Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-11-01
fractional Partisan Points.

The Walla Walla correspondent OF
the Tacoma LcdGcr has either an OBJ
servant eye and an active brain, or a
vivid imagination, to give out so many
and so probable political forecasts OF
State politics. \ few days ago he
showed how the combine between
Rogers and Turner had become a rope
al and, and he now indicates the pro-
gress of future combines and notes the
clOud,c,s on the political horizon
which constitute the nebule for his
course Of reasoning. He declares
that simultaneously with the appear
ance Of the State Board of Control in
that city, lately, whose official duty
afford an ample excuse for their pres
ence, were noted several prominent
Republican officials, whose personal or
official duties did not call them there,
and by putting this and that together,
he predicts the christening of a new
born boomlet.
1t seems, from his surmiscs, that ex.
Governor Miles c. Moore has been
slated for the coveted Senatorship, not
80 much for election, as to train the
legislative forces to move in harmony
for somebody behind the scenes, who
is now and then will be the real can
didate for the position. The necessi-
ty for scapegoat, probably lies in the
fact that the Ankeny boom shows pos
tive evidences of collapse. He will
be withdrawn, by his own consent,
soon as the forces who prefer him can
be safely switched off on the new
track.
Strange as it may appear, Henry ].
Snively, even after the exposures of
1892, and his crooked course since,
has aspirations for seat in the House
of Lords. He processes friendship for
Rogers, bnt those who know his cold
and calculating nature, see little heart
in his choice when it runs up against
his own interests. Rogers is, however,
his servile tool. He cannot be other
wise, for Snively holds the whip we'll
in hand. All executive patronage is
now under control of Snively, and he
will use it to promote Rogers claims
for advancement, with string to it
that may be pulled at any time for
himself.
The correspondent asks the public
to watch the course of the Board of
Control and see if the moves made do
not justify his prediction. He asks
the public to keep an eye on the
Board while in session soon to be held
in this city. See if J. B. Catron is not
re-appointed Superintendent at the
penitentiary. See if Rogers doesn't
appoint Snively's friends to all the
petty offices under his control. See if
he is not as subservient to Snively,
there, as he was at the State Fair at
Yakima, where it provoked unfavora-
BILE comment from leading Democrats,
who declared that the executive could
not foist upon them a man who was
so plainly repndiated for cause. in
1892. If it be true, as is presaeed by
this correspondent, that there is q
deal to unite wing of the Republican
party and the Democracy in the Sena.
torial contest of 1892, and that Rogers
or 6nively is to be the dark horse of
the opposition faction OF the alliance,
the sooner the people know it the bet
ter.
It 10 not written in the stars that
Democratic leaders and party princi-
Piles may be thrown about as jack
stones, to forward anybody's selfish a.
pirations for political preferment.
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