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NOVEMBER 20 1903. T"
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OREGON CITY, NOVEMBER 20. 1903
The preacher trust may safely strike
for shorter sermons without danger of a
lockout.
Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma
are going to make another fight to "join
the Union."
Prohibitionists and Socialists were
more conspicuous on the official ballot
than in the election returns.
Railrmds have just been completed in
China which manes it possible to go
from Paris to Peking by rail.
It is pretty evident that our Navy De
partment had "inside information" of
the outbreak of the revolution in Pana
ma. '
Senator Hanna says the Administra
tion'! policy in the Panama case, "We
are not grabbing territory. We are
simply doing our manifest duty."
Country residents near Princeton, N,
J., have objected to a colored mailcar
rier and threaten to give up their boxes
if he is not removed. This is likely to
cause some comment in the South.
Three well known Japanese journalists
have resigned their editorial posts rather
than advocate war between Japan and
Russia as they were instructed to do.
They believe that such a conflict would
be disastrous to Japan.
It looks as if the Dreyfus affair would
be re-opened . The French Minister of
War, Andre,declared in the cabinet that
the Rennes court-martial should be re-
vised and Dreyfus exonerated. The
ministers were unable to come to an
agreement.
One of the striking scenes at the open.
Ing of the new Congress was the meet'
ing between Senator Gorman and Ben.
ator Hanna. As they shook hands cor
dially on the floor, they were greeted by
a thundering applause by the members
ot both parties.
When the Cr.ar visits Germany many
thousand of the Kaiseis troops are
called out to guard him. When the
Russian monarch left Darmstadt thous
ands Jof German soldiers were placed
along the railroad at a distance of twen
ty yards apart, for over 500 lullus to the
Russian frontier.
Delegate Rodney enjoys the dintinc.
tion of having introduced the first bill in
the new House of Representatives. It
was a bill to provide for the admission
of New Mexico as a state. Bill No
was for the repeal of the anti-canteen
clause of the army appropriation bill,
passed at the last session.
In a recent sermon Dr. Parkhurst de
clared that niter January 1, when Mayor
Low's term expires, New York "will be
hoi! will) the lid off," and that the Dern
ocratic voters were "members of the
devil's kingdom of greed and villiany
Dowie'sviBit seems to have enriched the
Doctor's abusive vocabulary.
A smile spread over the Senates! it
was announced that Senator Gorman
was appointed as Senator Hoar's col
leage on a joint committee to notify the
President that Congress had assembled,
ft is not known whether the President
invited the Maryland Senator to dine at
the White House, i
Senator Hanna called at the White
House tnd President Roosevelt request'
1 mm to remain cnairinan oi the na
tional committee. Hanna has not yet
tilven hii answer. It is generally be
lieved that the Presidont tears Hanoa
uict as much as Gorman, as a com
petitor In the presidential contest next
text year.
Pkksidknt Iwosevki.t found time to
hold a half-hour conference with John
Alexander Howie, the religious mounte
Sjak. He assured the President of Zion
City'i support next fall. Dowie was
accompanied to the White House by
teveral niembo-is of his cabinet and a
bxly guard, iie is the first crank who
has beon allowed to pass the White
(louse guards for some time ; but Dowie
controls votes.
The Massachusetts Beciety for the
Prevention oi Cruelty to Animals is
gathering evidence to prosecute the stu
dents of the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, who beat to death a little
pig at the interstate games last week.
The little animal was the mascot for the
freshmen team and was turned loose in
the field. A crowd of sophomores chased
it with heavy clubsand beat it to death
in front of the grand stand. The public
will surely support the S. P. C. A. and
congratulate them if they succeed in
bringing to justice those students who
by their wanton cruelty, have disgraced
themselves and their institute.
DEMOCRACY'S STAR IN ASCENDANCY
The whole nation lias read with in
stinctive accuracy the signs of the times
as revealed by the November election.
Their individual importance has been
subordinated to their revelation that the
country at large is turning trustful eyes
towai d the Democratic party.
Hundreds of thousands of thoughtful
patriots are at last convinced that their
hope of relief from many government
malfeasances is no longer to be placed in
the Republican party. If those reliefs
and reforms are to come at all they must
comelthrough the recall of the Democrat
ic party to the control of the national
government.
One reading of the returns says that
the people take no permanent faith in
in the claim that the Democratic party
is a destructive party. Being composed
of nearly, if not really more than, one
half of the entire national electorate the
folly of believing that they would seek
to ruin themselves and the government
under their control as a measure of re
venge upon a minority Republican party
is an absurdity too gross for the dullest
intellect to harbor.
Good men, unskilled in politics, who
were swayed from their democratic in-
stinctB in the 1896 and 19J0 campaigns
by the cry that the democratic (program
meant national dishonor, dishonest
dollar for the poor man and the sinking
of the country to a Mexican or Chinese
level are now being undeceived.
Another reading of the returns reveals
that from Massachusette to Utah the
Democrats have made gains nnder cir
cumstances that Bhow they were not
given on local issues, but upon the ardent
desire to give notice that Republican
policies are partial, plutocratic and un
just as between classes and sections.
The understanding ii growing that the
Republican party is not and cannot ever
De a nauonai party, it is per se a
sectional party. It embodies the dog
mas and practices of division and a pure
ly patriotic electorate can never have in
it respectable representation from every
state and section.
Patriots . everywhere are becoming
convinced that thejdomlnance of such a
party is not desirable and that we
should have in this country a political
reunion in fact, and not one of fine words
and effervescent gush. Such a union
they can now promote only throug the
broad principles and equities of the
Democratic party.
Yet another reading of the returns
shows that the Democrats themselves in
particular localities have allowed the
elimination of certain undesirable per
sons and propositions that were apples
of discord within the party raukB. The
personages disposed of wore not of the
seriousness and equipoise desired in
Democratic leadership and some of the
ideas of which they were the propa.
gandtsts have no proper place in a
righteously constructed Democratic
platform. ' By these eliminations the
Democracy gains in reputation for sanity
even more than it has gained in actual
vote.3.
These readings of the returns cannot
be easily mistaken by Democratic lead
ers They indicate a growing popular
demand. He is not wise enough to be a
leader of the democracy who proves pur
blind to their significance.
The people are demanding honesty in
the conduct of public affairs. Thev Rre
tired of actual grafts and loots, and equal
ly tired of legislated loots, created and
protected by the Republicau party.
They believe in the old commandment,
"Thou shalt not steal," and are ready to
Bland by that party which will stand on
that issue and fix that principle in gov
ernment conduct.
On the tarilT question the masses ana
they are these who consume more large
ly than they produce for their own ac
countwant an American tariff and not
a monopoly, trust-breeding tariff. They
want necessary protection for American
manufacturers, American producers and
American labor. Thew want a tariff
unuer wnicn a protectee irnst can uo
more rob the American consumer than
the cheap labor, free raw material old
world would do if we had no tariff.
With an honest government we would
have reduced needs of revenue and the
tariff could be so revised as to hold the
scales of justice even between the hold
er of the home markets and the millions
who buy la these same home markets.
The people want a curreucy that is
stable in value and elastic in adaptabil
ity to the varying needs of the country.
Such a currency was demanded by the
democracy of the Tilden year, 1876, a
currency of gold and silver, and paper
convertible into coin at the demand of
the holder. We have not .such a cur
rency now, although the Republicans
have often promised it. They have not
established the gold standard by law
and they steadily refuse to weed oat the
dangerous notes embodied in oar cur
rency. The people will support the
party that has the wisdom and courage
to stand again for the Tilden demand
above quoted.
The order of the day to every Demo
crat is to "let the dead past bury its
dead" and for every live sage and loyal
member of the party to front face to
ward the rising sun. The star of the
Democracy is the star of the day spring
There is a thousand per cent increase of
hope in Democratic hearts today over
that they held on TneBday morning. If
they will get together in earnest, upload
every Jonah from their ships, nail to
every masthead the ensign of "equal
rights to all men and special privileges
to none," they can sail confidently into
the open sea of 1904 and give a Santiago
to the oppressors, looters and power
drunk crew of the Republican fleet.
A SOMERSAULT.
Speaking of the tariff question, Mr.
Roosevelt said: "It is exceedingly un
desirable that this (the protecctive) sys
tem should be destroyed 'or that there
should be violent and radical changes
therein, Our past experience Bhows
that great prosperity in this country has
always come under a protective tariff."
Those who have read these remarks of
Mr. Roosevelt may be interested in read
ing something Mr. Roosevelt wrote in
his "Life of Thomas H. Benton." On
pages 60 and 67 of that book, it will be
found that Mr. Roosevelt wrote the fol
lowing: "The vote on the protective
tariff law of 1828 furnished another illus
tration of the solidarity of the west.
New England had abondoned ber free
trade position since 1824, and the north
west strongly for the new tariff; the
southern eeacoast states, except Louisl
ana, opposed it bitterly ; and the bill
was carried by the support of the west
ern states, both the free and the slave.
This tariff bill was the first of the im
mediate irritating causes which induced
South Carolina to go into the nullification
movement. Benton's attitude on the
measure was that of a good many other
men who, in their public capacities, are
obliged to appear as protectionists, but
who lack his frankness in stating their
reasons. He utterly disbelieved in and
was opposed to the principle of the bill,
but as it had bid for and secured the in
terest of Missouri by a heavy duty on
lead, he felt himself forced to support it;
and he so announced his position. He
simply went with hie state, precisely as
did -Webster, the latter, in following
Massachusetts' change of front and sup
porting the tariff of 1828, turning a full
and complete somersault. Neither the
one nor the other was to blame. Free
traders aie apt to look at the tariff from
from a sentimental standpoint; but it is
in reality purely a business matter, and
should be decided solely on grounds of
expediency. Political economists have
pretty generally agreed that protection is
vicious in theory and harmful in practice
but if the majority of people in interest
wish it, and it affects only themselves,
there is no earthly reason why they
should not be allowed to try the ex
periment to their hearts' content. , The
trouble is that it rarely does affect only
themselves; in 1828 the evil was pecu
liarly aggravated on account of the un
equal way in which the proposed law
would affect different sections. It pur.
ported to benefit the rest of the country
but in undoubtedly worked real injury
to the planter states, and there is small
ground to wonder that the irritation
over it in the legionso affected should
have been inteuse."
Mr. Roosevelt seems to have "turned
a full and complete somersault." As
the author or thj "Life of Tliouus H.
Benton"he declared tl at "political econ
omists have pretty generally agreed that
protection is vicious in theory and harm
fulin practice," but as president of the
United States, he insists that it is ex
ceedingly undesirable that the protec
tive system be destroyed.
As the author of "Life of Thomas H.
Benton." Mr. Roosevelt said that while
in 1828 the tariff "purported to beuefit
the rest of the country, it undoubtedly
worked real injury to the planter states
and there ia a small ground for wonder
that the irritation over it in the region
so affected should have been intense,"
but as president Mr. Roosevelt declares
that "our past .experience shows that
great prosperity in this country has at
ways come under a protective tariff".
DEMOCRATIC PROSPECTS.
The smashing victory of the Tam
many organization lu the New York
elections last week, fotlowed by the ap
parently secret action of the adminis
tration in conniving with the secession
of Panama, and its unprecedented haste
in recognizing the pretended de facto
government down there, has given a new
phase to the political situation through
out the Nation and has materially in
creased the Republican anxiety over the
effect that recent events will have upon
the campaign next year.
In addition to the deioat of the Re
publican ticket in New York by the
enormous margin of over 85,000 votes,
came the triumph of Senator Gorman
in Marylaud, a state which the Kepuo
licans consider sufficiently "doubtful" to
give them a fighting chance for success.
The election, therefore, of the Demo-
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OREGON CITY.
cratic candidate for Governor by a
harfdsome majority in a state where
public sentiment is susceptible to the
influences sent out from administra
tion circles at the capital is significant
of the waning popularity of the Roose
velt regime.
The Republican alarm created by the
results in New York and Maryland is
not quieted b the emphatic Republi
can majority in Ohio, for the last named
Btate is always Republican and its loss
to the Democrats last week can have no
possible bearing upon the presidential
conteBt next year. So the election cf
Mr. Herrick and a Legislature that will
return Mr.Hannato the Senate does
not dispel the gloom that hangs over
Republican circles in consequence of
the returns frcfin the other states.
The result of the election is 'epito
mized by a Washington correspondent
as follows :
1. That New, York is likely to go
against the Republicans in th 3 presi
dential contest next year.
2. That the relection of President
Roosevelt is not going to be as easily ac
complished as his friends haB hoped.
3. That Senator Gorman will prob
ably assume more and more prominence
as an aspirant for the Democratic nomi
nation, and hat he will from now on be
a thorn in the side of the aduiiaistra
tion at the capitol.
4. That there is a possibility New
York may present McClellan fur Presi
dent, and try to put the son in the seat
the father failed to win .
B. That on the whole the result of
the elections is unfavorable to President
Roosevelt and his administration, as
indicating a reaction toward the opposi
tion, especially in the Eastern states.
The effect of the elections upon the
probable nominee of the next Demo
cratic National Convention is, of course
the wildest speculation, but there can
be no discrediting the conclusion that
the widespread "popularity" of Preii
dent Roosevelt, which has been 10 per
listently dinned in the ears of thepeople,
is the product of Republican imagina
Hons. The result will encourage Demo
cratic workers to greater effort! in those
states where work will count and where
there are probabilities of success.
The election returns show plainly that
the peculiar strenuosity, of which the
admirers of the President 10 grandilo
quently boast, has about run its course.
The public will stand a certain amount
ot razzle dazzleand the ta-ra-rah boom-de-astyle
of doing things. For a time
iinco coe! with the American, but the
time soon comes when its fascinating
hold on him weakens, and, in his sober
moments, he suspects that something
more conservative is preferable.
Thr is no disposition to discredit tue
highmiudedness of the President but
there have been a good many evidences
of late that his administration is not so
intensely popular at it might be. The
H. E. CROSS, Sole Agent.
corruption that ' exists in the postoffice
and Interior Departments has been fully
unearthed, but the same partisan ma
chines in the different state 6 Btill dictate
the placing of patronage. A few rascals
may be indicted, but the men, who rec
ommended the rascals in the first place
are in position to recommend their
successors. The ' elections show that
the voters are considering the advisa
bility of making a change .
Events since the elections were held,
only a week ago, will serve to emphasize
this sentiment. Whatever merits there
may be in the secession ot Panama, the
experiences in the United States during
the decade of the sixties should have
warned political sentiment in this coun
try against encouraging the rebellion,
bat the "strenuous" desire for expan
Bion has spurred the administration to
aid Panama in cutting loose from Co
lo xbia and setting up an independent
government. The inside of this extraor
dinary conduct is yet to be exploited,
with the probability that the Democrat
ic prospects of next year will be greatly
promoted thereby. Seattle Times, t
DEMOCRATIC BEACONS,
The Democrats have more reasons to
be cheerful over the result of Tuesday's
elections than the Republicans. If very
general gains and some great victories
point to a rising tide of democratic senti
ment. Then the returns from the states
in action Tuesday give substantial signs
that the popular opinion is slowly but
surely taking sides with the Democracy
on pending national issues.
For instance, in New York City every
possible voice on the fusion side yelled
down the Idea that the election in that
city involved the probable action of New
York next year. On the other hand
Tammany forced the national signific
ance of the vote and the importance of
fixing the greater city as the control
ling factor of the state in determining its
status whether as a Democratic or as a
Republiceu state next year and the
emphatic answer of the people is that as
went the city so must go the state.
In Massachusetts the campaign was
full of national politic!. Cabinet min
isters and the national party leader)
burned the grass with their hot-footed
chasing as they flew from platform to
platform and cried aloud that the old
Bay State must stand by the adminis
tration. The reeult of it all was a nearly
40 per cent reduction of the republican
majority of 1902.
The issue in Ohio was Hanna for the
senate. Every other question broached
was kicked over the lines. The Re
publican majority was increased and
considerinzthe Democratic out fit set up
against Uncle Marcus the only wonder
ii that the majority is no larger.
Out in Iowa there was a peculiarly hot
rladtone Park
national campaign. Governor Cummins
who had become the enfant terrible of
the Republican protectionists by stand
ing for anti-trust tariff revision and who
got elected two years ago on that "Iowa
idea" by 83,154 majority, this year con
sented to "stand pat" with Hanna, Alli
son and the president and now finds that
a rank freetrader Democrat has cut his
majority by the neat figure of over 30,
000. Maryland and Kentucky were fought
for by the Republicans, who wished to
break into the solid south and to de
preciate southern antagonism to certain
objectional policies of the president..
Both of the grand old historic common
wealth have taken unshakable place in
the Democaatic ranks.
The Democracy should not neglect
these signs and by all means should
keep up from now on that campaign of
education which will bring new recuits
every day and make the party triumph
ant in the election of next year.
BUT HE FORGOT MILES.
When an order was issued transfer
ring Geu. H. Corbin from the war de
partment to the command of the eastern
division, Mr. Roosevelt took occasion to
pay a high tribute to Corbin.
Recently Captain R. B. Bradford,
chief of the bureau of equipment of the
navy, gave up his bureau position to go
on sea duty, and Mr. Roosevelt took oc
casion to pay Captain Bradford a high
and doubtless entirely deserved compli
ment. But when General Nelson A. Miles
retired fiom the head of the army after
forty yean of faithful service, he was
permitted to go into private life without
one word of commendation from the
president. He was dismissed with a
cold-blooded order issued and signed by
one of JGeneral Miles' discredited subor
dinates. It is not surprising that Mr.
Roosevelt is being severely criticised
even at this day for his evidently delib
erate mnb to one of America's greatest
soldiers. It Is strange that Mr. Roosevelt
places so small a premium upon the in
telligence of the American people that.
after hii friends had undertaken to ex
plain the Miles' snub on the ground
that the customary order had been is
sued, the president goes out of his way
to pay a high tribute to two other of
ficers neither one of whom performed
service at all to be be compared with
that rendered by General Miles.
It is not difficult to undei stand the
statement made by one Washington cor
respondent, who said: "A
soldiers the language used in criticising
Mr. Roosevelt is bitter. They regard
the Bradford incident as proof that it
was personal enmity alone that prevent,
ed the president from Bavine something
commendatory to General Miles when
the latter gave np command of the army
after forty-two ears of honors bis and
aisunguisueu service,"