Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-12-12

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later information is for the ladies
alone.
Austin, the grain buyer, Baker, the
young Tacoma millionaire, Long, the
sensible and practicable farmer from
Lewis, Ncstal the Snohomish mer-
chant, and Watt, the Spokane county
farmer, arc Ohio men.
O'Ncill, Platt Preston, OF Walla
Walla, the flour mill man and grain
buyer, Thompson, OF Pierce, the big
hop grower, and Banker Van Houten,
Of Spokane are New Workers.
Three Hoosiers are young Claypool,
kinncar, of King, a veteran legislator
and good one, us well us veteran oi
the late war, and Owings, of Thurston,
who was in the saddle with Grant and
with Sherman and is a strong man on
the floor.
Drum and Easterday, OF Pierce, and
Forrest, of King, II trio under 40 years
Of age, are from the " Sucker" State,
and Illinois never sent away from her
borders much better men. Drum Is
banker, yesterday Il lawyer and For
rest an accountant and mercantile
man.
There are four members from the
State which lately "sat down" SO
heavily on Matthew Stanley Quay's
friend Delamater They are Forsyth,
the lumberm an, Frink, the iron foun-
der, McCarty, the accountant, and
Rutter, the miner. Singular to say,
they were all born and raised in the
beautiful valleys and in sight OF the
grand mountains of the interior of the
keystone State and not very far from
each other.
Hyde, the Spokane banker, Luce,
the Davenport banker and real estate
dealer, and Wilson, of Ellensburgh,
the man who recently engineered his
namesake's last victory for Congress,
are from the Badger State and are ali
young men well known in Washing
ton.
Van De Vanter, the successful young
hop grower of King county, is lone
Michisander. Edens, of Skagit, is the
only Southern man. He is from
"Kaintucky, sah."
Hastings is the only member of the
Senate born on the Pacific slope. He
first saw the light of day "where rolls
the Oregon" or at least the Will
liamette. He is product of beauti-
full Portland, and his father was a
pioneer of that large city, and of what
is going to be large one in the near
future-Port Townsend.
Dyer, of Seattle, who will make a
good working Senator, and Eshelman,
of Yakima, are both from Missouri,
the former 80 and the latter 80.
There is but one Spaniard in the
Senate, but he was not born in Spain
In the East they derisively call a
Jerseyman Spaniard. Just why
they do so is forgotten by the writer,
because the jersey Blues were staunch
Americans during the revolutionary
period and have been so ever since, if
they do vote the Democratic ticket so
persistently. Senator II. c. Cooper,
OF Chehalis, comes from New Jersey
and worked on his fathers farm oppo-
site Philadelphia. He is Republican.
1 am reminded here that the State
gets its name from the greatest man
OF ancient history, Julius Caesar. For
him was named the island OF jersey
(Jersera), off the English coast, and
the State was named New Jersey from
that island. Mr.. Cooper will represent
part of State named after better
man-George Washington.
Five members of the Senate were in
the Union army. Austin, Kinnear,
Owings, Parkinson and McCarty, the
latter long after the war. The last
Senate had eight veterans of the war
OF the rebellion.
The lawyers are in the lead. There
are eight Of them in the Senate; seven
tillers of the soil, two bankers, several
real estate agents, accountants, mer-
chants, etc.
The average age of the Senators is
As years. Only six of them are above
so years OF age. Thirteen of them are
under 40 years OF age, and more than
half of them came to Washington
during the present decade. The new
Senate has no member to the manor
born, nor had the first Senate.