Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-10-19
Weak Brain and Faint Heart.


The efforts of the McGraw organ to
inlusc some appearance OF life into
the corpse OF Eepublicani>m, puts one
in mind OF the boy who whistled
while passing through the graveyard
to keep his courage up. The fact is
that every effort to galvanize the rot
ten hulk into activity has met with
decided failure, the connection by the
spinal cord between brain and av0irdu
pois evidently being completely sew
cred
! The opening meeting in the theater,
Saturday night, was a dismal failure
in all excepting numbers. The at
tendance was large, owing mainly to
curiosity, but the applause accorded
to the disconnected harrangue of Mr.
Hyde was invariably led by three OF
the employees of the McGraw admin
istration who sun their shins daily at
exorbitant salaries. Even the Re-
publican fuglemen acknowledged that
Sam was not at his best" leaving
the tired auditory nerve to infer what
would have been the impression left
| had he been at his worst. Mr.. Hyde
attributed all the evils of the day to
the present administration, alluding
to thirty years of uninterrupted Re-
publican rule" as productive of the
highest form OF prosperity, and ap-
peared entirely oblivious, that four Of
those most prosperous years the same
man who now sits in the Presidential
chair occupied the White House, and
turned the Government over to
Grandfather's Hat" with an over
flowing treasury, in an era of peace
and plenty. Mr.. Hyde seemed to be
impelled by the idea that by ignoring
damaging facts for his party they
were crushed out of existence, and his
whole discourse was based upon this
sophistical idea.
Mr.. Claypool began his speech as
most young men do, with patroniz-
ing reference to my people," He
said he liked applause, and the plau-
dts of mis- own people" OF Tacoma
went straightest to his heart. But he
was liberal; his heart was one of the
larger sort, and it could bear an i'm
mense strain, and next to the plaudits
OF the Tacoma people" the claquing
Of his Olympia friends found the
readiest echo in his responsive organ.
Whether there is any room left for
the crest OF mankind" or not, is a
subject on which his hearers were left
in profound ignorance, and that was
really the most important point pre-
sented in his puerile speech.
An unknown Populist, said to be
from Spokane created the only ripple
OF merriment amid the funeral gloom
which hung over the meeting. He
interrupted Gov. McGraw who pre-
sided and introduced the speakers.
and almost knocked that gentleman
off his pins. The Governor, in his
professed hatred of everything Demo-
cratic made statement which lie
thought best to modify, and in his en-
deavor to explain what he meant, the
opportunity was afforded for the
gentleman who carries his mouth at
full cock. "You needn't try to ex-
plain-you can't do it," exclaimed this
Aea-like exaspirator, and the executive
face became flushed with anger as he
resumed his laborious tasks.
Soon as the speeches had concluded,
the Governor shut off all further I'M
pleasantness by suggesting three
cheers for the speakers, which were
given, but seemed but a faint echo of
the huzzas of former campaigns. be-
fore connection with the brains of the
party had been severed.