The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-03-06
FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 6, 1885.

" ONT Senator y. L.. Loo III " wy
becoming manner, simply because
Tee. while in the late legislature en-
conscientiously to discharge
his duty as true republican and be-
.cousa the democratic bourbons could
not induce Mr.. Lee to betray his party
anJ conniye at the election as United
States Senator democrat or rePuo-
lican who would disburse democratic
favors. There was such plan on foot
at Salem among democrats who de-
sired to impose such a disgrace upon
renubIican members of the Legislature
but as Joint Senator j. ID. Lee would
not consent to The disgrace of himself
or party in that manner but voted
after a long contest, for the man who
by degrees and without caucus had
gradually obtained the support OF
large majority of his party, thus hoping
to break a dead lock and serve his
partv. as nine out of ten republicans
would have done under the same cir
cumstances. Benton County's rep
resentatives Conner and Henkle also
voted for Hirsch under similar circum-
stances because they felt it duty to
elect a United States Senator and
finding that Hirsch had acquired
majority of the votes Of the republican
wing of the Legislature they voted tor
him because they feared that unless
they did so that the Legislature would
fail in electlng Senator. They did
right and what almost any other con-
sistent and unprejudiced republican
would have done Such Infamous
falsehoods as was told in Salem the
next day after Lee voted for Hirsch
in order to prevent Connor and Hen
kle from voting for him, to the effect
that Lee had been burned in effigy
mere HIS fOUC, OiiI Pohop ""o NNN-
it knowing at the time that 1t was
utterly false, did not work and because
it did not work is the reason that the
Leader and its hangers on are dis
satisfied and abusing Lee for his action.
As to the other accusations that Lee
"whiIe at Salem identified himself with
the worst rings anil most graspine
monopolies in the State" IS only
another base lie with as little truth as
the one told to Connor and Henkle
above referred to. The fact is that al
true republicans that we have hearo
of who stood by Lee, Connor and Hen
kle in electing them are ready to stane
by them yet for their action at Salem
in the Legislature. Some democrat:
who could not use them as tools
to break up and disorganize the repub
lican party are mad, because suck
democrats are out of humor with then
is is the strong reason why faithful
republicans should stand by them.
How ridiculous it is for that pape
to talk about the influence of monopo
lies and the interests of the dear peo
pie to anyone that knows some thing
of the past and present and how Gel
tain things came about and the ham
that sustains it. 1t is not ou
disposition to abuse any member TO
their action in the late Legislature 70
so far as we are able to learn we gran
that all tried to do their duty as bes
they could with the lights before then
And far less should any republican b
abused who has tried to elect s5raigE
republican for. United States Senato
The election of directors in tn
south district school last Monday Wa
no little affair For several yeal
.t +Lo d;rao+ors ofaotad in tbat ri;