OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1903:
Chaonp
m Letter
m n n n tt n n
fSpeclal Washington Letter.
DRRAH for J. R. Williams of
Illinois, commonly known as
"Bob!" A Republican legis
lature so gerrymandered tha
state as to put him Into a
district Republican by 2,200 majority.
Tliey thought they bad finally done
for Bob, but
The best laid plans o' mice an' men
Gang aft agley.
Just so in this case. Bob was to be
.-mowed under, but Bob carried the dis
trict by nearly 300. Bully for Bob!
Well done, Robert! Another caper or
two like that and James Robert Wll-
-liams will become a presidential pos-
- sibllity. He is able; he is courageous;
.he is clean; he is aggressive; he lives In
Illinois. Everybody will rejoice at
his great victory except the defeated
plotters who supposed and hoped that
they were well rid of him. His tri
umph shows what may be accom
plished by a vigorous and well man
aged campaign.
Out-Heroding Herod.
No wonder that Senator John C.
Spooner's vocal chords gave way. It's
a wonder he did not faint dead away.
Ho has great reputation for wisdom,
and I have exploited him somewhat
for the Republican presidential nomi
nation the nomination, not the elec
tion, mind you but he achieved "the
bad eminence" of making the most
thoroughly un-Amoricnn utterance
heard during the Iant campaign. He
said and It is most unfortunate for his
fame that he said it "If we could
elect a good, strong Republican presi
dent like Theodore Roosevelt and a
strong Republican senate and bouse
for a term of twenty years, It would be
better" for the country. I believe tun
'demngoglc tear up comes too often in
this country." Those be Btrange words
to fall from the lips of such a man as
Senator John O. Spooner of Wisconsin
and shows how fast the Imperialistic
Idea is making headway In this coun
try. Even Alexander Hamilton, the
father of the Republican party, the
.great advocate of an aristocratic fea
ture in our governmental system, while
.he advocated life tenure for senators
advocated only a seven year system for
president Senator Spooner "raises'
Alexander at his own game from seven
to twenty for "a good, strong Repub
i.llcan president like Theodore Itoose
welt." Reasonable men will regret that
XSenator Spooner said that.
inoln AHrllrlra.
Once more the utter hypocrisy of the
G. 0. P., which arrogates to itself all
purity and sweetness, Is Illustrated by
rthe condition of affairs In little Dela
ware. Through the machinations of
.Hon. Gas Addlcks that state had only
'ue United States senator for two years
and has bad none at ail for fhe last
two years, and now Addlcks comes up
again, smiling serenely, with the grim
determination of having for himself a '
cat In the senate because, as he as
serts, ho paid for it and Is entitled to
"have it. lie makes tin more conceal
ment of his boodle operations than he
would of being a scrub calf In the
.streets of Wilmington. Unfortunately,
most unfortunately, the Democrat
lack one of having a majority on Joint
"ballot In the legislature. If they had
elected one more man to the legislature,
: they would have elected two United
States senators, a chance which comes
1 to very few legislatures In this world.
. Just why the Democrats do not unite
with the antl-Addleks Republicans,
vwho presumably are the more decent
of the two factions, and elect one Dem
ocrat and one Republican nobody ex
cept themselves seems to know, or, If
'the anti-Aililk'ks Republicans nro hon-
est In their desire to rid themselves of
. Addlcks, it is hard to understand why
vthoy do not assist the Democrats to
elect two Democratic senators.
Republican Boodle.
Of course the use of boodle In elec
tions Is all wrong, by whomsoever
.practiced (Hint poes without saying),
but just why It Is n mortal sin In Dem
ocrats and a matter of Jest for Ite
jmMlcrms to practice It passcth all hu
man understanding. lr example, the
-.Washington Tost of Nov. 5 contains
'this sipilb: ''That noise which came
from the west early yesterday morn
ing was caused by Hon. Charles Dick
?slamining down the covtr of his check
book." Now, there Is a facetious ref
; ereuco to Republican boudllng It's
' funny in a Republican. Who Is Hon.
vCtmrios Dick? lie Is tleneral Charles
Dick, un Ohio Republican representa
tive !n congress, chairman of the Ohio
Republican state committee, the bosom
-vrouy and favorite pupil of Senator
Marcus A. llanna, chairman of the
Republican national committee. If
General Dick was slamming down the
cover of his checkbook. It follows as
the night the day that he had had It
open to Influence the ItiuUeye voters,
-and If it was necessary for. boodle to
."be used In Ohio, which Is generally
considered n sure thing for the Repub
'lleaiis, It may be easily imagined what
:tho Republican owners of checkbooks
were doing In more doubtful states.
"; Everybody Is always howling about
stlie corruption of Tammany, which is
'bad enough, no doubt, but rarely is a
vtord said about the corruption of Or
"rhil'adelphla and "Pittsburg Republican
f,jjangs, which can. give Tammany cards
and spades and beat it. Why mak
flesh of one and fowl of another?
A Gay Deceiver.
The Republican Idiots who bet on
"Missouri going Republican because the
Jlobe-Democrat kept on saying It
Si
u
Features gf tin Recent Elections. .
Senator Morgan's Bad Bre&k.
John Barrett' i Amtuung Cheek
l 'J1 4 'i 4 J't"
V fr'S1
would do so are now In a frame of
mind to do some more or less vigorous
cussing. The Globe-Democrat based
its hopes on slandering the state and
the majority of her citizens, but the
foul slanders reacted on the head of
the Globe-Democrat and. its party. It
reiterated time and again in every con
ceivable form which its ingenuity
could suggest that the Democrats had
taken, stolen and carried away the en
tire public school fund, amounting to
nearly $4,500,000, when the various
school districts were drawing regularly
the Interest on the school funds year
by year, and it takes an awful fool not
to know that thieves do not nay Inter
est on what they steal. Th Cts
Democrat did not carry the state on
platform of slander, but In all human
probability it kept several thousand
people from settling In the state and
kept out hundreds of millions of wealth
which would have been brought into'
Missouri but for Its malicious charges.
"It Is a dirty bird that befouls its own
nest" is a saying peculiarly applicable
to the Globe-Democrat. The Washing
ton Post, which all along has made
fun of the Globe-Democrat's prophecies
of Republican victory in Missouri, says
in its issue of Nov. 5, "We hasten to
forward our sympathy to the valued
St. Louis Globe-Democrat and suggest
that perhaps some other year Missouri
may go Republican." Poor old Globe
Democrat! An Unnecessary Handicap.
In the recent campaign Democratic
nominees had to carry au unnecessary
handicap by reason of the jabber of
Senator John T. Morgan of Alabama to
the effect that it would be a bad thing
for the Democrats to have the next
house of representatives. By such
twaddle Senator Morgan Intentionally
Increased the load of every Democratic
candidate for congress. The word "In
tentionally" is deliberately used, for the
law presumes and Senator Morgan is
a renowned lawyer that every man
Intends the results which naturally and
Inevitably flow from his own acts or
words. Senator Morgan cannot plead
Ignorance, for he Is not ignorant. ' It is
very easy indeed easy as falling off a
log, and a slippery log at that for a
man who is just entering upon a six
year terra in the senate to say that
some other man of the same faith who
is struggling for a two year term In
the bouse and against whom no charge
of lack of fitness is urged should be de
feated. It is nn easy thlug to do, but
a very ungracious one. What would
Hon. John Tyler Morgan have thought
If when he was last up for re-election
to the senate the good people of Ala
bama bad said, "The Democrats should
not control the senate," and had there
upon elected a Republican to succeed
Morgan? Does anybody believe for
one moment that Senator Morgan
would have been enamored of that the
ory? Not a bit of It He would have
pawed up the earth and made the wel
kin ring with his bellowing. Very
much depends on whose ox is gored.
The senator, having safely made a
comfortable port himself, was willing
to see his party brethren sink. Indeed
he was willing to help sink them, for
that Is precisely the effect that his dec
larations bad on all who were running
for congress.
By what right did he assume to say
that a Democratic house would be det
rimental to the party? There are those
by no means obscure Democrats ei
therwho believe that some of Senator
Morgan's utterances in the senate and
out of it have been more detrimental to
the party than a Democratic house
would have been. How does Hon. John
Tyler Morgan relish that sort of talk?
The senator should poruso 'Tut Your
self In Ills riace." Evidently it would
do him good, and tho next time 380
Democratic candidates are lighting au
uphill battle ho may at least be in
duced to extend to them if not a help
ing hand at least the charity of his si
lence, if silence is not with him an -utter
Impossibility. If he must talk dur
ing n campaign, he should seek the se
clusion of a primeval forest and not
tho society of reporters. Then hu will
do less barm.
Tho President's Status.
The signs of tho times Indicate that
only one mau oj eminence in the Unit
ed States has improved Ills status this
year, and that Is President Roosevelt.
He Is a much more commanding figure
now thau he was when congress ad
journed hi July. Then his chances of
securing the nomination, to say noth
ing of the election, were not more than
ono out of three. Now thoy are easily
two to one. He may not have a cinch
on It, but hu comes very near it. A
great opportunity came to him, and be
seized it with resolute band, thereby
saving bis party from utter rout and
ruin In the eastern states. The next
house is Republican because, and only
because, Theodore Roosevelt settled the
great anthracite coal strike, whereas
his masterful great rival, Senator Mar
cus A. llanna, tried to settle it and
failed. It will bo amusing now to
watch the Biippletepubllcau courtiers
fawn upon Roosevelt the very same
Republicans who In July and August
were cursing him under their breath as
a "marplot," "bull in the china shop,"
etc. "To shout with tho multitude con
stitutes the wisdom of this world" Is a
bit of cynical philosophy which the Re
publican leaders believe in and act up
on. The world shouts for Colonel Roose
velt uow. likewise the Republlcau
chieftains. Three mouths ao they were
ipmXmiliBnoifoa'man gad W&4
bus grooming Senator Banna tor th
highest office fa the world. At this
time It seems that President Roosevelt
has his destiny in bis own hands and
unless be does something later on to1
knock the fat into the fire will be noml-1
nated.
Amazing Cheek.
For unadulterated and monumental
gall commend us to Hon. John Barrett
of Massachusetts, late minister to Sl
am and now world's fair commissioner
general to the effete east. He had
some sort of an audience with the em
peror of China, and here is the way bis
secretary, Hon. Theodore Hardee, de
scribes the august event to a gaping
and dumfounded world: .
The unprecedented honor of being In
vited on the dais Itself of the Son of
Heaven's throne Jo engage In personal
conversation with the emperor and em
press dowager of China has just been
shown John Barrett, formerly American
minister to Slam, now commissioner gen
eral to Asia for the St. Louis world'B fair,
and Minister Conger, who presented the
commissioner general to their majesties
on July 26. This innovation in royal pro
cedure, where heretofore conservatism
has made the Chinese court known as
the most exclusive in the world, Is strik
ingly Interesting and significant. v
Not content with granting Mr. Barrett
the first audience In the history of Pe
king ever given to a foreign commissioner
on a similar mission, the emperor and
empress dowager took advantage of the
occasion to ask him numerous questions
about American President Roosevelt and
the character and extent of the Louisiana
Purchase exposition. To do this they
violated all precedents and astonished the
array of princes and courtiers present by
requesting Commissioner Barrett and Min
ister Conger to step upon the sacred
throne platform itself. For ten minutes
or more their majesties exchanged words
with these two American representatives,
while the surrounding officials looked on
In apparent surprise that no harm befell
them for daring to approach so near to
the Son of Heaven. Their majesties an
nounced that they not only would Issue an
edict that China should participate in the
world's fair, but would send an imperial
commissioner to represent them. They
specially requested Commissioner General
Barrett to convey to President Roosevelt
their deep appreciation of the attitude of
America toward China in her troubles.
That remarkable excerpt recalls
Mark Twain's famous dictum, "Blessed
Is the man that bloweth his own horn,
lest It be not blown." The best thing
tho Louisiana Purchase exposition
managers could do would be to recall
Commissioner General Barrett forth
with and to squelch his secretary.
Leze Majesty.
The brilliant editor of the Washing
ton Post, independent, Is liable In fact,
quite likely to be i'auled up for. leze
majesty or at least to be tabooed by
our Anglomanlac aristocrats and land
grabbers if he does not suddenly check
himself In the mad career upon, which
he has entered, for In a recent editorial,
commenting on England's war upon
"the Mad Mollah," he has the Impu
dence to say this:
We suppose that the whole trouble Is
due to a conviction lodged somewhere In
the British mind that the Mad Mollah'
country and people are richly endowed
with portable property of some kind. It
Is a conviction which has always fired the
true Briton's heart and led to violence in
every part of the world In which persons
and territories lay under this dark sus
picion. For more than four centuries the
Anglo-Saxons have been ready at all
times to go forth Into the four corners of
the earth at the barest mention of a divi
dend in marketable plunder. They have
overrun India for gold and jewels and
bullied and persecuted China by way of
propagating the opium trade with China;
they have harried the Dutch In Africa
since the beginning of the nineteenth
century until the discovery of gold and
diamonds twenty-five or thirty years ago,
converted them Into exterminators and
set In motion armies such as England has
not put afloat or afoot In all her piratical
career. They are the same old fierce and
bloody minded spoliators that sailed forth
from Scandinavia In the dark ages and
ravaged every land that could not help it
self.
As for Somallland and the Mad Mollah
we wait for further Information. May be,
after all, they are worth looting.
Now I submit that things are coming
to a pretty pass when an American
editor right under tho nose of Mr. Sec
retary of State Hay is permitted to"
talk In that strain about England, un
der the protection of whoso, guns, ac
cording to Joseph Chamberlain, we
negotiated the calamitous treaty of
Paris. It's misprision of treason at
least.
Rather Severe.
Every once in awhile pome preacher
takes a fall out of tho secular press,
and then once In awhile some editor
of a secular newspaper takes a fall out
of some particular preacher. The fol
lowing editorial from the New York
Tress Is more or less severe:
The style of Wall street preaching has
changed somewhat in the Inst century and
a half. Those line old fellows Payson,
Whltetlcld, Wesley, Jonathan Edwards,
Caldwell, Wlthorspoon and Burr (father
of Aaron and founder of Princeton univer
sity) stood out in the clear light of
heaven and (lung the gospel Into the open
board from the curbstone. They called
things by their right names and saved
sinners possibly. The Kev. Dr. Morgan
Dlx, who has been prachlng at one end
of the street for forty years, paid less at
tention to lis habitues than any other
clergyman In town. To all Intents and
purposes he does not and never did know
that such an institution as the Stock Ex
change exists. No open air thunderings
for him! He prefers his priestly robes
in the quiet pulpit of old Trinity. Mere
word of mouth would never convert a
Wall street sinner. He has no time to
listen to preaching. But with a glance of
the eye as he hurries Hcross the street he
can take In the wholo silent sermon
preached by the venerable edltlce of a re
ligious corporation that owns property
worth in round numbers $100,000,000 on
which It has never paid $1 In taxes. What
sort of sermon is It? The gospel of
wealth hangs Its banner on the outer
wall, and the cry Is, "Still they come!
We were a deeply pious community as
long as the spire of Trinity pierced the
sky, but since It now pierces only the
upper atmosphere of n skyscraper we are
grown wicked ngnln. As "amnion ascends
the church descends.
Ilia Theory.
"Tho Highblowers are In bad odor,
aren't tlioy?"
"Well, they own several autotno
biles." New York Life.
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"The nicest and pleasantest medicine I
have used for indigestion and constipa
tion is Chamberlain's Stomach and
Liver Tablets," says Melard F. Oraig, of
Middlegrove, N. Y., "They work like a
charm and do not gripe or have any un
pleasant effect." G. A. Harding.
The Secret of Long Life.
Consists in .keeping all the main or
gans of the body in healthy, regular ac
tion, and in quickly destroying deadly
disease tjernia. Electric Bitters regu
late stomach, liver and kidneys, purify
the blood, and give a splendid appttlte.
They work wonders in curing kidney
troubles, female complaints, nervous
diseases, constipation, dyspepsia and
malaria. Vigorous health and strength
always follow their use. Only 50 cents,
guaranteed by Qeo, A. Harding, drug
Rial. A Cure for Lumbago.
W. C. Wliliamson, of Amherst, Va.,
says : "For more than a year I suffered
from lumbago. I finally tried Cham
berlain's Pain Balm and it gave me en
tire relief, which all other remedies bad
failed to do. Sold by Geo. A. Harding.
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Condensed InformatVn for the
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2. Wig
Tcke Laxative Bromo Quinmc Tablets, a
Seven Million boies sold In post 1 2 months. ThlS Signature, V'
mmon
and Lunch
On Wain Street Oregon City, next Door to Postoffice
Dick matosin Succtssor to Bagbp Hestaurant
Tresh Oysters in every Style I
I Open Jill Bours Dap or
Good Selection
and Low s Prices
Complete stock of men's
The real up-to date make, and patterns enough to
suit every taste at a price 20 per cent less in compari
son to any other store. You will be surprised to see
the good variety in ladies', men's and children's shoes,
sold all the way from 50c to $1 less on every pair than
any shoe store's prices, A convincing argament as to
our low prices is the prices quoted on the following
staples : Men's underwear, regular 50c and 75c value,
we sell for 37c; soft or stiff bosom shirts, regular $1
and $1.50 values, we sell for 60c and 75c; regular 25c
neckties we sell for I2c; regular 25c caps we sell
for 15c.
Portland Clothing House
Next Door to Harding's Drug Store
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SHANK & BISSELL, Undertakers
Phones 411 and 304.
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and Lunch Counter
W. I. ROWAN, Proprietor
Opposite Electric Hotel, is the very best place inj Oregon City
to get a Dainty Lunch or
SQUARE MEAL
Open at All Hours, day or night
Newly Furnished Rooms and Clean Beds
D. R. DlrVHCK,
Successor to W. It. Young.
Will furnish rig and ' saddle-horses at reasonable
prices. Finest turnouts in the city. Best saddle horses.
If you want a rig or a horse, call on him.
South Main Street,
ft 'ikf- ; ,
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Brunswick He use and Restaurant
NEWLY FURNISHED ROOMS
Meals at AU Hours Open Day and Night
;FriresJ Reasonable
Only First Class Pestarant in the City
CHAS. CATTA, Prop.
Opposite Suspense Bridge OREGON CITY, ORE
To Cure a Cold in One Day
restaurant
Counter
night TirsUCIass IJleals.
and boy suits and overcoats.-
AiiiA,niltjiiiit I Jll l-utillllll jl
We carry the only complete line &
of CHsketn. flnfRns. Rnhan And
Linings in Clackamas County.
We have the only First-Class
Hearse in the County, which we
will furnish for less than can be
had elsewhere.
Embalming a Specialty.
Our prices always reasonable.
Satisfaction guaranteed. -
Main St., Opp. Huntley's.
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HHTE
LIVERYMAN,
opposite Electric Hotel
Brown & Welch
Proprietors of thb
Seventh Street
Meat Market
A. O. U. W. Building
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