The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-10-31

nelisicalstruggles ever known. With
Avote Of more than forty per cent. be-
lev that polled at any general cleo
tion Of the last six years. it has result
ed in the largest majority on record
in favor Of the people against corpo-
rations. An Independent journal,
published in one Of the coast counties,
said, several weeks ago, that athe peo-
pie are always honest, generally right
and never unpopular,' and the late
election has abundantly proven the
force Of the assertion. 1t was unlike
the great popular unprising Of Cali
iornia in September; because Cali
fornia resorted to an independent
movement, knowing that the corpora
tions endeavored to move within party
lines. In Oregon, the victory was on
q strictly Democratic basis-the right
OF the people to govern the people
a more withering rebuke was never
before heaped upon bloated mush.
room,aristocrat and his hireling satel-
lites; a more vehement outburst of
popular Indignation never before
crushed down heartless demagogue,
who cared not how soon his party was
buried in the ruins his own hands
had dragged down upon them. Hol-
laday and Mitchell are entombed in a
common grave by the honest yeo-
manry of Oregon. All that most en-
mobiles party struggles, was sunk in
the wretched ambition to force down
the throats Of honest Republican
voters-men who were sincere IN their
convictions and did not espouse Radi-
calsm in the hope OF plunder-an en-
dorsement Of "a heartless bigamist. -
The Republican convention profcssed
to deal with the "Bluf' Harry" of
oregon, merely as an Oregon man,
sinking his antecedents in the Eastern
etatesi SO the voters Of Oregon took
them at their word and reproved the
Convention that asked them to en-
uorse the brevet Mormon. This
proves that no matter how corrupt
may be the leaders of the Repnblioan
party, the masses of that party have
yet some honesty. They refused to
march ID procession headed by a
renegade secessionist, harnessed to
Radical plunder-cart They refused {
to endorse bigamy, seduction and en- {
bezzlement, believing that to do it Z
was equivalent to giving their money 3
to the blacklegs, their daughters to /
seducers, their wives to the brothel, t
keepers and their souls to the devil z
Another remarkable feature Of the
election was this; Corporations al i
ways have their own creatures, and j
their hireling newspapers. ring the !
charges on dlscarding old party r
hacks" and selecting men fresh from s
the people" They put up Just such
man as this to bear the standard of Il
the railroad cohorts, and he was beat n
On into, if possible, worse obscurity i
than that whence he emerged at their p
dictation. In spite Of the corpora n
tion organs whining about "profos. q
sional politicians" the people Of Ore o
gon have given their largest recorded Z
majority to q professional politician 6
IN the most expansive sense of the
term. BY this we mean not an OBJ q
scure wire-puller who controls half s.
The votes OF some ward whore grog "
0vercomes prejpdicesi not smooth, i
bland manipulation Of dark.lahtern eau pi
,usses in the upper stories Of disroput- !,
able groceries; but Q man who has q,
made the science OF popular govern
nent the study of lifetime and who el
thoroughly knows the wants Of his "
and how to realize their al
expectations. In fact, General Nesmith u
S not SO much lawyer as law Il
maker; and the very highest authori- Ct
les in tho land--such men as Trum. 81
oull, Fessenden, and Chief Justice. q
paid cheerful tribute to acC
lis cardinal ability as alegislator' y Ia
fMr. Holiday and Senator Mitch b
II are not Of that class Of men who ii
forget nothing through maguanimi- 81
y and learn nothing by experience IN
hey will mediate well upon the &c
lesson dealt out to them by
he plain, unpretentious men Of 0rerI M
on. The latter is not SO culpable, NJ
ecause he feared expulsion from the 4, f@
enate, and an endorsement by the III III
eople (Which he failed 10 recelve) po
yas his only Hope Of salgasion. The
primer deserves no pity Had he 81
ontented himself with developing tho b,
esources Of Oregon with bis rail- GO
Dads, he could have had almost any G..
ind Of favorable legislation from ou
ither political party As he has seen N,
/ 10 make his house an asylum for all wi
le political mcndicanIs Of the Radical O.
arty; bis railroad-building q scheme W
t colonizing elections and defeating So
he popular willi and his wealth M 3,
PURGE Of social corruption, we ques' su
on if the sober and sensible portion Ii
I the community regret bis humilia' "a,