Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-06-19
WHOLE NUMBER 1901.
A HERO OF OUR TIME.
Drawing Comfort from the Ashes
of Despair.


We are going to the st. Louis conven-
ton to see that the national convention
adopts the Everett platform.
The Republicans never had better
prospect of carrying this State than they
have this year.-John II. McGraw,
June 10, 1896
Nothing is more sublime than con-
fidence. "Self trust" says Emerson,
"self trust is the first secret OF sue
cess" And in the worlds changing
history none have seemed so heroic,
none have been esteemed more truly
great, than those who, at a time when
the blackest storm clouds hid their
pathway pressed on answering, un-
hesitating, undismayed.
The sky is still fiecked with the cur
ling smoke from Populist bonfires in
Oregon. The Colorado delegation at
st. Louis is waiting with trunks
checked and valises strapped, for the
signal to move to Chicago. The men
from Utah, Nevada, Wyoming, Mon
tana and Idaho, stand ready to go
where Colorado leads. The word has
come from Wall street that not one
concession can be made to the silver
men. The lieutenants of Mckinley
are crying: "Let the west go! Save
New York and New Jersey! Never
mind the silver States!"
"Tbe Republicans never had better
prospect of carrying this State than they
have this year."
Two years ago the parties that de.
clared for free coinage cast over $4,000
votes in Washington. The Republi.
cans on straddle plank cast less than
5000 and these only by naming two
free coinage men for Congress and
protesting that theirs was a silver
party too. Now these Congresmen
have been read out OF the party; Sen
ator Squire is sentenced and Senator
Wilson under surveillance for casting
silver votes; the King county leaders
have forced into the platform the gold
plank which men like Judge Moore
and Attorney General Jones declared
would "cost the party thousands of
votes" and "deed Eastern Washington
over to the Populists."
"The Republicans never had better
prospect of carrying this State than they
have this year,
Already, before the St. Louis con-
vention meets, the local candidates
for office are hesitating, drawing down
their names, going into business, or
"devoting their exclusive attention to
their mining interests" Already, be-
fore the platform is adopted, men who
have been the strength and sinew of
the party are quitting its lines. The
very newspapers which too often live
but by their factional loyalty, are de-
nouncing their own party's platform
in Stevens, Okanogan, Lincoln, Adams,
Whitman, Pierce and Spokane coun-
ties, till in this city only one poor lit
tie weekly stands out as a shamefaced
apologist, while the one weak party
organization that still lives is pleading
piteously that Spokane's delegate " use
his influence" for free coinage plank.
"The Republicans never had a better
prospect of carrying this State than they
have this year."
Standing amid the shattered ruins
of his party, stopping his ears to the
mighty shouts OF the bimetallists
shutting his eyes to the withdrawal ol
every honest silver man from the party
of gold, turning his back upon the
veiled menace of the A. P. A., heedins
neither the daggers of Pierce county
at its right hand, the dirks of the
Wilson men at his left nor the drawn
swords of the Squire legions before his
face, there is something grand, some
thing inspiring 10 this the war-cry
and the death-cry Of John McGraw:
"The Republicans never had a better
prospect of carrying this State than
they have this year"