Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-01-26
Pumsent Political Paragraphs.

CA subterfuge and sham" is the
New York ZfmrS' concise definition
of the KassOn civil service bill.
Copper mining is the poor little
" infant industry" that is now pit
eously whining for increased pIotec-
ton.
Says the Philadelphia Times:
"The man who wants to he next
President had better not bring him
self out for year 1T least"
The possibilities of hypocrisy are
exhausted when men who were up to
their armpits in the Presidential
steal of 1876 stard up as champions
of an honest ballot.
Dorsey has nice little tin box
full of letters aud documents. If
Dorsey should allow an interviewer
,, to rummage in this little box lie
could spoil any number of magnii-
cent Republican regulations.
Colonel Mosby, the famous trooper,
who now serves a reunited country
as Consul at Hong Kong, writes to
friend in Virginia: II regard
Malone as the most vindictive, un-
scrupulous and meanest tyrant that
ever figured in American politics"
The Boston Trareier, Republican,
speaking of Hoar's election to the
Senate, says: 1t is net result of
victory to a Republican faction at the
expense of the whole party, and to
the imminent peril of its future
ascendancy in this State. As such
it is fit subject for rejoicing only
among Democrats.
The preacher that opened the New
Jersey Legislature with prayer re-
allied evidently the degeneraey of
the times when he prayed "that no
member" might be forced to explain
to an inquisitive constituency when
he returned, how, having come to
Trenton, he went back richer than
the salary of $500 received for the
Legislative session.
The story that General Butler has
in a conversation intended to be
made public, deliberately announced
himself as a candidate for the Presi-
dental nomination, in 1884, is to be
taken with many grains of salt. As
Benjamin once remarked himself,
among the many sins laid to his
charge no one has yet accused him
of being fool.
OF the 2,OOO,O 900 voters in the
United States who cannot write their
names, more than 300, 900 belong
to = class that is claimed as practi-
cally solid for any Republican ticket
prescribed. Let the Government
help the States to send the school.
master abroad, and the evils that
Republicanism has brought on the
country will disappear.
The Utica Observer says that the
Republican party must provide for
Secor Robson. He has done 80
much Stalwart service for his party
that it would lie the height of in
gratitude for it to desert him in his
declining years to the assault of his
enemies. And it is equally certain
that the further away it can send
him, the better it will be for the
party. So, politically speaking. it
would be a great blessing for Repub.
licanism if Robson could be induced
to 60 to Spain.
New York Herald: An examine.
ton of the estimates shows that
without a single exception every
branch of the public service has
asked for an increase over the extra.
VACANT appropriations of 1882. This
increase amounts in the aggregate
to nearly twenty.seven million dol.
lars. If the Republican majority in
Congress shall consent to such whole.
sale pillage of the Treasury, it need
never expect to regain the confidence
of the country.