The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-01-25
PAIR OF PERFORMERS
Lucius Cassius Crow and His
DOgskin Gloves.
Mr.. Bovine of Reform Fame and a
Few Things Concerning
His History.

Olympia, Jan. 22.-The state legisla-
ture is now in full motion after week
of organization and getting together
A noticeable and inspiring feature of
the aggregation is the fewness of demo
popo professional Performers" who meyer
reform who have seats in the legislative
chambers.
The right loud Lucius Cassius Crow
from Four Mile is here, it is true. He
breathes the same atmosphere as the
Hon. Gideon B. Kent, who will 90 down
in political history az the illustrious non
leader who wanted to sell a kali"
Compliments for Bovine.
With the Right Honorable and Windy
{. W. Bovine, sent up from Spokane
county, Mr.. Crow comprises the delega.
ton OF the old mid-TOad, single-tax and
silver federation guards. They are the
only ones who crowded to the trough
thanks to the tenacity with which Whit,
man and Spokane voters held to dead
and gone issues.
Crow wasted one term of the peoples'
time in the Legislature before this. Every
body remembers how he became
suddenly aristocratic when he approach
ed the Olympian suburbs;hOw he dOnned
a shiny pair of dog skin gloves, which
were worn even at table; how he sat on
the outer edge of his banqueting chair
and shOveled the grub down his neck
with both hands and an abandon, while
he dlscOursed and discussed his gradua-
ton and diploma from Long Tom COL
lege.
During that term Senator Crow dis
tiDguished himself as the boss wind
pump OF the Sixth legislative assembly.
This is giving great credit when it is re-
membered that this legislature was
made up chiefly from popOs and demo
cratic sympathizers.
Mr. c. w. Bovine has never before been
lined up As legislator, but he has stood
for some time in the ranks of hypOcriti-
cal "refOrmers" who never reform. He
was sort of a pOpulist wind mill for
the Peoples Advocate, published at
COlfaX, for a time a few years since. He
succeeded in the most brilliant and ex-
peditlOus manner in running the paper
into the ground, at a cost of several
thousand dollars to the cOnfiding farmer
stockholders who permitted their DO
litical zeal TO run away with their or
binary business sense. Mr.. Bovine fol-
lowed the paper into the hole, and when
the Whitman county pops grew tired of
feeding him he moved on, much after
the fashion of the Weary Willes of the
day. He trucked to North Yakima,
where he started a bowling populist
sheet called the argus" This soon
went the way of the Advocate, and his
partner was left to straighten out it's
affairs, while Mr.. Bovine sidled up into
Spokane county on a wOOd-cutting eX-
petition, of which he tired in short
order. Then he backed into a Job with
the state treasurer. From this he was
forced to take his leave. Then he Sc
cured a stool in the office of the state
land commissioner, only to be forced
again to take his leave on short notice.
Then Mr.. Bovine, with q few other
single takers, organized the Direct
Legislation League" worming himself
in as treasurer, with soliciting aims
from the gullible for the swindle tax and
game proved a failure and Mr.. Bovine
left for his wife's ranch in Spokane
county, where he was properly out of
sight until his election to the legislature
by combine of pOpulists and demo-
Gratis. He is now strutting the streets
OF Olympia like darkey with his first
red shirt
OF such is the Bryan -popo -swindle- tax
combine, as represented in legislative
halls. 1t is indeed consoling to
know that no other counties except
Whitman and Spokane still uphold such
illustrious asses in the guise OF legis-
latOrs.