A democratic convention at Eugene on the sixteenth of April, 1862, nominated for congress, A. E. Wait; for Governor, John F. Miller; for State Printer, A. Noltner.
The campaign was conducted with great spirit and much ill-feeling. War was in the hearts of our people as much as it was elsewhere, but we fought it out with ballots and not with armed forces and bloodshed. ExGovernor Curry conducted a paper in Portland called the Advertiser, which vehemently opposed the war and the administration of Lincoln, and W. L. Adams conducted a red-hot republican paper at Oregon City called the Oregon Argus, in which he hammered his political opponents with merciless severity. The Statesman and the Oregonian were on the same side in this fight. The whole union ticket was elected by an average majority of three thousand. The total vote in Portland was six hundred and seventy four hundred and sixty for McBride and two hundred and ten for Wait.
The legislature elected in June assembled in Salem, September 8, 1862, and consisted of the following members:
Senate—Benton, A. G. Hovey; Linn, Bartlett Curl, D. W. Ballard; Marion, J. W. Grim, William Greenwood; Washington, Columbia, Clatsop and Tillamook, Wilson Bowlby; Lane, Campbell E. Chrism an; Multnomah, John H. Mitchell; Coos, Curry and Umpqua, Joseph W. Drew; Jackson, Jacob Wagner; Ctackamas and Wasco, James K. Kelly; Yamhill, John R. McBride; Polk, William Tayler; Lane, James Monroe; Josephine, D. S. Holton. Wilson Bowlby was elected president, and Samuel Clarke chief clerk.
House—Jackson, E. L. Applegate, J. D. Haines, S. D. Van Dyke; Josephine, J. D. Fay; Douglas, R. Mailory, James Watson; Umpqua, W. H. Wilson; Coos and Curry, Archibald Stevenson; Lane, S. V. McClure,
