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Issued Every Thursday Moruinsr by The Gazette Publishing Co. B. W.JOHNSON,- Bnd SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Pr Year, 8 00 ix Months. 1 00 Three Months 75 ingle Copies 05 Per Year, (whtm not paid in advanoe). I S 50 CORVALUS, OREGON, APR. 3. 1896. Iepublicaq Ticket For Congressman, First Dis., THOMAS II. TONGOE. For Supreme Judge, R S. BEAN. For Dis. Attorney, Second Dip., W. E. YATES. For Mem. Board Equalization, ROBERT WALKER. BENTON COUNTY. For Representative, R. O. LOGGAN. For Joint Representative, . E. R. LAKE. For Clerk. W. W. BRISTOW. For Sheriff, GEO. A. WAGGONER For Recorder, J. A. GELLATLY. For Assessor, L. N. EDWARDS. For School Superintendent, GEO. W. DENMAN. For Treasurer, F. G. CLARK. For Commissioner, JOHN A. BUCHANAN. For Coroner, L. G. ALTMAN. For Surveyor, GEORGE MERCER. Jus. Peace, Corvallis Precinct, W. H. HARTLESS. VICTORY IN THE AlR. There are more momentious questions at issue in the elections of 1896, than this man's reli gious faith or that man's person ality. The election will go far toward solving economic ques tions that are seriously disturbing the minds of the people and that radically effect the nation's pros perity. Without attemping to discuss at this time the various great questions at issue, we believe that the republican party can safely be entrusted with the so lution of .the vexing problems of the day; and further, we believe that a mojority of the people look with hopeful eyes upon the as sured success of the republican party as the harbinger of return ing prosperity. This is no time for petty dif ferences," for trivial objections. Every vote means something. Every candidate elected, no mat ter how unimportant the office, means much to his party. Let the higher purposes influence us. Ivet the nobler man speak. Let our patriotism rise above narrow prejudices and let us who have enlisted under the republican banner, work and vote, loyally and enthusiastically for the suc cess of the whole republican ticket. In Benton county the republi cans are lining up as they never have before. - A contagious en thusiasm seems to have swept away all minor differences, and we will present a united front in this campaign. Old Benton has an opportunity that she will im prove. Her majority for "good Tmes" will not be a meagre one. The eyes of the world are on Oregon, and her decree on the first of June will start an impulse that will travel rapidly to the At lantic coast. Benton's victory for the republican party will not be a scattering one. Victory is in the very air. With "Patriot ism, Protection and Prosperity," the campaign cry, it will be a complete victory; a victory for the whole ticket. The old soldiers will be found working energetically every where this year for republican success. They have no desire to stamp with the seal of their ap proval Hoke Smith's administra tion of the pension department. This year it is only a question of majorities with the republicans of old Benton. Even Soap Creek precinct is going back on Tammany ticket. GEORGE WAGGONER. There is every assurance that George Waggoner's majority will be one of the largest ever re ceived by a candidate for county office in the present Benton coun ty. There is reason for this. Mr. Waggoner is known for his staunch friendliness to a friend. His friendship has no politics and no creed. It is this quality that is universally admired, It is a quality that gains him friends, and friends that are worth having. Mr. Waggoner has been a faith ful worker for the party. He is accused sometimes of being a pol itician, and he is, in the better sense of the term. He is such a politician as every citizen ought to be. He takes a deep, active interest in public affairs and works to promote such public measures as he deems beneficial. He is a consistent republican and believes the success of that party desirable for the nation's good. He has worked for the success of the republican party as hundreds of good citizens in the" county have done. His .qualities as an organizer and as a public speak er have perhaps made him more prominent than some of the others, btit he is in no sense a "boss" or politician for revenue. He is simply a public spirited citizen and an earnest upholder of republicanism. Mr. Waggoner is farmer by occupation. Twelve years ago he moved to Corvallis to educate his children, leaving a fine farm that has since been converted in to splendid prune orchards. Mr. Waggoner is greatly interested in the development of the fruit in dustry in Benton county aiid is a large stockholder in two of the best orchards in the state. . Only once before has he come before the people as a candidate for office. In 1880 he was elect ed as representative to the state legislature and served the people of the county well. Mr. Wag goner will make a good, capable sheriff and there is no doubt of his election. edward' r'alph lake. Mr. Lake was born in i860, making him now 36 years old. His early life was spent in south ern Michigan, where his father had settled on a farm. With his brothers he attended the country school with the usual results. At the age "of twelve he was appren ticed to two brothers, timber and building contractors, with the parental expectation that he would follow this line of work. In the meantime he was allowed to attend the local school during the winters- until he had "fin ished" its alloted studies. At sixteen, becoming dissatis fied with the drudgery of an ap prentiship, and desirous of re turning to the farm, he abandon ed the apprenticeship and re turned home to assist in caring for a herd of dairy cows. A fa vorable opportunity occurring some two years later, he entered the city high school. A short period's attendance here was sud denly ended by a financial col lapse of his father's affairs. This brought the boy of eighteen to his own feet. His inability to further prosecute his studies was of course a great disappointment to him, but being made of the right sort of stuff", he made no complaint over the miscarriage of his plans, and engaging on a farm he worked for a period of three years at ordinary farm la bor, using his earnings to help place the father on the old farm again. In the meantime he had attended a night school in the conntry, paying his tuition by doing janitor work at the school building after nightfall, and by helping the teacher in various other ways. In the summer of '81, with scarcely one hundred dollars in pocket he decided to make an effort to enter the Michigan agri cultural college at the opening of the fall term. The evenings, early morning, noon hdurs, rainy spells and every spare moment that was to be had from a hired man's time, was devoted to those text books, a mastery of which was the key note to a successful college entrance. The entrance was creditably made, and the four years' course completed in some thing less than three and a half years of actual college work. The expense of the whole course was borne by the young student. He taught during winter vaca tions, worked on the college farm and gardens and did janitor ser vice, in fact anything honorable that brought in the necessary dollars to pay the college bills. After graduating, he spent one year teaching in the public school and taking post-graduate work at the college. About this time, while teach ing, he was persuaded to abandon his original plan of becoming a farmer and horticulturist, ' the plea being that he was too well educated for . that, and induced to take up the study of law. All preliminary . arrangements had been made for this course, when a letter announced that the posi? tion of assistant botanist in the Agricultural College of Oregon, J would be tendered. This provid-' ed the way. Here was a chance to continue the study of those subjects upon which scientific agriculture are based, and the offer was accepted. Two years in this position brought with it the attendent duties of clerk to the forestry commission, then a new feature in the state's policy. This was followed by an ap pointment as professor of botany, horticulture and entomology in the Oregon Agricultural College. Nearly three years of efficient ser vice here was followed by an ap pointment to the professorship of botony, horticulture and for estry in the agricultural college of Washington. In the meautime "Fruits and Floweis," a maga zine published in Portland solely in the interests of horticulture, was edited by Mr. Lake. In 1894 he took charge, as president and manager, of the Corvallis and Benton County Prune Co's orchard, and the present excel lent condition which that proper ty is in, is very largely due to Mr. Lake's acknowledged ability as a financier, and his thorough comprehension of the science of horticulture. During the past eight years Mr. Lake's whole time, money and thought has been given to the development of agriculture in Washing-ton and Oregon, and has been of in valuable service in building up the most important industry of the northwest. It will not do to underestimate the magnitude or attempt to min imize the importance of the wool industry in this country. It is of infinitely too much importance in a variety of senses to be over looked in legislation. An nidus try which engages more than 1. 000. 000 men. aside from the hundreds of thousands of em ployees, owning over 40,000,000 sheep, of the value, under nor mal conditions, of more than $150,000,000, and . including lands and fixtures for sheep hus bandry, with a total capital of $500,000,000, giving to labor, including services of flock mas ters, 85,000,000 annually, with an annual, product in wool, mut ton, and pelts, at fair, prices, of more than $110,000,000, is one which deserves a better fate than receiving a fatal legislative blow at the hands of the American congress, as it certainly did in the free-wool provisions of the Wilson tariff act .Senator John H. Mitchell. The first duty of the people of Oregon is to elect a genuine re form legislature. Joe Simon and his Portland crowd got in two years ago on a platform of speci fic reforms in the name of the republican party. They did not present a genuine reform meas ure that they dare go before the people as such. They run the senate wide open with sham in vestigations and endless" clerk ships, spending $13,500 for clerks to $3,500 for the house of sixty members where there was an anti Simon majority. Salem Journal. Benton county has nominated for the legislature two men whose economical and business-like management of their own affairs is a sufficient guarantee that they will favor all measures of genu ine reform. They believe that expenditures in every department should be reduced to a minimun, and that the affairs of the state should be placed on a thorough business basis. The Tammany politician who makes such a laborious effort to be humorous in Saturday's Times is old enough to understand that the people of Benton county are not fond of course sacrilege. The articles, with stupid frankness, was appropriately headed "out of nothing, nothing comes," and did not contain enough of sense or wit to merit ridicule. A man's sense of the fitness : of things should prompt him from offend ing his readers with such profane use of the Deity's name. - Mr. Tongue will begin his regular canvass in Clackamas county on Monday, May 4th. He will visit as many points in the district as the time will permit of. In the meantime, he is doing ex tra duty wherever possible. He has made several speeches since his nomination, in Polk, Yamhill, Clackamas and Washington coun ties. The republican ticket this year is a winner. The Prosecuting Attorneyship. W. E. Yates has received the nomination for prosecuting at torney in this district, and a bet ter man could hardly be found for the position. Mr. Yates is a man of excellent moral character and a lawyer of ability, and. will j bring to his aid the same strict economy that has made him a successful man in business. Lin coln county will earnestly support W. K. Yates lor' prosecuting at torney. Yaquina News. W. E. Yates, the republican candidate for prosecuting attor ney, left for his home in Corval lis thit forenoon. He will visit Euo-ene a?ain before many days. He seems to be a pleasant, affable gentleman, and is said to be a good lawyer. Eugene truara. Two excellent nominations were made for district attorney in two adjoining districts, John A. Carson, of Salem, and W. E. Yates, of Corvallis. Both are clean, canable attorneys of high standing in their .profession and will make good omcers. AiDany Herald. - , Those who voted in '92 for "Grover and dollar wheat" are sorry. . Home rule will be inaugurated by the republicans of Benton in June. The republican party is a par ty of broad principles; a party of patriotic endeavor. Upon its success this year depends the ua- tion's weiiare. "No Siree. The Times never saM that the laiu .convention was an A. P. A. convention and that it nominated an Aj P. A. ticket." Corvallis Times. Philomath has two splendid candidates on the republican tick et this year, and the voters of that precinct are going, to give the whole ticket a rousing ma jority. It is claimed that the democrats are lying low, getting ready to spring "something big." . Ihey snrunsr "somethina hi":" when they nominated their ticket, but it wasn't on wheels, and it is too biir a load for the poor 01U democrats to carry through. The voters of Benton comity who are enjoying , the "prosperi ty" afforded ther country under the Wilson bill arc recommended to vote the 'Tammany -ticket. That will be An - indorsement of democratic free trade with its at tendant "good times." - The Times and: the Philomath Journal have locked horns, and the former offers to wager $100 and submit certain manuscripts to gentlemen sworn to tecrecy for proof of its position. This betting is bad business, .even for newspa pers, and it ought not to cost $100 to establish what at best is an unimportant matter. People who attack their party with false char ges, and who are so dreadfully afraid that their identity will be discovered, are not worthy ao much fuss. " The Times says tne last issue of the Gazette was full of "campaign billingsgate and mud slingfng." We will not bet any $100, or any other sum, but are willing to leave it to the candid opinion of the readers of the 1000 copies of our last issue, that it contained not one word of falsehood and not a tinge of offensive personalities. Truth is never dirty, and truth is the war-cry of the republican campaign. Democratic party pur poses, democratic party, history, and democratic party methods are legitimate objects of public con sideration. The Gazette is not sorry that ita political utterances tail to please the Times. They are not so designed. This bill (the Wilson bill), in so far as it deals with the sheep and wool industry, is arbitrary, invidious, and unjust. It places this great industry on the sacrifi cial alter and offers its ashes as a sacrifice to the avarice of the for eign wool grower and to some extent the , greed of the eastern manufacturer, and transfer finally by operation of law to their cof fers the great bulk of the $500. 000,000 invested in it, and turns out of employment the 500,000 men employed in carrying it on. A bill which vouchsafes protec tion to the manufacturer and re fuses - to extend it to those en gaged in the other industry, which favors the foreign produc er at the expense of the home producer, is one which discrimi nates unjustly, unnecessarily, mercilessly, and cruelly against the agriculturist and in favor of the manufacturer, ,' against the American and in favor of the foreigner. John H. Mitchell. Oman's ork Ia never done, and it is especially wearing and wearisome to those whose blood ia impure and unfit properly to tone, sus tain, and renew the wasting of nerve, muscle and tissue. It is more because of this condition of the blood that women are run down, Tired, Weak, Nervous, Than because of the work itself. Every physician says so, and that the only rem edy is in building up by taking a good nerve tonic, blood purifier and vitalizer like Hood's Sarsaparilla. For the troubles Peculiar to Women at change of season, climate or life, or resulting from hard work, nervousness, and impure ' blood, thousands have found relief and cure in Sarsaparilla The One True RIoort Purifier. $1 per bottle. Prepared only by C I. Hood & Co., I-owcll. Mass. . . -, pj... are the only pills to take nOOU S PUIS with Hood's Sarsaparilla. A. P. AISM DID NOT FIOUKB. Ed. Oazkttk: Sly nnmc was ihcJ in connection with the nomination for tlio office of sheriff in our convention and by mo withdrawn Iwforo any. vote was taken. 1 find thai my notion has boon misunderstood. A h well known to all my friends I am no ofneo soeki-r simply n republican from principle. My name, until our convention, was never before u.cd in connection with any oifice to my knowledge. Being urged by friends, I consented to accept the nomina tion for sheriff for the salary fixed by lnw, if the convention desired me as their candidate. After the adoption .ot a certain resolution by the convention to fix a snlarv different from the one in the statue, I felt that I should not make a donation-i'iply for the sake of be injj nominated for lh;r ivTloe, hence, with the adoption of the rcsolutixi. I withdrew my name for that office. I naturally thought. that the resolution was adopted for a purpose j and that it meant what it said. " By the or der of business, the clerk wa? to be nomina ted first, but for the same reason that I with drew.'ono of tho candidates for clerk, also withdrew hi name from tho convention. With the resolution in full force, a clerk was nominated, then cams tho nomination for sheriff under the resolution flxiua the salary, when I withdraw as stated. In n diatly an amendment was proposed and carried ti lln original resolution changing tho resn'.utio:). Aft.T vliis tho friends of tho candidate, for cleik, who bad withdrawn his name, believ ing that the choice of the convention might bo different under the new resolution, moved that the vote for clerk be reconsidered, as the resolution under which the nomination had been made was reconsidered, bit strange to say was voted down. Tho resolution had served its purpose. I supposed the vote on reconsideration was just aiconclusivo on the sheriff as on tho c!ur!c. I did not feel like urging poverty, hence I acquisced without another formal motion for reconsideration. I have no reflections particularly on anyone, and thank my friend's for their kindness in my behalf. " Respectfully, "VVm. Ksotts. There seems to bo soma misunderstand ing concerning the much talked of resolu tion which Mr. Knotts r tm to. Tho origi-' nal resolution was: '-Resolved, That it is the sense of this convention, that all county officers should perform all the duties of their j . cv. c 1. .. ! . -. ,A V.. ' law, furnishing deputy hire at their own ex- Dcnso." The amendment simply added these words: "Except in extraordinary cases where tho preservation of peace and order requires a largo amount of deputy help." Tho amendment simply provides for extraordinary occasions, such as riots, strikes, etc., and in no way effects tha clerk, and practically docs not alter the original resolution in respect to the sheriff. Ed. A new lino of spring suitings just received at Nolan & Callahan's tailoring department. Nolan & Callahan can make you a nobby spring suit to order for $13.00. HOSKINS AND KINGS VAUBY. Ask Marth why Kiley comes down to Kings valley so often. Don Graham, of Portland, is visiting his brother and relatives of this place. Rev. N. O. Kellay preached at the old church Sunday morning and evening. Mrs. "W. It. Orcn, of Corvallis, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. It. Price. Prof. "W. W. jjristow and Dept. School Supt Geo. Dcnman spent Sunday with us. Mr. S. Bush, wife and daughter, of Pee Deo, spent Sunday with H. L. Bush and family. The members of the Evangelical Associa tion are fencing in the old church to keep it from running off. Mrs. F. J. Chambers had the misfortune to break her ankle last week while running after her chickens. Mrs. James Marks met with an accident while returning frome Dallas one day last week. The horse she was riding fell down and broke her foot. The United Evangelical Sunday school elected the following delegates to attend the Sunday school convention at Corvallis the 5th and 6th of May: Miss Abbie Groshong, Mrs. Dick Rogers and Mrs. T. B. Bivens. Rev. L. A. Fisher of the Evangelical As sociation baptised tho following persons on the 25th: Barney, Effie and Bertie Cady, Charlie McTimmonsj Roscoo Peebles, Link Allen, Geo. 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