The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-02-08

nr r~sfhour has n word % two more 10
ssv <~,ucsrnars she senatorial unEGdle. In
an interview wIfh reporter yesterday
he sad:
..Nfv Only motive 81 making the charges
was sfmply 70 press upon an apAlnetie
n.h1ie ne nseesssfy of selecting better
rfazz - u,eu for the legislature ! be-
Heva ne majority Of sn1s, as well as
orher Legislatures. IS composed Of honest
rnAn wse~A only 4sSlrs is 70 DO rse best
they ear for their constituents But the
vs-ssf INTEGRITY holds the balance OF pow
- IN most 81 our senatorial contests. ana
sne ~txsagle for this vote has done more
20 demo rallre cur public life raan any
thing else ] know or
1T cur legislature is brave enough snd
patriotic enough 20 purge Itself OF this
aiareputahls element IL viii not only rem
der . vaIaab.s service 10 the state. but
70 tbs party IN power. II hey fail 10 do
tatg. the susioa party viii meet over
vyh4ify,luE defeat TWO years hence.
ssTh@ public conscience IS aroused.
,rhsra IL q popular tamAnd Cor the fullest
Investigation possible, and IN view OF the
action already taken by TIE house COM
ualsiee. a wssSing-out process seems i'm
nIinent.
the peoole VINO favor the election OF
senators BY popular ballot Nsch OF our
rnayt important legislation Is hindeTsd or
rallroaded through oy the trades OF
senatorial sontSas and q general dsmor-
anzation Of public life Is inevitable"
Questioned az 20 the senatorial election
and the investigation which followed,
Senator Squire saia
IN regaFd 70 the .nyes tlgation started
by Or. Calhoun. l would say that 1t was
commenced without any computation WITH
me. I must say that ] have never had
much confidence In any good resats that
may flow from H. However. after DR..
Calhoun had made his statement, and
was called upon by the coEmittee OF the
legislature. I WIS bound 10 state the facts
IS they occurred in the presence Of DR..
Calhoun and myself.
The vote IN the legislature at no time
showed my full strength. II is well known
that the fusion party consisted OF eighty
six votes out OF IL. or the elgaty-six, If
ty-seven, a majority OF the entire legis-
laturs, were OF the Old Populist party.
leaving about thirty Silver Republicans
snd Democrats. The thirty Sis2er Repub-
Leans and Democrats originally were
about equally divided between Judge
Turner and myself. There We're about
forty POpulists who were bound TO vote
for a Popullst only. 50 that as long as the
Populsls continued to vote for their Pc
a ma jorfty. The other Populists were In
elinsd TO vote for any good man In either
OF The three elements Of the fusion party.
The plan adopted by my friends was to
let the PoDGl!sts vote for thsir own Pc
culiar candidates until they should see
thai they could not ssect any OF them,
and reserve our showing OF strength until
this process had been gone through with,
thea 10 throw our grand vots-to execute
a sort OF coup de- main This was the
course that our Popalist friends advised.
The plan OF my friends failed OF success.
as Is wen known, because the Popaiists
held of too long for their own peculiar
candidates. Men who were thoroughly
committed 10 me wished first to demon
strate their loyalty so the Populist party,
and they kept on this course 80 long in
killing of one PopuMst candidate after
another that the sfarpshooters OF the sue
cessful candidate had al opportunity 70
pick Off the wavering men one by one and
add them TO Judge Turner's strength.
''Afterward IL became apparent that
some OF the Populist leaders had been
picked of. and they took advantage OF
the fact that the people OF tho state were
getting weary OF the delay and caused
such 4 stampede ssat my friends became
oisheartened and failod 10 show their true
hand. The trading element manifested
itself in such an unmistakabla way that
the managers OF nay canvass felt like re-
firing from the contest"
Senator Squirss friends say that II the
contest had been decided upon principle
and upon the senator's record, he would
have been reelected