The Seattle Republican., 1903-09-04
POLITICAL POT=PIE


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A grape vine dispatch, from Tacoma day this
week declared that State Senator Ed S. Hamilton had
announced his intention of entering the fight for the
United States senatorshp for this state, to sue
ceed Senator Addison G. Foster but ong-distance
telephone message from Senator Hamilton denied
having made any such announcement. Such
has been whispered about the state for the past three
months, and where there is much smoke there
must be some fire, and therefore the PieMaker is in
cned to believe that Senator Hamiltons friends
endeavorng to prevail on him to GO into the next
senatorial fight for Ed Hamilton instead of the other
fellow and he is almost persuaded. Hamilton has
been repeatedly said in these columns, is strong
and will make things interesting if he does jump
into the fight for himself.
that Congressman Cushman and Senator Hamilton
had kissed and made up, and that Hamilton would
to it that Cushman got the county for congress-
and that Cushman would his undivided influence
to send delegation to the legislature from Pierce
county, which would be unit for Hamilton The
above could not be verified by the PeMaker, but if
it be true it means the death OF Senator Foster be-
fore the fight begins. In other words Senator Fos-
ter would never get to the starting line Say what
you will or may but Congressman Cushman is one of
the popular of this state if not the most so, and
when he and another strong and popular man hook
up together you bet there is going to be some
tall pulling done. The Pe-Maker is in no position
to positively whether not any such compact
has been entered into by Cushman and Hamilton but
such is the gossip of the hour, and there you
1t has been rumored and positively stated
by close friends of Hon. S. H. Piles of Seattle that
he and would be the railroad candidate for SEN
ator and would get the railroad mems support all
over the state. What strange to the Pie
Maker how both Piles and Foster Hamilton
get that support It's all quite true that Mr..
Piles is railroad attorney but he truer to the
and interest of the railroads than Senator Ham
iton, has he done any more for them from leg
islatve standpoint and the railroad magnates al
ready stated, it seems would hardly know how to
ever that if the railroads take any stock whatever
in the fight it will be in the interest of
Hamilton or Foster If that be true, it seems
to the Pie-NIaker that it would leave Mr..
Piles senatorial candidacy in bad shape-found-
cred at without sail rudder but this is only
speculation for if Mr. Piles gets King like he used
to have it, he will have power in his hand to
trade
Referring to the railroads and the part they
pected to play in the political affairs of the state dur
ing the coming year the Pe-Maker has been creditaby
informed that the railroads would have candidate
for senator any other position in this state In
other words the railroads mean to wipe their hands
of politics so long men are nominated who did
get such nomination account of his political
hostility to the railroad interest AS to the sena-
toral scrap the railroads would not be with any OF
the aspirants but would be only interested spec
tator any of the avowed candidates, if elected,
being perfectly satisfactory to them, which, if true,