The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-03-06
J. HAMS NOBLE DEED.


Seattle. Wash. March l. 1895.
To the Editor: / noticed a communion
ton In your yesterdays issue which
brought such relief to my mind and Joy
to my heart as makes me feel 1t my duty
to ask the use OF your columns to give
the matter still greater publicity, so that
We may all join in unison and send up
ono grand hallelujah in praise OF our de-
liverance and our great deliverer.
The communication which / refer to Is
that OF the Hon. Col. James Hamilton
Lewis. n. C.-our own Jimmy Hammy--
wherein he. though hesitating out OF his
we'll known modesty, yet compelled by his
tender conscience TO speak and relieve the
guiltless from blame, tells us that II was he
who counseled and advised our prosecut-
ing attorney TO settle the Smith case by
taking the money and disnissing the GRIM
inal proceedings. We have already been
Informed by him that the fusion of the
Democrats. Populists and Silver Republic
ans has his sanction, and now what an
additional and blessed relief to this CON-
munity Is II to know that ne was the one
who advised the Smith settlement. How
sweet it IL TO know that all that Is done
here Is done by and with his permission:
can anyone mention anything that he has
not claimed TO be one of the factors In.
either as the power on or behind the
throne? No. we all know now, though
blind that he oerrules us IN all our ways.
Heretofore some OF us may have thought
that the prosecuting attorneys course In the
Smith case was not wholly blameless, but
we know now that no criticism can attach.
Jim Ham counseled the move therefore IL
is. II must be all right Is he not James
Hamilton Lewis. and is not Jasnes Hami-
ton Lewis but another name FOR King
county? Yea, even more-~tor the state OF
Washington? How. then. dare we critl-
else any act which this moral intellectual
and physical giant has sanetionedr Let
us be careful 10 do or say naught that may
cause him to visit Us with his wrath or
remove from us his favor.
II there be any in our community who
feel even the slightest inclination to doubt
his al-wise and ever-present power let
them take warning in time and keep their
opinions TO themselves. les, he should learn
that some doubt him: let us not thus
wound his sensitive nature, for he might
desert us and go back TO Georgia, whence
he IL reputed 10 have come. Think of the
awful plight In which his desertion would
leave us! How we would long for a
sight Of these whiskers and a sound OF that
fute-liks voice, Where else could we find
one so modest and so little self-seeking.
doing all, but doing IL so unostentatiously
that we are but now finding Il outr No. let
us cherish him and keep him with Va until
he receives the expected call 10 come Up
on high and help the Creator.
Yes keep him with U.s. for there can
be no non-feasance. nis-feasance or NAL
fsasance in office so long as he sanctions
the acts OF the official. No seeming
calamity can Re such In fact IL he says
il IL net such. Let liz then cease all
worrying: the omnipotent Jim Ham VIII
smooth all our rough places. bring order
ont OF chaos and right out OF wrong
Again | say, let Us rejoice In him. All
hall Ham I. T.. r. THOMAS