The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-10-03
''TO THE VOTERs On oRRno,, !,

le whose name is appended, informs th,
# patient reader that he is not publ,
A speaker by profession, and has there
i fore chosen to present .'my views,
i by availing himself Of the ventrilo
i quial powers Of Senator j. Fl. Mitch
:, ell and H. w. Scott, associate edito
of the Bulletin, MIR. HI. Smith haI
presented us with the Ophthalmit
Platform. Really it is good for sor,
y eyes. Briefly, "my views' are EN-
If bodied in eleven amendments to thu
W Albany platform. OF these, sever
foreshadow what results certain
. "energies" (now held in reserye) will
II accomplish underacondition should
Q l be elected, y SO utterly unreason-
J. able that we forbear extended notice
while four tell, with appropriate of.
fectation of terseness, just where
those Titanic "energies" will hiber-
y nate--just "what / won't do. OF
Q the seven, the spray of the William
! cite dashes economically over the
first, the next three have the genuine
: ring of railroad metal, while in all
OF the seven the work of the railroad
(: ring sticks out very plainly. From
q the sixth the Cascades lock and dam
enterprise project. Hi. is in favor
Of this, but we do not deem his plat
form quite as broad as that of his
competitor, Nesmithj who AYERS that
he is in favor of "damming every
river that is worth DAM" Next
comes detailed description of what
Hiram won'tdo.0 He will not con-
sumo the valuable time of Congress- in
talking, to the exclusion of General
Butler, Mr.. Shellabarger, at All. =
We believe Hiram, and we have the
best OF reasons for our belief. Then
he will not vote for any grinding
monopoly. Finally, he proposes to
own Hi. Smith in fee simple. Ydi
1t occurs to us that if Hiram had
been content with simply telling the
people of Oregon Just what he would
not do in Congress we would have
had very accurate chart of his life
Tor the next two years. ral le
On the subject of an Indian policy
Mr.. Scott's views are rather mixed
they might be termed half breed.
tie thinks our Indian wards are treat.
ed with too much consideration. Or
as he has elegantly expressed it, they
have thousands of acres per head"
while the down-trodden Caucasian
wr1thes under the iron heel Of q des-
potism which can be abolished only
by periodic distribution of reserva.
tions until each Indian shall boast of
no more than six feet of land-for
burial.
Perhaps our thrifty agrariail might
suggest cineration of dead Indians so
that five feet and eleven inches "per
head" might be saved for purposes
OF railway subsidy,
n Hiram woos the Protective Alliance
in Q straightforward protest against
the Burlingame treaty. -
Hiram "this year, raised twelve
thousand bushels Of grain" Il
would be cruel to call upon him IN
yield an employment SO agreeable
for q salary Of huctuating Value
And Hiram expects "to do SO an.
nually hereafter. We have that re-.
liant trust in the fxedness of Natnre,s
laws and the constancy of propitious
meteorological phenomena which en-.
ables us to believe that if Hiram ma I
nures his land and otherwise main. :
tainS q rigidity of the upper lin he .
VIII do SO annually hereafter'-by l
o large majority. .r
Drops the bucolic thought. Hush 4
the voice to tender reverence while !
sombre shades Of other and darkar
days come up from q little village on /
The other side of the Atlantic. There s
2 farmhouse embowered in rose
vines; an artless girl scarce sixteen
summers old; libertine weaving bis
net around frail Innocence with aSbtls a
care; Q mothers love wrecked and il
shattered, And next, q felon flying @
rom the face Of man to hide his h
lhame in the wide, wide world "
In his track, wherever he goes ara q
raud, guile and deceit. liz revels "
n his ill-gotten gold while the little h
mes who have hardly learned to oall !,
nm father, cry for bread about MI =, u
Ieserted hearthstone. Disown;ng d
us ancestry, Q pariah and an outcast Ii
rom one society, honored and es.
eemed by another whose gaze would h,
p ayerted in fierce abhorrence were Z
" tragic past all known, be STUN. ~
les to high position. Nemesis fierce ia
nd vengetul. delaying the fatal shaft m
nnl he takes his seat by the side Of wi
len who have breasted the foulest
ercest floods Of political corruption
o. kept their souls pure as the 10
aked heavens" This is a bit Of dr.
losaic. ' ' =
t1' ial agoi n alH' aa we
IN the appendix to this pamphlet fo,
lere is a supplementary platform
iopted by the Albany Convention
opt. llth, The resolution endors, mi
" blgamy is omitted aU5 Ca
AT last after a week Of protraoted iss
arturition behold the mouseI The N,
10 thing needful is to get it ,'en- =. =,
,rsed.N We can notholp thinking Pr
hiram had been sole architect he
10ld have given us something much El
ore oreditable TO himself and profit.
'le 70 the publishers. In justice to ~, ~
r Smith we must say in closing S2'
at he is credited with having said Pa
calhedra, that he is the ostensible Col
thor; "AIr. Scott and Senator !
itehell punotuated it.e On tbe
lole we are glad Hiram has got this gor
ing of his mind. We see nothing sea
W TO hinder Senator Mitchell from fou
ianding to his duties aa member La,
tneSenate Committee on Trims. en-
reation Routes 10 Tho SeaboarVl. tsrr