The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1873-10-03
TO PURB-M1EDED REPUBLICANS.

TO PURE-MINDED REPUBLICANS.
FRIENDS: We have much to say to
you. Your situation before the public
is at present very peculiar one. You
have Scylla upon one hand and
Charybdis on the other. Your bark,
loaded with eternal principles, will be
stranded if you do not out-general the
nutinous crew who have resolved to
scuttIe your ship if they cannot hold
the helm. These mutineers are not
Democrats; they are not worthy to be
named i'm the same day with pure
minded Democrats. They are men who
having enjoyed, aforetime, much Gov
ernmental patronage, have learned
many Of the ways that are dark and
tricks that are vain that characterized
the office-holder of their day. Know
ing, as they do, all the mean things
they might haze done while in power,
they very naturally suppose that their
successors in Office do these things, now
that they have opportunity. COnse-
quently, they are suspicious, disap-
pointed and desperate. These mutt
neers are determined to 8cuttle your ship.
Be on the alert. Your bark is freighted
with ten thousand embryo principles
which they would strangle; principles
which must come 10 the pure light OF
Heaven under the fostering care OF
progressive minds and progressive gov
ernment. These mutineers have dOnned
very thin and badly tattered cloak OF
purity under cover Of which they fol
pretense make long prayers; and when
they show their cOuntenances, they dis
figure them that they may appear unto
men to fast. BE not deceived by the
Puritanic walls of sore-headed faction.
lists, who, while 'thanking God that
they are not as other men are" are in
deed naught but whited sepulehers,
who seek to beslime everything that
runs counter to their own gain or greed
with the filthy exudes OF their own
minds. Woe unto such Scribes, Phari-
sees, hypocrltes! If, through your
apathy, or under the intimidation Of
their self-righteous clamor, any true Re
publican shall stay away from the
polls and thereby prove recreant to his
manifest duty, remember, you must
pay the penalty.
Some Of you say, 1--WE are not pleased
with the Mitchell resolution" Neither,
dear friends, are we. But it is not a
part Of the platform on which your
party stands. The whited sepulchers
who tell you that it is are knaves or
fools. They EROtU better. If you are
caught in such net you are gudgeons.
But suppose II was q part of the plat
form, what then? Do two wrongs ever
make one right? Every man Of you
acknowledges that J. y. Smith dlide
J. w. Nesmith is just as bad a man as
J. II. Mitchell. Even those Of you who
profess to believe all the Infamous
stories afloat among the Senator's per-
sOnal and political enemies say unqual.
ifiedly that J. w Nesmith Is as bad {
man IS he dare be. Then, do you ex
pect to redeem your outraged honor {?
by repeating the very "infamy" o
which you prate so loudly? There ISM
an old woman in the State but has bet
ter sense and more discretion.
Don't strain at a gnat and gulp dowl
a camel whole. Yet that is just wha
you are doing when you bolt the Re
publican nomination, with a good mai
as its standard-bearer and nominee, AM
thereby throw your influence to elect
man whose infamies, as compared I,
those of Senator Mitchell, are as q came
is to a gnat.
Let the thousands Of passengers OF
board this ship be warned against tn
action of the mutineers. They car
nothing for purity, nothing for morality
nothing for righteous government
They only aim to scuttle your ship.
Hiram Smith is a man of good moral
and unimpeaehable reputation. H
viii not sell his influence TO brothel
and doggeries. Every brothel In tbi
city Is presided over by fallen wome,
who are electioneering for Nesmith
Every debauchee who patronizes an
supports these hells is quoting the Ore
gonidn on "virtue" and "honoru who
he reaches the streets.
Are pure-minded Republicans to 1
caught in such company? II not, W
coniure you to rally TO the support
.vour standard-bearer and acquit you
selves like men. Heed not the hypOcri
ical walls Of self-righteous rascals wi
think that whatever they do that
deyillsh that has the sanction of law