Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-07-12

Dimocrat" all the same You know
when we Dimocrats" went into the
Grand Army to whip. the Rebellion,
they called us all Republicans. That
makes it easy for us to keep our hand
in the public crib. When Cleveland
came in, | only had to tell him Il am
grandson of Old Jack Downing, OF
Downingville, who was the boon com.
panion and private counsellor of" Gin
eral' Jackson" That was enough foI
him to know. l got The postoffce at
Nawitkaville, and now | can keep it
under Harrison of course, because |
am in the Grand Army So You see
the advantage of having two strings
to fellows bow. I'm now working
for the poor fellows that were I'M
horsed by the Cleveland mule It's
kind OF dirty work that | don't like to
do. but if i refuse Pm afraid my Re
publican mule will begin to buck and
get me OIL. So wrote Harrison that
Hayden was i'll the Grand Army; that
the Cleveland mule bucked him Off;
that he didn't know how to do thing
but suck a treasury " tit and l was
afraid he'd starve to death unless he
put the tit" back in his mouth. So
l got him fixed all right.
I'm working for Ferry. | could fix
HIM II 1t was Federal "oilis," I'm
trying to give him. But, sad to know.
the people have got something to do
about him, and Pm awfully afraid
they hain't forgot his old political
tricks, and when he comes to be
weighed in the balance he'll be found
wanting. i try to keep down his old
partnership with Garhelie and Ross
and Pardee, and make the people Tor
get the political rottenness OF the
whole official ring at that time of
which Ferry was Ring Master But
like Banqno's Ghost " it won't down"
and I'm afraid We are going to have
hard time To get him nominated. That
done, my responsibility will end. He
then will be at the mercy of the PEG
pie, and they all have good memories.
The Good Lord have mercy on him
Pm trying to pull the wool over Har-
rison's eyes about the little pecauillos
of his unfortunate brother in-law The
people can't condone defaulter whom
the Grand Jury has indicted for felony.
Ii carried over his present embarrass
ments into "oifis," Harrison must DO
1t by dead lit. l shall do all / can
Tor the poor unfortunate, anu | have
great influence with Harrison because
I'm in the Grand Army, where the
lame duck is also. l have begun on
the old Treasury Agents that were un
horsed by the Cleveland mule. J.F.
Evans in spite of all his croOkedness |
is well OF his wound and reinstated |
right where he was when the mule |
kicked him, and don't intend that |
Horr shall stay long out in the cold
| think we are all right for eight years
The Prohibs are the only party we
have to fear. You Dimocrats" are
too honest on the liquor question.
Everybody knows where TO find YOU
You can do without the loaves and
fishes but you can't do without your
whisky, and you are too honest to
deny it. We Republicans love whisky
no less, but love the loaves and fishes
more. So like the >quire we take
little and talk "agin" it.
BY that means we hoodwink the Pro.
hibs and draw off enough votes from
them to give us the spoils We've
beat UNI" in Massachusetts, Rhode
Island, Pennsylvania and elsewhere,
and rs long as We can fool UNI" by
" taking little and and talking agin
It,, We can share the whisky with
the Democrats without letting them
share the spoils with us.
JACK DOWNING III.
NAwITKAvILLE, June. 1889.