The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1875-02-05
.OFEIClAL PAPER FOR OREG0N.
4 ERAUpFuL 5ApIa.

10 gl We are opposed tothe Democratic principles
Y dthe Democratic party III amy OF them have sur
A ,,Slyed the struggles qfthe last four years. ant
Vneuemocratic practices.- lOregonian Feb. LIST
/. 49, The 0reg0'iidn is an anomaly, in a
political sense. For az few weeks
after the Loitisiana Outrage its coll
y umns bristled with indignant protests
Against military interference and
teemed with theomost radical afirl
al nation of the doctrine of State
Rights. In point Of fact its utter
ances were SO eminently Democratic
and perpendicularIy correct that we
felt as though we had indeed q Rich
mond in the field--a champion III
whose yalor we might with safety
confde, in whose pure bosom we
might ..repose our Dem ocratic head,
and into whose willing ears we might
pour this burden Of our political
griefs with the freedom Of guileless
che-ild. We even permitted ourlofe
to boil over and run down on the
outsideto the extent of advising Or
tkodox Democrats to take IL for three
or even six months onprobation, pos
itively averring that we had it land
honestly believing that it, was ours
even into the last ditch p. Yea, we
were. even willing to share our bed and
board with the newly converted Mag
dalene, believing that it were better
to peril our immaculate Democratic
garments in the contact than to stone
therepentant sinner from our door.
But, alas for we'uns; alas, for trust
fulness confidence and faith Aftera
sharing our hospitable entertainment,
drinking in our condolences areveling 7
in our sdcialities, feasting from our
bounty, languishing in our earessing
arms and eagerly slipping the saccha-
riferous deposits from our Demo- +
cratic lips, for the past fortnight, the
abandoned dehas suddenly betakon
herself to her old hannts in the Rad
ical brothel, carrying away with her
not only all the presents which had
been lavished upon her by the gener-
GUS Democratic families into whose
midst she had been warmly welcomed,
but bearing away as well the plate,
silyerware and household goods
which lay in her way, and which are
emblematically represented by the
condolences and good faith which we =
all reposed in her reformation. so
It. q sudden and sorrowful dem y
olition and smash-up of our hopes in
the fair but fraudful female, and has :
taught us n useful but bitter lesson
for our future guidance, Hereafter {
we advise our Democratic friends to =
repose no more faith or confidence "
IN thsse hplf-faeed, Dolly Warden :,
journalistic syrens, whoaihpproach z
hem clothed in the beautiful and =
robes Of Independence and :
Reform, but the which covers a heart !
'f merconary selfshness and a body !"
# easy virtue 0''''"' ly r r
As we are opposed to Greeleyized =
taking the lead in our !,
anksb SO are we opposed to these - -
'kipping, fraudful, will o wisp jour y
lals being taken, fostered, pampered I
nd fattmed by the person which =
heyare readyto insult and the ehands = =
Which they are ready to rend as ca !"
rice may suggest Or interest dictate, Z
If our partizan friends want the :
)regonian as o medium Of gaining =;
Information, LOT them take it !; itis a ~ -
'ood newspaper, well up in all tho de- :, -
'artments Of news literature q but .
ont say any more that "it is n good eN
nough Democratic paper for me, :" ~
! be blinded by It's speciPus sophis- u, ~
y into the belief that there are any N ~
the fundamental principles Of Con. y
Democracy in its eompp, =
ition. AS such, it is aglaring fraud ~
nda shameless imposition. h ~ -,
t.F @----s---------.---s tu