The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1880-07-09
EDIronIAL POINTS.
GnASr Is grooming for 's4.


opposes Garfield.
Dos CAMERox's health is still falling,
and bis friends are anxious,
THE Connecticut Greenbackers have
q full State ticket.
sExAroH slATEn will stump Oregon
for Hancock and English. Good
ILLINOIS Democrats feel confident of
cIecting Lyman Trumbsll Governor
SACRAMENTO has an immense Han
cock and Eoglish Club organization.
ONO and Indiana are the only States |
that will hold their elections in octo-
Der.
Ir Is Thought that the city of San
Francisco will give Hancock $4,000
majority.
WEAVER, the Greenbacker. viii take
the stump. That's about all there il
left for him 10 take.
The San Francisco Workingmen's
Party has repudiated Kearney, aud viii
support Hancock.
FouR Presidential tickets in the field
and more a-coming. Every fellow can
vote to his taste this year.
Ir is now thought that General Lo-
gan viii be made Chairman Of the Ma
tional Republican Committee.
Ii tho Democratic Conventions first
in 1865 Hancock received l44l votes,
and in 1876, IS votes for President.
BEEcugR says Garfield has good
mother and good wife. Glad Of it
but the Lord never does everything for
one family.
THE Troy, \. y, Bs,dgee "A Radical
Republican paper says Gariields nom
ination should not bind Republicans to
vote for him.
NEAaLY 200 Union soliiers-all of
whom were heretofore Republican,
have formed Hancock club in San
Francieeo.
FRArDY HAYgs aud family are ea
route for the Pacific Coast, end will
visit this State. orcgonians, take in
your grindstonesi
THE Radical managers are beginning
10 feel very blue about Oregon. The
rank and file don't crll,use worth IA
cent over Gar-an,-Arth.
GARFiELp's reeorl will be worth
something to him after the eleetion. He
will be offered big salary as a bank
president or railroad manager.
THE Democratic war-horSe. Congress
man Whitaker, was handsomely re.
ceived and serenadeI on bis arrival at
shis home in Eugene last week.
GEx. NEsMrrn has . hAndaome pho
tograph Of Gen. Hancock, which was
presented to him by the next President
some seventeen years ago, in Wash
ingtOn.
GES. HANCOCK was born Feb. II,
lS24-on st. Valentines Day he
weighs about 2G5 pounds, and is there
fore rather hefty Valentine TO bestow
on the .couAtry just now.
TINS increase Of postmasters' salaries
is good thing for the Democrats who
will go into those Offices after the 4th
Of March next. as it viii save them
from asking for "raise."
A Republican paper says Mr.. Gar
fields record will not have TO be de-
Tended. That is abandoning the field
rather early in the action. There are
indications of panic in the Republican
ranks.
The Southern people viii give Han
Geek tremendous endorsement in No
vember. They would have put him in
in 1865 had the Republican despots
held their unhallowed hands of their
throats.
JOHN Sherman said to the Senate in
1879: "The restoration of Messrs. Ar
thur and Cornell would be serious
injury to tho public service, involving
a loss of public revenue and an in
creased expenditure"
The last on Garfield is that in Con-
gress in ls7 he voted against resolu-
tion asking the President to interfere
in behalf of American Fenians impris-
oned in Canada. No Garfield need ap-
ply for Irish votes now
EXCHANGES drift to our table yet
with putfs for Jas. +. English, Of Con-
necticut, for Vice President. If these
fellows win chalk up their cues and
take cnrom over on to Indiana they
will get the right English on the shot.
THE Republican Congressman, c. II.
voOrhis's, welcome home to New Jersey
is not a pleasant one. He has been ar
rested at Hackensack for embezzling