Issued Every Thursday Mornine.by
The Gazette Publishing Co.
B. W. JOHNSON, - Business Manager.
CORVALLIS, OREGON. JUNE 25, 1S96.
SELF-CONVICTED.
Silver republicans have not
been so thoroughly discredited
by the national convention as the
Oregonian affects to believe.
The platform endorses free coin
age as a general economic prin
ciple althousrh it opposes free
coinage as an independent nation
al policy.
The silver republicans cau
support the financial plank much
more gracefully than can the
Oregonian. That paper is so
proud of the following editorial
paragraph that it is running it
daily :
"Nothing is so utterly opposed
to the principles and purposes of
the republican party as the
demand for free coinage of silver.
The republican party has steadily
adhered to the best standard of
money, and will steadily adhere
to it It will not have the silver
standard, with money worth but
50 cents on the dollar. Every
drop of republican blood that
tolerates such a notion is guilty
of a several bastardy."
It is not simply independent
action by the United States that
Is here opposed. It is the prin
ciple of free coinage that is
unqualifiedly condemned, though
all the nations might adopt it.
The republican party says:
"We are, therefore, opposed to
the free coinage of silver except
by international agreement, with
the leading commercial nations
of the world, which we pledge
ourselves to promote, and until
such agreement can be obtained
the existing gold standard must
be preserved."
The Oregonian, according to
its own code of political morals,
cannot, as a self-claimed repub-
lican journal, support that plank
promising to secure free coinage,
not for one nation alone but for
the whole world, without being
guilty of a several bastardy
The Oregonian looks at the
platform, as through a glass
darkly. It has apparently failed
to discover the advocacy of inter
national free coinage, and so
professes to be "thoroughly satis
fied with the declaration of the
convention regarding finance."
It asks silver republicans to "line
up or leave." Fortunately they
are in a position to "line up"
without having to apologize or
explain. They haven't to come
under their own condemnation
and plead guilty to "a several
bastardy" in order to vote for
McKinley and Hobart. The
Oregonian, however, is self-convicted
under a law of its own
creation.
In the nomination of McKin
ley the sentiment of the Ameri
can people prevailed. With the
possible exception of Lincoln and
Blaine, no presidential 'candidate
of the republican party has been
so honored and idolized as Mc
Kinley. The demand for his
nomination emanated from the
voters at the primaries, then at
county conventions and finally at
state conventions where in near
ly every state of the union, ex
cepting those having favorite
sons, delegates to the national
convention were instructed for
him. As a result on the first bal
lot he received the nomination
with nearly 300 votes to spare.
Attempts of the bosses to prevent
his nomination proved futile.
Piatt and Quay, whose manipu
lations of political wires in pre
vious presidential conventions
have become notorious, were with
numerous lesser lights, such as
Clarkson, opposed to his nomi
nation, yet they were unable to
stem the tide of public sentiment
in favor of the people's choice.
His nomination was a fitting
tribute to the man and a just
recognition of the cardinal prin
ciple of republicanism protec
tion, of which he is the greatest
living exponent. He is without
doubt., the strongest uational can
didate that could have been
selected. No less prompt was he
in the defense of the republic
during the dark days of the civil
war than in later years in defend
ing its industries in the halls of
legislation, and by the agricul
turists and workingmen of Amer
ica his nomination is regarded as
a harbinger of returning pros
perity. We want a good mau to handle "Dnst
ine" in Benton county. Good business,
steady employment, and good pay. For
particulars, address, with stamp, Powell
& Hendershott, McMinuville, Or.
TEST OF REPUBLICANISM.
The exasperating officiousness
of the Oregonian in questioning
the party loyalty of silver repub
licans and its strenuous efforts to
taunt them into leaving the
party, makes its attitude, at the
time when it could fairly claim
to be a republican paper, a mat
ter of some interest as determin
ing what party consistency, from
its standpoint, then meant.
Until recent years the Orego
nian battled furiously for the
principle of free trade, notwith
standing the fact that protection
was then, as now, one of the
cardinal principles of the repub
I ican party. Yet Mr. Scott
claimed to be a good republican
and sat in the councils of the
party. He made no boasts at
that time of being "a professional
bolter." ' . .
Here, then, are two standards
of party consistency raised by
the Oregonian that standard of
the days of its own loyalty, and
its standard of the time of its
boasted recreancy. Can a man
be a consistent republican and
yet disagree with part of his
party's platform, or must he
slavishly profess to believe all
that that platform advocates ?
The Oregonian seems to have
a very narrow conception of the
republican party of its purposes,
usefulness and methods. .The
republican party is not a one-idea
party. It does not propose a pet
political principle or fancy as a
test of membership. It is not
maintained to stifle individuality
or to deny freedom of thought.
To be a consistent remiblican a
man need not necessarily approve
every platform that a convention
might adopt A good republican
is one who believes that the
republican party is the safest
with which to entrust the affairs
of the nation; who believes that
its policies generally are right
and that its errors are not evilly
intended; that it is the patriotic
party the party of business ideas
and of business methods, a party
whose record proves its worth.
It is too much to expect of
intelligent men that they abandon
their convictions concerning the
great questions of political econ
omy and governmental policy
merely to assert their opinions as
to the proper mintage regula
tions. Mr. Dolph and Mr. Her
man can consistently support the
republican ticket although they
differ on the financial question,
and although the financial plank
is not such as either would sug
gest PENNOYER'S BOOM BUSTED.
When the returns which show
ed Pennoyer was elected mayor
of Portland came in, he electri
fied the people by declaring he
would take only one half of the
salary allowed him. Every one
was surprised, none more so than
those who had noted his previous
propensity for peculation. As
governor he had drawn from the
treasury $2,000 each year in ex
cess of the salary fixed by the
state constitution, and had been
strongly suspected of taking
bribes in exchange lor pardons.
Every one held their breath
when this man said he would
serve as mayor for one-half the
amount allowed him by the law.
One enthusiastic admirer propos
ed him for president of the Uni
ted States, declaring he needed
no other platform but to go be
fore the astonished people with
his novel and generous proposi
tion. For a fortnight we have
luxuriated in the contemplation
of one man who would take only
half of what he could get.
But the most beautiful mental
pictures are frequently destroyed
by inquisitive or meddlesome per
sons. A prominent official who
takes his salary regularly, feeling
himself discomfited by the gen
erous mayor, asked him if he
really intended only to draw part
of his salary. With that urbane
smile which has covered such a
multitude of sins, the mayor re
plied: "Not much ! I shall draw
the whole of my salary, but in
tend to give one-half of it away."
Ye gods ! what shall we do now
for some one to love ? Is it pos
sible we will have to put up with
McKinley after alf? - But don't
let us forget to stand up close to
the mayor when he draws his sal
ary he is going to give half of it
away.
Bowling for Ladies.
The bowling alley will be open to the
ladies every Wednesday afternoon, to
which you are invited to be present.
We will do what we can to make it pleas
ant for our patrons. Respectfully, H. H.
Sticknky & Wm. Trent, proprietors.
Wanted.
Si'jvpral trustworthy gentlemen or ladies
o travel in Ori-eon for established, reliable
houso. Salary 730 and expenses. Steady
p-ition. KiicIosp refur.-nco and elf address
ed, slumped envelope. The Dominion Com
r.ny, Third FUor, Omaha Bidg., Chicago,
THE PEOPLE'S FRIEND.
Brief Sketch of Senator Mitch
ell's Public Life at Wash
ington. 'On May 16, lS76,Sen. Mitchell
addressed the senate on the ques
tion ot restriction of Chinese im
migration, this being the first of
several speeches he made on this
subject. In powerful language he
pointed out the dangers which this
immigration threatened and the
necessity for some prompt and de
cisive action Following hard upon
tins came the impeachment pro
ceedings against Secretary of War
Belknap. It will be remembered
that Belknap resigned his office to
escape impeachment, and the ques
lion lor me senate to decide was
whether, not being in office, im
peachment proceedings against
him were concluded. In a brief
but masterly argument, Mr. Milch
ell laid down the proposition that
he could " not thereby escape, and
we cannot forbear making the fol
lowing excerpt from it:
"'The fact that the constitution
empowered the senate to disquali
fy as well as remove from office,
would, it seems to me. be a per
feet answer to I he assumption that
the sole purpose of impeachment
is the removal from office. To
prevent, therefore, in the discret ion
of the senate, a return to office of
one who had proved unworthv
while in office, to the extent of
commit ting an impeachable offense
was evidently regarded as a means
of protection to public lioerty, so
necessary to the guardianship ol
the high interests of the state, as
to secure for it a place in explicit
terms in our fundamental law. To
place upon the constitution, there
lore, such construction as would
make it possible for a great public
offender, by the simple voluntary
act of resignation, to evade his
part of the penalty, and thus
trample, unchecked and defiantly,
upon one of the great constitu
tional protections with which the
rights and liberties of the whole
people are surrounded, seems to
me to cast a libel upon the wis
dom, the intelligence, the legal
learning of tlfe men who made the
constitution.
"'Wllle to (he president was
given the power to grant reprieves
and pardons for offenses against
the United States, an exception
was made in cases of impeach
ment. This is the 'unpardonable
sin' of the constitution. So dan
gerous was the commission of an
impeachable offense regarded by
the framers of the constitution to
the vitality and the purity ot the
life of our body politic, that the
offender is placed forever beyond
the reach of restoration through
executive clemency; and yet will
it be said that the criminal himself,
after polluting the official robe and
tainting the public virtue by his
own official crime, can evade the
penalties of the constitution and
batter down the safe-guards of the
nation by quietly surrendering his
office? Can he thus pardon his
offense before conviction? I can
not accept a construction so fatal
in its results to the very existence
of -the power of impeachinsnt in
corporated in the constitution.'
"The celebrated case of the
electorial vote of Oregon, in 1876,
excited the attention of the whole
country. As one of the ranking
members of the committee on
privileges and elections, the same
committee by the way, of which
he is now chairman, he had charge
of the matter for the republican
side. He rested his case on the
ground that the governor was
plainly directed by the law to is
sue the certificate of election to
the person or persons receiving the
highest number of votes; that he
had no right to exercise judicial
functions as he did in the case of
Watts; that, being a purely minis
terial officer, he had no jurisdic
tion to enter into the question of
eligibility, to entertain it, to adju
dicate it. He had usurped the
prerogatives of another tribunal
and violated the law he had sworn
to enforce. On the d iy that he
addressed the senate on the sub
ject, he had prepared no set speech,
for he delivered it unexpectedly.
The gallerly was thronged, every
body was wrought up to the high
est tention. Clearly and emphat
ically he made his points, and gave
the reasons why in his opinion, the
governor ot the state had no legal
right to withhold the certificaies ol
election from the republican elec
tors unquestionably selecied by a
majority of the people to repre
sent them in the electoral college.
Later, he appeared before the
electoral commission and made an
argument which was listened to
with the deepest attention by the
many illustrious persons present.
In closing his argument he saM:
"'Mr. President, I have faith in
this commission and the j stice o
its final judgment. I feel that
when the arduous and responsible
labors of you and your honorable
associates have endtd. forty five
millions of people can raise their
eyes to heaven and exclaim in the
language of the gifted bard;
"Great God! we thank thee for this
home,
"This bounteous birth-land of the free,
"Where wanderers front afar may .come
' "And breath the air of liberty,
"Still may her flowers un trampled
spring,
"Her harvests wave, her cities rise,
"And yet till time shall fold his wing,
"Remain earth's loveliest paradise,"
'As we have stated, the senator
never lost an opportunity to call
attenlion to the many needs of the
Pacific coast. All of his early
speeches in the senate were educa
tional in their nature in so far as
I hey related to the coast, and were
designed to give the country's law
makers a more adequate compre
hension of the wonderful future ol
the territory, "where rolls the Ore
gon.'' That these speeches did a
great deal of good, there cau be"
no question. Even in these days
there is a woeful lack of knowl
edge of the resources of the north
west, but it is not comparable with
the ignorance which existed twen
ty years ago. In one of his speeches
on this subject, toward the clos
of his first term, he said: 'I appre
ciate and frankly concede that the
difficulty in attracting public atten
tion to the crying wants of our
commerce upon the Pacific coast
is not the result of any disposition !
upon the part of eastern or south- j
ern statesman to ignore any section '
of the country, but rather the re-
suit of a not surprising failure up-
on the part of those who never
have visited the Pacific slope to
note and comprehend the rapidity
t-f the change by which the late
frontiers of the west have been
transformed into an empire of
greatness, of commercial wealth,
and political, social and moral
power. It is in vain that the six
senators and seven or eight repre
sentatives of the Pacific coast raise
their voices and bend their energies'
in f vor of national legislation in
the interest of the commerce of
the far west, unless we can engage
the attention and seeure the influ
ence and support ot our eastern
and southern friends. To you,
therefore, fellow senators, whose
long experience on this floor, makes
your influence and power felt and
recognized, not alone in the coun
cils of the nation, but throughout
the land, I appeal, basing. it as 1 do
on no flimsy fabric woven by the
imagination,
hut. nn fsints nnd sta-
tislics as irrefragable as truth itself.
I ask, in the name ot suffering
commerce of the west and in the
interest of the real growth and
prosperity of our nation to extend
a helping hand, that the blessings
of national legislation in aid of
national commerce and for its pro -
lection may be extended in equal
measure to all states and sections,
to all rivers
all rivers and harbors of our
great republic
Whatever nation-
al aid is
courage
nrnlonl an, on.
0 t .i
our commerce, wneiner
internal or external, even in the
remotest portions of our national
heritage,-is not lost, but returns in
vitalizing influence and power, to
strengthen the heart and energize
our whole national being.'
"On March 4, 1885, Mr. Mitchell
entered upon his second term in
the senate, after six years which
had been passed in the practice of
his profession, at Portland. In the
eleven years which have elapsed
since that time, he has become
distinguished for his advocacy of
measures for the benefit of those
whom Abraham Lincoln designa
ted a3 the common people of the
country, the great masses, the rank
and file. A radical in many re
spects, there is such a leven of
good sound common sense in his
radicalism, united with sincerity
and earnestness, that no one with
the exception of the Portland Ore
gonian, the animus of which is well
understood, has ever accused him
of demagogy. IPs second term
was young whe'n, by reason ol the
inability of Senator Miller, of Cal
ifornia, who originally had charge
of the measure, there devolved
upon him the task of guiding the
(Jhinose Restriction measure
through the senate. He believed
then, as he believes now, that the
tree born American laborer should
be protected from the encroach
ments of the pa per labor of Asia,
and from t ie products of such la
bor. In 1889, he first introduced
a bill aimed at objectionable im
migration other than Chinese. The
title of the bill explains its objects.
It is, 'To prohibit objectionable
foreign immigration, encourage de
sirable immigration, defend Amer
ican institution, and protect Amer
ican labor.' It provides lor rigid :
consular certification and inspec
tion and proposes severe penalties
upon all who aid and abet the Ian -
ing on American shores of any of ;
the objectionable clashes excluded
by the act.
At the time the democrats were
complaining about the surplus in
i he treasury, a suip'us "which has
long ago digappe;rel under this
administration of affairs. Senator
Mitchell advocated using a small
noil ion of the surplus for the ben
efit of. all i he people of the conn-;
i ry by reducing letter postage to I
one cent. lie made an able speech 1
Is what gives Hood's Sarsspsrilla its great
popularity, its constantly increasing
sales, and enables it to accomplish its
wonderful and unequalled cures. The
combination, proportion and process
used in preparing Hood's Sarsaparilla
are unknown to other medicines, and
make Hood's Sarsaparilla
Peculiar to Itself
It enres a wide range of diseases because
of its power as a blood purifier. It acts
directly and positively upon the blood,
and the blood reaches every nook and
corner of the human system. Thus all
the nerves, muscles, bones and tissues
come under the beneficent influence of
Mood's
Sarsaparilla .
The One True Blood Purifier. $1 per bottle.
ww ,, nn cure I.iver Ills; easy to
nOOU S fills take, easy to operate. 25c
in which he t raced I lie history of
our postal system and pointed out
iiow every reduction in the rate of
Pelage, while causing a temporary
decrease in the revenues had in a
short time inured to the benefit of
the treasury."
Continued next week.
Granger News.
j Hector Bros, are not going to
; sell their wool this year,- they
think nest year they will get a
belter price wh -n the republican
party gets inlu ;oiver. Hurrah
lor McKinley.
Eighteen hundred and ninety
six seems to be an unlucky year
for Mr. Win. Abraham. Some
time ago he came pretty near get
ting killed by a jersey bull wh ch
he was iroinr, to lead into the barn.
and after he had him in the mad
beast just went for him, hurting
him badly. When he recovered
and was around again, another ac
cident occurred, a wagon wheel
run over his lootj and he will be
laid upigain for some tfme.
j Harvest time is getting near and
every farmer is studying how he
; is going to get his harvesting done.
Well, he'd say, I guess I won't hire
anybody this year, (times are too
: aa) "ie ooy can run ine oinaer
I H,,u u" -"c '"-".''S iujocii.
Put here is where a good many of
us make a mistake. .How long
does a machine last if a boy, say,
10 or 12 years old, runs it? Do
you not have to buy new drapers
every two years? How many
",u,s 4C""'a u'' -vuu "y l"
. e,ver-v ? tH,(w fa? bu
:es do you hare to Lund by hand?
How much twine is going to waste,
. i j i . . .
CM- f ,F
yu W1" n umi W1.,U1U ue
ea in luuue el man ill juui
nl:if.e rn an the snnckinff nnd von
---- - :
run the binder vcuisell : give a
man who has a wife and children
to support a chance to make a few
dollars in harvest time, so that he
may be able to purchase the nec
essaries of life. To buy a ne w ma
chine every 4 or 5 years means to
send the money east and out of the
stale. I say, let us keep the mon
ey at home, so that we may have
a show to get a dollar of it back,
and bo prosperous, and with Mc
Kinley on top tlur j will 1 e a more
populism hereafter.
Farmek.
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Carlos Maktvx, D.D., New York City.
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A ten-acre prune orchard near Coryallis,
trees six and seven years old, must be sold
soon as owner desirai to leave, or will trade
for residence property located in any pros
perous Willamette valley town. Address
"Orchard," care this paper.
WOOL WANTED.
Highest price paid by
W. A. Wells.
Letter List.
Following is the list of letters remain
ing in the Corvallis postoffice, unclaimed
June 25, 1896:
E. H. Belknap, Miss Delia Brown, W.
S. Byers, M. Gregg, Mrs. Herd, Clarence
Miller, Mr. Porter, F. D. Searcy, Mrs.
Martha Taylor.
Robt. Johnson, P. M.
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We pay the highest cash rate for wool;
can supply sacks and twine; are prepared
to handle Chitam bark. S. L. Kline.
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Rev. W. A. Cooper, Newport, Ky.
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