The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-09-27
Speaking Wednesday Evening.

The campaign was opened OH We'd
nesday evening, at the Court House,
by j. w. Nesmith, Democratic can
didate for Congress. He commenced
to ''narate" by saying that, owing to
laborious work in the campaign and
unexpected sickness, he was scarcely
able to address the people. After tell
ing rat story, he declared that the
present State officials were surely hon
est. He then denounced condemned
and execrated Ben Holiday for cor
rupting our Legislators, and took ter
rible oath to oppose monopolies every
where. Denied that labor and capital
were mutually dependent, and proved
the same by saying that he could labor
with capital. Repeated the stale
Democratic falsehoods in regard to the
Credit Mobilier. He held that the Re
publican party were responsible for
the back salary steal because they were
In the majority. He forgot to mention
that had the Democratic majority
furnished as large proportion agdtast
the bill as the Republican, the bill
would have been defeated lie said
that Grant would be held in history as
the man who stole 100000. BY the
way, he didn't take it as "back pay"
as Senator Nesmith did at one time.
He wanted to loan Sconchin his grind
stone to whet his knife to scalp Mr..
Meacham. Declared that the Peace
Policy Of the Government was uncon-
stitutional, on the ground of uniting
church and state-lwe suppose because
itrecommends humane policy. Re
hashed the state tariff arguments of
the Democracy. Denounced the pro-
visions in the charter, for the building
OF our railroads, which says they shall
be built of American iron, and said
great many other things too tedious to |
mention as well as of little importance. |
Mr.. Nesmith is not Of extra ability as
Il speaker or reasoner, and we were
greatly disappointed in the vaunted
champion Of Democracy.
JUDGE KELSAY.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Nesmith.
Jude Kelsay took the stand. He
alluded to Nesmith's remarks about
the inability of Mr.. Smith to speak in
public. Referred to Gen. Jackson,
and Others, who were in the same con-
dition. Assailed successfully the Dem
ocratic plank on strict construction.
He showed that while the Democrats
preached, they never practiced it. As
proof he alluded to the purchase of
Louisiana President Madison on the
National Bank question President
Monroe on the war Of lS12-Gen.
Jacvson when the Choctaws were
made citizenS-Polk when Mexicans.
greaserS. etc., were made citizens at
one swoop. Buchanan, however, car
ried it out. Even in the Burr trouble
Jefferson favored the suspension of the
writof habeas cOrpus-all, or nearly all
showing a contrary tendency to strict
Rubbed the Democracy
up on the ''lock and dam" business.
Replied to Mr, Nesmith's opposition to
monopolies by referring to the Oregon
It California railroad which, for the
present, is monopoly. SO long as the
rains do not c0me-and will be even I
then so far as the Umpqua valley is |
concerned. In relation to the back
salary steal, he referred to the vote at !
the time, which showed that a major
ity Of the Democrats voted In facor Of
1t, and majority Of the Republicans
against it. lie touched Nesmith up
decidedly when he said that this taking
back pay was a falling that had cropped
out before. Referred to the granting
of back pay to our judiciary, in times
past, when eight out Of eleven Of the
Democratic members OF the Oregon
Senate Mr.. Crawford, of Linn, in the
voted In favor oft.
The above Ii an extremely brief
synopsis ofCol. Kelsay's speech, which
was well received. The Colonel was
followed by Ben. Hayden, alias ''dirty
shirt, " who, in a characteristic speech
Of fifteen or twenty minutes, tore open
his shirt In front, and charged around
amewhat on the style Of Capt. Jack
his lava bed. u