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THURSDAY: WC. 27, 1N.
"i
SOMDEMAXDS OF TMCUOCR
Tl second administration of Trcti
dent Cleveland li become hlmorWl
for iu vacillating policy and Inability to
comprehend tbe buniiwi lsu of
Jay. In no single instance has the ad
ministration made the most o! a Jtreat
opportunity, and when the president
has a.loptcd a firm policy he has usually
esj)OUwd the wrong side. President
Cleveland seems utterly incapable of
comprehending the drift of public
ppinion, or if comprvliending cares
nothing for the expressed will of the
people. And now at the opening of the
short session of congress the democracy
is once more face to face with grave
problems of national moment.
The currency question is again knock-
... . i n.. at t),. it.ir i if concress for
ihk iuuui) a
solution. The peoule have spoken in
tones tlnt echo around the globe and a
remedy thev must anil will have. Im-
me .lute relief from the present strain
uix)i tho national treasury is iuipera-
itve, a larger and more elastic circula
ing medium is needed, or continued
- paralysis of business will ensue. There
should be no hesitation on the part of
'congress for the country demand a
radical solution of the problem, and at
ti.u u-K.ia limn a correct notation. If
the democratic lirty possesses leader
ship and statesmanship, if it ever ex
- pects to regain the confidence of the
people, it will at once inaugurate bold,
.... i anil inili'Dccdeiit course. It
Will bepjine affirmative and cease to be
negative; H will adopt "I can" for the
ringing niotto of its policy, and drop iu
to eternal disuetude the weak and cow
rdly shibboleth, "I can't." If the pres
ent congress has not the courage to en
force the convictions of the democratic
party, as expressed in state and nation
al platforms, there is little hope for
democratic success in 18. What the
country demands is honest legislation in
the interests of the people, and not leg
islation solely in the interests of au ar
rogant, aristocratic class. The pampered
few have. been made drunk with the
. wine of class legislation while the toil
jng millions have been content to feed
pn the crumbs that fell from Dives'
fabUs. A great financial panic, hitherto
. miequalcd in the history of this country,
has aroused the people to a
partial realization of the true con
dition of affairs, and it was the fortune,
or rather the misfortune of the demo
cratic party to have control of the ad
ministrative policy of the government
At this critical period . Its leaders faced
pie great emergency in a spirit of com
promise and vacillation. They had no
well defined policy, no drastic measures
to propose, no radical remedy to apply.
There was no Jackson to guide the ship
. of state safely throng the financial
storm. The president convened an ex-
ira session of congress and the Sherman
act was repealed, which, we were told,
W'as the Jonah that was driving the
country into the seething breakers of fi
nancml ruin, buosequent events have
proven that the remedy was a greater
evil than the disease. The eo-calied
Wilson tariff bill was a compromise, a
. go-between ; it was not what the people
demanded .
The Democratic party is today con
fronted with three great issues: The fi
nancial problem, the Nicaragua canal
and the enforcement of cloture rules in
the house and senate. Tlie people de
mand that congress legislate promptly
- and decisively upon these questions. If
Jhe demx-rals fail to improve their op
portunity, the fifty-fourth congress,
; which will be republican, will force the
jomie jn the direction that the people
demand.
M-cinbly . Th lVdph clement did tome
n.. ork Iu the county conventions last
pring and succeed! In gelling ma
jority of their men on U.e wgisiam.
ticket. The rauk and file of the re
publican party gave little heedto the
question of Senator Polph's successor.
What they were striving for was republic-
vin.,r. that was tho end Iu view.
A t 9 -
The Urcgonlan and all the Imports
.lumpers trained their heaviest guns on
the Dutmliel lrty and made the wpub-
j lieam and a good many'timid democrats
believe that the state In Imminent
I danger of becoming populist. It was
t . ....l:t.ra
onlv an explosion ol cuinesc un-v
to call the attention of the people away
from the main Issue, naiuelv, the elec
tion of iH.lph representatives to the letfis
laturo. The plot was skillfully laid and
the people deliberately walked iuto the
ambush. Senator UolpU win ue
own successor and no influence of the
press tan prevent it.
Tho Prinne of India,
In speaking of tho writing of the ttar.,
nhown by usiroiogy,
Oca neighbor over at the county seat
he Pol County Observer, is sufforin.'
,-t uttart Ol livsirii.i
A few doses o Mrs. Winlow's "sou:
ii : iiinnl rmncdv CI Veil t
svruii i
children in the "teething Hage." but as
the the spasm appears to be of a mild
form no serloiw results are apprehended.
We would admonifh the OUerver s
"eponsors" to be more careful of the
health of their charge in the future, anu
not ncriuit the obstreiK'rous little fellow
to again remain out over night in the
cold. Nocturnal exposure at this season
of the venr is liable to bring on a serious
attack of membraneous croup. The Ob
server, of course, has the privilege of
shaping its own policy, but wo are sorry
to learn that it "will ever be found in
the van of opi-jnents of any change
being made" in the traditional methods
of our present school system. Change
and growth are synonymous terms o( de
velopment, and it is bad, decidedly bad,
to always persist in running in the
same old rut.
r..., Mt.,,,.l vntiinnorarv. the
,fU H V3..1M . r - '
Dallas Itemizer, says: "Alary person
; . ... ...,..!, nro-ich. nrai'tice law
or medicine, or even edit a newspaper."
A patient and long suiTering public will
heartily acquiesce with tho climax of
Bro. Wash's assertion. . Laziness is the
bane of the average editorial sanctum.
The majority of editors have stated
hours for work, when the price of suc
cess is incessant and unremitting toil of
both hand and brain. No business re
quires closer application, shrewder
management, harder work and more
patient, earnest, intelligent thought
than the journalistic profession. The
person who engages to publish a news
paper enters upon no "Elysian field" of
labor. If it is -a soft job" that he is
looking for he will be unuer uie neces
sity of turning his attention to some
thing else.
Thk Dallas Observer eays "The first
issue of the Normal Outlook, published
at Monmouth, is on our table, and it is
without doubt the weakest publication
we have ever been called upon tore-
cord ." It is difficult to understand why
our neighborly contemiiorarT should
make this gratuitous and unprovoked
thrust at the Normal school journal.
The public understands that the Out
look is under the supervision of the State
Normal school faculty, that its edito
rials and contributed articles are of a
high order, which in point of literary
style w ill compare favorably with any
school journal published in the state.
The editor of the Observer unwittingly
makes a mistake in throwing mud at an
educational journal of the exceptionally
high character of the Normal Outlook.
Save theChildren
By PurlfylngThoIr Blood
Hood'a rope.rllU Make Pur
j Blood, Curoe Scrofula, IM.
JitiprliK with Hood's SarMparllU hs
M, Bu7or four rar. a bad Hs.
Mill UM OVH ln "'S'
Two Bottle of Hood's
srartl! cat srus M hl
lrW.TJ"r"" " -mw
Sarsapanlla
GORES
W. Mm Ho.k-. StampaHUa h a. sqaal
Ircomma.l It." W. U Kiko. B1..B P'-J
gwu.and.9-!"- Try a box-
WHAT IS IVCRLASTINOLY WRIT
SHALL It tVtBLASTINOLY READ.
and wo will save you
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(,itl,in fir hit ml
Wo are iMermlnrxi intvv ur ' ""; . Um1
,oey po?i le,ttml I at ve wl
...u,tv. atul tlutt by purchrtHing at
Patterson's Shoe Store
. .At
t the
1,0
1
market.
THK lOLK county ris.
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wu Items ami i.iiirnti ...-presftion.s.
LI
'Electric Soles?
MOFSlGHErS EtICTBIC WS01E
Have you
mm-ii our
aca Worth of .ullrM.Mi..n
$50i". h.i - "z"!
li,.y uMiy Kfl CENTS
i....i.i,i..i. imwl rtinill. hi
S"! Kwmlno II. lryll.-m
iZZZm lTl m. Pru. -
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Everlastingly for
No Misrepresentation
W. H. PA1TERS0N.
We
RUlll
nl wo
don't
care
tas lm.L.l-.MTII-"
It is pathetic to witness the hopeless
fight that the majority of the republican
press of the state is making against the
re-electpn of Senator Dolph, and it is
also evident that the rank and file of
the republican party are in sympathy
with the newspapers. The wishes of
the people, hweyer, will not be reflected
by their represtntatiyes in the legisla
ture. Oh. no; not at all! A mightier
power than the people and press of Ore
gon is fighting Senator Dolph 's battle.
A small coterie of Republican leaders iu
the East Reed, McKinley, Morton and
Hut: son backed by the pag:e infln
p as of Wall street and the driving lash of
"theJPregonia.Ut which journal straddles
the Ongon legislature like a eolos
eos, is the dominant and resistless force
that rules with autocratic power the po
ijucaiPneald Dalgettys of the legislative
The air is full of vague rumor and
surmises that Nicholas II is going to be
a prudent and liberal monarch, but if
the young czar should inaugurate any
material reforms in his unwieldy em
pire he is a far more capable monarch
than his newspaper critics have ever
.... in, . (
given bun creait ior. au iuicm ui
human liberty will hail with delight
any effort the new czar may make to
liberalize and modernize Jhe govern
ment of Russia.
The Tillamook Headlight says: When
the Oregonian refers to a paper as an "ob
scure country publication," an "insig
nificant sheet," "'a paper not worth
mentioning," the "venal press," or a
"rural journal," it always refers to the
Headlight. We mention this so that
people will know what paper the Orego
nian refers to bo often.
Is our contemporary over in the land
of the razor clam and the fettlve crab
trying to work up a little side boom in its
own behalf?
The Salom Committee of One Hun
dred have voted or "resolved" or said
j, he re shall be "no change of text-books."
And the noble"One Hundred"are about
right, for any material change in school
books would be burdensome upon the
people. Incompetent, misleading or
worthless books, however, should be
eliminated from our public schools,
(Itemizer.)
Our tillers of the soil are nearly
all moving toward aiverjineu.
farming. I
J. M. Smith, of King valley,
brought in five coyote scalps vester-;
day and received therefore a i'2o :
county warrant. I
This week Wm. Miller killed five j
hogs from which he obtained 400;
pounds ol lam. i l"
weighed over 4U0 pounds caeh.
ti,o MMhndistK and their iiegh-
bors at Fall City have given their
newly installed pastor. Kev. d. L.
Harmon, a pleasant and valuable
donation party.
J. IS. Nunn left yesterday fr a
inonth.s absence nt his old home in
Lewis county Missouri. Heroes
to settlu up hia father' estate" and
look after other estates he has
back there.
The people and the press of the
state at large have expressed them
selves as opposed to much present
.tinnon in nllblic school le.Xt books.
If those who have the power to
decide the matter are governed by
what the people think and wish,
there will be but few changes at
present.
Fiftv.nn vears have rolled by
since Mrs. America Grant and Mrs.
Judith Shel ton-came to Dallas and
they are both here yet and spryer
than some ol lewer years, i uesuay
Mm. Urantreaehed herTlst birthday
and her children, Win. Grant and
Mrs. Maggie Elkins, and their etui
dren assembled at her home with
out invitation or premission. As
they took along their dinners and
enough for her too.she did not drive
them away as she used to do the
Indians some forty years ago.
After having a joyous lime and
wishing Grandma many future days
of pleasantness the party scauen-u.
(Observer.)
Hop buyers are in town offering
a email raise per pound.
Let the legislature re-enact the
mnrtcafre tax law. and thus place
our home loaners on an equal foot
ing with the foreign money loaners.
The Dallas woolen mill case,
which has been in court for more
than a year, was argued last Friday
and taken under advisement by
Judge Hewitt.
It was generally commented on by
everbody that Sheriff Plummer and
his deputies performed their work
in Biimmnninff witnesses and run
ning their part ot tbe court at ine
December term in a manner never
excelled in Polk county.
Councilman J. J. llliams hasin
his possession quite a rare Masonic
souvenir in the way of an apron.
T i'a K9 venra old. and has all the
emblems neatly worked on it. It
was worn by his wite s grantuaincr
in a Pennsylvania lodge.
Jennings Lodge, A. F. & A. M.,
elected the following officers to
serve for the ensuing Masonic year:
J. P. Magruder, W. M.; B. II. Mc
Callon. S. V.; J. H. Townsend. J.
W.; Henry Campbell, secretary;
V. R. Craven, treasurer; A. W.
Fowler, tyler.
The Maccabeea elected the fol
lowing officers last evening: Com
mander. Mark Havter; lieutenant,
J. D. Belt; It. K., I. N. Woods; F.
K., J. S. Ashbaugh; chaplain, II.
E. Musoott; sargent, Taylor Dunn;
master at arms. Sain Elliott; F. M.
of G.. Chas. Baker; S. M. of G., A.
L. Shreve; sentinel, V. P. Fiske;
picket, George Conkey; trustee,
R R. Turner, J. D. Belt, B. H. Mc-Callon.
The Traveler to Independence
Ths City Restaurant
Shc.lll.l f 'U ' m-lke
hi lieuil'iU'irlMl
Remember, wouKf 0 IMrst
eluss Meal for 1.
kI'I.. nmifort or llcl l
ur ctm.taut liH.'
fK.l nuil omrlioui Irral-
We Ue., your ,t, .-- !ZXX 1 trtt
MKS. I.CAM1T.1-.I.I..1V..P.; C. W. 11AY1
Main St., IndeKMideiMV, r.
, Man'gr.
NEW STORE-l NEW
GOODS! NEW PRICES
jgiifef rim
If vou want to purchase
any kind of Furniture,
f a 1 1 r,.u4f.f4. Window tdiades.
Curtain jx.lt s, OHice des-ks,
etc., be mire and see us
We fell them Cheaper
than ever before oflercd in
Independence.
rrpholftering and lie
pairing a penalty.
Main St.. Opposite Vanduyn'i "17, "R T'PyRCi.
,..pvhi'vri? . OREGON.
Holiday
Announcement !
ryirrTygytWx-;
If You Buy
Your Clothing, Dress goods,
Furnishing GhIs or Boots
and Shoes at
J.M.VANDUYN'S
During tho Holidays, you
will get more than your
money's wnrlhand enough
usvh to buv vour fricnils a
Christmas present.
IleiidquartcrH for General
lercluiiidlM'.
W don't want your ear all winter, nor u we want
tell yuu enough In a .horl
.i...- utiMU'ikA vt. unit wliou you
BUY GOODS FBOffl u
i'-yOU -WT3-iJ-
KIEK - YHHRSEIaF
because you have t.ol alway traded with iw.
BIG BARGAINS
,r SMALL PROFIT!
Anything to plcuso our eiiston.erH. j
BOUTY & LOCKE, lirocGR
It's Quite a Trick
. ... i . ....i ... i ii.
1-, writ- a convincing iulvertirniet.i n- m.v ,. .......
i.Ja ill dcuh-r rlalut ho n.uih. and mont of tli.m
I'lffi. ; c ii. nating roller to b,lu,-o. All we do I, ,
alld gll vo'i ioiunine our sto,k, and compare our pr.c. ,
those of other dealers.
It's Easy
" K. rw t . nil !..-.. v,..i I.. .I"'.- '" '
..u.,.,r .l.alrr in Or.L'.ui. Investigate
inn oio' ' .......
money.
I h i t ii'mller nud n
W. H. CRAVEN CO
THE BANNER CASH GROCER'S
HAS
-asirBEEN
ONE YEAR IN BUSINES:
u YET IT HAS TMiHJ DISTINCTIC:
Ol' lUUNO T.I. " " !
e QO THE CITY- 00 e I
In addition to calling the attention of the public la the IW-al ...
('lraJxs, Stock of r
GROCERIES & PROVISION:
IN THK cm,
v We rail Sirt t iul Atti ntioti to tho "
Fine Decorated China for Xmifc
$15.00 Hanging Lamp.l Chance with every 50c.
purchase.
Wl.ileak'i.
lilock
Free
Delivery.
J. P. IRVINE,
GTiMON PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANV.
C1IAH. CI.AUK, R.ceiver
('(ninvrllni with Hlmiiifr "II" 'M Kit" 1m
Yaiiilna m1 Mn Kmtu lin.
yt..i,ii.. I.HVr. Mull l''milrlMn:
Jlnrrli , II, '.1111
Hlinmcr lruvr Yniilnn:
Murth , l. tHU.
WHAT IS A RACKET STOR?
It is a place to buy goods.
What kind of goods ?
Christinas Goods, Dolls, Toys, Celluloid
cases, 1 lush cases.
Cia yott buy anything else at & Backet Stor 1
Yes, you can buy the Ix-st shoes in J An
gola kid, Vici kid, Kangarw, calf, and
Children's Shoes in several styles, at
prices that cannot be heat by anyone.
Kor frHulil or piiriior riilvn Apply to nny
CIIAH CI. A UK. Idr.lvrr,
Clum Itf nilrv, Hun A i'ii ,
Han z to a Muriel hi-,
n Krnni'I'cj, I'ullf.
Dr. Price' Crtam Baking Powder
WtrM's Fair NlflMst Masai aW MplaaM.
gyp SAY, t,li9 isn t ono fiuarter f
the things you can get at a
Racket Stor, and especially at the
RACKET STO:
Go and eee what there is there.
J. A. MILLS is the man,
ftllllita f KTVnl to rliuil
II limit nollixi.
iilllng rtulra
IVDKI'KNUK.M h
Dray & Truck C
Praying of all VUuU in anJ
out f the eily will ri-env
Itrmnpt nml rareful stten
tioii if eutrtiHteil to
A. W. Docksteadt
iHiwivwir lo t'hn. HUl)
Our nrieeH are the Imeut
IN)ErK.NI)KNCi:, 0KEG'
tCiiil
-OF AU.KIV
Kuu'hAI.K AT TUIH (IKHI K.
tT4 I
n
T4
1
I
TA
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&
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$
An Invitation
To the
SURPRISE PARTY
Every one is agreeably fci'r
prised when they get my prW
on Wutchcs. Never before were
Ladi.'s' and (ients' ".WaU-ho
ho cheap as they are
i
oft'ered
now.
W Don't Buy until you get My Prices.
a
P.
Yours for watch nalea,
7J
3
JEWEL
OPTICIAN
0. A. KRAMER,