The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-11-29

assembled decide to support HarOlt
Preston for United States Senator
and were | member Of the next leg
islature, | most assuredly would vote
and do all that l could for the cleo
ton of Mr. Preston to the United
States senate. I would do that as I
debt of gratitude to my county ani
my constituents said a prominent
Republican politician one day this
week. But, continued he, q have
hot forgotten the fact that Harold
/ Preston, as a member of the legisla
ture that elected Addison G. Foster
bolted the caucus, which elected him
for no other reason than that Mr.
Preston and his friends were in the
minority in that caucus. If Mr.. Pres
ton would bolt his party caucus on
so small a pretext as that, there is nc
telling what he would do under heav-
Ter pressure than that. While l am
personally quite fond of Mr.. Preston,
there is no doubt in my mind but
that he was a willing political tool of
Levi Ankeney in 1897, and though his
present candidacy may be in all seri-
BUSINESS, yet the politicians all over
the state look upon it as side issue
of Mr.. Ankeney's candidacy If Mr..
Preston can succeed in getting a ma
jOrity Of the legislators from this
county to support him, it will be an
easy matter for him after he finds
his own case hopeless to form a
combination with Mr.. Ankeney and
deliver over to him the entire King
county vote, or the major part there
of, just as he succeeded in doing for
Mr.. Ankeney when there was no hope
of Tom Humes winning the United
States senatorship. l am not pre-
pared to say that this is the game
that Mr.. Preston is playing, but I am
prepared to say that it looks a good
, deal that way. If King county ever
hopes to get a United States sena-
tor it would do well to select some
man against whom no such charges
as herein referred to can be brought
Much Is being said these days as TO
whether King county desires a mem
Der of congress or a United States
senator. On this point the Piemaker
wishes to remark that King county
made fool of itself four years ago,
when she could have gotten one of
the congressional nominations for her
asking, but she preferred to not ac-
cept it, 0ut make a pretended fight
for the United States senator, and
granted that the powers that be at
that time did all they could to land
Tom Humes in the United States
senate, they must have known that
they were making a loosing fight
from the very outset; and whether
they did or did not know it at that
time, they know it now, and the Pie
maker IS of the opinion that they
should profit from their experience.
Regardless in whose interest such a
move is made, that is Ito secure one
OF the congressional nominations for
King county, it is a wise move to
make. Let us get a congressional
nomination and election, and King
county will have just as much show
then to secure the senatorial nom
ination as if she had never gotten
congressional nomination. King coun-
ty is in need of man at court to
plead its cause, and whether it be in
the lower or upper house of congress,
she should grasp the first opportunity
that is afforded her along this line.
and get one there; and after having
secured that, take anything else that
comes her way. The friends Of this
or that politician may argue that such
move is in the interests of some
senatorial aspirant, but when it is
properly simmered down it will be
found 70 be IN the interests OF King
county regardless of her senatorial
aspirants. The fact that Hon. F. w.
Cushman was nominated for congress
did not in the least injure the chances
of the election of Addison G. Foster,
and the nomination and election of
a member of congress from this coun-
ty would not injure the chances of
the election of Harold Preston or any
other man who desired to go to the
United States senate from King.
Perhaps King county can not only
get a congressman, but it can likewise
get a senator, and the Pie-maker sees
no reason why it should not make The
effort, in as much as it has had nc
political patronage for a good many
years.