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IS I.VSCliGE.VCY DEAD
A prêta corespondent i i writing a criHciam o.' the
session of congress stated that the insurgent movement
•lead He, al«o, held to the idea that when that body
reassembled, next winter, absolute harmony among the
. republican members would prevail.
Entered at the poetoffice at Scio, Dre gon, as second-class
Evidently this corre»|x>n|rnt has set up a man of straw in
mail matter.
order to come th«- Johnson act upon him. He ha* erected
Jinsurgercy into a (olitical party, which 's untrue, and
, i lustrat«d its death by comparing it t> the old Greenback
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' and Populist parties of past history. Rut is insurgency
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dead? Senator Cummins, of Iowa, says the principle of
insurgency Is just commencing to grow among the people
He thinks that a major.ty of the next congress will be
composed of insurgents, or men who favor the same ideas
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<ulvocat«*d by the insurgent congressmen during the last
session of congress.
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Why, or how can insurgency die? What did those congress
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‘ men insurg against? When we know that those congress
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men were contending for what the people want and against
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what the corporate interest* ilesire. it is utter nonsens» to
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vuppoee that honest and fairminded congressmen will cease
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I to contend for what they know their constituencies desire
< >n the other band, these msurging members will return t<
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their scats on the first Monday of Ihreembrr. fresh fron
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liobnobbing with the people and with the insurging spmt
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Extended welding comments, per line .................................. U8 within them stronger than ever. There is no danger of a
spirit which comes up so strongly from the people, dying.
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wide each insertion, per inch .......................................... 16 It will grow and expand until it at-sorbs one v>r both of th
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10 old po'iticsl parties. It may form or constitute the l>asi>
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for a new prlirical party and is sure to gather force, a-
I.mg time standing ails, contracts mails on ap|dication.
time pasae*. for it is right. It ia the influence of th
1 common jieople manifesting itself in the acts of congress
' men.
Many uf the memlwrs who stood by the Cannon machir.
during the late session, will have heard something dro.
when they return to their tests again. They wi I know, a
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Should the cominft republican «tale aaacmbly be of a that time, that they are serving their last term prior to re
purely advisory nature, without attemptiqt to regregstc or tiring to private life. If there ia any ¡sdltical featur<
particularise candidates for any apecifir office, no fair mirnted which is on its death bed. it is Cannonism and Aklrichism
man will object. Indeed. an assembly for purely advisory The people have fc-und that standpat congressmen represent
pur|>oeea for the declaration of principles or iaauca, ia th«> "inter-sis" flrat and the peo|.|j re.-oud, and the know
pra*.a< w< rthv,
lixlgc «loos not suit them a little bit. It is these stand pa
But the coming «'aembly ia not for thia purpose alone. congressmen and what they represent that are in the throe
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if State Chairman George's call is authority. In the call Mr. of th«- death agony, and fully three-fourths of tlie peopl
George s|M-clfically states that but orc candidate will be will regard I* as a oieasure to attend their obsequies.
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recommended for each particular office ami in such art ion i*
Insurgrnt congressmen may die or. poasbly, som- of ther
•) A. G. MAGERS, Prop.
Salem, Oregon
where the wrong exists.
may fail <>f re-election, but the ^principles for which the
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To illustrate:
The assembly will recommend but one contended will never die , but continue to thrive until the.
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candidate for the office of governor and all of the assembly become the established ¡»licics of the nation. The peop'< •.............................
influence will be thrown for thia one candidate. There man have found out. at last, that they are sovereign and the
I m - and probably will t>e two or more anti assembly republi will not rest until the money changers, trusts and tant
can candidates for that office before the primaries. Under barons are driven from the halls of congress.
such conditions, it ia almost a surety that the assembly
candidate will win out; for there will I h > an organised
Carefully prepared by competent uni experienced
machine l>ehi:'d him. The anti-assembly strength will be
Tin- great event has tran»p>rod. The unexp«-cte«i h.->-
employes
thoroughly faiiHi.tr with the records of
divided, while the as-o mbly strength is concentrated.
i happened and Jeffries, the one time most renowned prixe
Again, the assembly candidates may become such nominee fighter of the world has been licked. The event occurred li
Lilin County. Accuracy, neatness and dispatch is
by a bare majority of the 13*1 or more delegates of which the town of R<-no and in the state uf Nevada, on cur Nations
our motto, We are now abstracting the instruments
the assembly ia composed. If so and he wins the nomination anniversary. Two men. probably as jierfect i-hysically a
fileddaily and can serve the nuldie most efticientlv.
at the primaries, he will l»e the choice of not more than one- the world can produce, met there to determine which of then
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’e use the most inodorn and up to date system of ab
fourth of the republican voters. He will be a minority waa the better man in point of strength ami skill. As a re
stracting
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nominee, something to which the Oregonian must strenuously suit, the worl I must now doff its hat to Jack Johnaon, »
objects.
on ft per cent. |»er annum on approved farm security
man of color, as being the greatest |>ugilistof modern tim •«
Furthermore, the success of the assembly will enable the For many day* the daily press has teemed with reports of
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old lime political boas to get in his work and any successful the perfect physical cond lion into which Jeffries hail brought
candidate endorsed by the assembly, will be obligated to thia himself, by a rigid and systematic course of training. A
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t>oe« or bossea, to a more or leas extent. This evil is just half-doxen or more »killed writer* of puglitalic events have
what the direct primary waa intended to correct.
agreed that Jeff's |>hysical condition could not be better and
in i.inn county there is to I m > no attempt to hold an that he was fit to fight the battle of his life; and. too, he
a- sembly. Linn's delegates to the state assembly, if there was marked as a sure winner by a vaat majority of the fight
are any, will consist of the old machine boase* or men select fans. Even the fighter himself thought he would win. But
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cd at their instance. In io sense will the sentiment of the all have l>een mistaken. The black man won and won easily.
I inn county republicans be represented; fur a vaat majority Evidently there have l>een two mistakes made m estimating
for every use.
of them are opfMiacd to the scheme. So far as the Ngws ia the skill ami strength of the two lighters. Jeffries was I
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generous«
informed, there has been no expressed desire by any one to overrated and Johnson underrated, also, the "yellow streak"
ly
full.
Two
hold an assembly. If any of the old time stand|rat members which some one said the Nigger would show, failed to
hip pockets.
of that party have expressed such desire, they have been so materahte. Johnaon has demonstrated that he waa the
Felled seams.
few that they did trot dare cheep. Furthermore, any candi lietter man and that he understood the fight game better
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date who wean the assembly colar is as sure to Ire defrated than his white opponent. For the first time, in the history
fly.
in Linn county, as the sun shines. riven if Theodore Roose of the world, the Caucaasian race is forced to acknowledge
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letetSSIMM.
velt should stand for office, under the auspices of the the supremacy of the Ethiopian. It ia said that no fighter,
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assembly. Linn would turn him down.
when he has retired from the ring, can re-enter the game in
katrwMs
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Jeffries tried to dis
The NBWS sincerely hope* that the forthcoming assembly as good condition as when he left it.
will rot undertake to dictate whom shall stand for the prove this theory, but failed
If there is a humiliation to
various state offices. We hope that with the formation of the white race in this defeat, Jeffries, w ho posed as the only
the platform and other work usually performed by a state undefeated champion of the prise ring, ia resuonsible ami
convention, excepting the naming of candidates, the work of upon him rests the burden of failure. Hr undertook to de
the assembly will close. Ia*t every man who desires, go be fend his title to championship, when it was unnecessary and
fore the primary electors, without prejudice or favoritism. when he ought to have known that he was unfit. But Jack
Centrally located, good
Then the Nr.ws as well as every other fairminded citixcn Johnson has reason* to be proud of his achievement; not only
rooms, prices moder
wdl stan 1 for the assembly. But we draw the line as soon liecause he has defeated the greatest ring fighter the world
a i an attempt to dictate to the primary votera is made. baa produced, but as a representative of a race which was
ate, coutteous
We ix lieve an assembly for such pttrpoae to be unlawful held in bondage as slaves for more than two hundred years,
treatment
ami f< r the purpose of overturning a law enacted by over hr was able to defeat the champion of the race which had
MARUFACTUWI sad DtALEJt IN
Correr Norrtsea ani Front Streets
three-fourths of the voters of Oregon.
causml the enslavement.
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Th nkiig men can scarcely fail to
recognise the value of the direct pri
mary. The direct nomination ia one of
the big facta that was scheduled to
come into the world in its proper time.
Divine right kings resist«*! conatitu-
tional government, but constitutional
government came,
In one form or
another it ia now in use all over the
earth. Kings condemn it ami poten
tates dei ou .red it They insisted that
p'oplc were incompetent to be govern-
e I through constitutions, just as its
op.nrenta now Insist that people arc
incompetent to nominate under the
direct pri m ry system.
The dirret primary stands today
where constitutions once stood. Ore
gon lewis the states in direct primaries
as the colonists in 17*9 led the nations
11 constitutions. The direct primary ia
t ir product of the same evolution of
peoples that generated constitutional
forma. The opponents of the one stand
exactly w ha e the opponents of the
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OREGON
Sash, Doors,
Mouldings,
Frames,
Shingles Etc.
other stood, and the objections now of i participation of the b**t citiaena in
fered to the one are exactly the object ' fHibiic offairs that ia the chief weakness
ions that used to be offered to the of th«1 American system. The direct
other. The kings saki the people were primary with Its powers of selection
eatherford
wyatt
too ignorant to lie trusted, and that ia 1 anti control is rapidly teaching Oregon
exactly what Oregon asaemblyitrs say. young men the duties and responsibili
tn each case, it was not the ignorance, ties of citisenship, and enlisting their
but the intelligence of the people that participation in political action.
Office in Blumberg Rlock
ia frarod.
The old generation cannot understantl
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The direct primary ami direct legisla- thia evolution in government. The ALBANY*
•ion are education and encouragement managing men who form alliances of
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for the youth of a state. U hen politi business and politics do not want to
cal action ia by all the people, every understand it. The two groups form
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young man feels that he has a hand in | a basis of opposition to txvpular govern
it. and a tight to be initiative.
When ment. It ia strange, but it is true that
political action is by a chosen few. there were almost if not quite as many
young tren are eliminated except on torics in revolutionary tiim-a as there
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p-rmiMKin from the political managers were patriots.
Msny of the tori«-*
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One system brings all people into politi were of the old generation who really
cal action; the other brings a mere doubted the advisability of •eparation SCIO
handful into public affairs. One system from the British crown.
Others of
encourages general participation in and course profited jiersonally from grants,
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genetai familiarity with public affaira; concession* or some other form of
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the other «reales aloofness by the l>artner*uip of politics and buriness
Hacks connect with all train« both at
citiaen.
through the crown. In thia lapse of
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Wrat Fek> and M tinkers.
In thia American Commonwealth,
Our riga are first-class and our burses
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Bryce correctly aaya that it is the non
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