The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1865-09-09
STATE RIGHTS DEMOCRAT.
SATURDAY.. sEE'rENnER o. 1898
POLITICAL GUERRILLA MOVE.
MENT.

~ ueNolu al pfthclhie or consistency and
who seek only their own personal ends in
whatever they engage in party matters.
They have been banded together for years
and have at one time and another proved
upon every party or faction which held
or was apparently promised temporary
sway. They We're originally ~unfedged
Abolitionists-Free Soilers so-called-l
but while Democracy was IN the ascend
ancy in Oregon, they protested devotion
to the party, We're received within It's ann
pie folds, and Immediately began upon a
system of scheming which would bring
them to the control of the party organi.
cation. Their persistent, eonfederated
efforts, were finally crowned with success.
They accomplished their purpose, dis
pcnsed among their band the more impor-
tant public Offices. gave to their peculiar
class servings the crumbs aud pickings,
aud in time converted the organization
into a mere machine for the promotion
Of their w aggrandizement. They per-
verted the principles Of the party from
the true interpretation and intent, and
insisted that tealty to clique dictation was
paramount to tmc-honored Democratic
faith and arty usage. Finally, the great
mass of tn, Democracy, having become
convinced of their uaworthiness as lead
ers, resolved to displaee them, and select
faithful, honest, sound Democrats for
their acknowledgements. Tn finding them
selves no lonaer able to control the party,
the members Of the hand commenced
seheming to effect It's overthrow. Guer-
rilla political Vaccinations were resorted
to, and many good, but misguided men,
were seduced into the support of the
guerrillas. They had intended to go
over TO the enemy in a body, and at once.
but an unfortunate division made in the
Democratic ranks in the States east of the
mountains, gave them an opportunity to
more efieetuaily dreak down the party in
this State by a feigned devotion to a pop
ular leader. Although they had only in
the Spring before taken strong ground
against Mr. Douglas. and denounced his
theory Of Popular Sovereignty, they now
became profesSed champions of himself
aud his cause, and thus concealed from
their own hoodwinked followers their real
design-;hat Of full fellowship with the
Republican organization, which, they
fOresaw was likely to come into control
of the Federal Government.
Having succeeded in giving the State
to the Republicans, the guerrilla band
sought open brotherhood With the s@ictors.
They forced themselves upon that party.
and Immediately proceeded to acquire
control over it. Again they were sue.
c~essfal, and as the wages of their treache-
~ to and overthrow Of the Democraticl
party, they were given the best Offices
within the means Of the Republicans to
bestow. The majority of the guerrilla
band still continue to hold these high
and lucrative positions.
But the influence and might of the
Republican party is on the wane. 1t re-
quires no more than ordinary sagacity to
foretell its speedy, certain downfall. The
guerrilla band rightly guess that the pres
ent tateAdministratioa viii end the rule
Of Abolitionism in Oregon they really
foresee the triumph which awaits the
Democracy next June. Accordingly,
they are beginning to trim their sails to
catch the popular breeze, and to scheme
and labor 50 that they shall again enjoy
power and place under the new DISPENSE
ton The advent of Senator Nesmith to
the State this year was the initial move
ment of their scheme. He travelled over
the State estensibly .on official business
connected with the Indian Department.
but in reality to instruct his blowers and
strikers in the peculiar duties they are
to perform. and to drnia up recruits to
his waning. desperate cause.
Alreads can be discovered the effects
of the political views he disseminated
here and there. in certain localities.
throughout the State. In the vain hope
that the same causes which have produced
discussion, difference or schism, in the
ranks Of the Democracy in some of the
States across the mountains, may have
the same effect in Oregon, the guer-
rlias viii prosecute their work. They
hope to convince Democrats that what
they are pleased to term radical prin-
eiples.' T. E. the principles of JEFF
ferson and Madison-have become OBJ
~sdiete, and that, under these principles, the
party can never accomplish victory; that
the present organization must be aban-.
doned, and upon It's base must be reared
a conservative organization, which
shall adopt the new Redged f~allacies of the
day, and accept as accomplished facts, the
several and startling innovations sought
to-be ingrafted into eur governmental
system h President johnson, and the
conservative Democrats of this period
They INSIST that the doctrine of Statd
Rights must be abandoned that the va
nous DENOMINATIONS issued BY the Presi