, 1884-10-11

SATURDAY,. ......OCT. II, 1884
TnAr Benedict Arnold Of the re-
publican party in Washington terri
tory, ]. NJ. Adams, OF Yakima, not
satisfied with the truth, is attempt-
ing to inlure Major Armstrong by the
most unjust falsehoods ever uttered
against a candidate BY an opponent.
Seeing that his puny efforts have
signally failed, in creating a break
In the republican ranks against the
major, Adams opens up a cores
p0ndenee with the most bitter and
uncomprOmislng democrats on the
eoast, in which he makes charges
against Armstrong that are false as
hell itself. In a letter to W. II.
White, a leading democrat Of Seat
tie, Adams has the bare-faced audac-
ity to write as follows: SIT Is now
an established fact that Just prior TO
the convention, Paul Schulze, the
Northern Pacific land agent, went 10
spokane and spent several days in
close conversation with Armstrong;
and, for my own part, have no
doubt that theplans were then and
there arranged for his nomination.
am also fully satisfied, from what
saw and heard, that It was prear-
ranged, by the railroad party, that
Armstrong should receive his nomi-
nation, n possible, without the sup
port Of Tacoma-the object being to
avoid the alienation Of King county"
Men generally Judge others by their
own contemplate selves, and Ad-
ans, assuming that Major Arm
strong would be guilty Of any base
ness he himself would follow, sees
At TO make the above statement,
which Is simply a tissue Of false-
hood. Adams knew that his charg-
es would be seen by hundreds who
could never see q denial, and so he
has not taken the trouble to insert
word Of truth in his letter to this
man White, who glorles In a convert
to democracy in the person Of Ad-
ans II isa good thing for the par
ty that such traitors In the ranks
should unmask themselves early in
the political history OF a common
wealth. Their own anxiety to Sc
cure a good standing in the party
they propose to desert to, causes
them to denounee the party that has
fed them just at the wrong time.
Eating the bread contributed by the
republican party, Adams strikes the
hand that feeds him, hoping, in case
the republican president is defeated
this fall, that he will come in for his
share Of the spOlls under the new
administration. Had he conquered |
his zeal and held of until Washing
ton had become a state, he might |
have done the democratic party an
everlasting benefit py selling his
principles when the sale might have
affected the higher Offices Of a state.
Now his crazy slObberings are hav-
ing no effect upon the canvass. Maj.
Armstrong, a man who it is almost I
a disgrace to associate In the same
issue Of a paper with Adams, is
man whose public and social charac-
ter Is as high above Adams and his
new comrades r the insignificant
Burke, the ldiotic4ooking White
and the demagogue VOorhees-as
the sun Is above the earth. His
word is better than their bond, and,
in point Of intellect, he is their peer.
Furthermore, he is as true to the old
flag and the union to-day as he was
twenty years ago, when he offered
up his blood on the altar Of his coun-
try, that all men might be free.
When Voorhees, opened this cam
paign he insisted that there should
be no personalities. The republican
press has studiously avoided mud
singing fight, not that they haven't
plenty of such material to use, to the
detriment Of the democratic nomi-
nee. We see that he has commenced
running Major Armstrong; name In
his speeches, while his supporters
take every opportunity to malign
and lie about that gentleman. II
the democrats insist on a fight Of
that character, why, the republican
press might as well accept the situa-
tion and start in.