Evening Capital Journal

BLACKLISTED.

The Times Mountaineer, the leading Republican paper at the Dalles, says of some the senators who voted against the portage bill:

"It Is strange that Cogswell, who represents Crook and Lake, should have shown his antagonism to the portage road, when such a large portion of his constituents are directly interested in river improvements; and then Dodson, of Baker another man who represents people who would be directly benefited by this portage.

Our friends in Baker and Crook must remember these two men, and if at any time they come before the people for favors they must be blacklisted with a vengeance. For over twenty years we have been under the oppression of a railroad monopoly, and when relief is forthcoming enemies from among those who we consider our friends turn and join hands with our oppressors.

We will not intimate that they were influenced by corporation gold, and that they sold themselves and their constituency for a price; but their actions are inexplicable. Mass meetings should be held in every town in Crook and Baker counties, and the resignations of Cogswell and Dodson demanded, as they have proved themselves unworthy of the trust reposed in them. It may be that Eastern Oregon has no rights that the Willamette valley is bound to respect; but the citizens who reside in the cow counties, in the "barren, sterile plains that only produce sage-brush," can vote, and if any man who said nay on the Raley bill ever give them an opportunity they will wreak vengeance on him at the polls. This blacklist will be remembered, and there is surely a "day of reckoning" for every man thereon,

The legislature should abolish the