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PAGE FOUK. TIIE MORNING ASTORIAN, SUNDAY, MAY 20, 1904. THE MORNING ASTORIAN. ESTABLISHED 1873 PUBLISHED BY ASTORIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY. J. H. CARTER, GENERAL MANAGER. RATES. IBj mail, per year $6 00 By mail, per month 50 By carriers, per month 60 THE SEMI-WEEKLY ASTOltlAX. By mail, per year, m advance SI 00 and others of equal note appear as officers of the "league," will doubtless feel constrained to give the measure their support They forget that the promi nent men whose names are attached to the pamphlets are almost required to give support to any measure of the kind tending to "reform." The state demo cratic convention indorsed the law, yet Alfred V. Holman, a brilliant lawyer and leading spirit of tlu democracy of the state, expressed to the writer the opinion that the law should be defeated not par tieularly- from the standpoint of democracy, but from that of the taxpayer or the voter. The clause in the platform indorsing the bill would have been stricken out but for the haste with which the convention pro ceeded to take up the matter of indorsing the presi dential candidacy of W, K. llcrast. If the direct primary method of making nomina tions were in any way an improvement on the pres ent law, or even its equal, The Astorian would sup port it. But it is not. It is a legislative abortion, the product of men whose reform dreams threaten now to menace the voters of the state. It is mi. American, probably unconstitutional and wholly at variance with our recognized right to protest against JUST FOR INSTANCE. Get out the fin! There won't be aa many answer to mil mil this year! Some have enlisted with the (lrr.it IlfKlmfllt! Where thoy will ntver be muatered rut. , 1,1 To la a html ciuntmlgn . ' We tire recruited, we lenrn tui'lli'H, we undergo forced miirvhca, we fltjht buttles . Sometime we drive lunk the en my. aomct lines we are defeated THIS THING OF BEING AN ASS. $ Unfortunately for the world, no one has a injustice. Monopoly on this thing of being an ass. Were it The voters of Clatsop county should vote solidly l bo for the inability of one man to corral the dis- agamst rt they be republicans, democrats, finction, the writer who frames up political argument socialisH Prohibitionists or members of any other for the republican ticket and voices it through the " ttUTCls " 11 ,s JHSl a ianc,IUI trUtorial columns of the Oregonian might be a sage. form scheme m wh,eh thcre is not one e,ement of He b sensitive, too. this editorial writer. rwl WfiT Practicable reform. Not only should residents of exceeding wroth when some one has the temeritv to this eoxm vote a,nst tbe bil1' but thy 8bouU1 Arr-r from him ur&e friends in other counties to do likewise. Voters A day or two ago The Astorian took the Ore- wjU n.ot ta,:e the time to dl6 the long-inded law, toman to task for its incessant howl that the repub- wim iXS PreamWe could understand Earn ticket should be supported because of the na-' U d weut to trouble' For reason U mW tional effect which a rousing victory in this state recdve considerable support-possibly enough to re meM have elsewhere in the union. As one of the sult ta its enactment. Therefore, those who have moderations involved. Tha Astm-ian nnit n, followed the discussion of the matter that has been win its Portland contemporary that a republican carricd on n The Astorian should not neglect to bend majority of 20,000 is highly desirable: but it pro- dl their e6Ti to defeat the measure. Clatsop tested that the whole ticket was beine injured as the county Wl11 Po11 about 2800 or 2900 votes, and every lesalt of the lone "cry that republicans should be Pne should 1,6 corded against the direct primary elected because of the national significance of the matter. It set up the contention that there were other equally important reasons why republicans COST OF TWELFTH CENSUS, should be appealed to and urged to pile up a lare American census-taking is the title of an inter- majority. The June election is a state affair and esting little volume just issued by the department of state issues are involved. In view of this fact the eommerce an labor' Tbe oooet contains a full ery that a vote for the state ticket is a vote for Pres- nistory the progress of census-taking in the United ident Roosevelt is lame, and calculated to weaken States from 1790 to 1900 and shows the great in the ticket . crease in the labor required and the different sub- : Now we hear from our political adviser that there iects handled by the department, are other reasons why the republican ticket should The first census was taken in 1790. There were le supported. We are assured that President Roose- 17 directing heads in that year and an estimated 650 i Telt, were he a resident of Oreson. would eo to the enumerators. Nine months were allowed for com- polls and vote the ticket straight, and do all in his Potion of the work, but 18 were required, extensions power to lend it assistance. All of this is very well. of tm bein? made- The reP9rt contained 56 pages; and quite true; but how does it transpire that the the toal population that year was 3,929,214; the Oregonian has not previously pointed out that there total cost taking the census was $44,377.28, and more to the state election than its national sir- the per capita cost $0.0112. In 1900 there were 300 xuficance! Doubtless some ass has reminded the supervisors, 52,871 enumerators, 3554 clerks and Portland paper that it has been off the track a cir- 28 field agents. The time occupied in making the eumstance which goes to show that occasionally two enumeration was one month, and the census report asses are wiser than one, even when one of them is contained 10,900 pages. The total population was And throuirh It nil we lenrn to love the Ureut Oomnmrider . A.i the campaign neare the clone we stumble blindly after Mini, glut) that we are In the ranks . Then cornea the Great Conflict It la the last charge of the old jruard We yield prisoners to Death and ore HI We atari on a long Journey . There la a laat roll of drum, & lint call of the bugle, a luat rattle of mus ketry . We know we ure going away never to return, that we are leaving friend J and all we ever knew . We are going into the Great Deyond Everything will be it range But thcre will be no wearlaome marchea, no thankleas commandera, no houra of misery and pain Dr. VAUOIIAN, Dkntist. rytlUo Dulliling, Astoria, Oregon.' Dr. T. I. HAI L DENTIST 521 Commercial street. Astoria Ore. JAY TUTTLE, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND BUItGEON Acting amUUiiI surgeon lB. Marin ll(Millal Hervlce, omc hours: 10 to It am. 1 to 4:10 p,m, 477 Commercial Street, Ind Floor. Dr. r. O. LOC5AN DENTIST o"8 Commercial St, HUnaliuh Il'iililing C. J. TKENTHAKI) Insurance. Commlaalon and 8hliiplng CUSTOMS HOUSE BROKER. Agent Wells-Farfo and Northern I'aclno Exprtaa Companies. Cor. ELEVENTH and IIOND BTS. Dr. 1UIODA (3. HICKS OSTEOl'ATUY Mattaell Itldg. 17 Commercial 8L I'lldNK III.ACK ikMii, U W. IIAHH, DKNTIST Manscll Ituililing 67J CaimiiDri'liil Hlreot, AaUirla, Ore TELKNtOXK Ml) joilL W o to -couasj"K TO LI'ARN lH)K KM PINOl wmli. fnf e nr HKTt'NK MOkKll rirnnr mitm.. . . "oi war. Big. Iimaulai W A, . .r'S 0 r Tore, Frcah I'ruK. Acourat VeacrlritloiiB HART'S DRUG STORE f . Special vSale of Brushes The famous Adams' Hair Bralict-',Thore'i Nona So QooA." Then wa have an elegant line of military and lUh brnshea at great;? mlnc4 pricw-- IIEKE'S A CHANCE FOIl YOU I Our line of fine Soaps, Toilet Water am Perfumes is the larireii In ik ami we can please the moat ftuttiUlotia ami we would like to show von what have. CulLNEIt 14th ami (kJM HKItnui u vvZ , - -..M U. ....If.kJl The tactics will be new, boy a; there will be new circumstances and new condition a It will be a long Journey In the dark It will be a great step Into the Un known But We're not afraid to go! McCULLEY. pronounced to be "new," and of whose antecedents Oregon seems to know nothing (a somewhat pe enliar definition of a man who was born in Oregon and has lived in the state all of his life.) "We trust that the Oregonian may continue to profit by the advice offered at times by asses who fee! inclined to protest against slaughter, and that it wil hereafter refrain from liurting the republican ticket hy howling the lone howl that there's nothing to the rtate election but its national significance. NO POLITICS IN IT. 4 The direct primary law is not a political measure m the sense that it will tend to operate to the ad Tantage of one of. the, two, principal parties. - tVe have for it the confession of V, S.UTten, secretary f the "league," that the law Is intended to end the factional strife in Multnomah county, but the demo sratic politicians of that county are quite on a par with the republicans and equally as much in need lesson at the hands of the voters of the two parties n the outside counties of Oregon. The measure, which is now submitted to the voters f the state, is neither republican nor democratic; it u just bad purely and simply bad. Even in the outh, where the democratic party predominates to an extent that renders nomination of candidates nJy a matter of form to insure election, the direct frimary method has proved . unsatisfactory. In Florida the people are. having all sorts of trouble, and the Everglades state will at the first opportunity repeal the law. If the measure will not prove of benefit in a state overwhelmingly in control of one party, in the name of common sense if it is fair to appeal to. common sense in discussing this proposed measure what would be the result in a state where the parties are reasonably equally divided! Mr. U'Ren was afforded every opportunity of meeting The Astorian 's objections to the direct pri mary law. His letters were conspicuously published and his statements were carefully considered. Each was torn to pieces. He failed to make one showing iavorable to enactment of the law. If the very sponsors of the measure can not defend it from the attack of disinterested newspapers, what may be ex pected of the operation of the bill! The ordinary voter, observing that the names of sach men as Governor Chamberlain, Senator Mitchell shown to be 76,149,386 and the cost of the work was $11,854,817.91, the per capita cost being $0.1550. An idea of the great increase in the cost of taking the census can be gained from the statement that the total cost in 1790 was $44,377, whereas the cost of taking the"census"of the state of Maine in 1900 was $34,560.90. - In 1790 six subjects were handled by the enumerators; in 1900 the number of subjects was increased to 32. ' " v; .... Most interesting, perhaps, "is the wonderful pro gress made in 'the devices for speedily making avail able the work of the enumerators. The story of this mechanical progress necessitates figures which run up into the hundreds of millions. It is also interest ing to note that the population of the United States never decreased during any period, although the absolute increase showed a falling Off between 1850 and 1870. . THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Rev. HERBERT HOPKINS BROWN, Pastor Services every Surdoy as follows 11:00 a. m. Morning Worship 12: IS p. m. The Sunday School 7:00 p. m. The Young People's So clety. 8:00 p. m. Evening Service. The TROY Laundry Is the only Whit Labor Laundry in tlio City. Does the Best of Work at very reasonable Prices, ami is in every way worthy of your patronage. Cor. 10th and DUANE STS. i'liono 1991 PRAEL 0 COOK TRANSFER CO. Telephone 221. Draying and Expressing AllgcMHlsshippetl toourcara will receive special attention. 709-715 Commercial Street. Clatsop county will be but of debt in another year. This is indeed a gratifying situation of affairs, ex emplifying the benefit of the law which makes pos sible increase of assessed valuation of property. If the valuation within the city can be raised to reason able figures next year the council may see a ray of ight ahead and make some reduction of the great debt of $150,000 which hangs over the municipality, and which requires us to pay out about $12,000 in annual interest. Our interest account is the mill stone around our necks, and the sooner we wipe it out the better off will we be. Notice of Appointment of Adminie tratrix. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed ad mlnlatratrlz of the estate of Isaac Lugnet, deceased, by the county court of the state of Oregon for Clatsop county. All persons having claims against said estate must present the same to me at my residence, No. 101 Washington street, Astoria, Oregon, on or before six months from this date duly verified as by law required. Dated this 14th day of May, A. D. 1904. SOPHIE LUGNET, Administratrix of the Estate of Isaac Lugnet, Deceased. Circumstantial evidence has convicted Norman Williams of murder in the first degree. It remains to be seen whether or not the higher court will ac cept the verdict of the local jury. Rev. Edgar P. Hill says Portland's moral de pravity is directly chargeable to the Oregonian. The Oregonian comes back with the damning statement that Mr. Hill is a missionary ! The Japs have captured Kinchou. So long as they don't capture chow-chow the restaurant busi ness will not suffer. Judge Parker has red hair. His conduct is also making some of the other candidates red-headed. How's Thlst We offer One hundred Dollars Re ward for any case of Catarrh that can not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY k CO.,Toledo, O, We, the undersigned, have known F, J. Cheney for the laat 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable In all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by bis firm. WALDINO, KIN NAN A MARVIN, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo; O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is "taken Inter nally, acting directly upon the blood And mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for constl putlon. Quick Arrest J. A. Gulledge of Verbena, Ala., was twice In the hospital fro ma severe case of piles causing 24 tumors. After doc tors and all remedies failed, Bucklen's Arnica Salve quickly arrested further Inflammation and cured him. It con quers aches and kills pain. 25c at Chas. Rogers, Druggist. Reliance Electrical Works H.W.CYUas, MuniiKnr We are thorougliljr prepare.! for making estimate, and executing orders or all kinds of electrical installing and repairing. Huppllwi in stock. We ell theColobratwl SHELBY LAMP. Call up Phone llfll. 428 BOND STREET axnxmimi 1 1 1 1 1 iiixnxxxnixinnxxnxinixmiix FRESH AND CURED MEATS Wholesale and Retail Ships; Logging Camps and Mills supplied on short notice. LIVE STOCK BOUGHT' AND SOLD WASHINGTON MARKET - CHRISTENS0N CO. MATTRESSES Wool, Curled Hair, Mohair, Spring. All kinds of Mattresses made to order. Prices the Lowest. L. H. HENNINGtSEN $ CO. 504 BOND STREET, ASTORIA, OREGON. PHONE, RED 2305 ANDREW ASP, BLACKSMITH. Having Installed a Itubber Tiring Maobine of the latest pattern I am prepared to do all kinds of work in that line at reasonable prices. Telephone 291. CORNER TWELFTH AND DUANE STREETS. 1,060 TONS BEST LUMP Free Delivery. Phone orders to No. 1001. Elmore & CO.