OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1900.
Oregon City Enterprise.
Published Krstry Friday.
L. L. PORTER, raorairroa.
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lection o( congressman will bttba last
to bs helil unJer Ilia present apportion
ment.
Tbe states that will elect a governor, to
gvlber with more or leaa complete stats
tickets, are Alabama, Aikanoaa, Color
aJo, Connecticut, Georgia, Uabo, I
llllnoa, Indiana, Kansas, Maine Massa
chusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mis
souri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hamp
shire, New Yotk, North Carolina, South
Caarolina. North Pakota, South PakoU,
Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont,
Washington ;V eat Virginia and Wtacon
tin.
Peleware will elect a governor onljr.
Tbere it no lieutenant-governor in that
state,
The state elections in Iowa and Ohio
this year are for the office of secretary of
state only.
RecaneeJJof the legal complications
arising in Kentucky through the shoot
Ing of Senator Uoebel and the removal
of Governor Taylor, the slate election
this year will be held to choose a gov-
mple and cumulative evidence that the ' march on IVkln. On June lOthaforvs
of ,0il0 allied Iroopa, limier
..lr. T. B. Thomas
.Oo. kniKhi rnor to succeed Governor Beckham and
rhich oltlee it
silver question hat lust much of ite hold
on all the Western statue which voted
for nryan lo ISM. There is a domooia
tio split In Montana which promises
defeat to the rty in the State; the
fusion pluralities of lSiM In Colorado and
Idaho were rut down Iwo-thlrds In the
elections of 1MW, and rejwtt encourag
ing to republicans come from lotli states
and fiom Utah as well; the fusion lur
ality In Nevada waa reduced almost to
nothing In 1)7; and In (he tame year
Wyoming, Washington, and Kansas
were carried by the republicans. Theee
were all flrysn atatea In m, and their
combined electoral vote nearly equals
that of New York. The West It return
ing to the tide of sound money, and is
deeply intereated in Uie growing expan
sion of Oriental commerce under re
publican guidance.
..A. alaibfr
..Oscar immtrer
...0. J. Trullinitsr
. . .Chs. Holman
W. H. Newberry
, Henrv Milejr
f. L. "Russell
lieutenant-goernor,
now ivacanU
Tbe oolyjoflicials to be voted for in
Tennsylvsnla, aside from tbe general
.C. T. Howard ' national election, will be two congreas
R. H. Ooopsr
Annie ftubb
E. M. Ilartman
B. Jenninin
....Henry A. Snytlrr
H. Wilhern
J. C. Klliott
F. Oirtecb
Geo. J. Currtn
.Mrs. M. J. Hammer
Adolpb Ascboo
men at large.
Wyoming will bold a stale election to
chooae members of the legislature, and
Nevada to elect a supreme court judge.
Three states; have already held their
state elections, i They are Kbode Island
and Louisiana, which elected full state
tickets In April, and Oregon, which
0The way U aelld ap Oreg.aC.tjK , ,utelk iel anJ
to te give Orert" City Peeple yeir . .
ratrenafe.
Ua. BaYm it again billed to leavl bis
party "through slaughter bouse into an
open grave."
There are also six atatee in which no
ttate election is to be held this year.
Theee are California, Florida, Maryland,
Mississippi, New Jersey and Virginia.
It will be seen by tbe foregoing that
elections will J, be more or lest general
If the trusts are in league with the this year in thirty-nine stales, in addition
i
republican party, why is the steel trust to the national campaign, in which the
dosing down its mills just at the time
tbe republican party is proclaiming gen
eral prosperity?
The East tells the democratic party
that it must drop free silver if it hopes
to win, and from the West comes the
eloquent rebuke of Oregon against anti
expansion. It were better for Bryan to
be between the devil and the deep sea.
Every calamity-howling populist or
democrat who wants to dodge work
must keep out of Oregon. The fellow
who comes to our state whining about
hard times will find himself bitched up
to a good job before be knows what
struck bim.
election of Ja president, vice-president,
and congressmen is common to all.
The states which will vet hold elections
, . , , . ... .only a short distance from the others,
thit year in advance of the national
SITUATION IN CHINA.
The reports that come from China re
garding the progress of hostilities and
the fate of the foreigners penned up In
IVkin are marked by uncertainty and
unreliability to a great extent. The dis
patches of one day sre denied tbe next,
and on the following day an entirely new
story is spread broadcast, only to be con
tradlcted later. This confusion Is not
surprising when it is remembered that
the only source of Information is tbe
Chinese themselves, end also that the
whole country is in a atate of turmoil.
In tbe face of this condition of affairs th
civilised world is compelled todrsw con
jectores ss to what has happened to the
foreigners in Tekin from what was known
before the present disturbed condition
began, and to aift the truth from the
mast of contradictory rumors. Though
nothing authentic and ollklal has ben
beard from Pekin since June 1.7th, the
situation at that time was sufficiently
serious.
Tbe foreign legations in IVkln, with
two exceptions, were located on Legation
street, covering a space about one-half
mile iu length. The British and Aus
trian legations were on cross streets, and
Each was surrounded by a brick wall
from ten to fifteen feet high, and
eith teen to twenty-four Inches in thick
nes. The buildings were of brick, wiih
"On to Pekin" should be the policy
adopted by our government. Regardless
of tbe issues raised as to the authenticity
of tbe last Chinese note or tbe accuracy
of its statement of fact, or tbe question
raised as to the responsibility for the
present situation, our government should
be determined not to relax its efforts to
reach Pekin, to get in touch with Mr.
Conger if he is alive, to take the neces
sary steps for the protection of American
interests, and, in fact, to do all thoel
things set out in Secretary Hay's note
to the powers, including a reckoning
with the personor persons responsible
lor the outrageous events of the past tx
weeks.
election, which occurs on. November fith, j
are Alabama.lArkansas, Georgia, Maine, j
and Vermont. Alabama chooses atate j
sflicera in August: Arkansas elects ii
state ticket iu September: Tbe main tile or ruos, and there-
election: will be on the first Monday of ton &'Vt- All were more or lest
September, and Vermont one week
later, while Georgia votes on tbe first
Wednesday of October.
The early state elections of a presi
dential year have now lost much of the
mlrsl Hoymotir, left Tien talo to repar
the railway between that place and
IVkln. Thr-y hsd advanced only about
one-half of lbs dlstauce ltu they found
themselves surrounded, and fought tbolr
way Uck with the utmost dllllculty. On
June llth a force of 3.000 Kusslatit left
Tien tsin to relieve tbe legations, and
nothing has been heard from them since
On June 17th the Taku forts opened fire
on the allied warships, and after a return
bombardment, marines were landed and
the forts captured, For two weeks there
was little change in the situation.
There were 13,000 allies at Tlen-tmn aud
8,000 at Taku. Oppose! to these were
Chinese estlmsted at 2iX),0C 0, alwut one
half of the number Iwlng before Tien
tsin. The Chinese have superior artil
lery, but they were unable to make any
progress.
With the beglunlng of tbe present
month a new era lies 0ened In the
struggle. The allied powers realise that
they have sadly underestimated' the
strength ol China. This waa partly the
result of the ease with which Japan de
feated the Celestial Empire a few years
V, but since that time China has been
exceedingly active. Tbe material for
the largest army in the world they have
always bad. Put Ing the last two or
three years the Chinese Government has
been devoting Itself to drilling and aim
ing these hordes, German and Itusslan
ollicer have been pressed Into service,
and modern artillery and small arma
have been porvlisxxl.
The commanders of tbe allied forces
at Tien-Iain soon realised that an ad-1
vance with the force at their command
was out of tbe .(Mention! Even should
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It is noticeable fact, that already the
Bryanite newspapers have dropped the
Porto Rican Tariff law, over which they
were making a large and conspicuous
fuss but a few weeks sgo. That rjo
further attempt will be made to use it as
a campaign htsue is plain. If the demo
crats continue to drop issiios that are
worse than useless to them,' they will
soon be without a plank to stand on.
Our industries are flourishing under Pro
tection. Prosperity is promoted by 100
cent dollars. Expansion is a fact and
the American flag floats over our new
possessions. By antagonizing these
things the democracy will invite and re
ceive a crushing defeat. Tbe full truth
has not dawned upon it yet, but it scents
danger snd will soon be made to realize
that the Porto Rican Tariff law is not the
only iusiue on which it has taken the
wrong side.
WHAT 8TATKS VOTK FOB.
The present year Is one in which
elections will . be unusually prevalent
throughout the country, owing to tbe
unaccustomed generality with which the
states will elect governors and state offi
cers. It is also noticable that this year's
interest which attached to them when
more doubtful and important stales were
included in tbe list. Of those which re
main, the one which carried most signi
ficance Oregon has already voted,
aligning itself squarely in the republican
column by increased majorities. The
other preliminary elections yet to come
include only tbe strong democratic stales
of Alabama, Arkansas, snd Georgia, and
the equally strong republican states of
Maine and Vermont.
There will consequently be only pass
ing Interest in tbe early state elections
unless tbe returns show surprises klmost
revolutionary in their character. This
change has detracted largely from the
influence of tbe preliminary elections on
tbe voting in November, and Las cor
respondingly enhanced the interest in
tbe frequently doubtful States like New
York and Indiana. Indiana is not the
doubtful state it was previous to 1894.
Since the latter date it has regularly
gone republican by good msjorities, and
its present steadiness is evinced by the
fact that the republican plurality in the
off year of 1808 was only about six
hundred votes less than that of the
precedential year oi 18'JC. The record of
prepared to withstand attack. The
British legation had a large supply of
arms and ammunition, and the German,
French, and Russian legations were well
provided in this particular. The Rus
sians always had a force ot Cossacks
there, and the French and Germans had
soldiers. On May 20th a small force of
international troops was sent to Pekin to
protect the legations, snd these succeeded
in entering the city. It Is not probable,
however, that tbe entire force defending
the legations numbered more than Irom
four hundred to five hundred men.
Such was the situation at the beginning
of the acute phase of tbe trouble. It is
evident that tbe legations could have
held out against ordinary riots, but tbe
situation flas proved not to be sn ordi
nary one. During the latter part of June
the situation btt-ame so threatening that
the foreigners congregated In the British,
and, according to later reports, one other
legation the identify of which is not yet
known in order to concentrate their de
fense, and here they were besieged by a
force of 15,000 Boxen and regular troops,
the latter being ai med with modern rifles.
These are understood to have been un
der the direction of Prince Tuan, who
desires to profit by tbe disorder to place
himself opon the throne. Tbe legations
were commended by Chinese artillery,
but this was not used, the reason, as it
appeared later, being that Prince Ching,
Tsku at the marry of the Chinese, and
would themselves be shut off from re
treat. Admiral KemptT reported to Ibis
government that 00,000 was the smallest
force that could hope for success, and
ths allied forces numbered barely one-
tliird of that number. Immediate re
inforcement! were necessary, and Japau
was tbe only nation that could supply
them. But here international jeatoualrt
Interpose.!. Russia teared thai If Japan
did tbe lion's share of I he lighting, ll
Wiiild claim the lion's share of there-
ward. Germany refused to lake any
pMitton that would appear antagonistic
to Russia. The others held bsik. At
last an agreement was reach, which has
not been made public, but It probably
provides that Japan shall gain no terri.
lorlal Indemnity, but thall he repaid lit
expenses by a money Indemnity Irom
China. Japan is hurrying forward 1,
000 troops; Russia has landed 8,000;
Germany Is tending troops and ar
slnps; two regiments of Tniled Ftatet
troops have been ordered from Mama
to reinforce the one already there, and
other nations are making like preparations.
New York on the contrary confirms it as j w,o opposet Tuan, seized all the ammii
a doubtful state of the first order, and i nitlon. Tbe latter, with a force of 10,000
tbesizeof its electoral vote renders it J regular Chinese troops, is defending the
tins vear a piyotai state aiso. in foreigners. On June ?4th it
it a? for Reymour against Grant ; in
1872 for Grant against Greeley; in 1870
for Tilden against Hayes; in 1880 for
Garfield against Hancock ; in 1784 for
Cleveland against Blaine; in 1888 lor
Harrison against Cleveland ; in 1802 for
Cleveland against Harrison ; in 189(1 for
McKinley against Bryan.
Difficult as it is to believe that the
great state of New York, with its im
mense manufacturing and financial In
terests, can be carried for Bryan the
arch-exponent of an unsound currency
there Is reason to forsee that tbe election
can be won by tbe republicans, not
withstanding tuch a defection as New
York. The situation in tbe West is not
what it was four years ago. There is
was re
ported that the supply of food at tbe le
gations was runnug short, and the
women and children particularly were
suffering in consequence. On June 30th
or July 1st, according to a persistent re
port, the ammunition waa exhausted,
and all the foreigners massacred by the
fanatics. Later reports have denied this,
and declared that tbe besieged are still
safe, the most authoritative being a tele
gram received by Minister Wu, the
Chinese representative at Washington,
from the director-general of imperial
telegraphs at Shanghai.
Outside of Pekin tbe chief interest
centres around Taku and Tien-tain,
where the allied forces of A merles, Eu
rope, and Japan are concentrating to
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