The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1869-11-12
A SENATOR'S, STOCK IN TRADE
Senator Williams said in his Rose
burg speech:

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"It has been proclaimed by the leading Demo-
cratic journals IN Oregon that Il were heteer that
not foot Of railroad were escr bnils, than that
the Fifteenth Amendment should succccd
More than likely this refers to the
publication in the DEMocRAr of Sept
%, reviewing the Senators conduct
down on the Yaquina.
Having persistently and consistently
ignored the very existence of such q
place, during his official term, and sud-
denly finding that the members of the
Legislature will be elected from Ben
ton county by close vote, he hur-
ries to visit and confer with the Yaquina
people upon their railroad projects
He is surprised to find road so nee
essary. He is glad to find the thing
of such easy accomplishment He can
determine the precise period of its
completion. Now Us the Mohamedans
compute time from the flight of their
prophet, so the Senator always COM
putes the time that is to precede the
thing he promises from the date of
his reelection.
Within three years from that happy
but highly improbable occurrence, this
Yaquina railroad was to be fact. We
said then, as we say now, that the Sen
ator was acting the character of n
demagogue, that 'his cheap bid for
votes in that quarter was insulting to
those for whom it was intended and
disgraceful in the man making it; that
it was bid for the ratification of the
18th Amendment by Oregon as well as
the election of the Senator; that the
vote of Oregon may decide the fate of
that amendment and that it is better
for the State that road should never
be built within It's border than that
that measure full of so many irremedi-
able evils for this and coming genera
tions shall be fastened upon thirty
millions of people And this is not "a
spirit of hostility to public improve
ments as AIr Williams knows, and
knew when he said the contrary.
We will remind that gentleman, and
we will remind the persons whose
votes he expects to catch with railroad
promises, that one of the first acts OF
the present administration, with which
the Senator is III perfect accord, was u
declaration against any further assist
ance to railroads. And such u reso-
luton has been repeatedly given to the
country, rs one coming from Grant
and endorsed by Congress. Our Rose
burg correspondent fairly and truly
says that the land grant, squabbled
about By the East and West side com
panies, amounts to nothing, and that,
without more substantial aid, the peo-
pie of Douglas havn't any railroad
fuyors to be thankful for. The grant
was all that Oregon got when Congress
was N giving mood; what are we
likely to get now There is no portion
of the people of Oregon who will sell
themselves to tire 18th Amendment
for railroads, particularly when these
roads are only secured by the slender
promise of Senator Williams. Even
the continuing of Camp Harney,
as market place for Grant county,
is more valid consideration, a more
substantial inducement for. votes than
that given to Benton and Douglas
counties.
When a man obtains goods under
false pretenses, he is sent to Jail.
When mountebank perambulates the
country deluding credulous people and
vending his poisons, he is sometimes
rotten egged, and when a man wear
ing the robes of honorable Office takes
upon himself both of these disreputa-
BILE characters, it seems hardly consist
ent with the rules of human conduct
to reward him with honors and station.