Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-03-04
A Free Press"
An illustration Of the IpgrRtttude of
of Some People who PatroniLe" the
Press.
Galveston News.

Galveston News.
He had once been in the newspa-
per business, but had since settled
down, to use the language of a
friend, to a legitimate occupation.
He wanted to bring a civil suit in a
Justices court, but it order to do SO
he was required to give a S25 bond
for security of cess. He made stv
eral desperate attempts to induce
some of his supposed friends to go
his security, but in vain. Finally
he dropped into the office of prom
inent merchant, and mentioned the
object of his visit. The merchant
did not positively refuse, but n the
same time he did not develop much
enthusiasm at the golden opportun-
ity presented him for he said:
You have got lots OF warm, in
fluential personal friends. You must
have made hosts of friends while you
were on the Weekly BaHlear. There
is old Col. DeSmith, for instance.
You brought him out for the Legis-
lature, and it was through your ef-
forts that he was elected. He owes
you a heavy debt of gratitude. l
would go on your bond in a moment,
but am afraid he might think he
was insulted if you did not allow
him that privilege"
The newspaper man shook his
head and replied:
What you say about DeSmith is
all so. l wrote out and inserted
those loud appeals in his favor ,
signed Many Voters myself, and
covered up heaps of his rascality.
The Battlear lost several hundred
cash subscribers on his account"
why don't you try to let him 60
on your bond? If he knew about 1t,
he would hunt you up and fight for
the privilege of going on it," said
the merchant.
"That's all you know about it.
He lodged me for two days until l
cornered him, and then he said if l
did did not leave the Office he would
call for a policeman. He reminded
me that 1 had gone back on the par
ty. 1t seems he left an early cabbage
at the Battiear Office, and I never
got to see it. The devil eat it up,
so could not give give him the col
umn puff IS the boss horticultural,
which he was suffering for. Why,
that old scoundrel DeSmith owes
me vet for 100 extra copies OF the
Bauiear, lie ordered as campaign
documents, so, if he is the only OBJ
stacle to your signing that bond,
lust stick your fist down there"
The merchant hemmed and hawed
and said he was never more fooled
in a man in his life than he was in
DoSmith. He thought him above
petty resentments. A man who
would act as DeSmith did ought tc
be run out of town.
"Why don't you go to Maj. Fiz
zletop ?" added the merchant; "you
defended him when he was indicted
for Matchmaking. If it wasn't Fiz.
zletop's place to go on your bond, l.
would not let anybody else 90 on IT,
responded the merchant.
Once more the newspaper man
shook his head, and replied:
. 81 know Fizzletop used to say !
saved his reputation, but when that
porole-eyed, freckled- faced daughter
of his eloped with the clown OF a
circus, in mentioning the affair, l
forgot to state that she belonged to
a highly-respectable family, and the
clown was an English nobleman IN
disguise, and he has been down on
me ever since. II Fizzletop is all
that is keeping you back, you can
Just put your name to the bond right
off.
The merchant looked serious, and
said he would not like to offend an
influential citizen like Fizzletop, II
that was the state of feeling between
them; but why not so to old Money
bags?
J. 1alleu W put hio io'"to
New York under the head OF Dis
tinguishsd Arrival of u Prominent
Capitalist Since then he crosses
the street when he sees me coming.
Why not ask Maj. Snooks ?
The newspaper man sighed and
said: He wanted the 'Battledr tt
fling mud on his business rival, Col
Jimson, and, as l was owing Jimsor
IS, felt delicacy about calling
him hon se-thief and a social out
cast, as Maj. Snooks wanted me to
so he and L don't shake any more. .
d" Why don't you let Jimson, then
60 on Your bond p
"Well, you see, when Jimson'
heayily-insurel store burned down
|, in M advertisement, put IN tn
paper said it was undoubtedly tin
work of an incendiary. After tha
he went around telling people h
had raised me from the gutter t