Semi-Weekly Tidings Thursday.....................November 8, 1894 EDITORIAL NOTES. Well, fellow Republicans, how will it seem to have the sparkling, scorching John J. Ingalls again in the senate from “bleeding Kansas?” Colorado and Kansas strike hands across the bloody (bridles) chasm, and mutually confess that they are tired of Waite and Lewellyn and their antics. David Bennett Hill is still a United States Senator, but as a presidential possibility be is buried 150,000 ballots deep. Ah, David, if you had only been shrewd enough to positively decline that Tammany nomination! Cleveland and Hill might wear away the sharp edge of their m utual emnity now by a communion of sack-cloth and ashes. Hill is the victim of one of those big New York landslides that occur at intervals in political history, but Cleve- landism—well the whole country has fallen heavily upon the “stuffed prophet” and bis administration. The “solid south” still holds its im mutable position in the politics of the country, contrary to the hopes of many Bauguine people—chiefly populists—who were predicting that the old lines would lie totally obliterateti or badly demoral ized by the “new issues” injected into the southern campaign. The Republican party will be stronger than ever through the reflex influence of this unbroken democratic devotion of the South. The prophets who were counting upon I he election of a populist president of the United States two years hence by reason of the election being thrown into the House of Representatives, where the populists were to handle the “balance of power,” have takeu in their prognostica tion shingles. The next House of Repre sentatives will count a large Republican majority in the vote by states, and the failure to give any candidate a ma jority of electoral votes in November 1896 will mean the election of a Republican by the House. The U. S. Senate now contains 44 democrats, 38 republicans and 3 popu lists. Estimates of its status after the changes made by the elections this week give the Republicans 44 of the 88 mem- Iters, just half, and the Republicans are said to hope for Peffer’s help in organizing, giving them a bare majority. The demo crats will lose a senator each in Kansas, New Jersey and South Carolina and the Republicans will probably lose one in Nebraska, but will gain five. The popu lists are given five senators in the estimates, aud Stewart and Jones are counted with them as lost to the Re- pn bl icans.__________________ Oregon is the only state in which Con gressional election was not held last Tuesday, and state officers also were vot ed for in California, Colorado, Connecti cut, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Moutaua, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Wisconsin, Washington aud Wyoming. Full state tickets were voted for in all of these ex cept Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Montana, New York, North Carolina, Ohio and Washington. In New York a governor and lieutenaut-governor and judges, and iu the others last named minor officers and judges were elected. In every state except Nebraska and South Carolina the populists had a full state ticket. There was a democratic-populist fusion in the former, and in South Carolina there was no populist tioket. In North Dakota the populists and republicans fused. Nevada has a “silver” ticket, aud it is one of the ouly two states not having a prohibition ist ticket, the other being Tennessee. TH E SCHOOL BOOK QUESTION. The Oregon press is diseuBsiug the school-book question with much ardor aud varying degrees of information aud misinformation. A vigorous assault, led by the Oreyouian, has been made upon the American Book Company. The American Book Company now has its grip upon the Oregon schools, aud the assault is made in the interest of some other book concern that wants some of the profits now chiefly absorbed by it. The charge is made that the American Book Company uses money liberally in bribing county school superintendents and other persons influential in the selec tion of books for the public schools, and then recovers it through extortionate treatm ent of the patrons of the schools when they are compelled to buy its books. The charge is most likely true, though the American Book Company makes in pamphlet aud newspaper-plate form a lengthy “answer to its defamers,” which liegine with the beautiful quotation from Shakespeare: “Be thou as chaste as ice “and as pure us snow, thou shalt not “escape calumny.” Now, the T idings hasn't the slightest idea that the Ameri can Book Company is “as chaste as ice or as pure as snow,” but it is probably just about as chaste and pure as the other book companies who are trying to sup- plaut it in the Oregon trade. This, how ever, is not the matter at issue at all. The question of interest to the public is, which is the better for the people of Ore gon and the patrons of the public schools —to retain the books now in use, or to exchange them for others published by some other book concern? I t is a ques tion almost exclusively of dollars and cents. No one believes that the text Itooks now used in our schools are so de fective or so undesirable that it would lie worth while to change them at any considerable pecuniary cost to the people of the state. Minor or trifling differences in text books play no important part in the educational work of the schools, aud we cannot afford to make a change just to gratify somebody’s preference for style of type or binding or for idiosyncrasies of pedantry or normal theory. Then, if the books now used answer their purpose well, let us not adopt others unless the state or its people can make a sure and material saving of money by doing so. Experience in the past has shown that a change costs more than it Is worth. B ut why not try something that is worth while? Why cannot the superin tendents of tVc counties of Oregon come together on a proposition to the American Book Company that its books shall be retained if the company will enter iuto a compact to furnish them at a reduced cost to the schools hereafter. The pres ent prices are altogether too high. Books that should retail at from 15 to 25 cents in their cheap pasteboard binding are sold to the school children at from 30 to 75 cts. per copy. The excessive price is the exaction of monopoly in the field and in the copyright of the text books. The people who select the books for our schools would do a real service to the people of Oregon if they should be able to bring the American Book Company or some other company to better terms and reasonable prices before delivering to them the rich field for trade furnished by the exclusive right to sell books for use iu our schools. AMERICAN ASSAULTS REVOLUTION. OX PROTECTION R E PUDIATED. Everything Gone Republican Except the Solid South, Nebraska and Ne vada. Hill of New York, Wilson of West Virginia and Sock less Jerry Siini«on Among the Missing. SOME REPUBLICAN PL U R A L IT IE S. New York ...................................... 150,000 Pennsylvania................................. 240,000 Massachusetts................................ 50,000 M ichigan....................................... 50,000 W isconsin..................................... 20,000 Ohio................................................ 120,000 W ashington.................... 15,000 Illin o is ........................................... 80,000 K a n sa s........................................... 35,000 Colorado ........................................ 15,000 Connecticut .................................. 7,500 Iowa ............................................... 60,000 New Ham pshire............................ 15,000 D elaw are....................................... 1,100 N. Dakota ...................................... 10,000 8. Dakota ...................................... 4,000 Montana ........................................ 5,000 Idaho ............................................. 2,000 Wyoming ...................................... 2,500 Utah (on Congressman)............... 2,000 Indiana ......................................... 40,000 West Virginia .............................. 2,000 STILL DEMOCRATIC. Texas..................................................100,000 Mississippi........................................ 50,000 Alabama................... 40,000 F lo rid a ............................................. 20,000 Louisiana.......................................... 20,000 Georgia............................................. 25,000 V irg in ia ........................................... 10,000 S. Carolina........... . ......................... 40,000 N. C aro lin a...................................... 30,000 Missouri ......................................... 40,000 Tenneesee ........................................ 7,000 Maryland .......................•................ 10,000 Kentucky ....................................... 25,000 Arkansas ......................................... 50,000 As predicted by all cool-headed observ ers of public sentiment throughout the country, the elections of Tuesday effected a revolution in the political complexion of the government. Today all branches of the government are in the hands of the Democrats. After the 4th of March next the Republicans will have a large major ity in the House of Representatives, and a distinct gain in the Senate, though not a majority, owing to the margin of con trol falling iuto the hands of populists. In the present house the democrats have 220, the republicans 125 and the popu lists 11 members. By the Tuesday elec tion the republicans are given a majority of 90 or more, showing an astonishing change throughout the whole country except in the solid south. New York leads the revolution with a majority of 125,000 to 150,000 for Morton over Hill, and with a republican majority in the legislature. In New York city, Tammany is flattened out in the most pronounced way, her candidate for mayor, Hugh J. Grant, being badly beaten by Strong, the republican nominee, and Hill’s vote for governor being only 4,000 more than. Morton’s, instead of 50,000 ahead as expected. This result is partic ularly interesting viewed in connection with the boastful attitude of Grant, as revealed in the following statement issued over his signature the evening before the election: “Tomorrow the democrats of the city of New York will give an overwhelming plurality for the state ticket, headed by D. B. Hill, and the city ticket, headed by myseif. I shall assume the mayorality January 1, pledged to give offices only to men who can and will administer them for the public good. Being a democrat, I shall use democratic means to do what ever the public needs to have done.” But Kansas, “bleeding Kansas,” comes up with 30,000 republican majority aud elects a republican congressman in each of her seven districts. Besides this she elects a legislature which will stand 45 republican on joint ballot. And Colorado—Sixteen thousand re publican and a majority of ten for the republicans on a joint ballot of the legis lature. Aud William L. Wilson, who named a bill and made a speech at a banquet in London—William L. is beaten by a re publican for Congress in his district down in West Virginia. Ab, if he could only have run iu London! AND OLD MISSOURI. St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 7.—I t looks as if the state has gone republican. The legislature is very close, and republican candidates for supreme judge, superin tendent public instruction, and railroad commissioner may be elected. COLORADO. Denver, Col., Nov. 7.— Latest returns show that the republican ticket will have 20,000 plurality. Shafroth, rep., elected to cougress from first district and probably Brown, rep., in second. Legislature 54 republicans and 43 democrats and popu list. WILSON DEFEATED. Wheeling, W. Va., Nov. 7.—Wileon’s defeat for congressman is now conceded by the democrats. Charlestown, W. Va., Nov. 7.—Gov. McCorkle gives up state. Says republi cans will have majority iu legislature. Elkins will be the next senator. F A IL E D TO VOTE. Cincinnati, O., Nov. 7.—While republi can plurality of this state is nearly double that of McKinley last year the total vote for the ticket falls short, showing the result due to democrats staying at home and not voting. IN CALIFORNIA. Budd, democratic candidate for gover nor, is elected over Estee by from 1,000 to 2,000. Maguire is elected to congress iu the 4th district, dut the other six con gressmen will be republican, as will also the remainder of the state ticket. The legislature is strongly republican. Anti- railroad sentiment was worked to its hottest pitch against Estee. L ITT LE DELAW ARE, TOO. Michigan—Republicans elect entire state ticket by from 25,000 to 40,000, ten out of twelve congressmen and three- fourths of the legislature, insuring return of two United States senators. Nevada—Silver party "elects all its nominees probably, but material re publican gains are made. In San Francisco Adolph Sutro, the millionaire who headed the populist ticket, is elected mayor. Over in Siskiyou county the entire county republican ticket is elected except Wadsworth for treasurer, though Budd has a plurality over Estee. Oklahoma Outlaws. Perry, O. T., Nov. 4.—News came here by courier today from Stillwater, that S. J. Dunlap, postmaster at Red Fork, O. T., 50 miles east of here, was shot to pieces by the Cook gang yesterday. Dunlap owned the store and the gang ordered him to unlock the postoffice safe, which he refused to do, and they 6hot him full of holes. They robbed the store aud postoffice. Officers are after the gang. Guthrie, O. T., Nov. 4.—Meager par ticulars have been received here of a des perate fight between the Cook outlaws and United States deputy marshals, near Sasabka. Two officers and one bandit were killed, and two bandits wounded. The Oriental War. London, Nov. 5.—A Shanghai dispatch says the Chinese troops have evacuated Chiu Lein Cheng, and now occupy a mountain pass on the highroad to Peking. Orders have been given the military com manders to defend Peking at all hazards. The Japanese army is marching north ward, aiming to get behind General Sung’s army. I t is expected that all for eigners will be requested to leave Peking within a fortnight. Nankin, Nov. 5.—An imperial decree has been received by the viceroy of Che- Kaing province to proceed to Tieu-Tsin and relieve Li H ung Chang of the seals of the acting vice-royalty of Chi-Li. GIVING U P HOPE. London, Nov. 5.—A Shanghai dispatch says: “Orders have been issued rescinding the projected dispatch of large supplies of rice for the army at New Chwaug. It is due to the fact that the board of war has abandoned all hope of staying the progress of the Japanese army in Man churia.” The dispatch adds that many Chinese merchant vessels have recently been placed under the German flag. London, Nov. 5.—The Daily News says the Chinese minister has imparted to the foreign office China’s desire that the pow ers mediate with Japan for peace. The minister has gone to Paris to make a sim ilar request of France. HE official re p o rts show that no baking powder received an award over the Royal at the Chi cago World’s Fair. T IS IS IS T h e ju d g e o f aw ards on baking pow der w rites th a t the claim by another com pany to have received th e highest aw ard is false; th a t no such aw ard was given to it. T h e R oyal B aking P ow der is the purest and strongest baking pow der m ade, and has received th e highest aw ard at th e G reat In tern atio n al E xpositions and W o rld ’s Fairs w h er ever exhibited in co m p etitio n w ith others. It m akes th e finest, lightest, sw eet est, m ost w holesom e bread, cake and pastry. M ore econom ical th a n any oth er leavening agent. The railroad commissioners are now at work ou their annual report, and some interesting facts are shown by the sti - tisticts they have gathered. While rail road-building has not made much, pro gress in this state recently, shippers have gained a great deal in the way of reduced freight charges. At the same time, the roads, many of them, have been operated at a great loss. In 1884, the number of miles of railroad constructed and opera ted in this state by the various lines now consolidated under the system known as the Southern Pacific lines in Oregon was 443; in 1894, the total mileage is 653. The maximum freight rate per ton per mile for the past 10 years was in 1884, it then being 4.21 cts. per mile, and the num ber of tons of freight hauled one mile, per mile of road operated, for that year was 25,130. The highest ton age was in 1892, when the amount reached 60,631 tons per mile; in 1894, the tonnage was 42,932, and the rate 2.40. There has been a gradual reduction from 1884 to the present time in freight rate, much more than corresponds with the increased tonnage. By reason of the thinness of the traffic, the less length of average haul, as well as the steeper grades to be over come, the average freight train load in Oregon is far less than in any other part of the United States; in other words, all the roads in the United States average a freight load three times ns great as in Oiegon. The average rate of wages paid railroad employee in Oregon i6 about 82:30; in Pennsylvania, 81.45. The board was severely criticised in some sections because of the Southern Pacific tariff effective iu 1893. That tariff equalized the rate over all the lines of the Southern Pacific Company in the state. I t raised it in most cases. In fact, the rate paid for the year 1894 was 82.40 per ton per mile, the lowest since the company went into business; and the new grain schedule, effective October 10,1894, will reduce it still more. In fact, the earnings of the company show a falling off as compared with last year of over 8500,000.—|Ex. WilmiugtoD, Nov. 7.—Delaware com plete gives a republican majority of 1100. Au Oregon Typewriter. Republicans elect congressmen and gov ernor. Legislature will stand 18 repub Mathias Jensen, of Astoria, has just licans and 12 democrats. This insures a finished the model of a new typewriting republican successor to Senator Higgins. machine. The invention is made on nearly the same principle as the old ILLINO IS. Chicago, Nov. 7.—Chairman' Tanner Remington, with rollers to carry and says republicans have plurality in Illinois hold the paper aud an inkstrap to ink the of over 125,000, and have elected 19 con types. I t is operated by an ordinary gressmen out of 22 with 2 remaining still penholder, held in the ordinary way, and the characters representing the types are in doubt. marked on a plate so closely together • NEBRASKA. a “pointer,” to which the penholder Omaha, Nov. 7.—One-third of state that is joined, be conveniently placed on heard from. 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