The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-08-27

Washington my good wishes for the success OF
the undertaking which they are 70 initiate 81
the forthcoming convention. am fhorougn
Deliver In political organisation. By that means
alone can the principles OF party be definitely
presented ana triumphanfly established Or
SANITATION promotes the dissemination OF polit-
icsi ideas and encourages devotion 70 party in
terests. IL Is the necessary precursor OF point
cal victory. but TO bring continuous and lasting
success IL must have for its aim not the eleya-
ton OF individuals but the welfare OF the party.
Otherwise organized political effort viii be one
sided and discordans. The party is greater than
any individual, and its interesis-not his
weakened by personal rivaIries is usually party
without principles worth fighting for.
"0rganized, united effort is needed now to
bring the Democratic party back into power.
The country's welfare demands vigorous and
systematic assertion Of those great principles
which have characterized the party in It's long
and honorable career. clearly defined and
vital issue coniron;s the peope--an issue forced
vividly upon the country by the reckless abuse
of power by the party now in control OF the gov
eminent. Unless am mistaken they will not
fndorse that brief but eyentful record OF ex-
travagance, tyranny, INSTRUMENTATION and
legislative fayorifism which Is the chief result
of years responsibility for Federal admins
tration by the Republican party, and which
manifesss dangerous tendencies towards CEN
tralization in government believe the people
prefer tue simple. plain and economical form
of government which was the ideal of those
great founders OF the Democratic psrty-Jeffer-
son and Jackson-and which is the ideal of the
party today. But this preference will not be
emphatically expressed, and Democratic princi-
pies will not be established in public admins
tration except by vigilant, aggressive Democ-
racy, such as hope your association OF clubs
intends to inaugurate in the state of Washing
ton, and such as / hope every Democratic Or
ganization in the land may assist in promoting.
Offering you my best wishes for success in
this direction, remain. very truly yours.
DAVID B. HILL"
THE MAN WHO BEAT CALKINs
'INDIASAPoLIs, Ind, Aug II, 1890
~ an in receipt of your kind favor inviting
me to be present at the meeting OF the Democ-
racy of Washington to be held at Tacoma on the
26tn and 9th of this month for the purpose of
organizing q state association of Democratic
clubs.
81 am gratiied to hear that the Democrats Of
Washington are taking steps looking to the
organization OF the party. Washington, in my
Northwest. and her proper political position is
in the column of Democratic states, and GER
tainly no more propitious lime than the present
could be selected to inaugurate the effort to
place her there.
s'Surely the people of Washington do not de-
sire TO indorse by theiT ballots party that has
within the short space of on year and a half so
recklessy managed the administration OF ma
tional affairs that it has not only squandered the
great surplus which was on hand when it came
Into power. but also presents 10 the country the
humiltating spectacle of a coming deficit in the
face OF annual government receipts wrung from
the pockets of the people amounting to nearly
four hundred millions. with prospective ex-
penditure during the next fiscal year of more
than five hundred millions; party that for
partisan purposes has adopted rules in the pop
ular branch OF congress, clothing the SPEAK
er with arbitrary power. which he
has used to prevent fair and
proper consideration Of measures OF great i'm
portance TO the people, and in the exercise of
which 10 obtain party advantage. he has over
ridden every rule of right and Justice This
same arbitrary power was used to pass the Me-
knley. bill TO increase the cruel burdens of the
war tariff-a system of taxation enacted and
maintained solely for the benefit of certain
Class OF persons, who in payment for the special
privileges thereby granted. are expected to fur
nish the Republican campaign managers with
money TO deiray election expenses system OF
taxation that has destroyed our commerce, op-
presses the lsboring classes by increasing the
cost of living. and is fmprovishing our farmers
by forcing the great commercial nations of the
world to discriminate against US IN the purchase
OF farm products. Well may Mr. Blaine say
that the Mckinley bill does not contain "a Sec
ton or line that viii open market for another
bushel OF wheat or barrel OF pork" and Mr..
Blaine could as truly have said, and with equal
force, that the tariff as it now stands. and as it
has stood since the war-a tariff which Mr.
Blaine supported during the whole time that he
was In congress, and, which he so eloquently
championed in every presidential campaign,
including the last one--never did and does not
now contain q section or line that secures or
facilitates the sale of a single barrel OF Ameri-
can pork or bushel of wheat.
"Mr. Blsine in talking thus is simply running
to cover for protection from the coming storm.
The Republican party, as a party, cannot adopt
that mode of escspe. With The trusts and COM
bines on one side demanding the passage of the
Mckinley bill, aud a rapidly growing sentiment
among the farmers and lablring classes that
they have been the victims of a system
OF taxation that has robbed them for
the benefit of trusts on the other side.
leaves the Republican party without hope of
being continued in contfol of the government
unless 1t can throttle the ballot.box. To &C.
complish that end the party is endeayoring TO
enact law establishing federal supervision
and bayonet rule st congressional elections.
hoping TO be able by the use of its machinery
TO stamp out that right of local seli-goyernment
which the people have exercised t. electing
their representatives in congress since the for
nation of the government.
II do not believe that the people of Washing
ton. possessing state OF such wonderful re-
sources, the development of which has scarcely
been begun, a state traversed by the grandest
inland sea in the world, sffording almost I'M
equaled facilities for internal and external COM
merce. state peopied with an active and ener-
getic popula alton representing every state in the
Union. can afford TO stay her mighty prog
ress, cripple her commerce and paralyze the
best energies Of her people by indorsing and
adopting the policy OF the party in power. Very
respectfully, ISAAC p. GRAY"
EX-GOVERNOR JOHN NJ PALMER.
'SPRINGFTELD, H., Aug. 6, 1890.
81 have The honor TO acknowledge the recei of
OF your favor of August ]. $780, in which you in.
form me that the Democracy of the state of
Washington will meet In convention at the city
OF Tacoma on Tuesday aud Wednesday, August
state association of clubs, auxiliary to the ma.
70 ana u, 1896, for the purpose of organizing a
tional association of Democratic clubs
me TO besno invite present on the occasion.
There are reasons of a personal character
which will be well understood by more than
one member of your executive committee
which would make visit TO Washington one OF
the most agreeable events OF my life: and aside
from these personal reasons il would afford me
great satisfaction TO meet my friend Colonel
Chandler, oil ST. Louis, aud the earnest DEM
ocracy OF the new state of Washington, who viii
be there engaged in the essential WORK of yigor.
Gus, effective organization.
"kor many reasons IL is incumbent upon the
Democracy OF Washington 10 adopt the most
energetic methods TO make themselves felt in
the politics OF the country. Remote from the
national capital, with the prospect that the state
OF Washington viii al no distant day occupy
leading relations TO some or all OF the other
states of the facins eosst. ii is most important
that the true principles of constitutional re-
pub!ieanlsm be steadlly maintained throughout
the whole Union.
THE existence and growth of the states west
Of the Rocky mountains a ad esnacisUv ~ ,ho.a