The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-08
FAwcETr FOR GOVERNOR.


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Candidate at Etiensburg.
Tacoma. Aug. T.-special.-Tne Popuiist
county convention for the election OF dele
gates 20 the state convention az Eliens-
burg will be called TO order tomorrow
morning at 10 O'Clock in Germania hall
Thomas e. Doherty IS chairman Of the
county committee Primaries have been
held throughout the county during the
past few days, the last being held tonight
in the Third ward. They passed of quiet
y. there being but very few contests. Be
sides eiecting delegates TO the county con-
vention. the Populist voters have chosen
a new central committee, which VIII be
organized after the convention Is through
with it's deliberations. The committee. as
well as the convention, will De controlled
by the fusonists. Chairman Bulger, OF
the state committee, who has always taken
a hand in the affairs OF the party both In
the city and county. has refrained from
participating In the primary elections this
time az II IS evident that his middie-of-
the-road ideas have found little favor
with the other leaders Of the party.
Il is expected that Mayor Angelo Vance
Fawcett's Subernatorial boom viii be for
mally launched tomorrow. His friends
have openly espoused his cause and are
working day and night to have both the
Democratic and Populist delegations 10
Fliensburg declare for him as their candi-
date first, last and all the time. There is
no question but that the selection OF the
Democratic delegation by the county COM
mittee Tuesday was made in Mayor Faw-
cett's interest, and that with the unit rule
they viii be power in the state conven-
ton. Ii is claimed by the mayors clos
est friends that the Populists or Pierce
county are solid for Faweett for gov
ernor against even Belt, OF Spokane
Consequently they nook for the cleo
ton by the Populist convention
tomorrow OF a delegation solid for the
mayor The leaders In the Peoples party
in this county are every one or them Fa"-
eett men. Guvnor Teats, whom ne APP
pointed member of the civil service COM
mission; Chairman Holm, or the city COM
mittee who received the appointment OF
harbormaster at the mayors hands;
Thomas Doherty. his commissioner or pub
lie works, who Is also chairman or the
county committee. and $. A. Wolf, secre-
tary of the committee and a clerk IN
Doherty's office, these and other People
party men are openly working In the
mayors interests.
The fusion promoters hope TO have the
three conventions at Ellensburg appoint
conference committees at the hrst day
session and then take a recess while these
committees formulate basis for COM
bination. The conference committee VIII
distribute the places on tie llSHSt- lA~h
IL Is expected that each convention viii
place In nomination for the offices allotted
to each party as many men as are thought
advisable or who show up enough strength
in the night Then, If the plan Is carried
out. the delegates TO the three conventions
will assemble In a joint convention and
ballot on the names placed In nomination
by the separate assemblies. OF course this
plan will afford rich opportunities for
trading and the smoothest politicians viii
gather In the plums
II is claimed IN behalf OF Mayor Fawcets
that he will profit most by the above ar
rangement as he has stronger hold upon
the Populists OF the state than Lewis, OF
King. and perhaps stronger than has even
Belt IL the Spokane men can be paclhed
with a nomination for congress from the
+east side of the mountains, Mayor Faw-
cett's friends claim that Lewis viii be
out OF the race entirely. The mayors
friends assert that he has received offers
OF support from many Pops in Eastern
Washington. particularly from the Yakima
county delegation. IL is also claimed that
the King county Pops are at heart for
Fawcett and that they would much pre-
fer him to Lewis.