The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-05-09

Hasrison, snd who ''ssumpsds the sss1s
Tor Hassiscn's Reelection and his oun -
apDointmsDt In lso1 has Published Ist-
tsr il which h. snnoaness that hs has
gone over 20 the Popuiist parsv. Col
winsscn's "rsasons /" for joining ~
Popslist party. il they ar 10 b tssatsd
seriously, sesm - - fiks thcss u the in
shssass Who vhes asasd By his uiSs Why
hs esnns home % early, Answered: BE
eaass Ill ~ Other piacss vsrs alossd up"
The Rspubiiesn party seems 70 Col.
Winston Hks : saloon In New York city
q SUNDAY: iss doors ass locked; In cur.
sains are down: it, shutters are closed; Is
has nothing TO ell or give away. While
the Dom0csatic party b 70 Col. Winstoa
what The national capitol grounds are -
Corey: he cannot spsak from it, steps;
cannot play on liz grass. much less browse
On iss clover. The Rspublieaa party hav-
ing. In Col Winston's visv. no future for
anybody. and the Usmocratic party hav.
Ing no future for him, Col Winston b
forced, II be 10 70 continss 10 'sopsrats In
futures, " 70 bet ON ths PopuIist party.
To man Of Col. winsson's keen sense
Of the ridiculous his joining Of the Popu-
list party must b . cause Of . deal Of in-
ward snussmsns; he must feel very much
- Robert Brues did whom, aftsr helping
In his yosth shs English fight Scottish
faction, h ~ down TO eat without wash.
ing his CORY hands. and heard the English
knights say sneeringly: Look u that
6cotehman eating As sw~ Stsa&." Col.
Winston. - thu Republican hammer Of
Thor that pounded the Popul,st theories
Of Anancs and The tariff In leoe. must feel
today - II he was ''satins his ovn blood.
We are afraid thst he 10 . little lsss in
seeking the throne Of Populist Gracs: his
political ''convsrsion." or rather invsr-
sion. would make good subject Tor po-
iitieal cartoon. The pirsts ship 'Popu-
list" With her rigging torn. or spars shat
tsrsd. her larder 20 empty that the rats tum-
bic over each other In thsir effort % leave
is b today mare hulk tied mp and rotting
at the dock yard Of the Democracy. All
q oncs - the last rat leaves the ship Col.
Patrick Henry Winston steps aboard.
signs the ships articles and sxprsssss his
entire willingness 70 90 70 90 In . craft
that 10 without chart. compass, ruddsr.
mast or sails or provisions. "What ws
want" says Col. Winston, ''is plenty Of
wind, and can furnish that"
Another car toon would BE- the spawned.
foundsrsd, knock-knesd political stesd
"Populist," broken In wind. crippled In
limb by the recent elections Everybody
10 hastily climbing down from the found-
cred stsed. looking Tor rev mount, but
just when everybody u getting down. 10
and behold, Col. Patrick Henry Winston
ssisss the tail Of the exhausted stssd
"Popuiiss" and proceeds 70 climb into the
saddle. sayina. There dossn't appear 70
Be much GO lets in the hosss. bat am
rsady to ride anything before I'll walk an
other step"
We do mos treat Col. Winston's letter
seriously. because We are surs that he did
not mean IL to b taken seriously; he only
wrote II to m aintain his reputation - .
brilliant political humorist Col. Winston
had rather make his friends and his foes
laugh than CRY, and his ssrio-comic state
msnt Of the reasons" Why he has become
. Popu.ist 10 the latest contribution ITO
the gaisty Of nations" Col. Winston must
have laughed when he wrote IL; and he has
certainly succeeded In making every body,
friend or foe, laugh who has read L.
Anybody can become . statesman now
adays; IL only needs the cheek Of Ccxey
and the eloqusncs Of Jumbo to startle the
ears Of listening senases and capture the
sufYrages Of the harmless insane, who,
like the poor, are always with 10.
but TO DO perennial political
humorist. like Col. Winston. takes talent.
which 10 gin from God. Any ordinary
man can make his own particular party
laugh, bat il takes On extraordinary man
to make ell the political parties laugh.
aud Col. winston's "why am Popu-
list" has made everybody laugh, and
everybody answers, II eivs IL up
Fletcher % Saltoun wrote. Let me make
the songs Of nation and care not who
makes its laws" So With Col. Winston;
he can afford to Be indifferent - to who
makes the laws OF Washington or Of the
United States. 90 long a. be IL without
rival or peer a. the political humoriss,
acrobat and contcrtionist Of our state. A
keen sense Of the ridiculous has made q
Pepuiiss Of Col Winston: he wanted to
make everybody in the state laugh. 90 with
mock solemnity he has published his ex-
PLANTATION why l am Populist."
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