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152 the nasal protuberance of our friend Ireland, succeeded in capsizing his applecart quite handsomely. What. . . raised the ire of this son of Neptune we have not learned. (It was personal references that the captain did not like in Ireland's news reports.)

Pennoyer, mentioned a few lines above, was governor of the state for two terms, serving from 1887 to 1895. During his tenure occurred the hard times of the 90's, the railroad strike, and the Coxey's army march across the continent to the national capital. Pennoyer was particularly hostile to President Cleveland's "sound money" stand and lost no opportunity to discredit the chief executive, so far as it was possible for him to do it. T. T. Geer, governor from 1899 to 1903, refers to this in his book Fifty Years in Oregon. "General" Jacob S. Coxey, of Massillon, Ohio, organized the march of the jobless on the capital, in 1894, the same year as the big rail road strike of Eugene V. Debs and his American Railway Union. President Cleveland sent messages to many of the governors directing them how to handle the situation. This gave Pennoyer his opportunity, and he replied:

"To the President: Yours is received. If you will attend to your business, I will attend to mine. Sylvester Pennoyer, Governor."

Pennoyer carried his opposition to the President to the point of ignoring his Thanksgiving proclamation and setting a different day for Oregon.

During a big eastern Oregon flood some time later than the governor's snub of the President, that particular chicken came home to roost. Pennoyer, forced to walk by the interruption of railroad service and the bad road conditions, knocked at a cabin door for shelter. The Irish occupant of the shanty refused to get up out of bed to let him in, declined to be impressed when the governor identified himself, and said, finally: "You attend to your business, and I will attend to mine. Go away!"

For a time, during the campaign of 1868, the Herald conducted a weekly, published every Saturday, called the Campaign Herald, edited by Beriah Brown. The campaign paper, Democratic, was a four-page, four-column tabloid, with wide (15-em) columns.

Along in 1874 came another daily paper called the News, which engaged the combined talents of two capable newspaper men, Charles