The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-01-20
King COUNTY usyrsrLr AssArLED.
1T Has Never Been Unfair in its Treat
ment OF other Sections.

cEATTLE, $zI- ~ 1rlt-
TO THE EDn0g King county has been the
object Of more political vilfaeation in past years
thar all other PARTS Of the commonwealth COM
bred The cause OF this = plain enough Her
political, commercial aad social achievements
have been great and grand beyond rivalry
Feelings OF enys. scaiousy end hatred, SIS bitter
Is they we're unesIied for, were engendeTed IN
lesser communities, and found their expression
III sneeTs and faiseboods, Ia efforts 70 deprive
and destroy, ard III attempts to prejudice and
mite the people Of the territory or state gener.
ally against *. The most common, repeated
and unjust charge has been that OF greed, of the
desire 10 get more than We were entitled 10 or
ought 10 have. and this hiss been ruug with its
various changes until It's mOBot0ay hes become
actually painful.
That il hss had the effect intended has been
apparent On many occasions. our own people,
new 70 the country, and unacqHaim.ed With the
facts or history, being often inbued with the iT-
preston that the charge had solid foundation in
truth. To disabuEe the people OF other counties
OF this Idea, Cur 0Sn people hsye as rule been
extremely modest IN their political ambitions,
petitions ana demands. With the biggest dele
cation in the legislature, they would refrain
from presenting themselves as candidates for
presiding officer, permitting inferior men to Sc
cure the bonogs and enlOlunents instead With
the most numerous and able bar ia the territory,
no citizen was given a 5ndgeship for th1rty-six
years, our highest judicial officers being ali sent
20 as from Port Townsend. Olympia, Walla
walla or elsewhere. Nine Of the last ten con-
gressional terms were and are represented By
citizens Of Eastern Washinston-three by Brents
and two by Alien, of W8llz Walia, and two by
voorhees, ard two By Wilson. OF Spokane-the
tenth term being the abbreviated one OF senator
Squire. During the long period of our territorial
condition but one citizen Of seattle was ar
pointed governor, one attorney and one
f..afrs rnH fs4ffp
OF customs, secretary. surveyor general, Indian
superintendent or other lucrative, prominent
place Three Wslla Wallans were appointed
narshals, three governors, two judges and q
numerous company Of others 10 official posi-
tons only little less distinguished. The
honors bestowed upon Oiympians were even
more numerous than upon Walla Wallans.
Port Townsend's scanty bar had two judges
taken from ii. ana as a rule the collector was
esther resident OF that town or OF some place
near By. Pierce county has received It's free
share OF official piums in the past. There are
more old soldiers in King than in any other
county in the state; yet the proposed home is
located in Pierce. More teachers are employed
IN King than any ether county, yet no one here
asks normal school. There is 10 better place
IN ire state for the scientific or agricultural col
lege: yet we are told We mustn't think Of 1t.
The capitol, asyIuuls reform institutions all go
elsewhere, though King county IS the heart Of
TIE STATE with more fAan one-sixih the p0pula-
ton and wealth of the whole. Our people are
deIied and denounced il they enGeaxor TO OBJ
tain the help oi the general government IN any
enterprise no matter how laudable or how valu-
able il would be % the state st large Looking
al il from peeuniaEy standpoint, Walla WaIla,
ThuTston, Pierce aud jefferson counties with
combined population only - per cent greater
than thatof King alone, have federal and state
patronage exceeding Kings by 1000 per CENT.
And yet our people are seemingly considered
selfish and audaeious whenever they betray an
aspiration outside their own cSunty limits.
They must continue 10 receive official carpet
baggers from north, south, east and west. but
must not think OF reciprocity in that direction.
They should be content 10 be represented in
Washington City fer all time 70 come hy citizens
Of spokane, Pierce, Thurston, skagit and other
counties, and they should he very careful how
they refer 70 the shabby treatment given them,
or the uniyersitF-the Oldest, best and most
deserving, but most meanly treated Of all the
state instifutions-wiu be taken from them.
II there was any real ground for the abuse
heaped upon the leading county Of the state it
might be borne az least in silence but as there
Is not It's continuance year after year has be-
come wrong deserving OF exposure and pro-
test THOMAS W PEoScH