The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-08-25

milne economist and social PHILOSOPHER
ne reaaig -. He MAJ have been osershaa-
OMs1 N q literary sense by the all
""sanIi'nE foliage OF PETER He may new
naFe called as much notice 70 his feet
a. the Hon. Jerry Simpson has called 20
MS. But PETER tx only feehIv heard ~
nom time 10 tine. moaning inartlculatefv
- ms capillary dungeon, and as for the
.7'1shssNS Socrates OF Medicine Lodge he
has gone. he has disappeared. ne has
Nahisned Abiit evazit erupft: lost
s,rayed or stolen His feet patter no
'ofser over the pavements of glory He
must be riding his bicycle in those sub
.erranean banks Of gold and silver upon
Mhicn ae proposed 70 base new and mob
iTf currency. or else he Is trUndling
around the world with the Hon Henry
'reorge. MS old companion. likewise re-
ported missing. and is looking for a re-
sion where trees grow with their roots
IN the air and single takers don't even
nave 20 Day a single tax The Hon Davis
Hector Waite. OF Colorado. is riding his
own wheels and revolving rapidly on his
own axis, not subject 10 the constitution
OF tns United States. somewhere IN desc
tate. wind-swept space. bat no bulletins
crop down. The Hon. Lorraine Defiance
Leweiiing, sometime the governor and
terror OF Kansas seems TO have sealed
rs once volcanic lips. and darkness and
silence veil the peak OF mind that once
lowered over the world:
All all are gone. the old. familiar faces
Except Cen coxey and a few others
ana Coxey is superior TO the others be
cause he knows thing or two about
horses. and because he may catch a part
OF the bicycle vote ny his consistent de-
Notfon 10 good roads. Both as a horse
man and as a marcher upon Washing
ton CITY Coxey appreciates the import
ance Of good roads
IL may be considered unfortunate for
Cen Coxey's next operations against
Washington City. however. that the con-
vention which nominated him was full of
the praise of a still more haIcyon and vo-
ciferous statesman. the Hon. Eugene V
Debs, formerly of Terre Haute. Mr.. Debs
IS temporarily undergoing a nominal cap
tivity spending his time at his usual trade
OF conversation. and preparing 10 loom up
before paralyzed nation in 1895. The Ohio
thinkers yearn for the hour of looming
The Hon Dave Rantin urged all Popuists
10 work for the nomination and election
or Mf. Debs as president. The Hon. Lib
erty Halleluiah Webster of Franklin
county. was rapturousiy applauded as he
implored the convention to listen to the
appeal sent forth to the laboring people
or America, asking all those who favor
united political action in 1896 TO write their
names on a postal card and send il TO Eu-
gene v. Debs at Terre Haute. We be-
heve," continued the Hon Liberty Halle
lujah Webster. that Eugene V Debs. the
engineer. would be equally fearless in his
defense of the rights Of the people as Lin
coin was. Let Ohio. the Empire state OF
the great West, cast the first national
referendary vote in America by every del
egate sending a postal card as herein re-
quested."
Conservatives like Gen. Coxey cannot be
too we'll pleased with the protrusion of
fiercer forces like Dehs. And why was
not one kind or soothing word said for the
man who Is now carrying on. single-hand-
ed III myriad-mouthed. a desperate fight
against the national banks. those Jaws Of
plutocracy and monopoly Why was no
Populist voice uplifted 10 the startled skies
in celebration Of the Hon. James Bodo-
monte Sovereign general master shirk-
man of the Knights of LAHORE If Coxey
is To be passed over. is IL not possible %
associate on one ticket these illustrious
names. Debs. the chief OF the Chicago re-
bellion. and Sovereign. of the insurgeut
lungs? But Gen. Coxey may well have
smiled a verjuiced smile as he saw that
not all his achievements in the great Ho-
Doe March, not all the perils, the suffer
ings and the thirst of his Gazaboo Irregu-
lars. could induce the Ohio Populists TO
propel him toward Washington City once
more. Let us put up the screen and hide
the stern features of warrior and states
man honored. indeed. by his people, but
postponed to an eccentric engineer Let
us leave the father of 500. 900. 600 non-inter-
est-bearing bonds and of Master Legal
Tender Coxey alone with HIS greatness
and his disappointment