The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-01-22
Miles c. Moore and Mr.. Fair
weather Discouraged.
RuTTER BACK IN THE FOLD.
Allen Pretty Sure to Be Elected on the
First Ballot Monday.
Constituents Roscoe Overwhelmed
BY Indignant Protests Minority


Allen will be reelected United States SEN
asor on Monday. The contest is practically
over. The most sanguine of the Turner
men have given up hope. and no further
serious effort will be made TO continue the
deadlock. The Republican differences will
be healed and the right of the majority
TO control will prevail. Today Judge
turner had but twenty-three Repub-
hcan votes and the support of Moore,
independent. Outside of Spokane he had
only Is votes. Senator Aliens vote was
increased to 81. Senator Rutter having, in
obedience to the will of his constituents,
made the King county delegation again
solid for Allen. The latter had two more
votes today than a two-thirds vote of the
Republican membership of seventy-five,
and within five votes of majority OF the
entire legislature.
The weakening Of Turner today and
yesterday has made more plain TO the
minority Republicans tina, it Is their duty
to put an end 10 the contest, and many of
them now concede that there is no longer
any excuse for battling against the will of
their party, expressed so decidedly. Men
who have been opposed to the return of
Senator Alien are heard freely saying that
he Is entitled to an election by virtue of
the strong majority support he Is receiving
Of the members who have been support
ing Turner, enough will vote for Allen on
the first ballot on Monday to give the sem
ator more than the required 81. This pre-
diction is justified by the situation to-
night. and it is not improbable that there
will be practical Republican unanimity
when the joint convention meets on Mon
day.
The return Of Senator Rutter to the Al
len fold caused surprise today, but he
could not resist the forcibly expressed de-
sires of his constituents. He realized that
he had failed to appreciate the earnestness
OF the people of his county relative to
this contest, and he therefore FASTENED
to make amends. If more ballots had
been taken today there would have been
others changes from Turner to Alien, but
these have only been deferred forty-eight
hours, and on Monday they will be made
with still others, and on the twenty
fifth ballot of the contest Sena-
tor Alien will be given another
term. Some of those who attended the
joint convention today had been misled
by lying reports into the belief that tho
King county delegation had held meet
ing at which it became apparent that it
could not be longer held together, and
that it was about to break up on the first
ballot. The people who had given cre-
dence to this fiction were not prepared for
the change that, instead of breaking up
King county. soliditied it, and they were
of course astonished. Since then there
have been one or two other reports of
Turner gains, but no one any longer puts
any faith in claims of accessions to the
Spokane mans dissolving forces.
The Turner workers have become alto
gether discouraged, and are already leav-
ing for their homes. Miles G. Moore
departed this afternoon, saddened by
the sorrow Of another defeat and ex-
pressing the opinion that senator
can be elected without his help.
Miles has not cared SO much for
the election of Turner as for the defeat of
Allen. The deadlock has not been strong
enough to last as long as he and his fellow
conspirators wished. They hoped
to keep Tdrner stock UP until the
Republicans should become tired of
the struggle and be in the humor to
take up a third candidate. Friday they
became convinced that their scheme was
failure and since then they have been slip
ping away. Moore will carry his detected
countenance straight to Walla Walla,
where the sounds of the rejoicing of his
feitow-townsmen over the reelection of
Alien on Monday will be harsh music to
his ear.
State Flower Fairweather is still here.
but he is in wiIted state. Many of the
members took advantage Of the early ad-
journment today until Monday noon TO
leave for down Sound points. and as a
consequence it is quiet this evening
about the candidates headquarters. and
the Olympia hotel rotunda, usually
crowded at night. Among those who lett
the city this afternoon was Representa-
tive Roscoe. who left for home. and will
probably get in closer touch with the de-
sres of his constituents.
The attacks made upon the Pierce
county members who voted for Allen are
entirely unwarranted. They have done
their county q service, it is believed
here, by putting it to the ex-
tent of their votes in line with
the majority sentiment of their party.
Whatever pledges they may have made
during the campaign they were not
bound to rebel against their party,
and they simply followed what they
saw to be their duty in supporting
the Republican nominee and striving TO
end a contest that has disabled the legisla-
ture from giving proper attention to mat
ters of legislation.
Gov. McGraw left for Seattle this after
noon TO spend Sunday with his family.
THE JOINT CONvENTIoN.