The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-03-15
THE CONTEST NARROWING.
Struggle for Offices Is Becoming ]
tenser Among Democrats.

Struggle for Offices Is Becoming In
tenser Among Democrats.
The Office seekers were buzzing more
loudly than ever yesterday. 1t is gener-
ally believed that either ]. NJ. Carson or L.
ID. Ross will get the comptrollership. Mr..
Carson is the older man and has q longer
record as Democratic worker; but on
the other hand Mr.. Ross is the only mem
Der of the campaign committee that asks
for any office. This committee did yeo-
mans service, and the friends of Mr..
Ross think that the toll that led to VIC
tory should receive substantial recogni-
ton. There has been some talk of a COM
promise by which Mr.. Carson will be made
comptroller and Mr.. Ross chief deputy,
but to this Ross will not consent.
Even if Mr.. Ross should fall short of his
ambition he can console himself with a
beautiful photograph of the campaign
committee taken in a group. Percy
Rochester is seated in chair, and ranged
around are the others-a graceful back
ground of silk hats and manly FORMS
While the Democratic committee has thus
sought to perpetuate itself, the Republican
committee seems content to join George
Eliot's choir. invisible of those who live
again in minds made better by their
presence.
James w. Macleod is heart and soul in
the race for chief of police and the infer
ence is that he does not aspire to the NOM
ination for sheriff next fall. He has a
very strong personal following. His most
formidable opponent just now is James NJ.
Quilter.
A. r. Pinckney is thought to be slated
for the place of city electrician. Jack
Dalton is making a strong run for assist
ant city clerk, and J. J. Keuhn would like
to be Adolph Krug's assistant.
George Hazard, of Tacoma, secretary
of the state central committee, and his
friend, Judge Van Fossen, of Tacoma,
dropped into the city on Sunday night to
congratulate their friends on the victory.
They were in Sprague on the night of the
election, and a curious incident in connec-
ton Herewith is related. Together with
that Eastern Washington Democratic
luminary, B. B. Glasscock, they had been
patching up fences all day, and when
night came they were tired and sleepy.
Nevertheless Hazard stopped up until
nearly midnight, waiting for q telegram
from Seattle announcing the result. At
last in despair he went to
bed, but Mr.. Glasscock agreed
to keep vigil little longer
and awaken the ardent Hazard should
good news arrive. Shortly after midnight
came the announcement that Seattle had
gone Democratic by nearly 1000. When
Hazard was told the joyful tidings he
gave wild whoop of joy and yelled:
"Give us celebration! Burn down the
hotel"
Twenty minutes after that George Haz-
card, scantily attired in his nitey. and
Judge Van Fossen, clad in an undershirt
and pair of trousers, were fleeing in hot
haste from that same hotel, which had
mysteriously caught fire. The building
was burned to the ground.
This touching story illustrates the power
which even the words of a great and
truthful man may have over inanimate
matter.
Since the boom to nominate J. T. Rom
aid for congress was killed by Mr.. Ronald 8
prompt and fiat refusal to allow his name
to be used in that connection, an effort
was made to draw w. H. White into the
race, and thus defeat any plan for giving
King county the gubernatorial nomina-