Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-09-30
TURNER is ALL RIGHT.
The Sage of ielm. Who Voted Against Him
in 81, Says lie Was Mistaken.

For ways that are dark,
And tricks that are vain
And lies that it tells,
During every campaign,
To relieve as it were
His much befogged brain,
The Seattle P.-I. is peculiar.
Say, how is that for poketry"?
But laying all jokes aside, what has
George Turner done to call forth such
a TRADE Of abuse from that delectatle
sheet and other d. o. p. organs? Has
politics come to such a pass, to so low
a plane, that downright lying must be
resOrted to to accomplish their pur-
pose? If half what the d. o. p papers
cay is true, he ought to be in the pen
but the people know better. They
know that the State of Washington
never had better representation in
Congress than they had through Sen.
ator Turner. They know, positively,
that he never went back on his con.
stituents; that every speech he made
in Congress was in accord with the
party that sent him there. His Phil
lipine speech was model Of eloquence
and logical from beginning to end, but
it was not in accord with the admins
tratiOn and there's the rub. What
did they expect OF him? Did they sup
pose he would truckle to monopoly
a Ia Republican? His party would
have repudiated him if he had, as they
did the "stuffed prophet" He is &C.
cused OF fickleness, of playing the cha
meleon, "Wise men change some.
times, but fools never" Even the
Pr. has changed somewhat. 1t is
only a recent convert to the gold
standard. 1t has only been a short
time since every d. O. p. organ was
whooping 'er up for international BIZ
metallism, and in 1892 the present
chief executive was free trader, and
il | remember correctly the lamented
Mckinley said "Forcible annexation
is criminal aggression" But he
hundred thousand men 1000 miles to
enforce criminal cause. With all
this array of change OF mind, why find
so much fault with Senator Turner?
He is accused Of endorsing the gold
standard. Will some of the d. O. p.
editors cite one single instance? Is it
an endorsement of the gold standard
to vote or run on the Democratic tick.
ct! Is there gold standard plank in
the Democratic platform? / guess
"nit.3 Is w. J. Bryan a gold stand.
ard man? Not on your tin.type, and
yet he is going to vote the Democratic
ticket straight. Why? Because the
platform contains most of the pyinci-
Piles for which he contends. All plat
forms are compromises and every good
Democrat will submit to the majority.
1t is a cardinal principle OF the party.
Oh, yes; 1 voted against Turner for
Senator during the Legislature OF '97
under the impression that he was not
what he protested, but his career in
Congress convinced me l was mistaken
in the man and I heartily endorse
every argument he made and espe.
cially his stand on the Philippine
question. If elected, I predict that he
will make as good Governor as the
State of Washington ever had. As for
Mr.. Mead, know nothing about him
and l am not in the habit Of traducing
q man simply, because he doesn't be-
long to my party, after the manner OF
the d. o. p. press; but its dollars to
doughnuts that he hasn't the ability
OF George Turner. If Geo. Turner
isn't elected it will be because OF rene
gades of his own party, for l believe he
will get large vote from the better
class OF Republicans, and they will
make no mistake in voting for him.
J. C. Coo.