The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-04-04
ROTTENNEss OF THE RADr.
GALS.

AtfAt btAthN tAl0 AlG ~
1.-THE interests of God and morality
They claim that they are intelligent,
refined, pure, and above mean actions;
and they charge hat the Democratic
party generally are ignorant, impure,
profane, vulgar, impious and great
guzzlcrs of Intoxicating beverages
Let us examine these points II little.
The leading Mongrel editor of Ore
gon is low.bred, vulgar, inebriate
Importation "from the dens of infamy
of San Francisco" Thad. Stevens
has a negro wench for n concubine.-
Ben. Butler stole money and other
~valuables while in command ut New
Orleans sufficient to make him q mil
lionaire. Horace Greeley in religion
il an infidel. General Grant has been
officially proved to be u dissembler
and liar, and Butler is hunting up tcs-
timony to show that he is n drunkard.
1t \ be proved that, while on this
coast, he drank so much MS TO cause
him to have an attack of deiirium ire
mems, and rather than be court-mar-
tailed for his drunkenness he resigned
his position in the army and went
home. Sumner, the great stickler for
manhood suffrage" has so little vir-
ility left in him that his gay, buxom
wife, not being willing to live with n
nonentity, forsook him and fled to
Europe. We hope she will have bet
ter luck next time. And last, but not
least, Senator Yates of Illinois-he
who during the war. was loud-mouth-
ed in urging on the party "in the in
terests of God aud morality he
who, while travelling up and down the
Mississippi on Sanitary Excursions,
had "A beautiful married womau-the
wife of a maior-on his staff-wc say
this Senator Yates is "A most invctcr-
ate and beastly drunkard. The sub
joined is from a rabid Radical paper,
the Quincy QlL) Wing.
"Poon DIcK Parity from public reports. bu,
mostly through reliable private sources. sc are
assured tina; Senator Yates has fallea. 10 riss never
again while life lasts. tntsmpeTanes, like q
strong man armed. . has finally forced him 10 al
unconditional surrender. physically aud mentally.
These are hard Wur1e, aud NC sfisve Ia write
them; but the truth had better be told frankly,
Il sfuna aausnatuopnH IL ever drnA#abAH a. SOS ua
longer possible. We hope be will resign ~ once.
He owes that much 20 honor. lie has broken the
promise Of reformation upon which the State put
him Ia the Senate. lie has CEASED 20 be entitled
to bis position. lie has betrayed the confidence
of his constituency. Let him yield tbs charge
they placed In his hands. Sad as is such punish
nsBi. there II no other alternative. Patience has
passed ths poiEt of endurance.
Poor Dick Gifted. generous. fraak and brave
we pity while NC must e0nde4nn Hss past ser
Yicek-his brilliant appeals in behalf Of freedom.
aud HE earnest and untsFing efforts towards tbe
overthrow Of slayery-ean never, never be forgot
leu. Would 10 God his fame had not been sailed
b. such a fall. Poor Dick :"
When the Radicals of the Illinois
Legislature elected him United States
Senator, they knew he was an ignoblc
sot. Democrats told them so-thcir
own senses told them so;-yct they
elected him aud thereby endorsed him
with all his filth and dcbauchcry.
We might very properly in this
connexion, refer TO the former habits
of Hon. David Logan, now the promi-
ncnt standard bearer Of the Radical
party of Oregon. But, for the pres.
ent we forbcar, aud so far from saying
anything against bis private habits,
we will state, hat we are informed
that, for several months past, they
have been unexceptionable 80 far as
temperance and sobriety are concern
ed. We most devoutly hope he will
not fall during the pending campaign.
1t is no pleasure to us o sec even q
political opponent making a beast and
fool of himself. He is the most tai
entcd and eloquent man in the Radi-
cal ranks in Oregon. We know the
stock he sprang from in Illinois, and
we chcerfully testify that there is no
better in that great State. We hope
he will not again fall, and thus blast
the hopes of his friends as Dick Yates
has done those who elevated him to
the position he now occupies.
Thus it will be seen that notwith-
standing the great ~pretensions of the
Radical party to superior morality,
intelligence and virtue, that many OF
their chief representative men are no.
ted for their immortality, vice and Ii
centiousness.