Oregon Republican. [volume] (Dallas, Or.) 1870-1872, 1870-06-11
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COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER.
DALLAS, SATURDAY, JUNE IL
Forgive Them Lord, They know Not
What They Do.o

what Ehey DOsV
The election il over, and the exult.
ant cry of victory comes laundering up
from the Democratic hosts; but even
this. though evidently ample to satisfy
the demands Of the Republican ear, is
not sufficient for the Democratic. The
loud voice Of large deposits of copfned
gunpoWder has therefore been united
with the yocifereus yell. The loud
clamorfis heard above the sighs of Re-
publieans, the wall Of the sea breeze
ana the death rattle Of our mountain
torrents. Democrats say they have
carried county and State; suppose they
haye--is all this exnltation an empty
.triou.e to rictory, or do they rejoice
because something of importance has
been accomplished by it? If it be
true, how. LIN what way or manner
are the Democratic voters who thus re-
joice to be benefited by it.? Are the
county officers they have elected co be
plid less than oars, if they had been
elected !? They have not claimed that
any of the officers Of our county were
t,o well paid, while zoe hare. They
made no promise toreduce the pay of
Ell III s. q n ID Z i. I
county officers, but ge DID, Is there
pnything to Indicate that the necessary
county expenses, building aud repairs
ing bridges, carrying ON the county
business, &c, is going to be any less
under Democratic than q Republican,
administration, unless We presume that
N Democratic administration willaneg
lect Its duty to the whole people Of the
countyg We think not. How then,
unless the Democratic County Court re-
fuse to levy the. tax necessary to pay
the honest debts of the county, are the
Democratic masses of the county to
avoid being taxed ss heavily as they
have been under Republican rule.
To go beyond the county, to tie.
siafe, what have they accomplished by
eIecting their candidates? The argu-.
lAent that applies to the county applies
10 The State; and there is nothing to
iadicate that the taxes Of the people
will be reduced nor their area sf free.
dom be enlarged by Democratic vic
tory, ,-but the contrary.
po go beyond the State to the ma
ton, The fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendments have become parts Of the
Constitution and both parties have, If
we allow the bud. to control the ar
tremities and the general rule the er.
ceptions. endorsed the principles estab,
Iishcd by them. What, then, could
tie Democratic Congressman from this
State expect to accomplish In the ma
tion against the Constitution Of the
United States and both national par
ties2 About as much as the Pope's
bull against The comet-nothing.
So far as the railroad and other in>
ierests, in which the people Of this
State are directly interested, are con-
oernej. il ia evident that the election of
Slater will result in damage, If any,
thing, beoausehe would 20 to Congressso
act with minority there, inimical TO
national aid to internal improvements,
unless like 10. Smith-he disrcgards
the obligations Of party. To make a
long matter short, if we regard the
best Interests Of the people Of this
State, these sonorous. Democrats, while
they are rejoicing over Democratic
victory (unless they are mistaken as. to
which party has po' led a majority oi
vJtes)are really celebrating a calamity to
them and TO us. But we will not proph.
esy eyil-we will hope for the best,
We may be 6eaten, but We are moi
e7aquered.
"Truth, slough orushed to earth, will rise
again,
The eternal years of God are hers,
While error wounded writhes in pain,
4 failing, dies amid her worshippers."