The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-02-04

would he construed az authorizing public dis.
closure of anything else which had occurred.
Unless gentlemen may meet and confer with.
out lear OF advantage being taken. what hope Is
'hefe OF an honorable solution of party differ
eaees such as now existe
II conclusion / wish TO declare that the en-
tire discussion was tentative and involved no
IDEA OF surrender. or arrangement or compro-
mise without the fullest and most complete dis
Closure TO and consultation with the men who
have thus far so Loyalty supported me. Many
OF them were aware of my purpose to consult
Mr.. MeGrav. and all of them would have been
made aware OF the fruits of that consultation il
II had borne any fruits looking to party har-
mony and party unifca;fon.
In the light of these disclosures it fs no. prob
able that the public. or any proportion thereof,
Will bs unable justly to fx the responsibility
for continuation OF the senatorial deadlock
Mr.. MeGraw and his closest counsellors have
not only shown disposition to reject sugges-
aons offered In spirit OF harmony, but have
resoried TO tactics that must preclude further
efforts in this line, either by myself or my
friends.
Gov. McGraw, on reading the above,
Immediately sent the following rejoinder
to the Olympian:
The ingenious sophistry and casuistry permis.
siole to lawyer in court are foreign to me.
Ny words ara known to be plain and direct.
therefore desire TO say I am unwilling to be-
ieve that Judge George Turner is fairly
quoted IN the interview purporting to be his
and published in the Tribune tonight II he
is, / say distinctly, that did not "divulge to
the press any part of private conversation" I
dld not TASK for my own consent" nor did
"mistake the purport Of that conversation"
Just one sentences OF Judge Turner's CONVERSE
ton with me. which lasted over half an hour.
has been made public, as nearly in the judges
for mn
to repeat 1t was repeated by me be-
cause / distinctly asked "How much OF
this conversation am as liberty to repeats"
answered in the words already printed. did
not need TO resort TO self-persuasion. an the
Tribune interview intimstes. / had Judge Tur-
ner's permission to repeat his sentence
to Senator Aliens friends 1 regret that
my action should be SO misinterpreted as
1t sppears TO be in the Tribune. Ny
reason for permitting the sentence 10 be pub
licly used was that il was brought back to me in
distorted form by a newspaper man, who said
he had been informed that Judge Turner had
declared TO me that he had now got his men
tied up so as to simply deadlock the Legislatures:
that if he could not tie elected he would
not permit Senator Allen to be, and that
If Allen would withdraw he would and that
and Senator Aliens friends should withdraw
Senator Allen and then We could name tha
winner. As this statement was likely to go to
the press Judge Turner's statement; had
already been repeated to several gentlemen, and
as I desired no Misrepresentation to be
made, / therefore consented to give one
statement accurately out of our long talk, and
that the one which / was expressly authorized
to maze. l do not propose to disclose more OF
Judge Turner's conversation than he authorized
me TO DO; Notwithstanding the fact that Judge
Turner, If correctly reported. has sought 10
place me in a false position before the people Of
this state; nor even If such a Misrepresentation
of its real expressions and serious meaning
appears in the Tribune is repeated In that
newspaper or elsewhere. II Judge Turner sees
fit to give his version of our whole conversation
III an authentic manner and would Be pleased
To release me from his injunction Of secrecy a.
to that part of the conversation which am nos
yet authorized to repeat, will them be able TO
throw more light upon the matter disputed in
the Tribune in its professed reporters interview
with Judge Turner. JOHN II. MCGRAw,