The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-10-04
obut1y Populists Will Not Sup
port Fusion Nominees.
snoYER AND RYAN, DOOMED
wmaaam CochFaae, Of white River.
Rxpaains How the Roath District
vas Betrayed ~ Eugene Way
- His Henchmen-AaaFch
81 OAeehoIders Ruled the Day
VIII Vote for the ReDublicans.

~ fusion county ticket Is having a
,auxh time uf IL down In tne Twenty
Husrsh senatorial district. which comprises
art Fart OF the county OF King extending
Am the city south 70 the Pierce county
- 'sUnels b." cochrane, Of White
rves. one OF fhe organizers Of the Pqpu-
- uarsy Ia tbs county unne~ttau ngiy de-
cla-es that the Fi0En !uess OF the Populiss
county convention VII not Receive the
up1ori OF the PoInil.sis Of the district
Ncyer and Ryan. says Mr.. Cochrane. are
npsc3aiiy d.stasteful TO the populiz.s OF
- south end OF the county. Prosecuting
Attorney MeEslroy. he says may. perhaps.
= better than the other fusion nom. nses.
but the majsr portion 81 the ticket. and
naracuisry The ncsniGs of ths Popusst
convention, Will fail saert Of the usual
pcpuiis, vote Of The district
.Uneie Biz Coehrane In enc of the
tses-known rnen Ia King county. Many
ysan age, when Seattle was a small vii
hee compared with the city OF today,
Coehsane conducted logging camp on
sAe shores Of Lake Union. He has resided
& the White river valley for several years
Ag, dkvoiing his time 10 farming. He
uas one Of the first men to organize the
ropulist party In King county. That was
before the whitening touch OF fusion mad
be0 laid. q bighE. upon the hopes and
81Bfr0S1yH0 OF Tie 3s1lfu Oh early IE1OTul<sfS
compriaing the Peoples party, as it was
Known in those days.
5e.eGzte 10 almost every Popuhst con-
yenfion held IN King county since the
formation OF the party, Mr.. Cochrane has
out. battling for the principles which for
merry were held dear by the Popuiist
workers In King county In the late coun-
" convention Mr.. Cochrane and many
eeAsg delegates from the south end of the
county came TO Seattle expecting 10 see
The party awarded a fair division of the
Offices. They were especially anxious TO
secure the comm. s.onersh.p for Popu-
liz. not believing that the party was at
pnent represented on the board. They
ssk In the convention while the Populist
confefees sfameiessly traded on their
sh the ' sSer Rep ss o"mi asainst
ne most earnest protest of Cochrane.
Frank Terrace. Frank Cavanaugh and
ether weE-known Peoples party men IN
men engineered the deal so as to secure
the oenatorship I'm the Twenty-fifth dis
tdct for Way. the Democrats having
claimed II In the conference committee.
Cochrane, Terrace and other delegates from
che south district walked from the con-
yent.on. Cocarane openly announced that
he would not support the ticket.
The Popukst nominees are not such as
. commend themselves TO the men of our
party In the Twenty-fourth district" said
Mr.. Cochrane yesterday TO a Post-Inteili-
gencer reporter. we all understand how
the deal was worked. Gene Way and his
men were In complete control of the con-
yantou. They threw us down when We
asked for the comn1issionership. They dc
satec the nomination OF Meyer. who Is dis
tasteful TO the majority OF the Popul.sts
OF my section Of the county. They nomi-
mated man for assessor OF whom we
know nothing. They stood in with the
nomination OF TIM Ryan for county COM
missioner when he is without following
among the popuiists of my district They
VIII reap the whirlwiud when the votes
are counted on election day.
4 VIII not support Meyer for re-eiec-
tion and believe that nearly all of the
Populists Of this district will vote against
him. Evenson Is noJ "a bad fellow. but
We do not want to see County Commits s.
s!oner Ryan reelected. No. the ticket
viii be scratched In the Twenty by
The Populists OF that district.
The last Peoples party convention was
In the hands of lot Of anarchists social
lists and ward politicians. They had no
regard for anything save their own per-
sonai interests They overlooked the coun-
try districts as unworthy their attention.
You can depend upon IL, the fusion tick
Ct will not recsSve the vote Of the Popu-
list party OF the country south OF here.
VIII We stay at homer No. sir: Wen go
10 the polls and vote for the men whom
We think are all right among the fusion
nominees and al up the ticket with Re-
ptihijCans"