Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-10-26
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
4 Consensus of Public Opinion ~ IL
Appears On the Printed Pages.


He had three times the audience Of
John l.. Wilson, and ten times the en-
thusiasm that was manifested for that
orator who spoke few days previous
ly." The Spokesman says: The at.
tendance at the Republican rally to
hear Wilson was a corporaps guard in
comparison with the large enthu-
siastic audience that greeted Houston" !"
AS Mr.. II. will probably be unable,
owing to the short campaign, to ad-
dress the people of this county, we
make copious extracts from his speech
at Walla Walla. After speaking of
the enthusiasm which prevailed, and
congratulating his party on this augury
of success, Mr.. Houston said
"The Republicans are having some
trouble in getting our congressional
matters adjusted. For time they in
sisted that Drum, and not N. T. Cation
was the candidate for Congress. ! do
believe they concede that am a can
didate for Congress on the Democratic
ticket. One great issue is thus settled.
Laughter
"The more serious question is, who
am l anyway? Owing to similarity
of names of some of the people of Ia
coma, considerable confusion has re.
suited. Republican newspapers say
that am too wealthy to represent the
great majority. In making this state
ment they are confusing me with Col.
F. T. Heustis, a contractor, and a very
portly man weighing two hundred
pounds. Again they charge ME with
being an attorney for the Northern
Pacific in Tacoma. Well! l am not
he, and not an attorney for the N. P.
in Tacoma or elsewhere. They also
confuse me with Col. Thad. Huston,
OF whom Pat. Henry Winston said,
ga candidate without opposition and
without support" My identity is con-
fused with H. S. Huson, who was turn
ed down for Mayor OF Tacoma. am
not he. All the men they have been
confusing me with are Republicans,
and these they have declared unfit for
office. (Cheers.]
at was to be hoped that the tariff
question might be permitted to rest
awhile. Certainly it should; and
while Democrats may differ as to
schedules and rates they are united on
the one great issue upon which the
party won such signal victory two
years ago, namely; the great arrest of
the insatible greed for higher and high
er tariff. Protection was adjustified
! by it's friends at first because of our
infant industries, next as a war
measure; it was not until the Nc
Kinley monstrosity that the modern
bounty mongers and trust promoters
threw off their masks and declared the
rights of the Federal government to
raise a compulsory bonus from the
many, and pay it to the few. Loud
applause.l
al am in favor of digging the Mica
ragua canal. believe in construct
ing it right away, and l believe in the
government: building it without put
ting its money into co-partnership
with private individuals, having OBJ
served that it is the usual result of the
private individual coming out with the
money and the governm ent with the
experience.
"Under the Mckinley law we had
the great Carnegie strike, the greatest
of the last administration. The same
law is responsible for the great strikes
under the present administration.
First, the combined strike and lockout
of the manufacturers themselves in
sympathy with the Mckinley law.
Next came the great strike of the
financiers in sympathy with the pro-
tectionists, who demanded return of
their capital Immediately, thus adding
velocity and violence to the financial
storm that had already swept over
Australia, South America and other
foreign countries and was just reach.
ing the United States. / say Nc
Kinleyism is far more responsible for
the anarchistic tendencies of the times
than maliciousness. Cheers.]
"The present tariff law gives US
free raw material which will let US
trade in the open market. An aver
age reduction of from so to 35 per
cent. has been made. Duties have
been shifted from necessities to luxu
ries, and relief will come to this tax
ridden people in due time. Personal.
ly l would like little more of that
income tax. A large per cent. of the
expenses of the federal government is
for the protection of capital, and it
should pay for it. The one great step
in the cause of good government has
been accomplished, stay of the ever
increasing tariff.
1--WE believe in increasing the num-
ber of dollars in circulation, and to
this end our platforms this year, as
heretofore, pledge us to the free and
full use of silver. Not for the purpose
of giving q bonus to silver mine own
ers, but mark you, for the purpose Of
giving the greatest number of honest
dollars, that the purchasing power
may be obtained at its old standard,
rs it WAS in the good old Democratic
days before the war and before the
cruel class legislation since based
upon it.
IL believe standard may be made