Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1880-10-23
NO. 46.
E. L Applegate, republican candidat,

E. T. Applegate, republican candidate
for Presidential Elector addressed the
citizens Of Weston, Friday 10Th. He
is fluent speaker, gifted with good
language and very great self-cenidence
The chief topic in his PREDATORY remarks
was "Applegate" as a pioneer, as an ora
tor, as founder Of the Republican party
in Oregon, as the only republican whose
record democrats have not assailed, as q
Greenbacker two years ago, and to-day
as republican. He then took up that
part of his i-spirituatistic speech de-
iivered in the Willamette Valley rela-
tive to the crocodile" which be probab-
ly intended to apply to something politi-
cal, but unfortunately overlooked the
application He then launched boldly
into the the political issue of the day BY
succinct description of the Waldenses.
This, after suavely explaining that the
day was past in Oregon when "Applegate
had to bring proof for his assertions
very different from the time when he
introduced Republicanism to the Pacific
Coast. He then said that Democracy
"can not run government, if the people
exceed few hundred IN number" As
"Applegate" requires no ''proof," this
statement hurls into the shades Of obliv-
ion that Insignificant part of American
history from Jefferson to Lincoln. Dip
1 ping into logic he accounted for the exist
ence of democrats on the law Of "heredl-
tary transmission Of error, being origina-
ted by Robespierre and two other French
men. He did not mention whether they
were polygamists. On the contrary
"Republican principles were correct be-
cause the party was recent and growing
, daily in number" He was too much
cramped for time However to state how
0 that proof would apply to Mohammedans',
). Nihilists,, Know Nothings, Doughfaces
&c, in their time He hotly and slaber-
|. ately denounced the system of making:
personal" campaigns as .'lowSand con
temptible." Just like running horses,
5 and praising up your own, while running
i, down the other as spawned, ring-boned''
&c. He forgot that if horse were
wounded by Mobelier bullet or crippled
: T. on De Golyer pavement, that every
body could see it, even though its owner
It. were dumb. And if it were not fol
It. esApplegate's" needing no s4proof, thu
! complete change from the time he 8
violently abused s. J. Tlden, would b
II strange, even in man SO very consistent
b, as only to have changed from q Wing t.
:, a Democrat, then to a Republican, then T.
a Greenbacker, and again to Republi
o. can. He piled ridicule, contempt ant
it. facial contortions on the Potter commit
"a tee s'because they only tried to find some
thing sagin' somebody" That was bad
,v. and what makes it pinch SO confounded
ly hard is that they did find sonlethin:
'h' sagin'-Garfeld. He then unearthes
#. some more Roman history in good style
b;e he got up so high in the garh Of beauts
=, GUS imagery, that probably recalling tn
:" fate of Herod the Great, he suddenl
On, dropped himself to the human level agai
-. in these words, "I did not make history
may be supposed, this was an ilnmens
'so relief to the audience. He said ths
ID democrats in olden times were "gentl'
men, who proclaimed that call working
500 men were slaves" By some Oversight
,ed however, they overlooked that in the
rse old platforms; but then Applegate know
ON He said Free Trade was a heresy in
ported from England, the speakers "beir
eet paid with British Gold" OF cour
eTi T that knocked the bottom out Of it. II
rod error has since been sstransmitted
hereditary descent, every believer In
to being born with cicatrix in the conv
the lutions of his brain. That ciinched
4 beyond any argument He then 1--WE
,ltn up''i in a sublime outburst against Shaver
" saying that he fought it before and "
ready to do it again. But as the enen
oru did not heave in sight, he went on
$ a prostrate the Democracy as 'the oligarc
hall that swung the cat-o-nine tails
nan closed his remarkable effort by promisi
to call again and take up what was
nth of Modern History.
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