Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-06-27
OLYMPIA. SATURDAY MORNING, IlNE q. ISL.
THE WAY OF THE TRANSGRESS0R
Is HARD"

lector of Customs in this district, and
of the appointment of II. a. Webster,
Of Neah Bay, as his successor. In COM
mon with large majority of the people
of the Territory, we rejoice that the
public career of this political gambler
has been brought to close. Aided by
few INSCRIPTIONS personal adhercnts.
he has been enabled to play his cards in
the primaries so as to literally pack con-
ventions and secure his nomination
against the wish of a majority of his
own party, and hence the strange anon
ally has been presented OF secessionist
running as a Union candidate and re-
ceiving Republican votes in preference
to a man who fought CALAMITY i'll the
Union army, of professional gambler
becoming the advocate Of moral reform,
and of habitual tippler being able to
send his whisky tainted breath through
the portals of Good Templar lodges.
When defeated by the people, his first
official act was to recommend himself
for a fat Office, although by securing it
he displaced friend in office who had
stood by him in adversely and furnished
the money which elected him to Con-
gress, one whose personal and political
attachment was so strong that he scru-
pie at no means which favored the ad-
vancement of his cherished patron. The
smaller loaves and fishes. under his dis
pensation, We're invariably bestowed
"where they would do the most good"
without regard for propriety or any spe-
cial fitness of the parties for the duties
assumed.
That the people are patient in long
suffering, was never more clearly demon
strated than in the political career of
this demagogue the past six years. His
public services have been confined to
securing few extra appropriations for
surveys, which served likewise as po-
litical capital upon which to base future
operations. Places were given to his
friends, not as a reward for political
services, but merely to serve as stepping
stones to elevate his own carcass upon
the peoples backs and to furnish spurs
to ride them after he was firmly seated
and had the bits in theirmouths. Soon
as anybody ceased to be of use to him,
he was turned out to Craze, like spay
ined horse whose days of usefulness were
over, upon such heritage as he could
find outside the public stalls.
1t is significant fact that the bitter
terest enemies of Mr.. Garfelde were
once his warmest friends. They are
found all over the Territory, and are Of
high and low degree in the social scale,
but all alike testify to his heartless dis
position and the utter selfshness of his
nature. His conduct before and after
the last election, is fresh in the memory
of some of his most devoted friends
He is said to have changed in a single
week. from an artful, willy, bland, smooth
spoken demagogue, to grabbed, NOR
ose, spleeny misanthrope, repelling
friend or foe who through social or bus
mess relations were brought into con-
tact with him.
The cause which led to his removal
may be briefly stated. Not content with
pocketing the emoluments of one of the
latest offices in the Territory, and the
anticipated profits Of the Sitka mail con-
tract, the old passion for gaming led
him to make occasional incursions to
neighboring townsin the hope of finding
fresh and greener fields for the exer-
else OF his peculiar talent and skill in
the noble game of poker. One of these
trips extended as far as Olympia, where
MIR. Garfelde's heavy losses were the
subject of much comment, and one of
those inquisitive appendages of the
Treasury Department, Special Agent,
happening along about that time, he
"dropped on" the game and reported
the facts at Washington. The result
was SO speedy that it must have fairly
astounded the victim, who few Years
ago, welded with such resistless grace
that historic fddle-bow in Jay Cooke
private Office. How the mighty have
fallen! In few days Mr.. Garfelde
will be relieved from further care of the
public service and thus enabled to de.
vote his whole attention to the cultiya
ton of those talents upon which he evi
IDENTIFY places SO firm a reliance. Time
makes all things even. In the language
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