The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1880-10-29
DAILY INTELLIGENCER
THE DAILY IxTEKLIGEyCEe 4.
rHE WEEKLY fNrELLIGENCER
Friday, Oct. %, 1880.
ABOUT p" TRAITORS.

ouo WIN dcSofes MS tfbth9s hu4 SOts
over to the enemy. A traitor is one Of
the vilest and most despicable Of crca-
lures. The services OF traitor are Us.
ually accepted for what they may be
worth. while the traitor himself IS
looked upon With contempt aud scorn
by those using him There are not
only traitors in war, bot traitors in
pesce; tssltors in the family. trastors IN
Business and traitors in politics. One Is
as thoroughly low as the other. The
instinct and sinolination in oil are ths
same. The traitor prizes into the Affairs
of him whom he intends TO betrsy. He
ingratiates himself into the most in,
most confidence of bis victim, that his
treason and the rnin he hopes to create
may DO the greater 10 consequences. The
political traitor worries snd weeks for
wonths, scheming and planning to
accomplish what he has contemplated
from the beginning. In the event that
he intends deceiving Republicans he
goes at it in about this way: He makes
Republicsns bis associates en- the street.
He buttonboles the known candidates,
ascertains their projects. and nsgnifes
his own Importance. lie. by vague,
half promises, gets their help, aud
when the primary is held be secures
election as delegate to the County Con-
vention. His importance to the party
10 thus increased. and. by skilifully
plotting. he is subsequently enabled to
work into the Territorial Convention.
He. now s~els in dignity, becomes
pompous aud patroaizing. aud those
who have hitherto helped him as
certain to their sorrow that he is not TO
be depended upon. lie maneuvers on.
and gets proxy or two. which.
added TO his own vote, make him in his
own estimation "a bigger man than old
Grant Before going TO the Conven-
ton it Is is known positively who its
nominee is to be. as majority Of the
patty of the Territory have not only
expressed their choice but actually i'm
structed in favor of particular man.
If our political traitor was n person of
honor. he would. on ascertsining this
fact. decline to 60 into the Convention,
IL in addition his conscientious scruples
forbade him giving support to him who
was SURE to be the Conventions nomi-
nee. Not so with our traitor, however.
He. like Jadas Iscariot. Benedict
Arnold and others Of their ilk. has coin
In view. and he isn't certain that no is
going to be virtuously indignant aud
turn traitor until be sees tho party
chief He goes; he participates actively
in the Convention. and his vote and bis
proxy vote are recorded in favor Of the
nominee. Owing to the hurry aud un-
toward circumstances he has been una
BILE to negotiate before casting his
votes. and after casting them he finds
that II 10 too lstsl No one then wants to
tuy him, and in return for the cheap
advances he makes he gets nothing but
rebuff. He comes homo. and. after
thgee or four days hsgsliug and barter.
ing with the enemy. ne is unable TO re-
strain himsslfs Tho Republican nom,
nee. 70 wbom before he'had made not
tho slightest objection. Of sudden be- !
comes the worst Of Gien. He lie pictured |
as incompetent, ~ pafsimonious. as .
fool. az traitor to the people be had |
been serving. and as everything unit |
and had. The traitor whom We are
describing may own n printing press,
and IL he does he spreads bis poisonous
matter all over tho land. He glorics In |
his shame, and tries by every means in |
his power to induce others to share Il. |
A further description Of the political |
traitor Is unnecessary. He is common |
creature. He Is known hers and else.
whore. and where he is most known
least good 10 told of him. Every and |
all kinds of traitors are bad. but no |
hind is worse than the political traitor.