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About Weston weekly leader. (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 30, 1880)
HORATIO SEYMOUR ON HANCOCK. The following extract is from Horatio Seymour's great speech at Utica. Gen. Hancock bowa to the decrees of the Constitution. He accepts its teach ings, he is irahued with its faith; its terms to him are sacred ; his earnestness shines out in every line; and when he swears to support the Constitution in its setter and spirit we know he means to do so. Those w uv ui wau it. not omy enose ntung .wftfrds to tell its meaning, but patriotism, like if ligion, has its symbols. No flag which &ats in the wind of heaven tells so much as ours of the history and charac ter of the Government it represents. Its stripes recall the names of the States which fought the battle which gave us liberty, and which crowned their glorious work by forming our Union. The States are numbered .j the stars that glitter upon its blue field. He who would strike one star from its place or who would blend or blur these symbols, so that they would tell only of obscure nationalism has latent treason in his heart We are asked why we took a soldier for our standard bearer? To whom can we intrust it with more safety than to ' one who has had its deep and grani sig nificance burnt into hia very baing by the fires of battle fields t There is not a color upon it8 folds, there is not a stripe upon its emblazonry, there is not a star upon its azure ground, that has not been made sacred by hiai. The appeal which drew hira and hia fel low soldiers from their hoce to the bat tle field was to rally around the stars and stripes and to uphold tLz Ur.ion. They will never make our fhg an unmeaning thing; they will see to it that it remains true emblem of the spirit o our Con stitution. By the jieople'w vote Gen. Hancock will bear this standard on to victory in tLis contest as he has hereto fore done en the bloody fields of battle. He has learned from it the grand purpose ot tne Constitution by teachings amid all the solemn lessons of war. By the in spirations of the battle field, by the sad sad solum aspect of the bloodstained srth and the dying groans of men when the struggle has ended. He has learned the great lesson of statesmanship, not aiaia soenes ot party strife, not in an at mosphere tarnished by personal ambition or scheme of plunder, but where Wash ington and Jackson learned the lesson of duty to their country and of obedience to us laws ana Constitution. It is now charged by our opponents that we are in consistent when we place a soldier at the head of the government The propriety of doing this depends upon the character of the man and the nature of the service upon which he has been engaged. The general who has fought only for victory or a conquest, or has been engaged only to promote schemes of ambition or to gratify feelings of hate has been taught upon the battlefield only If ssons of force amd violence. But those who have dared the perils of war to free their country of oppression, to gain for it an independent government, to resist hostile invasion or t uphold it against resistance to its rightful authority, have their mind filled with objects instructive, ennobling and patriotic. . iuu liiicuecw qmcKened by all the dangers and excitement of the strife thev see more clearly than other men the value f obedience to laws and the duty of sacrificing all things for their country's ington learned the grand duty of laying good. It was at this school that Wash down his sword and retiring to private life when the world thought he would claim a crown as his reward. This act so constantly referred to in other lands a well as our own gave him his immor tality. It was in the same school under like influences tnat in the hour cf victory Jackson curbed and restrained his fiery spirit and submitted to injustice and in dignity because it was imposed upon him by a legal tribunal. , If ratted to the Preside icy I A-iWtf deem it my duty to resui, with all rtj po wer any attempt to impair w evade the ftdl force and effect of the Coutiiuic avWA in every article, taction and amendment is the tupreme law of tht Iii-Wf ;-: Scott Hancock. Ho who Jas leaned ts yy rightful authority, has been taught tie great les son which fits him to exercu authority. Hs who reverences the laws of his coun try is the right man to administer them.' He who has proved his devotion to its interests is the one to whom we can most safely trust the work of guarding and protecting them. Therefore we placed kirn in nomination, and go into this con sst with the firm faith that we shall ele aU him to the position of President of these United States. NATIONAL PLATFORM, ADOPTED BY THE CINCINNATI CONVENTION. The Democratic party of the United States in convention assembled, declare: First We pledge ourselves anew to tie constitutional doctrines and traditions of the Democratic party as illustrated by the teach ing and examples of a long line of Democrat ic statesmen and patriots, and embodied in the last national eenvention of the party. Second Opposition to centralization and that dangerous spirit of encroachment which tends to consolidate the powers of all the de partments in one, and thus to create, what ever be the forms of government, a real den- otism; no sumptuary laws; separation of cnureu and btate for the good of each; com mon schools to be fostered and protected. Third Horn e rule, honest money, th strict maintenance of public faith, consisting ot gold, silver and paper convertible to coin on demand; the strict maintenance of the public faith, State and national, and a tariff for revenue onlv. Fourth the subordination of the military to the civil power, and a general and thor ough reform of the civil service. Fifth Right to a free ballot as the right preservative of all rights, and must and shall be maintained in every part of the United States. Sixth The existing ad minis traton is repre sentative ot conspiracy only, and its claims of right to surround the ballot boxes with troops and deputy marshals, to intimidate and obstruct the elections, and by unprece dented use of the vote to maintain its cor rupt and despotic power, insults the people and imperils their institutions. Seventh The great fraud of 1876, ;by which, upon a false count of the electoral vote of two States, the candidate defeated at the polls, was declared to be President, and fur the first time in American history, the will of the people was set aside under the threat of military violence, struck a deadly bluw at oui system of representative govern ment. The Democratic party, to preserve the country from the horrors of a civil war, submitted for the time, in the firm and pat riotic faith that the people would punish this crime in 1880. This issue precedes and dwarfs every other. It imposes more sacred duty upon the people of the Union than was ever addressed to the conscience of a nation Of freedmen. Eighth We execrate the course of this ad ministration in making places for political criminals, and demand a reform bv statute which shall make it forever impossible for a defeated candidate to bribe his way to the seat of a usurper by villainies upon the peo ple. Ninth The resolution of Samuel J. Tilden not again to be a candidate for election, the exalted plaoe to which he was elected by a majority of hfs countrymen, and from which be was excluded by the leaders of the Re publican party, is received by the Democrats of the United States with sensibility, and they declare their confidence in his wisdom and patriotism and integrity, unsullied by the assault of the common enemy, and they turtlier declare to him that he is followed into the retirement he has chosen for himself by the sympathy and respect of his fellow-citizens, who regard him as one who, by ele vating the standard of public morality and adorning and purifying the public service, merits the lasting gratitude of his conntry and his party. Tenth Free ships and a living chance for American commerce on the sea and on the land, no discrimination in favor of transpor tation lines, corporations or monopolies. Eleventh Amendment of the Burlingame Treaty; no more Chinese immiaratinn ercen for travel, education and foreign commerce, ana therein carefully guarded. Twelfth Public money and public credit for public purposes solely, and public lands for actual settlers, Thirteenth The Democratic party is the friend of labor and the laboring man, and pledges itself to protect him alike against the cormorants and the commune. Fourteenth We congratulate the country upon the honesty and drift of the Democrat ie Congress which has reduced the public ex penditures to $40,000,000 a year; upon the continuation of prosperity at home and the national honor arboad, and above all upon the promise of such a change in the adminis tration of this government as shall insure its genuine lasting reform in every department of the public service. ADVERTISEMENTS. WALLA WALLA BAKERY, Established 1851. BREAD, CAKES AND PIES And all kinds ot CRACKERS. Fire-Proof Building, Main Street, jan25tf WALLA WALLA, W. T ST. NICHOLS HOTEL CenterriDe, Oregon. New House, New Furniture. Stages Stop Here. Board, . . . $i per day. Ie Best TaMe la the Cmiut. -J as, rsre ADVERTISEMENTS. THE BEST OF ALL ':-':;! UHltlEHTS FOE HAN OS BEAST. When a medicine has infallibly done its work in millions of caws for more than a third or a century; when it has reached every part of the world; when numberless families everywhere con sider it the only safe reliance in case of pain or accident. It is pretty safe to call sach a medicine THE BEST OF ITS KM This i the case with the Hcxleam - " W M SI asaa, n Aj V CIV III -'f brings intelligence of a valuable bona . wU, ngt.uy ui hq .wibi seaioi or bora subdued, tlie horrors of rheu matism overcome, and of a thousaad-and-one other blessings and mercies performed by the old reliable Mex ican Mustanc Liniment. All forma of outward disease are speedily cured by the MEXICAN Slustang Liniment. It penetrates muscle, membrane and tissue, to the very bone, banishing puin aud curing disease with a power tht never fails. It is a medicine fteeded by everybody, from the rmcktro, who rides bis MUSTANG over the solitary plains, to the merchant Eriuce, aud the woodcutter who splits is foot with Ilia un. It cures Rheumatism when all other applications iail. This wenUeriul LINIMENT "P"0" cures such ailment of the liUMAN Fl.ESil as IllnnmatUra, Strolling, BtUT ww.ui.. . oumrva luuwiM, isuru nud Scalds, Cuts, llrulilf una Mprains, I'nlaououa Bites and S"K. rHlflbtess, Lanuntu. Old Mores, Fleers. Frostbites, Chilblains. Sore Mpples, Caked Breast, and indeed every form of external Us case. It is the greatest remedy for the dis orders and accidents to which the liROrii Cheatiom am subject that has urcrbecu known. It cures tipralns, Swlnny. SUIT Joints, Fouuder, Harness Sores, Hoof IMa eae, Foot Mot, Screw Worn, Scab, Hollow Born, Scratches, Wind falls, Spavin, Parry, Ringbone, Old Sores. Poll Evil, riln nnn the Slant and every other ailment mien tne occupants or the Stable and Stock Tard are liable. A iwMlfci'-flvA fwnt. Vinf.tlA stf Mustang Liniment lias often saveda valuable horse, a life on crutches, or years of torture. It heals without a Sear. It goes to I ho very root of the matter, penetrating even the bono. It cures everybody, and disappoints no one. It has been in steady use for more than twenty-five yeas, and is THE BEST OF ALL LINIMENTS roa HAl? C3 LEAST. THOMAS QSJINN, MANUFACTURE AND DEALER OS SADDLES, BRIDLES, HARNESS, ETC. Brick Building, Slain St., Walla Walla. I will keep at all times a full stock of Team and Buggy Harness, SADDLES, WHIPS, SPURS, n ALTERS, COLLABS, CURRY COMBS, BRUSHES, &C., And everything usually kept in a first-class Harness Shop. REPAIRING neatly and promptly done. TOOS. ttONJf. LAND AGENCY. Dwight & Bailey, General Land Agent. Notaries Public and Seal Estate Brokers. Pendleton, Oregon , Have Towssmr Plats of all surveyed lands in Umatilla County and a record of all Land Claims from the first location to the present time, and corrected semi-weekly from the Land Office at LaGrande. Will secure claims for parties under any of the Land Lavs of the U. 8., conduct contested coses before the Local Land Office, and oa appeal to the Department at Washington. Will furnish Soldiers Additional Homestead Floats and all kinds of Land Scrip on short notice and at lowest market retfe. . Will buyand sell lands, city property, 4c, on reasona- bcommssion. Th Plattf and Records above referred to are the only ones of the kind in Umatilla County, and settlers can save time and a tup to LnOrande by coming to as. fci'We have special facilities for locating new comers. N. DUSENBERY & CO.'S CTOT ia "VST S T &TILLCOTINUE3ona CASH BASIS, and we have just received unusually large invoices of Dry Goods Clothing, Gents' furnishing Goods, boots and Shoes Groceries and Provisions, which we are prepared to sell at the LOWEST possible rates FOR CAS1L Grain Bacon, Lard, Ax., taken in exchange for merchandise Remember the place: opposite Drug Store, Main breet Wsston, Or. ftotuj- J. H. HALEY. Surveyor and Civil Engineer, Pendleton. Oregon. Town Flats made and Lands Located. ADVERTISEMENTS. V T. COOK, J. H. IEVIJIK, H. D DRUGSTORE! MAIN STREET, Centerville Oregon. Contains a full stock of Pure DRUGS & PATENT MEDICINES, PERFUMERIES, FANCY GOODS AND TOILET ARTICLES PAINTS. SWEET & LUBRICATING OILS Clocks, Watches and Jewelry, BOOKS and STATIONARY, Todd's Gold Pens. Fine Cigars, and Tobaccos, Choice Wines and Liquors, For Medicinal purposes only. Prescriptions and Beeelpes Compounded with Care and Dispatch. coo PENDLETON HOTEL, E. BAKER, Proprietor. This Centrally located and Popular House having been entirely Refitted and Refurnished is Now opened to tne public under the New Management. THE TABLE Will at all times be found furnished with the Very Best the market affords, and every exertion made to satisfy the wants of the patrons or the Hoose. THE BEDS Are all new, and the rooms have been furnished in th neatest style and with every convenience usually found in a first-class houaa. The Pendleton Hotel has a Flre-Froor Safe to the deposit of Valuables. And in ail its departments It will be up with the times and the Proprietor is determined that it shal maintain the reputation of being the Best House East of the Mountains. THE STAGES STOP HERE. The resident and traveling public are respectfully invited to call. E. BAKES. Restaurant ! The only one in Heppner! THE OSLT PLACE TO GET A SEQARF. MEAL Just below TomAyer's Livery Stable ! BARBER SHOP! In connection with the house. A. E. DlTZEL. UTAH, IDAHO & NORTHERN Stage Company. Leaves Pendleton for Umatilla every Tues day, Thursday and Saturday at 5 p. m. Leaves Weston daily for The Dalles, via Pilot Rock and Heppner, at 1 :5 a. m. Leaves Weston daUy for Walla Walla, via. Milton, at 10: 45a. m. Z New Coaches, Good Stock, Skilled Drivers and able per formance of service are the features of this old and reliable Company. B. A. STEEL, Agent. SAILSBCRT, HAlLEY Jt CO., Proprietors. WBSTOBT Meat Market! . A. JOHN. Proprietor. Dealer in FRESH MEATS! EtlaVX.-I- MDAT, Fish, Fruit and Vegetables. Etc., Etc Are always Fresh aad Caad. All erders are FUled with CPnaaptnesa. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Liberal Discount Made on Large tr Cash Sales. ILLUSTRATED Catalogues BEST FREE. B F la I BRATTLEBOBO, VT. Offers to sell to the uucsu auu uesi seiectea stocks of SADDLES, HARNESS AND SADLERY HARDWARE, ETC 5 per cent Les!than any other Saddlery Hov.se this side r rertlaad. HAVING RECENTLY REMOVED TO MY OLD STAND, OPPOSITE THE PCST havp rl'i1! rert fur?h ykind of goods in my line for less money than they KOKE BUT THE BEST WOEKMO EMPLOYED IX IV EfiTABLISHMEST. with iwLV0 80d!- CMTiafie TrimaB d Pairing of all kinds done at my shop witn dispatch. JAMES WHEELAN, 17 Main Stieet Walla Walla. M. V. WORMINGTON, MILTON, OREGON. DRY COODS, GROCERIES, CROCKERY CLASSWARE, Heavy Stock of BOOTS and SHOES; COAL OIL TOBACCO and CIGARS- CANNED FRUITS OF ALL KINDS. Hardware, Iron and Steel. CLOVES OF ALL K.RJDS A SPECIALTY "Produce taken in Exchange. D. C. Lounsbury, UndertakeR. i NO extra charge for Hearse!! WESTON Oregon Diamond Soap forks Walla Walla, W. T. This establishment Is now thoroughly equipped for MANUFACTURE OF SOAPS On an extensive scale, and I am prepared to famish for the use of Housekeepers a belter article tbaa cam be bongbt here for the sane anenev PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRY. Send your order to 8-14-80-Sm W. J. DTEK, Proprietor. 7 WACNER, aad dealer la Jb' U At.J.1 IT U JfcfcJJ, CESTUI YULE. OCif. ST. PAULS SCHOOL, A Boarding and Day School FOR GIRLS. The Christmas Term begins on Thursday, Sept. t 1880. It is Important for every pupil to be present o the FIRST DAY OF THE TERM! F?UE!f l!"" " e school on Poplar Street. .and.J walla walla, w. t. "X. THE Host Eztensm Qanufectcry REEDORGAHS " tM ma - World! POWER, Combfnmd with Purity of Tone, Durebility Finish, ORGANS UNRIVALED! public one of the !! HE LADIES OP WESTON AND VICINITY are resoectfullv Inform! Uuli th 1'twt... signed have opened and now offer for sale a CoauUte MILLINERY GOODS.; The Latest Styles of Hats and Son nets always on hand in Great Va riety. FEATHERS, FLOWERS and every kind of TRTM- MING to suit the most Fastidious. AGENTS for WARREN'S HEALTH Corset. MAIS STREET ........ WE8TOS. Next door to Hardware Store.) MILLER & SCIINEBLEY. . 6-27 -3m , THE ' ' Valley Academy ! ' Boarding and Oay School for Boysj Walla Walla, W. T, Second Year Begin Monday, September 6th, 1880. ' fflML WgTsTlITIOJI 0FFEKS A THOK. ough tngush and classical eourse. Boyspr. Vi, co"?fr Specialty. Taition-10, tl5, S30 and $25, according to class, per term, (half year.) Burnt and washing, 110 per tersiof JO weeks. WliSther particulars, address the Principal. - . f- IP. O. box S02J walla WaYtaT WT. (OpposUs Post Offlos,) Main St, Walla Walla, W.T. R. R ROUNDS, . . Pbopsietox. Pf y, S1.00. Board and Ladsinr. per week. 6.MaudC0 ,aintoirTSaiafSar Beds S6 and 60c. " r Caeh ta the Hotel, for raaaeacen. r txq chutamen employed North end off Water St. H. A. GREEN Keeps eonsUatlvaa ' band a fan aappir of Wr. ral, aata, etc., aad aU horses Mt taiur ebssawwii receive good inatmaas. -"nwm mt attention mtrmmta good corral and eampiug svounds s-1qmt to T-Ma