Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-06-14
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A pretty play,
| A little lunch,
| Olympia beer,
| A jolly bunch,
| But, Oh, next day,
Gee I'm sick"
| SITS all in life"
Grins devil Nick.
A spruce young man isn't ever
green.
Don t fail to put your hand in your
pocket when you feel for the poor.
The best thing about the Tacoma
Ledger is the cartoons of Reynolds.
The name on an umbrella doesn't t
necessarily belong to the man who
has the umbrella.
Teddy" has stolen the biggest
part OF Bryan's thunder, and you
put a telephone pole there.
l don't believe Hartman cares a
tinker's damn for any remark that
Teddy may make about him.
Port Orchard has been selected as
an auxiliary home for the States old
soldiers. AS a site, it would be a
peach.
1t doesn't pay to consider whether
the world is round or fiat. The main
question is, how will you get through
the trouble of it.
Roosevelt wants army officers to
ride like him. Wonder if he wants
Uncle Sans soldiers to fight, as he
did at San Juan? Hey!
Teddy" Roosevelt repeats like a
parrot what Bryan declared on his
return from Europe, namely that the
government should own the railroads.
The Governor of Nebraska says his
State wants Roosevelt for the next
President. But then you must re-
member the Governor is not the
State.
Shade of Jay Gould: 81 am glad
l do not have to peddle mOuse-t traps
to pay HOward's bills while trying
to get separation papers from his
wife"
A Seattle divine says: "San Fran
cisco is the most unpleasant spot on
earth at present. but will rise like
giant with wounds healed" Guess
this preacher never heard of Everett.
All the world soon learns the i'm
perfectiOnS OF human being, but
not one man out of ten, by the whole
world, is ever told of his good quail
ties, until after the hearse hauls kim
away.
From late information Olympia has
o Raffles" too. That is q certain
newspaper correspondent in Olym-
pia is as hard to catch, seemingly, as
Raf1es in Seattle. Will some Olym-
pia sleuth find him?
Gov. Mead strongly advocates the
merit system adopted at the State
Penitentiary. The people of Wash
ingtOn will advocate the same sys-
tenn next election, as relating to the
Office of Governor of the Evergreen
State.
Tilton is dead; so is Henry Ward
Beecher, the great Blooklyn preacher,
but the scandal Of 1874 in which both
men were star actors will continue
to jog down the canyons of time,
never to die, long as pen and pencils
are manufactured and the old world
wags.
Editor Brainerd of the Seattle p
l., placed the Morning Times Raj
fles" scheme on the operation table
in the hospital Public Digest, and
q splendid operation in exposing the
fraud, that showers of praise is
poured upon him and the Post -Inteli-
gencer, by the honest residents of the
Queen City.
Just imagine Roosevelt sending his
personal representative, Hon. John
Barrett, to Seattle, at the opening
of the Alaska Pacific Yukon Exposi-
tion, and old boy John, not even in
quiring, Immediately, at once, upon
his arrival in the Queen City, where
the Blethen mansion" was located.
Wasn't it just too mean for any
thing?
No one is SO bad they have no
friends. No one is so bad that they
have not some trait of charity. Why,
talk rs we may, it is reasonable to
suppose in this day and date, if it
were not for Judas and his kiss, we
would not have the "potter's field"
in which to bury those who have no
money, friends, and so on. Always
give the devil his due, you know.
There is grapevine rumor that Con-
gressman Cushman will not be q can di-
date to succeed himself, but will shortly
assume the duties of editor-in-chief OF
the Tacoma Ledger, specifically to con-
duct q campaign of education in the
interest of Hon. K. l.. Mccormick, late
defeated Republican candidate for Mayor
Of the "City of Destiny" and personal
representative of the Weyerhauser tim
Der trust in this State, who wishes to
succeed Mr.. Ankeny in the United
States Senate. If Mr.. Mccormick
Glands" Mr.. Cushman will be in line
for q judicial position-which he would
eminently grace in some of our insular
possessions.-Puyallup Republican.
If Mccormick is treated by the
Legislature as the citizens Of Tacoma
treated him when he ran for Mayor
of the City of Destiny" not long
ago, the chances are that Cushman
will grace only his own fireside, as q
private citizen.