Oregon Republican. [volume] (Dallas, Or.) 1870-1872, 1870-07-16
Our uore90n 4epabliraa.
COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER.
DALLAS, SATURDAY, JULY 10.
The Matter In Polk.

of Wednesday and takes for the subject
of its leader AWhat the matter is in
Polk" Il says, "The Republicans los:
Polk county when they ought to have
carried i" How does the O,egoAian
know we ought to have carried it
Does that paper think wc ought to have
carried it against a fair majority of 80 or.
40 yotesi We supposed the majority
should rule in republics like ours.
Does the Oregonion desire that men
should be purchased with money, body
and mind, to act against their wishes
when they deposit their ballots. or does
It desire that fraud and trickery should
be used 10 induce men to vote as it in
dicatcs? We say to the 0regonian,
that the Democrats had, in this county
two years ago. large majority, and they
had at the last election; aud we bold it
perfectly legitimate for the political par
ty that has fair majority, to have and
hold the Offices.
How is the Oregoniaa effected by our
being beaten in Polk? IF we can en-
dure to live under Democratic rule so
far ms the administration of this county
is concerned, the Oregoaiaa in Multno
NAH ought not to complain. But we
think we understand what's the matter.
The members of the Legislature are not
favorable to the re selection of Mr. VIII
iians. No sir, Mr. Oregonian, nor
would they, had The Republican ticket
been elected.
We do not blame the editor of the
OSegoniaa for making hard and re-
spectacle fight for the man from whose
hands he is receiving such fat things,
and we fully understand that while the
actionof Williams is hard upon old Polk,
It has been the "making of the purp"
The editor says that Judge Boise
and Sullivan have not been willing &c
accept any prominent measure of the
Republican partyior the last Eve years.
Where did the Oregonian stand two
and four years ago upon what it calls
the prominent measures of the party
Was il in favor of negro suffrage them
No, it opposed it upon principle anc
principles never change. What hai
come over the spirit of the O,egoaian'
dream? Why did it finally come ou
in favor Of that which but short time
before it SO bitterly opposed, and de
clared ID was not the principles of ou
party? Simply because the Oregonia,
had no independence. Simply because
it was and is the seryile tool Of Holla
day and George III. Williams, having
no mind Of its own and being troubled
with the very disease which Nc. say
affliets Polk county. The truth is tha
men of Sulivan's views have not chang
cd theiropinion on that subject to suit tn
mind of Williams, nor have they seel
ft to surrender the right and substitut
the wrong. And they have done righ
to fight the evils of the party in tn
party, instead OF leaving il, and we tsl
the Oregonian now that three fourth
OF the Republican party, in Oregon
=. r.gret, as much as Mr.. P. C. Sullivan
that negro suffrage became q success il
our party. Il never was establishe,
BY the voice of the people. Whe
Williams made his first canvass in th
State, on reconstruction, he said tha
we must have negro suffrage in tn
South to create loyal element, but nc
in the loyal States; and when asked
il was to be forced upon the Norther
States, he answered "no." that thor
was but one man In the Senate who ad
yocated it, and that was "Old Sumner.
These were his exact words, as discoul
teous as they may seem, and the Orr
gonian said amen. The very next SCI
sion of Congress the Fifteenth Amend
ment passed, supported by William
and the Oregoniaa said amen. The
Williams discovered that the negro j
the South voted the rebel ticket, an
pal he had made mistake; and th
0regonidn responded amen. The
Williams declared, with uplifted hant
that no other steps should bo taken /
that direction, and the Oregonian ha
looed good! Then the aaturalizatio
laws were changed SO as to include q
Africa, and the Orsgonian said that
right and this il the trifing faeilatio
that II To be arraioned against men VIII