The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-02-06
FUTILE EFFORT TO DOWN ALLEN.
Honest Members of the Minority See.
ing With Clearer Vision.
They VIII Not Listen to Schemes TO
Disrupt tho Republican Party-The
Flight Will End THIS Wsek-How
Wilson Was Duped.

very conndent tnat MS election, wnlcn ne
became entitled to upon receiving nomi-
nation from majority of his party's rep
resentatives, and of which he has been
unjustly deprived through uu- u-Republican
tactics, is about to be accomplished. Many
of the members of the minority are much
dissatisfied with their present position.
Could they have foreseen the result of
their refusal to go into their party caucus
as fully as they realize it today,
it is safe to say, judging from
their admissions now, that the dead
lock would never have occurred.
This long rebellion against the party will
was not contemplated but by few. The
greater number of Turner's adherents ex-
pected that after q few ballots the contest
would be settled one way or the other.
Their expectation was not met and they
allowed themselves, under the stress and
excitement of the battle, to become moro
and more identified with Turner's for
tunes. Each days reflection, however.
tends to make clearer to them the enor-
nifty of the violation of Republican princi-
Piles which they have drifted into respon-
sibility for.
This does not apply to the entire Turner
force. There are five or SIX members of
the minority who are persisting in the
fight against their party for the deviltry
OF it. A few of them, without any call
from their constituencies to SO conduct
themselves, have become the most bitter
and unreienting of their group, and want
to go down lighting the principle of ma
jority rule. Remind these men of what
they owe to this principle, OF how much
they are indebted to the caucus system in
their districts, how their election was
due to the obedience of Republicans to the
will OF the majority as expressed in the
district and county conventions. and they
are obliged to admit the logical force of it
all. The only excuse they can offer for
their political wickedness is that they are
fighting "ring," and are opposed to King
county. These parties are for keeping up
the war, reckless of its effect upon the
Republican party, in order to crafty
fancied personal grievances.
The majority of the Turner members.
however, including most of those from
Spokane. are more reasonable men. The
Turner men from Spokane county, were
mostly favorable to the caucus plan from
principle. but were guided with reference
to it by the wishes of Turner. They have
his opposition to the caucus to justify
their course in not going into it. but it is
not SO with the men from other counties
who stayed out. They realize that they
have no defense to offer to their party for
their course. Having been good Re-
publicans heretofore, and elected be-
cause they were, it is but
natural that they should be troubled
in conscience, and should feel the infu-
ence of the overwhelming Republican SEN
timent of the state in opposition to the
course of the minority in keeping up
deadlock at the bekest of Turner. Fair
weather. Miles Moore, Laughton and the
few others who comprise the crew. The
fact that Turner Is no longer candidate
in his own interest, but is avowedly con-
tinuing in the fight simply for.the purpose
of injuring Allen, is making the vision of
most of the Spokane mans supporters
clearer as to their duty, and it Is as a con-
sequence of this and of the realization of
minority members that their position is
moral point of view. that the confidence in
Aliens early election is strong.
The attempt to distract attention from
Turner's shabby treatment of his friends
in proposing to withdraw without consult
ing them by charging Gov. McGraw with
bad faith is being kept up. But the ac-
cusation is not having the desired effect.
Instead, the endeavor to make it appear
that the governor has acted dishonesty is
generally regarded as contemptibe A
member who has been supporting Turner
put it this way:
Turner admits that he authorized McGraw TO
inform the Allen men of his proposition to with
draw. He did not limit the communication OF
the offer to Allen himself. He seems to have
proceeded on the theory that Alien would not
initiate his example and agree to withdraw
without consulting his friends So the PROPOSE
ton was made 10 be given unreservedly 10 a
number of gentlemen. without any restrictions
a. to publicity. Turner has therefore only his
own lack OF political foresight to blame for the
predicament he finds himself in.
The tactics of desperation in the "any-
thing TO beat Allen so as to down King
county" movement of George Turner are
manifested in the latest scheme of ''the
allies, ;" "the little Spartan band" as they
call themselves. This move is heralded
with a renewal of the break in King
county" which will never come. Judge
Turner's idea now is to have his most
faithful supporters make an alliance with
Democrats and select a candidate. and then
go to Allen men who. enormously. are
supposed to be weak kneed, and ask them
to stand in and row down Allen. the man
to ne chosen being either a Democrat or
a Mugwump. Miles c. Moore gives color
to this scheme by busily asserting that
President Harrison has set the precedent
for Democratic alliance by selecting a
Democrat as supreme court judge, because,
as Miles says. I'VE are not bigger than a
president" which is strictly true in every
sense. OF course, this latest scheme will
fail, as all other schemes of the Moore
Fairweather-Turner combination have
failed, and for the best of reasons, to-wit,
that there are more Turner men to come
to Allen, in spite of the fact that the Tur-
nerites saw that Ludden is ''the last TO
leave u.s." just as they said when Kelly
and Sargeant left the Turner forces for
Alien. As an Allen man, who had been
approached, said:
The idea that We would leave well-manned
ship under full sail going out OF river on 4
food tide TO take passage on a log ana paddle
against the stream with our hands, is too ab-
.urb to be entertained Dy men who are not de-
termined to destroy themselves and hope to
drown Others with them.
The written evidence is here that Con-
gresham Wilson has advised friends IN
South Bend and in the Northwestern part
Of the state that he Was willing 10 enter