The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1879-10-18
WANTS THE OLD RULE.


To read the last issue of the ring
organ of jackson county tthe TimesJ
one would, without further informa.
tion, come to The conclusion that to
be an independent one would be equal
to thief and highway robber. There
Is an argument in that paper in favor
of men voting the Democratic or
Republican ticket, as suits their
wishes but outside of such argu-
ment there is the earnest cry. sDon,t
vote the Independent ticket. !,
0ne would naturally suppose that
the Times was a aiisinterested newspa-
per; {; that its utterances were those
of patriotic journal desiring nothing
more than the welfare of the people
and the perpetlity Of the Republican
and Democratic parties; that it wished
to be known as harmless hybrid,
having no name, no sex, no prejudice,
but willing to work for all so long as
all were '.true bluen and would .'stick
to their tiekets.n
But the trouble with the Times is, it
Is ring organ. Until The people,
irrespective Of party Democrat and
Republiean-took the management of
county affairs into their hands, the
ring controlled the county and the
people to their ruin and to the benefit
of the Times and the leaders of the
ring. Then nIen .'stuck TO their tick
ets,n and then the Times and its
masters gloried in victories which
brought to the ring the spoils Of office
and the absolute power of official
position.
That day might return to the Times
IT the honest people of Jackson county
would once more listen to the seductive
voice Of the rings newspaper siren.
Old Jackson might again roll up three
or four hundred majority in favor of
the 1ing,s eabdidates=fer Office.
It Is true, and no one will dispute
1t, that the Times and the rings
leader do not cry for strict partizan
vote with any thought or hope that
the Republican party will succeed.
Such a story might dofo the marines,
but never for any one else. 1t would
rather bring back the days when
partizan prejudices got the best OF
good common sense, and the members
of its ring waxed, fat, strong and lazy
in the enjoyment Of the good things
given by an excited and unthinking
people, who permitted themselves to
be plundered with the understanding
and thought that vote. cast even for
precinc, officer was no much given
toward the salvation of the Union.
The truth, plainly spoken, is that
the lines wants return of the ,Iays
gone by when the people did not rule.
II wants its masters 10 hold office. II
wants no independent party thai
thinks for itself. Its hope now, 10 fhs
cry of s'siick 10 your tickets, 2 isto send
men, who have left party and cul
loose from The management of rings
back TO their party ranks, and while
waxing wealthy through the rings
work and the result Of large major
ity, 70 give to the people for theil
votes anoi her term of increasing
county Indebtedness and and another
load of taxation to lai,or under.
So much it means by "sticking to
your tieket.v Il would rather see the
Republican party in power than the
&. Inde naeuts. It would rather set
neither II II could help it; but being
honest and with no other pledge than
honest government, The Independents
are to It a fl ghtfuI nightmare, hose
harr'd, shape TO dishonesty is more
frghtful ihan Banquois ghost was
to Mackbeth. Ami, the-s. it might
be, as the ring's'only e is per-
sIud gain. PERI ould be