Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1863-10-24
Senator Harding.

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would use your influence against the rc-organiza-
ton of the democratic party? And did you or
not. write to any person in Washington Territory,
rrcyous to the late election there, advising hirl
10 vote for Cole, the democratic candidate!
T.. G.. Marion Co.
We copy the above paragraph from the
Oregon Argus of the 18th inst. We are
glad to have it in our power to satisfactorily
answer the most important of the two inter-
rogatorics propoundcd TO Senator Harding.
The question is so wordcl as 10 create the
impression that Senator Harding had actu-
ally violated solemn pledge, made before
his election to the L. S. Senate. The fol-
lowing paragraphs which We are permitted
to copy from recent letters of the Senator to
his friend in Olympia, ought to satisfy the
public that lie has no sympathy with re-
construction of the Democratic party, but
desires the perpctuation and success of the
Union organization of Oregon and else
where. If he was not in all his feelings and
sympathics a sincere and unyielding Union
man, the efforts that have been made to
place him III false position, and if possible,
form him into sympathizer with Dcmoc-
racy, might have proved successful
In allusion to the coming Presidential
election, he says: "Whocvcr will be elect
cd President will have to be pledged to the
maintenance of the Union =
g In my opinion it is all nonsense to talk of
peace or compromise upon any other basis
than the Union and Constitution, and those
who expect peace on any other terms, arc
doomed to disappointment, and the Copper
head or Compromise party, if they were in
power to-day, would be compelled to quietly
give up the Government, or make war upon
rebels and their institutions very much as
the present administration is now doing
In alluson to his support of the President
and his Cabinet, he says: 81 shall cndcavor
to convince him and them, that l am worthy
of their confidence
In allusion to the course of the Statesman
and Orcgoajan, he says: 81 am much in
clned to the opinion that the efforts of the
Statesman and Orcgonian to divide and
break up the Union party in this State, will
succeed. The impossibility of uniting the
former elements of the Democratic party,
and the very great difficulty Of uniting the
Republicans under Republican organiza-
ton, may, and hope will save the Union
organization. Personally, am determined
to have no interest in it, but hope for its
success as for the welfare of the country
We might add much more Of the same
import, but if the foregoing, together with
his letter we published some two months
ago, docs not satisfy all reasonable mon that
Senator Harding is now all he ever protested
to be, and all that it is desirable Union
man should be, it would be useless to quote
further from his correspondence. What he
hoe ,vl."t~.iy ~~d deliberately writton,
ought to be regarded as better evidence Of
his real sentiments and opinions, than cX-
prcssions used in private conversations, la-
bic to be misintcrprctcd by the bystandcrs.
No one who has carefully watched the course
of the Oregoniaa, since it has been con-
trollcd by that prince of hypocrites, Amory
Hobrook, will doubt his object to be, to
break up the Union organization, and re-
construct the Republican party, with him
self as leader of the organization. To effect
this, it became an indispensable necessity to
destroy Messrs. Harding and Mcbride in the
confidence of the Republican wing Of the
Union party, they being the recognized lead
crs of the organization. The scheme, as Mr..
Harding apprehends, may prove successful.
If so, it cannot fail to construct party upon
conservative platform, which will again
give the State into the hands of the Dcmoc-
racy.
1t is we'll understood by the confidential
friends Of Senator Harding, that he will not
be candidate for reelection. This fact,
alone, ought to protect him from misrcpre-
scnaton on the part Of his political rivals, if
not his personal enemies.
We regard Mcssrs. Harding and Mcbride
of Oregon, as faithful representatives OF our
Territorial interests; therefore we claim the
right to speak in their defense whenever we
find them unjustly assailed, personally or
politically, without subjccting ourselves to
the imputation of modelling with what does
not properly belong to us.
BRANCH MINT FOR THE NORTHERN COAST.
Tho establishment of mint in the Column
river valley is now being agitated by our CO.
torror,r;os IN Orooon This IL a yoOd