Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-04-09
An Official Mount.

i''"l''>. ana IL may not therefore Ia
.nrolcr /" ~tatr a motive 10y III
fr'sllh" that in~j2miicant fact upon
tia public.
I'll" motive j. t. not tl:, fact that
during Nj. Ratnhlm'- absence at the
mines one OF his acciIcncy'~ hirclings
iIt~ mounted the tripod" to hurl an
athcma> at tn" SrANrAEp, and like
ne giraffe when il discovered a mouse
hcligcrantly nihhlng ut its feet, we
i'"l inclined To- piicr the same iniunr-
ti"n, " Fight away if it does ynll any
good, hnt look ont We do not step on
y"u without knowing it,"
The Idiio{ium Immediately after
the veto OF the capital bill, condemned
in proper terms that oiiicious act, but
since then it has doubtless discovered
4 better field for "foraging" on the
other side, although its editor has to
perform that undigniiicd act of skin
ming Il cat" to get on the other side of
the matter.
In order to show the animus of our
tcn0s tHlicum, We quote Il few SEN
fences, not to strengthen or defend
our position but to show how untruth-
full and unfair his accidency's man
" Friday" can be:
q 1t does not occur to the STANDARD to
defend the vetoed bill. There is no
claim that it was 4 wise and judicious
public measure; there is no effort to
show that the burden of it could be
borne by an already overburdened treas
ury. But with an illiberality toward
those who differ from its editor, even 10
the slightest extent, with logic that is
fallacious, inuendoes that are unfair, per-
sonalltles that are mean, our neighbor
empties its walls Of wrath and personal
abuse And i'll its representative capac-
ltv as a newspaper, it does so in the
name of the people of Olympia. We
protest; for while the people of this city
do not endorse the reasons assigned by
the Governor for vetoing the bill, and
feel keenly disappointment over its
tate, they are not approving the grovel-
ling course of the STANDARD. Notwith-
standing their disappointment they have
sufficient respect for propriety to treat
the veto with the dignity that attaches
to an executive act.
If the STANDARD has not amply
shown that the capitol bill was "a
wise and judicious public MEASURE"
the people the judges, it is just as true
that it did not sway the vote Of Thurs
ton county for his accidency, propo-
sition nobody will dispute. If it has
not shown, time without number, the
contemplate meanness of claiming, or
by implication admitting, that "the
burden of it [debtl would be borne by
an already overburdened treasury" it
has never used the scalpel in probing
virulent ulcers in the body polite, a
presumption so contrary to its record as
doubtless to cause smile from the few
who read the Palladium. 1.-THE STAND
ARD has been "illiberal" in its argu-
guments; if it has INDUCED in in
nuendoes" or personalities" that are
"unfair" or mean; if we have
opened walls OF wrath and personal
abuse"-all of which is alleged by our
unreasonable critic-we have merely
to direct attention to the fact that it
has but voiced the sentiments and
feelings of ninety and nine out OF each
and every hundred of our county's
population, for full and complete JUS
tifcation. Such unanimity of senti-
ment cannot be far from right. The
ancients reverenced the will of the
people so highly as to liken it to the
voice of God.
Probably, however, the executives
scribe has not stated the truth. 1t
may be that self-interest has SO blind
ed him to the truth that he is unable
to distinguish the difference between
Just and fair criticism of public act
and the personal abuse he alleges of its
author. The act itself is often SO near
ly allied to the one performing it and
its manner of performance, that it is
difficult to separate them. 1t may be,
from the very fact that he is champ
ing his bit at the public Manager, he is
incapacitated from being an unpreju-
diced critic OF the STANDARD and its
course ON this matter.
In strict keeping with the untruth-
full statement of the course and temper
of this paper, is the allusion to the al
legged grovelling course of the STAND
ARD" The word grovel means to
"creep, to crawl, to bow down to, to
cringe," and if there is anybody in
Thurston county or the State of Wash
ington who has discovered in the
STANDARD or its editor any disposition
to grovel before his accidency or his
hirelings, he is respectfully invited to
rise in judgment. The fact is, that
now, as in times past, the STANDARD
has been the refuge of the people,
their knight-errant, their champion,
without any consideration as to posi-
BILE personal benefit from the powers
that be; and it is just the converse of
this proposition that actuates our
other local papers to fawn and cringe
to anybody who, for the nonce, is en-
dowed with little brief authority.
And now comes the Olympian, copy
ing approvingly the above extract from
the little "patent outsider" with the
intimation that Notwithstanding "Bro.
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