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OREGON. 



OSTEOPATHY. 



commissioner, the two members of Congress, and 

 the Legislature were elected. Five proposed con- 

 stitutional amendments were submitted to vote. 

 For the State offices nominations were made by 

 the Republicans, the Prohibitionists, and the 

 Democratic and People's party combined. 



The Republican convention, April 12, named the 

 following ticket: For Justice of the Supreme 

 Court, C. E. Wolverton, renominated; Food and 

 Dairy Commissioner, J. W. Bailey, renominated. 



The platform commends the Republican Con- 

 gress for making the gold standard a part of the 

 statutory la\v of the land, and says: " So long as 

 either of our great political parties advocates the 

 free coinage of silver, the maintenance of the gold 

 standard is the most important political issue, 

 affecting as it does the value of the farmer's crops 

 and the laborer's wages." 



On the question of expansion the platform says: 

 " We indorse the policy of the administration in 

 securing the Philippine Islands and suppressing 

 the insurrection there, and demand that they shall 

 be retained as American territory. We regard 

 trade with the Orient as one of the great sources 

 of our national wealth in the future, and an open 

 door in China as an important aid to the growth 

 of our trade in the Orient." 



The resolutions favor the immediate construc- 

 tion of the Nicaragua Canal under governmental 

 control. 



On the subject of trusts the platform says: " We 

 recognize the vital necessity of control of the or- 

 ganization and curtailment of the powers of trusts 

 and combinations of capital by the State, and 

 pledge its support in the approaching Legislature 

 of laws defining and carrying out these objects." 



At Portland, the same day (April 12), the 

 Democratic and the People's party held their con- 

 ventions. There was a contest in the Populist 

 convention over the question of fusion with the 

 Democrats, and the fusion element was finally vic- 

 torious. The following are the nominations: For 

 Justice of the Supreme Court, William Ramsey, 

 Democrat ; Food and Dairy Commissioner, William 

 M. Schulmerich, People's party. 



The fusion platform reaffirms in its entirety 

 the Chicago platform of 1896 and the money plank 

 adopted by the fusionists of Oregon in 1898, which 

 declared for the free and unlimited coinage of sil- 

 ver at the ratio of 16 to 1. The platform favors 

 an income tax, the election of United States Sen- 

 ators by direct vote of the people, and the initi- 

 ative and referendum, and opposes " government 

 by injunction." 



On the Philippines it says: "The Filipinos can 

 not be citizens without endangering our civiliza- 

 tion; they can not be subjects without endanger- 

 ing our form of government. We favor an imme- 

 diate declaration of the nation's purpose to give 

 to the Philippines, first, a stable form of govern- 

 ment ; second, independence ; and third, protection 

 from outside interference. We favor the expansion 

 of trade by every legitimate and peaceful means, 

 but we are opposed to purchasing trade at the 

 cannon's mouth with human blood." 



The Middle-of-the-Road Populist convention, 

 witli 9 delegates present, nominated a ticket and 

 elected 17 delegates to the National Convention 

 at Cincinnati. 



The Prohibitionists, in convention. April 10, in 

 Portland, named the following: For Supreme 

 Judge, C. J. Bright; State Food and Dairy Com- 

 missioner. P. L. Kenady. 



A platform in accordance with the principles of 

 the party was adopted, and supplementary reso- 

 lutions were passed denouncing the administration 

 for permitting the army canteen and protecting 



the liquor business in Cuba, Porto Rico, and the 

 Philippines. 



The Republican candidates were successful at 

 the polls. For Justice of the Supreme Court, 

 Wolverton, Republican, received 44,025 votes; 

 Greene, Democrat, 33,388; Bright, Prohibitionist, 

 4,537. On joint ballot the Republicans will have 

 a majority of 20 10 in each House. 



All the five proposed constitutional amendments 

 were rejected. They were as follow: 1. To allow 

 any county, city, town, school district, or other 

 municipal corporation to become indebted to an 

 amount not exceeding 5 per cent, of the value of 

 its taxable property, the present limit being $5,000, 

 except in cases of insurrection or invasion. 2. In- 

 creasing the number of judges of the Supreme 

 Court from 3 to 5. 3. Permitting negroes to re- 

 side in the State. 4. To confer the right of 

 eminent domain upon irrigation and drainage 

 companies, and to declare the " right to collect 

 taxes or compensation for the use of water " a 

 " franchise." 5. Giving women the right of suf- 

 frage. The proposition to repeal the constitutional 

 provision in regard to negroes residing in the State, 

 which is a dead letter, since it is nullified by the 

 United States Constitution, was rejected by a very 

 small majority 19,074 for and 19,999 "against. 

 The woman suffrage amendment was rejected by 

 a vote of 26,265 for to 28,402 against. The vote 

 on the others showed majorities against them of 

 about 10,000. 



The vote on presidential electors in November 

 stood: McKinley, 46,526; Bryan, 33,385; Woolley, 

 2,536; Debs. 1,466; Barker, 203. 



OSTEOPATHY (from oirrtov, bone, and iraflos, 

 suffering), a method of treating diseases of the 

 human body without the use of drugs, by means 

 of manipulations applied to various nerve centers, 

 chiefly those along the spine, with a view to in- 

 ducing free circulation of the blood and lymph, and 

 an equal distribution of the nerve forces. Special 

 attention is given to the readjustment of any bones, 

 muscles, or ligaments not in the normal position. 



The system was formulated in 1874 by Dr. 

 A. T. Still, a physician of Baldwin, Kan., who. 

 having become dissatisfied with the results at- 

 tained through the practice of medicine, deter- 

 mined, if possible, to discover a more natural and 

 efficacious method of healing. He reasoned that 

 a body so perfectly constructed mechanically 

 should be able to protect itself against the in- 

 roads of disease without the artificial aid of ex- 

 ternal substances, except those employed as food. 

 His next conclusion was that " a natural flow of 

 blood is health, and disease is the effect of local 

 or general disturbance of blood.'' With this as 

 a working hypothesis, he made a series of ex- 

 periments, the results of which convinced him 

 that the various organs of the body Mere eon 

 trolled by nerve centers located chiefly aloiiL! th> 

 spine, and that these could be operated upon an* 

 controlled by pressure or stimulation of the fin- 

 gers. He holds also that if the bones, muscles. 

 arteries, veins, lymphatics, glands, organs, and 

 tissues of the body are in their correct anatomical 

 positions, disease can not exist. Displacement 

 may arise from a variety of causes, such a- i 

 fall, a blow, a strain, or atmospheric change-. 

 Pressure upon the blood vessels or nerves in tlf> 

 immediate vicinity of the part so affected \vill 

 follow, and a consequent shutting off of the in i\ ' 

 or blood supply to some organ, which will the i 

 become diseased. With a readjustment of the di-- 

 placed part will come "perfect freedom of motioi 

 of all the fluids, forces, and substances pertaii - 

 ing to life, thus re-establishing a condition know a 

 as health." 



