The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-08-11
e...m. If Fusion officials to Hold
Their Positions.
esealFF MOVER THE LEADER.
=. a,teupf TO Get Popuitst Con-
..n. In This City to Nominate
vsfI County Ticket, After Hav-
Elected Delegates tO the state
c.evention-A Question. q" to Its
.~.,ssy-The state SeaatorshtDs.

ar.,-cla.s coup detat Is being en-
....ered by the fusion officials comprising
q. courthouse ring. 1t is to be sprung
-. the Popullst convention meets to
-. a.,eeaies 10 the state convention at
~....<+,,re. The scheme is nothing more
= - than an attempt to get TIA conver-
-. an proeeed to the nomination OF full
80 ticket. with the cooperation OF
d. r,~mocrats and Silver Republicans.
..cordlng TO the story told 10 a Post
,.,sll,sencer reporter yesterday by Pop
-, the Popnfists In the courthouse have
-,sox,.ea this step as the best and safest
,.sns OF defeating those who are advo-
..,,,s a redistribution OF the spoils. The
movement. it 10 said. is being engineered
= the interest particularly OF Sheriff ".
q Mover. Assessor Alexander Mcdonald
.sd County Auditor E. II. Evenson.
A has been fully told In the Post-Intel-
sx.scer, there Is a large and somewhat
formidable element among both Populists
and Democrats, who openly oppose any
srooosition looking to the denomination OF
q. Meyer has enemies In his own party
sao never sleep. Prosecuting Attorney
ucEiroy finds thorns in his path and Au-
Gtor Eyenson and County Treasurer G. r.
Ehistleeey have found IL necessary TO go
out upon tho highways and byways ia or
exy 10 fertility themselves for the struggle
tOr denomination.
When the Populist county committee
called the convention for August 81. IL was
distinctly understood that the convention
vas 10 elect delegates to the state con-
wnilon and then adjourn. Chairman Win
sos has openly stated IL as his opin-
Ion that separate convention should be
called to nominate the county ticket The
sss hundreds OF Populists In tho COT
who look askance at any attempt 10 crag
the senatorial question or the state ticket
Int the fight for the county Offices In
etA>r words, the oid-line Populists Will
fsht anything that looks like an attempt
70 introduce trading into the conventions
o. the party.
II the Populists at the courthouse who
taire denomination wanted 10 have one
convention for the election Of delegates
anG the nomination OF county ticket.
they made no effort to have the county
committee act accordingly. II Is said by
fopulists who ought 20 know that the
stockholders preferred 10 ADOPT other
means to carry out their purposes. in 9TH
N words. that they intend eiecting enough
deseSales 10 the county nvention to Sc
cure the passage OF a resolution under
which the convention will 20 ahead after
delegates are chosen and nominate full
county ticket with the help, OF course. Of
the Democrats and Silver Republicans.
An Interesting legal question has been
raised In this connection. ropulIsts who
have heard OF the alleged plans 81 the Of
Aeeaoidsrs are asking each other whether
tadef the law a convention called for a
specific purpose. that of electing delegates
70 state convention. can nominate coun-
Is officers
II was quietly given out yesterday that
Labor Commissioner William BIackmau IL
likely 10 become a candidate for sheriff. II
i said that Mr., Blackman's friends VIII
VAT until they car determine what the
chances are for the Democrats getting
he sheriff. office In the apportionment OF
ias spciis BY the conference committee II
said that II the shrievalty is taken from
ns Populists, Mr.. Biackman will blossom
eat as candidate.
This would involve the tenure OF office
o. County Treasurer Charles f. Whittle-
seq. Some populst would likely. IL is said,
q named as a candidate for this ONCE in
case the Democrats ask for the sheriff's
Once. There Is some talk among both
Democrats and Populists ~ Swan Lewis
Is candidate Tor treasurer.
The Democrats viii probably ask for the
state senatorship In the Twenty ninth dts
rict- Senator Virgil A. Pusey. now de-
ceased. represented this district in the last
s'gs'asure being a holdover The ronu-
lists asked and received two years ago
tar.e representatives from the district.
namely: J. -. Edwards. Paul Land and
lsersas Winsor
kx-Coector az Customs F. A. McDon-
81 Is candidate for state senator from
sse Twentynlnth. He Is a Democrat and
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