The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-12-14

to blossom like the rose. We have some
OF the richest oil regions in
the United States. have seen
oil wells which would throw a
stream sixty feet in the air, and there are
In parts of the state ponds of oil eight feet
natural wells. and has been caught
IN basins. 1t is. not really known
how valuable Wyoming is, and the state is
IN Its babyhood, materially as well as POI
iitically. Cheyenne, its capital, is as en-
terprising town as you will Ind any
where. 1t was few years ago the richest
town IN proportion to its population IN
the United States, and now with popula-
ton OF twelve thousand, it has as much
enterprise and stir as many town of
hundred thousand in the East. 1t has
electric lights, a 500, 900 university, one of
the hnest railroad depots of the country,
and 1t is full of snap and enterprise. You
ought to do for Wyoming. reply she
ought to give US some public buildings, let
the state have the disposal of the arid
lands, and strengthen the military posts.
We are on the edge of the Indian country,
and some alarm is felt among the people
as to the possibility of an Indian war;"
Senator Plumb tells me that Ingalls, will
probably be returned to the Senate, and
that he has number of friends among the
Alliance legislators, which in addition to
his Republican friends will secure his cleo
ton. Senator Ingalls, himself will say
nothing about his election for publication,
but l understand that he considers his
success certain. There is a general desire
here that Ingalls, be returned to the Senate,
and expressions of this kind are common
even among the senators who have been
the most bitterly attacked by him. The
newspaper correspondents, without an ex-
ceptlon, are anxious that he should re-
main, as he furnishes better descriptive
material than any other man in the body,
and always has new idea to offer upon
every subject that comes up.
| find general impression that the
Alliance party will be ephemeral, and that
it will not have much influence on the
next presidential election. Senator Plumb
said last night: "You can't tell what will
be the state of things two years from now.
Times will be better, and the effect of the
Mckinley bill may show that it will be
good rather than bad thing for the coun-
try. The Farmers Alliance party will
have number of offices to distribute. Its
leaders will probably quarrel among them
selves, and it may all go to pieces before
the presidential election. Judge Tyner,
ex-pOstmaster general, and now attorney
general of the postoffice department, thinks
him OF the granger movement which
struck Indiana about the time he ran for
congress. He was advised not to accept
the Republican nomination on account of
the strong farmers element of the district,
which would certainly be against him. He
took this advice and another man was
nominated. He was weaker candidate
than Tyner, but he was elected because the
Changers fought among themselves, and
could not at the end agree upon candidate.
Roswell P. Flower thinks the Alliance has
too many crazy ideas as to hat money,
ETC., to hold itself together, and George 0.
Jones, who was the Greenback candidate
that the old Greenback element will
around Senator Stanford as the
next candidate for the presidency.
called on Senator Sanders, of Montana,
last night. He says there are no Alliance
people in Montana, and ventures the state
ment that the Alliance party will, within
two years, be thing of the past. !" The
people of the United States" said he,
twill not support any party which holds
its meetings in the dark. Such actions are
against the spirit of American institutions,
and they are part only of the craze of the
times. We are growing insane over secret
societies. # you will go into any crowd
you can count, and it would take more
learning to read their meaning than it
would to write history of Moses and the
prophets. Parties have been in a
transition state for the last ten years,
and just now there is going on
all over the United States disintegration
of parties and change of social conditions
which make it almost impossible to proph-
esy for the future. This is an age of trusts,
of false values, and of great fortunes. 1t is
an age of fortunes made dishonesty, and
it would seem to me that day of reckon
ing must come sooner or later. Our great
corporation values are based on false es-
Inmates. Our railroads are operated so
that their directors and managers and
great proprietors are little better than
thieves in regard to the public, and the
balance sheet must be made up sooner or
later. As to the Alliance party l don't
think that it is the party that is destined
to bring this about. 1t is only an evidence
of the discomfort which prevails among
the people as to existing conditions. 1t is
so constituted that don't believe it can
hold together, and do not expect to see it
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