Oregon Republican. [volume] (Dallas, Or.) 1870-1872, 1870-09-10
A Courteous Ailusion.

There Is paper pnbll In Folk
county which is continually assailing
Senator Williams because he il com
mitted to the doctrine of suffrage with
out distinction of color, and which is.
decInring in every issue that no man
committed to such doctrine can ever be
elected to the Senate from Oregon
Yet the same paper in every issue de-
votes good deal of space to the advo>
caey of Judge Boise's claims and fit
mes for the Senate. We fear the writ
err has not read the fecent letters of
Judge Boise on negro suffrage. He is
as firmly committed to the doctrine as
is Senator Williams, and, we are glad
to believe, is quite as good a Radical" l."
-Oregoniun.
We remark There is paper pub
lished in Multnomah county, edited by
one Harvey Scott, which has been for
the last four years on all sides of the
suffrage question, and which refuses to
state whether or not it endorses the
principle and'policy of the late natural
ization bill, an1 the present position Of
which is so mixed, on the question of
universal suffrage, that no man under
stands what it is II is continually
harping concerning the great and nc
knowledged ability of Senator Wi!l>
Jams, and what he has done for Oregon /;
and labors hard to prove that Williams
is in favor of suffrage without "distinc
ton Of color" and that be is opposed
to suffrage without 'dstinction of coi>
or" And the editor fears that We have
no, read Judge Boise's letter on negro
suffrage, and is glad 10 believe that
Boise is quite as radical ON that ques>
ton as Williams.
Now, as to the ability of Senator
| Williams. we have nothing disparaging
to say. We think Mr. Williams man
Of ability. but as to tie extraordinary
| part Of it wc fail to see, as docs the ed
| itor above named. We think the Sen.
ate Of the Dited States contains MANY
| greater minds, and men, too, who think
the position of Williams on the suffragt
question is very silly, aud The great
things he has done for Oregon We
should ike to have the paper aforesaid
| point out If to secure daily mail or
the west side of the Willamette river
from Portland to Corvallis, as a consid
Grafton for taking from us our lane
grant, which would have enabled Us Il
have bad the benefit OF a railroad in
stead of daily mail, and inviting nj
Africa TO come here and be made citi
zens, and securing fat Office for th'
editor of the Oregonina constitute
great man, then Williams is great
Aud a. to the allusion 10 Judge Boise
We have to say, that the editor of tn
aforesaid paper may know Just wha
Judge Boise's political sentiments are
we do not profess to know nor is it an,
of our business to know; but we will
say that if he is as radical on the ques
ton of suffrage as Mr.. Williams. W
have never heard him So declare, eithe
in public or private and further, tha
we have read his letter on that subject
and do not 20 understand him. An
again we tell the gentleman who edit
the aforesaid paper that, if his versio
of the letter referred TO ID correct. an
if Boise is as foolishly radical on tha
question as Williams, we shall ohpos
him as strongly as We do Mr.. William:
And we might as well say to the gen
tleman who has been the special favor
ite of his immaculate Senator, that W
shall steadily oppose my man who ia
vors universal suffrage, or universi
negro suffrage, or universal manhoo
suffrage. or any other kind of suffrae
which extends that privilege to opp'
site races, The truth is, Williams is
60 between. He will not declare in (;
; vor of universal suffrage, as do tl
t courageous radicals, and yet he endors,
the principle; he endorsed the prime
] pie when he voted for the Fifteent
Amendment; he undertook to oppo,
it when he voted to extend the BALL
f TO native Africans, the most ignoral
. people on the globe. and to exclude Il
t educated and intelligent Chinese. W
/. might also say, for tho benefit of Il
E aforesaid gentleman, that the radica
rOf Polk do not endorse Mr.. William