The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1873-02-28
THE IRREPRESsIBLB CONFLICT.

tunity to cool Itself uuIlhB eHS
davs that have passed since the adjourn
menf Of the annual meeting Of the state |
Tamnerapee Alliance, we are now ready /
IN make 4 well-weighed and careful re-
mort Of its remarkable proceedings.
The list of delegates was quite large, |
the weather was beautiful, and every
thing at the opening session betokened
a happy and prosperous season Of tenn
erance legislation, except the lowering
glances q a few grim-visaged pigmies,
who took the Alliance bits between
their teeth and sought to rule or ruin it.
A few broken-down political hacks,
consisting Of Republican sore-heads and
dead-duck Democrats, had resolved to
run the Alliance in the interests of n pO-
litical ring, whose avowed object should
be Temperance, but whose real one
should be the control of the WHISKY in
fiuence in the interests Of a so
called Temperance party. Overtures
from certain parties in this pseudo Tenn
perance clique had been made to the
NEW NORTHWEST with a view TO secure
this papers influence as a party organ;
and we We're urged to keep the idea OF
woman's enfranchisement out of the
Alliance, because it was so obnoxious
10 a few professed Temperance men that
there would be trouble about forming
new party if we should attempt 1t. As
is usual in such cases, we kept our own
counsel and obeyed our own convictions
Of duty; consequently the NEW NORTH
WEST did not become a certain party's
organ, and the faction who could not
control sought to gag and ostracise us.
To succeed in this they felt that STRAIT |
egy was necessary, 50 they caucused the
whole night preceding the appointed
gathering, and packed committee on
credentials, stuffed the temporary
Chairman, pledged the permanent Pres
ident whose election. was also a put-up
job, and got everything in readiness for
our expulsion from the Alliance.
Meanwhile the Suffrage Society dele
CATION, all unmindful Of the coming
storm, chatted at ease in the hotel par
lor, till they were suddenly waited upon
by a man who wanted to know what
they should do if they should be denied
admission on their credentials. This
query placed the delegation on their
guard, and stormy debate at once
arose between them and the worthy
who was trying to cover his perfidy in
packing committee against them by
declaring himself a "Woman Suffra-
gist, who only sought TO make a way
for their admission" All, Colonel
Cam, when you shall essay to run for
Governor, the Methodist hobby horse
and Democratic nightmare, both Of
which you are trying to ride, with Tenn
perance for 4 bride and Woman Suf-
frage as a saddle, will "step from under"
and leave you, like Issacher of old,
"crouching between two burdens"
The ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ele-
ment is after you full-tilt with facts.
The reports Of the Orcgoaian, States
man, and Bulletin are so COM
plete and reliable that we shall draw
largely from their columns in a forth
coming summary, thanking each for
their accuracy, piquancy and telling
thrusts at defeated and retreating disor-
ganizers, limiting our own remarks to a
brief outline.
The Committee on Credentials, who
had been nominally chosen by the old
members, but really selected by T. II.
Cam with special reference to their
hostility to the credentials of the Wom-
an Sufiragists-if Mr.. Cam denies this
we are ready with the proof-ruled that
the Woman Suffrage Association was q
political party, having in it all the ell
ements of politics, just as the Repub-
lican and Democratic parties are
each political. This was a new ruling
TO the Association, yet not a very disa'
greeable one, since it is pleasant to finC
that you are in reality po1ror for al
cncHIy to fight, rather than a nOnentity
not worth noticing. But this delega
ton denied going there as politicians
upon other than Temperance issues, anC
as such they stood their ground, and af
ter one Bull Run defeat, the cry of "OI
to Richmond" reused the latent princi
pie OF Justice, and victory perehed upol
the banners of Temperance, while th,
disorganizing secessionists took to thei
heels after the style of the rebels in |
greater Rebellion but where no create
principle was involvedl, carrying Will
them, as did the first great SecessiOnist
not a third, but a twentieth part of th,
Alliance hosts. Like their notoriou
prototype of Pandemonium, they imme
diately set about forming an Alliance
Of their own, and like their equally vii
lainous forerunners Of the recent grea
Rebellion, they have issued "procla
nation" setting forth just as good rea
sons as did Lucifer or the supporters Q
The Old Public Functionary for thei
withdrawal from a Union which the.
could not gag, usurp or ruin.
As we prefer to let the daily press tel
the particulars in its own terse way, W
now proceed to a few personalities no
given in the general newspaper reports
After We had been, as the Presiden
Nainly hoped, eifectually tabled, upon
cheating vote as to our admission a
Delegate at Large, a number of gentle
men, with whom we had had verl
slight personal acquaintance, and VIII,
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