The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1866-09-29
1t IL Neither Dead nor Asleep.

How strange, says our Radical exchang.
es, that the Democratic journals should
continue to labor so necessarily in task
so hopeless as that Of trying to prove tt
the people that the Democratic party il
not dead. We cannot recognize the
strangeness of the situation, but if it be
strange it is impossible that it should be
more 80 than the persistent lying and try.
ing on the part Of these same Radical pa.
pers to prove to the people that the Dem.
ocratic party is no more. Falstaff made
not one half the fuss while cutting off the
head Of the lifeless Percy that do these
noisy Radicals while killing a dead enc.
my. If some journals do wrong in tell
ing the people the Democratic party il
not dead, how much more reprehensible
and foolish is it on the part Of the Radi
cal papers, to keep on trying to kill par
ty which they daily proclaim to the world
has been dead for four years Somebody
must be arguing from false premises, and
the real facts pertaining to the question
would seem to indicate that our Radical
contemporaries are lying just little Let
US examine this dead Democracy. and try
and ascertain if it really is ranked among
the deceased Copulets. In 1860 Connec
ticut gave Lincoln 10000 over all opposi
tion; four years later Mr.. Lincoln lead,
Mcclellan but few votes over 1000
and last June, with half the Radical Con
gress stumping the State and using al
means, fair or foul, for the success ot
their ticket, Connecticut can only be made
TO give 500 majority for the Republicans
In the space Of five years the dead Democ
racy gains, in the State Of Connection
alone. some $500 votes. The State d
Kentutky has just polIed go, 900 majority
for the Democratic ticket. -Four years
ago the State Of Oregon gave the Repub
lican party over $500 majority; at the
Presidential election two years later, the
majority vas but 2,727. In the fall d
the same year, this majority was reduced
still more, and Mr.. Lincoln only carried
the State by ,431 majority over McClel
Ian. The election in Oregon which ha'
just transpircd shows the $500 majority
OF 1862 to have entirely disappeared
the Republicans having no majority
whatever, and falling, legitimately and
legally, to elect single man on theiI
ticket, though by fraud they have sue
cecdeded in foisting upon the people re
pudiated candidate for Governor, and per
haps a majority Of the Legislature. /
should be borne in mind that the Repub
lican party Of Oregon has suffered thii
decrease during a period in which every
State, and nearly every Federal Office
within its boundary, was in the hands of
or controlled by Republicans. Then ever
Radicals must admit that the Democratic
party "still lives" in Oregon. The city
Of San Francisco gave Lincoln 4 500 ma
jority. 4 few days ago, in a contest in
which every ism, johnson men, Congress
endorsers, Radicals, negro equality, fraud
and the devil, were arrayed against tho
Democratic ticket, the allies carried the
city by some 500 votes. The Radical.
do not pretend to deny that had they
compelled their candidates to endorse
Congress, the Democracy would have
elected every man on the ticket Thus
though Democratic candidates were beat
en-, the Radical principle was defeated
aud humiliated, In no iuconsiderable de
gree, IN consequence Of members OF the
party being compelled to cast their vote!
for men who did not favor their pet prin
ciples and who, in fact. endorsed the Re
construction policy of President johnson
But these are State and municipal f.
ures. Has the Democratic party dice
much on u national vote -? We don
count the Southern States. They arr
only in the Union when the Republican
party wants them in, and out when Ste
vens 4 Co. find it TO their interest L
have them out, and as We can't tell wher
they might prefer to have them in thi
ease, why, We say they don't count. bu
the vote of Buchanan in the Northern
States in 1856 was l.240, 149. In 1S6'
the combined vote of Douglas and Breck
enridge was ,4SS.714. The DEAD Dem
ocracy gained one hundred thousand vote
in four years. The vote for McClella
in lS64-a time when, viewed from tn
Republican stand point, every Democra
was a traitor-was 1877 ,0lS. Coufr
sion dead party gaining over 10000
votes in loyal States within four years
1t is hardly necessary for us to mcntio
that this remarkable vitality was exhibit
ed at time when Mr. Lincoln controlle
a gigantic army when every office i
the nation was filled by very loyal an
very obedient servants of the Chief Ex
ecutive; when ''loyal' Congress ha
placed at his disposal ''secret service
of fifteen millions of dollars to carry o
elections. Everybody is aware of thes
facts. We have not the smallest doub
but that our Radical friends WISH tn
Democratic party was dead, and our belle
is fully as we'll grounded that each an
every one of them knowingly, willingl
and willfully lies when he says it is dead
I-Yreka Union.
! CosT OF A PILGRIMAGE TO MECCA