The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-12-12

his unwarrantable md outrageous in
terference in the prosecution OF
bribers and repeaters in this State, let
it not DO forgotten that the first
cause Of his wrongdoing is John Hip.
| pie, otherwise John II. Mitchell, U.
S. Senator from Oregon. With all
the Infamous history Of his past life
before him, crowded with deceit and
crime one would suppose that in the
Senate Of tho United States, at least,
his career of crime would end for a
term, Not SO, however, This man
is pursued by an Erinnys which will
not let him rest. II he were not a
scoundrel and debaucheo in daily life
his identity would be lost. rasr
The people of Oregon will remem,
ber how piteously he whined outa cry
for oblivion when the damning record
Of his wasted years confronted him at
a moment when such a revelation
would sting a man of ordinary scnsi
bilities into honest repentance and
contrition. There were few good
lish, humane individuals who were de.
ceiyed by Nipples strategic pretenct
into a belief that if he were treated
mercifully, he might yet reform, ant
in this critical hour of bis distress
| take up the. ruins Of his dishonoret
life with sincere and manly resolve
to atone in some measure for tht
matchless evil he had done TO tht
State which had honored him with {
high and noble trust. We ask tht
people Of Oregon to survey, once
again, the consummate iniquity Of thii
mans daily life.
Whom, having forced upon this peo
plo by foul and scandalous means the
issue of his personal character, he was
overwhelmingly rebuked at the polls,
instead of needing the humiliating
lesson, he sought to uplift his waning
fortunes by an unjust use Of the pat
ronage at his disposal, The people Of
Oregon well know that this man Hip
pie was engaged all through the re-
cent Congressional campaign in plot
ting briberies and other schemes for
procuring illegal voting, to the utter
neglect Of important, pressing duties
which deyolyed upon him as . mem-
Der OF the Senate Committee on Trans
portation. More than this ho con
tributed large sum Of money to aid
in the execution Of these schemes
We must do him the justice of ac-
knowledging that he is askillcd vii
lain and that for adroit villainies care
fully planned, no has never had an
equal in Oregon. We pray that God
in his infinite mercy will preserve us
q people from ehis duplicate. But
however cautious and skillful he
may have been, there were those up
on his slimy track who caught him in
the midst Of his infamy. And when
his poor tools had been detected in
their nofarlous business, when there
was imminent danger that their
disclosures Of his compile
ity would once moro open up the
charnel-house of his life, he contribu-
ted means to aid in snatching his vic
Tins from the clutches of the ,indig-
nant law, In tho accomplishment Of
this design he used such servile iu-
struments as Dubois, the emincntly
individual who went on
tho bail bond of Ryan, tho repeater.
Thus, from plotting, in secret cable,
crimes against tho election laws Of tho
State and nation, ho passed by natural
transit to compounding with crime
md sheltering the criminal from the
'ighteous punishment Of the law
His last hours in Oregon wero spent
N tho company of several of these
Dribers and their principals, and be-
Fore he left this State he had perfect
ID a plan for preventing tho course of
Justice in one Of our State Courts.
But there remained power above
md beyond the Vaccinations Of Hip.
olc--an incorrpptiblo judge and an
lnpurchasablo prosecuting officer
md this power,was at lest invoked, =
For o tlmo il seemed as If the out
aged dignity Of our laws would be
lppeased by tho sure punishment Of
ho criminals, But the supreme au-
lacity which so often before had
this arch-conspirator from
nerited penalties, did not, in this OK
remity, desert him, AS a last ro.
'ort, he assailed the very citadel Of
psticc. His blow was fatal to one
representation, at least, H.r
And when tho secret springs which
moved tho Attonoy-Go General to his
wrongful order are lald bare, it will |
DO secn that John Nipples hand was
On thom at the moment that outrage
was committed Let no man wonder
1t this thing, 1t was Of most vital
to Orogon's junior Sena-
.or that the lips OF tho ropeatcrs
should DO hermetically sealed. On
The fate Of Ryan hung Mulkoy's
destiny. In Mulkey's security was
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