The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1900-02-23
Political Pot-Pie.

The battle at the Republican
! primaries and convention held il
this city since the last issue oil
this paper ragged with ferceness
that was unprecedented in the an
mails of Seattle. 1t is useless to
say at this time. that Tom Humes
won out, for that you know too
well, but the methods he was COM
PEELED to resort to in order to win
do not reflect much credit on his
winning. For the first time in
the history Of the Republican
party in this city it was compelled
to colonize voters from the tender
loln" district in the respectable
and resident parts of the city to
defeat the contentious of good gov
eminent. 1t seems to the Pie
maker that the Humes workers
found out just how many Repub-
hcan voters there would likely be
in the resident portions of the city
and then registered equally as
many hobo voters to offset their
wishes and then waged the battle,
with this host Of colonized
voters. The vote in every pre-
clnct in the city shows the closest
and most hotly contested one ever
reported at primary, and the
whole vote in the convention
showed an overwhelming one for
Mr.. Humes, but that was no cri-
terion as to the actual vote through
out the city, for the opposition to
Humes lacked but small vote in
every precinct Of over-balancing
his and thus showing as lage an
opposition as did it show favorable.
There is no doubt but that 300
votes scattered throughout the
wards would have made the oppo-
sitiOn to Humes in the convention
three to one.
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An incident in the convention
was that, the Humes opposition
would cast votes for Will Parry
for mayor even after he had thrown
them down at every turn Of the
road. The church folk can lay the
cause of their failure to turn
Humes down at the door Of no one
else save Will Parry, that is, if re-
ports along that line be true. He,
it is said, dilly-dallied along with
them, not exactly refusing and not
accepting, until it was too late for
them to concentrate on any one
else, and when everything was
ripe for Humes victory he threw
them over like so much chaff.
There is no doubt but that Moran
Bros. wanted Parry in the city
council, for it is there that he can
serve them best. Then, again, &C
cording to common street rumor,
Mr.. Parry has railroad interests
that he is pledged to look after in
that capacity and for that reason
he preferred to be elected to the
city council, to that Of being
mayor. The church folk were
foolish for depending on Mr.. Parry
for aid for they had no assurance
In the world that he would not
have run the city in the very same
manner as had Tom Humes. In
the past Parry has been a very
popular politician, but in the
opinion Of the Pie-maker his DO
litical star, beyond the possibility
of being elected to the position
that he is now a candidate for, has
set to never again rise.
eyes, [ fought the denomination
of Tom Humes to the bitter end,
but he succeeded in spite of me,
and [ am always for the party nom
inee," said Hon. e B. Palmer one
day this week. II shall support
Mr.. Humes now just as earnestly
as | fought him, for, in my opinion,
no man is greater than his party
and now that a majority of the
party has declared for the man [
stand ready to lend my voice and
vote for his election. [ have moth
ing to say about my defeating w.
w. Wiltshire. [ defeated him in a
fair, square fight and I am of the
opinion that he is man enough to
admit that and that is glory enough
for me. He was pleased to make
a Wilson-Humes fight out of it
and the battle was waged on that
line and Mr.. Big Bully got licked
clean out of his boots. | am quite
tired of hearing about Wilson and
Humes Republicans and hope the
day will yet come when we can all
be Republicans and under a Re
publican banner fight the oppo-
sition."
Sammy Rathbun was the only
man in the late Republican con-
vention that got the nomination
by, reclamation. Sam is going to
hold the keys to the city exche-
quer, unless the Pie-maker is sadly
mistaken. He has been in that
office.as deputy for a number of
years and nothing will be new or
unfamiliar to him when he is
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