Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-10-15
Letters from the People.
STE1LAcooM. Oct. 18th. 1880.

or the last Republican President
the world will ever see or hear Of.
General Sherman met two Of h,a old
comrades in the Mexican war. One
of them remarked that he made
Sherman a pair of pants. The old
hero replied, " They wore well, but
like all good things had their day
and were cast aside to be forgotten. "
Last week Mr.. Burke delivered a
political address in this place which
for eloquence, sound logic and man
illness was never surpassed. 1t was
entirely devoid of all SANDER or
blaggard expressions, but forciblo,
telling appeal for the conscience and
reason of sober, candid, thinking
manhood. Many Republicans spoke
highly of his speech and also of
Whites and young Andrews
speeches. The saloons complain that
Judge Burke did not spend any
money with them.
On Friday came Brents, and went
in turn to every saloon in town inn
mediately OF arriving, with a crowd
of rum-suckers and this he did imme-
diately after speaking and several
other times whilst in our place.
His friends who were with him at all
his appointments in the county say
he disbursed several hundred dollars
to the different bar-keepers. And l
say it is probable that he has given
tone to actions and edge to appetites
that will cause wives to weep and
children to go barefooted. And the
great query in my mind Is, will my
many acquaintance i'll Olympia and
elsewhere in our Territory who I
have so often heard advocate tenn
perance from the pulpit, the temper
ance rostrum and in the social cir
Gle, work and vote for this seed
sower of crime, b!asphemy and mis-
cry, to represent them at the Capt.
tai of our Government and thus let
their acts belle their professions ?
Will some Of these protesting Chris
tians worship stronger at the shrine
of politics than at the feet of their
Saviour? II so, their acquaintances
will soon he all infdels in matters
of religion and temperance. This
Republican candidate, the special
friend of bacchanalians, delivered a
sing-sons, drawling speech of nearly
two hours duration, which was SO
irksome and devoid of interest that
many left and came back to listen to
Ballard and Evans. The speakers
got terribly atloggerheads over the
propriety, or probability, of our be-
coming T. STATE. Brents sEp;aUch
was mainly trade of slang and
biaggard or false accusations against
the Democratic party; Ballard made
an average Republican speech of half
an hours length and Evans followed
with Observation-Disclosures speech OF
ten or fifteen minutes duration, both
of which speeches were we'll enough
considering the company they were
in. ......
Whilst am not much of parti-
san and have made it rule of my
life to vote for the best man, what
ever ticket / find him on, still con-
TESS to having got very much irritat-
ed at this ignoramus OF a Brents un-
dertaking to enlighten us Stella
coomites as to the cause and perpe-
tuity of the great rebellion. And I
think many more have read and
thought about that great war and
the vast sums of Government money
and property that they have seen
squandered and the millionaires that
have been and are being made from
the sweat and toll OF the poor,
through the manipulations of the
machinery of our Government by
the party who has had charge there
of. The thinking, reasoning portion
of the world to-day know that the
attempt by Northern States to annul
the Fugitive Slave Law, the asser-
ton by Northern orators that an " r.
repressible Conflict was pending;
the raids of john Brown and the
success of sectional party in the
North were the real causes of the con-
fiict between the North and the