The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-02-22
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Editor Democrat
Surprising Tint few items from these part
ms be Of some interest to yourself and til,
many readera Of your excellent paper through
ont the county, ws therofors writo you thil
communication
Generally speaking, there Is bat Iittl,
transpiring in this locality, outside Of tk,
ordinary Occurrences Of everyday life. Bui
occasionally little matter takes place her,
that is Of sornn significance in q poiitiea
point Of view. Such an occurrence Is thi,
found place amoag the passing events Of thil
town on last Saturday. That was the date
set by the so-called Greenbaek party Of thi,
part Of the ''moral heritage to organize a
greenback club in Scio precinct for the pur.
pose of holding political meetings, in ordo,
20 advance the political faith and ''iocterns''
Of the aforesaid greanback party Of the
Forks. Finally the hour for hostilitiss came
and few persons Of the green5ack and Re-
publican persuasion gathered themselves to-
gether in the oity hall and the order Of ex-
ercises began by ene OF the faithful motionine
that one of the other faithfuls acs as cheer.
man Of tho ''rneetin" carried and the chair
was ut once occupied by the party designated.
After the chairman had somewhat recovered
from his embarrassment occasioned by placing
him in such an Important position. he
began to comprehsnd the situation, and sug-
gested the necessity Of eleeting other officers.
After the requisits number of officers wers
chosen, the smeetin" was addressed at short
intervals by two Of the refOrmers, in a manner
seldom If ever before witnessed in this place.
The speakers wars both very much at loss
forlanguagoin which toexpreas eirthoughts,
or at least it SO appeared to ''man uP
tree." Some think that the difficulty was
owing to lack Of knowledge absut the sub
iect on which they were trying to talk. After
these fellows had concluded their remarks on
the all absorbing questions Of finance and
money, in which the fact was obvious that
they did not understand the elementary
principles of either subject, the exercises
closed with call for 'jiners" During this
order of business, things assumed the aspect
Of = Quaker meeting, which condition Of
affairs continued for the remainder Of the
session. When the meeting adjourned, it
was aseertained that six individuals had joined
the elub-three Democrats and three Repab-
hcaasi the Republicans being taken IN On
probation, owing 10 the fact that sorae Of
them ars not jet old enough to vots The
rites of baptism were deaihd the probationers
until after the Jane election. whsA thsy are
all to be sPrinkled from an evil conscience
and received into full menberskiP il they
vote right Taking the whole thing together
il was cns Of the fiAttsst and most ridisulsus
farcss in the history of politics. in this see
tion Of ths country. The probabilities ars
shat if grsenback clab is to be made to live
here, the membership viii have to come from
some other precinct where Ereenbaekers are
more numerous. This, we are informed, is
the talk among some sf the determined Onea
of this vain hAllueinatisn. But this business
is all going to fail ever hare, from the fact
that Democrats have found out that the great
apostle Edmunds is blk. and shat the green.
back party in this Stats is headed By person.
of no moral or political worth. They sss
that the whole thing is trick for the purpose
of gaining strength for Mitchell in the next
Les islsturs. INDEPENDENT.