, 1889-09-26
REPUBLICAN RALLY.
A Grand Success Immense
Torchlight Procession---The
scandinavian Boys.
Colonel ]. @. Haines Delivers One
of the Finest Speeches
Ever Heard Here.


opera-housc.
Shortly after o'clock those who were
so participate in the torchlight process
sion began to assemble in front of the
republican, headquarters ut the lower
end of Riverside avenue on Monroe
treet. a brass band and drum corps
alternately filed the air with martial
music while the procession formed. At
O'Clock all was in readiness and the
procession moved south on Monroe
street to Spraguc, thence to Riverside,
east on Riverside to Division, thence to
Main and down Main to the hall. The
great procession presented beautiful
spectacle as it filed into Main street
with banners and torches waving. four
abreast and over three blocks in length.
A prominent feature was about
800 Scandinavians with a beautiful
scandinavian flag, 0xS feet in size sur
mounted by an American flag, waving
proudly III the breeze at the head OF
their division. AS the procession ap-
preached the hall rousing cheer went
up from the crowds on the sidewalk on
either side pl the street.
AT THE HALL.
BY the time the procession had fled
into the hall the building was densely
packed and many were unable to procure
seats. The Scandinavian and American
flags were greeted with Il hearty
cheer from hundreds of throats when
the color bearer carried them down the
main aisle to the stage. james \. Glov-
er presided over the meeting, which nc
called to order, and announced that the
asscmblage would be. addressed by
Colonel j. G. Haincs and Colonel j. u.
Moore after II selection had been played
by the band. Besides the chairman,
there were on the stage Colonel j. Z.
Haincs, Major Il. A. Routhe, Mayor
Fred Furth, Hon. A. NJ. Cannon, Hon
G,rdv W, C. '9Se ~ rorre spr; ! Colonel y; J. y. Y
Moore, General A. Z. Curry, Colonel
J. w. Feighan, Harry A. Clarke, Henry
l.. Wilson, and William NJ. Ridpath,
chairman of the republican county cen
trail committee. After music by the
band Mr.. Glover introduced
COLONEL JOHN c. HAINEs.
The speaker was enthusiastically APP
plauded when he arose and stepped for
ward. He has magnificent voice, an
easy, graceful appearance and an unus-
unlly forcible delivery, and from the
first word he uttered the audience was
all attention. He began by expressing
audience present, and said it was not
surprising that city of such
marvellous enterprise and progress
whose avenues were throbbing with life
and industry, should present such &
large number of intelligent representa-
tive citizens whose hearts were throb
bing with the great principles of repub-
] lipuuism The sppu<pr ptprrpI tn tlf
warm bonds of unity existing between
Seattle, "Qucen City" of the Sound, and
Spokane Falls, the city by the
falling waters--proud Empress
county the spirit of republicanlsm MS
more manifest than ever before, and re-
publican success in that county was nc
longer question of doubt, except AS tC
the probable majority the republican
candidate would receive. The speaker
dwelt briefly upon the great cri
of prosperity under which Washington
would enter into statehood-aprosp pcrity
due to the triumph of the principles .
the republican party. There was n'
de@ocratic ddeD" tta'91 rule. ~ The four r'' year n
the democracy had been in poweI
had only served to whet thei
appetites for the spoils of office. The
two leaders of the parties were com
strong, who had no ties to bind him
but who had failed to respond to thi
call for aid IN the hour of his country
greatest need, and Benjamin Harrison
who had forsaken all tina
was dear to him to buckle OF
the valley of shadows to help to iigh
, the battle for the preservation of tn
Union. There had been good and grca
soldiers who were democrats, but II,
one had ever heard of great general be
ing the leader of the democratic party il
the sense of having shaped its policy
The democratic orators In this campaign
had devoted most of their speeches {
personal abuse of the republican candi
I dates. The personnel of the men, thu
speaker thought, of very little con
sequence; the men would pass out o
) sight and soon be forgotten, but tn
principles of the parties would live on
The democracy had endeavored /,
pose as the friend and champion of la
Dor, but its history would not bear /
out. The first great question affecting
labor was the slavery question, whei
the doctrine prevailed in tn
South that one man had tn
right to own and sell anothe
as so much merchandise; when SLAYER,
was claimed to be a divine right an,
4, 200, 900 human beings were in bondage
Did the democrats ever say that tn
, slaves of the South should not com
into competition with the fre
! white labor of the North? /
was only when the, war ha
put an end 70 the questio
that the democracy had abandone
its opposition to the free whit
intelligent labor of the North
, The public land question was not q
that time as it is now. The democrat
had wanted to make slave state
of the growing. western terr
tories by allowing the slav
) barons of the south to purchase iarg
tracts of the public domain, but thi
was forestailed by the passage of tn
, homestead law by the republican,
: Twice under democratic admiuistra
) ton had this measure been defeated
once by the vote of Southern demo
} cratic soldier and the last tin,
by the veto of James BIZ
chanan, the last democratic presider
before Cleveland. When the republ
I cans hurled the democracy from pows
they at once passed the homestead Law
Z which gave homes to tens OF Thousand
. ham Lincoln. The democrac
/ had resolved that the nation,
debt could never be paid, the republican
had resolved that every dollar of leg,
tender should be redeemed in gold an
silver, and that the honor and credit
the nation should be preserved III
# democracy had not said word abo,
honest money until as late as 1868.
: The speaker said perhaps he had give
too much time to old issues, which We
O u constant source of complaint on II