? Only a few years ago as are the essential features of the Australian ballot the M,.lar of our daddies" was the butt and jest of system. To this reform the men elected to the legis- the country, and now our national law givers are pros- lature from Multnomah county are personally and pos- tnte in the dust In fore it. Silver is king, and the itively pledged, and they can not fail to accomplish it Ut ,tenttcs of the piist, iron, cotton, etc, are but unless they are opposed ignorantly by members from lm.U uj... the curtain of time, dimmed by the of- other districts, who do not realize that the political f.i!Kcnce of this royal luminary. The coinage of sil- corruption of Portland affects all portions of the state vrr, even free coinage, if confined to the product of alike. our own minci, is something the great majority of the js-op'" '"! I'" "f the United States favor more or , . . . Ir.a ardently, but the extravagant claims made for , I.nWBt,8at,on 18 be,n made into the Lower Cali- thai metal and the wonderful blessings enumerated as . . fillbu8tenn8 conspiracy by the department of ct.taii.ed in its royal rol by ju e.lUent advocates "l & Spt'Cial agCnt' The San Fram'i8C0 in congress strike the ordinary man as supremely Chrn'!lflf' wJ"cn firet exposed it, has prosecuted inves- ridiculous, r sjMvially in view of the fact that the ma- t'.Kat'on8 't8 ovvn and claims to have secured posses- jority of thinking men gravely doubt the financial B'0nf leltc mftI8 dia8rams ftn(1 a ful1 list of re' ability of this country, even with its unrivaled pros- ""' wll Were to comPOBe tno expedition, which it penty n,d it, mnrvrlous material resoiir. es, to main- ir('r8 l MoTe the V! authorities. The lain the value ,.f silver unaided by the other' conimer- l"ov,'"lpnt is 8uPPsed to have been in the interest of rial nation, f the world. It were Mtcr that we ap" Mexican Iiftml Colonization Co., an English en- pfoach the (jueMion f fr,v cMiiiinK more cautiously tl'rl,riw! W,U)80 valuable concessions in Mexico will that instead of jumping at once t. the extreme so do-' ,,n,,,aUJr be revoke(1 if it be proved that the company j"ently dem.ind.sl .y the radical advocates f silver "U conected with the lawless project. The United reach it gradually and by safe stops. If the ra,ii' Sta,t'8 ('ftnnt jwrmit its soil to be used for the assem- "l ould ,,.ril,ii t,i, tht.j. WHui, rxhij(jt ft Wing of an cxiedition hostile to a friendly neighbor, and sound cnMrvatisn. of which their bombastic w'My when t is done in the interest of foreign N-hes ontin .. tra.-e. As long as it jH a grave ia,,itftliHt8- anJ Chronicle deserves much credit for '" nhrthrr this iv.in.try can maintain free coin- 1,10 ll,'tive I)ftrt it has taken in exposing this conspiracy ,rM U li'i'-l Kuardedlv and in a safe U'ton il ha1 PWgreBBed far enough to cause serious "''".. To(-omn..t the nation l(, u,lllmjUl(1 f trouble to the government. 'Li tuinl; y ,,,,a" ,lnH,,riftl ruin Messing m riithusiasiicv',.r,lin,!!Ti Moro ,niIeB of railroud will be constructed the next 1" ' ,,f '' "-ly cr. at.sl killK. ' or ,w,,,ve Months with Portland as a starting point than from any other city in the United States.
