The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1870-04-29
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Register, on "Jones the Disorgan ger.
| do this in the interest Of truth, and
l assure my friends that ! did not
write that letter. OF course the sig
nature would naturally lead the pub !
lie to suppose that 1 wrote it. The
cunning rascal who did write it, evi-
IDENTITY intended to convey the impress
sion that / was the author by putting
that signature to il.
That letter is falsehood upon its
face, and / consider that an objection
TO it. The first few lines Of il convey
the idea that it was written by num-
ber Of persons, forit uses the expression:
" ,ee as lifelong Democrats" Less
than half dozen lines further along
the writer forgets himself, drops the
plural we" and says: -" and fur
ther still, " am credibly informed"
and, to this singular form he sticks to
the end. The writer bases his state
ments upon hear say. He has no bet
ter authority than: / nm credibly
informed" "I was informed by a
prominent Democrat, 4" am told
Now who informed him !? If there arc
charges against Mr.. Jones, we want
to hear the testimony from the wit
nesses themselves. We don't propose
to take it after it has been filtered
through some unknown individual
and then retailod through the columns
Of Radical newspaper. / do not
admit that Jones did what the letter
accuses him Of but suppose he did,
what do you make Of it? II says that
|. he came out six weeks before the
Convention for Clerk; that he with
, drew; that he said there would be n
good many candidates; that he got the
nomination for Recorder, in the City
Of Albany; that Hill asked him if he
was on the track and was answered
, in the negative that he was sprung ut
, the eleventh hour, and that the order of
business was arranged 80 that Clerk
came last. What does all that david
. ling Nonsense amount to? 1t is a
high compliment to Jones, when u
man who is evidently IN unscrupulous
and vindictive enemy can't find any
thing worse than all this to say about
him. He had right 10 be candi-
date for Clerk six weeks before the
. Convention, and was He withdrew
US he had right TO. He did perhaps
/ say that there would be good many
. candidates, and that some of them
would get beat. l think there was u
good deal of sense in the remark ]
think the man who wro:e that letter
is probably satisfied by this time that
r somebody did get beat, and / think
: that is just what is the matter with
4 Hannah. Suppose he was sprung al
: the eleventh hour, after telling Hill that
= men who sprung him, and hold them
: TO account, If monstrous crime has
= been committed. Ii Jones conniyed
c for that result, he must have connived
n tciih somebody in the Convention
e Now who was it Show me n single
man OF that Convention that he asked
d to vote or work for him? Who helped
;. him to carry out the so-called tricker,
: in the Convention Name them
C Name one. Was it Mr. W. II. Smith
S who placed Jones name before thu
= Convention? There is not more up
e right Democrat than Smith. TO sa,
r that any man on the ticket got hi
: nomination by fraud is to accuse
i majority of the Convention of bein:
: either ignorant or dishonest.
4 Now, believe that Mr.. Jones wa
: placed on that ticket in accordanc,
C with the unbiased wishes of a majorit,
i Of the Convention and believe tina
e that Convention had right to selec
IS just who it pleased and that no set o
candidates had any right to dicker on
y another out of the way SO as to depriv
J. the Convention of its choice.
II must say that ! never saw sucl
o rambling nonsense in print as tina
n published in so-called Honesty's letter
1t is very plain case of an attemp
by man to write q fellow d,wn
knave and of the writer getting him
self down an ass instead. A mai
: who could so magnify such things a
those stated in that letter, even sup
L posing them to be true, could yer,
easily mistake plum pudding for
d torpedo. s
@ There is one thing that I think
it can assure Honesty, (so-called) OF
s and that is this: that think it less
@ culpable for Democrat to work TO
! his own nomination before Demo
: cratic Convention than to attempt, af
/. ter getting slaughtered in his owl
J. party, to stock Republican Conven
Q ton. And I ask Honesty, (so-called)
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