The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-02-13
SEATTLE, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY IL
Populist-Nonpartisan Ticket.

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The local PopuIsts have ratified the
nominations made by the nonpartisans,
so-called. and the entire ticket II Is to
be supposed, will receive Popnlist sup
pert. The convention or mass meeting
I held yesterday was unusually harmon
! ious IL was expected that the list OF
candidates at the head of which Mr.
Cotterill has been placed would be APP
proved. but few people counted on an
utter absence of wrangling such as in
yariabIy makes PopuIist conventions so
highly enlivening and interestingly Pc
euliar.
No one is surprised that the nonpar-
tisan ticket was taken up and at once
stamped with an o. X The nonparti-
san movement has been nothing more
than piece OF political strategy engi
need by Popuiists who have made use
% few suileiess dupes from the out
Popuist cause. such as there IL left ~
IL A few gentlemen, doubtless sincere,
hut lacking judgment and common
shrewdness. have been made to believe
that they were getting what they want
ed. but In reality the Populists have
been In almost absolute control from
the start, and men OF more or less prom
inence In other faiths have been util-
ised to conceal the real powers behind
the nonpartisan movement.
All OF the preliminary steps which led
up to the nonpartisan nominations were
taken under the sklllful direction of
repultst machinlsts. and the course OF
;uvtion was outlined so as to make It
fossitle for a ropuiist convention TO
approve the Job IN Its entirety. This has
been done and those transporting VIC
Tins who have been longing to divorce
partisanship from municipal, politics
have the pleasure OF seeing their crea-
tien turned into an old-fashioned Pop
Hcket. with all the extravagant at
tachments in the matter of poiicies and
professions.
Such an outcome could have been
foretold long ago. Nonpartisan move
rnents are usually open 20 suspicion. for
the people back Of them OF who make
nee of them are not infreauen,ly those
Aho are working fer their own ends
ahd seek In this way to obtain what
they cannot set through regularly or
sanixed parties. A few honest and
simple minded citizens are drawn into
these movements through their belief
that some real reform Is 90 result from
II. but the hopes entertained by these
poor people are rarely futhlled A few
OF the craftier spirits take the lead and
shape things 10 serve their own pur-
poses. with the result that the non
partisan movement desenerates into
the political play Of few agents ~
one Of the established parties, OF 1t re-
solves Itself into a nondeseript force.
rpresentins nothing and nobody. tx
eept possibly a few impraoticahe theor-
ies ~ few impractical men.
The deluded persons who went inio
the movement this year with honest In
tsntIons probably realize now that they
have been politically bunkoed. and SOME
OF them are ~ doubt a little Indignant,
that what they designed for strictly
nenpartissn analr should turn out TO
he nothing better than A Populis, man
euver 60 get control OF the municipal
ity by sah,erfuge II was slick work.
but Il Is curious how heaest-minded
people allow themselves 10 be "aim-
nammed" 80 often and so successfully.
Citizens qualified TO vote have one
day more in which TO register. The
books will close tonight at midnight
ana those whose names are not on The
rsus sneuld see that they are regis