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; Æ 't -irear *«rsr 9 it ®fAl8 5«lk ínuil gijnat. Hailro espontanee. oharge. Mr. Gaston charged upon ■ Union Soldiers. Frank Blair’i Principles. ' the East Side Company that they had QffICIAL PAKR OF POLK CO7. MONDAY MORNING, AUGUST 3, 1808. C orvallis , J uly 22,1868. E ditor S ig n a l :— agreed to pay Mitchell five thousand dollars a year, I. R Moores their Pres the N. 'j l. Convention, Hon Frank I notice that you are devoting con. ident $4,400 per year, 8am Clark, See. Blair wrote a political letter in which the following occurs. I t has in it the It has $4000 per year, and each o f their D i ring o f the true metal ¿ - sideruble attention to railroad affairs.— That is the groat question here. retary $2,500 per year, their Treasurer been discussed long and loud and pco. rectors eight dollars per day and that pie are fully aroused to the importance none o f these men had anything to do F o r P r e s id e n t, HORATIO OF o f a Railroad. SEYMOUR, NEW TORK. For Viee President, F R A N K P. B L A IR , Or M I980U R I. T O R RRE8TDENTIAL ELECTORS, W e want a railroad from whatever, to be oollectod off the peeple here to Yaquina, as well as to Portland o f Oregon, and that such conduct The Surveyors are now examining the wonld'ruin any enterprise, and none o f Yaquina harbor, and we are all confi. these charges were denied. Through- dent that Yaquina will be found suffi out the discussion there was a great cient to accommadato the largest ves deal o f cross firing, and the East Siders sels doing business on this coast.— got the worst o f it on every turn. Then with a railroad to Portland and 1 he people here have generally made 8 . F. CHADWK K, of Douglas County. one to Yaquina this county will be the up their mind* lhat ‘the East Side Co. JOHN BURN I T T , o f Bouton County. garden spot in Oregon. is a humbug and JA S. H. SLA TE R, o f Union County. But I set in to tell you something way o f the other Company. They could about the present position o f the rail hot get a dollar here now under any The Grind Jury System—A Cost ly Nuisance—Abolish I t B j Art. V ÎT, Sec. 18, of our State Constitution, “ the legislative A ssent bly may modify or abolish Grand Ju mere nuisance in the Judge circumstances. Benton county will aid the W est Chenoweth is a Director in Che East Side Company, and a' clever citizen.— Side Company liberally, and we hope road question in this County. Some time ago he commenced canvas to see “ old Polk ” join hands with sing for that Company, representing Benton and Yamhill in pushing along It is to be hoped that our next that it had large means—was supported this enterprise that will bring life, bu Legislature will aet upon this provis by Eastern capitalists o f great wealth— siness, money and prosperity into every ion, and abolish the Grand Jury system Messrs. A . J . Cook A Co., who had the section. Yours, truly, o f this State. The Grand Jury wag do contract, and that the road was certain, Y A Q U IN A doubt a salutary tribunal at the time it while the W est Side Company having ries.” was first instituted, and for many cent no such backers would not succeed.— imes after. It is something o f an im The people naturally confided in. provement upon the rack, the Spanish Judge, and gave him con^deribie 8Ub- ' Inquisition, or the British Star-Chain- scriptions, but in all cases With such a ber, and yet a relic o f barbarism and saving clause as would protect them the dark ages, anti-republican in its a possible swindle. After features, out o f keeping with the pro awhile it got to be noised about that gress, enlightenment and intelligence the East Side Co. was not open to in ot the age in which we live, and a blot vestigation. Some o f our citiz ns then i i» Is there no R e m e d y ? — W e be lieve it has been the practice with the millers along the Willamette to combine against the wheat growers o f the V al ley to the extent ot regulating and fix ing the price o f wheat without any ret ened to outside circumstauces or even supply and demand, while it is not cer tain hut the navigation Company con upon our liberal system o f jurispru went to Salem and Portland, and upon spires against the farmer to further the dence. W hen a person wilfully designs their return made such statements with object o f the millers aforesaid. W e to ruin his neighbor, tho Grand Jury regard to that Company as opeoed the are at a loss to he able to account for is his resort. Here, secure behind the eyes o f the people, aud closed the sub the extortionate prices charged by said dark curtain o f secrecy, he may put in scription books. It was finally agreed Company for shipping wheat on any motion a train o f falsehoods and mys here between friends o f the rival com other hypothesis. Sixteen cents a terious circumstances, that frequently panies that there should be a public bushel— the average cost o f shipping result in the disgrace and ruin o f hi* discussion o f the respective merits of from Independence to Portland during victim, before the innocent party is both companies, by parties represent last year— is little better than whole aware that there is even a suspicion ing both sides. On the day appointed sale robbery. The only immediate against him. The accused has no op there was a good attendance of the remedy we are able to discover, is to be portunity to be heard, in explanatiou people, aud Mr. Douthit and Judge found in fostering and e icouraging an or defense, until after his name is en Cheneweth, Directors, J. H. Mitchell, epposition line o f boats. The prospec rolled among murderers and thieves and S. G. Elliot, contractor, appeared tive permanent remedy is the Oregon upon the ineffaçable records o f the Cir to represont the East Side Com pany; Central Railroad. Let the farmers oi cuit Court. A nd after lying in prison, and Mr. Gaston was on hands to look the entire length o f the valley look to perhaps, for six months or a year, he after the interests o f the W est Side — this. «ornes out a ruined man, in fortune and The discussion commenced at two in character, with perhaps a wife and o’clock and lasted till sundown, nearly. T he Mongrel papers o f this State children heart broken and in despair, Mr. M itchell spoke first, talked for are having a deal to say about Gov. and reads in the local columns o f the two hours and devoted most of his newspapers : “ State e f Oregon vs. speech to the personal matters o f Mr. John Doe— larceny- for stealing hogs;” Gaston. He tried to explain the ten- or “ State o f Oregon vs. Richard Roc cent stock speculation, but declined to — attempt to commit rape— iudictment inform the people about A J . Cook A quashed f ’ Ac., Ac. A nd in addition to this ruin of pri Co., and gave no reasons why his Com. paDy seized upon the name o f the Old vate fortune and character, the expense Company, and generally failed to give e f all this foolishness has to be paid by the people any satisfaction about the the people. A long bill o f Prosecuting operations o f the East Side Company. Attoaney’s fees, witness fees, jnry fees, W hen Mitchell concluded Mr. Gas officers’ fees, jail fees, Ac., Ac., swells up the larger portion o f the county ex ton took the floor, and proceeded to penses, which the people are taxed to make it decidedly hot for the East pay. Siders. Abolish the grand jury ! A short tiraje prior to the meeting o f He declared he should call There ia but one way to reatore the govern ment and the constitution, and that ia for the President elect to declare the Reoonatroe- tion acta null and v o id ; compel the army to undo ita usurpationa at the Booth; diaperee the oar pet bag State governments; allow the white people to reorganise their governments, and elect Senators and Represen tat ires. The House o f Representatives will contain a major ity o f Democrats from the North, and they will admit the Representatives elected by the white people o f the 8outh, and wilh the eo-op- eration o f the President it will not be difficult to compel the Senate to submit onee more to the o I ligations o f the constitution. It will not be able, to withstand the puhlio judgment, if distinctly invoked and clearly expressed on this fundamental issue, and it is the sure way to avoid all future strife. To put this issue plainly to the country, I repeat, that the real and only question which we should allow to control us is, ‘ ‘ Shall we submit to these usurp ations by which the government has been overthrown, or shall we exert ourselves for its full and oomplete restoration t" It is idle to talk e f greenbacks, gold, the public faith, and the public credit. What can a Democratic President do in regard to any o f these with Congress in both branches «en trolled by the carpet baggers and their allies J He will be powerless to stop the supplies by which idle negroes are organised into politidai clubs ; by which an army is maiutained to proteot these vagabonds in their outrages upon the ballot. These, and things like these, eat up the reve nues and resources of the government, destroy its credit, and make the difference between gold and greenbacks. We must restore the coustitution before we can restore the finances, and to do this we must have a President who will execute the will of the people, by tramp ling into the dust the usurpation*« -ot Congress, known as the Reconstruction Acts. “ I wish to stand before the convention on this issue, but it is one which embraoes eveiy- thiug else that is o f value in its large and comprehensive result. It is the one thing that includes all that is worth a contest, and without it there is nothing that gives digoity, honor,or value to the struggle.” M M the Democracy support Frank Blair M ajor General John Love, o f Indi with so much zeal— Le having been a ana, has organized the ex-soldiers o f I f they will take the the Union A rm y into societies, known republican. as the “ Union W hite Boys in Bine.” trouble to read an extract o f a letter This organization now numbers ever from Blair, on the Situation, which ap one hundred thousand enrolled mem pears elsewhere in the S i g n a l ,' they bers in Indiana and the adjacent States, and is receiving large accessions daily. will know all about why it is. Frank It is no secret society, bound by oath Blair is emphatically the right man in to obey the orders o f its leaders, bat the right place. On the score o f for its meetings and its purpose are open mer services to the Democratic party to the light o f day, and in avowed op he is entitled to Democratic support.-— position to the Radical p o licy ; its members adhere to the pledge fo«* I H e bearded the lion in hie den in Mie. w hich they fought— “ to maintain and ' souri ■ and at a time too, when it wan defend the supremacy o f the Constitu. not a safe business. H e sacrificed tion and to preserve the Union with all everything in Missouri in the effort to its dignity, equality, and rights o f the several States unimpaired.” In their cripple and destroy the iron rale of the declaration o f principles, they are for radical jacobins and coward/», who held paying the public debt in good faith, power in that State. H e succeeded to but are opposed to augment its vast a great extent by his iron will, never burden beyond the expressed terms on which it was contracted, believing that flagging zeal and honesty of purpose, gulliugsuch men, the Chicago platform T he “ organ ” of the nationalunion does not declare outright for universal republieanparty at Salem, the Union suffrage. This platform is explicit how id , is about to peg uut. mistermaefier- ever, ou the point o f the line o f policy son has retired from tho concern, hav which, were it adopted, must lead to ing first sold the State printing out ti universal suffrage, which is all the ex. kremists ask for at the present. The Phil udelphia Evening Post , an old time uni. versal suffrage paper, endorses the Chicago platform, and interprets is as V. L. Stinson. He gets a per cent, ol the State printing. As the * proceeds’ •vi!l be small, the “ per cent.” must be smaller. in lifting the yoke from the necks o f down-trodden Missourians. The Mis- sonriau who does not support Blair is an ingrate o f the first water. T he man Sibley who the radical pam pers are making such a noise over as having deserted the Democracy is a life long opponent o f the Democracy^— never voted the Democratic ticket bni. once— last fall— when he lopped off- from Gorham and Company. Catching at straws. M ore S traw s .— Galena, Ilf., the home o f Grant, recently elected the en tire Democratic ticket by an overwhelm ing majority. €. G. CURL. ATTO RN EY There is nothing in the republican platform, adopted at Chicago, which wa cannot heartily approve, for even the second article, which it- the only one open to objection pledges the par tv to maintain impartial suffrage in the south That maintained, it is inevitable /A«t impartial Seymour’s address to the rioters in New suffrage wilt be eetablisked in the north, for it if York city in July 1863. They forget impossible that the republican party can divide its principles and hold to a two faced policy that Bull Run McDowell addressed a It is certain to lose the colored vote in the south unless it gives »he ballot to colored citi mob in San Francisco in April, 1866, sons in the north. And if it refuse« to become composed o f thugs, thieves, Bloodtubs, the champion e f freedom, every where, it will deserve to he disgraced and defeated. Tb* murderers, marauders and fiends, telling right o f the loyal states to decide lorthemselve» the suffrage question does not, in our opinion, them that their conduct in stealing aud give them power to prevent citisens o f the Uni dcstrpyir g near a hundred thousand ted States from voting for officers of the United States and here it is that congress should inter dollar’s worth o f property, sod assail iors. We trust Mr. Stevens will not forget his oil! prohibiting states from disfranchising cit ing the lives o f peaceable and law abid izen: o f too whole country. And It is to be ing citizens, “ was very catural.” M c regretted that the convention did not more e x plicitly declare that the people o f the loyal Dowell, however, simply told the plain sutes ought to grant the ballot to their fellow truth when he said that the conduct o f citisens, without respect to oolor. Hut we re. peat that it it impossible to confer fu ll citisen. said republican mob was “ very natu ship on the millions o f colored people tn the southern states, and to continue to withhold it ral” — he meant that it wa9- natural for from the thousands in the north. Salem, Orejón, IL L practice in all the Court* ofR ecou l and inferior Courts o f this (Stute. Office, in Watkin.U A Co’ d Brick, up stairs. W ISff Farmers’ Store— MONEY’ S A V E D ! LOOK ATTBiS! fJ Y IIE LARGEST AND BEST STOCK W e learned the abov< fact while in Salem last week. Wm Morgan is the foreman o f the concern. W e have received a complimentary ticket to th.; California State Fair tc b< commenced on the 15th day o f Septem ber next at Sacramento. I N Hoag. Secretary, represents the prospects for the coming Fair as very flattering — boots. S'irrs, Groceries, . and Croclery, that has ever been offered in Polk C r , is ju*t received at C R O X F ^ W O L F ’S N’ewJUro story buH/iing at INDEPENDENCE, which we will «eiiCll KAPER than the CHEAP EST. We are prepared through recent arrango- ments made in San PtancUoo. to ti^d'c >n*t*nC *ale for ail kind* of Produce, ami payiu/ tho Highest market price for WHEAT. Wo also have in connection with our store, A LARGE W AREH OUSE, where we offer stcisge on pood term*. i» ‘ f CRONE & WOLF. California Fairs are generally liberally patronized. AND T he Nationalunioorepublicanparty is STORE. reduced to agonizing straits in Cowaccti- cut. It is hard to find a repub. who is willing to accept the doubtful honor o f a nomination tor any office in that State. W hen a man is suspected o f violat men and things by their right names ; republicans to steal under all circum Now, the above from the Post we ing the law, let him be taken, openly, that men bad been hired to go around stances. The entire mongrel press of should- think was explicit enough. G ram mar - T ypography . — The fol before a magistrate, and have an op the State and misrepresent and slander the coast was- lavish in ita praises o f What will the hypocrites and knaves lowing gem typographical and syntac- portunity o f being heard face to face him behind bis hack, and now he had McDowell for this speech, and very who Have been spouting round that ical, is an entire paragraph from D. come here to face them in their -accu with his accuser, in the first iastance ; naturally too, for he told the truth. the Chicago platform was anti negro B. Turney’s valedictory put in type by sations and refute their calumnies.— then, i f the accusation is false it wili suffrage say to this declaration ? himself in the Lafayette Courier’. vanish into mist; there is an end ofgos He denounced the East Side Company The opposition to the Y a i n h i H i a n TnE following is a partial list o f sip, an end o f imprisonment, an end o f as a humbug aad swindle from one end M ore S upport .— In addithm to was inaugurated by a stranger wbe ia an ad those who pay incomes in Polk county; disgrace, and an end of expense. Rut, o f it to the other, although it contained the Loudon Times , London Herald . venturer in this community, and was not ex and of the amounts paid on by each : some honest good men who were being Standard , and News, all organs o f the pected by me, and embraced within itsKlimiU if after bearing both aides o f the case, those whom I thought had more honor. Boise, R. P . $1,693 aristocracy and anti-Liberal sentiment there is a strong probability of guilt, used and deceived by the others.— Embraced in the “ lim its” o f what? Brown, \V. (J. * 218 of England are out in opposition to the then, the party should be committed, That it was gotten up by mere adven Democratic party ot the United States, Yamhill county has lost a prodigy by Ball, Isaac .77 or held to bail, and tried in the Circuit turers from California, who were now and its candidates for the Presidency, letting the hero o f the above literary Em mens, J . 386 duping the people o f the East Side o f and in favor of the sentiment represent ouriosity “ fail.” Court upon the presentment o f the pub * Chase, W in. 250 ed by Butler, Stevens 4 Go. O f the river ; and that the only purpose o f lic prosecutor. course it is perfectly legitimate for the Holman, II. 567 A gentleman in Douglas county, The world moves, and wc should the Company in Ban ton county, was to Euglu h journals to expresss their sym Lee, M. C. 50/ move with it. Let us have a more en throw obstacles in the way o f the W est path ¡as and preferences in relation to writing to have the S ignal sent to his Lee, N. 372 lightened system o f criminal jurispru Side— the legitimate Company. It oar national politics, bat is it not sig address, states that his precinct gave 76 Litchfield, G. C. ‘ 534 nificant that, without exception, the Democratic votes to 14 “ nigger votes.” Geoce. Abolish the Grand Jury ! and was soon evident that the Audienoe was Liggett, Joseph 500 English journals that are opposed to give os a more equitable, and a more decidedly in favor o f the Wo.«t Side at the June olectiou. That precinct republican institutions, and the advo, Nichols, B , F. 1,215 economical system. The Grand Jnry Road. Mr. Gaston charged that the cates o f monarchist ideas, are advocat just ties Dixie. The writer continues R obb, W . 8. 288 is a costly nuisance, which this pro East Side Company had two millions o f ing and wishing for the success o f tha that he “ wants the S ignal to scourge Rosendorf, N. 109 radical party o f the United 8tates?— those 14 wilh.” groaaivo young Commonwealth ought *• reserved and unassessable stock ” Savage, W m . 686 San Francisco Call, to abolish. The proceedings before the which they hnd created and provided Shreves, Asa 315 Grand Jury are o f that Star Chamber as a corruption fund to bribe ^public N ot C orrect . — The telegraphic W e learn that on last Monday even synopsis o f the platform o f the N. Y . Sommerville, Jno. 350 character. Qt onoo onti-republican and men, if possible, and corrupt public Thompson, J. I. 340 ing, Mr. Ellsworth, a Director o f the Convention was not in all respects cor absurd j abolish it ! sentiment, and in that way break down Vauduyn, Isaao 350 East Side Company, offered a tesolu. rect. As, for instance, “ heresy ” was the W est Bide C om pany; and when he tion to the city council o f Eugene City, W hitson, W . C. 184 used for “ questions.” W e will give A C a n d i d a t e . — Charley Westmor rend the cards o f Nesmith and Hunt by which the right o f way would be W orsley,John 1,140 our readers this model platform o f land, whilom o f the Dalles and else ington to prove this, the audieuco man granted to the East Side Company, in Waymirc, John 1,008 principles in full in our next and if pos where in Oregon, announces himself ifested their approval by hearty ap» Eugene. The Council refused to ad jp t sible keep it standing in the columns o f a candidate for Coogresa subject to the plause. Mr. E lliot .was told to his the resolution, or in any other way rec W e some weeks since spoke o f a N o the S ignal until after Seymour and decision o f the California radiesl State fsee in the presence o f the meeting, ognize the East Side Company. tary Public in this county who spoils Blair shall have been triumphantly Convention. Bad whiskey was Char that A . J . Cook 4 Co. was a fraud and hundred “ honnderd,” aad supposed a swindle, that there was no such a elected the legal exponents o f the dec- ley’s companion while in Oregon, and W e underatand that Engene Semple, him to be the orignal appointee o f Woods. we presame the quality o f the stuff is firm in existence; Mr. Mitohell was trines it contains. Esq., brilliant writer and an educated It seems, however, that he was appoint roach the same in California as here.— also told that he had substantially ad Btouk Mortgages at the S i g n a l gentleman, has acoepted position ed by Gibbs, who spells social oircle Charley, i f you get the nomination you mitted that he knew this to be the case, Office. $ o Portland Herald. and neither gentlsmaq deuie4 the “ sosiall sirklo,” ir e a heat community on OF Dry Comfit, Clothing. the Unionist office for giving the fore man the itch. A N D COUNSELOR A T LAW , Mistermacfierson was turned out of follows : a — Republican* wonder* how it is that in the absence o f any direct stipulation to the oontrary that the same “ lawful money which is used by Government to liquidate the claims o f disabled soldieis, widows and orphans o f the late war, is equally a just equivalent- for the bond holder.” The uniform o f the order is a blue blouse, black pantaloons, a white rosette on the left breast and an army forage cap. It is a significant fact that o f the soldiers who hav* engaged in permanent business vocations, by far the larger portion join this organiza tion, while those who are leading vaga bond lives uniformly join the “ Grand array o f the Republio,” under those reckless and characterless leaders, L o gan aud Sickles, in the hope o f “ some thing to turn u p ” to their advantage. I f the enrollment o f members contin ues throughout the Northern States in the same proportion as in Indiana, it The Chicago Platform and Ne is confiden ly predicted that the “ Wnite gro Suffrage. Boys in Blue ” will number five hun dred thousand by the first of November It is a fact that thousands o f repub next, every one ready to assist in in licans on this coast will not vote for uugurating the white ' man’s President negro suffrage nOr for any candidate, should the attempt be made to inaugu rate .a President elected by negro votes. for any office, who h in favor o f it.— — Hera d. With a view to cheating, misleading and a » B. CRIDER, TH AN K FU L FOR THK liberal patronage which has been hith erto extended to him in Dalian, would embrace this medium to *ay to all that be ia prepared with increased facilit-ie* t > serve A.1 C U STO M E R S far more acceptably than heretofore. Boots, Shoot a n d G a l i o 9, manufactured and warranted. An assort ment o f •, ' n CUSTOM M A D E W O R K constantly on hand. R e p a ir in g neatly done. A continuance o f patronage solicited. A . S. C R I D E R . Dallas, July 20, ISOS. IStf ¡STAR OF THE UNION j ¡STOMACH BITTERS!’ ) Theee delicious stomach B itten are entirely J I Vegetable, and Uree from alcohol oad every hurt. JUDGE FOR YOUR SELF! TRY THEM! TRY TH l M! ful ingredient A pleaaant tonic, and a most i agreeable drink: The market ia flooded with poison ou* compounds; but THESE bi tiers, made j from the purest extracto of m lu ffi roots, barks < and herbe, are admirably adapted to the cure oi / al 1 affeettoa* o f the Stomach. k**ey*JUv«rand > Bowel*, such aa Dyspepsia, Fever. Diarrhoea, ; Losa of Appetite, etc. etc. For mie erti jubete. A. FENKHAU8EN, 8otx MaJTOTAj-tv*». | cor S * tí -oni e Jt Jackson, San Fr*nctoc«Vj D R . n U F F I.A K D ’ S CELEARATED S W IS S STOM ACH B IT T E R S T R Y -----Tha beat Purifier o f the Blood, IT A Pleaaant T on ic! A t ery agreeable D rink! Unsurpassed for acting surety bat gen gentfy on the secret ion* o f the kith neya, bowels, stomach and liver. For sale at all wfcolsaala r€tal* liquor, drug and grocery store*- NO BODY SHOULD BB WiTHOTIT. C . F R IS C H , TAYLOR A 413 C ay street, I * * P r o p r ia w , DSN D iN D DSL, X L . Sola Sol# Agento, A] Ban Fraboweo, m l« * Ban
