PORT ORFORD POST.
THURSDAY.
THE
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DEC. 9. ISSO.
r E l . l G I l U ' H N IO N O V O L Y
—H O W l ' r W O K K N .
The management of the tele
graph of this country is simply
infamous. Not alone does the ob
jection to such management—or
rather mismanagement—apply to
extortions from individuals who
are frequently compelled to use
the wires, b u t the general public
is outraged by the offensive and
defensive combinations entered
into and m aintained between the
companies and a select few news
papers. Take, for example, the
P ortland Standard, which, outside
of the cu rren t telegraph reports,
is as far superior to the Oregonian
as a local and general newspaper
as it would be possible to conceive,
yet, by virtue of an arrangem ent
between the Oregonian and the
telegraph monopoly, the Standard
can only avail itself of telegraph
facilities by paying about private
rates for dispatches; and not alone
this, it cannot, even after paying
private rates, avail itself of the
facilities for gathering the world’s
news, since that is a part and par
cel of the general plan of exclu
siveness and extortion in connec
tion w ith the monopoly. W ill
Congress ever awake from its Rip
Van W inkle sleep and respond to
the demands of the times in this
matter? _____________
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A M IS C O N C E P T IO N .
T H E I N F A M Y O F N O N -A P P O U «
T IO N M E N T .
W ith a fair apportionm ent the
Democrats could carry the next
Legislature easily.—News.
Yes, “ with a fair apportionm ent.”
B ut where is the fair apportion
ment? Jackson, Wasco, U m atilla
and
Union, all D em ocratic,
have a total population of 34,572
and have a total representation of
eleven and a half members (Was
co dividing a Senator with Lake,
also D em ocratic). The R epubli
can counties of Yamhill, Polk,
Douglas and Clackamas, with a
population of 33,311, or 1261 less
than the above-named four Dem
ocratic counties, enjoy a combined
representation of 24 m em bers- 2
to 1, you see. The Democrats
have the territo ry and the popula
tion, bu t not the members to suit.
If the late L egislature had been
D em ocratic, and had perpetrated
a sim ilar outrage upon Republican
constituencies, we would have de
nounced it as a co rru p t conclave,
recreant to its high tru st and u n
w orthy the countenance of honest
men. Shall wo do less for a Re
publican body, which, th ro u g h a
co rru p t com bination, defeated a
fair distrib u tio n of legislative rep
resentation to the end that the
m ost progressive, enterprising and
prosperous sections of tlio State
should be substantially d isfran
chised? B ut we have faith in the
innate desire of the people for fair
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play-
M aryland “ 1000,” and Delaware
“ 500,” should have been, 10,000
and 5000 for Hancock. B ut the
first were the figures we found in
the B ulletin.
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THE POR T OREORD POST
An
In d e p e n d e n t J o u r n a l , d e v o te d lo th e
In te r r a ta e f th e
H a u th rr n C ta it
C o u n tie s G e n e r a lly , u n d o f C u r r y C o u n ty P a r t i c u l a r l y
Tlio contract for the brick—
about thirteen hundred thousand—
to build tlio Insane Asylum at
Salem, has been let to Mr. George
Collins. The main argum ent used
in favor of b u n d in g the Asylum
at present, was, that the convicts
in the P enitentiary could make
the brick. The big job contem pla
ted by the prom oters of the new
Asylum scheme is thus early in
augurated. The end is not yet.
The W alla W alla Watchman says:
N orthern Idaho voted strong for an
nexation and we hope the day will
come when W ashington will be a
grand State, w ith the Blue Moun
tains and majestic Columbia outlie
south, the 49th parallel on the
north, the Pacific ocean on the
west, and the Rocky M ountains on
the east, as her boundary lines,
with Yakima C ity for its Capital,
•‘A D D I T I O N , D I V I S I O N A N D S I
Seattle tlio New York and W alla
L E N C E .”
Walla tlio Chicago of the far
M. V. Brown, Democrat, drew a distant W est.
total sum of sixteen hundred and
P l M Yourselves by making mon-
ninety-six dollars for services in 11
U la I U « ‘.V when u golden chance
tlio U m atilla Indian war; T. B. | | L I | is ottered, thereby always
■■■■■»■ keeping poverty from your
Odeneal, R epublican, as “ clerk,” door. Those who always take advantage
drew one thousand and forty-eight of the good chances for making money
are ottered, generally become
dollars; Jam es R. H erron, Demo that
wealthy, while those who do not im
crat, was awarded, for various prove such chances, remain in poverty.
We want many men, women, boys and
items, a total of eighteen hundred girls
to work for us right In their own
and seventy-five dollars and fifty localities. The business will pay more
than ten times ordinary wages We fur
cents—a cool four hundred for ser nish an expensive outfit, and all that
vices as “ M ajor.” N. B. H um you need, free. No one who engages
lulls to make money rapidly. You can
phrey, R epublican, sailed in for a devote your whole time to the work, or
total of five hundred and ninety- only your spare moments. Full infor
mation und all that is needed sent free.
two dollars. And Hon. Jas. F u l Address S tinson Co., Portland, Me.
ton, Democrat, got in his “ hooks"
for near five hundred. Do the
poor privates see in this exhibit the
reason their paltry claims of one
DECALER IN
hundred and four dollars each
were cut down nearly two-thirds?
W hat sort of ideas of equity had
the Committee which audited these General M erchandise
claims? And was the Legislature
which ratified this grotesque
C L O T H IN G ,
showing asleep, or on a journey
to the moon? A Legislature two-
to-one R epublican ju st two years
later possibly explains the popu
lar idea of “ A ddition, Division
and Silence.”
C urry county cast 394 votes:
R epublican, 148, Democratic 146—
two m ajority for Garfield. In the
Ju n e election- -W hiteaker (Dem .)
carried the county by 31 majority.
The vote in C urry indicates a Re
publican gain of 33. Good for
C urry.—Jacksonville Sentinel.
We assume th at the Sentinel
does not know the facts iu the
case. The Oregonian did the mis
chief for Mr. George in Coos and
C urry counties, and would have
accomplished a like result in
Douglas if Mr. G. had not, in
Rosebnrg, specifically disavowed
the sentim ents of that paper on
the Breakw ater question. C urry
county, though electing the Re
publican county ticket last Ju n e,
is about a tie politically. W liite-
aker’s m ajority here as in Coos,
was the result of a fear th at Mr.
George, being a P ortland man,
would take the same view of the
Breakw ater problem as the Orego
nian. Of course the Sentinel will
not accuse Coos county of being
Democratic in Ju n e, yet she gave
W hiteaker 57 m ajority. The ex
igency may arise when every
county in the State south of Clack
amas und east of the m ountains
will feel called upon to unite in re
sisting the dog-in-the-manger pol
A train ran over some stock fast
icy of Portland. W hat does the in a cattle guard near Salem, lately,
Sentinel think of such possibility? and was ditched with a general
A very boom in the m atter of smash-up. We witnessed a like
improvements in Jackson county catastrophe at the same spot d u r
is noted. In respect to many ing the W inter of 1870. Why
points of advantage, (climate not don’t they fence the road?
the least), Jackson is the best
county in Oregon.
Rev. and Prof. L. J. Powell, of
Marion county, subscribed $500
toward the support of the W illam
ette U niversity, and, although
drawing a salary from the in stitu
tion, declined to pay the subscrip
tion. The statute of limitations
running the w hile, the Rev. gen
tleman was liable to slip out of it
that way. B ut the D irectors
brought suit in the nick of time,
and though the Professor made
the most vigorous defense possi
ble, he was m ulcted in judgm ent
and costs. There has always been
a “ speculative” element hanging
onto the sk irts of that institution,
and we are glad that even one of
the speculators has been foiled.
A. D. Wolcott,
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