MART. V. BROWN, EDITOR.
FRIDAY. APRIL 23, 1SS0.
run KErt Bitcix candidate fob cox-
CBESS.
Hon. M. C. George, tho Republi
can nominee for Congress, Is a Linn
county production a young man of
ability and, sj fur ns wo personally
know, of Integrity. What we Bay of
him in this respect wo stand by.
But we ask the voters of Oregon
, what experience, either Legislative
or otherwise, has tho young gentle
man exhibited that should entitle
him to tho votes of tho people? .
Oregon needs and must havo if
sho desires help from Congress a
man of practical knowledgo and ex
perience there. Whiteakor is already
there, working for our interests, and
the knowledge of his two years' term
of Congressional actions is of incalcu
lable benefit to our young common
wealth, if he is returned.
Grant, for instance, that our young
friend, George, is in eloquence and
logic all that is claimed for him by
his most partial friends, but when
our voters will recall to mind that
there are three hundred men in the
House of Rcpresentativas, and that
many other of our Congressmen from
Oregon could scarcely become ac
quainted with these gentlemen until
their timo had expired, aud with all
of their age, and experience, and el
oquence, could not reach tho ear of
the Speaker, wo ask, what would our
young and eloquent friend, George, be
able to accomplish for our people?
John Whitcaker is there at work
now. He knows tho needs of his
own State having been its first Gov
ernor and the strongest proof of his
fidelity to his people is shown by his
constant exertions in their behalf.
Melvin George is entitled to all
credit for succeeding so well in his
political aspirations, but the people,
while they might admire his honesty
and appreciate his worth, will natu
rally vote for John Whitcaker a
man of equal worth, honesty and in-
t -Higence, and a man who possesses
experience that is far more valuable
to our new country.
roxixc AErsD at last.
Ia the last issue of the Herald we
notice it has something in it advocating
the building of a railroad to Ysquina
Bay. We are glad to see it coming
around at last. For the past three
months every paper in the Willamette
Valley with the exception of it has been
warmly engaged in pushing forward the
claims of Yaquina for the reason that
it is a measure we are all greatly inter
ested in, bnt we have never noticed but
one single article in the Herald on this
subject. Is it possible that Mitchell
will not allow it to do anything in that
line t It looks very much like it to ns.
J 1ST AWAfcE.ii:.
The new-fangled concern np street
lias discovered that the Republicans of
Linn are wide-a rake ! This reminds
ns of LordChesterGeld's remark, when
he was Lieutenant of Ireland, and was
suddenly disturbed one morning by a
country magistrate, who, bursting into
his room, after having ridden all night
to announce the dreadful intelligence,
exclaimed, "My Lord, the jeople in the
north have risen ! "It is almost time,"
replied Chesterfield, quietly looking at
his watch, "it is past 9 o'clock."
EASTEEX OBEtiOX LEFT.
What has Eastern Oregon got on- the
Republican State ticket! No Con
gressman, no Supreme Judge no noth
ing. That section of country presented
the name of one of the ablest and best
lawyers and jurists ia the State Hon.
W. Lair Hill but it seemed that the
stupid body didn't want talent, but pre
ferred briefless and unknown pettifog
gers (Major Lord not included in this
category,) and Eastern Oregon was left
out !
PITT TIS, TIS TEIE.
Major Lord, of Marion county, is the
only gentleman of character and stand
ing at the Oregon Bar that the Repub
licans had the dignity and sense to nom
inate fr the Supreme Bench. Truth
compels us to state that he stands high
in his profession, and our only wonder
is that he consents to allow his name to
be sandwiched between the two almost
unknown ersons associated with Lim
on the ticket.
bU'11F11IEMY.
The mushroom np-street organ, with
ts gaMe-end ornamentation, forcibly re
minds us of what Junius once said
about self-sufficiency. Ho said that
"self-sufficiency plainly points out to us
that state of imperfect maturity at which
the graceful levity of youth is lost and
the solidity of experience not yet ac
quired." '
UDOB MOVE.
On the 12th inst. Hon. John While
aker introduced a bill in the House for
the selection of a site for a navy yard
on the northwest coast. It will be seen
that Honest John is working earnestly
and energetically for the best interests
of our people, a fact which the voters
of Oregon will remember in June.
, Jno. Whiteaxeb was the first Gov
ernor of-Qregon, and it will be to his
credit that he is the first Congress
man re-elected.
OIB COXGBESSM1X.
The Independence (Polk county)
River-Side echoes our sentiments when
it says that the re-nomination of Hon.
Jno. Whitcaker for Congress " is a just
recognition of honest, faithful service
rendered our State, and shows that our
people are not to be controlled by poli
ticians, where their interests are con
cerned. Mr. Whiteakor has earnestly
pressed upon Congress the claims of his
constituents for recognition ; and in
nothing has ho labored more assiduously
than in tho matter of the improvement
of the bar at tho mouth of Yaquina
Bay. Never in tho history of national
legislation has anything fraught with
greater interest to our young State been
presented than is this oue subject of
harbor improvement ; nor Las aid been
saked where the small sum requested
would redound to. auch immense and
permanent benefit to the State. For
this object Representative Whitcaker
has labored faithfully, and the name of
"Honest John" has become a household
word throughout most of Oregon, and
especially in the central and upper por
tions of the Willamette Valley. With
these advantages, and tho further pros
tige which the passage of this appro
priation would give him, he would be
invincible, and ids .election assured be
yond a doubt. "Honest John" is good
enough for us."
When it is remembered thut the
River-Side is an indeendent paper, ow
ing no allegiance to any party, the fore
going quotation is suggestive, and if the
people of the West Side counties, irrr
speclive of party, don't support him,
they deserre t) have the grass grow in
thetr roads and the mosa in their grain
bins. But we have every con 6 deuce in
the people of the sections referred to,
and believe that Uiey will support Con
grcssman Whitcaker, and thus vote for
their own interests. The same may be
said of the Eastern Oregon eople, for
whom he is industriously working to se
cure the opening of the Cascades of the
Columbia to unobstructed navigation ;
also those of the voters who desire im
provements at the Columbia River Bar,
Coos Bar, Tort Oiford and other sec
tions of the State can surely not forget
the untiring efforts, being made by Con
greasman Whitcaker in behalf of their
interests. His sobriety, his honesty,
energy and devotion to his constituency
will be endorsed by such a majority in
June as will-stimulate him to fresh ex
ertions in behalf of the people of his
beloved State.
As first Governor of the State cf
Oregon it is only fitting that he should
now be representing her interests (which
he knows so well) in the Halls af Con
gress.
Being a practical farmer, and not a
lawyer, it is more to his credit that he
haw proven himself one cf tho best,
safest and most intelligent public ser
vants in our Commonwealth.
Who can beat John Whitcaker ?
A SlGCESTie.
We would suggest to young gentle
men who have so freshly come to the
city, and have reputations that might
hurt them, that they be careful what
they say against o!d and resjeclable
citizens. The "freshmen" who run the
machine up street will please govern
themselves accordingly.
It is for their own sakes that we
make this suggestion. If they have
brains enough to argue and resectabil-
ity enough to maintain their position,
let them "lay on, Macduff," but our old
citizens, irrespective of party, protest
against such a gueirilla style cf warfare
as is evitced by these young gentlemen.
EEriBLICAX XOBISATIOXa.
Tho Republican State Convention,
according to our latest snformation at
the time of going to press last even
ing, bad nominated for Congress, M.
C. George, of Multnomah ; for Su
premc Judges, E. B. Watson,
of
Jackson; W. P. Lord, of Marion, and
J. B. Waldo, of Multnomah. For
Presidential Electors, E. I Apple
gate of Multnomah, Geo, B. Denny
of Grant, C. B. Watson of Lake
John II. Mitchell was elected as t
Delegate at largo to the National
Convention. Ho is "at large" in
Washington now !
AS OrEV fltlEMTIOX.
The Lake Creek boys tell us that
nalsey is liable to be Democratic. We
can scarcely believe that, when we know
that Father Caleb Gray made a speech
in the Halsey Club.'' We listened at
tentively for mora than an hour to his
speech in the Albany Court House, at
the Republican Ratification Meeting,
anil how it is possible, after running
everybody out of the house iiere, and
returning them to Halsey, that they
would not stand by "that thar" party is
a great surprise to ns ! ';
A TBIIM VI KATE MEHTIOSED COlBTEOl'g-
ET.
The "young men from New Jersey"
don't loom so much as they did since
one of them has almost admitted that
they must have "fodder." However, it
b) possible that a change of base will be
made, and. we give them the benefit of
the doubt.
They are all pleasant young gentle
men, and it is possible, and even prob
able, that tbey have been traduced, ma
ligned and villi&ed.
The people of Oregon want a Con
gressman of experience, knowledge
and statesmanship, and not a school
boy scareely out of his "teens."
nence Whitcaker will be preferred
to our young friend, George.
A IHroKTAXT Qt'EATSOSI.
A great deal of interest was mani
fested among the reading public of Ore
gon during the earl; part of, the week
by the effort on the part of J. S. Dis
trict Attorney Mallory to secure the
issuo of a wiit of Imlcas eorjtat in the
caso of Ah Lee, Chinaman, who was
cocvicted at Portland for murder last
fall and was sentenced by Judgo Bel
linger to bo hanged last Tuesday. Our
spaco forbids enlargement on the merits
of the vase. Sullico to say that the
bnll-doring efforts of Mallory to save
the Chinaman from execution failed,
and Judge Dcady refused the writ and
the Chinaman was executed in conform
ity with tho order issued from the Court
of the Fourth Judicial District.
Next week we will give tho letter of
Governor Thayer, upholding the ques
tion of State Rights, as well as Judge
Deady'i argument in refusing to grant
the writ.
The petition for the writ was based
upon the last clause of section 1 of the
XlVth amondtneut, which piovides :
"No State shall make or enforce any
law which shall abridge Ilia privileges
or immunities of the citizens of the
United States ;' nor shall any State de
prive any person of life, liberty or prop
erty without due process of law, nor
deny to any person within its jurisdic
tion the equal protection of the laws,"
and paragraphs 751 to 755 of there-
vised statutes, particularly 753.
It ia a compliment to Gov. Thayer
that he stood by the doctrine of State
Rights in this case, and so ably and em
phatically denounced tho attempt of the
IT. S. Courts, to interfere with our State
Court?, as an unwarrantable intrusion
There has been a growing tendency
to centralization of oer throughout
our country that has very justly
alarmed the lovers of a republican form
of government, and it is just such ac
tions as were evinced in this Chinese
case, and the recent Virginia cases, that
have put the "thtukiug cap" on the
patriots of the country and called their
attention to dangers over which they
had apparently taken a Rip Van Win
kle sleep. Gov. Thayer lias vindicated
his prerogative as Executive in seeing
that the rights of the S'ate Courts are
rescted and vindicated, and by his
prompt action in this matter our young
Oregon stands at the head of the heap
as the champion of the right of States
to regulate their own domestic concerns
according to their own judgment exclu
sively. CBITt
That o!d and respectable Republi
can paper of Albany the Rcieter
apparently doesn't propose to be
wiped out by tho New Machine or
gan. Hear what "tlio plucky Van
Clove has to say about it :
Mr. Thad. Han ford has become as
sociated with us in tho publication of
the Regitder. tile is a newspaper
worker of practical experience and
success, and we hall tho accession of
his facile pen, and practical abilities
as a worker to our ranks a a favora
ble omen for the Republican cause in
our county and Mate.
Having added to our working
force wo hope to be able to furnish a
paper of increased value,, and one
every way more worthy and accept
able to the reading public than in the
past. It is our purpose at an early
day to enlarge and otherwise im
prove tho Register, making it in every
respect the equal if not superior to
any weekly journal Jn the State.
Look out for the Register It proposes
to keep on top.
lEOlBLE It CAMP.
What's tho matter in the t was ted
banner precinct of tho Linn ItadI
cals? We mean Halsey. Tho faith
ful undertook to organizo a political
Club up there Iho other day and they
got into such a wrangle and cat-hauling
that the effort almost busted up
In a prodigious row. However, they
finally succeeded in organizing a part
of themselves into a Club (not a
salino elm one) when the dissenting
end of tho Club indignantly left the
hall and now talk of getting them
selves together and building another
Club.
Meantime the Democrats up there
sit quietly by, whittle their pine
boxes and enjoy the fun.
The Herald of. last week charged C.
P. Burkhart with refusing to hire white
men aud doing all his harvesting last
year with Chinese. This shot is just
about like all the other blank charges
fired from that "Gattling.", When Mr.
Burkhart got ready to do his harvesting
last season labor was extremely scarce,
and he did hire Chinese for the simple
reason that he had to, or lose lis crop,
Now, you gentlemen that are so anx
ious to conduct a campaign by circu
lating slanderous reports on the Demo
cratic candidates, please ask S. A. Daw
son (your most prominent candidate for
the Legislature) if he used any Chinese
labor during the last harvest. lie will
answer yon "yes.
TEITH.
All men wish to have truth on their
side : but few to be on the side of the truth.
Whately.
Our young friends up tho ' street
who undertake to charge that per
sons have robbed or swindled any
State or people should study this an
cient axiom before they get too bois
terous in their charges. ' ': 5
It will be a bitter pill for the Mitch
ell organ over the way to come out and
give a hearty support to M. C. George.
He was the Register's candidate, and
we have never noticed the Herald puff
ing him to any great extent.
MB.,TILDEVS A DIB AC Y.
The pertinacity with which tho
associated press, dominated an it is
by stalwart influences, scatters broad
cast every possiblo semblanco of a ru
mor which can bo tortured into an
indication that Mr. Tlldon has with
drawn, or is about to withdraw, from
tho list of candidates for tho nomina
tion ut tho Cincinnati Convention,
shows moro plainly than all besides
how desperately the managers of tho
Republican boom fear the quiet man
of Grammercy Park and tho tidal
wave of enthusiasm which hU candi
dacy will bo sure to invoko. Theso
managers know full well how deeply
seated in the bosoms of an active
working majority of the American
peoplo is the conviction that ho was
choused out of tho l'rosldoncy by the
Jugglery ef tho llttlo game of 8 to 7,
They know that his candidacy In
volves tho remorseless probings of
the ways nnd menns by which that
iniquity was engineered to a tempo
rarily successful conclusion, and with
an avidity by no means strango un
der tho circumstance, but which
docs far moro credit to their cunning
than to their sense of honor nnd fair
play, they keep in motion every pos
siblo appliance which can tend to tho
accomplishment of a result which
they fondly but vainly lmsglno will
leave them in iKMseselon of tho se
crets by which their Infamour design
was accomplished.
All this is very well in its way.
Theso manipulators of election re
turns are probably right from their
standpoint In desiring to keep the
record of their In'umy from public
view. But all this will avail them
nothing in the day of public trial for
their high crimes and misdemeanor.
Their struggles to postpone, for a
while; if not indefinitely, tho day of
exposure would, possibly, bo affect
Ing, if they wero not amusing. What
do theso people suppose they will
havo accompllsnod if by false reports
of withdrawals, fulso reports of paral
ysls and other ailments, idle tales of
combinations of rill road and other
corporate Interests, they succeed
In so working upon a possibly pliable
portion of tho membership of tho
Cincinnati Convention as to render
Mr. Tlldcn's nomination unadvlsable
or even impossible? Do they sup
pose that under any other leadership,
that of Bayard, Thurman, Fields,
Hendricks or any standard bearer,
the Democratic party will go Into the
contest, oblivious of tho past and un
mindful of tho wrongs to which they
have been subjected? Do they sup
pose there will bo any tho less a rat
tling of dry bones of tho stalwart
sanhedrim because another man than
Mr. Tilden shall happen to bo the
standard bearer? If they do they
are wofully mistaken. Tho Demo
cratic party Is going Into this contest
to win. There ! no Radical lie so
braxon that it will not bo exposed ;
no Radical pretense so cunning that
the mask will not bo stripped from
its hideous deformity ; no cock and
bull story about a sullen and rebellious
South that will not bo disproved ; no
silly outgiving about Southern States
being retrogressive that will not be
contradicted by tho facts and figures
which show in the t-etton and sugar
States a vast Increase In tho produc
tion of these staples, In the manufac
turing States, Georgia, East Tennes
see and others, tho cheering evidence
of new factories built, new mines
opened, now forests Invaded by the
lumberman and sawyer. Tho facts
and figures aro being colatod and the
truth is going to be made known.
' These gentlemen (by courtesy) will
find before the campaign of 1 SSO Is
over that they havo already spent a
great deal of money uselessly In the
Undo Tom's Cabin boom that they
started some two years ago; that it is
all very well perhaps to lay In a
stock In trade of false premises and
false deductions but that their theo
ries do not always win. Radicalism
has been tried for twenty years. In
dividuals nave been pampered to the
sore discomfort of tho masses and
corporations havo been fostered to
the impoverishment of the producing
classes. This sort of thing has gone
on almost long enough and the Amer
ican people have come to tho conclu
slon that since the powers that be do
not seem disposed to give them a
fair chance they will take one for
themselves, and that Tilden or no
Tilden, they propose by tho grace of
God and the force of the ballot to
have one moro Democratic President,
Just for luck. -, ' '".
- In this , connection we simply ad
vise our Democratic brethren to give
but little hoed to the blatheralions of
the associated press about Mr. Tll
dcn's withdrawal from the Presiden
tial race, and in the meantime keep
themselves prepared to vote for the
nominee and see that their friends do
the same. ' :';:,? v.'-' 5
BOOHttfG.
We are pleased to learn from Wasco
county letters that Fred. Hill is daily
growing in popular estimation,' and that
his election for Sheriff is assured by an
overwhelming majority.: , He belongs to
a family that assisted Linn county in
upholding the banner of Democracy,
and we are glad to see his services ap
preciated by the unterrified Democracy
pf WSBCO. -,''t:fi !;: .;. ,t ,' ' ; i- I-,-
M. C. George is nominated for
Congress by the Republican Conven
tion at Portland.
WUITEAKEB, til FBISTEB'S fBIEXD.
Our Washington corrcspondent.un-
dor date of the 7th inst, states that
on the day before there was a very
significant vJte in the House on the
motion to suspend the rules and pass
Mr. Townsend' bill placing on tho
freo list printing typo, printing pa
per, and all materials used In the
manufacture of paper. Tho vote in
favor ef suspending the rules was 113
yeas to 80 nays. Though the major.
Ity full short of the required two
thirds, it was largo enough to show
that tho bill Is certain of - passage
could it bo presented in the regular
order. It indicates, morover, that
the bill placing wood-pulp on the
free list, as well as that taking tho
duty off salt, would, If presented as
Independent propositions, bo passed
under ft suspension of the rules.
Thero wero only 10 Republicans in
the majority in favor of Mr. Town-
send's bill, and but 13 Democrats In
tho minority against it. One of the
most Influential Republican Journals
In commenting on the subject says :
"Tho course of the riejubllcnn load
ers in Congress In Identifying their
party with the maintenance of all
tariff duties, however unproductive
and odious, Is defensible neither on
grounds of statesmanship nor consid
erations of expediency. Tho ques
tion of readjusting the tariff may en
ter more largely Into the political Is
suos of the fall campaign than will be
ptonHant or profitable for the Republi
can Representatives who approve ef
this kind of leadership."
In thbt connection wo want to state
that our noble, squaro and honorable
Rcprccntatlve,Jno. Wblteaker,tood
by tho question of ant I-tariff, and his
volo is so recorded.
the Tasirr iKnes.
In our platform upon which Hon
Jno. Whlleaker was renominated we
have a plank on the tariff question
a question that is loudly calling for
attention at the hands of the people
at Urge, and notably of those en
gaged In Agriculture. Tho apathy
that exists among the farming popu
lation on this and other kindred top
ics of vital Importance to them, Is de
plorable. Dairymen complain occa
sionally of tho protection afforded at
their expense to a few Onondaga salt
men In New York State, bat even
they have recently shown, as at Har
vard the other day, a disposition to
do nothing but a little grumbling,
while the farmers at large go on sub
mitting to bo taxed on everything
they use, from a tenponny nail to the
clothes on their back, from their chil
dren's school books to their farming
implements, without more than an
occasional whine of discontent.
If the farmors, prior to tho Jail elec
tions, would exact from every candi
date for election to the National Leg
Mature a idedgo on these Important
subjects, they would get It every
time, whether from Republicans or
Democrats. Neither party would
venture to alienate the agricultural
vote this year, and tbey (the farm
ers) can safely undertake to pursue
the course we have indicated without
tho least fear of detaching themselves
from either of the political parties to
which they actually belong.
WHAT Witt BElTr
'Llsh Applegato for Presidential
Elector on the Republican ticket in
Oregon, presents an anomaly in poli
tics seldom equalled and never ex
celled ! Only a few months ago he
was making speeches and claiming to
bo the g-r-o-a-t a postle of the Green
back doctrine, and was denouncing
the Radical party as the special apol
gists for and upholders of tho bond'
holders. -
But a change has come over the
spirit of his dreams, probably by rea
son of a custom hou.se appointment
recently received, and he last
Wednesday in the face of Reformer
Hayes' order that nofederalappointee
shall figure In politics accepted the
nomination of Elector!
The Question is. what will the
flexile character do next ? "
"till BUB.
We wero misinformed as to the
Democratic nominee for. Sheriff of
Umatilla county when we stated that
It was the present Sheriff, J. L. Sper.
ry. However, tho mistake Is not a
bad one, since it Is a Linn county
Democrat anyway. Mr. T. J. Lucy,
who. for many years lived at Harris-
burs, In this county, and haa been
subscriber to tbo Desiocsat for four
teen years. If the solid Democracy
of Umatilla want to place one of the
"Old Guard" on duty they will stand
steadfast to T. J. Xucy.
THE BICHT AN IS THE BlilUT M.ACB.
Hon. Robert Clow, the Democratic
candidate for Joint Senator from Polk
and Benton, is "the right man in the
right place." His record In the Leg
islature several years ago bespeaks
his honesty, his fidelity and his abili
ty, and the people of both Benton
and Tolk know . his worth so well
that it is scarcely wertH our while to
urge his election.
All Democrats shQdd remember
that a vote against O. P. Coshow is one
in favor of John Hippie Mitchell for
United States Senator. Should Capt
Humphrey be elected you would have
the exquisite pleasure of seeing him
vote for the Republican caucus nomi
nee, and you all know who he will be.
EprreBiAL reisTS.
Joe Webber's appointment as census
taker meets with universal satisfaction.
Billy Walk ins is an excellent and
popular green grocer. (We don't mean
that Billy is "green I")
Boaconsfield reads no novels but his
own. Axclmnae.
He must be a novel reader.
"Gulliver's Travels" have been dra
matizedso says an exchange. If that
is true the three Lilliputians who run
the concern up street ought to have
dead-head tickets to the show.
"Give me liberty or give me death,"
said the first stray fly of the season
when he lit on our talented scissors last
Saturday, We leave the intelligent
reader to imagine which he got plunked
to him.
Gladstone ia fooling away his time at
the foot of the throne in England, try
ing to be Prime Minister, and writing
poetry on the sly, when he could get 75
seats m day for editing Mitchell papers
in Oregon I
"Vou't slop over, toy dear young
man, is a poetic quotation, aud might
apply to the heroic youth who was
brave enough to spread his name at the
glittering dome of the Mitchell organ
in our own modest city.
The London Timet says "OuU" has
written a new novel entitled " Moths.
According to 'Webster's dictionary
moths breed ia yarns. It ia bad that
the popular novelist should strike square
from the shoulder at the boys up street.
Bro. VanCleve must fight fur his
rights and prominence now, or the as
piring triumvirate will lug him off with
alt the honors that have clustered about
bia head for years pant. How can be
stand quietly by and see a Richmond
tote off what a Kit-hard should possess!
The fiaasco (it is a hard word to
spell) made by the Republican State
Convention this week, is doing them in
finite damage already. If the "fi" and
" co". were chiseled off and the middle
syllable left to stand it would indiaate
about what the people thiok the Con
vention made of itself.
bus Bwsirr.
All efforts to mtch np a peace be
tween the two factions of the New
York Democracy seem to come to
naught. A movement was recently or
ganized In that State, beaded by Au
gust Belmont and ex Governor Dors-
bettaer. Tbey have been organizing
what they were pleased to call " Demo
cratic Unions' throughout the State,
far the purpose of briJgihg over the
chasm in the rty. In puisuance of
this step a committee from the local
Democratic Union visited Mr. Tilden at
his borne and made overture to him
looking to a healing of the breach.
Tilden told the committee plainly that
he would none of it. He said :
If anybody must retreat it should be
Mr. John Kelly ; but whether he re
treats or not is nothing to me, and it
can be of very little consequence to the
party at large. The cause which I rep
resent is a national cause, and the prin
ciple which would necessarily be em
bodied in uv renoulination, should such
an event occur, would he the principle
that the will of tbe people as expressed
at the ballot-box is supreme, and moat
be respected. There en be no restraint
from, nor any compromise of these po
sitions, and ao far as I am concerned
they will be maintained at all hazards.
As for Kelly, he is but a gross type of
a ward pelitician, and but for bis ast
ciation with my name at St. Louis, he
would never have been heard from be
yond tbe purlieus of New York City.
VLATTEBiSfl CwBrUMEsT.
The following la relation to the
platform adopted by the late Demo
cratic Stale Convention is taken from
the Commercial Reporter, of Port-
hind :
The platform, taken as a whole,
will recommend itself to many inde
pendent voters not allied with tbe
Democratic Tarty. Placing itself
fairly and squarely on the tariff for
revenuo only, will carry much weight
with ' the commercial class In this
city. It remains now to be seen
what the Republicans will put for
ward In their platform, and also who
they will nominate for the various
offices to be filled, after which we
can write more Intelligently and dis
cuss tho position from an independ
ent standpoint.
Excusai CBera.
The Mark Lane Erprett, of the 1st
March, speaking of the agricultural
prospects in the United Kingdom,
say that reports show that farm work
has been pushed forward during tho
spell of open weather, but spring
work is still backward on clay soils
that were not ploughed early In the
autumn. The accounts of tjie young
wheat are more favorable, as the
plant shows itself, and In the caso of
the earlier sown wheats the , testimo
ny, generally, speaks of a healthy
plant plenty thick enough.
BTTE 1X AB1AWCE. " k,,.,.
It is quite funny that the boys up
the street think they have lain an
Easter egg. The chicken has flown
and only left a nest egg which Is al
ready pronounced rotten by tho coro
ner, :', - V
A New Yoek belle was married the
other day in ber grandmother's wedding
dress, made 70 years ago. Jfobody ob
jected to the antiquity : on the Con
trary, the moire antique the better.
- - . , ii m m m ,:.
BI. Ci George Is a popular Linn
county boy, personally but Jno.
Whiteaker will beat bim In our owu
county over S50 majority.
re A0 SOXHOE.
Judge McAktuub for Judge and
our young friend Bailey for Prosecuting
Attorney of the Fifth District seem to
meet with general approbation.
Wuethee it is a compliment or not
Oregon is the first State in the Union
that has shown the blood to successful
ly hang a Chinaman.
Tun Bute of Kentucky paid fi 0,000
bounty for fox scalps last year.
FoittTKKir new gold mines have been
discovered in Eastern Siberia.
Upwards of 1,442 persons 'in the
British Empire enjoy hereditary titles.
Fsaxciscax friars have gone into the
wine business extensively at Los An
geles, Cal.
The Parisian authorities estimate the
damage done by tbe "floating ice in the
Paris district alone at (700,000.
It is expected that under the re as-
assessment of property that is to take
place in Virginia,there will be a shrink
age In value of Jabout twenty-five per
cent.
Sl'uae made iu Louisiana costs $10
per hogshead to produce it, and from
one and a half to two hgbeads can be
made to the acre, worth from $120 to
1 1C0. t
';. The Standing Committee of the Soci
ety of Friends in Blaine are taking steps
to oppose the projtosed re-enrctment of
the law providing fur capital puuub
meat in that State.
Tub French Government has agreed
to the proposal to buy up and pull
down the buildings adjoining the ns
tional Ubrarv, so as to secure it from
the danger of fire. Tbe cost will I
3,500,000 francs.
The new Geographical Society of
Japan Las just published, on a large
scale, a map of tbe City of Yeddo. Tbe
names of districts, streets and tbe like
are inserted both in Japanese and I At in
characters.
Tilt authorities of Goths have made
their report for the year 1879 on the
subject of cremation. The first body
was treated on tbe lOlh of December,
1878, since when fifteen others have
been similarly disposed of.
, Aboct 11,000,000 are invested aad
2,000 persona are engaged ia the manu
fact u re of shoes ia Auburn, Me., and
4,000,000 pairs f hhoea were turned
out last year, which is an increase of
more than tweaty-five per cent, over
1878. .. ,
TBS ATTACK OS W f. CV
The Postal Commission, in its attack
on the express management of Messrs.
Wells, Fargo k Co., has already discov
ered that it has made a mistake, and
will probably retreat from its present
attitude.
Wells, Fargo & Co. 'a Express Com
pany is a household title on the Pacific
coast, where during winter anowetspring
slush and summer's heat, through moun
tain fastnesses beset by robbers and
desperadoes, tbey have aafuly carried
the miner's treasure to its destination.
True, it was a matter of business for
tbe Express Company to do their work
well and faithfully, as their reputation
was at stake, but many times, as our
Pacific coast people know, they and
their messengers have gone through
trials and perils which entitle them to
the esteem and confidence of our peo
ple. ' "
In the language of an Oregon ex
change, "we re glad to see that all the
newspapers of the Fecitio eoast are tak
fng sides with Wells, Fargo k Co. in
the late attack made by tbe Postal Com
mission upon that company. It has
stirred np a feeling of indignation all
over the coast, even to the smallest min
ing camp. No, the people of this aide
of the Rockies cannot well do without
the aid of Wells, Fargo k Co. in carry
ing our letters, and we are pleased to
see our people so unanimous iu protest
ing against any changes being made.
LOST BU "TBHtEB."
' "Whistled as he went for want of
thought',' , would, applylo the Alle;
ghanian whose name Illuminates the
masthead ef the new organ up street.
He surely might baye known, If he
had cogitated for a moment, that
Linn county people, even if they dif
fered broadly in politics, would hot
desire their friends and neighbors
abused. -
; Bcsn Wilsox's nomination for Clerk
in Benton county was so unanimous as
to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that
the convention was packed, , and the
average independent Republican eusseth
muchly thereat. We heard some very
damaging rumors against Bush, and
they will probably be made " public in
due time. '
Date Fkomax's candidate for Sheriff
J. J. Charlton was in town this
week trying to fix things, but hia work
djdn't amount to much, lis is just the
grist that our Miller will get away with,
toll and ell. If Froman. could nomi
nate him over tbe heads of Carter and
Conn he cannot elect him.
M. L. Pipes, of Independence, is one
of the Democratic candidates for the
Legislature over in Polk county. . He
is a highly educated and talented gen
tleman, gad the Polk county, people
will reflect honor upon themselves by
electing him.
, Box, John T. Hughes will be the
next Clerk of Benton county, or else
we are most sadly mistaken.
THIRD TEBH ALPHABET.
(From Fuck.)
A is for Accl-Dcnt giving us
Grant;
B Babcock, Bilknap two EuII
pups wo chant.
C Is for . Corbln and Colfax and
Crlmo ;
D Han Domingo nnd Drunk nil the
time. ' .
E Is Election by seven i) eight ;
P is the Fraud nod black Friday
we hafe.
G is tho Grab in which Grant took
a hand ;
II is for' Harrington wearing the
brand. I
I for Ignoring tho ways of the
past; !
J Is for Jesse who stuck the stamps
fast.
K U for Kings on whom Grant loves
to fawn.
L is for "Let us havo peacV ia a
horn;
M is for Murphy of "Lift -Storking"
caso ;
N for Nepethmi and Navd dis
grace. O is fmor Orvill; now laid on the
shelf; '
P Purler, Preneiils, Po-t-irjder-shlps,
par.
Q ' U the Quiet so sweet fo a slave;
R li Lit Robeson of navies the
Nave.
8 Sylph and Shepard the boss of
the ring;
T the Third Term on the people to
spring.
U Is onr Union that once euml -
secure.
V is our Vengeance low-coming,
but sure.
W William and Whisky not
f tralght ;
X Is Xposures of wickedness great.
Y Is Youre!f who most tou-teup
and act.
Z is the Zeal that no patriot e'er
lacked.
ia rornTBr dijm.sk e.
Here is a dispatch which fully ex -"
plains itself : .
Washissgtox, April 3. Senator Wal
lace, on behalf of the majority of the
Senate select committee on alleged
frauds in the lajte election, submitted a
special report ooacerning political as
sessments. It asya that the whole sum
received by the Itepublican committee
in the summer and fall of 1S78 from
federal officials was $93,000, and tbe
whole sum received from other sources
was $130,000. Clerks were solicited
in every department of tbe government
and the chiefs of ten headed aubci-i-tion
lists, Circulars were sent a second
time when a response failed. It is the
custom to discharge the employes who
fail to contribute. Tbe committee
thinks that the statute of 1876 is
dead letter, and reori for adoption a
bill making it unlawful for office-holders '
and employes of tbe United States to
contribute any valuable thing for polit
ical purposes, or pay assessment or ad
vance or lend money for that purpose,
prohibiting the head of a department or
superior officer from collecting or allow
ing collection or receipt from any sub
ordinate or contributions for- political
purpose. The penalty provided is a
prohibition from holding office thereaf
ter. Wallace, Bailer, Garland, McDon
ald and Kernan agreed to the report of
himself. Kirk wood, Ifoar and Blair.
Here it is not ouly shown that most
infamous and corrupt practices have ex
isted even under the immaculate "re
former,' Hayes, but that every Radical
Senator who was on this investigating
ommittee has resolved to cover it up !
Could moral tuqutude, political trick
ery or dishonest statesmanship reach a
lower level than Teller, Kirkwoo,
Hoar and Blair have exhibited' in the
matter of attempting tj prevent tl;e
discontinuance of these most shameful
abuses t .
RflTliE.
W. M. Ramsey, the Democratic eaar
didate for Judge of this District, is a
most estimable gentleman. He is not
what may be called a politieian. He a
a lawyer, and the equal of any man in
the District Perhaps he does not fully
endorse the present administration, and
it is certain he did not endorse the Gro-rer-Chadwick
one, Ife is not politi
cian enough to ally himself with either
wing of his party, lie is a lawyer,
and as such would wor k for either, for
good legal fees. As Judge ho will be
impartial, and decide upon merits re
gardless of political prejudice. Neither
wing will find in him a political friend,
but .both a judge who will decido a
cording to law and facts. If elected he
will make a good judge, and the man
who outstrips bim in the race must not
sleep on his arms. -ralem Tor Tali
Independent,
Q4KTO PBAHU,
Jlilton JJ. Abbott, at one Wipe eon.
nectDd with tho Djsiogwr and f:
terwards with several other papers
In Oregon and Washington, has gone
to Boise City to take charge of the
Idato Democrat.
Georgia will get a big sum for edu-
ufi.n.1 mi vrwtrti ,f iltA rknnlinf 1.711 f,w
selling public . lands shall pass Con
gress. ... .
Wages the sweet oil with whiih'
human machinery is greased. .
Subscribe for the Democrat.
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