vEljc lUccKin Enterprise.
"FIcTaL PAPKK V0 CLACKAMAS COUNTY.
Oregon City, Oregon ,
Friday : : :
May 3, 1872.
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.
Presidential Electors,
CEO. R. HELM, of Linn County.
Itf. II. GATES, of Wasco County.
L.. F. LAN I;', of Douglas County.
"For Congress,
JOHN BURNETT, of Beaton.
For Judge of First District,
P. P. PB-IM, of Jackson County-
District Attorneys,
1st. District J. 11. Mfl, of Jackson,
Id. District C. XV. Fitch, of Lane.
3d. DUtrict J- J. Shaw.
4th. Dist. C. IJ. Helling-"-, of Portland.
5th. District XV. B. -Caswell, of Grant
Clackamas County Ticket.
For State Senetor,
JOHN MYERS.
For Representatives,
A. R. SHIPLEY. J. II. MARTIN, JOSEPH
RINUO.
Sheriff A. F. HEDGES.
County Clerk ROBERT F. C ATI FIELD.
County Commissioners WM. .SHARP,
JOHN SAW TELL.
Treasurer T. J. McCARVER.
School Superintendent A. NOLTNER.
Assessor R. N. WORSHAM.
Surveyor JOSEPH A. BURNETT.
Coroner DR. II. SAFFARRANS.
Political Speaking.
Governor Grover will speak on the
pending issues at the following times and
places :
Scio ... . Mav Gib
Albany " 8th
Corvallis " 9h
ErownsVille " 10th
Eugene " 11th
Oakland 13th
Roseburg " 1 1th
Ashland " 17th
Jacksonville " ISLh
Gov. G rover's Speech.
Gov. Grover addressed the lar
gest assemblage of citizens at the
Court House last Tuesday evening
we have ever seen congregated to
gether in this city for the purpose
of listening to a political speech.
At 1h o'clock the Oregon City
Urass Band commenced to give
the signal, and in less than fifteen
minutes, the Court House was
crowded to its utmost capacity,
and many were ioreed to go away
for want of room inside of the
building, while the sidewalk out
side was crowded with eager listen
ers. The Governor was not well,
yet he spoke for an hour and twen
ty minutes, and during the entire
time he held the vast audience of
ager hearers spell-bound. Seldom
3iave we witnessed a more intense
anxiety among a people to hear
what was falling from the lips of a
speaker than was manifested by our
citizens last Tuesday evening. It
is impossible for us to give more
than a meagre synopsis of his able
speech, as our space will not admit
of it. He prefaced his remarks by
stating that States were like indi
viduals; if they commenced right
in their business career, they are
generally: prosperous and success
ful; Oregon was a young State,
and if she starts properly, has a
great and brilliant future before
iier. Her interests, in many re
spects, had been sadly neglected
under former administrations. He
the proceeded to explain the con
dition in which the present State
Administration found the School
and University lands. Not a loot
of these lands had been secured to
J.he State at the time he went into
power; that these magnificent
grants had b,cen selected and the
tState now has an undisputed tittle
to them for the uses for which they
were granted ; the school lands
will amount to five hundred thous
and acres, and are valued at a
million dollars ; this vast track of
land could have been selected ten
years ago (and a better quality ob
tained), and sold for as much as
the lands now selected are worth,
and the money placed at interest.
This would have given the public
schools the interest on this grand
sum, and our tax-payers would
have been relieved, Irom a heavy
burden, and schools in a more
prosperous condition 5 tho Univers
ity lauds have also been secured, !
'w w 15 prepared to j made men, Laving come up from a
legislate to maintain this desirable ! rail-splitter to become the splitter
institution, j of the Radical party. As that
' The speaker then proceeded to ! 1a,r.ty" ?ame iuto i)0w through a
Land Act. He explained Us just- j prospects for a grand Democratic
licss by giving an illustration of I victory this fall most encouraging
rt l j I - V IT f ll A t- r 1- t . T t
its workings. The General Govern
ment had given these swam) and
overflowed lands to the State for
the purpose of having them drained
and brought into use. To this end
the Legislature passed an act
which allowed a man to bio as
much as he desired; that when a !
man goes into market to buy Gov
ernment lands, he is not restricted
as to the amount lie shall purchase;
he has a perfect right to buy all
lie can pay for; this act provided
for the sale of these lands at $1 per
acre : the cost of selecting and
surveying being paid out of the
first twenty percent, paid on them;
the State is not out a dollar on
these lands; it would have been
impossible to limit the number of
acres to which an individual should
be entitled ; for instance, the lower
Klamath Lake contained about
sixty thousand acres; on the mar
gin of the Lake there was but little
drainage to be done, while the
centre would drain the entire body ;
it would be impossible to get this
done only by large tracts being
taken by a company; he showed
that it would cost a quarter of a
million dollars to drain it, and the
dollar per acre paid the State
would make the land cost its own
ers six dollars per acre; that it
would be impossible for the owners
of this vast tract of land to retain
it for their use, but that they
would be, of necessity, compelled
to sell them to settlers; instead of
this act being a swindle, it was the
most beneficial act in -favor of the
State of any ever passed by any
Legislature, and that the State
would realize at least $1,000,000
for these lands. The Democracy
had pledged themselves .to appro
priate this sum of money for inter
nal improvements, and the public
school hind.
In relation to the Lock Bill, the
Governor said that it was of He
publican origin, having been intro
duced, he believed, by the Repub
lican State Senator, Mr. Thompson,
of Clackamas county, in the ses
sion ot 1808. The bill became a
law by votes of both parties, not
being then considered a party
measure, and was approved by a
Republican Governor. Hits law
provided that $150,000 should be
allowed by the State to the Lock.
Company to assist them in the con
struction of the works, and the
money was payable out of the same
fund as the sum now allowed. If
the psesent law, which is but an
amendment of the act of 1808, is a
robbery of the school fund, the
first act was a robbery of the school
fund, also. The fact that the law,
as first enacted, being of Republi
can origin and approved by a Re
publican Governor, closes the
mouths of Republicans on the sub
ject of swindling the school funds.
This was but an after thought,
when it was found that the present
works would seriously interfere
with the effort being made to unite
the commerce of both river and
railroad transportation under a
single monopoly, against - which,
and for the ireedom of commerce
Democracy stand pledged. ' The
Governor then demonstrated most
clearly that the act of 1841, grant
ing the 500,000 acres of land to
Oregon for internal improvements,
created a trust in the State, to be
executed according to the law, if
we accepted the grant. No au
thority less than that of the grantor
could change this trust. Oregon
in her Constitution proposed that
fund should go to schools, provid
ed Congress should assent to the
change of the trust. Congress was
silent. Silence cannot change a
grant, and the original law devot
ing this fund to internal improve
ments was unimpaired and in force
when the Legislature appropriated
the .$200,000 for the purposes
contemplated by the jirant.
The speaker gave a history of
this class of grants and the uses
to which they had been devoted
in other States. He compared the
original bill introduced by the
friends of the 'I. T. Conipany,
with the present law, and that the
present law as passed was much
better in its provisions for the
farmers and shippers, and that the
work now being done was of a
permanent character, which would
last as long as the bed-rock through
which they were being quarried
would last, and as long as water
would run, remaining a monument
of the wisdom of their projectors
long after "this vast audience shall
be gathered to their fathers." The
speaker showed conclusively that
instead of the lock bill being a
swindle on the school fund, it was
an investment for the benefit of
the fund, and that the revenue
which will be derived from this
source, will be a large income to
the fund from which it is taken.
The Governor then gave an en
couraging account of the prospects
of Eastern Oregon, stating that
the majority of 1870 would be
augmented 200 this year, and that
we would have in least 800. He
spoke highly ct Judge Burnett,
the Democratic nominee for Con-
I gress, and said that he was a self-
City Election.
Xext Monday the election of
officers takes place. We desire at
this time to present a few facts to
the consideration of our readers,
not in a partisan spirit, but in the
interest of the community. Oregon
City is the oldest city in the State,
yet many of her younger rivals
have far advanced her in progress.
This has been to a very great ex
tent due to the management of our
city affairs. For the past ten
years the present party in power
has had undisputed control. They
have done nothing to promote or
advance our interests. With a
free high school that has cost our
citizens over" four thousand dollars
per annum to maintain, we have
failed to induce that increase to
our population which naturally re
sult from such institutions being
located in a healthy place. The
reason of this may probably be
accounted for by the fact that the
school has been so managed that
many of our own citizens have be
come distrusted with it. The im
provement desired in this respect
was promised us last election if the
people would only trust the party
in power. While there has been a
change, the promised reform in
that institution has been totally
ignored, and the main stumbling
block has been retained in the po
sition which the people demanded
should be occupied by another
who would trive better satisfaction.
CD
How this was done, we do not
now propose to argue. They
plainly violated, not only their
promise of a change, but a pledge
which was freely made that the
will of the people who are so de
sirous of having this institution,
for which they freely and cheerful
ly pay their taxes, again trust the
persons who disregarded their
pledges and promises? We hope
not. This institution should and
ought to be made a credit to out
town, and a source of increased
population and wealth.
The next is, that the city's affairs
have been managed in a similar
manner as they were before, and
unless we have a complete change,
we cannot expect any improve
ment. Last year we made a state
ment on what we regarded good
authority, in relation to the indebt
edness of the city, and which was
emphatically denied. Wo were
promised an official statement of
the affairs of the city for publica
tion before the election this year,
but have not received it, and hence
have nothing to go by only what
we were told last year to be facts.
Why we did not get this statement,
we are not able to answer. There
is probably not another town
which collects so much revenue per
year as ours, in this or any other
State, from year to year and gives
no account of what was done with
it to the people. For years the
party in power have collected from
four to five thousand dollars annu
ally for city expenses, and given no
account of it. It may be properly
expended, but it looks to us as
though there is something wrong
when the transactions will not
bear the light of day, and the
people are kept in ignorance.
Last year we were told that the
city debt was less than three thous
and dollars. City warrants were
worth at that time what they are
now. If the debt has been de
creased any during the year, why
have orders not advanced T But we
apprehend that our financial condi
tion is about the same as it was at
the beginning of the present j'ear.
Now Jet us see what amount of
money is collected, and we must
do this from estimates which we
think are nearly correct :
From Direct Taxation $3,250 00
From Licenses for Saloons 1.200 00
From Fines. &c loo 00
$1,550 00
This makes a total receipt of four
thousand five hundred and fifty
dollars. Xow let us estimate the
expenses, and we shall make the
allowance very liberal:
For Water Contract $1,000 00
Assessor and Collector 350 00
City Marshal 200 00
City Attorney 150 00
City Treasurer 150 00
Night-watchman.. . . , , , 400 00
$2,4QU 00
Here wehave an annual expense,
which amounts to twenty-four hun
dred dollars, which ought to have
left on hand last year at least two
thousand dollars to pay on the
debt, and which would have re
duced it to about fifteen hundred
dollars. Xow if this yere the
condition of our city affairs, and
our people knew them to be such,
would not our city script advance
to at least 85 cents on the dollar.
Most assuredly it would. The
debt would be paid off the present
year, and the orders drawing ten
per cent, would be a good invest
ment for the short time. But the
people are not allowed to know
what the actual indebtedness of
the town is, and why this secrecy?
Do not our citizens apprehend that
there is something "rotten," not in
Denmark, but in the management
of our city affairs? We ask our
people, those who desire the wel
fare and prosperity of our place to
look at these matters, and ask them
selves, not in a partisan or venge
ful spirit, whether it is not time to
make a complete change, and let
others occupy the positions which
have been held by men who are
fearful to show to the people who
elected them, the true condition of
affairs. What is for the benefit of
one citizen, is to the interest of all,
and party feeling should not be
allowed to so far blind us as to !
either sacrifice our own welfare or
that of the city and her prosperity.
There are many other reasons why
we might urge a change but our
space will not admit of it. We
will only state here the entire
amount of revenue the citizens, a
voting population of two hundred
have to pay annually, and then
ask them whether they consider
they are receiving an equal amount
of benefit for this enormous tax
upon them and their property, and
also the question, where does it go
to? The total amount for the last
year is as follows:
Direct tax on property $5,500
For Saloon Licenses 1 200
For road taxes, estimate 1.S00
Fines. Theater licenses, Ac 100
School money from the county. 750
Grand Total $0,350
Making a tax on every voter of
about forty dollars per annum.
This we consider an outrage, and
should be remedied in some man
ner. And yet our town is in debt.
Xo town can prosper under such
taxation, and we hope a change
will be made by the people next
Monday for men who will endeav
or 10 bring as out of the mire in
which we have fallen. We cannot
expect capital to come into our
midst for investment as long we
have such ruinous taxes, and our
town will not take the advanced
step she should unless we find
some remedy. Let our people try
a change. It cannot be worse,and
we trust it may be better.
The War Department Steal.
A lively debate sprung up in the House
on Friday, April 5!b. when the Army ap
propriation bill carne up. Reck of Ken
lucky attacked the administration of the
War Department, an charged that over
one hundred and seven million of proper
ty had been told by the War Department
since June 30ih, 1805, ami not a dollar of
the money bad ever been paid in to the
Treasury, but had without authority of
law, been used by the War Department.
This ho proved by official figures. The
statement created quite a flutter in Ad
ministrative circles, and caused the Re
publicans much uneasiness. Dawes, Hut ler?
Dickey and other loaders endeavored to
parry the effect of this heavy blow in
flicted by Reck, but 11 Uer'.y failed. This
damaging revelation will go before the
country and the people will be astonished
to find that so much corruption could ex
ist without being exposed by those whose
doty it would be to protect the public in
terest. There it is, wherein the present
party in power is wanting. They allow
all manner of corruption, and it is ex
cised on the ground that the money was
used to -preserve loyalty." as Gen. Duller
said in that debate. But. it is to be hoped
that a better day is dawning on the for
tunes of the Republic it looks now as
if the people had determined at last, to
iinife in one great effort to change the ad
ministration and save the country, before
irretrievable ruin overtakes the country.
The Salt "Lake and Portland Railroad.
Our Washington correspondent under
date of April Glh states that the bill to
give the right of way through the Public
Land to the great Salt Lake and Portland
Railroad, with the privileges stated in a
former letter to this paper. It passed
just as it came from the Committee of
Public Lands of the House, and reported
by Hon. J. 11. Slater. The friends of the
road there are well pleased to secure the
right of way, and believe this to be an
excellent beginning of a great enterprise
which will be of incalculable advantage
to Oregon. The completion of the road
is only a question of time, it will certain
ly be built, and in a much shorter period
than many will bel'eve. The near ap
proach of the Presidential election pre
vented Congress from extending now all
the aid originally asked for the road. It
will be given in due time.
Senator Trumbull.
Senator Lyman Trumbull has formally
declared bu intention to su'pport tho nom
inees of the Cincinnati Convention, and
he adds iu his letter, the belief that the
nominees of that Convention will defeat
Graut. There is uo questioning the iact
that the Cincinnati movement will prove
a power in its action, and that all who at
tend that assembly have -burnt their
ships.'' and never mean to go back into
the ljadjcal camp. They cau have.no
future in Grant's tvuv, fur he. never for
gives hostility in any form to. himseif or
his aspirations. All who go to Cincinnati
know full well that the act is a severance
of party ties and. that they must "fight it
out"' on the opposi.ion line, and they will
abide tho consequence.
Our Special "Washington Letter-
Washixgtox. April 13th, 1672.
Editor Extekpkis3K : The great sensa
tion here to-day is the meeting last night
in New York city of Republicans favor
ing the Cincinnati Convention, held at
Cooper Institute, where speeches were
made by Senators Trumbull and Schurz.
The meeting it is stated, "was one of the
largest in numbers and most imposing in
its composition ever held in the city." The
opening of the meeting was announced
for S o'clock, but hours before, the large
hall of th Institute was crowded to its
utmost capacity. Throngs were unable
to gain admission. Among the Vice
Presidents were Horace Greeley. Moses
II. Griuell, (late Collector under Grant.)
Hiram Barney, Sinclair Toucey. Gen.
John A. Dix, (late Minister to France,)
Judge Blatehford, Marshall O. Roberts,
and a number of prominent German citi
zens, Col. Frederick A. Coaklin, brother
of Senator Couklin presided. This tre
mendous assemblage last night in New
York is the theme of conversation and
comment in all circles to day. Washing
ton has not kuown as much real excite
ment since G rant was inaugurated. The
fact is no longer concealed that their
movements are having a very serious
effect on the Republican party and
thiuking men of that organization are
really alarmed, and admit that the canvass
will be warm and exciting, and that it
will be necessary to put forth every effort
to secure Grant's re-election. The pre
parations for the Liberal Republican Con"
vetitiou at Cincinnati on the 1st day of
May are on a very extensive scale. Al
ready, it is said, that the Missouri delega
tion had engaged the entire St. James
Hotel, and parties from Xew York
had secured 00 rooms at the Burnet
House ; also, that the Germans had pro
vided accommodations for the German
delegates in the German quarters of the
city. That this Convention will be an
imposing assemblage of influential Re
publicans admits of r.o question, and
they mean business. These Liberal Re
publicans express themselves with more
intense bitterness towards Grant than do
the Democrats, and will never go back on
their hostility to him. They have - burn!
their ships behind them'" and never ineau
to . return without victory. The move
ment is more extensive than was first sup
posed and is spreading rapidly, and to
such an extent as to make it almost cer
tain that Grant will be defeated.
There is to be a meeting in this city, of
the Democratic National Committee en
the 8;h of May. to take action on calling
the National Democratic Convention.
The Cincinnati Convention will be over
by that time, and it is hardly necessary
to deal in speculations as to what course
the Democrats will pursue. They wi.l
no doubt, be governed iu their action by
the circumslance3 surrounding them at
the time. An impression prevails that it'
the Cincinnati Convention should nomi
nate Davis and Darker, that the Democrats
would endorse the nominations, und sup
port that ticket. It i believed, however
that the Liberals mean to iiomina'o Grutz
Brown of Missouri, lor President, and
Gov. Curtin of Penney Ivani.i for Vice
President. In that case, tL Democracy
will nominate candidates- of their own
say. Hendricks of Indiana lor President
ami Gov. Paiker ot New Yersey lor Vice
President.
The recent Republican Convention held
on the Dili inst. at Harrisbufg. Pennsyl
vania, has given great dissatisfaction to
Col. John V. Foryey of the PhiraUtdphia
'(.s.s'. and lie predicts that the Republi
cans will be defeated this fall. The fact
is, that there is a wide split in the. party
iu that State, and the divisions in the
party cannot be healed. Pennsylvania
may be set down as certainty Demociatic
her vote will be polled aga-inst Grant
next November. Of this, their is very
little doubt entertained by respectable
gentlemen of either party now.
The Palriol has a loading editorial this
morning entitled "Hoarding the National
Treasure," and - pitches iuto Secretary
Boutwell, taking the same view of that
question expressed by your correspondent
iti a former letter to ttie H. i i;i:Pt i.sK. The
writer regards the action of the Secre
tary highly pernicious, and it will not be
a mailer of surprise, if Congress does not
take some action, requiting hi id to reduce
the large gold balance in (he Treasury,
by paying off a hundred million more of
the publec debt. This will be resisted by
Treasury plunderers, and it is a source of
regret that Ihese plunderers have so much
coutrol ia' Congress. It mut be clear to
every honest man in Congress, that there
is no necessity for hoarding ior years one
hundred millions of gold in tho Treasury.
The 1'utriul very justly says that "this is
one of the many aitful modes, which the
protectionists and their allies have adopt
ed, to keep up exorbitant duties, and to
impose additional taxes on the consumer.
Remove that mountain of gold, which da3T
by day increases in bulk, or, in other
words, iorbid thfs hoarding process, and
as a necessary consequence, there would
have to be a corresponding reduction, of
the tariff.
The Radical policy proceeds upon the
theory that this huge balance must be
maintained, just as it sets aside an equal
sum to buy up bonds twenty years in ad
vance of maturity, und then has the auda
city lo claim merit for paying off the pub
lie debt. Both are inventions contrived
for no other purpose rhan to favor and
maintain monopoly at the expense of the
whole people. Last year laxes were col
lected to the extent of four hundred and
eleven million of dollars, or about eleven
dollars a head for every man.woinm. and
child, black or white, iu the United
States. This is the taxation in time of
profound peace, when 1 lie great West is
languishing lor want of capital to develop
its mighty resources, and agriculture is
oppressed by burdens which are not
equalled in any other country on the face
of the globe. One-fourth ot this stupen
dous revenue is exacted with no other in
teniiou than to lock it up iu the vaults
and let it lie there idle. That is to say.
every man. women, and chi.d is required
to contribute $U each, without even a pre
tence that the tax is necessary, cr that
the money is to be used, alter being col
lected.'' During the past week Congress has
been engaged on the various appropria
tion bills and has made considerable pro
giess. So so u a-s these bills tire - through
lie members will be lor getting away,
and that is the reason why they are be
in passed through this early iu the ses
sion. Both bodies will be ready for final
adjournment on the -1st of June Tho
TuriH bill will be reporied in the House
on Monday next. It will have to be
printed, and it may come up for considera
tion the following week. There will be
both a majority and minority report the
protectionists thi time are m the minority j
on the Committee, " !
All the Oregon measures to which al-;
hision has been made ia former letters, j
will become laws. Your Representative J
gives careful a'.teni'on to all these matters,
and when this session closes will be able
to present to his constituents a record of
which any member might be proud.
In examining some statistic lately, the
following was found to be true wi'h re
gard to the representation !n the Electoral
College in regard to the different sections,
and is given to show the relative power
of the same. It exhibits a very signifi
cant lact. that many intelligent people
have deluded themselves with the belief
that the West is the seat of political pow
er in the Union. The South leads the
West in population and predominates in
in the Electoral College. Sectionally the
electoral vote is divided under. the uew
law as follows :
Whole number
Necessury for a choice. .
The New England Slates have
The .Middle States
The Western States
The la'e Slave States
.357
.170
71
105
131
The Pacific States y
It has been considered unimportant to
give you I he dry details of the daily pro
ceedings of Congress, you get the G'ubc.
and cau publish all deemed important,
and these letters discuss quest ions that are
agitated here in political circles." They
engross the public mind in "the States."
and the newspapers indulge eutirely iu
examination ot the topics which your cor
respondent has commented upon in hts
letters If there be an apparent same
ness iu the correspondence it is unavoid
able There is an important Presidential
election approaching, and the people are
deeply interested in the result, and this
question in all its different phuses is the
order of the day. Politics rules the hour
and to write oil any other subject is to be
out of fashion. But, to be serious, the
approaching election is important, if uot
momentous in its results, and all thinking
men look uoon it in that light. The 00
casiou is serious, ami every lover of liber
ty, honesty and country, feel the critical
character of the coming contest and is
preparing himself for it. It is believed
the people of Oregon are fully alive to
the issues involved and mean to do their
part in taking power from the present
rulers, and putting it into the hands of
better men, who will weild it for the
good of the Republic, and not for plunder
ers. Pl maces.
The New TarifJ".
The Radicals h ive been tinkering with
the tariff, at Washington savs the San
Francisco Examiner, 'and a nice tinker
they have made of it. They are deter
mined to favor the rich and make the poor
pay the "fifteen and a halt millions per
month of the public debt," of which they
boast so much. On cotton cloth, such as
poor people use for sheets, shirts and
dresses, the tariff is tico cents per yard;
if" bleached or colored prints, such 3 cal
icoes for dresses, two and a half cents per
yard, and ten per cent on their value be
sides, making, as a senerul rule, about
one-fourth of the value, or twenty-five
per cent, on the coc. On spool thread to
make up such goods, we aie to pay five
cents per dozen, and twentj-four p rcent.
on its value, making about thirty percent.
On sacks, such as farmers use for baggina
their wheat, they pay thirty per cent.
Bat diamonds are free. The enor
mity of this injustice can hardly be real
ized without examination,
A man with a family of childron wants
three hundred dollars voiih of cot-on
goods for his special use. but he cannot
purchase then) wiihout paying about one
hundred dollars rn re to th Government
iu the way of tari.T. A farmer wants
threw hundred and fifty dollars worth of
sucks for his grain. If there was no tarilf
on them they would cost him that sum.
but he must pay another one hundred and
fifty to ihe Government, so that the Rad
icals may m ike political capita! by month
ly payments of the public debt. It is es
timated we shall have this year a product
of sixty millions of bushels in grain for
export. If so it will require at least thir
ty millions of sacks. Say they are worth
twelve and a half cents each, the cost ot
the sacks will be So. 750.000. and the
amount of tariff we shall pay the Govern
ment will be one million, one hundred
and twenty -five rhou.Tiiid dollars.
This is what the Government is doing
for poor men men who work hard for a
living who from morning until night toil
and sweat to support their wives and chil
dren; while a thousand rich men may
purchase a million dollars in diamonds
without paying a cent of tariff for the
support of the Government. Is it any
wonder, then, the Radicals are disgusted
with their own administration? Is it any
wonder that such men as Trumbull.
Schurz, Greeley and others should seek
for reformation in their own ranks? Or,
rather is it not a wonder that the. people
have not sought redress for such wrongs
in political revolution long ago? To talk
of disbanding the Democratic- party with
such facts before us is highly concentrated
nonsense.
Ox tiik Tkadk. We learn that the Cor
bett men on the Radical county ticket for
this county are engaged in the attempt to
'swap off"' the Williams men. It is
known that the Representative ticket is
labelled G. II. W.. and Corbett's friends
don't appreciate the movements being
made to -swap then off.'' It seems that
the Legislature ticket is all that the owner
of tho Radical party cares for, and the
tirsl movement was to swap all the minor
county candidates for votes for the Legis
lature. This has come to the ears of the
small office-seekers, who now retaliate by
proposing to swap the Williams men. A
nice little fuss is going on among them
Let it -bile."
Ratiiku Cool. The Good Templar can
didates on the Radical county ticket (dear
benevolent souls) are becoming very gen
erous, and now propose to allow Ihe men
whom they refused to vote for last May,
and who were treated with contempt in
the late Radical convention, to select the
city ticket, and agree to vote for it, pro
vided these liberal minded citizens will
bend the knee and kiss the Jiand which
has so recently struck them. We shU
see whether they are so lost to self-respect
as to take ihe slender bate which is
offered them.
Public Speaking-.
Hon. Geo. R. Helm will address the cui
zens of Clackamas county, on Thursday
next, May Qih, at one o'clock p. ir. We
hope o-u- country peoph; -will crowd in
to he,u- Mr. Ilelrn. He is an able speaker,
and this appointment is made at the hour
designated for the accommodation of our
fanners who cannot come in tojiear speak
ing i:i the evening. Let there be a fu'l
house.
S::.Mi-Mo.vrnLT. We have received Ihe
first number of the semi-monthly Church
man. It is much improved, and gives
considerable more reading matter than be-
fore, while the price of subscription re- j
in tins the same. We r.re glad to notice!
this fvidenee of prosperity, and wish it j
mjch success in its uiissicn of usefulness.
State News.
The "Waldron Troupe have gone to
Victoria.
Trinity Church, Portland, is to have a
$3,000 organ.
Sam. L. Simpson is associate editor of
the Salem Statesman.
W. B. Carter is now the sole proprietor
of the Corvallis Gazette.
Three divorces were granted by tho
Polk County Court last week.
Burnett and Wilson will speak at New
port, Yaquina Bay. on May Cth.
The East Portland Era has just started
upon the second year. Success to it.
Pemocra'te conuty Convention in Wash
ington county, Saturday, May, 25th.
The West Side railroad is to be finished
to the Yamhill river by the 1st of July.
The Democrats of Jackson county hold
their convention on the 9th day of May.
tMr1 morft wheat than ikho!
SCjv - - - , v U tVf
be.n sown this season in Yamhill county.
Last week Umpqna valley had hail, frost
and ice as tnicK as a pane or window
glass.
The Democrats of Columbia County
will hold their Convention on the 11th of
May.
The wheat fields of Easfern Oregor
never looked better than they do this
spring.
The Urrahl says a large order for Stand
ard Mills flour has just been received from
New York.
Robert Fulford, acfor. and Miss Anni '
Pixlev. actress, were married at Portland
May. 30th.
The Oreionian says Wells, Fargo & Co.
are going to quit the banking business at
Portland
The Indians of the Pantee Agency am
contributing to the Episcopal mission
work in Oregon.
Rev. Thos. Condon, of fhe Dalles, was
severely hurt last week, by the runawaj
of a stage team.
M. L. Samuel of Portland has issued a
Utile volume called th -Traveler's Guide
and Oregon Railroad Gazetteer." -
Petitions are beitng s'gned at Dayton,
Wheatland, Lafayette and other points
for a daily mail between Salem and La
fayette. Selucius Garfielde was nominated at
the Territorial Republican Convention
nt Kalama. Monday, he will be defeated
beyond a doubt.
The stockholders of the Ashland Wool
en Factory have authorized the Directors
to offer it for sale. It has one set of first
class machinery and a fine water powr.
Cha. Smith, sent to the Penitentiary
from Wasco, was discharged from that in
stitution on Tuesday, having served out
the term of bU sentence, three years.
The Josephine Democratic Convention
made the following nominations: Stat
Senator. E. N. Tolen; Representative. A.
L. Waldron; Clerk Ciias. Hughs; Sheriff,
Dan. Green
Col W. W. Chapman will arrive at Port
land to-day. from a lengthy visit to
Washington, where he has been working
in the interest of the Salt Lake and Purl
land Railroad.
Last Monday Isaac Mayhevv, a wealthy
farmer of Polk county, disappeared, ami
nothing has since been heard of him. It
is supposed he was enticed lrom homo
and foully dealt with.
The Democrats of Douglas county fmv
placed in nomination the following ticket;
Joint Senator. Soloman Fitzhngh; Repre
sentatives. J. N. Barker. John Drain and
Hall; Sheriff, William Muds; Clerk,
E. Stephens.
Among the graduates of the Be'Iovuo
Medical Hospital. New York, we notice
the names of Curtis C. Strong, son of
Judge Strong of Portland, and Alfred C.
Kinney, son of R. C. Kinuey of Salem,
Oregon.
Col. Teal delivered a very sensible and
practical speech at Eugene City last
Wednesday to the largest audience hail in
that city for a number 0 years. The Col.
talks business to the people, and they
like to hear him on the important ques
tions which touch their vital interests
L.vTKsr FiioM CixerxxATt. A tefegran
dated May sr, from Citciimnf i says that
at 12 o'clock m. the Liberal Republican
Convention was called to order by Col
onel Grosvenor, of St. Louis, who "nomi
nated Judge Stanley Matthews for tempa-
ary Chairman. Mathews on taking the
chair thanked the Convention for the un
expected honor and briefly addressed th
Convention upon the causes which had
necessitated its assembling and the work
before it. Three temporary Secretaries
were then appointed. A resolution was
then adopted, that when the Convention
adjourned it be to 10 o'clock a. m. to
morrow, and that in the meantime delega
tions from the several States shall eleel
delegates to the Convention equal in num
ber to double the vote each State respect
ively is entitled to in the Electoral Col
lege. A motion to adjourn to 10 a. m.
Thursday was cat t ied.
A telegram from Washington,
under
same date, says : Great interest
is feM
concerning atfairs at Cincinnati.
Presi-
dent Grant and Colfax are in constant re
ceipt of dispatches giving latest phes of
affairs. Their advices indicate the nomin
ation of Davis. There are- also indica
tions of a row. Davis is also in receipt
of dispatches and is under the impression
that he will be thrown overboard and
new man nominated.
AxoTitKit Dri'.TV TitiCK. The individual
who superintends Ihe passenger travel on
the railroad is wise (?) beyond his day
and generation, says the Farmer ; and is
now charged with a trick some meaner
than that perpetrated on the school chiL
dren of Salem about a year ago. After
inducing the Odd Fellows of Portland
and the towns along the railroad line to
resulve to have a union picnic on the 2GtU
inst., ut Aurora thfvt individual placeu
the charges for a special train from Port
land to Aurora, -twenty-five miles, at
such an exorbitant figure that those, in
terested lelt forced to decline if.. Tht
liburalUy of the railroad company will be
better understood when we state" that the
terms were $525 for two passenger and
seven freight cars, the company to have
all over that amount that might be made
by the train. The expenses of running a
a special train from Portland to AuroT
and back would not probably have ex
ceeded $P)0.
The CAX.wi anp Locks. Col. Teal in
forms us. says the Democrat, that the
Locks at Oregon City will positively be
comnleted by the first of January next,
and 'he says that he Company will offer
to turn them over to the Stale immediate.
lv after thir eomple'ion. by the payment
of the actual cost of their construction.
We believe thai the only secure means of
keeping them from being bought and own
ed by the Railroid King is lor the State
to become possessed of them at the earliest
possitiie moment. Tho people's interest
in this respect will never be securely
guarded until ihese Locks are placed eu
tirely out of the reach, of that moneyed
influence which is gradually but surely
fastening lis giant hold upon the throat of
our young and struggling comraon-wet'.tli.