The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1884-09-19
new WILL xoU yOTE.

This question should be duly and
considered by every voter in
the land, by laying aside all party bias
or prejudice, turning his back on the
dead past and looking only to the living !
present and the coming future. The I
question is what does the country need
ao.O, not what it needed years ago. Let
us look to the present and the nocessl-
ties of the present. Old issues are dead
and gone, and the prejudices end biases
which they producsd should so out into
oblivion with them. We should be one
people, knowing no1North, no South,
no. East, no West, but all with one ac.
cord seeking the greatest good to the
greatest number OF great aud united
people. Ne should divest ourselves of
all undue influence exercised by the par
ty rein, and vote Us intelligent freemen,
being governed alone by the duty which
good judgement and conscience dictate.
By thus doing the administration OF
the government vii be restored to
that simplicity and economy which
original were leading its characteristic
at its formation. If there is one
feature of our government tha dis
tinguisLes it more than another from
other governments, it is that of its sim
plicity and economy. A free people
can remain free only by constantly
holding in restraint those who exercise
governmental power over them. "Eter-
nal vigilance Is the price of liberty"
Under our form of government the peo-
pie are the great original source of pow
er. All power not delegated to the
United States by the constitution, nor
prohibited by it to the states, are res-
erved to the states respectively or to
the people, but there is a tendency
among those in lower in all govern
ments to assume to exercise powers
, not belonging to them. In fact this
} Ii one of the greatest dangers to which
any people Is subject. Rulers will seek
to complicAte aud mystify government
so as to delude the people and thus
make themselves secure in exercising
powers that do not belong to them, and
thus maintain themselves in power
against the popular will. Because OF
these dangerous tendencies We would
, warn the people to maintain their plain
government in ell its original simplici-
r ty, vitality and economy. The people
| will be most secure with the largest
powers in their own hands. Hence il
! behooYes them to keep ever vigilant
watch over the acts of officials to see
: that they exercise not, powers which DO
not belong to them. The tendency oi
) = PARTY long in power is to exercise not
! only doubtful authority, but to grow
corrupt and extravagant in the use OF
public funds, hence frequent changes in
administration are not only beneficial
; to the public interest, but often abso-
J lutely necessary to maintain a fair
; standard of public purity and virtue.
} For these reasons the Republican party
should be retired from power until they
can throw of the corrupt and danger
GUS influences which now hold in com
plete subsection itc organization and
and party leaders. Let there be full
investigation and accounting of the
books and records in all the departments
of the government. This can only be
done by those who have no personal
interest in covering up aud hiding from
the public REV those things detfimen-
tai or damaging to public interests
Hence the only way to secure this over
hauling is to elect democratic Presi-
dent who will lend the power of bis Of
fee TO do this work. There is no deny
ing tho fact that the republican party
has grown very corrupt and extrava-
CANT by their long lease of power. By
this Arrangement we dosnot include The
rank and file of The party, but those
leaders in power and authority both in
the government and the party. Mil
lions of the hard ear nings of the people
are needlessly and extravagantly wasted
every year,and other many millions are
collected and boarded up ip the vaults
Of the government and allowed to re-
main idle while bard times prevail in all
parts of the country and poverty stares
many in the face. As times grow hard
er and money grows scarcer, our rulers
continue to collect in more and more of
the peoples money and hoard it up to
lie idle and useless until now we have
3 hundred millions lying 10 the govern
ment yaultsidle and useless and monu
mental temptation TO the Brady's, Dor
sey's and other vampires Then we ask
show will you vote" Will you al
low your prejadices to CONTROL and gov
ern your better judgment? or will you
strip and divest yourself of all partisan
bias and vote according to the light Of
that knowledge which the history Of
the corruption cf the republican party