The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-16
THE ELLENsBuRG CIRCUS.

DID q self-respecting and intelligent peo-
pie ever have presented TO them for honors
such a congiomeration OF candidates as
that which comes 10 them from Ellens-
burg? There are Popuiists and Democrats
and silver.tes and Single Takers and Pop
ocrats and Goats and Repopocrats and
Patrick Henry Winston. One needs only
know the men to enjoy tho hunor of the
association Of Rogers. OF Puyaliup. and
and Patrick Henry Winston az one har-
monious whole.
But IL the ticket looks IKE . circus
poster, there Is melancholy side to the
show. There will be nothing funny about
the return home Of John Wiley. Bilham
H. White. J. II. Lewis. Richard winsor,
W. C. Squire. John B. Hart. Eugene Way
and the other Popocratic leaders Of public
opinion In King county. It viii have It's
humor-that grim. CHASTITY humor which
sometimes prompts q lynching party to
stick the corpss's hat jauntily on Its head
and put cigar In its mouth.
This humor win manifest itssif in John
wiley's explanations to J. H. Lewis,
Lewis remarks about White. John b.
Harris chuckie over Lewis defeat; the
sardonic glee with which early renegades
Ike Winsor will think over the igno-
minious turning down of Squire and Wiley
and the other tardy converts who made a
rush to get into the camp IN time for the
distribution of rewards OF virtue.
For Squire is as dead as q door nail.
The candidate for the United States SEN
ate of the Popullsts is Richard winsor
He would be q fool to have fought so gall
LIANT fight and then pick the chestnut out
OF the fire for Squire. The astu,s Richard
did not win the sobriquet Of Slippery
Dick without earning IL. OF all the re-
turning Popoorats. the most congenial are
Richard Winsor and Charles r. Fishbaek.
who could entertain each other on the
Journey with reminiscent anecdotes of
Other gatherings In which they took par,
and before their convictions on money
questions had brought them 90 near
politically.
John B. Hart no doubt sat side by side
with White and they snapped stories
about how they had each ripped Lewis
UP the back. Lee Hart probably devoted
most OF his thoughts TO framing an ex-
PLANTATION of his charge that the "A. p.
AS in the Popuhst and silverite parties
have gotten together and are throwing us
down." It wiz also be In order for him to
explain the remark in the Democrat tic
convention that 1t was NO use paying
attention TO tire Popunsts or We shall
soon be as crazy as they are"
The people OF the state of Washington
VIII soon be called upon TO compare the
men who have been selected at Euens-
burg 20 be entrusted with the government
OF the state with those selected by the
Republican party. IL the Republicans
can DO no better than the aggregation OF
PoPocrats and Goats, the Republicans
should be defeated. for they win nantes,
an utter incspaeity for self-government.
The state has hitherto stood very high In
the councils Of the nation and much Is
expected OF IL. Even II the Ellensburg
convention had made up a tickle, Of re-
sponsihle men personally commanding the
respect OF the voters. the platform they
have adopted would condemn them. But
IN the face OF such a calamity as the sue
cess OF that ticket threatens. Repuh,i-
cans must sink su minor differences and
nominate men who shall be a credit 20 the
ticket headed by electors pledged 70 sup
port Mckinley and Hobart and platform
favoring sound money. protection and
prosperity.