Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-10-03

OLYMPIA. SATURDAY MORNING. OCT. 3, III.
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
PogrLAND, Sept. IS, 1874.

1
Leaving Olympia at o'clock on a
raw, chilly morning with eleven other
passengers in mud wagon" designed
for six. causes nervous person to mix
up homogeneous expletives with the
prayers for speedy completion of the
Olvmpia-Tenino Railroad. Nobody who
has taken passage by Tillry stages will
wonder why it is that passengers travel
BY the way of Tacoma, although their
preferences may be largely in favor OF
our town. The STANDARD was fortunate.
however, on this occasion. While halt
ing at Tumwater to change the mails,
Mr.. Billings came along with light
buggy, and kindly consented to take us
in, and the remainder of the distance to
Tenino was made in even better style
than by the stove-pipe-hatted portion of
the Republican Convention in their
"extra"
The ride on the train was, of course,
unusually interesting. 1t could not be
otherwise, while the observer was af-
forded an opportunity to witness the
wire pulling and pipe-layins of the men
whose shoulders were fairly bending
under the weight of responsibility placed
upon them. The baggage car was con-
verified into caucus room, and Hamlet
and the ghost occupied the extreme
ends, with the delegations about evenly
distributed between them. Both looked
Respondent, and at times relapsed into
moody silence, from which our best
efforts at wit failed to arouse them. The
delegations were divided quite as much
on the subject of Delegate, as to which
banner they owed their party allegiance.
The contest appeared to be confined
to Kearney and Jacobs pronounced
Yawcups, to suit the articulation of
Governor Solomon and his national
conf'ere by breve), and to our infinite
surprise we found that those who were
most instrumental in bringing out Mr..
Kearney, We're now active adherents of
Yawcups. Such treachery, for we can
call it by no milder term, appears to be
characteristic of the Republican party,
and fortunate is the political aspirant
who is not sold out, if it suits the cor
venience of those who "put up mat
tiers to change the programme. The
caucusing continued lively on the boat,
and the political cauldron fairly boiled
soon as the delegation arrived at Polt-
land, and began to fairly settle down to
the work. Saturday night and all day
Sunday the babel continued, until we
as looker-on in Venice, fairly regretted
that we had assumed the onerous du-
ties of special reporter for the occasion.
The substance of the veritable "tem-
pest in teapot may be epitomized as
follows: Saturday morning Kearnev
stock at par; at noon Yawcups rising
rapidly, with consequent fall on for
mer quotations of his rival. At 90
clock the giant intellects of the con-
tending leaders were refreshed by a
game of whist, while the body-guards,
initiating the example of their chiefs,
dismissed politics for a time and snoozed
the cat-naps of the virtuous and happy.
The game resulted in the victory of the
lire Governor, and his spirits immedi.
ately rose, his political barometer indi-
eating fever-heat. This continued till
Sunday morning, when cloud obscured
the political horizon in the momentous
question of who should be presiding
officer of the convention. Gov. Sal
ONION was put up to be incontinently
knocked off his pins, but not without a
determined resistance by the courageous
little German. As compromise, it was
finally decided to allow the Eastern
delegations to name the chairman, and
that obstruction to peace and harmony
was removed, although the cuss-words
used indicate that the truce may be
broken at any moment. Sunday even
ing the pot was slowly simmering and
Jacobs foated like scum on the top.
Monday morning, up to the time OF
writing, the aspect is unchanged. The
boat leaves for Vancouver in few
minutes, so the remainder of this epistle
must be written from the scene of con.
fiet.
foa VANCOUVER, Sept. %, 1874.
The Republican Convention met at 3
o'clock in RrOwn's Hall and rot;f;a1 tho