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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1897.
AGENTS FOR THE IXTIRFKI8B.
Bearer Creek,
Oanbf, '
Clackamas,
Mllwatikle.
Union Mills. -Meadow
Brook.
Hew Era,
Wilson Till,.
P-k Place,
Oladatnne,
Stafford,
ulino,
Oarua,
Molalla. '
Jarqnam,
Bnttevllie
Aurora,
OrriUe,
Eagle Creek,
Damascus,
Sandy,
Salmon,
Ourrinsville,
Cherryville,
Marmot,
Dr
T. B. Thomas
Geo. knight
A. Mather
Oscar Wlsslnirer
0 J. Trullinier
Chas Holman
W. 8. Newberry
- Henry Miley
F. L. ttinwell
T. M. Cross
J. O. Gate.
C. T Howard
R. M. Cooper
Annie Slubhe,
X. M. Hartnian
B. Jeuulncs
Henrv A. Miyder
D Perdue
H. Wilhem
J. C. Elliott
F. Gixtsch
Mrs. W. M. Mclntyre
Geo. J. Currin
Mrs. M. J. Hammer
Aiiolph Aschort
g& The way to build np Urtgon
City is to five Oregon City people jour
yttronafre.
MR. OEER DECLINES.
After nearly two weeks spent in trying to
dec de whether he should or should not ac
cept the rrgistership of the Oregon City
land office tendered bini by Senator McBrkle
and Congressmen Tongue and Ellis, Mr.
Geer came out in a letter last Friday, de
clining the honor. The reasons he gave
were that he was not a candidate for the
office and would have the collector of cus
toms at Portland or nothing, and that he
had rer-nnimended another person for the
land office.
There is every reason to believe that when
the appointment was first tendered him
that be intended to accept it, but listening
to false friends he was led to believe that
the office was beneath his dignity and after
displaying a hesitancy and vacilation that
will prove disastrous to his luture welfare,
has filed his declination with the delegation.
Mr. Geer has now rendered it impossible for
the delegation to secure an appointment of
ny kind for him and he will- have to go to
the bottom and begin his climb over again
to political distinction.
There is a faction in the republican party,
backed up by the Oregonian, that is bent on
rule or ruin, as was demonstrated when
they made an alliance with the populists
last winter to hold up the Oregon legisla
ture, and this gang saw in Mr. Geer I
chance to advance their interests by creat
ing dissentions in the republican party and
lie was thoughtless enough to fall into their
trap. When this gang had an opportunity
to honor Mr. Geer they flatly declined
and turned him down with as little com
pnnction as they would the most insignifi
cant man in the party. It is only since the
last state election that Mr. Geer was turned
down three times in succession by Governor
Lord, when be applied for the superin
tendency of the penitentiary and the sup
erintendence of the reform school and the
clerk of the state land board, neither one of
the offices paying a higher salary than
$1,500. Now these same fellows raise
great bowl to prevent his taking an office
paying $3,000 er year.
Mr. Geer will one of these days find out
how be hss been duped and who his
friends are.
MR GEEK'S MISTAKE.
Mr. Geer's assumption that the office of
collector of customs gives a man a high
political prestige as well as a financial posi
tion is hardly borne out by the records of
that office. Not a man who bas ever held
that office has ever been able to go a step
higher in politics and each of the former
incumbents in the office bas gone into an
oblivion so complete as to not be heard of
after. While the office pays a salary of
$4,500 a year, yet such are the calls upon
the man drawing it, that at the end of the
year but little of it is left. By reason of
this large salary the collector is called upon,
among the first, to bead the list for the
hundred and one charitable and public con
tributions that are levied upon prominent
men in a city while his political assessments
are no small drain upon bis salary. Being
in the maelstrom of Portland politics, it is
impossible for the collector to avoid getting
mixed up with the various factions, with
the result that he usually makes so many
enemies that his future political aspirations
.are forever killed off.
To a man who wishes to guard and build
up Ins political and financial standing, the
land office in this city offers one of the best
opportunities of any in the state. The
salary of $3,000 per year, which the office
has always paid and which it will pay for
years to come, is sufficient, by reason of
the low cost of living in Oregon City and
the few demands that are made upon it for
charitable and overcontributions, to enable
person drawing it to lay aside a handsome
competence at the close of bis term of office.
The opportunities for political advance
ment, a man holding this office bas, are
very great. In Mr. Geer's case, had he
Accepted the office, he would have been in
close touch with that great class of people
whom he represents and to wbom be looks
for aid in carry ing out his political ambitions.
He would have had no entangling factions to
embarrass him, and his chances of attaining
the governor'! chair or some other equally
high poeitlon would have been far better
than they would have been had he left tils
oongreHinnal district and aevereil hii con
nection with the rat counties of the Wil
lamette valley.
The day will come when Mr. Oeer will ace
his mistake and that the men now so free
in their encouragement In the position he
has taken, are false friends who are looking
more to their selfish interests than to his
Rood.
PORTLAND'S INDUSTRIAL FAIR,
Portland's manufacturers' fair opened
Wednesday evening In the Exposition build
ing under auspices of a particularly pleas
ing and promising nature. This fair will
prove an object lesson to the people of the
state and full of surprises of great value.
Many of our people have no idea as to the
growth of our manufacturing Industries
and are still imbued with the idea that this
Is simply an agricultural community.
Most people know the falls of the
Willamette at Ibis city are capable of oper
ating a large amount of machinery, while
but few even of our own cltitena seem to
realire the tremendous force and magni
tude of this power and that it ranks second
in the list of developed water-powers on the
continent, having had over $'.2,000,000 ex
pended in its development ; also that one of
the largest and most complete paper-mill
plants in the United States and the largest
electrical power and ' lighting plant In
America are located here. This fair will do
much to enlighten the people of Oregon on
this line of manufactures.
This fair will also show our people that
our manufactured products now reach an
aggregate of $12,000,000 each year, and while
the. forests of Oregon are practically un
touched, the sale of lumber from our mills
amounts to $7,600,000 a year.
With this magnificent showing there re
mains much to be done in the way of work
ing np our raw materials in lumber, hides,
etc., turning our meats into canned pro
ducts and drying our fruit in quantities to
supply our fast increasing mining trade.
In all these lines this fair will give an ob
ject lesson and stimulate greater activity in
our manufacturing enterprises.
The citizens and business men of Port
land have very generously made this exhi
bition of our resources free and our people
should show their appreciation by attend
ing in large numbers. .
Tax president upon the recommendation
of Senator McBride and Congressmen
Tongue and Ellis has appointed Hon.
Chas. B. Moores of Salem register of the
United States land office in this city. No
better appointment could hare been made.
for Mr. Moores is a man of high ability and
strict integrity and nothing of a spoilsman.
While he bas been prominent in the poll
tics of the state, having been a member of
the legislature and speaker of the bouse, he
is not of the ward politician class and is
not a boss or the petty tool ol some fac
tion. His appointment came upon bis
merits and the fact that it would give satis
faction to a greater number of republicans
than any other man in this district. It is
but natural that the republicans of Clacka
mas county would have preferred that one
of onr men should have been honored by
appointment to this office, but (actional dis
sentions had forfeited all their rights and
the best way out of it was for the delegation
to do as Ihey did, and give the office to an
outside man, with the bopes that the les
son would be heeded and that the republi
cans of Clackamas county would hereafter
lay aside their differences and rivalries and
work together for the good of the state and
of their party.
Not since the Simon-U'Ren hold-up in
the legislature last winter, has there beeu
such harmony and close fellowship between
the Oregonian and the democratic and pop
nlist papers of the state as there is now.
These worthy papers have been greatly
distressed over the manner in which Mr.
Geer bas been treated by the congressional
delegation, and so profound bas been their
grief and sympathy that it has taken col
umns of their space to give expression to
their feelings. As an evidejiceof the close
friendship that has now come to exist be
tween these erstwhile enemies, the Oregon
ian in republishing the comments of the
state press upon Mr. Geer, almost invari
ably selects democratic or populist papers
to clip from. But then birds of feather
Hock together.
Tux Southwest Oregon Reporter is the
name of the latest aspirant for Journalistic
honors at the hands of a patient and long
suffering public. It is published at
Langlois, Curry county, and edited by J.
H. Upton, "the gentleman from Coos and
Curry," who made himself so conspicuous
in shouting for economy during the sessions
of the legislature of lMM, and then went
home by way of San Francisco, collecting
$000 mileage from the taxpayers of the
state. Mr. Upton is evidently trimming
his sails so as to get back into the legisla
ture for another haul. The first issue of
the Reporter is filled with populistic twad
die on the currency, the tariff and the dere
fictions of office holders generally.
The sneering remarks that Mr. Geer and
bis supposed friends have made about the
insignificance of the Oregon City land of
fice, is somewhat of a reflection upon the
standing of the men who have held this
important office and upon those who were
applicants for it before the recent appoint
ment was made. The men who have held
this office were as honorable and as faithful
and able party workers as Mr. Geer and
their appointment to this office was con
sidered a just recognition of their standing
in the party and a recompense for the work
they bad done.
Ms. Geer is very mucb insulted tbat he
should be classed as a "miscellaneous" can
didate in his annual effort to secure an of
fice. The facts in the case are that Mr.Geer
bas been very much of a "miscellaneous"
candidate iu the years past. Hardly a year
has gone by since he entered the political
arena but he has been a candidate for an
elective or appointive office.
No man has the right to dictate to a con
vention or a delegation what office shall be
given him. It is bossism of the rankest
kind and Is only permitted In organlcattons
like Tammany. In a stale like Oregon
this assumption of dictatorial power la en
tirely out of place and among republicans
never has been and never will lie tolerated
SriKlTOr THK FEES
What a striking resemblance tliore Is be
tween lW and 1.7 and the years ol our
Lord 1878 and 1879! In 1878 the air was
resonant with denunciations of the wicked
men who would not issue all tl,e green
backs which a suffering people demanded
John Sherman was denounced on all hands,
Samuel J. Tilden declared that only a vast
cenual reservoir ol coin could protect us
against the failure of the proposed return
to specie payments in 1879. The farmer
was at his worst, ruined, destroyed, eaten
up by taxes and usury. Pown almost to
the very day of resumption the croaking
came with dismal and damnable Iteration
When the 1st of January came no crowds
thronged the sub-treasury corridors.
Hardly a greenback was presented and we
got hack to the currency of the world with,
out a movement or a Jar. From that
moment prosperity began." Speaker Heed
in New York World, September 13.
The Astoria News expresses very clearly
the unenviable position Into which Mr.
Geer has placed himself, In the following
article: lion. T.T. Geer, republican pres
idential elector, whose name was sent to
Ihe president as the choice of the con
gressional delegation for register of the Ore
gon City laud office, has notified the dele
gation that if appointed he will decline to
serve. Mr, Geer has made a mistake In
taking such a step. He is well qualified
for the position. Every person whose bus
iness calls bim to the land office would
have Ihe utmost confidence in his ability
and integrity, and be should accept the
place, or declining, gracefully retire Iroui
the tight for the Portland collectorship.
There are several reasons why Mr. Geer
should be satisfied with the decision of the
delegation. It did the best thing It could
under existing conditions. It showed no
desire to turn him down. It gave him a
place that is Just as desirable in Ihe eye of
the public as the collectorship, and that
will serve his political ambition far better.
In Ihe land office he would be free from
many embarrassing and entangling poliu
ical alliances that would disturb bis peace
of mind and employment, and he would
only coma in contact with Ihe sturdy men
with whom he has been associated all bis
life. Again, we are inlormed that when
Mr. Geer took the stump for the republican
party last November he did so for a stipu
lated compensation for his services; and
having been paid off, it is hardly probable
tbat the delegation feels under obligations
to tender him an appointment promised to
another. It is plain those who are eager
to have him decline are not bis friends, nor
the friends of the delegation, and they care
not what becomes of Mr. Geer if they can
use bim to embarrass the delegation. They
are simply using bim for a tool, and his
honest nature as a trap for his undoing.
Because he is in a formidable position as a
presidential elector, tbey have singled him
out as the proper person to defy, gracefully
bulldoze and dictate to the delegation. lie
may learn later that this is a dangerous
thing to do.
The republican press of the state, other
than the Oregonian and its small coterie of
satellites all united in depricating Mr.Geer's
course in his ellorts to secure a federal ap
pointment. The following from the Pend
leton Republican is a sample of what Ihe
republican paers of Oregon have to say of
the Geer-Oregonian fiasco:
''As to the Oregonian's charge that Mr.
Geer has been turned down by the so-called
Mitcliell-McBride combination, we should
like to have that paper inform its readers
why Mr. Geer was not taken care of by the
Simon push when they practically dictated
every office in the state controlled the con
ventions and named Ibe nominees? Mr.
Geer is no new arrival. He is a native son
of Oregon and after years of splendid work
on the stump it was left to the so-called
Mitchell-McBride combination to recognize
his valuable services and give bin a place on
the state ticket. The second time be is recog
nized we find that it is by the sanid Mitch-ell-McBride
combination If Mr. Geer is
such an ideal man as the Oregonian seems
to have so lately discovered him to be, it is
quite strange that Joe Simon and the Ore
gonian did not give him a boost long ago.
The fact of the matter is that it Is anything
to make trouble and there is a good deal of
groping in the dark for a tangible excuse to
stir up a hornet's nest.
As an exchange recently remarked in
commenting on the appointment of Mr.
Geer, "in view ol the fact that he is in op
position to the doiuinent wing of the party
in Oregon, his treatment by the delegation
has been, not only very juat but very gen
erous. It demonstrates that the congres
sional delegation is for the party belore in
dividual, by recommending for a lucrative
office a man who is doubtless opposed to the
re election of any one of the present con
gressional delegation "
ON THE ROAD TO YUKON.
Lake Lirdehmah, Alaska, Sept. 7, '17.
It is now a month since we left the steamer
at Dyea. We have been here three days
and have a boat partly built. Have a dry day
for a change and thegoldhunters are drying
blankets, clothing and various eatables, ft
is an Indian summer day. Bswplts and
boat building is going on on every hand,
rushing together all kinds of small craft for
the 570 miles of lakes and rivers to the
Klondike. From the steamer we hired a
boat and took the outfit of 2WX) pounds 4
miles for f 13 then packed ft to the summit
ourselves except 600 lbs. packed by Indians
a mile over steep part of summit for $35.
Ferrying over Crater Lake 1 miles cost 18
over Long Lake miles cost $20, over
Deep Lake miles for $10, so our packing
has cost us about $100 in cash so far. We
packed 75 pounds or more at the start in
creasing to 100 pounds and Fairclough
sometimes took 150 pounds. The trail is
rough, rocky, steep and muddy and we are
thankful tbat we are over the worst part of
our journey. We had a lot of stuff tipped
out into Dyea river but recovered all but a
sack of beans. We bought a sack of beans
and 50 pounds of rice for $4 and 7 sacks of
Hour for $78. Have to ford numerous Ice-
cold streams on the trail. We lost part of
two (lave on the summit it being loo
stormy to move. We worked early and
late and it is the hardest mouth's work I
ever did; Ihe boys are all gritty and grit Is
needed and a great deal of patience as well,
Collins has overworked himself somewhat,
He and Faltvlotigh and our SI. Jo Irlvud
are building Ihe boat which will he a good
one, 4 miles from here; expect to Mart un
Sept. Mill and get lo Hawson City 8ept. 2,1
If we have fair sailing. Hundreds are leav
ing the Skaguay trail and coming over Hits
route but it Is gelling lale and we fear a
thousand men will have to winter on the
lakes which will soon freeie. Spring Is Hie
lies! time and go as far as l.skti lieu net or
further with sleds. All are well, have big
appetites and good spirits. We etiecl a
monthly letter mail.
Oxokob A. Hamilton
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