SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1905. P, A. STOKES t. A. hTOKBS P. A. STOKES P. A STOKES r THK MOItNLVG ASTOIUAN. ASTOllTA. ORECON. T HartSduffaerl HaadTlord Cfrrf leas tr Bart Sekafmrr Jfiv, CUcf mKi fir L J1L n J F YOU want to. know where Smartly Dressed People go,, ask anybodyall will say go to ;P. A. Stokes where you can get the best features and best fits. Our Holiday Departments are Well fitted with the Latest Novelties. A, STOKES THE LEADING CLOTHIER, HATTER, AND FURNISHER THE MORNING ASTORIAN EtUbliahed 1873. Published Daily by TSL J. S. DELLINGEK COMPANY. SUBSCP"'," By mail, per year .... By mail, per month... By curler, per month. .17.00 . .60 . .75 WEEKLY ASTORIAN. By mail, per yetr, in advance.. 11.00 Entered aa mmaAtmam molt Tnn. B. 1905, at the postofnee at Astoria, ore go. under toe art of Congress ol March t, tfOrrWs for tha daitmuur of Taa Hoar dm uroaua to either rastdeaoe or place of Inalim ar ba mad bw noetal card or throack tela bona. Aar ImmiaritT in da- ilrtry abcmld ba -imadlataly reported to the oOoaof publioatioa. TELEPHONE MAIN Mi. !a vehicle for the personal ambitiona of men whose partisan backing is insuffi cient to secure them recognition and aiicccm! If the Citizens' organization . is still pure and intact, as originally projected, with all it honest measures j and helpful plana undisturbed, WHY .IS IT LED AND CONTROLLED BY THE DEMOCRATS? With every Democrat in the city some candidacy, doc not the "Non-Partisan." convention of November 15thJ, and the alleged "Citizens' Movement" that succeeded it, look very much like a determined, shrewd and Democratic partisan scheme to capture Astoria now, and Clatsop county in June, for the complete exploitation of Democratic men and measures for all timet Is not a revision iminent! Is it to be per mitted! Are Republicans to tamely re linquish the prestige of city and coun ty government! If so, why? Are the Democrats abler, ..wiser, cleaner, more loyal to Astoria and all her interests than the Republicans f Are their policies, as now known, and quietly acquiesced in by their "Citizen" allies of a tort to build np the city upon a plane of high morality safe finance, and communal integrity f . It is the cardinal feature of their lo cal political creed t to open up this city again, and open it wide, to the gamble, the dive keeper, dance-hall men and the brothel-brotherhood (and WWWW'W'WWW'W'WW'$$J itictArKjwwl t in exrAar 4a bmim tli wn. that there are in Greater Pittsburg some 250 societies, ranging from son Rev. Mr. Leonard, pastor of a Fargo, N. D., church, recently attacked the Elks of that city because they journ eyed in a body to Jamestown to install a new lodge. Rev. Leonard said the money might have been better spent deeply involved in its success, either land the Sabbath better employed than as a caiMk. un twm-nuiary ot 'on such a miwiw - t, mem ber of Fargo lodge makes the assertion that No. 200 does more for charity than any three churches of Fargo combined and remarks that some churches are religious organizations while the Elks as an order are religion exemplified. A Pittsburg minister recently declared! both of who-e arms Iwd been broken, hvnot confirmed. Of course, the story was somewhat dubious; but if it had been true there would have been a good pretext for the bestowal of a Carnegie medal for heroism. WEATHER REPORT. Portland, Dwx 9. Western Oregon, Wetern Washington: Sunday, fair. Eastern Orgon, Eastern Wash ington) Fair and continued cold. SUGGESTIONS TO VOTERS. i summate political, aid such element always contribute, to make their clean up in December and tlieir invaluable victory in June. They can see no other way of restoring the demoralized city finances except by restoring the "lost $18,000" that once innured to the municipal treasury by way of the vices of the people; an expedient that means infinite lot of public prestige to the city and incalculable anxiety and trou- Tha Toter of Astoria la the court of ibl 10 thousands of home by tha warp- laat resort in the settlement of public11" 0f aeDt manBo0d 10 J,ur' menta of the wide-open shims. "a IM,UU cw"n" ,or P,e,pr- Without a word of disparagement as meat In office. In his hands rents the dictum that shall, for two years, at leaot, aettle all que ions of program and people in the new administration. He should therefore, do a bit of care ful and conservative thinking before he cants his vote on Wednesday next. There is much to conder and many to pleas and displease. Among the chief claims to his bet thought in the elec toral premise, tire the following! Is Astoria normally, and inherently Republican If so, shall the Republican status Ve preset-red, or shall it be al lowed to pass, now, and for years to come, into Democratic control and dic tation! Ls tha CitizenV movement in this city, aa it waa originally devised, of tie, hum oleaa and purposeful sort now? Or has It deteriorated into a pretext, a' maka-shift for scheming politican, to the original Citizens' movement, it is enough to say the Democrats are in authority over them now and are using them as a stalking bona for the pur pose of riding down the Republican sta tus if the city and county and to es tablish thenifelves in the governmental saddle here, firmly and finally. There is nothing to atop their career but the solid, faithful rote of the Republi can party. - Will that vote be Caatt Some thinking must be done in these four days, and to some purpose, or there may be years of remineseent thinking that will do mighty little good, o WORLD BETTER FOR THEM. A recent number of the Jolly Elk con tains two articles of interest sa illus trating the attitude taken by certain men of the cloth toward tha B. P. 0. E. The latter statement may be aa far from the truth aa tha slur of the Pitta burg divine was from justice. The fact remains that no man or preacher famil iar with the real benevolence and protection of the order would question one moment that in the action which Jesus called more blessed than receiv ing the Elks rank favorably with any organization iu the world. ' Composed of men of all creeds, poli tical beliefs and walks of life, as every other great fraternal association, their membership necessarily is motely. Their morality is not based upon the narrow teneta of any knpwn church. They are as drunk, aa sober, as manly, or as unmanly, as honest, as dishonest, as able and aa shiftless, as mankind gen erally, no better and no worae. But in recognizing the common frail- ties of the race, the order, like not a few other of a similar nature, has ex emplified one great teaching. It ex tends a helping hand to the wife, as she rises from the bier of the husband and father; it leads the orphan into pleas ant fields; it sustains the brother in the hour of mental affliction, physical agony or worldly poverty; without ostenta tion or hope of reward, it quietly bring men to those touches of human kind ness that make the whole world kin. n SAME OLD ROW. Ird Roberts hat resigned from the committee on imperial defence, a dif ference of opinion bet s een him and the Premier aa to the number of troops required for tbedefenee of India being the supposed cause of his action. Tak en in conection with Lord Curzon's speech at Bombay, the resignation of Lord Roberta shows that Indian affairs a are not in aa harmotrtoui a states as is desirable and further complicates the Premier's difficulties. NO GREATER PURPOSE. Mewrs. 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