The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-09-30
jim HAM WINS
CROWD IN HIS
WILSON SPEECH
Throng at Arena Keeps Sen.
Lewis Working
Overtime
CHEERS HIS HOT SHOTS

Hanging or every word Ut
tered. thrilled with the bril-
Iianey of rhetoric. wiz. and
foolc at the ready command os
she crater, speilecund by his
silver tongue and esosissted BY
his charm OF manner ard deep
feeling evireed towards his
former home town and its cit
ixens. 5000 people Friday night
heard Senator James Hamilton
Lewis in what many declared
was the s'hess politieai speech"
they ever heard.
Several hundred failed TO get
into the Arena. where for three
hours the former congressman
o. Seattle hammered home
point after point In favor OF the
reelection Of President Wilson.
~Hft 'eui again. various ones In
the audience urged as the speaker
rose again and again 10 an unequal
ed eloqrcnce In tearing to shreds
the issues which he said were
by the republicans.
only TO be abandoned In a day.
Holds Him Overtime
The audience was reluctant 10
leave. and when he said he was
ahCut 10 cuacinde. the crowd vir-
fuzlIy coaxed hirn en- masse 10
keop on.
~Bus you don't understand" he
said. with a merry twinkle in the
eye. MY train doesn't leave till
8 IN the morning"
He then talked for 30 minutes
more.
Perhaps no more telling point ~as
made in the entire campsiEn in Sc
attic than Senator Lewis presenta-
tion cf the Alaskan question.
Why Was Alaska isnored1
OF vital interest to Seattle and
the Northwest. the Alaskan rail-
road. Lewis said. was an enterprise
which Judge Hughes had no righ,
20 ignore
Lewis charged that Gov. Hughes.
by his silence. Is opposed TO the
government railway In Alaska. and
that republican leaders are plan
ming a repetition In that empire OF
the North OF the same land-grab-
bing scheme staged in many states.
Railroad companies have been
granted large tracts OF land. Lewis
said. for the purpose OF building
railroads thru them. They failed
10 do so In many cases, but still
hold the land. This IA now also
contemplated In Alaska. he said.
and one OF the means OF effecting
II Is to crush the government rail-
way.
Responds to Welcome
Lewis departed almost entirely
from his set speech. speaking ex
temroraneousiy to suit the unusual
occasion Of a speech In his former
place OF residence.
Ills expression OF gratitude n
the mark OF friendship shown him
by Seattleites without regard T.
narty alignment was gem of
rhetoric. 1t vas touching. heart
felt
Thruout his speech. Lewis. rec
ognizing the ncnpartisan character
of bis audience. addressed himself
TO them as Americans. and omitted
partisan pleas. He pleaded for the
merits Of the cause on a patriotic
basis.
Hughes Switches Issues
He declared that Judge Hughes,
seeking the presidential election. /
started out first with one issue. !
then another. abandoning ono as
fast almost as created because the /
American people did not take well
to manufactured and shallow Is
tues. Finally, Le wis declared.
Judge Hughes adopted the eight
hour Law after first feeling IT out
gently. then tapping Il a little more
forcibly. and nov It has become
the main issue.
"fIt WAS obtained by forcel
Judge Hughes now says. ~ Is de.
structiye, II ia breeder Of an
archy," said Lewis
Why Was Hughes NUM-
Now J summon the American
citizenship 70 remember that during
three weeks OF suspense and uu.
certainty, when President Wilson
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