The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-10-17
HARDIN STANDS PAT.
His name Appears on the
Spotted Egg Ticket
tEsT IN a LITTLE SIDE SHOW.
The Spotted Eggs sign One Anosnsrs
1beksts-Lfes Abont Soanty
FUNDS Answered fully.

Thomas =. Hardin - effli the DEMO
cratic nominee for prosecuting attorney.
The effort Of Lee =. Hart % MAKE place
on the spotted egg ticket for his brother
John. despite the nomination OF the
latter on the King county ticket. By
fifty OF his friends, has failed. and Hardin
announces MS determination 10 hght the
Campaign through Hntii election day. lie
said last evening:
"Ny position in this matter has already
been clearly stated. / have not with
draau from the ticket 20 make room Tor
Mr.. Hart. nor DO intend 20. could not
regard such action other than a. treacnsry
10 my friends and 20 the convention that
Nominated me. That convention WAS en-
phatically anti Hart. and / have no dis
position whatever 10 20 contrary TO ITS
expressed sill. ;"
Mr. Hardin further said that the petit
ton placing Hart on the King county
ticket" was not the work Of Democrats nor
OF the sorehsad Republicans The latter,
he said, would he guilty Of political bad
faith unless they supported the nominee
OF the Democratic convention. Al the
Headquarters of the soreheads also a spe-
cifc and emphatic denial was made that
Hart ever was or ever could be a spotted
egg. Hart IL only PopuIiss. and his re-
peaied trials 10 asesnd into the exalted
RESIN Of the spotted eggs are regarded By
ell as extremely impadent.
The Democratic executive COMMITTEES
was In secret eonclsve oil day yesterday
and until late last evening. and the anti
fusionists were giving the Collins men g
lively tilt. There Was the utmost divers
fly Of opinion, the members some of them
wanting Hardin. some Hart and the re-
mainder holding out for straight ticket.
The result Of the day session was that the
regular nominees Of the Collins conven-
sion were duly filed with the county an
ditor in the afternoon. The Hart men At
the evening session continued the fight on
Hardin.
The dissension In the Populist ranks.
saussd by the influence Of the Harry
White workers. was continued yesterday.
bat without result. Carlson and Meyer.
and all the other PopuIist nominees. are
stiIl on the ticket, and will remain there.
Whites man Wallace will have to make
the race ~ best be can, and ostrander will
be without the votes be might have re-
sslvsd had not the deal fallen through.
One of the notorious facts showing the
extremes to which the incubators of the
spotted eggs have been forced Is the num-
Der Of Democrats and Populists they have
called upon to help secure the certificates
OF nomination. Every spotted egg petition
on file with the auditor is signed by ma
Iority of Democrats. Among the sigma
lures are:
Joseph Gavin. Democratic heeier; A. G.
Lane. Democratic hesier. Hugh Mctioni-
gle Popuiist- Democrat; James NJ
"HswkshAw" Quiitsr; O. r. Askan,
Popuiist-Democrat; NJ. ]. Carkeek. sore
head: Peter Chiodo. professional heeler;
ID. o'Hara. Democrat; Andy kshoe. Demo
srst: y ID. Ogden, Democrat: w. IL.
Moore. Democrat; W. $. Relic. Democrat.
Allan A. Garner, eolorsd politician.
The same names are used on nearly all
Of the petitions, and as many Of the petit
sioners were unable to secure the required
hfty names they adopted the plan of
plugging together" Candidates and petit
TONERS lie packed together like so many
,ardines. The following appear on many
petitions:
r. r. Needham. candidate for represen-
tstive, Fortieth district; Ralph Simon.
candidate for justice OF the peace; Richard
Schmidt, candidate for senator. Twenty
9th district: John Wallace. candidate for
EV4htN N4GIAs CAftuiuAte
representative. Fortieth district. w. A.
sByder, candidate for senator, Twenty
nxih district: .. T.. Askam, candidate for
soroner. and Others.
Some of the candidates signed their own
petitions. notably T.. s. Pees, candidate
br representative In the Forty-frst dis
lrict. One of the petitions Was signed by
Chinsman. Sam Lee.
The nominations on the spotted-ega
Ticket filed yesterday were as follows:
w reekmasier, NJ. Baldwin: representa-
tive Thirth-ninth district, l.. G. Gilman
representative Fortiath district, Frank
Pierce and Thomas X. Nesdham.
The Dem oeratic nominee for justice az
,hs peace Of Ballard. John o'Hara, yester-
lay filed his certificate Of nomination; the
anne certificate also covers the nominal
VI George Shields tor constable. Shields
lad previously been nominated by the Re
suhlicsns.
Several other petitions were flied from
l~o to ten feet in length representing
rsry shade Of political mugwumpery and
beliefs and disbellefs.
The chairman OF tho Peoples party conf
nittse has hled the deciination Of James
kheehsn as candidate for representative
kom the Forty-hs.t district. and has sub
rised John NJ. Williams. barber. to al
be vacancy. The declinatioG OF David c.
Mitchell. for representative Of the Forty
hiri district on the Peoples party ticket.
nd OF {. +. Gniberson, nominee OF the
Democratic convention for county com
missioner in the Second district, have also
been fled.