The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1894-12-07
DUBIOUS DEMOCRATS
Dreary Caucuses in
Washington.
The Tariff to Be Left
Untouched.
Daily Budget Of Cosby News
from the City by the
Potomac.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.-The demo-
Gratis of the senate spent about three
hours in caucus today and then ad-
journed, without taking any action,
to meet Thursday next. Inc entire
time was devoted to discussion Of
the situation and as to the wiSest
course of action for the democratic
party to pursue during the. present
| session.
| The entire discussion was based ON
series of resolutions, presented by
| Senator Daniel, declaring for the clo-
| ture, committing the party to an
abandonment of all efforts to amend
| the tariff law, and to an effort to re-
form the currency in accordance with
the suggestions in the PRESIDENTS
| message.
KOLB'S WILD MESSAGE.
Birmingham, Dec. 4.-R. F. Kolb,
who claims to be the governor of Ala
bama, today completed his message
to the legislature, which he signs as
governor and which will be trans
mitted to that body tomorrow. The
message is also addressed to the peo-
pie of Alabama and is a long and in
many respects n revolutionary docu-
ment, as it recommends that his fol-
lowers do not pay their taxes for
while.
He farther says: ST farther ad-
wise those collectors who value the
cause I represent, and which will as
suredly prevail, to delay all payments
Of state taxes into the treasury until
an Impartial hearing has been had Of
our complaint uEder fair and honest
contest at law"
When it is remembered that the tax
collectors in thirty-eight out Of sixty
counties in the state are Kolbites, 1t
will be seen that If they take his ad-
vice the Kolb government will find
strong support and that Alabama is
threatened with anarchy. In his mes
sage Kolb says:
''The revolutionary conditions of our
state government must be the subject
Of your continued and most anxious
contemplation. The plans of the
usurpers, SO alarming to you, are abat-
ing In nothing to reduce you to alb
iect and final submission to their un-
bridled will and passions"
PTTIFUL DRIVEL.
Columbia, s. c., Dec. 4.-Benjamin
Ryan Tillman is no longer governor
OF South Carolina. At 1:30 p. m. to-
day he was succeeded by his chief
lieutenant, John Gary Evans. Several
thousand people assembled in the hall
of the house of representatives to wit
ness the ceremony Of inaugura8on. A
the inaugural procession entered the
band played "Hail to the Chief" The
oath Of office was administered to Gov
ernor Evans by Chief Justice McCuer.
Gov. Evans said:
Gentlemen Of the general assembly:
After obtaining the will of the people
In three separate elections, am here
today ito assume the governorship of
the proudest state on the globe. Thir-
ty years ago the election of a man of
my age to the highest honor in the
gift of the people would have been
called unconstitutional. A young man
in South Carolina would not have
dared to have aspired to this hopnr
for fear of gaining the odium Of the
| class who by reason Of age or inheri-
tance considered Office as their par
ticular property without regard to
popular will.
1t is unfortunate that the foundation
of our social and political institutions
| is unity Of the white people. This
| condition was thrust upon us by the
emancipation and Acknowledgement with
one stroke or an unfortunate, iRHofaHt,
unfit-to govern race Of slaves, placed
| in power by the bayonet, forced to
govern their former masters
We are fast coming to the plight
which Ireland is in. Our great plan
tations are becoming merely hunting
reserves of the wealthy, and the Ia
borer year by, year is being ground
to poverty and servitude. The party
that was true to us is the party We
| look to in the future, though 1t has
suffered defeat from one extreme OF
land to the other and today not
democratic state is left north of the
Mason and Dixon line. South. Caro-
lima has led in every great moral aad
political reform and it remains for US
to set the pace for the nation which
will ultimately bring relief to the en-
tire people"