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Oregon City Enterprise. Published Kvery Kritlny. CHAS. MESERYli ri'RUXIIKR AND PROI'KIKTOH. BUBSCHIITION HATKS, tnymr, Sumonrhm ..... Trll tulwcrlpilnn two month, BnWrlpttotif fnynble In 1vnp Advenlniiu nte(lvn on piUcllon. Zntercd t th Pool Offlo In orfson City, Or., h lerond ctt mutter. FRIDAY, ATKIL 6, IStM. AGEST3 TOR THE ENTERPRISE. O. W. ProMpr lifo. Kimhl A. Mmhr Gary A WiMinrr U J. TriiUliuer E. 8 Hramhall Chas Holman W. S. Nfwtvrry HonrT Mllfy Hamilton A Washburn . Mr. U. A. Sht-ppard T. M. Croat J. O. l.". C. T Howard R. M. Cooper Annie SiuM. E. M. Hartman B. Jennlii( K. lfy - LJ Perdu II. Willwrn John Wflsh Cunbv, t'lwkamat, Utlwdukim Cnton Mills. A I mi, Meutnw Brook. New Era, Wllnonvlllt, Pmrk PlaiA Barlow. Glailmone, Stafford. Hiilino, Carat, Molalla. Marquam, uttevlli Aurora, Orrille. - Ksjrle Cifek, 8unnyside, Psmascus, 6andy, tlnion, I'urrinsville, Cherryville, - Marmot, J. C. KUiott F. (itstsch Mrs. W. M. Mclntyre Geo. J. Currin Mrs. M. J. Hammer Ailolph Ascbott Republican County Ticket. For State Senator, GEO. C. BUOWXELL, of Oregon City. For Representatives, GEO.O. EISEARSOX, of Oregon City. WM. BARLOW, of Barlow. C. B. SMITH, of Eagle Creek. For County Judge, GORDON E. HAYES, of Oregon.City. For CotintT Commissioner, FRANK JAGGAR, of Beaver Creek. For Sheriff, ELI C. MADDOCK, of Sew Era. For County Clerk. GEO. F. HOKTOa', ot Needy. For County Recorder, S. M. RAMSBY, of Molalla. For County Assessor, J. C. BRADLEY, of Borings. For County Treasurer, M. L. MOORE, of Ely. For Superintendent of Schools, H. S. GIBSON", of Eagle Creek. For County Surveyor, D. W. KINNAIRD. of Oregon City. For County Coroner, R. L. HOLMAN, of Oregon Ci"y. NOW, ALL TOGETHER I The ftct that the ticket which appears in this issue for the first time wis nominated by an enthusiastic body of representative republicans should al once secure for it the bearty support of every republican in the county. As is always the case in parties where there is a strong probability of electing their ticket there were many candidates for the several offices, and many bad lo be disa pointed. The men named for the several positions are not only qualified to transact the busi ness which will fall to them as incumbents of the offices, but they are the ones whom the convention in its wisdom thought best to place before the republicans of this county as their standard bearers, and this ought to secure for them warm, bearty and constant support from now until the close of the polls on the 4th day of June. But their fitness and the fact that they were chosen by a large delegation of repre sentative republicans, is not the only nor the strongest reason why they should be supported by all republicans. They stand for the principles of the party which has always been in favor of honesty in politics, in business, and in the administration of the affairs of the government. They stand for the principles which, if carried oat, will give to every part ot this broad country bet ter government and better times. They stand for honest money, economic expendi tures, patriotic principles, and such wise legislation and administration of the affairs of the national and local governments as will secure .to American citizens the great est possible good. They represent a policy which has proved safe and wise in the past, and which will again, when carried into effect, restore prosperity and happiness. Vote the republican ticket. OREGON'S OPPORT UNI TY. Fruit growers should be at the Utmost i pains to protect and save the product of their orchards the coming season, since there is good proect for a more active de mand for fruits of all kinds and better prices than have prevailed for years. The cause of this is the recent severe weather east of the Rocky mountains which accord ing to reports has done great damage to the fruit crop. In Indiana and Illinois those peaches which escaped the January freeze are all de stroyed. Great damage was done to small fruits in Southern Illinois. Cherries, plums .and apples suffered very much in Indiana. In Missouri the mercury fell as low as one degree above zero in some places. The peach crop of the state is said to be wholly ruined, life and 'ls anil other fruits are mill to W liadly laiiiHtR-il, In Kcntttrky tlu lompor aturc foil lo U ilt'unt'S luve torn, destroy ing this whjoii's eacli and plum crop, lit (loorgiit at Ifttst !V jht conl of the 'iu'h crop is said to be destroyed. The entire strawberry crop of Ti'ime-we killed. The strawtK-rry crop ol Mii-siMiippi is also reorted to he destroyed. Along the Atlantic jvnst railway lines the damage to fiuil and vegetables is estimated at Jl.UO.tW. The H Bch crp in IVIaware is said to be totally ruined. In the grape growing ri'Kioiij of Western New York the buds have been destroyed and vast losses are feared In couseiieuce. In Western Pennsylvania the i-eaeh and cherry crop is ruined, and great damage hat been done lo apples, ears and plums. In Kansas Ine cold snap destroyed the peaches and most of the pears. About Dallas, Teias, the fruit crop has been terribly Injured, if not totally destroyed. ECONOMY DEMANDED. From all parts of the state there contin ues to come vigorous protests against un necessary expenditure and extravagance of every description in the administration of the slate government. These protests are not necessaiily acainst the republican party since all parties represented in the legisla ture and administration of the state govern ment have shown a tendency through their representatives lo participate in the extrav agances. It is worthy of note that the complaint urged against several of the pres ent state otllcers Is not that they are not effi cient otticers, but that thev have been loo expensive. There is an earnest demand tor the most rigid economy in the administra tion of the atlairs of the state, and it is not going to be enough to construct a platform of well sounding but meaningless platitudes upon vital questions; but the men placed on the ticket inviting the suffrage of the people must be such as not only have not been identified with the extravagant ex penditures of the past but they must tie recognized as pledged to rigid economy and and an administration of the atfairs of the state upon business principles. The success of the republican party at the June election is not a question of doubt if its nominees are men in whom the eople have confidence and whom they feel that they can trust to cut down e i lenses, appropriations and taxes to the lowest possible limit without inter fering with good and efficient government. . REPUBLICAN FACTORY. The New York Sun says that a bill to make republicans is a comprehensive and true enough title for the variegated measure known as the Wilson bill, which, although not yet, thank heaven! a law, it is already working. It is already making republicans of deniotrats by the thousands, the tens ol thousands, the hundreds of thousands. Wherever the people get a chance to vole the wonderful efficiency of the proposed bill to make republicans of democnts, even in advance of itsinactment, is demonstrated by actual results. How do democrats like the prospect? Are they anxious to seet'ie measure in operation on full time and with full horse power) in-come attachment and all, using the !pmnrrcv nf the tnited Sliltes as mw ' material, and turning out republicans by I I the millions as a finished product? And all ' for the sake of "tariff reform," meaning by j that phrase not any honest and definite i and consistent reform of the tariff according to any intelligible principle, but a vague ! and mendacious something, no matter w hut, which shall enable cuckoodom to hail the completion and consiimuiation of the great enterprise begun by Grover Cleveland and the mugwamps in 187! Who is the demo crat in the senate that will stand up and tell the truth about the Bill to Make Repub licans. It is lime that Oregon City faced the im portant proposition that it is to our interest to have the energy of the falls or the Will amette utilized here instead of having it transmitted abroad. We believe that with the large interests of the electric company in and about Oregon City that they wish and will endeavor to have the electric power of the falls used to manufacture goods right at the falls. In order to do this the river which is now an obstruction to navigation should be made navigable not only for river boats but for all ships that ascend as far as Portland. This is neither an im possibility nor Impracticable. Other in land cities have expended much more than the expense of this project would be in developing less natural resources than we possess, it is not too early, nor are we too small a comnnity to move in the matter of securing a navigable stream to the foot of the falls. The immense advantage which we will reap in making this the great manu facturing and commercial city of the Pacific coast should impel us to determine not to rest till this is accomplished. Ik reference to the senatorial question which is involved in the coming election the Dalles Chronicle says: Those few re publicans who want Dolnh succeeded by some else, would make a bad swap, no mat ter who it is. The senator is today the ablest man in congress, and does Oregon great honor. His speeches are masterly, and his tariff arguments unanswerable. The latter are taken as texts by the American Protective Tariff League. His long service in the senate, his prominence on certain committees, and his tireless efforts for Ore gon make him today the most useful citizen I .... . ... ... - 01 lne BMIle a" uv ,1BH ,weii iur many years. No other man can (ill Dolph s place. If his position does not suit some republicans on minor points, they should remember that they might travel farther, but they would surely fare worse. It has been frequently charged by our po litical opponents, and admitted by many of the leading papers of our own party, that the last legislature was the most profli gate and extravagant within the history of the state. This being the case will it be wise for the republicans of this state to se lect for place on the ticket any man who by reason of his past record or connection with the last legislature, will commit the party to adefense of such extravagance? Tut other day one of the prominent lend ers of the populist parly In Ihls county was discoursing lo a republican of the beauties of the populist doctrine which would enable every one to borrow money al two per cent, when the republican asked It i lit why, it he was so anxious lo have the poor mini huve cheap money, he insisted on having the highest imssilile rale of Interest on the money which he had loaned out, and why he pressed collection in violation of his pirly platform. Heat llrst Indignantly de nied the charge, but when his questioner pinned him dow n with the facts he had to admit that he w as not practicing Ills own doctrine. Good theorists and preachers these lopulists, but they don't like lo lake their own physic. Tn St. Helena Misl tays: Hon. John T. Apportion will, In all probability, be the string man for the governorship at the state republican convention next mouth. Mr. Apperson possesses all the qualifications which are necessary to enable one toeltl cicutlv and honestly administer in such a capacity, and should the convention see tit to bestow such honors upon Mr. Aper- son it will have acted with extreme pru. dence, and placed In nomination the name of a man w hich cannot be up'iruided or cen sured in any reset t. and a man who will draw heavily from the ranks of the upsw ing elements. Ax ele.-tric locomotive, which has for a long time past been under construction al the works of the inventor, M. Hellmann, was recently delivered to the Fnris and Havre Compagne de I'Ouest at its Paris station, and has since been submitted lo every possible kind of a lest In railroad work. Il Is said lo have gone through all success fully, and is pronounced all that could lie desired for a first-class railroad locomotive. Its Kreatest sied, with an average train. Is fifty miles an hour. The company will probahly adopt electric locomotives to U phint steam engines. Til a; editor of the Aslorian seems to he strong in fact but weak in hMory and state government, judging by the following clip ping in which he stales Ilia I " two years ago Oregon most unfortunately elected to the po sition of governor an individual w ho, while we lielieve he has been sincere in his gyra tions, has brought us into disrepute and made us the butt for ridicule, and almost shame, from every other state in the union. '" L Tilt recklessness and extravagance of the local government of cities and towns of the I'nitetl States is shown by the reiort of the census bureau relative lo municipal taxa tion. In INN) the amount raised for muni cipal purioses in this country was f Ifil.OO, OiiO. In I It had increased to J."U!T,tfi. 0"0. Tin Xewberg Graphic rises to remark that Oregon City seems to have a mayor and council that for pure pigheadednes extricates the dilapidated linen from the shrubbery. Elected some months ago they I have Cone nothing but fight anionst them selves while the city Is itllused lo luke care of itself. Tim populists are now reaching out after the Dominion ol Canada and are organizing in Vancouver whh the same vagaries which constitute their stock in trade on this side of the line, and the Canadinn woods will soon echo to the cry of the calamity how ler. Tit it Cactus of Forest drove says: "If the republicans want a good strong man for their candidate for governor, one that will Hill the full strength of the party and make a first class executive, they should nominate J. T. Aperson, of Oregon City." Tin dispatches state thatalfalrsat Rio are rapidly assuming their normal condition. That is all right, but what we would like very much to know is, what is that normal condition? WELL ASSWKIIKD. To Tits Editor: Mr. Glasspool asks In your last issue, if I, during my extended tour, met witli any Englishman who would like to return to protection? The tactscom pel me to answer emphatically in the affirm ative. I saw many Englishmen, and know indirectly of thousands more, who desired the return of protection so much, that they have made every effort to meet it. They have left the place of their birth, their homes, their dearest friends all the sacred scenes of childhood, and all they hud previ ously held near and dear, and have come across more than three thousand miles of ocean, and sometimes more than three thousand miles of laud also, to a foreign country and among strange scenes and un familiar faces, for the sole purpose of living in the midst of protection, of enjoying Its blessings, and of sharing in the opportuni ties of progression and the fruilsol industry and endeavor, which this new country under protection afforded them, but which their native country under free trade denied them. I should further add that I could neither find, nor hear of, any American laborers in England who had gone there to receive what benelits free trade is able to offer them. I fancy that such a move would create genuine astonishment in Euglund as well as America. A. H. Diikrskk. Salmon Hpray. Salmon, March 31. Jud and Silvia Ham ilton have returned to their home in Powells Valley after a few duys visit to their sinter Mrs. J. T. Mclntyre of this place. Nicholas Wall is visitinghis mother, Mrs. Margaret Wall of this place. He Is Intend ing to move his family here soon being much pleased with the place. Wm. and Francis Stone have killed some ten wildcats during the winter. Pkookess. Letter List. The following is the list of letters remain ing in the post office at Oregon City, Oregon, April 5, 1H: Amo, Mrs. Annie; Howland, Edw. E.; Parker, Bain ; Iteridicord, W. G.; Hcroggins, Andrew. If called for please state when advertised. E. M. RANDS, F. M. PltKSM ON THE VKTO. The New York dailiesconimenl as follows concerning Iho veto of llland't Seigniorage hill; The Herald President I'levelnud has Instilled Hie general coijldenco reposed In him. The message is long and as a result of a manliest ellort to pliicnte the silverites w ill appear to many people needlessly npnl getic In lone. In this, however the Presi dent a doubtless inspired by molhetol polillcal expediency. The World The message Is a clear and able document, ami it It Impossible not lo ag ee with Mr. Cleveland that Ihe hill Is so ambiguous and so Indefinite that for thai reason It should alone not be permitted to become a law. The Sun Altogether, the messnge- will meet with the approval of eoucervaliv financiers In Ihls section of the country, though it it not likely thai II will tatlify the advocates of free silver coinage ami other currency Inflationists here or else where. The Tribune The president's veto ol the selgnnrage hill hat saved the country from great disgrace and great disaster. The financial world exected no less of Presi dent Cleveland, anil has, erliitps, been not quite ready enough lo give him at much credit as he really deserves'fur an act w hich required extraordinrry power of resistance lo the demands of hit own party, Statesman Since the po,itillla are to general In their condemnation! of president Cleveland'! veto of the Hland hill for coining the seigniorage w e are lead to the conclusion that the president hat made no mistake. Spokane Opinion From the very llrst the friends of silver did mt have any con fident hopes that the president would sign the Bland seigniorage hill, to that his vein of the niea-iure which was Intended to put new life Into the puraliied condition of the country and lo afford tome relief to the siralleued financial world, does not result in such disapH)lntmeul or dismndncy as it otherwise would. San Francisco Call The friends of Mr. Cleveland will read with pleasure the com merits of the London Journals on the silver veto. They will tee Hint Mr. CUnelaml has recovered the prestige he lost through a niume.itary leaning toward the country ol which he it chief magistrate. CMlTtI) COMMENT. Rosehurg Review The way the leading populists of two years ago are being sent to the republican convention as delegates, would Indicate a slump in the third parly ranks. Statesman In a ersonal letter to a friend in Salem, Hon. I). P. Thompson denies that he is a candidate for the gub ernatorial nomination, and iion the strength of his denial Hon. Tom Tongue's; name is sprung as a gubernatorial candid ate possibility. Spokane Opinion The best conundrum of the age w as propounded by one of the candidates to a personal friend this w eek in the following: "How can I win this cam paign without money?" A generous re ward -in thanks will be given for the earliest and best answer. I iregoiiiim Among the ilcccst of the present needs of Oregon it aclor. more care ful, more economical administration ol state affairs. The legislature must set the example, and all slate officials must be sub jected to II. Boring liots. IloHlXiiS. April .1. School commenced the first Monday in April with Miss M. L. Lenity as teacher. Farmers are busv putting in their spring crops between showers. Not much gardening has been done yet. The primary meeting went oil' all right. W. 11. Boring, It. Bradley, Jr., and M. Uke were chosen as delegates lo the county con vention. OHITt'AKT. Oliver Curtis Urd was horn Novembers, 1H.TI. in Seneca county, New York. Early in life he made a profession of Christianity. At the time of bis death he was member of the Christian Advent church. He en listed in the war of the rebellion in ld, Co. H, 1st Iowa regiment. He has been a great sullerer lor over twenty years from disease he contracted in the army, and of which he died March 27, about six o'clock p. m. We laid him away in the Damascus cemetery by the side of his beloved wife to await the resurrection morn. 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