The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1870-01-28
EXAMINE THE FACTS.

cries aloud against ''the lavish man
ner in which the majority in California
is shoveling out the public funds to its
partisan friends" and against the en-
tire municipal government of New
York ''from Mayor down to the night
watchmen and Judiciary" and in con-
clusion says:
sMeanwhilo the people helplcssly pay The taxes
These are fair specimens of what the Democracy
does, as against what Il promises, In evcry city
and State where il gets control Of governments It
would practice tho same style Of economy In Ore
gon if given tho opportunity. We ask tho poo
plo to examine tho facts aud sec f these things be
not true. and then decide II they want TO ontrust
the aairs of this State into tho hands Of men who
in nation, State and city, have so uniformly and
notoriously betrayed all trusts, Boiled their own
pledges aud so shamolossly and pronigately wastod
the money of the people"
If those loyal individuals in Cali
fornia had behaved themselves instead
of wantonly destroying private prop
erty during the last few years, the
California Legislature would not have
had the bill of damages presented by
L. P. Hall to pay. It is pretty well
understood that the 1000 is TO de-
fray the unsettled account of a Radi-
cal spree, indulged in when that class
of persons were in power in Californ-
in. If the people examine the facts, ="
they will conclude that the surest way
to avoid such expensive amusements
is to keep the men who practice them
out of power.
If the people of Oregon, after ex-
amining into the affairs of their own
State and footing up the cost of the
last four or five years of Radical adj
ministration here, have spare time
enough to go to New York, for advice
as to what Oregon Democrats will do,
we hope they viii particularly enquire
into the character of that last New
York Republican Legislature; of which
Mr.. Greeley said that "nine-tenths'
of them were corrupt rascals who
disgraced us at Albany last winter
and that a refusal to re-nominate them
naturally cost us good many votes"
| In the late election. What terrible
bug-bear this Tammany Democracy is,
to be sure. We suppose that many
persons, who don't take the trouble to
look upon both sides, naturally come
to think that there is no parallel for
the corruption of Tammany. But
Tammany only retains power because,
with all of its sins, it is less corrupt
than its opponents who put up can
didates to be voted for that this same
NIr. Greeley says arc enough to turn
the stomach of o horse.
But if people are to Examine facts
to decide who they are to entrust the
affairs of this State with, why should
they go to California or New York to
do it? Let us examine the facts al
home. We assure the Oregonian that
the California Legislature will not like
" ''shoyel out in q lavish manner
the funds of this State, neither viii
the Tammany Democracy ever reck-
lessly and profigately squander it in
buying up "the most active and prom
inent Republicans" in New York. Ou1
school fund has not gone in that way.
Our escheat fund was not stolen fol
such purpose. If scoundrels in Office
are to be denounced, it is not neces-
sary to go out of the State to find
them. We ask the people to examine
into the affairs of this State; to com.
pute the vast sums saddled upon the
public by the conspiracy to disrupt
the Legislature; to observe what gold.
en- capacities the State House crowd
acquired for buying up a Repub.
lcan convention (the Central Commit
tee was SO conscious of this, that il
created 1877 delegates, hoping that il
might prove difficult to buy SC
many; to "examine the facts" con.
nectedwith the escheat fund develop.
ments at Salem last Summer, and ther
decide if they want to entrust the af
fairs of this State into the hands oi
men who have $50 shamfully and
profigately wasted and stolen the mon.
ey Of the people.