Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-04-24

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Confidence is word OF strange i'm
port these days. 1t is said to be all
tina. is needed and that it supplies
the place OF hard cash, except to pay
taxes and salaries, when, believe the
County Auditor wisely prefers the
| coin.
We say the County Attorney advised
the board, when asked, that it would
be legal; that you had confidence in
the opinion of the cou nty attorney
yet refused to draw the warrant. If
the Commissioners, acting on Roots
advice, approved the plan and you
refused full confidence in the legal
opinions of Root, what good genius
impelled you to defy the two combined
powers, and gain the credit OF having
throttled an Unprecedented and danger.
GUS scheme?
Kind reader we have now ascended
by four steps to the great White"
throne, and arriving at the pedestal
thereof. See carved thereon 40. C.
White, State Printer"
What ominous words to taxpayers.
Absorbing more Of official plunder than
any two Of the other State officers with
all their bOom.time accomplishments
combined!
The salaries OF others are out OF all
proportion to the times and the ability
OF the State to pay them, but while
the other offices are gold mines for
| the fortunate occupants, the State
Printer has bonanza. The bitterest
foe and most dangerous man to re-
trenchment and reform in the county
OF ThurstOn, is not the smooth and
tactful Scobey or the crafty Root, but
the suave and polished State Printer,
o. c. White"
For whom have nominations been
unanimousY o. c. White.
Who could procure the passage for
his individual benefit of a fifty-two
thousand, five hundred dollar def
cheney appropriation and at the same
session of the Legislature have an addi-
tional appropriation of seventy thou.
sand dollars moref o. C. White.
Think of the stupendous sum OF one
hundred and twenty-five thousand, five
hundred dollars of interest-bearing
warrants added to the grievous burden
borne prior to the legislature OF 1893
1t is true that some OF it went for ma
terial and that several men have been
employed by you, Mr.. White, but you
have acquired wealth during times OF
great distress, while others have lost
everything.
1t is one of the anomalies of the age
that in politics the beneficiary, whether
he extorts or cajoles money from the
peoples representatives., is free from
the penalties allotted in law to the re-
ceiver of stolen or Incorporated
goods; the former is applauded, the
latter is execrsted and punished.
But in lending your name to bolster
up the falling fortunes of emilio A.
Root" who is leading the opposition to
reform, you have mistaken the temper
of the people.
In what was 1 mistaken Do you
want the people to believe that Mr..
Root and not Mr.. Agnew begun the
suit?
Will you openly and not covertly
declare that Mr.. Root was the princi-
pal attorney and that you employed
Mr.. Haight "to assist him.? Pray
how did you "join in the case? Is
your name connected with it?
Did Mr.. Root after that time address
one word to court, prepare paper
or furnish one word for brief?
II you did not assume the cost, what
do you think of County Attorney
who will surrender his post that pri-
vate individual may profit thereby
without some security?
And why should Thurston county
be represented by the private attorney
of the devouring corporation person.
flied by o. C. White2
The people want to hold their elected
officers responsible for the trust con.
fided to them, and their agents have
no right to surrender it at the behest
of o. G. White, and thereby saddle
over one hundred thousand dollars Of
additional interest-bearing debt on
their shoulders.
1 will now ask Mr.. o. C. White a
few questions:
How many tons of paper have you
used in printing at public expense
that was no benefit to the State of
Washington?
What would be fair compensation
in proportion to current wages for the
necessary public printing of the Statef
How many thousand bills have been
printed during sessions of the legisla.
ture that would not have ordered
printed by legislature unfriendly to
the State Printer, or by one mindful
of the public interests?
Believing that reform is absolutely
necessary and that it is impossible in
this State, unless o. C. White is re-
moved from the arena OF State and
county politics, and knowing his per.