The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1880-10-08
,.rErIAMs AT ALnANY.

effort had been made to secure large
attendance The county had been
hand-bilied and the faithful impor-
tuned to "come out )" hence large
crowd was presents It was expected
to be the bloweout of the campaign,
and it was unquestionably tho hest that
they can do in the present contest.
Williams is not an animating nor a
"thnsingq speaker. Slow, sluggish and
monotonous in enunciation and deliv-
cry, he could not awaken the enthusi-
asm or tho spirit that Mitchell brought
out, and yet Mitchell's aggressive field
was so limited as to circumscribe his
effort within the pale of demagoguery.
Having nothing to say against Han
cock, Mitchell had the good sense not
to attempt to assail that gallant soldier,
Williams, on the contrary, took pains
to charge Hancock with aristocratio
practices because he occupied the pleas
ant quarters that are allotted to him hy
reason of his military station at Gov
ernor's Island. And yet Williams for
got to tell that he and his wife rode in
n four-horsc landaulet, paid for 10y the
tax.pa of the UnitedStates, through
the streets of Washington, and that
Garfield as Chairman of the Committee
on Appropriations endorsed this cx-
travagance on the ground that the oili.
GERS of the U, S Government " should
occupy an aris!oeratic position before
the people of the world /" What hypo-
critical pretension is this
Williams speech was rerleto with
groundless charges against the south
in fact he flsunted the bloody shirt with
"a vehemence such as has not been
known in this political contest. and
which stamped him as the worst dema-
gogue that has yet appeared on the po-
litical forum. lie charges that the
people of the South arc yet in rebel
lion, when it is known that they have
succumbed to the arbitrament Of the
sword long years ago, and are now only
asking the same freedom and rights
that were guaranteed to them by the
Republican National Platform oflsGO,
upon which Lincoln was elected, which
said that ''the rights of the States invi-
olate, to regulate their own domestic
conccI ms exclusively, is essential to that
balance of power ON which the petfec-
ton and endurance OF the American
fabric depends" The Republican party
came into power by this most pro
nounced doctrine of State Rights, and
if they attempt to repudiate it now
they admit that their pretensions at
that time were tissue OF fraud and
deception.
Williams made one conspicuous point to
which we desire especially to call the
of Republicans. lie asserted
that the National Banking system was
a national blessing, and that in order to
perpetuate that system the Republican
party must be kept in power Now, it
is well known that large number of
honest Republicans do not support or
endorse this scheme of robbery and
plander by the capitalists of the coun-
try it is known that it is a plundering
and vicious system which is enriching
. few men while it is robbing the peo-
pie and the treasury, and is to-day Grip
Dling the financial condition Of the
worse than any other financial
scheme that has been saddIed upon our
country by the Republican party.
The endorsement of the Wall Street
brokers' and the hired Republican tools
If this great financial robbery is why
Ill honest people are arrayed against
he Republican oIigarchy to-day it is
Why Maine went against the Radicals
asst month, and is why the great States
# Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Pcnnsyl-
'ania are now trembling in the balance
capitalists and their money
'ought election machinery on one
ide and the great mass Of the middle
lasses and working people on the other
We are glad Williams, in his conf
lent audacity, took his ground in favor
f the money sharks of the country.
Ne are glad that he thus associates
fairfield with this great scheme of ma
ional impoverishment for bond holders
nd bankers enrichment. This posi-
ion of the Radicals is sufficient proof
bat neither they nor their Presiden-
ial candidate are to be trusted with
he financial management Of the coun-
ry.
We hAvn't space to follow FLAX
rake" in detail. lie was too prosy,
90 prolix, too monotonous. lie could
OF divest himself Of his bloody shirt so
3 to get down to rolid argument and
e wearied his audience with his stale
ght of the war issues-a fight that he
i'd not think it prudent to engage in
uring the war. Then he remained
hree thousand miles away from the
eld of conflict, and while voting for