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Political Pot-Pie.
"All's well that ends well," is an
old but wise saw. The King county
Republican convention may have
started out very stormy, and wholly
<>ii the wrong foot, but before it had
proceeded very far it fell into the
right groove and did a most charm
ing piece of work. Few persons i.v
King county would have thought
that I. 15. Knickerbocker would have
ever permitted himself to become a
party to the slick piece of political
boulddugery that was attempted by
the Humes men to capture the chair
manship of the convention, and none
ever thought that Frank P. Lewis,
who has stood so fair in this city in
e\ery particular, would have even
desired to have carried out a scul
dugery scheme so well planned, but
from the Pie-maker"s way of think
ing each of those men did so, and
did so knowingly, and further dis
cussion of-it but adds insult to in
jury. It was a stormy convention,
anci* one tiiat will be remembered for
many years to come. The Frink men
lead by zin-h intrepid workers as Y\.
11. Morris, ex-Governor John 11.
McGraw, John P. Hartman, J. D.
Jones and others, showed to the op
position that chicanery was no match
for ability and right. They lead
their men to victory without any vio
kiu-e, which, to say the least, was re
markable, for the opposition expect
ed violence of the worst kind, and, if
reports-be true, went there prepared
to meet violence. Thre is no doubi
• but ibid lite figures which Chairman
Knickerbocker declared elected
Frank P. Lewis were agreed upon by
the men managing the Humes tight
the night before. It was an unfor
tunate predicament in which to place
the -Republican party, and the men
responsible for it should drop out of
public sight for all time to come in
stead of hankering for more notori
ety.
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On a test vote J. M. Frink was en
dorsed for the governorship and a
delegation selected to go to the state
convention that will leave no stone
unturned to accomplish that pui
pose. Since King county has held
its convention many other counties
have held their conventions, and all
have endorsed Mr. Frink. From the
-Northwest comes the report that Jef
ferson county is for Frink for gov
ernor. .Next comes the report that
Skagit county is in the Frink line.
Then Whatcom county, not to be
outdone by her neighbors, has de
clared for Frink. JSnohomish is for
Frink and Sam Nichols. Kitsap
county had a warm time, locally
- speaking, but sent a delegation r.o
the state convention to vote for
Frink for governor. Pierce county
is holding her convention today and
the probabilities are that Mr. Frink
will get a solid delegation from that
county. Lewis county has also held
her convention, and it is for May
nard and Frink. Chehalis county is
not having much to say, but It looks
Frink-like. While the emissaries of
tin,' Walla Walla money barrel are
doing all in their power at present in
the southwestern counties to prevent
them from coming to Frink, yet it.
looks as Though their efforts will be
without success. Western Washing
ton will doubtless give Mr. Frinlf at
least !)() per cent, of her entire vote,
and with some aid from the eastern
side of the state J. M. Frink will be
unanimously nominated. Tom
Humes' name will not be placed be
fore the convention. The Pipev
llunies-Ankeny combination is now
using ihe name of J. OT>. Scobey as
a stalking horse for their deviltry,
but before they will have gone very
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on and call a speedy halt.
Victory, victorius victory, has
finally crowned the three years" ef
forts of The Seattle Republican in
its endeavor to shatter the power of
the Pipers in this city and county.
When it opened up the fight on the
Oregon tramps, the Turner hirelings
and the political boodlers its friends
thought it was a great big mouthful
for it to try to swallow, and truly be
lieved that the paper would be ruin
ed for bo doing, in fact the Pipers
did declare that they would have the
business men withdraw every cent of
patronage from it. They made the
effort, and the editor of this paper
has been practically ruined, finan
cially speaking, because he dared op
pose the Pipers and their great po
litical machine. Nothing, however,
succeeds like success, and it con
tiuned to hammer away at the Pip
ers, always telling such a straight
forward tale that it soon began to
convince others and then others, un
til a real storm had been kicked up
and resulted in their utter defeat.
Months ago the Pipers made hercu
lean efforts to take The Republican
into the Ankeny fold, but at that
they had poor success. Knowing the
facts as this paper does, it is very
gratifying to it to now let loose a
few hurrahs over the defeat of the
Oregon Tramps.
"When Greek meets!" —While the
battle of the primaries was on, the
quiet observer witnessed scenes at
the polls, running from grave to gay,
from the pathetic to the comical,
some verging upon tragedy; of the
latter was the contest in a certain
precinct of the Seventh ward, where
two tierce and grizzled veterans of
the civil war led the warring fac
tions in the contest. The vwar cry of
oik- was, "1 fights mit John Frink!"
Ol the other, '"I do battle for Guy
llunies!" Each of these leaders of
the elans wears an empty sleeve, each
having lost an arm upon more
bloody, but not more sanguinary
fields. Each veteran's face was stern
iiml grim as lie marshaled his forces
for the fray.
Each valiant soldier of the rank
and file seemed imbued with the
spirit of war and marched boldly, in
solid phalanx in battle array. The
brave commanedrs waved high in
air imaginary swords with imaginary
right arms, and the fierce battle was
or front high noon to dewy eve. The
silent observer at times "viewed with
alarm" the bloodless conflict, lest
these heroes of other fields, again
smelling the smoke of battle, should
engage each other in more sanguin
ary conflict. One proclaimed that he
would lose his other arm, if need be,
fighting for Prink and the public
weal, while the other, equally brave
but in milder tones and with more
modest mem averred that he stood
well in the council of his city and
dose to Humes; that he loved" Guy
for his youth; that he would not al
low any member of the opposing clan
to Guy Humes unrebuked; that ho
stood upon this field to do battle for
Guy alias Humes, notwithstanding
the alleged devious and subterrane
ous methods of the sappers and min
ers of his clan.
And thus the war was waged by
the clans until th(* recall was sound
ed. When the sun went down the
field was strewn with the wreckage of
war, advisory tekets, snipes and
shells of peanuts; the atmosphere
was charged with the odor of stale
smoke commingled with that pecu
liar and indescribable aroma eman
ating from an overtaxed and derang
ed digestive organism. While the
dead were being buried out of sight
and the wounded condoled with, a
defunct Dakota politician gave voice
to the followng query of the multi
tude:
'•Oh. captain dear, please tell me
why
Do you swear by Humes and fight for
Guy?" '
Tn the silence an echo answered:
"Why?"
Not one word of complaint has
been heard against the ticket named
by the Republicans in their late con
vention in this county. Every nom
inee bears the mark of a personal
gentleman and boasts of a spotless
public record. The Pie-maker ha?
nosed about ever since the conven
tion adjourned and has failed to
catch one unfavorable comment on
the ticket named. On the other
hand, all Bepublicans speak in tlv
highest terms of it, and the Demo
crats openly declare that it is a very
hard ticket for the opposition to
boat. The Pic-maker accosted
Hon. James Hamilton Lewis the
next day after the convention, and
he at once said: "The ticket named
by the Republicans for this county is
one of the cleanest that I have ever
seen since I have been in the county.
The rivalry for party supremacy and
the rivalry for factional supremacy
have prompted the dominant Repub
lican faction to name a ticket that
they need not be ashamed of for a
.-ingle minute. I am glad to see
such rivalry, for when it is so the
public's interest will always be most
carefully guarded."
The defeat of F. M. i)e Moss, from
a Frink combination standpoint, is
the lamentable thing of the conven
tion. It is true that Mr. Frink's
friends could have nominated Mr.
De Moss if they had stuck together,
end that would have been good poli
tics, but Mr. Frink had no cinch on
the delegates whereby he could force
them to vote throughout the entire
convention proceedings as he would
lnve them do, and to blame either
In in or any one else for the defeat of
Mr. L)e Moss is puerile. George L l.
Lamping is a young soldier fresh
from the battlegrounds of the Phil
ippines, and it was utterly impossible
for either Mr. Frink or any one cisc
to stein the tide that at once broke
loose for Mr. Lamping as soon as his
name was mentioned. Even at this
late date it is almost impossible to
keep a convention of Republicans
from nominating an old veteran of
the civil war, though such personage
be totally unfit to hold the office to
which he aspires. The man who
stands before an enemy's bullets in
defense of his country somehow oi 1
another gets a good deal more con
sideration than the fellow who stays
at home. The Pie-maker has been
informed that lumping is not only a
soldier, but is also a well-educated
gentleman and has all the qualifica
tions accessary to conduct the office
for which he has been successfully
and fairly nominated with credit to
himself, to his country and to his
['arty. That being true, he is justly
entitled to the full support of the
Republicans of this county, includ
ihcling Mr. De Moss and his entire
Ballard constituency.
A gentleman writes from Clark
county that Wappenstein, the no
torious Seattle crook detective, who
is charged with getting a divvy out
of every trick that is turned by the
crooks of this city, accompanied by
Meredith, an official associate, is now
iii that section of the country trying
to buy tip delegates to vote against
the nomination of Senator Frink. It
thug appears that the "foreign
devil.-"' turned down by the Republi
cans of King county last Friday are
still pursuing their villainous work.
The thugs of this city have contrib
uted bags of money to bribe the Re
publicans into making "Honest" (?)
Tom Humes the gubernatorial can
didate, and most signally nailed. If
it cost them a dollar it must Jiavo
cost them not less than $30,000, and
yet they tailed. Xow they are out in
the smaller counties continuing to
carry on ther criminal work. Botn
of Seattle's detectives had better be
ar thcix posts of duty trying to catca
the hundreds of criminals that are
r<.ldling houses nightly in this city,
instead of being out in the state
themselves playing the criminal act.
13ig Bill Morris should be named
for chairman of the county central
committee. He proved himself to
be one of the best organizers that
Kinii county has ever had when he
was chairman, and had not petty
jealousy on the part of the Piper
-11 times combination stepped in, he
would have succeeded himself and
the likes of Knickerbocker would not
have been forced on the party.
lion. J, 11. Sehively may at one
time have pursued a course that did
not meet the approval of a majority
of the Republicans of the state, but
the manly fight he made in the late
King county contest has again popu
larized the man. He made a mis
take, acknowledged the corn, fell
into line, worked for lost honor and
suceeded in finding it. Ha will go
to the state convention next week
backed by the entire King county
delegation and will prove one of the
strong men in that convention.
"Don't worry about Pierce coun
ty," said a prominent politician one
day this week, "for I have been very
ereditablly informed that her forty
four votes will be for King county's
choice for governor. Ben Grosscup
will not run the Pierce county dele
gation, and that being a fact, Levi
Ankeny will have no more show of
turning the Pierce county delegation
from King county than he will to
turn the King county delegation
away from J. M. Frink." If the
above be true, and why should it be
dcubted, there will be no other name
presented to the convention for gov
ernor but that of Mr. Frink.
The strong candidate for state su
perintendent of public schools is J.
M. Layhue, of Puyallup. Mr. Lay
hue has the united support of tbrj
teacher? of both Pierce and King
counties, as well as that of many
other counties, and it is very appar
ent that they propose to land their
man. As an educator no man in the
state stands higher than Prof. Lay
hue, and he will be an honor and a
credit to the ticket should he be
nominated. On a canvass of the del
egation from King county it has
been found that an overwhelming
majority of the delegates favor Prof.
Lay hue's candidacy, providing it
does not interfere with that of the
governorship light, and it will not,
hence it looks now as though he will
be nominated on the first ballot.
Prof. Taylor, of King county, might
have stood a very good show for the
nomination had not King county
been boosting for two places on the
state —governorship and one
of the members of the supremej
judgeship of the state.
The Democrats of this city held |
their primaries last Wednesday even
ing and are holding their county
convention today. Unlike the Re
publicans, the Democrats decided to ,
hold two county conventions. The j
one in session today will simply elect
delegates to the state convention and
the one to nominate county officers
will be held in September. A fight
for supremacy in the county conven
tion between the Godwin forces and
the Hart followers will be the fea
ture of the convention. If Godwin j
is successful, it means J. T. Eonald j
for congress, and if Hart wins it j
means J. ¥. McElroy for congress.
If Godwin wins it means the en
dorsement of John R. Rogers for the
nomination of governor, and if Hart j
wins it means that Rogers will not j
get a single vote from King county. '
The fight for party supremacy prom-!
ises to be a very hotly contested one
and may result in a split in the con
vention as it did some few months
ago.
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