The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-03-13
MAJORITY IS FOR FUSION.
POPULIsT CONVENTION WILL PROB
ABLY DECLARE THAT WAY.
Noisy in Its Demands for the
Head of the Ticket, VIII PrOba-
bly, He Defeated fn Convention.

Special Dispatch to the Post Intellgencar.
TACOMA, March IA careful digest
of the 125 delegates chosen for the Populist
convention at the primaries last evening
discloses that thirty-two are at present
holding offices and places under either the
state. city or county The personnel of
the balance is on the surface far from an
assurance of an independent ticket being
placed in the field. The primaries have
served TO add fuel TO the flame which
seems to consume the "howlers" and
today the declarations and threats on their
part are louder than ever before.
In the face OF this noisy demonstration
the fusionists. men who favor Fawcett,
but who pretend 10 feel an Indifference "a
10 who is the fusion candidate for mayor
SO long as he is Il winner assume the at
utude of the didn't / tell you" In
other words all the hurrah and buster
coming from the disgruntled is sized up
as a bluff.
II the talk of those most interested on
the other side of the fusion question can
be taken for one-half what it is sup
posed to mean. war to a bloody finish Is
TO result in the fusion ranks. The howl
ers" say their convention will name a
Committee to meet the others in confer
ence which VIII b. instructed to demand
the head OF the ticket: that unless this
Is conceded the Populists will fight alone.
of for the Populst nomination for mayor.
lie is an iron moulder. has served sew
eral years in the council, and is pointed
70 with no limited pride by the 'howers''
a man of honesty and true worth.
In spite of the noisy talk TO be heard
the delegations to the Popuist convention
do not augur anything like a walk-over
for. n straight ticket. The wheels with
in wheels" OF which so much is to be
heard. are TO be noticed in the erraIic
motion OF the delegation machine as a
whole and TO the average oniooker the
delegation seems wide split internally
as with reference TO the balance OF the
triple combine. But there are a few of
the most bitter enemies of the Faweett
administration among the delegates-men
who will stop a nothing 10 prevent fusion
if IL ~ 10 result I'm renomnatng Fa%cett
These have been so loud in their oppo-
sition that they dare not recede, however
much they may want TO. Included In this
list is Guvnor Teats. He and Councilman
Owens James Ross. A. p. Tugwell and
very few others are said 10 be the avowed
leaders in the scheme for a Populist at
the head OF the fusion ticket: the alterna-
tive being n straight Popul.st ticket.
Registration continues heavy. and ii APP
pears today that the total vote Is sure 10
exceed 5000. OF this it Is estimated 20
per cent viii not be polled. This calcu-
lation will make the actual full vote some
thing Ike 1000. Yesterday 49, names were
added 10 the LIST al the clerks office and
today nearly as many more. making the
registration to date about T. 100. Two full
days. Monday and Tuesday. yet remain TN
which 10 register.
The Democratic primaries held this
evening resulted in a majority Of Fawcett
delegates being chosen. In a few seat
tered prencinCts delegations OF different
stripe We're selected. but these are not At
all loud in the preference Some are cred
tied with fayoring Conrad 2Ioska, and
some Attorney 4. i. Bennett. Eawcett
leaders declare themselves well satisfied
with the result Of the primaries and ex-
press confidence i'm ther strength in the
coming convention. Anti-Fawcett Popu-
lists tonight declare that IL Fawcett dele
gates are i'm the majority In the Demo-
cratic convention straight Populist
ticket will surely be nominated.