The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1866-05-19

EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENTS
PORTLAND. May 10, 1866.

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and throughout the county is, as in eYery
other other portion of the State have 30
far visited in the campaign, progressing
even beyond the expectations of the best
informed aud most sanguine OF our active
party brethren. The Democracy of Multi
nomah have put into the field u ticket OF
great strength and extraordinary ability.
and although the county has given very
large Republican majorities for years past,
it is now certain that their vote will be
cut down to a nominal figure, and it is not
improbable that a partial Democratic sue
cess will be achieved. The Democracy
are active, Jealous and vigilant. They
are to form n Democratic Club in a few
days, with headquarters in the large fine
building of Lappeus 4 Knowles, in the
great hall of which the late Democratic
State Convention was held. At their
Club room, it is intended, there will DO
kept an abundance of sound Democratic
reading, and evening speeches will be
among the programme of exercises for the
closing days Of the campaign. The Hon
CRADLES Grover, Strong, Stout, Wait and
Page, and Wolff. Trimble, Semple, and
Reed, Esqs., propose to address their Eel
levy citizens, aud with this array of supe.
lrior talent, it will be no wonder if Multi
uomah gives a noble report of herself on
the day of election.
Among the chief happy events which
promise to rebound so materially to the
advancement of our cause is the advent
here of that honorcd pillar Of our party
on this coast, whose name has become to
the Democracy a household word-Bcriah
Brown, the former editor Of the San Fran
cisco Press. and late of the Sonoma Demo
erat. He is now the editor of the Oregon
Herald, and in that high position he will
accomplish much in behalf of the party
throughout this State and adjoining Ter1
r~itories.
This is the day upon which Col. Kelly
and G. i. Woods speak here-indeed Col.
Kelly is speaking as | write. and the The
atrise crammed TO hear him. Woods is
to follow. Woods attempted another of
the peculiar contemplate tricks TO which
he never fails to resort, with regard to
speaking appointments. 1t ought to be
mentioned that in an interview before he
commenced the canvass he offered no OBJ
Election to a proposition which should give
the opposing candidates for State Printer
an opportunity TO join With Col. Kelly
and himself in the eanvass-in fact he
@tacitly assented to it. But when | met
him at Roseburg. followed out there as I
was by Mcpherson las a pig is said to
have followed a coach from Albany to Sa-
lem-to the Statesman Office ?-some
weeks agol, he seemed to have suddenly
repented OF his assent. Col. Kelly had
given his assent to the proposal, and was
ready to stand BY it. Woods did not be-
have like a gentleman, however, in max
ing known his rstraction of the assent be-
fore the hour of meeting, but reserved
the nnouncement of it till the close of
his remarks, when he joined insult to re-
traction. He was ftly responded to on
that occasion, and the miserable fellow, too
eowardly to vindicate himself, has ever
since sohemed and plotted to get advant-
age, in a disrcputable way, of the meet
ings. Col. Kelly and himself are an.
nounced to speak in day time, to com
mence at / o'clock. Ny appointments
are for the evenings of the Same day. ]
do not attempt to interfere with his APP
pointments, and am determined he shall
not with mine. But, last evening, while
at Oregon City, he proposed to Col. KEEL
" that they should change their time Of
speaking here from l O'Clock, day, to 8
o'clock evening. His party managers
here had all day yesterday attempted the
same thing. and tried to prevail upon Mr..
Wm. Mcmillan, Chairman of the Demo
cratic County Committee, to accede to the
change. That unfinching wheel horse
of our party here declined the trap. and
thus Woods was again foilcd in his fourth
or fifth contemplate effort to crowd nc
from the canvass. The fellow and his
party leaders have said they would sho@
me no courtesy; I propose to take their
determination for my own, and treat him
and them accordingly. And it is graft
flying to be able to state that many con.
~seryatiye Republicans-fair-minde men
sustain the course / have resolved
upon, and attend the meetings despite the
efforts Of Woods and his Radical cappers
to keep them from doing so. l have
thought it fit to mention these things be.
cause of the constant endeayors of the
Radical candidate for Governor and his
blowers to misreprcscnt the facts in the
case.
The meeting at Oregon City yesterday
was held IN the Court Room in Ralston &
Myers fine new brick building, and the
crowd was greater than the capacity Of
the hall. Col. Kelly made a splendid
speech. Woods talked as usual. Quite
an interesting episode occurred during
Col. Kelly's speech. A statement had
been made in the lying oregouian thai