Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-07-02
OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 1897

with 100000 cranks like those who
composed CoXey's army, or its counter
part, the gang that followed Jumbo"
Cantwell across this State, obstructing
lines of transportation, destroying
property, plundering peaceable citi-
zens, and advertising this state to the
world as being in the hands of an ire
sponsible band of robbers? There
may be those who will say Governor
Rogers does not want such people rs
composed the followers of "Jumbo )"
and Coxey, yet everybody knows, save
Rogers, it is that kind only who would
be sufficiently wild and visionary as to
place their destiny, their fortunes and
their future material welfare and
prosperity into the keeping of such a
I man as Debs. 1t is boldly asserted
that Governor Rogers has for months
been scheming to get this kind of ma
terial here to the end that he and his
kind may dominate this State politi-
cally and economically. The Governor
seems to be anxious to reinforce his
following by making Debs his recruit
ing agent to the end that he may per-
manently fasten this putrid mass of
excresence upon the body polite of
this fair young State. At the last
meeting of Debs and his followers in
Chicago, Lucy Parsons, the wife of the
bomb-throwing murderer, who was
hanged for his crime, was invited to
occupy a seat on the stage with Debs.
When she made her appearance the
followers of Debs went wild with ex-
citement, shouting and screaming
with delight to be permitted to honor
the memory of Parsons and pay hon.
age to this negress by indorsing that
which she and her wretched husband
represented, ask, in all condor, do
the good people of this state want
100000 of this kind of creatures to
settle in their midst? What the
people and press of the state should
do is to repudiate the statement of
Governor Rogers that Debs and his
following will be welcomed by the
people of this State. To be misrepre-
sented in so grave a matter is an Of
fense that cannot be lightly regarded.
1t might be we'll to state here that
no New York nor any other paper
would have ever called upon John r.
Rogers for his views in regard to the
Debs colonization scheme nor any
other scheme, while it was very natural
for a New York paper to call for the
views of the chief executive of the
state as to how the people of this state
felt in regard to this matter. The
presumption would, of course, be
natural that man who had received
the suffrages of IKE people for governor
would be sufficiently intelligent to
know as to public opinion upon this
question and honest enough to tell the
truth; but it seems from his answer
that he is either deficient in one or in.
capable in the other. 1t is known
outside of the state that the men who
elected him would at the first oppor-
tunity repudiate him at the polls, and
that he is, after the short period of six
months in Office, distrusted by ma
jority Of the aggregation that elected
him, and if we are to believe the
fusion press-heartily despised by his
former admirers. In the interest of
property rights, the good name of the
people of this state, we owe it to our
selves to be placed right before the
world. The injury we have received
by the misrepresentation of the Gov
ernor should be resented and corrected
in every way possible by the press and
the people. Impracticable and vision
ary as the Governor is, sincerely be-
lieve he knows that a majority of all
parties in this state do not want Debs,
his following or his so-called civiliza-
ton. That outside of the lazzaroni
under him and a subsidized press, all
good men bitterly oppose the entire
programme, and when John r. Rogers
informs the New York papers that the
people of this state want Debs and his
colonization scheme, save few Re-
publican politicians" he betrays the
people of this State and abuses the ex-
alted position he now disgraces by de-
liberately stating that which he knows
| to be false. OLD SETTLER.