Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-11-02
A GAME OF BLUFF.
THE REPUBLICANS ARE WORK.
ING ENTIRELY ON CHEEK
And JawbOne-The Silent Vote will do the
Work-CrocodiIe Tears Shed Over Sherman
How the National Bank System Works-Gov-
eminent Officers on Furloush to Vote the
Republican Ticket.

Qen5 election, ne established pTect-
dent that has been slavishly followed
by the Republican managers of every
national campaign since. The Repub.
licans have already reelected Mckin-
ley, according to their claims, and the
voting ten days hence will be a mere
formality. The object of this bluff
and buster is so plain that he who
runs may read it. Once get that
large portion of the public which takes
no personal part in politics other than
to vote to accept the idea that Nc
Kinley's election is assured, and the
way will be paved to work Hanna's
plans to secure the election by the
corrupt use of money and any other
crooked way that presents itself, and
those who know little or nothing
about the manipulation OF political
machinery will be more apt to accept
the result 50 obtained because it had
been SO confidently claimed before
election. "He laughs best who laughs
last" The Democratic managers
could shatter some OF the Surface ill.,
dications," which the Republicans are
pointing out as assuring McKinley's
election, but TO do SO they would have
to show where many thousand Bryan
votes are which the Republican bosses
are fondly counting for Mckinley, and
that they do not deem it good policy
to do. 1t is the "silent vote" which
they are depending upon to elect
Bryan and Stevenson, and to locate
that vote for the Republicans would
be to make trouble for the voters and
TO lose much of it. Just let every
Democrat keep his shoulder TO the
wheel and remember that November 6
is the day on which the President will
be elected.
The slobbering-the word isn't ele-
CANT, but it is exactly expressive in
this case-of the men who first kicked
the late John Sherman out OF the
Senate to make room for Hanna and
then kicked him out OF the Cabinet,
where he had only been a igure-head
while Day performed the duties of
Secretary of State, over the death Of
Mr.. Sherman, which occurred in
Washington this week, is about as dis
gushing an episode as the political
world has seen on this side of the At.
lantic. 1t was killing a man and then
praising him for his many virtues.
Mr.. Sherman was not a political para
gon. He belonged to the school which
follows the motto, "the end justifies
the MEANS" and he left long string
of his political friends in the bitches
he crossed in his extended political Ca
reer, but it is certain that he never
treated any of them as badly as he
was treated by the Hanna-McKinley
crowd. Some think that Mr.. Sher-
man died from a broken heart, but
there is no evidence that his heart was
the kind that breaks. That he had
been a soured and Disguised man ever
since his failure to capture the Presi-
dental nomination OF his party every
body knows, as he advertised the fact
in his book OF recollections; but as he
always was glacial and ungenial it is
not likely that disappointment short
ened his life. He was seventy-eight
and he had been hard worker. That
is enough to account for q death from
natural causes.
Bank Examiners that can detect
fraudulent manipulation of bank
books by crooked employees is a needed
reform which has been emphasized by
the news of 500, 900 defalcation Of
an employe of the First National
Bank of New York City. Secretary
Gage was inclined to treat the matter
rather lightly, when asked why the
bank examiners employed at high SAL
aries by his department had not dis
covered the big defalcation in their ex-
aminations OF the banks books. He
said, nonchalently, as though it were
a matter OF no consequence: "Our
examiners cannot be expected to dis
cover an old defalcation when the
bank officers themselves have not
found or suspected it. The First Ma
tional Bank can stand it easily, with q
surplus of $6,0O0OOO." These few
words OF Secretary Gage are a strong
indictment of the national bank sys-
tenn, as it 10 now run. II the bank ex-
aminers "cannot be expected" to find
crookedness until it is pointed out to
them by the bank officers, pray, how
do they earn their salaries? If the
people elect Mr.. Bryan President, he
will get Secretary of the Treasury
who will expect more of the bank ex-
aminers, and will see to it that they
are men with knowledge and skill
enough to meet his expectations.
This particular bank has been such a
pet of Republican Secretaries of the
Treasury, since 1877, when it jumped
into prominence as one of tue most
successful New York banks, through
favors given it by the Treasury Depart
ment, that the bank examiners may
have been afraid to look too closely
into its books.
The government service is in Grip
pied condition in all the departments
and is likely to remain 80 until after
the election, owing to the absence of
nearly all of the responsible officials,
who are in the field doing political
work of some kind, or putting up a
bluff that they are, while their salaries
are going right along. A man filling
a scientific position in the Department
of Agriculture voiced his disgust thus:
This is our busy time, and we need
our full force. The service is being
neglected by the very men, and 10y
their orders, who prate about giving
the people business-like administra-
tion.'" Dem.
AND now the fact is disclosed that
Populists in Ohio
have been torn asunder by causes