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he cannot explain away his position
in regard to the Dolph forfeiture
bill. He tries to cover his own op-
position TO that worthy measure in
two ways: first, by misrepresentng
the position Of republicans upon it,
and secondly by attacking Senator
Dolph Moo has attempted fox .
moment to deny that Mr., Dolph voted
against the bill on its final passage
through the senate, ana certainly re
publican papers and speakers do moi
defend his action in that particular.
Nr. Voorhees, Is simply begging the
question on that score. And yet, if
Mr. Dolph was such a miscreant as
to vote against the bill, and tie rail
road company wanted 1t defeated,
why did Mr. Voorhees, aid the COM
pany, and aid Mr.. Dolph in defeat
ing the bill? Mr.. Voorhees, under
rates the Intelligence of the people
by his pettifogging explanation. The
only point he even attempts to make
against the bill is that its second sec
tion provides for restored lands to be
sold at $3.50 per acre instead Of $1.25.
In this he displays a most woful
ignorance, or else he imagines that
he can impose on the public. Every
body knows that when the govern
ment withdrew the odd sections with
in railroad limits for the company, it
doubled the price on the even sec
tions. The Dolph bill simply pre-
served uniformity of prices. Mr..
Voorhees, knows this, yet with a lack
of sincerity he tries to make it appear
as a gross outrage upon the dear
people" Suppose his inference
were true, however; who gets the
benefit of the extra 81 25 per acre IN
der the forfeiture bill? Why, the
government, not the railroad co!por
alton. And again, these lands are
for the most part increased in value
ten fold by reason of the railroad
having been built through them.
Purchasers could better afford to pay
fire dollars an acre for them than to
have accepted them as gift without
the railroad. Mr.. Voorhees, SAYS he
never would have voted against max
ing the n. Z. right of way taxable,
yet he did all he could against the
Dolph bill which passed the senate
with provision repeating the exe1p.
ton clause of the n 2. charter. If
he had possessed a vote and had
voted in favor of making that. right
of way taxable, then his vote would
have been in direct opposition to the
speech he made against the Dolph
bill. If we are to believe him now,
he is the kind of man who talks one
way and votes another. He says he
did not defeat the Dolph bill, but
that it was republicans who did.
Nobody accuses him of defeating the
bill, but he is censured hE the repub
lican platform becaussh De did all he
could to aid in defeating the bill.
Then again, in trying to make a poin,
against republicans, he unfairly
quotes the vote on the final passage
of the substitute The test vote was
that on inserting the substitute in
place of the Dolph bill; on that vote
there were 135 votes in the House
against the Dolph bill, of which 125
were democrats, and only ten were
republicans. II all the republicans
In the House had voted for the Dolph
bill there would still have been a
large majority against them. Mr..
Voorhees, says he favored the Dolph
bill when he could get nothing bet
ter Capt. Haines has letter from
Congressman H. B. Strait of MiHne.
sofa. who served with Voorhees, on
the committee on public lands, who
fought for the Dolph bill ana who
was there all the time, and in that
letter Mr.. Strait says: Il never heard
Mr. Voorhees, voice raised in favor of
the Dolph bill at Gny time" Evi-
IDENTIFY somebody is prevaricating.
Congressman Hermann of Oregon
made ringing speech in favor of the
Dolph bill. in which he said: IF
the House doesn't pass this reasona
bic measure, let us hear no more
eloquent panegyrics about the rights
of the people. The country may
we'll say the voice is the voice of
Jacob, but the hand is the hand of
Esau." Mr.. Voorhees, says the re.
publicans did not have sense enough
to state the whole truth about the
Dolph bill. He says it would have
forfeited sic million acres of land in
stead of two and a-half-millions. In
this lie refers to the forfeitable lands
in Oregon, with which Washington
Territory has nothing to do, and
which are not mentioned in the re-
publican platform. Voorhees, is sim
ply trying to pettiFog the case. His
position is not tenable, and his ex-
PLANTATION is the weakest and fiimsiect
ever attempted before an intelligent
people.
The Can accuses republicans of
circulating a false story that Capt.
Roeder would not run for joint coun
Gilman of this districr. The accusa-
ton is unfounded. Doubtless the
captain Will let his name stay Oh