The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-10-23
OUARTETTE OF JOHNS
Collins, Considine, Fairfield and
Hart the Bosses.
THE GREATEST is consIoIhE.
He Helped Collins Out Of Dilemma
and Runs the observation-disclosures
Of Fairfield and Hart

The spotted egg comhin. Is again AZ
cross purposes, and the trouble Is over the
collection of contributions 20 the cor
ruption fund. II will be remembered that.
when the so-caIled meeting Of the county
central COMMITTEES was held, an executive
committee OF thirteen was appointed, ana
st the same time that COMMITTEES was
shorn of great part of its power BY
resolution that the campaign COMMITTEES
be chosen by the nominees themselves, In
accordance. il was said, with good Demo
cratic precedent The reason for this ap-
pears in the fact that the executive COM
mittee is anti-Coliins 3 to 5, and the
consequences, should such committee
control the funds, could not be foreseen,
and therefore were dreaded.
In due season the nominees met and
chose the campaign committee, although
the names have been heretofore guarded
with the strictest secrecy. The committee
originally consisted of seven members,
viz: ]. S. Brace, A. G. Lane, James Kel-
ley, John Fairfield. ]. +. McE.roy. Lean.
der Miller and Fred Bense. The last
named is an unknown factor in politics.
more correctly, a cypher. and owes his Sc
lection 10 a desire to conciiiate certain
mittee were nothing but succession of
whirlpools and tide rips. and nothing was
accomplished. In order to get out of the
difficulty Mr.. Collins suggested the selec-
ton of subcommittee. a sort OF imperium
in imperio, and by clever manipulation J.
s. Brace, A. G. Lane and John Fairfield
were chosen, and John Considine was
called in by these three as chief adviser.
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ton either of Miller or Bense. This was
done not only with the consent, but at the
earnest solicitation of Collins, y no SO far in
the campaign has not made single step
until after consultation with the lily-faced
statesman of the First
The most calamitous feature of the mat
ter at present for the Democrats is not
so much the elevation of Considine as adj
wiser. as the presence on the sub-commit-
tee of John Fairfield. anti-custom house
editor for Collins. Fairfield is in bad odor
with the moneyed men of the Democracy.
and one of them the other day plainly
said that he would never contribute
single cent as long as the committee was
made up of such men. So Collins is again
facing dilemma; he cannot do without
funds, and can ill spare the services of
Editor Fairfield. Which horn to take Is
most bothersome question.
Among the straight line Democrats OPP
posed to the spotted egg idea is William
II. White. of the firm of White & Munday,
who is not at all particular about express
sing his opinion. He said yesterday:
collins has got me completely bottled.
I'd like to get out here and tell what
think of the Republicans, but l can't do
Ii. Why, out in my district I've got to
support either Republican or a Populs.
for the legs AZURE, and l don't think | can
do either. The only course lett open 10 me
is TO leave those offices blank. This CON-
bination does not meet my approval at all. +"
There are numbers of good Democrats
who are lighting John b. Hart for prose
cutting attorney because they say he en-
gineered the deal TO GUST Andrew Jackson
as chief of police last winter. during the
hard struggle Mayor Ronald made to
suppress the gambling games. The sport
ing element, it is said, has for q number of
years given the bulk of its business to the
firm of Hart & Hart, and John Hart is un-
derstood to- have moved heaven and earth
10 force Jackson to the wall. Hart was the
recognized tool of the gamblers, and il by
some strange mischanee he should slip
into office the Democrats are fearful lest
the sporting element of the city should
again control him, and be able to secure
the liberty of criminals--for O consider
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