The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-01-26
MR.. ANDERsoN's ENEMIES.
Tho Dirty Work They Are Doing to In
jure His Reputation.


RosALIA, Wash, Jan. 2-fSpecial. l.
The people of Rosalia were considerably
surprised to discover in the Sunday
issue of the Spokane RericU a petition
urging Representative D. +. Anderson to
change his vote from Allen to Turner, and
containing the following list of names:
E. 1. Steward. W. E. DIVER. George P. Toll
tars, C. F. Webster, Isaac Hemp J. q. Hardesty,
H. Z. Harrington, Ii. T. Palmerton, j. L. Terry
c. Hoech. Jetfres, :. c. Robinson, p. ". Hut
sell, Robert Orr, J. Z. Noyes, J. l. Myer. John
Myer (the same NAM, W. a. Myer, Oliver smith,
J. O'Conner, C. ii. Walton. John Hume. r.
Enrich, Z. Thompson, c. Scnurrs and Tretner
Bros.
The petition is followed by the fol-
lowing:
1t is a fact that D. F. Anderson is the agent for
the Mcknight land, and has taken charge of all
the products and paid all the expenditures on
the land, which can be fully established, not
withstanding the assertion made by the Rosalia
RUstter. 1t is also fact that the majority of
the business men of Rosalia are in favor of
Turner for senator, as will be by the list of
names.
The list of names contains but three Re-
publicans, the remainder being boys too
young to vote, Populists and unnatural
lied Germans. Nearly all the signers Of
the petitions are personal enc
mics of Anderson, the promoter of
the deal and circulator of the
petition having a personal grudge against
the representative from Rosaiia, who has
manhood enough to vote his sentiment.
The statement that the list contains the
names of majority of the business men
of Rosalia is false.
The names of very few business men APP
pear on the petitions. most of them being
laboring men, farm hands. and few hood
lum boys, one of whom has been under the
surveillance of the town marshal for two
months.
The signers of the petition are not favor
able 10 Turner. but merely are trying to
iniure Anderson in the eyes of the public.
1t is all caused by personal feeling, and
is the work of the same gang
that escorted Representative Mulkey.
Democrat. to the tram when he left for
Olympia. headed by the brass band hired
by Mulkey for SIS. and led by Democrat
whose name appears in the petition. and
who worked hard to defeat Anderson be-
cause the pre- sentative had fired him for
incompetency when in the employ OF An
derson Brothers.
The PosT-lNTELLIGENCER cores pondent
has known Anderson for several years and
knows that he has always been an Allen
man. Before the election, when Turner
was first mentioned as a candidate. your
reporter asked Anderson what he thought
of the Spokane mans chance. to which
Anderson replied that while Turner was a
good man he did not believe Allen would
he defeated, for he had shown himself to
be the right man for the place. The story
that Andersen has been influenced by
Mcknight, whose land he manages, is
too absurd to be repeated by in
telligent people. Anderson, while not
in the legislature, did some good
work for Allen three years ago
and has never changed his opinion of the
Walla Walla statesman since that time.
A majority of the Republicans OF Whitman
county are favorable to Allen and money
has been offered at big odds on his cleo
ton since the legislature convened, and
there are no takers.