The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1900-05-25

be accomplished without bitter op-
position. AS said by the Pie
maker last week it means that
James Hamilton Lewis is in the
saddle IN the state at present, and
that he will either be nominated
for governor or dictate the man
that is nominated. The Goodwin
Hart contest has been widely dis
cussed among the leading Repub-
llcans, and many of them took
active parts on one side or the
other. In the opinion Of the Pie
maker, owing to the part Hart has
taken in the political affairs of
this city IN the past, not much
sympathy, is felt for him in his
defeat at Spokane by his Demo-
cratic friends. It is true that quite
q few of the leading Democrats of
Seattle were associated with Mr..
Hart in his efforts to down Goodwin,
on the grounds that the latter had
surrounded himself with number
Of Single takers, but, on the whole,
public sympathy was with Goodwin
over Hart and it was delighted at
the results of the Spokane con-
ventiCn.
There is no doubt in the Pie
makers mind but that many Re
publicans took an active part in
the Godwin-Hart primaries, which
accounts for the latter making as
hard a fight as he did. The fine
Italian hands of George Piper and
DR.. Samuel Burdett and others
were plain to be seen at the Demo-
cratic primaries, and this was done
with the direct understanding that
Hart was to help Piper next fall
in the Republican primaries.
Unless the Piper-Ankeny comb
nation manages to take King
county to the next Republican
state convention, Ankeny will be
undone politically and George
Piper will have no banker to bleed.
Republicans may expect to meet at
the polls next fall when the guber-
material scrap is on the thickest
and hottest, we'll known Democra-
tic politicians who will be working
for the Piper-Humes combination
for governor These are queer
political turns, but it will be re-
membered that we are taught
that, politics make strange bed
fellows"
All political factions in King
county are practically now of one
opinion, that it is the duty of King
county Republicans to 90 to the
next state convention asking for a
governor instead of a congressman.
They realize that it would be next
to impossible to get the latter and
almost certainty of getting the
former. Last Saturday evening
the King County Republican club
decided that its members would
make a fightto secure the governor
ship from this county and it did
SO with a vengeance. The efforts
of the Mckinley club have from
its very inception been directed
along the same channel and the
same is true Of the Young Mems
Republican Club Each of these
clubs in way have their candi-
dates and will endeavor to have
the Republican voters see as they
do, as to their respective candi-
dates, to the extent as to have the
next Republican county conven-
ton endorse their favorite for the
governorship. The members of
the King County Republican Club,
1t is very apparent, will endeavor
to secure such an endorsement for
Hon. j M. Frink, the Mckinley
Club will work for the endorse
ment OF Mayor Tom Humes while
the Young Mems Republican Club
will seek the endorsement of the
county for Hon E. Ell. Guie. A
battle royal in the Republican
primaries next fall promises to be
the result of this three cornered
fight. AS said in last weeks issue
the fight may become so intense
that a compromise candidate will