The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-01-19

huence they can to the work OF disrupt
ing and u,torly damoralixing the Repuh-
hcan majority. regardless OF the effect
upon the minority in the future il
the session is given over to a quarrel among
those who will be held responsible by reason OF
their party majority for the WORK OF this legis-
latare.
These wreckers are fighting now under the
banner of George Turner, but they are simply
using him As decoy. They have
another plan TO further, and as
soon as they are ready TO sprlur IL
tney Will abandon Turner with the alacrity of
the freebooters of fortune that they are. They
are playing now for delay. The purpose
OF these stiletto gentry is to tire out
both the Allen and Turner men and
then create stampede. The plo,ters smile
upon Judge Turner, swear that they are faith
fui and assure HIM that If he will only stand
firm he will win. Then they flock by them
selves and congratulate each other in devilish
giee over the manner in which they are delud-
ing the judge.
ii requires the most extraordinary exertion to
Keep Turner's supporters in the legislature
IN iine good many of them have political
foresight enough 10 see that the judge
cannot win. and they do not understand
the wisdom of continuing the deadlock. This
ieellng among the Turner men causes Fair
weather aud Moore to insist upon frequent
eaucuses, at which attempts made 10 brace
Cp AuemDSfo with stories OF QeserflOn9
from the Allen side, Tonight the followers of
Turner being assured by Eairwesther that
the Allen men are demorslized and that Allen
is 10 be abandoned tomorrow and ID. J. Crowley
substituted as a candidate, but this tale is as
false as the numerous other lies that
the chief OF the scuitlers Is tnventing.
Another canard is that the King county dele
cation wili dislntegrate tomorrow. These false
hoods are circulated to keep up the hopes
oi Turner and his sincere supporters for the
time being, and thus prevent Allen from secur-
ing enough OF their votes TO end the struggle.
VINO the plotters propose to put forward then,
In the course of their desperate scheming, they
are ready TO apply the knife to Turner is
not known. though il is understood
that Miles c. Moore's choice is him.
self Ia making the final selection of
legatee OF the Turner political estate there
will be a chance of falling out OF the bucca-
neers. as some of them are sure to oppose
Moore on the ground of his well-known
lack OF availability. 1t is re-
ported that tomorrow the men who
profess to be friendly to Turner
but are really conspiring against him Will put
OUT feeler by giving new man a vote or two
to ascertain if any OF the Allen men are ready
to break This policy will BE- kept up
in the hope that it will rIpen
the situation for their great stroke. 1t is talked
tonight that z. J. Moore, one OF the Spokane
superior judges, is the man they are keeping in
the shade.
senator Sergeant returned from Buckley today.
He was approached by Turner, who solicited the
senator's support. Sergeant reminded the judge
that at meeting of the Pierce county
Republican members in Tacoma some weeks
ago Turner had induced them all to agree to go
into Il senatorial caucus. Turner replied that
he had changed his mind about the desira-
biltty OF caucus since that time.
To this sargeant answered that he had not
changed, and that the judge had never in
formed him that his desire for a caucus had
cooled of. He further informed the judge that
he would not, under any circumstances, vote
for him.
Govnor Teats, the Populist candidate for sena-
tor, arrived tonight, and after meeting his sup
porters and thanking them for their votes re-.
leased them from the obligation to stand by him
on future ballots. Gus Martin, q Fairweather
henchman. attempted to run Teats into the
Turner headquarters. but the Populist stayed in
the middle of the hotel Office. After the with
drawal of Teats, Walter J. Thomson
tried to make his boomet more healthy
by bespeaking for it the care of the
Populist members, in which work he was as
sisted by the nurse of the little thing, Sam c.
Herren. Who the Populists will take mp next
Is not known, but 1t il expected that eight Of
them viii, keep IN the middle Of the road" for
man of their party.
George Browne, OF Tacoma, who Is interested
in the ST. Paul and Tacoma Lumber Co., of
which Griggs Is the head, and who when q rep
resentative from Pierce county in the frst state
legislature was designated in the directory as q
capitalist, is here. working against Allen, and
is suspected Of being one OF the
disguised candidates. There is undoubt-
edly an understanding between Browne and
his partner. Griggs, and when the latter dream
of an election is over, he may attempt to throw
the Democratic vote to Browne There is dis
position among the members to take from fif.
teen 10 twenty ballots tomorrow IL necessary
Andrew +. Burleigh, who has been one OF the
active members OF the Allen campaign. was
compelled to return to Seattle tonight to at
tend the trial tomorrow of the Great North
ern condemnation cases