Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-03-02
OLYMPIA. WASHINGTON TER.
OLYMPIA. FGIDAY EVENING, MARCH 2. 1885
How Circumstances Alter Cases.

How Circumstances Alter Cases.
The story of the gored OK occasion
ally finds illustration even at this late
day, when Democratic officers follow
the precedents set by their Republi-
can predecessors A notable instance
is afforded by the whine of the Parti-
san last week, over ruling of the
Vancouver Land Office, which has
awarded the STANDARD the official adj
vertising OF certain class of land no
tees. 1t seems that the Probate Judge
OF Thurston county, who had been au-
thorized by the said Land Office to
take final proof in certain case, ig-
nored this ruling and selected the Par
tisdn as the official medium in that
particular case, which act was prompt
ly overruled by Register Austin and
Receiver O'Keane, and this act has
brought to bear upon their devoted
heads the heaviest guns OF the Partisan
battery. Instead, however, of being
charged with the grape-shot and shell
usually fired from heavy ordnance, the
missiles resemble more the stink-pots
hurled from Chinese junk, which,
while overpowering by their nauseous
odor, fail to accomplish much real dam
age. The gentlemen assailed can well
afford to smile at abuse from such a
source. They stand to-day peers of
the best men in the Republican ranks,
and with the prestige Of a devotion to
principle that has not been measured
by promise of reward or the emolu-
ments of official position. When their
party came into power, they were very
properly selected for the important
trusts they hold, not as reward for
that rare fidelity which had enlisted
them in lifelong contest with princi-
Piles inimical to their ideas of popular
government, but as the best means of
advancing those tenets which though
crushed to for time to earth, rise and
triumph when reason asserts her sway.
The precedent Of designating certain
newspapers to publish notices of final
proof, Notwithstanding the Pdrtisan's
assertion to the contrary, was estab-
lished by the Republican land officers
many years ago, and so jealous were
they in enforcing the rule that money
sent to the STANDARD for that service
had to be paid over to the Courier
AtherP artisan's god7father-before proof
could be completed. Atom time like
the wise Republican land officers con-
trolled the timber-land publications,
and made it the means of throwing
thousands of dollars in the way of the
ring organs, as q means of placing the
sinews of war" in the grooves where
they would do the most good.
The Partisan should cultivate the
virtue of patience. It should grin in
silence and meekly bear the bruises in
cident to being hoisted by its own Pc
tard. 1t should recognize the truth.of
the homely adagc which teaches that
What is sauce for the goose is sauce
for the gander." 1t should close its
own shutters before it throws stones nj
the glass in other peoples houses. 1t
should let 60 the teat it is so vigor-
ously pulling before it attempts to
drive other calves from the trough.
The ink is scarcely dry on warrants
drawn in its favor for large sum of
money for incidental printing of the
Legislature farmed out to it by the
white black-bird who still fattens at a
Democratic stall in the Office of Terri
torial Secretary. That patronage was
bestowed without an opportunity for
competition and paid for out Of the peo-
pies money without protest from his
political opponents. But when a DEM
ocrat entleavors to secure the best ser
vice for the public at the least cost,
by an award of a few advertisements
at minimum rate in consideration Of
their number, how the conditions are
changed! What pitifnl howl is
raised of persecution for party's sake |!
How the CALLED jade winces, when its
withers feel the strain of a load inn
posed by its own masters! With what
JUNCTION the changes are rung ON the
old political clap-trap Of the returning
board days, when the bloody-shirt
waved from every Republican flag
pole! In the Partisan's column arti-
Gle devoted to this very small subject,
the four years war of the rebellion is
fought over again, and the scene closes
with the Ku-kluk outrages as sort of
red-light to bring the central picture
into bold relief. Verify the mountain
hath labored most fearfully and to
bring forth very small mouse.
THE Tacoma Meas suggests Wash
ingtona as name for the new State.
A good name, if we must continue to
pile honors upon the great man whose
memory needs no such aid for per-
petuation. 1t is free from the main
objection to the use of the word in its
primary form-confusion with the
other political subdivisions of the same
name.
LAURA Webb, of San Francisco,
who has been the past three months
lying in a death-like cataleptic trance,
is beginning to recover from her long
slumber.
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