The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-09


gress, however. where the farmers want
him, but to sit in the executive chair.
And by the way. that brings out Chester
III. Warner, who is so anxious to be gov
ernor that in his dreams he is following
pillow half the time in order to gain an
honorable standing among the grsngers.
Warner is not 8 farmer, as seems to be
commonly presumed. but a miller and
money loaner. Ii would be more exact TO
say that he is practical politician, and =
very smooth one He is a rabid Democrat,
who, in his eagerness to defeat the Repub-
lican tickets, has worked every possible
continuance, including the organization of
third parties. He is one of the
few men responsible for the Farm
ers' Alliance, but his original inten-
ton was TO consolidate the Alliance
and Democratic elements against the
Republicans, elect Democratic legislature
and be elevated 10 the United States Sem
ate. The success recently achieved by the
grangers in other states has influenced the
imaginations of the Washington Plliance
to such degree that the order has got out
of Mr.. Warmers control and now looks
upon him as nothing more than an adven-
turous politician who deserves no better fate
so his party zeal has already produced the
effect Of carrying the distinguished gentle
man into an unexpected abyss of private
life. The scheme he concocted to destroy
his adversaries has rebounded with a
deadly blow upon himself If anybody
doubts that Mr.. Warmers influence with
the farmers is forlorn thing of the past,
all that will be necessary TO change the
opinion is q short conversation on the sub
ject with any prominent member of the
Alliance. The impression prevails gener-
ally over the state that he is connected
with an alliance lodge, which impression
is entirely erroneous. He is ineligible to
membership because he Is not farmer.
That idea of his being an act
i've Alliance man gained prominence
on account af the part he played in getting
the new party organized, his motive being
q stratagem of war instead of any concern
for the farmers welfare. More than any
body else, he is conscious of his waning
strength. His disposition is intensely
jealous, which accounts for the sudden
GOODNESS that his sprung up between him
and Senator McCroskey. He realizes that
the popularity of the senator is interfering
with his own aspirations, and his efforts to
down McCroskey are partially responsible
fer his failing from grace in the estimation
of Alliance leaders. Let il be pasted in the
hats of all politicians that Chester III.
Warner will never receive the Endorsement
of the Farmers Alliance for any political
Office.
There is another gentleman whose ambi-
tons cause him good many sleepless
nights B. B. Glasscock is his name. He
is a Spectator and money lender of
Sprague, but has managed to gain entrance
to the Harrington Alliance in Lincoln
county, He owns about 1900 acres
of land few miles south of
Davenport, half of it being in cultivation.
But to become a member of the Alliance
the candidate must be practical farmer,
following no other line of business. Bank
ers. lawyers and spectators are espec-
tally barred. For all of that, though, Mr..
Glasscock is full-fedged member. Liv-
ing near Harrington he has brother,
through whose influence he was admitted
to the Harrington lodge. Glasscock has
served repeatedly as mayor of Sprague,
having been elected each time with an in
creased majority. Notwithstanding the
town is strongly Republican and he blue
Democrat. He is well liked by the grang-
ers, who would willingly support him for
any Office if he were not q money lender.
To own money and lend it puts the seal of
condemnation on any man, even as genial
an individual as B. b. Glasscock.
1t is pretty generally known that this
Sprague farmer-banker has all the money
he wants for while, and would like first
rate to spend his declining years in an ex-
allied position in official life. In the way
of accompling that desire and satisfying
his ambitious nature, he became farmer
that is, a member of the Alliance. His
popularity makes him a strong man with
the rural voters AS matter of fact he
rules the Alliance of Lincoln county. He
has encouraged it from its infancy, and
still insists that the farmers act wisely in
going into such an organization. Through
his personal efforts no less than half
dozen lodges have been formed.
The state lecturer and organizer is B. +.
Totten, an ex-preacher, whose training in
the pulpit has given him fair command
of oratory, which he uses on his audiences
with good effect. He left the Republican
party two years ago, after suffering defeat
for the nomination of state senator in the
Seventh district. But he was the farmer
candidate in that contest, and of course
his supporters seized the opportunity and
persuaded him to join the Alliance. Asa
speaker he is convincing, as citizen very
popular, and as an organizer the Alliance
could hardly select a stronger man. He
has no political ambitions but champions
the Alliance doctrine because he believes il
is the correct one. Mr.. Totten can't be
called sorehead, as he left the Republican
party under a sincere convictian that
neither of the old organizations were con-
cerned in the welfare of the
farming community. He still adheres to
the policy of protective tariff, internal i'm
proyements. strong central government
and ali other Republican principles but
declares that the politicians of the two dom
inant parties are controlled by the infiu-
ence of wealth. He argues strongly for
the sub-treasury plan and free coinage of
silver.
State Secretary Arrasmith is one of the
few Alliance leaders who rejects the sinh.
treasury idea, as well as the government
ownership of railroads. On that account
he is wavering between the Republican
and farmer parties; but he works hard in
whatever he considers beneficial to the
rural element
There never was time IN this state
when the farmers were banded together 81
thoroughly and determinedly as they ara
today. Men who, in former camnairns
were looked upon as the staunchest Re-
publicsns or Democrats, the backbone of
their party among the farmers, are now as
sailing those organizations with as much
bitterness as they once defended than,