The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-08-06
CAvANAuGH TO BE kALSOMlNEp.
Fairweather, Carrying the World,
Walks Like Atlas in Distress.
Turner People Beaten in Lincoln and
Whitman-What the Spokane sore
gonian' Once Said of Turner-Port-

secondhand caucuses. Inasmuch as the
prospective state senator, Mr.. Ide. admit
ted TO be Mr.. Wilson's appointment in the
role of inspector of land SURVEYS in WASH
ington had had few conversations with
ex-Surveyor-General Cavanaugh. and in
asmuch as John l.. appeared on the eve of
these friendly settlements, the question
occurs to- many Spokaneites, is Cavanaugh
soidifying himself with the element in
Spokane county which has decided that it
can run the politics of Washington. or are
they working him? Cavanaugh came here
TO help Cavanaugh. He never was known
to do anything else. wherever he located,
temporarily or permanently. John L.
evidently had a satisfactory interview
with him. because this morning John L. S
genuine organ, the one that is helping
him out OF friendship and pure disinter-
estedness, says:
King county is large community, but il is
only very small portion of the state OF Wash
ington, either in point of size or population.
and it may be well for the bosses in Seattle to
understand that their whip is not long enough
to reach this city, and that Spokane can find
other allies II Seattle desires war. Spokane is
willing to have Seattle for a second, but not for
q master.
This is as good as if John L. carried the
Oregonidn on his back into the convention.
1t is practically declaration of war. and
was written at Congressman Wilson's
dictation. Evidently Cavanaugh's record
is TO be whitewashed, and the congress-
man has the seat of Washington in his
vest pocket.
Boss Falrweather. whose equanimity is
not easily disturbed. walks about these
in istr
ured gait indicating the wearying great
ness of his burden and dropping right
shoulder that speaks eloquently of. n
fatigued mentality. 1t is said that the as
piring Croker of Washington Republican
ism. the organizer of the new Tammany
OF the Northwest, whose especial mission
it is to open the Columbia river, will retire
from active politics after the approaching
state convention has finished its labor.
What Will constitute his intellectual di-
version in Ibis retiracy is not known pre-
ciscly, though there is some reason TO be-
lieve the rumor that he intends to devote
his time to amicably and satisfactorily
settling the state flower controversy. AS
Mr.. Fairweather is the author of that in
spring declaration, Spokane for Spokane
county, first, last and all the time," which
animated the recent convention and pro-
duced the marvellous quadrilateral indorse-
ment of Turner, Wilson, Blake and Jones.
it is probable that in his participation in
the state flower controversy he will stand
for his Spokane constituency.
The cause of Mr.. Fairwsather's present
metaphysical disturbance. of the per-
turbation of his political soul, is found i'll
the unexpected reverses experienced from
II. oil nd OK fY,If Oh
plans. The little affair of Miles c. Moore
and himself, with Fariss and the North
ern Pacific track-workers in Whitman
county, was the cause of great grief to be-
gin with. If Fariss had proved as good as
his word AID turned over the Within an
county convention to these worthy Re-
publican disorganizers, the horizon of
their hopes would have been empurpled
with less melancholy. But alas. poor
Fariss walked deliberately into the very
bear-trap he had baited, and was spiked.
and the Allen fellows skinned him 50
sticky that not spot of fat was left on
his naturally oleaginous hide
Fairw Gather and Moore thereupon Sc
cretly comforted each other with the pros
poets of the clever ruse they had hit upon
in the local election at Walla Walla. Here
was the place to get in on Senator Allen,
where Moore was strong and the sympathy
with him in his personal fight against
Senator Allen was so pronounced. The
Allen people were TO be discredited in the
Republican party by q Democratic victory
in Walla Walla. TO this end Messrs.
Fairweather and Moore pulled for DR..
Blalock's son as the Democratic candidate
for mayor. What was their chargin the
night Of the election To learn, that despite
their Machiavellian conniving, Roberts,
the Republican candidate, had been
elected by majority of 800 in total of
100o votes.
Right on top of this came the little coup
of the Allen men in the Cheney district,
which took them out of the Spokane con-
vention and the breath out OF Fairweather
and Turner. The final stroke, which has
caused the corpuscles of Fairweather's
blood TO CONCEAL like unto lard and the
gray matter OF his Brobdingnagian brain
to convert itselfinto something resembling
indigo in color and consistency, was the
laying out he received AT the Davenport
convention in Lincoln county. His plan
was to whip out any and all resolutions
instructing the Joint senatorial convention
of Lincoln and Okanogan, and then to
combine the five Sprague delegates with
the four from Okanogan at Olympia To
nominate a Joint senator who would be for
Turner. As this senatorial district is
represented by total of sixteen
delegates, twelve from Lincoln and
four from Okanogan. Fairweather tig-
ured confidently on carrying his little
scheme through TO a successful Issue. His
tactics we're surmlsed, however, and the
convention with whoop instructed its
delegation rs a unit for Reeves for state
senator. Fairweather also tried 10 put
through the Reriew reso ution on the
Columbia, which the Wilson men rail-
roaded IN the Spokane convention, but the
Lincoln people, not so easily wooled as
their petropoiitan brethren, adopted a
mere recommendation that the repre-
sentatives from Washington continue
their efforts in behalf of an open river.
Add to the sensations resulting from
these totally unexpected adversities the
effects produced by the elections in the
Puget sound counties-outside of Pierce
and YOU may conceive the load Mr.. Fair
weather is bending and staggering and
groaning under through this heated term
As intmated in previous dispatches the
Republican harmony recently devised by
Harry Wilson and the Ofsgoaian agents in
Spokane IS hardly OF kiIrl adapted To
orchestratlon. Already the discordant