Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-04-11

OFFICIAL CITY PAPER.
PINK WHISPERS AND POLITICS.

editors of Washington certainly had a
'Ncf of fun with one James Hamilton
Lewis last week-more fun with said
James pink whishers than said James
limsalf-all Of which spells publicity
tor the splendorously attired senator
from Illinois. They had lots of fun
with HIM. Ham Lewis. he of pink
,ashiskers and lowered waistcOat fame"
lis tas Ehehalis Bee-Nugget styled him
and yet back of the humor prevailed
the opinion that J. Hams advent into
the upper house of Congress spelled a
considerable advantage for the state of
Washington.
Pink whiskers and politics sound
sike strange bcdfellows. A man may
have clarion voice and mellihuous
zsuanner, pronounced taste in waist.
enuats and a glad hand" that never
fthss may. in fact, be the most grandi-
sss,n OF all the grandiosians but when
Sslescarries pink establishment as a
kirSnte appendage on the lower half
That he labored under a fearful handi-
e zap.
sButgnpf SO with J. Ham. His pink
v=whiskeEs- and his politics landed him
nin the uaited States senate, thereby
-sStrengther ing the Democratic majority
there, 2and most of the blame can be
Laid ON his pink whiskers and an inor-
dinate desire to out-rival the rainbow
ssas regarding his taste in waistcoats
For such things brought J. Ham pub
Nlicity and that was the one thing ].
Ham needed to reveal the real ability
rthat actually lay beneath the emilia
-s;xuned Exterior.
"n-yDu can't say anything good
about me, for heavens sake roast me"
wsa--J. Hams never-failing last bit of
advice to the newspaper men with
whom fhe came in contact, and j. Ham
salvays contacted" And If they didn't
x0ooEt him. they made him the butt of
rzmauy .jokes-and Jim Ham chuckled
rio himself
So Thu baby senator from Illinois
%Dlsht to look with fond eyes to the
Ehabitation of his youth and the editors
thereof. When they didn't say any
sEhing else, the papers of the state used
assthe stnry sent out by the Northwest
News Service, in which was remarked:
Nm reality, Col. Lewis may be counted
szas another senator from Washington.
Jim Ham Lewis will be, zone strong
friend in the United States senator for
washington comments the Douglas
ssCcunty Press, and yet we must digress
for just q moment to give ear to the
.sSunnyside Observer: Senator Jim
Eslam Lewis--well, Helen Blazes, what
edo you know about that?"
Ills success must be attributed to
Sean indomitable will, an inexhaustible
supply of self-confidence, aided and
abetted by the prettiest cluster of pink
whiskers ever seen on mortal man,
AYERS the Tenino News. To the Ho
,uuuiam Washingtonian his election
seems "a fitting rebuke to those Sc
Athletics who overwhelmed Lewis will
abuse and made things so unpleasant
for him in social, political and business
ways xffat he left this state in 1908 ant
8 took up his residence in Chicago"
'11e'R help Washington" is the com
.ment of the Kettle River Journal, Will
.rshe Island County Times cruelty" re
marks. James Ham Lewis seems t
he holding his own with Lydia Pink
ham," James Hamilton Lewis, he o
the pink whiskers fame"-always W
get those pink whiskers-"used to b
known as Dude Lewis on account O
mis- immaculate dressing and pleasin
society manners" says the Kent jour
nal But Mr.. Lewis, back of these pc
4culiarities, had an unusual amount G
gray brain matter, coupled with mora
and physical courage, combinatio
that places men to the front"
at was sense of keen satisfaction
and pleasure with which the people G
Washington, especially the Democrats,
greeted Mr.. Lewis election, says tn
Spokane Democrat. by the color c
'gSl1s whiskers !. Hamilton has achieve
saearIy as mucn fame as the late Sen;
tor PETER of Kansas vouchsafes tn
iReardan Gazette, while Beriah Brown
dean of the Seattle newspaper mel
VINO KEW j. Ham when he first struc
5s<attie, says of him: He is the on
s7Eah absolutely without malice or u
e.eharitahleness in expression that Ii