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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-09
TIE CLOVER OUR STATE FLOWER.

SEATTLE, May 4, 1892.
To THE EDITOR: The recsnt discussion r.
garding a suitable state flower hiss brought OUT
many interesting ideas. but confess that until
today had not noticed the suggestion OF any
particular flower that seemed entirely appfo-
pirate. The syringa was not favorably received
and 1t seems to me that the only merit the
rhododsndron has is the fact that it Is ever
green, thereby IMPLYING our sobriquet, "Ihe
Evergreen State The latter flower Is found
only in few unfrequented places, and is SO I'M
common that not one out OF hundred OF Wash.
ington's people are familiar with 1t, aud besides
1t has gaudy beauty that Is not in keeping with
the character of this state.
Ella Higginson, with true poetic instinct, his,
to my mind. named the flower that 10 destined
to be the state emblem-the modest and beausl-
full clover. 1t is found In every nook and corner
OF the commonwealth, on mountain sides and in
the valley 1t is, therefore, enblematlc oil the
tireless energy and prise of our state /
spoke of the matter today to one OF the most
eminent engineers in the Northwest. MIR. John
q. Scurry, who is familiar in an exceptional
degree with every section of the state. and he
said: eli the state flower question is decided on
its merits, it must be the clover, Mrs. Hlggin-
sons choice. 1t is the only flower that is found
wild In every portion OF the state, and to which
our climate seems peculiarly adapted. In
mountain passes and the most inaccessible
places, where probably human feet had never
trodden before, have often been pleasantly
surprised to find a rich carpet OF fragrant
clover"
The wealth of honey in the clover represents
the wonderful richness of our state, and the
flower has q lasting beauty, like our scenery
While not peculiar to our soil. we have special
right to adopt 1t state em blem, because 1t Is
SO very appropriate. &. !. g.
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THE STATE PRESS.

Gate City Graphic: president Aarrisons re-
nomination is generally conceded"
Yakima Herald (Dem): "The electors Of
Washington will east their ballots for Grover
Cleveland"
Little Falls Gazette: Tacoma has always
acted the dog-in-the-manger with Seattle To
an outsider the action OF Tacoma in opposing
the Seattle canal is q cowardly. contemplate
trick. which is bound to react against herself"
New Whatcom Alliance Journal: "We believe
that the Seattle RadloF crime is being covered
up by arch fends and cunning couspirators
That Radloff was foully dealt with seems lndis-
putable, and that his were the charred remains
found in the ruins OF the farm house is very
probable"
Anacortes Courier: "With knowledge, there
fore of its many advantages, with a firm belief
that this city is the proper place for the perma-
nent county seat and that its location here
would rebound to the benefit of all, Anacortes
enters the lists, and by all fair and honorable
means seeks to become the capital city OF skagit
county"
sprague advertiser: "The Spokane Spokesman
wants the Democrats to nominate Drumheller
for governor. The Advertiser does not want the
Democrats TO do anything of the kind. In case
the nomination for governor goes east of the
mountains the Advertiser is OF the opinion that
Warner, of Whitman, should receive the nom
nation. Warner is the star toward which the
Democratic party of this state should look for
guidance from the shades OF political obscurity
to the haven OF political success. Mark these
words"
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NORTHWEST NEWS.

The Port Angeles Tribune has absorbed the
Times.
The swans are breeding in Beacon Hill park,
Victoria
Hop growers at Kent are not yet troubled with
the hop louise.
CIR Martin has sold the Roslyn Ne,cs to z. z.
Wager, Charles Miller and W. p. Morgan.
Dr. j. 5. Mcclure, the justly celebrated tenn
perance retormer, has located in Cle-EIum-
John Crobar an old and wel-known pros
pector and miner, was found dead IN the road
near Loomls.on, Ohanogan county, recently.
Heart disease.
II the House passes, as il will, the Senate bin
extending free delivery to places possessing
5000 inhabitants, or postal revenue OF $500 q
year, Centralia, Colfax, Eilensburg, Vancouver
and Whatcom will be benefited.
The mean temperature At Walla Walla in April
was asa; highest temperature, II, on the 18th;
lowest, IS, on the 6th. The total precfpitat on
was CO inches, on sixteen days. The excess OF
precipitation since January l has been L. p
inches.
Two boys who were fishing across the river
Tuesday captured a male Japanese pheasant in
peculiar manner. Hearing great racket in a
little coulee near by, they ran over ard saw two
male pheasants engaged in deadly warfare, in
which one OF them was getting decidedly the
worst OF ii, and when it finally rol &C over ex-
hausted, the boys captured It without trouble
Vancouver Independent
Last Thursday evening as Mr. John Aiken
was going through the woods north of Mr. So
Relies, on mis- way home, he met a bear aud two
cubs The Old bear came into the road behind
him and followed him. He had pig in a sack
on his back; he dropped the pig and ran for
sweet home, took gun and went back and
found the bear but not the pig. He shot the
bear twice, but she went into the woods and II
was SO dark he could not follow her, and SO lost
both bear aud pig. John says 1t is rather ex.
pensive feeding bears IN this way.-FtslrAavs-.
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catch few short-sighted manufacturers,
but it would not impose upon an intelli-
gent workingman, who knows as
matter of common sense that the
Mckinley tariff is a fair tariff which
protects American labor and capital
whether it is engaged in producing raw
materials or turning out the finished man
ufaotured product.
The Mckinley tariff protects the labor
that mines the ore as well as the laoor that
produces pig iron; it protects the labor
that produces raw steel blooms" the
labor that manufactures steel rails, wagon
springs or cutlery. Free raw nateris.s
would strip the producers of protection,
and how long would the producers West
and East stand a tariff which withdrew
protection from the producer and LETT 1t
with the manufacturer? Of course the
manufacturer would be stripped of protec-
ton in his turn, and then we should be
face to face with "free trade" which is
exactly what Grover Cleveland, Mills u
Co. most fervently desire.
Concerning this cuckoo cry of Cleveland
for Stree raw material United States
Senator Hawley on Wednesday last said:
We are not deceived by the cry concerning
free raw material. Iron ore at 50 per ton Is "
per eut. labor. 1t Is one man $ finished pro-
duct as truly 50 as the exquisite hair-spring OF
a watch is another mans The wool OF sheep Is
labor, the perfected product OF the farmer. III
there be any Eastern manufacturer who THINKS
the enormous wool interests of the country Will
consent to se left without any degree of protec-
ton, while upon the finished wooden goods
heavy duties are levied, let them undeceive him
self after election. The tariff cannot create q
monopoly in anything which 65,oOO,OoO people
are free to produce.
There is no cry for "free wool" from the
people. The Mckinley law has been in
operation eighteen months. and 50 per
cent. of the wooden manufacturers Of New
England declare themselves as satisfied
with its results. and they have entered
their protest against any change.
The Dem ocracy, it will be observed, yell
loudly for '.free wool" but treat iron
with comparative tenderness. Why? Be
cause the Democratic members from Ala
bama, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia and
Maryland have been instructed to let iron
alone. The South is quite willing to keep
protection on the iron industry, in which
it is deeply interested, so we hear no yell
of free iron, and even the "free lumber"
bill develops considerable opposition from
certain portions of the South.
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Judge Turner, of Mount Vernon. 10 . candi.
Judge in skagit county.
1t looks very much as il the Washington dele.
CATION to the Chicago convention would be
made up OF men who are for Cleveland because
they have to be.
because the Republicans Of Seattle cvincs q de-
termination to work together for the election of
a Republican president
Skagit county Democrats appear to b united
on W. E. Schrcker, Of LaConner, as candidate
for delegate to the Chicago convention. Mr..
Schricker formerly lived IN Seattle and has
many friends here. He served with credit in
the last legislature.
The Tacoma Ledger is publishing occasional
letters from Olympia. They are made up of
what the author does not know about Washing.
ton politics. and they are consequently formid.
able in length. For exuberancs OF imagination
and disregard OF facts, the letters are notable.
Hugh Wallace. the Tacoma Democrat. who was
so badly knocked out by Colonel c. ". Griggs
as a candidate for delegate to the Chicago con-
yentIon, Is either sarcastic or magnanimoas-
probably the former. He declares that Colonel
Griggs Is now his choice for delegate ID Chicago,
for United States senator and for vice president
Surely in face of such a declaration Colonel
Griggs ought TO withdraw aad allow Mr.. Wal.
lace TO go to that convention.
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Lake Washington Canal.
SedrO Press.

Ever since Senator Squire has held his sea. at
the national capital he has been making a
strenuous effort to secure an appropriation of
2500, 900 for the construction OF canal from
the Sound to connect with Lakes Union and
Washington. At the present time various news
papers throughout the state are protesting
against the appropriation OF this money for tho
benefit of Squire's local friends at home and for
che city where he received his strongest sup
port. Not only are many OF the papers opposed
10 the scheme, but the Chamber OF Commerce at
Aberdeen has sent printed resolutions to vari.
Gus similar organizations throughout the sta e,
asking their cooperation in defeating the sp.
preparation bill
All this petty jealousy snonsensical and dis
plays feeling Of prejudice on the part of the
opposers OF the scheme, just because Seattle Is
TO secure canal The protest sent out by the
Aberdeen Chamber of Commerce says that the
rivers and harbors should be improved before
any large sum OF money should be approp riated
for the benefit OF Seattle This is true in q certain
sense, bur have We not seen several attempts
made 20 improve our rivers, and while it might
be done very easily and navigation be thereby
improved, very little, in fact, nothing in the
way OF substantial improvement has been made.
The senators have secured appropriations for
our rivers and ha-bors, and IL will be no money
from the pockets Of the people of Washington
If the Seattle cana IS built II IL viii be of ben.
eft 70 Sestile, certainly IL viii be Of some adj
vantage u other parts OF the state. When the
people of Washington lay aside local prejudicas
then will prosperity smile more generously upon
them than ever before.
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Grover Cleveland, in his speech at Prov
idence, Il. l.. April 2. said: The manu-
facturer who sees in free raw materials =
reduced cost Of his products, resulting in
an increased consumption and an extern
sion Of his markets, and constant actly-
ity and return Of his invested capital. can
hardly trust the party who first resisted
any reform IN the tariff then iuggled with
IL and at last fatiy refused 10 give him the
relief he still needs"
In HI. message of December 3. 1887. Pres
ident Cleveland said: I'VE discover that
the fortunes realized by our manufacturers
are no longer obtained solely by reward of
sturdy industry. and enlightened fore
sight but that they result from the dis
eliminating favor OF the government aud
are largely built upon undue exactions
from the masses of the people"
In Rhode Island. last month, Cleveland
fshed with the bait Of free raw material
for the vote Of the very same "robber "
manufacturers whom. in December, lSS7,
he charged with making undue exac-
tions" from the masses of the people The
workingmen Of Rhode Island were too in
telligent To be duped by the ponderoas
demagosue. Tooffer the "robber" manu-
facturer the additional advantage OF raw
material. produced by cheap foreign labor
10 the detriment of American labor, might
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hose days. She iss till living and is visiting
friends in Baltimore at the present time. The
Monumental City, by the way, Is the home of
another mistress of the presidential mans on,
Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnson.
Electricity has now been applied to stone
carving-the blow being struck by means of
Carstarphen's electrical reciprocating tool
With this machine the stonecutter .r the
sculptor can devote his entire attention to the
lines his instrument is to follow, while doing
the work more rapidly than by his own mus
cular power.
Dr. Fridthjoy Nansen, whose expedition to
the North Pole will start next January, has
chosen three companions for his perilous jour
ney They are Captain Syerdrup, relative Of
the late Norwegian prime minister: Lieutenant
Scott Hansen, of the navy, the asi economical ex-
pert, and Captain Ingebrigsten, OF Tromso, a
fearless fellow who has already gone on many
dangerous expeditions. The preparations for
Nansen's expedition are about complets
Young Americans are again rem lded that
this is the day of youth by the Inauguration OF
NJ. B. Excel as mayor of Alliance, o. Mayor
Excel is only % years old now, and If "excel-
sior'' be his motto he may yet sit In the guber-
Material chair that Campbell honored and in the
senatorial seat which Sherman has distiu-
guished. 1t ought to go without saying that
Mr.. EXCEL has also fair chance at the White
House. Republics are less ungrateful to Ohio
men than to most others, it seems
Ex-Speaker Reed is one of the many bicycle
riders to be found among public men In Wash
tngtoG City, and he was one of the earliest resi-
dents of that city to indulge in this mode of
transportation. The Washington City st n says
thetsas home in Portland he uses the biggest up
right wheel in the state of Maine, but ct the
national capital he rides low-seated "safety"
In the latter place he is disposed to avoid pub
LEFTY while disportiug himself, and rarely con-
sents to little run with the bicycle club. The
other members of the club are anxious that ne
shall excel, for they have it in mind, 1t is said,
to deputize him to represent them should they
be called upon to annihilate some outside COM
petitor for wheelmen's honors
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Of Front and Union streets. 1t was away
out in the woods then and was hardy couhtea
80 being in town. / well remember one uarA
night when q surprise party was arrange ioI
the Denny family at the home OF PRESIDENT
Whitworth, of the Territorial university.
happened to be present and was invited TO JON
the party. We had hard time rsathlhg pen
nys house. We climbed over fences. crossed
boys and crawled over logs. but when we hnaliy
did reach the house We spent splendid even
Ing"
James Essency, a wel-knOwn farmer OF loi''
is at the Diller hotel Mr.. Essency, who hao ten
acres in hops last year, has Just planted seven
more He says that no hop lice have yet ap-
peared at Tolt, though plant louise whicn
jumps, a sort of grasshopper, cam be found on
the vines. "a number OF the growers around
Tolt have been compelled TO plant new roofs
this year," he added, "for the cosl Oil USED In
spraying last year seems to have killed the
roots. The male vines with heavy tonnage
were all right, for the leaves kept the OIL rom
running down directly on the roots. but on the
other vines, where the leaves had been cut OH
ana the oil could -un right down to the roo's'
the roots were killed.
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Where Was Lieutenant WyckoH?


Yesterdays celebrations at Gray's harbor and
Port Townsend were in honor of the achieve
ments of two adventurous sailors, one an Amer
lean, the other an Englishman. They discoy-
cred a country which has not an equal on the
face of the globe, but they did little else for it,
There is an American sailor now living who
has done much for it in various ways, but his
name does not appear in the l:sts OF invited
guests or prominent persons present at either
celebration. Perhaps 1t 10 the fault OF the re-
portels; perhaps the fault lies elsewhere.
For some years past Lieutenant Wyckoff, now
in charge of the work at the new navy yard in
Port Orchard, has been proclaiming the adyan-
tages OF Puget sound harbor, and those of
the country surrounding it as desirable place
Of residence Through his efforts in large de-
gree,i the navy department and congress,
neither ever too willing to be informed about
this part of the Union, have been induced to
locate navy yard, and SO make a tardy begin
ming in the great work the government must do
here. These efforts should have given him a
position so prominent in one or tho other of
these celebrations that he could not possibly be
overlooked.
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~A-
Asrn>M,Z;s
~''T'' TO ~ s

Any Of the earlier stages Of Consumption
can be cured. It's matter Of evidence
strong enough and complete enough to war
rant the makers CT DR.. Pierce's Golden Med
ical Discovery in promising this:
If it's taken in time and given a fair trial,
they'll refund the money in any case where
their medicine fails to benefit or cure
But its medicine that doesn't fail: it goes
to the root OF tho trouble Consumption Is
developed through the blood, and must be
cured in the same way. It's a scrofulous
the surest remedy for Scrofula in oil it's
forms, the most potent blood cleanser,
strength-restorer, and fesh-buider known
to medical science, is the "Golden Medical
Discovery" 1t cures Scrofula; it cures
Consumption: it cures all Bronchial Throat.
and Lung affections, Asthma. Weak Lungs,
Severe, Lingering Coughs, and kindred all.
nents-through the blood
And If there's no help, there's no nav.
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kODAkS.

The skin OF the whale Is thicker than that of
any other animal II some places 10 reacnes
thickness OF several inches
Il is computed that during the last ten years
the average annual expenditure OF Americans
IN Itsty has been sS5, 900.
A recruiting circular sent out by tho Scots
Guards states that for two years the interregi.
mental football cup his been won by the Second
battalion. and concludes with, "Come and Join
the champions"
Mr.. Brathwaite. pastor of the Lake View Bap-
tist church at Chicago, has resigned His feel
iugs have been hurt because, he Gays, his choir
and half OF his congregation have formed the
habit OF leaving his church when he began N
preach. The eountcr-ehaEge is made BY the
eho!r-leacer that the pastor had formed the
habit OF preaching three hours on stretch.
Il is more than fifty years since General
Zachary Taylor was elected president and Ter.
minated his brief career IN that ofics His
daughter Bette, now Mrs. cambridge, of Win
chester, Va, presided over the White House in
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our great thoroughfare to williul omission on
the part of Seattle's representative commercial
body, or are the people of that city so absorbed
with the prospect of their lake canal scheme
that they forgetful of The interests of others?
Did not Senator Squire know OF La Conner and
the value and Importance of her trade when in
arecent speech in the Senate he urged the addi-
ton OF $4,000 to the oriation bill already
reported for the dredging of Swinomish channel,
and in enumerating the various towns to be
benefited mentioned Utsalady, Bay View
and others, totally ignoring La Conner,
the most important point OF them
all? Are we to believe that Senator
Squire had personal reasons for sighting this
city? We regret that there should be the least
reason for the residents of this part Of the state
to question the goodwill and good wishes OF
the Queen City. La Conner is linked to
Seattle more closely than to any other town on
the Sound. Their commercial interests are mu-
tual!y benefited by the Improvements of the
channel. The bulk of La Corners commerce is
with Seattle, and the latter should not forget or
overlook this
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state, but from the start commanded
majority of the delegates from the whole
country. He had been United States
senator, governor OF New YORK,
secretary of state, vice president
and president. Nevertheless the
Democracy held the claims of tn party
paramount to those of any indlvld uai, no
matter how valuable and able and upright
his public services had been, and threw
over Mr.. Van Buren, because it was deemed
impossible to elect him. As 1t was, James
X. Polk narrowly escaped defeat by Henry
Clay, with whom Polk was able to divide
the vote of the South. Had Van Buren,
been nominated, Clay would certainly
have been elected for the South would
have preferred to elect Southern Wing
STAKEHOLDER to a Northern Democrat OPP
posed to the annexation of Texas. The
South would have preferred the Wing
STAKEHOLDER, Clay, to Van Buren,, the
Northern Democrat, in 1874, just as she
preferred the Wing STAKEHOLDER, Taylor, to
the Northern Democrat, Cass, in 1S4S.
The Republican convention of 1850 was
expected to nominate Seward, but on
the third ballot it selected Lincoln be-
cause he was more certain to carry the
doubtful states of Indiana, Illinois and
Pennsylvania. There was no impeachment
of the moral worth, the ability, the great
and valuable party service of Mr.. Seward;
the convention simply decided that Lin
coin could carry the doubtful states, whIte
Seward was dangerously likely to be de-
feated. The Minneapolis Republican Ma
tional convention is chiefly concerned
about the fate of the party; the question
of who can carry the party flag with the
best hope of victory will not be decided
alone by the record of Mr.. Harrison's adj
mInistration and his personal, public and
private worth.
John Quincy Adams gave the country
an able and upright administration; he
was the most accom- plished and scholarly
man that ever occupied the executive
chair; he was an honest man, of blame
less public and private life, and yet he had
no capas ~ for making political friends or
keeping them; h pugnacity and the aus
and affection and not seldom excited en-
during and aggressive enmities within his
own party. On the record of his admin
istration and his own high reputation for
courage, purity and ability as statesman,
Adams ought to have been easily re-elect-
ed, but he was badly beaten by Jackson in
1925
1t will be the duty of the delegates from
the doubtful states to state with entire
candor whether in their judgment Mr..
Harrison is the strongest possible candi-
date to secure the votes of their people.
and, if they name another than Mr.. Har-
rison, their judgment should be respected.
Concerning Mr.. Harrison's executive and
administrative ability there is no dispute,
all the Republican conventions have en-
dorsed it, but the crucial question is. "Can
Mr.. Harrison carry the doubtful or dis
cordant states as certainly as another, like
Sherman, Mckinley or Reed?"