The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-10-18
CAPITAL CORRESPONDENTS.
SALEM, Oct. Is, 1872.

schemes of Legislation
have now approached that delicate
point at which all the skill of the doc.
tors of law are required to bring them
TO successful incubation.
Simpsons bill to secure the lease
and perpetual possession of tho Locks
to tho State-a measure in which the
people of the Willamette Valley are
more particularly interested than in any
other now pending-is expected to
come up for its final passage in the
House to-day. Much anxiety for its
fate is felt in that branch of the Leg
islative Assembly, where it is feared
that tho Holiday majority will sue
coed in carrying out his anxious wish
es and throttle it to an untimely
death. That the price asked in the
bill-ffty thousand dollars per year
for twelve years-is large one, l
admit; but that the good to be ac-
complished by the securing of the
Locks perpetually to tho State and
the people will fully justify favorable
action upon the measure l earnestly
believe.
There was q grand Grant Woman's
pow-wow at the Opora House last
night, at which Mrs. Duniway, Mrs
johnson, Mrs. Doctor Mary Sawtelle
and Lish Applegate sevorally and col
lectively spread themselves. Mrs Dun
way appeared upon the platform at.
tired in all the glory of n red ribbon
at her throat and blushing rose in
her hair. She beat the air for an
hour with her long arms and scrcech-
ed out in melli.iuous accents of saw
file the glories of Ulysses the squaw-
lover. She cackled yociferously about
woman suffrage and numerically cas-
tigated the Republican majority of
the Legislature for refusing to give
her suffrage bill n successful passage.
Her abuse of Horace Greeley for re-
fusing to recognize the he-women OF
the country only served to render the
Sage of Chippaqua more admired bT
the sensible portion of her audience.
Ii she should deliver herself OF her
speech all over Oregon, and the peo-
pie could be made TO believe in the
truth OF her assertions, Honest Horace
would receive the unqualified endorse
ment OF every pure and sensible wo-
man in the State and would carry our
Electoral vote by FIVE thousand major.
ity.
At the close of Mrs. Duniway's IT,
rade n pretty little woman dressed
with single rose and curled hair
waltzed TO the front OF the platform
and was introduced as Mrs. ]. DeYorc
Johnson, whose husband is also par
ty by the name of Johnson. After
curtseying sweeily to the audience
and shaking her curls coquettishly
back from her rosy cheeks, she de-
livcred an innocent and harmless little
school girl address OH the political sit
uation. Doubtless the defamation
had it been better committed to memo
ry and delivered in tones sufficiently
loud to be heard, wonld have been
appreciated At its greatest worth
When she tripped lightly from the
stage at its close the loud sigh of re-
lief which escaped from the audience
sufficiently attesied their qualification
that she had lived through the fiery
ordeal of her maiden effort on the
stump. Evidently as public speak
ess she is success.
Mrs. DIR. Sawtelle was dressed in a
jockey hat and feather. She recited
some mournful jokes which would
have been more appropriate in tap
room of a village inn. Their obscure
application was only eclipsed by the
coarseness of expression which ac-
companied their recital.
Lish Applegate was dressed with
one suspender held in place by thorn
spikes, and his hair was fricasseed q
la mode. ue was otherwise singular
ly devoid of exterior ornamentatlon,
but looked absolutely gushing, with
pale cadverous cheek and carnation
snout. When he fioatcd airily upon
the stage he was the observed of all
observers. To the astonishment of
the women who summoned him to
the platform he proceeded to array
himself in open hostility to the wo-
man movement and to pronounce his
qualified ipse dir0 against their
clamors for the ballot. He made a
crushing argument against their
claims to suffrage, and wound up by
advising them to devote themselves
to their proper sphere and thus be-
come an ornament to society and a
blessing to the world. His speech
was "deadner" on the strong mind
ed darlings, and from the yoceferous
applause which frequently interrupted