The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1910-07-29
FRIDAY July 20, 1910
Po1NDExTER, PoUT1Na PoPU11sT

ago. but the of yesterday who sat with open mouth
and heard the spell binding oratons of the Popuist in
their pamiest days, could not have listened at the
speech of Miles Poindexter in the Grand Theater last
Saturday evening without then and there concluding,
history was repeating ITSELF and that this Poin-
dexter in sounding the key note of his senatorial cam
pagn appealed the less fortunate creatures of the
state in the way of wealth. through gttering gener-
alties and we'll rounded sentences not one OF which
could he produce the proof to and thereby deceive the
voters of the real merit of the just did the Pops
of 1896.
The fable of the that wanted to impress his fell
low animals of his greatness and to accomplish which
he stole the skin of a lion and crawed into it and
then stood by the road side to the passser by
but he began TO Bray and he opened his
mouth when he gave himself away and all knew it
was but the ass clothed in lions skim nvountarily
to mind as we sat and listened to Mr.. Pon-
dexter tell of my greatness" in Congress and then
let loose flood of abuse those who opposed him.
Sockless Simpson of Kansas fame could not have
made more passionate appeal to the predjudice and
and supersttons of the working than did Mr..
Pondexter in his speech last Saturday night. In his
opening remarks he declared himself to be Republican,
but in his two hours talk he did not in single in
stance show wherein he had ever acted with the Re
publicans to prove his right to the party cognomen.
He never time said that he would act with the Re-
publican party in he elected but he did gloat
over the fact that he had worked in harmony with
the Democrats and finally succeeded in making it clear
to the minds of all present that he would continue to
work with the Democratic party in Congress in he
was elected to the senate.
From the beginning to the end of his speech if
Mr.. Pondexter said thing that would prove that
he is statesman logican then failed to catch
it, He spent the entire time defending his in
the house of representatives and abusing those whom
he opposed and left completely untold what he propos
ed to do if elected to the United States senate Be it
said to his credit he made able defense of his ca
reer in the house Of representatives, but most
miserable failure in giving to his hearers genuine food
for thought with the exception of here and there
poisoned paragraphs of arraying class against
class in this land of the free and home of the brave
He or she who went through the populist era in the
Northwest as he looked over the audience that listen
ed to Mr. Pondexters address and watched those who
appauded could but the old Populistic spirit
trying to be reincarnaed and all backed by the bray
ing Democratic that came to help do the shouting
with no higher aim than that of disruptng the Repub
can party In the early nneties after Populism had
gained considerable foothold the Democrats realized
that it good thing to do up the Republican party
with and then take the spolls away from those who
did the work. and they joined issues with the Pop
ulsts and in many states completely routed the Repub
can party by sending the Pops to the front do the
fighting but the Populists remembered getting
CiI0 UuZldru anu soon party naQ
been instrumental in knocking the Republican party
out was completely side tracked and the old Dem
ocratic taking the lead Mr. Poindexter is
using the arguments of the Populist drupt the Re-
publicans and if he is successful in doing he will re-
turn to Washington City as United States senator
from the state of Washington and be the same Vir-
ginia Democrat that he has always been. Why, Pon-
dexter, in unguarded moment even went so far as
to say in his speech that, 81 myself am devotee of
states rights that damnable and pernicous doctrine
that the South went to war on in 1861
There was, however, one pathetic story in the
speech of Mr.. Poindexter and it was the description
of the unwilling of the monument erected under the
oaks of Michigan to simon pure Repubicanism, at
which President Taft did honor to the noble heroes of
the country that had put down treason of the kind Mr.
PondeXter and his parents struggled for four long