The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-02-15

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handling the money, and some of the
other managers were dissatisfied with
the way the finances were being
handled Several times requests
were made on Piper for money to
meet what were considered impera-
tive demands, but most Of them were
turned down by Pi per with the state
ment that he chad no money"
Finally this became an old story,
and it was at last decided to bring
Mr.. Piper to account. A meeting
was held, Piper was sent for and an
accounting demanded. Piper listen
ed to the remarks made by the other
members of the cabal, and when all
mad spoken George calmly folded his
arms and declared that "By G. he
didn't propose to account to anybody
for the way he had spent that
money" And he didn't. An effort
was made to keep the matter quiet,
out it leaked out from half a dozen
sources, and no effort whatever was
made to deny it. This is the man it
is suggested will 90 in and win
fight that involves landing twenty
five members of the legislature for a
certain combination, and then turn
those twenty-five men over to his
own personal enemies in that com
bination.
W. H. Paulhamus is Piper's par
ticular friend and confident, and
these two men stand closer to Levi
Ankeny than any others, politically,
in the state. No matter what future
combinations or arrangements may
be made with Ankeny, they will al
ways be subject to the secret APPROX
al of Piper and Paulhamus. Such
men as Grosscup and Senator Baker
fully understand this, and as the
representative Of Senator Foster
they will be mighty careful about
making a combination that involves
turning over the federal patronage
to their bitter personal enemy. The
fact is that nearly all the leaders Of
both the Foster and Ankeny combi-
nations are men who are extremely
selfish and jealous, politically, Of
others who aspire to leadership or
control, and in the very nature of
things a perfect combination be-
tween them is impossible Ankeny
will never be elected senator with
the help Of Ben Grosscup and Sena-
tor Baker and their real friends, and
without their help he cannot be
elected at all
1t looks very much as though
Grosscup was trying to play one of
his smooth games with Pi per and
his friends 1t is the opinion Of
nearly every one, except Piper him
self, that no faction in King county,
with Piper at the head Of it, will ever
again win primary fight here in Sc
attic. Grosscup is Of this opinion,
and it is suggested that it is his in
tention to allow Piper to think he
is standing in with him on the King
county management, and at the same
time have an understanding with
Isome other crowd here, by which
the Piper crowd is to be downed in
King county by some combination
that Grosscup can deal with. By
this means Grosscup hopes to be able
to stand well with the Piper crowd
up to the very minute Piper goes
down to defeat, so that in the event
Of his winning it will be possible to
deal with him also. But it is GER
tainly Grosscup's desire to be able
to do business with an anti-Ankeny,
anti-Piper crowd in King county.
An Olympia correspondent Of one
Of the Tacoma papers remarked that
Tom Fisk might be the compromise
manager Of Ankeny's next senatorial
fight, and then proceeded to the eff
feet that Fisk is recognized as being
true, and not a CRATER. It is not
known whether the correspondent
referred to was sober when he made
this statement, or whether he DELHI
erately INDUCED in some irony for
the benefit Of his Tacoma readers.
Because if there are two distinct
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