The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-11-05
FIB AGAIN ABROAD.
rswJ CANDIDATE SPEAKS IN
.AaS.ARD AND XO1Tsa seATIz.E-
Gees His Attentioa Principally
- he Debtors' ExenDtion Policy
-oweiIs Lightly On Othse bub-
.~ess-He Avoids sensationalasn

rnnxressmar James II. Lewis was abroad
- night. and wound up bis campaign BY
.xtysexfuz tae fusion.sts la Ballard Axd
5000 Seattle. AZ Ballard he spoke but
Icy early Ia the evening, going thence
- {,dd Feliows' hall, IN North Seattle.
-ssrs he delivered a Characteristic and not
: "a sepsa sional address. His audience
IS large. filling the hall 70 overlooking,
- vnxn be rad finished the other fopu~
- soeaksrs were eft 10 confront al APP
r<i;srie array 81 empty cslAlrs. despite
<sssruan George +. CotteriITe seductive
ssnu,.ees Of other good speakers TO come"
NJ Lewis opened up with rambling
dissertation OF exemptions. weaving IL INC
- argument for the reelection OF his ''oid
SssrI. Judge Richard Winsor." 20 the state
Srste III q manner disfsnet!veay hia owa.
o. Lewis iau9et each candidate for sersa-
:erisl honors 20 tEss skies. bat left his audi
Srrs In the dark az 10 who this mysser.-
80 candidate might be until na had COM
sisssly exhausted the subject. after the
Sshlss of convention nominating speech.
re fas.onists. Mr.. Lewis sad. We're plesig
a ~ 4 plank in the Exslensbarg platform
3 nbfair a constitutions. amendment al
Eg.ue q liberal exemption. and could only
rerry out that pledge by the election of
esod fus.onlsts 10 ths legislature.
Coinx back to the days Of anoien. Rome.
~ Lewis told how even the tyrannical
smpsrers had allowed such exemptions 10
dshtarr Later, IN England. ne said, the
ssra right had been .'wrung from King
lein 81, the bloody field OF Runnymede. not
q IL proud barons but by the sturdy yeo-
-" From Runnymede Mr.. Lewis n.m-
~ haped ever the broad Atlantic ocean
"a few centuries Of time TO the birth
q the United States as n nation In tho
eOastitn;iou OF the infant nation Mr.. Lewis
leflaSed. that same great boon Of exenp-
tIsn 10 the poor debtor had been embodied.
f:sinsS.ng himself together Ir. Lewis
ssaan leaped over the abyss OF time. land
~ lightly by the cradle of the Republican
party, In tn earliest platforms. he de-
dsrsd, had been embodied approva, OF the
ana policy OF liberal exemptions. This
pe.iny be declared, had been pursued for
yesrs by that party. He would be a Sian
dtsef who would claim that to the Repaid
Lean party was not due the credit for the
home61ead law. said Mr.. Lewis.
T!.at policy of exemption. Mr.. Lewis con-
tsusd. had been constantly followed until
txo years ago. when the money sharks OF
tkaf the West was suffering from too lib
sfai exemption laws. which placed a pre-
mium On dishonesty. Then II was, Mr.
Levia declared. that the leaders OF a once
g5eet party began IA course of trucking
ID Ia the creditors committee" whatever
faas may be, forcing n plank into the TIA
cesna platform. declaring absolutely and
unqaalIi.dly against all exemptions.
Thb plank Mr.. Lewis. with reckless use
Of adjectives denounced az an Insult to
the Intelligence OF the Republican voters,
md the result OF movement set on foot
4 i meeting OF the American Bankers
Aasotiation. in Denver. in 1856. and ably
Ing. Hon. Il. Y. Schoonmaker. who had
spent half an hour telling Seattle people
that L! Hung Chang was an infinitely
sseF statesman than Bismarck"
E:ensburR platform. Mr.. Lewis declared
tssi II was not a single tax amendment,
and that for that reason he would not Dis
euss the single tax.
With this off-hand dismissal of The single
iax Mr.. Lewis psssed on to county affairs.
lie Insisted that the fusion county officials
were being fought with vie abuse by Re-
publican orators and newspapers. though
70 sgnaliy failed To give any instance Of
H. Then almost with ths same breath he
iaierJeetea into his remarks ia praise of
Sheriff Meyer charge that under Re-
puhacan administrations the shariffs Of
nee had been a fountain sf official oorrup-
ton: that defaications had occurred. that
takes had bean packed, and that all ina
machinery or the Office had been Used fofs
iuflher'Fg the designs OF politicians. rront
such crimes. AIR. Lewis said. the office
ander sturdy" Sheriff Meyer had been
wholly free.
Prosecuting Attorney McElroy came Ia
lor praise from Mr.. Lewis next Mr.. Nc
Enjoys HE, Mr.. Lewis said had been an
elen book that all might read. Mr. Me
rapss work N cuudemning the rtght-of-
way for the Lake Washington canal Mr..
Lewis spoke Of highly. Treasurer White
ey was dismissed with flick and
Promise" and then Mr.. Lewis disposed Of
ne rest OF the county officers collectively
w setting upon them the seal of my APP
frevaI"
IN closing he touched lightly upon the
fispano-American war and deprecated an
ziisged EFFORT OF certain politicians" 10
uaii In the mud the American flag to
attain their own base ends" The men
.ho stormed tho heights and died at San
suah, No said. were Americans and not par
iss's: their glory could not be simmed be-
cause They believed In principles not OF the
republican party. His reference TO this
Victory or the American arms was rounaiy
applaaded. To his own record I'm congress
~ N the war; Mr. Lewis made no refer
snse lie asked. he said. no favor for HIM
seH on personal grounds. but only on APP
woVai or his course IL 1t had happened TO
Please his constituents
As aiF. Lewis sal down the audience rose
s.most en- nasse and started for the door.
a Ia cattefiil attempted to stay the
~ but In vain. and he finally shouted:
We'll, boys. II you can't stay any longer
81 as quietly az YOU can" And then no
Asfo'ineed Judge Ninsor. The latter spoke
MS magnificent audience" but the
masnihcent audience was for tho most
ssf' down the street by that tima