The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-08-09
"OREGONIAN'' ATTACK ON ALLEN.
Impossible to Justify the Contemplate Q
Methods of Seattle Haters.

impossible to Justify the Contemptible
Methods of Seattle-Haters.
OLYMPIA, Aug s.-TSpecial I'm Nelson
Benefits newspaper organs, the Tacoma
Ledger and Olympia Tribune, there ap-
peared this morning two lengthy commu-
nlcations from the Spokane editor Of the
Wilson-Turner campaign. The purport OF
both was that the PosT-INTELLIGENcER had
been publishing falsiications of the polit-
ical situation in Spokane, and the method
employed to demonstrate this charge was
the very one so virtuously condemned in
Turner'S interest-falstication The de-
tense of the Wilson-Turner men is made
to rest on the statement that King county
interfered and attempted to dictate
in Spokane politics. In deprecating
the introduction of the senatorial
contest into the convention, these COM
munications assert that King county was
to blame entirely. 1t is further insisted
that the senatorial matter was never men,
toned, either before or at the primaries. in
Spokane. The facts will not bear out these
utterances, which come as an eleventh
hour protest from the Wilson men against
the disclosure of the false attitude in
which the Oregonian and Review placed
them previous to the Spokane primaries.
Turner's campaign was organized by his
political manager. Mr.. Fairweather. Ger
tain members of the Republican party.
who seconded him in his bolt against
John L. Wilson's last nomination, were
active in this organization. These gentle
men were also in Sam Hyde's organiza-
ton, and a number of them deserted him
both before and in the convention in order
to carry out Turner's compact with the
Wilson men. Some time before the pri-
maries the Spokane Reriew advocated
Turner's candidacy for senator, after hav-
ing attacked Senator Allen because he
supported the proposed ship canal. Tur-
ner went down to Portland and the Orego-
mian editorialIy demanded that Sena-
tor Allen be retired, for the
very same reason that the Re
ciew. which the Oregonian practically
owns and controls. urged his defeat.
Here was combination distinctly made
between the Reriew, Oregonian, and Tur-
ner, for plan of campaign which was ex-
pected to appeal to the prejudices of East
ern Washington. The Tacoma Ledger
and the Olympia Tribune, its annex, REIN
forced the Portland faction which this
deal was intended to create in the Repub-
iican party of Washington. King county
had uttered not a word through the Posi-
INTELLIGENCER or any other avenue until
this cabal had fired all its batteries against
King county and the ship canal. To pur-
sue this chain of facts the RerieD is and
has been John L. Wilson's organ since the
Warran-Shaw affair. The moment the
Reriew stood out for Turner it might have
declared as we'll that the orders of the
OregOnidn were unobjectionable to both
men. Subsequent events proved this. in
asmuch as the Oregonidn resolution, which
virtually requires that Washington ask for
no appropriations for rivers or harbors
until the Columbia shall oAve been opened
was adopted by the Wilson platform COM
mittee and passed by the Wilson-Turner
convention unanimously. If John L. J.
Wilson and Turner do not stand on the
same proposition as the Oregonian, where do
they stand? Since the PosTINTELLIGEN-
GER brought out these facts the Wilson
Turner men, instead Of attempting to dis
prove them, have taken refuge in the tool
ish and unfounded charge that King coun-
ty is trying to domineer over Spokane and
Eastern Washington, forgetting that it
was the Oregonian and Reriew that first
wiped King county from all future river
and harbor bills and Senator Allen out of
the senatorial race. Another thing. if the
senatorial fight should have been elimin-
ated from the general contest, why should
Turner drive around the primary polling
places in Spokane, making an exhibition
of himself and his campaign?
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