Oregon Republican. [volume] (Dallas, Or.) 1870-1872, 1870-09-17
Ghe Oregon 9epubliran.
COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER.
what is Going on at the Capital.

The Legislature has convened and
harmonionslv organized by the election
eff Fay President Of the Senate. and
Hayden Speaker of the House. This
speedy organization looks very much
like business. OF course the oil ah>
sorhing topic is who shall be Senator ?
Col Kelly is there and looks as thou n
he thonght his chance favorable, at
least; ex-Congressman Stout is there
also, but quite ill-so much so that he
is not able to make his appearance.
Fay and Whiteaker are considered ou'
of the way. being members. Ex.Sen-
ator Nes,nith is talked of by some as
being the ablest man in the party, and
there is no doubt of the correctness of
this position. Senator Williams is on
hand, and it is very hard to conclude
from appearances alone, whether or not
he expects to be re elected by Demo
cratic Legislature, who but two years
ago politely requested him to resign.
The Hon. Mr.. Mitchell is also at Sa-
lem, but is a man Of too much sense
to expect an election under the eircum-
stances; and Mr.. Holladay is there,
and the Statesman seems elafed over
the fact that HolIaday has actually be-
come resident of Salem for a few
days. Yes, Benjamin is there with his
one hundred Thousand dollars, aud he
has a right to be; and We have suf-
ficient Information to believe that he
also has an incxllaustible quantity OF
French brandy. Now. Mr.. Holladay
has right to have all this and more.
If he wants it, so that he docs not inter-
fere with the rights of any one else !;
and he has right TO occupy the man
sion erected by ex.Secretary May, and
IF he has obtained leave. right to con
vert that magnificent parlor into high
toned Senatorial s'red>eye" saloon he
has right to pay out his money to
whom he pleases for legitimate pur-
poses, but, in our judgment, all this
will not effect the election Of United
States Senator As to who will be- the
successful man is only conjecture; but
We are content with the proof we have
that neither secessionist nor a uniyer>
snffrageist can receive the sanction oil
that body; and it is high time that the
people began to wake up to this all i'm,
portant subject, for the time is coming
and now is, when men of influence pro-
claim, on the corners of the streets in
every city throughout the land, that
the extension of the elective franchise
TO all races Of men, irrespective of coll
or, means not universal suffrage, but is
intended to disfrsnchise the poor and
to establish a mopied monopoly, that
will finally reduce the poor laborer and
his posterity to abject clavery. We
raise, this early, our warning voice
against this growing evil. Ask Sum-
Der, Trumbull, Phillips, Greeley, and
host of universal sufragists in Oregon
and they will all tell you the proper
qualification should be '.inteligence
and property" And what does this
last phrase mean? It means that if
man is in the possession of wealth be
has plenty of intelligence, so the thing
10 simmered down to money. We stand
to-day as we ever intend to stand, an
outspoken advocate of the rights of the
great mass of the people, the laboring
man, the poor as well the rich. 1t is
most alarming when we mark the grow.
ing opinion in our midst that the peo-
pie are incompetent TO govern them
selves. When that opinion shall per-
wade tho minds Of q majority of the
American people, then the last hope of
man-on earth-to establish Republi-
canism permanently will have been for
ever lost. The sovereigns of the press
ent day and generation must act, and
act quickly in reference to our political
evils, which are rapidly growing into
monsters, or we shall be compelled to
hand down to our posterity, Republic
can institutions, o tottering wreck.