The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-05-28
pHIloma1H VICINITY.

ED. GAZETTE: So much has been
said against the present County Clerk
and Sheriff, and as generally in such
cases all unfounded too, to prevent
TIE reelection of these gentlemen,
that the public in mass has become
annoyed by it. Soap Creek, Muddy,
and especially Kings valley, have
tryed their best to throw mud a.:
them. If those mud-slingers intend
ed to soil the reputation OF both these
gentlemen, they have committed a
gross error that undeserved slander
only reused the sympathy of the
honest citizens OF Benton for them.
am expressing, by saying this.
the opinion of great majority Of
our settlers on Mary's river and all
her tributaries, of both parties
" King Wilson" can expect three
Democratic votes for every one they
should lose from their own party.
The candidates of the Democratic
party for those Offices are, nndoubted-
ly, good men, but the people know
how to value the service our present,
honest officials have done them they
have given proof that they are just
the men the people need and want
for that Office. What wrongs had
the Kings Valley Bar" to complain
Of? And SO they think that the
people of Benton care for their per-
sonal hostility to those present coun-
ty officials? ? One of the main charges
against Mr.. Wilson, that he kncws
more about the bottles in the saloons
than he does about his official duties.
falls entirely to the ground. Only a
sluggard could say that Mr.. Wilson
either neglected or didn't know his
duty, candid people are convinced of
something better; and nobody else
but a calumniator could call him a
drnnkard. 1t shows the fearless man
who takes his drinks occasionally at
the bar where everybody can see it,
instead of getting it by wholesale in
the old lady's vinegar mug in the
drug store, and enjoy in the back
ground OF some dark corner. If the
habit of using drinks stronger than
water is of sucl, value in connection
with our county officials, Mr.. King,
AT least, ought to be the man of their
heart, as he is even capable of letting
strong drinks alone without the use
of blue ribbon as a preventive.
Having many children and using
them as assistants, was another great
fault found with them. What mad
idea? TO ask father to send his
children into the woods to chop wood
and engage strangers to assist them
at home, especially when such child
rem are exceedingly fit for home pur-
poses. One of these fault finders
even carried the Righteousness as far
as to blame Mr.. Wilson for having
given him gratuitous advice. Well,
my good man, you need advice, and
should you sooner like to pay for it,
| should think The members OF the
Corvallis bar could accommodate
you.
My article is getting lengthy, yet
| must beg for little more space for
the benefit of those Kings valley cor.
respondents. That latin scholar
ought to remember that there are
fcllow-citizens in Benton county who
never studied the foreign phrases OF
the common school edition of Web
ster's. My opinion is that gentleman
feared his neighbors Of common but
sound sense. might have shaken Their
heads if they had read, "For the
Good of the Public" and so he wrap.
ped veil round it. Another OF those
famous scribes would do well, if puz
zled again by mathematical prob.
lem, instead of trying a candid but
simple country lad TO solve it fol
him, to go to " Bash," that mastery
chess player will convince him, con-
trary to his expression towards that
young country gent from Blodget's
valley, that Corvallis can boast OF
good mathema,icians; or if tha,
should be too degrading to his honor,
he can be told by his young friend
where else to find redress.
Liberal.
Near Philomath, MAY 81. 1880.
The masterly incapacity of Allen
| Parker for an office of trust and re-