Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-11-21
NIB. JUDsON DELIVERS HIS Five
MINUTE" SPEECH,
SrErLACooM. Nov. 18th. 1874.

| AOOhANtE OACOBS: In the mlOSC OF
canvass, and the popular excitement in
cident thereto, a candidate may some
times successfully repel charges brought
against him affecting his reputation 70,
truth and honesty, by effecting injured
innocence. and by repelling with words
more forcible than elegant the imputa
ton of dishonesty and crime. The
election is now over. You are elected
and the people, satisfied with the result
having returned "to the even tenor Of
their way can now examine freely and
iinpartially any question presented for
their decision.
In your public speech, at Steilacoom,
you took occasion to assail brother OF
mine who was absent, and when l, in
his defence, asked five minutes of your
time, for the purpose of proving that
the charges you said he raade against
you were true, you SO far forgot your
dignity and manhood as to call me q
coward and liar. 1 will neither ques-
ton the propriety of, nor your right to,
use such language in q meeting of your
own, for every BLACKBOARD may freely
use such language among his peers;
but you should have remembered that
on an occasion of a public meeting, that
people assemble irrespective of party,
and that, however chaste and elegant
you style and language may be re-
garded among your followers, that
there are some people who still have
some appreciation of the difference be-
tween the language of blackguard and
the language of gentleman.
proposed to prove that Carson, by
virtue of your certificate, had defrauded
the Territory, and that he still owed
the Territory 81, 200. Now if this was
not true, and you felt innocent, why
did you not challenge me to the proof.
My failure to prove it would have greatly
benefited you, for then the people might
justly say that I was liar. An honest
man when charged with crime or COM
plicity therein, demands an investiga-
ton. I charged that you had aided
another to obtain money, fraudulently,
from tho Territory, and you, instead of
asking for my proof, took the elevated
position of injured innocence. and
branded your accuser as coward and
liar. Your experience as a lawyer. and
your position rs q Judge. should have
reminded you of the fact that this is the
plea of every criminal when brought to
the bar of public justice, when all other
arguments are exhausted. You charge
me with being a coward: there is just
this difference between us. You at
your public meeting charge an absent
party with ingratitude, you assail his
character and the purity of his motives,
and told you to your face Of the often
ces with which you are publicly charged.
I offered to prove my charges to your
face, and you branded me rs coward
and liar, where you know you were pro-
tected by multitude, and when you
know I could not even reply to you.
Who then is the coward /?
But you say am liar. I propose
to submit some facts, and then let the
public Judge which of us two that term
describes best. Now, sir, you admit
that you certified to the Carson bill in
these words, "This is to certify that I
have examined the within and above &C.
count and find it Just aud correct. O
Jacobs" Upon this bill, what is your
explanation to the people? Is it not
that you had not examined the bill be.
fore you signed it? Now pray tell us
when did you tell the truth, when you
certified you had examined the bill, act
ing under your oath Of office. or when
you said to the people you had not ex-
amined it You Ger ify to the correct
ness of Carson's bill against the Terri
tory land Carson drew the money on
your certifcate) for keeping Collins,
Howard and Thornton, and when Car
son makes out q bill against Kitsap
county for keeping these men upon the
same charge, you deliver an er parte
opinion, and say that Kitsap county
must pay the bill, because the men were
convicted of a misdemeanor, aud that
therefore the county and not the Terri
tory, was liable to pay the bill. Now, sir,
please inform the public when you, act
ing under your oath of Office, certified
to the truth. Was 1t Dhen you certified
that the Territory ,oas liable. or Was ii
,chen you certified that the county ,cas lia-
bic?
Again, Carson presents to you bill
for Keeping Collins, Howard and Thorn
ton against Kitsap county, amounting
to the sum of 1915, and you approved ii
in these words: 81 hereby certify that
I have examined the within account and
find the same reasonable and Just. O.
Jacobs" After this bill was presented
to the County Commissioners for pay
ment, and Carson was informed that
they would not allow the same, he then
made out another bill for the same SER
vice, cutting it down this time to $456,
and you allow $4l4 against Kitsap
county. Now, sir, the people would
like to know when you certified to the
truth: was it when you certified that
the bill was 1915, or was it when you
certified it was $414?
Now, sir, I stated that could prove