Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-09-10
Washin9tun STANDARD
OLYMPIA. WASH.
FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1897.
Thoroughly Hated.

i'"iN l'IbHdplI IltNtT WIS an cNttu-
tive Of any state that for the short
time he has been in Office has become
more thoroughly hated and dcspised
than John X. Rogers. He never had
many friends and his nomination was
the result of one of those freaks which
sometimes matcrialize in Populist
conventions.
As the result turned cut at the polls,
the proverbial yellow dog" would
have been elected, if he had stood at
the head OF the Fusion ticket, as easily
as was the crank from Puyallup. The
standing of the men on the State
ticket had nothing to do towards pro-
noting or avcrting success. 1t was
simply a popular uprising to rebuke
extravaganza and machine methods of
the &. p.
1t might have been expected that a
person elevated to Office under such
circumstances and holding by such a
frail tenure the personal regard of the
public, would have been careful to cul-
tivate the good will Of the people and
scrupulous in fulfilling all prediction
promises and pledges. Not so with
our conceited accidency, who-with
the presumption of men of his caliber
seems to think that his elevation is
due to a recognition and appreciation
of those peculiar traits of character
which are the basis of his self-worship;
for with an arrogance born of pro-
found egotism, and an utter disregard
OF truth and honor, he at once pro-
cecded to use the power vested in him
to crafty the spleen he felt to some
political opponents and an attempt to
build up personal following by arbi-
trary removals from Office and selec-
ton of favorites for position, with an
autOcratic intimation to them that his
will in all things must have full sway.
As characteristic of the swagger of
this yeritable Bombastis Furioso, we
reprint from the Spokane Chronicle
a paragraph from an interview lately
had in which he says ir response to
the suggestion that the Supreme Court
had sustained his veto of the Cheney
Normal School:
Eyes. The people of Cheney are
very selfish in this matter. 1t was the
same thing with the people of Olympia.
They wanted the new capitol building
put there at an enormous expense to the
State and were very wroth at my veto,
but l find the taxpayers of the State
have endorsed my action"
In his opinion it is, of course, moth
ing but selfshness which prompts any
human motive: he measures every
body's grist in his own pint measure,
and by squeezing its bottom he can
make his own pile little the larger,
and his neighbours little the smaller,
even though the quantity be limited
by his contracted methods.
Here again, it will be seen, he adj
heres to his stalwart bald-headed lie
that there would be an "enormous
expense" to the State in the construc.
ton of capitol to be built from the
proceeds of land grant from the
general government. It was not sell
fishness which made the people of
Olympia "wroth" so much as the in
justice Of the veto and the frivolous
reasons given to support it, as well
as the malevolent motive which was
known to have prompted it. The as.
sumption that the people of the State,
aside from few political tricksters and
some land SPECTATORS "endorse" his
action, is just as palpable lie as the
other.
His accidency knows that he is stat
ing falsehood when he makes such
an assertion, but by so doing and hav-
ing it printed he gratifies that vindic-
tive trait of character for which he is
SO noted and he actually imagines, as
he vulgarly expresses it, that he is
"spitting over the heads of his enc
miles,"
Verify, "Where ignorance is bliss tits
folly to be WISE"
Htumn Si0nR