The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-09-20
TnE GREAT rAIacHILp.


mas Leading Umorist-
Agew DAYS ago tae Associated Press sent
out news that Morris NJ. Essee. Repu6li
can candidate for governor Of California
had doubled up with Prof Lee Fairchild
late Of Seattle. on the stage. sud that Jim
Buad, the Democratic candidate. was feel
iag pretty blue. 4 Los Angeles letter 20
ihe PosT-lsTELEGs EsegR says:
"The Ex-Rev. Lee FAirc5ild. professor
emeritus Of the Agricultural college OF
Washington, formerly with The West C0as'
Of Portland, the Paciac H0atkfy, q Seartle.
and everywhere else in Washington, IS
now a familiar ngure Ia Los Angeles.
Since Lee worked himself out OF the col
!ege, he has taken y header and gone be-
low and for a long While he was among the
missing. He was perfectly safe In his
surroundings, however. FOR be y as IN San
Diego, where he made himself famous ia
the female society Of that place. Ia fact
Lee has been giving more attention.
10 female society OF late than
heretofore, and the latest concerning him
is that be Is shortly 10 be married 20 q
blonde young lady who Is very pretty.
Here, as in Washington. Ar. Fairchild
- bssklBg ia the sun Of public attention.
One Of the first OF his feats here occurred
during the recent A. X. L. strike There
vas big meeting OF strikers IN one OF the
halls of the town 10 work uD pubic sym
pathy. Fairchild entered the hail just at
the slime that a DR.. RAyeiin. q splritualist
preacher, vas closing an Elcendiary
speech. Fairchild sent up his card 10 the
chairman and requested TO be allowed TO
address the meeting. He Was accorded
the privilege and he ia de a warm A. X. u.
speech. The next day Judge Ross. OF the
United States district court. called the
attention Of the grand jury to Dr. Rave
=. a
turned against that gentleman. Lee was
meantime quaking ia his shoes for fear he
might be the next on the list. He escaped,
however, and during the rest Of that ex-
element he contented himself with wear
ing an a. r u. ribbon.
fhe violent agitation here concerning
the A. L. A. afforded such an opportunity
for the exercise Of the talents of Mr.. FAIR
child that IL could not be overlooked. lie
wrote a small book on the matter which
possesses the remarkable quality of being
esteemed by both sides as distinct and
iorcible argument for their cause.
The Search Light, the organ OF the A. +.
A. here, devoted q column to il, and the
leading Catholic paper on the coast. pub
iished in San Francisco, gave over two
columns TO a favorable discussion of il.
liz Was not. however. ms an author OF
books that Lee was contented to remain.
He rapidly drifted into politics, Republi-
can Of course. He made a number of
speeches before the Jonathan Club, the
leading Republican club of this city, and
so successful was he in these that he be-
came delegate to the county convention
and put IN nomination a candidate for JUS
fice OF the peace who was duly accepted by
the convention. Since then he has been
advertised To make speeches over the dis
trict with James Is. McLachian, the candi-
date for congress, and in behalf OF his can
vass. He Is invariably introduced to his
audiences as "yice president of the Repub-
iican League of Washington, the Tom
Reed of the Northwest" Estee is in big
luck To get Lee as partner. Ambrose
Bierce has gone to the country for few
days, to think of some diabolicaily mean
thing to say about Prof. Lee Fairchild in
the Sunday Examiner.