The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-10-24
pEMoCRATIc SPEAKING.

On lasb w eunesuhy nlght Hons.
Jas. II. Slater, L. i. Grover and S. Il.
Chadwick, according to announce.
ment, addressed the people at the
Court House in this city--cach one
occupying about an hour in the deliv-
cry Of his speech. Mr. Slatcr, Of I'm
ion county, one of the Democratic
candidates for Presidential Elcctor,
"opened the ball." devoting his re-
marks exclusively to the subject of
National Finances; and we believe
we echo the sentiment Of every Dem
oorat present when we say that he
made the best argument upon that
momentous issue that has been dcliv-
cred in Albany during the campaign.
His ideas of the Democratic policy,
as expressed in their platform, were
plainly expressed, easily understood
aud convincing in their feasibility,
while his exposition Of the ruinous
financial policy Of the Radicals was
equally forcible and patent TO every
one. The views of SIR. 5. upon the
financial question: question that
goes home TO the hearts, frcsidcs and
pockets of all classes of Americans
will certainly DO good wherever
heard.
Dir. Grover was the second speaker,
aud he announced his line Of march
to be directly upon the rotten bull
warks of Radical Reconstruction aud
its sure sequence, negro suffrage and
negro domination in the Southern
States. lie acquitted himself with
that ability for which lac is so justly
celebrated, making telling strokes up
OH Jacobinism as promulgated ia the
infamous and monstrous RecOnsiruc-
tion acts of Congress. lie showed
conclusively that President Johnson
was attempting To carry out that just
aud rational policy commenced aud
imperfecily pursued by Dir. Lincoln,
and that the Radicals only sought to
change il when they found that by its
workings they could not make their
supremacy in the Government pcrpct.
uai, and their reign of tyranny over
the South complete and lasting.
Mr.. Chadwick closed the meeting
in an able aud eloquent summing up
aud manipulation of the National Re-
publican Platform, showing up to the
gaze OF the audience its glaring in
consistcncics and gross misrcprcscnt-
ations Of the condition of the affairs
Of our nation At the time Of It's alop-
tion. lie poured hot-shot and shell
into the camp Of the eucmy in sucl,
rapid torrents, that it was impossible
for Us To take notes Of lis effort, but
it was a great satisfaction To ns TO scc
how our Radical friends wri;hcd and
squirmed under his fastly falling lash
and withering hail of facts and argu.
ments. "Chad as lie Is familiarity
callcd-thinks fast, talks fast, ges;ic-
ulatcs fast, and knocks the pins from
under the Radical platform a. fast a.
any one we ever knew. If lac don't
wake the snakes" aud bring them TO
Judgment yet in this campaign We
have ''machly" missed our guess
He is whole team in himself, and cv-
cry one who misses an opportunity to
hear him speak viii lose . rich orato-
rical treat
All three Of the speakers were
greeted with rousing cheers at the be-
ginning and close of their speeches,
and the Democracy showed that the
late tclegraphic abortions from the
East, called dispatches, had not damp
encd their ardor to any great extent.