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TTT7T.Y OHHG01I ETATHC1IA1X, TUESDAY, FESSUAIIY 18, ISO. ' I I TZ V.IEL'LY CnEGC'i STATES'IAfi Published every Taas&ay and Friday by ths BTATE5MA3T PUBLISHING COMPXJTT ' B. J. HtafPRTOK. Manager. T. T. GBE&, Editor. ; BUBSCKIPTIOJf KATES. . One year n kStbihw.. $IM f ik taootna, in adTanca.. ........ .......... .60 1 hree month, in ad Tinea .25 Onyer, on Uan..........-......,.,-. L2S Th Statesman baa been established lbr nearly fifty-two year, and It baaaome aabecribera who k iceired It nearly tnat loan, and aaany who htr read it for a feneration, gome oi these object to ha ring the paper discontinued at tbe time of expiration of their auhaciipUona. for the benefit of tbeae.and for other reasons re bare nonci uled toitoontinue cubrcripliona . only when n.Ufti to do an. a peraona paying when ubaeribng;, or paring, in advance, will baretbo oenefUof the dollar rate. BntUthey do not pay fr six montha, tbe rate will be IL23 a year. Hereafter we will aend tbe paper to ail rceponalble persona who ordc It, tboujrh tbey may not aend tbe money, with tbe onaerstand tag thattney are to pay $L25 a year, in cace they let the rabcriptlon . acooont ran over sis moo Ui a. In order that there may be no mlron demanding, we will keep thla notice atacdlns at tbia place in the paper. 1 - . - CIRCULATION (SWORN) OVER 4000 mm . A SUNNY DAY IN GEOBGIA. Sunny days in winter birds are on , the wing. An' a feller looks an' listens for a rnockin'bird to sing; , Shiverin'. believers, wipe your weepia' eyes! Soon you'll sco the bluebird, an' " ; soon the saji'll rise! Sunny days in winter frost is on the go.; Larks are sorter fixm" for the fur- rows that they know : " Boon you'll leave the rattle an ' riot ' o' the town; - Rait your hook for fishin', and see the cork go down! " '" .': nr. Sunny days, believers. We'll be ., happy then, ' Mockin 'birds a-singin' Jill the whole world says - 'Amen! " Let it come, an' welcome meauow, field art' stream, An' in a world o' blossoms we'll dream Life's sweetest dream! Frank L. Stanton in Atlanta . Constitution. " Jefferson is replete with instances where he-advised national i action far' more " revolutionary : in its every aspect than the: recognition of Panama, and that father of democracy fairly ach ed' for an opportunity to "swipe" Cnba outright. ; - - j . In fact, the leading Democrats of the United. States have! .concluded; to, sot only' acquiesce in, Roosevelt's action in the Panama matter but to actually en dorse it. This outbreak of the Louis ville paper is only one degree more sane than Bryan's determination to re-adopt the Kansas City platform ' in its en tirety. JUDGE EAKIN'S EXAMPLE. On this page the Statesman repro duces, a paragraph from the East Ore gonian which is of the right stuff. Much of the time of our courts is taken up with matter that has no business there under any circumstances. The Pendleton paper is exactly correct in it suggestion. The laws of Oregon and of the city of Portland prohibit gambling as plainly as they do .murder. Kut here is a ease where a man has been guilty of gambling and in the'proeess of his nnlawftal bugia'ss alltg8i that-he y robbed. He has. the audacity to take his ease into court and ask the state, whose; laws he was breaking, to fores the refunding of ' the money he lost while thus engaged! ,4 ';.' "- -f'-- I' If a highwayman should undertake to rob a man and should in turn receive terrible beating, .to follow the example of this gambler, he should have his in tended vctira fined for assault and bat tery! j Why notl . Since the morning stars sang' together there has been' no greater farce enacted than the way the authorities, high and low, in Portland, have dealt with gamb ling in that city. Tbe gamblers con tinued to be lined but. cannot be found! Through some means their fines can be regularly collected but they cannot be arrested. And with this policy adopted as a permanent one, and the publie so notified by the authorities, some people wonder what measures can be invented to put a stop to the inereasing number of " juvenile offenders." The estab lished poliey promulgated and followed; in Portland, "because the city must! have.money," will produce the "gave-1 uile offenders" fast enough. By all means let us have separate jails fori themj also, separate courts. We openly establish and defend a policy of law breaking, by. the officers of tbe city, which admittedly creates juvenile of fenders, so a spirit of humanitarianism should prompt us to see that after we have given them a proper start in the wrong direction, they should not be "contaminated" by being tried in the same court with older and hardened criminals. - We should not cease to be humanitar ian. If we provide the "juvenile of fenders", with a nice, separate plaee for incarceration and for their subse quent trials, it will lareelv act as an U 1 i 1 1 . . offset for the seeming reprehensible! ana "T7 was reacneu ty one oi poiiey. of 'winking at the school thatSthose factions when, on the occasion of the celebration of the anniversary of Lincoln's birthday, on Friday night, their leading members refused to at tend and take part because the gentle man selected to respond to tbe toast "President Booscvelt" belonged to the other faction! This was the very essence of childish petulancy and ma chine proscraptiveness gone o seed. This petulant exhibition of a two by four conception of public party spite THE REPUBLICAN FACTIONAL FIGHT IN OREGON. , The differences which divide the Be- publican party in Oregon into two fac tions date back who can ! tell when tbey began! Although the time of ;heir beginning 1 would be difficult to precisely locate,; it would be an easy task compared with an effort to de cide when they will cease. The attack opon Mr. Mitchell by the Oregonian twenty years ago had apparently been forgotten when, in 1891,; that gentle man was re-elected to tbe United States Senate without any Republican opposi tion anvwhere. but 'when he espoused the cause of free silver afterwards the fight was renewed and has raged and been waged with varying intensity ever since. Without attempting to excuse either faction in the past for excesses in party management, it is pertinent to say that at no time has the factional feeling been so rampant as it is in Multnomah county today, and largely on account of the unprecedented intolerance-of the faction that has eontrol of the party in that county and the city ot Portland. The very acme of party blindness produces them. Great scheme, this. THE. GHOST OF IMPERIALISM. Somewhat contrary to its usual good sense, the Louisville Courier Journal discovers a tendency towards monarch ical customs in the fact that when Gen eral Taft, the new Secretary of War, ar rived in Washington from the Phili- I pines, lie was met at the depot by a Bad Cough I had a 'bad cough for six weeks and could find no relief un til I tried Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. One-fourth of a bottle cured me." L. Hawn, Newington, Ont. Neglected colds always Itad :o something serious. They run into chronic bronchitis, pneumonia, asthma, or consumption, ; Don't wait, but take Ayer's Cherry Pectoral just as soon as your cough oegins. A few doses will cure you then. Commit yoor doctor. Ifbesara takoit. then rio aa he r. If he telln you not V take It, then don't take it. Ho knows. Ayer's Pills cure any tendency to biliousness or constipation, and thus hasten recovery. Purely vege table. Gently laxative. . J. C. AVER CO.. Inrell, Maaa. troop of cavalry and escorted to hisjJind dwarfed littleness, recalls the fact quarters. In the course of a long edi-j.that that faction is undertaking to tonal this fact is commented upon in a j read every - man out of the party in most senoiiH vein, critically examined Multnomah county who does not in ad- froin various points of view, and the'vanee pledge himself to support Mr. conclusion is reached that "step by J Mitchell for re-election. As a means step with the silent sanction of the! to this end the position if , assumed people, in small matters the tenant of that noman in, Oregon -.can. honestly the White House has proceeded in his. claim to be a supporter of President accretion of power culminating in his j Roosevelt unless he will at the same Panama absolutism until. none can fix! time proclaim bimscLf to be a. Mitchell a limit to his possible assumption of , man, also. imperial prerogative." The first thought that suggests itself alter reading thi indictment of the President is that, after all, there seems no real barrier between Watterson and Bryan. When a troop of cavalry escort ing the prospective head of the War Dejirtmejit? to his quarters can produce such an extreme case of impending im perialism in embryo as this, Bryan's most wild-eyed vagaries, so often elo quently described and ridiculed by the Kentucky Colonel, assume a type both commonplace and harmless. Their de lusive tendencies are on practically the same plane, the principal difference ap parently being that Bryan's distorted vision takes in a wider range of spectral hobgoblins. A troop of. cavalry escorting Secre tary Taft along the streets of Washing ton is no more significant than a com pany of militia parading the streets of rorthfnd on the Fourth of July. Not a single privilege of any American citi zen was in the least degree even threat ened by it, then' or in the remotest fu ture, and as to Panama, the history of If any Kejtublican undertakes to have an opinion on the Senatorship which has not been formed for him by the "managers." in Portland his as sertion that he is a supporter of Roose velt is not to be accepted for a mom ent. The two go together. It is im possible for a man wno doesn't favor Mitchell to, favor Roosevelt, and if he says he does, he is necessarily a liar. The ' "managers" in Portland boldly hold that a man who opposes Mitchell's re-election is not to be believed if he says he is in favor of Roosevelt. Nin$ ty-nine per cent of the Republicans of Oregon are in favor of the nomination of the President. t This is known by everybody. Therefore, the "manag ers" have dropped into the fine prop osition of shouting that there is great danger of somebody opposing the Pres ident, and that it is the special and exclusive prerogative of the "manag ers" to see that no Republican who doesn't ride in their wagon shall have any recognition or attention if they can, help it. . . So, it came to pass when the Lincoln banquet was arranged by vhe; Young Men's v Republican -Club-of Portland, an organization which has been kept free from the . factional differences in Multnomah1 'county, a gentleman who is not a Mitchell man was selected to re spond to the.: toast "President Roose velt." And this was too much for the managers, ' . so the word was. passed around that none of the faithful were to attend the banquet,- Why shouldj they f Were they to be expected to be present where an anti-Mitlfell man was to say a good word for Roosevelt f Doesn't every man know that such a man 'cannot -be sincerely in favor of Roosevelt, and that he is a deceiver f Doesn't the publie understand that the right to speak a good word for the President belongs exclusively to the men who cannot open their mouths without first ; committing them selves to a certain Senatorial candi date? -; . These "managers ',' have gone so far as to refuse to join 'any Roosevelt club unless it is also a Mitchell club. The alternative is not Roosevelt but Mit chell, if Mitchell cannot be had, then they refuse to take Roosevelt. Ergo,' if. they cannet, have - Mitchell then they wil havenobodyv And this is the kernel of entire sit uation in Portland. ' Now, the question is, how much .- of this kiad c.f intoler ant proscription .will the Republicans of Oregon endure , and how much long er will they endure itf Such dwarfed conceptions of publie duty would ' be censurable if belonging to the other faction or any other faction. It is not so much the triumph of any faction that the Republicans of the state want as the utter elimination of Ml factions and any clique which finds itself in control of a party organization arwl shows as little consideration for the minority members as is being done at this time in Multnomah county, should be routed from, its position oy the bet ter judgment of those who arc not un der the helpless domination - f machine politics. The Statesman is not and will not , be the organ or mouthpiece of any fae-l tion in the Republican party. It fir3t lesires to see all this old quarrel srnothi" ered. Its seat -is in Multnomah coun ty but it ramifies all over and through the state, and if the proscriptive tac tics now being employed by those who .-PIS From" tHo . Office ..... - i Window' . e c Eilyertott's Staying Qualities. F The Silverton Appeal mentions that Ai Coolidge picked from a tree in his orchard on the first of February, some apples that had hung there all winter, that they! were in a good state of pres ervation, and that -the tree is over forty years old. This is no new thing in Or egon, as in some orchards every spring apples can be found still hanging where they grew and practically in good con dition for use. But this particular in stance of the- Silverton apples has- a special interest to the editor of the Statesman, since that tree was grafted and planted by his father where it now stands in the years before the Civil War. In the years of his earliest school days, when the school . house stood near the banks of Silver creek above the site of the present grist mill,' those trees were plant eU on tbe fiat immediately across tbe stream from the town, and though men have come and gone and nations have risen, changed their names and destinies, those Kamboi and Spit enbergs and Newton Pippins have si lently performed their annual duties while Silver ereek has ceaselessly con tinued its rythmic murmuring as' it flowed swiftly onward to the sea. And there are others in Silverton who have changed very little -during forty years. There is no town in the state the personnel of whose population has changed as little as this beautiful and prosperous mountain hamlet. Situated in the .midst of a fertile country the pioneers who founded it have been sat isfied to make it their permanent home' during all . these- succeeding years. . Ai Coolidge who first settled at the village of "Milford" two miles above on Silver creek, soon ."discovered that he had located in the wrong place, for a permanent town, moved his ''store house" to the-present site of Silver ton on wheels and it was yet rolling when the writer of this article first saw it in the spring of 1853. This pioneer j bunding is yet standing in the midst "Editorial StdeHghtf .n4 ObrvtUlonjor Various People f and Tttl!sy Picked,Vp and Scribled Down at Odd Times. 1 " - - ; , thing. G. W. Doland, to whom the writ er west to school in 1S59, ts yeVeiti xen of Silverton, and though Jie tried the bunch grass country t or 'a' few years, never forgot the attractions of Silverton and for years has again been a denizen and practicing attorney of the famous old-time town. . ; ' All these men are, stili there ;n5 business, but there are -others ' who were in at the initiation ef Silverton fifty years ago,l and'twhorVftth the; pio neers named, together with many later additions, have made it and are making it one of the best towns in Oregon. The people of Silverton are hospitable and progressive, but, be it; said, to their credit, they are stayers and so is the apple tree which held its fruit until the picker came, even if it did have to wait until February, but it no doubt imbibed its tenacious trait from the soil, for there have . never been any quitters in Silverton. i- O A New Iowa Idea. : A dispatch front Des Moines, Iowa, announces that Representative Shiell has introduced in the Legislature of that state a bill providing for the; reg ulation of marriages. Under the pro visions of this proposed law a commis sion to be officially known as the Bureau of Marriage Reform Instruction is to be created and the Governor shall appoint a director for; tbe bureau, whose duty it will be to promulgate a set of rules for the government of all. marriages in Iowa. 1 - ' In" a general way it is provided that these rules shall professionally inform the young people of Iowa (and : older ones if they need the information) wat habits of life must, be necessary jjo have been followed by the intent) ed victims of Cupid's darts before any per mission to enter the'wedded state will 1 e granted. AH the rules of sanitation must have been observed, no cigarette smoking must have been indulged, and, since the object of the law is to prevent the further accumulation of unhealtuv claim to be the "managers" of the party in that county, are permitted to control it Sj action generally, the result will certainly -be disastrous. The peo ple are still free--to act and upon suf ficient provocation will not hesitate to do so. - The, Statesman enter a plea for more toleration, for lees assumption of dic tatorial powers and more freedom to act 'without- autocratic domination. The, boss who goes around and- gives his orders in politics is about the smallest specimes of swelled-up human ity that can be conceived, and when he appears -arrayed, in purple and fine lin en, prepared to cive his orders to the common people, he should be floored by the very quickest possible process. Just at this particular time the bean ties pf Matehine Politice in rll its per-jBiuoaTinj- ui Udes oq ut;o ja.vioy county colored in all the hues of that war paint which the braves do. delight to wear. ALLEGED ABUSES AT THE PENI , TENTIABY. The Statesman prints this morning a statement by the attorney for the ease recently instituted to restrain the Superintendent and Warden of the Penitentiary from doing certain thing's that are alleged to be without warrant of law. About Vlhe various matters complained of .the Statesman knows nothing whatever, but desires to say that there is the same necessity 'for the ' Superintendent to reside at the Peni tentiary and he should have the same tained before a license to marry an is sue. Of course," when this neW Iowa idea is clothed with all the. paraphernalia of a'leiral existence, no virl will lw 1!ri. of the town, -'now in the back yatd ofjble to marriage unless she -rm -'-furnish anil, t hrf ftr iini1a?KirsiFalsv tiUilrnn tt !-' . 4i, Ai.i :ii irence that cannot very well' be nvoid vide that a certain weight height and bt that it is a necessary one. i he r- symmetry of form must have -been- at- .?." ef this profound revel.it i.n in.pli senting a properly verified certificate front a ihysicin showing that all the retirements of the director of the Ju. reau of Marriage Reform have been sat- ; isfactorily-observed. , It Is to be. hoped lthat this bill will become a lawj for . its requirements have been favorably discussed by physi ological students and humanitarians for generations but no practical test has ever been made along the lines aup geated by it. " And Iowa is a gm.d BtaTe to first put the matter to a serious test. It is one of the great states of the Union and never does things bv halve-, as is to be observed by the reuirement that tbese new rule shall bo applied with equal rigidness to both halves of the marriage contract. -This BfJ reform is in the interest of the prevention of race suicide, too. Iowa, as usual, is looking to the future and with its predominance nlreailv en joyed in the administration of nation.d affairs, there is no way of computing, the height of influence she may reach-" when the children resulting from Mt marriages, now being arrang;d for tins future come to their own in the tlie-. charge of great : public duties. Ohio will not1 be in it for a moment. Of course, if the matter of diet shall' be a part of the prescrileil reform rcu ulation, saurj kraut will; be given tlm place Of honor at the head of the state'' menu. . This is the newest "Iowa-hlcx and its development will be watchoi with absorbing interest throughout thtj entire country. . . !- O O '''-" An Kastern exchange suggests , thni President Roosevelt "will not be jfrni-l of the milk white horses presented to hint by the Sultan of Moroe'cb. II is onlr fear just now is. of dark horses.'' .Hut there are no dark horses in this countrv that the strenuous broncho buster will not easily subdue when the time crimes. In fact, he has a cinch on them alrea I v. ' o o :" " " The Theosophints have recently ii coverel that death is not nh- an omir- I the more pretentious and raolern strue tures, but rejoicing in the satisfaction of being "the oldest inhabitant" of the town, architecturally speaking. Ooolrjdge is yet there, and though upwards" of 80 years of age is actively engageil in business and sensibly enjoy ing the, fortune he has ' accumulated through;' conservative management "and fair dealing. John Wolfard has been keeping store in Silverton as long as any lody on this coast can remember, Tom. Plackerby was there- when Jo Meek came to the country, Matt Brown and' Alonzo, his brother, were there when, men who arp now old were little boys, ISarhart Wolfard Was always in Silvertonj and Trenton Ilibbard went there at so early a date that he has Herv-ed n mnvor and councilman nn loner T tht. hit hfpamp flshnnlml'nf himmlf ant voluntarily retirel. The fact is, how ever, that, for obvious reasons,-Trenton could Hot serve a short term at anv- a eertineate that sne has never worn corsets, has turned with scorn from the contemplation of high heeled shoes and not only does not paint her eyebrows or chocks, but actually loaths the sight of chewing gum. Indeed, it is quite likely that as a contribution - to the healthful playfulness of future earthly cherubs, a sprinting test may-1k pro vided, say of a hundred yards similar to the one exacted of the successful as pirants to a position in the fire depart ment in Portland, a failure t get over a hundred yard course in a given time being fatal to all matrimonial aspira tions. The proiwsed law provides that everv physician in the state must be prepared to give young ieple a. course of in struction as to what thev should ami shor Id not do to fit ther'swdve's'Tor fu ture papas and mamm.-K, and no person applying for a marriage license shall in any case be entitled to it unless pre- ne. matters woatlerinllv and '.tends K allay a disposition, to reKi-1 :c:iint ex isting conditions.; -.By the way, a Tin-..- ; S4phist is" one who gjves you a theory'-" of God, or of the works oi Gd; v ) m 1 1 has not reiason, but ''h an inspir.it ion of his own, for a basis. ' t tlo- in vestigation go on. ';.'. . o o It now transpires that the hx 'abiri in which Roosevelt .flipped tlapj;tcKs':ind' j from wKose .howpital.de door he Vina i fleeing jiikrabbits ami skulliing;coot-, j in his earlier (strenuous cow liy d:iy, still stands iniMedora, North il I;iI.1 i, and its owner,; a man named I'eitl, ii;n offered to take it 1o uie St. I."ii l':iir for purposes of exhibition. If- thi. nf-j fer shuiild b" accepted the nUuiagcrs. shouM 1tignate one dayr to be c:ij!. . Roosevelt -day," upon which o.-i-;im. n the I'resident should Ik persuaded to I .-f ! present .in-front of his cabin nrrayed i'1; full dress cowlmv iaraihcrnalia and a si tride a tiucting brouchw. It w on I I bej in the middle of the Presidential c im-J pagin. Would please Roosevelt H'fi doubt would add ti his popular vl" and enormously kwcII the :it"e receipt v There is, no ch'irge for-tJiin (suggestion.! right to tlraw for the support of him self and family from "the commissary of the institution as have the Superin tendents of the other state institutions. i The Superintendent1 of every other state institution resides within the building where his duties are and is supported at the expense of the state, and there has never been any complaint about it. In some cases the law plain ly requires it, but whether this, is so in all Cases, the writer is not aware. The point to it is, however, that if the law does not directly warrant the Superintendent of the Penitentiary in supplying his table from the state's commissary, it should do so, since there is no possible ground for defending a discrimination of this sort between the different superintendents in the- state's service. Whether the officers named in the complaint' have transcended their au thority in these or any other instances, we do not know, and are. matters to be decided by the judicial Investigation, but whatever custom -prevail at' the other institutions without Objection and whatever privileges are extended to their oflicers should his., granted without question to the oflicers of the .Penitentiary;; If there are abuses of Jrticm, however, they should not be per mitted in any case. ' From precisely what source a certain faction of the Republican party in Multnomah county gets its diviiie and entities which no doubt grew into thex belief' thajt they" alone-were entitled t recognition in "the pomologicaj c:ii - logue. J - 'j ' '..; exclusive right to support Roosevelt is j mot altogether clear. There is an. old fable to the effect that; three distinct entities of refuse from a manure pile 1 The new order from headquarters that all telephone girls .shall dress in a full, suit of black- guarantees' :t lovely addition to the ranks of those other people .who have been mourners for' years the unfortunate' opes wll have lxen compelled to listen, 'helplcsf.- , fy, to the .forlorn anl .'threadbare t;ii that "the line is busvj" I'uiiiKlimeiit was-certain to come sooner or biter. Chairman ; J. . W. Culver, of t ll'1 found themselves swimming round and j Marion; county Republican central coin round in an eddy in a Stream, passing mi it tee,' has decided to issue a-i cull for v intervals: tnreenneiy matured ap ples, which they would greet at each meeting with the shout, "II ow We Apples Swim." Apparently a wicked factional fight was raging between the the meeting of the .committee: 'for-Saturday, February L'7. Ho has not as yet announced his : appoint merits .of mem bers of! the committee to fill the- vacan cies wiueh exist niereon, to the .numlf r three genuine apples and the aforesaid of ten , throughout the county. SI. . I. " ' ' - : i ' . Grand Display Of OO-CartS 1 Grand Display of Children's Iron I t ! ; ' " ' ' 3EB3GE ; and Other Cribs II-.." v., :,. . -,r- . .,iT : ' I I STOP I MOW T.TT1h1TT I I Our line of 1901 GO-CARTS fron-fa-flour ready for your Inspection: NeSaSexcihsive designs, improved gearing in1 fact everything that s to nnko J t penect up toaate buggy' As tbe savinir ?ors kWR WW uv.uw with mni? hnnTiu ' " -J,;f Remcmljer: that we have JEVWOOD 'CAHi'zrr sd r-f-rr,vtf5.'.y . v . . , "yvllr -:'unili& u O Mhe ArtiUiary Gears ? IF KOT SEE THE1 HEYWonn i imp