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0he 9rjg0ttgcpb!iraw. official paper: PALLAS, gATURDAY, JULY 2. , 1 . Political Conduct - The election is over and we re de feated, but pot disappointed. Politi cians find journalists speculate concern log the real cause- -sarae assigning one reagop,, otters entirely a different one. fhe truth is. we airs beaten because of Qjp eo4ct as a party, and be cause we tava permitted ourselves to fce AootroUed by men who are willing p) sacrifice the interests of a whole pa ikical organization for their own intjj ?idual aggrandizement. Ve have been beatep because the party has ; been .. forced against its frill d wishes by tbe operatibns of un scrupulous demagogues to lay aside the poly name which had a charm for the majority of those who organized under ft, and to adopt the platform of a fa natical journalist, consisting of two planks, "universal suffrage and univer sal amnesty." Th& former is sufficient, tid will, destroy any republic situated ika ours, in onefourth of a century, pnrj the latter wipes forever, from the Constitution and the laws, the crime of reason. If the Union party had been content to retain its name, and had flone its whole duty in carrying out its declared purpose, to make treason odU pns, by causing Jeff. Davis and the an tbor of the above platform, at time he fiigned the bail : bonds, to have tested he strength of hemp cord, one inch in diameter,, on the spot where John Prown expired, and then, like men and freemen, maintained the only correct oolicy in relation to opposite races in (his Government, as advocated by the immortal Lincoln, instead of changing front on that fjtje.gtipn, we might have to-day been the strongest, best and mo3t influential political organization fhat ever existed in th& government. Put we have followed strange Gods, and have gone'estray after the ways of jBalaam j 8nd it ha? happened urM us that we have been beaten in the Pacific States, and will be driven to despera tion and disintegration in 1872, unless - the people awaketo their duty and at tend more strictly to their interests and the operations of their servants. Other reasons, good and sufficient mignc oe given; prominent among whjch are the management of local af fairs of the State by some of our na tional representatives, the fact tha pne map claims to be able to carry Or egon ip Jjjs pants pocket, and his high handed conduct is wipked at by the party in whose interest he claims to be operating, but whose priqpipies he reajly hates. A1J of which ponduct actions and doings we claim are agains equity and good conscience, and we in tend to ventilate them in due time n' show up the secret history of the gradual but persistent butchery of the Union party of Oregon, in the house of its friends. Brutus may be an hon prqpje man, but Brutus stabbed Caesar. Railroads "We see frequent mention, ip the Or gonian and the Statesman, of a rail road on the west side of the Willamette. This twaddle is getting y very old and stale with us. The truth is, we have been robbed of what justly belonged to us in the way of land gjants for rail roads, and the benefit has gone to the East Side, and now we are to have a daily stage lipe from Portland tp Cor yaUis instead of a d&y train of cars. This, the papers on the East Side, think is a blessing to the West Side, even greater pan they deserve. Be fore the establishment pf a railroad on the east side of the river it was thought entirely unnecessary that we, on the west side, should have a daily mail ; but pow it is considered that we fcave risep to that importance that we are really entitled to the leavings of the East Sifle j that ought to are facts no longer, and so, pppn the establishment of their Hqlladay ralroad, this gentle man advises that we of the West Side have what ia left of the East Side daily ijjail. We npw gi?e Mr. Ifalladay & Co. notice that the gullibility of the people on the West Side is about ex hausted, and they ipten4 tq Ipck well tp their interest hereafter. guWflbp fpj'f tj0 REPUBLICAN. RSi Extllu Yourself. The Heiald of the 25th, under the caption of "A bold statement," says: The Oregonian of yasterday morn ing prints the following from the Chi cago Evening Post The New York World is agitating itself in the most lively manner over "Grant's grammar' the President hav ing,' in his special message, used the phrase, "a nation with which the Uni ted States is at peace.'' The hyper-, critical World insists that he ought to use the plural verb "are" instead of Ms. Now we respectfully submit that thjs is not a question of grammar, but a question of polities, and that it was settled by tfye war. Before the rebel- ion it might have been, considered proper to say "the United States aie a confederacy of sovereign btates; but now we Ray "the United States is a na tion." The very thing that Lee sur rendered at Appomattox was the plural of the verb. And the Herald intimates very strongly that that the position aaken by many, that the Government is uot a nation, but simply a confederation ; of sovereign States j which doctrine we have always contended was nothing more or luss'thaa the chief corner stone of nullification and secession, because if .the States did not surrender their sovereignty to the people, at the adop tion of the Constitution, then the Southern States did have the right to go out of the Union whenever they de sired. But the Herald is not specific on the subject. "Why does it not state its own position ? Why does it not say one theory or the other, on a subject so important? Does it hold that we arc still a confederation of sovereign States, as contended by Randolph and other great minds of. that day, when they opposed the adoption of the Con stitution Ojid claimed that we ought to remain in a confederated state, and that if the Constitution was adopted this would be a consolidated govern ment, with the entire sovereignty of the State surrendered to thewhplepeo pie in the aggregate ? or does it deny the position taken by those great men, who lived at the very time the Consti tqtion was framed, and now insist, in the "face of history, that our form of government was not changed at the adoption of tho Constitution, but that, now as then, we are a confederation of independent States, retaining all their original sovereignty, save and except what, by the Constitution, they express ly delegated to the whole people ? This question, according to the state ment of the States Rights Democrat, during the late campaign, being the vital question pending before the peo ple instead of the eighth resolution, we should bp glad if the Herald would define its position. But the position taken by thp Post, and endorsed by the Oregonian, are as wide from the mark as that of the Herald, One is as ab surd as the other. Its position is, that prior to the war, it might be said with propriety, that the government was not a national one, but' was a confederation of sovereign States; thereby admitting as was claimed by Jeff. Davis, when he picked up his hat to leave the Capitol and join the Southern Confederacy, that the South had a right to secede under the Democratic construction of the Constitution, and all he asked was to be let alone. Now we contend that this position is untenable; it is not true that the war has changed our form of government; and this question of gov ernment was not settled by the war, for every man must know, that in a re public like ours, where the whole pow er is in the hands of the people, politi cal questions are settled only by the ballot, and not by the sword. 'Our late war settled only the question of physi cal strength. What, I ask, in the name of reason, would alt our battles and vic tories amount to upon the question of government, if, after they were all over, a majority of the legal voters of the United States should decide, by their ballots, that the doctrine of secession was correct. I apprehend your bullets would be of little use. Alexander Ef. Stephens said, and that, too, after the war was over, that the Southern mind had undergone no chapge upon the question of the right to secede; they had only been compelled to yield to an overpqwerjng force, and that whenever an opportunity presented itself, thpy woujd, resurrect the Southern Confed eracy; apd yet the Post and Oregonian are willing to be rocked to sleep in the cradle of political sepurity, by the sooth? ing song of the war has forever settled the governmental question. ,5?1 $1,500. It was charged, just after the elec- tion of Baker, that Ira F. M. Butler received the the above amount for cast ing his vote for distinguished hero and statesman. ! Ira has never got a smell of j office since that memorable event, and evi dently thinks it is necessary to eat a great deal of dirt to get in good stand ing with the Democratic party again. In 18G2 he ran in the Union Conven- tion of this county for County Judge, but, failing to get the nomination! very JJ--I- .1! J il.i .1 I suuueuiy uisiruveieu iuut mere was a rrronf. ilflfll nf fraud ?n f lift finnventinn & "W vvu.yuv.wu and very bad principles in the party. Since that time he has been acting with the party that first-and worst ready abused him. He has ever been and willing to do anyiittle nasty, dirty work that the party demanded. He is ever asking for office, but rever re minded that is necessary to "eat a lit tle more dirt, Ira." He "has no con science, and if perjury and corruption don't work in his case, it ain't because itdon't find a willing subject in him. This election he was appointed to elect the Democratic ticket by the rejection of enough Republican votes to do the work, and right well did he gei down on his belly and go after it. Ira, you and John O. Shelton will have to eat a little more dirt-jof the very dirtiest kind and.-wait a little longer. Venality. There never was, perhaps, m any election, a greater display of high handed villainy than that which char acterized the action of a majority of the Democratic judges of election in this county. They seemed to have no higher conception of duty than that they were appointed solely for the pur pose of letting Democrats vote, because they were "DiuimycraU," and keeping Republicans from voting, because they 'were not "Dimmycrats." At Independence where two rene gade Republicans were put jon the, board as judges and they can do meaner things than anybody they re quired the usual oath of "Dimmycrats when challenged, and an additiona Oath, of their own manufacture, of Re publicans. They went so far sis to re quire residents of the county to state under oath, whether or not they intend ed staying in the county or not. This kind of discrimination I in favor i of "Dimmocracy" was carried on al over the county. In many instances the judges would not even give the voter, the benefit of what the law pro vides in case of a rejected voter. They would not even allow the voterj to swear In his vote. The boast of Bill Wat kinds that, "the Democracy Jhad the judges of election in Polk, and they would carry the county even if the Re publicans have a hundred majority," was considered law. j The New Naturalization Bill. We see, by the late telgrams, that new naturalization bill," in the House, has been beaten nearly two! to one. The real intent of the bill was to allow all persons, irrespective of race and color, to become citizens of the United States. While we refrain from ex pressing our opinion at this time on the question x of universal citizenship, we have no hesitancy in saying that it should not take place, while the law re mains which passes the ballot into the hand of every man by virtue of hia becoming a citizen. Whilej Greeley seems to be in tears over the defeat of the bill, we are shedding tears of joy; for in it we think we can see the signs of returning sanity on the question of universal suffrage. We feel that we can see the first step backwards in the path of progress in the wrong direc tion. Let us see now whether Senator Williams r ny other Representative of the Pacific States, shall dare take another step in favor of universal suf frage. The Mexican Copgress, adjoined May 31st. - r- -ro r. The Qovernor of Guerrero1 haj been impeached- . Rumors of Cajbiaet changes ajre rfe at the Capitol. LIFE INSURANCE. EMPIRE MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE CO. Oi HTew G. HILTON SCRIBNER, SIDNEY W. CROWFUT, Success the Criterion of Excellence. - Ordinary Life Policies Absolutely Non Forfeitable From Payment of First Annual Premium. SPECIAL INSURANCE NON FORFEITABLE AFTER TWO AN NUAL PHE311UiUS. One Third of the Annual Premium loaned to the party insured, if dpsired, And no Note Required. The Business of the Company is on the Hutual Ifl an. Wa ovMotmA cniild nrnve more conclusively how fully the public appreciate the new and liberal features of this Company, and the well earned reputation of its leading Officers and Directors than tne IMMENSE SUCCESS OF THE EMPIRE, Unprecedented and Unparalleled BY ANY Europe or Applications for Agencies in places where the Empire is not already repre sented, will be received only from parties who can give undoubted references as to qualification and integrity, and should be addressed to the undersigned. O. F. VON RII BIN & CO., 332 3font!ioinery Street, Opposite Odd Fellows' Hall, Ground Floor, 18-ly Managers for the Pacific Coast. Notice to Creditors. THE UNDERSIGNED HAVING BEEN appointed by the County Court of Polk county, Oregon, Administratrix of the estate of J. D. Walling, deceased, all persons having claims against said estate are hereby notified to present the same to her, at her. residence, near Lincoln, in said county, within six months from this date. ELIZA A. WALLING, Administratrix. Jane 11th, 1870. 15-4w Final Settlement. SOL. TETIIEROW, ADMINISTRATOR of the estate of Bennet Crosley, deceas ed, having filed his final account and asked Tor a settlement of tho same, it is ordered by the Court that Tuesday, the 5th day of July, 1870, be-set for the final hearing of said account; and all persons interested in said estate are requested to appear in the County Court of Polk county, Ogn., at that day, and show cause, if any there be, why said accouut should not be allowed and settled, and said ad in in is trator discharged. J. L. COLLINS, 15:4w Co. Judge. NOTICE. THE UNDERSIGNED HAVING PUR chased all the printing material used in the publication of the Polk County Time newspaper, together with all the bookstand ac counts belonging to said paper, have associ ated ourselves together and have engaged in the publication of a weekly paper, at Dallas, ri Polk County, Oregon, to be called the Oregon Ifcepiiblicari. All debts due the Polk County Timet, both on subscription and advertising account, are now due, and prompt payment is greatly de sired. All prepaid subscriptions of the Times, not extending beyond June 11th, 1870, will, injus tice to the subscribers, be filled out by us. New subscriptions and advertisements are earnestly solicited. We beg to assure sub scribers and advertisers thjLt they will get val ue received for the patronage they extend to the REPUBLICAN. D. M. C. GAULT, CIIAS. LAFOLLETT, P. C. SULL1YAN. Dallas, Ogn. March 5, 1870. , WBAT U O! ALL PER8QNS INDEBTED TO THE undersigned will please call and settle im mediately, and thereby save cost to themselves and expense to me. B. P. NICIIQS, ;j4!, Ogn., Jan. ,8th, 1870. assess York. President. Secretary. COMPANY IN America. Tax Sale. BY VIRTUE OF A WARRANT. DULY issued by the County Clerk of Polk Co. Oregon, commanding me to collect thc.taxe due"said eounty, by distress and sale if neces sary, for want of personal property, I hav levied upon the Donation Land Claims of Ed ward Ground and wife, and of Wm. Fulton, ii Sees. 30, 31 and 32, iu T. 9 S. of It. -4 W., in Polk county, Oregon, containing 570 acres oi land; assessed as the lands of John Polly, t satisfy the claim of the county for taxes levied thereon, against said John Polly, for the year 1809, and now reinainins; due and unpaid, amounting to the sum of $17 50 besides penal ties, costs and accruing costs : therefore I will sell the said promises, to satisfy"saitl demand, on Saturday the 30th day of July, 1870, be tween the hours of 9 "o'clock A. M. and 4 o'cloek P. M. ofrsaid day, at the Court House at Dallas, in said county, to the highest bidder for gold and silver coin in hand. J. W. SMITH. Sheriff, By F. M. COLLINS, Deputy. Dallas, June 25th, 1870. 17-4w" Tax SaSe. TTN PURSUANCE OF LAW, AND BY U authority of a warrant, duly issuid by the County Clerk of Polk county, Oregon, com manding me to collect the taxes due said coun ty, by distress and sale if necessary, I have, for want of personal property, levied upon the south half of Sec. 10, in T. 7, S. of R. 5 W.. Not. No. 1978. claim No. 40. containing 300 acres more or les3, taken as the property of A.I 1 f -VT 1 TT 1 . . m ueirs oi ieison jonnson, deceased, to Bat isfy the claim of the county for taxes levied on said premises, and now remaining due and unpam. ior ine years and 1S69, amount ins to the sum of S4t SO. hpsid costs, and accruing costs; therefore, I will sell the said premises to satisfy said demands, on Saturday, the 30th day of July, A. D. 1870, between the hours of 9 o'clock A. M. and 4 o'clock P. M. of said day, at the Court House door, at Dallas, in said county, to the highest bidder for gold and silver coin, in hand. , J. W. SMITH. Sheriff. By F. M. COLLINS, Deputy. Dallas, June 25th, 1870. , 17-4w COOK HE'ttE! THE... BUENA VISTA SAW MILL CO. having their mill in good running order, make known tothe citizens around Bnena Vista and vicinity that said company are pre pared to furnish lumber at the following prices: $1012 50 per 1,000 feet. We have also a first class planer and match er, and are prepared to furnish either plain or dressed lumber, strictly to order and with punctuality and dispatch. A good assortment of lumber now on hand. JAS. HOLM AN, President of B. V. M. Co., WM. C. LEE, Secretary. Buen Vista, June 16th, 1870. 16-tf LOST ! LOST! ! .On the road between Dallas and Buena Vis ta, one leather pocket book, containing two promissory notes, one for ($300) three hundred dollars, and one ($200) two hundred dollars, on the Salem Lumbering Ca., besides other pa pers and receipts. I herebj warn all persons not to trade for rr buy any of the above notes. JOHN LONO, A. H. LEE. June 10th, 1870. ' 16-2w GAITERS. 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Prepared by Dr. W. WATER IIO USE, MONMOUTH, OREGON. For Sale by Druggists. The trade supplied on reasonable terms. Hundreds of Testimo nials can be given if necessary. 13-tf DRMV. WATERIIOUSE. JPoi 12-e lit. ff r ACRES ENCLOSED LAND, . ONE and a half rtilcs from Dallas, is offered for rent. The renter to take tho growing crop and to have possession until next spring. " Good house and barn, forty acres in grain, and seven acres meadow ; a large bearing orchard and garden. One wagon and a span of horses go with the place te do the work about tho farm. Iramediate'posscssion given. Terms $250 cash, or satisfactory trade. , Inquire of RUSSELL & FERUY, Real Es tate Agents, Portland, or D. M. C. GAULT. Dallas, May 2?, 1870.. 13-tf DALLAS HOTEL, CORNER MAIN & COURT STREETS, Dallas, Oregon. t. A. ROBB, : : PROPRIETOR. THIS HOUSE HAS RECENTLY BEKN refitted and rearranged, and it is now open for the accommodation ot tne traveling' public, whose patronage is respectluliy solic ited. The TABLE will at all times be found well provided with every delicacy of the season, as well as the substantiate, and our guests may rest assured of courteous and prompt attend unce. 1 he SLEEPING APARTMENTS will also be found clean, wholesome and comfortable. feSS" Livery Stable opposite the hotel. L. A. ROBB. Dallas, May 2S, 1870. , 13-tf The Great Family Mcdiicine of tne THIRTY YEARS v Have elapsed since the introduction of the Pain Killer to the public, and yet at the pres ent time it is more popular and commands & larrer sale than ever before. Its popularity U notconfined to this country alone; all over the world its beneficial effects in curing tha ills that flesh is heir to," are acknowledged and appreciated, and as a pain killer its fame is limited to no country, sect not race. It needs only to be known to be prized. Thirty years is certainly a long enough time to prove the efficacy of any medicine, and that the l'Aiv killkr is deserving of all its propri etors claim for it, is amply proved by the un paralleled popularity it has attained. It is & sure and effective remedy. Sold by all Druggists. Price 25 cts, 50 cts, and $1 00 per bottle. Directions srecompany each bottle. C. ST. PARM ENTER. I P. J. BABCOCK. PATENTER & BABCOCK, Manufacturers, and Wholesale and Re tail Dealers iu IT'nniitTire, Commercial Street, Salem, Oregon, HAVE ON HAND THE LARGEST Stock of Furniture, ISedfliiigr, Window-Shades, Hollands, anc To be found in Marion County. All kinds of Picture , Frames, Coffins and, Caskets made to order on short notice and a( reasonable rates. "PARMENTER 4 BABCOCK. Salem, Maroh'23, 1870. 4-tf The standard remedy for Coughs, In iluenza, Sore Throat, Whooping Cough, Croup, Liver Complaint, Bronchitis, Bleed ing- of the Lungs, and every affection of the Throat. 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