Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-05-16
J. HAMILTON LEWIS
SITS DOWN ON REORGANlZERS IN
NEW YORK GLOBE.
Opposes the Nomination Of Judge Parker.
Says Parkers Endorsement by New York
State Is q Ruse to Nominate Hill. COL
Lewis Warns Democrats.

Lewis, whose radiant whiskers used t.
cast sunset spell ove~ the amiable
legislators of the nation, and whose
splendid waistcoats are known from Ia
coma to Havana, has dropped into town
and is thinking up the political situation
When Jim Ham," as he is fondly
known in Washington State, gets tc
thinking up anything there is very little
left for the common herd.
Col. Lewis has been retained as coun-
sci in the suit brought by the Continental
Securities Company against the Northern
Securities Company in jersey City last
Friday. Between the thoughts he was
thinking on this matter, he expressed
the following thought to reporter fol
The Globe to-day on the political
situation.
"For myself, 1 am not deceived by
what is known as the Parker BOOM"
The ex-Congressman halted here and
locked thoughtfully into space. After
the fact that he of all men was not de-
ceived had sunk into the mind OF his
auditor, he continued solemnly:
"The obtaining Of pledged delegates
for Judge Parker is but clever ruse to
nominate David Bennett Hill. Judge
Parker does not expect to be a candidate,
and for that reason declines to declare
himself or give expression OF any politi-
cal principles
Here Mr.. Lewis halted again. His
face darkened, and his brows clouded as
a thunderstorm comes up over the Cas-
ca6e mountains in far-oH Washington.
II am opposed he said sternly and
unyieldingly, 'to the nomination oil
Judge Parker" He paused, and added
cor any other man whose political views
are withheld to conform to platform in
order to obtain the Office, or who has
views opposed to the platform and
who declines to let party know them
when he is seeking from such party the
position OF its highest public agent"
Mr.. Lewis was silent once more. He
thought hard and sternly until great
bulbs OF corrugated thought twisted the
skylight of his noble forehead into a
succession Of seismic curves. Then he
proceeded:
"Knowing Judge Parker to be man
Of intelligence and political experience,
judged by the management of the cam
paign of G overnor Hill when the latter
was elected governor Of New York, !
must conclude that his attitude respect.
ing his duty to decline to discuss his
views upon national questions is due tc
the fact that he knows he is being put
forth as general for the purpose Of
delivering his army to his present Field
Marshal, Senator HILL"
eff the tra-reactionists." he went on
bitterly, "in the democratic party are to
dictate the nomination, Senator Hill, is
indeed, an appropriate candidate. y
Then sarcastically: "He at least viii
not need card Of introduction stating
his public address and postoffice every
time he is presented to an audience in
person or by political speaker. How.
ever, if one Of the Cleveland regime is to
be nominated let him come from the
west, where the great body of democracy
exists. Illinois has good man in James
H. Eckles, former controller OF the
treasury"
When the reporter had transferred
Col. Lewis thoughts to the paper the
Colonel gazed out of the window into
Broadway and shook his head sadly.
"For myself, he said, letting each
word fall with lead-like monotony, "fol
myself, sir, declare-that-the
cratic party-ought- be-beaten-
fit dominates any man upon
Observation-Disclosures
have for their purpose-only- to-
to-that-class-of -citizens-.in
our country who desire their
questionably- gotten-wealth exempt
from-the s-of-the-law."-