The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-07-27
SEATTLE. FRIDAY, july ~.
Not a Roll Of HONOR

NUt q Null VI UuuOT$
1t II the business men Of King county.
men of high standing in the commun
ity. men Of large interests in It's present
ana future. who solicited Senator Frink
70 become candidate for the govern
or's ONCE. This they did for several
excellent reasons: because they desired
to see the highest Office in the state
filled by a man Of business qualities and
public training: because they wished to
Danish from the campaign this year the
pcrniciosis side.issues which visiting
almoners OF the needy have insisted
upon bringing into IT, because they de-
sired to have a King county man who
would stand for King county's inter-
ests and not be the playthIng or the
tool Of any master. Search the list Of
those who are working earnestly in his
behalf and YOU win ind them rspresen-
sative % the highest intelligence. mp
rightness and fdelity to Republican
principles Of this county. And they are
al King county men. No other section
or county has put finger In the pie.
A roll Of the supporters of Mayor
Humes makes a different showing. We
DO not say that there are not among
HE friends many good men ana true
Republicans We do say that they
have got themselves mixed up with
as unsavory a lot as ever packed
caucus or stuffed n ballot box
or bought an election. II the char
scter--or want OF character--of their
associations does not warn Them
Il ought TO set the masses OF our
citizens and voters to thinking. For
wherevers the buxxards are gathered,
we know what must be the attracting
force We publish In another column
roster OF the principal leaders OF the
mayors campaign; the men who have
been In council with him, who have
helped 10 set up the deal of which hts
candidacy IL part together with the
men who are actively engaged In push
ing his cause preparatory TO the prim-
aries on Monday evening II embodies
facts SO striking and suggestions 30
omlnaus thas they convey their own
moral and their own warning.
All the men In the state Of Washing
ton who are Immediately Identified
with the senatorial interests OF Levi
Ankeny arr on the list. They are there
because they have been and are active
paisn- They have been upon the
ground: they have held meeting after
meeting In Seattle. they have put up
the ioh which their underings are ex-
pcctea 20 carry through From Bel
bingham Hay 20 tho head OF the sound
and from waila wails 10 the oiymp-
ians there IL no section boss OF the
Ankeny state machine that has not been
called into consaltatlon They have
expressed themselves boldly. defiantly.
tnsoiently upon the streets and In the
public press They have said that what
King county must do was all settled
beforehand. II must name the man
who would be meat helpful 20 MT
Ankeny's Interests two years from now.
or Il would set nothlns. And the pro-
grammr that they have mapped out
for ,his COUNTY they are personally con-
Quoting TO saeh fate as may await a,
Along with this upper class In the
servants hall 10 grouped ~ picturesque
a lot 81 soldiers OF fortune as ever
sought political employment under any
leader. All the speosalsiss are repre-
scented. There are men who know how
Z, ooiontre voters men who can
squeeze the last penny that IL win
stand from the under world. men whose
business Il Is TO carry primaries re-
sardless Of the peoples wishes, men
Nho gather tribute and men who spend
a, a motley lot Of disrspatahles they
are largely without visible means OF
mpport. though not few win their
l,y,,.,y as panders TO the vices and pas
s,onx of men. II the chief workers for
she uumes candidacy could be marched
"a procession through the streets Of