The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-09-26
Refuses to Let Enemies Put
Him Up For Slaughter.
SUGGESTION THAT WALLACE Run
Considine and His King County Men
Arrive al Yakima
Pierce County Determined TO Rub It
Into King ON the Delegate Matter
Defeat 30 Certain That Candidates
Are Hard to Find.

"EoSs Wallace has enough 10 DO inst now
10 take care Of the present, without plan
ming for the future. Three things are
greatIy harrassing the dispenser OF patron
are today:
First-The determination OF King county
TO have a representation OF fiffy-one dele
gates in the convention.
Second-The prospective fight in the
committee and convention over the free
silver question.
Thiri-The repeated deelination ofevery-
the supreme bench. Everybody declines
with thanks.
Lewis. who really holds the KEY TO the
situation rs far as the nominations are
concerned, emphatically stated ia the
King county caucus this morning that un-
der no conceivable circumstances would he
consent 10 make the race for congress.
This is considered IS final, and alters the
plans of several who would have been will
ing TO be candidates If Lewis name were
placed on the ticket X. c. McCroskey, of
Whitman. who IS running for state sens-
tor against Representative Anderson in
Whitman county. was wired this morning
to know If he wonid accept the nominal
tion for congress. bat declined. Judge ].
h. Reavis, OF North Yakima, has been ten
dered the nomination for the supreme
bench, bat says No" Neither III. s.
Bandford, b. J.. Sharpstein, of Walla
Walla, nor NJ. II. Goldman. OF Columbia,
can be induced To make the hopeless race.
and so il goes ali along the line. Nobody
cars 10 spend any time and money in
fruitless campaign.
With diaboiical malignity the King
county people are now insisting that the
great boss himself, Hugh Wallace, shall
make the rare for congress. but Wallace is
like the rest of them, and he, too, posi-
lively refuses 10 be put up for slaughter.
George Hazard. of Pierce; Jesse NJ. Ar
thur. of Spokane and h. i. Houston, of
Pierce, are the only Democrats to be found
today who are willing to accept a nomin-
alton: and it cannot be positively stated
that Houston would, although he is smell
ing around the nomination for the SUI
prenne bench very ginSerly- IL will thus
be seen. if the Democrats cannot persuade
any one to accept nomination, how haz-
ardous it is TO attempt to forecast the final
outcome of the convention in the matter
of nominations.
IL is probable that a free coinage silver
plank will be injected into the platform,
although strong effort viii be made to
adopt the Democratic national platform
of 1892 on this question. cursory cam
vass of the King county delegation reveals
the fact that a majority of the delegation
is against free silver, although all the dele
CATION will not be here before morning.
Lewis. OF King: Tom Griftitts. of
Spokane. Democratic nominee for con-
gress in 1889, and Judson. of Pierce, who
may vet be tho nominee for congress
this year, are TO champion the cause OF
silver on the floor of the convention.
Wallace has ratt of Federal officeholders
here working like beavers TO carry on. his
orders, and he will really decide what the
platform will say on the silver question.
In view of Cleveland's attitude in this
matter. Wallace may have some difficulty
in "squaring" himself If the convention
should decide in favor OF unlimited coin
age.
An extremely bitter feeling will result
from the action OF the convention with
reference TO the extra delegates from King
county, no matter which way the conven-
tion decides. The Pierce county Demo-
Gratis are determined to rub il into the
King county Democracy, the same as King
did two years ago. and in this Pierce will
be assisted by the Democrats of other
counties, rho are sore az the King county
Democrats for having voted for MeGraw
and the canal. The hght in the conyen-
ton will be bitter one, unless Wallace.
who delests Collins. decides that it would
be bad policy To further irritate King
county. as he has repeatedly done in the
matter of patronage. However, Waliacs
lieutenant today stated that ii appeared
from the hermaphrodits ticket placed IN
the field by John Collins that there were
not tity-one Democrats in King county.
and therefore he should oppose giving the
county representation OF dfty-one.
Apropos of the Collins ticket. Col. James
Hamilton Lewis. when asked by Col.
Prosser what kind Of ticket the King
county Democrats had pat up, curtly re-
piled; They have hstehed out spotted
eggs" Notwithstanding Col. lewis caus-
tie criticisms, Mr.. Collins is perfectly
satisfied with his ''spotted egg" ticket,
and 40 doubt will smile 10 himself when
later on he hears Lewis eloqucntly plead
ing with the voters OF King county to vote
for these spotted eggs.
John Considine, Collins bosom friend,
who arrived this morning, is also we'll
pleased With the spotted egg" ticket and
freely predicts that his ehum. Jim Wool
cry. will receive more votes than any other
badly spotted egg on the ticket
h r. HeEston Of Pierce. who was re-
Gently defeated for TIE nomination for
prosecuting attorney By Leroy Palmer,
might not OBJECT very seriously 10 receiv-
ing the nomination for congress.
IL has been stated that H. ]. Snively. Of
Yakima, Is a candidate for congress. Tins
Is no; trge. Tie Big -Four" have ar
ranged the entire Democratic programme
for this state for many years 10 come. II
Wallace should, by some unaccoantAble
freak Of fortune. by the iaexplicable
WhlrliEig of politics. and ~ the al Of
Northern Pacific money. succeed in being
elected United. States senator, Unsted
STATES District Attorney " III. Hrinksr Of
King, a Wallace burr. IS % be. ~ the
grace of Wallace ard The Northern Pacific,
given that extra Federal juageship 10 be
by congress. and Snively Is slated
for Drinkers place Of course. everything
depends on now many combined votes
The Democrats and Pops can muster in
the legislature. and Il they could muster
enough how saany Pops Wallace and the
Northern Psesic eousd BAY, Tor the ssS.r-
.aon was made here today hy a IS allace
burr that ''Ns all bag tns Pops ike
hogs
las beautifully hallt castle. bat the
danger IS thai If James Hamlitoa Ie9is.