Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-07-13
Personal Accountability.

Personal Accountability.
At last the poor Ledger has got ,
libel suit for $4,000 damages Oh it,
hands. Theodore Wiese, of Chicago
says his reputation has been blasted t.
just that amount by the publication o
defamatory matter in an article en-
tilted "a Double Bunco Came" re
garding Wiese's enterprises in Chicago
which are Twentieth Century Pres.
Clipping Bureau" and publication o
" The Newspaper Blue Book" Mr.. w
has probably placed his damages a
figures which will admit of liberia
scaling before reaching proper rec
ompense for the injury inflicted, fol
we doubt very much whether the Led
ger could damage anybody to tina
amount, and it seems to us that tn,
real injury, if any, will result from the
publicity given to the matter by insti
tuition OF suit;
1t appears to us to be just another
such a case as was presented nearly
half a century ago, when Georg,
Blankenship, ST., was Sheriff of thi
county. The Pioneer and Democrat
edited by J. W. Wiley, was then tn,
only paper in the Territory. In the
course of time it happened that Mr.. w
had occasion to criticize some officia
act of Mr.. B. Meeting Mr.. Wiley on
the street, the Sheriff proceeded to up
braid him for unfriendly comment,
against a member of his own party
" WE'LL" replied the editor, in con
ciliatory tone, If the Pioneer has sale
anything that has done you injustice
it will retract." Retract, be-w re
torted the irate Sheriff.; who has said
anything about your measly paper!
1t is what you have said personally
that l object to. You can print any
thing you please in your blasted pa
per; but if you speak i'll of me on the
street again. will hold you to a per
sonal accountability, strand DOM
you forget il" And a vigorous shake
of the fist near the astounded editor.
nose left no doubt of the kind of &C
countability that would be demanded
if the offense was repeated.
ADMIRAL Kempff showed his hard
common sense when he refused to Join
in the demand for the surrender of the
Taku forts, on the ground that it was
and that it would only
provoke the Chinese to reprisals
against the unfortunate foreigners in
Pekin. He deserved a better fate than
to be superseded for his conduct in
Difference to lingo cutlery. The admin.
istration was quick, however, to seize
upon the opportunity for charging an
adverse turn in the fortunes of wal
upon the officer in command. There
is nothing truer than that "the blood
of the soldier makes the glory of the
General" as we'll as that righteousness
of arbitrament by the Sword depends
upon which banner Success may be-
stow her favor.
WHY has the Democratic conven.
ton excited SO much more attention
than the Republican? Simply be-
cause the latter was cut-and-dried and
its duties were practically all per-
formed beneath Mark Hanna's hat.
brim, while the Democratic was gen.
uine convention of men who met to
fight out their differing ideas for the
future OF the party and the country.
Then again, the country is looking for
some means of relieving the people
from impending ruin, and where else
can the eye turn except to party
large enough, able enough and homes
enough to undertake the task OF veer.
ing the ship from the breakers and di.
recting her course 80 as to catch again
the trade winds of prosperity.
The Chinese news still continues to
be perfect muddle. Tho foreign resi-
dents have been slaughtered and re-
vivifed at least a dozen times with.
in the past fortnight. The Chinese
Governor OF Shan Tung reports July
4th that all the legations at Pekin
were safe, except the German. Tn.
Emperor asks England, Russia and
Japan for aid in suppressing rebellion.
Prince Tuan proclaims himself Emper-
or and commends the work of the
Boxers. Gen. Macarthur has ordered
lIO3S men of the 18th Infantry and
9th Artillery to leave Manila to-day
for Taku. Japan expects to mass 3d.
OOO troops in China before the rainy
season sets in. The State Department
signifies a willingness Of the United
States to act concurrently with other
to suppress instruction
in Pekin.
THE ST. LOUIS CAR-LINE TROUBLES
REsUMED.-The strike of the Street
Union has broken out
again in st. Louis. A compromise
was effected on the I'd inst, whereby
the boycott was declared off, but the
union affirms that the details we're
not kept by the company, and al
though that body denied the allega-
lion and proposed to leave the matter
10 the union-men's attorney for deci.
sion. they rejected the proposal and