The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1867-08-31

issue OF the 21st INST, tnat 1T rs duc
to the Democracy of Eastern Oregon
TO say that the radical sentiments of
the editor Of the Press had not one en-
dorser in the Convention recently held
in Umatilia, in which five counties
were represented. Now we simply
say the above assertion is untrue, and
as to the applicability of harsher
term, We leave it TO the gentleman's
own conscience. There were others
in the Convention who did not vote
for the resolutions adopted, and rs TO
the radical sentiments" of the minor
ity, thcre were not three men in the
Convention who did not endorse them,
but refrained from supporting them
because they did not consider it the
time or place TO announce II platform
of principles because their ''authori-
ty, according to party rules" to pass
series of resolutions, was questioned
and denied by the editor ofthc Heraid.
Mr.. Brown, in his remarks against the
passage of the minority report, assert
ed that ''there was not letter or line
which he could not indorsc-that he
had stood by these principles all his
days-that every Democrat in the
house supported and indorsed them"
That the editor Of the Herald may
not quibblc on this point, or raise. a
question of yeraeity, We publish the
following communication from a dele
gate now in this city, and shall, if this
is denied, procure thereto the sigma
lures of the remaining delegates:
UxAriLLA. Aug %, 1867.
Editor Pressf
In reply 10 your request. asking for my yicws Of
the sentiments Of the Democrats Convention
which assembled 1T Umaiilla oa tie 25th ut., IN
regard Ia the report Of the minority of the Com
mtttes Resolutions. / unhesitatingiy answer,
for myself. that | endorsed every sentiment con
tanned Ia that report. and that believe them to be
the sentiments Of every Democrats member Of
that Convention. / certainly understood Mr.
Brown Of the Herald 10 declare himself nnquaii-
hedly 10 favor Of them. The Convention, howsv-
or. deemed the occasion nopportune for theifenun
citation. Il. HAnnlsoS.
Those resolutions condcmning the
adoption of measures for policy" are
in themselves n condemnation Of the
course pursued by the Herald, and
fully justify us III rctorting that one
such compromising" paper as the
Herdid ''is worth rs much 10 the radi-
Gals rs halfa-dozen" Of their tceH con-
aucted orgons.
We stated week or two ago, "Tf
those who basely deserted the Democ-
racy are satisfied of their error, LEI
them come to our ranks and vote, but
beyond that they must earn by dcvo-
tion TO cause which they well nigh
ruined" ;" To this the Herald SAYS !:
''Thc man who would return to the
Democratic party on such an invita-
tion as that would be too much of a
sneak ever to be trusted" All this
may be true if politics shall be classcd
among mercantile pursuits-if Demo
Gratis are TO be bought, not madc-ifa a
Marshalship is the Legitimate price of
one--Senatorsbip of another-and the
benignant smiles and patronage Of a
Democratic editor another. When
the Uerdid boasts Of the changes
which it has made III the affairs of
Multnomah county, he should rccollect
that merchandise always changes
hands at slight advance on the old
price.
If straws show which way the wind
blows, or the finger-mark of the Her
aid of to-day is any indication of its
course on the morrow, well may the
Democracy look around themselves
and ask: "Must we go into the next
canvass with compromises and humil-
iating concessions 2"
Let Democrats look we'll to the fol-
lowing, from the Herald:
"Let those men who prefer defeat to any COM
promise with those with whom they have disagreed
heretofore, take TO themselves part Of the glory
Of the Democratic triumph in Connecticut for
that was achieved by compromise and Gov. En-
| glish was n very earnest War Democrat. Let
them offer no aid sympathy to the Democracy
| Of California, for they running for Governor
an original Republican, who voted for Lincoln in
| 1850; aud Col. p. II. Sibcy, a Republican candi-
date for Congress in 1860, Is stumpiug the State
for the Democratic ticket"
There is secret meaning in the
7 above reference to Connecticut and
California politics, of which we warn
our friends. How natural the deduc.
tion; how facile the step from the
"organ's" policy into the arms of some
lacivious political hag, bought for q
time, and faithful only while in the
harness. Let us imagine the Democ
racy going into the fight with Gov
Gibbs for Congress, and the Ishmael
ite of the Rebublican party, David
Logan, stumping the State for the
Democratic ticket. That would be
policy. Gov. Gibbs could very easily
and truthfully say that ''he was dis
gusted with the Union party; hc
would acknowledge that he had stray
ed little from the fold, but was sorry
for it, and would come back if W.
would send him to Congress. The
parallel is good-Haight and Sibley
Gibbs and Logan.
But says the Herald, in its til
against honesty:
'.That man is the representative of no principl
who will not labor by all honest means to max
friends for thatprinciple."
| We say to that amen; but to SAL
one thing, and mean another, is not
honest. TO conceal the truth is no
honest. To receive a vote by tn,
promise of office is corrupting anC
dangerous in its tendency. If w,
would fight oppression and wrongful
! legislation, let us fight the principles
by " hich those acts are justified.
There is no one more sincere III ex
preston of regrets at the fact that th.
Herald has not the support of a single
Democratic paper in the State thar
we. For the last month we have beer