Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-08-07
1Fa5hlngtun STANDARD
THE PARTING or TIE WAYS.


leading Republican PAPER has re-
nounccd It's allegiance to the Republic
can party IN the following:
For forty years Tie BE- has been
Republican paper. For forty years
II has followed the banner Of that
party under the cloudS AS well as in
III" sunshine. For forty wears, it has
stcadfa-tly, Loyalty. untlinchingly,
kept step to the music Of that organ
ization, and has ever been content to
he torchhearcr to help light others
on to the Mantua OF their political
hopes. For forty years THE BE has
been aS faithful to the Republican
party aS was Ruth to Naoma. when
she exclaimed on that bright morn
ing in Moab: Intreat me not to
leave thee, or TO return from following
after thee; for whether thou gocst, |
will go; and where thou lodgest, |
viii lodge; thy people shall be my peo-
pie. and thy God my God" For forty
years The Bee has trodden the path,
above which glittered the star OF Re-
publicanism, with far LEES OF COM
plant, far less OF murmur, than came
from the lips of the Israelites against
their Creator during the forty years
sojourn in the wilderness.
To-day The Bee is no less Repub-
llcan paper than it has ever been; to-
day The Bee is as thoroughly imbued
with sterling Republican principles as
1t was in those days when the Repub.
lican party was born and when above
his cradle shone the modern star Of
Bethlehem, presaging liberty to all
mankind and lighting up the dusky
face with the new and glorious revela-
ton OF freedom. n Not one Of
the new Republican papers, thank
God! but Republican journal of the
good old stock; Republican journal
of the days anterior to during and
after the war; Republican journal
which will ever be steadfast to true
kepulican principles, though it may
refuse to follow the lead of Uitlsnders
and Iscariots in the camp, who have
placed pelf above principle and who
have sold the birthright of the Repub-
lican party for a mass of Rothschild
pottage.
Standing thus as a Republican
paper-proud of its past and con.cien-
tlous in its present-The Bee declares
that it will not follow the Republican
party into its house of bondage, into
its land OF captivity, into its slavery to
the kings of Wall street. 1t will not
sacrifice its manhood and degrade it's
honor. 1t will not bastardize its Re.
publicanism by bowling the knee to
Mammon and accepting as an article |
of faith declaration of principle an
tagonistic to every interest of the peo-
pie, destructive of the welfare and
corrodihg to the progress OF the ma
ton, and beneficial only to those who
fatten and thrive upon the very life
blood Of the masses. 1t will mott
cannot-remain silent during the
coming campaign, and not point out
the base use to which the glorious
Republican party has been put-an
p organization at whose birth liberty
herself smiled, transformed into a
mere capper for the money jugglers
and the gold gamblers.
1t has cost much to write these
lines; but they are true, and they
should be written.
1t had looked forward, if not with
confidence. at least with some traces
of hope, to the pleasant task OF sup
porting Republican platform giving
protection to our people from the
clutches of the gold bandits of Eur
ope.
The Bee cannot march behind Will
liam Mckinley when he carries any
such Janus.faced banner. 1t cannot
sacrifice the principles of a lifetime to
complacently accept what it believes
to be an outrageous wrong upon the
people-the shackling OF the masses
with the single gold standard, to their
own undoing and to the ruination of
the country. 1t cannot and will not
doff its coat of independent manhood
to substitute therefore garment of
servitude to moneyed oligsrchy
which is yearly robbing the nation and
this people out OF hundreds of mil
lions OF dollars.
In the meantime, asks the reader,
what does The Bee propose to do? 1t
will continue to preach, as it has ever
preached, the doctrines OF true Re-
publicanism-those doctrines upon
which its youth was nurtured, for
which 1t has battled during all OF Its
manhood, and which, let us hope, will
be with it in its green old age.
True to that principle, true to it.
self, and true to its history, The Bee
will support for President of the
United States that Abraham Lincoln
of the West, the Hon. Henry NJ. Tel
Ter. of Colorado, if that loyal son of
the people shall come before the citi
Gems on such platform.
1t will 60 further than that. 1t
will state that it will battle loyalty,
thoroughly, and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
whatever of vigor it may possess, and
with whatever of ability God may
have endowed it with-for the candi-