Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1860-11-17
WASHINGTON STANDARD.
SATURDAY. NOVEMBER II. 1860.
QnrseE.

and conducting Il newspaper with many
miSgivings us to the future. We know
the difficulties and encouragement.
wlli:,,, must bcsct our path-we know
the struggles We shall have to encoun
ter. We appreciate the fact that We
hive voluntarily placed ourself i'll Il pc
sition to invite criticism and discussion
as to our competency to perform tho
duties we have assumed. But fully
impressed with sense of the RESPONSE
bility, and doubling much whether VIZ
will crctltably sustain oursclf and oul
enterprise, and secure the commcnda
ton of our kind friends and patrons
we promise to do our very best, and
throw oursclf upon the indulgence OF
our readers, determined to succeed il
in our power, and under any and all
circumstances to merit it by manly ct:
fort -
We asserted in our prospectus that
til, publication of a Republican news
paper is demanded by necessity; that
Washington Territory and its people
will be vastly benefited by being ut
forled journal, through which may
be communicated sentiments OF opPo-
sition to the dominant party, which,
since our territorial existence, has ruled
its lestinies. We have no desire here
to invite controversy with our prcde-
ccssors in newspaper enterprises, and,
emitting any comment upon their
course, will only urge in proof Of this
position, the advantages to be derived
from a fair, free and manly discussion
of the politics of the day with our
Democratic contemporaries. Hitherto,
appeals have been made to our people
in favor of that party ONLY. The hal
cyon name of Democracy, the bland
ishmcnts of official position, the pat
ronagc of office, the influence Of the sue
cess ofmajoritics have aided in strength
cning the ranks of that party, and in
discouraging an organization of the OPP
position. The name Of '.Black Rcpub-
lican" and "Abolitionist," as dissimi-
lar in meaning as Democrat and Re-
publican, have been used as synonymes
by their editors, and the man who
dared to avow that he could not sub
scribe to the dangerous pro-slavery
and disunion sentiments Of the De-
mocracy and its apostles in our midst,
was prescribed by being branded as an
Abolitionist or Black Republican. by
such arts and trickcry has their power
been perpetuated. No channel has
been afforded through which to argue,
address, and reason with our people,
and nothing has preserved the elc-
ments of opposition to the Democracy,
save disposition to resist the insolcnt
demands of factions and cliques calling
themselves Democrats, who have made
that Yarty-name machine to support
them in place and power. The party
whip has been. assiduously applied,
party trickery rcsorted to, the shiboleth
of CIRCULAR NOMINATIONS" has been
successfully used, the faithful have
been watched, the doubling and luke
warm have been labored with and ell
couragcd, and too successfully and
most unjustly have they appealed to
the prejudicies of our fellow-citizens
against name VIC feel honored in
bcaring-and thus have they perpetu-
ated their dynasty. So secure were
they in their strength, they halted at
nothing, and only when their tyranny
and selfishness overstepped all bounds
did their real intentions become appar-
ent. The people, thank God, at last,
after too long tamely submitting, have
now arisen in their majesty to rcbuke
them.
We have long entertained the opin-
ion that Washington Territory was Re-
publican at heart; that large MAORI
ty of their voters agreed with that par
.ty, in utter repugnancc to the pro-slavc-
ry dogmas and tcncts of the Demo
cratic party; that the masses looked
with holy horror on the efforts Of that
party to make slavery national, free.
dom sectional; that with sentiment Of
natriotic indiunation fhcy Witnessed