Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-03-20
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OILY uPiA, WASH.
FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 70. 1905.
Tell the Truth.

AtIA NAV - Nsh
What has lIalar! >,,vc,- done -
tulIi ~ Olympia and Thur>i"u county.
- add Ia IL taxable wealth ?-.Uofu-
hg Aos>.
Had the N"al;.r $, ribc. ."tt tempo
r4riy in charge of the Vars. posted
himself a .itt." hcttcr ON railroads
and pip,-organ>. hr w"J.d not >oof-
tcu h,,ray his Ignorance ar make
himself ,app"ar absurd hy Ridiculous
questions. What las tirn. Stevens
not done to bu,id up the town that
was in his power tudU! Hazard ste
vcnS was a >choolboy in Olympia. and
III early life exhibited those distin
guishing traits of character which
have left their impress upon the man.
He is of that positive nature that de-
vclops good fighting qualities but he
is eminently fair, just and liberal
when his conscience approves any
given course. Soon as he arrived 1T
man estate, he began and cOntin
urd systematic cndcavors to develop
the resources and advance the inter
csts Of his then chosen home. Along
in the 10s. Gen. Stevens was PreSi-
dent of the Thurston County Con-
structiOn company, which built and
equipped what is now the Port Town
send Southern railroad, tapping the
Northern Pacific at Tenino, to over
come the disaster of changing the
terminal location at Olympia. by 4
most outrageous act of pcrlidy on
part of the transcOntincntal cOmpa-
ny. Gen. Stevens courage and en-
thusiasm knew no bounds, and it
was largely to his vigor and determi-
nation that the project was success.
His zeal led him, on one occasion, to
look down the muzzle of q shotgun
when an irate farmer on the right of
way had stopped the graders, erected
a fence and stood behind it with his
loaded battery. With q Come on,
boys" Hazard removed the barrier,
and Selling shovel, pioneered the
way over the forbidden pathway.
The placing of the street railway
on a firm basis was likewise his work.
The horse-car service was failure, as
its protector, Geo. M. Savage, found
to his sorrow, and the original cleo
trio company bankrupted all con-
nected with it, including such sterl-
ing citizens as Chambers, Shannon,
Young, Frost, Mrs. Hale, and others,
and it was only when Gen. Stevens,
then of Boston, succeeded in enlisting
Eastern capital, satisfied with low
rate of interest, that the project was
made to pay more than costs of oper-
tiOn.
1t seems to US that this is enough
to show that Gen. Stevens, with his
father, the first, ablest and best Gov.
crnor of our Territory, have done
enough for the capital city to keep
their record bright on the pages OF
memory. To them, more than any
anybody else, is our city indebted for
the helping hand in the hour of need.
How THE RAILROADS Rob THE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Lloyd
of Missouri, on the 4th inst, cast a
boom-shell into the camp Of the rail-
road lobby by the statement that
the government had been robbed OF
over so, 600, 900, within the past q
years, by q systematic fraud in
weighing the mails carried by the
principal railroad companies. The
charge produced a sensation, and
Representative Wanger of Pennsyl-
vania. of the Postal Committee, at
once pledged a careful investigation.
Mr.. Lloyd, referring to the retire.
ment of f. G. Hadden, the Third
Assistant Postmaster General. and
the proposition to drop twenty-five
PostOfflce Inspectors, declared that
they were from the beginning al
marked" men because of their con
nection in one way or another with
the suppression of certain frauds
We have too much bureaucracy,
said he. We need more law and
less Department rule"