Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-01-19

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and this is leap-year, too.
The time is ripe for bachelor men
To hold lodge of sorrow,
For in this awful leap-year time
They may be wed tomorrow.
Without loving disposition, a
gentle manner. and a feeling for those
in distress, the giving of aims is a
hypOcritical action.
llThe President of the United States
should not be allowed to write articles
for magazines while in office. 1t les
sens the high dignity OF the position.
A New York man is suing for di.
vorce because bis wife beats him.
Any man who will not run before his
wife when he has a chance is deserv.
ing of all that he gets.
Hash is to be standardized and the
pure-food board has given an official
definition Of mincemeat, but it's dol
lars to doughnuts that nobody can
tell what either of them contain.
The orchestra in the Atlanta Fed.
eral prison plays while the prisoners
eat their meals. That's only fair,
considering that most of the prison.
erS were doing their work while 9th.
er folks played.
Cablegrains tell us that the King
George party occupied thirty auto
mobiles on the recent hunting trip in
the lnngles of India. Well, almost
anybody could make a killing with
thirty automobiles.
The testimony in the case of the
Chicago meat packers show that
they met once week to fix prices.
II the report had said that they met
once week to raise prices il would
have been rearer the truth.
The Lorimer investigating COM
mittee of the Senate is still busily
engaged looking for the whitewash
brush. They think it has been mis-
laid, while as a matter of fact, the
Senate wore it out long ago.
If President Taft is not careful, he
will yet find himself contributing
editor to the Doun-and- Ont maga-
zine, writing articles explaining how
it happened that Theodore Roose-
welt defeated him as President of the
United States.
Whoever the writer may be on the
P.-L, whose material appears under
the head of Here and There" he is
a good one-nay, q sharp. keen
edged, brilliant one. His depart
ment sparkIes with that which makes
!" life worth living
Tho voters Of a city should be per-
mitted to elect Mayor, not upon
issues thatdivide political parties in
a national election, but upon local
issues that effect the people as
citizens and taxpayers. So far as
municipal affairs are concerned Gin
any city, it is a matter of vastly
more Importance that candidate be
elected upon his own record as a
man rather than upon the record of
the political party to which he be-
longs.
What a morgue. hearse, funeral
appearance has the editorial page OF
the Seattle Times. under the chief
editorship of Col. Alden J. Blethen,
when compared with the snappv,
sparkling, flashing, full-of-life; edi-
torial page OF the Seattle Post Intel-
Hge"cer. these days. Scott G. Bone,
editOr-in-chief of the P.-L, certainly
produces the most instructive, inter.
esting. entertaining and by far the
most picturesque editorial page OF
any daily in Washington State.
Did you see this in the Seattle
Post-Intelligencer? Battle Creek.
Michigan, Jan. 3. - Clifford Pinchot
in an address here to-day, denied
he had made any statements in
speeches or interviews that Theo-
dore Roosevelt had told him he would
not accept the Presidential nomina-
tion if it were rendered. Il know
nothing of Mr.. Roosevelts affairs"
said Mr.. Pinchot, "either as to
whether he would accept the nomina-
ton or whether he believed he could
be elected.
The Bellingham Herald is worried
to think that third Democratic
party may DE formed, having for its
standard bearer either Bryan or La
Toilette. In speaking of the matter
the Herald says:
Bnt nothing need be feared from
such party. Neither Bryan nor La
Toilette would step down and permit the
other to become the standard-beaeer."
Neither will Taft "step down"
and permit Theodore Roosevelt to
become the leader OF the Republican
party. However, 7. r. will consult
Taft's wishes when the time comes
for Taft to step down" so that T.
r. can become the standard-bear-
er." Teddy will take Taft by the