The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1870-08-05

writes as 1olioWSs -
1--WE prefer candid Republican. who nvcws
his sentiments and bait cs for tho succ.ss OF the
cause he honestly believes iu. however. to tho
Democrat so-caed. who has Abandoned every
cardinal article of party faith, ane stands ready
To grasp at any present issne. whether good or
bad, 20 that his party can use IL for the moment
a. medium to popularity or to assure sneccss;
whose pledges of to-day broken tomorrow;
and whose chief aim Is the possession of office or
share in the distribution Of tho spells which fol-
low victory" -
To show the utter inconsistency and
want of principle which animates the
editor of the Builetin, better exam
pie than the extract quoted could not
be desired. Less than year ago, as
editor of the Idaho World, and all
along through the past ten years as n
successive editor of Democratic news
papers, Mr.. O'Meara wrote in the same
strain about Republicans that he now
writes of Democrats-that "their
pledges of to-day are broken to-mor-
row, and that their chief aim is the
possession of Office or n share in the
distribution of the spoils which follow
victory" Were it not that the editor
of the Bulletin is an able and versatile
writer. fruitful of expedients with tho
pen, we might credit this TRADE upon
Democrats to the .'force of habit" in
his abuse of his political opponents,
and thus let it pass; but in this instance
some brief attention is due in behalf
of Democracy.
If the Republican party one year
ago, or even ten years go, was guilty
of all the crimes which MIR. O'Meara
has time after time, both on the ros-
trum and the tripod. charged it with,
what must be the moral condition of
that party to-day. inflated with q de-
gree of success unknown in the politi-
cal history of any party, and bloated
with means and power beyond the
limit OF al past experience? Their
prosperity has made them utterly reck-
less of the interests of the peop and
abusive of the great power which they
WELD, until their villainy has become
as proyerbial as their authority is alb
solute. Among their leaders, shame
less corruptionists and unprincipled
schemers are the rule, and neither
honesty nor wisdom are found in their
deliberations or public measures
Their incompetency is unrelieved by
any purity of purpose, and they merit
and receive only contempt from the
people whose confidence they have
long since ceased to court.
In Congress, instead of the wise
and careful legislation demanded by
the public exigencies, we hare nothing
but direst confusion and disgraceful
squabbling over schemes of plunder,
and party or personal aggrandizement
seems to pervade every measure which
is introduced into our laws. The fun
damental and blood. endeared princi-
pies of our Government have been vio-
lated without stint or reserve, and the
/ Constitution of our fathers trampled
upon, tinkered with and fraudulently
altered, until the men who framed it,
could they again become mortal, would
mourn over the ruthless destruction OF
their lofty aims and patriotic aspira-
| Ii e Iaf
ferson--whose memory the editor OF
the Bulletin still affects to revere,-oi
Madison, of Hamilton, and their i'm.
mortal compeers, have been derided
and spurned; the dignity of the Ma
tional Congress has been abased, and
. the confidence formerly reposed in its
deliberations seriously impaired, if moi
utterly destroyed, among the people
for whose benefit they assume to con
!! vene. Webster, the great orator ant
pure statesman, is replaced by Charles
Sumner, the egotistica1 Puritan ant
pedantic charlatan, whose false as
| sumptions of philanthropy have beer
, curse to the nation even since his ad
{ vent into the political arena; Rufus
) Choate, whose learning and eloquenc'
: adorned every public station will
which the people delighted to homo
/ him, is succeeded by Henry Wilson,
: man of arbitrar. manners and fustial
3 .hetoric, who has been twin brothe
& with Sumner in the manufacture of al
e the s'isins" which have disgraced ou
I country for the past ten years; th
/ seat of Silas Wright, whose wisdom
S virtues and simplicity of life earne'
Y him distinction as the 'tCato of Amer
t ica," is warmed by corrupt, unscru
pulous renegade. and the place ono
occupied BY one of the brightest intel
lects in the "Sunny South" is no,
kept odorons with the aroma of an ig
: norant and thick-skulled African
!. whose admirers boast that he was pu
!. there as caricature upon the peopl
whom he claims to represent! An
!. we might go on through the Who'll
disgraceful calender, until the min,
sickens at the great calamity which ha