The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-01
oMNIUM GATHERUM.

That was . great gathering at the ar
ssory on Thursday night. IL must have
| been considerable fun for the Populists
who used the boiling Republicans as de
eoys ard observed how the decoys deport-
ed themselves Is n they were . superior
kind Of duck. Winsor, who preceded the
others In renegadism by three or -four
years. fully appreciated the hnmor OF the
occasion and played BALI with them.
wlnsor remembers the time when those
whom he characterized 80 vie sinners re-
viied him for leaving the party because
he couldn't be elected delegate from his
own precinct. II is barely FIVE years ago
that Richard wlnsor was on Republican
ticket as delegate 10 a state convention,
but he couldn't get votes enough 10 elect
him, and that convinced him that he Was
not Ia accord with the principles OF the
Republican party. But winsor has served
his apprenticeship tn hts new camp. and Il
tho newcomers think he and those who
stood by the ship through ugly weather
are going 70 stand aside now when port
Ii In sight and let the fo'casle skulhers
come out and carry OF the honors. they
are very much mistaken.
Before that audience. composed one-haif
of Popocrats. Democrats. Populists.
Greenbackers. and the other half OF
sound money men attracted by curiosity.
winsor had great opportunity. and he
took advantage OF II to roast those Re-
publicans whom he iikened TO Patrick
Henry Winston, the football OF political
parties. There was Orange Jacobs. cam
dsdate for superior Judge; Biiliam III.
white. candidate for the supreme bench:
John Wiley. a candidate for superior
Judge. congress. United States senator.
supreme judge. governor. lieutenant gov
ernor. attorney general. United States dis
trics attorney or prosecuting attorney:
w. r.. Andrews, Democratic candidate.
Republican candidate. Popocratic can
didate. Pcpulist candidate for anything:
and James Hamilton Lewis. first In the
neld. last in the fray. and never get
ting anything but applause and laughter.
ana who win come as near receiving
honors at the hands OF a shrewd people
with a sense OF the iudicrous as he came
near the truth when he said that Christ
delivered bis sublime sermon on Mount
Ararat
It Is impossible 10 discuss the meeting
seriously. The speeches were Ike those
stump orat.ons delivered by the negro
minstrel or those topical songs which form
a popular feature OF comic opera The
audiences enjoys ths clever hits and laughs
al the ubes, but retains no impression OF
a conviction. The only practical ,sugges-
ton was that o, thu gentleman who Is
best known "a s'warnorse Bill" when he
saA: '.Is~; ~ have confidence In each
other. thors are Just and equitable terms
on which We can tcgsther pat ticket In
the nsa;" He viii ind before the close
Of tho campaign that there Is nothing 80
snuch needed BY the officeseekers and tide
walters who sat on that platform as 'oon-
n8enae ia one another
Nothing viii be 50 entirely lacking a.
cordial. loving Kindness between John
Wiley and Charles F. Fishhaek; nothing
wg1l f~e so completely wanting As guilelesi
tras, on the part Of Baiism II. White ant
slippery Dick wlnzor. each IN the other
There are Just and equitable terms OF
witch they can together "a; a ticket II
she Geld those terms simply are 20 nns
good. Tat place for every one OF the lead
| lnw boilers and then lnvite the Democrats
and popallsts 20 get together and vot'
| Tor these great and good men who saeri
! iced every chance they had Of ee,nI
/ beaten IN fhclr Own party IN order 10 oe
eorns saesessfga martyrs 10 the cause o
ths people.
Thsrs vas not an attempt throaghoa
that eutirs meeting 20 appeal 70 the IN
! selaxencc OF Ire audience. and al IN,
/ statements were on psr wlsh that ofFgsh
bacS. who demanded tae money 81 ~
eoastRatiau. sitNoueh The constitution no
where SAYS anything sscst either SOFA o.
silver nslnx necessarily aSca alone or 20
gcsner.
Tns rrxu,t Of the meeting saSnires Re
rassca-, WITH rev courage, wnez -
laughter 10 cvsr I, vsa ~ ,sas1 ssa, shs-
| q kosa sos IN wslcA q SOW ne SEEDS o
! scars ascnsy policy Voters WI - rns1
| noe asia me fan aHs '-sossinE-' OF ~ac'
! s,a@,hss as these delivered - Taurs,sa,
a.ss,. bat IN sss cate, hours % tns even
/ s-r. when ruea wsu sit fcsn - istc~estea
] r. stafv tAe ssssgscs ura7 whssh 50 800
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