The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-09-17
He Says the Cry Is Lewis,
Lewis on Every Hand,
AND GIVES WAY TO THE COLONEL
Thfs IL MaEnaninous, Considering That
HaExard Was sure Of Nomination.
Hni SIN Lives, Thank Gods

teresting and self-explanatOry letter and
Was mailed today by Mr. Hazard 10
Col. Lewis:
"TAeoxA. Sept. Is, 1894
sCof James Hami ton Lewis. seattle-hy
Dear SIR: At the Democratic national con-
yention in Chicago. when Cleveland and
Stevenson were nominated. thought l
observed that the three forces propeilng
the Cleveland sentiment were:
''First-Thar in sending his celebrated
tariff message 10 congress IN 1887 ne
downed the war Issue, bv which he made
it possible for Southern orator 10 appear
on Northern platform.
Second Because of the action of the
ST. Louis convention in l6sS being predi-
Gated on Mr.. Cieyeland's tariff message.
and he being defeated for election on that
Issue, the continuity Of Democratic pur-
pose made it imperative that he should be
renominated. that We might better perss-
we're increasingly in our determination to
wipe Mekinleyism from the Federal
statute books.
s.Third--But to my mind the last and
most potent force behind the Cleveland
sentiment was the widespread belief
throughout the land that Ar. Cleveland
had been unfairly treated in the election
OF 1855; that he had been the victim Of q
campaign of money against principle, and
that il was the duty of the American
people to vindicate themselves against the
degrading influences which controlled in
that contest by his third nomination and
second election.
Now, without regard 10 the violent
differences of opinion that have divided
the Democrats in the past in regard to
Mr.. Cleveland. / think II possible that inn
partial posthumous history may make OF
him the crowning shield in the great tri-
umyirate OF pTesidents-George Washing
ton, Abraham Lincoln. Grover Cleveland.
in making can yass for the Demo-
cratic nomination for congress. to be de-
termined At the state convention in North
Yakima, Wednesday, September %. 1894,
| have visited personally each of the
thirty-four counties IN this state. and
find that the sentiment in Washington
regarding you IS very similar to the senti-
ment which pervaded the nation toward
Mr.. Cleveland in 1902. You were a candi-
date for governor before the Democratic
state convention which assembled ia
Olympia in August, 1892, and while
IL is undeniably true that the major
ity of that convention favored your
nomination TO the highest Office within
this state. yet, by some process of circum-
locution never exactly understood by the
people, you were set aside and another
very estiinable Democrat chosen.
THE present concensus of opinion in
this state. based upon the judgment Of all
fair minded men, is that you were then
unfairly treated; that had you been NOM
mated you would have been triumphantly
elected, and now the determination among
the Democrats Is TO make you one of the
Democratic nominees Tor congress at the
forthcoming state convention, and of the
peapge. to elect you-ali this without re-
gard TO your wishes or likes.
"Inasmuch as the Democratic conven-
ton of Pierce county has been held and
the forty-four delegates chosen from this
county 10 the Yakima convention are
practically unanimous for my nominal
ton. rcouid easily secure q large majority
of the delegates from the other counties,
but this would place both of the nominees
west of the Cascade range, whereas one of
them should undoubtedly come from East
ern Washington; therefore, now thanking
the many generous Democrats throughout
the state for their active partiality in my
behalf, | beg to withdraw from the con-
test
"Your nomination as our candidate from
Western Washington Is already made in
the hearts and minds of the people and
the convention will undoubtedly, in its
wisdom, select some suitable gentleman
from Eastern Washington as the other
| nominee.
''As one of the three executive officers of
| the Democratic state central committee as
| 1t existed n the Olympia convention, and
as Democratic citizen, / contributed nv
| utmost TO your defeat for the gubernatorial
nomination, and now desire to state I'M
reservediy that my action then was a mis-
take in Judgment, and that totally failed
/ TO grasp the concensus OF opinion in this
| state as Il then and now exists regarding
| you.
AT the election held in November, lS9o.
| the vote for governor was. in round num-
hers, as follows: McGraw. Republican,
| % Zoo; Snivey. Democrat, p go; Young.
/ populist, 1900; Greene, Prohihiiionist
/ 400 the total exact vote for governor
/ being -. s94. 30 you observe by what a
| slender thread the Republican minority
/ controlled this state. Your personal pop
/ ulSritv IL such that your nomination and
| an active canvass by you will result in
| changing these psuralities by putting the
1 Democratic figures at the head of the list
I and n wall further result in legislature
+ 3 majority Of which Will not be Repabii-
/ can, and IN the election OF a man 10 the
/ vacant senaiorship from this state, not a
/ Republican. OF this there is no doubt
and the man who cannot so see it is
/ bind to a patent fact. Ii is not
/ bitter disappointment for me 10
/ postpone nv ambition 10 represent the
state of Washington in the most
popular branch OF the American
/ congress. and for time at least I
/ shah take my place in the ranks of the
/ Democracy. | shall oniy remain nornin-
/ ally connected with our state orRnniza-
/ lions by retaining ths secretarvshfp Of The
I Democratic Society OF Washington. and
/ this only for n time. that I may be IN a
I better position 20 look after the entertain
/ meut of that most eminent Democrat. Sen.
! ator David Bennett Hin. when Ia com.
pany with Speaker Charles F. Crisp and
ether prominent men he visits the Pacific
Northwest IN the autumn of the coming
/ year. II the effort To have the party come
should prove successful.
''0f the distinguished senior senator
from New YORK we ought 80 remember
I that il vas he who most ably defended
Mr.. CieYeiaad's administration IN the ses-
sior Of congress Just adjourned. aud had
E Il been secretly agreed beiween the admin
isfragion ard Senator Hi! that he vas "a
4 60 on the floor Of the senate ana advocate
/ certain course and then subsequently
I .he president vas - iuGorse this course hv
1 writing Irst letter 10 William I. Wilson
aud second letter 10 Represen tat5ye
I CAtehlags. az Mississippi. Senator Hill
coaid not have been more roiurletef-
f indicated than By Mr.. Cleveland writ
T ing the two letters above rsfsrre4 I
/ -, aad II | should now dsnv that sem
/ asor Iis1 Is the most distinguished
/ living man speaking the Engsisa language
Z not only the Gladstone OF America hUt
/ the Msratsaa % tie worid-and 10 AZ he
vii Ia tks next tSenfy years cut a greater
/ Igarc n peace n America than NaDolean
4 ald IN war IN Europe between the b~igwe
/ OF Lodi n Iss1. and the field Of Waterloo
/ N 1873 ! woa-d Eteer \ lie in al ssternpt
70 deceive my Democratic brethren. and
this val not DO. and IS peace triumphs
over war. 80 w8h senator Hiti's career
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