The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-30

cal political junket the Portland Orcqonian
and the Spokane Rccieer strongly advo-
cnted the candidacy of Judge Turner for
Senator Aliens seat in the upper house.
At the same time the OyegoRian went to
the extent of instructing the state of
Washington, or rather commanding it.
not to have to do with Senator
Alien any more. The organized denuncia.
ton of Senator Allen and the parallel
boosting of Jud geTuyner became even more
apparent after the judges return to Spo-
kane.
What was the understanding after the
several interviews between Turner, Ben
nett. Owings and the Oregoaian oracle,
became apparent from Judge Turner's
undignified conduct upon his return. After
pre-arranged plan, Judge Turner and
Mr.. Fairweather, the elusive manager of
his campaign, met at Sprague. The fol-
lowing morning statement purporting to
be special telegram from Sprague, pub
lished in the Terieac, stated that the people
OF Eastern Washington were greatly IN
censed at Senator Allen because of the
loyal manner in which he endeavored to
promote the ship canal, and additionally
affirmed that King county would throw
the Republican party overheard, boots and
baggage. unless the approaching conven-
ton passed a ship canal resolution. 1t
need not be intimated that the special"
went by grapevine. Among those persons
in Spokane politics who are familiar with
the slipperiness of cells, there was much
laughter next day. So much for the con-
junction beginning with Colonel Owings'
attack on Senator Allen in the Reri.w, and
ending with Judge Turner's alliance with
the OregOnidn on an anti-ship canal plat
form.
In the discussion of the merits and de-
merits of the canal scheme, it transpired
that, according TO the report of the COM
merce committee, Washington. since its
organization as 4 territory in 1854, had re-
ceived from the national government for
the development of its harbors and water
ways, the stupendous sum of three hun
dred and odd thousand dollars. OF this
amount $500, 600 and more were expended
on the Columbia and Snake rivers in the
state. As against this munificent aid, Sc
cured through the unselfish efforts of the
Oregon senator's, something approximate
ing 81, ,O00, 900 were spent in half as many
years on the lower Columbia and in the
vicinity of Portland. Yet those patriotic
Washingtonians, Messrs. Laughton, Ow-
ings, Bennett, Cavanaugh ct ai.-and these
are very, very strange bedfellows-en-
deavor to persuade us all throughout this
controversy, that Senator Allen was dis
loyal to his state IN the effort he made
to promote the canal. They even went
so far as to forget, no doubt owing
to lapse of memorv-a failing peculiar to
these distinguished gentlemen-that two
successive legislatures had memorialized
congress to further the canal. Nor did the
opaqueness of their recollection end here.
They forget that even in Pierce
county, now the seat of the guerrilla war
conducted against Senator Allen, not the
slightest hostility to the memorials or to
the plan of the canal was developed. In
short, it soon became plain that the fac
ton Mr.. Miles G. Moore is organizing in
the Republican party of the state was in
venting munitions of war. As we con-
tlnue this bird's-eye view of the situation,
it will appear that the same inventive
genius is presiding over the Tacoma ar
senal.
On the eve of the primaries in Pierce
the Tacoma Ledger, Mr.. Benefits per-
eonal organ. burst forth in violent at
tack upon Senator Allen, accusing him of
inefficiency and incapacity, and striving
to prove him guilty of imbecility. The
most grievous charge made. and the one
intended to appeal most strongly to local
prejudice. was that with some other man
in Senator Aliens place, perhaps meaning
Mr.. Calkins, Mr.. Moore, Mr.. Bennett or
Mr.. Owings. the Puyallup reservation
would have been thrown open in accord
ance with the plans and desires of the Ia
coma people. The Ledger, without exert
ing itself to tell the truth in any particular,
attempted to lay the entire blame for the
obstacles put in the way of the proposed
measure of relief on Senator Allen. 1t did
indulge in one scintilla of truth. II said
that Senator Dawes opposed the Allen bill.
Now the fact is that Senator Dawes is
the chairman of the Indian affairs COM
mittee in the Senate, and aside from that
is the ardent partisan of, and warm
sympathizer with, Mr.. Painter, the cele-
brated Indian rights association crank.
Mr. Dawes is almost invariably followed
by majority Of his committee; and that
Senator Allen, having won the support of
Senator Villas. should have, broken down
all the precedents of the Indian depart
the majority of the Indian affairs COM
mittee in the Senate i'll passing his suosti-
tute Colville reservation bill. will remain
one of the marvels of this sessions
legislation. But in the controversy over
the Puyallup substitute bill he labored
with all the odds against him. While the
commission reports favored the Lake
Union ship canal and the Colville reserva-
ton opening, the report of the Puyallup
commission was not only unfav orable. but
bristling with data and laden with facts
for the opposition in the committee. The
Dawes men took the stand, and it was one
intended to appeal to the sentimentalities
of the Senate, that the Indians should re-
ceive the very last dollar for their lands
that they might be entitled to under non
partisan appraisement. The statement of
the commission that the scheme of OPEN
ing the Puyallup reservation was planned
by spectators and anticipated by contracts
deslxaed to rob the Indians, confirmed the
majority of the committee in the position
they assumed.
Notwithstanding the resolute fight Sem
ator Allen made before the committee, and
despite his demonstration that a failure on
the part of congress to consent to the re-
moval by the state of the restrictions on
the Indians would leave the Indians at the
mercy of state litigation, the Indian affairs
committee persisted in pushing the Dawes
appraisement bill. Still, with bold heart
and undismayed by the consciousness that
he would be opposed on all sides of the
Senate, Senator Allen, through the cour-
tesy of colleagues and his own indomitabie