Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-11-30
Gaby Ranews the Conflict.

Their" i an a,!acc about the ionl
lighting who docs not know Wh,n lie
gets enough. which We commend
to the attention ii Philosopher Gahv,
although We do not wish him to infer
from the suggestion that we tire OF
the task Of making it lively for him
so long a. he may choose to veutilate
his opinions through the public press.
The zeal oi new convert is always
eNcU-abie, To an extent, and it il for
him to Judge when the limit is reached.
Philosopher Gaby says We pay the
Hepubiiran party high compliment
10y the intimatiOn that he is counting
his OWE personal preferment therein
10y his plea for economy, Why, bless
your soul, don't you know that it is
the practice of all Republican As
pirants to profess all the virtues of the
truly good Ia get into Office, and to
ignore ali promises soon as the goal OF
ambition is attained? Don't YOU
know that Republican platforms are
like car platforms made only to get in
on? DO you profess to be any better
than many who have preceded you in
the race to the public stalls?
Our philosophical friend possesses,
however, very little political shrewd-
ness, as is shown by his attack upon
those already entrenched behind power.
His suggestions for salary reduction
will gag in the threats of those who
have already firm hold OF official
teats. His suggestion for hard
times constitution" will be regarded
as the veriest nonsense by those who
have not yet been brought face to
face with alarming financial prob
lens for support of themselves and
families. 1t is only the Populist or
the Democrat who favors such
schemes. Republicans believe heart
lily in letting we'll enough alone, and
the "well enough" is gagged from
their own personal experiences OF
utility. Don Quxiote with his iron
pot for helmet and his sword of tin,
never undertook more hopeless task
than to make the Republican party
the instrument of retrenchment of
public expenses, and Philosopher
Gaby may, as he intimates, be COM (,
PEELED to head the taxpayers in a
crusade against all parties for relief.
Having literally "boxed the compass"
in party sense, his only alternative
will be to form a party of his own to
meet the emergency. In this he will
have q parallel in the story about the
great agitator, Thad Stevens, when he
went to his final account. 1t is said
that when His Satanic Majesty looked
over Thad's record, he ordered his
chief stoker to give him a bushel OF
birthstone and box OF matches with
the direction to 60 to the remotest
precincts of the internal regions and
start a hell of his own. "Wby
POUNDS" Numbered the Devil, "hed
raise such hell here. that l would
soon be turned out of my own do
minions."
One word, Br'r Gaby, with reference
to the responsibility for the city in
debtedness. The writer was not "the
father and sponsor" of the Council of
1891. which discounted the future"
so fearfully as to place the people
financially in hole, and an examina-
ton Of the records will show that his
vote is recorded against nearly, if not
quite all, the propositions which led
to the heavy debt which now confronts
us. The Council was ran by such
Republican shining lights as Messrs.
J. c. Horr, Geo. L. Sickles, Edward
Hardness, r. A. Ford, SamI Percival,
T. ]. McBratney and Samr G. Ward,
and the name OF the writer almost
invariably appeared in opposition to
the extravagant policy of those
"boom" times. So philosopher and
friend, Shake not thy CORY locks at
me; did it not"