The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1866-11-03
Hard ON Linn County.

The Idaho Times is the title OF aSulall
newspaper published in Idaho City, Idaho
Territory, by Shepherd & Co. From its
issue of October 10, We clip the sub
joined:
1--WE donot believe in publishing political pa
per TO build up men who have brass and self esteem
to kill, and not any more, if as much brains as we
ourselves have. The Senior of the Times publish
ed the Oregon Democrat in your town Albany,
and helped to send men to Congress, who still owe
him their subscription. and he has now, standing
out in Oregon. about $4,000 for subscription, most
ly due from politicians-for which they can ship
him a few boxes of ''big red apples" OF send him
greenbacks-either would be more voluable than
their l, o, U. Get yO"r pay in advance" "
As we know nothing personally about
the matters to which Mr.. Shepherd al
ludes, we shall not undertake to contra
dict his assertions. All his statements
may be true for aught we know to the
contrary. But if they are entirely cor
rect we do not know how to account for
other facts that must be taken into con-
sideration in forming a correct judgment.
For example: There are very few per-
sons-male adult voters-who are unable
to pay for paper. We never knew a
community where so great a proportion of
Its citizens are in comfortable circumstan-
ces as those of Linn county. Thus far
we have not found one too poor to take,
and pay for his county paper. In short,
almost everybody here Is able to take it !;
and if they do not, inability is not the
true reason. They either don't like the
editor, or his politics, or have not been
solicited to subscribe. We believe, too,
that the people of Linn county are as
honest as any community of the same
number of inhabitants. There is as little
crime perpetrated-as little litigation-as
little meanness and immortality, in Linn
county-in fact less, than in any other
county on the Pacific coast-or Atlantic,
either, for that matter. We are told by
those who aver they know whereof they
affirm, that the city of Albany-large as
1t Is, situated on the banks of naYigable
stream, and containing at least its due
proportion of unmarried male denizens-
does not have within its limits a solitary
courtezan or other woman of ill-fame-
This is a remarkable fact, if we consider
that Albany is not one hundred miles
from the commercial metropolis of the
State city overrun with polluted
wretches and full of houses of ill-fame,
absolutely fostering and reeking in rotten
ness and corruption.
To all this, and more we might specify
the Times editor may inquire why it is
that majority Of our subscribers have
not yet paid US for the DEMOCRAT. We
answer it is because of feeling of distrust
prevalent in the minds of the people oi
this section that the DEMOCRAT is an
ephemeral affair. This distrust, or suspi
cion, has been engendered, not by any.
thing we have done, but by the course
some of our predecessors have pursued
One press and fixtures, owned by Demo.
Gratis of Linn county, was boxed up and
clandestinely put aboard steamer and
landed at the capital; and that was the
last they have seen of it or the purchase
money. Other parties have started here
run awhile, received subscriptions in ad
vance, and then smashed up and left the
county for the country's gOod-generally
calling halt and ending up in Idaho
Such things make men, naturally gener
Gus and confding, somewhat suspicious
A burnt child breads the fire; and we to
day are suffering because of the sins o
others. But it don't surprise US. W.
calculated on this very thing ere we tool
hold here. We knew we should have t.
meet and combat this very state of affair
at every crook and turn of our career, un
til we shall have convinced the people
that we, too, are no humbug-no mere
needy and seedy adventurer. We have
frequently stated, in private conversation
and we here repeat it-that most o
those who subscribed to O'Meara paic
promptly-indeed, We never saw better
subscription list; and we believe that a
soon as we can live down the malign in
huences abroad, and drc.establish confidence
in the public mind of Linn and adjacen
counties, our subscribers will pay us al
they did him and others. Why should
they not? Have they changed for thu
worse? We believe the Democracy ar,
still just and generous.
A CASE OF SPONTANEOUS CoMBUs
hon.-The Loyal League House in Phil
adelphia, says the Cincinatti Enquirer, il