Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-10-31
Mr.. Humphreys Speech.

The grand rally OF the Republicans
at the theater Tuesday night, drew
out about the usual attendance OF the
present campaign-half house-but
there was more applause than at pre-
vious meetings, doubtless owing to the
near approach OF the day OF election.
The glee club materialized, but it
might have been as we'll if it hadn't.
The first selection" was . melodious
rhapsody on Sleep" in which the
slowness Of measure and restrained
notes we'll sustained the motif OF the
production. So somnollent was its
effect, that, it is safe TO say, had an
other verse been sung, the whole audi
ence would have been started on trip
to the land of Nod. On . recall, the
club" sang something about an edu-
Gator in circulation who, the naughty
pupils had impelled to cit down on q
tack, and the way Superintendent
Henry, who is chairman OF the cam
paign committee, squirmed about in
his chair, indicated that the point was
we'll taken. No political songs were
sung. which impels the belief that the
party must have run out OF the am.
munition 90 plentiful on previous &C.
casions in other campaigns. If word
Of advice is admissible, we would. sug-
gest, likewise, that some competent
marksman be employed to aim the
gun, or it may again punch Somebody
brains out.
This line Of thought suggests the
smile that Mr.. Humphrey was we'll
cooked and primed for the encounter
Of setting up straw.men and knocking
them down. He had the Republican
Campaign Book we'll committed to
memory, and from it drew many fairy
tales pleasing 70 an audience whose
imaginations respond TO the flourishes
Of the genii of the mystic world.
Mr.. Humphrey tried TO impress the
belief that tho Republican party had
done about al that had ever been A.
tempted for suppression Of trusts,
which he maintained were Of two
kinds, the good and the bad. It was
Mckinley who first made the discov-
cry Of the bad kind, and he had rec
commended legislation for their con.
troll, and it was . Republican, Sher.
man, who introduced the only bill
ever passed having that object in view.
But he failed TO state that Mr.. Nc.
Kinley having established precedent,
BY recommending legislation, allowed
the act when passed to remain in in.
nous desuetude his whole term, or tina,
John Sherman, its author, was derided
and abused by his party and finally
pronounced insane, for his "political
vagaries." The speaker forget to state
that ~ early as 1892 William Jennings
Bryan introduced in the House oil
Representatives = bill entitled IAN
act to protect trade and commerce
against unlawful restraints aud mo.
nopolies," whose passage then would
have done more for the people of the
country than has been done by any
Republican Congress in twenty-five
years. In fact How TO Pretend to Do,
and How Not to Do, seem to have
been the whole incentive of the party
which, while bleeding trusts for cam.
paign purpose endeavors to hoodwink
the people regarding its subserviency
to trusts by false pretenses and pre-.
tended action.
From the array OF the latest i'm.
ported Philippine horrors. it was evi.
dent that Mr.. Humphrey had commit.
ted the same chapter As Mr.. Craven
from that reliable book issued by the
Republican committee, designed simply
for campaign duty and whose facts"
are OF the hot-house variety intended
only for brief exposure to the chill.
ling blasts OF criticism. 1t is unfortu.
nate, however, for two leaders to " fill
up" with the same fodder, if it is de.
signed to keep people from pokine
their noses into the stall and discover.
ing the origin of the suspicious smell.
The figures Of the campaign book
were not manipulated to much extent
by Mr.. Craven, and in these the speak.
or enjoyed . sort of monopoly a. he
related his pipe-dreams Of Oriental