Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-02-08

4 Delay that is Dangerous.

The C0mmoner, in commenting on
the North Yakima resolutions calling
upon Gov. Semple to exercise I'M
warranted and Illegal power by issu-
ing a proclamation for an election OF
delegates to a Constitutional Conven-
ton, declares that the movement
"sayors too much OF capital boom
and the designs OF sly politicians who
wish to capture the new State offices"
rather than the furtherance OF State
government for what good there may
he in it for the people. This PROPOSE
ton is so seli-evident that there is no
need for more than the mere statement
for it to be accepted as fact by ali
who have noted the progress Of recent
events.
Everything that has been done
since the election Of Mr.. Harrison has
been with view Of fastening the
time for stepping into the pool OF
Bethsaida soon as the waters were
stirred, and for smoothing the pathway
by which grand rush and jump may
be made soon as the angel OF deliver
ance flaps his wings. "The hungry
brigade" OF four years ago, who rallied
after twenty-four years sojourn in
the wilderness, was as mere corporals
guard to the whole regiments that are
now preparing to storm the citadel
soon as its key passes into the hands
of the chosen few who will for the
next four years command the en-
frances to official preferment.
The leaders of the Republican par
ty arc doubtless wise in making an
endeavor to produce hot-bed growth
of all the essentials for complete
victory. The result was too over
whelming to be attributed to a healthy
impulse of the popular will. The ma
jorities by which they obtain foot
hold were so universal as to surprise
themselves, and indicate abnormal
conditions which under other circum-
stances might with equal precision
sway the balance in the opposite d.
rection. The true policy was, and is,
to" Strike while the iron is hot" and
to rivet the links before a chilling
blast strikes the gowing mass. Al
ready the disappointment OF those
deluded classes who were made to be-
lieve that Republican success meant
steady employment at good wages, is
becoming apparent, as leading cor
porations, by successive turns of the
thumb-screws, indicate that the policy
of conciliation ended just as soon
as the ballots were counted.
It's knowledge of the heartless-
ness of the promises made, as we'll as
the murmurs of discomfort. that
prompts speedy action. 1t is an init
nation that the party will soon be
acting on the defensive that suggests
speedy realization OF the fruits Of
victory, before like Sodom's apples they
crumble ut the touch. 1t is to this
apprehension Of coming disaster that
the brilliant conception Of using the
Governor as o cats-paw to rake in
chestnuts before they are roasted,
may be attributed. What does it
matter to them if such nm act is un-
warranted by law, if it is only success
full. And with Republican Chief Ex-
ecutive and q Republican Congress,
they can safely guarantee that any ir-
regularity will be condoned, provided,
Of course, that Republican Senators are
elected and a Republican state gov.
eminent is set in motion before the
popular frenzy subsidies.
It is said, however, that the best
laid schemes "oft gang aglee," and
that this will follow that course is
more than probably from the evidences
Of awakening that is apparent all over
the land.