Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-11-18
DRIFTWOOD

Editorial rooms go, Wherever my rent Is paid
pieces washed up by the tide. doomed, sawed.
split and piled for the perusal and psstime oil
paid-up subscribers, also for those who beg, Dor
row and steal the STANDARD in order that they
may enjoy q little sunshine as they journey
through the vale of lears.)
Farewell, long farewell, Grandpa
Davis!
Among all the other animals elected
by the Repu blicans was Coon.
The banana and potato are almost
identical in chemical composition.
People who buy lottery. tickets live
in hopes and the majority of them die
in despair.
We salute you, Governor Albert E.
Mead! May your administration te
one of goodness and success.
To the Republicans belong the
spoils. They won it and are entitled
to all the blessings contained therein.
We have found out that before q
man asks his boss for raise in salary
he had better make sure the boss has
raised his last months wages 6rst.
1t is my individual op Mon that no
man the Democrats could have nomi-
mated as their standard-bearer this
year, could have prevented Roosevelt
being elected.
Two French, real genuine and live
princes, have arrived in the United
States. Now wait for the silly actions
of New York's 400" to come flashing
over the wire.
We have heard that the moon af.
fects the tide. We know it affects
romantic lovers; but we have always
labored under the impression that it
lost its power after they were tied.
Now let the Democratic party drive,
and if necessary, throw Hill, Belmont
and ct al bodily out from the party.
Their names alone were the cause OF
the loss of thousands of true Demo
cratic votes.
Dowie, the prophet, denounces. the
Democratic party as "the scum of
the EARTH" This makes the Demo.
cratic party, even worse, coming as it
does from such an old hypocrite as
Elijah, the H."
The P..I. is certainly gaining golden
opinions from its many readers in Civ
ing them the delightful chance to
read in the Sunday issue of "Peck's
Bad Boy" Every lover of humor
certainly reads the articles.
Republican papers refer to the clean
sweep OF their party as being q Gland
Slide" They are'badly mistaken. 1t
was a Mt. Pelee eruption, an earth
quake, a forty-day.and.night flood OF
Republican votes. That's what it was.
Parker never at any moment, after
his nomination at St. Louis, stood q
ghost of chance to be elected. His
nomination disguised thousands Of
lifelong Democrats, and they show
their displeasure by voting for Theo.
dore Roosevelt, aud between the two
candidates they made no mistake.
Seattle is some pumpkins, you bet.
She has launched the largest battle
ship in the United States navy, and
just across the bay, so to speak, is the
great drydock, coupled with the fact
that Jim Hills big liners will ply be-
tween the Queen City and the Orient.
Well, indeed, Seattle is some pumpkins.
The Democrats have been badly
whipped. No use to argue. They
were knocked completely over the
ropes, so to speak. 1t is my opinion
that they had no hopes of landing
their nag under the wire, and it would
have been far better, and much less of
q disgrace. to have left him in his pad
dock.
"Sir" exclaimed the injured party,
"You stuck your umbrella in my eye"
go, no." replied the cheerful Of
fender, "you are mistaken"
Mis.akenW declared the irate
man, "you idiot. l know when my
eye is hurt, guess"
Doubtless" replied the cheerful
fellow, but you don't know my UNI
brella. / borrowed this one from a
friend to day"
We have received sample copy of
the New York Transcript. Demo
cratic colored organ, Of which Thomas
Gill is editor and proprietor. The
editor gives strong and logical reasons
why members Of the race should aban-
don the Republican party, the leaders
of which have only used them for
their own selfish purposes, and pro-
duces able argument to prove that the
true friends oil the negro are found in
the Democratic party.
"John, John, the piper's son, stole q
pig and away he ram" but the account
stops here, and does not tell us if he
was captured or not. But if John
should have stolen the pig during
these November days, in 1904, and
pork being the price it is, detective
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