Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-10-31
THE DUTY OF TIE HOUR.

THE DUTY OF The HOUR.
Next Tuesday the people of the Terri
tory will decide the important question
by their votes, whether fraud and cor
ruption shall triumph and rivet upon
them the chains of servitude to party
controlled by corrupt demagogues, or
whether the free and independent citi-
Gems shall control their own destiny.
They must decide whether they will b.
Represented at the National Capital by
a professional office-seeker. who 10 con-
stantly fatting at the stall on the SUBJ
stance Of the people, one who makes his
devotion to party under all circumstances
his pride and boast, or his opponent who
acknowledges no higher law than .
conscientious discharge of duty in all
the avocations OF life in which We find
him. They must choose one who will
be an instrument in the hands of such
INSCRIPTIONS demagogues as Ferry,
Wingard and McMicken, who assert
that the Administration intends they
should "direct, control and give tone
to popular sentiment" or man of the
people pledged only to labor for the
measures of reform demanded by
them. They must elevate to position
man who will make it the primary OBJ
ject of his mission to control the distri-
button of the spoils of Office for the
benefit of few, or one who will use his
best endeavors to secure such executive
and Legislative aid as will benefit the
many. They must make choice be-
tween an aristocrat, who would never
have been known outside of small CO.
terie of friends, but for his official posi-
ton, or man who unaided by these
stepping-stones to place and power has
secured competency through his own
unaided industry.
Judge Jacobs is in no sense man of
the people. His judicial decisions indi-
cate the estimate he places upon the
life of an humble citizen, whose exis-
tence had been daily struggle for the
means of subsistence, when the beck of
a wealthy corporation intervenes to
save the assassin from the penalty pre-
scribed by law for such a glaring crime.
The murderer, reeking with the blood
of his fellow-man, is by this humane
Judge pronounced guilty of a no more
heinous offence than the horse-thief,
and both are sentenced to like term of
imprisonment. Judge Jacobs has re-
peatedly shown his love for the people
by allowing their pockets to be picked
by party favorite, to the tune of thou
sands of dolla.s, giving his official sane
ton to the most exorbitant and fraudu-
lent bills for services he had aided in
performing, and when confronted by
the proof Of his completely in his frauds,
he excuse himself with the baby plea
he didn't Enoso he ,oas doing ,oy'ong. He
has aided the same officer in fleeing
the treasury by making the whole peo-
pie pay for maintaining prisoners who
were q county charge, and afterwards
attempted to make the people Of the
county pay for the same service. He
has insulted the bar, and injured the
causes of clients by his imperious rul-
ings and utterances before trial upon
&c parte statements, and has prostituted
his high judicial position in every con-
ceivable manner to advance the grovel-
ing ambition Of his political desires.
This is the candidate, placed in the
field by official trickery. in defiance Of
the popular will, which had centered
upon another who was ruthlessly slain
to make why for the "court favorite."
Mr.. Sharpstein, on the contrary, is
emphatically q man of the people.
That be is no politician, his every utter
ance amply proves; the jeers and gibes of
Gov. Ferry and his clan on the evening
of his reception at this place, should
open the hearts of everybody to him
who ignors the distinctions of caste
which the Federal ofice-holders have
set up between themselves and the
people.
Fellow-citizens, the mon are before
you. Stump speeches are not what
you want before the committees of Con-
gresso or in the prosecution of business in
the several departments Of the Govern
ment. What you need is patient, in
dustrious effort. Can you hesitate in q
choice between candidate noted only