The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-01-20

perfect its report tomorrow. Each mem
her 81 the committee expressed MS indi-
vidusI views as 10 the best course 70 pe
pursued for osgsniza ton There was pei
feet harmony among Us. and the commit
tee will present SIS report without dissent
Ing voice. There have been really no fur
Their Developments thus far since the meet
ing ~ Masonic nall last night. THIS has
been a good day for talking OYER matters
and the talking has shown that the sent
ments expressed Saturday night were n0t
mere emotional Impulses. There Is not, or
rather ] should say there has not peeh
much bitterness Of feeling toward DR. JoT-
dan personally. The feeling has hereto
fore been directed against the mebtoas
practiced by those who were seeking TO
gain control OF the convention At the
same time I confess that IL Is Impossible
not 20 look upon Or. Jordan as the mead
and representative Of these methods
The Machine ami How 1t Was Fun
Ii goes without saying that the result
reached by the supporters OF jordan ~ ths
convention Saturday vas not the result OF
the moment but was arrived az by careful
Is lad plans. which required months Tor
their maturing and a resort 10 the most IN
scrupuIOus methods for their conceps+oh
aud successful carrying out. The "taole
movement from beginning 10 END -ohsti-
tutes d chapter il machine politics winch
is epit0mzed IN the following lntSFF-S"
with a leading Populist.
some months ago" sad he. Jordan,
after thoroughly digestlng the. pri'htfs
election law. began the work or securing
control OF the city central committee lhd
its chairman and secretary Gaming To-
gether d few members OF the committee ne
had a resolution passed that any member
III .
meetings Of that body should nave ms seat
declared vacant - holding three uiiad-
x,rtised meetings, IL was an easy mater 10
place ali antl-JOrdan men under the ban O.
this rule. Among those whose seats We're
thus declared vacant was W r. nays,
former chairman Of the county commute
the present King county member OF the
state cvDfrai committee.
"As the next step, Secretary James Mo-
ran was badgered and annoyed Iii ne re-
signed and made way for Jordan pro-
tege. H. C. Morse. When the committee
had been thus reformed, committee on
organization headed ~ ". J. Larkin vas
appointed 10 reorganize the WARD elu5s so
that their officers should be faVora1 Die 10
Jordan.
'As a fair sample OF how this work was
carried on in all the wards, take the case
OF the Second. In that ward there mas been
for years a regularly organized cluo VITA
roll OF about 100 members.
Instead Of applying 10 this club and
having Il reorganize under the new rule,
+. G. Wallace. late empioye at the Waiia
Walla penitentiary, met IN room with
two others, residents OF the ward, ana or
garszed a club with himself as president
AMI the other two as officers all Jordan
men.
zone Of the rules established by the cen
tral committee was that no name could be
lfxsa ola 10 "a
had first passed favorably the member
ship committee consisting OF five club ofh-
GERS Furthermore. ia the committees
call for primary elections Ii was prescribed
that two advertised open meetings should
be held by each ward club between Janu-
airy and January II for enrolling new
members.
The old Second Ward Club saw that an
attemp. was being made TO disfranchise
II In a body. Accordingly. at the first ad
Vertised meeting a committee of five from
the old club was sent TO the Wallace club
10 discuss the proper method Of getting all
the members on the roll. This committee
arrived just fifteen minutes after the adj
Vertised time and found the new club adj
jOurned and the hall ia darkness. Deter
mined to be on hand at the second meet
ing the old club went in a body, reached
the place fifteen minutes before the hour
advertised. but again found that II was too
late.
Thus was the entire old club prevented
from voting. Later on. the Wallace club
held it's primaries and selected a set of del
egates composed OF a few Populists and
the rest Democrats and Republicans.
Even some OF these declined to attend the
convention The old club also elected del
egates. but these. as you know. were not
seated.
Delegates of the ''Stuned'' Committee.
stfss-
was in the corrupt central committee,
which certified as delegates such names as
u pleased, and these, within seY enteen
hours after the primary polls closed. were
driven into the convention 9S 'Trin,1 acie'
delegates. to vote al The organization Of
the convention. As soon as hey had as
sembIed and elected a temporary chairman.
n motion was made and carried that the
delegates on the lists furnished ~ the con-
trial committee be declared lie only dele
gates 70 the convention The 9nu-sor3an
men made an effort 70 have a comm ttee
on credentials appointed. bu- tbs was
voted down, the jordan mon well knowing
that If the properly elected delegates we're
seated their candidate would have but few
votes IN the convention.
1T was for these reasons tfat the Ninth
ward delegation left the convention fol-
lowed by members Of he First second,
/ Third Fifth. Sixth. Seventh and Eighth.
IN nthtf WORDS JofN3h ilatncl inc hfie-
gates 30 that convention, AMI then fear
ful that his commands hight not ae car
ried out. ne went down mo the m re Of
ward politics as president Of his ward club
and chairman Of the executive committee
which wrote the fraudulent Est Of 'pr.ma
! facie' delegates. The Jordan machine was
"A perfect piece o. mechanism: Int ne got
| a lot 81 scab workmen % run IT,. They
! have turned the Peoples party ,nto
/ rhoupiuy block The next head 90 fan " n
! 20 Jordaa's.'
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