The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1881-06-10
fFIcIAL PAPER FOR BENTON County
THE YAQuINA RAILROAD.

For the last two weeks the "Ben-
ton Blade" has departed from the
course of silence it has followed for a
year past and more, on this subject,
and has taken on itself the part OF
Shimei, who cast stones and cursed.
The strange feature of these articles
was that .hey betrayed a different
origin than the pen of the RESPONSE
bic editor and publisher. No one
who knew him, and the whole city
is familiar with him, gave HIM credit
for either the will or the power to
write sentences calculated to sting,
intended to wound, and fit to be
transplanted into the congenial soil
of the Oreqonia's.
1t has been our painful lot during
the last twelve months to read in
the badly spelled, and worse printed
columns of the Benton Blade, the
contributions of several, more or less
live Democrats and the style and
working of these volunteers has be-
trayed each in turn. But these rail-
road articles we confess we could not
rightly place. True it is, more the
pity, that petty politicians will de-
scend to- anything. True it is that
spite, spread over course of years,
and intensified by failure after failure
to injure' the hated object, will vent
itself in strange ways, and will not
etop to ask whose windows will be
broken by the shower of mud it
fffngs.- But we confess freely that
we cannot see what possible good any
aspiring, and conspiring democrat,
could hor to get by falling foul of
the management of an enterprise
like the railroad in question.
Ifa writer like this, who takes care
to hide his name and parentage,
when he slips by stealth into the edi-
torial chair of the poor. Blade, had
sense enough and courage enough to
say in plain words what he tries to
insinuate and hint he could be dealt
with and answered.
But who can take in this stuff
about texts and themes, and the
bleeding of General Washington, and
sanguinary fields, and victims and
cafIiopes. What every one saw was
Just this, that no matter by what in
ducements. no one can say by what
means, Benton county journal was
got to publish a collection OF all the
stupid gossip that is sure to hang
about the skirts of every enterprise
that takes time to come to compile
ton, and that, as was fully expected,
the Oregoniaas picked up the article
and republishel it, to do what harm
it could, on the principle that any
stick is good enough to beat ("Ya-
,quina') dog with.
All this is too plain. No one is
misled by the affectation of "public
spirit" in making personal attacks.
So far IS this paper is concerned, it
does not propose to enter on any
match at mud singing with the
Blade. Let.the CALLED jade vince,
our withers are unwrunI.
For many years past our course has
been one OF faith in the future Of va
4nifs Bay, confidence in the COM
pletion Of the railroad earnest sup
port of all who are Loyalty trying,
in the face of many obstacles, to
achieve success so important to the
people of the state. We have not
seen any evidence of dishonest pur-
pose in the management who are
spending their own and not the peo-
ple's money, their own and not the
peoples time and labor. For, be it
remembered, that for every dollar
contributed, the fullest value has
been shown, and yet is here before
our eyes.
We are quite sure that the Orego-
',sia,s will not republish this article.
The Boston Herald says, The
German Republicans of New York
have adopted. in their opposition to
Senator Conkling, the principle of
action laid down BY Postmaster-Gen-
erat James in his war against the
star-route frauds-"to' fight a system,
not men," Mr.. Dittenheofer, lead
ing German of the city, in supporting
the resolutions adopted by the com.
mittee upholding the President,
spoke ii-admiri1g terms of Mr.. Con-
kIibgs abilities, bat denounced his
methods. As q political leader, he
said the ex-senator had been despot-
ic and unreIenting, and had crushed
ont all independence of thought orac-