The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-11-17

whsn sA@ defsss Of Maynard KS an
ncznesd ledge Davis said, With tears of
smosien IL kss sysss
els h nos seeemss he Eepnhaicsns have
won. bat 10 10 tee1nse have seen rrDOf
oaen stirred are mErhfy In their wrath.
ard stand ssprSnse for cool rovernN seut
snd boyzity - car institutions. thss sEa
% oFercogne"
Ex-faayor Hewitt ds1 net shsd tears.
bat shsB be heard the good ness he
tsvned 20 mis- T3sm0eratsc fssends In she
rsson Cab sad sssd:
Fl have done svdsy what I never
tAoEgit I sAoaiA be eompessed 70 do
base vet<1 3 Rspuslicsn tIrkst not
rrSYtsh ttrkss. bnf q ess&a EepEbltcan
gicEet, ard voted il - q Democrat because
nsy Denoeraey has compelled re - rsp0-
ctafs thai false thing which has been
snssq1srsding in this state IS TIE DEMO
cratic party.
.swhar ws have seen today - the fines.
manifestation Of the higher Democratic
spirit ghich nas teen seen IN this country
ssssce fhe Gays when Fnea forgot party
ard stood sheuf9er TO shoalder for the
Tngon. We have been imperiiled almost
as greatly. more insIdsoussy. and there
fare Eaors dangerously than Ne we're II
ISL
sfn the name Of sha Democratic PARTY
men hxss committed theft, the most
hesnoss 81 SIS thefts, for Il deprived ths
pesple of district in this state Of shear
right Of ehoiss Of their rulers. and these
haFleqein Democrats who have held the
party By the throat, rewarded that act By
demanding Of the people Enforcement Of
il. They have their rewaFd tonight. Ihsy
have seen that machines and fraud and
treason and insurrection sueh ss occurred
4 = - L. =
People as they were in ISL. and Il - the
highest duty Of Democrat 70 stand With
those Who were for the reputation OF
fhsss things."
Mayor Hewitt vas heartily applauded
BIZ his Democratic audience. and Il IL this
spectacle Of patriotic fusion Of upright
Americans Of both parties In the great
state Of New York 70 upset the election Of
political burglar and sneak thief OF the
ballot hex 70 the bench that renews our
faith in the moral sense OF the American
people.
The things that the American flag
stands for the patriotism of both parties
should nntiinchingly guard. and . clean
Judiciary and pure ballot box are the
bedrock Of free Institutions. So long as
the heart Of the people in both parties is
sound and honest enough to put PARTISAN
ship behind them in order to crush the
engineers OF frand upon the ballot box.
who seek TO plant . political piekpocket
upon the bench Of the highest courts, We
need not fear for free institutions, no
matter which party nomiaally triumphs
At the pols.
Is IL hepeful sign that Col. Oates, a
Democratic member from Alabama. yigor-
oasly supports the proposed amendment
the disgrsceful naturalization mills" of
New York city and Brooklyn. which at
the command of the rings which rule
those cities turn out citizens by the hun
dred every year just before election.
Immigrants hardly three days old to the
country have this year been hurried before
the Tammany justices and turned into yos-
ers. us this a monarchy or republic 2''asked
Judge Of one enlightened applicant for
citizenship after being coached by Tam
many heller" Democrat" was his in
teliigent response. 'sWho make the
iawsf' 1.-THE members" "Who are the
membersf" 81 arm one Of them" "Who
10 the presidsntf" "George Washington
was when came over" 1t is this out
rageous working Of the ''citizen mills" by
the Tammany-Hill combination In New
York state that has caused this insurrec-
ton Of decent patriotic Democrats within
the party. These Democrats freely say
that when David u. Hill and Tammany
Hall propose to buriesqne the ballot box
and plant their political piekpoekets In
the highest court of the state Ii Is time to
revolt. because the success Of these seoun-
drels would force society to revolution.
When both parties In 1871 revolted
against the Tweed ring" it was openly
said that 10 the appeal 10 the ballot box
failed there was nothing left but armed
revolution; bat Tweed and his friends
qussled before the storm and ~ere ofraid
70 eject themselves By the fraud they had
always employed. The New York Tribune
says;
"It ~ scarcely too much 10 say that
| Msynard's defeat saved the people of this
| state from revolution. For his crime went
| to the very roots of things. and IL the con-
ultlon OF pubic morals Was such that he
| could In payment for II be put on the bench
| Of the highest judiciary. that fact could
| be taken in no other way than as
/ formal notice 10 honest men that boss
| rule ard organized knayery were here 10
stay; that popular government was, after
| all, failure. that IL only served to cover
| the criminal acts Of shameless losses
| With the forms OF law. Neither life nor
| property would have been safe. Nc.
ksnes would have sprung up i'm every
/ community. and IL woald have been only a
I question OF time when respectable men
| would have been forced 10 arm themselves
| for the assertion Of ths right with some
I thing stouter shan haliots
1
The enormous majority for the Repub-
| lican ticket in Pennsylvania was rolled up