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OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDAY, APRIL 3 1903. OREGON CITY COURIER for all handicap" was paced oft last , Saturday. Possibly the mayor was Published Ever, Friday by ,n rain OREGON CITY COURIER PUBLISHING CO. ltanght ,,im a f(JW good le880M abont J. H. W58TOVF.B, Editor and Bu.lness Manager twent.y years ag0 and iie ljag uot for K. Lek Westover, Local Editor. ' ' gotten mem yet. mere is nouiing like knowing when "to draw to your hand" and when to "lay down." and courageous and will in the end assert their rights, and that means that the people will come into their own. gotered in Oregon City Poitoffloe as 2nd-clMS matter SUBSCBIFTION BATES. Faid in advance, per year 1 60 Six months What a man's neighbors and friends '5 . say about him is generally true. If he is a rascal it does not take long to find it out. If he makes promises he does not keep it soon becomes common J"''7?Hl-nn;rr Jndged fcy this standard Clubbing Hate. Oregon Ctty Courier and Weekly Oregonlan .J2.25 Oregon City Courier and Weekly Courier- Oregon City Courier and the Cosmopolitan. Oregon City Courier and the Commoner....' , 2.25 2.00 fUy-The date opposite your address on the p per denotes t he time to which you have paid . If this notlcels marked jonr subscription is due. OREGON CITY, APRIL 3, 1903. U N I O N ( jfel L A B E L there would be some pretty "short skates" in high places not a thousand miles from the court house of Oregon City. 8p sweetring, the spring, l the year's pleasant king; Then blooms each thing.then frogs sing in a ring, Cold doth not sting.the birds do sing. Cuckoo, Jug-Jug, pu-wce, to wita.wool Our Guarantee. The Courier guarantees to its adver tisers a circulation greater than all other papers in Clackamas county combined. It guarantees them a paid circulation nearly twice as great as both other local papers. It guarantees a circulation ag gregating 2000 copies per week, and out side of Oregon City, in Clackamas coun ty, it stands ready to prove that its ac tual paid circulation is fully twice an great as that of both of its contempor rif!S . The Courier stands ready to give its adveitisers the benefit of an investi gation, and if it c hnot prove any and all of the foregoing statements, will charge them nothing for their Bpace. To those who desire to advertise and want to make an inspection, our lists are open for inspection. Do you adver tise for the good of your'papor or to get business? If for the latter you will see the pertinency of the above remarks. Well, it is Lord "Brownell." What is anyway? a Brownell Republican, AVhich would you prefer, an honest man drunk or a thief sober. "Thero will be a hot time in the old town" Saturday, April 4, 11)03. Query? How much will the seven toon votos of Clackamas County be worth in the Republican convention at Euguiio. There are a good many kind of Re publicans. There are gold Republi cans, Free Silver Repbulicans, High Tariff Republicans, Free Trade Re publicans, Tariff Revission Republi cans, Internal Improvement Republi cans, Socialistic Republicans, ad in- finitem j but the meanest Republican of which we have ever heard is a BROWNELL Republican. He don't seem to be good for anything in par ticular except to be shipped as freight and sold as swine. The Democrats of Cluckainas County are going down to Albany on the 11 th of this month to assist in the nomination of the next Congressman from the First Oregon district. They have no axes to grind and are looking for no graft j they will only be looking for the best man for the place and for' the general welfare of the country at large. Don't you want to go along with that kind of a bunch of boys. It worrld do you gpod. There are no grafters in this crowd. If Brownell is running the politics of Clackamas County and is the dear and brotherly friend of the poor down trodden masses, why will he allow his own chosen tribe of Israel to pay $42. 25 on the one thousand taxes. Un der the old dispensation the Jews were only required to pay for serving the Lord one-tenth of all they made. Under this new regime the farmersvof Clackamas County are compelled to pay all they make and about five per cent of the capital they own for bend ing the knee to Lord Brownell. So be it. One of these days the blind will see. 1 . . : Mjl.j mm wnimmmm T'-WinH-'ii-iIlM Henry Meldrum was kicked out o a Federal job because some of the "High-cock-a-lorums" of the Clacka mas County Republican close corpor ation said he drank too much. Henry Meldrum may have dal'iled over the wine when it was red in the cup but he-was and is an honest man. More than that he was and is honest and true to his friends. All of the wine and corn juice that is bottled and barreled between the two seas would not make an henest man or an honor able politician out of some of those Republicans who did the "kicking." The truth of the matter is that the place was wanted to further the game of as corrupt a crowd of political mar plots as ever robbed a county or stole the vote of a convention. Clackamas County is the highest taxed county in the United Statos of America, the Philippines, Porto Rico and Sulu Islands. . A proper exhibit to verify, this claim will bo filed and exhibited at tho Lewis and Clark Ex position in 11)05 sworn to by an thou sand Republican farmnrs of Clacka mas County. Be it known also that this good county, the garden spot of the "beautiful river," has been voting the Republican ticket recently and periodically for some time past. Bavid Kinniard, of Canemah, and five other faithful souls of that thriv ing suburb of Oregon City met on the public square in that city on last Sat urday afternoon and "shook the box" as to who should be the four delegates to the Republican convention from Canemnh, and David won as of old. That was a real Democratic method of settling the matter and was fair to all concerned provided there were no loaded dice in the game. Now there are other Republican precincts in the county in which the boys got neither a run for their money or a "shake of the box. " David you are a gonions and ought to be kept on Uncle Sam's pay roll until you survey all of the We don't wondur that the Republic- arid lands of Oregon. ans of Clackamas County got sore once in a while when they look around and discover that uoarly all of the good Well, it is Dreiser. He is the Reg ister of the land office and he has , , , , , . , t j earned his job. Mr. Moores has made places have been parceled out by Lord . " t, , , . j 1-. . an acceptable official. Careful, pains- Brownell to Renegade Domocrats. , , , . , . . laKing ana nonesc. vocea tne xvepu d- Well, wo will all go down to the convention on next Saturday and see just how Lord Brownell performs when in action. Query? Did Eli Haddock win his light against Brownell in the Second Ward or did Brownell win his fight against Eli. Answer, Eli? Only a few more years and the rank and file of the Republican party will only be "Hewers of wood and drawers of water" and Lord Brownell and his satelites will continue to be drawers of the salaries and the dispensers of the 'Graft.' Would you rather bo a Democrat 1 ami be honest and get nothing than he a Republican and got graft and help tho other follow to get it. Wo Democrats don't want anything hut v are going to try to make tho )t her f How be honest. Its a big job iiid bud crowd and wo don't know what wo can make of them but we will do our duty to tho country just the same. Senator Brownell, tho "Big Thing" or the U. O. P., will meet at the Oourthimso in Oregon City at two thirty o'clock on next Saturday after noon tind name tho delegates to tho Congressional convention at Eugeno. Who wants to go A Republican in Clackamas county has no more show of getting an office .than a Democrat and not as much pos Bibly. Nearly all of the good places aro held by ex-Democrats. If a Dem ocrat iu Clackamas County wants an office for sure all ho has to do is to turn his coat and vote tho Republican ticket. Then ho is picked up as a stray diamond, nominated to office by tho O. O. P. and electod with a whoop and hurrah. Funny, isn't it? Tho courthouse is full of ex-Democrats. Wo will not stop to call tho roll now but later will indulge in a few '"in congruvial" lvinarkcs along this lino. lican ticket as often as he could. He has been too good a man to have boon a itepbulican, but ho has. In appoint ing Mr. Dresser the Republican party has departed from all precedent. Mr. Dresser is poor, not possibly as poor as Lazarus, who eat the crumbs from the rich man's table, but poor, honest ly poor. Mr. Moores, while not as rich as the rich man in the parable, I is as rich as an incumbent of a Feder al appointment ought to honostly be. The logic of Republican politics would have been to have made the rich mail richer and the poor man be d m, We are glad that Dresser has reached the goal of his ambition. Tho fruition of his years of service have at last been gathered and it now or soon will bo Register Dresser and we will all call him JUDGE. Enter Dresser. Exit Moores. do rea t Values in BOYS, AN CMIOMIEN'S AT THE Golden Tuk Bazaar r,- J.I. -'. . 1 T I I' Boys' School, Sailor and Uorfolk Suits f, "W" Ml if Every size and every style no need of paying $4 or $4.50 in credit stores when you can obtain such values from us . Adams Bros.' Golden Rule Bazaar Oregon City's Big Cash Store Miiirii niliM Clackamas County is a royal vine yard. Her soil is as rich as tho valley of Nile. Her 'fields are broad and her The innocent and unsophistocated farmers of Clackamas Connrv who hnone'iiced to he horn Itemihlicnns and prol'8 are ainiliuit .1 unfailing. 11 x l T T . - don't know any better yet will arrive in Oregon City on Saturday morning to attend tho Republican convention mid wo can imagine that tluy will tie their horses to the fence and quietly disperse into tho Courthouse yard and there they will be met by a gentleman who will pull out a nice silk badge and pin it onto the lapel of their coats, and it will read "I am a Brownell Republican." The innocent fanner will look at it for a few minutes and Ho A man who will lie in polities will lie in. business A man who will mis- XoaU ins neighbor and steal his vote probably say "Yes, I guess I am is an anarchist in disguise. Look is one and so am I. " around you my friends and see if that " - kind nl' man is one of your acquaint uncos. If a iu.ui is not a candidate for Con i gross what, does he want with a del egation anyway? Possibly it is a val-1 uablo chattel and would ho worth in. tho open market of the world but ' why discuss the matter. Everybody knows that Lord Brownell will do the' fair thing. Well wo are old enough in Oregon to vote and that means that wo can nay a' few things just for fun about tho common enemy. A man does not i'i . .1.. . . . lino io lain too much when lie is so new in a country that ho can ho called a carpt-1 bager. We are getting to In tin old pioneer now. If a Democrat who lias been born and bred in tho faith turns over to bo a Republican for conscience sake why JS it that tho next shako of the box he rants an office nud immediately lo mes a i.andidatc. We presume that ' for eonn'ieneo sake also. These ex Vmoeruis have a conscience as elastic .8 a llepuhlieau National platform. Mayor Dimick .was conspicuous by Lis uiem:o when tho Ihuwnell "Free A friend of the Courier who also happens to be a business man of Or egon City and a Republican, remarked to us tho other day: "We are glad that yon are hero and giving us a good paper, lint you can t do anything witli the Republican party ; they have all of the money and all, of tho big cor porations areon their side and you can't touch them. I wish you could." Now is not that a sad commentary upon our boasted American Civilization, "The Land of tho free and the home of tho brave." Well, wo may not be able to move them, but we will take a "little hide off" along at spells just for fun. There is a good wholesome senti ment among tho Democrats of Clacka mas County. There is a spirit of for giveness and brotherly love. Thero is a universal determination to bury the hatchet and get together for tho battles of the future. The Democrats of this county and of this state can win if they will all "pull" together. Will they? We hope and believe for the best. We know that tho Democratic ;arty stands for all that is honest and Her people aro tho best on earth. Her laborers aro worthy of their hire. Her farmers are broad minded and generous and her women aro lovely to behold. She ought to bo what sho is entitled to bo tho best county oil the Pacific Coast between tho Canadian border and San Diego. She is what her pol itics has made her, a poor tax ridden municipality. In ten years from her hard handed sons of toil t,hero has been taken "by the gatherer of the sheaves" $1,500,000 and and what has sho to show for it. A dozen wooden bridges of an anti diluvian period. They look like they might have been left here by Noah some years ago. A few miles of miserably bad roads. Partly plank, partly sand and mostly mud. Sho also has a very, very bad political odor about her Somo body has beeu robbing tho corn crib Somo political vermin have been around at night. What has be come of the coin anyway? If a county in the East or South were taxed as high iih is this county there would be mob violence and some body would get into trouble. Why does Lord Brown ell permit his children to be so treated? the people fhe plain unvarnished truth. Just tell the people that the explana tion for the increased assessment is that we need more money and that we "have got to have it. " Colonel Brad ley is an own cousin to Governor Wil liam O. Bradley of Kentucky and looks very much like him. Governor Brad ley had the reputation of being the meanest Republican in the Blue Grass state and in that respect he and the colonel resemble. Ho could also drink more good bourbon, swear more pro fanely and tell more unreasonable stories than any man since the days of Annias. On those later grounds Col onel John and Governor Bill aro no "kin." iKigjg'.mjiviMgii,iifi.wi. A Hot Protest, ;ood iu our American government and ve believe that the people are honest to explain tho matter away an 1 tell Senator John Bradley of Oregon City who has been in the country for the last month or more doubling the as sessments of the common herd and incidentally rxplainig the benevolent jxilicy of the Republican party dropped into Oregon City on Saturday after noon and reported progress. He thinks ho will get his end of the county doub led up by the middle of the Summer. Mr. Bradley says it is a pretty tough job to make the"haysecds"understand why it is that the assessment is doubled this year when the taxes are alreadv "higher than the cat's back". Now Colonel suppose you just Quit trvinu Editor Com eer I see in the daily Ore- gonian of Mirch 22d, the following: "The Oregonian will obtain from the office of the secretary of stata tin list of names of those persons who have ao lit tle pride in their state as to try to aetMt the Lewis and Clark Centennial ; and it will publi h the list by couniies. In this wav it will be shown what dead weight Oregon is (loomed for the present to carry." Now. Mr. Scott, do y;m really think you can scare any on? In the business world this article would be e ustrued to be bluc'unniliilg. What are you going to do with us Mr. Scott, boycot us in business and politics? In my neighborhood I heve yet to find a voter vihois in favor cf the fair. You suecee led io bulldozing the legislature lo pass this spuropriatinn without rtfer ling i to the people. Now you propose tobuildiiZ' the taxpayers. Perhaps you will ; may he you will not Stand iy your guns, boys, the war is on. Yours for Liberty, W. W. Mvkhs. 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