, 1863-04-04
THE WASHINGTON STATESMAN
SATURDAY MORNING, AAR. 4, 1853.
Crazy About the pelegateship.

Crazy About the Oe1egateshlp.
The canvass for territorial delegate in
July next, promises to be of absorbing in
terest. For the last two years, the seat of
political power appears to have been grad
ually shifting from the Sound district to
the counties east Of the Cascades. Seeing
this, several of the most inveterate Clam
eaters have emigrated from the Cohog-dis-
trict to settle in these parts. Nearly all
these gentlemen have been connected with
the Olympia clique, and, except the ''sa-
gacious old gentleman C. H.-they have
fallen out with that delectable body Upon
the simple ground that the Clique has ex-
PEELED these men, they come among us and
demand our sympathy. All of them ap-
pear to be candidates for the delegateship,
and all of them expect to be elected. In
short, 'the political bummers from Olym-
pia"-against whom we warned the people
over year ago-are infesting our end of
the Territory One of these candidates for
delegate may be taken as a type of a class
We will call this gentleman "Cleon. >
He has lately been the incumbent f Ter
ritorial Office, and is Of course from the
State of Illinois and acquainted with I'm
Gle Abe-in fact is greatly admired nv the
dor extraordinary to no place in particular
or ali places in general, but preferred to
star9in low down and work his way high
up. But there were several other gentle
men from Ilinois-old friends of Mr.. Lin
coln-who by some means or other got
Cleon removed from his position. Among
the principal actors in this matter we may
name zone Pickering" and the Surveyor
General, who so much excelled the Presi-
dent in talents when they were young men
together. Cleon held on to his Office like
grim death to an inanimate African, but
"the man Pickering and his colleagues
choked him off at last. He then appealed
to the eastern district for vengeance on the
Clam-eaters, and is now perambulating this
section of the country on the back Of a
small mule. This intelligent by brid rather
likes the business, as Cleon makes point
Of feeding him at every house, while cleo
tioneering the sovereign occupant of the
place, and patronizing every drinking house
he comes to. With native modesty, he an
nounces himself candidate for delegate,
and bets that he will be elected. He is
particularly desirous of buying farm in
this beautiful valley, and is so enraptured
by the advantages of the place that he will
never be content to live elsewhere-even
the rich fields of the Prairie State suffer by
comparison with this country-but he will
not purchase lands until he has had time to
choose a place that will exactly suit him.
He meets Methodist-he is not Metho-
dist himself, but his wife is, and he is him
self of religious turn of mind and thirsts
after the spirit. And thus he plays his
part
of cnnrsa snrh a .nolit;oia-, -->,,-t hora a
''squire-errant," and Cleon has one
What particular place Cleon intends to
give Shorticus,-for such is the name of
his squire-does not appear; but, like
Sancho Panza. he will doubtless come in
for the Governorship of an ''island, where
his legal decisions will rival those of the
world-rerowned attendant on Don Quix-
ote. In fancy we can see Shorticus, cram
med with "wise saws and modern instan-
ces, expounding the law as it was once
laid down in Barrataria. Even O-p-t's
notions of Equity will be improved upon
By Shorticus, when he is on the bench.
In picturing one of these ex-Clam-eat-
ers, we are giving the character of a dozen
Grant politicians now roaming this upper
country on the same errand; and a SINH
lar number of resemblances can be found to
Shortcuts. Each one of the Shorticusses
is provided with "Baneroft's Lawyer and
Handbook" and ''The new Clerk Assist
ant;" so they ere likely to be highly quail
ifed for the judgeship.