The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-10-26

| issues are not made ar,ihcially by the
| mere fat Of party platforms. They
| make themselves Problems press for
| solution without regard to the arbitrary
| dlctum Of party managers, partisan ora
tors and biased journals. a party can
| not and does not define issues. II can
and does define It's attitude towards is-
sues
IL political party attempts 10 make
| vital and paramount question once
| thoroughly considered and determined
| 50 much the worse for that party. The
| wise politician and the Wise political
| body recognize conditions ard adapt
! themselves to them rs declaring what
they will or will not dc in certain great
matters yet to be settled. They must
stand or fall as the public determines
that their policy il sound and correct
| This is in response to the loud Popu-
list cutlery that the Republican press
has interjected certain inconseauentIal
isuses into this campaign. II has not.
and IT could not il II would. One Popu-
| list newspaper goes so far as TO declare
| that the money question and an IN
| dorssment OF the state and county gov
| ernments are the chief and really the
/ only issues OF Importance to the public.
| one is national, the other local 1t is
| not true.
| The money question cuts little figure
in Washington. for the obvious reason
| that the people cannot be interested In
| it. II Is therefore not an issue. The
Silver Republicans are in an unfortun-
| ate predicament. Silver is. or was. the
| sole excuse and reason for their being.
| and they must talk silver even when
| their words fall on needless ears. They
are dead, all but their vocal organs.
| which are raised in vehement protest
| against being considered dead
| The state administration has no right
| 10 invite a public expression as to its
| course The election Of congressman
| and supreme judges has no bearing
| whatever upon the efficiency or ineffi-
! cheney Of the states government. either
| for the past two or succeeding TWO
| wears The time to declare confidence.
| or want OF It, In the state officials is
| two wears hence SO the people view IT.
| and they are the judges. Public senu-
! ment and discussion has crys'aliized
| into the following:
ID A Republican victory Will be dis
| ,inct1v q recorded expression Of support
| Of the national administration for iis
conduct OF the war and for the further
| ance OF it's great policies. national and
International. arising from the war
Co The alarming shadow Of the revo-
lutionary single tax is thrown over ev-
erv municipality. threatening violent
| disturbance of all property values, the
radical readjustment OF all property
| owners relations To one another and to
| the public. and contemplating ultimate
| connscaton of all lands. This is mat
| ter Of near and vital importance 10 all
citizens. No wonder they insist that II
be settled at once. and. II possible. for
| ever.
tsl In most counties. the question or
| the efficiency and honesty of their local
governments concerns the taxpayers.
IA Fusion Itself. Its honesty. cxpe-
diencv and psacticability, are on trial
80 Lewisisnt.
The financial question. the retsren-
dun, woman suffrage. partial tax eN-
emptlon. are all for one reason or an
other obscured The voter viii be in'lu-
enced very little by any of them.