, 1890-09-11
FIELD OF POLITICS
How the Primary Was Carried for
Turner and Warren in Chat-
taroy Precinct.
Candidates for Legislative Honors
Judge Turner Out of the
Race~-Gossip.


Turner and Tom Warren on Satur-
day. 1t was done by running In
twenty-five votes from outside the
precinct, and Of this number two
were boys and four or five were men
who came from Canada only n fow
months ago, and have since been In
the employ Of the Chattaroy
Lumber Company. The primary
was held In the school,
house. The meetlng was called
to order by N. $. Pratt, precinct
committeeman. When motion
was made that Samuel Caughey act
as chairman Of the meeting
Mr.. Cowgirl insisted that
only voters residing in the precinct
be allowed TO vote. Mr.. Cowgirl
then produced certified copy of
the boundaries Of the precinct fur
nlshed by the county auditor.
Chairman Pratt declined to read
the document, aud Mr.. Cowgirl read
it himself. Mr.. .Caughey was elect
ed chairman, all voting. When q
motion that the vote for delegates
he by ballot was currled, Mr.. Cow
gill asked that u tally sheet be kept
and the names and residences of
those voting taken. This proposition
was promptly voted down. Mr..
Cowgirl then produced a copy of the
election laws aud requested that 1t
be read for the information of those
present. The chairman read IA page
and threw the book aside. Mr..
Cowgirl then gave notice that If any
body residing outside of the precinct
voted he would see that they were
prosecuted. Mr.. Pratt told the mall
to come up ana vote and If there
were any fines TO be paid he would
pay them. There were two tickets
before the meeting. On one were
the names of j. c. Cowgirl, II.
Staley and il. Burch, who
We're understood to favor Wilson for
congress and Pugh for sheriff The
other ticket was in the interest of
Turner for congress and Warren for
sheriff and contained the names of
n. s. Pratt, A. w. Nickerson and
r.. Burch. BY some sort of maneu-
vering Mr.. Bureh got his name on
both tickets. When the ballots had
been prepared Bob Peabody. fore
man for the mill company, called
upon his men to come on and vote,
which they did, depositing their
portunity for challenging. When q
his ballot MI Cowgirl asked
him If it were not a
fact that he was not
&c Ln
had only been ip the country about
eight months. Black admitted that
such was the case, but his ballot was
allowed to remain aud was counted.
The vote resulted: Burch AZ, Pratt
33, Nlckerson 33, Cowgirl 10, and
Staley 10. Mr.. Cowgirl furnishes
the names of the following men who
voted who do not reside In the pre-.
cinct: a. Bigshy, J, Peddley, T..
Armstrong, a. I, Whips, r.. Pea
body, l.. McCrcs, John Ogden,
Henry Turner and - Thomas.
There were numberof Others whose
names could not be learned. The
illegal voters will probably be prose.
cuted. The republican county con-
vention will he asked to decide
whether delegates elected in this
high-handed manner shall be al
lowed seats in the convention.
Mr.. Cowgirl was the first settler at
Chattaroy, and bus lived there nine
years. He will be candidate for
the legislature before the republican
county convention. Mr.. Pratt, who
was so anxious TO secure a Turner
Warren delegation, IL also an aspir-
ant for legislative honors.
A meeting of some of Judge Tur-
ner's supporters was held on Sunday
for the purpose Of talking over the
defeat and debating the subject of
whether they would split the party
or support the ticket a few were
in favor of the former course but the
better element were In favor of ac-
cepting the situation like true rcpub-
licans, bowling 10 the will of the
majority, and standing by the nom
inees.
Judge Turner accepts his defeat
philosophically, and will gracefully
retire from the cohtest and enter the
ranks as n private, where he will
fight for the success Of the republican
party just as he has done for years.
He said to REVIEW representative
Monday night: ~ do not think the
contest of Saturday was n fair test of
my strength, but IA the delegation
chosen is for Mr.. Wilson, / am of
course out ofthe contest, as / should
not think of going before the state
convention without the Spokane
county delegatiou,'
Frank r. Wilcox, who was one of
Judge Turner's most able lleuten-
ants, remarked Monday: "Well,
the fight Is over, and we are all
republicans now. Every Turner
man who 10 true republican Is now
for Wilson and the entire republican
ticket"
Major Il. A. Routhe will be can
dldate before the republican county
convention for representative to the
Legislature. Harry Clarke will also
be a candidate, and Dr. j. L.. Candy
will ask to he returned. No other
candidates from the city for the
lower house have been prominently
mentioned. 1t Ia Understood that
both Brown and Grubb are ready
to serve their party again lin case
they are called upon. a. *. Clark,
of tide-land fame, has returned to
Rockford, and II IL stated that he
actually intends to try for renom-
ination for representative.
Tom B. Warren was all smiles
Yesterday and Que might haye