The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-08-06
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~ sonsswha4 renaxikahae eodnc51eoce
that. dur5ng the recent vfu.x -
former GenAtoe JoAn 4 Wilsom 70
- cry. there nt,om1d ~ q The anme 49,
stopping at d.6arenf hotels. Al unlDown
TIE O. q tAe cther. tuo seh4s - tha 49,
mer Representatives 1t washfngton State
ex10snAfse Squire aad ex-H1preeaatAe1ve
DeoiistiA An Of thea we're hers for ssv-
esnl days. 1hey ea@e ahou& TIE namo
tine. transacted what hux.ness they had u
Tie departments quietly. attraesAag ~ lit-
tie publicity N possible, and went away
again almost On the same day Without
having uet and. quite probably. w.thoat
having knOWn 1neh that either Of the oh
ers Was h1Fe.
The three nsn stopped 1t the same ho.
teis af which they we're accustomed to u.
side when drawing Neoe . rear and rep
resenting tie great state Of Washfnxton.
81 which they were ctftnen& Squire was &C
La N0rmandie. wflsea ~ Tia Cairo AnA
pooI3ftle ut that famous old hOotelry. VIII.
Iafd'A Il woulA ~ very hard for anyoae
save the respective hndividuais themsalvea
20 say Just Why they were here. WIaoen
Acknowledged that he had = doscn - -
little prfvate pyramids for various friends at
hame which could Be best attended to By
personal visits to the departments.
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NHEN he last session ef the Fsfty-AfsA
congress ended. March 1. -. Wilson
showed deeply the effects Of the hesvy
stratm of work coupled with the dlnAp-
p0intment Of defeat When he returned to
the city recentiy he looked Hike another
man. H-s face had lost that gaunt look.
his eyee no longer burned deeply in their
sockets. a. those having need Of long and
continuous slumber. but his whole appear.
ance was that Of . man who was once
again taking HE easy and leaving the
worry 70 there who had fought km for
hin position.
Watson J. Squire has aged wonderfully
since he surrendered his seat IN the Unit
cd States senate TO George Turner. but
hus.ness cares do not seem to sit heavily
upon him. He enjoys hts little suppers &C
Chamherlain'S N OF yore, ana the good
feiiovsv ~ the Metropolitan Club fird him
~ jovtai companion over bottle Of
vine a. ever he was In the paimiest
boom" days. While Wilson impresses one
~ man who II laying no end OF political
wires for the future. Squire Is undoubtedly
. political has been" Nowhere could he
ana . constituency which would b tn
ciined TO place him again IN . high Office.
Having repudiatcd the party that honorsd
him. and being repudiated by the party
into whose bandwagon he endeayored to
climb. there remains for him only the
quiet naili-pond OF business HE and social
existence; hut this will suit the former
senator. Financially. Il u said. he h on
his feet again, and with the assistance Of
one Of the brightest business women In
New York. his esteemed wife, 4 u very
probable that he will die much richer than
be ever has been In the past
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nOOLITTLE. too, has changed for the
- better financially. Men In public life,
unless they are dtshones. do NOT make
money. Dcoiittle negiected his business -
lawyer during hisstwo terms IN congress.
ard very wisely concluded that he could
DO much better In New York city with the
valuable experience he had gained in con-
gress than he could to return 10 his former
home In reaching this conclusion he gave
up political life for good and all. II 10 not
too much to say that had he returned 10
Tacoma. entered again upon the practice
Of hs profession taken an active part Ia
political affairs 40 before. he would Nm.
his party ss that section. and would have
been ten times more likely TO have been
Pierce coanty's candidate for United States
senator than any other man. To be sure.
the overwhelming defeat OF the Republi-
cans IN 1896 by the combined forces Of
populism and Democracy did not augur
well for q Republican legislature In 1883.
but Doolitfie saw. az did Wilson. that flu
sion was almost absolutely certain &c
wreck itself by an Internal explosion. Still.
the halt was not tempting II meant two
years of struggling. NJ least. possibly six
years In the upper house. and then there
was the picture Of the former senator. who
had just ended term worse on than when
he began.
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IN the other hand. New York offered .
- field aifurfnx TO an active, energetic
lawyer and man Of hslsaness- II promised
good returns immediately. and possibilities
OF large fortune IN the future. These
possibilities. 20 New York friends and ~
sociates o. the former Washington repre-
sentative say. are about 10 he realized.
pooiittle Is even now engaged In pronot-
Ing . project which will IL successful.
make him more money In TWO or three