The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-04-11
VICES OF PUBLIC MEN.

1t is now beyond q peradventure
that Gen. Grant, on a recent Sunday
morning, was so jubilantly drunk in
the streets of Washington, as to fancy
that he was in some bagnio at Galena,
dancing Jim Crow and chanting a ne-
gro ditty. On another occasion he
was so befuddled that, being some
what hard-pressed, he used a soup-tu-
demonstrating it for another neces-
sary piece of furniture-and fighting
it out on that line of queenswarc.--
Dick Yates, of Illinois is so much of
a sot that his own friends are begging
him to resign his place in the Senate.
Senator Morton has been hors du com
bat by an uncomfortable disease con.
traeted in sinful practices. Nye, of
Nevada, is a blatent, blathering deb.
auchee and drunkard. Chandler is a
soldering, slovenly sot, disgusting to
his friends and a reproach to his con-
~stituents. Sumner ought to be in
Loryea's Asylum in order to be cured
of a certain nameless but destructive
habit. No wonder his wife left him.
Cameron once obtained a seat in the
Senate by shameless bribery. Jim
Lane, of Kansas, was so internally
mean, and had committed so many
high-handed crimes, that he finally
blew his own brains out-thus add
ing the crime of selfmurder to the
many others he had committed. Ben
Wade is a drunken, bullying, profane
braggart and debauchee. The wife
of Kasson, of Iowa, left him because
of his notorious infidelity to his mar
riagc VOWS.
These are representative men of a
great party claiming to be in the Sin
~terests of God and humanity" The
Washington correspondent of the De
troit Tribune, a Radical paper, says:
"a month ago, on Sunday afternoon, the gen
eral called upon Gen. Sheridan. The last named
general, as Is everywhere known, is a hard drink
er . On this occasion Sheridan persuaded
him to drink with him, and the immediate result
was that he General Grant, became . little dizzy.
and took q carriage home. > . / hear that he
has taken the pledge within two or three days. /
do not attempt TO excuse his weakness on the Oe-
casion referred TO, but il is just that the exact
facts shall be stated, and I suppose that il Is true
that to-day there are not twenty men in congress.
and as many more in high positions under the
government, who have the reputation Of being
sober men, yet who are visibly affected by liquor
ten times where Grant Is once"
This correspondent, in telling how
Grant got drunk, charges that nearly
every congressman gets drunk, and
also nearly every ofiice-holder of any
note. As the offices are all filled, or
nearly SO, by radicals, and as congress
is nearly given over to %radicalism, it
is easy to see that they are all topers
they are "visibly affected by liquor
ten times where Grant is %once;" and
as he drinks every day it is quite
plain that the radicals in Congress
are "well-set up" every day. This
correspondent states another fact that
should be noted and that is that the
great General Phil. Sheridan "is a
hard drinker." OF course he is, and
he used to be troubled with another
vice when in Oregon. He slowed not
wisely but" an Indian woman on this
coast so well as to leave more than
one black-eyed pledge of affection
here in Oregon. But Grant 'has taken
the pledge" yes, and he will break
it again, like Dick Yates did and he
will fight it out on the soup tureen
again, if a more appropriate vessel
isn't at hand. We hope Grant will
will be nominated. Soup turcens
will be in active demand.