The Dalles Daily Chronicle.
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Watco County.
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SATURDAY - - - AUGUST 28, 1897
THE BOSS.
In all these diatribes against the
boss in politics, lamentations over
tiis successes and paens over his less
conspicuous reverses, are we not
missing the mark? Is the bcss, after
all, a pestilential weed without possi
bility of good, or is he rather a
plant, now unmistakably wild and
unrestrained, dwarfing an J killing
more lovely growths; yet which, un
der proper use of the implements of
political gardening, might be made
to delight the eye and swell prodig
iously the granaries of work and
wisdom ? We have Speaker Reed's
word for it that a statesman is a poli
tician who is dead. And, while this
may suggest that we are blind to the
good the living politician is doing,
let us go a step farther and inquire
whether the boss is not capable of
being made an instrument of great
good, instead of the unmitigated
scoundrel we have been accustomed
to regard him.
The boss has his sins and bis limit
ations. From Tweed or shall we
say from Crassus down to the petty
political tyrant of every little Ameri
can city, the baleful effects of "ring
rule" have furnished the theme of
numberless phillippics. "We all know
how jobs have been perfected in
councils and legislatures, courts have
been influenced and elections carried
by force or fraud. Then the boss is
rarely a man of any decided con
victions on public questions. Does
anybody eare or consider it worth
while to know what Gorman thinks
about the tariff, what Piatt's views
are as to the best basis for additional
banking currency, or how Quay
would retire the greenbacks ? There
is an obvious falling off here from
the leadership that based itself on
force of advocacy of idea, well ex
emplified in such practical politicians
as Douglas, Tilden, Blaine, or even
Oliver P. Morton. Undoubtedly the
boss deserves nearly everything that
is said about him.
Yet it is about time to recognize
the fact that genius for practical po
litical organizations must be reck
oned with. The evolution of Amer
ican politics has given us the boss,
and the pertinent question appears to
be whether we shall keep on fruit
lessly abusing him, content to carry
the newspapers, magazines, clubs and
pulpits, while the boss gets the votes;
or, on the other hand, to recognize
his efficiency for accomplishing
things and turn it into useful chan
nels. As a rule, the boss finds his
reward in the triumph of bis ticket.
He is about as honest as other men,
and no more avaricious than the
average. He prizes a seat in the
senate, not for its direct or indirect
emoluments of fame or money, but
because it helps him to lubricate the
machine of which he is the chief en
gineer. And all political machines
are merely means to the higher ends
of- measures. Every boss under
stands that. The Republican politi
cians knew well enough last year
that McKinley's election meant per
sonal triumphs not nearly so much
as it meant a Republican tariff, cur
rency reform and an American for
eign policy. These things are some
what above and beyond the business
of the boss; but be dimly realizes
their importance, and cheerfully
offers himself and his machine as vehicles-for
their furtheiance.
It is pretty clear that the boss in
some shape we must have. Another
rises up as soon as one is knocked
down. The economist and the pa
triot will have to use him still to
bring desirable things to pass. And
the boss is, after all, only the prod-
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uct of his time, a truthful weather
vane of his community. He never
pretends to direct public opinion,
but is at his best when shrewdly
foreseeing its drift and getting in
line with it The talent for practical
politics is as legitimate as the talent
for reading books or stating proposi
tions of law.
The people will get the kind of
political leaders they want. These
will be no lower morally or intellect
ually, and assuredly no higher, than
the body of voters with whom they
work. The boss is very much what
we make ' him. Oregonian.
There is nothing 6o thoroughly appre
ciated by the ladies during the hot wea
ther as a delicious dish of genuine ice
cream. The Elite candy factory serves
just that kind. 'Also soda, ice creaiH
soda and milk shake. ao-tf
Since the Klondike craze started
nothing has . been heard of Hawaii.
The newspapers suddenly quit mak
ing war between Japan and this coun
try, and Hawaii annexation, Japan
and the whole subject dropped out
of sight. The fact that the dis
patches are again dealing with the
subject indicates a falling off of in
terest in the gold craze.
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Kates and tickets to Eastern points and En- .
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through tickets to all points in the Eastern
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All above trains arrive at and depart Irom
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Passenger Depot, foot of Jefferson street.
Leave for OSWEGO, daily, except Snnday, at
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(and 11:30 p. m. on Saturday only, ana 8:4U a. m.
and 3:30 j. m. on Sundays only). Arrive at
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Except Sunday. ""Except Saturday.
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Asst. G. P. fc Pass. Ajft
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the steamer, arriving in Portland in time for the
outgoing Southern and Northern trains; East
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to take the East-bound train.
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