, 1869-10-23


DEAR FRIEND: The die is cast
and verdict rendered. The democ'
racy Of Washington Territory ha.
surrendered. Olympic, for few
days after my arrival, was like .
bowling (poIitical) wilderness. Ii
the House it was 'nip and tuck, =
but by Sunday night "tuck" had it,
and nip looked crestfallen. Then
the whole battery was turned on me
in me centered the salvation of the
whole Union and the Puyallup Res
eryation / could block legislation,
or l could organize the whole Legis-
lature on my own terms; if l would
go with the antiSGarfelde men in the
Council, then the whole thing would
stop-legislatiOn would go no far
ther now, if l would go with the
Gar6elde men in the Council, orgau-
ization would be Immediately effect
ed and all would be lovely, and
could have any kind of legislation
wanted. (l did not want any special
legislation.) l had telegraphed to
Darlington to come up Immediately,
but he failed to answer or comply.
l could not expect Newell, (Blewett
had told the people here he would
not Gomez SO l stood alone, with two
ants Garhelde aud three Gar6elde
Republicans in front Of me. If l
went with the 'antis" the thing stood
three and three. If went with the
Scars" it stood four to two. l could
not go with the "'antis," for in the
front of that clique stood Alvan
Flanders, and to block legislation
was lust what be wanted; still l
kept this to myself, and oD Monday
morning l mado "a proposition to
Mike Drew (Who seemed to be the
head and front of the Garfelde
clique) that il his party would put a
Walle Walla man in Speaker Of the
House, that would go in aud or
ganize the Council by voting for
McLane, who was Gar6ede man.
This suited Mike, but he said be
thought the proposition came too
late. told him l did not think so,
that there need be no haste to organ.
ize the House on that day. He said
be would call them together and see
if it would work, and if it did, he
would let me know. | waited till
two o'clock P. M, but received no
answer to my proposition, except thst
heard the House had organized.
have been to the Capitol to>day,
and had stormy time over the
Joint Convention. Our House was
short man Of quorum, but when
the timo came we went down. If
necessary l should have gone alone,
ii the House would h4ve admitted
me as a Council, go determined am l
to checkmate Flanders. There was
quite scene in the House, the par.
tIculars of which l presume you
have already noticed.
John Miller Murphy has started
in On me lightly presume for the
purpose of drawing me out. He
wants 10 retain bis Authorship,
and thinks that if there is no Con.
vention be can do it-or he has ar D..
ranged with Flanders for the appoint.
ment, can't tell which, but he GER
tainly acts as though he don't know
what be is doing, or that be has got
things fixed through Flanders. Judge
McFadden says l am right-that if
this Legislature fails to elect, Elan
ders will appoint. The Treasurer
says he is satisfied of it, for he knows
that Flanders was approached in the
matter when he first came here, and
either would not do it then, out of
policy, or could fnd no law for it,
he don't know which-so the Treas
urer and Librarian both expect to
60, let the cat jump as she may,
but Murphy don't. Murphy told
me he liked Flanders; he had done
him service, while at Washington,
by collecting a claim of 500 for
him, and when a man did him
service he liked to return the COM
pliment! Does that squint toward
an arrangement with Flanders, or
does not2 j. NV,