The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-05-30
SMITH AND LOGAN--THE IS
SUES.

SOGOe
This is the last number of the Dem
Ocrat which viii be issued previous to
the election next Monday. Will the
voters of Linn county listen to us
while We talk for a few moments
about Smith, Logan and the Issues In
volyed in the pending contest !? If
we state anything wrong, reject it; if
we state the truth, receive it and act
upon it next Monday.
Logan and his party believe in Ne
gro Suffrage. Wherever they have
the power they have adopted it They
forced negro suffrage upon the white
voters of the District of Columbia
They have passed an amendment to
the Constitution of the United States
declaring ecery person, born in the
United States, a citizen therof-and
as all citizens can vote, of course ne
-groes can also. They have adopted
negro suffrage In all the Territories of
the United States; they have forced
negro suffrage upon the Southern
States at the point of the bayonet ;
and they have sent State Constitutions
back to the people because said Con-
situations did not give negroes the
right to vote alongside of white men.
Logan endorses all this he defends it,
and holds that it is right, and the true
policy. Mr.. Smith denounces negro
suffrage. He believes that this is a
white mans government, made by
white men for the benefit of white
men and chat it is a terrible wrong
to the white man to permit the igno-
rant, untutored and brutal g to
help him make laws to govern the
white man. If you believe negro suf-
frage is right-if you think a niger
is as good as you are, you viii vote
for Logan; but if you believe the con-
trary-if you believe it to be an In
~calculable wrong to you and your pos
terity to permit the negro to aid you
In making the laws and administering
this Government, you will vote for J..
S. Smith, XXI Monday. RememberI
Logan is for Niger suffrage-Smith
is against it. Choose We whom ye will
have to represent you in the halls of
Congress.
Again: The Radicals have estab-
lished a Negro Bureau in the South.
whereby negroes are fed, clothed, ed
ucated and otherwise provided for,
out of monies raised by the sweat and
toll of white men, costing millions on
millions annually, and requiring a
large standing army to enforce its pro-
visions. Mr. Logan endorses all this.
He thinks it right and defends it. But
Mr. Smith believes it all wrong and
denounces it, and if elected to Con-
gress he will vote to abolish the Ne
gro Bureau and to disband the army
OF the South, thereby saving over n
hundred millions annually. Vote for
Logan if you are for the Niger Bu-
reau and a Standing Army; vote for
Smith if against.
The National Debt is at least Three
Billions of dollars sum SO large
that no common mind can grasp it,
Nearly two-thirds of this debt is in
the form of 6ve-twenty bonds, which
Smith contends should be liquldated
with greenbacks; but Logan contends
that not only the interest, but the
principal also of our public debt shall
be paid in gold Smith believes that
if greenbacks are good enough for the
people they are good enough for the
bondhoIder. But here Logan differs.
He says pay the bondhoIder gold
but pay the soldier and the laborer
greenbacks. IF you believe Logan to
be right on this Issue, vote for him by
all means; but if you believe Smith
right, vote for him. A vote for Smith
is a vote for your own interests; a
vote for Logan is a vote for the bond
holder. Are you so blind and we'd
to party that you will vote against
your own dearest interests?
Shall we compare the two men per-