The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1875-09-03
POLITICAL

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The announcement that Hon. Henry
Warren, Republican nominee for Con-
gress, would meet his friends at the
American Exchange, on Monday even
ing had the effect to bring together four
or five hundred sovereigns in the street,
to whom the gentleman was introduced
by Hon. J. F. Caples as "the next Con-
gresham" Mr.. Warren is an elderly
gentleman, a farmer in education,
habits, conversation and instinct; thor
oughly devoted to the interests of his
party, as he understands them; is 'hard
money" man; opposed to the repudia-
tion of the national debt; in favor of ab-
solute recognition of equal rights; de-
voted to the improvement of our rivers
and harbors and the consequent free
commerce of the Pacific; understands
the vicissitudes of pioneer life from
driving an ox-team to holding lucra
tive office; is temperate and sensible
temperance man, and rides no particular
hobby except loyalty to the govern
ment. He is not public speaker in
finished sense, and never can become
such-commencing so late in life as he
has, but his words are words of wisdom,
despite an occasional failure in his
speaking to make nouns and verbs
agree. His worst enemy can bring no
charge of dishonesty against him in
public or private life, and we do not
wonder at the Democratic howl over the
Independent fizzle, which will surely
send him to the next Congress, and
make Caples' prophecy fact.
This gentleman favored the crowd
with a telling speech at the close of Mr..
Warren's address, after which three
hearty cheers for the party and the can
didate made wall and welkin ring.
Oh, it's nice to be a voter,
Voter, voter, voter;
Oh, it's nice to be a voter,
In prospective
But the machine has run down. Just
wait till we hear Dimick.
There! We've heard DimiekI Time,
Tuesday evening; place, Courthouse;
audience, including reporters, China
man, four ladies and three small boys,
forty-one persons, of whom one-half
looked ashamed, one-fourth derisive,
one-eighth doubtful, and one-eightb,
with famous Enoch at their head, as
though the Temperance political party"
needed nothing but himself and George
Washington D., with Colonel Thomas
Cam as wire-puller, to make sure the
election of their real candidate, Lafay-
cite Lane, over the back of the said
George Washington D., who has offered
himself as the unfortunate scape-goat of
the whole enterprise. The best thing
for George Washington to do for him
self is to go home and plant field of hay
seed. The best thing possible for the
election of Mr.. Warren is for him to
harangue Republicans all over the
State, as he has done in Portland, with
the declaration that "the Republican
party was organized to abolish slavery"
Evidently the gentleman is a wool-dyed
Democrat of the old school Clearly he
has been employed by the wire-pulIers
at Democratic headquarters as both de-
coy duck and scape-goat; the former to
allure the votes of a few honest temper
ance men into a negative support of a
notorious whisky hummer, rather than
a temperate temperance man of the op-
posing national party, the latter to fire
their anathemas upon when he fails.
We fancied till we heard Mr.. Dimick
that he was fanatical, but honest.
Now we judge him to be fanatical
and tricky, but stupid. As his friend,
we'd like to dissuade him from making
any more negative attempts to elect Mr..
Lane; but we're glad, for the sake Of
our candidate, that he is in the field. a
few more efforts like that of Tuesday,
and the Republicans will elect tenn
perance man to Congress, despite Dim
lexis little Democratic scheme. We
shall be pleased to advertise the brother
everywhere. Will he favor us with q
list of his appointments?
Oh, it's nice to be a voter,
Voter, voter, voter;
Oh, it's nice TO be voter,
When devoid of common sense.