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About The Democratic news. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1869-187? | View Entire Issue (June 18, 1870)
J à She gmarratic gto. I jr SATURDAY MORNING, JUNK 18. 1870. ---- —r-.. - ■ - - - ■ - ■_, _ 8. J " ■■■•. Should bo Iucreued. F* I One of the first things that the incoming Legislature should do is to remodel the State Constitution as far as compensation of public officer*. The idea that the Governor shoulu receive but $1,500 a year, when scores oi mercantile clerks in Portland and Salem re ceive two-thirds more than that sum, is a dis- grace to the State. Three thousand dollars per year is enough, and yet it is little enough. We will venture to say that the fact of our Governor only receiving $1,500 a year has ■kept hundreds from emigrating to this Slate ; it gave outsiders an idea that we were a poor and groveling people. In like manner we favor the raising of ail other St ite offi :ers to a reasonable living rate, say $2,400 per year. We know that enemies of the Democratic party will charge us with doing this to help along the Democratic party and increase the pay of Democratic office holders. But this cannot be done. The compensation of no officer can legally be increased or diminished during bis term. It will take four years to amend the State Constitution so as to in crease the pay of State officers, and by that time another election will have taken place. The idea that the Sheriff"s office tn a miniug Couoty should be worth 8.x or seveu thou sand dollars a year, while the governor of the State gets but fiiteeu bundled, cannot fail to strike the most careless observer as unjust and ridiculous. California pays her Governor $7,000 per year, which is too much ; Oregon pays hers too little. There is no sense tn this "pen ury wise and pound foolish” economy, and it we du not wish to remain behind our sister Slates forever let us now submit the question to the people : Shall our State officers receive adequate compensation for their services and heavy responsibility? An Anniversary. Insulting the Dead. If ever there was a doubt of the meanness and narrowuess of soul of the leaders of the Radical party, the recent occurrence at Ar ling ton Cemetery has set all such duubts at rest. In that “god’s Acre” there are some three hundred Confederate soldiers buried, and on “Commemoration day” the graves of these poor fellows have printed placard*, signed by John A Logan, Chief Engineer ol that partison machine known as the Grand Army of the Republic, forbidiug any person from placing flowers thereon. As this lion’s sk in stripped from off the braying quadruped revealed the ass, so this order of “Dirty Work Ligan” stripn him of all pretensions to soldierly characteristics and shows him to be noti ing but a coarse and venal politician, willing ever to pander to the very har&hest prejudices of the ignorant and debased of the bigoted party of which lie is a shining light In all refined nations and communities, the grave has been the great leveller of every earthly distinction. The pauper and the prince alike are joint heirs to six feet of the earth’u clay, and a common resurrection awaits tuein both. The great world with its panoply of pride and pomp, the joys of the rich und the surrows of the poor, are alike forgotten when the clods rattle upon the bier Beyond it nothing is known. It is indeed “the last of earth.” and there all friendships and enmities alike are interred. Lote lin gers the e, but Hatred is never seen in that city of the sileut majority. In his ever memorable speech at the dedi cation of the S ddier’s burial-ground at Get tysburg. President Lincoln said “But in a higher sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The Brave men. living and dead, who strug led here, have consecrated it above our power to add or detract.” So spoke the m in who had more Cause than anv man of this era, to hate those who fought beneath the Confed erate banner. But do we find him casting a stigma upon the Confederate dead ? No, all tho*e distinctions had been swept away in death and the Pres dent was not the man to revive them. When we cons der his moder ate and elegant language on that occasion, while the war was still raging with unabated fury, ln»w cowardly does this behavior of Lo gan seem by contract. Their Radical pro fe*siona of reverence for Lincoln’s memory would seem more genuine if they would imi tate his impartial and Christian-like example. The name of Logan w^l henceforth be more execrated in the South than that of Butler. This day, fifty five years ago, the battle ol Waterloo was luugbt, and the pride of Napo leon forever humbled. The standards that had waved victorious from the Neva to the Nile, were driveo in disgrace!ul rout bef re the legions of the brutal Biucber. Europe, long drenched with blood ot her noblest sous, breathed tree again as the word went torn» that the Corsican was crushed. Mourners thronged every cottage and pale cripples A T empest in a T eapot .—Jacksonville crowded every street. It was time that this wu thrown into excitement last Monday Carnival of blood, to gratify one man’s ambi by the announcement that Judge Tolman was tion, should be quieted. The sun at last ruse io town. The cause of his visit was the sub one day in peace, but the eagle-eyed man ot ject of much conjecture. Some said he had destiny was now a captive. The sequel is come to commence a $20,000 suit for bastardy kuown. The modern Alexander, who sighed against Bill Ish, who begot the tusion ticket. fur worlds to conquer, died an exile aud a It turned out, however, that he just came in captive ou the barren rock of St. Helena. to hear the votes counted, for his own satis His treacherous queen, Marie Louise oi! faction. 7 It is not true that he voted for Fay of Reichstadt, spurned him as an adventurer, for Senator. The fact that he employs a Chi and it was to marry her that be bad divorced narnan named Ben Holladay in his tannery, Josephine, who loved him so truly aud so probably gave rise to this absurd rumor. well. Alone he lived the rest of his wretched D n ’ t agree with H im .—An emaciated life, alone he died. But mark the gigantic revenge of time. individual with dyed whiskersand a demoral The grandson of that very divorced wife to ize I plug hat, interviewed Ben Holladay in day sits upon the same throne from which Portland the other day. He told the man Josephine was discarded ; and he is a greater with a cold nose that he had been “bund ruler than the man of Marengo ever dared to ling” down in Jacksonville, with Old Dowell be. He has made Frauce the greatest of Eu and Bill Owen, and that he had been badly ropean nations in sciences, manufactures, stayed with. A gentleman who was present while be allows no relaxation of her prowess says be looked fool ish, acted sheep-ish, talked as a warlike nation. The darkest staiu upon gibber ish, and his name was bill ish. Ain’t Napoleon’s character vim his divorce of Jose that misery enough for one day ? phine ; the brightest glory ot the whole Bo A M istake .—When Bill Ish sent to Grant naparte dynasty is that the son o‘ Hortense county for his hay makers to go to G*me should resurrect that dyuasty from poverty, Like and Cast fraudulent votes to defeat th exile and disgrace. will of the people, he was evidently thinking A st 'BY with a M oral .—Down in Cali fornia, during the war, they had a regular old-fashioned Methodist South camp meeting, and a seventy-horse power preacher was going it wide open. After everybody had been up to the mourner’s bench, he called out, “Are there any more who are desirous of marching to glory in the army of the Lord?” Here an inebriate individual replied : “Rev’n fa ther, ef you want any more (hie) recruits for th’army of the (hie) Lord, you’ll have to (hie) draft'em!" That’s a good deal the way with the black-and-tan ticket sired by Bill Ish and dam-ned by Dowell, If they want any more voters for it, they’ll have to “draft ’em.” of the old proverb “Make hay while the sun shines.” But William badly overshot bis mark when be thought because all flesh i* grass that he could make hay of Fay and Klippel. Those corpulent individuals don’t see it in that light. O bstetrical .—The rumor that Dr. Hyde would open a lying inhospital for abandoned bolters after the 7th prox, needsconfirmation. This recent abortion on the fusion party has somewhat d.scouraged him. A ttention , F< u » l K illers .—The Fool Kill ers are requested to in^et at the Hall over the Union Livery Stable on Monday evening next, nt 7 o’clock, p. m., for the purpose of organization. C amhivatb . —We learn that W. K. Ish, Esq., is a candidate for United States Senator from the State of G<xne Lake. He feels eon- fident of being elected, as the Republican are all in his favor. The party has an over wbeloitiig majority, and consists of nineteen ■oldiera and a McCormick’s reaper. G ot E nough .—It is said Owen refused to •at some broiled chicken the other day be cause it was a “Dominick.” He Mid it re minded him too much of the fusion ticket. Is it Tari ?—That Duwell has got a milk leg since the election ? ' Charles Dickens- The Gospel of Railroads, A ccording to S t . T homas . This distinguished novelist died at his res idence at Gudsbill, Lindon, on the 10th iost., 1. In those days it came to pass that the from a stroke of paralysis. His age was fifty eight years. For the last thirty years people of Origon began to be jealous of th* he has been (in the shape of bis novels and people who dwelt in the land of Kaliphorniu, hits Christmas stories) a welcome visitor at because they had roads of iron and wagon* every fireside where the English tongue wa* ihat run thirty miles in an hour. And the apoken. Geography prescribed no limits to people, which were Waders in the marshes his sway over the hearts of those who read and therefore called Webplieat, envied the peo his works, and while the gold diggers of Aus pie of Kaiiphornia tralia were seeking in their midst for the 2. Then came among them one Benjamin, original of Wilkins Micawber, Magietri te, surnamed in honor of the holy day on which the speculating denizens of Boston were cog he was born, and he had been muchly eu itating as to which of them was meant by d<>wed with the goods of this world. 3. And he was desirous that the Webpheai the eccentric Jefferson Brick. As a writer he had no successful in itators. He wa* should have a road of iron like unto those emphatically a man of the people ; the aria of Kaliphorna. And he desirel but two toe racy feared his candor, though they pro things more. 4. He desired first that the people of Ori fessed to worship his genius. Every novel in which he attempted to depict the higher gon should build the road of iron for him, and orders of British society, was a complete fail secondly desired he that the people should ure—witness “Bleak House” and “Great pay him for riding upon it. 5. And he said unto himself “Am I not Expectations.” But when he came to speak of every day men and women, then he show wealthier than was Leland, the soup boiler, ed himself the great fiction-painter. Not when he began to build his road in Kaiipbor only did he contrast the virtues of the lowly nia ? Yea verily, and I have more riches strongly with the vices of the rich, but lie than Charles, the crockery man, had. And was instrumental in reforming many serious I will obtain a gift of bind from the govern evils. For instance, there were many case* ment, which is called Unculpsalm, to aid me where orphun heirs had been sent to board in building the road. And I will impos- ing schools in the north of Englaud, and iributes and subsidies upon the people oi Ori there starved and beaten into death or idiocy. gon, to pay me io advance for building the His “Nicholas Nickleby” was the meun* oi road.” reforming that abuse, by amending the laws 6. “And I will run the road with a cold relating to guardians, llis “Sir Mulberry nose ; yea, verily, with a cold nose.” Hawk” showed English parents the danger 7. For Benjamin was a strange man, and ous character of many aristocratic men whom when he walked before the world he was a they admitted to their home circle. Mure straightforward man ; but when he was uo< ever, his characters were all representative before the world he was “slantindicular.” 8. And he remembered the Saboalh to men. 'Fake the bluff old one armed sailor in tu “Duiubey & Son”; is he not as he keep it holy by turning jack from the top ol himself says, “Ed’ard Cuttie, mariner oi die deck ; und the other six days be turned England?” See how bis greut manly heart it from the bottom. 9. And he mude unto himself many friend* bursts with homely grief as he tells Florence that “Wally is drowued!” Take “Daniel among the tribe of the Summerites und the Fegottv” in “David Copperfield,” with hi* Gorhamites who love the descendants of Ham. 10. And he said I will spend my wealth to gentle and holy love fur his fallen niece, or, Agnes Wickfield, the pure, true English Wu elect unto the council ot Unculpsalm George man, whose only claim to aristocracy is the the lawyer whose surname is Pnlaxbrake. nubility of the soul; and Uriah lleep, the 11. For be is the friend of Uly«ses the cautiug hypocrite, whom we see every day in King, and of Sheridan, the Philistine, and of lite. Indeed, we Can call up hosts of his Sumner the eunuch, and of Benjamin, with pen-statutes which stand out in bold distinc the slautindiciilar optic, whose surname is lion from the characters drawn by other' Butler. like the bus reliefs ot Thorwaldsen. 12. ANo of Sickles, the adulterer, and ol And he is gone. Gone to slumber beside Forney, the fornicator, mid of Hoar, the the great and noblest of earth in the storied whoremonger. halls of Westminster, this man of humble 13. And Benjamin said to George, the law birth whose early life was a battle and a s g yer : “Be thou my servant and I will enrich nal triumph over frowning poverty. Future' thee. Thou sh ill h ive great possessions oi generations, that shall laugh at Sairy Gamp,, hou-es and lands, and be a ruler among the shudder nt Bill Sihs and weep over poo nation*” blind Bertha, shat! learn a lesson from his 14. And George said unto him “I wil splendid contempt of misfortune. obey thee to the end.” llis domestic infelicities are nobody’s busi C hapter II. ness, even if Harriet Beecher ¡Stowe does see 1. In those days there was a certa:n mnn fit to insult decency by unearthing them, a* in Jaxonvil and his name was Jimphav, and she did those of Byron. The man is dead ; he wns a mighty captain in the hosts of Bed* therefore perish ins vices, from which none rok. of us are exempt. His virtues a grateful na 2. And he was of the earth, earthy, which tiuu shall deiight to perpetuate. We know caused the hosts of Bedrok to say that be had him but as the Auou Beu Adhem who ‘*lpved the sand. his fellow meu.” May the daisy that blooms 3. For the men of Bedrok were of the tribe over the nameless grave of Little Nell waft ofWebphe.it and were possessed of a peculiar its fragrance to the sculptured uro where re virtue called Bakbohn. pose the ashes of one of Albion’s nubiesi 4. And they repudiated Georgell, whose sons. surname was Woods, as well as George, “Breathe for his fleeting soul a passing sigh, whose surname was Phlaxbrake. Ob, happier Christian, while thine eye grows dim; 5. And they set up unto themselves a In all the mansions of the house on high leader named Grover and depised the pilgrims Say not that mercy has not one for him f” and the Palmers, the chiet among which wa- T. B. M. Joel. Ashland, June 15th. 1870. 6. And Jimphav hated Benjamin, because he would impoverish the people. C elebration M eeting —The citizens of 7. And it came to pass in those days that Ashland and vicinity mtt at the Ashland one Henry, a disciple of Tubal Cain, a w«»r House on June 15tn, 1870, at 7 p. m., to ker in metals, wished to be centurion of Jax take preliminary steps towards appropriately onvil ; and Jimphav loved him muchly. celebrating the coming Fourth of July. E. 8. And there was also a man name«) Emery was called to the Chair and 0. C. Ap Billowen, oi the tribe of Grundy, and he wa* piegate was elected Secretary. It was unan a rival of Henry. imously decided that we make use of our 9. And he had many friends among the most zealous efforts to have a rousing old Ephephrees and the Palidees, but Henry’* fashioned celebration at the Ashland grove , friends were the children of Unculpsalm and that we have a basket dinner, and that we of Jirmanee. extend a general invitation to the people of 10. Then Benjamin sent word to Jimpbuv the country. Committees were chosen as and said to him, “Verily I nay unto the. follows : On General Arrangements—A. D. there is g"Id in my coffers and wine in m\ Helman, Jacob Wagner, George Patterson. vaults; and there is fine raiment for the. On Orator, Reader, Chaplain and Music—C. even store clothes, if thou will worship me.” K. Klum, S D. Whitmore, S. J. Downing. 11. And Jimohay answered and said unto On Toasts—J. M. McCall, 0. C. Apnlegnte, nim, “Ill see thee damned first before I will du C. K. Klum, T. B. Merry, L. B Applegate. this thing.” 12. Aud he girded up his loins and went E. Emery, II. M. Thatcher. On Reception to take cour sei of Silas, the scribe and ol —S. J. Downing, S. D. Whitmore, S. Booth. Fomshiplee, the chief pedagogue, that be The Secretary was requested to forward a might overthrow die designs of Benjamin. (Here endeth the first lesson.) copy of these proceedings to each of the papers of the county for publication. Ad G en . Joseph Lane, “the noblest Ro journed, sine die. man of them all,” made a congratulatory E. EMERY, Chairman, speech to the Democracy of Douglas on Sat O. C. A pplegate , Sac’y, urday afternoon last, at Roseburg. Hayden and Fay. I t is a great source of gratification and congratulation to the Democracy of Jackaon, that in the recent bitter struggle against Geo. H. Williams’ corrupt influence and Ben. Hol laday’s money bags, combined with traitors in their own ranks and open enemies without, their Democratic brethren throughout the State, and in California, watched tbs contest with earnest sympathy, and from time to time cheered us with their words of hope. Every Democratic paper in the State, with one or two exceptions, have congratulated the gal* iant Democracy of Jackson upon their recent glorious victory. In to day’s issue wo re publish the-e cheering words : To-d.iy the Press under the management of the Association of Gentlemen (so called) is suspended, perhaps forever. Our mission is ended. We have triumphed over all of our political enemies. It is but just that in con* elusion we should say something in merited praise of the worthy heroes of the Oregon Democracy. This campaign has been fought through against the most feaiful odds. Our veterans have stood by the party colors with a heroism deserving of the highest admiration of our people. Perhaps no two men were ever in any country opposed with such bit terness as those which head this article. The combined influence of men and money were brought to bear against Mr. Hayden in Polk, and Mr. Fay in Jackson, by Ben Holladay ano Ge »rge II. Williams, but both these gen- tlemeu with a courage worthy of emulation led the gallant Democracy to the charge and triumphed. With Fay and Stout in the Sen ate, and Hayden Whitaker and Helm in the H >use as leaders we need entertain no fears but that the members of the Oregon Legisla ture will prove faithful to the confidence en* trusted to them. Democracy has proven itself invincible and the names of our gallant leaders will long be remembered for their heroic deeds iu the campaign of 1870.— Sa lem Press. E lected .—Notwithstanding the strong op position made bv the Radicals and some Dem ocrats to lion. Jas. D. Fay in Jackson county, he has been triumphantly elected over all hie enemies. Ils will make a live member in the next State Senate, ns his pr.at record fully proves. When he was the only Democrat in <he lower House, he was more than a match for the Radical crew that invested that body. — Oregon City Enterprise. In Jackson County no effort wa« spared to defeat Fay and the balance of the Legislative ticket, but the people, with an instinct, truer rlmn the cunning of some of their would las leaders, scouted the proffered coalition with the enemy.— Yreka Union. Jackson County—Official Vote. Congress—Jus. 11. Sluter 771 ; Jo. Wilson 520. Governor—L. F. Grover 793 ; Joel Palmer 490. Secretary—S. F. Chadwick 785 ; Jas. El kins 500. Treasurer—L. Fleischner 782 ; M. Ilirsch 500. Printer—T. Patterson—786 ; II. R. Kin caid 500. / District Attorney—H. K. Hanna 684 ; E. B. Watson 561. S ate Senator—J. D. Fay 611 ; A. H. Mar tin 600. Representatives—Jackson Rader 663 ; Jos. Wells 653 ; A. J. Burnett 683; J. C. Camp- bell 556 -. Orseu Stearns, 558 ; E. II. Green man 552. Sheriff—Henry Klippel 635 ; W. A. Owen 573. C. unty Judge—T. H. B. Shipley 603 ; C. W. Kahler 593. Commissioner—John S. Herrin 647 ; Thoe. Wright 705 ; John Bilger 596 ; W. A. Chil- ters 502. Clerk-S. J. Day 614; Max Muller 588. Treasurer—John Neuber 718 ; G. Karew- ski 422. School Sunt.—L. T< Davis 563 ; Wm. M. Turner 655. I n P oor H ealth .—Old Granny Dowell, •«ince the death of his hopeful brat, the Fn. -ion ticket, has lost his appetite. It is said oe intends to take another trip to Washing- ton, to look after her mules and aparejoe. Having rid the nation of Stanton on his last trip, she will now turn his attention to wor- tying Mr. Grant into a coffin. Bully for Dowell. May her years reach fourscore, and his Shadow grow never the lees. We aek pardon for the indiscriminate use of personal pronouns in connection with his name, but -ince his seduction by Bill Ish and bis ac couchement by Dr. Hyde, bis sex baa been most oonfoundedly mixed.