Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-05-15
1t ashlnoton Stanaars
OLYMPIA, WASH.
FRIDAY MORNING, NAT IS. 1905.
Beware Of Counsel From the Enemy.

Beware Of Counsel From the Enemy.
Il IS i remarkable and suggestive
condition that the Republicans do
not look with favor upon the nomi-
nation 81 William Jennings Bryan
for President by the Democrats. No
opportunity has brcn. OF is being
lost, to prejudice tie people against
lis candidacy. or of urging the claims
. Of many other good mcr OF the party
for the coveted honor. There is i
deeply laid object in this course. 1t
is the adoption Of the Napoleonic
plan. to divide and conquer.
While We have no fault to find
with the devotion to principle, or
the reliability Of Governors Johnson
or Folk, or indeed Of many other
favored sons OF the respective
States. We do feel that this undue
generosity Of our political opponents
in selecting the standard bearer for
their lifelong political opponents, is
altogether too good 10 be fair, hon
est, sincere or true. 1t seems to be
rather too spontaneous to be actu-
ated by anything other than pre-
concerted effort to sidetrack the
most available candidate in the hope
OF securing q walk-Over for some one
who will perpetuate the present
chapters of misrule and keep the sell
fish, arrogant, greedy, unprincipled
salary eaters at the public crib,
where political incentive extends no
farther than a position in which they
may be ALWAYS able to reach the
porridge-pot from the halcyon fields
of perpetual peace and contentment.
In this respect the average Office
seeker rivals the Wearie Willie in his
dread of the buck saw or AK when
confronted by the alternative of work
or starve at the back door.
The opposition should have, at
least credit for disinterested per-
sonal motives in working for party
success. All those who could be
tempted from allegiance by the prom
Use of political pot-pie long ago de-
serted the ranks and obtained their
reward, and the adherance of true
Democrats to their cherished princi-
amply verifies their devotion to prin-
plespolicies they believe to be right.
The object of the well-trained and
thorough adopts in promoting party
success who are trying to shape the
policy of the only party of sufficient
organization and membership to give
q promise of success, should be so
plain to everyone as to act like a
boomerang and hurtle upon the
hands that hurled it. There should
be no division in the Denver con-
vention, and no clash of interests
such as have defeated the party;
contentious for inessentials at the
loss of the principles that might be-
come so far reaching as to safeguard
the very form and stability of the
government. A government of the
people, by the people and for the
people, must be guarded by checks
and counterchecks that conserve the
rights of all-minorities as we'll as
maj0rities-for there are times when
the mind Of man seems to be swayed
from its mornings by passion or
prejudice, or it may be merely from
Indifference or apathy, or o want of
consideration or understanding of
the drift towards the adverse forms
advocated by ambitious leadership,
arrogantly claiming an infallibility as
broad as that of the Pope, and prac-
tically annul the fundamental law
and disturb that distribution of pow
ers established by the Constitution,
which was made the Supreme law of
the land, by formal ratification Of
all the States.
Beware of the enemy who processes
great friendship. 1t is said that the
Greeks were feared even when they
brought the choicest gifts.