Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1886-08-13
CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATE.
EDITOR STANDARDS:


boom that little gentleman up for
Il denomination. Now, it appears
to me, and must do 80 to any disin-
terested individual who has given
the subject investigation, that I'M
der no circumstances Can Mr.. Voor-
hees be reelected, even though he
should obtain an unanimous renom-
ination. If this conclusion is true,
what suicidal policy would it be
for a Democratic Convention to
place him in the field as its candl-
date, and what an outrageous thing
would it be. Oh the part of the
members of such a Convention, to
ask the innocent membership OF the
party to spend its time and money
in fruitless effort to bring success!
Let us look back a little at the how
and why he he was nominated two
years ago, and the canvass and it's
result. Mr.. Voorhees,. then, was
nominated by the Pierce County
delegation, for what? To prevent
the nomination of VIM. H. White.
The balloting had been gone
through with. The Pierce County
delegation had voted for some out
side man, and there was no choice.
Pierce county delegates, though,
saw that change of their vote
would nominate Voorhees,, and be-
fore the announcement of the re-
suit they changed and thus gave
him the nomination. What did
they do this for? Not because
they wanted or cared tor Voorhees,,
but because they smelt it in the air
that if they allowed another ballot,
White would be nominated and
they could not bear the thought Of
taking a dose like that.
! Well, Mr.. Voorhees,, as you see
was nominated not from real choice
but by chance. Circumstances al
, turned in his favor. In this county
, King, everything else has to give
way in favor of the Delegate
The Republicans placed in the fielt
a gentleman whose weakness, as Z
> candidate, could hardly be paral
! elled. The land forfeiture gave
the Democratic nominee an i'm
3 mense majority in Seattle ant
t King county, made up largely from
:. the Republican ranks. For once, thu
: Post ntelligencer, the leading, ant
most influential Republican paper
of the Territory, gave its full ant
: ardent support to the Democratic
4 nominee Of a straight Democratic
Convention; and after all this, MI
o Voorhees, was only elected by
n majority short of a hundred AM
Il fifty votes. These circumstances
, so full of strength, can no more b
}, counted on for repetition; but, O.
= the contrary, we have Delegate
- in the person of Mr.. VOORHEES,
" presenting himself before his col
e. stituents for endorsement, wit
rs black mark after black mark agains
+: him for record, bearing upon thei
'g faces "Tried and trusted; but r,
creant to faithfulness and duty,
A Does anyone pretend to tell n
g. that such man, with such
,e record, who has assumed to
a dictator to, rather than a rel
W resentative Of, the people. is
be endorsed and white-washe
st by an honest and insulted Dem
CT cratic constituency, even if no do
happen to obtain once more a nor
10 ination from a Democratic Conve
If ton ? Nonsense He would be /!
I'd badly beaten, that his influence
it Washington City and in Dem
it cratic circles would be ghostly,
ne place of having value.
Is I write strongly, Mr.. Editor, f
= l feel there's danger of mistal
ID being made in our approachir
or Convention, through the persis
I'd ent efforts of a comparative
few men, with whom personal q
grandizement is beyond and abo,
20 every other consideration, and wit
% hope that through proper discu
u sion the danger may be overcom
70 Were l not pressed for time, ju'
10 now, I might put some very pointe
" queries to the advocates of NJ
s /; voorhees, denomination, as for i
stance, why we did not have
I'd Democratic Governor long ago, an
At Democratic appointees under him
10 Why we did not have a Dem
:, cratic Secretary? Why Jude
=. Green's case was passed over {
nicely? ALEX. MONTGOMERY.
re- SEATTLE, August 4th, 1886.