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Debasement Of Public Conscience.

Iii now openly admitted that the
Presidential elections sine" and inclnd-
ing the campaign of 1896 have been
carried by the reckless expenditure Of
money. The proof has become so
plain that the matter OF exact figures
are nero items OF detail. The figures
given for 1896 are placed at $3,S0o,-
600, but it WAS probably more than
twice that sum, for it was reported
without denial that Mark Hanna
passed the hat on Wall street, one
afternoon, and received over SG,OJO,-
900. The campaign expenditure by
the same party for 1900 is admitted to
have reached $2,S00.000, and of 1904,
nearly $2,OO0,OO0. The statement is
vouched for by the Washington Post,
which further says that OF the lO,00O
individuals who contributed sugar"
for the last campaign, 40 per cent. dis
close their identity. and GO per cent.
are unknown, and by their expressed
desire wished to remain unknown.
The largest individual contribution
was 100000, the money being turned
in by member OF Secretary BLISS
committee who professed to not know
who contributed it. 1t is very proba-
BILE, however, he could have made a
close guess.
This very fact OF secrecy is sufficient
to brand the transaction as Infamous.
No act is honest or "square dear'
that will not bear the test OF publicity.
Men Glove darkness rather than light,
because their deeds are evil" saith
Holy Writ, and further, Every one
that doeth evil hateth the light, lest
bis deeds should be reproved; but he
that doeth truth cometh to the light
that his deeds may be manifest that
they are wrought in God" (righteous.
ness).
A few years ago, the bare admission
that large sums of money could be
used legitimately for carrying elections
was so repugnant to the prevailing
sense of moral rectitude that he would
be indeed bold man who might con-
Tess to even knowledge of such pros
titution OF political methods and JUS
tify it by partisan necessity. Now all
seems changed, and the brazen reply
when confronted by the infamy was
the taunt OF the boss and his followers,
"What are you going to do about it?"
1t is we'll enough. "Let we'll enough
alone" and the injunction closely fol-
lowed, "Stand patti" whatever might
happen.
No facts show palmer the effect of
such corrupt methods upon the PEG.
pie than gradual acquiescence in mer-
cenary acts that the bare contempla-
ton of which had once filled them
with holy horror. How true the words
Of Pope that
:" Vice Is monster OF so frightful meip
As 10 be hated needs but to be seen;
But seen too oft. familiar with her face"
We first endure, then pity, then embrace"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-12-08

THE wickedest dance of all is now
the rage in Paris. 1t is called the
Mattoohiche," and is said to outclas
the " Hooehekoochie" in evil sugges.
tions.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-12-08

THOMAS w. Lawson, of Boston, has
money to bet-$1O,O0O-that Hearst
will be the next Mayor of New York !;
and like amount already invested"
on the same deal.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-12-08

MEETING OF CONRREss.-The first
session OF the 59th Congress convened
in Washington, Monday, at IL NJ. Vice
President Fairbanks called the Senate
to order and the House roll was called
by Clerk Mcdowell. Speaker Cannon
was the Republican caucus nominee
and reelected presiding officer, and
John Sharpe Williams, of Mississippi,
received the Democratic vote, the bal.
lot standing 243 for Cannon to l2S
for Williams. The Congress proceeded
Immediately TO business, over 100 bills
being introduced the first day.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-12-08

The Inter-Church Conference on
Federation in New York, on the Goth
ult., changed the wording OF the
phrase, Jesus Christ, Our Lord and
Saviour" in the preamble of the con-
stitution Of the Federal Council, TO
read "Jesus Christ, Our Divine Lord
and Saviour" 1t is understood that
this change will exclude from mem.
bership in the Federal Council the
Unitarians, on the ground that they
do not accept the theory OF the divin.
ity of Jesus Christ.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-12-08

EVEN ADAMS Doc TURNS AGAINST
HINT seems to be the easiest
thing imaginable to unearth evidence
OF the guilt Of the man Adams, who
stole gold dust from the pokes OF the
poor miners and substituted black
sand picked up from the ocean beach.
Even a dog, q fox-terrior, belonging
to the cashier, turned States evidence
and began digging in precisely the
right spot at the bottom OF a wood
pile, when the search was going on,
at Adams home, and soon brought to
view q sack of the missing dust. After
that, the detectives found deposits
almost everywhere they searched, and
the basement of the house yielded up
strong-box in which were deposits
of dust, sand and the tools for manip.
ulating them in a systematic manner.
Another strong box was found in the
coal-bin. another in the garage, and
in many outof-the-way places still
other deposits appeared, which incline
the searchers to believe that the
aggregate amount stolen may run up
to much more than the former high.
est estimate, even to 100000.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-12-08

THE ISLE OF PINES FOREIGN TERRI
ToRY.-Secretary Root, (and he, when
the President is taking n snooze, is
the American people). has decided
that the Isle of Pines belongs to Cuba,
and not the United States, thus dash
ing the hopes of 1872 American resi-
dents who have asked for Territorial
government from Uncle Sam, al
though there are 400 Cuban resi-.
dents on the island. It is claimed
that the War Department did, at one
time, give ground for a belief that the
Isle OF Pines WAS part of our colonial
system, and that under this under.
standing our government should now
pay them for release of the land they
have squatted upon.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-12-08

MORE LAND SwINDLERs.-It is said
that Gov. Chamberlain. OF Oregon,
has information from State Land
Agent Oswold West, that an extensive
system OF swindling has been going on
in the East, by the sale to bankers Of
forged land certificates, based upon
actual entries. Purchasers of school
land certificates generally take ad-
vantage OF the provision OF law which
exempts from taxation lands sold
under certificate until the last, or
demand" payment, is made. This
affords opportunity for the swindler.
The grafters make record of hold.
ings, upon which all but the demand
payment has been made. A blank
certificate OF sale and assignment is
then taken East, where duplicates are
printed. descriptions and numbers
filled in, q forged signature of the
clerk and fraudulent seal affixed, and
the swindler is ready for business.
They may, on sale, even have the
buyer send cruiser, and he will find
everything apparently correct and he
remain unaware that his report is part
of well.planned and easily executed
fraud.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-12-08

LEAD, Kindly Light" President
William McKinley's favorite hymn,
was declared to be unfit as a song of
praise and worship to God by the Rev.
w. A. Patterson OF Princeton, Ind, in
an address at the United Presbyterian
Psalmody Convention, which closed a
fortnight ago. in Chicago. Mr.. Pat
terson criticised the song when used
as church hymn in the worshiping
OF God, and offered as substitute the
Forty.third Psalm.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-12-08

SHALL all our best oranges 90
abroad? 1t seems probable, for the
rate of crops grown near shipping
points is but 81 per 100 to foreign
countries, while the domestic rate by
rail is $l25 per 100 pounds.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-12-08

GETTING READY TO RUN.-A Lon
don dispatch of the 25th ult.. states
that the Gear of Russia has bought
the fastest motor.boat. yet built, able
to maintain a speed of 35 miles per
hour, and that navigales the highest
seas with her deck awash, affording
aside from the extraordinary speed
the least possible surface to indicate
her presence, or indeed her existence
upon the sea, and all this leads up tc
the suggestion that his highness is
securing the best of expedients 70,
leaving his domain quickly in case the
present revolt ends in an attack upon
the imperial family. 1t is a parallel
case to trust in Providence by keep
ing his powder dry.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-12-08
X 4 4

=
"Mark Twain" Samuel L. Clemens)
celebrated his 10th birthday on
Thanksgiving day. He was born at
Florida, Mo-, Nov. 30th, 1885. An
incident considered with his visit to
this city several years ago, will be of
some interest to the friends of Judge
Dennison, who was = sincere admirer
OF the great humorist's writings, and
was one OF a party who boarded the
train at Tumwater, to meet him when
he included our city and Olympia
Theater in his itinerary. Now be il
known Mark is by no means the man
physically that he is mentally. He
Is pigmy in stature, and a giant in
vigor and versatility of intellect. Now
when the Judge, himself a man of
heroic mold, was introduced to Mr..
Clemens. it did not require an eleva.
ton of the eye to literally look over
and beyond the man of note, and it
was painfully apparent to the party
that he did not possess the reserve
force to keep his disappointment from
being shown. Instead of the portly,
smiling embodiment of mirth and
good nature, to fit the part, he en-
countered small, ordinary-looking
weazen.faced individual, and to add
to his discomposure, during the ride
down from Tumwater to the Olympia
hotel, nothing but the most common.
place utterances passed between hosts
and guest. The Judge said little OF
nothing, seemingly cbagrined that The
redoubtable Mark was not the ever
vescing soda. bottle he had stored away
in his imagination. At the theater
he had not recovered from his depres,
sion, and he sat with scarcely q ripple
OF smile over his countenance and
when the entertainment had conclud.
ed, in reply to the query swell, Judge
what do you think of it," said, with
his inimitable drawl: "Weli, my
friend, am disappointed. l have
laughed over those jokes when they
were new and felt the thrill of ad
miration when l read that same &C
count OF pathetic incident, hut they
do not impress me now" The Judge
had unwittingly paid the highest com
plant to the removed entertainer-hi.
writing had become such household
words, that even a man of the fine
parts of Judge Dennison could moi
separate them from the great sea O
general thought.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-12-08

In the presence OF Mrs. Mckinley,
the trustees of the Mckinley National
Memorial Association, other noted
guests, and citizens and school child
rem Of Canton, the cornerstone of the
Mckinley monument, the gift of the
American people, was formally laid
last week, at Canton, o. Justice Will
liam R. Day presided. Among the
trustees present were Vice President
Charles w. Fairbanks. Postmaster
General Cortelyou and Judge Horace
H. Lourton of Memphis.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-12-08

A SLUNG-SHoT CAUSES CONsTERNA-
TIoN. - Some reckless boy throw a
plumb-bob through q car.window OF a
train on which President Roosevelt
was returning to Washington, the
other night, and happened to strike
the fret car, where the President does
not 60, unless he takes q notion to
ride with the engineer but that is in
the "cab" instead of a "coach." It
did not seem to have been aimed at
the rear car, where the big men gen.
orally ride, but still the reporters hint
at q possible scheme for assassination
OF the President, and indulge in gloomy
speculations as to what would have
been the result had the missile en-.
tered the window of tho Presidential
car and had the Presidents head. or
any other vital part been within line
of the plumb-bob. In other language,
had all the conditions been radically
different, and the President forging
ahead in the baggage or mail car, he
might have been killed by q piece OF
lead with string to it, had it struck
him in just the right place. As all
these suppositions are decidedly off.
color, they do not serve in the least to
justify the wisdom of maintaining
constantly q civil-service guard over
the life OF the President.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-12-08

WHILE it is noted as a remarkable
incid ent by the press that live turkeys
sold at Dawson, on Thanksgiving, at a
dollar a pound, when we take into
consideration the limited capacity of
the human stomach, it does not seem
to be much out OF proportion with
other seasonable commodities, in a
mining district, especially as four
turks were all the available Thanks
giving fowl in the "diggings." Flour
sold at I cents, cornmeal 10 cents,
canned vegetables IS cents, GRADUATED
potatoes % cents, ham or bacon 271
cents and salt at 6 cents a pound.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-12-08

"The Prince" Louis of Battenburg
has stolen the heart of the American
people by his reverence for their wo.
men, which is marked and outspoken.
One of his expressions was: 81 never
saw anything equal to the Coney Is
land scene, and 1 never cav so many
handsome women as at the Horse
Show. Where do you get all your
pretty women? l do not know how
long can keep up this awful Ameri-
can pace"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-12-08

JAMES r. Burton, U. s. Senator
from Kansas, has been convicted of &C.
cepting compensation from the Rialto
Grain and Securities company as their
representative before the Postal De.
partment while it was making an in
vestigation of the company, and has
been fined $1,000 and sentenced to
serve a term of six months in Iron
county Jail.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-12-08

OLYMPIA IS ACCORDED THE "HIND
TEAT."-Congressman Cushman has
introduced q bill for appropriation of
$500 for public building at Olym-
pia, and Congressman Jones one for
increased cost of public building at
Spokane from 100000 to $1,000, 900.
Congressman Humphrey has intro
duced bills for Federal buildings at
Everett and Bellingham to cost $780,.
600 each. Cushman has also asked
that the appropriation for the Federal
building at Tacoma be increased from
$4OO,O0O to 100000, and for An ap.
preparation of 100000 for a public
building at Aberdeen.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-12-08

THE grocers OF Spokane have taken
steps to have the Pacific Coast Retail
Grocers' Association to petition the
manufacturers of proprietary articles
to establish retail selling price which
shall control the sale of their goods
and prevent cut rates to customers.
1t is alleged that this class of goods
are advertised as "baits" for sale of
other goods. and that a reasonable
profit is not realized by sale as legit-
innate commodity.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-12-08

THOSE SENATORS UNDER A CLOUD
1t is said At Washington that the U.
S. Senate will take no step to purge
itself of the odium brought upon it
by such men as Burton and Mitchell
but will let the law take its course till
their appeals are settled. All it asks
is that they absent themselves until
they can come with clean hands, il
legal technicality can remove the
CRIME. Both are under sentence oil
fine and imprisonment. and the penal.
ties are under suspension pending ap.
peal. The moment either begins serv.
ing a sentence, their seats become
vacant, and no action would be re.
quifed of expulsion. The Governors
OF the respective States could appoint
or call the Legislatures to elect sue
cessors. The cases OF Senators Depew
and Plat are different. They have not
been convicted of any crime. Both
wear garments that have been scorched
by the heat of insurance investigation,
and Plat was charged some time ago
by c. w. Post, the cereal manufactur.
er, with having violated the interstate
commerce act, through operation OF
the United States Express Co., Of which
he was President, but it seems Plat
had sufficient influence to have the
charge pigeon-holed by the committee
on Privileges and Elections. Depew's
term expires this year and Platts in
1909.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-12-08

Mrs. Charlotte NJ. Weightman, who
recently brought suit against her hus.
band for separate maintenance, told
Judge Brentano, during the hearing
OF her case in Chicago, that she be.
lieved her husband had married her
for money, and that she, therefore,
threw money and securities valued at
$4,000 into the stove and watched
them burn. She afterwards left her
husband, and when she sought a
reconciliation she was told not to enter
the house again.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-12-08

TIE steamer Roanoke, which had
been several days at the mercy of the
waves knocking about at sea, on the
southern coast, without rudder, subse.
quently succeeded in reaching her des.
tInation, San Francisco, without seri-
Gus injury.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-12-08

1t turns out that Adams, the assay
Office defaulter to the tune of over
100000 by sailing" gold deposits
with black sand and abstracting the
gold dust in place OF it, has a mag
nificent library, valued at least at
5000, in which de lure editions
abound. 1t is probably from some
of these that the science Of swindling
was studied, by 10 inverse process Of
reasoning, for he had "The Simple
Life" by Wagner, in silk, Hanked by
duties of Auditors" and "Science
of Accounts" The "Art of Living"
is well-thumbed volume, although it
is not presumed to treat of the pre-
else arts by which Adams attempted
te get-rich-quick. Edgar A. Poe's
essay on " Diddling, considered as one
of the Exact Sciences" seems to have
been back number for this modern
Midas, altogether too slow and inar.
tistic for his method of high flying.
But that distinguished author says
tina" when Jeremy Diddler enlarges
his field OF operations" (like Adams)
he becomes financier," the capital
specially required being originality,
audacity. nonchalence, originality, i'm.
pertinence, perseverance and grim"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-12-08
Tell the Truth.

The WASHINGTON SrhNpAED and the
Eg,njDg HIrordcr have followed the lead
uf the OlHmPhh in approving Mayor Car
lyons vero of the Sumner phone fran
chise.-Olymptda.
How anxious our neighbor seems to
be to appropriate little cheap CAPT.
tai The fact is, the STANDARD was
the first to oppose the original tele.
phone franchise, as it was the amend.
ed ordinance, before the Mayor had
vetoed either, and the Olympian copied
in full our article, in the issue of the
9th, advising just the course pursued
by Mayor Carlyon, and for the very
reason set forth, that it would involve
an unwarranted expense upon our bust
ness men, and trouble to all users.
1t will probably next be claimed
that some other paper than the STAND.
ARD gave just the reasons reported by
the Council ommittee, after thorough
investigation, that condemnation OF
the water works would be an unwise
and unbusiness-li move, and that
conditions and circumstances combine
TO place it outside of those public util-
tiles that the public might handle to
advantage or profit.
EUTHANAsIA FINDS A DETERMINED
ADvoCATE.-Miss Anna Hall, of Gin
cinnati, has attained notoriety, if not
fame, by advocacy OF euthanasia, the
skilled administration of potions to
the hopelessly sick, especially those
suffering great pain, to produce pain
less and peaceful death. That she is
earnest in this matter, is shown by
her suggestion OF that method to
relieve her mother from excruciating
agony for 1877 hours preceding her
death. So terrible were her own suf-
ferings, from sympathy, that she made
partial preparations for her death, in
the firm belief that her own heart
and strength had been broken. Miss
Hall is daughter Of DR.. Charles Hall,
the arctic explorer, who lost his life
in an expedition to the North Pole,
many years ago. Euthanasia was the
subject OF discourse by her before sci.
entitic body in Philadelphia, few
weeks ago, which has caused much
discussion of the subject, and like all
other radical departures from custom
is received with caution that gen.
orally disappears under the light OF
reason. 1t will be remembered that
the main objection at first to the
electric chair for execution of crimi-
nails was that it was q cruel way to
take life, without any apparent thought
of the extreme cruelty of choking a
person to death with a rope, the
method it was intended to displace.
Then some people shudder at the
suggestion OF cremation, who give no
thought of the horrors of the grave.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-12-08
The Congress.

In reply to question suggested hy
the a,-cmhlu. Of Congress, II brief
review OF the history of this branch of
our civil government may not be out
oi place or uninteresting.
The first Colonial Congress, or rep
resentative assembly Of American peo-
pie, met in New York, Oct. I, 1868.
Il WAS composed of delegates from
nine colonies opposed to the stamp act
and to the principle OF taxation with
out representation. 1t seems, how
ever, that this congress was not a con-
tinuous or permanent body, and it
was not TIL 117i that the gravity of
the situation became so marked that
the suggestion for a Continental Con-
gress for the United States, made by
tie Virginia Assembly, was carried
into effect by authorization Of dele
gates generally through the State Leg
islatures. IL met in Philadelphia the
same year, all the States except Geor.
gia being represented. 1t was a tur-
bulent body, fairly representative Of
the spirit OF the times. It's main &C.
tons were directed towards relief from
the wrongs inflicted by the mother
country on the colonies. It recon-
mended an agreement not to import
British goods, or export American
goods, after a. fixed date, unless these
wrongs were righted, and declaration
that if these Objectionable measures be
not abated call America should rise in
opposition" The Continental Con-
gress claimed a right to declare inde-
pendence, to carry on war and govern
the country. This authority was some
what C;rcumscribed, however, by the
Articles OF Confederation, adopted in
17Sl, which required the assent of
nine States to make its acts valid.
The Continental Congress sat in Phil.
adelphia, Baltimore. at Lancaster, at
Princeton, Annapolis, Trenton and
in New York.
The Articles of Federation failed, it
is said, from the radical defect of at
tempting to form league of the
States, instead OF a consolidated ma.
tionality, and were followed by the
Constitution. The convention OF 1887
which framed it planned Congress OF
two branches, under which a contest
was reconciled between the large and
smaller States, by providing an upper
house, in which they were represented
equally, and lower house in which
representation was given proportion.
ally by population. The old Congress
summoned the new Congress to meet
March 4, 1889, but the House did not
have a quorum till April LIST, nor the
Senate till April 9th. Each Congress
has been in existence two years, from
March 4th to March 18th Of alternate
years.
The Congress provided by the Con-
stitution therefore dates from 1889,
during which time fifty.eight Con.
crosses have been held, with two ses-
sions each, and not a few with extra
or called sessions. The one just begun
is the First session of the Fifty-ninth
Congress.
The present Congress consists Of
476 members; 80 Senators and 1856
Representatives. In the Senate the
parties are divided into IS Republi.
cans and 80 Democrats, and in the
House the alignment is $50 Republic
cans and 136 Democrats. In the
Fifty-eighth Congress the parties stood:
Republican Senators 81, Democrats
80; Republican Representatives 210,
Democrats liza, and Union Labor 2.
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