The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1867-08-17
THE HERALD VS., THE DEMO
Graf,
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THE HERALD VS., THE DEMO
Graf,
Within the last nine months, on
three or four different occasions, with
out any adequate cause or provocation
on our part, the Oregon Herald has
misrepresented and villified the Edi-
tor of the DEMOCRAT. The last at
tack of this character appeared In
the Herald of the ninth instant. Thus
far, in every instance except one, we
let these attacks pass pnnoticed, We
did this, not because We feared the
Herald at all, but solely for the good
and harmony of the democratic par
ty, Little did we think, when We
were editing the Herald, and wrote TO
its present editor to come to Portland
and become associated with us-little
did We think when we received him
with all the cordiality and warmth of
a brother-that his hand would ever
be raised against US, and that he
would employ the columns of the Her
aid in misrepresenting, defamipg and
villifying us generally. But such is
the fact and we are thereby most
forcibly reminded of the man who, in
the exuberance of his kindness, placed
benumbed viper in his bosom which,
as soon as it was again fairly warm
ed into life, struck its poisoned fangs
into the very life-blood of his bene-
factor.
There are many things in the life
of political editor which are very
pleasant and agreeable; but, ike 9TH
er avoeations, there are some things
incident to it, productive of any other
than pleasurable emotions. Among
these is the fact that its labors are in
cessant; and another is, that no mat
ter what may be an editors circum-
stances and surroundings-no matter
how heavily the hand of affiiction may
have been laid upon him, he is liable
to attacks from those who, like the
jackal and hyepa, become the more
ferocious as they scent the sacred pre-
cincts of the grave,
The base migrate of the Herald finds
fault with Us, in an article Of more
than column in length, because we
presumed to express our disapproba-
tion of some ofth action ofthe late
Umatilla Convention. We charged
that that Convention was governed
too much by hesitating policy-dodge,
and that they feared to express their
views boldly on all the vital questions
now agitating the country. The
Mephistopheles of the Herald thereup-
on reads US lecture; in which he
conclusively shows, to his own salts
faction, that he is the very embodi-
ment of moderation and wisdom; and
that we are sort of ferocious knight
Grant, running tilt at anything and
everything that looms up in the dis
tance 1t is not our intention to re-
ply to the uncalled-for fings and re-
marks of the Herald; because we can
be better and more proftably employ
ed. We simply say that we shall con-
tinue to express our views, in the fl-
ture, just as we have in time past-the
Herald to the contrary notwithstand-
ing. In our article on the Umatilla
Convention, we not only expressed
our own views, but those of an over
whelming majority of the Democracy
of this section of Oregon; and if the
Herald would-be Dictator don't like
our course, let him help himself
We have been somewhat puzzled to
divine the cause of these repeated at
tacks Of the Herald on the DEMO
Graf. Usually men do not act with
out some motive, ia man robs and
murders, he is generally impelled by
some motive, If man steals our
purse, be might-and just now he
would" steal trash but he would
be impelled by hope of gain. So
when the implacable Arab of the Her.
aid attempts to beslime over and rob
US of our reputation, he must be i'm
PEELED thereto by some motive. On
this point we have theory, and it is
this: he believes Oregon will go Dem
ocratic; he believes that we desire to
run for State Printer, for he darkly
hints at the " distribution of local Off
ces;" but as he himself wants to do
the same thing, he is attempting to
prejudice and forestaH public opinion,
SO as to defeat US before the Conven-