Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-05-09
Withered Hopes.

The Tribune is prccocious bant-
ling. TWAS born with its eye-teeth
cut. 1t had the most skillful of doc
tors and the most careful of nurses,
when it passed the period Of partura-
ton. Its eyes were open from the
hour of its birth and it had the dis
cernment to discover which side its
bread was buttered on from the mo-
ment its tiny lungs were inflated with
the breath Of life. Its range Of vision
was broad. No pent-up Utica con-
tracted its powers. 1t looked abroad,
and saw the city of Tacoma about to
engage in local contest. At once
its sympathies were enlisted, and its
first lisped utterance was Is Tacoma
a Republican city,"
Nothing, however, is surprising that
emanates from Olympia--that is moth
ing Of superlatively high intellec-
tual order. The question involved
some knowledge OF facts and of logical
inference that would 90 far to substan-
tate the theory of transmigration of
souls and induce the belief that some
one of the cid stagers III politics, who
has passed from the scenes of life, is
now animating ncwly-found medium
Of perpc;uating D faith that seems lit
orally bred in the bone and born in
the flesh.
The Tribune gave as the cause of its
solicitude its conviction that snow or
never" was "the time for the people
OF Tacoma to show that the City of
Destiny is Republican city," Now
or never, was the chance of her saliva
ton. If Tacoma wanted an U. S.
Senator to succeed Squire, now was
the time to make that want known by
a good, healthy, Republican majority.
If Tacoma did not want Seattle to
"walk away with the plums at the
next Legislature, as it did in the last"
it should elect the whole Republican
ticket. This was the burden of its
song, varied by expressions of conf
dence in the stay-bility of Tacoma Re-
publicans.
But alas! The Tribune was false
prophet. Its predictions were not
verified. The people elected Stuart
Rice, the Democratic candidate for
Mayor. with six of the eight Council
men, and instead of "blasting the
hopes Of the Democracy" as the Tri-
bune's headline declared would be the
result, have immeasurably added to
the confidence formerly entertained
in the ultimate triumph of true prin-
ciples.
The Tribune declares that corpora
tions and saloons combined for the &C
complement Of this object. This is
the usual fustian of the demagogue,
and corroborates the opinion expressed
Of its control" The fact is that the
Republican party is, and ever has
been, the party Of trusts and COM
hines. It's great head, the Plumed
knight, declares them to be . matter
largely Of private concern, over which
the people, through their legally con-
stituted representatives, have no au-
thorisy. Il has stood by the moneyed
corporations, the wealthy manufac-
tuners and the snobs of the social
realm, on all OCCASIONS. Our own
State affords = memorable instance
Of this, and when the issue was fairly
made between corporate greed and the
interests Of the people, the result left
no doubt on which side the popular
heart was beating. It was not an
Aof year in politics, when the valiant
Charley voorhees, downed the corpora
ton gang, nor was there = combina-
ton with the saloon element, which
Tia Tribune 90 much contemns, when
that result Was brought about. That
combination, likewise, is generally
made BY the party of brag.