The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-07-26
Specia! Stan Correspondence.

Specia! Stan Correspondence.
SPOKANE. July 25.-win fusion he q
success? is question graveiy worrying
some Of the fusion ringsters. pariieularly
in the Democratic party. Just now there
IS sauaI blowing. and It IS extremely
dangerous for the Unbalanced craft
The center pole Of fusion in Spokane Is
Deep Creek" Jones' farmer by aI.sga-
tioa office holder by profession, and gem
eral political wire puHer. who in the last
general election was chairman of tho DEM
ocratia state central committed Jones Ii
a plausible sort OF n fellow. who has A
frank face. a broad mouth. made 10 smile
by wholesale or retail. according TO the
quantity required, and "gift Of CAB that
would make him famous II no were a pu-
gilist. Jones is very acrobatic -sort OF
ing through the fusion fire after office last
year is still fresh In the public mind.
Several years ago Deep Creek Jones
so designated TO distinguish him from
Wheat Chart" Joues-was a county conf
missioner in Spokane. lie was then "A
most costly court house in the state here
and saddling a load Of interest-bearing
bonds upon the people. he retired 10 h!s
Deep creek farm TO reconnolter Nothing
was In sight. and he escaped again. This
time landing In the fusion camp, and con.
finued his search for spoils. The state CEN
trail committee supported him comfortably
die. and Jones tlen veconnoitered again,
The best job in the gift of the governor
was warden of the state penIfentiary. ard
Jones planted his discovery stake and filed
n location notice with the governor. But
the governor, though Jones had stunned
the state with him and drank his 1Rogersp
whisky In order 10 make the boys think
Rogers was a good fellow" without
equivocaton and with malice aforethought
unceremonious,y turned Jones down, ana
great was the row thereat. Old resident,
Of Olympia, who had been through all
sorts of squalls and storms say to this
day that they never knew OF such a aui-
phurous smell and trembling OF the,earta
as there was around the capitol when
Jones unbuttoned the upper lap OF his
mouth and poured out the torrents ~
abuse. Poor. kind Governor Rogers crawl
cd into his rev gubernatoriai dignity and
shivered.
Then Jones got great moral hunch IN
himself. and he resolved TO stand there-
after for party principle and party honor
and forever 10 osehew v:Io combinations
with the jetsam ana hotsam on the sen
OF politics Jones' moral wave created a.
much excitement at the time as the death
~ Caesar or the story Of the Ao0d In ear
llcr days. with no Job in sight. Jones
rushed of and announced that he would
forever eschew fusion. reorgqnlxe the Dem
ocratic party on old Jeffersonian princi-
pies. and with this mighty host he would
return and smite the governor on his so
lar plexs. And Jones did call the Lngh
moguls. ana they met. sat and pondercd.
Then Il was tnat the governor discovered
an antidose Tor Jones. II was a 81 20
a year job in Spokane as deputy grain IN
spoctor, and strange 10 relate IL relieved
jones of an high moral ideas al once and
ne vas himself again. Since then Jones
has been travelling around with lis freight
car seals "A book and a three-yafd smile.
fo~ Jones had tob. ard great Was Jon.s
Recently there was Democratic a Pop
u!ist ard Silver Republican convention
held In spokane jones attended the who.s
show. lie wore a suit # sshite duck and
had used FTazers axle grease on ths
hiuges of MS tengue. He vas not tho only