Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-10-22


fort has been made to represent L. b.
Andrews, the Independent candidate
for Treasurer as sort Of political saint,
and his praise is sounded at great length
by solitary individual who has little
regard for honor, decency or truth. Let
as see what Andrews record is. For
ton years he held the best paying office
in the county, that Of Clerk of the Dis
trict Court, an office from which he
WAS finally removed for incompetency,
and which for the same reason be
should have been removed in the begin
ming Of his long official term. Whether
be was good for anything before getting
into the Office We know not, being unac-
quainted with him ut that time, and
never having heard any one say he was.
Since his removal, however, he has been
comparatively good for nothing, has on
gagged in no real business, but has been
applying all his efforts to get back into
Office-any Office. as long as it was An
Office that had money in it and not too
much work. And some of the means
to which he has resorted to get Office
are more peculiar than honorable, as the
reader will believe when through with
this paragraph. Four years ago. for in
stance, he secured delegateship to the
Republican Territorial Convention.
This county favored the nomination of
Gov. Ferry for tbe DeleRateship. and its
representatives we're a. good as instruct
ed to vote for him. Eight of them did
so. Two of them did not. The two
were L. Il. Andrews and ID. p. Jenkins.
Their votes, cast contrary to the wishes
Of their constituency, defeated Gov.
Ferry and nominated Mr.. Brents. A
feeling of the most intense indignation
swept over the country, which was made
much hotter by reports that these men
had sold themselves for promises to
ofiice-Jenkins to be Collector of Gus.
toms, and Andrews United States Mar
shall. Il became so hot, in fact, that
little Jenkins couldn't stand it, and fled
to the distant and cooling retreat of
Spokane Falls. Andrews faced it ont.
and had the effrontery even to circulate
a petition asking his appointment
to the office named. Two years
later. while still pretending to be
Republican. he was bought by the De-
mocracy, with the nomination of
his son for the Office Of Prosecuting At
torney Of this district. and went so far
as to stump the Territory for the Demo-
Gratis. II he hadn't cheek Of castiron
the soorn with which he was then treat
ed would have squelched him. But far
be it from having that effect upon him.
Discovering his mistake in the awful de-
feat Of his son, who, like Jenkins, was
driven to Spokane Falls, and in the
tremendous majority given Brents, he.
soon after the election, wrote Mr..
Brents cringing letter, admitting the
blundsr be had made and asking pardon
therefor. One would think that after
these repeated and stupid blunds rs, the
man would crawl into his hole and stay
there; but il one thinks that Of L. h,
Andrews he doesn't know the man and
In awfully fooled. To the surprise of
everybody he made his appearance in
the Republican primary of his ward last
August, acted there as teller, and voted.
Not getting anything. though, from the
Republican Convention in September
he bounced into that Of the Independ.
euts, and eagerly grabbed al the empty
nomination for Treasurer. That this
man Who has less political oousis-
tency than any other man in the Terri
tory. and who il entitled TO only the
contempt, IL not the open curses. of
both Republicans and Democrats.
should now set up as an Independent
| n on a par with past performances.
That he should set himself up against !,
man like Capt. Hill. in whose favor ev-
eryteing can be said, and who is one of
the strongest men in the county, ia ri
diculous in the extreme. WHY, the last
time he ran for Office he, though on tbs
Republican ticket-which il considered
equivalent to an elsction-vas misera-
bly, beaten by a Democrat-M. s. Booth
and II II safe to say that he will in the
coming contest be. as he should be. the
worst beaten man on the certain
to,be outraReousiy beaten Independent
ticket.