The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-09
A DEMOCRATIC VIEW.
Delegate Snively Back From
Chicago Convention.
PEOPLES PARTYiN WASHINGTON.
Something OF the Strength 1t May De-
velop East of the Mountains-Dem-
ocratic Candidates.

III. ]. Snively, lawyer from North
Yakima, and a member of the lower
branch Of the last Legislature, is at the oc-
cidental hotel, having come to the city on
some legal business. Though young
man, he is already recognized as one of
the leading Democrats of Eastern Wash
ington. A week ago he returned from
Chicago, where he had been attending the
national convention as one of the eight
Washington delegates. In speaking of
his experience there he said: ''0ur dele
CATION was very cordially received, and
we had calls from members Of every other
state delegation.
1.-The finest speaking was by Bourke
Cochran, of New York, and indeed the
four finest speeches were those for Senator
David B. Hill. But they changed no
votes. The night before the balloting
was at the Cleveland caucus, where the
several states were polled, and between
the vote given then for Cleveland and the
ballot in the convention there was diff
ference of only two.
1.-THE last time saw George Hazard in
the convention he was waving his hat at
Senator Daniels eulogy of Hill, but that
was Hazards last wave.
81 feel that the Democrats will win this
election, for they enter it with more con-
fidence than they have had before for
years.
"The Peoples party will poll a larger
vote than some anticipate. That party is
strong in Texas. in some Of the Southern
states, and in the farming states of the
middle West. 1t may carry some of them !;
certainly it will carry Colorado, for the
Republicans there are boiling Harrison,
and the Democrats are boiling Cleveland.
''In this state the Peoples party has
made distinct gains within the last month
and | expect to see it poll not less than
$1,000 votes, and perhaps 10000. Had
Gresham been its nominee for president
instead of Weaver, it would have been
still more formidable. In the cities here
the Peoples party is comparatively weak,
but in the farming districts of Eastern
Washington it is strong. / have never
known the old party ties to rest so lightly
on the voters. There are whole precincts
in my county and in the neighboring
ones, where the farmers, hitherto staunch
Democrats and Republicans, have gone
over bodily to the Peoples party. | think
that the two old organizations are losing
about equally-perhaps the proportion is
three Democrats and four Republicans.
This condition OF affairs, according to
my view, makes the result of the state
election doubtful, and l myself believe the
Democrats will elect some Of their men on
the state ticket
at looks now as if Chester H. Warner,
of Colfax, might be one of our nominees
for congress. and Tom Carroll, Of Tacoma,
the other. b. l.. Sharpstein, of Walla
Walla, will probably be nominated for the
supreme bench, and think that Judge |.
J. Lichtenberg. of King, is regarded as a
strong man in Eastern Washington for
candidate for the supreme bench. For
governor, | am for the strongest man, and
certainly in our part of the state James
Hamilton Lewis would be stronger can
didate than any other Democrat. l be-
lieve that in the convention he will get
nearly the whole of the Eastern Washing
ton vote. If the feeling at the Vancouver
convention is any criterion, he certainly
will.
ITO turn from politics to questions of
material progress We are certainly making
great advances in Yakima county. The
three big irrigation bitches now in course
of construction will open to cultivation
400, 900 acres of land, and the other bitches
projected will open much more. Some
large irrigation plans are now on foot in
Kittitas county also"
Mr. Sniyely leaves for Tacoma TODAY