Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-09-07
Political Points.


the party tricksters later Gil
Another Benjamin will find him
self sold into Egypt next November.
Billings may now APPLY claim to be
the great Josh Of the Republican
party.
An Oregon paper has at last discov-
cred that the iron horse had more to
do with the Oregon election than the
woody sheep.
An orator from Michigan. with the
twang OF a hardshell Baptist preacher
played on the temperance Tyre in Co
lumbia Hall, last evening.
The Republican papers announce
in glazing capital letters Harrison
speaks?" Well, what of 1t So does
! Towser when an imaginary cracker
! is held above his nose.
! Mr. Horn authorizes us 10 announce
that he has gone out OF politics. 1t is
a significant pointer that the an
nouncemcnt is made after the nomin.
alton of Mr.. VOORHEES,.
A Republican paper, in alluding to
a speech OF Mr. Allen, says it had the
true ring in it. No doubt Of il. And
the true ring OF that party is corpo
ration ring every time
1t is said that two thousand pair OF
Republican jaws will vibrate from the
stump in Indiana next month. Moth
ing less than full barl could be the
motive power oi such colossal ex
hibit.
The Thurston County Republican
Convention declared that no proxies
should 60 to the Ellensburg Conven
ton in face of the fact that BED
Harrison is running for President By
proxy.
Jim Blaine's slur ut Democratic
newspapers, in commenting on trusts
shows how hard he has been hit BY
these champions of popular rights
He should not blame them if the
record hurts.
1t is said that the reason the Repub
licans in this city did not kick at Ger
tain candidates packing the primary
4 with Democratic voters, is because
they were all practically in the same
boat, and to squeal would have been te
expose the players in the game.
Now that England and Canada are
berating President Cleveland for hi,
retaliatory message, it is amusing tt
note with what JUNCTION Republican
newspapers quote their utterances
1t seems that as British sympathy
shifts Republican love goes out tt
meet it.
Cavanaugh has about come to the
conclusion that there is broken
tooth Or bent pinion somewhere in the
party machine, and he proposes te
take it apart for repairs. 1t has beer
iwobbling along only after fashion
for years, and has really been ont oI
keller ever since Gov. Ferry left the
brake.
The Dew Drop party having made
its nominations awaits with compla.
cency results. 1t may linger but 10,
an hour under the fervid rays of polit.
ical heat, but it will have the satisfac.
ton of knowing that it sparkled on the
fiow'ret long before the red-eyed wor.
shippers at the shrine of Bacchus had
begun their strife.
1t is evident that the present cam.
paign is quite harrassing if not Harri-
son to the average Republican. The
effort to keep one corner of the mouth
screwed up to shout for the candidate
and the other for the uncrowned
king of the party" produces a con.
tortion of countenance that is any,
thing but pleasing.
Steve Ruddell made the Republican
Convention eat "biled crow" in nomi.
mating Billings, but the Convention
under the management of Geo. Mills
got in its work on Steve, by way of re.
taliation, when it shelved him fol-
Assessor. Had it not been for that
young fugleman, Mr.. Ruddell would
doubtless have been nominated by &C.
clamation.
Judge Roots little speech ON taking
the chair as presiding officer of the Re
publican County Convention was ex-
ceedingly neat, and to those outside
the curtain, very appropriate. He con-
sidered his selection as a compliment
to the young men, and acknowledging
the soundness of the adage, "Old men
for counsel and young men for action"
he asked that the former map out the
campaign and let the young men do
the fighting. This seemed truly mag
unanimous and affecting; but when it
is considered that the same old county
ring had "cut and dried" all that was
to be done by the Convention, the Ian
guage seems purely metaphorical But
then, it is in keeping with the usual
political rot.
No SESSION THIS WINTER" Saraf,"
the Orcgonian correspondent, reports
that Mr.. Voorhees, stated, lately, at
Spokane Falls, that the item in the ap-
preparation bill before Congress for
paying the expense ola session of the
Legislature this winter, was stricken
out in the Senate, on the ground that
confusion and complications might
arise from the ambiguous terms of the
Legislative act changing the time of
the session, which by implication only
provides that the members elected in
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