The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-08-18

cesefal weeks nave now g4&sc4 since
the extraordinary dissppearancs Of Charles
Gioystsin, who was 70 al appearances en-
tsced from his home near Mica, Spokane
county. 81 the dead Of night During that
time everything possible has been done by
the sheriff OF spoksns county and his
deputies to find some trace OF the missing
man, but their efforts have been rewarded
by nothing more than the recovery OF the
battered and bloody hat which was found
on the day after his disappearance. The
rewards offered by the sheriff and the gov
ernor have been OF no avail. Gloystein
has disappeared as completely a. If he had
never existed.
OF course il cannot be said with entire
positiyeness that the missing farmer 10
dead IL Is certain, however, that the
probabilities point very strongly In that
direction. No adequate motive can be
assigned for his voluntary disappearance.
Ii Is certain. furthermore. that he did not
20 of alone, for the evidence of his wife,
as well az that OF the neighbours boy who
heard their voices. proves unmistakabiy
that he was enticed from home by two or
more persons. who are thus far unknown.
With the fact that he did not leave home
alone admitted, the presumption that he
Was decoyed away for criminal purpose
and that he has been murdered becomes
very strong indeed. And. il the fact Of
murder be acknowledged, the crime Is
brought very close to the doors Of the
E~a.r...s. 0ffwar prnfa~sfva Eadarafton
No other explanation for the murder has
been suggested. Gloysteln had been in
VOWED IN heated dispute with the men,
bers Of the federation, and he had been
warned by il that he would be punished.
They have acknowledged their bitterness
toward Gloystsin and have admitted their
murderous threats against him.
With the conditions as they are
acknowledged by all to have been, ii is
not harsh or bold presumption that
Gloystein was murdered by members of
this Federation. Given an armed secret
political organisation like this, whose
officers openly threaten iawlessness and
violence; given 9 neighborhood In which
this organization has almost full sway;
given farmer in an isolated community
who denounces and defies 1t; given threats
that If this farmer does not cease his
opposition he would be murdered:
given the disappearance OF this farmer
under the circumstances OF Gloystein's
disappearsnce; given the failure of every
effort to explain that disappearance on
any theory other than that OF brutal muir
der,-given all these things. and the con-
elusion is almost irresistible that the
threatened farmer was murdered. and
murdered because of feeling growing out
of bis political convictions.
OF course, IL would not be fair or right
20 hold the entire Populist party RESPONSE
Bile for this murder, except in so far as 10
makes itself responsible by permitting
men to pose as its leaders who talk of law
Iessnsss. violence and anarchy, and by
nominating for high Offices men who en-
press open sympathy with such murderers
as those Of Csur d'Alene. as did the last
Pepulist candidate for governor of this
state. Perhaps even the Federation can
not be held directly responsible, except in
so far as IL Is an organization formed
for violent and lawless purpose. But
the fact remains thar Il Gloyssein was
murdered for his political convictions. he
was murdered because he was Repub-
lican, and was murdered by members Of
this Federation and Of the Populist party.
who we're acting directly under the infiu-
enee of the violent and anarehist.c talk
which they had heard in the lodge room
aud from the public platform.
And all this Is supposed 10 have hap
psnsd in the state of Washington and in
the year eighteen hundred and ninety -four.