Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-07-23
OLYMPIA WASHINGTON TERRITORY, FRIDAY JULY g. $780,
fact material portions thereof were
omitted and GRABBED.

fact material portions thereof were
omitted and GRABBED.
Resolved, That we further arraigr
and charge him with corrupt bribery
in selling his official influence q
Chairman of the Committee on Ap
propriations for $1,000 to the d.
Golyer pavement ring to aid then
in securing a contract from th,
Board of Public Works of the Dis
trict of Columbia; selling bis in
r'uence to aid said ring in imposing
rror the people of said District {
pavement a y cchich is almost worthless
At a rrice three times its cost al
sworn to by one Of the contractors
selling his influence to aid said rins
in procuring q contract, to procur'
which it corruptly paid $50. 900 $50
infuences;" selling his innuence II
O matter that involve>t no questiol
Of law, upon the shallow 'reteAt ,!i ina
he was acting as lawyer, seil'ns
LIS 1uuuOuCO AL uuuu0I oO
pable and clear rs to be so found a. &c
declared by an impartial court upon
an issue solemnly tried.
Resolved, That we arrain him for
the fraudulent manner in which he
attempted, in his speech delivered at
Warren, on the 10th day of Septem-
ber, 1876, to shield himself from
just censure in receiving the before
named 5000, by false representing
in said speech, that the Congress OF
the United States was not RESPONSE
bic for the acts Of said board nor
the United States liable for the debts
credited thereby, when in truth and
in fact, as he then we'll knew, the
said Board of Public Works aud the
officers of said district were but the
agents and instruments of Congress
and the United States was response
BILE Cor the indebtedness by them
created.
Resolved, That we arraign him
70. gross dereliction of duty as a
member of Congress in failing to
bring to light and expose the corrup.
ton and abuse in the sale of post
traderships, for which the late Sec
retary Belknap was impeached, when
the same was brought to his knowl-
edge by General Hazen. in 1872, and
can only account for it upon the
supposition that his manhood was
debauched by the corruption funds
then by him just received and in his
own purse.
Resolved, That the law of 1873,
known as the act demonetizing sill
YER, was enacted iu the interest of
gold rings, bond-holders ands capt.
talists and against the interests of the
taxpayers, and without their advice
and knowledge. That this act. by q
single blow, has seriously crippled
our power to resume specie pay
ments, or pay our national debt in
coin. That no sufficient reason has
yet been given for this legislation,
so dishonest and palpable in its dis
elimination in favor of the small
creditor class and the industrial in
terests of the country. That James
A. Garfield, during the last session
of Congress, was the conspicuous
defender of this crafty attempt to
sacrifice the interests of tho people
to bondholders and foreign capital
lists. That when it was proposed to
restore the old silver dollar to the
place it had held during our history
as nation as legal tender for all
debts, public and private, he de-
nounced the attempt as n swindle
on so grand q scale as to make the
achievement illustrious" and as n
" scheme of vast rascality and CO.
lossal swindling."
Resolred, That neither great abil-
ity and experience or eloquence or
partyism discussion of the dead issues
of the late war will excuse or justify
past dishonesty and corruption, or
answer as O guaranty CT integrity
and purity for the future.
Resolved, That believing the
statements in the foregoing resolu-
tions set forth we cannot without
stultifying our manhood and debas-
ing our self-respect, support at the
polls the nominee of the Republican
convention of this district for re.
election, nor can we without surren-
dering our rights as electors and
citizens, sit silently by and see man
so unworthy again sent to represent
US in the National Legislature. That
strong in the conviction of right we
call upon the electors of the district,
irrespective of former or present
party attachments, who desire hon
est government, to unite with us in
an earnest, faithful effort to defeat
the reelection of General Garfield
and elect in his stead an honest and
reliable man.
The new Governor of Idaho is
Col. Mel, who was for time Mr..
Hayes's private Secretary when he
was Governor of Ohio, and for the
mast two years has been Register of