The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1889-08-23
Che Aemotrat.
THE eALLED JADE wrNcEs.

The DEMOCRATS lance-thrust penetrat.
ed tender spot In Harvey SCOTS mental
organism. This man with a reptllian
tongue and heart filed only with male
violent bitterness,a after having basely sland-
cred over half Of the sixty Eve millions of
his countrymen and.belng righteously and
Justly denounced by the DEMOCRAT for
hls crime, like klsked curputs on meek
look OF humility and prates about being
s1bjected TO much vituperation by demo-
cratic papers. Does the ex-collector OF
customs suppose that he can slander and
vllllfy half the people Of the country with
cut being called to account for Il No sir.
Republicans as wen as democrats are con.
demnlng this brutal assault. Scott says
the editor OF the DEMOCRAT gets his poll
tics innoeently. OF course he does. That
Scott gets his politics innoeently admits OF
grave doubts on every hand. His bitter
warfare on the whisky element some
years ago, followed by very sudden
somersault to lts defense, caused people to
think that the change, instead of being an
innocent one, was n very costly one. His
abrupt change from his free trade views to
a monopolistie tariff was never regarded
"a an innocent one. That Terry was a
democrat, we do not deny, That he was a
bad, dangerous element In society, no one
win dispute. Every one knows that the
democratic party has bad, dangerous men
Ia lt,and that the republican party has bad,
dangerous men In Il. That the democratic
party has such men In Il, needs no further
proof than the fact that Terry was dem
oerat. That the republican party has lie
bad men, dirty slanderers, ioul-mouIhed
dcfamers and villihers Of decent people,
needs no further proof than the cue cold
fact that Scott Is republican. But can
any democrat be found who Is so mean
and despicable as to charge that Scott with
all his mlsdeeds, faults, defects In eharaet-
er, is a Representative Of the methods, In
tentions and purposes Of the republican
party We oplne not. Has Scott forgot
ten the corruption and briberles practieed
by his political party In Portland In IS7s ?
How he trembled as an aspen leaf when
he contemplated the threatened Proseeu-
aon Of these bribers by Gibbs, U S district
attorney, before Deady How In trepida-
tioa Of spirit and fear of an impending
crisis, he wrote the following letter to
Mitchell to induce that gentleman to help
scars Deady of the bench In order that
these bribers might not be prosecuted:
PORTLAND, Feb. 10Th, 1874.
NY DEAR Sir You will see that /
have been and still am making II warm Tor
Deadly. believe that n you and other
friends of our cause at Washington would
acquaint Butler and other members OF the
house with these tremendous facts, Deadly
would be impeached. You know that the
OregoniaH Is constantly attacking Butler /;
and you know also that Deady Is editor Of
the OrsgOnias. Now 70 all these facts were
properly made use Of we could Soarr Deady.
at least. What do you think about II All
our friends here hope that something will
be done to rid the bench Of this "feshliest
incubus" Please show this to MIR Holla-
day. Respectfully,
Scott was then editor Of the BHiiefia and
w Lair Hill of the OregsaiaH. The latter
paper did what Il could to prosecute the
brIbers, while the former threw everything
n the way Of those who were prosecuting.
And this letter writer is the man who now
sets himself up as a censor OF the conduct
of decent people. a more fearful lie was
never breathed by human lips than when
Scott said that murderer, buiiy,a duel
list, "an exceedingly Infamous man" was,
throughout his career, an embodiment OF
the character of the democratic party of
our day. To say this of Jefferson, Randolph,
Madison, Pinckney, Monroe, Jackson, Cal
houn, Cass, VanBuren, Pierce, Buchanan,
Douglas, Breckinridge, Tilden, Seymour,
Mcclellan, Hancock. Cleveland, Bayard
and hosts of other able. honest, patriotic
citizens whose characteristics cover more
thaa seven-eighis of the pages Of legisla-
tion by tie national governmen,,isto write
down the author of such saying as one OF
the dirtisst dispensers OF ISLANDERS in the
country. This ghoul in human ga:b has
never been known to let any prominent
democrat escape the nasty virus OF bis
fangs and at last with overpowe ring bit
terness and party prejudice and party bate
he seeks to accomplish at one fell stroke
what he has long tried to do by piece cemeal.
But the great name of the democratic par
ty is invulnerabIe against his Pigmy at
taeks.