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
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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
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NEBRASKA.
a “pointer,” to which the penholder
Omaha, Nov. 7.—One-third of state that
is
joined,
be conveniently placed on
heard from. R eturns indicate election of any letter can
by the simple motion of the
Holcomb, pop-dem, for governor by small fingers, while
band itself is at rest on
plurality. Republicans have probably a fixed plate. the
The
“pointer” is so con­
elected congressmen, with result in Sixth nected with a type-wheel,
by means of
district still in doubt. Outside of gov­ springs and levers, that when
placed
ernor, republican state ticket elected and approximately near to any character
on
legislature probably republican on joint the plate a corresponding type on the
ballot.
wheel will be in proper position to be
New Jersey—republicans claim eight of accurately copied on the paper by a
the Congressmen of the state. Demo­ slight downward pressure on the pen­
crats concede them five.
holder. The machine is a rare combi­
Iowa—Republicans have carried the nation of strength, simplicity and light­
state by from 50,000 to 70,000.
ness, and the inventor says can be sold
Kentucky—Owens, who beat Brecken­ at a profit for 810. I t will weigh lees
ridge for the nomination for congress, is than eight pounds and is not more than
beaten at the polls by the friends of one-quarter the size of an ordinary type­
Breckenridge.
writing machine.
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The regular quarterly examination of
applicants for teachers certificates will
be held at the Court House in Jackson­
ville, beginning ou Wednesday, Nov. 14th,
1894. Applicants for state diplomas and
state life diplomas will be examined on
the 15th and 16th at the same place.
Gus N ewbury ,
London, Nov. 3.—In an interview to­
Co. Supt.
day Volhowsky,the nihilist leader, agreed
A cough which persists day after day,
with the statements made by Stepuiak
yesterday. Volhowsky said:
should not be neglected any longer. It
“I do not regard the personality of the means something more than a mere local
czar as of great importance at the mo­ irritation, aud the sooner it is relieved
ment. I am convinced that the upheaval the better. Take Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral.
of political spirits in Russian society is I t is prompt to act and sure to cure.
such that no czar would be able to stop
coming events. If the czar wants to
show a new policy, the first thing he has
to do is to grant amnesty to the political
Tn Its W orst F o rm —“ W hite
prisoners now in Siberia and elsewhere.
S w e llin g ” Cured.
The present form of opposition iu Russia
The remarkable effect of Hood’s Sarsapar­
is essentially drawn from that which pre­
illa in the following case Illustrates the power
vailed during the second half of the reign
of this medicine over all blood diseases:
of Alexander I II . Today all parties are
“ My son, 7 years old, had a white swell­
revolutionists, including the extremists.
ing come on his right leg helow the knee,
They have one common conviction—Rus­
which contracted the muscles so that his leg
sia must have a representative govern­
was drawn up at right angles. Physicians
ment. I expect that some government
lanced the swelling, which discharged freely,
officials and officers of high rank, who
but did not help him materially. I consid­
are among the revolutionists, will use
ered him
their personal influence with the young
czar and show him that if he wants to
A C o n fir m e d C r ip p le .
enjoy immunity from attacks and go
I was about to take him to Cincinnati for au
through the streets like Queen Victoria,
operation, expecting his leg would have to be
be has only to become a constitutional
taken off, and began giving him Hood’s Sarsa­
monarch. Why should the new tzar die
parilla in order to get up his strength. The
of worry like his father?”
medicine woke up his appetite, and soon
Maj. Wasson, who was 820,000 short in
his accounts with the government while
acting as paymaster down in Texas, is
reported to have killed his wife and him ­
self in Mexico last week.
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pieces of bone were discharged from the sore.
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Boys’ Heavy Boots, 12 to 6,
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