The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-09-29
THE JOINT DEBATE.

- Discussed by Three Speakers
for Zach Party.
1. 40 crowd OF GO or 500 had ga'h-
Ia the SArmory, and after the First
uiuent band had played tune or two
Sskuen Rochester introduced az the first
Ii the Hon. James Hamilton Lewis.
csrAr BODIES MOVE SLOWLY.
- Lewis commenced very deliberately.
bewed his handsome whiskers to the
kdnce, toyed gracefully with the bangle
- watch cham, pulled the fore-fnger OF
rght hand ont OF his glove, to give il
bought ont several newspapers with
heing skiIlfully pasted over them and
nlIy assumed satisfactory pose. "Iiook
vain, !" be said. "for the gentleman who
d lash me 10 fury and dash me down
i the bottomless pit OF despair. The
u.fsrElLieEseEg told you this morning
y | had willfully lied at the Frankiin
wsing. | have discovered that Mr..
srey himself Is the author OF that arti-
IN. Lewis, after an attack on Col.
mes, again returned 10 the Franklin
n0le. "They charge me with having
4 something which was not i'm the paper.
M leave II TO my Franklin friends il 1
not ask Mr.. Dorney to read the piece
|nseli. Is not that so7 ferries of Yes.
ksr'l And now he il not brave enough
J come and face this matter.
Il an not here tn tell you what you
Aould DO, but will talk To you a. one
Hmm 10 another. My only object is 10
u you the truth as see it, and ask you
, 10 the right as yon see it. No one will
|ny hat the poor are getting poorer
Nd tA rieh richer. There are two great
natf& parties. Both have made their
paiRs, and IT is for the people to decide
~ Aall stand and which shall fall"
h Crittenden compromise was ex-
nsd and the Republican party blamed
hnre Il was not made law.
s1h9e Is one other issue which tney talk
pYou about, /" said the speaker, land that
~ tarf. You have had it dinned and
med and dinned into your ears until IL
|Nninds you of the roar of the ocean in a
aihsa. ! shall not talk tariff. The tar
IS b1gaboo."
Ttarcely had Harrison been seated
IN be directed Marshal Edmunds to
~ sweniy-iye settlers in Iowa. Ed
sanss did so after Killing several of the de-
hstfss men. Another Republican act
|nsss sarn over % coo acres in Wyoming
p coiPoraiion after ejecting the honest
|Gatss thereon. Since the Republicans
|nms into power the $4,000 acres OF land
Fsnl 70 TIE Northern Pacific Is not mat
We dispute any longer"
ihe spesker went over a list of strikes
sfh had occurred since IarriSon's adj
.za'ifston. and characterized them a.
~ ihe fruits of a high protective tariff.
= aecissed that there had been more
s'zts ard more misery since Harrison's
|zzE sssrstion began than in all of Cleve-
|edt four years.
iS SPEAKER depleted the good and bad
~ IN the characters OF the different
aaAiales for state Offices. What has
q am to do With putting good men in
- ssa'e eiiieesG" he said. What help
- sos expect rs long as the Oregon I'm
V'sassni Company and the Northern
Sa1e company hold their hands on the
! 'e'a1ng eacs In the subject of Major
10y af. Lewis characterized him as a
- As'' and charged him. among other
nlsernis
MAJOR DogSEY's ANSWER.
saps lorn<y, Who had arrived Mt the
- Wort time before the close Of Mr.
.ss speech, WAS introduced Ia the Ico.
Nj norney remarked that he could
= y TIE utility Of smircbiug the charac-
80 y public speakers lie expected 90
WIN gentlemen and he thought II
.aasnannesly, cowardly and mean for a
Z OF this place Ia attack stranger
~ way his name had been aSSsiled.
.s' democratic paper this morning re-
- ne as Pa;' Ny name is Pat. |
y ~ ashamed of that. Another thing
~ s.iged with is having organized an
49, american Republican Club IN los
n \ as- That admit. too. Patrick Ford
-. se sane thing In New York. only he
y 49, national organization and mine
,ap'y local affair" The major an
- several charges against him and
:. , s'ea into the land grabbing question.
/. ~ hehGhlican party dia not exist when
sc'aee Of Substituting railroads COM
The Democratic party is the
- A'a was the father Of the land grant
-" system and all that Is i'll therein !:
:. hst system IS Democratic. The
= .NAfoad land grant was made on sep
frs'A iSsA Ii was made % the state
' sses by Democrats administration.
saed sse5 ,oo3 acres. The same adj
.su lson INSIDE two more grauts-one
Aoana and another TO Mississippi.
81 grants hult the Ohio & Mobile rail
Il We transit artery OF iAe rebel Con-
- and have yet 10 learn Of Dem
s. aosl bewsilny the land grab that
as transit artery Of the rebel con.
The next railroad land grant