Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1886-07-23
MUGWAUMPfAN AUDACITY.

matters OF vital Importance.
MUGWAUMPfAN AUDACITY.
The editor of the Chehalis county
Nugget seems determined to pay for
the collar which Mr.. Voorhees, has
placed around his neck, and this week
endeavOrs to give some reasons why
that gentleman should be the Demo-
cratic nominee for reelection to Con-
gress. We have written the word req
sons, but in careful review of the col
umn article in advocacy of his
claims" we find that the singular
form of fine noun is better, there being
but one idea expressed, based upon
Mr.. Voorhees, antagonism to the
Northern Pacific Railroad. This is
brandishcd, however, as a two-edged
sword, with the intent to cut a path
way to fame and fortune" for its
knight Grant, as we'll as to destroy the
corporation whose enterprise has led
to such rapid development of our Ter
ritorial interests.
Let us examine the case just as it is
presented by the Nugget. After stat
ing that "The Congressional cam
paign in this Territory, just dawning,
will be the most interesting and holly
contested, of any that has for many
years been witnessed" it declares that
this fiery ordeal has been rendered in
evitable by two editors, one residing
in Eastern and the other in Western
Washington, both of whom tried to
defeat Mr.. Voorhees, two years ago,
and have denounced him ever since
his election" If it were true that the
main opposition came alone from these
two newspapers (the Statesman and
the Standard it would scarcely justify
belief that with Mr.. Voorhees, pres
tige of success and the laudations of
the half-a-dozen personal organs like
the Nugget, which sneeze whenever he
takes snuff, that there would he such
holly contested struggle for the nom-
ination next month. But the Nugget
does not state what it knows to be
the truth that the newspaper which do
not wear the Voorhees, collar are rec
ognized opponents of the sentiments of
the grand old Democratic party of the
Territory, which has never deserted
the ship, even when its decks were
swarming with piratical mugwamps.
The contest will be marm, it is true,
because these journals are backed by
the rank and file of the party, men
who have the honesty to avow their
principles, and the moral courage to
maintain them; men whose devotion
to principle constitutes their life creed.
Men, many Of whom were laying
deep the foundations of the Democratic
organization in the utmost bounds Of
civilization when Mr.. Voorhees, was in
swaddling clothes, and who were vot-
ing the straight ticket when he was
pulling" on the nurses bottle, are
the ones who protest against anything
like snap-judgment be taken, whereby
a one-idead candidate may be foisted
upon the party. They surely have
some rights in the Democratic party
which even a mugwamp is bound to
respect. The impertinence manifested
by the Nugget, which makes no claim
of Democracy, in reading these Old
Timers chapter on party duty, finds
but single notable parallel-the at
tempt made by Satan to convert the
Saviour of mankind to his heresies.
The assumption of the Nugget that
the Statesman and the STANDARD are
paid corporation agents, is the cheapest
kind of fustiap. Not a single dollar
has been received from the railroad
company under its present man.
agement, nor have we received any
courtesies that have not been extended
to the craft generally (the Nugget in
cluded). Nor do we regard free trans
portation as q special favor. 1t is am
ply paid for in an exchange of courte
sizes, which q purveyor of news is en-
abled to render, without trenching the
least on a duty to the public. There
is scarcely day that some improve
ment or change is not made in the i'm
Mense business of local railroads
which the companies desire to be made
public, and faithful report of such
news is regarded as q full compensa-
ton for an occasional ride under q
"chalked hat" II the Nugget edito,
is not influenced" by his pass, surely
nobody else would be. 1t may be
however. that the postoffice plaster
possesses better drawing" qualities
than the bit of pastebOard he so osten-
tatiously displays on gala occasions.
There is not a bit more sense in the
declaration made by the Nugget that
the farmers. rs class, are oppressed
by the railroad. The iteration of such
an idea, is not complimentary to their
judgment or common sense. They