The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-18
CARSON AND HIS FOES.
Five Aldermen Still Hold Out
Against Him.
THE CHARGES PUT IN WRITING.
He VIII Answer Them in Person Be-
fore the Councfl-New Factors
in the Fight.

The split among local Democrats over
the appointment of J. NJ. Carson as comp
troller of the city-announced in the Posi-
INTELLIGENCE Sunday Of last week.-Mrs.
grown wider during the past week and with
each succeeding dag the dispute has be-
come more acrid. The matter will come
to final issue tonight in the city
council, and since grave charges are made
which Mr. Carson will be present in per-
son to refr1te, the session will be stormy.
The war-yhich for nearly two weeks
had been going on under cover-became
an open breach on Thursday last when five
Of the aldermen-a majority of the board
sent the following letter to Mayor Ronald:
SEATTLE, Wash, April II, 1892
Hon. j. T. Ronald, Mayor of Seattle Dear Sir:
Without desiring to cast reflections in any way
upon Mr. J. NJ. Carson, the present nominee for
comptroller we most respectfully urge you to
submit 10 us another man for rejection or ratia-
estion. Yours very truly,
lsignedl J. EUGENE JORDAN.
T. ~ DAULToy.
T. J. earle.
j. r. BREWER.
/. MILLER.
The mayor has retorted in the following
interviews, published in yesterdays 7eie-
Craph, which is Mr.. Carson's chief backer:
have az yet received no request from five
aldermen or any number TO withdraw Carsons
name. ] would not withdraw 1t without his
consent If they all asked me to do II. heard OF
these reports before sent in his name. took
the trouble to investigate them. Ispent time
and money. There is nothing in them. Carson
is an honest man. There is good deal
OF complaint going on against Carson, but not a
man will dare come up and put the charge in
writing and give Carson an opportunity to meet
them.
Mr. Carson is also on his mettle, and he
defantly announces that he will meet the
charges at any time or place, and that he
will stay in the fight until he wins or is
carried out dead.
The forces of battle are now being
ranged on each side. Mr. Carson has the
mayor, the big guns of the Telegraph, part
OF the city council and his personal
friends, who have rallied in scores to de-
clare that bis character is above re-
proach. They have been working
like Trojans to induce the five aldermen
to yield and let Mr.. Carson be confirmed.
Into the fray has also come George Haz-
card, of Tacoma, secretary of the Demo-
cratic state central committee, and secre-
tary of the State League of Democratic
Clubs. Mr.. Carson is vice president of the
League. and in his behalf the willy Mr..
Hazard has thrown off his coat, and rolled
up his sleeves. The result has been
shown in club resolutions endorsing Mr..
Carson. General Hazard has appointed
as his staff officers John Y. Terry, James
r. Blackstone and John Y. 0strander.
and even if this council of strategists does
not devise a method of breaking the alder
manic phalanx, the five city fathers will
find their way in future set thick with
thorns.
On the other side of the battlefield
stands the phaianx, immovable. With
them is the plug-hatted campaign COM
mittee-famlliarly known as the "kid COM
mittee''-which had Recommended another
man for comptroller. Then, too, since J.
M. Carson and the Telegraph have wasted
no treasures of affection upon the elegant
James Hamilton Lewis, the many friends
OF that adolescent aspirart for guberna-
torial honors have been swinging into line
against the claims of Carson A number
of Seattle Democrats who resent Tacoma
strangers interference in their family
feuds are being driven by the mere pres
ence of George Hazard into the camp of
MIR. Carson's opponents. These Seattle
faithful hate Mr.. Carson not for the enc
mics, but for the friends that he has made.
J. b. Metcaltc, whose appointment by
Governor Eugene Ssmple as attorney gem
eral of the territory Mr.. Carson tried to
defeats also in the thick of the fight
Mayor Ronald's tauut that Mr.. Carsou's
accusers have not put their charges in
writing has been taken up, and the docu-
ments are now in the hands of J. +.
Brewer, chairman of the committee to
which the appointment was re-
ferred. The allegations are those
which Mr.. Carson so emphaticalIy
denied-in an interview published in last
Sundays PosT-INrELIIGENcER- he
had attempted to use for his personal gain
his position as special agent in the land
office.
Nearly all the active Democrats in town
are now engaged in this fight to a finish,
and there is doubt whether the two fac
tons will be able to come together again
in time for the fall campaign.
AFTER THE wHALEEACK AGAIN.
Captain Swan Senews His Attack on the