THE CROOK COUNTY JOURNAL
An Independent Newspaper
I). F. STEFFA.
PUBU5HED BY THE JOl'RNAL. PUBLISHING CO.
S. M. BAILKY.
rublilictl tvtry Thureday at Th Journal Building, rrinvill Oregon.
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1904.
JtST THE COUNTING REMAINS.
As election day draws near it
liecomcs more certain that tlie
Rehublican party is going to 1
continued in power by the ex
rewed desire of an immense ma
jority of voters. The people had
made up their minds before the
phouting and the hurrahing of the
campaign began. Recently, under
the questions of canvassing com
mittees from both great national
parties, they have revealed their
minds. Every Republican will
vote for Roosevelt, no matter what
local disturbances affect his ticket.
Many who were Democrats before
18 will vote for Roosevelt, al
though, naturally, they say little
about their intention, and a very
large number of independents
have openly declared for him.
The fact is that the Democratic
party has shown inability to man
age the affairs of the nation. Its
weakness was so conspicuously
displayed wnen it was last in
power that hosts of men became
convinced that it no longer repre
sented any branch or contingent
of the iatelligent people of the
United States. The free silver
craze of 18 and 1900 completed
the wreck of a once idolized party
fetich. Thousands of old-time
V ... m
Democrats, thousands ol young
men with Democratic affiliations,
deserted the ancient standard and
came into the life and vigor of
Republicans. There they remain.
The election next week will show
that the men who joined the party
of honest money in 1896 and in
1900 have resolved to support the
party of honest money, or national
prosperity, of sound, virile activity,
in the work of international im
provements, of a dignified, strong
foreign policy, of protectioa to
American citizens at home and
abroad, of equal opportunities and
justice to all without regard to
race, color or religion.
It will reveal the earnest de
votion of hundreds of thousands
of first voters to the principles of
Republicanism.
Inefficiency, uncertain ty, di vision
in council, these do not command
the interest and good will of the
American people. The little
coterie under the wing of David B.
Hill in New York is going to have
a great object lesson in the near
future.
The country is safe in the hands
of the Republican party. Roose
velt and Fairbanks are typical
Republicans. Their indorsement,
by an immense majority, is cer
tain.
THE BOOT ADMINISTRATION.
Some people seem to have an
idea that in order to be properly
prepared for war, and that under
an administration in which the
possibility of war is recognized,
the national expenditures will
swell abnormally. Even if this
were so, it is less expensive to be
ready for war than to get ready
for it in a hurry, for in the latter
circumstances human life is likely
to be wasted, and that is worse
than heavy taxes. But the ad
ministration of the War Depart
ment by Elihu Root is a lesson
which all economists should read.
Mr. Root reorganized that de
partment on a business basis; he
weeded out all the ineffective and
superfluous stuff in it, whether it
was red tape, extra departments or
poor clerks, and there is more
work done for the money in the
War Department to-day than ever
before. To say this of Mr. Root is
not exactly discrediting his prede
cessors in office, for some of them
were very able men. But the fact
remains that under those who
were not able, or not unselfishly
devoted to their business, the
department had gotten into a con
dition in which it needed a house
cleaning, and it takes a very able
man to do that sort of work.
It was just because Mr. Root
recognized the fact that if the War
Department was to le of any use
to the country the need might
come suddenly, that he waa so de
termined to have no waste space
in it anywhere. If it were merely
ornamental, unbusinesslike man
agement would be less a calamity
The country can now have the
satisfaction of knowing that what
ever money it spends on the
machinery of war is not wasted in
Washington, or anywhere else.
It's been about two years ago
thvt Central Oregon was thrown
into a fever of excitement by the
announcement that the Columbia
Southern would let the contract
for the first twenty miles of its
extension on the first day of
August, 1902. That wasn't the
first grievance, but the people took
it. About a year ago the Bend
Bulletin had a premature spasm
over another announcement that
the C. S. would push its line into
Crook county, but that, too, in
time passed quietly away. Just
now the Columbia Southern is
looked upon as a dead horse so
far as Central Oregon is concerned
and the bait is put on hooks in
other quarters. From ever y
direction, north, south, east and
west railroad rumors are the cause
of much railroad building on pap
er, but it doesn't seem to get much
farther' Nearly every newspaper
in the interior portion of the state
has a pet railroad of its own and
it builds that road in type with all
the diligence ascribed to the coun
try press. It's hard to believe that
this portion of the state is to be
forever made the butt of railroad
jokes and sometime, perhaps, fond
hope will be realized and Central
Oregon will have the laugh on the
other fellow. Anyway it does not
seem right for the other side to
have the fun all the time.
The registration in Greater New
York during the first two davs,
and in fact throughout all the
cities of the Empire State, shows
that the voters of that State in
tend to beat all previous records
on election day, and this showing
made by New York City and New
York State should be equalled by
every State in the Union. The
Republicans throughout the land
should see to it that Mr. Roosevelt
is not only elected by a handsome
majority both on the popular vote
and in the electoral college, but
that such an overwhelming defeat
should le administered to Mr.
Parker and the Democratic p3rty
as to rebuke any future attempt of
that party to put forth a candidate
without convictions and without
the courage to go before the coun
try upon any issue of the day.
After three years of patient re
search, two professors of Geneva
Switzerland, have discovered a new
anesthetic which promises to revo
iutionize the practice of dentistry
finding tnat the system was
influenced by colored light, the
professors soon perceived after ex
perimenting with each hue that
blue had an extraordinary effect
on the nerves. It is said that a
tooth may be painlessly extracted
with none of the after effects of the
system by shutting up the patient
in a dark room and exposing his
eyes to a blue light of 10 candle-
power for three minutes, causing
him to loose all sense of pain,
although at the same time retain
ing his senses.
A rabbit and a goat, which have
been kept in one of the zoological
gardens in New York City for
several years, got into the same
cage the other day and a fight en
sued. Brother Billy tried to
vanquish his opponent by ram
ming trie mile animal through
the side of the cage, but the rabbit
nimbly leaped on the goat's back
and severed an artery in bis neck.
It's a wise hare that knows its
own butter.
There is evidence of there being
a great slump in the turkey mar
ket around Boston this Thanks
giving. The Christian Scientists
in that neighborhood are imagin
ing they have neither appetites
nor taste for turkey and cran
berry sauce which accounts for
the fowl being out of grace in that
region this year.
General Knropatkin again tele
graphs that he has the situation
well in hand. It hasn't been long
since a similar telegram to his
Czar Nicholas was followed by
Kuro getting it in the nook'
It begins to look as if the Rus
siau admiral commanding th
second Pacific squadron will
Rojestvensky more-ski homeski
and then quitski, that is if John
Bull has his wav.
Most of the striking telephone
girls in Portland have gone to
hell oing again.
What's become of the "mid
winter fail" that was promised
long suffering Crook?
Socialist Column
That there are evils and abuses
innumerable of which the people
complain-some of them have been
called to the attention of The
Journal who would so far lay
aside their prejudice and deign to
read anything smacking of social
ism. We feel the weight of the oppres
sor's grip at all times and places.
For the sugar that is put in the
teat to appease the hunger of the
new born babe, we pay tribute to
the sugar trust; for the machinery
that raises the bread for the child
ren the plows, the harrows, the har
vesters, the threshers, the shovel
that digs the grave, the hearse
that carries the corpse to its last
resting place, the relatives who
come to pay the last tribute of
respect to the dead, if they pay
passage on the cars, pay tribute to
the steel trust.
There is not a person on earth
but who directly or indirectly
uses steel. From ' the mammoth
locomotives and printing presses
to the spear heads of the Esqui
maux, steel is indispensible. Coal,
too, is a universal commodity.
From generating steam for the
tremendous machinery of the
world to the ragged, emaciated
mother with her hungry, cold,
shivering children, hovering over
their nickle's worth of coal, all
pay tribute to the coal trust.
There is plenty of everything in
the land for all if it was properly
distributed. I ncomputable
quantities of food stuffs and cloth
ing maUriul are iiuh your, ouch
month hiped byjcommerci&l greed
to the other lands, while unnum
bered thousands of our own people
go hungry and cold. That those
conditions exist, no one can deny.
'There is no effect without
cause." Let us lay aside our
partiian prejudice and see if we
can't unearth the cause, or causes,
of the present deplorable state of
affairs.
"O," it is said, "we have pros
perous times," Yes, it is jrncr
ous times for a few at the expense
of the many. What profit is it to
us, who toil from year to year, to
make both ends meet; scrimp, save,
half fed, half clad that Uocktcller,
Rogers A Co. are prosjerous?
The prime cause of the present
condition of affairs is the Republic
an juggernaut that has leen grind
ing the producers of wealth, the
lalwrers, under its wheels for the
past forty years. The conditio! s
have been helped along by the
ltnocmtic donkey cart, traveling
along after the Republican band
wagon, lucking up and endorsing
and adopting from time to time
what the Republicans dropped by
the wayside.
Those whom you have voted into
office, place and power have legis
lated this state of affairs upon us.
Is it probable or reasonable to sup
jHise that by voting the same net
of shysters or others who are t;ed
to the wheels of the Republican or
Domocratic band wagons the con
ditions will be changed? It would
be as sensible to select a jury of
horse thieves to try a horse thiol
with the expectation of conviction
as to expect relief by electing
either Roosevelt or Parker.
I heard a blear eyed, tin horn
gambler assert not long since that
Roosevelt was his man, tlut he
was the greatest man who ever
lived, etc. Now what great things
did he, Roosevelt, ever do? I
believe he once shot a Spaniard in
the back, surrendered to the
money power and holds the
Philippines as neither "Mesh, fish
nor fowi," but as gome nonde
script for the benefit of the exploit
ers. And what can be expected of
Parker? A cold blooded judge
who would hold the world up on a
technicality until starvation would
come More the decision. He
would, claim a wrong once es
tablished is right, because it is
law; government by injunction is
right Itecause of established pre
cedents. He would probnbly use
the army to suppress laliorers
localise Cleveland did.
Go ahead, you blind voting
machines, you are enjoying what
you have voted for in the past and
you will get exactly what you
shall vote for in the future. The
world is turning, has turned, so
that the sun of Socialism is in
sight. "None are so blind as those
who will not see."
K.
MEW MILLINERY
High Grade Goods Cheap. City styles and
up-to-date ideas in Millinery at - - - -
Mrs. Slayton's
Prineville's Leading Hillinery Store
Remarkable values in Fall and Winter Underwear at the
RaGKET S TORE
.1. S. KELLEV, IMtoiMiiKTOH.
Gall and Examine Them
Ladies fine Cashmere Underwear, per garment - 75 cents
Ladies fine Cashmere Hose, per pair - - 35 cents
Gentlemen!s all Wool Underwear, good weight, garment $1.25
Childrens Eiderdown Caps 30 cents
WATCH THIH AH KVKHV WKKK
1THE RECEPTION
CHAMP SMITH, PROP.
: Wines, Liquors, Domestic
: and Imported, Cigars.
Proprietor of the 3Prinevillc Soda "Works. :
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SWURZWEILER & THOMSON
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COPVMICKT l0 IV
RUH. NATHAN riSCMK 9.
Our Fall showing in Dress good i the moid
complete we have ever h:il and then' include
many new pieces of line I lurk Dies Fabric
seldom found in the ho called up-to-date Moron
Shirt WaiMs, Knin Coal., J.ickrN, Skirts and
Collantles reign Mipremo here All in the
Season's lateM Mvles niul fabric
ict Cash (ihecks with each Purchase
Thoy nro worth monoy to you Cyf
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Q3 PRINEVILLE'S GREATEST STORE jj
BEND RESTAURANT
K. 0. SMITH, Proprietor.
Meals hui i All fa
Are prepared to furnish board
ami lodging by the day, week or
month. Also keep a fresh line
of pastry always on hand.
Lunches for travelers will !
prepared on short notice.
Newly Fnniislii'il Rooms
Itciul, Oregon.
CLOSING OUT SALE
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A XKW LINK III'
Collars, Bolts and ?
Silk 'Waists
Lute! Im-kIkii in Silver
wnreiiml Jewelry. Notion
of nil kiinl. Writ hit; Tnli
letM, IViicIIh, Novel, Sewing
Mac hi new, ami NeeiHe.
SOME CIIOICI. BARGAINS
In Holiday (iood Which t
Will he in Stock About
November 1st.
Mrs. John Cyrus
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Meat, Vegetables, Produce
A Complete and Choice Line of Iteef, Veal, Mutton, Pork,
llucon, Lard and Country Produce Kept mi mm at the
City Meat Market
FOSTER & HORRIGAN, Prop's.
Prlncville, At TilC Old Stc'llld Oregon.
Fi'iiicvillc-Sliiiio Slap Lino
Dally Between Prinovlllo and Shanlko
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Leave Hlmniko, (i p. m. Arrive a t I'rincville IS a. m.
LciivcH I'rincville 1 p. in. Arrive lit Slmniko 1 n. in.
First Class Accommodations
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400, Full Size, Weight GO Pounds, No Knobs, Price $4.50
490,
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Hrass Knobs
$5. 50
FOR SALE 11Y
A. H. LIPPMANN & Company
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