The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-09-26
SAMPLE MIssTATEMENTs.

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Following the vivid example OF Col.
Lewis. fusion journals have embarked
upon reckless campaign. and are
guilty Of assertions and charges wholly
without warrant and absolutely base
less. For example, a local Populist
newspaper perpetrates the following:
Tho Republican convention at Tacoma
reversed itself In more than one declara-
4ion Of Its platform. 1t declared for the
single gold standard. thus rendering 1t
impossible for any honest and self-respect-
Ing man to longer continue in its ranks.
1T declared for woman suffrage, although
Ats record In this state has always been
the other way. 1t condemned q proposed
amendment TO the constitution permitting
any exemption OF the household furniture
of the citizen from seizure by the tax
gatherer. although by a Republican stat
ute. under Republican administrations.
both territorial and state. this has been
the practice for long series OF years. 1t
demanded regulation OF railroad frei2hts
and fares which every preceding Repub-
aican legislature has refused to institute
and which the Republicans OF the last
legislature bitterly opposed and aided to
defeat
There ia scarcely a statement In the
foregoing that Is not either an insult or
a falsehood. II IL true that the Repub-
lican party did not. until 1886. declare
for the gold standard. 1t IL likewise
true that the Democratic party has
been On all sides or the great financial
issues that have at various times agl-
tated the country. The Republicans
have grayitated to the single gold
standard. just as the Democracy has
taken up the championship OF the sill
yer standard. under the speeious and
transparent guise OF bimetailism. The
populists ara for fat money. and say
80. and have advocated free coinage
IA a mere n,akeshlft. a temporary de-
vice to achieve the great result OF an
absolute paper money.
This same newspaper that thus sneers
1T the Republican platform for It's al
legged advocacy OF woman suffrage. two
days before made the following state
mens In It's review az the Tacoma con-
vention:
'"fhns. Instead " maintaining a dlgnlned
straddle. II viii be seen that the platform
warns the voters against equal suffrage"
The truth ia tina; the platform con-
tents itself with calling attention " the
voter In the equal suffrage amend
nlent. ana does nothing more than ask
y
Ii that the Republican party In 1883
placed upon the statute books of Wash
.ngton territory al enactment giving
women the right to vote. and thus S.
far as the party has ever taken q
STAND. 81 has been favorable.
II the proposed amendment u the
smpsson on household furniture" the
Republican party would doubtless not
have condemned 1t. II denounces this
pro?osa, because II contempla;es re-
voiussnnary change In our present sys-
TEN ~ taxation. II raeans ihe single
tan II does net roflr 80 exemption of
SiN3@Sfesd f+-Rftft~ IL g &AstA " 8E fE&t W
posed by Republicans because IL does or
doee not 1t il opposes: because II Will
bring about. and is Intended II bring
aboGs. unequal and discviUlnative tax
alton. This intended change in the con-
stisution provides specifically thai 50;
shall Re optional ~.ea municipal cor
vote * sae qualified electors vasims
thereon tbs class or classes Of property
UPON which taxes fer municipal pur-
Poses shall IA levied" That Is tho en-
tertns wedge - the single tax. and Is
50 meant. and Republicans will rgns Il
for thai rszsson and TO ether. TIE Re-
publican larSy BY its leslslatiau. tx