The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-12-01
IN HOTEL LOBBIES.
What Travellers and Stay-at-
Homes Have to Say.
DEMOCRATIC TIN PEDDLERs.
How They Put "Hoodoo" on Mckinley
"A Helena Man Talks of Jim Hilps
Road and Mining-Chit-Cha

Mr. James Taylor Petty, editor of the Ere.
mont, O.. Daily Neos. Mr.. L A. Wilson, mer-
chant, and Mr.. J. s. Ludwig, s.ock.raiser at
that town, were at the Dilier yesterday They
are making = tour of the West, and, like all
Eastern visitors, showed much wonder at the
size and beauty OF Seattle and its buildings
Mr.. wilson, In an interview with q Posr-
INrELLIGENcER reporter on Ohio politics, said
1T was the Mckinley bill which elected so
many Democratic congressman in Ohio. Nc
Kinley made splendid fight and almost won,
but had too big majority to overcome The
Democrats worked clever elecCioneering dodge
with great success. About two weeks be ore the
election they sent host of tinware peddlers all
through the district and asked exorbitant
prices. When asked why the prices were 30
high. these peddlers said: We'll, the Mckinley
bill has raised the price of tin.' That trick
caught many farmers. and the Republicans
had no time TO counterfeit Ii. In enc district,
which is Democratic by about 1000 majority,
Ex-Governor Ashley, the man VINO moved the
impeachment Of Andrew Johnson, was the Re-
publican candidate. He made great fight and
spent money without stint. but William E.
Haynes. the Democrat, who is also an able man,
beat him by majority OF 1850"
Wiii Foraker ever come to the front again."
Il don't think he will He killed himself by
running for third term as governor. That was
terrible mistake"
~ uoVernor Campbeil et1ll talked OF "a q
presidential possibility"
"Not So much as he was. He made mistake
In calling that extra session of the legislature.
He may have won few independent votes by
MS course In condemning the corrHp ion in
Cincinnati, but he has alienated many of the
Democratic leaders, and Hamilton county went
strongly against him. Brice is gaming favor
among the Democrats for the presidency. 1
think Mckinley will be the next governor of
q haa fnado pfr a
people"
us he talked of at all for SENATOR"
I'VE do not elect senator for two years and
sherman Is sure of reelection as long as he
wants the Office. His GOODNESS of manner does
not attract the people, but they recognize his
great ability and services to the country and are
proud OF him as a representative of their state.
WHO'S leader in the Senate If Foster had been
elected to congress he would have made a
strong candidate against Sherman. but he was
beaten by only eighty-four votes He may still
De put forward as he is very popular personally,
on account OF his easy, sociable, genial man
ners
'Ex-President Hayes still lives among us,
raises chickens and takes leading part in the
affairs of the town. He is a very amiable, an.
proschabe man, and is great favorite with all
OF US. great deal OF nonsense has been writ
ten about his raising stock. When he was run
ming for the presidency, correspondent of a
chicago paper came to Fremont and wrote a
mass OF high-hOwn stuff about his fine cattle
and blooded horses. The fact II that Hayes
never had any but the comnonest old working
horses, and never had a team worth $500. Any
farmer around the town had Q better team than
ne had He never pretended to have any fine
stock"
MI. George Martin and Mr.. NJ. 8. jenkins of
Helena, are at the Grand hotel They are both
interested in Montana mining properties. Mr..
Martin said yesterday to Post INTRLLIGENcER
reporter, "For year or more l have heard
stories to the effect that the Great Northern
would make Seattle its terminus bat to tell the
truth never believed them till day or two
ago. Then ! learned through friends of mine
who are close to Hill's right-of-way man that
the Great Northern Is coming straight to Seattle
1t will only ran to Bellingham bay by branch
This man ought TO be the best authority in the
world. for l understand that he has located
every single town for Jim Hill, *
When you speak of Helena man being
interested in mines you speak nothing
Dut The ruth, for there is hardly a man OF
property there who does not own stock in from
one to twenty mines. More money is put into
mines than is taken out; bat of coarse a fortune
can be made in good mine. Some from which
enormous sums have been taken have
swallowed up almost as much as was taken out
know of mine from which $1,000 coo was
gotten, and yet the profit was only $47 OuO The
Jay Gould mine gave up $l,5O0000 but it cost
100000 to get it. Then the wild cat mines are
a dead loss.
THE silver bill has been great stimulous to
silver mining. and mines that had lain idle for
years are now being opened. My belief is that
under this bill silver will go up to 81 20 an
ounce, the point where free coinage is to begin
you see silver went from 80 cents an ounce to
about 20; but 1t fell again below 81 This fall
was due TO speculation, as is seen oy the fact
that silver is again rising steadily and is now up
to $l05 You see when silver was going up the
spectators began to hoard the bullion hoping
1t would go yet further. I am informed by
good authority that at least $40 100000 of
bullion was held for an advance. Then came
the squeezs in the money market The specu.
iators could not hold the stuff any longer, and
they were compelled to drip 1t. OF course
there was big slump in the price. But as the
market grows frmer, silver rises"
'fale's football victory over Princeton by a
score OF 81 to at Brooklyn on Thursday ia one
OF the severest defeats Yale has ever given
Princeton" said Mr.. Frank B. Wiest Ting yestsr.
Gay. u was interested few days ago ia read
ing description of the Princeton team in the
Philadelphia Press. The average weight of the
rush line was 1870 pounds. The lightest m an, as
l remember. weighed lS4, and one big fellow
was feet inches tall. That 10 probably the
heaviest FOOTBALL rush line that was ever gotten
togetner. Inc rusn line OF the Harvard team
when defeated Yale averaged fifteen pounds
less than Yale. So you see that in each instance
the lighter line won. The trouble Is that a
heavy line is clumsy, and the men cannot get
around fast enough. That was the difficulty
with Coke, Yale's center rush OF q few years
ago. he was huge fellow, weighing 20 az
least They used to give him the bali aud then.
forming IN mass behind him, push him
ahead. But he didn't play during his last year.
Mr.. M. E. Clare said yesterday: eff an attemps
is made to oepose Parnen from the leadership
OF the Irish party, believe a big mistake viii
De made. parnell has never comm tied a polit.
zeal hlunder, and that is point worth remem.
ber1ng. Ii he goes at Gladstone's dictatiou there
Will be an attempt to consolidate the Irish
party and the Liberals. That might give home
rule, but home rule that is not worth having
II is only within the last two years tn at Glad
stone has been for home rule. And q few years
ago under the Liberals coercion was more 50.
we're than ii is under the Conserv arives. Now
men have pretense OF a trial, but then they
were locked up on suspicion. ParuelI himself
was in prison Tor eighteen months without
knowing what ne was susyected Of While the
IRISH remain independent they can dictate
terms to both parties"
Inc members OF the Swedish Quartetts Con-
cert Company are al the Rainier hotel. They
are: Miss Lura Barden, Miss Viola J. skooc
Mr.. Charles A. skoog, Mr. A Emil skoop. Nj
IL. Pugh, Mr.. II. W. Woernerberg Mr.. A.
Emil Skoog is the manager of the Compauy !
We have been several weeks in the northwest"
said he yesterday, "and we now GO dawn
through 10 Portland and on to California Then
we go back 10 Chicago, and after that to Texas.
our headquarters are at Boston, though our