Albany Register.
V. N. OnirJnl Pnper tor Oreiron.
SATURDAY. MAY 9, 1874.
To my Fellow nemoertita of Linn
Comity.
Tlio biennial farce of holding a
convention, called Democratic, for
the purpose of nominating candi-j
dates for the county offices for the i
onsuinsr two years, has been again
enacted, and the result is as usual.
Three precincts, containing alsnit
two-fifths of the population of the
county, have gobbled up everything
worth having, leaving to the re
maining three-fifths, the duty and
the glory of electing them next
Juue. For instance : The 1 iterative
offices are Clerk, Sheriff, Judge,
Treasurer, school Superintendent,
Assessor and Surveyor.
The offices of Clerk and Sheriff
are either of them worth move than
all the others. Albany gets the
Clerk, Treasurer and School Super
intendent, who was brought for
ward, however, by Brownsville,
his former home. Brownsville has
the Sherift, and Harrisburg retains
the Judge, who holds over.
These precincts also have more
than their full share of the other
offices, tour Representatives, one
Senator and one Commissioner, leav
ing lor the other three-fifths of the
county two Representatives, two
Senators, one Commissioner, the
Assessor and the Surveyor. Al
most every one of the Thirty
Thousand Dollars to be paid out
pf the' county Treasury or the
pockets of the people, as fees or
salaries to these officers, if elected,
will be paid to citizens of those
three precincts. The ring did their
work well and thoroughly.
But it will no doubt be said that
this is merely an accident it just
happened so. Let us see if the
nominations are not in the habit of
happening so. Two years ago the
same three precincts obtained Judge,
School Superintendent, Clerk,
Sheriff, Treasurer, Surveyor, three
Representatives, one Commissioner,
and retained both Senators, they
holding over, leaving for the rest
of us two Representatives and one
Commissioner, and the Assessor:
"just that, and nothing more."
But this may have been only a re
markable coincidence very re
markable. Let us examine the
nominations of the preceding con
vention. Those three precincts re
sevved to themselves the Judge,
Clerk, Sheriff, Treasurer, Superin
tendent, Assessor, Surveyor, both
Senators, loth Commissioners, and
fhten Representatives, I think;
leaving for the rest of the county
tic Representatives. This appears
to be a more remarkable coincidence
than ever, so remarkable that I
cannot but admire the skill and the
unblushing, unscrupulous audacity
of the men who engineerd it
through.
The fact is, a ring was formed
lefore the Convention of 1870, in
those three precincts, with two or
three smaller precincts, which were
wheedled into the combination, and
this ring still exists, as is plainly
proved. It may be denied, for they
have t) ie cheek ot the devil; but
any man who "knows the history of
the last tbjee conventions, and di
belieres the existence of that ring,
Moppet lie is atxl ajwajs
must be nothing better than au
ass.
The Forks wanted the office ot
Sheriff, and presented a good man,
an honest farmer, and a gentleman ; j
but that office was too good a thing
to let go; they couldn't begin to
, . . . ,) ' i l
snare that; but as it would not do i
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to snub us entirely (they may need
our votes next June), they scattered
a tew crumbs over here that they
did not want; to keep us quiet in
harness
ess till after the election, when
,., .
an acrain go to errass like trusty
. ? . . ,
We can
work-norses atter trie spring plow-
i n. .t i
i"g-
The Monkers have influence
and command a good many votes
they gave one of them a Senator-j
ship ; no money in it, but a great
deal of honor, you know, which is
what the people of the Forks most
need. The Shcltons, also, have
many votes, and' one of them is to !
be Representative again wore i
honor, you know; and the Curl's j
, t ft ' i ..
and Bilyeu's and Crabtrees are all ;
connected more or less, and it
wouldn't do to slight them entirely,
there's too many of them, but they j
arc very cheap so are all the !
people in the Forks. A very poor
bone will satisfy them, you know;
and So the ring gave John Curl the
Assessor's place, the only thing
worth a cent they did not hag as
usual, and that not worth much-
Young Bryant got the nomination
for Surveyor, simply from the tact ,
that none ot the ring felt qualified
to fill the office. The rest of the
county, East and North of Albany
and Brownsville, were not worth j collection of thirty-three hymns
noticing, and received not a crumb, j printed for convenience and use on
though polling at least a fourth of tlie 8treets
the votes ot the county; nor have ! t young German clergyman of
, , ,.. ' Hamilton, Ohio, who was active in
they had anything of any conse- the work hftg been lwice chaged by
qnence for years, since the ring took, a mobj wh0 have threatened his
matters in hand. They presented
good men, but no matter what a
man's abilities may be, or how good
his reputation, for personal and
political honor and fidelity, so far
as his chances for a nomination to
any office worth anything is con
cerned, in a so-called Democratic
Convention of Linn county, be
might as well be a negro, be in
China, or be dead, as to be opposed
to the ring. Truly all things are
lovely and the goose hangs high,
but we'll cook it next June.
More anon. i
Bedrock Democrat.
W. A. George, on a hunting ex
pedition with some friends in Texas,
concluded to frighten them by im
itating the cry of a panther. It
was night, and he crawled up into a
tree for the' purpose. They were
startled from their sleep by the clev.
er imitation, and one.of them fired
into the tree where he saw the taint
outline of a movins body. Georsro
was hit severely, aud tumbled down
at the feet of hisj companions.
Gardener, who was pardoned out
of jail at Walla Walla by the Gov
ernor a few days ago, could not
stand prosperity. He got drunk and
was locked up in jail before night.
The Odd Fellows' ball at Olym
pia last Monday was one of the most
brilliant affairs that has transpired
in that place for some time.
The Woolen Factory at Dayton
has been turning out a quantity of
fine goods, which are being put in
the market at Walla Walla and
Iewiston.
Olympia and Sound people are
1 still awaiting the arrival of the
.fegofcrly, , , $hhx
Temperance Topics.
A tale of misery the cock-tail.
The crusaders will be called up
on to remove the "bars" from Mis-
assippi.
A Xew England paper says
ConiWftfcmt is discussing the tern-
Derance question pro and Conn,
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fcvery woman connected with
t,C ,empmiice mmmmt op
for a censor morum, but not in the
sense o' more rum.
It is so bad in Ohio that when
a vy of school girls go out for a
walk the saloon keepers put up
i i -i ... ,
'heir shutters and also wails out at ,
tiie i,ack (jwr
At Hartford City (Indiana) all
the saloons are closed.,
Mrs. Elizabeth Oakes Smith, the
veteran authoress, is leading the
woman s temperance crusaue on
Long Island.
The liquor drank in Xew York
city vear wtmId supply the (Jro-
ton pipes for at least two days as a
substitute tor water.
The winding ways of the drunk-
a,fl f Uie fuj erf
continue, are likely to take the
of a -vftte ri,CK
Fort Wam (In(3i) lailgnishes
for th0 temperance tidal wave.
Logansport has tried hard, but can
rePyrt "' a 002011 conversions,
They have got the seizure busi
ness down to a tine point at the
Hub. A young man was arrested
in Boston the other day because he
had a case ot bottled cider under
his arm.
Jefferson (Ind.) is a stubborn
town. Several saloon keepers, how-
uvor ailmit t.lto ladiixe til nrav
' ,,
1 lie e.ciu mem ttb i Muwiiunmuii
(Illinois) is intense. The leading
worker is the Catholic priest.
The Ladies of Columbus have a
life.
A writer in the Cincinnati Ga
zette predicts with seeming exulta
tion, that ninety per cent, of those
who have signed the pledge will
return to their old ways.
Two iiew wards have been crea
ted in Springfield, Illinois, which
iusures a radical temperance city
government. Five hundred signed
the pledge at a recent meeting.
Woman imposters are taking
' advantage of the temperance move-
j ment m Cincinnati by begging
j money, ostensibly to aid the cause,
but really tor their own use.
At a meeting in Chicago it was
announced that a Presbyterian in
that city had allowed his stores
to stand idle for two years rather
than rent them for the sale of rum.
No wonder Kentucky is so incor
rigibly Bourbouish. In a single
revenue district of that State there
are sixty distilleries in operation,
making 350,000 gallons ot whisky
a month.
I In Steubenville, Ohio, the drug-
gipts and doctors refuse to take the
j nledire tresented to them, but
offered to sign one of their own.
This was not accepted. The street
crusade is to be begun.
The druggists of Loudonville,
Ohio, have all succumbed to the
pleadiug of the temperance women
who are now nearly ready to at
tend to the saloon keepers. Prayer
meetings are held day aud evcumg
in all the churches.
The Supreme Court of Indiana
having decided that saloon keepers
are not responsible tor the acts of
their barkeepers, the crusaders pro
pose instituting a series of legal
experiments to determine the ques
tion, "who are?"
As the result of the ladies' work
in Upper Sandusky, recently, the
Morgan brothers hung out a white
flag. A little later James Pierson
run op a flag witb the word. "ir.
wilder" upon it, and suspended an
iwwted. totttedbefore W establish,
At Galena, at an immense meet
ing a unanimous vote was passed
to vote at the coming election tor
no license.
It is contended by District At
torney Briggs of Westchester, New
York, that the old law of 1857,
authorizing the sale of liquor to lie
drunk qn the premises, by inn
keepers alone, is st II in force.
Dr. Guthrie said heconcientionsly
believed that more people have
been destrovod 1V intoxicating
drink than were lost when the del-
us,e MVe,,t tne earth. If we under.
stand the doctor ari"ht. it is his
. . , UU0WI "" " '
0,)imfm Hat more iieop e have been
pinion
killed by alcohol than by water.
Tho temperance crusade is a gin
u-wine movement against the sup
porters of rum-an-tic dealers in
all-colic liquors. The only troub'e
about it and what ales it the most
is that by its dram-atic spirit it ex
cites the rye-sibility of those who
witness it.
A tem)crance society in San
Francisco arrays itself against the
habit of saying, "W'tiat'll you
have?'' "Come let's take a drink,"
or anything of the kind. The
members do not approve of total
abstinence; they only solemnly
pledge themselves not to pay for
any other man's drink, nor to drink
at the bar with anybody. The so
ciety is serious in its intentions, be
lieves that the conviviality of bar
rooms is the cause of most intem
perance, and has a membership of
standing and influence.
Church Services. Rev. John
Babcock, of the Episcopal Church,
Salem, will hold services, at the
Congregational Church, on Monday
evening, May 11th, 1874, All are
invited.
The materials for a complete his
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being collected.
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