, 1892-10-31
M'GRAW AS SHERIFF.
How He Permitted Gamblers and
DiVe-KeeperS to Escape.
In Close Communion with the
Vicious Elements of the COmmu-
nitY-McGraw's SiIence-AIIen's
SOItcttude.

SOAIcktuues
The expression, ''scrop of history"
originated in the Arkansas legislature
about ten years ago, and has since found
frequent use in political campaigns in that
and other states. Succulent "scrops" are
being dished up to the voters of Washing
ton about the gubernatorial candidates on
the two principal tickets. Here is a good
one about the Seattle candidate for gov
ernor:
M'GRAw AS SHERIFF.
In 1884 King cOunty's grand jury found
indictments against number of gamblers
and dive-keepers for serious violations of
law. Those indictments were afterWard
stolen and destroyed by two gamblers
named Bush and Mullen, who disap-
peared. They were afterwards arrested in
California by McGraw, who started with
them by steamer for Seattle. The re-
mainder of the story is best told by quota
tions from the Voice of the People, paper
publised in Seattle at that time. In its
exposure of the affair, the Voice alleged
that when the vessel reached Victoria
where they were met by and held a consul
tation with the criminals, MoGraw allowed
his prisoners to go ashore where they were
beyond his jurisdiction, and thus connived
at their escape; that King county had
spent an immense sum of money to bring
those criminals to justice, but in order to
shield certain influential citizens of Sc
attic, who had been mixed up in the in
dictments, McGraw ''corruptly, wickedly,
and with full knowledge of the crime he
committed, connived with these criminals,
conspired against the law and permitted
them to escape. e."-Snohomish Eye.
WHY ART THOU SILENT, LovEP
Another day has passed and John H.
McGraW has not answered a single one of
the charges made against him. He evil
IDENTIFY has no defense 10 make. His silence
condemns him.
We cannot believe that the republican
party of the state is so lost in self-respect,
so deficient in all sense of honor, so abject-
ly the tool of McGraw and Hunt that it
will allow the party to be stultiiied by per
mitting this man longer to remain at the
head of the republican ticket.
What a compliment to Benjamin Harri-
son to have such man as McGraw on the
same ticket
If the republican party in this state has
any decency left in it McGraw's name will
be hauled down and that of some decent
republican, such as Kinnear, Forrest, or
Eugene Wilson substituted. Tacoma
News.
SOLID FOR HARRISON.
One week from tomorrow the battle for
the presidency will eliminate at the polls.
The result so far as Washington is con-
cerned is not at all in doubt. Washington
will cast its first vote for home industries
and fair trade.-Spokane Review.
ALIENS soLIoITUDE.
The extreme solicitude Senator Allen has
shown for the interests of his constituents
should certainly entitle him to reelection,
more particularly as his disregard of his
own personal interests in the townsite of
Kirkland has been 50 marked. LJi as in
Yestigate his actions in connection with the
appropriation asked by WashingtOn's dele
cation in congress for the improvement of
the rivers and harbors of this state, in Or
der that this may be made clear Accord
ing to an official statement of Senator
Squires we find that the Washington sena-
tors asked for ultimate appropriations to
the extent of 1886, ,450, Of which amount
S3, 100000 was for the Kirkland canal and
but $605, 400 for all the rest of the rivers
and harbors of the state, again accepting
Senator Squires as an authority we find
that the immediate appropriations asked
for by our worthy senators and representa-
tiVes were $740, 500 of which $500, 900 was for
the canal alone. Truly in this statement
Senator Aliens solicitude for the farmers
of Eastern Washington is apparent. Self
interest could not for a moment have
swayed him else he might have asked for
the whole amount for the ditch and let the
Columbia alone as something entirely be-
meath his nOtice.-COlfaX CommOner.