Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1886-10-22

has had continuous administration
of this office for nearly twenty years,
and now he and his deputy both have
their hands into the bag up TO their
elbows searching Tor the coveted Prize
They are both professional office
seekers, a class that the people have
determined to relegate to private life.
Neither Mr.. Billings nor Capt. Mes
>cgec can claim that they belong to
the ranks of Labor, while Mr.. James
w. Chambers has become Injured to
toll by the efforts of a lifetime. Here
too, the grea. issue is presented so
plainly that "He who runs may read"
Mr.. J. n. Squires, the Democratic
nominee for Treasurer, is a man who
has by his gentlemanly department
and fair-dealing built up an enviable
reputation for probity. He is excep-
tionallv well qualified for the office to
which he aspires, and receives the
hearty endorsement of the Labor Or
ganization, with which he has been in
close cooperation and sympathy ever
since it was instituted.
DIR. Manner, the nominee for Asses
or, is man who continually improves
on acquaintance; nor must it be in
ferred from this form OF expression that
first impressions are not altogether
favorable to the gentleman. 1t simply
means that he soon makes warm friends
of his acquaintance, and nobody who
knows him will doubt that he pos
sesses ample qualifications for the
Office named.
Austin E. Young and James Long
mire, for Commissioners, are known
to every citizen of the county. They
are just the men needed to guard the
Treasury by reducing expenses, and
devise means for lifting the wheels of
our county government from the ruts
in which they have run SO many years.
If the people desire competency in
one of the most important Offices in
the county, they must necessarily vote
for Francis Henry for Probate Judge.
His long experience with the duties of
that Office, united with his command
ing ability and sound judgment on
matters of law, peculiarly fit him for
duties that require just these qualifi-
cations. The administration of this
office affects more than all others the
title to property after it passes from
the dead to the living, who are often
times women and children, whose only
safeguard is the wisdom, discretion
and intelligence of the Probate Judge.
MIR. Root may be an exemplary young
man, but nobody will assume for u
moment that the public interest would
be served by. his substitution for Judge
Henry.
Another position in which exper-
fence affords the best guarantee of a
proper discharge of duty is that of
School Superintendent. Mrs. Hale
has made an excellent officer, and any
change that might be affected by the
election of either of her competitors
would result in serious injury to the
school service. This was so patent
that, at the Institute held a few
months ago, the teachers were unani-
nous in their expression of the hope
that Mrs. Hale would be retained to
perfect her admirable system of disci-
pline affecting modes of instruction in
all common school branches. Her di-
ploma is of the highest grade and her
experience as teacher of teachers in
normal schools in some of the leading
cities, places her in the foremost rank
of modern educators.
James Frazier, the candidate for
Surveyor, is said to be a competent
civil engineer and a man of many
good personal qualities.
Mr.. Harmed, the candidate for Cor
oner, is too well known to our people
to require any statement of his per-
sonal fitness for the office. That I'M
der his administration the Office will
be administered faithfully and econ
omically, nobody will for a moment
doubt.
Mr.. Etheridge, the nominee for
Wreckmaster, is one of our oldest pic.
neers. Nobody doubts the honesty
OF Chips" or his ability to discharge
the arduous duties of the office well.
There really seems to be no reason
why anybody who has the interests of
Democracy, the people, at heart, should
not vote this ticket from top to bot
tom. 1t is composed of "bone and
and sinew" throughout. 1t appeals to
laboring men, especially, for it is
made of candidates whose sympathies
are with the people.
Gov. SQUIRE TELLS ABOUT OUR
HoPs.-A special dispatch from New
York states that Gov. Squire, of Wash
ington Territory, said in conversation
=" Washington Territory is the finest
hop-raising country in the world. We
will raise this year about 10000 tons.
The growth per acre is simply enor-
nous. We have buyers out there
from every part of the country. Men
from Utica, Richmond Springs. Os-