Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-11-05
Result i'm ThurSt0n County.


Billings and Phillips, rs usual lead
ing the ticket. and polling more
than their party strength. 1t seems
that majority of the people are
either so Indifferent to public in
terests, or so firmly bound up in
party rule, that they lay everything
willing sacrifice on the political
altar. Nobody doubted that the
affairs OF the county have been
grossly mismanaSel; nobody dis
putes the fact that the county pays
for services inadequately performed;
nor has any explanation been at
tempted OF the persistent manner i'll
which the county is made to play
into the hands of wealthy individuals
and corporations, to the loss Of the
poorer class, still they will walk up
to the polls at the flourish of the
party lash and cast their votes as
biddcn by those who loll at ease in
their comfortable offices and draw
from the public purse annually three
or four times as much pay as any
of their dupes can make at hard
labor from early dawn till sunset.
How rejecting men can be SO obliv-
iOus of their own interests--asile
from considerations for the public
good-can only be accounted for by
that purblind devotion to party
which at times becomes mania,
subordinating reason to passion and
common sense to the miserable
preiudices which it engenders. 1t
is national disease and can only be
cured by q remedy which will shake
the fabric of free government to its
very center. The people must be
made to see the danger before them,
the license which an endorsement of
corruption entails and its attendant
misfortunes, and they will awaken
from tho delusion which for the time
has enthralled their best impulses
aud energies.
Now that our local contest is over,
what we may say will not be con-
strued into an effort to create polit-
ical capital. We re-affirm what we
have said in the canvass, that the
public interest has suffered from
willful neglect of duty, and call for
a reform. The people will have
to pay for the loss already imposed
by this failure to perform clearly de-
fined duty in the assessment of
taxes. This is inevitable. But
they can guard, in some degree,
against O recurrence Of this loss.
Let them demand that no more sac
rifces be made to suit the personal
of those who are we'll |
paid for faithful discharge of duty.
Some of our Democratic friends
have been taught by the experience
of the past few weeks that to ensure
success it is best not to allow personal
hatred to crop out too prominently
when the public is appealed to for
arbitration. All exhibitions of per-
sonal spleen but injure those who
betray them and damage the can
didates they support. 1t is, of
course, not within the range. of
mortal vision to see what might have
been the result under different man
agement, but it could not be worse,
and it might have resulted in the
success of fair proportion of the
ticket. knowledge is the beginning
of wisdom and the source of power,
and we now know wherein we have
failed and are better prepared fol
triumph in the future.
The semi-annual examination for
county teachers certificates, took
place on Wednesday and Thursday
of this week. Supt. j. r. Thompson
appointed as members of the county
Board of Examiners Miss Gardner of
District No. and Miss Swan of Dis
trics No. 2. Six applicants, all who
appeared, obtained certificates, rank
ing in the following order:
Miss Addie Bnnncll .......... 943 Marks