Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-12-20

eeoliiiioHy vi lilc applicant, ana OF the
whole OF the applicants witnesses,
and all portions of the evidence given
by witnesses for the government which
was favorable to the applicant, and
have thus deprived him OF rights guar
anteed to him by the laws of the land
and the constitution OF the United
States"
1t is said that counsel for Admiral
Sampson will file objections to the
findings OF Admiral Dewey.
How 1t "Lines Up the Party"
Perhaps it might not be amiss Just
at this time to suggest to the Republi-
cans of Olympia that the result of the
recent municipal election gives them no
possible opportunity for self-laudation,
and in turn complacency. This was not
IN any sense party election. A citi-
zen's ticket was put up on SO small a
pfovocation that the voters simply staid
with the party nominee. This is why
some excellent men on the Citizens
ticket Jared so badly. But if the Repub-
licans think they can pnt up any kind of
ticket and win, they will learn different
y at high cost of acquiring knowledge.
All the men on the recent ticket were
good men.
Now what is wanted is leadership
broad enough to use above faction, and
to have primary regard for the interests
OF the party and the people. No other
plan can line up solid party when it
comes to an election on party lines
Recorder.
The Recorder is scarcely a month
old and has already begun to define
the exact bounds of party leadership.
1t avowed in its first number that it
was Gin no sense q political publica.
ton" and at precisely the age when .
puppy is said to open his eyes, devel-
opes into a full-fedged partisan bull.
dog, demanding a leadership broad
enough to use [probably rise is meant
above faction"
While it is patent fact that little
more than one-half the registered vote
was polled, it is quite as evident that
the faction" the Recorder refers to
succeeded in getting out its full share
OF it. The reason is obvious: While
the city Offices in the main have no
salary attached to them, and very lit
tie patronage to dispense as such, the
party machinery used in manipulat.
ing conventions, and the drill of bal.
lot.casting at the polls, affords an ad-
mirable means Of attaining and main
tanning prestige a. party men, and
placing or keeping them in the recog.
nized line towards the "pie- counter"
Among the hundred or more people
who assembled in the Superior Court
room TO name candidates for munich
pal officers a short time ago, bomb
exploded in their midst would have
probably slain ninety. nine per cent,
though it struck nothing but those
with noses in the air to scent some.
thing more profitable than the little
Offices dispensed without salary and
little honor. In fact. were it not for
the carvings from the official platter
IN Washington, very little attention
would be paid to this drill service.
Nine out of every ten OF the faithful,
expect at least a spoonful of gravy,
If they don't get slice of abreast" or
wing"
Those who were outside of the line
OF preferment-the execrsted Demo-
cra;s, Silver Republicans and Popu-
lists. the fusionists Of 1896. who car.
ried the State with such whirl-sim-
ply did not vote, having no incentive
for party drill at time when no DOS
sible equivalent for labor expended,
was in sight They were considerably
like the farmer who said It wrenched
him terribly to kick ct nothin'."
Now it appears to us that the paper
without "politic" is preshmptuous
in criticisine the " faction" which sue
ceeded in drumming up 90 respectable
. vote. Could the " faction" repre-
sented by it have done any better!
Could it have done ~ welli
Is there any disposition manifested
BY il Of supporting that broad feeling
politically. it proiesses, in thus finding
fault with : faction" that has 90
long and 20 successfully manipulated
Republican politics in Thurston coun.
tyi Are such sturdy leaders as &c.,
hey. Madge and Rae, or such venerable
patriarchs OF the party ~ Nick Owings,
to sit At the feet Of this Gamaliel or
drink of the milk prescribed for in
fantsf Has the new paper that says
It 10 in no sense political publica-
tion," to be allowed to cast an apple of
discord amid those who have 20 long
and 90 lovingly controlled party mat.
tiers, and dispensed 90 Satisfactorily tho
crumbs of comfort that fall from the
official tablet
May the saints forbid that the happy
family be disturbed!
We shall see.