The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-23
THE APOSTLE OF Discomfort.
General James Il. Weaver to Re Hero
Today-A Public Lecture.

Today-A Public Lecture.
The organized workingmen of the city
have been taking considerable interest in
General J. Il. Viewers visit here today. But
the interest is not confined to working
men, for General Weaver's reputation as a
public man, his ability as public
speaker and debater and the persistency
with which he advocates the principles he
has avowed have won the respect of most
liberal-minded people. even though they
differ from him IN political ideas.
For over twelve years he has been en-
gagged in the advocacy of the leading
prin ciples which are embodied in the plat
form of the Peoples party, having been
elected to the lower house of congress
three times on these issues. Yet he was
one of the few who took firm stand
against the organization of the third
party at the Cincinnati conference in
1891, but having been outvoted
by such political self-seekers as Ignatius
Donnelly and his followers, he sank his
personality and fell in with the majority.
He is now making tour of the country in
the interest of that party, of which he is
more than likely to be the presidential
candidate IN the coming campaign.
General Weaver will deliver an address
at o'clock this afternoon in the Armory,
and no doubt the hall will be packed to its
full capacity.
General James B. Weaver was born in
Dayton. O., June II, 1888. He gradu-
ated at the law school of Ohio university
in Cincinnati in 1851 In April, 1861, he
enlisted as private in the Second Iowa
infantry was elected a lieutenant and rose
to be ma or in the same year. After the
senior field officers had fallen at Corinth,
he was commissioned colonel on October
u, 1862. He was brevetted brigadier gen.
eral on March IL, 1865, for gallantry in
action. After the war he resumed the
practice Of law and was elected district at
torney of the Second judicial district
of Iowa in 1866. He served as
assessor of internal revenue for six years
from 1867 He became editor of the lowa
Tribune, published at Des Moines, and
was elected to congress in 1879. In 1880
he was nominated tor the presidency by
the National Greenback-Labo party and
received 307, $40 votes. He was returned
to congress in 1885 by a fusion of the
Observation-Disclosures and the Democratic
parties IN his district and was reelected in
1856. Much of his energy during his last
two years in congress was directed toward
the opening of Oklahoma territory. and.
when it was finally opened. he led the
boomers in to settle on the land and aided
them in the organization of their terri
torial government. After that event he
took but little part in public affairs out
side of Oklahoma until the Cincinnati
conference which resulted in the forma-
ton of the Peoples party.
Ia ana of the reaNiaSt dphofcre on
the door of the House while in congress,
and many of the members really feared
his antagonism in debate. A passage-at-
arms he mad with Mr.. Sparks, afterward
commissioner of the United States lard
Office, added much to his national fame.
Sparks was then as surly as he was later
in hindering the development OF the Puget
sound country, and Weaver made him the
laughing stock Of the country by rdicul-
ing him. Sparks was more than anxious
for personal encounter in the House, but
the Hawkeye statesman more than salts
fed him,