The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1900-09-07

! ia"' may be cited and proven that
o"oulu restrain any honest man from
suggesting his name for the high nosi.
'l0h ne has 80 completely disgraced9
1t IL intended that if he is suDnorted
III convention, 1t shall be with ewes omen
anu IL lie Is forced upon the fusion nsrtv
Tue responsibility will not rest with
Cnose VINO have had ample opportunitv
| lot forming just estimate of bis do-
| spicable nature. HIS ue'
Turner's Fine Italian Hand
Tacoma Ledger: Some extra g.
work should have been anticinafod a. tthe 4Le
Seattle populist pOtlatch. Senator IT, o
ner, already twice distinguished fnr a.
tatOrlal successes. was known tn baua
no greater interest in the fusion affaiu
than the nomination of Rogers Ua
had abundant resources and . EaIl ~
tablished record for unscruDulouanass
ne nad reason to be desperate; his one
slender nope Tor reelection to the senate
depended upon the nomination and ro-
election of Rogers.
The practical politics of the Seattle
situation we're obvious to everyone 20.
miliar with the inner workings of tho
original fusion, and what Turner had to
gage the prospective patronage and mil
Vi the goVernOrs office was not so great
task az the one he performed success
fully at ElIensburg.
by lar the most popular choice of the
iusionlsts for governor four years ago
was Colonel Lewis. The King county
pOpuist delegation, dominated bv anti
Wallace democrats, was the most poten-
t1PtOF in no a;,rbk
conventions. They stood by Lewis and
would have made him governor but for
Turner, who was running the conference
committee as the representative of the
10 to l silver convention, and had made
plans to secure nominee favorable to
his design to break into the United
States senate.
Rogers was his man, but Rogers had
made a record while member of the
Legislature, two years previous, that was
supposed TO have shocked, if not par
alyzed the sensitive /. .elings of the hon
est popullsts throughout the state He
had accepted annual railroad passes in
violation OF the platform pledges to
which he had subscribed Worse still.
and grievOusly SO, he had ridden under
the privilege of these corrupting paste
eied without cost he had collected the
perlured fares from the state. fac
simile of the pass had been published,
and the mileage collections from the
state treasury checked up.
Rogers was roundly denounced by the
opposition as Detty rascal and a be-
trayer OF his party. Although he was
popular with the middle-Ofthe readers
hn al e - II.
and pharlsaical virtues, the better ele-
ment among them joined in the adoption
OF resolution which eliminated him
from the race, as dishOnOrably ineligible,
and thus the nomination of Lewis
seemed assured
Turner had every reason to fear for
the fate OF his senatorial ambition with
Lewis as governor. The colonel was a
pretty lusty candidate for the United
States seDatOrship himself Besides, his
affiliatiOn with Turner and Winston was
mere temporary pXpedipnt, and they
knew it.
1t was decided, therefore, to cheat him
of the victory already half won. How
this was done in detail may never be
known but the subtle influences brought
to bear upon the populist convention
caused a majority to rescnd the anti
Rogers resolution. With the Spokane
whtewashing thus administered the
Puyallup man was slated by Turner's
conference committee for governor and
Lewis was sidetracked for congress. In
the recent struggle for place on the Tur-
ner ticket we witnessed the spectacle of
Lewis begging for his friend Ronald
what Gilman four years ago begged for
him-the congressional nomination.