, 1886-08-19

he useful 10 the town and locality in
which our lot is cast. We are work
ing for its advancement and develop
ment-and there is an honor in that
quite commensurate with even lofty
ambition. We are willing to leave
the political offices if necessary to the
ambitious scribe of our contemporary.
If he is afflicted with an itching in
that direction; but we DO not propose
TO take n back seat in promoting
Port Tonwsend's interests, even to
avoid the burning jealousy of any
who may be moved hy the ''dog-in-
the manger" spirit.
Fortune favors the brave. Grit
and pluck win. We do not take this
to ourself personally, but to the good
people of Port Townsend, who have
manifested their liberal spirit suffi-
ciently to make it possible for us to
secure the University prize. And it
is indeed prize upon which we may
justly congratulate ourselves. 1t
means that the Puget Sound Confer
once of the NJ. +. Church, and in
deed the whole church influence of
that denomination will be crystalized
in establishing and maintaining a
central educational Institution de-
signed to equal Evanston, and Yale
and Harvard, in all that goes to make
up the educational facilities needed
for the civilization of the nineteenth
century. Itmeans that in the course
of time we will have students COM
ing from the east and south to be
educated on Puget Sound-on &C
count of our healthful climate-in-
stead of our own sons and daughters
being sent south and east on account
of superior educational facilities to
be obtained abroad. or course it is
not expected that we will have all
these advantages at once; but the
foundation is being laid for them,
and they will develop in due time.
While we may be pardoned for in
dulging in a-brief exultation over the
result accomplished thus far, let US
not lose sight of the fact that only
the first preliminary step has been
taken. We have merely been placed
in d position where it is possible to
do something. The Conference must
ROW address itself seriously to the
task of working an endowment fund
for its university sufficient to place
that institution upon a firm and last
ing foundation. 1t will do that with
out doubt. The educational needs
of the country, and the interest in
volyed demand such a course. On
the part of the citizens of Port Town
send and of the region contiguous
thereto, there is also sacred duty to
perform. Locally speaking it is oar
institution. We should exhibit a
laudable pride and ambition to make
the most of it. We should talk for it
and work for it in season and out of
season. We should never rest till it
is full fiedged with its schools of law
and divinity and medicine and elias
sizes, with fund back of it large
enough to make it successful in the
highest and hrOadest sense of the
term.
The Olympia Partisan has at last
formally announced itself in favor of
Hon. John T. Convey for the republi-
can nomination for Delegate. There
is plenty of excellent congressional
timber to be found in the different
parts of the Territory, if one were to
set about bringing it TO public atten-
ton. In the multiplicity of eandi-
dates on Puget Sound, however,
there is increasing hope for the re-
Publicans east of the mountains
hope that as heretofore, they may
secure the nut and leave us to quar-
rel over the empty shell. The ARGUS
has argued all along for unity, for
combined action in favor of the best
Puget Sound man. But if the whole
contest is to degenerate into a scram-
bic in which no locality will be will
ling to concede to any other-well,
in that case, Port Townsend may
have something to say herself. There
is Mr.. Bradshaw for whom we all
stood so enthusiastically two years
ago. He Is not politically shelved
yet-not by a long way. He is
distinguished pioneer citizen whose
abilities are everywhere recognized.
We would not subordinate his claims
to those of any federal office holder
or more recent acquisition from the
older states-eyel though we were to
recognize fully the fitness of toe lat
ter. Then We have Hon. 4. W. Bash.
eI-Collector of Customs, and now an
eminent and useful eitizen-a worker
undaunted by any circumstances, and
fruitful in labors in the public behalf.
What is the matter with AIr Bash. if
Il is excellent material that Is de-
sired for the Delegatesbip? Iien, |
there is General Oliver We, AN
old soldier who left his Ohio b ine 10 !
enter the ranks of the Union armies. |
as private soldier, carrying a mus
ket in the ranks, and who rapidly |
rose TO the command of Il corps, ard |
came out Of the great struggle a |