The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-08-04

A Warning.
The Republicans OF the state Of Wash
ington must take warning from the at
tempted theft OF the King county con-
ventien by the INSCRIPTIONS tools OF
Levi Ankeny. as a part OF his already
inaugurated campaign for the United
States senatorship. Even II they were
not opposed. as they are. to importing
the senatorial issue into this campaign.
they would need to be on their guard
against form OF politics which repre-
sents all that is most corrupt in Amer
lean life. They need to cleanse the
party of that dangerous and debasing
only in King but in every other county
Of this state.
We speak by the card In referring to
King county, for there an open confess
sion has been made. The unconditional
surrender made by the Humes-Guio
forces yesterday, when they withdrew
their fraudulent chairman and Joined
with the rest Of the convention in NAM
ing Hon. s. H. Piles by reclamation,
stamped the first days proceedings with
the brand OF chicane. 1t was an adj
mission that their tools had falsely re-
corded the vote OF the delegates. 1t
was an admission that they had seated
chairman who had no more title to
the place than any other delegate upon
the floor. It was confession that for
an entire day they had held by force
what they got by fraud. until an arous-
ed public sentiment and the refusal OF
honorable men In their own ranks to
stand further for such outrage forced
them TO abandon the plan OF running
the convention or splitting the Repub-
lican party In King county into frag-
ments.
The same Influences that have been at
work In King county. the same tactics
that were brought TO naught by an out
burst OF public wrath. are to be found
In every corner OF the state. They con-
stitute the working effective OF the An
keny machine. They consist Of a lot
OF political workers for whom the peni-
Tertiary Is too good. and Of unlimited
cash resources to carry through the
schemes which they concoct. They are
alien to Repubiicanism, hostile to party
success. certain II unrebuked to bring
the Republican cause into disfavor and
disrepate. They hide at present behind
the guhernatorlal candidacy OF Thomas
]. Humes. but they use him only as
one Of their conveniences and are ready
to stop at nothing which they think win
win.
In this connection the Republicans OF
| Washington should consider what has
happened in walla walla, where the
malevolent power OF this machine Is
exerted at shortest range and with
greatest effect. The primaries there
were turned into a farce. No Southern
state ever more openly suppressed the
negro vote than the Anksny following
eliminated by arbitrary and Illegal
methods the antl-AnSeny vote In wana
wallA A political club was packed hy
| the agents and managers Of this sena-
toFiai candidate Then his political
henehmen declared this to be the repre-
sentative Republican body. membership
In which was necessary qualification
TO voting at the primaries under the
can II is absurd Illegal. snbverslve OF
political freedom as we'll as political
honesty, bat II Is consistent part Of
| the methods adopted everywhere by
these people when they come Into pos
session 81 party machinery. To win n
| their hrst consideration. buIldoxing or
bnying Is a mere matter OF local expe-
! aiency
No matter what candidates are nom
mated by the Republican party Of
Washington for any Office. II cannot toll
crate these methods or recognize such
machine except to smash It into frag-
ments- When party becomes the prey
/ ~ brigandsge or doodle, IL is on the
way % defeat And the state Of Wash
ington. securely Republican as It is to-
day. could not touch the unclsan thing
without danger thst the people would
rsnoanee H. For the sake of clean and
honest men, for the sake Of good gov
eminent, fer the sake Of triumphant
1 Rspablieanism most Of all, we rs,aics In