Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-12-14
Ghosts and "Gobblings.

Occasionally a sarcastic mood ami
mates our good neiglhor, the Tacoma
Nrus, and when it does, the caustic
things that are said by him run like
molten lava from Uncle Sans lately
acquired Mauna Loa.
In late issue the degree of cordial
ity which exists between til" " City OF
! Destiny" and the Queen City is adj
mirably depicted, in which the capital
is made the striking ball for exercise
OF muscle, in suggestion if not antici-
patton, of lively scrap when the Leg
stature convcncs.
The presumption Is that King
county wants to sink few millions OF
dollars in Lake Washington bad
enough to unite with It's enemy in n
Deliberate trade in setting the capitol
atloat Tor the object OF landing it
where the Andalena is so permanent
ly located" lis to know no hope of res
direction, In fact the intimation is
that King has already made the prop.
osition, which surely finds some plaus-
Utility in the fact that she lately
turned down her own nominee for
Governor to reinstate a man whose
vision extends no further than Com
mencemcnt Bay, in any matter OF
public Importance. If Seattle can
swallow such an unsavory morsal
without retching, it may be that she
can keep down still more nauseous
dose in advancing the visionary OBJ
jects Of her relentless foe.
Anyway, it is we'll for the News to
appear cheerful, and reach out for the
Supreme Court and State Library, as
a pastime, while "jollyins" the cat
as to the ACCESSIBILITY OF attempting
the chestnut" game.
Here is what the Ners says is the
"Song of the Seattle Siren:
Disturbed by the rumbling OF the APP
proach of the 1des of Legislature, the
Capital Ghost, whose mournful obse-
quies have been performed with barba-
rous regularity once within the period of
each recent session If the State Assem-
bly,, threatens to arise, lay aside its
WORKOUT burial clothes, and walk
The ceremony of the perambulation of
the Ghost may as well be accepted now
by the people as one of the few certain
ties of the near future. There be men
who, though they be Senators, make
true talk. 1t is by mouth of these there
comes forwarning Of this sad, sepulchral
resurrection joke. With furtive brows
and guarded lips they tell that ere sea-
sons rains have ceased to fall, while
winter storms yet brew above Olympic
peaks and all the western State is
wrapped in mist, this ghostly ghoul shall
walk; while scbeming Senators and be.
ings Of less degree shall chant Olympia's
dirge-solemnly shall intone turgid
Thanatopsis to 1.-The glory that was
Greece and the grandeur that was
Rome" Then shall Olympia, fair god
mother to the cocktail, have fallen from
her high estate, while tired Tacoma,
dreaming on her thirty-seven hills,
shall rise, and on the ruins of her brick
hotel shall rear the naughty capitol of
State! Ye Gods!
Seattle the avaricious, it is further
said, has hand to bear in this resur-
rection joke. Seattle long has burned
for canal of commerce that shall con.
meet the waters of Lake Washington
with Puget Sound. This burning can
be soothed away by the expenditure of
paltry few millions of public money
merely nothing. as it were; bagatelle.
List, then, to the SIRENS scaly song. In
choicer words, get next:
WE need your help, fair County Pierce,
To steal us canal:
YOU yearn with fervOr firm and fierce
To own the capital.
The Peoples millions we would flch,
A harb0r grand to gain;
Come! help the treasury to mich!
IT'S neighbOrs duty, plain.
Play buncO- steerer once for us.
Help steal MS this canal!
And in return we'll make some fuss
About that capital.