The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1865-10-07
STATE RIGHTS DEMOCRAT.


unain take control of the Democratic or
~ganization in Oregon, to pervert it once
more to their own selfish ends and base
purposes. Already we hear that they
have commenced their campaign for the
honOrs and spoils of victory which will
flow to the Democracy in their certain
triumph in June next.
The two chief leaders of the band,
Senator Nesmith and Mr.. Bush, have
~journeyed east of the Cascades, sometimes
separately and again in company, setting
their traps, and in~structing their blowers
and strikers, and attempting to bamboozle
the Democracy everywhere into their sup
port. They are both aspirants for the
Senate. Nesmith is most eager to be re-
turned to that body, and his rival is no
less anxious to be invested with the Sem
atorial toga. Between them the thing is
managed quite adroitly, as might be ex-
pected, yet not so cunningly that they
have been enabled to conceal their real
designs. They have, it appears, agreed
npon q friendly competition for the place,
bv which the one who shall, at the proper
moment, find it impossible for himself TO
succeed, contracts to pass over to the
other all Of his convertible stock in trade,
in the way of State Senators, Representa-
tives, lobby-workers, wire-pullers. &c.
But this is not an open agreement-it
has however already been disclosed by
one who was so tickled with having been
entrusted with the secret that he could
not refrain from divulging it, apparently
to give his listener an idea of the great
Importance in which he was held by the
Guerrilla chiefs. Ostensibly, the two
rivals are inimical to each other. One
tells to this set how much it would be tc
their peculiar interests to support himself
and not his rival, and the other repeat:
the same game with his particular crowd
1t was singular, however, that just after
Nesmith's visit to the Dalles, certain o.
his old party friends of the Guerrilla
stripe, were jealous and industrious il
sounding his praises; but that while Mr.
Bush stopped there, and after his depart
ure, the same parties told their followers
that it was not advisable just yet to nam,
anybody particularly for the Senate
that it was best to wait and see what nigh
turn up.
So far we have not been able to gain
great deal Of information as to the success
or ilLsuceess which the two Guerrill;
Chiefs have encountered on their canvass
ing tour. But that is not very material
It is quite enough to have learned the
real object of their journey in the upper
counties, where there are q great many
Democratic voters who are newly come tC
Oregon, and therefore uniformed of tn,
past rotten and tTeacherous record of tn,
Chiefs and their baud, and where there
are also scattered here and there severa
OF their old followers and tools. That i
the only section where they can work Il
any advantage, and whatever they accom-
plish there for the present viii, we ar,
very sure, be overcome in ripe time, b,
the couasels of the genuine, pure Democ
raey of that and other portions of tn,
State. Yet it is well enough to keel
track of the pair, aud to watch their craft,
movements.
In the Valley, and in Southern Oregon
the Guerrillas can do nothing. Such me
as Harding and Stratton, and some other
who betrayed the Democratic party 70
Offices under the Abolition dispensation
and who are now striving to again com,
into the Democratic organization, purel
to control and again debauch it, and t
feast upon the spoils of victory, are know
to the Democracy, from the Californi
line to the mouth of the Columbia, an,
we have no a~pprehensions or their aC
count. IF they are DESTROYS of %returnin
to the party, the way is open to them, bu
they win not be permitted to shape il
destiny to their own ends, or to take con
troll of it as standard -bearers. It is. down
right arrogance IN them to ask that cor
fdence shall again be reposed in then
after having 20 recently betrayed tn
party and assisted the common enemy I
break It down in Oregon. If sincere i
their professions of returning devotion t
Democracy, they viii easiest cause on
true brethren TO credit their observation
by aiding US as jealous privates in tn
ranks, and not by coupling their protests
tons with q desire or disposition to reas
sumo leadership. IF it is the spoils the
are after u party can better afford {
have them as adversaries than as allies
if it is for the sake of again embracin
the pure principles Of Democracy the
wish to unite with rs, they viii be we
comedy received, but they must not e1
pect to be rewarded for their past apps
tacy. nor placed in positions where the.
might do Us i~ncalculable mischief if agai
disposed to apostatize and betray us. Tn
Democracy are confident of victory j
themselves. The GuerriIlas combine
with the Abolitionists cannot defeat GU
party. They know this, too, and henc
they are struggling for their old master,
IN cur ranks. We are aware that the.