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THE OREGON SCOUT. AMOS K. JONES fcDITOK, City and County Official Paper. Thursday, Nov. 14, 1889. moo mess OF TIIK CAMPAIGN i;6l!CATION. OF The recent state elections in the enst show an unprecedented and surprising revolution in public sentiment, and demonstrates that the campaign of education inaugurated by Cleveland is progressing more rapidly than his must sanguine friends had reason to expect. Tho claim mado by republi cans that local issues were the cause of the sweeping democratic victories will not hold good. The Examiner truthfully says : "Taking each ease separately there were local issues that might have been held to explain the result, but if local issues alone had been involved the drift would not have been all one way , Some states would have shown rcpub lican and others democratic gains The attempt to explain away Tues day's figures without admitting the inilucnco of any national considcra tions is like tho attempts of tho Con sorvatives in England to explain away their successive defeats at bye elections without reference to Homo Rule1" It would not bo fair to compare the vote in an off year liko this with that in a presidential contest. Comparing off year with off year, Ictus tee how we stand. Ohio lias given a democratic mnjori ty of at least 10,000 and elected a dem ocratic legislature. Two years ago Foraker was elected governor by majority of 2.'$,32i) and tho legislature was republican by fourtcon in tho sen ate and twenty in tho House. Iowa is democratic by not less than 10,000. Two years ago tho republican majority was 1G,1G(). New York is democratic by about 25,000 and tho republicans estimate their mnjority on joint ballot in the legislature at ten. Two years ago tho head of tho democratic state ticket was elected by 17,077, and tho republi can majority in tho legislature was twenty-six. Virginia is democratic by .'iO.OOO Two years ago tho democratic plurali ty on tho legislative ticket tho only ono voted for was '120. Now Jersey is democratic by about 10,000. Three years ago the majority was 8,020. Massachusetts is republican by 7,f00. Two years ago a republican govornor was elected by 17,(10(5. Pennsylvania is republican by at least 00,000. This is tho only quarter in which material republican gains aro reported. Jn loo tlio majority was ir,2M. Delow wo givo tho opinions of tho prominent newspapers of tho nation in regard to tho causes that led to this extraordinary chango in public sonti mont. Tho Wot Id attributes tho victory to tho indorsement given to tho demo cratic demand for tariff reform. This is tho World's reasoning : "In all tho states save Virginia, whoro Mahono was the solo issue, tho democratic conventions took tho World's advico and nailed to tho mast the banner of tax reduction through tariff roform. . "Tho Now York convention reaf firmed tho national platform of 1888, und 'steadfastly advocated tho princi ples of tariff reform.' Tho democratic plurality is !12,000, a gain over 18S7 of 0,000. "Tho Now Jersey convention 'reaf firmed tho national democratic plat form of 1888.' Tho democratic plural ity is 12,000. "Tho Ohio convention 'reaffirmed tho national platform of 1888, especial ly that pari domandiug the reduction of tariff taxes.' Foraker is beaten ; his plurality of 28,1129 in 1887 is wiped out, and Ohio is democratic for tho first timo in six years. "Tho Massachusetts convention de clared boldly for 'free raw material and lower duties upon tho necessities of life.' The republican plurality of 32,000 last year is nearly overcome, and Massachusetts, a former Gibraltar of republicanism, is made a doubtful fltato. "Tho I own convention doolared itoolf in 'opposition to tho unconstitutional and unjust policy of high tariff taxa tion which robs the many to enrich tho few.' Bosult, a iolitical revolu tion. Tho stato is carried by tho dem ocrats for the first time in its history." Tho Times says editorially : "It was Haiti in private in October, 1888, by a prominent republican politician, who is also a very clear-headed man, that if tho canvass could bo extended for nixty tlaya Mr.Cloveland would carry at lpast threo Northern states. This gentleman's opinion is ko clearly con firmed by tho elections of Tues'l. that he must have a peculiar satisfac tion in tho fact that the president and party, who have tinco given him a very lucrative Federal office, did not have to face the people for two months longer. Republicans will, of course, stoutly deny that it is a sign of the end of public opinion, and will repudiate the allegations that it can bo regarded as a popular verdict on the administra tion. But even they must admit that the coincidence is sufficiently remark able to demand explanation." The Herald comments as follows: "It is now eight months since Mr. Harrison assumed control of the Fed eral government. Tho elections just over are the first that have occurred during his administration. The fact, therefore, that the democratic vote has increased in nearly all sections, and to such an extent that it may be com pared to a tidal wave, is as interesting as it is suggestive." Tho Sun says, in n double-leaded leader: "During tho late canvass Hon. Frank Hiscock declared that the time was near at hand when the vote of New York, always so difficuit of at tainment by the republicans, would ceaso to elect a president. Amid the party re-echoes o'f this opinion our esteemed contemporary, the .St. Louis Globe-Democrat, ventured to tho con clusion that the new stales have given tho republicans a lead which virtually makes them independent of New York in the future. Tho vision that has for years monopolized republican fancy was to materialize at last. Tho result of recent elections in other states, however, has been to increase, rather than to diminish, Now York's import ance as a decisive stato in presidential contests and to make her more than ever the great electoral prize. "The blows to tho republicans in Virginia, Ohio, Massachusetts and Iowa show that the pinch of tho strug gle in 1802 will bo hero as it was here in 1870. in 1880, in 1881 and in 1888, and it will bo fiercer than ever. As for tho election in New York it con firms with tho emphasis of sovon years' uninterrupted demonstrations that by naturo Now York is a democratic stato." The Tribune says: "As tho smoko clears away, the republicans aro found to havo sustained defeat m important quarters, whoro the dispatches last night appeared to sustain their claims of victorv. They aro beaton in Ohio both on tho stato ticket and on the legislature, according to tho latest re ports. "In Iowa tho belief that the country would overcome tho largo democratic gains in tho cities has proved falla cious. Hie fanners Alliance evident ly cast a heavy voto against tho entire ticket because of their hostility to tho republican candidate for governor, whoso course in tho legislature on tho anti-railroad measures had displeased them. The republicans have saved tho legislature in Iowa and New York, and gained tho senate in Now Jersey and carried tho stato tickets and legis latures in Massachusetts, Pennsylva nia and Nebraska. Hut indisputably tho tide ran strongly in favor of tho democrats." Tho Stunts Zeitung, in a long edito ial on tho significance of tho Ohio and Iowa elections, attributes much of tho republican dofeat to tho indopoud- nt German vote. Tho Zoitung ad mits that local questions played some part in tho attains but ovor all tho dis satisfaction with llarison and the non fulfillment of his promises was the most important factor. In Ohio, de feat was almost certain, owing to tho offensive position assumed by Foraker on tho Sunday question and on tho prohibition issue. "Still," remarks tho Zoitung, "the general policy of tho government and tendency of tho present administration was felt to be quite in accord with tho general tontiment voiced by local can didates in both states. Hoth local and national issues entered into the cam paign, and in a manner to insure a till more severe republican defeat, at any subsequent election." Tim following simple method for prospectors to ascertain tho amount of gold contained in quart, is from tho San Francisco Mining Itovievv : First weigh tho quarty. dry. Then weigh it in water, suspending the quartz by a thread. Next divido tho dry weight by tho difference between wet and dry (adding decimals if necessary.) Sub tract from this result tho weight of quarts (usually 210 or 201 for free gold, but 2(i.r to 270 il tilled with sul phttrets.) Multiply this result by tho weight of gold, vix: 128. Then multi ply this amount by tho ronull of Mib traction of wet from dry. The result will be, after pointing oil all decimals that havo beeiLiiddud, the exact woielit in gold. 1 It 1.1, TKAU1. N4.TCUAI. TItAIJE. The('l"".land, Ohio Union says: "Tho tniitf in tho greatest commercial enemy that assails this country. It lias driven American ships off the seas and reduced trade to foteigu ports to i comparatively nothing. Our natural 1 -r'nnh nml lropority Una been made in . pite of the tariff, not by reason of it. We have hud free trade across three thousand miles of territory abounding in natural riches. An arti ficial wall separates us from equally boundless resources across the Canadi an line, which might bo developed to natural advantage were it not for the illogical reasoning which stops short out of respect to tradition. With free trade over the whole continent north of the Rio Grande, does any intelligent citizen doubt that tho whole people would bo the gainers? Does it not fol low logically, that if this bo true, that tho wider the area covered by free commerce, the better it would be for all? Freedom to trade without paying toll for tho privilege, is all that the people of this country need in order to make it a commercial giant among the twwers of the civilized world. Wo havo coddled and nursed infant indus tries and loaded our people with taxes that the few might grow fat at public expense, while contiguous countries pour their riches by thousands of tons daily into foreign vessels, and millions of wealth are diverted yearly from our own people. The light to trade freely is a natural right, the denial of which is responsible in one wav or another for our industrial disease. The artifi cial prospeiity bolstered up by the tarifi' system is rapidly collapsing. In freedom there is strength." CI-KVUIiAXl)'.'! POPULARITY. The Examiner mistakes the influ ence of tho Chicago Ilorald and the Now Yorlc Sun when it treats their inimical actions as conclusive of Mr. Cleveland's future. No nitia who iden tities himself with a vital idea can be set aside by two newspapers, nor by two thoutaud. If the country recog nizes the need of sustaining t ho inspi ration of the idea, the man who more than nil others represents it need not concern himself about his future, for ho cannot change nor avoid it. So far into the first year of his retirement from power Mr. Cleveland remains the most conspicuous and certainly the most respected leader in tho union. Other names command tho applause or disfavor of factions, but his grows in tho esteem of tho people. At the recent meetings of tho democratic clubs of Pennsylvania, presided over by tho son of Jeremiah Ulack, tho fol lowing scono occurred Whon tho chairman mentioned Cleveland's naiiio the scone was in striking contrast to the previous ono. Randall and anti-Randall sentiment was forgotten, and, as if by ono accord, the entire assembly arose en masse. With some on chairs shouting and others waving tho small Hags used for indication purposes, the delegates went wild with enthusiasm, and tho shout ing and cheering continued until through sheer exhaustion many of them wero forced to quit; S. F. Alta, OKltr.ON SCHOOL LANDS. Assistant Commissioner Stone ro" contly rendered a decision in a caso which involved tho question of proof in the school indemnity sections in Oregon. Oregon was .granted every sixteenth and thirty-sixth section of land for school purpose. Tho law also provided that, in ease of any of theso lands were entered, under tho public land laws prior to the date of the grant, the stale should be entitled to indemni ty therefor and might make indemnity selections front any unoccupied public lauds. In pursuance of this authority tho stato it appears, selected in tho ag- grogato u large tract of land upon which expired pre-emption filings woro on record. Tho question at issuo was whether the burden of tho proof of tho fact that the filings had expired rostod with the stato or with tho pat ties who made the filings. Tho assis tant commissioner holds in favor of tho state, and has directed that in such cases the pre-emptor shall bo required to appear baforo the local land oilico within twenty days after receipt of the notice and show cause why tho entry has not been cancelled, thus throwing the burden of proof upon tho entry man. It is said that there aro a largo number of, eases in the general land ornco to U dis-msed of thus. araUfytnc t All. 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