; Æ
't
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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.
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