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.i.-Jjc - - ' fffHi 3 W jT-c?$j: THE MOANING 0REG8KIAN, WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1000. t&hg rsomon Catered tt the Pcetoface at Portland. Oregon. ci eeoonS-class matter. TELEPHONES, editorial Rooms. ...1C8 ! Business Offlce....6&7 REVISED SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By Mali tposta-re prepaid), in Advance Dally, with Sunday, per month ...40 S3 Dally, Sunday excepted, per year..... 7 CO Dally, -with Sunday, per year 9 00 Sunday, per year .... .............. 2 00 The "Weekly, per year. . 1 fiO The Weekly. S months... .......... 60 To City Subscribers Dally, per week, delivered. Sunday exoepted.!3o Daily, per week, delivered. Sunda Included .20s Newo or discussion Intended for publication la The Oregonlan should be addressed Invariably -Editor The Oregonlan." not to the name or any Individual. Letters relating to advertising, subscriptions or to any business matter should be addressed simply "The Oregonlan." The Oregonlan does not buy poems or stories from lsdlilduals. and cannot undertake to re turn any manuscripts sent to It without solicita tion. No stamps eaouM bo Inclosed for this Purpose. Puget Sound Bureaa Captain A. Thompson, office at llli Pacific avenue, Tacoms. Box 853, Tacoma postoJBce. Eastern Business Office The Tribune build ing. New York city; -The Rookery." Chicago: iheS. a Beckwlth special agency. New York. or ! 1 Ban Branclsc by J. K. Cooper. B Market street, near the Palace hotel, and U Goldsmith Bros.. 238 Sutter street. -,?I oale ta Cb'caso toy the P. O. News Ox. S17 Dearborn street. TODAY'S WEATHER. Threatening, with occasional small showers; winds mostly -westerly. , POUTLAIfD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 10 So far as the scare over Germany's South American purposes is built up on expectation of co-operation from New World Germans, it Is gratuitous and senseless. There are no more loyal Americans than those of German ex traction. They cherish love and affec tion for the Vaterland, but their polit ical fealty Is to their adopted country, not to the German throne. It is fair to assume that the same rule holds good with Germans in South America. It is but just to suppose that William's de signs on Brazil, if any such exist, will receive the same reception from Ger mans in Brazil that would be given any hostile Intention of the Kaiser towards the "United States. That Is, they would be repelled as vigorously as would similar proposals from Great Britain or Russia. When Germans leae Europe for a home in the New World, they do not do so for the pur pose cf dragging Prussian sovereignty with them. The quality of German cit izenship in the United States affords an example that the native-born of our South and West might emulate to their credit. Germans saved the country from the sliver basis in 1896, and they may have to do it again in 1900. Tho candidacies of Captain R. S. Greenleaf: 3890 Survjor Union and Labor 1802 Surv eyor Republican 1SIH Asssor ................. ... Republican 1630-Assfssor Mitchell-Republican 1S9S As -snor Antl-Slmon Republican 1900 Assessor Independent A man of the tenacity and address of Captain Greenleaf should no longer be permitted to bury his talents In the public service, away from the emolu ments of private enterprise. Every man that votes the Fusion ticket June 4 votes to tie a millstone about the neck of Oregon Industry, to throttle trans-Pacific trade, to continue the subservience of this Coast to the Influences that have hitherto held back Its progress. Every mar. that votes the Fusion ticket June 4 votes to kill busi ness in every Pacific Coast city and saddle hardship on the children lie will leave behind him. Everybody knows that American con sumers of printing paper are memorial izing Congress for abolition of duties, through whose aid the paper trust is enabled to raise prices to o.n unreason able point. But everybody doesn't know that in Canada the consumers of printing paper are memorializing the Canadian Government for a reduction of duties on that side. Yet such is the fact. The Canadian duties enable the Canadian manufacturer to mulct the Canadian consumer, and the United States duties enable the American manufacturer to despoil the American consumer. Two questions suggest them selves. First, whom does the duty In either case benefit except the manu facturer, and him unjustly? Second, what chance would this extortion have of survival if trade In printing paper were free across the line? It is to be said for the Six o'clock Closing Association that Its profession of appealing only to patrons of stores Is unusually creditable among reform organizations. Inasmuch as It recog nizes that only in public opinion can any social achievement be adequately grounded. The more closely this pro fession Is adhered to, the more sub stantial are likely to be the results. It Is almost Inconceivable that the Serate should receive Mr. Clark, on the basis of his appointment, secured through sharp practice, and reeking of the same malodorous methods that se cured his election. Mr. Clark should remember. If ho can comprehend the thought at all, that the objection to him is not so much a legal question as a moral question. And moral questions are not settled by thimble-rigging. If his claim acquires a status before the Senate, It will probably be hung up till adjournment. No matter what may be said by the Hong Kong junta, or AgonciHo, the Fili pino weaver of fables at Paris, there Lwi'l never be a serious unrlsinc- in Ma. inlla. P'an one as elaborately as they 'may. the Filipinos have not the courage to carry it out. The Individual Tagal stands In abject fear of the Individual American, and no possible combination can eradicate It from his souL When the critical moment comes, his terror arevalls. and he Hunks comnletelv. Not ono'lhls. but he knows that his fellow- ccnsplrators are going to fall him for the same reason. The elaborate plans for an uprising when Manila was at tacked, and the still more carefully planned outbreak when so many houses were burned on Washington's blrthday a year ago. both failed for this reason, and there is no probability that ever again will such extended, careful and comilete plans for an outbreak in the city be made. The numbers who might be interested In such an undertaking are now comparatively few, and the hopelessness of contending personally with the Americans is more widely felt than ever. Nothing but guerrilla war fire with a little treachery here and thtre. whereby a few Americans may be suddenly overcome, may now be ex pected, though reports of more elab orate plans on foot may yet for a time be heard. Conspiracies may even be attempted up to the critical time of carrying them into effect, but beyond that they will never go. ALT, EYES OX OItEGO. The Oregonlan has said that a dimin ished Republican majority in Oregon this year will be a victory for anti imperialism, so-called; that Is, for the opponents of Pacific expansion. Pacific development. Pacific trade. Confirma tion of this assertion comes from an unexpected source. The Baltimore Sun. gold-standard and "anti-Imperialist" Democrat, prints a leading editorial headed "Oregon and Maine Elections." As to Oregon, it says: Ordinarily the election would not attract at tention, except so far as tho political complex ion of the Legislature will affect the choice of a successor to Senator McBrlde, who Is a Re publican. As this Is the year of the Presiden tial election, however, and the platforms of both the Democratic and Republican parties In Oregon refer to National as well as local Is sues, tho result of next month's election may Indicate to some extent the sentiment of the Par West toward McKlnleyism and Imperial ism. And after reciting the salient utter ances of the opposing platforms, the Sun goes on: It will, therefore, be seen that the state elec tion In Oregon will be conducted largely on those National Issues upon which tho Presi dential contest will to fought. Oregon and Maine, however, may havo some surprises in store. revealing an undercurrent of feeling against McICinleyism which would give tho Administration food for much anxious reflection before the National election In No vember. A vote for Fusion candidates, there fore, will be considered throughout the country as a declaration acminst the retention of the Philippines. That is the question. Every voter in Oregon Is entitled to record his verdict In his own way. The Australian system guarantees him a secret ballot. The registry law protects him from being crowded from the polls by illegal voters. When he enters the booth he leaves outside on the street behind him all the Influences that have dogged his steps during the campaign. He is Intimidated by no party boss, cajoled by no Importunate candidate, tempted by no tender of money, watched by no Inquisitorial striker. Nobody can see how he votes, nobody will ever know how he votes. , He has all the liberty Imaginable, but he can not close his eyes to the facts. He can vote as he chooses, but he cannot control the consequences of that vote. Its effect is beyond his reach. Its ef fect is, In fact, already determined. The Issues are closed. He can vote for the advancement of his state and section, for the upholding of his country's honor at home and prestige abroad; or he can vote against all these and in favor of isolation, stagnation, cow ardice and decline. If any man thinks his vote for a Fusion nominee Tesults in putting a friend of his Into office and keeping an enemy out, and In that alone, he Is making the mistake of a lifetime. The effect of a yote for a Fusion or "Inde pendent" nominee Is to publish to the world that Oregon wants the silver basis of Mexico and China, and that Oregon wants this country to have no part in the trade of Asia. The man who votes against the Republican can didates at this Oregon June election of 1900 publishes to the world that Oregon Is contented as it is, and has no ambi tion for advancement; that Oregon wants no more markets for flour In China, lumber In Japan or blankets In Russia; that Oregon wants no more ships to enter the Columbia River, no more warships built at Portland, no more cargoes of silk, tea and rice un loaded at her docks and shipped East by her railroads; that Oregon wants no more population here, no more man ufactures, no more payrolls, no more trade. Tou can vote for a great future for the Pacific Coast or you can vote for it to stand where it is today while Eu rope divides among its powers the trade of an awakened Orient. Tou have two choices, but no third. PRESENT LAWS XOT ADEQUATE. Commenting upon the recent labor riots In New York, the London Times suggests that the United States will eventually be compelled to adopt more severe restrictions on immigration and strengthen Its available resources for the Immediate suppression of incipient Insurrection. The ability of the United States to suppress Incipient insurrec tions is ample, and will continue to be, so long as the masses of the people re tain their present respect for law and order and regard for Individual rights. The Impression seems to prevail, judg ing from editorial utterances in numer ous papers, that the Immigration laws we now have would keep out tho class of cheap laborers who participated In the Croton riots, were they enforced. This is erroneous. Criminals, paupers, insane, those likely to become a public charge and those coming under con tract to labor, are excluded by the law, but the most rigid enforcement of the statute would have but little effect In stopping the stream of cheap humanity that has been pouring into the United States from the south of Europe the past ten years. The contract labor law is an absurd makeshift. It stops from entering the country men who have had the business prudence to provide for a means of earning a living, while a flood of cheap laborers who have no idea of how they will get a living 13 permitted to pour In unrestrained. The most rigid enforcement of the Immigra tion law -would not have kept out the most ignorant of the Croton rioters, nor would It exclude the many thousands of equally ignorant and undesirable material for citizens who enter every year, constantly adding to the lower stratum of our social fabric. Increasing the mass of politically corruptible citi zens, cheapening the labor of the coun try and increasing the tendency towards violence and defiance of law and individual rights In the constantly recurring labor troubles. SALMON PROBLEMS. The taking of some marked salmon at Astoria this season finally and com pletely upsets the old theory that the salmon all return the fourth year to the spawning grounds. These salmon were marked In 1S?5, and the first to return entered the Columbia In 1S9S, only three years after their bIrth.Oth ers entered in 1S99, and now still others have come In, five years after their release from the hatchery. These fish are larger than the average, and yet vary considerably In weight, some be ing smaller than a number of those caught last year. This seems to prove that, while the additional year of growth has given them greater size, the age of a salmon cannot be judged by its weight. Doubtless tbey vary In size as individuals, for the same reason that human beings do, and this sug gests that eggs be taken for propaga tion only from large fish, and that the milt of full-grown male salmon be used exclusively. In this way. possibly, the average size of salmon In the Columbia might be considerably increased. Such methods have had that effect In the Improvement of domestic animals and vegetables, and it Is reasonable to sup pose that It might also produce the same result In the propagation of fish. It at least Is worth the trial. There are many problems to be solved In pisciculture, .especially with refer ence to the 'salmon. In order to get tho utmost limit of benefit from hatcheries. This one, the reasons for the consider able variation In size among fish of the same age. Is one of the most Important. Another Is the proper time for releasing the young fry Into the stream to shift for themselves, so that the greatest number possible may escape their ene mies and reach the ocean. The younger they are when turned loose the greater the number of their enemies, since more fish are large enough to eat them. On the other hand, salmon tame so easily that when kept in captivity long they are not so wary, and the larger fish can catch them more easily than they can those whose instinct to hide has not been overcome by too long famil iarity with harmless external objects. Much money and effort are now be ing expended in restocking the Colum bia River with this valuable fish, and the bost results from this outlay will be achieved through constant study and experiment on these and other practical, features of the work. The marking of 5000 more fish contemplated this year by Commissioner Reed will aid In the solution of these problems. ANOTHER CASE OF POLITICAL PULL The question of civil service reform as applied to colonial government is brought sharply to public attention by the case of Neely, the man arrested for embezzling $36,000 from the Govern ment of Cuba. He belongs In Muncle, Ind., where he published a small news paper. For political services he was appointed to the staff of Governor Mount. In December, 1898, without having had previous experience In Gov ernment service, he was appointed chief financial agent of the Cuban Postofflce Department. He was select ed for this appointment without any civil service examination, but under a system described by the Postmaster General in his report as one "without academic examination, but based on tried service and personal knowledge." What "tried service" had this cheap Indiana politician performed that he was able without previous postal ex perience to secure a most Important place in the Havana postofflce? His appointment seems to have been due largely to the favor he had found with Assistant Postmaster-General Heath. It is aVmrious fact that the defalcation was discovered by a military inspector, General George H. Burton, and It is charged that but for General Burton's report of his Investigation the scandal would never have come to light. Asso ciated with Neely in his embezzlement Is another resident of Muncle, Ind., a young man named Rich, who secured his appointment in the Cuban Postal Department through Neely, bis inti mate friend. The conclusion of the whole matter Is that this shameful affair may be Justly charged to the President's prac tice of allowing the minor offices to be used as spoils by politicians. The Pres ident's appointments to high positions are generally admirable, but he lets politicians dispose of the lower offices as personal plunder. Secretary Root in his annual report declared that wher ever In our Insular government "it is necessary to employ Americans, a sys tem of civil service examination should be provided." The failure to create such a barrier between himself and the demands of political bosses has brought scandal upon the Administration. Without civil service checks and reg ulations which apply recognized tests for capacity and character, our whole insular service, not only in Cuba, but In Luzon, is dangerously likely to be come malodorous with a succession of scandals. The defalcation of Neely Is likely to cost the Government from 550,000 to ?200,000; but that Is a small matter compared with the fact that the present system of colonial appoint ments, or the utter lack of any sound system, has cost us something of our good name In Cuba, and must inevita bly embarrass our similar operations in the Philippines. XOT JUSTIFIED BY THE RECORDS. Naturally the Indian War Veterans are Impatient of the delay that has long blocked the passage of their pension bill. The time since the wars for the protection of the infant settlements of the Pacific Northwest were waged has been long," and the veterans of these wars are veterans Indeed white haired and many of them feeble. If their claim Is a just one, and this is con ceded by all who are familiar with Its basis, it should be allowed at once. Indeed, it should have been allowed long ago. It is no. doubt due to the im patience natural under the circum stances that Indian War Veterans In a meeting held at Albany recently passed. a resolution censuring Hon. Thomas H. Tongue for remissness In his duty ih regard to this pension bllL The records show that Mr. Tongue has been diligent, and upon occasion urgent. In behalf of this claim, doing all In his power and all that any man could do, to secure its recognition. To men who know nothing about condi tions that prevailed upon the frontier forty or fifty years ago, Indian wars are as a dream, without serious signifi cance. This claim Is at best a long outdated one and void of special Inter est. Its most forcible presentment awakens in them but languid attention. While to far Western men, whose knowledge of the settlement of Oregon and Washington dates back to Its be ginnings, this claim appeals with power and pathos, as both Just and ur gent. Men who regard the Indian from the "Poor Lo" standpoint see nothing in it but the clamor of a relatively small and to them unimportant class of men for special consideration. It is well known that active opposition to any measure is much easier to overcome than stolid Indifference. Tho former commands attention and challenges thought: the latter arouses from Its torpid state only long enough to vote the measure down, or compass its post ponement by the dilatory tactics of leg islation. There is no reason In justice or in National policy, as reflected in our pension laws, for the postponement of favorable consideration of this claim. It should be allowed, and that with out further delay. It has been the mis- J fortune of our representatives In Con gress that they have thus far been unable to force favorable action upon it, but the records of their endeavor do not support the declaration that this failure Is due to culpable neglect of duty toward this most worthy and de serving class of their constituents. It certainly does not appear that the In dian War Veterans of Albany have any reason, outside of Impatience, natural I under the circumstances, to charge Mr. Tongue with neglect of his duty in this matter, and it may be hoped, in the In terest of fairness, that they will right their record. Tho nomination of Mr. Towne for Vice-President by tho National Populist Convention has had a verr excellent effect on the Silver Re publicans of the state. They look upon It as a tribute to the strength and devotion of the party. It pleases the party, and It Is not likely they will now submit gracefully to any other candidate being named by tho Democrats at Kansas City. Idaho correspondence of Spokane Spokesman-Review. Here Is a clear and exact statement of the dilemma into which the smart Bryan project of bestowing the Popu list nomination on Towne has driven the Democracy. If Towne in with drawn, it will be obvious that the Sioux Falls convention was simply used, and both the Populists and Sliver Republi cans will be mightily offended. If Towno Is beaten by the Democrats, they will, of course, be vastly Incensed. If he 13 nominated by them, tho East ern Democrats will be alienated, be cause It will be notice on them that they must swallow silver again, or leave the party. Towne for Vice-President is a violent ringing of the silver alarm, a proclamation that there is room on the Democratic-Populist ticket for none but silver agitators and prop agandists. The utilization of Japanese labor in the sugar-beet fields of Oregon and Washington promises to solve a per plexing problem In the sugar industry and at the same time open an avenue of employment for a portion of the Jap anese now arriving In the country in such alarming numbers, which will not Interfere with American labor. It has been impossible to secure sufficient help In the beet fields, and the increased acreage this year adds to the embar rassment. This Is labor to which the Japanese are peculiarly well adapted. The careful, patient work to which they are accustomed In the rice, vegetable and tea fields of their own country especially fits them for the plodding, tiresome labor of sugar-beet cultiva tion. Yet, desirable as this labor Is at the present time, objection will un doubtedly be raised to it, if not now, certainly in a year or two, on the ground that it Is crowding out white labor. There may be expected a repe tition of the experiences of the raisin growers and orchardlsts of California with Chinese labor, without which those industries would never have reached their present high develop ment. The Chicago Chronicle lifts its wall ing Democratic voice against the nomi nation of Towne. It declares that "he is no more a Democrat now than when a Republican Member of Congress from Minnesota. ... He Is well enough as a Silver Republican. But the Dem ocratic party is not the Silver Repub lican party. The Democratic party la composed of. Democrats. ... If Democrats want Hanna to mart out their camDaitrn for thom tiiov -n-in nominate Towne for Vice-President and give the sliver Issue new life -with a chief place In the discussions of the campaign." The Chronicle offers the somewhat astonishing contention that Bryan's silver views make no differ ence, Towne's every difference. The distinction is too subtle for the average citizen. All sllverists and professed believers In the Chicago platform look alike to the world at large. Registration throughout the stae closed yesterday. Returns are yet in complete, but enough are at hand to Indicate that the largest vote ever cast In the state has been exceeded. No taries Public and Justices of the Peae are yet to make their final reports to County Clerks. When all are in, it will probably be found that there is a nearly full roster of all voters. Great diligence has been used In Multnomah County, and generally throughout the state, In stimulating the citizen to do his duty, and the surprise Is that, with a new and untried law, not generally understood, so much has been accom plished. It Is not probable that, in Its actual operation, the registration law will much improve or impair the chances of any political party on elec tion day. We shall now hear of numerous fa vorable committee reports on bills In troduced by Senator McBride. The Senate takes a kindly and helpful In terest In the re-election of Its mem bers. Thoughtful and far-seeing states manship impels each Senator to do for others what he hopes will be dons for himself every recurring sixth year. A current newspaper portrait shows ex-Senator Clark at Washington with the National Capitol In the background. Most appropriately, and with com mendable fidelity to the truth of his tory, the photographer represents the Senator with his back to the Capitol, descending the steps. Clark Is conscious of the rectitude of his own -actions, and leaves his vindi cation with his people. Now we shall see whether the great Montana enter prise of gold-bricking Clark again can be repeated. The Sioux Falls platform, conspicu ously Ignores the great Populist prin ciple of the Initiative and referendum. The Imperial mandate found congenial society only at Cincinnati. Last Farrop-ut Veteran. New York Herald. Timothy Murray, chief master-at-arms on the United States ship Pensacola, now stationed off the Pacific Coast. Is th only enlisted man now In the naval service who was with Farragut's fleet during the Civil War. He Is not quite 50 years of age. Born In Ireland on November 4, 3X0, ho ran away to sea at the age of 12. Only a year later he enlisted "n the United States Navy at Boston as a seccnd-class boy, serving first on the United States frigate Niagara, and after December, IS63, on the flagship Hartford. He has a keen remembrance of Farra gut at the battle of Mobile Bay, on Au gust 5, ISoi. ""When the squadron started up the bay," he says, " the old Admiral was In the port main rigging, with a rope around his waist, so that he could lean over and see what the fleet were dnas. At the mo ment the Brooklyn ran around. Captain Alden sang out, Torpedoes ahead!' It was then the Admiral used the famous words: " Torpedoes,' bo d d! Give her four bells V "During the entire action in the bay the Admiral was sometimes on the poop and sometimes in the mlzzen rigging. He was. I assure you, a busy man. "That he was In constant danger Is evi dent when you remember that the Hart ford lost 27 killed and 25 wounded. Only three of the officers who were on the ship that day remain la, the service General Heywood, now commanding the Marine Corps; Admiral Watson, then a Lieuten ant, and Captain Whiting, then an Ensign." BRYAJf'S BOGEY MAN. An Alliance Between the United States and Any Country Absnril. BALLSTON. Or., May 13. (To the Edi tor.) Of all the hollow absurdities eet up to scare the timid voter none is more fantastical than the bogey of a "secret British alliance." Bryan, who consti tutes tho Democratic party, deserves as severe condemnation as tho fellow who scares Into hysterics a band of damsels returning from spelling school by the sud den display of a pumpkin lantern thrust through a hedge. In tho first place, such a thing as a for eign alliance Is imposslblo without the consent of the Senate, at present a body whose friendliness towards England is of a doubtful quality. In the next. Lord Salisbury Is hardly fool enough to tie himself to such a shlfing, ekUUsh, un certain partner as American public opin ion. Under Cleveland there was a hostile feeling towards Great Britain over the Venezuela Incident, but before the decis Ion of the arbitration board was ren dered the fickle public had forgotten the affair. In 1S93 country store statesmen were patting each other on the back with the smiling congratulation, "England la on our side." Now, Bryan, Sulzer et aL, have brought about an anti-British reac tion In tho great Democratic host. Amer ica no more than France can be relied on for a settled policy, and no nation having an established course of action will risk an offensive and defensive al liance with such an unstable outfit. Such a nation venturing thereon would eoon want to be released as badly as the man who yoked himself up with a bull. Indi cations are that America Is far more like ly In the near future to need assist ance In foreign scrapes than England Is. And the latter country certainly could not afford to fall out with Germany If we chose to do so. Neither would it be to her interest to back us up by force in a rumpus with Turkey. Should the irresponsible demagogues who now lead the Democratic party get In control of our affairs, no considera tions of International comity or the true interests of tho country would deter them from plunging tho nation Into the most disastrous foreign complications. If there by they might retain their own place and power by truckling to and fanning popular prejudices. The timid voter who can't sleep for fear of the English bogey would do well to consider that the Bryan hobgoblin is far more dangerous, and that there Is far less peril in what England may do to us than In what we may do to ourselves. WALLACE YATES. A Rlnjrlni? Platform. The press dispatches gave a very inad equate Idea of the sterling character of the platform adopted by tho Republicans of Iowa on May 10. Its declaration en National Issues Is as follows: Wo enter upon tho policital campaign of 1000 with the policies presented by tho Republican party four years ago fully vindicated, and its promises all redeemed. In tho light of today it is apparent that tho attempt to debase tho currency as a remedy for the hard times then prevailing was a mon strous blunder, which. It successful, would havo Involved tho country In lasting humilia tion and shame, and proved disastrous to all Industrial Interests. Wo insist that no issue 'can be paramount to the maintenance of the public credit and the stability of the money for which all labor and products are sold. So long as a political party stands committed to the overthrow of the ex isting monetary system we call upon all con servative men to act with us in keeping that party from power. We favor the extension of self-government to all the people that have lately come under the protection of this country as rapidly as they demonstrate their capacity to exercise it: we hold our authority over them to be & BOlemn trust, to bo exercised with an eye singfe to their Instruction, development and prosperity. We favor legislation that will effectually pro tect the public from tho evils of combinations In restraint of trade. For measures to properly restrict the power of aggregated capital, to protect tho Individual rights of all men, and preservo freedom of competition and of oppor tunity, we rely upon tho Republican party, trusting to that wise and safe statesmanship which in emergencies of the last four years has been so satisfactorily- tested. This Is a straightforward, vigorous ut terance that Republicans of other states might have used to advantage, and It should serve in part as a model for the resolutions committee at Philadelphia. The Geoerrnpliy of Nome. Popular Science Monthly. The geographical position of the Nome region Is the southern face of the penin sular projection of Alaska which separates Kotzebue Sound on the north from Bering Sea on the south, and terminates west ward in Cape Prince of Wales, the extent of the North American Continent In a direct line of navigation it lies about 2300 miles northwest of Seattle, and 170 miles southeast of Siberia. The nearest settle ment of consequence to It prior to 18S9, was St. Michael, 100 miles to the south east, the starting point of the steamers for the Yukon River; but during the year various aggregations of mining population naa built themselves up In closer range and reduced the isolation from the civ ilized world by some CO miles. The Nome district as settled centers about the lower course of the Snake River, an exceedingly tortuous stream In Its tundra course, which emerges from a badly degraded line of limestone, slaty and schistose mountain spurs generally not over 700 to 1200 feet elevation, but backed by loftier granitic heights, and discharges into the sea at a position 13 miles west of Cape Nome proper. Both streams have a tidal course of several miles. Intervention for the Doers. New York Tribune. The United States has already gone much further than any other country or gov ernment In the world to restore peace In South Africa. It has actually laid before the British Government the Boer request for Its mediation and has signified to the British Government its willingness to ex ercise its good offices In behalf of peace: and the British Government with equal courtesy and with equal explicltness. has declined the offer. After that, what more. In the name of common senso and common courtesy. Is to be done? If a renewal of an offer once positively declined were not deemed offensive, that would be becaube It was deemed merely impertinent. Is the United States to go about the world In truding Its attentions where they are not deslred7 Or Is It to seize Its neighbor by the throat and say, "Accept the tender of my good offices or I'll knock your head against the wall?" , A Minor Decision. New York Sun. Judge Lochren Is not even one of the 25 Circuit Judges of the United States. Courts. He is one of the 60 District Judges. The case before him did not cat', for an expression of his opinion on a question that has occupied the attention of more eminent jurists. He had simply to decide whether a military court had Jurisdiction at the time of the conviction of a prisoner brought before him on a writ of habeas corpus. He decided, properly, that It had. and then he proceeded to ut ter obiter dicta that read much like one of the Democratic speeches during last Win ter's debate In the House on the general subject of the power of Congress over the territories. GOSSIP OF THE CAMPAIGN. As the campaign progresses, the meth ods Of the MItchell-McBrlde Federal ma chine are becoming bolder. It had not been easy heretofore to follow their tac tics, except that the common weal of the Federal Brigade seemed to inspire an ef fort to defeat the Republican Legislative ticket in Multnomah County, or at least to do nothing, or less than nothing, for its election. Now there is more organized activity. Ex-Senator Mitchell himself has taken charge. Agents have been sent throughout the state to repeat the great Jonathan Bourne achievement of 1SS6. when a considerable number of the Re publican candidates for the Legislature were specifically pledged to vote for Mitch ell's , re-election. Then the machine was powerful and the penalty of refusal to make the required promise was a threat of defeat; and the candidate fully under stood that no stone would be left un turned to make good the warning in case ho resisted. Now it Is different. Full ex posure of the Mitchell methods has made them largely ..Ineffective and wholly con temptlble in tho eyes of all right-thinking people, and the emissaries of the Federal ring "have apparently been able to accom plish little. Besides, their hostility Is not greatly feared. Their Influence Is broken, and their once powerful hold on the or ganization of the party Is entirely severed The membership of the McBride-MItcholl clique is confined to a few Federal office holders, who are striving to render value received to the Senatorial combination that gave them office. Not all Govern ment officials, by any means, are oppos ing the Republican ticket. Some of them are. Others are not prepared to go to the extent of adopting the desperate devices of political outlawry In order to serve the purposes of the little Senator and the stlll-struggllng- ex-Senator. It has been known for some time In Multnomah County that the energies of the MItchell-McBrlde "citizens" combina tion would be directed particularly to. wards tho state Senatorial ticket. It was Teallzed that an attack on the Re publican nominees as a whole would be utterly hopeless, but there was some pros pect that by concentration the opposition might elect one or two Senators. J. Thor ium Ross and Donald Mackay were singled out for attack. Mr. Mackay has been for some years chairman of the County Central Committee, and as State Senator had done much to accomplish Mr. Mitchell's defeat in 1897. Mr. Rosa was no less obnoxious to the MItchellltes because of the yeoman service he has at al! times rendered the party. But It was not so easy for the MItchellltes and the Demo crats to agreo on the two Senatorial can didates of their own for whom to "plug." Bob Inman wanted to be one of the two, and so did the three others. Dr. Andrew Smith felt that the personal popularity generally acknowledged to be his posses sion entitled him to consideration. James E. Hunt, the great reformer, holding of fice under a city administration he for the most port opposes and a city charter that he considers nil -wrong, deemed his own claims paramount Pierce May3, the especial representative of the Federal Bri gade, thought it an irretrievable blunder to leave him out. The Inability of the fuslonlsts to agree on a plan of action, and the strong Improbability that it would succeed anyway, is undoubtedly the rea Bon why little Is now heard of the pro posed fierce, campaign of concentration. The Legislative candidates are going ahead pretty much on their own respective accounts. For example. Dr. Smith Is do. lng a little nonprofessional personal ad vertising. In the little weekly campaign sheets that always spring up about con- 1 venuon line, ana aie out after election, pfrtA fnlTrnxflno- iac ia t -. DR. AXDUEW C. S3IITII, Citizens Candidate (Republican) tor STATK SEXATOK. Tho doctor Is all right in his profession, but politically he is a very expert contor tionist. A few years ago he was a Re publican, and was elected County Physi cian by a Republican Board of Commis sioners. Then he was nominated for the State Senate by the Democrats and "Citi zens" mass meeting. He was asked his politics by an Oregonlan reporter, and he replied that, being a Democrat, he would accept the fusion nomination. Tho doc tor doubtless thinks with h!.4 fnllpneuM who signed that astonIshlngtpIatform that ma pouues are 01 no consequence, but votes aro: and that la thf reason hr ho la so obliging and accommodating as to we Doin a jjemocrat ana a Kepubllcan for a little while at a time In order to please all parties. Bob Inman. too. occudIps h duh!nii at titude toward his party. Inman's title to Demg consiaered a sound Democrat is im perfept. He Is one of those Democrats of whose Democracy Republicans who are firm for the gold standard speak in terms of commendation. Now, Democrats as a rule deny the right of any Republican to define orthodoxy, or unorthodoxv In n Democrat; and the very quality In Mr. In man nis Known skepticism as to the mer its of silver which gold-standard men approve the Bryan Democrats as a mat tor of course disapprove. In 1SS6 Mr. In man did not hestlate to make known his opposition to Bryan; In 1S00 he was so anxious to get back Into the nartv thnt he became a candidate for Mayor, and took thankfully what the Democratic con vention saw fit to give him a nomination to the State Senate. It is not difficult to guess that the sudden Inman zeal for the weirare or Democracy had a pretty close kinship to his burning desire for office. The forces opposed to the Republican party are mournfully wanting In coheslve ness. The Democrats have had previous experience In a "working understanding" with the Mitchell Republicans. The lat ter have bagged the game, and they have been left to hold the sack. Two years ago extensive trading was done In the Inter est of the Mitchell candidate for State Senator. Now there is a better opportu nity for trading than ever. The Indepen dent candidates have no common recog nized organization behind them. Their cause Is not one, except so far as it Is to the general benefit to dereat the Republi can ticket. But they owe no political ob ligation or duty to one another. Storey, for example, can sacrifice Hoyt and Green leaf with compunction; or he can sell out the Legislative ticket, or do whatso ever he pleases without being called to account for It. That Is one of the advan tages of an Independent candidacy the utter irresponsibility of lt And so. If Storey feels called upon to moke sacri fices of his friends In his own interest which In his eyes seems to be the city's Interest It need not cause great surprise or call for any severe measure of repro bationexcept, of course, in the event that the Mayor has made personal pledges to the other Independents. If he has, that Is his business. It is not to be forgotten that Storey has declared that he Is a Re publican In this campaign, except on the Mayoralty. The independent candidates are making headway backwards. They are pretty generally conceded to be losing ground steadily. Professor Armstrong recognized the plain drift and got out. His retire ment haa proved somewhat disconcerting to the Independent movement. In so much that it is confession that It Is doomed to failure. Captain Greenleaf and Mr. Hoyt have not pulled out, and perhaps will not, but they have undoubtedly begun to real ize that they are face to face with two factors of particular weight in this cam paign: First, the evident purpose of Re publicans generally to vote the Republican ticket; and, second, the effective and un remitting contest being waged by the re spective candidates against them. NOTE AND COMMENT. . 1 Judge William Foley is not a candidate for Vice-President. It Is said that the end of the Boer war ia In sight. Which end? Senator Clark apparently thinks lt' never too .late to resign. Aguinaldo has again disappeared as completely as If ho had lighted e fire with keroserie. Boreas evidently balls from Cape Noma or soma place up that way. He bad n difficulty in raising the dust yesterday. All hall ye merrlo month of May, "Which brings ye gentyl showre. And lays ye dustte. which blows again In clouds wlthymye houre. Vesuvius is In a state of active eruptloa. Some one ought to have told "Webster Da vis that bis example would prove danger ous. Now do the women in the land K t Arise In righteous rage. Because the census1 man will make Bach one admit her age. Paderewski made only $250,000 on bia last tour of tbe'eountry. It he will take our advice next time, and play rag" time, he will make enough money to retire on. The Lieutenant-Governor of Montana has a fine large gold brick he would like to dispose of. but Senator Clark has had considerable experience in the gold-brick business. Dundee, May 16. Uncle Sam, "Washing ton, D. C. U. S. A,: "When you corral that Turkey, send It to me at Pretoria, C. O. D. "Want it for next Christmas dinner. BULLER. The beer's a-flowln' free down town, an all the boys Is there: There's beer for you, an beer for me, an beoj enough to apare; It comes In gallons, pints an quarts, an' not a cent to pay. An' gangs o' thirsty men (an boys) gets filled up ev'ry day; Tou see ern runnln down In droves, a-chasln near an" far. Because the word has got around that Storey's at the bar. He's boosted up the price o wood to set tho coin to spend. An' now he's tryln hard to be the hobo's bosom friend. What difTrence does it make to him if worlc- ln'men get sore Because their slabwood co3ts 'em hlch. when heelers holler "More"? For them's the boys that looks to him to be their guldln rtar. An' all the bunch Is right on hand, when Storey's at the bar. He don't want office fur- tho dough, he tells 'era very plain: He's after honor, and renown; he doesn't. care fur gain. He's wlllln to divide his pelf with all th rounder crew, , An slabwoad's high, which pleases him, but gravels me an' you. He drinki tho best of booze, hlssclf, an smokes a fat cigar. But beer will do for all the gang, when Storey's at the bar. Hawker No. 18, a gentleman from tha far East, left his horse and wagon on First street, near Stark, about 6 o'clock last evening, while he ascended an adjoin, ing stairway to. deliver a. nickel's worth of green onions. During his absence tha thoroughbread attached to the wagon strayed across the air track Just as an Oregon City car hauling a heavy trailer came up the street. The street-car had the right of way, and also the headway, and No. lS's horse was knocked over against the curb with a force that made his bones rattle and caused the shafts to part company with each other. No. 1$ heard the nolpe, and, suspecting tha cause, came down the stairs like an unllghted meteor, attended with a shower of pidgin profanity. He insisted on having the number of the car, and also that of tho conductor. It was given htm as 7 cum 11," and amidst his threats and the ex citement of the passengers. It proceeded for Oregon City. No. 18 took a fresh hitch at his pig-tail, borrowed.some stringa from a messenger boy. and tied his ve hicle together and went his way bewailing the loss of the profits on the onions. Hap pening at a time of the day when the surrounding buildings were emptying their crowds of employes, the affair created considerable excitement, and tho China man was considered very fortunate that bis horse escaped aHve. PLEASANTRIES OF ;PA3lAGnAPHERS He Knew Them. Boy Say, Ulster, want me to bait your hook? Man Git out I Tou only want to hook my balt Judge. Mrs. B. What wonderfnl control Mrs. Von Blumer hasl Mr. B. How do yu know? "I was with her an hour yesterday, and she never mentioned her children or her servants." Life. Customer Give me ten cents' worth of pare goric, please. Druggist Tes, sir. Customer (absent-mindedly) How much Is it? Druggist A quarter. Boston Christian Register. His BesetUng Sin. "Hey, there!" shouted the pursuing Boer; "you've left your gun be hind." "Oh. I'm such an absent-minded beg gar," replied the flfiejngarjtoa. Philadelphia North American. Excited Lady (at the. telephone) 1 want ray husband, please, at oncct Voice (from tho ex change) Number, please? Excited Lady (snap pishly) Only the fourth, you impudent thing! Tlt-Blts. The Octopus Again. (Mrs. Meddergrass (reading) General Roberts -says that his trust In . Mr. Meddergrass That's Jest lt The dadblame trusts 13 back o that there Trans valley war. as I said a month ago.1 Baltimore American. "That la the third time my watch has stopped this, week." said the shoe-cleric board er. "Well." asked the Cheerful Idiot, "why don't you pawn it?" "Pawn it?" asked tho shoe-clerk boarder. "Yes. Then j'ou could havo a pood time," said tho Cheerful IdloL Indianapolis Press. How It Happened. "So you were defeated for the Senatorshlpr "Yes." "How did it happen?" "Oh, It was a pure case of florgetful ness. I had my plans all made, but when I got to the capltol Just before tho voting began I found I'd forgotten my checkbook, and I hadn't more than $15,000 or 120,000 la my pocket." Chicago Evening- Tost, "When the Mountain Troat In BItlu'. Will T. Hale in New York Times. When the mountain trout is bltln'. in the lazy days o May, Why, the spirit Ieave3 tho body, an' goes -ton- derin away Strayln by the fields o clover, whar the gol den sunshine seems Silenced waves o song still bmerla' on the pasturs an the streams: An you loll within the shadders nigh some blossomln' wild rose. Jest a-dream'n', Dreamln. Dreamln. Half awake an half adoael All the glory o" creation Is compressed In one short day, ' When tho mountain trout Is bltln" in the lazy days o May. Now an' then across the medders rings the tingle o" the bells Like the orchestry o' Nature somewhar hid among the dells; , Orioles wing up an over, an' lnfloatln' from the hills Comes the blue bird's hallalooyer in the softest thrills an trfll3. 'Taln't unnatrel fer a feller; ef he's ever loved at all. To be thlnkln. Thlnkln', Thlnkln', ' Of some one beyond recall. An to wonder ef her spirit ain't still with yot anyway, -When the mountain trout Is bltln' In the lazy gays o' May! M K