The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-08-19
WHAT THE PEOPLE AND PRESS
THINK OF MITCHELL.

being no further reason for j. FL.
Mitchell to remain in Washington as a
lobbyist for railway corporations, he is
returning to Oregon, his clacquers say
to become a candidate for the United
States Senate. 1t was a right good
thing for the Republican party that he
was not in the State to pull the wires
for this object before the June election.
In that case there would be Demo-
cratic Senator to elect next month.
While he was Senator Mitchell did his
best for the Union and Central Pacific
monopoly by trying to divide the
Northern Pacific land grant and destroy
its value. But his opportunity to
serve the enemies of The Northern Pa
cifc having passed away, he sought at
once and has been since engaged upon
a salary as lobbyist to help protect
the land grant which he had before at
tackled and stiiven to render valreless
Of late he has found no fault with the
company which, when it was trying to
protect itself against his hostility as
chairman of the Senate committee on
railroads, he denounced with vehe-
mence, declaring that it was manifest
ing the 'sinsatiate greed of corporate
power" in struggling TO save the grant
against his machinations-th grant
which he has since been helping to de-
fend. In all this there is lesson up
on ''insatiate greed" of another kind,
and some other things.
| (From the Paindealer OF last week. J
We venture to say that were the
contest between two men, both Re pub
licans, to be decided by the voice of the
people of Oregon, John II. Mitchell
would be elected as Growers successor
by an overwhelming majority.
! (From the Oregonian of the I4tb.)
/ Certain "Republican" papers are
quoted as favorlug the election of
Mitchell. In everv case it will be
found that these organs are mercenary
members of the guild of mendicant
journalism. They are cheap, too, as
they are mecenary. A small donation
of money, which most of them re-
ceived before the June election, suf-
feed to hold them to their fealty for
that occasion; and it carried with it
the additional stipulation that the
agreement was to include their services
through the Senatorial election. But
apart from this, they would take to
! Mrfnhail -
their hope of his election sundry prom
ises of participation in the profits of
jobs and contracts and campaign divi-
dends, which not few of them have
enjoyed heretofore. They disgrace the
name of journalism, and are so held in
contempt by the public that not one of
them receives legitimate patronage
enough to keep it alive Their depend
ence is pre-. and plumber, and they are
for Mitchell because it is part of his
system of politics to secure their
praises by ministration other needs
and greeds
(From the Philadelphia Record. Aug.7.)
John H. Mitchell, who once was
United States Senator from Oregon,
from 1873 to 1879, and George FL.
| Williams, Senator from 1865 to 1871,
are both candidates now for the place
of Senator Grover, with the odds per-
haps in favor of Mitchell. 1t is to be
hoped that some better man than either
will be elected. The Legislature Of
great State ought to be competent to
do better work than merely to decide
between the claims of several self
nominated candidates and old political
stagers who crowd themselves forward
whenever there is vacancy, or even
when one is only expected. Both of
these men are politicians of the small
potato order, and unfit to do credit to
| the State OF to the United States.
| Williams was once Attorney General
under Grant, and while in Office got
the nickname of sLandaulet" Williams,
because, as was charged, he managed
to squeeze landaulet out Of the Gov
ernment in some tricky way. His
progress in wealth was said TO be much
like Robeson's, though one Washing
ton man explained it on the theory
that she had very economical wife !"
Mitchell, on the other hand, was
charged with having enc or two more
wives than the law allows, but he man.
aged to get through with it somehow.
In spite of q spotted reputation, one
of these worthless will probably be in
the next Senate to air his virtue in
helping river and harbor bills to pass
WHEN a Republican Congress want
ed TO put Congressional elections UNI
der the surveillance of United States
officers, Congressman was considered
a federal officer; but when Republi-
cen Congressional Committee wanted
to levy a tax upon the clerks in the
departments and their various out
posts through the country, to save the
members of that committee from pun
ishment under the law and to bring the
pockets of the clerks within reach of
their hands, Congressman was de-
clared by the Attorney General not to
be "a United States official Verify the
party of great moral ideas" bends to
Its illicit desires in any dirsction
Senator Benjamin Ell. Hill, of Geor-
gla, died ON the 10th inst., of cancer in