The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-09-25
BALLARD WILL BIZ ALI RIGHT.
Republicans Confident, Democrats De-
nsoralixed, Populist Cyclane . Zephyr.


nsoralixed. Popuiist Cyclone Zephyr.
BALLARD, Sept. 2A-Neither the Demo
Gratis nor the Republicans have held . po-
campaign. The Republicans are easy and
confident, the Democrats demoraIized and
the Peoples party rampant.
The Peoples party for months past has
made spasmodic and frantic efforts to in
crease Its numerical strength. But their
efforts have not been apparently crowned
with success commensurate with the
claims and boasts of the leaders Of the
party.
Indeed in proportion as the noise Of the
calamity howiers grows louder the howlers
decrease in numbers. Week by week their
strength diminishes. At the primary cleo
ton the Peoples party claimed sixty
voters, fact which so elated the party
leaders that they openly declared they
were going to sweep the country, carrying
everything before them like a cyclone.
Every office in the country, they said,
from president to constable was to be filled
by Peoples party man, and only then
would the country be prosperous.
Before, however, electing the presi-
dent, vice president, governor,
and state affairs, they decided to begin
with two school directors and clerk of
the school board at Ballard. Accordingly
they called mass meeting and nominated
full ticket, which was to be the nucleus
Of the cyclone that would sweep the coun-
try next November. At the election it
proved gentle zephyr. for their votes had
decreased from sixty claimed at their pri-
maries TO twenty for school directors. The
Republicans were victorious, with four
votes to one over both the Democratic and
Peoples party tickets. Now the Peoples
party leaders say they made q mistake in
beginning at the bottom to proceed to the
top. but that they will begin at the top
with Weaver and tumble down to the bot
tom.
g. c. Highlands, the Peoples party
candidate for clerk. and the present clerk
of the Peoples party club. received 3S
votes, Is of them coming from the Demo-
cratic party through combination with
W. Fl. Dill. the Democratic nominee for
director. Hughbanks, it is alleged, treach-
erously sold out to the Democrats through
the Vaccinations of Charles Hadfeld,
who is supposed to contain all the brains
of the local Democracy as at present con-
stituted in Ballard.
The most influential Democrats. like
Matthew Dow, Henry McCurry and many
others, refuse to join in the hue and cry of
''damning the ditch''-the policy outlined
by the local Democratic organ, the editor
of which seems to be ignorant of the fact
that the Democratic county convention,
the Peoples party county convention,
the Prohibition county convention, be-
sides the Republican county convention,
each adopted q plank favoring the con-
struction of the canal. A prominent DEM
ocrat in Ballard said:
This question of the canal is one OF vital and
paramount importance to the interests of Bal
lard, and have too much confidence in the in
teiligence OF the voters of Ballard to imagine
that any of them does rot know that q vote
against the canal is vote against BalaSd's best
interests. The construction of the canal will be
OF more benefit to Ballard than any other place.
The local Democratic organ. in ''damning the
ditch" is simply trying to grasp Ballard by the
throat and throttle the life out of her. The
future of Ballard depends almost wholly upon
the canal, aud for one will not vote for party
which has adopted an auti-canal plank in its
platform. This year my vote will be cast for
John H. McGraw and the Republican state
ticket
For the local Democratic organ and its anti
canal policy have the greatest contempt. Its
editor, and his adherents, il he has any, are in
fact dishonest and have confessed as much to
me-, for they know as well as any one the i'm.
portance OF the canal to Billiards. future great
ness. But they willing to play the role of
humbug simply to hold, If possible, the local
Democratic organization together, and to pre-
vent its utter d:sintegration because their
bread and butter depends upon their party's
support, their own personal worth and infiu-
ence being too weak q factor to trust