ALBANY REGISTER.
V. 8- Official Paper An- Oreson.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER U, 1873.
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Bepnollcan Candidate.
FOR CONGRESS,
HIRAM SMITH,
or inw.
Our Candidate.
Hiram Surra, the Republican can
didate for Cougress, is a bedrock Re
publicanalways and under all cir
cumstances true as steel to the party
and its measures. He was among the
first on the Pacific coast to respond to
the call of the Sanitary Commission,
giving as a first installment, one thous
and dollars toward procuring medicines
and other necessaries for the sick and
wounded soldiers during our great
war. A man oflarge business capac
ity, of irreproachable character, and
possessed of an active, indomitable
energy which never lags and which
will know no defeat in the attainment
of righteous ends. A man of the
people, he will labor for the elevation
and protection of labor; an honest
min, he'will be controlled by no clique
or ring ; and gifted with sound judg
ment and discrimination, he will al
ways be found laboring for those meas
ures calculated to benefit and increase
tbe prosperity of his State and of the
whole people. If the people of Oregon
want a man upon whom they can rely,
a man who never breaks laith, a
man win) does not change his political
views with every shifting breez, Hiram
Smith meets and fills the want. As
to his purity of character, no breath of
suspicion rests upon it; of his honesty,
after an active business life of more
than a quarter of a century, there is
noue to gainsay it ; of his capability,
his whole business life, which has been
a continued success, without one mis
take to mar Its brilliancy, speaks loud
ly and emphatically. With a unblem
ished record for honesty, integrity, so
briety; with a pure and unsullied
private diameter; standing high in
commercial circles as a man of more
than ordinary business capacity; en
dowed with great energy and persever
ance, and tact and skill in the accom
plishment of his purposes ; possessing
social qualities of the highest order,
added to a warm and generous heart,
and a hand that ilways opens at the
call of charity, without blot or blem
ish to mar his qualities of mind or
head or heart, the candidate of the Re
publican party for Congress, Hos.
Hiram Smi, stands confessedly the
peer of any mau in Oregon to-day, and
confidently asks the support and vote
of every man who loves honesty and
abhors hipocrisy, who approves of
temperance and sobriety as opposed to
drunkenness and debauchery ; a man
who is in simpathy with the party in
power, and who, by his own force of
character, backed by untiring energy
and will to accomplish hi? undertak
ings, can and will do more tor Oregon,
than could his opponent, Nesmith.
were he multiplied a hundred times.
A Ma of the People. The de
mand of the hour being for a true, hon
est, capable, upright man a man in
sympathy with the masses was met
in the nomination of Hiram Smith, a
man of stainless reputation and unde
niable business qualifications. He is
not a political wire-worker; is not
mixed up with rings or cliques, but
is a man of the people, who will go to
Congress to work for all measures cal
culated to advance the interests of his
State all measures calculated to bene
fit her people, advance tbe gro'vth, in
crease the prosperity, wealth and hap
piness of the masses, With such a
man In Congress, the future of Ore
goo is bright with promise.
SCASED' Democratic journals all
over the State, as the day of election
approaches, show their alarm by ap
pealing to Democrats, with fulsome
flatter' and in endearing terms,' to
come oat and vote, and not let tbe
station go by default. They have
aeen the handwritiug on the wall ;
they know that defeat is written on
tfr ftsMlfh banner. Vale, Nesmlth.
The Outlook.
From every quarter comes the most
cheering news for the success of our
candidate for Congress. While it is
conceded that the Democratic vote east
of the mountains will fall off one
thousand or more, the Republicans
there, to a man, will vote for Hiram
Smith. Those sturdy old Democrats
cannot be driven or coaxed into sup
porting the suppressor of Democratic
newspapers to voting fora man whose
record is so crooked and cowardly as
Nesmith's. We are assured that Mult
nomah will give, at the very least,
GOO majority for Hiram Smith. Com
ing nearer home, the disaffection in
the Republican ranks in Marion coun
ty, which showed itself after the ad
journment of the State Convention,
has almost entirely disappeared, while
six hundred Democratic voters of that
county have declared their determina
tion not to vote for Nesmlth, and it is
believed that many of them wfll vote
for Hiram Smith. Lane will give a
good round majority tor the Republi
can candidate, as well as Douglas,
while it is believed that even Jackson
county, the Gibraltar of Democracy,
will give her vote for Hiram Smith.
Here, at home, on every hand we find
citizens who have always, from infan
cy up, held to the principles of the
Democratic party, now solemnly de
clare they will not, under any circum
stance or for any consideration, vote
for J. W. Xesraith. They have no
confidence in him either as a Democrat
or as a man. The Democratic vote
will fall far short of what it was at
the last election, and we have hopes
ot carrying old Linn for Hiram Smith
by a much larger vote than did Grant
a few months ago. In view of all
thesecheering facts Republicans should
feel encouraged to keep up the battle
until the polls are closed on Monday,
'that an overwhelmingly glorious and
unprecedented victory may crown the
canvass of 1873.
Nesmlth a Deserter.
Below we print an extract from a
letter to us, from one of the oldest and
most reliable settlers of Oregon, now
a resident of Washington Territory.
He is a firm believer, it will be seen,
in the assertion of Mrs. Duniway, that
J. N. Smith and not J. W. Nesmlth
is the name of the Democratic candi
date for Congress. But here is the
extract :
Coll. Van Cleve Dear Sir: I
believe Mrs. Duniway to be correct in
lier assertions about "J. W. Nesmith,"
and this Is one of the reasons for my
belief : Some years ago, Nesmith un
dertook to run for Congress against
Thurston, and made a speech at Salem.
Thurston followed him, and then and
there, in a large crowd, charged and
proved, by men that knew him, that
he (Nesmith) was a deserter from the
U. S. army when he came to Oregon.
This statement can be proven by plen
ty of witnesses now living in Marion
county who were present and heard
Thurston on the occasion referred to.
Nesmith v:er went to miotlier appoint
ment in Hint canvass.
OLD SETTLER.
Oct on Such IlYPOCRisr. Yester
day's Democrat quotes Nesmith its
saying in his speeches : "By the pov
erty and toil that surrounded my cra
dle, by the struggles of my youth and
early manhood, by the labors of my
maturer years, and by this good right
arm, I declare that I will ever oppose
monopolies that oppress the people."
Very pretty, even if the sentiment
was delivered years ago by another ;
but to show, the hypocrisy of the man
that now utters it, we have only to
remark that he Is making his pilgrim
age up and down the railroad with a
"pass" from Ben Holladay in his
pocket!
False. The editor of the Oregon
City Enterprise says: "Dr. Geary as
saulted the editor of the Albany paper
on the public street," etc. This Is
simply a falsehood. Dr. Geary neither
assaulted the "editor of the Albany
paper," the supposed editor or any
employee of the Albany paper, or any
other man, on the street or off of It,
at any time or any place. This kind
of mendacity won't do, Mr. Enterprise.
Try some other line of argument, if
you have any.
In Powder River Vallev. Baker
County, some of the grain is not yet
ripe enough for the sickle.
Is More Proof Wanted?
The Oregoniany seeing at last that
Republicans were awakening to the
fact that it was no longer entitled to
their support as a Republican Journal,
having gone over, "horse, foot and
dragoons," to the Democracy, during
the latter part of the present week
has been endeavoring, with more than
Its usual amount of cheek, to prove
that it is a true Republican journal,
and is truly anxious for the success ot
Republican principles.
As an evidence of its true Republi
canism and its desire to purify the
Republican party, in the same breath
it asks Republicans to abstain from
voting that Nesmith may be elected to
Congress!
The election of Nesmith to repre
sent us in Congress would purify the
Republican party, wouldn't it? The
election of a man whose campaign
speeches are so foul and obscene that
his own party journals dare not pub
lish them, would le an achievement
of which Republicans would be proud,
wouldn't they? The Oregonian insists
on the election of Nesmith asa matter
of purification, when it knows, if it
knows anything, that every man, out
side of the Democratic party, who
aids and abets the election of Nes
mith as against Hiram Smith, docs so
without a shadow of reason otlier than
a fixed and set purpose of disrupting
and destroying the Republican party.
That this is the case with the Orego
nian, its every issue is positive proof.
Tho cloven foot is shown in every line,
in every sentence penned by its Gree
ley editors ; and the wayfaring man,
though a fool, cannot read its contin
ued impeachment of representa
tive Republicans, not only here but
elsewhere, its misrepresentations ol
Republican tenets and doctrine, with
out being made aware of the fact that
its assertion of Republicanism is as
false as it Is cowardly. As still another
evidence of the perfidy of the OreMwi,
we copy a portion of a communication
to the Mullet in from Mr. David Powell,
of Portland, a gentleman pretty well
known in Oregon, and one, too, whose
thruthfulness will not be gainsayed by
those who know him :
I was present at the
Albany Convention. The editor of
the Oregnnian, W. Lair Hill, was also
there. We returned to Portland on
the same train. On the way down lie
and I had a conversation on the Con
vention anfl on party affairs in gener
al. He stated in the most emphatic
language that he cared nothing what
ever for the Republican party : that
his only object was to beat it ; that he
intended to "burst it" in this State,
and cared not for the consequences.
He had nothing to a:k of tlie party,
and wanted nothing except to disrupt
and beat it.
Most Rnpubl'cans have been regret
fully forced to the conclusion, from
the course of the paper for some time.
that its real animus was something of
this kind, nut my object in this com
munication is not to draw inferences,
but only to state just what the editor
of the Oregnnian himself told me. I
have done this in nearly the language
spoken to me, and have fairly repre
sented the spirit and meaning of the
editor's remarks. David Powell.
Portland, October 8, 1S73.
Of no Value. The solemn assur
ances ot Democratic journals that
Nesmith, if elected to Congress, will
. hereafter prove true to the party plac
ing him in nomination, only excites a
laugh of derision from the average
bedrocker. No amount of falsehood,
mixed with ever so much soft-soap, on
the part of these journals, will Induce
representative Democrats to cast a vote
for the man who lias done so much to
cripple and destroy the Democratic
party in Oregon.
The Man Wanted. Hiram Smith
being in favor of the improvement of
the VV'illamette, and pledging himself
to dtjfvote his energies to securing an
appropriation from tlie General Gov
ernment to that end, certainly meets
the demands of the farmers and bus
iness men of the Willamette Valley,
and for this reason If for no other,
should receive their hearty support St
the polls on Monday.
Carried. On the 8th, the citizens
ol Pierce county, W. T., voted on the
question of granting $200,000 bonds
toward building a railroad from
Olympia to TeuGio. It was decided
jbjprtfnt the bonds by nearly 100 ma-
The Export Trade Paralysed.
The shippers of New York are in a
bad way. The export trade is at a
stand-still. One company has six
steamers waiting for freight, and the
freight will not come, for there is no
money to move it. Tlie New York
Times says this of the effect on Euro
pean steamships :
Several of the steamship lines be
tween this port and Liverpool have
determined to reduce their rates, ow
ing to the difficulty experienced in
obtaining cargoes since the pwilc, the
stringency of money preventing some
of the largest merchants from shipping
freight. A reduction of llj'd per
bushel in the freight of grain" is an
nounced by some companies, with a
view of securing shipments, but it is
feared that many an out-going vessel
will be forced to sail with only a bal
last load. The difficulty experienced
in negotiating exchanges has seriously
interfered With exports, none but the
wealthiest merchants being able to
purchase nndcrexisting circumstances.
Even firms of the highest, respectabil
ity will, it is feared, oe unable to take
ndvantage of the reduction in tariffs,
offered as an inducement by the steam
ship companies. For the most part
those vessels that have sailed obtained
a full caigo, but the superintendents
of lines fear that the next vessels will
be short of the average freight.
The Killing of WiiiTLEV.-JThe
following particulars of the killing of
A. H. Whitley at Dallas last Monday
are given in a letter to the Statesman :
It seems that Whitley and the
Glazes and Holmes had an altercation
in the afternoon in front )f the old
hotel, and weapons were drawn on
both sides, butiriends Interposed and
matters were quieted. Whitley was
persuaded by Uncle Jake Sears to
leave town to avoid bloodshed, lie
went out to his farm, but being angry
and somewhat in liquor, drove so
recklessly as to break something about
his buggy and he returned to town to
have it repaired. While standing by
the buggy in front of Teals' wagon
and blacksmith shop, giving directions
to Charley Teal about repairing the
buggy, Till Glaze came up behind him
with a Colt's navy revolver and shot
him down, one shot taking efiect in
the back of the head, coining out at
the chin, and the other striking the
left temple and coming out behind the
right ear. He expired instantly. This
is a brief statement of tlie facts as I
have gathered them lrom others, as I
was not in town at tlie time the trage
dy took place. A coroner's jury was
sworn and examined the body, but
have not yet brought in their finding.
Not a Granger. We have it from
reliable authority that J. W. Nesmith
is not a Granger docs not belong to
tlie order. So all the fine writing in
yesterday's Democrat about Oregon's
sending the first Granger to Congress
must have had reference to Hiram
Smith, who is a Granger, and who will
be our next Congressman.
. .
As to Character. While the Re
publican candklate for Congress stands
high as a gentleman of undisputed
probity, ability and honesty, socially
and morally stainless, the Democratic
candidate's first, last and only recom
mendation, even by his most ardent
admirers, is that ho is the chief black
guard of the Pacific coast.
The Farmer's Candidate. The
interests of Hiram Smith being iden
tified with the farmer's interests, he Is
the true farmer's candidate, and will
receive their votes.
The Danish Legislature was opened
on tlie Cth, No royal speech was de
livered. Morton, Rose & Co., of London,
have been appointed Fiscal Agents of
the State Department in Europe.
PACIFIC COAST NEWS.
Baker County Jail now has eleven
inmates.
The Union County Fair will open
on the 14th inst.
The comer stone of an Episcopal
Church will be laid soon at Baker
City.
Hor3e stealing is reported In the
Spokane country. Two men. Scranton
and Maize, are the ones known to be
implicated.
The gross value of the property of
Baker County Is 1072.029 ; indebted
ness and exemption, $332,991. Total
taxable property, $039,038.
FINANCIAL ANO COMMERCIAL.
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