The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-01-23
AT THE LAST Ditch.
Turner Men Adopt the Tactics
Of Desperation.
THEIR CAUSE IS HOPELESS.
Dark Horses to Be Trottea Out One
by One to Delay Election.
Enorts OF Moore F airweather Gang Be-
coming Disreputable-The:P Populists
Tempted by Bribery-slIs Spokane
Democrat With Ouixotic scheme.

OLYMPIA, Jan. 22-fSpecial. 1.-The "ast
ditch" fellows in the Turner contingent
have been desperately striving all day to
hold together the twenty-four members
who voted for their candidate Yesterday,
and it is possible that their efforts will
succeed in postponing the reelection of
Senator Allen another day. TIE struggle
OF the Turner managers to prevent the
election of Senator Allen tomorrow is not
due to any belief that Turner can derive
any benefit from a continuance of the
fight. Even those among his workers who
sincerely desired his success gave up all
hopes last week of electing him The AL
len haters are'now simply bent on break
ing the senator's ranks by means of dark
horse assaults on his lines.
The scheme to demoralize 4he Allen
men, as outlined tonight, contempiates
the bringing out of new man en- the first
ballot tomorrow, in the hope that he will
draw few votes from Allen and thus pre-
vent an election on that ballot. The con-
spirators against the Republican party
propose, if their scheme is successful on
the nrst ballot TO continue their guerrilla
tactics with view to finally breaking the
Republican vote into fragments and then
combining ii on the man they really de-
sire to elect. This conspiracy will not win.
A majority of the members who have been
supporting Judge Turner because of their
regard for him will not lend their aid to
this last desperate device of the Fair
weather gang of wreckers who, in their
mad war against Senator Allen, do not
care what the effect of their plotting will
be upon the future of the Republican
party. The plotters have been for
Turner simply because they wished to
use him as q cat's-paw, and they have
preyed upon him relentlessly since the
fight opened. Now that he can be of no
further service to them since his cause has
become SO notorious and admittedly weak,
they have been looking about to-day for a
man who would be the best to run on the
track as theiB first dark horse
1t is stated tonight that they have de-
cided to trot J. S. McMillin, OF San Juan
county, one of the Harrison electors. The
object of bringing him on, first, is to take
from the Allen ranks Representative
Tucker, OF San Juan, who has been a
staunch and true Republican from the be-
ginning the contest. and Sena.or Edens,
of Skagit county, who changed to Allen on
Friday because he believed in ths
principle of majority rule. But the hope
of winning these Legislators by any such
tricks is vague one. Il is hoped by the
scuttlers that the naming of Mr. Nc Miiiin
will prevent Representative Hurd, of
Skagit county, who is not satisfied with
the existing deadlock. from helping to end
it by voting for Allen.
The parties who are concocting the dark
hnr bnx, IL, L.
raj full of steeds to bring out if the McMil-
lin candidacy can be made to serve it's
desired end-the postponement Of a choice.
On their list of proposed entries are the
following:
Senator Frank Richards, of Whateom: Dr. G.
Y. Calhoun, Jim Powers, Judge Helsry Mcbride
and J. r. Mcmillan, OF Skagt; T. y. Eddy, of
SnohoInish; Harry White, OF King. Walter ].
Thompson, Thad Houston. Col. II. T. Gar
retson, George Browne. Gen. J. V. Sprague,
+. ID. Heustis, F. c. sullivan, d. ]. Crowley,
Nelson Bennett and W. II. Caikins. Gf Tacoma:
Henry Long. Of Lewis; Judge L. O Dunbar, of
kuckitat: John d. Geoghegan and =. F. shaw,
of CLARK: Eugene T. Wilson. of Kititas; Col. L.
:. Hewlett, Col. W. f. Prosser, fred Reed
and Ralph z. Nichols. OF Yakima: Allen
Weir. c. NJ. Bradshaw and A. W. Bash,
OF Jefferson: Tom Smith, ]. i. Perkins
and c. T. Chamberlain, of Whitnlan: c. s.
Gosgrove, OF Garfield; Miles c. Moore, 7. II.
Brents and Charles II. Painter, of Wnlla Wslla:
+. II. Luce, OF Lincoln: Nick Owing-, Joe Rob-
inson and Tom Cavanaugh, of Thurston: John
/. Wilson, Harry Wilson, Col. J. ". Feighan,
Judge II. o. Houghton, Col. Patrick Henry Win
ston, A. NJ. Cannon, II. ". Fairwea. her and b.
{. NanHouteu, OF Spokane.
The dark horses scheme will die early
Those who have devised it will bave little
chance to give it trial. They cannot win
over any Allen men by the transparent
dodge, and the only votes that Mr.. McMil-
lin will receive, if the plan to present his
name is carried out, will come from the
Turner side.
that the Republicans everywhere declare
that Senator Allen should receive the full
party vote bv reason of his nomination
and the two-thirds vote of the Republican
legislators that he has received. This
opinion is not confined to men
who are friendly to Alien, but
is expressed by those who were
opposed to him. An instance in point is
the position taken by ex-Gov. Ferry, who
leaves tomorrow with Mrs. Ferry for a two
months visit to California. lie says that.
Alien is entitled to the support of every
Republican member on the ground of
party usage, he being the regular nominee
and supported by strong majority OF the
Republicans OF the legislature.
The desperate enemies of Senator Allen
have been trying to arrange for a sensa-
ton tomorrow by soliciting two or three
of the Populists to declare that shey have
been offered Doodle to support Allen, but
each of the Populists approached has re-
fused TO become party 10 any seIch trick
J. Ed Buckley, OF Spokane, who is
known 10 fame as the son of his father. J.
NJ. Buckley, arrived here tonight tor the
purpose OF springing a scheme which he
claims to have evolved out o. his own
inner consciousness. 1t is. in substance.
that the Democrats and Turner men shall
combine for the election of Congressman
Dooittis TO the senate, the Democrats
10 ind their reward in the election
of Tom Carroll TO congress by <he aid of
the scuttlers. Although his name j,
hardly dry on the register Of the Hotel
Olympia, he claims 10 have received favor
able consideration for his brilliant idea
from nearly every member of the last ditch
combination. and he hopes 30 get all
altogether IN caucus in the morging. He
has no doubt concerning hIs ability 20 de-
liver the Democratic vote upon such ad-
vantageous terms.
How Sergeant Got There To- Vote.
The Northern Pacific engine which was