Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1906-12-07
Some Unassallable Facts.

Some Una2sallable Facts.
No contest invoking matter, OF cor
rect principle i, lost 10y prepondencc
OF votes, II the results OF experience are
So PLAIN a To constitute the basis oI
intelligent instruction for future bat
ties. This statement is especially true
with regard to- the la:e municipal cleo
ton. Facts plainly show that the
forms Ut the Republican party were
adopted as nakershift. whereby
Interior objects could be concealed
and the once honorable prestige of the
party WAS made, like the lions skin, tC
cover mass Of political deformity
and corruption. 1t does not need re-
statement OF the truth that, the same
moving powers which a year ago de
clded upon a Citizens ticket, as the
most promising means OF irsuring
SUGGESTIVE only object sought-fol
the point is scarcely denied by anyone
and is boldly admitted by the bell.
weather OF the flock which lately
achieved partial success 10 the local
contest, who while growing hilarious
over that little ray of comfort, when
confronted with a responsibility for
acts shown to be fraught with false.
hood and deceit, declared, Well, they
were good enough and fair enough for
use in an election campaign" Prob.
ably that may be SO, in the opinion OF
one who draws q sinecure salary OF
$125 per month from the State. for
coming in from his farm at Mud Bay
to help Tacoma run Olympia politics.
Some facts which compel a belief
that the g. o. p. disguise was in the
main, subjected to q disgraceiul de.
feat. may be gathered from compari.
son of the county contest held just a
month before the late city election.
1t will be remembered that the eta.
coma-owned" papers took but q per.
functory interest in the general cleo.
ton, and the vote cast for Humphrey,
Republican Congressman, in town, was
GO6, and for Blackman, Democrat, SIT,
a majority of 2S9 in vote of 923. In
these same wards, in q vote of sos
McLarty's majority was only 80, be
receiving 446 votes to Redpath $50
10 have been a true indication oil
party strength, the Mayor elect should
have received 252 votes. or more, if i,
had been that the support from the
1.-TWO newspapers" was OF that stalwarI
kind that showed they had been set te
q stipulated task.
The wards that gave majorities fol
Redpath are fair index of bis popu
lsrity as citizen. It was the Second
and Sixth wards in which tho fine
Italian hand" of boss rule is exempli
fled, where Mr.. McLarty polled bis full
strength but at the expense OF LOST
of from third to half the party vote
for the Republican nominees for CLERK
Treasurer, Councilman.elect Meays, in
theFauIth ward, where the Republican
vote fell Mayor, fell from 100 cast in
November to 80, and seems to have
been held at that figure by a syste.
matic swapping Of votes, whereby sew.
eral candidates on tho g. o. p. ticket
were benefited.
The attack made on the electric
light company was based on the film.
siest Of all pre.exts. 1t shows to what
straits the proverbial party of monop.
oily was driven to secure anything like
An issue and (like Roosevelt) with what
sudacity it could trench upon Demo
ocratic grounds to do so. 1t mattered
not that the statements relied upon
were false; bravado and buster would
make up for any shortage in that par.
ticular. It made no difference that
the rates for light had been less with
meters to all fair consumers, than
under the Aat.rate system; it was
carefully ignored that the company
had made superhuman efforts to make
the service adequate in all respects
it was never taken into consideration
that the attempt to give the service
had bankrupted two former compa.
MES. 1t was determined to make it a
scape.goat to deceive such people %
allow others to do their thinking, and
with 1.-TWO newspapers" to do the bid.
ding it succeeded in scoring Q bare
success on part of the ticket that the
6. o. p. was made to father.
1t will probably be found, however,
in the course of time, that the eta.
coma-owned" papers have added nei.
Their to their business receipts or pres.
tige by attacks upon some OF our best
citizens, and they will be shorn of the
little effect that has resulted from
purely band.wagon methods, display
OF "sound and fury, signifying moth.
ing"
If the people are satisfied, we are
content, and we bide the time when 9
demonstration will vindicate the judg
ment that "No man can serve two
masters" For the sake of one oil
these contracting parties, evidently
carried away by q partisan zeal thai
has temporarily. let US hope, cup
planted religious fervor, we sugges
prayeriul consideration OF tho text Of
forded by Matthew VII: 16: "Ye shall
know them by their fruits. Do mer
gather grapes OF thorns, or figs o
thistles?"
THE man who invented the barbed
xp;ro fopoo d;od -, Tll:co;. Tho oshn