Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1896-03-19
Time for United Efforts.

The time has come in Oregon for
the democratic party to make an
united effort to regain the political
ground it has lost by reason, princi-
pally, Of iptercine troubles during
the past six years. That the party
has been divided into factions and
these factions set TO fighting each
other, there can be no denial. It
can not be denied, also, that by
reason of the faction fights there
has been a great detection from the
democratic party. The greater
part of this detection has gone into
the ranks Of the populist party.
This is the situation that con-
fronts the party i'll this state today.
But this situation is not incurable.
The democratic party in Oregon
may be divided, but it can never be
dead as long as the principles of
Jefferson and Jackson live; and
these principles will live as long as
we have government.
St And the democratic party in
Oregon have right to take on
Sfenewed courage. There is any
thing but harmony in The ranks of
our friends, the ehemy. The fight
in the1epublican ranks is bitter
one, and is fight to finish. 1t
is not, as some imagine, a fight for
silver standard or gold standard,
butsit is q fight for spoils and
nothingrelse, 1t is fight to see
whether the Dolph-Simon-Scott
crowd will run the republican
politics of the state, or whether it
! will be turned over to the Ready.
Lord-Kincaid-L Lotan faction. As
far as the question of a money
9standard is concerned it has never
entered into the minds of the ring
yters whether it will be a gold
standard or a silver standard. As
'rar. as the two factions are concerned
Que administration of state af-
'awye, we can only say, God help
hilnropeople of Oregon if either
ing the, is victorious. The Ready
poys' an-un the legislative session OF
ana old NJ the appropriations run to
"3ysfa million dollars; the Simon
crowd run the session Of 1895, and
in spite of every promise of reform
that platform could contain and a
party could promise, they went the
1893 session a few thousand dollars
better.
The republican party have proven
\themselves incompetent and in
capable of the administration OF
state affairs. The opportunity is
now here Tor the democratic party
to force the sins of the republicans
home upon them. In every county
spdsprecinct in the state the facts
0Ethe broken pledges and extrava-
gahcess.of the republican patty
should beAkspt before the people
u There is i@thing for democrats tc
sight over among themselves, bu
there is a common enemy that IL
looting the state that should be thu
enter Of an aggressive fight. A
long as democrats quarrel among
themselves the extravagances ant
. pillages may SO on uninterrupted
Let us then fight the, commo,
enemy until we drive him from hi
strongholds in the state. With al
ward ,bessive fight the people will b
10 ,roos, rs. Confidence always in
w, confidence. The fight is up
% state between good govern
:, ~, odd bad. government. Th,
republicans have already espouseC
the caufe of bad government; nov
let the democrats take their natura
positions opposite the enemy an'
fight it o2t,
How many counties in the stat
can say that they have been bene
fitted, directly or remotely, by tn,
repeal oil the exemption for indebted