The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1875-04-02
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what we must do for PoIiticzI saliva
tion. Some news about the Weather
and future rtiosperts, etc.
Ocnoco VALLEY, Oregon,
March 18th 1875. {
,Editor Democrat:

Editor Democrat:
The embargo that the Ice King
laid on our mails has at last been
raised and we are permitted once
more to hear from the outside world,
but the news that first came to US
that Of brave Piegan Phil's gallant
campaign against State Rights
didn't smother us with admiration
for the unique and original Brother
in-law style Of ruling our once Re
publican country, But then we
should remember that this is the
death throes Of the Republican party.
And sit has been great party
great in organization; in intensity Of
purpose; in resources and all that
goes to make up a great party, it is
bound to die hard. The brother-in-
laws pathic treatment under DR..
Grant, varied by frequent cases of
fraud, bribery, thievery, and official
corruption has laid the once grand
old party on it's death bed. And this
delirious attack of Piegan's is only a
sure sign that death is not far dis
tant. Ii may kick around like our
old COWS did this winter when they
were freezing, but it will infuse no
new lfo in the dying body; it only
shows how hard its death is-how it
hates to give up. But the storm Of
popular indignation is too much for
even its iron constitution. The
glimpse the people have had lately
of the fraud, the corruption, the
bribery and venality that now consti-
tute the life and being of this party
has been its death warrant, for they
are driving thousands away from its
support and every disaffoction is q
nail in its coffin. These glimpses are
worse, They show that the
long series of frightful exposures
which will forever stain the history
of American politics. Credit Mobil-
ier, San Domingo, the Washington
Ring, Pacific Mail, Railroad Grants,
Subsidies divided, and last, but not
least the Memphis, Elpaso, Texas
and Pacific Railroad II have only
touched the surface of the hideous
mass Of corruption that festersin and
around Congress; pervading the
whole atmosphere of the capital and
pollutins the country. They show
that the ruling party is steepod and
soddened in venality, rotten all
through and porishing of internal
putrifaction; and DIR. Grant and his
advisers are only fastening its disso-
luton May it soon be eased of its
pains, and no furthar delirium afflict
its friends, butmay its end be like one
of Grants drunks--glorious. But then
rs each dying contortion reveals some
thing uglier and nastier than the
proceeding one the Doctors shouldn't
get mad and want to call some one
Banditti and turn them over to truth
rul Piegan for drunk-head trial and
instant execution.
The elections last fall strengthened
Lhe Democratic Party in this vicinity
immensely, for a considerable num-
Der Of Democrats had become dis
,ouraged and lost all faith in the
Democratic party (as party, not
orinciples) ever gaining control of
ihe Government. They could see no
promise of party that would be SO
weak, so false to its teaching and pre-
,enses as to take its bitterest oppo-
lRnt and place him in the van as
eader; and if ever the country was
reed from the present ruling party
md brought back to Democratic
principles, it must be through some
'ther agency than the Democratic
,alty, SO they left us, and uniting
With the Republicans who had tired
# Grantism, they formed the "Inde-
,endent Party" which carried this
county last June and which boasted
hat it would carry the State next
Election. But the elections last fall
howed that the Old Democratic
Party was yet power in the land,
hat it had recovered from its almost
atal Greeley mistake, and true to Its
principles and teachings it could and
would sweep our country of the Ban
litti that are making the word Gre |
publican" synonomous with all that
$ corrupt and disreputable, and these
Independent Democrats are in line
n the old party once more. But
GU must not think by this that the
Independent Party is dead. The last
congress, Grants outrages in the
,outh, patieularly in Louisiana, his
eclSless scheming for the third term, /
he revelations Of corruption Sc,
ately given us, have killed the Re-
'ubliean party, not literally but in
act, From this on there viii be
nut two parties Independents and
Democrats. Henceiorth all the Re-
,ublicans Of Eastern Oregon, land /
wonder that by T6. Of The I