Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1869-05-29
SATURDAY MORNING, MAY %, 1869.
Cook and Evans.

on Monday night which was addressed by Mr.
Cook of Vancouver, Radical candidate for Pros.
ecutiuQ Attorney, and Judge Evans of Olympia.
Mr. Cook attempted to run the Railroad ar
eumcnt, but switched his train from the track,
and failed to connect. lie took the ground
that the material interests ofWashingtonTcr-
,itory would best be served by the election Of
Mr.. Garfieldc. lie said that large sums Of
money were being expended all along the Ore
gon side of the Columbia, from the Dalcs,
where Mint is commenced, to the mouth Of
the river, whilst the property of the Govern
ment on the Washington side, tho buildings at
Vancouver. erected at a cost of millions of dol
lars, were going to decay riecc-mcal for tho
want of small appropriations. anhccause Wash
;ngton Territory had not bten property represented
ne said that in the matter Of executive business,
such as the settlement Of war claims. and other
matters Of that character, Mr.. Flanders had
done very WE'LL but the great material inter-
ests had not been looked after; raising the in
ference against Flanders that he had not the
brain for such great affairs. lie said that the
interests Of Oregon and Portland were opposed
10 the interests Of Washington Territory, and
that the last thing Portland and oregon
wanted to see was commercial emporium
springing up on Puget Sound. Cook, when be
was drawing this picture of the irrrpressiblc
conflict going on between Portland, Oregon,
and Puget Sound, was endeavoring to sustain
tAe charge that Lndd l. Tilton were contribute
ing money towards Governor Moore election,
and therefore that it would not do to trust him.
Cook evideRtly had Railroad and Vancouver on
She brain, and was determined to run his MA
chine through without regard to obstacles t;
and so down the grade lie went, hosting his
party, its candidate and most of his arguments
from the tEaek, with his cow catcher, as though
sEey were M,atlles Of straw. Cook had forgot
ten. If he ever knew it, that il Washington Ter
DitOr- has been heretofore unreprcScnted, iflhc
interests of Oregon have been built up at her
expense and neglect, there is no one to blame
for it but his own party, and that his candidate
is representing over the Territory that his inilu-
encc with these same Oregon Senators is one
Of the chief means through which he expects to
accomplish the wonders that have been prom
ised for him. Cook did not tell us how Mr..
Williams, to throw the conflicting interests of
Oregon overheard, and become the advocates
Of Washington Territory. In fine, he did not
tell how anything. was to be done. 1t was
Annnu1, for tho vuIr fhronr IN hC tnlI tl,. .
Nr. Garfelde would do it. Mr.. Cook, like the
Representatives of his county and party in the
Legislature last winter, had his gaze so fixed
on Vancouver, the object of his alteration, that
He could see nothing else and when he finally
shut Down the brakes, though he was in on
time, he had switched everything off from the
track, on the short curves, except himself, and
Fletcher.
Judge Evans next footed his horn. Everybody
knows the "Judge," and can imagine very nearly
what he would say upon such an occasion. He
went in as he always goes in for the time being
His subject was Gsrfclde, and for him the world
contained nothing else. He blew the Gar6clde
trumpet as il he intended to make business Of it
ne remainder of his lifc rs he would blow buglc,
a. he would blow a pumpkin-vine If he set about
it, as he blew the Copperhcad, rcbcl-mouthed trca-
son-keycd johnson trumpet, when he was in that
Band. He took up the tune where Garfelde had
dropped it in the same room two days before; he
flung it back like an echo, favorng his cnraptured
audience with what VIC understood to represent the
very words and tones Of the great orator." We
can do justice neither to his cuphony nor to the
linked sweetness of his meaning long drawn out.
Eloquence and admiration cannot be reproduced,
and though our recollection Of the Judges effort
must seem fat and tame to those who were present,
We present specimen. confident that, imperfect
as It 10, it will be as welcome to those who could
not bend over the fountain with us, as bottled soda
on a, hot day.
The "Judgc," standing as he did where Mr.. Gar.
Aelde had spoken but two days before, felt like a
French horn with the wind blown out of it. like a
kettle-drum with both heads knocked in, and I" it
seemed like mockcry to disturb, with his puny voice.
the ponderous stiffness that still fingered, in NELL
fuaus cadcnccs, like volumes OF unwrittcn history,
mixed with the hum of the spindle of industry and
the shuttlecock Of politics. Constitutional ntcgu.
mcnts of the perdious im6ecie and ad rolortm tax.
alton, without regard to age. color or sex, to be
heard no more IN tire land, when amidst the futter
Of the rumbling and slreking of cars
the grinding should suddenly cease, and recon.
structed nation should join IN the syllabus of rcan.
mated apothagem, skxieking 'Garfcldc, GAR.
f.I.EL-D-E!" We do not pretend to say tina, the
specimen does the "Judgc" justice, and we hope
that he will not be displeascd with our feeble im
tAtion.
Now having praised his eioqucncc, We will sa,
rankly, that there were some parts of his speech
tht we did notlike. We think that he made grea
mistake when he thrust his thumbs into Gov Moore
wounds. When he said that he would receive ;
aeener one on'thc first Of June from the nioa'