The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1880-04-02
rEN AND SCISSORS.

THE Roseburg Star is q red-hot I'll
den paper, aud can't say enough in his
favor. We would not feel very much
ehagrined If the Star should get its
choice.
YAMHILL Democrats gave their pref
erenee for President at their late county
convention as follows: Seymour, Is /;
Field, Il; Hendricks, ; Bayard, 1 /;
Tilden, 4 Thurman, 5.
FARMERS should remember that the
candidates for'the Legislature on the
Democratic ticket are pledged to use
every eudeayor to lower the present
rate of interest in our State.
IS OUR late County Convention sew
enteen men gained the nominations they
sought, while .ffly-t,co failed. There is
one consolation for the defeated candi-
date-he has lots of company.
The Polk county delegates to the
State Convention were instructed to
vote for Hon. Ben. Hayden for Con
gress. The Clackamas delegation comes
pledged for Hon. John Whiteaker.
W. =. CARTER, State Printer and
publisher of the Corvallis Gazette, ar
rived home from California last week,
and We are sorry to hear that his so
journ in that State has rot improved
his health.
The delegates from Marion county tc
the Democratic State Convention are
instructed to vote for Hon. wsl Ram
sey for Judge of this District. He is
an able lawyer and well fitted in every
way to I'll the position.
Tex of the sixteen delegates from
Texas to the Republican National Com
vsntion are strong for Grant. A rcso-
luton was passed at the Convention
which recognized Grant as the choice ol
the Republicans of that State.
AFTER the close Of business in the
Baker county Democratic Convention a
vote of the delegates was taken on their
preference for President. The result
was Seymour 44, Tilden %, Field 3,
and several other scattering votes.
TALK about the impOssibility of any
one giving a correct solution of the
s'ffteen puzzle y that Is all bosll. Joe
Bradley solved the question in the
spring Of 1877. IL was called the to
Z puzze then, but s and make 10.
We ASK our readers in this county to
esrefully loosz over the ticket presented
to them by the Democratic Convention.
We feel that it IS fully as good, and in
fact even better than any heretofore
nominated by our County Conventions.
The PhiIomath cg-eci5Is thinks It
would be wrong to again nominate
Grant for the Presidency. It comes
very near being sarcastic when it says
that the noblest termination that a
great eareee can have is a voluntary re-
turn to private, peaceful life"
ABOUT the most pointed speech made
at the Democratic ratification meeting
last week was that of Hon. 7. L. Por-
ter, who gave Mason such a close race
for the nomination for Clerk. AS long
as we have such Democrats as he is, our
party will control the affairs of this
county.
ABOUT the checklist thing we have
noticed in oar exchanges this week is
an item in the Jacksonville Sentinel
finding fanlt with the editor of the
Times for speaking Of Hayes as 8. His
Fraudulency." The Sentinel has prob
ably not yet heard that TiIden was
elected by majority Of over quarter
of million.
Huou J. JgwErr, of Ohio, Is now
being 'boomed" by his State for the
Presidency on the Democratic ticket.
He may be strong man, and well cal
culated for the position, but we still be-
lieve that the best interests of our party
demand the nomination of Seymour
one of the purest and most high-minded
and unprejudicel citizens of this great
country.
A GREAT many Of the money-sharps
Of this city denounce with curses deep
and loud the resolution passed at the
late Democratic County Convention in
relation to the lowering of the legal
rate of interest. They say they viii
never vote for men that are pledged to
such action, but then as nine-tenths of
them are Republicans we viii not lose
any sleep over the matter.