The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-10-15
ARRANGEMENT OF the k6RATIc
PARTY.

rshfRTYn' ns plH'nA''s
Hon. G. J. Curtis of Portland, ad-
dressed large and intelligent audi
ence at Philomath, in the College
Chapel, upon the political issues of
the hour, Friday evening the 9Th inst.
Notwithstanding the short time
given to make the announcement,
the Chapel was literally filled with
fine audience of ladies and gentlemen
who had come to hear the speech of
the young and eloquent orator.
While the people were assembling
the Philomath Cornet Band discours-
ed some splendid pieces of music.
Mr.. Curtis, on being introduced.
proceeded in an impartial manner to
place the Democratic party upon
their own record, making that record
condemn them in the estimation Of
all honest people.
He showed in very torceable way
how inconsistant the Democratic
party had been, rendering them un-
worthy the confidence of those who
honor and respect their country. He
showed how that party had tryed to
carry out the secession resolutions of
ls7s-79 and how they were in
sympathy and accord with every
move set on foot to break up the
Federal Union; how they had
tostered and perpetuated human
slavery, and how they have hung like
a great incubas upon all public i'm.
provements from their first organiza-
tion up to the present time. The
young gentlemn portrayed in glow
ing terms how the Democrats OPP
posed and denounced the war for the
preservation of the Union as a fail
ure-how they opposed the National
Banking System, and how they have
nominated a Union General for their
candidate as President, and a Presi-
dent of National Bank for Vice
President. They denounced the half
million brave men who fell on a
thousand battle fields fighting for the
Union and Liberty as Lincoln hire
lings, and now they have one of these
hirelings, who fought to suppress the
Rebellion and kill Democrats as their
standard bearer. 1t is not because
these Brigadier Generals of the South
like Hancock for they hate him, but
hope to ride into power by using him
as blind and thus deceive honest
voters. After pouring hot shot into
the Democratic ranks for an hour the
young orator spoke of General Gar
field, and in most eloquent manner
exonerated him from all the base
charges made against him by Demo
cratic papers, merely for effect, know
ing full well that there is no truth in
them. But this is the Democratic
mode Of conducting campaign
personal abuse and vilification with
out a particle of argument in them.
The Democrats will not appeal to
their record as vindication of their
cause, but they appeal to the ignor-
ance, the prejudice and the passions
of the people. He showd how Gar
field had rose from the humblest walks
in life to his present honorable and
exalted position; said Garfield was
in sympathy with the laboring class
es because he had troad that
road himself, and knew what it was
to earn his living by the sweat of his
brow; not so with General Hancock,
for he was military man and had
been educated at the expense of the
government, and had devoted all his
time to military life and knew but
little ofthe wants of the people, and
less of the culture and knowledge that
should characterize statesman. Ii
General Garfield was not a man of
culture and honor he would not have
been elected ten successive times
from the great State OF Ohio to Con-
gress, and last to fill the place of the
great Thurman in the Senate Of the
United States. This would seem to
be vindication enough for any fair
minded man. While Senator Slater
took the back salary grab and put it
in his pocket, Garfield directed that
what was coming to him from that
source should be returned TO the
Treasury where it belonged. Such
charges against the fair name of an
honest man are just as groundless as
they are malicious.
His closing appeal to our young
men to support the Republican can
didate and thus help to support the
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