WEST SIDE TELEPHONE.
ALLAN G. THURMAN.
Allan G. Thurman, of Ohio, the
Tho Official Democratic Paper. I democratic nominee for vice-presi
WASHINHTON LETTE,*.
(From our regular correspondent.)
W ashington , June 1 lfk‘8.
dent, was born at Lynchburg, Va.,
, November 13, 1813, and is therefore
seventy-five years old. He is the
i oldest person ever nominated for so
M c M isxvillb , F bidav , J unk 15, 1888.
high an office. Mr. Thurman
though old has not lost his youth
ful vigor and brightness. Iiis brain
National TiekeL
is as active as it was twenty years
•CLE VE L A N D and THURM A N. ago; he is good for twenty-five years
to come. He is an able lawyer
and is fully capable to fulfil the du
PLENTY OF THEM.
ties of vice-president, if elected.
The graceful compliment paid
by Congress and the president on
New Goods, Latest Styles and Lowest Prices
Friday last to the gallant officer
whoso struggle witn death the I
of Spring and
Clothing and
whole nation has been watchingf or ,
Gents Tweed.
a week, was one of those acts which COLUMBIA RIVER ROUTE,
raise human nature's estimate of ,
itself. The event of the day in the I
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senate on Tuesday was the passage [ Trains fertile ICnat leave Ash St. ithnrf
We also tarry a full line of ths
ight
Weight
Suit
at
Lig
of the bill to make Gen. Sheridan every <!»:y at 14.30 A. M. anti 1:15 I’. Al.
H
old and reliable BrownsviH Wool»«
a full General. But in the House
Mill’s Goods, in both Heavy „5
H
n
Attached to the 1:15 p m train aro through
there was delay over the meacure, Pnlltran Sleeping Cars to Council Bluffs
Cl
.1
Light weight. No goods sold in
even after Representative Mills de and St Paul.
ll
It
Oregon give better satisfaction
The heads of all the presidential
Attached to the 12:30 a m train is the
THE CROP
manded, on behalf of Confederate Walla
ll
Wtilhi <f Dayton Sleeper, which caji
it
tickets but one are now known,
We have ju&t added a Merchant
soldiers living and dead, that the be bosirtle* at East Portland station any
ll
ll
nil but one have been ofiieialy de
Tailoring department to our Ready
The grain sown late in the fall will bill be passed at once. On Friday time after 8 p in
As
it
ll
clared, by their conventions. A not be half a crop in Yamhill, Polk however, about one o’clock, the bill Trains arrive at 2:15 and 7:15 p m cv
Made business. It is under th
gentleman named Redstone, from and Washingeon counties, owing to to revive the rank of General of the day,
control of Mr. J. E. ROss, who i,
The Finest
somewhere, is-Jthe “Industrial la the freezo, which came just as the Army passed the house, and an The company reserve the ri^Lt to
j well known to be a lino cutter and
All Wool Norfolk Jackets
I litter.
bor” candidate; a party named grain began to come up. The far hour and a half later the bill had . change steameiB or sailing day«,
Men’s Ulsters
u
u
Streeter is on the “Union labor” mers in this section thought that been signed by the president, the i TO ASTOR!A,-Str. It ll Thompson
We will be well pleased to havo
u
ll
ticket, and one Cowdery heads the the freeze had not hurt the grain nomination of Sheridan for the of leaves Aih st wharf every Mordav We i
lour
friends desiring special suits
Specialty,
cl
ll
“United labor” ballot. Then there and it waa so reported to the papers. fice sent to the senate and confirm and Saturday at 11 :30 p. in. (JS Mail
I give us a call.
steamer leaves Ash st. daily, except Sun
is the women suffrage party, which, We now learn that the freeze loos ed, and the commission made out. day, at 6 a. in., iur Astoria.
The prices for Tailor Made Goods
! yard by B. F. A big Drive in Seersucker
instead of going to the cost and ened up the wild oats, and the sup It was the one thing which remained
$2 00 I will be materially reduced and We
Coats and Vests at
TO
DA!
LES
AND
CASCADES,
trouble of a convention, held a posed crop is now seen to be, when for the American people to do to
Alpaca Coats and Vests
Leave Ash st. at 6 a. m., except Sun
think are cheaper than any Tailor
conference somewhere and had the headed out, nothing but wild oats, testify their admiration for the I day.
Fancy Cheeks
!
shop
in Oregon.
delegates remain at home with the with but little wheat. The early stricken General; and the merit of
Alpaca Coats ond Vests
Give me a Call,
babies and send in their votes by fall sown grain looks well and will the deed was exalted by the cir TO OREGON CITY, Dayton and A!
i Remember our old motto,
hanv.—Str. h-aves Port U nd at 7 a. n>.
mail, a proceeding which resulted be a good crop.
Our lines of Neck Wear, Hosiery,
cumstance that both Houses of Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays, for
A.
F.
ARTHUR,
Prep.
in the nomination of Belva Lock
Silk Handcrchiefs, Summer Under THE BEST GOODS FOR THE
Congress contain so many ex-con Dayton and way points. Returning !»»ave
A EJAR'L THEY WANT.
Davion as 6 a. m,, fnesdays, Tl.insdays
wood for president and Alfred Love
wear, Gloves, Cud's and Collars,
LEAST MONEY.
federate soldiers, who voted, to a and
Saturdays. For Albany ami way
for vice president. The “socialistic
Plain and Fancy Shirts are full
man, in favor of this tribute to points at 6 a. m., Monday« and Thurs
The
republican
leaders
realize
labor party” has put John Swinton,
and complete, and our stock of new
their opponent of a quarter of a cen days. Returning, leave A»bmy Wednes
■of New York, at its head. The the dilemma they are in, and con tury ago. If never before, we can i days and Satnrdavs. TICKET OFFICE
Style Hats eclipse any stock ever
sequently
the
“
dark
horse
”
is
as
FIRST & OAK STS. A. L. MAXWELL,
Prohibitionists nominated at In
before offered to the people of
truly
say
that
the
war
is
now
ended,
Gen. Pass. <fc Ticket A“ent.
dianapolis, Clinton B. Fiske for suming more importance as a pres and that there are no politics in the
McMinnville, Oregon.
Yamhill.
I
president and John W. Brooks, idential candidate than he was a reward of faithful service to the flag
few
weeks
ago.
The
colored
equine
ibr vice president. In addition to
which floats over a united nation.
nil these there is a crank down in must be a man without a record.
At the present writing General
He
is
not
usually
supposed
to
po
•Georgia named George Henry
Sheridan
’s physicians are a little
Abram, who as soon as he can fined a ses ability, or any special qualifica hopeful. He sleeps gome and oc
tion
for
the
cheif
magistracy
of
the
■crank willing to go on his ticket
casionally takes a little nourish
Tor second place, will nominate nation. It does’nt make any dif ment with comfort, still a relapse is
himself for president. George O. ference whether anything can be probable at any moment. The
Jones of New York who is the only said in his favor or not—the main news of iiis promotion was broken
remaining survivor of the green point is to get a candidate against to him gradually, one of his attend
back labor ticket has taken it upon whom nothing can be charged. If ants first told him that the bill had
himself to nominate a greenback he never made a speech or wrote a been passed by the house; then in
ticket. Grover Cleveland was letter, so much the better. It would a few minutes he was told that the
nominated at St. Louis; for first be so much the better if he had president bad signed it, and so on
place and Allen G. Thurman for never cast a vote. The dark horse’s through the process, each step of
second place. Nothing remains most essential qualification is the his nomination and confirmation
now to complete the field except poseBsion of a “bar’l.” If he has a being announced to him at intervals,
the Republican entries in the race. bank account and no record his and finally his wife carried in his
This will make th« iggenl field availability is accepted.
commission complete, which Sena
that ever run in a presidential race
London has eight homes for poor tors Hawley and Manderson brought
and ought to fill the [Rand stand
working
girls, at which breakfast, to the house. The general soon
to overflowing. It is a free-for-all,
dinner
and
tea cost only a dollar •fell asleep, but in a few minutes he
go-as.you-please, get-there-eli race,
a
week,
and
a room not over a dol awoke, and not forgetting the pro
and it is the glorious privilege of
lar
more.
They
are said to be well prieties, dictated a letter of thanks
every nativeborn citizen to enter in
Igeuts for nvoonuij & CO.’S fine line of
managed
and
well
supported by to tho president, signed it, and dis
the raco if he wants to, while it is a
patched it to the White House.
charitable
people.
happy thought for all the rest that
Threaslicrs, Saw Mills, Wagons, Buggies
There will be a large attendance at
the country will stand the struggle
the
St.
Louis
convention
from
Wash
The total cost of the Sandwich
Farming Implements.
of the armies and come out healthy
ington.
On Saturday evening,
and victorious, although the train Islands missions for the fifty years enough through tickets had already
ers of each team will assure us in from 1820 to 1870 was $1,220,000. been sold to fill four or five cars,
THE BEST WAGON IS ALWAYS THE CHEAPEST.
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the most solemn and owlish man During the next two years, 1870-’71 and the demand was increasing.
the
commerce
of
the
United
States
ner that unless their horses win the
The Press gallery was almost de
republic will go to hades (hell) in with the Islands amounted to over serted that morning, fully three-
$9,000,000.
The
netj,
proceeds
on
a hand basket. However it results,
fourths of its occupants having left
the average American citizen can this equalled the entire fifty years’ for St. Louis. It is expected that
cost
of
the
missions.
get a good deal of excitement and
about sixty democratic senators
fun out of the campaign. This is
and representatives together will be
When
the
Republican
press
stops
the time for the calm even in news
there. But for the pending debate
paper circles, within a month we dishing up tbo “copperhead” record on the tariff bill there would he
of
a
Democrat
we
want
to
hear
will all be howling wild again.
more. Members of the house do
Cleveland’s skinned sheep will about it. When the sons of the not like to leave while that measure
present
generation
are
party
leaders
undoubtly suffer in the coming
and prominent men, we expect to is under discussion, and they find
campaign.
hear all about their record during that the republicans are not. anx
the war. Republican politicioris ious to pair. The pairs which have
A MUDDLE.
never forgot that they are Repub been arranged are nearly all be
tween deniocrats who are going to
Mr. Blaino’s refusal to accept the licans.
St.
Souis and republicans who arc
NATIONAL TUBULAR AXLE FARM WAGON,
presidential nomination has intro
Senator Hurst, of California, has going to Chicago, and they are in
duced an clement of coufusion
every
instance of the ironclad order,
and embarassinent into the repub- been making some extensive invest applying to divisions and roll calls
-ican organization. That party has ments in Mexico, including the pur alike. At the Capital there was
no other pre-eminent leader, and is chase of 2,000,000 acres of land in but one comment on the Paris letter
now very nearly, if not quite, as the state of Vera Cruz, to be devot of Mr. Blaine published on Wed
P arues N ew S primc
much at. sea as the democratic ed to the raising of coffee, sugar, nesday, and that was that there is
C ultivator «
party would be had Mr. Cleveland and tobacco. Along with other no longer any doubt or question as
decided not to be a candidate for a California capitalists he has obtain to bis absolute withdrawal from
second term. Sherman, Allison, ed concessions for building a rail politics. The letter was thus ac
Harrison, Depew, Hawley, and Al road from the city of Mexico to cepted nnd construed by men of
ger have each a strong following; some point on the Pacific coast.
loth parties. The republican sen
but none of them inspires a great
utors
say that Mr. Blaine’s positive
Colored men are learning that
deal of enthusiasm, except possibly
prohibition of the use of his name i
Alger, who if nominated would re slavery was abolished by a move clears
the political field on their
ceive the entire labor vote of the ment the present republicans of the
of the only element of uncer
<*ast. Unless Alger is nominated of the north had no more to do with side
tainty that existed, and thai now
the republican party will have to than the present democrats. The they
will proceed to ascertain who
make its next fight upon its record old republican leaders are all dead.
their strongest m in and nominate
and platform rather than upon the Lincoln’s friends are—most of those is
him. Tho nomination of Mr. Ful
personal popularity of its candidate. who survive—inclined to be demo ler
for Ciieif Justice still hangs tire
It is just possible that Mr. Blaine crats rather than republicans to-day in the
senate. The delay is raid to
George
W.
Julian,
Charles
A.
Dana
may be nominated after all. He
lie
due
rather to a fear that the
has said that he could not now per and Charlea Robison are examples.
<..
:.. ~ Mr. Cleveland
i......i„.i are t A. j K.
’ I con!n,itt,‘v will be accused of haste
mit the use of his name without an Supporting
appearance of insicerity and without McClure, George William Curtis, i1"' \ant of thoroughness it iit neg-
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injustice to aspirants whom his and Carl Schurz, while the loudestj
mouthed
republicans
to
day
had
‘‘ratb"
‘«.any
withdrawal has induced to come to
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the front. But in the face of this little to say ¿hen tho fight was on.' Tel
Wo have Double Cultivators with all the'
J
n
i A Chicago gentleman lias asked for
statement the republicans should
Late Improvements.
delay in order to give him time to
nevertheless persist in nominating
It has been definitely given out put certain things in shape for pre-
him he could scarcely escape the ln Salt Lake that the Mormons in I mentation to the committc. He al-
candidacy, which has apparently Southern Idaho will^ take the test | leges that tho clerk of the court and
lost all charms for him. Ver oath passed by the Idaho Legisln- Mr.
ware jury commission-
ily it is a muddle. Blaine un lure recently and sustained by the j era .. in Fuller
1881,
and that Mr. Fuller
doubtedly wants to be Secretary of supreme court of that territory, drew n jury before
which a case in
State and his forces will go to the and vote at the next election. The I which ho was himself heavily inter-
man who will promise him the ap oath requires the citizen to swear i ested was tried. The result, accord
pointment. By this means ho can that he is not a member of an order, ing to this gentleman, was a ver
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virtually lie the power in the repub sect or association, which teaches, dict for Mr. Fuller, and the conse-
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lican camp and in the nation. This advises or encourages its members, I quent recovery of n large tract of
is what he desires above all.
devotees or any other |>erson to j swamp land. The committee has
commit bigamy or polygamy, plural ■ telegraphed for a transcript of the
or celestial marriges as a doctrinal records and will await their receipt.
OUR COURSE.
(! rite. Thousands of Mormons are
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AY
The presidential campaign I 18 located in Southern Idaho and it
f /
: i
i is a foregone conclusion that they
slowly coming on, and it will un-
i
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doubtedly be a warm one. But be- 1 will elect every officer in their favor
SQk lJi
ÏI
fore it commences in g<><sl cariicst if allowed to vote. By this means
wc wish to any to tlx* people of Yam i the Mormons will be in control I The senate committee on judi
hill county that T he T ei . ei - hoxe of the Territory soon.
ciary have not yet recommended
Harrow.
intends to confine itself to the is
th»' confirmation of MilviUe W.
sues of the present and present to
The following article clipped Fuller as chief justice.
to the people of this county the from tlie Richmond State shows
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democratic principles and the dem what the south thinks of the woman
From the Tillamook Headlight
ocratic way of looking at the issues suffrage plank in the Prohibition we learn that Hermann had a nis
now before the people: to give to platform. "Sad. indeed is the spec- jniitv ei l-'O, over Gearin, in Tilla-
the |>eopk‘clear and concise reasons taele of the father staggering home, monk county. Lord’s majority was
why they should vote for Cleveland but sadder, far sadder, would be 143. Maxwell's was 149.
and tariff reform at the coming the sight of mothers struggling in
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November election. A party paper angry contests in the mire about
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ean.be a party paper ami be conser the polls. If prohibition cm not
vative at the Mino time, and this be attained l.y manhood suffrage,
is the course which T he Titt.iriiosK it never will be attained by carry-
intends to take, although its efforts ing {mrtisin c intentions to tl. ic five-
will be for democratic success in I «idee and by making wives the po-
mlcr.
I liticai ant :igo:usts of t hei r husbands.
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