The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-05-23
ID. MANSFIELD AND HARVEY
SMITH.

people of this county for their sufIra-
gcs. Mr.. Mansfield Is a candidate for
the Office of County Clerk. As a man,
as a citizen, as a neighbor, we have
nothing to say against him, or MI.
Smith. Both of them are our person
al friends ; and it is a source of pain
to us that they have deliberately
placed themselves in such positions as
to make it our duty to denounce them
for the course they are pursuing. We
like u friends much, but we like our
principles more.
Mr.. Mansfield has repeatedly been
the recipient of favors at the hands of
tho Democratic party. lie was elect
ed to tho Office of County Clerk by
them and by them was subsequent
ly re-nominated to the same office -
but the party was defeated that year
and he was not elected. He is n man
Of some means; but we are credibly
informed that the greater portion of
his property was made while holding
Offices conferred on him by the Dem
ocracy of Linn county. Yet, without
any cause of offence on their part, he
now turns against the party that
made him, and is doing all in his pow
er to defeat it next June. He has
raised his arm to strike the hand that
has ever fed and carcssed him. lie
does not pretend that his political
principles have undergone any change.
He is still n Democrat-a "copper-
head"-still not "trooly loil." He did
not submit his name to the Democrat
ic Convention for nomination ; conse-
quently he does not ven have the
privilege of asserting that he was
slaughtered" and that the Conven-
ton was "packcd," and all that sort
of humbuggery. lie is running sim
ply because he loves the ''loaves and
tishes'' most intensely. He has been
bought over to the Radicals by their
promise to vote for him. For this he
turns his back upon long-tried and
true friends. For this he is doing all
he can to disorganize and defeat the
party who found him poor, and who
placed him in comfortable, if not af.
fluent circumstances. For this he
proves a traitor TO the Democratic par
ty.
Harvey Smith, Esq, is an avowed
candidate for the Office of Sheriff. He
was a candidate before the Democrat
ic Convention for denomination, but
was unsuccessful. At the very next
meeting of the Democratic Club of
Albany he addressed the Club, making
n good Democratic speech, and declar-
ed that he would support the entire
Democratic ticket. He fully and com
pletely ratified and endorsed the ac-
ton of the Convention, and maintain
ed that every tru Democrat would
yield the entire ticket n cordial and
hearty support. Also, We believe
but VIC are not positive-that he made
speeches elsewhere, in which he took
the same grounds substantially ; and
we know that he privately repeatedly
stated that be would not be a candi-
date-that the Convention had settled
that question, and he would support
the entire Democratic ticket. He de-
MED being a candidate up to the eve
ming previous to the day on which the
Radical wire-pullers met at Lebanon
and nominated their ticket. Ofcoursc
we cannot tell exactly what bargain
was made between him and them /;
moi is this material. It is sufficient
for us to know that he has bolted, de-
spite all his protestations of fealty to
friends, and party, and principle. 1t
is sufficient for us to know that he is
now trying to tear down the party he
has labored to build up;--it is sufi-
cient for us to know that he is "check
by jowl" with those who have de-
nounced him as a "traitor," and "cop-
perhead," and who have expressed a
pious desire to help hang him, and all
like him, on a .%sour-apple tree. His
conduct in this thing is inexplicable
and unaccountable. 1t is also suici-
dial for his old party friends will for
sake him so will his Radical friends
in less than't two weeks from this for
he will be beaten just as surely as his
name is Harvey Smith and he runs on
the Radical ticket. Mark that. Stick
a pin there. And after he shall have
been defeated we hope, not that he
will be hung on a crab-apple tree, but
that the Democracy will employ the
Band to play the "Dead March" for
his especial benefit and that of his
brother bolter, Mansfield.
We call upon Democrats through
out the county to go to work in earn
est. Let each man talk to his friend
and neighbor; circulate the docu-
ments ; scatter light be diligent and
perseyering. Let us administer a re-