The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-05-28
FROM AlSEA.

ED. GAZETTE: The attack which lately
appeared in the Blade upon Sol. King and B.
W. Wilson, was in every way ungenerous
and unmauly. 1t is true, that when per-
son has put himself before the public for
the suffrages of the people. there can be be
no doubt but that his qualifications as to his
fitness for the office he seeks, and his relia-
bility and trustworthiness as man, become
proper subjects for public consideration and
discussion, bef.re the casting OF votes for
such candidate Also it would appear to be
the duty of any good citizen, who might be
in possession of any facts or circumstances
bearing against any such candidates ability
or honesty, which are not generally known,
to bring the same before the public by news
paper or by any other honorable means. but
there should be no nicknames called no in
uendoes nor mean personalities, nor abuse of
any kind but the charges against such
should be plainly aud directly made. SO
by them. Abuse enlightens no one, and in
reality shows a bad motive in the writer /;
and when person has held Office, and has
been again nominated for the same, or any
other office, how that person behaved, and
the way he administered his duties to the
public during the time he held his former
Office, or term of Office, clearly are
matters for the people to discuss and pass
upon during his denomination. But IN the
case Messrs. King and Wilson, in the attack
Il than the uyritPr ff the
brings no charge of dishonesty or unfitness
against them; nothing even against the way
they have performed the functions pertain
ing to their Office in all the years they have
filled offices. He has not even attempted
to discredit them tby proof as men. 1t
must, therefore, he conceded that he could
not do so, for the temper manifested by the
writer in his attack upon those men clearly
shows that had lie known anything in any
way bearing against them, he would not
have spared them-there can be no other
conclusion. As men, / am not intimately
acquainted with either Mr.. King or Mr..
Wilson, but as officers have had to do con-
siderable business with both of them, and
some of it has been of very unpleasant
nature in itself but the kindness and gen.
tlenanly behavior of those officers did much
to allay the vexation naturally attending
such business; and such appears to be tleir
general character in the administration of
their duties as officers. l believe our county
has been well served by those men, and that
it will continue to be well served as those
gentlemen are permitted to hold office. The
writer of this attack must have had a mo-
tive in making it /; all he brings against
those men is that they are re-noIninated.
His motive is not patriotic enc, for his at
tack contains nothing but abuse, and patri-
otism does not move in that direction. No,
this, to the average citizen, would be evil
. dence that the people appreciated these men
as officers, and still desired their services /;
but to the disappointed man, the enyious,
or the man who held any personal ILL feeling
against either of them, in either of these
cases such person would be moved to make
just such an attack as the writer made upon
Sol. King and B. w. Wilson. To find fault
with men because they have served the pub
lie well, and thereby retained their offices
for years, is simply preposterous land this Is
the only thing the writer has alleged1. and
though some of our people might laugh at
the way some one is wading into cold Bush"
and going after Sol King, they wi have
sense enough to see the exceedingly small
politician in the writer, and vote for Sol
King and B. w. Wilson. The writer should
school himself to better things.
Alsea, May l3. 1880. FAIRPLAY.