The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-04-28

made an active canvass of a county in Penn
sylvania for the Republican nomination for
clerk i'll a couf1ty where the Republican ma
jority was so strong that a nomination was
equal to an election. His failure to secure
the Nomination SO disgusted him with poll
| tics and Republicanism in Pennsylvania
| that he forthwith left the state without
scarcely taking time to bid his constituents
| farewell and directed his course toward
Oregon. When he arrived in this State,
Il short time, he took up the role of show
man, and went from town to town to amuse
what few persons who appeared to witness
his mimiery. He soon concluded to abandon
the garb of a Snowman AMI hung out his
sEingle in Corvallis announcing that he
would enter upon the practice of law, when
| Democrat
| The next election, however, the indie.
dependent party brought out ticket and
the Boss" equal to the occasion with his
| indi0 rmber like political faith was soon
twisted around so that his conscience per-
nlitted him to stump the county in behalf
OF the Independents. Before another cleo
tlon he was back into the Democratic ranks
and ever since that time he has been active.
ly manipulating the reigns of that party in
this county.
Do Democrats expect that such a man
whose political principles change SO often
| fnr his TerSonat atlya
change his opinions when on the bench il
a sufficient motive power was found :
judges and courts shoulI be made of
Steiner stuff unless the emblems of Justice
which have been handed down to US from
time immemorial denoting the purity and
| unfaltering steadf stncss of the judiciary
are to become hollow mockery, uelusion,
aud a snare.
In Benton county NJ. McFadden as a
button hole politician and Il cusbstone wire
worker has been q success, not because he
was smarter than other people bat because
successful manipulations in that line require
the exercise of an amount of fox like cum.
ming and deceit which few men care tc
| stoop to indulge in.
During the last few years while he has
held the Democratic party of Benton county
completely under his thumb lie has had
| quite number of active followers. All
| those who desired nominations in the party
(Which were not IL few followed the dicta.
tions of the ''i3oss" without he.itancy OF
even presuming to ask the first questions.
fh sc who Eesitated or neglected to run at
his beclon were promptly and unceremoI-
| iousiy ostracise,l from any chance of polite
al advancement. None of his fellow Dem
ocrats dared to oppose his high handed
manner of manipulating Benton county
politics, because to do SO was their ro,itic;,l
death as sure and certain to come as the
Fate of time. About four years ago lie was
nominated and elected Judge Of this county
BY the arts If a political trickster anil carr, :
ing water on both shouldershe was then found
ing to secure the endorsement of the Green
back party as well rs the nomination from
his own and also by a sacrifice Of others on
his ticket whom he had hatterel with the
hope Of success only to help his own chan
ces; he Was finally elected. He has filed
the position i'll a manner far from satlsfac-
tory or acceptable to these of bis own party
who were Glindly led to put him there
He now comes to the front anil expects BIZ
tie use of The SANE arts to elevate himself
to the Office of Circuit Judge Uf his dual.
ifications for the position nothing whatever
can be said: because lie does rot lo ssss the
first element Of a qualification. Es fol-
lowers who placed him in nomination if
they were to walk iuto court some day
and find him seated upon the bench liz the
trial of some important cause involving
many intricate questions of law, they woul,i
never expect him to grasp such questions
and 10y his knowledge of the law overcome
them and by his instructions make the case
plain to the jury, but more in accordance
with his natural disposition they would ex-
lect to see him looking around for some
small hole to craw out of.
Some Democrats may have to answer for
the sin of voting for such man for Judge
yet they need not feel any further apprehen-
sion because he will never he elected iudre
of this district and thus the bench will
escape the lnockery and everlasting disgrace
which a different result would no doubt
bring to it.
We do not remember, says the Jackson
willie Sentinel durin.r n 1nno ras;d.,o, =:
this valley, any season when more abund.