Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-10-05

money oy letting the railroad pobble q
All the lsndsL" / say this position
false. Ht does no harm 90 asits.e
great public Question like this. L
hovevsr, it were trae. I would saw. L
the agitation go ahead. Wendell Phi
lps, 10 one Of his famous speeches i
Boston, referred 20 the fact thst IN
merchants of that city petitioued ths
the agitation OF the question of hum a
slavery be stopped because they desire,
the trade OF the South. They vanie,
10 pile up dollars in psy for human sIa
very and human suffering.
When the Republicans of King coun
" saw that their Territorial Conventio,
nnd been Robbgsd up by the railroad
they should have withdrawn, and lief
that august body vithou, brains
lGreat applause. Let Us see that thil
land shall not be squandered from on
children, as the lands of our Terrific
rial University have been. without re
gard 70 those who come after rs. Un
less se do our duty at this time. twenty
Years from nov speakers will say
twenty years ago the people of Wash
ington Territory had an opportunity {,
recover this enormous land grant, but
they threw away the golden opporiu.
nifty
". Il. WHITE
Was next introduced. He said: This
Is the first time IN six months I havs
nad an opportunity to address my fel.
iov-cstlZans. Six months ago in this
very ball the Democratic platform was
mrs: written and presented to me by
snch staunch Republicans as George
klnnear. Col. g. Lyon. x. Osborn and
other prominent citizens, VITO gave that
platform to me and sent me TO Wash
ington to represent the people on the
vital question which Is the absorbing
topic Ia this campaign. When get to
Washington presented the matter be-
fore the Public Lands Committee of
the House, every one of whom favored
the forfeiture of the Northern Pacific
land grant, except Thoma II. Brents.
be Was the only man on that committee
who opposed forfeiture.
The Republican platform was writ
ten six months ago aud was put into
brents minority report. told the
members of Congress and Senators at
Washington that my peoPe favored
forfeiture. Will yoH now make me out
a liar by sending Armstrong to Con
gress on Brents' platform Loud
shouts of mo! mo ~ "Nowl
You said to myself, Judge Burke aud
Others, 90 to Walla Walia and represent
the people in the Democratic Conven-
ton. We did 30. az our platform de-
monstrates. You promised to st mi by
US II we did so. We have kept oar
faith. / told Mr.. Voorhees, that King
county would give him 800 una
jority. believe IL will. | lie to talk
70 Republicans. The lirst speech ever
de was Republican speech, at the
age of IL, because the Republica party
at that time was dedicated to the cause
Of liberty. | am preparing speech for
Sd. which l want you all to
bear. want you to be true to your-
selves, true to your interests, and give
Voorhees, 5000 majority.
have a letter here that received to-
day from a Republican officeholder, the
only one know of who stands in with
the people. 1t is from j. Nj. Adams,
publisher of the Yakima Signal, and
Register of the Land Offiee at Yakima
City. He is splendid man and con-
sist, mt Republic n, and il all Republi-
CARS were like Adams I'd be kepubli-
caa myself. The letter reads as fol-
lows:
OFFICE OF YAKIMA SIGNAL,
YAKIMA, W. T.. Sept. 70, 1884.
w. III. White, Esq, Seattle, ". r.
DEAR FRIEND: / am even more earnest
than when 1 saw you IN opposition TO
the railroad party headed by Arm
strong. and now that / have published
this mans views against forfeiture. ex-
pressed as Acting Commissioner of the
General Land Office, and as these views
show him to belong to the worst class of
defenders of the unearned land grant,
feel that every anti-laud grant Rspubli
can In this Territory ought to record
his vote against the attempt of the rail
road company to control III politics and
slsct their representative to Congress.
It seems to mo that, after all
that has been sud and done by King
,ounty IN regard to this land grant in
,uous, the honest, earnest people of
hat county cannot now consistently
Fote for man who takes
the ground that the railroad |
company Is greater than the
or that Congress has
no right to declare a forfeiture of the
and grant-whether the company builds
he road or not. Ii is now an establish
ID fact that just prior to the Canven-
lien, Paul SohuiZe, the Northern Pacific
and agent, went to Spokane and spent
several days in close conversation with
and for my own part have
40 doubt that the plans wers then and |
here arranged for his nomination. | |
I'm Also fully satisfied, from what / saw
md heard, that il was prearranged by
he railroad party that Armstrong
should, IL possible, receive his nomina-
'ion without the support of Tacoma
he object being to deceive and avoid |
he alienation of King County.
j. NJ. ADAMS.
attended the Republican Territorial
Convention. The railroad had it BODY |
md breeches. They tried to shut off |
Tree speech. and but for the noble efforts |
" King county delegates the gag would |
have beed applied. There are many |
yood citizens in Kansas, but the |
politicians from that State are
worse than the grasshoppers. We
already have a Ksvanaueh and a |
Bsttis, and for Gods sake spare Us
rom rurther infections in that direc-
ion. Mr.. White then proposed three
,heers for Voorhees, and forfeiture,
which were given with will, after
Enich there was some cheering for
Blaine and Logan. but the Democratic
part of the audience did not take much
,tock in this part of the doinQs.