The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-01-19
He Changes His Vote to Turner
to Lead a Stampede.
BUT IS ONLY LAUGHED AT.
The Country Youths Head Turned by
Flattery of Cunning Bosses.
Ine Legislature Meets in Joint Session
and Casts Six Ballots, With Change
OF Only One Vote-Turner Used rs a
Decoy Only-Mr. Teats Withdraw.

OLYMPIA. JAM lS-ISpecia. THE boast OF the
turner managers that they had a traitor in the
Alien camp WIS made good today when Roscoe,
the infantiIe statesman of Snohomish, after max
ing the astounding explanation that he had
grown weary of showing respect to the wishes
OF his people when they confIctei with his
personal lncIlnations, announced that he would
cast his vote for Turner. This unbIushing
acknowledgement OF betrayal of his con-
sttuents and OF the most solemn pledges
was met with loud applause from the
Turner managers and heeIers within
anu without the bar, who were prepared for the
0enoLement OF their plot, but more than one
man who had just cast his vote for Turner
pressG approval of the scathing rebuke
adminlseered on the succeeding ballot
by Roth of Whatcom Mr. Ro,h's
explanation was in marked contrast to
that of Mr.. Roscoe. He, too, had come here
with another choice, but when he learned that
the wish OF his constituents was that he
should support Senator Allen, he did not
consider himself greater than the people who
sent him here and he would therefore
continue to vote for John B. Allen.
Roscoe has been kept busy since the adjourn
meut OF the joint session seeking excuses for
his perfidy. other than those he gave publicly,
and which were so pusrile that he is left
without single inch of ground upon
sacred trust, the transgression of an
established rule of political parties the viola
ton OF solemn pledge. are hard matters to ex-
plain by any rule known to men of sincerity or
moral backbone. large number of Mr.. Roscoes
commitments were upon the ground today, and
the unanmity with which they refused to accept
his explanations and insisted that there must
have been something more substantial than per-
sonai preference to cause the youthful states
man to betray the trust confdet in him,
made his life burden allevIated only by the
clammy appreciation OF the inmates of the po-
Htical cemetery.
Roscoe came to Olympia several days before
the session opened with very exaggerated ideas
of his own Importance, and was Immediately
seized upon by Mayor Robinson, Tom Cava-
naugh and Nick Owings. the local trum-
viraie. who dined and wined him while
they dilated upon the bright future that
lay before him. Congress, they told him, was
but step higher, and might be attained by one
OF his matchless ability, adroitness aud state
craft When the organization OF the house
came on he demanded all sorts OF favors from
the Allen managers before he would discuss the
situation with them. 1t was Roscoe first aud
the people afterward with him, and he openly
boasted that he would teach politicians few
tricks they had never heard of. His ambition
was 10 be "boss" and patronage dispenser of Sno-
homish county. He secured the chairmanship of
one OF the most important, and place on the
judiciary aid other leading committees. He
made pretense of yielding to the ex-
pressed wishes of his constituents,
signed the caucus call. entered the eau
Gus. and then. after voting to make
John b. Allen the nominee, made a solemn
pledge to support him until released from that
obligation by caucus action. All the while he
was playing into the hands of Turner's man.
ayers. They caJoled and f1attered him into the
ha1;A .,
would mount him upon the pinnacle of his am
bition. They made him believe that the first
man to break the caucus pledge would be a
bellwether to a flock OF traitors. He jumped
the fence of his own political obligation, only
to find himself dupe. The forty-seven others
were honorable men.
The man who gave Roscoe what little political
standing he has in SnohOmish county is William
Plummer, OF Edmonds. 1t was Plummer who Sc
cured Roscoes nomination for county clerk three
years ago, when Roscoe lived in Edmonds and
was not known in any other precinct in the
county. So far as known PlumIner has never
asked favors OF his protege till few days ago,
when he sent message asking him
to vote for John b. Allen, the
choice of the people. Pratten, another
Edmonds friend and supporter Of Roscoe, who
helped nominate him for the legislature, also
added his name to the request of Plummer in
favor of Allen. The principal anti
Allen men in Snohomish county are
band of Everett boilers, the most promi-
nent of whom are the Rucker brothers
and their attorney, Grosscup The members of
the firm claim to be Republicans. but they
issued circular a day or two before the last
election abusing and denouncing John Ii. Nc
Graw and asking the Republicans not
To vote for him. 1t was W.
j. Rucker, OF this firm, who grossly
insulted Mr.. McGraw in Everett shortly before
election. The principal snt-Allen man in Suo-
homish is Attorney /. f. Hart, who denounced
the Republican county convention when
it refused to nominate him and after
ward wrote letter to the head
of the Peoples party indorsing their
sentiments and regrettng that sickness pre-
vented him from attending their rally,
to- which he had been invited TO deliver
an address. The ans-Alen sentiment is
centered in Everett, which went against
Ro.coe on election day. The Allen supporters
in Snohomsh county number the leading citi-
zens OF the county. among them being
such men rs Mayor Ferguson, of Suoho-
mish city, ex-senator Vestal, Representative
Frater, superior Judge J. e. Danny, County At
torney Heffner, Attorneys j. Il. Ault, W. F. Bell
q. A. Alien, A. W. Hawks. Coon aud Mooney,
Fred H. Lysons, Ulmer Stiuson aud Isaac Cath
cart, two OF the pioneers and leading citi-
zaus OF Snohomish county; c. {. Thornton, In
ident of the First National bank OF snohonish
City; County Treasurer Lawry, Capt. Haz-
zard, the Republican wsrhorse Of Mukilteo;
t. r. Warner. secretary of the Republican
county central committee and publisher of
the suohomish Tribune, and the list could be
extended almost Indefinitely. some OF the
leading citizens of Everett are also warm
supporters OF Senator Allen. Among them are
f. b. BrowneIl, one OF the brightest politicians
and most popu men in the county; D.
F. sexton. N d. Waliing, another prominent
politician; Col. I. V. 4 !dy, H. u. Cooley,
temporary chairman OF the Republican county
convention; ;. II. Nichols, candidate Tor the
state senate: Marx Swinnertou, the pioneer
business man of Marysville, and Attorney W.
W Black another man who he ped nom nate
Roscoe for the legislature r.. e. Ferguson,
tho pioneer mayor Of snohonish, who for a
score or more years Was kept in the legislature
by the people of Snonomish county because Of
his Loyalty as we'll his ability, came
here with the intention OF remaining tlll the
end Of the senatorial contest, but was so thor
oughly dtsgusted with Roscoe's faithlessness
that ne took the hrst train home after the joint
session, not, however, until he had given
the youngster very forcible expression of his
opinion. He told him that he was traitor. and
APPLY reminded him of the ignOminous fate Of
"Blue Jay Parkinson, of the last session.
Tocay's baIloting lett the senatorial situation
practically as Ii was twenty -four hours tefo:e
Five ballots were taken, with but the change OF
one vote and the final ballot was, with that ex-
cep.iop, the same the vote oi Yesterday.
A len receiving A., Turner y, Griggs y and
Teats Q. The supporters Of Turner iu the legIs-
iaEure still continue III a state OF rebellion
against the party organization 10 which