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ATHENA.... JUNE 5,1896.
The political cloud that has
hovered over Oregon the past two
months, with its disturbing influ
ence and bad effects, upsetting
business and disturbing general
harmony among neighbors, has
through the lax of time, or rather
by the provisions fixed in the state
constitution, cleared away, and the
body politic of the community is at
liberty to once more settle down to
quiet envoirnments of everyday life
and return to normal conditions.
Whatever the result has been or
mav be, the inevitable must be ac
cepted, and whether the verdict of
the people has been for the best in
terests of the state at large, there is
no appeal. The will of the major
ity must prevail, and it is becora
ing for the vanquished as well as
the victorious to put their should
ers to the wheel, labor for the
righting of past wrongs, and once
more become patriotic citizens,
retiring from the station of poli
ticians. Almost every session of the legis
latare -oinop iVij adoption of the
state constitution has attempted to
amend the laws governing elections,
and some marked improvements
have been made in the system of
voting. The attempt to prevent
fraud nt elections, by changing
from an open vote to a secret
ballot, has resulted in some good,
and has no doubt to some extent
prevented the purchasing of votes,
by making it more difficult for the
purchaser to discover if the vote ho
has bought has been cast as prom
ised, but it has by no means done
away with vote buying, nor does it
prevent illegal votes being cast.
These attempts to purify elections
are steps in the right direction, but
thev fall short of the demanded re
forms. What-Oregon really needs
and what it must have before a full
expression of the qualified voters
of the state can be had is a rigid
registration law.
If Oregon's elections were held
in November instead of in June it
would prove of more economy to the
people as well as of benefit in other
ways. The state constitution will
have to be changed to admit of the
change of the date of the elections.
There are other provisions of the
constitution which are obsolete,
which makes a constitutional con
vention very much in order and
one should be called. The people
of Oregon have outgrown their
state's constitution.
It would be a good stroke for one
of the political parties to make a
platform demand for reform of the
Benate. The people are practically
unanimous in favor of such reform
and they would heartily support
any party making the demand. It
is apparent that the senate will
not take the initiative in the mat
ter, but if it were made an article
of party faith there would bo rea
sonable hope that a change would
be brought about.
Since this issue of the Press his
been made up and ready for print
ing, the reports Bay that Ellis and
Quinn are running a neck-and-neck
race, while a clerical error in
Yamhill county makes a difference
of 200 votes in Tongue's favor. It
is evident that the republicans
will endeavor to run in enough
clerical errors, stuffed ballot boxes,
and - the like, to boost their men
safely in office.
Should Quinn of the Second and
Vanderburg, of the First district
be elected to congress, free silver
democrats loose nothing in the
election in this state. The money
issue is paramount of all other
issues, and with Quinn and Van-
derberg in the halls of congress,
the silver man of this state, be hi
democrat, republican or populist
has won over the gold bugs.
Athena precincts are still the
banner democratic precincts ot
Umatilla county. Had leading
democrats in Pendleton swung into
line with a will, instead of showing
a luke-warm interest in the result
of the election of democratic candi
dates, the result might have been
decidedly diffeient. . Athena is all
right.
That John H. Mitchell will suc
ceed himself in the United States
senate is not a certainty, but he
stands a belter show now than any
other man in the state. Silver
republicans, populists and demo
crats will concentrate on him in
preference to any gold standard
man, and that no gold standard
man can be elected is certain.
The "cat has jumped" and, from
appearances at this time, has lit in
about forty-seven places that it was
not expected to light in.
IDAHO POLITICS.
Comprehensively Reviewed By Irving
McQuary, Editor.
St. Anthony, Idaho, June 2, 1896.
Ed Press: I notice in several
Oregon papers that the recent state
convention of republicans, of Ida
ho, held at Pocatello, "instructed
for free coinage of silver and Mc
Kinley." This is a misleading and
erroneous report. The Pocatello
convention elected bix delegates to
St. Louis, with Senator Dubois at
the head, and were uninstructed
except as to silver. It is well
known that Senator Dubois will
follow the lead of Senator Teller in
bolting the St. Louis convention
should the republican party seek
to straddle on bi-metallism, or, if a
gold plank be adopted. No true
silver republican, republicans who
t ot.on,jze the fact that bi-metallism
is the paramOurtt isme before the
country today, can endorsV'uaj
nothing, one idea McKinley." The
The republicans of Idaho have no
use for McKinley; this was dem
onstrated at Pocatello by a vote of
201 to 36. The fight was made
from primaries up to the conven
tion on the issue of making silver
paramount to all other questions,
and we were not fooled by the old
Bilver speeches of Mr. McKinley.
Senator Shoup of Idaho, who has
always claimed to be a free coinage
republican held to the idea that
the "party" was greater than prin
ciple in short that he did not
believe it wisdom for the republi
cans of Idaho to declare so "strong
ly for silver, and wrote several
letters to Idaho "explaining" that
he did not approve of the way
Senator Dubois voted on the Ding
ley bill, and other stock argument
used by "loaves and fishes" repub
licans, and notwithstanding the
fact that Mr. Shoup is a very pop
ular man, being an old pioneer,
and very wealthy, and notwith
btanding the fact that Senator
Dubois was very unpopular with
the Mormon voters of Idaho, (one
third of the voting strength of the
state,) and further, notwithstand
ing the fact that the muchly ad
vertised governor of Idaho, with
all the patronage and power of his
office, opposed Dubois and favored
Senator Shoup, all the pleadings,
and explanations sufficed to give
him but 92 votes, while his oppon
ent, Mr. Rich, was elected a dele
gate to St. Louis by a vote of 192.
The gold-bugs, McKinley shouters
and McConnellitos laid down their
fight, and had only two candidates
in nomination for delegates to St.
Louis; this explains why Shoup
got as many votes as he did. The
same convention gave Senator Du
bois 234 out of 237 votes. Had
not Senator Shoup attempted to
justify his vote on the considera
tion of the Dingley bill, or after he
had so voted, had he written a
letter saying he would abide by the
wisdom of the republicans of his
state, or had he signified that he
would follow the lead of Senator
Dubois, he would have received as
large a vote as did our junior sena
tor. But Mr. Shoup choose to
attempt to over-ride thb will of the
great majority of republicans of
this 6tate, who have declared un
equivocally and most emphatically
that bi-metallism (the free coinage
of both gold and silver as standard
mony) is tho paramount issue be
fore the country today. No double
meaning, evasive, straddle, such as
the gold-bug republicans have
made out of the 1892 platform, will
satisfy the Idaho delegates at St.
Louis the 16th. Dubois has said
that he will vote for a free coinage
democrat or populist before he will
vote for a gold-bug, or straddle-bug
republican, and he made that de
claration before the primaries or
any of the county conventions
were held, so the republicans of
this state knew what they were
doing.
In is ridiculous in the extreme
for silver republicans to advocate
McKinley. The Ohio man is the
most dangerous of all republican
candidates to free coinage, because
his friends in the West claim he is
friendly to silver, while it is no
longer questioned in the East, and
by the banking classes even in the
West, that he is the candidate of
the "sound moneyites." If Mc
Kinley were a statesman, or even a
leader, there would be no question
as to how he stands on the financi
al question now by common con
sent, both East and West, the
paramount issue. Let the people
of Oregon on June 1 say by their
ballot that they also recognize the
financial issue as the paramount
one before the country. Yours
Truly, Irving McQuary.
VABIETIES OF COUBTSHIP
Th9 Antique, the Progressive and
the Ephemeral.
A Chaperon Circa Some Interesting Ob
' atrratlona Upon the Workings of
the Tender Passion In Young
Olrla of To-Day.
"You see," said the chaperon of a
quartette of lively girls at Long
Branch, says the Chicago Inter Ocean,
"there are now three kinds of court
ingthe antique, the progressive and
the ephemeral. Odd, isn't it, where
the heart is concerned? Both the an
tique and the ephemeral kind are
found among the old girls and boys and
the debutantes, while the progressive
sort is confined mostly to thoBe who
have been in society a half dozen sea
sons or less. -
'Tl.e antique Is the kind which has
for its password one life, one love. The
ephemeral lends to the fancy of the
hour without further reflection. The
progressive is one with which we have
to deal in answering the query: 'Where
are the old favorities, and why are the
younger set so popular?'
"It is most natural that the matured
bachelor and the rosebud should enjoy
each other's society. This is epheme
ral, no responsibility, no care; but the
rosebud has a decided advantage over
her courtly gallant; for, while she is
becoming skillful in the use of Cupid's
weapons, he is losing time and ground
and some day will awaken to the truth
that he is growing old, bald and ridic
ulous. "What does the young girl see in
her old escort? Mostly attention,
which is very flattering to her in her 1
first season out. And the bachelor
what does he see in her? He is lonely.
The women of his set have disappeared
somewhere, and he is willing to buy
candy, kiss lap dogs, do anything to be
entertained and entertaining. In this
capacity the bachelor is a most
useful member of society. lie has
even been known to walk around with
grandmamma and to carry the mar
ried sister's baby and luggage to the
train.
"Progressive courtship is curious.
When a young woman begins to enter
tain serious thoughts of her future,
whether in choosing a profession, a
business or a husband, she rises above
driftwood and marks a tree that will
shelter her. Her time, also, is a con
sideration. She cannot waste years
dallying with an old beau, a perennial.
"These perennials are many of them
good souls, nice for escorts, but not up
to date enough for ideal husbands. So
the marriageable women, those who
can preside with dignity over neat
homes the belles, in short, of past
seasons leave the ranks and form new
ties.
"When a young woman becomes in
different to parties, likes distant
friends, protracted visits and can't be
located, keep a sharp lookout among
the marriage notices. The out-of-town
men secure most of the home prizes.
The onlv chance for home bachelors is
to emulate the example of the girls
that is, to go out of town, too, where
they are not known as everlastings.
"Suppose, however, that they can
not give up the old favorites; suppose
that there is a great tugging at the
heart when they think of losing them.
In such cases, if the men value their
happiness and wish to wager on their
chances, they must become specialists
in love and ply their skill increasingly
as the summer season approaches.
'Good by, sweetheart!' if Baid idly, will
be detected by no one more quickly
than by the young lady herself, and
the chance will be greatly in favor of
that London, Philadelphia or Balti
more man."
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