The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1900-07-13

he will likewise be defeated for the
nomination, the knowledge of which
is squirting each one Of them on to
superhuman political efforts.
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Politicians from all over the coun-
ty are now admitting that Tom
Humes is beaten in getting the in
dorsement Of King county for gov
ernor so badly that he will not re-
member that he was ever in the race.
Said one man this week, who is a
politician right, and who is not very
enthusiastic in the Frink movement:
"Humes is the worst beaten man that
ever went into a fight He knows
that he is beaten, but he is hoping to
make an unexpected scratch for
a showing to Ankeny and thereby get
his support in spite Of King county.
Guie, in my opinion, will be defeated
IN his own precinct. | really am as
tonished to see Frink make the show
ing that he is. He has developed into
very popular candidate
Arthur G. Rumble failed to get
what the Humes people promised
him, and he is now knitting the
Humes boom with vengeance.
Rumble believes that he can split the
First ward vote with the Humes peo-
pie and deliver the same to Frink,
and he further believes that he can
take one or two country precincts
from Humes and turn them over to
the Frink people. Thus does one
after the other of Mr.. Humes' fol-
lowers drop off from him. The de-
cent man that is found in the Humes
camp at present must feel very lone
some, and those decent men seen
there are looked at suSpiciously by
all other good people. When a can
dldate for high office depends on
blacklegs, scullions, cutthroats and
bunco men for his principal support
it is high time that the good people
give him the grand go-by.
Sore and chagrined at his second
failure in playing the part of a stalk
ing horse for Levi Ankeny, Mayor
Humes, Of Seattle, is resorting to
threats.
Mayor Humes is a man who has
been a candidate for eighteen public
offices during the fifteen years he has
been In the state. Having succeeded
IN controlling the vote of the slums
and being elected mayor Of Seattle
for second term, almost before his
term began he announced himself as
a candidate for the Republican NOM
nation for governor. He secured
the Ankeny backing and influence
after entering into an agreement that
If nominated and elected he would
use the power of his gubernatorial of
flee to control the legislature so as to
secure the selection of Levi Ankeny
to succeed Senator Turner. Mr.. An
keny nturn was then to use his sem
atorial and other influences, with the
emphasis on the "Other," to secure
the selection Of Gov. Humes to sue
coed Senator Foster.
In this way Seattle was to secure
two senators and the political goose
was to hang high. Mayor Humes did
not count upon any Seattle opposi-
ton, and when the friends of State
Senator F nix sought the gubernato-
rial nom nation for him, there was
CONSERVATION in the Humes-Ankeny
camp. The Ankeny organs were in
structed to set up the Wilson scare
crow and howl themselves black in
the face in opposition to alleged ma
chine politics.
The game didn't work. Not only
have the stalwart, Independent and
loyal Republicans Of King county
rallied around Senator Frink, but J.
OB. Scobey has secured a good-sized
following in the southwest. Even
caucus-bolting E. Hester Guie has
developed political strength that
exceeds that of Mayor Humes in his
home county.