The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1879-09-26

zion that these eminent public men and
high functionaries live in such terror of
the vilest characters that ever appeared
in American politics that they are will
ing to pay money to keep their tongues
from wagging. Chicago Times.
There would have been more respect
shown to the civil service order in this
State and elsewhere had the President
given unmistakable proof that he meant
the order to be obeyed, both in letter
and in spirit. The influence of the adj
ministration has, unfortunately, been
exerted on the side of explaining away
the order, rather than insisting on It's
enforcement. And both the President
and the Secretary of the Treasury have
shown in their selection Of appoiHtees
to responsible offices that they were
governed more by personal prefere nees
than by the claims of long service and
acknowledged fitness. ~. y. Ti,ads.
The differences in the Democratic
party in the United States are transit
tory and evanescent, aud will disappear
in the presence of inevitable events.
The principles upon which the great
mass of the Democratic party are agreed
are fundamental and eternal. In the
contest of 1876 the issue was the re-
storation of the government, its practi-
cal working and administration, to the
original ideas of its founders. The de
feat of the popular will as declared in
that election has raised vastly greater
issne-that is, the integrity of the sys.
tenn of selfgovernment through election
by the people.-SaD,,sei J. TiideA.
Roscoe Conkhng may parade his pure
patriotism, which everybody knows is a
sham; he may inveigh against those
he is pleased to call the "barbarians Of
the South !" he may below about "hu.
man rights" and "justice," but he, him.
self, stands before the world as a robber
of domestic happiness sneaking bird
of prey, who pleys off his fine face and
figure, polished libertine and he ap
pears finally, fowl with feathers be
draggled in the mire, fugitive with
pale, cowardly face, stealing ont of q
town, trembling before the justifiablC
rage Of an indignant husband. Conk.
ling is cowardly brute; cowardly in
politics cowardly on the stump COW.
ardly on the floor of the Senate. Be
hold your. god, stalwarts, with bIanched
face, trembling lips, quivering legs,
sneaking like a whipped dog by night
out of Providence, with a shotgun
pointed at his sleek carcass - Vattsr-
son.
The Republican party, what from:
various causes, has never yet been a
national party. The mistaken
course of the Republicans toward the
South is a positive and serious injury
to the country. What we
blame in the Republican leaders is that
they reject the alliance of those who
hold with them in the South on most Of
the real questions of the day, and whom
they could easily influence and control
on others if they would make them al
lies. They prefer a factious sectional
policy, dangerous to the peace of the
country, hindering its prosperity, and
constantly reviving sectional animosities
and perpetuating disturbance. This
course is so unwise and uncalled for
that if it is persisted in they need not
wonder if it shall ALLEVIATE from them
the support of large numbers of North
ern voters next year, quite enough to
secure their deEeat.-N. y. Herald.