The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1879-01-10
BLAINE. rnR nLusTERGR.

Blaine is not making many friends
in his own party by his persistent per-
secution of the Southern people. His
charges of illegal voting in the South
at the last fall elections have been met
by counter charges Of the same kind in
the Northern States, and the Massa-
chusetts and Pennsylvania frauds in
the late elections, so glaring as to make
the whole Republican party "blush
through its pasty paint" has caused
some of BlAine's enthusiastic followers
to ''go bacl; on him" You see this
sort of bombastic investigation business
is q boomerang that comes hack and
hits the tlirower, and Blaine is now
getting lick Is square on the nose from
his own weapon,
The people of the South are ut least
equally as honest as those of the
North, and as the Republicans charge
them with ignorance, it should be con-
ceded that they are not as well versed
in tIickery and arts of deception US
are their northern brethren" there
fore why charge them with having nc
complished all the wrongs and frauds
in our system Of electionsl Here in
Oregon, our population is made up
at least by strong majority Of South
ern people, and yet are they any worse
because they were born "south Of Ma
son and Dixon's line !" We don't like
to make such comparison that would
DO considered invidious, but We do be-
lieve that for morality, honesty, integ-
rity and probity of character the aver
age Southerner stands ut least the peer
of any race of people.
This talk of Blaine, of the attempt
to organize psrsecaltiIag, rather than
an investigating committee, against the
South, puts him where he belongs in
the catalogue of narrow.csntracted bi-
gots. The other day in the debate in
the Senate, he said, ''never a man in
Virginia, Georgia or Florida dared vote
for Abraham Lincoln, and in 1914
none in the South would vote for
James G.. Birney." 1t was low
dodge, of which the groveling ward
politician, accustomed to foul tricks
and small quibbles, would be ashamed.
A Senator should scorn such devises.
Mr.. Blaine well knows that no
voter in a Northern State cast his vote
Abraham Lincoln in 1850 or lS6i-
that the voter who preferred Lincoln
voted for the candidates for Electors
who were nominated to cast their votes
for him in the Electoral College OF
their State. James G.. Birney was the
candidate of the Abolition party, for
President, in 1874. Mr. Blaine might
as well have stated that no Abolitionist
in that year voted for John c. Cal
houn, or that no man in the North
voted for Jefferson Davis in 1864.
He very well knows that, to have
voted for Birney in 1874, or for Lin
coin in lsGO or 1864, in any Southern
State, it was requisite first to have
had, in the one instance, an Abolition
Electoral ticket, and in the other, a
Radical Electoral ticket And as
neither Of these conditions precedent
existed in any of the Southern States
in the case of Birney, no votes were
polIed for him in that section of the
Union. But in 1860, there were Rad
ical Electoral tickets put uP in some
of the Southern States, for Lincoln
and Hamlin, and Radical voter
were the ballot as they voted
for the candidates Of their choice ii
would much spoil the force of Mr.
BIaine's clap-trap about Birney il
1914, were some Senator to take the
trouble to show how few of the Maine
demagogue's own party of thiI day
e'dared" in the North to vote for that
Abolition candidate Of 1874. The tota
vote for him was as drop Of ink in 1
gallon of pure wafer. We can safel!
predict that the Radicals Of Oregon
dare net instruct for Blaine for Presi
dent, as they did at the last election.