Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-04-13
Official Paper for the Territory.
OLYMPIA. WASHINGTON TER.
FRIDAY EVENING. APRIL 10, 1855.
Tom Sounds the Republican TocSin

That there is something besides
dandruff in Mr.. Cavanaugh's head, is
demonstrated by the article in the
last number of his paper, entitled, A
Labor of Love for Pay" in which he
endeavors to show that Mr.. Mills, the
third party organizer, is working solely
in the interest Of the Democratic par
ty. One who has listened to the lee
ture of that talented gentleman, would
find it exceedingly difficult to arrive at
that conclusion from anything he says,
but this fact only heightens the re-
gard one must necessary feel for an
individual who can see SO clearly
through a milestone, even before the
hole is cut into it. 1t seemed to the au-
ditory, Saturday night, that Democrats
came in for quite as much abuse as
the Republicans did blame, in Mr..
Mills review of national politics, and
that there was not n word of censure
uttered against past policy which was
not Immediately followed up by what
was intended as quite as scathing a
rebuke to the present. There could
have been no deception practiced in
the matter. The acting was too real
to be sham. The JUNCTION with which
he satirized the Democratic party in
dictated very plainly where his prefer
ence would be, had not the third party
bee taken full possession of his bonnet.
Mr.. Mills, if he had not evoluted into
q Prohibition crank, would still be u
Republican fanatic. Every utterance
indicated his adherence of Democrat
ic principles and his hatred of Demo-
cratic methods.
Notwithstanding all this is as plain
as the MONDAY sun to any disinterest-
ed person who heard Mr.. Mills, the
Partisan states, without qualification,
that he is "a Democratic emissary to
q Republican Territory, who comes
to breed dissentions in the Republican
party" and insinuates that he is paid
for his services by the Democratic
party. It would be very difficult to
string together more misrepresenta-
ton in q single sentence. That he is
not Democratic emissary is already
proven by his manner, as well as his
words and acts; that this is not Re-
publican Territory, after two over
whelming defeats at general elections,
we maintain should begin to dawn
upon the average Republican intellect
that Mr.. Mills does not come to breed
dissention in the Republican party
but to "unite the better men of both
parties" in . movement for Prohibi
ton, is quite evident, from the recruits
mustered in ut Saturday evenings
meeting, composed, as it was, of about
an equal number from both parties
and that he is paid BY the Democratic
party for abusing it, is one of the alb
surdities that could only originate in
the Partisan brain-box.
The truth is, fanaticism is as preva
lent to-day as it was in the days o.
Summer and Garrison, and if it attracts
more largely from the Republican
than the Democratic party, it is solely
because the former is made up of the
fag-ends of all organized opposition W
to the fall of 1860, which success ant
the cohesive power OF public plumber
united for time into something like
a national party. Now that th@e in
fluences are gone, it crumbles like ,
rope of sand at tho bare touch, an(
that is why the, Partisan raises the or!
of Wolfw