The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-09-13
AnTvrL Dopsrss.

It seems like PROCLAMATION Ebea the
men who are making tie canvass Of
Washington for the Democratic ticket
invoke the name Of Thomas jefferson
- their bonosed exempiar. La al
places and ~ ali times the author Of
the immortal Declaration 81 In5e-
pendence Was fearless and ogtspoaen
In uttering his conscientious opinions,
and such men a. rilas Wright. Jere
Black, Thomas II. Den,oa and LeEis
Cass. the leaders % ia Democratic
party In It's manly days. would have
scofned 20 go before the people solicit
ing their support under a mask Of
false pretenses, eyasions and covert
declarations Of principles. This II
just what the Democratic leaders are
attempting in the pending campaign.
They are attempting to boodwink the
people by denying their true senti-
nients ~ 10 the tariff. pensions, the
public lands and other live issues ia
which the people are deeply interested
while they confine tbsir attention 10
wild declarations on the anti-monop-
oily question. concerning which there
In practically no division Of public
sentiment.
But In q cowaTdly, covert manner
the Democrats have incorporated into
their platform a plank Ia which. in the
event OF their success, they would
point rs sustaining them in carrying
out or favoring policies 10 which they
now profess 10 be opposed. This they
accomplish by indorsing the admins
tration 81 Grover Cleveland. and by
reaftirming their Endorsement Of the
Democratic national platform adopted
ut ST. Louis In lsss. This. they
thought. would seem TO the unthink-
Ing mere matter OF form, signIfying
nothing, but in tact, and by cunning
intent, IL covers the whole ground. IL
commits them TO. and would justify
their candidates. If elected, in sup
porting the principles OF Cleveiand's
tariff message, In upholding the prin-
cipies Of the Mills bill. and democrat
king tie whole fabric oil American In
dustry. II commits them TO an in
dorsement OF Cleveland : incompetent,
shambIing administration OF the post
Office department. Ii commits them
70 an Endorsement Of bis eontefnptu-
Gus treatment of the veterans OF the
late war. and his ribaid Jokes NJ their
expense, cunningly woven into The
web OF his pension vetoes IL commits
them TO an endorsement OF his policy
In respect to the public lands, by which
every settler Was regarded a. villain,
every pioneer struggling 10 establish a
home for his family was treated a. a
0espasser. and an army of camp-foi-
lowing spies were hired 10 hound the
men who had come West 10 find a
piece OF land upon which % pass their
declining years. II commits them 81
IN Endorsement OF levsland's praeti-
cal suspension of the land laws, by
which reign Of terror was created
among the home-seeking immigrants
TO this and adjacent sections. II com.
mits them to an Endorsement OF Cleve-
lands attempt to nullify the soldiers
homestead law. the prescription, tim.
Der culture and desert lard acts. II
commits them to an Endorsement Of
the general policy by which the Cleve-
land administration threw the whole
public land system into confusion and
threw every possible impedilnent in
the way of honest settlers obtaining
the patents To which they were EN-
titled. All of this, and more of the
same sort, Is covered by this cunning
~ devised, deceitful. apparently limo
cent Endorsement OF Cleveland AL.
ministration and the Democratic plat
form of lsss.
Such devices are unmanly, aishon-
est and unworthy OF party whose
leaders sacrilegiouSly invoke the name
Of Jefferson as cover for their deceit
and treachery.