The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-01-25

ballot for senator could be taken c1e Of the DEM
ocrat.c members took sick and Gsed- This left
the parties with equal forces, aud ~ each party
stood by its candidate no choice could be made.
Mason county, represented By tins member who
died, was q Bourbon stronghold, aud the
Republicans had no hope of carrying the
election to fli the vacancy, out they re-
solved to stand By their candidate until the
last ditch was carried The bslloying for sens
tor continued while preparations were made for
the election to fill the vacancy. sy brother was
publishing Republican paper Ss Mason City,
the county seat OF Mason county, and naturally
took an active part in the polite. OF the county.
He was we'll acquainted throughout the county,
and perce!vtng the careless confidence of the
Democrats, he conceived the i5ea that the
county might be carried by ths Republicans
through sone fine work. He laid his plans be-
fore the increGulous managers o. Logan's cam
paign, most of whom derided the scheme es
rainbow chaser. A few of tho shrswde. and
more daring spirits, however, resolved TO make
the attempt, and my brother took charge Of the
campaign. The method edopteE was dIplo-
matte one entirely. He ana tsss other party
managers affected despoIdant cir and
apparently renounced all interest IN politics,
cep. in PERU nctory way, conce led the victory
In advance to the Democrats and devoted them
selves nstentatiously 20 private business mat
ters. Every night, however, thex were scurry-
ing over the county holding secret conferences
with local managers who could be depended
upon in every school district gna election pre-
cinct in the county. These local lieutenants
were, on one pretext or another. TO have es
many Republican voters as possible assemble az
some place near the polls on eeeton day. o.tsnsi-
bly, for some other purpose than voting. In fact,
they were to declare that IL was no use for them
to go TO the polls. az the result vas a foregone
conclusion, aad they did not propose 10 lose
days work, or even part OF day, Jus, for the
fun OF voting. So many Republicans all over
the county thus apparently having business en-
gagenents which would prevent their voting at
all, and the opinion being unanimous that
there could only be one result, she Democrats
were entirely thrown OF their guard. Their
party discipline was relaxed; 20 effort was
made to get out their vote, with che result tina.
large numbers Of Democrats did rot go near the
po Is Within an hour OF Closing the polls,
however, the squads OF Republicans who were
engaged al work by the party Jnanagers We're
told that they might we'll go over to the polls
and vote as not, and they went over in punches
and voted after which they were started out to
rustic up other Republicans near at hand. By
these tactics the count OF the votes cast showed
most surprising result. A Repg blican repre-
sentative was chosen in Democratic county.
The party majority in the legislature was re-
verssd and John A. Logan elected senator"
W. ". Sweeney, of Olympia, cane up from the
capital last night and is stopping at the Airing
ton. "Tne senatorial fight will seon come TO an
end" said he. "The Turner slen are now
directing all their energies TO tfying to find
dark horse. They have no hoee of eecting
their man, and after another iutte attempt to
develop dark horse the ma !ority OF them Will
come over TO Allen in a body. Meat of the men
who are supporting Turner are friends OF Allen,
but are pledged 20 support Turner so long
there is a chance to elect him. But their obi
cations TO Turner do not imply that he shall
control their votes to elect some enc else, And
for this reason, when it has become clear that
Turner has no show, then all of mis- supporters
are free TO cast their votes as they choose, and,
as nearly all are personal friends of Allen and
prefer him as their second chosce, they will
come over to him in a body ana end the con-
test"
"Mr. Hill may be fine man, with q great
mind ana lots OF money" said railroad man
yesterday, "but he Is liable to n. axe mistakes
like the rest OF US. Now, in reference to furnish
ing the cars for the shingle shippers next fall,
he says he does not intend to hazel empties out
here for that purpose, but proposes to haul
loaded cars Now he knows that the amount OF
merchandise which comes here BIZ ship is an in.
considerable amount, and what I ~odld like to
know is how he il going to stimu5a ate consump-
ton out here by afordiug low rates. If he
hauled stuff out here for nothlpgit would not
very materially increase the westward traffic
Last year the Northern Pacific did nearly all the
rail traffic TO Puget sound, aud yet it had to
haul EN- pties out here from North Dakota to &C.
commodate the shingie men,"