fiuday. ZMABCHlsra:
EBEE LEOTUBES.
Tlie editor of this paper will give free
lectures at the Court House in Portland
on Friday ami Saturday evenings of
this week. Subject for this evening
Bible mid "Woman. Replies, comments
and criticisms respectfully solicited by
the speaker. Subject for Saturday even
ing left to the decision of the audience.
MBS. MILLER'S LECTUBE.
We had the pleasure of hearing Mrs.
Millers effort upon "Man" the other
evening, and take pride in pronouncing
it good. It was throughout a most able
ami convincing argument in favor of
woman's inalienable right to life, lib
erty and the pursuit of happiness. Her
keen appreciation of poetry, wit and
sarcasm- shines forth among her sen
fences like pearls among flowers. She
builds up her beautiful structure of Hu
mn Rights and then stands off and
throws pebbles at it, just to show what
a solid building she has chosen to erect
and how futile are the efforts of men
and women to shake it from its strong
foundations. Then, too, she flatters
weak-minded men, -who have so much
more cash than brains that tney aro
able to pay for their intellectual treats,
wiille they cannot possibly comprehend
them. Such men swell her audiences
and make her business profitable, while
wise awl prudent "Woman Suffragists,
who would go out anyhow to hear her,
lire strengthened in their faith by her
beautiful Weals of motherhood. It is
nothing to us just now why she failed
to show how motherhood could become
better without a corresponding improve
ment in fatherhood, 'flint would have
frightened the weak-minded men before
mentioned, and the newspapers would
have either fought or ignored her, which
we know they will not do till she comes
out strong for Woman Suffrage, without
Uie feints at demolishing her own argu
ment which were so amusing to her
""progressive listeners.
Mrs. Miller cannot forget that to
WoriMm Suffrage she owes the possibil
ity for a deserted wife to rise from deg
rcdalion and poverty and shine forth in
the queenly dignity of her own intel
lect. She does not forget that when
the whole literary world was ablaze
with the praises of her apostate anti
eftTrage hufeuaml, Woman Suffrage Cear-
leahly threw down the gauntlet in be
half of an oppressed, down-trodden
mother, and holding aloft her virtues
Ml ability, showed to the world the
keen injustice of consigning her to the
ignominy of a Zantipjie, the misrepre
sentations of a lady Byron, or to the
solitude ami loneliness of the deserted
wife of Milton, Buiweror Dickens.
"Wo hope she will repeat her lecture
everywhere.
BETEIBUTION -HATH OVERTAKEN
HIM.
The puny creature who for several
seasons lias presided as an irrascible im
btsailu of the first magnitude over the
columns of the Oregon Statesman has
sueeumbed to the law of retribution.
JCo more are his "lending articles" to
appear in his daily ; no more are his ti
rades upon "Mrs. Duniwuy" to meet
tlie eyes of an exasperated public; no
more are second hand falsehoods to be
peddled through his weakly; and no
more will he get hush money from the
leading Stato ofliuiuls. Nobody weeps
over his journalistic demise, but all in
telligent men and women of Salem are
Jubilant.
We have received a remarkably racy
and well written letter for publication,
addressed to this canine effete by W. II.
(jnaney, wnicu we snouid giauiy give
our readers were the subject yet alive;
but as it is always in bad taste to bela
bor the dead bodies of decapitated curs,
we refrain from printing it. Rest and
peace be unto thy poor carcass, Samuel.
But stay, did you sign that note before
your journalistic spirit took its flight?
THE "WOMAN MOVEMENT" IN
MASSACHUSETTS.
A dispatch to the Oregonian, dated
Boston, March 16th, says:
A majority ol Ike MauachuoeUs Legislative
Oammtuee have reported a resolution ameml
ae the ootwUtutlotwl law mo as to alkivr vrumeu
to vote and hoM office.
How long will our Oregon Legislative
Committee contend against the inevita
ble? Are the Oregonians willing to
skulk along in the beaten path of old
time darkness, and at the last, when all
the other and older States have
won the race in human progression, will
they consent to be whipped into the
paths of justice, still squealing forth
their puny protests? "Will they not
rather prove their rights to a place in
the foremost ranks of human rights, by
teaching Massachusetts that she shall
not carry off the palm of victory ?
BABY-100KING0N THE BEAIN.
Brown of the DemoertU is so onvious
of a gentleman who has been so fortunnte
as U fee the proud iofiessor of half a
dozen fine, athletic, sprightly and sensi
ble children, that he makes it a point to
twit him from wcok to week about
roekimg ike baby! It's a great pity that
poor Brown hasn't any babies to rock.
Alas, alas, what a very unfor-or-or-or-tunate
man!
WEE VANQUISHED.
Sam Olnrko virtuously "declines to
believe that the woman movement Is
growing intensely popular because Mrs.
Duniway draws crowded houses." Now
Hint, is too bad ! We could endure any
rcasonablo amount of opposition, but for
Sam Clarke to raise the fiat of his opin
ion against the people of Oregon is
rather more than we are able to bear
with equanimity. What is to be done ?
THE EEPUBLIOAN STATE CONVEN
TION. The great event of the last week
was the assembling of the . Republican
State Convention. Early in the week
delegates from various parts of the State
began to arrive, and button-holing,
wire-pulling, etc., commenced immedi
ately. The political slate was made up
long before, and the delegates were ex
pected to only ratify it. On Wednesday
morning the Convention assembled, and
proceeded to work. .A vast amount of
red tape had to be gone through, owing
to the obstinacy of a few who evidently
didn't like the way things had been
"fixed up." In the afternoon a sharp
contest arose between the delegates from
the Second Judicial District as to who
should cast the votes of Curry county,
which threatened to make considerable
unpleasantness. After some wrangling
the matter was referred by the Couven-
tion to the dolegates from the Second
Judicial District, the object evidently
being to hide their bickerings from the
public. The secret of the whole trans
action Is that there was a sharp contest
for the nomination of rrosocuting At
torney in the Second District, and that
the votes of Curry (unrepresented) would
decide the matter. Supposo a conven
tion of women had shown any such dis
position to wraugle or backbite, what a
howl would have been raised about
woman's incapacity to manage public
affairs !
The Committee on Resolutions evi
dently had a hard time finding out what
were the principles of the Republican
party. No wonder. It lost its princi
ples long ago. We could have suggested
an appropriate platform, which would
have had at least the merit of brevity,
and would have been eminently appro
priatethe magic word "Office."
As something was needed to fire the
the Republican heart, pending the re
port of the Committee on Resolutions,
whose membors wrangled all the after
noon, various speakers were called out
and introduced to the Convention. Mr.
Gazley, the first one who spoke and
by-lhe-by the best speaker the Republi
cans have in their ranks in this State
made a powerful arraignment of the
Democratic party, without seeming to
be aware of the tact that his words were
equally applicable to ills own party.
He wanted to know if it was true
Damocralic party which would take
away from the citizens of Portland the
right to elect iolicc officers, while at
the same time these same citizens were
taxed to support this police. He defined
Democracy to mean the equal right of
every citizen to participate in Govern
mental affairs, and his denunciation of
the last Oregon Legislature for partially
robbing the icn citizens of that right
was strong, sweeping, unanswerable.
He then instituted a comparison be
tween the Republican and Democratic
parties, asserting that the first named
party had never been guilty (to ue his
own words) "of such an infernal out
rage." Softly, softly, Bro. G. Don't
bo too rash. Let's see a moment If the
Republican party deserves its name any
more than does the Democratic party
the cognomen it wears. Among those
three hundred delegates, claiming to
represent the Republican sentiment of
this State, not one representative of the
women of Oregon was to be seen. Many,
nay all, of the women of this State have
as great interests at stake as the men
delegates who assembled at Multnomah
Court House last "Wednesday. It be an
"infernal outrage," as Bro. Gazley as
serted, for citizens to be deprived of tlie
right to choose their rulors, while at the
same time they arc taxed to support
them, what foul injustice has been done
the women of America by the Republi
can as well as the Democratic party!
Ali Bro (Jn7lrv trefoil liv f lio nrineinln
m UUilCi, ICSietl 03 lllC principle
of no taxation without representation,
your party's record is bad enough in
deed. Every year Republican officials
gather millions of dollars of taxes from
hard-working intelligent American
women, who arc not allowed the privil
ege of the ballot, which the most im
poverished, ignorant man may exercise
at his discretion. Is a party which per
mits such "an infernal outrage" de
serving of the name of Republican i
Various other speakers followed, the
sum and substances of whose speeches
consisted of fulsome laudations of the
Republican party and (as one speaker
expressed it) "its Captain, the Great
Ulysses."
At the evening session the platform
was adopted our views upon wiucii
will bo found elsewhere after which
Hon. J. G. Wilson was nominated for
Congress by acclamation. We aro curi
ous to know how ho will interpret the
4th Resolution of the platform, which
says the Republican party "admits of no
distinction between citizens." If the
English language has any meaning that
resolution certainly guarantees to wom
en citizens exactly the same rights exer
cited by men citizens.
Thursday forenoon the Convention
went through the form of nominating
Messrs. Meacham, Hare and Gazley for
Presidential Electors. The first-named
gentleman, it will bo remembered, was
used rather roughly by the Administra
tion, and the nomination Is intended as
a soothing balm for his lacerated feel
ings.
After the usual amount of red tape,
buncombe speeches, etc., the Convention
adjourned.
AMENDE HONOBABLE.
Mr. Duniway lectured at the Court House
last evening. The attendance was anything but
large, and the lecture far from Interesting.
Herald, March 2Wli.
During our absence yesterday, a paragraph
found its way Into the local columns which did
Mrs. Duniway creel Injustice. Instead of her
lecture having been unlntereMlne.lt was one of
the ablest and most Interesting ever delivered
In thtaelty. We trust that Mrl uSnnray vrtM
tlnd it convenient to repeat the lecture some.
Horace Greeley thinks women don't
want to vote. His wife recently headed
a petitiou asking the right of suffrage
for women. Comment is useless.
ABE THE WOMEN OF AMEBIOA
SLAVES?
The Oregonian copies a composition
on this subject from the pen of Mrs.
Dahlgren,- which we think deserves
more than a passing notice. Says Mrs.
D. :
Where our laws net ntnll In dnmestle feuds.
the woman Is protected rather than the man,
and It Is wise nnd well that this more redress
should bent hand, on account of the physical
weakness of woman. In the same splrltofpro-
cuon aro laws wmcn punun men wnn ueam
laws framed C"cnrcsfv to iruard the physical
weakness of woman.
"Wonder if she meant Mrs. Surrattor
Mrs. Fair?
Are women such slaves, under the action of
these Iaws.as to need enfranchisement? Alas!
mir slavcrv nnd dmrradatlon will truly com
mence wuen, guiueu oy mo uiunnc name .i
rreeuom, wo are uiu 10 stana lonu on inc imi
form of equal rights. Wo claim more than this.
We claim to have preserved for us Just what
we navo now proiecuon.
So this man's rights champion is only
"fooling," after all. She doesn't believe
in equal rights; she claims more than
this. Oppressed, down-trodden men of
America, how do you like the picture?
Continues this usurper of superior
rights :
Are the women or America slaves socially?
"We commence with what 1 called fashionable
life. Ask our "queens of society." Let them
resnond. or hid their snbiecU to do so lor them.
And amongst all classes, what nation was ever
so chivalrous, so courteous to It women ? Our
men have made us at spoiled children. Is not
that our trouble now over-indulgence? It has
often liecnn source of ruin to us to witness the
slavery of the men, who toll to support their
wives and daughters In every costly folly.
Purine the lone, wcary.heated days of summer,
our cities are tilled with sclf-sacrlflclnir men.
who never cease to labor, that the women of
their households may Indulge In pleasure to
satiety. And the rural homes of the land arc
unequal burdens here put uimn women? Have
they here novolce.no Influence? Have, our
women. In the city and In the country, worn
the fetters of slavery In nil the glorious past
and those fetters been so elided that they knew
KAt. A , ..-( ..... Mtl.AVUt.0PUU.. . I. n . .......
Indignant at this Ion" servitude, has Invented
this cruel artifice, by which, under the name of
equal rigins, we are 10 be ruthlessly stripped ot
every cnensncu privilege 7
Clearly, Mrs. Dahlgren, from her
stand-point of fashionable butterfly ex
istence, scenteth the battle afar ofl. She
fears that noble, "self-sacrificing men
who never cease to labor, that their
women may indulge in pleasure to sati
ety," suspect nt last that theirs is the
condition of servitude, and pitilessly
asks, "are tee to be ruthlessly stripped of
every cherished privilege?"
Ah, Mrs. D., the noble, self-sacrificing
women of the land, who are not dolls
and butterflies, who are not fashionable
"queens of society," but honest, able,
conscientious help-meets to largc-
oraiucu, noDie-ncarteu men, these are
the women who demand and will speed
ily possess the ballot, that unequal bur
dens may no longer rest upon their hus
bands' shoulders. These are the women
who labor and wait, who watch and
pray, who, appreciating the priceless
boon of personal liberty, thank God and
take courage ; for they see in the near
by future a condition of equal rights for
men and women; equal opportunities
for the expansion of brain power and
intellectual ability, that both may be
benefitted thereby.
Let Mrs. Dahlgren hug her chains of
fashionable servitude. Let her make
slaves of men if she can ; but we prefer
that in the nobler light of reason and
philanthropy both men nnd women
shall snuff theairof individual freedom
that both shall live the life that God in
His wisdom designed for them when He
gave them dominion over all the earth.
ADMINISTERED TO THE WBONG
PATIENT.
By mistake our typos gave the catnip
tea and paregoric which we had pre
scribed for the Journal to his milder
mannered neighbor of the Guard.
Hence, instead of finding him of the
Journal easy and serene tills week, alas!
alas! he's worse than ever! Listen,
friends and brethren, and join hands
with us ami wail:
Mrs. Dunlway does not care to refer to iho
very cross and uncalled-for Insult which she
cave to every woman In Oregon who does not
believe Just as she docs. In her miner of iliron
' wpefe No person has ever attempted so
, wntnnlv to Insult the -women rr nmn -
i Mrs. I.,whcn she branded nil who do not agree
exactly with her as "bilks' mid "cheats."
In our pajcr of four weeks ago which
it rejoiccth us to know is read and stud
ied with much interest by our Irrascible
colleague In noticing the fact that tho
Statesman's pet, J. B. Frost, had been
turned upon by that far-seclug lumin
ary and styled a "bilk" nnd "cheat,"
we said, "We knew it all time. No-
woman cau take issue against the ballot
for her sex in this age of enlightenment
unless she is a bilk and a cheat." The
Eugene buniailias been in spasms ever
since. Finding It impossible to gain
any headway for man's rights among
his readers by argument, he seizes upon
the above declaration and spits it forth
from week to week, saying, "There, Mrs.
Duniway insults tho women! Glory
hallelujah!" Then the paroxysm of
rage overcomes his transports of joy
and he belches forth anathemas. Belch
away, brother; the effort will relievo
you vastly.
Now for a little sense and seriousness.
Any woman who mounts the public
rostrum to proclaim tho dogma of man's
supremacy is ti bilk and a cheat unto
herself. She cannot deccivj the people,
for they know that her prccopts and
practico arc so much at variance with
each other that men and women of
brains and honesty but pity her efl'cte
attempts to practice one thing and
preach another. The man's rights press
may laud such efforts as they like
we're proud to sec our brethren happy
but every woman who has yet taken
this course has run her race in a very
short time either coming over to her
friends, the Woman Suffragists, or prov
ing herself utterly unworthy of public
confidence by acts of dishonesty and in
discretion. "OUB
OONQBESSIONAL CANDI
DATE.".
The Mercury's local is making himself
merry over an eccentric advertisement
in the New Northwest. We have
hugely enjoyed his investigations,
which we would publish could we spare
the space. Say, sir Mercury, do you
think there is yet any hope that tho
"picture hero" will sell photographs
enough to pay expenses?
SALEM.
About noon on the day of tho 13th, we
employed a bill poster and circulated an
appointment for the Opera Houso in the
evening. We did not expect much of an
audience. The notice was so short and
we were being so mercilessly slaughtered
by the papers that we would not have
been surprised if the attendance had
numbered less than fifty persons. But,
owing, perhaps, to tho very fact of the
newspapers' opposition, a very largo au
dience assembled and listened for an
hour and a half to a review of the Bible
on the Woman Question. Beginning
with Genesis, going over to Solomon,
and from thence to Paul and Jesus, we
proved beyond all cavil the Bible recog
nition of the equality of the sexes, refer
ring only to those passages which are
used by our opponents when they seek
to slander that grand old book by at
tempting to cast it as a stumbling-block
In the path of human progression.
Called at the close for replies and crit
icisms. Judge Thornton was disappoint
ed. He was a Woman Suffragist, and
had come there hoping to hear a Bible
argument on Woman Suffrage. Be
lieved in the Divine right of husbands
to rule, and so on.
Replied that man suffrage couldn't be
proven by the Bible. The Divine right
of kings and husbands believed hi by
Bible chroniclers was not recognized in
free America. So-called rulers In the
United States were but sen-ants of the
people. At best they can but execute
tho laws the people make. Would, how
ever, at some future time give the Judge
our view: upon woman's political du
tics.
Prof. Clancy was ready to prove by
tho Sausciit that woman did not sin In
the garden of Edcu; It was the man that
sinned ; that the Sanscrit was the orig
inal Bible language and had been muti
lated by Moses. Challenged opposition,
Thorntcn grew sarcastic. Chaney
didn't believe what he'd said himself.
He had insulted that intelligent an
dience.
Chancy grew indignant and scored
him unsparingly.
We couldn't read tho Sanscrit. Would
be glad to accept Chaucy's challenge,
but didn't know how. Loved a row, but
In order to enjoy it, wanted it to be
good-natnred one. Told the people why
we had attacked tho early social life of
tho "Silent Man of Destiny."
T. W. Davenport was satisfied. Had
thought he saw through the matter
from tlie beginning. Many Republicans
had bean angry; but men and women
must learn to give women who have
once fallen an equal chance with men
to arise and redeem their lives. Was a
strong,uncompromisIng Woman Suffra
gist
Mallory ami Miller called for, but
they were on the fence, though favora
bly disposed toward the cause.
Meacham wanted everybody to know
that he was, and had been for twenty
years, a Woman Suffragist.
Meeting adjourned till next evening
amid enthusiastic cheers.
SECOND EVKNINO.
Larger audience than before. Subject
Marriage, or the social view of the
Woman Question. Speeches by Magone,
Sullivan, Meacham and others. Much
enthusiasm.
TIIIIID EVENING.
Very large audience. Subject Tem
perance: the Ethics of License nnd Pro
hibition. Meacham called for at the close. Made
an eloquent and able speech, but
thought nothing could be done for Tem
perance or Woman Suffrage before 1S74,
when ho would pledge himself to light
valiantly for the principle.
Sullivan called for. Responded and
for twenty minutes held the vast au
dience as by a spell. If Woman Suf
frage and Temperance were right for '74
they were right for '72. Had never been
a successful politician. Had always
gone for principle instead of policy, and
should do so through life.
We arose nt the close of his speech
and asked progressive citizens to vote
for P. C. Sullivan for Congress. The
house came doicn. As the hour was
late the meeting adjourned. Many came
up and subscribed to the Jfnw Nonni
west, and on Saturday we came away
from Salem, feeling that much good
had been accomplished in the cause of
Human Rights.
"PBOST-BITTEN.
The following pathetic notice appeared
In the local columns of the Oregonian
recently. Don't some of tho Oregon
man's rights editors wish they had
never "puffed" J. B. Frost?
Last year, some time, Mrs. J. B. Frost,
authoress of a "History of the Rebel
lion" a widow (supposed) of "fair, fat
and forty" made her appearance in our
enterprising little town, and at once set
about the enterprise of selling her book
and gettlnghcrself Into notoriety. How
well she succeeded In the first branch
oTher undertaking we have no means of
knowing; but she did become somewhat
noted for cheek nnd eccentrics of one
sort or another. The fair Frost, how
ever, melted away from view after
awhile, and went to Victoria, where she
delighted the Johnny Bulls with predic
tions of "The downfall of the United
States." Having got into high favor, in
this way, she waltzed into the shop
keepers to tho tune of expensive outfits,
and then plunged all her creditors into
grief by such a sudden taking off of her
self a3 afforded them no opportunity to
interview her. It is said she went
to see a sick son at San Francisco. A
contemporary says: "Her ngent, Mr.
Macklng, who passed for her uncle.
purennsea a city resiucuccicruw anu
e M r t vAT novtnrr n cm m 1 1 otitis
a lurm iur "jrff -t r" "i
Oil each and left for 1 Uget bOUntl.
"POT CALLING JQ1TTLE BLACK."
O'Meara calls the commercial reporter
of the Oregonian a "secesh Democrat,"
Here's richness for you ! The old story
of pot calling kettle black.
A Tennessee woman's paper has terms
thus singularly graduated: "Three dol
lars a year to men; SI 50 to unmarried
working men; seventy-five cents to
women with lazy husbands to support."
BUEN AVISTA.
Leaving Corvallis, with its cheerful
inhabitants, beautiful scenery, cental
associations and happy homes, wc took
the steamer for Buena Vista, where we
were advertised to speak on the evening
of the JSth. Tho boat landed with some
difficulty at the wharf. An obliging
young man, connected with the Mon
mouth Messenger, kindly assisted us
through tho mud and rain up the hill to
the house of a friend. Tho day and
evening were particularly stormv, and
as there are no sidewalks proper in this
new but thriving town, pedestrians
wcro compelled to seek six inch boards
In the evening darkness, guided by lan
terns, which generally rendered excel
lent service.
For four consecutive evenings the
good Inhabitants flocked out to hear us,
filling the school house with men and
women and children and babies, and we
had a glorious revival. The lectures
were upon Politics, Social Life, Bible
topics and Temperance, and as in other
places, each evening brought out t
larger house than its immediate predc
cessor. We found several gentlemen
ready and willing to speak in favor of
the new gospel of good will to men and
women, and two brave opponents; but
their opposition consisted chiefly In
their bravery, as they made no points
except such as had been previously dis
posed of. One very young man, who
sells tape and needles for a livelihood,
was opposed to the ballot in the hands
of women because they are physically
unable to vote. He was afraid they
would neglect their babies if they had
political rights. He also feared that if
men and women were on board a sink
ing ship, and the women were voters,
the men would all get in the life boats
and leave the women to perish. His
mother was a woman, enthusiastic
cheering aud great surprise, and ho had
always obeyed all her injunctions but
one; she says he must not get married
before ho is twenty-live,. but he's deter
mined to marry right off, if he can get
some girl to have him. Took his seat
amid great applause.
Replied that we had wondered why
the young man was taking such lively
interest in maternal duties till he ex
plained that he meant to commit mat
rimony. Laughter. That it was
laughable to see a young, strong, able-
bodied man, who ought to be felling for
ests, digging ditches and otherwise cam
ing bread In the sweat of his face, en
gaged In selling tape and ribbons for a
living, while ho patronizingly turns to
women at the wash-tub and assures
them that they are physically unable to
accomplish the herculean task of depos
iting a piece of paper in a box !
Young man subsided amid much mer
riment.
The citizens of Buena ista are re
markable for intelligence and public
spirit. The women are mostly Woman
Suffragists, but we did not see but that
they attended as well or better to family
and household duties than scores
of
antl-suffracists whom we have met
The town is handsomely located on
high, rolling plateau, and when side
walks are made, where there now
nothing to protect the feet from twelve-
inch mud, it will be a very pleasant
place to hold protracted meetings. We're
going to Buena Vista again.
THE BEPUBLIOAN PLATFOBM AS
A WOMANSEES IT.
Wc to-day publish the resolutions
adopted by the Republican State Con
vcution, to which we invite careful
candid and conscientious investigation
Of course there is the usual amount of
badgering and berating of the opposit
party this is to he expected but upon
tho whole the Platform is much better
than wc anticipated. Wc especially fa
vor the demand for a repeal of the so-
called litigant law, the denunciation of
the swamp land acts of our last Legisla
ture, tho reckless and illegal adminis
tration of State finances, and the pledge
of the party to support a Government
measure for building a railroad from
Portland to Salt Lake and from Jackson
county to Ilumbodlt. We also emphat
ically indorse the popnlar education
plank, which wo hope will become en
grafted in duo time upon thp under
standing of every voter in America. Tlie
Temperance resolution is particularly
gratifying, and wc hereby pledge to it
our hearty support. We do not affirm,
as docs the 14th resolution, that "the
perpetuation of the Republican party is
the only sure' preservation," and so
forth. We think a Woman Sufl'ragc
party would do much better to preserve
peace. But upon looking over tho Plat
form a second time, wo discover that
the 4th plank, and the most conspicuous
one in it, unqualifiedly Indorses every
thing that tire women of America are
contending for. Friends, read that reso
lution again.' 7t c la Jlcjnibliquc.
OAPT. 0 BAND ALL.
This well known journalist has pur
chased the Oregon Statesman and will
hereafter control Its column'. Wc con
gratulate the citizens of Salem upon the
change. In commenting upon the fact
of his removal from the editorial frater
nity of Portland, the Oregonian fitly
says:
In parting with one who has been our con
stant associate In dally editorial labor for more
than six years, wo cannot withhold a tribute to
his merits as a Journalist nnd his qualities ns a
irlend. Capt. Crnndall possesses capacity as a
Journalist in a remarkable decree. His pen is
always ready ; his Judgment is sound and dis
cernfns.and lie Is equally at home In writlns
leading articles, reporting local news, or pcr-
that belong to general editorial work. In an
emlnentdeCTeehenossesscswhatmay becallcd
lorming nny other of tlie muiiiranous uuues
he has long been rccosnlzcd as one of the most
neenniKllslied InurnallMs In Oregon,
rnderhis management tho ".Statesman" will
certainly taken new position among tho Jour
useful and Influential paper, and we trust that
the elforts he may rut forth will be appreciated
nals 01 inetnaie. nu uiu huiiuj iu 11 it
and rewarded. line, inereiore, we pan. wun
regret with one who hns so long been our asso
ciate, wo have satisfaction In knowing that his
Journalistic services do not cease, but aro only
transferred to another field.
Salem will hereafter have, what it has
not had for some time, a good, sound,
reliable, thorough-going, live newspaper.
JOUBNALISTIO DIGNITY.
We've struck the right chord at last!
Many and shocking have been the scur
rilous flings at womanhood In the col
umns of the man's rights journals dur
ing the past vear. We warned these ed
itors some weeks since that when we
could possibly bring oursclf thus low
for a season, we should give them a dose
of their own political panacea and make
them make wry faces. Wc had nerved
oursclf for the attack for months, and
when at last, with eyes closed aud
sleeves rolled up, we gathered all our
strength and hurled their own weapons
back at them, they were seized with
spasms of journalistic dignity! How
do yon like your own prescriptions, gen
tlemen? If these doses are "batches of
Hastiness" when thrust down your
throats, what do you think they must
be when you administer them to it?
We are glad to sec you angry- -A- 1M"C
virtuous indignation will, we hope,
cause a reaction that will make you re
alize how awfully severe, offensive and
"nasty" your attacks upon womanhood
really are. We scarcely ever take up a
man's journal In which there is not
some low, disreputable fling at women
leaders. Don't compel us to repeat tlie
loe, brethren. It is not a pleasant task
to tear the beam from your eyes that
you may thus see clearly to pick the
mote from ours. Mend your ways, we
pray you.
OUB PEOPHEOT PULPILLED.
Jo. Wilson is nominated. Wonder if
the people won't think we arc some
thing of a prophet? For three months
wc have been telling everywhere that
man-made politics were all manufac
turcd in private caucuses by political
wire-pullers; that a half dozen political
tricksters had cut and dried the proceed
ings of both the coming State Conven
tions; that the half dozen rulers of both
parties had combined to choose Wilson
aud Xesmlth; that man-made politics
no longer contained the elements of In
dividual freedom; that men would be
driven to the polls and voted just like
sheep; that American freedom as com
prehended by one-scxed, one-sided
parties, whether Republican or Demo
cratic, was nothinir but a farce, and
many other things equally true, which
we have not space to enumerate. The
Democratic Convention is to meet at
Tlie Dulles on the 10th proximo. Of
course, just like this one, It will be har
monious, because it will be managed by
the same wire-pullers who onmiuated
the Republican candidate.
O, Liberty, thou art prized above ru
bies!
LEOTUBE ON POLITICS.
Our meeting in the Court House on
Tuesday evening was very largerly at
tended. When wo consider the short
ness of the notice aud the fact that but
one dally paper In the city dared to an
nounce It, and that many of the posters
were torn down as fast as they could be
put up, it was both gratifying and sur
prising to us to meet such a large,
orderly and Intelligent crowd. We had
specially invited the Delegates to the
Republican State Convention to appear
and hear of something to their political
advantage, but they were afraid to show
their faces; at least the packed portion
of the delegation preferred to give the
meeting as wide a berth as possible. As
the Oregonian has, in the main, given
very truthful and much fairer report of
the lecture than wc expected, and as so
much of our space Is devoted to meetings
elsewhere this week, we omit further
mention of the occasion nt this time,
other than to say that it was a much
greater public success than we had an
ticipated.
TOOBAD.
Mr. Holladay's man "Friday," the
obsequious servant of the railroad inter
ests, has made up his mind to ignore us.
Our punishment is greater than wc am
bear.
ALBANY COBBESPONDENOE.
Editor New North west :
On Monday evening of this week our
citizens were highly delighted with an
exceedingly interesting musical and or
atorial entertainment at the M. E.
church, given under tho auspices and
by the leading members of the Sabbath
School connected with that church.
Professor Rogers, of Salem, delivered a
very able address. Our young folks aro
taking more Interest In music than
heretofore, occasioned in some measure
perhaps by the liberal proposition of
some four or five persons constituting
the leading musical talent of our city,
each of whom propose to give twelve
lessons gratis for the benefit of the ris
ing generation. The kindness of these
noble gentlemen will, we trust, be high
ly appreciated by the youthful recip
ients.
Last night Mrs. Carrie F. Young de
livered one of the ablest and most inter
esting temperance addresses wo have
ever heard in this city. Her subject
was the Temperance Law of Michigan,
which she discussed more intelligently
and more truthfully than most lecturers
are wont to treat their subjects, and to
the entire satisfaction of her large and
appreciative audience, fairly demon
strating the fact that women (and her
self as a representative of the sex) are
not inferior either in intelligence or in
tellectual accomplishments to tho great,
tlie mighty lords of creation themselves.
She said that laws must be enacted by
our Legislature that would require tho
vender of intoxicating liquors to give a
heavy bond and hold him personally re
sponsible for any and all damages that
might occur to life or property, with
costs, where It could be satisfactorily
proven that the cause of the damage
originated from the effect of liquors sold
or given by him or his employees.
Now, this is all good every true tem
perance man and woman will endorse it
with unfeigned pleasure but how are
we to got mc jaw nia very im
portant question that I think she over
looked, at least failed to make plain.
Can we get this law so much needed
without according to woman the right
of suffrage, the right to protect herself,
i i't t -ri'l. i ,. .
her children and her property by her
otc and by her voice m forming those
laws? I fear not. YotJire. loung op
poses the very means (Woman Suffrage)
that might secure to us tne uesiren law.
Yours, CtC. , BlIEBA.
Albany, March 14, 1872.
Tho Oregon Bepublican Platform.
Tho Union Republican party of Oregon,
in Convention, makes this declaration
of its principles and policies:
i. to me v;onsuiuwuu ui tuu uuui-u
States and all its Amendments we pledge
our unfaltering allegiance; to its author
ity a willing obedience; to its tuiinnu
legal construction and enforcement our
constant support.
'Z. Tliat tlie success oi uie present,
National Administration in reducing
the public debt, diminishing ami equal
izimr taxation, administering every
branch of public affairs with economy
and efficiency, in forming and improving
tne civil service, cniorvwiy iuc mws
without fear or favor, protecting the
nation's wards with paternal care
against the cruel avarice of speculation
and fraud, and maintaining friendly
relations with Foreiirn Powers, has been
such as to command the approbation of
the great American people, anil justly
entitle it to the confidence and com
mendation of every trne Republican.
3. we regain tne payment oi our
national debt, iu full compliance - with
all legal obligations to our creditors ev
erywhere, and in accordance with the
true letter and spirit of its contracting,
as a question po longer in issue; but
that we may be clearly understood, we
denounce all forms and degrees of re-
pudation of that debt, as affirmed by the
Democratic narty and its sympathizers,
as not only national calamities, but pos
itive crimes, anil we win never consent
ton suspicion ot Honor or justice in its
complete satisfaction.
4. wo aumit oi no distinctions ne
tween citizens, whether of native or for
eign oinn, anu uiereiore we lavor tue
grantiug oi uiu amnesty to tne people or.
those States lately in rebellion; and we
here pledge the full ami effective protec
tion of our civil laws to all persons vol
untarily coming to or residing in our
land.
Wc favor the encouragement of
railroads by tho General Government of
the United States, and hold that such
disposition should be made of the public
lands as shnll secure the same to actual
settlers only, In quantities not exceed
ing 1G0 acres.
C. That while we are in favor of a
revenue for the support of the General
Government, by duties upon imports
sound policy requires such adjustment
of those duties on imports as to encour
age the development of the industrial
interests of the whole country; and wo
recommend that policy of national ex
change which secures to the working
men liberal wages, to agriculture remun
erative prices, to mechanics and manu
facturers an adequate reward for their
skill, labor and enterprise, and to tho
Nation commercial prosperity aud in
dependence.
7. w e believe mat popular education
is the sole true basis and hope of a free
government, and shall ever oppose any
uiverson of, or interference with the
common school funds or lands in this
State, for any other than their legiti
mate purpose, and we condemn the act
of favoritism by tlie last Legislature
whereby two hundred thousand dollars,
taken from theschool fund, were granted
to a corporation consisting mainly of
Democratic leaders, and party favorites,
for tlie construction of a work which
another corporation, entirely sound and
responsible, offered to construct for seventy-five
thousand dollars less; and that
we are in favor of the passage by the
Legislature of an efficient school law,
such as shall secure to all citizens of our
State a good common school education.
Wc find no terms .sufficiently strong
to express our disapproval of those acts
of tlie last Legislature whereby the
swamplands belonging to thisStatohave
been taken from the needy settlers, and
given without limit or proper competi
tion in price to the land grabber and
speculator; whereby the emoluments
and salaries of State offices have been
unconstitutionally increased, and the
taxes increased thousands of dollars by
the creation of new and unnecessary of
fices and salaries, for the purpose of pro
viding for party favorites; and whereby
the citizens of our metroioIis have been
ilenrived of and denied the right of con
trolling their police authority. And wo
equally condemn the administration of
our State officers and laws as extrava
gant, reckless, illegal and destructive,
nnd we rightly charge all these results
as tho acts of the Democratic party.
9. We are in favor of theUnited States
giving to each honorably discharged
soldier who served in the armies of the
Lmtetl States to put down the rebellion
a warrant for a homestead of 160 acres
of the public lands.
10. That we demand the repeal of the
so-called litigant act, which was devised
to support pauper .Democratic newspa
pers at the public expensc.
11. That the Republican nartv of this
State are in favor of the General Gov
ernment extending aid toward building
a railroad from Portland, Oregon, to
Salt Lake City, and from Jackson
county to Humboldt, and we hereby
pledge our party representatives to the
support of the same.
J2. That the indiscriminate licensing
of persons to sell spirituous liquors with
out being placed under proper responsi
bilities for the abuse thereof, having
been found by experience to promoto
the growth of crime and pauperism, and
thereby seriously increase the rate of
taxation, the Republican party recog
nizes the right and duty of the law
making power to prevent and limit the
evils and abuses of such sale, so far as
concerns the public good and is consist
ent with individual liberty, by refusing
to license other than law-abiding and
rannnsiblc persons, who can furnish
sufficient sureties for good conduct.
13. That the Republican party of Ore
gon is in favor of obtaining assistance
from the General Government for the
construction of a wagon road from the
city of Portland to the Dalles, recogniz
ing tills as a most important and neces
sary improvement for the State.
1 1 m . 1
it. iituuiuii unit, unj euuuiiiKUice in
power of the Republican nartv is tho
only sure preservatiou of national peace
and prosperity, and for reasons therefor
we point to its brilliant record in tho
late civil war; to a complete nationality;
to a united sisterhood of thirty-seven
States; to our Territories rapidly warm
ing into State life; to a nation freed
irom tne taint of Human slavery; to an
elevated and enlarged citizenship; to our
national standing at homo and abroad;
to the work of vigorous reform in all dis
covered abuses of authority or trust; to
an unequaled foreign credit; to a suc
cessful and solid financial system, and
to tho unparalelled peace and prosperity
everywhere in our broad domain, and
these are our pledges for the future.
fin-liinr tn m imuetinl nress of matter,
a few advertisements have been omitted
from this issue.