The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-10-19
ARMY OF CANDIDATES
Eight Tickets offered to Voters
of King County.
THREE PARTIES BADLY MIXED.
QuseP Hash OF Straight and Mfxed
Tieksss and spotted Eggs offered
by Collins. White Co.

finished schedule OF the nominations
filed IN his Office for the election of Novem-
Der 8 There are eight tickets In the
nesd, xith = total Of rs names. The Peo-
pies party has three tickets, two Of them
certified By the secretary Of state. and COW
erfng the same names except that the reg
uisr ticket Of the convention has but Two
nominees for representatives. from tue
Forty-tnird district while the other ticket,
called the straight" Peoples party, has
David c. Mitchell slated for the vacant
place as representative and DR.. Milton
Van Dyke instead Of DR.. O. p. Askam for
coroner. Van Dykes certificate was filed
yesterday. and Was almost Immediately
followed by his ceciination. which was
Withdrawn Ia time to leave him on the
straight" ticket
Another declination that was also with
drawn was that of Charles E GuIberson
FOR county commissioner. A deal vas
closed with the Populists whereby they
were 20 withdraw rs nominees for the
house the names of r. A. Purdy and j.
NJ. Williams. but after Guiberson's decii-
nation had been flied the Populists failed
TO come to time. and he was renominated
on both the so-caIied Democratic ticket
and the King county ticket.
The third Peoples party ticket covers
only county offices. and contains the
name Of John Wallace for county clerk.
The spotted eggs are flied under the
heading. Democratic Ticket" through
the authority to eli ali vacancies vested in
the county central committee at the close
of the late convention. In addition to
this ticket there are two more spotted egg
fakA t~l A. a Do val
on joint petitions. and the other made uD
from separate petitions. They differ in
that the latter has the spotted egg legisla-
tive nominees and John b. Hart tor prose-
cutting attorney. Gilbert 5. Meem has
Withdrawn from the race for senator from
the Txenty-seventh district.
The Prohibition ticket is complete with
the exception that no nominations have
been made for congress, for the supreme
bench or for prosecuting attorney.
The only change made in the Republic
can ticket since the convention has been
the substitution of Albert }. Goddard, OF
Fremont, as candidate for the legislature
instead of ]. c. Norton. of Ross. who for
unavoidable reasons and much against
the wishes OF his friends voluntarily with
drew.
When the ballot is finally made up for
election day some voters will be puzzled
which ticket to vote unless . number of
The tickets are rejected. The spotted egg,
Democratic and Populist candidates are
intermixed among all the extra tickets.
and a number of the aspirants have sue
ceeded in securing place on as high as
four of them. John b. Hart is one of
these. and his name appears on the King
county (separate petition), Peoples party
(regulsrD.. Peoples party 10y petition) and
the straight" Peoples party. Harry
Whites man Wallace is on three tickets,
and lesser lights among the soreheads
have been nominated twice at least. One
of wallace's certificates is signed by +. A.
Barsil, mixologist, Queen City hotel.
The appearance of John MeQuade as the
Republican nominee for constable in Gil
man precinct calls to mind the case of the
State ex rel T. +. Tremblev VS.. MeQuade,
the Gilman town marshal fight, now under
advisement by Judge Langley. MeQuade,
il will be remembered, was displaced by a
newly elected town council. which nomi-
mated Trembley to succeed MIN. McQuade
refused TO give up the office, and suit was
brought to force him out. The case was
argued in the superior court some time
ago, and the parties are now awaiting a
decision. In the meantime the town has
no marshal. or rather TWO, which amounts
to the same thing.
The only independent candidate for
congress Is Lawrence +. Doyle. of Shuvah,
Wash. an engineer by occupation.
But two of the tickets contain complete
lists of candidates. the Republican and the
straight" Peoples party. A recount OF
the lists gives the following. taking into
confederation the duplicates: