The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1898-11-17
ADVERTISING RATES:
The Of1cial Paper of San Juan County
THURSDAY. NOV. II. 1898.
CONCERNING THE SENATORSHIP.

Commenting on the results of the
election in their bearing upon the SEN
atorial contest, the Seattle Times says:
''The people of the state have voted that
John L. Wilson should be reelected to
the United States Senate. Of this there
seems to be no doubt whatever. The
Times, while regretting the result, freely
comedies that he is by all the canons OF
party warfare and success entitled to the
spoils-the office for which he has con :
tested against apparently overwhelming
Odds"
The Times is very often "off7' both
in its premises and conclusions, but in
this particular instance the indications
are that it has read the hand writing
on the wall correctly. Only five small
counties out of the total number OF
thirty-four counties in the state were
carried by the fusionists, whose entire
strength in the legislature will be only
twenty-six at most out of total MEM
bership of 112, and of this number six
teen are fusionist hold-over members
of the senate. If they were not they
would not be likely to be. there this
year. Senator Wilson can doubtless
count upon the votes of nearly all the
Republican members from Eastern
Washington, as it is not likely that
the candidacy of Mr.. Ankeny will be
considered seriously outside of Walla
Walla county, and 1t is quite certain
that there are many strong Wilson
men among the Western Washington
members. Throughout the campaign
the Senator's course was most dignified
and straight forward. Instead of un-
dertaking to make the senatorial ques-
ton an issue he expressed himself at
the outset most emphatically against
such policy and urged that Republic
can efforts be directed to securing a
Republican legislature, in which he
would be quite willing to take his
chances with the other candidates.
Under the circumstances, the Post
Intelligencer's persistent advocacy of
the candidacy of Mayor Humes, of
Seattle, has seemed to THE ISLANDER
ill timed and unseemly, but the great
work which that great journal has
done for the Republican cause fairly
entities it to lenient judgment on this
point even from Senator Wilson's
staunchest friends. So far as the peo-
pie of the state generally are concerned
they are by no means so DESTROYS of
having one senator from Seattle as the
Pr. may possibly imagine, nor is it at
all likely that they will favor turning
down" Senator Wilson because he
happens to reside in the same city
with renegade Republican who had
enough money to buy seat in the
senate two years ago from Populist
legislature, and whose brother is now
commonly understood to be the prin-
cipal owner of the Post-Intelligencer.
1t would be far better politics and bet
ter policy to re-elect Senator Wilson
with view to electing a Western
Washington Republican to succeed
Senator Turner as the Republican party
seldom fails to do justice to the men
whom it has honored by making them
servants of the people, and the people
of Washington have never had more
earnest, faithful or efficient servant at
the nations capital than Senator Will
con. AS the Times says, 'by all the
canons of party warfare and success he
is entitled to reelection