Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1892-10-21

United States at the Next Election
Western Democrats Rejoice and
Say the Famous Jurist Could No
Longer SuPPOrs "A Ticket so Closely
Allied TO NlonopoIists-IIis Int terest
I'm the People at Large Caused Him
10 Leave the Republican Party-A
Scathing Ieebukc Recently Admin-
tstered by Him TO the Politicians
who Cater TO the Hich-The Access.
Mon of This National Character
TO CIevcIand's Forces will Greatly
Aid Him to Garry Indiana.
New york World.
CHICAGO, ILL.,. Oct. Judge Walter
q. Gresham will vote for Grover Cleve-
land. The announcement was made
this morning upon authority of Judge
Allen, of the Federal Court, and con-
tirmed by Democrats Of high standing
who had been in some way acquainted
with the fact.
Tonight it is the general subject OF
conversation among politicians OF both
parties. Judge Allen, of the United
States District Court at Springfield,
first made the announcement. Judge
Gresham has been in the State capital
several days sitting with Judge Allen.
Judge Gresham told Judge Allen he
should vote for Mr.. Cleveland, and
told him he was at liberty to repeat
the statement.
Judge Allen did repeat it, and that
is how the news reached Chicago.
The great jurist who loomed up as
such a formidable candidate for the
Presidency in 1888, who has long stood
dangerously near to the Presidents
ambition, and who would to-day be
upon the bench of the Supreme Court
of the United States but for Harrison's
vindictiveness, returned to Chicago.
His position as Judge of a Federal
Court would not permit him to discuss
politics or to pose in an interview for
publication.
The accession of man Of such ma.
tional prominence as Judge Gresham
to Mr.. Cleveland gave the Democrats
around Western Headquarters Joy
enough to last through October.
l
The acquisition of Judge Gresham
by the Democratic party was declared
to be more than enough to effect the
adverse influence of the withdrawal of
General Sickles, should the old warrior
conclude to bolt the ticket. Judge
Gresham's action would, it was con-
sidered, draw large number of voters
to the Democrats party i'll Illinois
and be OF inestimable service to the
party i'll Indiana, where he is un-
usually strong and where Harrison's
strength is waning.
Great interest has followed Judge
Gresham during this campaign and he
has been made the subject of many
sensational stories by political writer's.
The announcement that he would
accept nomination as candidate
for the Presidency of the Peoples
Party, spread by Farmer Tanbinceki
and then denied, and the subsequent
statement, emenating from the same
source, that he would take the stump
against Harrison, likewise disproved,
kept the Judges name high in politi-
cal interest and the Republican lead
ers uneasy for month after the Min.
neapolis convention.
But the announcement of to-day,
considered with Judge Gresham's we'll
known disapproval Of President Harri-
son and his methods, coming from
such authors, leaves no room for
doubling that Judge Gresham's vote
and influence are lost to the Republi-
can party.
When the World correspondent
called on Judge Gresham tonight he
refused to talk politics. "I shall vote
for Mr.. Cleveland, and that is all there
is about it," said he.
To the friends of Judge Gresham
his course is no surprise. He has the
interests OF the people at heart.
He is against monopoly and class
legislation and he believes that the
Republican party is conducted in the
interests OF both. Talking of the po-
litical situation recently, Judge Gresh-
am said: 1--WE need men to resist the
aggressions of those who seek to make
of our politics both an art and a
mystery, ineligible only to the adept
and the initiated, who assume the
management of it by virtue of their
capacity for the defeat and artful ma
nipulation of their fellows.
"Their influence upon the country
is corrupt and debasing, and the area
of political venality constantly en-.
larges under it.
According to their views, the whole
interest that any citizen has in munic-
ipal, State or National Government is
measured by what he can make out
of it.
at is worse than lille to shut our
eyes to the existence of corrupt meth
ods and practices in our politics, which
threaten to subvert our free institu-
tions.
The people are often cheated at the
polls and in legislation, and prizes
which should be the reward of honest
merit are too frequently bestowed
upon the cunning and unscrupulous
rich. Real freedom is not enjoyed by
the people unless the laws are enacted
by their honestly chosen representa-
tives, and their freedom of action is as